When I had physical therapy I didn't want to go in 3x a week so I asked them if they could show me the techniques and I would do them at home. They were happy to oblige. Many patients are bad at doing the exercises and want the hand holding, but it isn't mandatory. The PT clinic isn't going to promote home care since they don't get paid for it.
I used to feel this way too, but it might be misguided. Imagine a hundred people all driving to the mall to try on clothes - that is 100 cars making 200 round trips, plus all the electricity wasted at the mall on HVAC, lighting, as well as all the items that don't get bought and the army of trucks to supply the mall with products.
Those 100 people could all be served by a single UPS truck making one big trip. The whole thing might be greener than the old way, even with all the wasted boxes and returns and whatnot. It is certainly cheaper, which keeps a hard lid on resource use.
Why are you so angry that there are people who like coffee? There are tons of things that some people like and others don't - Chocolate, Subarus, Cheez-its, ethanol, sex, Justin Bieber, the list is endless. That's part of life. If you don't like coffee nobody is forcing you to drink it.
The sooner you figure out that other people gonna do what they do and you don't have to like it the sooner you can start enjoying life.
I suppose it is perspective. I absent mindedly took a visiting friend to TJs to pick up groceries and he was shocked at all the stuff he wanted that they didn't sell - Coke, Doritos, hungry man dinners, gatorade - pretty much everything he normally buys doesn't exist there. I realized that lots of people have buying habits that TJs simply doesn't acknowledge. Sure they sell a lot of packaged premade goods, but you can't find the vast majority of junk food there.
Smug people and trash are different, though. When I go to walmart the customer service line is always long, clogged with people trying to do return scams. They have stolen items, no receipt, etc. and they are belligerent when the scam doesn't go right. I try to avoid it because it is unpleasant. You don't see things like that at whole foods. I don't like either store personally.
Boy that article hasn't aged well. I don't have one and don't know many that do. Why would someone brag about not owning something stupid and ancient? Some kind of retro anti hipster? Guess what, granpda, I don't own a typewriter, a victrola, or a frickin steam powered log splitter.
I watch tons of shows though, I use this new fangled computer thingy.
You don't have to use herbicides/pesticides for no-till farming. You can use cover crops, solarization, mulch, there are also organic no-till farms proliferating like um weeds.
Besides, tilling is so awful for the environment and human health using roundup is probably the greener approach.
Huh, you are paying quite a bit less than the US average. Washington state average is $125 and that includes low cost rural areas. The typical US policy is pretty lousy, high deductible and $30k cap on damages/liability so you are getting quite a bit more for your money.
I don't like the idea that you have no choice in type of policy, but it seems to save you all money. The system here is so regressive - poor people pay the most, they even penalize you heavily for poor credit. Perhaps you shouldn't be quick to dismiss the single payer setup?
It's partly structural and partly psychological. The main parties control the levers of government and do everything they can to maintain control. Third parties are excluded from numerous resources and don't have the established networks the main parties enjoy. The mental effect is powerful - many people hold their nose and vote for a candidate they don't love just to avoid seeing the monster from the other party elected. Third parties are seen as not viable, and this has become a self reinforcing prophecy.
Many people would prefer a third party, but until enough people are willing to "throw their vote away" it won't happen. A third party could get a popular majority in a presidential election and still not be elected.
Fascinating. What do you pay for what kind of insurance? Here in Les Etats-Unis we pay an astonishing range of premiums for a wide range of plans - plans that won't cover a typical accident are fairly cheap. I'm paying around $50/month for high deductible ($1000) liability-only coverage (damage to my car is not covered). I'm quite curious if single payer is cheaper. If it matters I shopped around for that price and am considered low risk/good credit. I live in a high cost area.
I've seen too many failed/overtime/overbudget projects in the private sector to think that privatizing will fix anything. I suspect a stable high level of funding would do the trick, instead of the erratic austerity that has been imposed in recent history.
Ask the new battlestar galactica. Or lost. Or happy days.
wait, that last one gave us the delightful expression, "Jumping the Shark." I used to love that expression before it got on a pair of waterskis and jumped the shark, wearing a leather jacket with a thumbs up.
So you are arguing that a conspiracy is more plausible than poor security? I'd say that poor security is a given, hackers demanding ransom happens constantly. Sure, it isn't an awful advertising campaign but I think that simply influenced their decision making upon receiving the ransom demand.
I let the metaphor get away from me intentionally because I see it as part of an overall attitude. The administration would prefer to enrich a handful of self interested corporations at the expense of government workers and consumers. This attitude is typical, the same approach they take to regulations, health care, social safety net, etc.
They don't really care about experiencing the concert. They primarily care about seeing other peoples response to them seeing the concert. So they post video of them at the concert, video of the concert, etc. to get their true desire.
I'm fairly sure plenty of those people are doing gig work, posting to someone elses feed for a fee to make it appear that Bartiford was at the festival.
The foxes don't care about any particular hens, only the fact that there are hens to eat. Smart businessfoxes would keep a large population of overfed, misinformed hens and kill off a percentage around the edges of hen society, maybe by taking away their health care, disability, and food stamps.
I know people like you. Let me guess, you're a real ton of fun at the doctor or the dmv. The government knows your social security number and freely surveils you, corporations track your spending and sell the data to each other, and your anonymity is a mirage.
I donate too, it has cured my mild gout. I suspect that getting blood transfusions unnecessarily will cause serious harm - elevated iron levels (associated with heart disease and cancer) as well as elevated uric acid levels (associated with gout)
Humans have been spending fortunes on quack anti aging remedies since the dawn of time, this isn't the first time the cure is worse than the disease. Fools and money.
What a strange thing to say! Nobody was stopping them from offering more money. If employees don't quit for better paying jobs we end up with lower salaries.
Low pay equals high turnover. It's a choice the employer makes.
I was just talking to my great uncle about this. He was a teenager in the 30s. There were audiophiles back then, they would buy fancy needles for phonographs, high end tubes for their radios, upgrade speaker cones, that kind of stuff. You could drop 10x the price of an entry level piece of gear. I'll bet this phenomenon predates electricity - gold pressed oboe reeds provide more fidelity!
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When I had physical therapy I didn't want to go in 3x a week so I asked them if they could show me the techniques and I would do them at home. They were happy to oblige. Many patients are bad at doing the exercises and want the hand holding, but it isn't mandatory. The PT clinic isn't going to promote home care since they don't get paid for it.
I used to feel this way too, but it might be misguided. Imagine a hundred people all driving to the mall to try on clothes - that is 100 cars making 200 round trips, plus all the electricity wasted at the mall on HVAC, lighting, as well as all the items that don't get bought and the army of trucks to supply the mall with products.
Those 100 people could all be served by a single UPS truck making one big trip. The whole thing might be greener than the old way, even with all the wasted boxes and returns and whatnot. It is certainly cheaper, which keeps a hard lid on resource use.
Why are you so angry that there are people who like coffee? There are tons of things that some people like and others don't - Chocolate, Subarus, Cheez-its, ethanol, sex, Justin Bieber, the list is endless. That's part of life. If you don't like coffee nobody is forcing you to drink it.
The sooner you figure out that other people gonna do what they do and you don't have to like it the sooner you can start enjoying life.
I suppose it is perspective. I absent mindedly took a visiting friend to TJs to pick up groceries and he was shocked at all the stuff he wanted that they didn't sell - Coke, Doritos, hungry man dinners, gatorade - pretty much everything he normally buys doesn't exist there. I realized that lots of people have buying habits that TJs simply doesn't acknowledge. Sure they sell a lot of packaged premade goods, but you can't find the vast majority of junk food there.
Smug people and trash are different, though. When I go to walmart the customer service line is always long, clogged with people trying to do return scams. They have stolen items, no receipt, etc. and they are belligerent when the scam doesn't go right. I try to avoid it because it is unpleasant. You don't see things like that at whole foods. I don't like either store personally.
Sometimes I don't get a good mobile signal deep inside a building. If I'm bored I'll hop on wifi if available. I doubt this behavior is unusual.
You can reduce your margins to nothing and if you double space end up with a paper even longer than one with large margins.
I was curious why my dentist started taking BP, he said that insurance requires him to verify normal BP before being covered for certain procedures.
Boy that article hasn't aged well. I don't have one and don't know many that do. Why would someone brag about not owning something stupid and ancient? Some kind of retro anti hipster? Guess what, granpda, I don't own a typewriter, a victrola, or a frickin steam powered log splitter.
I watch tons of shows though, I use this new fangled computer thingy.
You don't have to use herbicides/pesticides for no-till farming. You can use cover crops, solarization, mulch, there are also organic no-till farms proliferating like um weeds.
Besides, tilling is so awful for the environment and human health using roundup is probably the greener approach.
Huh, you are paying quite a bit less than the US average. Washington state average is $125 and that includes low cost rural areas. The typical US policy is pretty lousy, high deductible and $30k cap on damages/liability so you are getting quite a bit more for your money.
I don't like the idea that you have no choice in type of policy, but it seems to save you all money. The system here is so regressive - poor people pay the most, they even penalize you heavily for poor credit. Perhaps you shouldn't be quick to dismiss the single payer setup?
It's partly structural and partly psychological. The main parties control the levers of government and do everything they can to maintain control. Third parties are excluded from numerous resources and don't have the established networks the main parties enjoy. The mental effect is powerful - many people hold their nose and vote for a candidate they don't love just to avoid seeing the monster from the other party elected. Third parties are seen as not viable, and this has become a self reinforcing prophecy.
Many people would prefer a third party, but until enough people are willing to "throw their vote away" it won't happen. A third party could get a popular majority in a presidential election and still not be elected.
This doesn't fix the problem, but a good pharmacist will call the doc and get a modified rx. A really good one will suggest doing so.
Fascinating. What do you pay for what kind of insurance? Here in Les Etats-Unis we pay an astonishing range of premiums for a wide range of plans - plans that won't cover a typical accident are fairly cheap. I'm paying around $50/month for high deductible ($1000) liability-only coverage (damage to my car is not covered). I'm quite curious if single payer is cheaper. If it matters I shopped around for that price and am considered low risk/good credit. I live in a high cost area.
I've seen too many failed/overtime/overbudget projects in the private sector to think that privatizing will fix anything. I suspect a stable high level of funding would do the trick, instead of the erratic austerity that has been imposed in recent history.
You seem to underestimate how much incompetency there is on this wonderful planet. Listen, there is infinite incompetency!
I'll bet whoever was in charge of their security had a similar attitude. Probably arrogant too.
Ask the new battlestar galactica. Or lost. Or happy days.
wait, that last one gave us the delightful expression, "Jumping the Shark." I used to love that expression before it got on a pair of waterskis and jumped the shark, wearing a leather jacket with a thumbs up.
So you are arguing that a conspiracy is more plausible than poor security? I'd say that poor security is a given, hackers demanding ransom happens constantly. Sure, it isn't an awful advertising campaign but I think that simply influenced their decision making upon receiving the ransom demand.
I let the metaphor get away from me intentionally because I see it as part of an overall attitude. The administration would prefer to enrich a handful of self interested corporations at the expense of government workers and consumers. This attitude is typical, the same approach they take to regulations, health care, social safety net, etc.
They don't really care about experiencing the concert. They primarily care about seeing other peoples response to them seeing the concert. So they post video of them at the concert, video of the concert, etc. to get their true desire.
I'm fairly sure plenty of those people are doing gig work, posting to someone elses feed for a fee to make it appear that Bartiford was at the festival.
The foxes don't care about any particular hens, only the fact that there are hens to eat. Smart businessfoxes would keep a large population of overfed, misinformed hens and kill off a percentage around the edges of hen society, maybe by taking away their health care, disability, and food stamps.
I know people like you. Let me guess, you're a real ton of fun at the doctor or the dmv. The government knows your social security number and freely surveils you, corporations track your spending and sell the data to each other, and your anonymity is a mirage.
I donate too, it has cured my mild gout. I suspect that getting blood transfusions unnecessarily will cause serious harm - elevated iron levels (associated with heart disease and cancer) as well as elevated uric acid levels (associated with gout)
Humans have been spending fortunes on quack anti aging remedies since the dawn of time, this isn't the first time the cure is worse than the disease. Fools and money.
What a strange thing to say! Nobody was stopping them from offering more money. If employees don't quit for better paying jobs we end up with lower salaries.
Low pay equals high turnover. It's a choice the employer makes.
I was just talking to my great uncle about this. He was a teenager in the 30s. There were audiophiles back then, they would buy fancy needles for phonographs, high end tubes for their radios, upgrade speaker cones, that kind of stuff. You could drop 10x the price of an entry level piece of gear. I'll bet this phenomenon predates electricity - gold pressed oboe reeds provide more fidelity!