"Diet" is not the same thing as "going on a diet." "Diet" is everything you eat, and it can definitely do more than make you thin. There are many ways of eating that will make you healthier but have no effect on your weight, because there are many very healthy foods that are also high in calories.
Frankly there is only so much of your 'diet' you can control without a lot of discipline.
What? Why, is someone else shoving food down your throat? If you are an adult, you have 100% control over your diet and whether or not it is healthy. "A lot of discipline" my ass - if you are choosing to not eat healthily, that's completely up to you. It doesn't take any "discipline" to not eat fast food more than once a week, or to buy lots of fruits and veggies and no chips when you go to the store. Eating healthily doesn't mean restricting your calories and counting every gram of fat and fiber perfectly - it just means choosing good things more often than bad things, and it's 100% under your control.
Yes, exercise is very important. But all the exercise in the world won't lower your cholesterol if you're eating tons of cheese and hamburger and no fiber. You need both sides of the equation, and opening your post with a claim that diet is less under your control and requires more discipline than exercise is just silly. If anything, getting out and doing the exercise requires more discipline - you've got to buy food no matter what. You don't have to be reminded to go do that, you just run out of food and have to buy some. Once you're there, you make the decision to buy healthy food or not-healthy food. Exercise, you actually have to remember to set aside the time to do it - but that's still 100% under your control.
I agree with this. I just recently got an HDTV, and I'm excited to get the cable to hook my laptop up to it so I can finally watch the TV shows I download on a nice screen while sitting on my couch. I watch my favorite shows broadcast when I can, but the internet sure is a nice backup so that my schedule doesn't have to be a complete slave to a few shows in the evening.
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Most stations are doubling (or more) the power of their digital signal once they drop the analog signal - but of course, thanks to Congress, in many places that won't happen for a while. But once it does this should at least be less of a problem for most people. I can't get digital CBS right now, despite living right within the Chicago city limits. They admit right on their webpage that most people won't be able to get it without an outdoor antenna til June.
But that's not necessarily the same set of people that the article is talking about. You're talking about people who get a subpar education in their home country, doctor it up, then get hired to work here and do substandard work. On the other hand, many of the people the article is talking about came here to get a very good education, and are now taking those skills home with them rather than getting a job here.
People have been saying this for years, and yet it doesn't seem to have hurt Apple's sales in all that time. Guess you'll probably be sleeping for a while, because you're just not the market segment they're going after. I'll nap with you while I wait for my tablet mac... though I might wake up just long enough to snag a new mini one of these days...
Doctors don't have to pay colossal malpractice insurance fees.
Okay, you're going to have to explain to me how this is connected to single-payer health care. Is it illegal to sue a doctor in the UK? If so, how do you guard against actual malpractice? I do think that malpractice lawsuits are one of the biggest problems with the US healthcare system, but it doesn't seem at all obvious to me that changing who pays for the procedures to begin with will change that. If a doctor screws up, it's not like the malpractice suit is just to get back the money paid for the procedure - it's usually to make up for lost work because of the injury, or for emotional damage, etc.
You forget that one of the reasons that many people in the US are uninsured is because they just don't treat health care as a priority. I'm sure some people will yell at me for saying that, but I have seen it *repeatedly* in my own family - people who could easily afford at least minimal insurance coverage, sometimes better, but who would instead choose to make large car payments or have cable TV. Yes, there are LOTS of people who can't afford insurance, but there are also people who do things like this. Given that, I have absolutely NO doubt whatsoever that people would riot (yes, possibly literally) over $8/gallon gas even if it meant free healthcare - because if they're feeling okay today, haven't been to a doctor in a couple years, why do they care about health care?
The health care itself may be cheaper as far as money you give directly to the doctor, but does it lead to less total costs? I seem to remember last year, when gas in the US topped $4/gallon, lots of Brits saying "Wah, wah, poor Americans are still paying half what we do at the pump" - the difference being the VAT that mostly goes toward your health care system. Would Americans be happier with "free" health care and $8/gallon gas?
I'm sure that it happens occasionally, but clearly it's out of the ordinary if they comment on it. If they regularly redubbed entire movies (or even several scenes every movie) then it wouldn't be worth noting.
The one thing newspapers still have that is hard to beat with the web: coupons. Many stores have stopped taking printed-out online coupons due to forgery. Don't laugh - I know many women who are into hardcore "couponing:" they buy several Sunday papers each week, usually one per family member, and carefully organize and annotate their coupons, knowing exactly which stores will double or triple what and when. They often manage to get their family's groceries for nearly-free, plus the cost of the papers and the massive time spent (which is why this tends to be a hobby for stay-at-home-moms).
No, it likely won't be enough to save newspapers in the long run, nor does it really help beyond Sundays, but it's one small advantage they do have over the web... maybe one that they should think harder about leveraging?
But HOAs are generally non-profit corporations - non-profits do not have shareholders to begin with. They have a board, and they may have (and in the specific case of HOAs, do have) members, but those members are not allowed to share in any profit the corporation may turn anyhow. So their fiduciary responsibility is to use members' contributions in a way that is consistent with their mission statement. That may or may not involve anything that actually benefits the members, depending on the mission statement - in the case of a HOA, it would, but in the case of, say, the ASPCA, you can become a member by contributing but the money will go to animals that you may never meet, because that's their mission.
From an actor's point of view, I have a hard time believing that you'd be able to get anything near the same emotions standing in front of a mic that you would in the scene, especially if there's any movement involved - the movement not only changes how you feel, it changes physically how the sounds come out of your body. They'd have to basically re-enact the scene exactly to get the same intensity of emotion - or even just the same emotion - that they'd get in the original.
No kidding. I have mostly TV shows on my queue - I believe that currently something like 8 out of 110 discs in my queue is available for instant viewing. Which doesn't actually matter, since it still doesn't work on Macs. I think it'll be a long time before they get to a point anywhere near dropping the DVD service.
Are you sure on that original point? When I bought gift cards for other stores at my local grocery store, I was not charged sales tax on them, even though Chicago has the highest sales tax in the country.
Because it's so easy, in a down economy with high unemployment and a crappy housing market, for someone to leave their job and sell their house and move to a new state.
We've got buses and train tracks falling apart, we have to beg the state and even federal government for money so that the public transit system doesn't completely shut down and the city with it - but hey! Clearly what the Olympic committee wants to see isn't a CTA that can actually handle the number of tourists required for this event - no no, I'm sure what they really want is a promise to pretend to prevent crime.
I am so glad I'll only be living in this city for a couple more years. There are some really good things about it, but they're not anything that can't be found in any reasonably-sized city.
Some of the casinos (not all) will give you free daquiris, which you can order virgin... free shakes! Much more festive than a bottle of water, and it might make people *think* you're drinking.
Honest question - who decides what American workers get paid? Does the average for the foreign workers have to be the same as the national average? Or some other metric? Or does the company just have to pay their own foreign and American workers the same for the same position?
Because if it's the latter, what's stopping a bank from lowering the entry-level pay of all, say, branch managers from $15/hr to $10/hr, then when they can't find enough qualified Americans willing to work for that amount turning to H1Bs? They'll pay the Americans they do get the same, but there won't be enough willing to take it so they can claim a shortage and pay everyone less.
The basic tier usually sucks, though. It's usually a dozen news and sports channels, a handful of shopping channels, and one or two channels I'd actually watch. Not worth any amount per month. A la carte cable is pretty much the only thing I'd be willing to pay for, unless someone's basic tier *happened* to include at least ten channels I'd watch. But they never do, because otherwise no one would pay for the big package.
Just for the sake of screwing up your anecdata, I'll go ahead and tell you that I use rabbit ears. Cable is just not even close to being worth $50/month for me. Not only don't I watch enough TV to make it worth it, I don't want to watch enough to make it worth it - I have nothing against watching TV, but I also don't want to spend 15+ hours a week doing it. I have Netflix, and for a fraction of the price have access to plenty of shows I wouldn't otherwise. Or there's the internet, though I prefer watching things on my TV from my couch so I only do that when it's necessary (for current BSG episodes, for instance).
That said, if they let me choose any 10-15 cable channels for under $25/month, I'd be all over it.
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"Diet" is not the same thing as "going on a diet." "Diet" is everything you eat, and it can definitely do more than make you thin. There are many ways of eating that will make you healthier but have no effect on your weight, because there are many very healthy foods that are also high in calories.
Frankly there is only so much of your 'diet' you can control without a lot of discipline.
What? Why, is someone else shoving food down your throat? If you are an adult, you have 100% control over your diet and whether or not it is healthy. "A lot of discipline" my ass - if you are choosing to not eat healthily, that's completely up to you. It doesn't take any "discipline" to not eat fast food more than once a week, or to buy lots of fruits and veggies and no chips when you go to the store. Eating healthily doesn't mean restricting your calories and counting every gram of fat and fiber perfectly - it just means choosing good things more often than bad things, and it's 100% under your control.
Yes, exercise is very important. But all the exercise in the world won't lower your cholesterol if you're eating tons of cheese and hamburger and no fiber. You need both sides of the equation, and opening your post with a claim that diet is less under your control and requires more discipline than exercise is just silly. If anything, getting out and doing the exercise requires more discipline - you've got to buy food no matter what. You don't have to be reminded to go do that, you just run out of food and have to buy some. Once you're there, you make the decision to buy healthy food or not-healthy food. Exercise, you actually have to remember to set aside the time to do it - but that's still 100% under your control.
I agree with this. I just recently got an HDTV, and I'm excited to get the cable to hook my laptop up to it so I can finally watch the TV shows I download on a nice screen while sitting on my couch. I watch my favorite shows broadcast when I can, but the internet sure is a nice backup so that my schedule doesn't have to be a complete slave to a few shows in the evening.
Most stations are doubling (or more) the power of their digital signal once they drop the analog signal - but of course, thanks to Congress, in many places that won't happen for a while. But once it does this should at least be less of a problem for most people. I can't get digital CBS right now, despite living right within the Chicago city limits. They admit right on their webpage that most people won't be able to get it without an outdoor antenna til June.
But that's not necessarily the same set of people that the article is talking about. You're talking about people who get a subpar education in their home country, doctor it up, then get hired to work here and do substandard work. On the other hand, many of the people the article is talking about came here to get a very good education, and are now taking those skills home with them rather than getting a job here.
People have been saying this for years, and yet it doesn't seem to have hurt Apple's sales in all that time. Guess you'll probably be sleeping for a while, because you're just not the market segment they're going after. I'll nap with you while I wait for my tablet mac... though I might wake up just long enough to snag a new mini one of these days...
Doctors don't have to pay colossal malpractice insurance fees.
Okay, you're going to have to explain to me how this is connected to single-payer health care. Is it illegal to sue a doctor in the UK? If so, how do you guard against actual malpractice? I do think that malpractice lawsuits are one of the biggest problems with the US healthcare system, but it doesn't seem at all obvious to me that changing who pays for the procedures to begin with will change that. If a doctor screws up, it's not like the malpractice suit is just to get back the money paid for the procedure - it's usually to make up for lost work because of the injury, or for emotional damage, etc.
You forget that one of the reasons that many people in the US are uninsured is because they just don't treat health care as a priority. I'm sure some people will yell at me for saying that, but I have seen it *repeatedly* in my own family - people who could easily afford at least minimal insurance coverage, sometimes better, but who would instead choose to make large car payments or have cable TV. Yes, there are LOTS of people who can't afford insurance, but there are also people who do things like this. Given that, I have absolutely NO doubt whatsoever that people would riot (yes, possibly literally) over $8/gallon gas even if it meant free healthcare - because if they're feeling okay today, haven't been to a doctor in a couple years, why do they care about health care?
The health care itself may be cheaper as far as money you give directly to the doctor, but does it lead to less total costs? I seem to remember last year, when gas in the US topped $4/gallon, lots of Brits saying "Wah, wah, poor Americans are still paying half what we do at the pump" - the difference being the VAT that mostly goes toward your health care system. Would Americans be happier with "free" health care and $8/gallon gas?
I'm sure that it happens occasionally, but clearly it's out of the ordinary if they comment on it. If they regularly redubbed entire movies (or even several scenes every movie) then it wouldn't be worth noting.
The one thing newspapers still have that is hard to beat with the web: coupons. Many stores have stopped taking printed-out online coupons due to forgery. Don't laugh - I know many women who are into hardcore "couponing:" they buy several Sunday papers each week, usually one per family member, and carefully organize and annotate their coupons, knowing exactly which stores will double or triple what and when. They often manage to get their family's groceries for nearly-free, plus the cost of the papers and the massive time spent (which is why this tends to be a hobby for stay-at-home-moms).
No, it likely won't be enough to save newspapers in the long run, nor does it really help beyond Sundays, but it's one small advantage they do have over the web... maybe one that they should think harder about leveraging?
But HOAs are generally non-profit corporations - non-profits do not have shareholders to begin with. They have a board, and they may have (and in the specific case of HOAs, do have) members, but those members are not allowed to share in any profit the corporation may turn anyhow. So their fiduciary responsibility is to use members' contributions in a way that is consistent with their mission statement. That may or may not involve anything that actually benefits the members, depending on the mission statement - in the case of a HOA, it would, but in the case of, say, the ASPCA, you can become a member by contributing but the money will go to animals that you may never meet, because that's their mission.
Do you mean a Vigenere cipher?
From an actor's point of view, I have a hard time believing that you'd be able to get anything near the same emotions standing in front of a mic that you would in the scene, especially if there's any movement involved - the movement not only changes how you feel, it changes physically how the sounds come out of your body. They'd have to basically re-enact the scene exactly to get the same intensity of emotion - or even just the same emotion - that they'd get in the original.
Ah - Silverlight doesn't work on 10.3.9, which is what I have.
No kidding. I have mostly TV shows on my queue - I believe that currently something like 8 out of 110 discs in my queue is available for instant viewing. Which doesn't actually matter, since it still doesn't work on Macs. I think it'll be a long time before they get to a point anywhere near dropping the DVD service.
Are you sure on that original point? When I bought gift cards for other stores at my local grocery store, I was not charged sales tax on them, even though Chicago has the highest sales tax in the country.
Think for a minute. It's a sales tax, not a bandwidth tax. If you're "selling" something for $0, 5% of that is still $0. This is not a hard problem.
Because it's so easy, in a down economy with high unemployment and a crappy housing market, for someone to leave their job and sell their house and move to a new state.
We've got buses and train tracks falling apart, we have to beg the state and even federal government for money so that the public transit system doesn't completely shut down and the city with it - but hey! Clearly what the Olympic committee wants to see isn't a CTA that can actually handle the number of tourists required for this event - no no, I'm sure what they really want is a promise to pretend to prevent crime.
I am so glad I'll only be living in this city for a couple more years. There are some really good things about it, but they're not anything that can't be found in any reasonably-sized city.
Some of the casinos (not all) will give you free daquiris, which you can order virgin... free shakes! Much more festive than a bottle of water, and it might make people *think* you're drinking.
I meant for the purposes of saying "you must pay an H1B employee the same as an American employee." The same as what?
Thank you - the other answers were interesting and illuminating, but this is the only one that answers the question that I was *actually* asking.
Honest question - who decides what American workers get paid? Does the average for the foreign workers have to be the same as the national average? Or some other metric? Or does the company just have to pay their own foreign and American workers the same for the same position?
Because if it's the latter, what's stopping a bank from lowering the entry-level pay of all, say, branch managers from $15/hr to $10/hr, then when they can't find enough qualified Americans willing to work for that amount turning to H1Bs? They'll pay the Americans they do get the same, but there won't be enough willing to take it so they can claim a shortage and pay everyone less.
The basic tier usually sucks, though. It's usually a dozen news and sports channels, a handful of shopping channels, and one or two channels I'd actually watch. Not worth any amount per month. A la carte cable is pretty much the only thing I'd be willing to pay for, unless someone's basic tier *happened* to include at least ten channels I'd watch. But they never do, because otherwise no one would pay for the big package.
Just for the sake of screwing up your anecdata, I'll go ahead and tell you that I use rabbit ears. Cable is just not even close to being worth $50/month for me. Not only don't I watch enough TV to make it worth it, I don't want to watch enough to make it worth it - I have nothing against watching TV, but I also don't want to spend 15+ hours a week doing it. I have Netflix, and for a fraction of the price have access to plenty of shows I wouldn't otherwise. Or there's the internet, though I prefer watching things on my TV from my couch so I only do that when it's necessary (for current BSG episodes, for instance).
That said, if they let me choose any 10-15 cable channels for under $25/month, I'd be all over it.