That is why the project manager made the disclosure to NYT. That is how you keep things secret. If you really want people to know about it, he would have tweeted it.
Well, that site seems to be very Judeo/Christian centric. Hope there is a similar effort to get the Hindu and Buddhist texts/manuscripts on line.
The one and only line-by-line English translation of Mahabharata, by Ganguli, a three decade effort stretching from 1860 to 1890, is on the public domain and can be downloaded for free. Very difficult to read, extremely voluminous. But there things some mind boggling stuff there.
For example, while describing the reign of Emperor Dushyant, it says, "In his days there were no farmers, there were no miners". Is it the folk memory of the days of hunter/gatherers/herders as remembered by later generations of farmers? Does "no miners" means it was a neolithic stone age culture? I have seen scholarly articles arguing that "the story of Cain and Abel is clearly the folk memory of the conflict between herders and farmers". But there is not much of work done on Mahabharata.
The Epson version of glass would come in with a teasingly low price, but it will include only a nominal "cartridge" and replacement cartridges would be priced somewhere north of 7999$. But you would get a c 10$ off coupon if you have Office Depot card.
Cars have complex systems like traction control and anti lock brakes, and cruise control. What would happen if the pulse disables the brakes but turns on the cruise control or opens the electronic throttle wide open and shuts off the brakes?
That it successfully disabled a few old dilapidated junk is no big deal. Those vehicles are just a skip, hop and a jump from junkyard and would fail more easily. A modern car well insulated against electromagnetic interference is likely to protect some systems and lose some other systems partially. This is just dangerous.
I did what every Indian (or Indian American) does. First see where India is ranked. Then where Pakistan is. Laugh at Pakistan when it is beaten. If either or both are missing bemoan the loss of another opportunity to laugh at Pakistan. (What if Pakistan wins, you ask? bah! that never happens )
Well, whole of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan... Looks like the entire subcontinent is missing. China has a few urban centers represented. Africa is gone. So it falls into the bemoan the... category.
I think almost all places with masses of cables and the need for constant maintenance go for false flooring. Almost all the power grid control stations, space launch control centers all of them have the consoles full of switches standing up in the middle of a remarkably clean floors. Most workers "scoot" on the uncluttered floor on chairs on casters. Given the amount cabling these things need, how do the do it? Mostly by creating a false floor and running the cables under it.
Long back in a aeronautical facility (in India) I was surprised by the presence of toilet plungers in the corners of many rooms. When I asked one of the technicians he said, they are used to create the suction needed to pull up any tile on the floor, to access the crawl space below. Instead of providing trap doors at a few locations to get to the crawl space, these guys pull up any tile anywhere on the floor, reach in and grab the cables!
In USA if some one would make carpets or under-carpet padding that can accommodate cables without making the surface uneven on top, it would make a killing. Quick someone patent this.
Content creators, be it website designers, or code warriors or video editors, book typesetters, desktop publishers, they all had a good run for about 2 decades now. They needed a machine with fast chips, oodles of memory and powerful graphics. Their machines were subsidized by the content consumers who did nothing more than surf the web, send emails, store/view photos and videos and wrote an occasional letter. The content consumers who out numbered content creators 10 to 1 or more were the reason why extremely powerful computers are dirt cheap.
Then the split happened. Finally people realized, the market demanded and the free market delivered a computer purely optimized for content consumers. They have deserted and are deserting the all purpose computer in droves. At the end of the day, we code warriors would be forced to pay more for our computers. Still the commodity common components like memory and peripherals would be amortized over a larger set of computer users. The desktop pc might not get to be as expensive is IBM 3090. But the days where you can run Fluent solver to simulate fluid flow on a "home" PC are gone.
Please do check what happened to people who filed any claims, from that company.
My brother is self employed and is in excellent healthy family. Just 600$ a moth. His friend started out ages ago at the same rate, but unfortunately got a chronic condition requiring lots of therapy. Not hospitalization or anything. The friend's premium is well over 1500$ before ACA. You are taking a big risk, if you ever have to file a claim, they might jack up your rates or cancel your policy outright. In the pre ACA era, with a preexisting condition you would have been devastated. It is because of that exposed risk your old policy was so cheap. They were planning to dump you the moment you file a claim or jack it up way beyond what ACA is asking you to pay.
Dude, he is asking you to read the book because the idea here is long and involved and Steven Pinker does a much better job of explaining it. He is not holding that book to be scripture and accepted without question. To conflate the GP with fundies is condescending
Some context for you Dinky. Bartles claimed he had better than platinum coverage for 165$ a month. Asked to state if his insurer ever actually paid out any claim, he turned very reticent. Many pointed out that there is 50-50 chance he would rake up bills thinking he had platinum coverage and then would be left holding the bag because his platinum level plan was all bogus. Caught him bad mouthing ACA here so brought up that thread.
You seem to be working too hard to misunderstand things. The premium shoots up 3X to 4X not because they are forced to use this network over the other network. It shoot up because Congress wrote the law to take away the employer contribution. If the employer contribution is taken away it shoots up 6X (165$ to 1006$) in the old system. And if some employer suddenly decides to not to pay a portion he/she used to, the employees will be upset, government or not.
This level of misunderstanding and misstatements has to be deliberate.
But what about people who mistakenly believe they have a "better than platinum" policy for just 165$ a month, end up in a hospital, discover a whole encyclopedia Britannica of fine print, declare bankruptcy and saddle me with all the stranded cost in my insurance policy?
The fly by night operators who sell 165$ a month better than platinum coverage do not make it that list. They don't last long enough to be counted. I posted a link about the percentage of people ended up with medical bankruptcy even though they believed they had health insurance. That is the percentage that counts. Medicare is a sweet target for scam artists. They have to be more vigilant.
Private insurance companies have been doing that for ages. Promise tons of things verbally through the scamming insurance "agents" and then show up fine print to duck the hospital bills. It is business as usual for the insurance companies.
No law can be made retroactive to the detriment of the affected people. So all old policies were grandfathered whether Obama said it or not. Government can not force private companies to continue to policies against their wish. So anyone with a molecule of common sense would know what Obama said was not deliverable. At that time everyone understood the context and did not challenge it. Only now with 20/20 hindsight people are digging up scammed policy holders who were on their way to bankruptcy the moment they actually seek medical care and belly aching about them.
Looks like you have never filed a claim for an amount more than the premium you paid in any year. I suspect the "better than platinum" policy you are talking about is a myth, or you did not read the fine print, or you were sold a crappy policy by a trusted insurance agent. In a sane world, if you were not so consumed with anger towards the Democrats or Obama or the liberals or the progressives, you would be thanking your lucky stars or you favorite God for getting you out of that policy before you racked up thousands of dollars in hospital bills.
Yeah, but you did not complete the analogy. Let me do it for you.
Because the proposed Obamacar system is so bad, we need to continue the present system: "Anyone in an "emergency" situation can grab any taxi and go anywhere they want. If they are not able to pay the cab fare, the taxpayers will compensate the taxi drivers. Further taxi drivers can refuse to take any passenger with pre existing baggage, will accept 10cents a mile for people with transportation care insurance but others must pay 1$ a mile, and you can ride only on pre approved taxis. Government can not negotiate for better price from taxi companies/". If we had a system in place, the logical thing to do would be to let the government run a fleet of taxis and let any one ride anywhere for free. That would be cheaper than this crazy system. But the dimwitted tea party would oppose it and as a compromise you will end up with Obamacar you described.
Again this is just the employee portion of the premium. Typically employer pays 80% of the premium. I am not able to find the actual percentage in that site.
Fudging the numbers a little? The opm site rates in DC for basic self is 200$ biweekly. For high family coverage it is 450$ from employee, another 450$ from the employer. Per pay period. There are 24 pay periods. The total premium works out to, surprise!, 21600$.
So you ignored what the website told you, decided to use a password that meets your idea of what a secure password should be and you are shouting in all caps about how bad the site was. Then you admit there are vaunted private sector banks which use worse password rules. Is it possible you were a little biased?
I used firstname.middlename.lastname as the user id and it accepted it. Password requirements were not too strange. I used one capital letter, one numeral and one special character, all other letters were lowercase. Looks like you are exaggerating a little.
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That is why the project manager made the disclosure to NYT. That is how you keep things secret. If you really want people to know about it, he would have tweeted it.
The one and only line-by-line English translation of Mahabharata, by Ganguli, a three decade effort stretching from 1860 to 1890, is on the public domain and can be downloaded for free. Very difficult to read, extremely voluminous. But there things some mind boggling stuff there.
For example, while describing the reign of Emperor Dushyant, it says, "In his days there were no farmers, there were no miners". Is it the folk memory of the days of hunter/gatherers/herders as remembered by later generations of farmers? Does "no miners" means it was a neolithic stone age culture? I have seen scholarly articles arguing that "the story of Cain and Abel is clearly the folk memory of the conflict between herders and farmers". But there is not much of work done on Mahabharata.
Fellow alumni will know the college, but my classmates would even know my name ;-)
The Epson version of glass would come in with a teasingly low price, but it will include only a nominal "cartridge" and replacement cartridges would be priced somewhere north of 7999$. But you would get a c 10$ off coupon if you have Office Depot card.
That it successfully disabled a few old dilapidated junk is no big deal. Those vehicles are just a skip, hop and a jump from junkyard and would fail more easily. A modern car well insulated against electromagnetic interference is likely to protect some systems and lose some other systems partially. This is just dangerous.
Well, whole of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan ... Looks like the entire subcontinent is missing. China has a few urban centers represented. Africa is gone. So it falls into the bemoan the ... category.
Long back in a aeronautical facility (in India) I was surprised by the presence of toilet plungers in the corners of many rooms. When I asked one of the technicians he said, they are used to create the suction needed to pull up any tile on the floor, to access the crawl space below. Instead of providing trap doors at a few locations to get to the crawl space, these guys pull up any tile anywhere on the floor, reach in and grab the cables!
In USA if some one would make carpets or under-carpet padding that can accommodate cables without making the surface uneven on top, it would make a killing. Quick someone patent this.
Then the split happened. Finally people realized, the market demanded and the free market delivered a computer purely optimized for content consumers. They have deserted and are deserting the all purpose computer in droves. At the end of the day, we code warriors would be forced to pay more for our computers. Still the commodity common components like memory and peripherals would be amortized over a larger set of computer users. The desktop pc might not get to be as expensive is IBM 3090. But the days where you can run Fluent solver to simulate fluid flow on a "home" PC are gone.
The OS analogy for Prius, Dodge RAM, Lexus, Cadillac and Subaru are left as an exercise to the reader.
My brother is self employed and is in excellent healthy family. Just 600$ a moth. His friend started out ages ago at the same rate, but unfortunately got a chronic condition requiring lots of therapy. Not hospitalization or anything. The friend's premium is well over 1500$ before ACA. You are taking a big risk, if you ever have to file a claim, they might jack up your rates or cancel your policy outright. In the pre ACA era, with a preexisting condition you would have been devastated. It is because of that exposed risk your old policy was so cheap. They were planning to dump you the moment you file a claim or jack it up way beyond what ACA is asking you to pay.
You missed Collataralized Debt Obligations, interest rate swaps and derivatives. They are far more damaging .
Dude, he is asking you to read the book because the idea here is long and involved and Steven Pinker does a much better job of explaining it. He is not holding that book to be scripture and accepted without question. To conflate the GP with fundies is condescending
Did you ever file a large claim? Did they pay?
Some context for you Dinky. Bartles claimed he had better than platinum coverage for 165$ a month. Asked to state if his insurer ever actually paid out any claim, he turned very reticent. Many pointed out that there is 50-50 chance he would rake up bills thinking he had platinum coverage and then would be left holding the bag because his platinum level plan was all bogus. Caught him bad mouthing ACA here so brought up that thread.
This level of misunderstanding and misstatements has to be deliberate.
Nah, it was a gold plan. 1.5K deductible, 20-80 for another 1.5K. Total out of pocket maximum was 3K.
But what about people who mistakenly believe they have a "better than platinum" policy for just 165$ a month, end up in a hospital, discover a whole encyclopedia Britannica of fine print, declare bankruptcy and saddle me with all the stranded cost in my insurance policy?
The fly by night operators who sell 165$ a month better than platinum coverage do not make it that list. They don't last long enough to be counted. I posted a link about the percentage of people ended up with medical bankruptcy even though they believed they had health insurance. That is the percentage that counts. Medicare is a sweet target for scam artists. They have to be more vigilant.
No law can be made retroactive to the detriment of the affected people. So all old policies were grandfathered whether Obama said it or not. Government can not force private companies to continue to policies against their wish. So anyone with a molecule of common sense would know what Obama said was not deliverable. At that time everyone understood the context and did not challenge it. Only now with 20/20 hindsight people are digging up scammed policy holders who were on their way to bankruptcy the moment they actually seek medical care and belly aching about them.
Looks like you have never filed a claim for an amount more than the premium you paid in any year. I suspect the "better than platinum" policy you are talking about is a myth, or you did not read the fine print, or you were sold a crappy policy by a trusted insurance agent. In a sane world, if you were not so consumed with anger towards the Democrats or Obama or the liberals or the progressives, you would be thanking your lucky stars or you favorite God for getting you out of that policy before you racked up thousands of dollars in hospital bills.
Because the proposed Obamacar system is so bad, we need to continue the present system: "Anyone in an "emergency" situation can grab any taxi and go anywhere they want. If they are not able to pay the cab fare, the taxpayers will compensate the taxi drivers. Further taxi drivers can refuse to take any passenger with pre existing baggage, will accept 10cents a mile for people with transportation care insurance but others must pay 1$ a mile, and you can ride only on pre approved taxis. Government can not negotiate for better price from taxi companies/". If we had a system in place, the logical thing to do would be to let the government run a fleet of taxis and let any one ride anywhere for free. That would be cheaper than this crazy system. But the dimwitted tea party would oppose it and as a compromise you will end up with Obamacar you described.
Again this is just the employee portion of the premium. Typically employer pays 80% of the premium. I am not able to find the actual percentage in that site.
Fudging the numbers a little? The opm site rates in DC for basic self is 200$ biweekly. For high family coverage it is 450$ from employee, another 450$ from the employer. Per pay period. There are 24 pay periods. The total premium works out to, surprise!, 21600$.
So you ignored what the website told you, decided to use a password that meets your idea of what a secure password should be and you are shouting in all caps about how bad the site was. Then you admit there are vaunted private sector banks which use worse password rules. Is it possible you were a little biased?
I used firstname.middlename.lastname as the user id and it accepted it. Password requirements were not too strange. I used one capital letter, one numeral and one special character, all other letters were lowercase. Looks like you are exaggerating a little.