As a Conservative Republican living in Arizona, I no longer consider most of the Republicans in teh state legislature to be Conservatives, and probably not even Republicans. Just wackos.
As a Republican, my objection wasn't that the recommendation that "most women should not get routine mammograms until age 50" would leads to "the start of health care rationing", but rather that it would lead to the Government deciding what healthcare services were appropriate, and controlling access to them.
The difference would be between 'rationing' and 'access'. A subtle distinction, but an important one.
Under rationing, I might be denied knee surgery because I was too young, the Government's assessment of my condition was such that I was either not a good candiate or the surgery was not yet necessary, or that I was too old and the surgery would be of limited benefit. The decision could be motivated by studies of outcomes, available funding, or political considerations impacting these motives.
Under access controls, the Government might deny me knee surgery I was too young, the Government's assessment of my condition was such that I was either not a good candiate or the surgery was not yet necessary, or that I was too old and the surgery would be of limited benefit. The decision could be motivated by studies of outcomes, available funding, or political considerations impacting these motives.
Oh, wait. Hmmm.
Under the current system, I pay for my insurance coverage, consult with my doctor(s), and make the best decision for myself that i can with the available data.
I'm still paying for it either way, but at least with the current system I have a choice. In a single-payer Government plan such as 'Obamacare', it appears I may not. Or I could pay for additional coverage. In other words, pay more. Which I can do now, if I want more coverage or care, or to change my payment scheduling and methods. Right now, if I reduce my deductible by $2000, it costs me about $2000 more a year in premiums. Funny thing, that.
Oh, and my mom, who is 20 years my senior, is waiting for approval from Medicare to have knee surgery, and cataract surgery with lens implants. She's waiting. And waiting. Her doctors are warning ehr that if she doesn't do these things pretty quickly, it may be too late for the best outcomes. So too much delay might leave her unable to move about well enough to avoid falls and serious injuries, unable to see well enough to avoid falls and serious injuries, and in the end risk early relegation to an assisted living home and the significant risks there - MRSAs, staff abuse, and of course falls and serious injuries.
And we want the Government to do MORE of this? Medicare doesn't work well enough to qualify our Government to expand it to all of us.
This expresses my 'Republican' views, and many agree with me. We haven't even touched on whether the Government has the right, Constitutionally, to take over healthcare financing, which would De Facto be a takeover of the industry.
1. The middle school I left behind in Maine has students from 17 different countries, speaking 28 different languages. Unicode is not so well supported as we hoped it would be.
2. Many parents cannot even read their own native language, and their children translate for them. Surpisingly, their children are largely honest about what they bring home.
3. For parents that drift from one ISP to another, changing email addresses are normal. Forcing them to Gmail presumes they trust any single authority. Many come from places where the government will kill you for talking about something, and it need not even be subversive. Using Gmail scares them just because it is ubiquitous.
4. Parents who can't read also tend to not go to libraries, nor be able to type in their login name and password. Go figure.
It's a big world out there, even in America. Email is not yet universal, and I propose that we recognize that the parents that most need to be involved in their kids' education are also less likely to have it.
"you could force any retailer that wants to accept credit cards to upgrade to a chip and pin setup or lose their ability to accept credit cards."
Um, the players in this aren't interested yet. The cost of replacing cards ia high enough for them to avoid it until 'forced', and not by 'you'. the government maybe, or a bank that gets burned too much to bear. In Britain, little old ladies are being shoulder-surfed at ATMs and wiped out, and since it's chip and pin, the banks hold onto their policies and refuse to make them good - see, chip and pin is most useful as a risk-shifiting device. The bank is off the hook because it is 'so secure' that you must have given your pin to someone. Your fault. Card not present transactions are a different story...
"For card not present transactions allow Visa card holders to create a one time credit card number"
This already is possible. Ask your bank, and if they don't, maybe you need a new bank. These go by several different names.
Bitcoin is not the example of a solution to anything that I would choose. Between security breaches at various brokers, exploitation of the algorithms, and speculation, Bitcoin seems a lot like pre-existing currencies. No fix.
For me, assuming the interview is lost, I might ask how I should handle a request from their IT staff for my corporate password, if I were hired. Generally i would expect the answer to be "no, our staff should never ask you for your password. "
Same answer from me. And for the same reason. Want to be friended? Sure. Want me to log in and show you my stuff? Maybe. Give you my Facebook account? You must think I'm too stupid to work here.
If you can grow ethanol stock on it, you can grow food on it. Sugar cane in Brazil is fuel now because they can afford it, but some day they may need it for food instead. Sawgrass and other biomass is grown in places where rice could be. Vietnam's rice production has been dropping since 2000, and no one is contemplating using any land there to grow ethanol stock. Feeding the world is largely a problem of cost and distribution, where conflicts (wars) cause problems with distribution, and fuel diversion causes unnecessary price increases. Subsidizing oil production is probably unnecessary, but subsidizing ethanol production is damaging beyond the fuel market.
Crony capitalism is served well by subsidizing the petro/auto/chemical cabal, protecting U.S. 'green' industries despite the marginal economic utility, and demonizing all other environmental impacts while ignoring the huge leveraging of 'green' technologies with some of the nastiest manufacturing and pollution impacts currently available for exploitation. The Chinese aren't so burdened by an EPA, letting costs of responsible manufacturing be defered for a few years^H^H^H^H^Hdecades.
Alternative fuels will prevail when the economics demand them, and alternative energy will become dominant for the same reason. And when the technologies are developed. And I doubt our government can mandate the development of these technologies directly, but a return to the Moon and a trip to Mars might, just might, also result in the discovery or mastery of some of these technologies, and poof, oil is done.
But we have the benefit of hindsight, seeing the impact of the first manned space program the U.S. engaged in, and the immense results in virtually every area of life.
And Denise Richards can reprise her role in the first. With any luck I can also see Patrick Muldoon get his last neuron sucked out of his skull. They missed it back then.
Ditto. Or maybe at 7:00 if the Sabb is pulling to the right again, since we pick up nails and screws in tires a LOT here in Phoenix. Pathetic.
Maserati test drivers used to feed the steering wheel between hands at 8 & 4, and they were an odd breed even in the 70s. I find it the best, since I'm most always on the freeway. In city traffic, my hands are moving all over the wheel reacting to the situation at hand. Knowing where the brake pedal is turns out to be more critical. People do the damnedest things.
I would have refused the call even if they had called us directly, we didn't do business overseas at the time. The threat came from Sprint, and was short - lived. They probably figured it out.
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If it were just the facts, I wouldn't complain.
As a Conservative Republican living in Arizona, I no longer consider most of the Republicans in teh state legislature to be Conservatives, and probably not even Republicans. Just wackos.
It's embarassing sometimes.
"Mexican American studies "
Could also be accurately decribed as the
"Mexicans should hate Americans studies "
Just sayin.
I pick fruit off my own tree.
I mow my own lawn with a push reel mower.
I prefer the buffet anyways, happy to serve myself, but I cook for myself and family anyways every other day.
Now get off my desert. Liberal scum. Go pay more taxes while yer at it.
As a Republican, my objection wasn't that the recommendation that "most women should not get routine mammograms until age 50" would leads to "the start of health care rationing", but rather that it would lead to the Government deciding what healthcare services were appropriate, and controlling access to them.
The difference would be between 'rationing' and 'access'. A subtle distinction, but an important one.
Under rationing, I might be denied knee surgery because I was too young, the Government's assessment of my condition was such that I was either not a good candiate or the surgery was not yet necessary, or that I was too old and the surgery would be of limited benefit. The decision could be motivated by studies of outcomes, available funding, or political considerations impacting these motives.
Under access controls, the Government might deny me knee surgery I was too young, the Government's assessment of my condition was such that I was either not a good candiate or the surgery was not yet necessary, or that I was too old and the surgery would be of limited benefit. The decision could be motivated by studies of outcomes, available funding, or political considerations impacting these motives.
Oh, wait. Hmmm.
Under the current system, I pay for my insurance coverage, consult with my doctor(s), and make the best decision for myself that i can with the available data.
I'm still paying for it either way, but at least with the current system I have a choice. In a single-payer Government plan such as 'Obamacare', it appears I may not. Or I could pay for additional coverage. In other words, pay more. Which I can do now, if I want more coverage or care, or to change my payment scheduling and methods. Right now, if I reduce my deductible by $2000, it costs me about $2000 more a year in premiums. Funny thing, that.
Oh, and my mom, who is 20 years my senior, is waiting for approval from Medicare to have knee surgery, and cataract surgery with lens implants. She's waiting. And waiting. Her doctors are warning ehr that if she doesn't do these things pretty quickly, it may be too late for the best outcomes. So too much delay might leave her unable to move about well enough to avoid falls and serious injuries, unable to see well enough to avoid falls and serious injuries, and in the end risk early relegation to an assisted living home and the significant risks there - MRSAs, staff abuse, and of course falls and serious injuries.
And we want the Government to do MORE of this? Medicare doesn't work well enough to qualify our Government to expand it to all of us.
This expresses my 'Republican' views, and many agree with me. We haven't even touched on whether the Government has the right, Constitutionally, to take over healthcare financing, which would De Facto be a takeover of the industry.
Arg.
SpinRite is excellent for testing. If your drives run as hot as the old Hitatchi drives did, it doubles as a space heater or makeshift stove.
Seriously, SpinRite will exercise a drive very well indeed. And it will tell you more than the manufacturer wanted you to know.
1. The middle school I left behind in Maine has students from 17 different countries, speaking 28 different languages. Unicode is not so well supported as we hoped it would be.
2. Many parents cannot even read their own native language, and their children translate for them. Surpisingly, their children are largely honest about what they bring home.
3. For parents that drift from one ISP to another, changing email addresses are normal. Forcing them to Gmail presumes they trust any single authority. Many come from places where the government will kill you for talking about something, and it need not even be subversive. Using Gmail scares them just because it is ubiquitous.
4. Parents who can't read also tend to not go to libraries, nor be able to type in their login name and password. Go figure.
It's a big world out there, even in America. Email is not yet universal, and I propose that we recognize that the parents that most need to be involved in their kids' education are also less likely to have it.
Krebs on Security stated the number was 10 million. GP and all initially admitted to 50,000.
I'm betting on Krebs. He's pretty reliable, or at least his sources are.
"you could force any retailer that wants to accept credit cards to upgrade to a chip and pin setup or lose their ability to accept credit cards."
Um, the players in this aren't interested yet. The cost of replacing cards ia high enough for them to avoid it until 'forced', and not by 'you'. the government maybe, or a bank that gets burned too much to bear. In Britain, little old ladies are being shoulder-surfed at ATMs and wiped out, and since it's chip and pin, the banks hold onto their policies and refuse to make them good - see, chip and pin is most useful as a risk-shifiting device. The bank is off the hook because it is 'so secure' that you must have given your pin to someone. Your fault. Card not present transactions are a different story...
"For card not present transactions allow Visa card holders to create a one time credit card number"
This already is possible. Ask your bank, and if they don't, maybe you need a new bank. These go by several different names.
Bitcoin is not the example of a solution to anything that I would choose. Between security breaches at various brokers, exploitation of the algorithms, and speculation, Bitcoin seems a lot like pre-existing currencies. No fix.
1. I don't even link my Pinterest boards with my Facebook account.
2. I've never visited gawker until just now, to see if it could possibly be worth the trouble. Answer is no.
For me, assuming the interview is lost, I might ask how I should handle a request from their IT staff for my corporate password, if I were hired. Generally i would expect the answer to be "no, our staff should never ask you for your password. "
Same answer from me. And for the same reason. Want to be friended? Sure. Want me to log in and show you my stuff? Maybe. Give you my Facebook account? You must think I'm too stupid to work here.
If you can grow ethanol stock on it, you can grow food on it. Sugar cane in Brazil is fuel now because they can afford it, but some day they may need it for food instead. Sawgrass and other biomass is grown in places where rice could be. Vietnam's rice production has been dropping since 2000, and no one is contemplating using any land there to grow ethanol stock. Feeding the world is largely a problem of cost and distribution, where conflicts (wars) cause problems with distribution, and fuel diversion causes unnecessary price increases. Subsidizing oil production is probably unnecessary, but subsidizing ethanol production is damaging beyond the fuel market.
Crony capitalism is served well by subsidizing the petro/auto/chemical cabal, protecting U.S. 'green' industries despite the marginal economic utility, and demonizing all other environmental impacts while ignoring the huge leveraging of 'green' technologies with some of the nastiest manufacturing and pollution impacts currently available for exploitation. The Chinese aren't so burdened by an EPA, letting costs of responsible manufacturing be defered for a few years^H^H^H^H^Hdecades.
Alternative fuels will prevail when the economics demand them, and alternative energy will become dominant for the same reason. And when the technologies are developed. And I doubt our government can mandate the development of these technologies directly, but a return to the Moon and a trip to Mars might, just might, also result in the discovery or mastery of some of these technologies, and poof, oil is done.
But we have the benefit of hindsight, seeing the impact of the first manned space program the U.S. engaged in, and the immense results in virtually every area of life.
Oh well.
And on display for everyone to watch.
Are we getting close to stopping this yet? Apparently not.
MTBE, being water-soluble, was a mistake. Spills became uncontainable.
Ethanol is a loser, but neither party has the will to turn off the subsidies, and every other ethanol source besides corn is a loser as well.
Growing food for fuel is stupid.
The poor usually don't have their own roofs to put solar panels on. Their landlords may not bother to. Mounting them in the yard may not work either.
Let's focus on the markets that CAN take advantage of roof mounted or ground mounted solar. Or not.
IANAP, but if: .NET tools...
Windows 8 is focusing on HTML5 and JavaScript.
Microsoft still wants to sell
then open sourcing. NET makes sense. give away the handle, sell the blades.
Says you. I'm pointing out our prevailing belief that the money our government spends is somehow theirs. And that it's wrong.
"this cost was borne (sic) U.S. government"
should read:
"this cost was borne (sic) U.S. taxpayers"
A common mistake. Even when our government doesn't pay for it, they borrow on our good names. The buck won't stop in the Oval Office.
FWIW, Oil is assumed to be a plant-based fuel.
But growing food for fuel is stupid. Brazil will get away with this until they get hungry, which will happen one day.
Interchangeable. Either way, just swap the casts and go for it.
And Denise Richards can reprise her role in the first. With any luck I can also see Patrick Muldoon get his last neuron sucked out of his skull. They missed it back then.
Ditto. Or maybe at 7:00 if the Sabb is pulling to the right again, since we pick up nails and screws in tires a LOT here in Phoenix. Pathetic.
Maserati test drivers used to feed the steering wheel between hands at 8 & 4, and they were an odd breed even in the 70s. I find it the best, since I'm most always on the freeway. In city traffic, my hands are moving all over the wheel reacting to the situation at hand. Knowing where the brake pedal is turns out to be more critical. People do the damnedest things.
I would have refused the call even if they had called us directly, we didn't do business overseas at the time. The threat came from Sprint, and was short - lived. They probably figured it out.
It's less difficult if they require your age.
I don't even give dates of education any more. Your high school graduation year gives a pretty good hint of your age.