I am also in the US. I have a counterexample. As a sole proprietor, I get to buy my own health insurance. I spend ~$550/month for basic HMO coverage for my family.
I broke my toe about a year ago on some furniture in the dark, such that it was pointing sideways. While it is true that I could (and unfortunately did) go to the suburban emergency room on the advice of my GP's on-call doc to get immediate treatment, $600 out-of-pocket (and another $1300 from my insurance company) got me an x-ray (because you need a radiologist to tell you a toe with a 70 degree angle in it is broken), 2 minutes with a resident, a roll of tape for my toe, and a scrip for some Percocet. No, they would not reduce it, just recommended tape and ice.
It was EIGHT DAYS of my toe pointing sideways before my capitated podiatrist could see me to charge a $50 copay to get the fracture actually reduced.
I think the symbolism of the WTC being the world's tallest building (current tallest is now in Dubai, after all), and having "world trade" (ie economic colonialism) in the name had a lot to do with it. Given that they also flew a plane into the pentagon on 9/11, and there was speculation they did so as a fallback when they couldn't find the White House from the air, it was clearly part of a larger message.
That and proving they really could take out the WTC, having failed twice before.
In the early 90s, portions of the computer art crowd (the ivory tower capital-A Art folks, not the demoscene folks) were using a lot of Forth to do things people would use Processing for today.
So everyone should have a willow tree in their yard and chew the bark when they get a headache? And this is going to result in controlled, consistent dosage and potency, reducing liver problems?
Elephants coevolved with humans in their environment; mammoths did not. That appears to be a major reason most megafauna that are still around are in Africa.
The Mid-Season finale of The Walking Dead closed the story arc leading up to it pretty emphatically. Then again the amount of time everyone sat around talking about looking for Sophia was astronomical, so you may have something.
May I suggest you check out the Punctuation Channel? They have a show called Basic HTML Markup that's pretty good.
on a less obnoxious note, Renovation Realities on DIY network is a nice counterpoint to This Old House, as opposed to all the other aspirational infomercial crap DIY runs.
A credit check is increasingly becoming part of employment screening, and is entirely necessary for both renting and purchasing a home (unless buying the home for cash). Being homeless rises above "inconvenient."
Providing a social security number is also required to open a bank account, the lack of which is also a bit more than "inconvenient."
Started on the road meaning began the process of outsourcing our manufacturing base and gutting our middle class. Everything you said about subsequent legislation/fuckups of regulation is dead on.
Um, I remember Obamacare taking a year to get through, with the dems extending compromise after compromise and getting nothing in return from across the aisle, before finally passing a watered-down mostly-unworkable proposal in exasperation.
And I'll see your Solyndra and raise you a Rapiscan, a Halliburton, and a Blackwater.
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We grow that food with fertilizers made from imported petroleum. The first year of sanctions will be fine.
Know what proportion of the Russian nuclear arsenal was in Cuba during the missile crisis?
All of it.
We could have won the cold war in the sixties by dropping bales of Sears catalogs on Russia from long-range bombers.
I am also in the US. I have a counterexample. As a sole proprietor, I get to buy my own health insurance. I spend ~$550/month for basic HMO coverage for my family.
I broke my toe about a year ago on some furniture in the dark, such that it was pointing sideways. While it is true that I could (and unfortunately did) go to the suburban emergency room on the advice of my GP's on-call doc to get immediate treatment, $600 out-of-pocket (and another $1300 from my insurance company) got me an x-ray (because you need a radiologist to tell you a toe with a 70 degree angle in it is broken), 2 minutes with a resident, a roll of tape for my toe, and a scrip for some Percocet. No, they would not reduce it, just recommended tape and ice.
It was EIGHT DAYS of my toe pointing sideways before my capitated podiatrist could see me to charge a $50 copay to get the fracture actually reduced.
You mean "a hideously awful movie that included a stupid yellow filter and a stupid script."
Well, if he's backdating it to get out of a clause in an employment contract, for example, that's anything from a fireable offense to criminal fraud.
There are ALWAYS protestors in front of the capitol and white house. Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue wouldn't have made even a single news cycle.
I think the symbolism of the WTC being the world's tallest building (current tallest is now in Dubai, after all), and having "world trade" (ie economic colonialism) in the name had a lot to do with it. Given that they also flew a plane into the pentagon on 9/11, and there was speculation they did so as a fallback when they couldn't find the White House from the air, it was clearly part of a larger message.
That and proving they really could take out the WTC, having failed twice before.
In the early 90s, portions of the computer art crowd (the ivory tower capital-A Art folks, not the demoscene folks) were using a lot of Forth to do things people would use Processing for today.
The Japanese had submarine aircraft carriers in WWII, responsible among other things for the only aerial bombardment of the US mainland in history.
doesn't top this guy.
So everyone should have a willow tree in their yard and chew the bark when they get a headache? And this is going to result in controlled, consistent dosage and potency, reducing liver problems?
Like this guy?
Ever copied a bunch of files at once on Windows?
Elephants coevolved with humans in their environment; mammoths did not. That appears to be a major reason most megafauna that are still around are in Africa.
The median goes one direction, the mode another.
Back when Voyager was flying by Jupiter and Saturn, it was Jim Blinn. As in the Blinn shader.
How much do you spend on bulbs annually?
The Mid-Season finale of The Walking Dead closed the story arc leading up to it pretty emphatically. Then again the amount of time everyone sat around talking about looking for Sophia was astronomical, so you may have something.
May I suggest you check out the Punctuation Channel? They have a show called Basic HTML Markup that's pretty good.
on a less obnoxious note, Renovation Realities on DIY network is a nice counterpoint to This Old House, as opposed to all the other aspirational infomercial crap DIY runs.
Or we could be charitable and assume the OP meant WiMax.
William Gibson imagined this 26 years ago.
A credit check is increasingly becoming part of employment screening, and is entirely necessary for both renting and purchasing a home (unless buying the home for cash). Being homeless rises above "inconvenient."
Providing a social security number is also required to open a bank account, the lack of which is also a bit more than "inconvenient."
Started on the road meaning began the process of outsourcing our manufacturing base and gutting our middle class. Everything you said about subsequent legislation/fuckups of regulation is dead on.
So why wasn't Norquist calling for Herman Cain's head with his 9-9-9 plan? It raised taxes on lots of poor folks.
Um, I remember Obamacare taking a year to get through, with the dems extending compromise after compromise and getting nothing in return from across the aisle, before finally passing a watered-down mostly-unworkable proposal in exasperation.
And I'll see your Solyndra and raise you a Rapiscan, a Halliburton, and a Blackwater.