I'm not at all surprised to see this. Not too long ago, there was a health insurer called GHO+HMI. They were reasonably priced and accepted in most health care locations. They went private, and the NY Dept of Insurance allowed it. In the filings, they claimed competition and market forces would allow them to maintain services and keep rates low.
Today, they spend a lot of money on advertising Medicare plans. I had them for two years under an ACA plan...a total waste of money. "oh, we don't accept Emblem from the Exchange" was the refrain in every doc's office. They fought me on every claim, mis processed, and in one instance, refused to help me at least get the negotiated rates for services.
They are screwing their IT staff ? Say it ain't so.
I heartily wish the senior executives of Emblem Health, their children, and families, the most painful of disease, bone cancers, and dysfunctional major organs with no matching transplant donors. I sincerely hope for a few hospital infections and an incompetent intern at a crucial moment.
They screwed a working nonprofit health insurance provider and literally there is NO bad thing they don't deserve.
When the Federal Government MADE ME post my taxes monthly on a website, and said I could no longer go physically to my bank, and pay a teller, I knew that the internet was here to stay.
If the internet was "shut down", then most of your small businesses could not pay their withholding taxes, as the Govts have pulled banks back from that job.
Apple products have lasted longer than any PC products in my use. I'm a small business and unfortunately responsible for every one else's computers in the extended family. Apple is more expensive to buy, but you usually (till recently) get good quality parts. It might not be ideal for Gaming, but for everyone else it is adequate. I just retired a 4.1 iMac because it was "Core Duo", not " Core 2 Duo", and wasn't fully 64 bit so was stuck at 10.7. This blew out itunes, but at least there was a technical reason.
El Capitan runs on a MBP at college, four years old, with a 1 TB SSD and maxed memory...on second set of batteries. This machine took more abuse than I can even relate.
There is an older Mini in use as well, again updated with El Capitan, an SSD, and maxed memory. I can't complain even thought they obsoleted a ten year old iMac. Oh, it still works fine, other than that itunes thing.
Even paying the Apple tax, I don't have crappy hardware failures, less viral stupidity and redirects, and the time not spent "fixing" problems. 10.11 runs fine on an office computer built in 2009. OK, I "open" "save" and "print", along with "web" but it still works fine, rarely peaking the CPU meters...and only if scanning and printing at the same time.
My kid games, and of course, he doesn't have an Apple...but if you don't care about FPS, then it is a no brainer. The higher costs, at least in my experience, are outweighed by the longevity. I am concerned, however, with the "no upgrades" the current models have. I bought a new iMac, but knew there was NO upgrade path...this is disturbing and I hope not the future.
The General election will be expensive. Good to let the remaining old school monopoly media providers know to start bunding for you now, if anyone even bundles anymore in the age of SuperPac.....
We don't have ABC, CBS and NBC dictating our media, we have Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner.
Best be a known quantity for "freedom of choice", you or nothing, and "deregulation" of anything for the consumer but not for the utility.
Our campaign manager will be passing by your table.
So, how many non conforming TDI golf does this equal ?
For all those tortured at the State Inspection Station for a non OE air cleaner, what does this equal ?
You really owe it to yourself (literally) to check TV Fool and see if you can get OTA TV. A $75 antenna and even a lifetime TiVo pay back very quickly. If your living situation allows an external antenna, or if you can get it with an inside antenna, do it.
I don't know if this works in Europe.
Had analog cable, fed a few tv sets.
Cable goes digital. Clear QAM - only premium channels are scrambled. The golden era.
One day, all channels become scrambled, but you get a free box for a year.
One year later, the box is $8 per month per TV. Boxes go back.
There was no reason in my very suburban area to scramble everything....except to force me to rent a box to view a signal I *already paid for*.
Double Dip ?
I fought this off with cablecard devices until the cable co put a $6 per month charge for "sports programming".
I'm not a fan, they would not remove the charge. Turns out I had to pay for ESPN, like it or not.
Invested in a better router and repeater. Happily streaming from a variety of sources. Antenna on the roof like Gramps had gets me plenty to feed the DVRs.
I still have to pay for the broadband, and the company increased the internet price $10 per month because I don't have "tv'. I have the least evil of the group, Cablevision, and they were pretty good with cable cards when I had the unicorn of the American electronics market, a Free Cable Ready DVR, the obsolete Sony HDD 250. It worked until Rovi killed the listing service a few years back.
The "industry" has allowed Tivo to survive, as Tivo has a few key patents which have stifled anyone else, (even Sony!)
It is beyond over due that there be privately owned DVR and cable card type devices. You can do this if you are computer savvy, but where are the set top boxes for everyone else at best buy ?
I get those windows calls frequently. I always mention that I was attempting to download some porn, and it didn't load. They want to help. I describe the (fictional) porn in detail. Surprisingly, many of the scammers have a real problem with an amy schumer-ese description. Fun times, and the longer I keep them on the phone, the less time they have to scam a real potential target.
I once had to mention that I didn't have a windows key, I have some sort of apple icon on my keyboard....at the ten minute mark.
now this is something government should be doing. You go get gasoline. No one ever measures the gallon/liter, you trust government to certify this.
You buy milk. You trust that the number on the carton is true.
I live in a good place. We have Fios and Cable on the same street, and in a world with at least duopoly, they don't play games.
We've taken to googling the price of every drug we see. How many folks have diabetes or foot fungus, a lot....those drugs are about 20k/yr.
The really narrowcast cancer drugs (what percentage of your audience has small cell lung cancer ?) are about 200k per year. I can see the desperate haranging a doc to prescribe this, even if the doc knows differently.
If it isn't OTC, then it should not be advertised to the mass market. All this does is drive up prices.
Oh, "if you can't afford your medication, XXXX MAY be able to help" burns me on so many levels, I hope the CEO of the company's family all need that drug, and that for them it is all "side effects".
Everything wrong with the US "health" care system is shown by advertising these drugs direct to consumer.
Hams know that a good antenna system backed by a marginal radio will always beat a great radio on a garbage antenna.
Good to know that rule applies for wireless as well. My move to an AC router meant that my 2.4 ghz signal is now maxed out in the whole house, and the 5 ghz signal, which used to work in two rooms only, now covers the whole house like my old router on 2.4.
I was surprised to find this out. I've had blockers on my stuff for the last, oh, five years. I got hit by a bad ad at one point, and realized it was just another attack vector. I'm sorry that the legit guys lost too, but it is kind of like 50 people pass through your house, one is a thief. None of them NEED to be there, so you can lock the door without feeling bad about it.
Every time I have to de-malware someone's machine, it is left with full adblock on all browsers...and I'm not even a real geek.
Because now that you have a camera you can post your videos. The guy who spent days building a perfect P-51 replica isn't going to buzz the US open with it. The guy who bought it on line and had a box truck deliver it will. Likewise the guy who causes water planes to divert from a fire run out west.
They can't think beyond "getting a shot".
Darn. The lads find the one service I don't subscribe to. I guess I'll have to find a stream like I did for the last season on the BBC.
TG is special because you get to see them beat up the cars,not just give puff pieces on them. You know the X3 is wack...you know that lots of cars suck even tho they are expensive.
There is a boor at every party. JC is that person. I'm sure If I understood the class system of Britain this would be even more interesting, but I live in the colonies.
Yes, and how many of those apps ask for a copy of your address book ? I don't mind sharing if needed for a function, web privacy being a lost cause, but if you want to d/l my 5000 plus contact professional contact list, uh, NO.
The whole "X was faked" theory misses one key point. If the moon landings were bogus, the Russians, Chinese, and a few others, all of whom had/have the technical ability would have blown the whistle on us. How would you fake a radio signal going behind the moon and coming back ? Not so simple.
Likewise, you'd have to fake the data coming in. Seems like a lot of work to get a radio signal from outside Neptune's orbit.......
The real tragedy is we can't currently go BACK to the moon....
You need to read up on 85th percentile speeds and free flow. The 85th percentile results in the lowest accident involvement rate....
Posting speed limits at the 50th percentile only results in traffic clumping and more conflicts in the traffic flow.
This has been properly and professionally researched and reproduced. Your gut instinct is wrong.
Not even close. Speed limits should be set on a limited access highway at the 85th percentile of free flow traffic. (google Davy and Warren)
Every state's DOT monitors this and published speed numbers by quarter. 85th percentiles on most 55/65 roads are in the 70-75 mph range. In a just world, most 55 mph highways would read 70, and most 65 roads posted at 80, enforced at 85.
In the US, the idea that speed limits are set according to anything remotely like a "best case scenario" is a joke. I have seen speed limits set dynamically in Germany with adjustable signs, and that works very well, but they aren't locked at "max speed (something slower than free flow on a good day)"
You do realize the "reference car" for the interstate system is a 1960's design with one brake circuit out.
None of this applies to residential roads or dense pedestrian areas.
No, because Germany took over without a single shot being fired. This is the true turning point in world politics...that one nation can subjugate another without even running a few Jeeps around a parade field in a show of force. Not a single plane encroached upon Greek airspace, not a single submarine run any offensive drill.
Nope, a few bankers with a spreadsheet. Beats Genocide, at least....
You win. The Bike lanes have destroyed traffic flow and removed parking. Lowering the speed limit to 25 is a stealth tax outside Park Slope and Manhattan. I drove across NYC below canal street, and the tight streets, never great, were gridlock as half of the road was marked for bicycles. No bikes, hundreds of cars.
Next up, mad cameras to enforce Zero Vision.
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I'm not at all surprised to see this. Not too long ago, there was a health insurer called GHO+HMI. They were reasonably priced and accepted in most health care locations. They went private, and the NY Dept of Insurance allowed it. In the filings, they claimed competition and market forces would allow them to maintain services and keep rates low. Today, they spend a lot of money on advertising Medicare plans. I had them for two years under an ACA plan...a total waste of money. "oh, we don't accept Emblem from the Exchange" was the refrain in every doc's office. They fought me on every claim, mis processed, and in one instance, refused to help me at least get the negotiated rates for services. They are screwing their IT staff ? Say it ain't so. I heartily wish the senior executives of Emblem Health, their children, and families, the most painful of disease, bone cancers, and dysfunctional major organs with no matching transplant donors. I sincerely hope for a few hospital infections and an incompetent intern at a crucial moment. They screwed a working nonprofit health insurance provider and literally there is NO bad thing they don't deserve.
Vote for Hillary and learn the truth about UFOs ! Now, I have seen it all. Also, I don't trust her to actually tell me.
When the Federal Government MADE ME post my taxes monthly on a website, and said I could no longer go physically to my bank, and pay a teller, I knew that the internet was here to stay. If the internet was "shut down", then most of your small businesses could not pay their withholding taxes, as the Govts have pulled banks back from that job.
Apple products have lasted longer than any PC products in my use. I'm a small business and unfortunately responsible for every one else's computers in the extended family. Apple is more expensive to buy, but you usually (till recently) get good quality parts. It might not be ideal for Gaming, but for everyone else it is adequate. I just retired a 4.1 iMac because it was "Core Duo", not " Core 2 Duo", and wasn't fully 64 bit so was stuck at 10.7. This blew out itunes, but at least there was a technical reason. El Capitan runs on a MBP at college, four years old, with a 1 TB SSD and maxed memory...on second set of batteries. This machine took more abuse than I can even relate. There is an older Mini in use as well, again updated with El Capitan, an SSD, and maxed memory. I can't complain even thought they obsoleted a ten year old iMac. Oh, it still works fine, other than that itunes thing. Even paying the Apple tax, I don't have crappy hardware failures, less viral stupidity and redirects, and the time not spent "fixing" problems. 10.11 runs fine on an office computer built in 2009. OK, I "open" "save" and "print", along with "web" but it still works fine, rarely peaking the CPU meters...and only if scanning and printing at the same time. My kid games, and of course, he doesn't have an Apple...but if you don't care about FPS, then it is a no brainer. The higher costs, at least in my experience, are outweighed by the longevity. I am concerned, however, with the "no upgrades" the current models have. I bought a new iMac, but knew there was NO upgrade path...this is disturbing and I hope not the future.
The General election will be expensive. Good to let the remaining old school monopoly media providers know to start bunding for you now, if anyone even bundles anymore in the age of SuperPac..... We don't have ABC, CBS and NBC dictating our media, we have Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner. Best be a known quantity for "freedom of choice", you or nothing, and "deregulation" of anything for the consumer but not for the utility. Our campaign manager will be passing by your table.
So, how many non conforming TDI golf does this equal ? For all those tortured at the State Inspection Station for a non OE air cleaner, what does this equal ?
We'll decrypt this phone if you give us the number and location of Stingrays in the US and how often they are used.
Y'know, I'd always suspected this one.
You really owe it to yourself (literally) to check TV Fool and see if you can get OTA TV. A $75 antenna and even a lifetime TiVo pay back very quickly. If your living situation allows an external antenna, or if you can get it with an inside antenna, do it. I don't know if this works in Europe.
Had analog cable, fed a few tv sets. Cable goes digital. Clear QAM - only premium channels are scrambled. The golden era. One day, all channels become scrambled, but you get a free box for a year. One year later, the box is $8 per month per TV. Boxes go back. There was no reason in my very suburban area to scramble everything....except to force me to rent a box to view a signal I *already paid for*. Double Dip ? I fought this off with cablecard devices until the cable co put a $6 per month charge for "sports programming". I'm not a fan, they would not remove the charge. Turns out I had to pay for ESPN, like it or not. Invested in a better router and repeater. Happily streaming from a variety of sources. Antenna on the roof like Gramps had gets me plenty to feed the DVRs. I still have to pay for the broadband, and the company increased the internet price $10 per month because I don't have "tv'. I have the least evil of the group, Cablevision, and they were pretty good with cable cards when I had the unicorn of the American electronics market, a Free Cable Ready DVR, the obsolete Sony HDD 250. It worked until Rovi killed the listing service a few years back. The "industry" has allowed Tivo to survive, as Tivo has a few key patents which have stifled anyone else, (even Sony!) It is beyond over due that there be privately owned DVR and cable card type devices. You can do this if you are computer savvy, but where are the set top boxes for everyone else at best buy ?
I get those windows calls frequently. I always mention that I was attempting to download some porn, and it didn't load. They want to help. I describe the (fictional) porn in detail. Surprisingly, many of the scammers have a real problem with an amy schumer-ese description. Fun times, and the longer I keep them on the phone, the less time they have to scam a real potential target. I once had to mention that I didn't have a windows key, I have some sort of apple icon on my keyboard....at the ten minute mark.
now this is something government should be doing. You go get gasoline. No one ever measures the gallon/liter, you trust government to certify this. You buy milk. You trust that the number on the carton is true. I live in a good place. We have Fios and Cable on the same street, and in a world with at least duopoly, they don't play games.
We've taken to googling the price of every drug we see. How many folks have diabetes or foot fungus, a lot....those drugs are about 20k/yr. The really narrowcast cancer drugs (what percentage of your audience has small cell lung cancer ?) are about 200k per year. I can see the desperate haranging a doc to prescribe this, even if the doc knows differently. If it isn't OTC, then it should not be advertised to the mass market. All this does is drive up prices. Oh, "if you can't afford your medication, XXXX MAY be able to help" burns me on so many levels, I hope the CEO of the company's family all need that drug, and that for them it is all "side effects". Everything wrong with the US "health" care system is shown by advertising these drugs direct to consumer.
Hams know that a good antenna system backed by a marginal radio will always beat a great radio on a garbage antenna. Good to know that rule applies for wireless as well. My move to an AC router meant that my 2.4 ghz signal is now maxed out in the whole house, and the 5 ghz signal, which used to work in two rooms only, now covers the whole house like my old router on 2.4.
I was surprised to find this out. I've had blockers on my stuff for the last, oh, five years. I got hit by a bad ad at one point, and realized it was just another attack vector. I'm sorry that the legit guys lost too, but it is kind of like 50 people pass through your house, one is a thief. None of them NEED to be there, so you can lock the door without feeling bad about it. Every time I have to de-malware someone's machine, it is left with full adblock on all browsers...and I'm not even a real geek.
Because now that you have a camera you can post your videos. The guy who spent days building a perfect P-51 replica isn't going to buzz the US open with it. The guy who bought it on line and had a box truck deliver it will. Likewise the guy who causes water planes to divert from a fire run out west. They can't think beyond "getting a shot".
"sports fee" of $6 per month, No sports channels...don't do sports on tv $72 per year ? SNIP
Darn. The lads find the one service I don't subscribe to. I guess I'll have to find a stream like I did for the last season on the BBC. TG is special because you get to see them beat up the cars,not just give puff pieces on them. You know the X3 is wack...you know that lots of cars suck even tho they are expensive. There is a boor at every party. JC is that person. I'm sure If I understood the class system of Britain this would be even more interesting, but I live in the colonies.
Yes, and how many of those apps ask for a copy of your address book ? I don't mind sharing if needed for a function, web privacy being a lost cause, but if you want to d/l my 5000 plus contact professional contact list, uh, NO.
The whole "X was faked" theory misses one key point. If the moon landings were bogus, the Russians, Chinese, and a few others, all of whom had/have the technical ability would have blown the whistle on us. How would you fake a radio signal going behind the moon and coming back ? Not so simple. Likewise, you'd have to fake the data coming in. Seems like a lot of work to get a radio signal from outside Neptune's orbit....... The real tragedy is we can't currently go BACK to the moon....
You need to read up on 85th percentile speeds and free flow. The 85th percentile results in the lowest accident involvement rate.... Posting speed limits at the 50th percentile only results in traffic clumping and more conflicts in the traffic flow. This has been properly and professionally researched and reproduced. Your gut instinct is wrong.
Not even close. Speed limits should be set on a limited access highway at the 85th percentile of free flow traffic. (google Davy and Warren) Every state's DOT monitors this and published speed numbers by quarter. 85th percentiles on most 55/65 roads are in the 70-75 mph range. In a just world, most 55 mph highways would read 70, and most 65 roads posted at 80, enforced at 85. In the US, the idea that speed limits are set according to anything remotely like a "best case scenario" is a joke. I have seen speed limits set dynamically in Germany with adjustable signs, and that works very well, but they aren't locked at "max speed (something slower than free flow on a good day)" You do realize the "reference car" for the interstate system is a 1960's design with one brake circuit out. None of this applies to residential roads or dense pedestrian areas.
No, because Germany took over without a single shot being fired. This is the true turning point in world politics...that one nation can subjugate another without even running a few Jeeps around a parade field in a show of force. Not a single plane encroached upon Greek airspace, not a single submarine run any offensive drill. Nope, a few bankers with a spreadsheet. Beats Genocide, at least....
The Self Driving car has been 5 years out for the last 40 years, much like the Flying Car I was promised.
You win. The Bike lanes have destroyed traffic flow and removed parking. Lowering the speed limit to 25 is a stealth tax outside Park Slope and Manhattan. I drove across NYC below canal street, and the tight streets, never great, were gridlock as half of the road was marked for bicycles. No bikes, hundreds of cars. Next up, mad cameras to enforce Zero Vision.