I actually have an anecdotal aside to your point on prescription drugs here. Aside from rare instances, many many generic patent expired drugs exist to treat the same thing that many doctors prescribe new patented brand name drugs for. I'm no expert at all on this and maybe I'm completely wrong, but chemotherapy (an example I choose for the fact that it is often cited as a massive health expense) has been around for quite a while now. I find it hard to believe that most chemotherapy options are not in generics at this point, which should be dirt cheap.
I do not represent the Libertarian party, and like most people with half a brain (sadly rare from a voter), I do not perfectly align to the party.
I do believe that some government involvement is needed to prevent mob rule. The very existence of the current state of health insurance perpetuates a system where people don't care what the cost is, so there is little incentive to get the cost down. Meanwhile, health insurance companies bargain with providers for price deals that you cannot get as an individual. The overall cost of health care is artificially inflated with excessive salaries for specialists and hidden administrative cost for processing the complicated paperwork. Unregulated, health insurance companies would just deny everything they can. Criminal penalties for corporations are a joke, meaning that there would be no effective incentive to prevent them from doing so. Human nature shows me that consumers would not be aware of most of these atrocities nor would they care until it hits home. The best solution I can come up with at this time is to just cut health insurance out of the picture, or at least cut out plans that cover everything (ala collision insurance).
From a Libertarian's perspective, "meaningful" means all of those in addition to axing the health insurance industry. That system is the biggest part of the cancer that is killing us. Once healthcare providers have no choice but to make services affordable or run out of customers, they will find a way. As long as health insurance exists, they will have no need to make services affordable.
Preliminary results of the great American experiment are coming in. It would seem that failure within a mere three centuries is to be the result. Parliament has done much better when you consider its age and its starting point. In comparison, we've lost a lot of ground.
Professionals crossing the border would simply store their data in a hidden encrypted partition or store it on a flash drive tied up in a condom and stored in their rectum. Both methods elude the new strip search machines and TSA molestation.
This isn't about "think of the children" paranoia. Aside from the fact that this would get you arrested and thrown into pound-me-in-the-ass jail in any other setting, just because there are wack jobs out there exploiting children to get their pet laws passed doesn't mean that we should ignore legitimate grievances. Maybe we should disallow civil law suits because there's too much sue happy already.
This is pretty extreme. With the "enhanced" pat downs, I would not be surprised at all if this girl starts showing signs of PTSD similar to those of other children that have been molested.
That is not out of the question. The Viet Cong frequently used children as weapons against our army. Why should we think this is an unthinkable development with terrorist groups? That said, I don't think I should have to choose between being a victim of voyeurism or molestation just to fly across the country. I'll take my chances. So far I have a better chance of dying in an average plane crash than I do from a terrorist attack.
It doesn't matter when the ICE turns on. It's a question of interpreting the laws that allow this tax break in these countries. The intent of the law was that if you have an all electric vehicle with a gas generator strapped to your roof for backup, it still counts as an electric vehicle. In series hybrids, this has generally been interpreted to mean that the ICE must be turned on manually.
Depends on where you are. In the Scandinavian regions, there is a huge tax break for electric vehicles. However, a Chevy Volt would not count as an electric vehicle there because it has an ICE that comes on automatically as part of normal operation. However, if they make a variant that forces the driver to manually turn on the ICE, then they will count it as an electric vehicle with a backup generator. There's one problem with the Volt though. The engine directly generates torque for the wheels. I will be very curious to find out if that will prevent it from being classified as an EV.
Except that as an employer I am far more interested in how you performed in challenging situations in the past, not how you did on a standardized exam. This is why it's a bitch for new graduates to get hired. They lack that experience history, and so employers are left to a higher risk gamble when hiring them. Most tech positions in industry requiring a 4 year degree are not standardized.
And that should be considered a serious problem, because even high school students who do take their high school education seriously are adversely affected by how not seriously everyone around them takes it. And that factor is affected generally by how rich and/or white your neighborhood is.
Amusingly, I once worked at a company that refused to hire recent graduates from a certain local selective university because they found the graduates to be too egotistical to handle the kind of low profile work that is usually given to new hires with essentially no experience. That is not to say that there were not a lot of very sharp students coming out of that university. They just too often had a superiority complex for a while after they graduated.
Also, while Ayn Rand was obviously biter and quite often, ironically so, unreasonable, there is a common misconception that Objectivism would have your house burning to the ground. Ayn Rand wrote specifically about the case of helping people in emergencies and how it is reasonable and morally right to do so. I'm not really a follower of Objectivism, but keep in mind that most self-proclaimed Objectivists have no idea what they are talking about.
As a staunch Libertarian, I don't understand why Libertarians like the Tea Party movement. The candidates they put forth are the same type that would, if given free reign, happily ban cannabis, ban abortion, and any number of other things that involve the government having it's fist inside your rectum. They're just a bunch of the same old Republicans with a very specific agenda.
All that aside, what Libertarian would want to be known for going out and "tea bagging" with a group of people.
I don't bother people about 'how to' questions. I bother them about the specification that they haven't reviewed for two weeks without any response, or for the quick technical information that I have been waiting for that receives no e-mail response. The people that I have to visit most often usually openly admit that they do not go through all of their e-mail. If that's the case, and you don't answer your phone, then I have no choice but to ignore those options from the start and go directly to you face-to-face. Anything else would be wasting both our time.
Usually when I am going to visit someone in person, it is because they have already been sitting on e-mails or documents to review for a week or more with no response. If I can get an estimated time/date, you will see me a lot less. When I fail to visit people, they usually forget about the tasks that I need them to complete. This has been true for every organization I have ever worked for.
You're the kind of person that I pay lots of personal visits to. I'm sure it makes my face a dreaded on, but I am a huge fan of going to talk to people face to face because it gets my stuff done.
GMs executives just don't have the balls to shut down a factory when the UAW is making asinine demands. GM has long suffered from poor executive decisions. You want evidence? Look at what they put forth as the Chevy Volt concept. And then look at what the Chevy Volt is going to be after it went through the GM management homogenizer: http://blog.autoworld.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/volt1.jpg
The SATs aren't the only metric on which admission is based. In fact several top schools don't even accept SAT results. They're not the end all be all for admissions in most cases.
How would you have been prevented from becoming a pilot if you had taken stimulants? That makes no sense. I flew planes in Civil Air Patrol (under guidance, I am not a licensed pilot) in spite of taking Adderall at the time. In fact I probably was a lot safer for it.
Our school system kills creativity yes. That's a different problem. I knew what I wanted to be an engineer before I ever started kindergarten. Had I not been medicated, I would have never been able to focus on homework or exams or classes well enough to get grades good enough to do much of anything after I had finished high school other than untrained labor. Smacking wouldn't help. I didn't act uncivil and respected my parents. But had you asked me to clean my room, do my homework, or pay attention in class, I was simply incapable of organizing a task or remaining focused long enough to do something useful. Before I was medicated, I would break down crying trying to clean my bedroom because I just could not remain focused enough to even start. If you have not experienced it, it's hard to really comprehend, but the brain of an ADHD child is simply incapable of focusing on most things. Often people observing don't understand because people with ADHD also have the ability to abnormally hyper-focus, but they do not have control over what they hyper-focus on.
I know I was an exception and not the rule, but I was evaluated over the course of a couple hour long appointments performing a variety of tests designed to exercise and measure my ability to focus in different ways before I was diagnosed with ADHD. This is the appropriate method.
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I actually have an anecdotal aside to your point on prescription drugs here. Aside from rare instances, many many generic patent expired drugs exist to treat the same thing that many doctors prescribe new patented brand name drugs for. I'm no expert at all on this and maybe I'm completely wrong, but chemotherapy (an example I choose for the fact that it is often cited as a massive health expense) has been around for quite a while now. I find it hard to believe that most chemotherapy options are not in generics at this point, which should be dirt cheap.
I do not represent the Libertarian party, and like most people with half a brain (sadly rare from a voter), I do not perfectly align to the party.
I do believe that some government involvement is needed to prevent mob rule. The very existence of the current state of health insurance perpetuates a system where people don't care what the cost is, so there is little incentive to get the cost down. Meanwhile, health insurance companies bargain with providers for price deals that you cannot get as an individual. The overall cost of health care is artificially inflated with excessive salaries for specialists and hidden administrative cost for processing the complicated paperwork. Unregulated, health insurance companies would just deny everything they can. Criminal penalties for corporations are a joke, meaning that there would be no effective incentive to prevent them from doing so. Human nature shows me that consumers would not be aware of most of these atrocities nor would they care until it hits home. The best solution I can come up with at this time is to just cut health insurance out of the picture, or at least cut out plans that cover everything (ala collision insurance).
From a Libertarian's perspective, "meaningful" means all of those in addition to axing the health insurance industry. That system is the biggest part of the cancer that is killing us. Once healthcare providers have no choice but to make services affordable or run out of customers, they will find a way. As long as health insurance exists, they will have no need to make services affordable.
So arrest the people who took the documents.
And we did.
How about intelligence agents who's names are mentioned in the docs
What about the opportunity the Pentagon was given to help redact those names yet was refused?
Preliminary results of the great American experiment are coming in. It would seem that failure within a mere three centuries is to be the result. Parliament has done much better when you consider its age and its starting point. In comparison, we've lost a lot of ground.
Professionals crossing the border would simply store their data in a hidden encrypted partition or store it on a flash drive tied up in a condom and stored in their rectum. Both methods elude the new strip search machines and TSA molestation.
This isn't about "think of the children" paranoia. Aside from the fact that this would get you arrested and thrown into pound-me-in-the-ass jail in any other setting, just because there are wack jobs out there exploiting children to get their pet laws passed doesn't mean that we should ignore legitimate grievances. Maybe we should disallow civil law suits because there's too much sue happy already.
This is pretty extreme. With the "enhanced" pat downs, I would not be surprised at all if this girl starts showing signs of PTSD similar to those of other children that have been molested.
That's right. Nothing like drugging your kids so that they will be compliant to being fondled.
That is not out of the question. The Viet Cong frequently used children as weapons against our army. Why should we think this is an unthinkable development with terrorist groups? That said, I don't think I should have to choose between being a victim of voyeurism or molestation just to fly across the country. I'll take my chances. So far I have a better chance of dying in an average plane crash than I do from a terrorist attack.
It doesn't matter when the ICE turns on. It's a question of interpreting the laws that allow this tax break in these countries. The intent of the law was that if you have an all electric vehicle with a gas generator strapped to your roof for backup, it still counts as an electric vehicle. In series hybrids, this has generally been interpreted to mean that the ICE must be turned on manually.
$40,000 is still not a car for the masses.
Depends on where you are. In the Scandinavian regions, there is a huge tax break for electric vehicles. However, a Chevy Volt would not count as an electric vehicle there because it has an ICE that comes on automatically as part of normal operation. However, if they make a variant that forces the driver to manually turn on the ICE, then they will count it as an electric vehicle with a backup generator. There's one problem with the Volt though. The engine directly generates torque for the wheels. I will be very curious to find out if that will prevent it from being classified as an EV.
Except that as an employer I am far more interested in how you performed in challenging situations in the past, not how you did on a standardized exam. This is why it's a bitch for new graduates to get hired. They lack that experience history, and so employers are left to a higher risk gamble when hiring them. Most tech positions in industry requiring a 4 year degree are not standardized.
And that should be considered a serious problem, because even high school students who do take their high school education seriously are adversely affected by how not seriously everyone around them takes it. And that factor is affected generally by how rich and/or white your neighborhood is.
Amusingly, I once worked at a company that refused to hire recent graduates from a certain local selective university because they found the graduates to be too egotistical to handle the kind of low profile work that is usually given to new hires with essentially no experience. That is not to say that there were not a lot of very sharp students coming out of that university. They just too often had a superiority complex for a while after they graduated.
Also, while Ayn Rand was obviously biter and quite often, ironically so, unreasonable, there is a common misconception that Objectivism would have your house burning to the ground. Ayn Rand wrote specifically about the case of helping people in emergencies and how it is reasonable and morally right to do so. I'm not really a follower of Objectivism, but keep in mind that most self-proclaimed Objectivists have no idea what they are talking about.
As a staunch Libertarian, I don't understand why Libertarians like the Tea Party movement. The candidates they put forth are the same type that would, if given free reign, happily ban cannabis, ban abortion, and any number of other things that involve the government having it's fist inside your rectum. They're just a bunch of the same old Republicans with a very specific agenda.
All that aside, what Libertarian would want to be known for going out and "tea bagging" with a group of people.
I don't bother people about 'how to' questions. I bother them about the specification that they haven't reviewed for two weeks without any response, or for the quick technical information that I have been waiting for that receives no e-mail response. The people that I have to visit most often usually openly admit that they do not go through all of their e-mail. If that's the case, and you don't answer your phone, then I have no choice but to ignore those options from the start and go directly to you face-to-face. Anything else would be wasting both our time.
Usually when I am going to visit someone in person, it is because they have already been sitting on e-mails or documents to review for a week or more with no response. If I can get an estimated time/date, you will see me a lot less. When I fail to visit people, they usually forget about the tasks that I need them to complete. This has been true for every organization I have ever worked for.
You're the kind of person that I pay lots of personal visits to. I'm sure it makes my face a dreaded on, but I am a huge fan of going to talk to people face to face because it gets my stuff done.
GMs executives just don't have the balls to shut down a factory when the UAW is making asinine demands. GM has long suffered from poor executive decisions. You want evidence? Look at what they put forth as the Chevy Volt concept. And then look at what the Chevy Volt is going to be after it went through the GM management homogenizer: http://blog.autoworld.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/volt1.jpg
The SATs aren't the only metric on which admission is based. In fact several top schools don't even accept SAT results. They're not the end all be all for admissions in most cases.
How would you have been prevented from becoming a pilot if you had taken stimulants? That makes no sense. I flew planes in Civil Air Patrol (under guidance, I am not a licensed pilot) in spite of taking Adderall at the time. In fact I probably was a lot safer for it.
Our school system kills creativity yes. That's a different problem. I knew what I wanted to be an engineer before I ever started kindergarten. Had I not been medicated, I would have never been able to focus on homework or exams or classes well enough to get grades good enough to do much of anything after I had finished high school other than untrained labor. Smacking wouldn't help. I didn't act uncivil and respected my parents. But had you asked me to clean my room, do my homework, or pay attention in class, I was simply incapable of organizing a task or remaining focused long enough to do something useful. Before I was medicated, I would break down crying trying to clean my bedroom because I just could not remain focused enough to even start. If you have not experienced it, it's hard to really comprehend, but the brain of an ADHD child is simply incapable of focusing on most things. Often people observing don't understand because people with ADHD also have the ability to abnormally hyper-focus, but they do not have control over what they hyper-focus on.
I know I was an exception and not the rule, but I was evaluated over the course of a couple hour long appointments performing a variety of tests designed to exercise and measure my ability to focus in different ways before I was diagnosed with ADHD. This is the appropriate method.