The right thing to do is to return it, after they have sent you the correct item, discounted for the lateness of the correct item, fully paid the return postage and compensated you for the time and effort of return mailing it.
I had an '88, so it was the 4 banger with a turbo, but it was already more than powerful enough. I test drove a V8 turbo with the 350 HP, and it was just crazy quick. It didn't smoke the tires off the line either, but the back end liked to try to crawl out from under you on left turns.
Perhaps the reason they didn't mention bitcoin is that the patent is not an attempt to kill bitcoin or an attempt to compete with bitcoin and does not have the words "bitcoin killer" attached to it in any way other than by the article submitter, who is probably hoping to drive down bitcoin prices so he can buy low.
I used to have a Lotus Esprit, but no matter how hard I mashed the pedal, it would never smoke the tires. It would just go faster. It was so infuriating how it would just sprint away from the other vehicle instead of sitting there smoking the tires like the other vehicle.
I'm pretty sure the author thinks non-renewables are horrible, and renewables are horrible and all human beings that use more energy or different energy than him are scum and should just keel over and die. Like 100% of humans, he is a self-righteous hypocrite who forgives his own indiscretions but casts scorn at anybody else's.
I was thinking of changing my Major Medical plan, because it is getting expensive. It has literally doubled in price in the last three years. I went to ehealthinsurance.com, which is where I normally shop for insurance. I found that the cheapest premium is about the same as I am paying now, meaning that insurance rates really have gone up by 100% in the last three years. Probably due to some sort of new legislation.
Even worse, I was comparing if my plan started now. If I started a new plan in 2014, the lowest cost plan is 50% MORE than I am paying now. That would mean that insurance rates have tripled in three years.
My company just switched insurance plans to a much more expensive plan for the full family option. It is more than $1,300 a month. I won't be participating, of course, since much cheaper plans are available individually. I wonder if my employer gets their kickback per individual, or is it just for signing up the company? If it is per individual, I will probably expect some retribution for not using the plan.
Anyway, I question how some of the lower paid full timers can afford this. After the cost of the insurance plan, dental and FICA, they are probably only going to be taking home a few hundred dollars a month at best.
"Fully covered" means that if your doctor doesn't administer it that your insurance has to pay for somebody else to do it. None of this 'The pharmacy isn't a primary provider so we won't pay!'.
Have you contacted your insurance to find out where they WILL pay for you to get the shots? Have you told them that your doctor refuses, perhaps against contract?
Well, it is far too late now, because I had to get the shots for my girls to go to school, but I did, in fact try multiple times at Walgreens where the insurance was refused. I called the insurance company and they specifically told me only the PCP can administer shots.
After hearing that, I attempted to get the PCP to give the shots, and she refused, as did the next 9 PCPs I contacted. I finally found one that would do the shot if we also did a well child checkup, so I resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to pay $100 or more again for a service I had already paid for through premiums. Unfortunately, the earliest the doctor could see my daughter was after school started, more than two weeks away. When I went to the school to enroll they wouldn't let her enroll without the shot. I explained the situation and they told me that they had been telling people to go to the public health department and tell them we had no insurance because they wouldn't actually check. So, since I had really no choice in order to get my daughter into school, I had to go to the health department, stand in line for a couple of hours and lie. But it wasn't really a lie. I had insurance, but the contracted doctors refused to take it.
The plan has to cover it. The doctor doesn't have to administer it. That is the whole point. My personal experience with this issue was in August of this year. Here is a story from December of last year.
I'm sure that that could be part of the reason that the doctor refused to give the vaccination. But it's not like she wouldn't have need of the vaccine in bulk. This is a required vaccine to get into school in my area. Every kid has to have it. The doctor refused to stock it (possibly) or administer it (definitely), and so did all of the other doctor's I called except for one, which would only do the vaccination in conjunction with other more profitable services.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
I don't. If it was up to me, I would have REAL insurance, ie Major Medical, ie High Deductible insurance. However, my company at the moment only has health plans. Since I am paying for this health plan, and since part of paying for that health plan includes paying for the coverage for vaccinations, then I expect to be able to use the service I have paid for.
If I had not paid for the insurance I would be both wiling and also more able to afford to pay full price for the vaccination.
I have insurance. My insurance covers vaccinations. However, my primary care provider will not administer vaccinations because they agreed to a contracted amount with the insurance company but they don't feel that that amount is enough. I called several other primary care physicians who similarly refused to administer vaccinations. I finally got one that agreed to do it but only if I also did a well child checkup, which would cost hundreds of dollars. All of these doctors suggested I go to the Health Department. So I did, and stood in line for a long time, to be told that you had to be on state aid in order to get vaccinations from the state.
Walgreen's and other facilities would do vaccinations, but my insurance would not pay because they are not a Primary Care facility. I would have to pay full price.
So basically, I have to pay for insurance which covers vaccinations AND I still have to pay full price for vaccinations, while if I were poor, I would neither have to pay for insurance nor pay for vaccinations.
To me, the fact that a Doctor can refuse to perform a service because they don't like their profit margin on it even though the AGREED to accept that amount in their contract, is BS. This is akin to a retailer advertising a model of TV for a cheap price, but not having ever even purchased any of said model to be sold.
I agree. Any regular car would be pulling about 1/100th of that amount.
I imagine in an electric car quite a lot of energy is wasted in presenting the user with how much energy they are saving.
You are correct. But the point still stands that the exact pitch is not always the most pleasing pitch when harmonizing. (It has been awhile since I studied music, and it wasn't my major)
My musical taste was probably set when I was about that age. I still listen to a lot of that music (classic rock mostly). But that doesn't mean that nothing has been created since the 70s that suits my taste. Sure, there is a relatively poor selection of music that suits my taste, but it is far from non-existent.
What is the matter with making money off of music? Who polices what gets to be an acceptable profession and who's profession is for free public consumption? Who is going to pay for the musician's upkeep, since they clearly will not be able to hold down a REAL profession whilst also devoting themselves to the many hours a day of practice, research and thought which goes into creating music.
Lot's of people these days think that software developers shouldn't be paid either and that all games ought to be free. About half the people on slashdot will starve to death if that idea ever gains serious traction.
I totally agree with you, but I don't think it will be just drums and chants! Home production of first-class music is now available to almost everybody.
Yes, but you have to lower the bar on what "first class" means in order for that to be true. Home Production of music is better than the Beatles recordings, but frankly, those sucked. Home Production still can't match what Alan Parson's did with Dark Side of the moon 40 years ago. But then, most "professional" recordings still don't match that.
Just one Antares VST plugin (Auto-Tune 7), and you sing as well as any modern pro can.
Caveat: as well as an modern pro that uses auto-tune.
Also "pro" meaning someone who sings for a living and not necessarily meaning someone who is a good singer.
Someone who is an excellent singer will sound better singing without autotune, as the autotune will translate it into a flat, sterile note within the timbered scale. Vibrato will be removed, a slur will be changed into a horrible electronic sounding glissando.
It should also be noted that harmonies suffer using autotune. A harmony singing a 5th above the tonic should not be an exact 5th according to the timbered scale. I forget whether it is supposed to be flat or sharp, but it is most pleasing to the ear when it is not a perfect 5th.
Racial profiling? Where does it even say what color anyone was?
Are we really letting our society get so stupid that any white person who does something to a non-white person is guilty of being a racist? Are we going to have to call the black police to arrest black people, Mexican police to arrest Mexicans? What do we do if a white guy, a black guy and a Mexican guy committed a crime? Then let's even confuse it further. What if one of them was a woman?
Are we going to have to go back to separate white's and colored's facilities to avoid all the cries of racism? It seems like all of this wonderful racial accusation just incites racism, not subdues it.
How can we ignore the color of someone's skin when we are accused of racism if we apply the rules equally to everyone and one of those people's skin had a different color?
They should have welcomed the new addition of the RV to their homestead and offered to rent it out to the new tenants for $100 per night, then charged them with grand theft auto when they disappeared with it the next day.
If an ordinary receptacle was installed outside at a public place, funded by taxes, I wouldn't think twice about using it.
I would. I have played gigs at schools and needed to plug in my amp. Instead of just plugging in, I always ask "Is it okay to plug in here?" And this is when I am invited. It is what used to be know as "Common Courtesy" and is now unfortunately known as "Exemplary Courtesy".
It should be okay to GIVE the school electricity, correct? And it is okay to steal $0 worth of electricity. And if N=0. it is okay to steal n+0.05 worth of electricity. So mathematically speaking, taking electricity is okay for any value of n.
If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.
Slashdot Mirror
The right thing to do is to return it, after they have sent you the correct item, discounted for the lateness of the correct item, fully paid the return postage and compensated you for the time and effort of return mailing it.
I had an '88, so it was the 4 banger with a turbo, but it was already more than powerful enough. I test drove a V8 turbo with the 350 HP, and it was just crazy quick. It didn't smoke the tires off the line either, but the back end liked to try to crawl out from under you on left turns.
Perhaps the reason they didn't mention bitcoin is that the patent is not an attempt to kill bitcoin or an attempt to compete with bitcoin and does not have the words "bitcoin killer" attached to it in any way other than by the article submitter, who is probably hoping to drive down bitcoin prices so he can buy low.
No slashdot article can be complete until the remark about how much colder that place was before AGW kicked in.
I used to have a Lotus Esprit, but no matter how hard I mashed the pedal, it would never smoke the tires. It would just go faster. It was so infuriating how it would just sprint away from the other vehicle instead of sitting there smoking the tires like the other vehicle.
I'm pretty sure the author thinks non-renewables are horrible, and renewables are horrible and all human beings that use more energy or different energy than him are scum and should just keel over and die. Like 100% of humans, he is a self-righteous hypocrite who forgives his own indiscretions but casts scorn at anybody else's.
I was thinking of changing my Major Medical plan, because it is getting expensive. It has literally doubled in price in the last three years. I went to ehealthinsurance.com, which is where I normally shop for insurance. I found that the cheapest premium is about the same as I am paying now, meaning that insurance rates really have gone up by 100% in the last three years. Probably due to some sort of new legislation.
Even worse, I was comparing if my plan started now. If I started a new plan in 2014, the lowest cost plan is 50% MORE than I am paying now. That would mean that insurance rates have tripled in three years.
My company just switched insurance plans to a much more expensive plan for the full family option. It is more than $1,300 a month. I won't be participating, of course, since much cheaper plans are available individually. I wonder if my employer gets their kickback per individual, or is it just for signing up the company? If it is per individual, I will probably expect some retribution for not using the plan.
Anyway, I question how some of the lower paid full timers can afford this. After the cost of the insurance plan, dental and FICA, they are probably only going to be taking home a few hundred dollars a month at best.
"Fully covered" means that if your doctor doesn't administer it that your insurance has to pay for somebody else to do it. None of this 'The pharmacy isn't a primary provider so we won't pay!'.
Have you contacted your insurance to find out where they WILL pay for you to get the shots? Have you told them that your doctor refuses, perhaps against contract?
Well, it is far too late now, because I had to get the shots for my girls to go to school, but I did, in fact try multiple times at Walgreens where the insurance was refused. I called the insurance company and they specifically told me only the PCP can administer shots.
After hearing that, I attempted to get the PCP to give the shots, and she refused, as did the next 9 PCPs I contacted. I finally found one that would do the shot if we also did a well child checkup, so I resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to pay $100 or more again for a service I had already paid for through premiums. Unfortunately, the earliest the doctor could see my daughter was after school started, more than two weeks away. When I went to the school to enroll they wouldn't let her enroll without the shot. I explained the situation and they told me that they had been telling people to go to the public health department and tell them we had no insurance because they wouldn't actually check. So, since I had really no choice in order to get my daughter into school, I had to go to the health department, stand in line for a couple of hours and lie. But it wasn't really a lie. I had insurance, but the contracted doctors refused to take it.
The plan has to cover it. The doctor doesn't have to administer it. That is the whole point. My personal experience with this issue was in August of this year.
Here is a story from December of last year.
This story is a total lie.
No, it is the absolute truth. I'm sorry you don't want to accept it. Here is a link to an article that describes exactly what I experienced.
cnn.
I'm sure that that could be part of the reason that the doctor refused to give the vaccination. But it's not like she wouldn't have need of the vaccine in bulk. This is a required vaccine to get into school in my area. Every kid has to have it. The doctor refused to stock it (possibly) or administer it (definitely), and so did all of the other doctor's I called except for one, which would only do the vaccination in conjunction with other more profitable services.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
I don't. If it was up to me, I would have REAL insurance, ie Major Medical, ie High Deductible insurance. However, my company at the moment only has health plans. Since I am paying for this health plan, and since part of paying for that health plan includes paying for the coverage for vaccinations, then I expect to be able to use the service I have paid for.
If I had not paid for the insurance I would be both wiling and also more able to afford to pay full price for the vaccination.
I have insurance. My insurance covers vaccinations. However, my primary care provider will not administer vaccinations because they agreed to a contracted amount with the insurance company but they don't feel that that amount is enough. I called several other primary care physicians who similarly refused to administer vaccinations. I finally got one that agreed to do it but only if I also did a well child checkup, which would cost hundreds of dollars. All of these doctors suggested I go to the Health Department. So I did, and stood in line for a long time, to be told that you had to be on state aid in order to get vaccinations from the state.
Walgreen's and other facilities would do vaccinations, but my insurance would not pay because they are not a Primary Care facility. I would have to pay full price.
So basically, I have to pay for insurance which covers vaccinations AND I still have to pay full price for vaccinations, while if I were poor, I would neither have to pay for insurance nor pay for vaccinations.
To me, the fact that a Doctor can refuse to perform a service because they don't like their profit margin on it even though the AGREED to accept that amount in their contract, is BS. This is akin to a retailer advertising a model of TV for a cheap price, but not having ever even purchased any of said model to be sold.
I agree. Any regular car would be pulling about 1/100th of that amount.
I imagine in an electric car quite a lot of energy is wasted in presenting the user with how much energy they are saving.
You are correct. But the point still stands that the exact pitch is not always the most pleasing pitch when harmonizing. (It has been awhile since I studied music, and it wasn't my major)
My musical taste was probably set when I was about that age. I still listen to a lot of that music (classic rock mostly). But that doesn't mean that nothing has been created since the 70s that suits my taste. Sure, there is a relatively poor selection of music that suits my taste, but it is far from non-existent.
What is the matter with making money off of music? Who polices what gets to be an acceptable profession and who's profession is for free public consumption? Who is going to pay for the musician's upkeep, since they clearly will not be able to hold down a REAL profession whilst also devoting themselves to the many hours a day of practice, research and thought which goes into creating music.
Lot's of people these days think that software developers shouldn't be paid either and that all games ought to be free. About half the people on slashdot will starve to death if that idea ever gains serious traction.
I totally agree with you, but I don't think it will be just drums and chants! Home production of first-class music is now available to almost everybody.
Yes, but you have to lower the bar on what "first class" means in order for that to be true. Home Production of music is better than the Beatles recordings, but frankly, those sucked. Home Production still can't match what Alan Parson's did with Dark Side of the moon 40 years ago. But then, most "professional" recordings still don't match that.
Just one Antares VST plugin (Auto-Tune 7), and you sing as well as any modern pro can.
Caveat: as well as an modern pro that uses auto-tune.
Also "pro" meaning someone who sings for a living and not necessarily meaning someone who is a good singer.
Someone who is an excellent singer will sound better singing without autotune, as the autotune will translate it into a flat, sterile note within the timbered scale. Vibrato will be removed, a slur will be changed into a horrible electronic sounding glissando.
It should also be noted that harmonies suffer using autotune. A harmony singing a 5th above the tonic should not be an exact 5th according to the timbered scale. I forget whether it is supposed to be flat or sharp, but it is most pleasing to the ear when it is not a perfect 5th.
Racial profiling? Where does it even say what color anyone was?
Are we really letting our society get so stupid that any white person who does something to a non-white person is guilty of being a racist? Are we going to have to call the black police to arrest black people, Mexican police to arrest Mexicans? What do we do if a white guy, a black guy and a Mexican guy committed a crime? Then let's even confuse it further. What if one of them was a woman?
Are we going to have to go back to separate white's and colored's facilities to avoid all the cries of racism? It seems like all of this wonderful racial accusation just incites racism, not subdues it.
How can we ignore the color of someone's skin when we are accused of racism if we apply the rules equally to everyone and one of those people's skin had a different color?
They should have welcomed the new addition of the RV to their homestead and offered to rent it out to the new tenants for $100 per night, then charged them with grand theft auto when they disappeared with it the next day.
If an ordinary receptacle was installed outside at a public place, funded by taxes, I wouldn't think twice about using it.
I would. I have played gigs at schools and needed to plug in my amp. Instead of just plugging in, I always ask "Is it okay to plug in here?" And this is when I am invited. It is what used to be know as "Common Courtesy" and is now unfortunately known as "Exemplary Courtesy".
It should be okay to GIVE the school electricity, correct? And it is okay to steal $0 worth of electricity. And if N=0. it is okay to steal n+0.05 worth of electricity. So mathematically speaking, taking electricity is okay for any value of n.
If someone makes an unsubstantiated claim, it is their responsibility to do the research and post the citation, not the 100,000 people reading the remark.
Which is why the libertarian "move everything to the state level" concept is a bad idea.
Yep, bad idea. But better idea than "move everything to the federal level".