No, I would say job loss is a certainty. Absolute certainty. It is already known that many employers are going to reduce full time positions to part time for much of their work.
Only if companies are short-sighted enough to think that having unhealthy employees is good for business. Many companies already offer health insurance, and I've worked for a variety of companies over the past 20 years and every single one did. When I'm able to take 1/2 day to go to the doctor's to get a cough checked out rather than hacking on my co-workers or taking 3 days off to nurse it, which is less expensive to the company?
I think it's an excuse. There should have been better teeth, but this was what could get passed. I'd like to see single payer as well, but until then we need to make sure that all Americans are healthy and have access to quality medical care.
No, they'll be at an advantage to their employees, who now have better health coverage, and they no longer have to worry about complying with the regulations - they're already compliant and don't have to scramble and pay exorbitant fees for consultants to tell them what to do. Lower cost for the employer (i.e. greater profit), healthier employees, win-win all around.
At best, the requirements for date of parts of Obamacare being required are being pushed back. It doesn't mean that companies can't implement them now, it just means that they have to implement it by date X. If the date were being moved from 2015 to 2013, that would be a problem.
This is a good thing for employers, not so much for employees outside MA, unless you work for a good company that already offers health insurance.
Take a look at almost every other major set of regulations that the government has put out (D or R) and see if any of it has rolled out on time. Take the cutover to HDTV: it took years to do and kept getting pushed back. The fact this is happening here is no surprise, and not an indication that it's going to cause prices to increase, jobs to be lost, or the dead rising from the grave.
Obamacare has been implemented in MA for many years as 'Romneycare'. He was a terrible governor of our great state, but this was one thing that was worth the effort.
Not sure where the uncertainty is. Says right there - January 1, 2015.
Not that having the elections matter about implementation. Obama isn't going to let a veto go through, and even if the Senate flips, there's going to be no way that there's enough votes to override a veto. Obamacare is here, get used to it.
Go read James Bamford's "Body of Secrets". Near the end, he mentions the things that the NSA needs to get right in order to stay ahead in the intelligence business:
Distributed data so that the loss of one data center doesn't impact data Ability to import and index a massive amount of information continuously (while keeping it available) Accurate speech to text Accurate language translation Ability to search massive amounts of data very quickly, ranking results Search through different media formats (video, audio, text, etc.)
Now go look at what Google is good at and known for.
How much have they saved now? Probably not much, and probably spent more.
It costs money to find the location, arrange the contracts, hire new people/lay off or move staff, and move equipment between rooms. Even then, many organizations may say it's cheaper to buy new hardware than it is to move 5+ year old servers.
However, the efficiency once many of those data centers is closed will become apparent. Space/power/cooling/networking/staff isn't cheap. Consolidating will give you some amazing savings a few years in.
Yeah, I play with friends and we're all over the place for levels (I'm 68, one is 80, another 60, and the other two are in the teens). While I'm doing much of the same running around and questing with the lower level people, I'm still able to gain XP at a pretty good rate, and there's plenty of other things to do while they're off getting hearts.
Last I saw, FMLA says unpaid leave. Yahoo(!) is offering paid leave. Dads can still take 12 weeks, but the last 4 have to come out of vacation or unpaid time.
My GS3 has better battery life than the HTC Thunderbolt which had somewhat better battery live than my OG Droid. Your assumption of worsening battery life doesn't live up to what I've seen.
Why would Netflix build a separate infrastructure for the few sets of original content they distribute? Do you really want to have two Netlix apps, log in twice to a web site? Figure out which site has which content? Any money they'd earn in new subscriptions for HoC would be pretty much wiped out by the development and maintenance costs.
The C64 has the edge. I seem to remember a certain former/. contributor who told the story of Afghanis getting their C64s out of hiding after the US invasion, connecting them to the Internet, and watching movies.
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No, I would say job loss is a certainty. Absolute certainty. It is already known that many employers are going to reduce full time positions to part time for much of their work.
Only if companies are short-sighted enough to think that having unhealthy employees is good for business. Many companies already offer health insurance, and I've worked for a variety of companies over the past 20 years and every single one did. When I'm able to take 1/2 day to go to the doctor's to get a cough checked out rather than hacking on my co-workers or taking 3 days off to nurse it, which is less expensive to the company?
I think it's an excuse. There should have been better teeth, but this was what could get passed. I'd like to see single payer as well, but until then we need to make sure that all Americans are healthy and have access to quality medical care.
No, they'll be at an advantage to their employees, who now have better health coverage, and they no longer have to worry about complying with the regulations - they're already compliant and don't have to scramble and pay exorbitant fees for consultants to tell them what to do. Lower cost for the employer (i.e. greater profit), healthier employees, win-win all around.
At best, the requirements for date of parts of Obamacare being required are being pushed back. It doesn't mean that companies can't implement them now, it just means that they have to implement it by date X. If the date were being moved from 2015 to 2013, that would be a problem.
This is a good thing for employers, not so much for employees outside MA, unless you work for a good company that already offers health insurance.
Take a look at almost every other major set of regulations that the government has put out (D or R) and see if any of it has rolled out on time. Take the cutover to HDTV: it took years to do and kept getting pushed back. The fact this is happening here is no surprise, and not an indication that it's going to cause prices to increase, jobs to be lost, or the dead rising from the grave.
Obamacare has been implemented in MA for many years as 'Romneycare'. He was a terrible governor of our great state, but this was one thing that was worth the effort.
Not sure where the uncertainty is. Says right there - January 1, 2015.
Not that having the elections matter about implementation. Obama isn't going to let a veto go through, and even if the Senate flips, there's going to be no way that there's enough votes to override a veto. Obamacare is here, get used to it.
You want tin foil? How's this:
Go read James Bamford's "Body of Secrets". Near the end, he mentions the things that the NSA needs to get right in order to stay ahead in the intelligence business:
Distributed data so that the loss of one data center doesn't impact data
Ability to import and index a massive amount of information continuously (while keeping it available)
Accurate speech to text
Accurate language translation
Ability to search massive amounts of data very quickly, ranking results
Search through different media formats (video, audio, text, etc.)
Now go look at what Google is good at and known for.
Yes. The award is a statue wrapped in tin foil.
If by cheapest you mean "cheapest now that they discontinued the model that was $30 cheaper" then, yeah.
How much have they saved now? Probably not much, and probably spent more.
It costs money to find the location, arrange the contracts, hire new people/lay off or move staff, and move equipment between rooms. Even then, many organizations may say it's cheaper to buy new hardware than it is to move 5+ year old servers.
However, the efficiency once many of those data centers is closed will become apparent. Space/power/cooling/networking/staff isn't cheap. Consolidating will give you some amazing savings a few years in.
Nah, only Sagan could do it. There's nobody around these days that could possibly....
It will star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson
Uhm..nevermind.
Yeah, I play with friends and we're all over the place for levels (I'm 68, one is 80, another 60, and the other two are in the teens). While I'm doing much of the same running around and questing with the lower level people, I'm still able to gain XP at a pretty good rate, and there's plenty of other things to do while they're off getting hearts.
Last I saw, FMLA says unpaid leave. Yahoo(!) is offering paid leave. Dads can still take 12 weeks, but the last 4 have to come out of vacation or unpaid time.
My GS3 has better battery life than the HTC Thunderbolt which had somewhat better battery live than my OG Droid. Your assumption of worsening battery life doesn't live up to what I've seen.
This is what they were able to build. Rev 2. (probably when they get to mass producing it) will have better battery life
Go read some of the comments about the Boston Marathon bombing on Yahoo and tell me you didn't lose a few brain cells in the process.
So then House of Cards is on HTML5?
Why would Netflix build a separate infrastructure for the few sets of original content they distribute? Do you really want to have two Netlix apps, log in twice to a web site? Figure out which site has which content? Any money they'd earn in new subscriptions for HoC would be pretty much wiped out by the development and maintenance costs.
The permissions in NTFS far more granular than standard POSIX (though xattr does address this a bit, it's not in common use).
Hackers could abuse ______ to _____ a/the ____.
I'm serious that this was reported here. I'm also serious that not a single person here believed it.
Ah, found it:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/11/17/204207/message-from-kabul
The C64 has the edge. I seem to remember a certain former /. contributor who told the story of Afghanis getting their C64s out of hiding after the US invasion, connecting them to the Internet, and watching movies.
Couldn't do that with a Trash-80.
So you didn't read what Holder wrote? It's a pretty short letter with small words. I'm sure you can understand it.
Atty. General Holder made the position of the administration quite clear in his letter to Sen. Paul.
Congress? AUMF?