Mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance
Having a PEC has, and should have, no bearing on allowing a person to obtain medical insurance. We know a certain portion of the population is born with such afflictions. Unless gene therapy kicks into high gear, we are going to have these type of people for a very long time. Denying them coverage simply because of how they were born cannot be done.
That said, requiring people to hand over their money or have the government reach into their bank account and forcibly extract the money is anathema to pretty much everything the Founding Fathers fought for. In fact, it's the exact opposite of what the Heritage Foundation itself stands for.
Yet, they were the ones who proposed it, Newt Gingrich backed it (because HILLARY was doing her own healthcare push at that time), and Mitt Romney implemented it. It's very disingenuous for Republicans to complain they got what they asked for.
What should have been done is give a person three options. 1) You hand over your money and get coverage. 2) You make your own choices and pay your own bills. 3) If you choose not to be covered, you can't get coverage until X months have passed. These options would cover everyone and allow people to make the choice which best fits their needs.
Instead, we got what the Heritage Foundation proposed. Big government forcing people to hand over their money.
The people who advocate Bitcoin (and similar cryptocurrency) wanted to create a whole new economy without all that pesky government regulation.
The really funny part is these people who are opposed to government regulation are the same people who want the government to force people to hand over their money to insurance companies, whether they want to or not.
the salaries are too high. Whether one is talking about an OS, a software package, an app, software today just plain sucks.
Bloat, ugly interfaces, options which don't work the same way depending on what menu you select, and many other issues, software has gone downhill, significantly, in the last decade.
Of course the excuses will fly fast and furious from those in programming claiming it's not their fault because the higher ups get in their way. If it were up to them the software they produce would be flawless. It would run using the bare minimum of memory while producing an odor similar to roses. It's only because of the managers and supervisors that software is pushed out incomplete and buggy. You can't hold them responsible for the code they wrote if someone else gets in the way. After all, they deserve their high salaries no matter how poorly the software performs.
I clearly remember the banks and Wall Street firms lobbying Bush and Congress not to implement any new regulations back in 2006. Their words were, more or less, any new regulations would kill their competitive nature on the world market. Trust us, we know what we're doing.
The following year we know what happened.
Now here we are again, with a very similar situation. Regulations are evil! Don't kill us with regulations, bro!
I can guarantee not a single executive at Equifax will go to jail or pay a fine. Further, every excuse imaginable will be given why requiring such breaches to be announced immediately should not be done.
In a few years, this will happen again and everyone will look around and ask, "How did this happen?"
Seriously, SM/bondage-artists with huge plastic dildos singing for preteen girls is our culture now?
You mean like the lead singer for Rammstein who has a dildo on the end of his mic? Or did you mean the spiked dog collar he wears? The medical procedure he underwent to have a light temporarily put in his mouth?
1) I don't use Chrome 2) I don't have my speakers turned on unless I explicitly want to listen to something 3) Don't have Flash installed 4) Run uMatrix to stop ads from running
This isn't rocket science. It's disconcerting that people on here even have this issue.
It's funny, every time I mention how bad software is I get modded down. Not necessarily any particular software, but software in general. Between clunky interfaces, having to go spelunking to find what you want, bloat, you name it, software today is not a pleasure to work with.
Now this person, a developer in their own right, is complaining about another developer(s) who apparently couldn't see their way to not destroy file.
Welcome to my world, where every day it's a war to try and find solutions to the incompetence of software developers.
The NFL has a contract with Microsoft to use their Surface tablets on the sidelines. They tout it as a way for the team to get almost real time information on play calling, whether offense or defense.
Unfortunately, and directly related to this article, there are those, particularly coaches and quarterbacks, who bemoan the unpredictability of the Surface and its many malfunctions.
Even worse, people were initially calling them iPads or iPad-like which certainly didn't sit well with the marketing crew at Microsoft.
Microsoft can claim all they want their Surface is doing well, but from real world experiences, where timely information is invaluable, or in the case of Consumer Reports where Surface owners report the numerous problems they have, there is only so much spin which can be done to try and spackle over these poorly performing devices.
but it disables the old version if it's not compatible.
What does that mean? How can software be good on an OS, but a second later it's not, all because of an update? What is that update breaking so egregiously that it's preventing people from using the software they've purchased?
This is why forced updates are bad. A company breaking other people's software, in this case to prevent competition. Didn't we go through this before? What if the software Microsoft breaks is critical to operations? Are they going to reimburse the company when they lose business? Where's a class action lawsuit when you need one?
It's quite easy to not know about a technology from before your time.
In this day and age, with information literally at one's fingertips, there is no excuse for not being informed on a multitude of subjects. If you don't know something, you look it up.
There are many things I didn't know how to do, but guess what, I learned on my own, either by asking someone who was doing the thing I wanted to know, or read a book (pre internet) or now, DuckDuckGo it.
Perhaps if people such as the one in the article would get out more and experience the world they wouldn't look like such dumb shits to the rest of us.
"we want to let search engines use it without license, but want to require a license for anyone else" attitude.
No, that is not correct. Search engines point to a page and may give a very brief line or so from the article, but one still has to click on the link to go to the real page and read everything.
hiQ goes to the Linkedin site and rather than pointing to the pages in question, takes the data, packages it, and then sells it to someone else, having left Linkdedin to do all the heavy lifting.
It's telling that the issue is trying to be framed as one about the intelligence agencies revealing U.S. citizens whose conversations were intercepted as part of legitimate intelligence gathering rather than the fact of collusion between a presidential campaign and a foreign government.
We know for an absolute fact Russia was trying to, and successfully did, influence our election. The Senate committee, the House committee and the intelligence servicesall agree on that unassailable fact.
Yet instead of being concerned or even upset at this interference, Nunes is trying to deflect from this fact to one of, "But people's names were revealed!", as if trying to figure out who was colluding with Russia is a bad thing.
Another thing which is even more disturbing is the continued insistence, and outright denial, by the con artist that Russia either did anything during the campaign, or if they did, that they did anything wrong. This raises the very real question of why the con artist is trying to protect Russia? Why has he abjectly refused to say a single bad word about that country despite it deliberately bombing hospitals in Syria and coordinating the chemical weapon attack in Syria, not to mention its seizure of the Crimea from Ukraine, its invasion of Ukraine and its support for terrorist groups inside Ukraine? If this were Iran doing this the con artist would be bombing away, but because it's Russia, he lets them literally get away with murder.
Further, had Hillary Clinton won and these exact same facts come out, you can be absolutely sure Republicans would be laser focused on who did what and trying to pin the collusion on her. But when it comes to the con artist, they are doing what they can to deflect from the crimes and protect him. Hypocrisy at its best.
How about when you direct people to your web page to try and solve their issue, you give them useful information.
One can use Microsoft as a prime example of the hoops one has to jump through to find a simple solution. If the question is, "How do I add a mailbox to Outlook?", the page should not start with:
A shared mailbox can be a practical solution for any business with groups of people working from different locations. With the right permissions, any person in a group can access a shared mailbox that appears in their address book. The shared mailbox is automatically available in the Folder pane in Outlook. (taken directly from the Microsoft page)
No one cares about a "practical solution". They want to know how to add a mailbox to Outlook. Nor do they care about why one should use a shared mailbox. They asked how to add a mailbox. In fact, nowhere on the page does it tell you how to add a mailbox. It does everything but that.
If you want your call center volume to go down, provide useful information, information which is not buried ten menus deep or stuck in some corner with an obscure name.
You know why people keep calling you? Because your information pages technology sucks. That's why.
You forgot the Israeli lobby. They literally have the power to kick out incumbents and put in people who will do Israel's bidding.
It's not just one political action committee (AIPAC, which is so strong it was able to bamboozle the courts into granting it an exception to the PAC rules even though it literally has Political Action Committee in its name), but a consortium of Israeli groups which fights to insure the U.S. taxpayers fork over $8 billion every year, and the U.S. votes against every single UN resolution which in any way puts Israel in a bad light or criticizes its apartheid policies.
"There is no evidence - or even an allegation - that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred."
In Wisconsin, the recount and simultaneous audit went forward despite the lawsuits. That would have seemed a perfect time to see about illegal votes but instead, the con artist and his supporters filed suit to stop the process.
"In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself, verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would address concerns around voter disenfranchisement,"
And yet, the con artist didn't want vote recounts, or any checking of the votes. Now he does. Why the change? As stated above, it's simply to soothe his ego that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. That is it. Nothing more, nothing less. He can't stand it that he received fewer votes than a woman, and it is made worse that it was Hillary.
The person, not having the convictions of their actions, agreed to withdraw the video and apologize because, and something not stated in this particular article, he didn't want to bring shame to his family.
As always, he claimed the anti-semitic remarks he regularly posted weren't really who he was, nor was he in any way proud of what he had done.
Of course that's not what he said when the video went up:
After Trump tweeted the video on Sunday, "HanA**holeSolo" took to Reddit to say he was "honored," writing "Holy sâ"!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my sâ"post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!! I am honored!!" MAGA is an acronym for the President's campaign slogan: Make America great again."
After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
Interestingly, moderators removed the entire apology from the sub group after it was posted.
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The oligarch probably made sure he wasn't using the same building as Putin does for his army of social network trolls spewing their lies
One has to remember it was the Heritage Foundation who proposed the individual mandate. Written in their document were the words:
Mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance
Having a PEC has, and should have, no bearing on allowing a person to obtain medical insurance. We know a certain portion of the population is born with such afflictions. Unless gene therapy kicks into high gear, we are going to have these type of people for a very long time. Denying them coverage simply because of how they were born cannot be done.
That said, requiring people to hand over their money or have the government reach into their bank account and forcibly extract the money is anathema to pretty much everything the Founding Fathers fought for. In fact, it's the exact opposite of what the Heritage Foundation itself stands for.
Yet, they were the ones who proposed it, Newt Gingrich backed it (because HILLARY was doing her own healthcare push at that time), and Mitt Romney implemented it. It's very disingenuous for Republicans to complain they got what they asked for.
What should have been done is give a person three options. 1) You hand over your money and get coverage. 2) You make your own choices and pay your own bills. 3) If you choose not to be covered, you can't get coverage until X months have passed. These options would cover everyone and allow people to make the choice which best fits their needs.
Instead, we got what the Heritage Foundation proposed. Big government forcing people to hand over their money.
The people who advocate Bitcoin (and similar cryptocurrency) wanted to create a whole new economy without all that pesky government regulation.
The really funny part is these people who are opposed to government regulation are the same people who want the government to force people to hand over their money to insurance companies, whether they want to or not.
the salaries are too high. Whether one is talking about an OS, a software package, an app, software today just plain sucks.
Bloat, ugly interfaces, options which don't work the same way depending on what menu you select, and many other issues, software has gone downhill, significantly, in the last decade.
Of course the excuses will fly fast and furious from those in programming claiming it's not their fault because the higher ups get in their way. If it were up to them the software they produce would be flawless. It would run using the bare minimum of memory while producing an odor similar to roses. It's only because of the managers and supervisors that software is pushed out incomplete and buggy. You can't hold them responsible for the code they wrote if someone else gets in the way. After all, they deserve their high salaries no matter how poorly the software performs.
I should think a hose and shovel should do the job nicely.
I clearly remember the banks and Wall Street firms lobbying Bush and Congress not to implement any new regulations back in 2006. Their words were, more or less, any new regulations would kill their competitive nature on the world market. Trust us, we know what we're doing.
The following year we know what happened.
Now here we are again, with a very similar situation. Regulations are evil! Don't kill us with regulations, bro!
I can guarantee not a single executive at Equifax will go to jail or pay a fine. Further, every excuse imaginable will be given why requiring such breaches to be announced immediately should not be done.
In a few years, this will happen again and everyone will look around and ask, "How did this happen?"
Seriously, SM/bondage-artists with huge plastic dildos singing for preteen girls is our culture now?
You mean like the lead singer for Rammstein who has a dildo on the end of his mic? Or did you mean the spiked dog collar he wears? The medical procedure he underwent to have a light temporarily put in his mouth?
I never hear sounds from web pages. Then again:
1) I don't use Chrome
2) I don't have my speakers turned on unless I explicitly want to listen to something
3) Don't have Flash installed
4) Run uMatrix to stop ads from running
This isn't rocket science. It's disconcerting that people on here even have this issue.
It's funny, every time I mention how bad software is I get modded down. Not necessarily any particular software, but software in general. Between clunky interfaces, having to go spelunking to find what you want, bloat, you name it, software today is not a pleasure to work with.
Now this person, a developer in their own right, is complaining about another developer(s) who apparently couldn't see their way to not destroy file.
Welcome to my world, where every day it's a war to try and find solutions to the incompetence of software developers.
The NFL has a contract with Microsoft to use their Surface tablets on the sidelines. They tout it as a way for the team to get almost real time information on play calling, whether offense or defense. Unfortunately, and directly related to this article, there are those, particularly coaches and quarterbacks, who bemoan the unpredictability of the Surface and its many malfunctions.
Even worse, people were initially calling them iPads or iPad-like which certainly didn't sit well with the marketing crew at Microsoft.
Microsoft can claim all they want their Surface is doing well, but from real world experiences, where timely information is invaluable, or in the case of Consumer Reports where Surface owners report the numerous problems they have, there is only so much spin which can be done to try and spackle over these poorly performing devices.
but it disables the old version if it's not compatible.
What does that mean? How can software be good on an OS, but a second later it's not, all because of an update? What is that update breaking so egregiously that it's preventing people from using the software they've purchased?
This is why forced updates are bad. A company breaking other people's software, in this case to prevent competition. Didn't we go through this before? What if the software Microsoft breaks is critical to operations? Are they going to reimburse the company when they lose business? Where's a class action lawsuit when you need one?
And what kind of experience would you look for in a candidate to manage a $180M telescope? Some who just graduated high school?
Isn't that what Microsoft has been doing since Windows 10 was in development?
It's quite easy to not know about a technology from before your time.
In this day and age, with information literally at one's fingertips, there is no excuse for not being informed on a multitude of subjects. If you don't know something, you look it up.
There are many things I didn't know how to do, but guess what, I learned on my own, either by asking someone who was doing the thing I wanted to know, or read a book (pre internet) or now, DuckDuckGo it.
Perhaps if people such as the one in the article would get out more and experience the world they wouldn't look like such dumb shits to the rest of us.
"we want to let search engines use it without license, but want to require a license for anyone else" attitude.
No, that is not correct. Search engines point to a page and may give a very brief line or so from the article, but one still has to click on the link to go to the real page and read everything.
hiQ goes to the Linkedin site and rather than pointing to the pages in question, takes the data, packages it, and then sells it to someone else, having left Linkdedin to do all the heavy lifting.
The two are not close.
About half of them were executive orders
You mean like those same illegal and unconstitutional executive orders Obama had done that Republicans were having apoplectic seizures over?
As I always say, "When your guy does it, it's great. When the other guy does it, it's a travesty."
It's telling that the issue is trying to be framed as one about the intelligence agencies revealing U.S. citizens whose conversations were intercepted as part of legitimate intelligence gathering rather than the fact of collusion between a presidential campaign and a foreign government.
We know for an absolute fact Russia was trying to, and successfully did, influence our election. The Senate committee, the House committee and the intelligence services all agree on that unassailable fact.
Yet instead of being concerned or even upset at this interference, Nunes is trying to deflect from this fact to one of, "But people's names were revealed!", as if trying to figure out who was colluding with Russia is a bad thing.
Another thing which is even more disturbing is the continued insistence, and outright denial, by the con artist that Russia either did anything during the campaign, or if they did, that they did anything wrong. This raises the very real question of why the con artist is trying to protect Russia? Why has he abjectly refused to say a single bad word about that country despite it deliberately bombing hospitals in Syria and coordinating the chemical weapon attack in Syria, not to mention its seizure of the Crimea from Ukraine, its invasion of Ukraine and its support for terrorist groups inside Ukraine? If this were Iran doing this the con artist would be bombing away, but because it's Russia, he lets them literally get away with murder.
Further, had Hillary Clinton won and these exact same facts come out, you can be absolutely sure Republicans would be laser focused on who did what and trying to pin the collusion on her. But when it comes to the con artist, they are doing what they can to deflect from the crimes and protect him. Hypocrisy at its best.
How about when you direct people to your web page to try and solve their issue, you give them useful information.
One can use Microsoft as a prime example of the hoops one has to jump through to find a simple solution. If the question is, "How do I add a mailbox to Outlook?", the page should not start with:
A shared mailbox can be a practical solution for any business with groups of people working from different locations. With the right permissions, any person in a group can access a shared mailbox that appears in their address book. The shared mailbox is automatically available in the Folder pane in Outlook. (taken directly from the Microsoft page)
No one cares about a "practical solution". They want to know how to add a mailbox to Outlook. Nor do they care about why one should use a shared mailbox. They asked how to add a mailbox. In fact, nowhere on the page does it tell you how to add a mailbox. It does everything but that.
If you want your call center volume to go down, provide useful information, information which is not buried ten menus deep or stuck in some corner with an obscure name.
You know why people keep calling you? Because your information pages technology sucks. That's why.
You mean like the con artist did because his Chicago tower was failing as miserably as his casinos, or that con artist-in-law also came hat-in-hand to Soros for money?
Then again, since I'm an IT guy I doubt that condition would be a problem.
You don't think being told to not provide truthful information about a government web site going down falls under that condition?
You forgot the Israeli lobby. They literally have the power to kick out incumbents and put in people who will do Israel's bidding.
It's not just one political action committee (AIPAC, which is so strong it was able to bamboozle the courts into granting it an exception to the PAC rules even though it literally has Political Action Committee in its name), but a consortium of Israeli groups which fights to insure the U.S. taxpayers fork over $8 billion every year, and the U.S. votes against every single UN resolution which in any way puts Israel in a bad light or criticizes its apartheid policies.
Do these news companies think I am going to go to their site to browse for news if I don't find it linked from some other site first?
In other words, if you're not spoon-fed whatever pablum someone else decides to hand out, you won't seek out real food?
That just screams the typical, lazy American.
Google and Facebook get their news from these companies. All they're doing is redistributing the work someone else did and making money off it.
It would seem these folks should be paying the news companies for all this work which they themselves don't have to do.
How about we not have so many people. There is no need to have three, four, five kids for every family.
Reduce the number of people and you reduce the traffic (and pollution and resource usage and so on).
Why are people so resistant to a simple audit I wonder?
Don't know. Why don't you ask the con artist who fought tooth and nail to stop vote recounts in three states by claiming, wait for it, there was no evidence of vote fraud. The exact words used:
"There is no evidence - or even an allegation - that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred."
In Wisconsin, the recount and simultaneous audit went forward despite the lawsuits. That would have seemed a perfect time to see about illegal votes but instead, the con artist and his supporters filed suit to stop the process.
As Jill Stein stated in Michigan:
"In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself, verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would address concerns around voter disenfranchisement,"
And yet, the con artist didn't want vote recounts, or any checking of the votes. Now he does. Why the change? As stated above, it's simply to soothe his ego that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. That is it. Nothing more, nothing less. He can't stand it that he received fewer votes than a woman, and it is made worse that it was Hillary.
CNN did its job. It investigated who put up the video, just like they have done in every other situation. When they found the person, they confronted them and gave them time to explain.
The person, not having the convictions of their actions, agreed to withdraw the video and apologize because, and something not stated in this particular article, he didn't want to bring shame to his family.
As always, he claimed the anti-semitic remarks he regularly posted weren't really who he was, nor was he in any way proud of what he had done.
Of course that's not what he said when the video went up:
After Trump tweeted the video on Sunday, "HanA**holeSolo" took to Reddit to say he was "honored," writing "Holy sâ"!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my sâ"post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!! I am honored!!" MAGA is an acronym for the President's campaign slogan: Make America great again."
After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.
Interestingly, moderators removed the entire apology from the sub group after it was posted.