If this doesn't highlight the problems with the US health insurance system, nothing will. You had to trade 15 hours a week of your life simply to be able to live a healthy life. That sounds an awful lot like indentured servitude to me.
You know, all the Canadian health care bashing really gets to me.
I needed a physical within the week since I was immigrating to the United States, and wanted to make sure that the actual immigration medical wouldn't reveal that I needed additional vaccinations (since the US doctors charge for it). My family doctor was able to provide it in three days.
Now, that's a fairly trivial story, but it highlights the fact that if you need care, they will prioritize you and give you the care you need when you need it.
My dad needed to have a stent put in as he had a buildup in one of the arteries near his heart. He was scheduled for it for a few months out, went in as scheduled, and had the procedure done.
A day later and he started having chest pains. The hospital told him to come back and they had another stent put in THAT DAY. He's fine now.
No questions about insurance, no bills, no nothing. He got the care he needed, when he needed it.
Single payer works. I just wish that people here in the US could be convinced of that... unfortunately they've been bashed over the head with the idea that it's somehow "communist" or "socialist", which translates to "evil" to most people here.
It's very easy to continue to use the 32-bit plugin in Ubuntu 64-bit; I believe Ubuntu still installs it (and the 64-bit wrapper) by default. Unless you specifically install the 64-bit alpha plugin and delete the others from your system (and there's a few places in which they can reside), you're probably still running 32-bit.
While true, you can also do a Code 10 call (for those unfamiliar, you call Visa's 1-800 number to verify that a card isn't stolen or fraudulent) as a response to someone refusing to provide identification.
And frankly, someone refusing to provide ID for their credit card transaction is going to set off my fraud alarm, like it or not.
VISA et al seem to be trying to break into the Canadian market, which is fundamentally dominated by Interac, another PIN-based debit system run by a coalition of banks. Almost every merchant in Canada (or at least Ontario) have Interac POS readers. It should also be noted that most Canadian bank cards aren't backed by VISA / MasterCard (like they are in the United States), they're simply debit cards, linked directly to bank accounts.
I really liked the ad. I think whether or not it touched you probably depends on whether you've been in a long distance relationship... and I just got married a couple weeks back to my fiancee from another country.
Plus, I think a lot of that ad was primarily intended to show people that yes, searching does work, despite what kgb would tell you. In this mission, I think it unquestionably succeeded.
Even a very basic mathematical analysis shows that any of these systems is less efficient than "customer pays."
You're right, of course. We can just conveniently ignore all the moral implications of that. And comparing people's health to simply fueling their cars? Brilliant. Oh, and let's also pretend that everyone should be covered already since Medicare exists, even though it's heavily restricted and there's a huge subset of working poor that don't qualify for it simply because they work. Those people should totally quit their jobs so they can get on welfare for the health care! Or alternately, pay for a private health insurance plan that they can't afford (somehow). What's that? They should have insurance through their employer? Fat chance for a large percentage of people who work for small companies that don't have employee health insurance plans.
By the way, HR676 doesn't in any way affect your relationship with your doctor and/or hospital other than who they bill. Doctors and hospitals are still private. But feel free to conveniently ignore that and rant on anyway.
I mean really, we could just boil this down to "I've got mine, so fuck the rest of you."
I give you H.R. 676, a bill which would provide simple, single-payer health care to all legal residents of the United States, but keeps getting buried by Congress in favour of their massive, complex "health reform" bill that ironically does far less for the people. This bill would actually make the US health care system better than that of most Canadian provinces, since it covers things like dental and prescription medication.
It has been shown several times that single-payer care costs far, far less in the long run, and allows you to keep everything you have now, minus the insurance company that wants profit over your own health. Unfortunately, it seems that the right wing has successfully equated the term "single payer" with socialism or communism (OMG THE REDS, RUN AWAY!), so I doubt we'll see anything this sane in the next ten years.
It's Notepad, plus text-colouring, plus automatic tabbing, plus most features of a good code editor (I believe you can get plugins for automatic syntax completion and such), minus the need to upload anything since you just access FTP / SFTP / WebDAV servers directly as if they were on the local filesystem.
Plus, it's completely free in both senses of the term.
If forced to use Windows or it happens to be more convenient, Windows + Notepad++ + WebDrive, which mostly replicates the functionality of gvfs (making an FTP server a Windows drive). It works decently but I still prefer gedit to np++.
I work primarily as a PHP web app developer. I don't need any WYSIWYG stuff generally.
Assuming, of course, that the defendants can easily afford a defense (and the attorneys to do so) against a drawn-out lawsuit that, even with precedent like this, could easily be made to last at least a year, if not more.
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...but don't be alarmed when you have to pay at least $15,000/year for it.
Yes, don't be alarmed, just give up your dream of running a business since you don't have enough disposable income to throw at insurance.
I'm sorry, I missed the bit where you had constructive advice to offer to the poster.
If this doesn't highlight the problems with the US health insurance system, nothing will. You had to trade 15 hours a week of your life simply to be able to live a healthy life. That sounds an awful lot like indentured servitude to me.
You know, all the Canadian health care bashing really gets to me.
I needed a physical within the week since I was immigrating to the United States, and wanted to make sure that the actual immigration medical wouldn't reveal that I needed additional vaccinations (since the US doctors charge for it). My family doctor was able to provide it in three days.
Now, that's a fairly trivial story, but it highlights the fact that if you need care, they will prioritize you and give you the care you need when you need it.
My dad needed to have a stent put in as he had a buildup in one of the arteries near his heart. He was scheduled for it for a few months out, went in as scheduled, and had the procedure done.
A day later and he started having chest pains. The hospital told him to come back and they had another stent put in THAT DAY. He's fine now.
No questions about insurance, no bills, no nothing. He got the care he needed, when he needed it.
Single payer works. I just wish that people here in the US could be convinced of that... unfortunately they've been bashed over the head with the idea that it's somehow "communist" or "socialist", which translates to "evil" to most people here.
Truth. If you have a family, stay in your job, unless you're already rich.
One could argue that the US health insurance system is set up to avoid having people do what you're trying to do.
So we can't objectively identify whether or not he had a point?
Obviously terrorism is evil and should be stopped, but it doesn't mean we should shut off our brains.
the wind through the trees
like a quiet jet engine
it says to you: whoosh
It's very easy to continue to use the 32-bit plugin in Ubuntu 64-bit; I believe Ubuntu still installs it (and the 64-bit wrapper) by default. Unless you specifically install the 64-bit alpha plugin and delete the others from your system (and there's a few places in which they can reside), you're probably still running 32-bit.
They have that, it's called the firehose.
Whether articles are actually posted based on their votes is still at the discretion of the editors though.
Have you tried searching those queries from within China? Google does know how to do IP geolocation, you know.
While true, you can also do a Code 10 call (for those unfamiliar, you call Visa's 1-800 number to verify that a card isn't stolen or fraudulent) as a response to someone refusing to provide identification.
And frankly, someone refusing to provide ID for their credit card transaction is going to set off my fraud alarm, like it or not.
Considering that you can run Linux on a Wii, and the Wii has built-in wireless, it's quite possible.
I'm OK with the idle section, so long as articles that belong there are categorized as such.
Top businesspeople in company overrule moral arguments from staff in order to ensure future profits.
News at eleven.
Works by an on-duty employee of the United States federal government are public domain. Go nuts!
Your explanation is far better than mine would have been, and quite correct.
FBI Agent A: Dammit guys, they found out about the EXIF stuff. Now what are we going to do to get data from these pictures?
FBI Agent B: Let's just Photoshop in some crack like we used to.
FBI Agent A: Promote that man!
I'm also a paying Pandora member, and this decision just means that I won't be hearing Warner music.
Oh well.
(Note that this applies only to bank cards; credit cards are still run by VISA and MasterCard primarily.)
VISA et al seem to be trying to break into the Canadian market, which is fundamentally dominated by Interac, another PIN-based debit system run by a coalition of banks. Almost every merchant in Canada (or at least Ontario) have Interac POS readers. It should also be noted that most Canadian bank cards aren't backed by VISA / MasterCard (like they are in the United States), they're simply debit cards, linked directly to bank accounts.
I really liked the ad. I think whether or not it touched you probably depends on whether you've been in a long distance relationship... and I just got married a couple weeks back to my fiancee from another country.
Plus, I think a lot of that ad was primarily intended to show people that yes, searching does work, despite what kgb would tell you. In this mission, I think it unquestionably succeeded.
Even a very basic mathematical analysis shows that any of these systems is less efficient than "customer pays."
You're right, of course. We can just conveniently ignore all the moral implications of that. And comparing people's health to simply fueling their cars? Brilliant. Oh, and let's also pretend that everyone should be covered already since Medicare exists, even though it's heavily restricted and there's a huge subset of working poor that don't qualify for it simply because they work. Those people should totally quit their jobs so they can get on welfare for the health care! Or alternately, pay for a private health insurance plan that they can't afford (somehow). What's that? They should have insurance through their employer? Fat chance for a large percentage of people who work for small companies that don't have employee health insurance plans.
By the way, HR676 doesn't in any way affect your relationship with your doctor and/or hospital other than who they bill. Doctors and hospitals are still private. But feel free to conveniently ignore that and rant on anyway.
I mean really, we could just boil this down to "I've got mine, so fuck the rest of you."
I give you H.R. 676, a bill which would provide simple, single-payer health care to all legal residents of the United States, but keeps getting buried by Congress in favour of their massive, complex "health reform" bill that ironically does far less for the people. This bill would actually make the US health care system better than that of most Canadian provinces, since it covers things like dental and prescription medication.
It has been shown several times that single-payer care costs far, far less in the long run, and allows you to keep everything you have now, minus the insurance company that wants profit over your own health. Unfortunately, it seems that the right wing has successfully equated the term "single payer" with socialism or communism (OMG THE REDS, RUN AWAY!), so I doubt we'll see anything this sane in the next ten years.
Linux (Gnome) + gedit + gvfs.
It's Notepad, plus text-colouring, plus automatic tabbing, plus most features of a good code editor (I believe you can get plugins for automatic syntax completion and such), minus the need to upload anything since you just access FTP / SFTP / WebDAV servers directly as if they were on the local filesystem.
Plus, it's completely free in both senses of the term.
If forced to use Windows or it happens to be more convenient, Windows + Notepad++ + WebDrive, which mostly replicates the functionality of gvfs (making an FTP server a Windows drive). It works decently but I still prefer gedit to np++.
I work primarily as a PHP web app developer. I don't need any WYSIWYG stuff generally.
Assuming, of course, that the defendants can easily afford a defense (and the attorneys to do so) against a drawn-out lawsuit that, even with precedent like this, could easily be made to last at least a year, if not more.
That's a hell of a big assumption.