Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
In a "right to work" state, pretty sure OP is correct. Sure, unless it can be shown the person was fired "for cause", he/she will probably be eligible for unemployment pay, but it's unlikely that person would win in court as their termination was not illegal.
Just my $.02, but if you actually *provide* quality work, you don't need to have that in your company's name. Only time will tell if this also applies to the word "affordable"...:-)
It would stop it from happening again if terrorists were stupid enough to reuse exactly the same plot. with the exact kind of knife that is now screened for at security and so on....
Though, even if such a knife got past security, anyone who tried to take over a plane using it would immediately get jumped by - probably all - the passengers, beaten into submission and forced to watch Gigli over and over again until he begged for death.
... on several other occasions I and my Australian partner arrived at the same time, with the same itineraries and the same bookings, and she always got SSSS and I didn't. I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
Does you Australian partner do this: Waves hand and speaks softly, "This is not the Canadian you're looking for." ?
Hmmm so if someone was a threat, they would want one of these pre-check cards? Seems like anyone with a pre-check card should be considered suspect and marked for enhanced scrutiny.
I would argue that same logic for anyone who wants to run for Congress... Okay, perhaps "threat" would be a bit too strong for that case, but certainly: greedy, self-centered, short-sighted, narcissistic, entitled...
...causes developers to scream at the screen, angrily toss their mouse outside the window, and yell foul obscenities at a Bill Gates they cannot see, in a place far away where they cannot touch.
And climb up from their parents' basement in tears, exclaiming, "Mom! IE touched me in a naughty place - again."
The lockdown isn't the first at-home-in-a-Bangladesh-garment-factory management technique Zuck's touted at Startup School. Back in 2007, Zuckerberg drew fire for advising company founders "you should only hire young people with technical expertise".
Perhaps the little Zucker just believes in exploiting the Stockholm syndrome for fun and profit.
On my debit card I get the regular VISA protection which I've had to call on a couple of times to get fraudulent charges removed.
See here's your confusion. Charges are removed with a credit card, funds are restored using a debit card. I don't want to have to ask my bank for my money back (that's the evil part). While your ultimate protection using a DC may be similar (or equal) to that of a CC, your immediate protection is greater using a CC.
Now you're correct that a CC is dangerous in the hands of the undisciplined, but, as I said, I have *always* paid off my CC every month. As for the benefits of a CC over cash? A one-month float on my money is one, not having to carry cash is another.
Finally, as I said elsewhere, I like having a buffer between my merchants and my bank account.
I don't have a debit card - and never will. They're evil, and unnecessary/stupid for people that have a CC and pay it off every month...
The merchant's fees for a debit card tend to be fixed, but for a credit card they're a percentage (I think this is the same in the US as it is here). There's also no limit beyond the amount in the account, and it's much more difficult to reverse the transaction, i.e. more trusted by the merchant.
If I were buying a car, I'd use a debit card (my credit limit is £3000, though they'd probably increase it if I asked). I paid the deposit to rent this flat using a debit card. Airlines usually charge a fee for paying by credit card, which they don't charge if paying by debit card.
All probably true, but your account can't get drained with a CC and you can simply challenge a bad expense on your CC statement w/o having to pay for it while it's under review (and other CC protections are at least, if not better, than for a DC). While you have to ask (beg) your bank to get your funds back stolen with a DC and handle any bounced payments, etc... (which a nice bank *might* handle and waive fees) - I don't like that. You also get a one-month float on your CC charges.
I have a no-fee CC and I buy most things using it and pay it off every month; I have never paid interest. I also have another CC from BofA that supports virtual CC numbers (Shop Safe) for on-line purchases (each number/ccid is unique and I can set the limit and exp data, the first merchant to use it is the only vendor that can use it, and I can revoke it at any time).
As for buying a car, I'd simply write a check (same as debit card), though my platinum CC credit limit is actually sufficient for buying a car:-)
Ultimately, I like having a buffer between my merchants and my bank account.
I've heard others that have say they wish they would have let go instead of fight it. I was curious if he felt the same way.
I didn't take your post as condescending or mean-spirited, just uninformed about such illnesses, their treatments and the treatment process - as I imagine are most people who haven't gone through this.
She died after just 7 weeks, barely after recovering from her initial incident and finishing diagnostic tests (biopsy and scans) to confirm GBM and rule it out as a secondary tumor (that might be "curable"). The "fight" had actually just begun. She still had 1/2 her radiotherapy and (likely) 3.5 months of Temodar to complete. Still, we knew her treatment was most likely palliative from the start.
Her tumor was right next to her brain stem and trying to resect it would have caused paralysis on almost the entire left side of her body. Furthermore, GBMs are diffuse not lump type tumors, so trying to remove them is like trying to remove a mound of salt from within the center of a full sugar bowl w/o removing any of the sugar - oh, and leave even one salt crystal behind and it start all over again... It was the swelling of or around the tumor that herniated her brain stem and put her into a coma for 7 days until she died - she signed a DNR and donated her body to science - I have done / will do the same.
... if you didn't have health insurance. Rather than paying $300,000, you and your wife would have had to come to terms that her time on Earth was now limited because you simply were not rich enough.
I knew the moment I heard the diagnosis of GBM that she was going to die - median survival with standard treatment is 15 months, w/o treatment 4.5 months and I don't think anyone has lived past 2 years. Her tumor was basically inoperable because of location w/o serious quality of life detriment, which shortened her survival a lot - that was her decision and I understood her reasons. Ultimately, money was not a factor in this case - or these cases.
Instead of painful chemotherapy, she would have been taking less expensive drugs to manage her pain while the two of you (or your families) spent her last 7 weeks of life focusing on her & enjoying the time you had.
Her radiotherapy and Temodar weren't painful, but the medicine made her nauseous for a while after taking it, though that got better, and her headaches (from the swelling) were mitigated well with Solu-Medrol. We had always spent most of our 20.5 years together well and did most things together. The last 7 weeks were just more special because we knew our time together was coming to an end.
I promised her that she would never be left alone and never be in any pain. In the end, I kept those, and all my other, promises to her. You can read about her at the URL below and a short creative non-fiction story about us under the "Remember" link.
As someone that has gone through this, looking back, which do you think would be better?
Insurance is, by definition, payment to mitigate risk. If one has the ability to back up that risk, as the 1% do, it is on average better to not get insurance.
This may be a good strategy for some (most?) types of insurance, like the rental car collision damage insurance you mentioned, but perhaps not for health insurance. Some health care costs can be quite high, far exceeding the price of the premiums, and having/using insurance can get you a much better rate on most of that, lowering your total expense.
For example, my wife died of a brain tumor (Glioblastoma Multiforme) in 2006. The list (non-insurance) price for her chemotherapy medicine, Temodar was $11,000 (not a typo) for a one-month supply (one bottle of pills); her HMO co-pay was $40 (forty) - my BC/BS co-pay would have been 10%. She would have needed 4 months, had she lived longer.
The list price for the treatment she actually received in the 7 weeks from diagnosis to death was about $300,000, but I only paid about $500 - her premiums were far less than the list price of her treatment.
Sadly, today's NASA can take any amount of money you give them and blow it on pork without achieving anything.
NASA spends things at the direction of Congress, so blame them. I believe that most of that "pork" is because of Congress-critters wanting a piece of the hog for their districts...
Pepper Potts fell into an inferno, and the wonder drug not only healed her, but grew her hair back with the same haircut and combed it.
Hell, in The Fifth Element, Leeloo was regenerated from the DNA in her charred, severed hand with her long, tussled, orange hair, wrist tattoo and memories intact.
Agree to delay the individual mandate, in exchange for a repeal of the debt-ceiling laws.
Give republicans what they want: they don't have to sign up for health care if they don't want to, and there will be no penalty.
Yes and I'm sure it will all end there. [/sarcasm] No, giving in to extortion only leads to more extortion. What Republicans want it to get something they could not get through the normal legislative process, so they're throwing this tantrum and holding their breath until they get what they want. As any parent knows, condoning this type of behavior only reinforces such behavior.
No one *has* to sign up for healthcare and the penalty in 2014 is $95 (ninety-five).
I don't know about you, but does the site really need links and JS from ad sites (like doubleclick, chartbeat), YouTube, and Facebook, as well as whatever googletagmanager and optimizely provide - as noticed by what I had to temporarily allow in NoScript - to simply make the site work to, you know, helps people get access to healthcare insurance?
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...but my god-like powers of self-control kicked in.
Perhaps *you* have such powers of self-control, but I don't know about God(s) in general. Have you ever seen a platypus?
Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
In a "right to work" state, pretty sure OP is correct. Sure, unless it can be shown the person was fired "for cause", he/she will probably be eligible for unemployment pay, but it's unlikely that person would win in court as their termination was not illegal.
Just my $.02, but if you actually *provide* quality work, you don't need to have that in your company's name. Only time will tell if this also applies to the word "affordable" ... :-)
It would stop it from happening again if terrorists were stupid enough to reuse exactly the same plot. with the exact kind of knife that is now screened for at security and so on....
Though, even if such a knife got past security, anyone who tried to take over a plane using it would immediately get jumped by - probably all - the passengers, beaten into submission and forced to watch Gigli over and over again until he begged for death.
... on several other occasions I and my Australian partner arrived at the same time, with the same itineraries and the same bookings, and she always got SSSS and I didn't. I don't think I just got a pass for being Canadian. There has to have been more to it than that.
Does you Australian partner do this: Waves hand and speaks softly, "This is not the Canadian you're looking for." ?
Hmmm so if someone was a threat, they would want one of these pre-check cards? Seems like anyone with a pre-check card should be considered suspect and marked for enhanced scrutiny.
I would argue that same logic for anyone who wants to run for Congress... Okay, perhaps "threat" would be a bit too strong for that case, but certainly: greedy, self-centered, short-sighted, narcissistic, entitled ...
...causes developers to scream at the screen, angrily toss their mouse outside the window, and yell foul obscenities at a Bill Gates they cannot see, in a place far away where they cannot touch.
And climb up from their parents' basement in tears, exclaiming, "Mom! IE touched me in a naughty place - again."
The lockdown isn't the first at-home-in-a-Bangladesh-garment-factory management technique Zuck's touted at Startup School. Back in 2007, Zuckerberg drew fire for advising company founders "you should only hire young people with technical expertise".
Perhaps the little Zucker just believes in exploiting the Stockholm syndrome for fun and profit.
I would approve of requiring labeling on food if it was produced by one of these.
I'm quite sure that, some day, these things will be labeling us as food...
On my debit card I get the regular VISA protection which I've had to call on a couple of times to get fraudulent charges removed.
See here's your confusion. Charges are removed with a credit card, funds are restored using a debit card. I don't want to have to ask my bank for my money back (that's the evil part). While your ultimate protection using a DC may be similar (or equal) to that of a CC, your immediate protection is greater using a CC.
Now you're correct that a CC is dangerous in the hands of the undisciplined, but, as I said, I have *always* paid off my CC every month. As for the benefits of a CC over cash? A one-month float on my money is one, not having to carry cash is another.
Finally, as I said elsewhere, I like having a buffer between my merchants and my bank account.
I don't have a debit card - and never will. They're evil, and unnecessary/stupid for people that have a CC and pay it off every month...
The merchant's fees for a debit card tend to be fixed, but for a credit card they're a percentage (I think this is the same in the US as it is here). There's also no limit beyond the amount in the account, and it's much more difficult to reverse the transaction, i.e. more trusted by the merchant.
If I were buying a car, I'd use a debit card (my credit limit is £3000, though they'd probably increase it if I asked). I paid the deposit to rent this flat using a debit card. Airlines usually charge a fee for paying by credit card, which they don't charge if paying by debit card.
All probably true, but your account can't get drained with a CC and you can simply challenge a bad expense on your CC statement w/o having to pay for it while it's under review (and other CC protections are at least, if not better, than for a DC). While you have to ask (beg) your bank to get your funds back stolen with a DC and handle any bounced payments, etc... (which a nice bank *might* handle and waive fees) - I don't like that. You also get a one-month float on your CC charges.
I have a no-fee CC and I buy most things using it and pay it off every month; I have never paid interest. I also have another CC from BofA that supports virtual CC numbers (Shop Safe) for on-line purchases (each number/ccid is unique and I can set the limit and exp data, the first merchant to use it is the only vendor that can use it, and I can revoke it at any time).
As for buying a car, I'd simply write a check (same as debit card), though my platinum CC credit limit is actually sufficient for buying a car :-)
Ultimately, I like having a buffer between my merchants and my bank account.
I don't have a debit card - and never will. They're evil, and unnecessary/stupid for people that have a CC and pay it off every month...
A fusion reactor would be able to power itself...
Sure can. Here's a working example.
That is the most insulting demonstration of hubris from Oracle I have seen in a very long time.
So, you didn't watch or read about the America's Cup this year? :-)
I've heard others that have say they wish they would have let go instead of fight it. I was curious if he felt the same way.
I didn't take your post as condescending or mean-spirited, just uninformed about such illnesses, their treatments and the treatment process - as I imagine are most people who haven't gone through this.
She died after just 7 weeks, barely after recovering from her initial incident and finishing diagnostic tests (biopsy and scans) to confirm GBM and rule it out as a secondary tumor (that might be "curable"). The "fight" had actually just begun. She still had 1/2 her radiotherapy and (likely) 3.5 months of Temodar to complete. Still, we knew her treatment was most likely palliative from the start.
Her tumor was right next to her brain stem and trying to resect it would have caused paralysis on almost the entire left side of her body. Furthermore, GBMs are diffuse not lump type tumors, so trying to remove them is like trying to remove a mound of salt from within the center of a full sugar bowl w/o removing any of the sugar - oh, and leave even one salt crystal behind and it start all over again... It was the swelling of or around the tumor that herniated her brain stem and put her into a coma for 7 days until she died - she signed a DNR and donated her body to science - I have done / will do the same.
... if you didn't have health insurance. Rather than paying $300,000, you and your wife would have had to come to terms that her time on Earth was now limited because you simply were not rich enough.
I knew the moment I heard the diagnosis of GBM that she was going to die - median survival with standard treatment is 15 months, w/o treatment 4.5 months and I don't think anyone has lived past 2 years. Her tumor was basically inoperable because of location w/o serious quality of life detriment, which shortened her survival a lot - that was her decision and I understood her reasons. Ultimately, money was not a factor in this case - or these cases.
Instead of painful chemotherapy, she would have been taking less expensive drugs to manage her pain while the two of you (or your families) spent her last 7 weeks of life focusing on her & enjoying the time you had.
Her radiotherapy and Temodar weren't painful, but the medicine made her nauseous for a while after taking it, though that got better, and her headaches (from the swelling) were mitigated well with Solu-Medrol. We had always spent most of our 20.5 years together well and did most things together. The last 7 weeks were just more special because we knew our time together was coming to an end.
I promised her that she would never be left alone and never be in any pain. In the end, I kept those, and all my other, promises to her. You can read about her at the URL below and a short creative non-fiction story about us under the "Remember" link.
As someone that has gone through this, looking back, which do you think would be better?
It would have been better had she lived. Remember Sue...
Insurance is, by definition, payment to mitigate risk. If one has the ability to back up that risk, as the 1% do, it is on average better to not get insurance.
This may be a good strategy for some (most?) types of insurance, like the rental car collision damage insurance you mentioned, but perhaps not for health insurance. Some health care costs can be quite high, far exceeding the price of the premiums, and having/using insurance can get you a much better rate on most of that, lowering your total expense.
For example, my wife died of a brain tumor (Glioblastoma Multiforme) in 2006. The list (non-insurance) price for her chemotherapy medicine, Temodar was $11,000 (not a typo) for a one-month supply (one bottle of pills); her HMO co-pay was $40 (forty) - my BC/BS co-pay would have been 10%. She would have needed 4 months, had she lived longer.
The list price for the treatment she actually received in the 7 weeks from diagnosis to death was about $300,000, but I only paid about $500 - her premiums were far less than the list price of her treatment.
Sadly, today's NASA can take any amount of money you give them and blow it on pork without achieving anything.
NASA spends things at the direction of Congress, so blame them. I believe that most of that "pork" is because of Congress-critters wanting a piece of the hog for their districts...
to simply make the site work to, you know, helps people get access to healthcare insurance?
You realize that the IRS will be tracking who has and has not obtained insurance, and you're worried that Google is tracking your clicks?
Not worried, just not a fan of adding complexity unless it actually needed.
Pepper Potts fell into an inferno, and the wonder drug not only healed her, but grew her hair back with the same haircut and combed it.
Hell, in The Fifth Element, Leeloo was regenerated from the DNA in her charred, severed hand with her long, tussled, orange hair, wrist tattoo and memories intact.
Agree to delay the individual mandate, in exchange for a repeal of the debt-ceiling laws.
Give republicans what they want: they don't have to sign up for health care if they don't want to, and there will be no penalty.
Yes and I'm sure it will all end there. [/sarcasm] No, giving in to extortion only leads to more extortion. What Republicans want it to get something they could not get through the normal legislative process, so they're throwing this tantrum and holding their breath until they get what they want. As any parent knows, condoning this type of behavior only reinforces such behavior.
No one *has* to sign up for healthcare and the penalty in 2014 is $95 (ninety-five).
The rest of your post is okay by me... :-)
I don't know about you, but does the site really need links and JS from ad sites (like doubleclick, chartbeat), YouTube, and Facebook, as well as whatever googletagmanager and optimizely provide - as noticed by what I had to temporarily allow in NoScript - to simply make the site work to, you know, helps people get access to healthcare insurance?
Fahrenheit 451?
Sorry, my copy was lost in a fire before I could read it. What was it about?
Please ban the following books as a threat to an Orderly Society. Also, the children.
And... The Bible - author unknown [ no original copyright... :-) ]
Erotica means whatever the person using the word wants it to mean.
Case in point: Rule 34.