It needs to be put down like a rabid dog and THEN we can evaluate what our options are after that.
Is there some reason we can't see what our options are before we kill it so we have a superior plan ready to vote on in congress? I keep hearing repeal and replace but until I hear a real plan for "replace" I am really only hearing "repeal".
Working in the health insurance arena I can say that almost all medical insurance carriers use SSN to identify their members. Occationally an employer will want to use something else and either the carrier refuses to support it or it is like we are asking them to murder their children to make it happen.
I like when companies throw out the line about offering a range of products to suit specific needs of consumers. It actually means that they are confusing the consumer and most definately will push the most expensive product to the consumer by telling them it is be better in some miniscule way that the consumer would not have noticed to begin with.
I do think that it is tough to give definitive bad reviews on diagnoses and outcomes of treatments due to the complexity of our bodies.
However, I think it is completely fair to give reviews based on the experiences with the staff and office itself. If you wait an hour after your appointment was scheduled, if the nurse or doctor was rude, or if the office was not in a clean condition, I want to be able to read those reviews.
All horrible privacy issues aside, I'm not a big fan continuing to add expenses to vehicles. Airbags and safety systems are great, but is this really going add that much safety to a driver and passengers? We will have to pay for these black boxes when we buy the car, and what happens when the "black box" malfunctions? Does the car shutdown? When you get pulled over does the cop somehow check that the device is working and ticket you if it doesn't? I'm guessing the way it needs to be mounted and the eletronics won't make it a cheap device, but I could be wrong.
You make it sound like the elderly loves entitlement programs because it is a free lunch. Most elderly people "love" Social Security and Medicare because they need it to live. They paid into the programs as well, it isn't like someone decided later to give them a free bus pass because they're old.
I'm not arguing it either way, just answering the question: "My question though is why is there this extra tax on supplying health insurance for domestic partners?"
There isn't an extra tax. Domestic partners health premiums cannot be paid pretax like a spouse or child's can. The part of the premium for the partner is considered income (imputed income).
It was strange that they did that, because Comedy Central has only aired the movies all at once, and has advertised it as a single movie. It was split up into 4 parts but played back to back.
I understand your point regarding incompetence, but the only reason we know about this is because this is a government agency. If it was private company the public would have no idea. You could make an argument regarding hiring standards between the government and private companies, but based on my experience private companies hire lazy and incompnent employees as well.
Where is the public report from a Health Care company where mistakes cost hundreds of premium paying customers money or time to recoupe money due to sloppiness on the insurance company? Or worse, where are the reports where people were delayed necessary procedures? You won't see it because it is a private company.
I agree the government may not do a great job managing heathcare, but this is not a valid example.
I would say that Invisible was decent. Comparing "decent" to the original Deus Ex is like comparing a nice steak to a frozen pizza. I like both, but given the choice, the pizza looks pretty bad.
Were you using component cables and had the video set for 480p? With the Componet cables and 480p it looks pretty good to me. Not like my PS3 but pretty good. Metriod, Smash Brothers, and Punch Out look good for only 2x the hardware of a Gamecube.
I believe this should be a look and feel issue, which is usually related to copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel
If you built a new fakeBay site using all new code, but the same functionality, I do not think it should be a patent issue.
I found the same issue with a slot cooler way back when I had a Radeon 9800. However, I found that leaving an empty slot between the cooler and the video card did make it 5 degrees celsius cooler under load. Worked great if you don't need the slots.
There are plenty of companies that offer a database like this. I believe CCH is one of them. I've used one to integrate into a web shopping cart application because the company I was working for had a nexus in several states.
Do you use Process Explorer? Running Process Explorer and even after closing it triggered something in SecuROM that would prevent Heroes V from running. Newer versions of Process Explorer do not cause the issue though.
My favorite story is when I first showed my mom how to use a mouse. She wanted the cursor to go up on the screen so she lifted the mouse off the pad.
It kind of made sense if you hadn't used a mouse before, but it was still hilarious.
This is NOTHING like the all-pervasive DRM that infests Visturd(TM) at every turn
I run Vista and I'm not really sure what you are talking about. What extra DRM does Vista have that XP does not? Whatever it is, it is definately not "all-pervasive", or I would have noticed.
It is interesting how the whole "willfully" thing works. For OSHA violations you never want to say to the OSHA inspector "I told employee X not to run that cable there!" because that shows you knew abut it. If I recall correctly, a willingful violation is a minimum 10K fine. If you play ignorance the minimum is a $0 "warning" (but the maximum can go up to hundreds or thousands based on the severity of the violation).
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I couldn't find out when Ray Bradbury got married, but I would guess it was 40+ years ago. Believe or not there was a time where most did not even know the term sexual harrasment.
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Is there some reason we can't see what our options are before we kill it so we have a superior plan ready to vote on in congress? I keep hearing repeal and replace but until I hear a real plan for "replace" I am really only hearing "repeal".
Working in the health insurance arena I can say that almost all medical insurance carriers use SSN to identify their members. Occationally an employer will want to use something else and either the carrier refuses to support it or it is like we are asking them to murder their children to make it happen.
I like when companies throw out the line about offering a range of products to suit specific needs of consumers. It actually means that they are confusing the consumer and most definately will push the most expensive product to the consumer by telling them it is be better in some miniscule way that the consumer would not have noticed to begin with.
I do think that it is tough to give definitive bad reviews on diagnoses and outcomes of treatments due to the complexity of our bodies. However, I think it is completely fair to give reviews based on the experiences with the staff and office itself. If you wait an hour after your appointment was scheduled, if the nurse or doctor was rude, or if the office was not in a clean condition, I want to be able to read those reviews.
All horrible privacy issues aside, I'm not a big fan continuing to add expenses to vehicles. Airbags and safety systems are great, but is this really going add that much safety to a driver and passengers? We will have to pay for these black boxes when we buy the car, and what happens when the "black box" malfunctions? Does the car shutdown? When you get pulled over does the cop somehow check that the device is working and ticket you if it doesn't? I'm guessing the way it needs to be mounted and the eletronics won't make it a cheap device, but I could be wrong.
He makes comments about government control and implies that it is bad, which is usually something you hear from which side?
You make it sound like the elderly loves entitlement programs because it is a free lunch. Most elderly people "love" Social Security and Medicare because they need it to live. They paid into the programs as well, it isn't like someone decided later to give them a free bus pass because they're old.
I'm not arguing it either way, just answering the question: "My question though is why is there this extra tax on supplying health insurance for domestic partners?"
There isn't an extra tax. Domestic partners health premiums cannot be paid pretax like a spouse or child's can. The part of the premium for the partner is considered income (imputed income).
I'm guessing here, but I think the UK vs US issue here is attitudes towards time off.
It was strange that they did that, because Comedy Central has only aired the movies all at once, and has advertised it as a single movie. It was split up into 4 parts but played back to back.
I understand your point regarding incompetence, but the only reason we know about this is because this is a government agency. If it was private company the public would have no idea. You could make an argument regarding hiring standards between the government and private companies, but based on my experience private companies hire lazy and incompnent employees as well. Where is the public report from a Health Care company where mistakes cost hundreds of premium paying customers money or time to recoupe money due to sloppiness on the insurance company? Or worse, where are the reports where people were delayed necessary procedures? You won't see it because it is a private company. I agree the government may not do a great job managing heathcare, but this is not a valid example.
I would say that Invisible was decent. Comparing "decent" to the original Deus Ex is like comparing a nice steak to a frozen pizza. I like both, but given the choice, the pizza looks pretty bad.
Tom Arnold is from there, you insensitive clod! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Arnold_(actor)
Were you using component cables and had the video set for 480p? With the Componet cables and 480p it looks pretty good to me. Not like my PS3 but pretty good. Metriod, Smash Brothers, and Punch Out look good for only 2x the hardware of a Gamecube.
I believe this should be a look and feel issue, which is usually related to copyright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel If you built a new fakeBay site using all new code, but the same functionality, I do not think it should be a patent issue.
I found the same issue with a slot cooler way back when I had a Radeon 9800. However, I found that leaving an empty slot between the cooler and the video card did make it 5 degrees celsius cooler under load. Worked great if you don't need the slots.
There are plenty of companies that offer a database like this. I believe CCH is one of them. I've used one to integrate into a web shopping cart application because the company I was working for had a nexus in several states.
Do you use Process Explorer? Running Process Explorer and even after closing it triggered something in SecuROM that would prevent Heroes V from running. Newer versions of Process Explorer do not cause the issue though.
My favorite story is when I first showed my mom how to use a mouse. She wanted the cursor to go up on the screen so she lifted the mouse off the pad. It kind of made sense if you hadn't used a mouse before, but it was still hilarious.
This is NOTHING like the all-pervasive DRM that infests Visturd(TM) at every turn
I run Vista and I'm not really sure what you are talking about. What extra DRM does Vista have that XP does not? Whatever it is, it is definately not "all-pervasive", or I would have noticed.
It is interesting how the whole "willfully" thing works. For OSHA violations you never want to say to the OSHA inspector "I told employee X not to run that cable there!" because that shows you knew abut it. If I recall correctly, a willingful violation is a minimum 10K fine. If you play ignorance the minimum is a $0 "warning" (but the maximum can go up to hundreds or thousands based on the severity of the violation).
Wait a few more years when you've re-installed windows a couple times or got a new PC. Good luck re-installing it the 4th time.
Wasn't this a Windows98 "feature"?
I couldn't find out when Ray Bradbury got married, but I would guess it was 40+ years ago. Believe or not there was a time where most did not even know the term sexual harrasment.