I hit 50, and my hypoglycemia reversed into Type 2 diabetes (overactive pancreas finally started falling apart), and I developed heart problems. A job change, and my health insurance didn't carry over. The new job's health insurance wouldn't pick me up because I now have pre-existing conditions. Yes, I can get 'health care', if you wanna call it that, as a single paying 'member', at a cost of my monthly take home pay. No, this coverage will NOT cover my 'pre-existing conditions' or anything they can claim is a problem caused by said conditions, plus the deductable is just this dide of outrageous.
For what it's worth, I've been in favor of national healthcare for decades.
Look the great thing about the US is that if you don't like how things are going you get out and vote. The next president might be able to pick three supreme court justices. Think about that when you head to the polls.
If voting ever changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Personally, I'm not seeing anybody running this year that I'd like to see in office. Every last one of them has been bought and paid for by corporate America, every last one of them has their own personal agenda that they intend to implement over your dead body with your tax dollars. And none to date have had a single thing to say about any real issues, just the trendy sound byte shit that's guaranteed by their media consultants to make them look good on tv. I'd love to see, just for once, some real candidates run.
Satellite internet has its own problems besides low latency due to having to deal with distance issues to geosync orbit. It's easy to disrupt, for one thing. All you have to do is have the satellite owner shut the transponder down for a bit, and the sat link is gone, for instance.
Around here, for years, the only available high speed internet was satellite. Even the so-called 56K voiceline connections were reliable only to about 14.4K. They only acknowledged the existance of the fiber pipe that runs 6 miles from here to Vegas in the last year & a half, though the pipe was in place for almost a decade. Still no T1 into town, and T3 is a dream we might see sometime in 2050...
But we'd also wanna cut off Iran's leaders, especially its military, from cheap, easy, and fast sources of information. If we were planning on attacking them, it's best to keep them confused as long as possible.
Interesting how this is happening during the primary election cycle in the US, now, isn't it? And no, Iran isn't totally cut off. But if more cables get cut, what would that tell the astute observer?
Um, that's the reason they're doing all those lawsuits. They claim everybody stopped buying their shit and started 'stealing' it. Here, have a copy of the memo...
The obsolescence of most computer gear happens because it is poorly designed, not because it fails.
No, they become obsolete because new technology is developed, then software to take advantage of it. Truth be told, the computer that hits the shelf tomorrow morning at the local box store is already 6 months obsolete.
I think the problem is that he wants to be a monarch in what is supposed to be a Republic but in hindsight has an almost complete lack of limitations on the executive branch.
Actually, there are several nifty checks and balances built into the Constitution, but his use of executive orders to bypass them is a big contributor to the problem. Congress voting him authority to do so didn't help matters much, either.
You've got it fubar kid clown. Currency devaluation doesn't necessarily affect prices, and is definitely not income or wealth tax. It might be a credible statement if currency devaluation == inflation, but that's just not so. Ultimately, weaker dollars are better for US production. What this means is more jobs selling TVs, Cars, Pornstars, MRI machines for Euros, Yuan, or Gold Bullion. Which means more dollars for the same number of hours, more Chinese shit with a smaller trade deficit. And in a globalized economy, the idea that weak dollars is a wealth tax is fuck-tarded. Put your wealth somewhere besides dollars. What kind of fucking millionaire is wedded to a savings account?
If it now takes 2 bucks to buy a loaf of bread when it took a buck 3 years ago, that means you must earn twice as much to maintain your current standard of living. If your earnings haven't doubled in the last 3 years, you're losing ground, as you no longer have the capacity to buy stuff cause you don't have the dollars.
If you have doubled your income in the last 3 years, you've moved up a few tax brackets and pay more taxes on the dollars you get that keep you in the lifestyle you've become accustomed to, leaving you less buying power with the 'new dollars' in your pocket. Again, you're losing ground. Now, our beloved government is telling us there's nothing to see here, move along, move along, as they continue to pick your pocket to pay for government programs that have little return, the funds going into a sinkhole of no-bid contracts and cost overruns designed to guarantee the bottom lines of the contractors while providing the minimun tangible results.
And our government wants to privatize Social Security and basic human services???
2. The dollar is not at it's weakest level versus the other major currencies. This isn't even English--what is it you're trying to say exactly? The dollar is at its weakest level ever? Uh... no. Weakening? Uh... I guess. Nothing to cry about though, unless you really want to pay that 3.4 trillion in 2005 dollars.
The Canadian dollar (aka 'loonie') is at 1.03 US to the loonie. 30 years ago it was at 0.70US to the loonie. The change in the loonie has happened within the last 2 years as the momentum of the downward slide of the economy finally started hitting. The euro started out on par with the dollar, today it's 1.46US to the euro. Once ([pre-9/11) it was around.85 USD to the euro. The Australian dollar is now at.88 US to the AUD, when it used to be.60 Brittish pound sterling was at 1.50 US to 1 pound forever, now it's almost 2 to 1. All these currencies I've mentioned are rock stable against the euro in the last 5 years. You're right, nothing to see here/sarcasm
Whose economic policies got us further into debt in the last 7 years? Everybody bitches about Greenspan, but at the end of the day, he was just following orders, just like every other wage slave.
Yeah, just what I need, to get assended by some wannabe housewife distracted from her cellie while herding her SUV down the freeway above the speed limit when she gets distracted by a moving video ad.
The guy took CDs he bought. He ripped them to mp3. He then loaded those mp3s into some file-sharing program. Why did he do this if not for the purpose of copyright infringement?
RIAA is trying to say that ripping the CDs down to mp3s made them available for illegal distribution. Whether or not he actually shared them is immaterial to them, they are openning a new legal front with the act of ripping. Their theory is, he made them into mp3s with the sole intent to share them in violation of legal distribution, and that ripping them was in no way 'fair use'. Remember, these are the guys who claim 'fair use' means they get to make you pay and pay and pay for your music, even if you don't listen to it.
They'll have to retool. And the price of steel will go up. Supply and demand. You can't just walk into one of those old steel mills and flip a switch and have them producing. It'll take time to ramp them back up.
Regardless of what you or I think of Real ID, you're statement is incorrect. Real ID imposes rules on how drivers licenses are to be obtained and the anti-counterfeiting measures they use. Many states are already in compliance. There are concerning aspects to the law, but it simply is not a national ID card.
Said 'standard licenses' will be required to be databased, and the databases shared between any government entity who choses to glom onto the information. It would be fairly easy to track someone's movement with this information, particularly if the banks decide to tag your credit/debit card to such a 'standard license'.
To paraphrase Harry Truman, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has a waterproof ass, it ain't a goat. And no matter how the government bends over backwards to assure me the information won't be abused and can be obained through other channels, it will still be simpler and cheaper to just mine the database. Why drive out to the country to shop at a general store (the few that are left, that is) when you can drive 5 blocks to Walmart?
Muslim World... Unless you plan on exterminating them all?
Anyone have a problem with this?
Yes. If (and that's a highly unlikely if,) this is 'managed to be done', what's to stop those doing the ordering from targetting the next group for elimination? And who is that group going to be? Catholics? Anglicans? Any so-called Christian sect that doesn't speak in tongues, handle snakes, consider Evolution and science to be a tool of the devil and that all knowledge outside of one book needs to be suppressed for 'everyone's own good'?
Who was it that said "Nobody's life, liberty, or property is save when the legislature is in session"? I thought it was Will Rogers, but I can't find the cite.
Call this 'policing'??? You must be new here. Now report to CowboyNeal for your hot grits-covered unautographed photo of Natalie Portman in Soviet Russia.
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Does it automatically install JihadOffice or is that a seperate download?
Terrorist!
What part of 'Cherry Garcia' are you having problems understanding????
I hit 50, and my hypoglycemia reversed into Type 2 diabetes (overactive pancreas finally started falling apart), and I developed heart problems. A job change, and my health insurance didn't carry over. The new job's health insurance wouldn't pick me up because I now have pre-existing conditions. Yes, I can get 'health care', if you wanna call it that, as a single paying 'member', at a cost of my monthly take home pay. No, this coverage will NOT cover my 'pre-existing conditions' or anything they can claim is a problem caused by said conditions, plus the deductable is just this dide of outrageous.
For what it's worth, I've been in favor of national healthcare for decades.
If voting ever changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Personally, I'm not seeing anybody running this year that I'd like to see in office. Every last one of them has been bought and paid for by corporate America, every last one of them has their own personal agenda that they intend to implement over your dead body with your tax dollars. And none to date have had a single thing to say about any real issues, just the trendy sound byte shit that's guaranteed by their media consultants to make them look good on tv. I'd love to see, just for once, some real candidates run.
Around here, for years, the only available high speed internet was satellite. Even the so-called 56K voiceline connections were reliable only to about 14.4K. They only acknowledged the existance of the fiber pipe that runs 6 miles from here to Vegas in the last year & a half, though the pipe was in place for almost a decade. Still no T1 into town, and T3 is a dream we might see sometime in 2050...
Interesting how this is happening during the primary election cycle in the US, now, isn't it? And no, Iran isn't totally cut off. But if more cables get cut, what would that tell the astute observer?
So we have RIAA and all its employees and members arrested and convicted for releasing so many Brittany Spears albums. Gotcha. I'm down for that...
Bet we can sue 'em a couple mil for bong rental tho...
Um, that's the reason they're doing all those lawsuits. They claim everybody stopped buying their shit and started 'stealing' it. Here, have a copy of the memo...
What, and go to jail for child endangerment???????? They frown VERY heavily on child prostitution around here...
No, they become obsolete because new technology is developed, then software to take advantage of it. Truth be told, the computer that hits the shelf tomorrow morning at the local box store is already 6 months obsolete.
Damn, my mod points died this morning.
Makes as much or more sense than some of the things I've read that had a relgious stamp of approval on them. Who knows, he might just be right...
I gotta resize this tinfoil hat...
Actually, there are several nifty checks and balances built into the Constitution, but his use of executive orders to bypass them is a big contributor to the problem. Congress voting him authority to do so didn't help matters much, either.
If it now takes 2 bucks to buy a loaf of bread when it took a buck 3 years ago, that means you must earn twice as much to maintain your current standard of living. If your earnings haven't doubled in the last 3 years, you're losing ground, as you no longer have the capacity to buy stuff cause you don't have the dollars.
If you have doubled your income in the last 3 years, you've moved up a few tax brackets and pay more taxes on the dollars you get that keep you in the lifestyle you've become accustomed to, leaving you less buying power with the 'new dollars' in your pocket. Again, you're losing ground. Now, our beloved government is telling us there's nothing to see here, move along, move along, as they continue to pick your pocket to pay for government programs that have little return, the funds going into a sinkhole of no-bid contracts and cost overruns designed to guarantee the bottom lines of the contractors while providing the minimun tangible results.
And our government wants to privatize Social Security and basic human services???
The Canadian dollar (aka 'loonie') is at 1.03 US to the loonie. 30 years ago it was at 0.70US to the loonie. The change in the loonie has happened within the last 2 years as the momentum of the downward slide of the economy finally started hitting. The euro started out on par with the dollar, today it's 1.46US to the euro. Once ([pre-9/11) it was around .85 USD to the euro. The Australian dollar is now at .88 US to the AUD, when it used to be .60 Brittish pound sterling was at 1.50 US to 1 pound forever, now it's almost 2 to 1. All these currencies I've mentioned are rock stable against the euro in the last 5 years. You're right, nothing to see here /sarcasm
Whose economic policies got us further into debt in the last 7 years? Everybody bitches about Greenspan, but at the end of the day, he was just following orders, just like every other wage slave.
Yeah, just what I need, to get assended by some wannabe housewife distracted from her cellie while herding her SUV down the freeway above the speed limit when she gets distracted by a moving video ad.
Actually, no. The 'distributor's computer reads the file and sends it to the client computer which then creats the unauthorised copy.
RIAA is trying to say that ripping the CDs down to mp3s made them available for illegal distribution. Whether or not he actually shared them is immaterial to them, they are openning a new legal front with the act of ripping. Their theory is, he made them into mp3s with the sole intent to share them in violation of legal distribution, and that ripping them was in no way 'fair use'. Remember, these are the guys who claim 'fair use' means they get to make you pay and pay and pay for your music, even if you don't listen to it.
They'll have to retool. And the price of steel will go up. Supply and demand. You can't just walk into one of those old steel mills and flip a switch and have them producing. It'll take time to ramp them back up.
Said 'standard licenses' will be required to be databased, and the databases shared between any government entity who choses to glom onto the information. It would be fairly easy to track someone's movement with this information, particularly if the banks decide to tag your credit/debit card to such a 'standard license'.
To paraphrase Harry Truman, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has a waterproof ass, it ain't a goat. And no matter how the government bends over backwards to assure me the information won't be abused and can be obained through other channels, it will still be simpler and cheaper to just mine the database. Why drive out to the country to shop at a general store (the few that are left, that is) when you can drive 5 blocks to Walmart?
Yes. If (and that's a highly unlikely if,) this is 'managed to be done', what's to stop those doing the ordering from targetting the next group for elimination? And who is that group going to be? Catholics? Anglicans? Any so-called Christian sect that doesn't speak in tongues, handle snakes, consider Evolution and science to be a tool of the devil and that all knowledge outside of one book needs to be suppressed for 'everyone's own good'?
Not only no, but HELL NO.
Who was it that said "Nobody's life, liberty, or property is save when the legislature is in session"? I thought it was Will Rogers, but I can't find the cite.
Call this 'policing'??? You must be new here. Now report to CowboyNeal for your hot grits-covered unautographed photo of Natalie Portman in Soviet Russia.