That's why I suggested to call your local insurance agent like State Farm. I was on a similar type of insurance for a family of 3 and paid something like $2700 a year.
Got on corporate insurance and dropped it, now I'm on it again paying just $1400 a year. The deductible is $5000 by the way but it's 100% when I need it which will be well over $5000.
You're probably old enough to remember when Six million dollars could rebuild a man and we had the technology to do it. It just gets me when I see electrolytic capacitors being shoved into a leg and it's all of a sudden, bionic.
Do any workout routine by Tony Horton. You'll feel great and look great.
If you can't do P90X, try P90 If you can't do P90, try Power Half Hour If you can't do Power Half Hour, try 10 minute trainer. If you can't find 10 minutes to do a workout routine, you'd have a better life in prison.
All you need is an elastic band for the minimum workout.
So basically, you need a $10 band and 10 minutes out of your day to exercise.
For downloaded ringtones, doesn't the RIAA get their cut anyway? Isn't it already legal to play up to 15 seconds of copyrighted music publicly? The radio stations do it all the time.
Voicestream which became T-Mobile and Cingular which became AT&T. Don't know about now but when I got my plans, I refused and I still got the contract.
If he could buy it online, he probably wouldn't have to give his SSN.
Did I ever say that every single one of those people heed to 'die in horrible pain?'. No, you did.
Those are people that needed assistance from officers to comply with societies standards. Some of those people like this guy:
COURTNEY MONTEZ MCCOLLUM
Charges: CRUELTY CHILDREN 3RD DEGREE BATTERY POINTING GUN OR PISTOL AT ANOTHER
has issues but still probably contributes to society in some way.
The purpose of the mugshots was to illustrate that there is a segment of society that aren't you. And there's lots of people that aren't in line with what you think is nice, decent, or respectful.
Would you feel slighted if you were on a waiting list for a liver and some guy that killed someone with a DUI got one ahead of you?
I never wrote that I am against socialized medicine. I wrote that socialized medicine won't work in the US as it's being sold.
So there's the case of the same health benefits. You're confusing people that 'do' with so called middle class, possibly. I never wrote that the poor should be punished. Being poor or wealthy is a matter of choice and personal decisions. You can be a producer no matter what income bracket you fall in. People that 'do' are people that contribute positively to society. Whether you're a factory worker in a chicken farm or some lazy, wealthy, trust fund kid that just exists, there is a contribution from those people.
The 'do nots' can also be called the 'will nots'. If you've ever spent time at a homeless shelter like I have, you are fully aware that there are some people that really need a hand (which is perfectly fine in my book in today's society) and there are people that work the system. The latter people are the 'do nots' that will never contribute positively to society where their debt is ever repaid. Those are the people that do not deserve to be on any organ transplant waiting list unless they're donating. It appears that you would give them a liver transplant first ahead of you if they were in line first.
And like I said, if you have to explain it, you'll never get it. It's like religion and politics. The vegetable garden analogy is very literal and very ancient.
You are growing a vegetable garden for you and your family or community. If you don't stop the 'vermin' from eating the developing plants, the fruit will never be produced. You'll never benefit from the hard work you've put into it while the 'vermin' has reaped all the rewards. Analogies are very popular in eastern countries with rich histories. I never would think of China as a 'silly' country.
While a rabbit will decimate a vegetable garden, a leaf cutter bee will not decimate your plants foliage as it knows that if it needs more building materials, it will let it's favorite leaf grow.
And again, why are you assuming that I am against socialized medicine? Our current system is broken. I say remove 3rd party payment and the cost goes down. The problem is that the cost is fueling a giant bureaucracy that will only get larger with socialized medicine. So I'm not against socialized medicine, I'm against the path we're headed.
I know it sounds like "you say you're not against socialized medicine but you're against socializing medicine?" but that's not the case. Currently, it costs $10,000 to give birth in a hospital to a healthy baby. To stay on that path and approach a monopolized payment structure, that cost will elevate to $30,000 knowing what we know about government.
Eliminate the 3rd party cost of the so called 'health insurance' and the cost is about $3,000 including the epidural. I have a friend that had complications and that bill came to $65,000. When she itemized the list and just went on hospital charges a la carte, it was something like $20,000.
The thought there is that "whew, I'm glad all I had to to was just pay my premium" and that's a personal response because YOU didn't have to pay the $65,000. The crime is that $65,000 was paid when $20,000 could have been paid.
Lower the cost and I'm on board. Keep this insanity and I'll fight it.
If you want to see opportunistic people at work, I seriously urge you to visit the closest public clinic near any Martin Luther King Drive in any city.
So if any of these people or these people need a liver transplant, they should be front and center in line to get a brand new liver, well ahead of a supportive member of society that regularly pays his contribution to society? That's 2 counties out of 3140 in the US and those are people arrested on a Friday night.
Socialized medicine in the US will never work as it's intended because the gap between the haves and the have nots and the gap between the dos and the do nots will widen contributing to an apathetic society. The do nots will get the care ahead of the dos and drain the system and the haves will get the better care that the have nots will complain about. The people that will end up getting screwed will be the average Joe wanting this "everyone's covered" plan that does his contribution to society. What's the point of being a 'do' if the 'do nots' get all the same benefits? If you want to be a doctor to treat the 'haves' but the law states that you have to treat the 'have nots', what's the point of becoming a doctor? Doctors will not get paid competitively in a monopolized payment structure.
If you're going to grow a vegetable garden for yourself, you need to prepare a method for dealing with rabbits. (If I have to explain that, you will never get it)
Now, in the same vein, the current 3rd party payment system needs to be radically overhauled but that is a beast that is "too large to fail."
Maybe I'm not reading into this deep enough but if they give you an IPv6 address which doesn't do NAT, can't they also say 5 devices max? The 5 devices limit is in the fine print for current connectivity even though we all use routers to give us more.
I can see how this can be used to nickel and dime the customer as they do now with 'tuners' and 'cablecards'.
I guess we could still use IPV4 routers to talk to the IPV6 connection.
The meteor would have hit the ocean if the airplane wasn't in the way. Roads also don't cover as much square footage as homes and there's plenty of evidence of meteors hitting homes.
The odds are probably the same as the chances that a baseball or cricket ball will hit a bird in flight.
If you're old enough to vote, and old enough to be drafted, shouldn't you be old enough to be given a line of credit from a bank much less drink a controlled substance? I understand his intent was to protect college students from getting into debt but that falls into the asinine thinking that 260 million people that have health care in the US need government health care and that the 73% of mortgage holders that pay on time need some sort of bailout.
This country is fucked. And if there is a politician that believes that defending the Constitution is an act of terror, that politician should be promptly voted out of office. I thought that's what their oath is. Next, it will be OK for doctors to no longer adhere to "Do no harm."
His appointees have been disasters and are idiots and now you're no longer an adult at 18 with the new credit card law.
Whole Grain food is not a drug. People who believe in the US Constitution are not domestic terrorists. Yeah, there's plenty more but these two get my goat.
I had high hopes for this idealist but he is now just as bad as Bush in my book and historically, will probably be as bad as Carter (we'll see).
Except for the fact that MS Word is more widely used than TeX
Not for professional, publication quality work.
What do professional publishers use for copy when they don't use Quark or InDesign for layout? Of the handful of print shops I've consulted for, Quark, InDesign, and good ole PDF is all they take.
I've witnessed/helped the migration of lawfirms from WordPerfect to MS Word in the Southeast and Southwest over the years (about a decade ago). I've never seen a law firm use any other application for documents. From divorce, real estate, maritime, and criminal, they're pretty consistent. Even to the use of Timeslips for billable time. You can't get much more professional than that.
and while I too enjoyed the film, my complaints (within it's universe and `science`) were:
1. Did the planet Vulcan, a founding member of the Federation, not have any planetary defenses? I find it hard to believe that a single miniscule (in planetary scale) mining vessel can destroy planetary defenses AND starships at the same time. I buy the fact that it wiped out the starships as it would be like shooting fish in a barrel. 2. Even though half of starfleet of the Constitution class starships got wiped out at Vulcan, Earth didn't have any defenses either? 3. Delta Vega is apparently a moon of Vulcan. Why didn't that moon get destroyed in the black hole? 4. Where was the Narada when it was drilling Earth? It wasn't Saturn was it? If it was Earth, why didn't Earth (or did it?) get destroyed when the entire mass of the Red Matter destroyed the Narada? 5. The Narada didn't seem to suffer any damage from the Kelvin when it activated it's warp core on impact. 6. It seemed like you could get to Vulcan pretty fast from Earth. In the original Canon, I seem to remember a consistency of distance and time to get to other star systems. I know this is brand new and pretty much wipes that idea out but I hope that they stay consistent with that distance.
Slashdot Mirror
Because you get free stuff like free turkey for thanksgiving, free pack of burgers for 4th of July, free drinks, etc....
Anybody can find your address anyway.
Just use a throw away email and phone number (Google voice)
I read somewhere, trying to find the source, that it's 150 million unique logins/month.
Even comscore has uniques at 10mil in 2010.
Bank of America has this.
Caught someone using a number I had used and they canceled my number and got me a new card.
And in The Shining [1980], Kubrick left out the explosion of the boiler. God that movie sucks.
The books are good, the movie adaptations are good. The movie doesn't suck because a character that isn't integral to the plot is missing.
Yeah, you liked Tom Bombadil like a favourite uncle but he didn't contribute to the story.
What was more annoying was the Aragorn/Arwen angle that took away from the momentum of the story. Still not worth the hate.
Not a single person who owned a 2600 would believe that the artwork represented the actual game graphics.
No one. Then Pac Man came out and was a bit misleading.
I think he was 30 years old.
That's why I suggested to call your local insurance agent like State Farm.
I was on a similar type of insurance for a family of 3 and paid something like $2700 a year.
Got on corporate insurance and dropped it, now I'm on it again paying just $1400 a year.
The deductible is $5000 by the way but it's 100% when I need it which will be well over $5000.
I have Assurant for $1400 a year through State Farm.
Covers all stuff I had coverage when I was on Aetna that was company provided.
You're probably old enough to remember when Six million dollars could rebuild a man and we had the technology to do it.
It just gets me when I see electrolytic capacitors being shoved into a leg and it's all of a sudden, bionic.
Best movie of the summer. And I mean it.
Tony Horton's exercises include a nutrition plan as part of the exercise.
Do any workout routine by Tony Horton. You'll feel great and look great.
If you can't do P90X, try P90
If you can't do P90, try Power Half Hour
If you can't do Power Half Hour, try 10 minute trainer.
If you can't find 10 minutes to do a workout routine, you'd have a better life in prison.
All you need is an elastic band for the minimum workout.
So basically, you need a $10 band and 10 minutes out of your day to exercise.
For downloaded ringtones, doesn't the RIAA get their cut anyway?
Isn't it already legal to play up to 15 seconds of copyrighted music publicly? The radio stations do it all the time.
Voicestream which became T-Mobile and Cingular which became AT&T. Don't know about now but when I got my plans, I refused and I still got the contract.
If he could buy it online, he probably wouldn't have to give his SSN.
You really jump to conclusions don't you.
Did I ever say that every single one of those people heed to 'die in horrible pain?'. No, you did.
Those are people that needed assistance from officers to comply with societies standards. Some of those people like this guy:
has issues but still probably contributes to society in some way.
The purpose of the mugshots was to illustrate that there is a segment of society that aren't you. And there's lots of people that aren't in line with what you think is nice, decent, or respectful.
Would you feel slighted if you were on a waiting list for a liver and some guy that killed someone with a DUI got one ahead of you?
I never wrote that I am against socialized medicine. I wrote that socialized medicine won't work in the US as it's being sold.
So there's the case of the same health benefits. You're confusing people that 'do' with so called middle class, possibly. I never wrote that the poor should be punished. Being poor or wealthy is a matter of choice and personal decisions. You can be a producer no matter what income bracket you fall in. People that 'do' are people that contribute positively to society. Whether you're a factory worker in a chicken farm or some lazy, wealthy, trust fund kid that just exists, there is a contribution from those people.
The 'do nots' can also be called the 'will nots'. If you've ever spent time at a homeless shelter like I have, you are fully aware that there are some people that really need a hand (which is perfectly fine in my book in today's society) and there are people that work the system. The latter people are the 'do nots' that will never contribute positively to society where their debt is ever repaid. Those are the people that do not deserve to be on any organ transplant waiting list unless they're donating. It appears that you would give them a liver transplant first ahead of you if they were in line first.
And like I said, if you have to explain it, you'll never get it. It's like religion and politics. The vegetable garden analogy is very literal and very ancient.
You are growing a vegetable garden for you and your family or community. If you don't stop the 'vermin' from eating the developing plants, the fruit will never be produced.
You'll never benefit from the hard work you've put into it while the 'vermin' has reaped all the rewards. Analogies are very popular in eastern countries with rich histories. I never would think of China as a 'silly' country.
While a rabbit will decimate a vegetable garden, a leaf cutter bee will not decimate your plants foliage as it knows that if it needs more building materials, it will let it's favorite leaf grow.
And again, why are you assuming that I am against socialized medicine? Our current system is broken. I say remove 3rd party payment and the cost goes down. The problem is that the cost is fueling a giant bureaucracy that will only get larger with socialized medicine. So I'm not against socialized medicine, I'm against the path we're headed.
I know it sounds like "you say you're not against socialized medicine but you're against socializing medicine?" but that's not the case.
Currently, it costs $10,000 to give birth in a hospital to a healthy baby. To stay on that path and approach a monopolized payment structure, that cost will elevate to $30,000 knowing what we know about government.
Eliminate the 3rd party cost of the so called 'health insurance' and the cost is about $3,000 including the epidural. I have a friend that had complications and that bill came to $65,000. When she itemized the list and just went on hospital charges a la carte, it was something like $20,000.
The thought there is that "whew, I'm glad all I had to to was just pay my premium" and that's a personal response because YOU didn't have to pay the $65,000. The crime is that $65,000 was paid when $20,000 could have been paid.
Lower the cost and I'm on board. Keep this insanity and I'll fight it.
If you want to see opportunistic people at work, I seriously urge you to visit the closest public clinic near any Martin Luther King Drive in any city.
So if any of these people or these people need a liver transplant, they should be front and center in line to get a brand new liver, well ahead of a supportive member of society that regularly pays his contribution to society? That's 2 counties out of 3140 in the US and those are people arrested on a Friday night.
Socialized medicine in the US will never work as it's intended because the gap between the haves and the have nots and the gap between the dos and the do nots will widen contributing to an apathetic society. The do nots will get the care ahead of the dos and drain the system and the haves will get the better care that the have nots will complain about. The people that will end up getting screwed will be the average Joe wanting this "everyone's covered" plan that does his contribution to society. What's the point of being a 'do' if the 'do nots' get all the same benefits? If you want to be a doctor to treat the 'haves' but the law states that you have to treat the 'have nots', what's the point of becoming a doctor? Doctors will not get paid competitively in a monopolized payment structure.
If you're going to grow a vegetable garden for yourself, you need to prepare a method for dealing with rabbits. (If I have to explain that, you will never get it)
Now, in the same vein, the current 3rd party payment system needs to be radically overhauled but that is a beast that is "too large to fail."
Maybe I'm not reading into this deep enough but if they give you an IPv6 address which doesn't do NAT, can't they also say 5 devices max?
The 5 devices limit is in the fine print for current connectivity even though we all use routers to give us more.
I can see how this can be used to nickel and dime the customer as they do now with 'tuners' and 'cablecards'.
I guess we could still use IPV4 routers to talk to the IPV6 connection.
You must be thinking of that movie "What's Up" where an old guy gets a hot air balloon to lift up his house and rescue people.
The meteor would have hit the ocean if the airplane wasn't in the way.
Roads also don't cover as much square footage as homes and there's plenty of evidence of meteors hitting homes.
The odds are probably the same as the chances that a baseball or cricket ball will hit a bird in flight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q80wfAzeRKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe2GtSphkNo
If you're old enough to vote, and old enough to be drafted, shouldn't you be old enough to be given a line of credit from a bank much less drink a controlled substance?
I understand his intent was to protect college students from getting into debt but that falls into the asinine thinking that 260 million people that have health care in the US need government health care and that the 73% of mortgage holders that pay on time need some sort of bailout.
This country is fucked. And if there is a politician that believes that defending the Constitution is an act of terror, that politician should be promptly voted out of office. I thought that's what their oath is.
Next, it will be OK for doctors to no longer adhere to "Do no harm."
His appointees have been disasters and are idiots and now you're no longer an adult at 18 with the new credit card law.
Whole Grain food is not a drug.
People who believe in the US Constitution are not domestic terrorists.
Yeah, there's plenty more but these two get my goat.
I had high hopes for this idealist but he is now just as bad as Bush in my book and historically, will probably be as bad as Carter (we'll see).
What do professional publishers use for copy when they don't use Quark or InDesign for layout? Of the handful of print shops I've consulted for, Quark, InDesign, and good ole PDF is all they take.
I've witnessed/helped the migration of lawfirms from WordPerfect to MS Word in the Southeast and Southwest over the years (about a decade ago). I've never seen a law firm use any other application for documents. From divorce, real estate, maritime, and criminal, they're pretty consistent. Even to the use of Timeslips for billable time. You can't get much more professional than that.
and while I too enjoyed the film, my complaints (within it's universe and `science`) were:
1. Did the planet Vulcan, a founding member of the Federation, not have any planetary defenses? I find it hard to believe that a single miniscule (in planetary scale) mining vessel can destroy planetary defenses AND starships at the same time. I buy the fact that it wiped out the starships as it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
2. Even though half of starfleet of the Constitution class starships got wiped out at Vulcan, Earth didn't have any defenses either?
3. Delta Vega is apparently a moon of Vulcan. Why didn't that moon get destroyed in the black hole?
4. Where was the Narada when it was drilling Earth? It wasn't Saturn was it? If it was Earth, why didn't Earth (or did it?) get destroyed when the entire mass of the Red Matter destroyed the Narada?
5. The Narada didn't seem to suffer any damage from the Kelvin when it activated it's warp core on impact.
6. It seemed like you could get to Vulcan pretty fast from Earth. In the original Canon, I seem to remember a consistency of distance and time to get to other star systems. I know this is brand new and pretty much wipes that idea out but I hope that they stay consistent with that distance.
Other than that, it was great.
Use a USB drive for `personal` stuff. Let them take the OS drive and mirror it to hearts content.