It's funny how my cable Internet service went from $80 for ~10-15 megabit when it was a monopoly to $45 for 300 megabit within 2 weeks of AT&T laying fiber behind my house.
Though they still try to get me to rent a cable modem from them, because the 'substandard' modem I own wouldn't handle the speed, when it's rated for ~400 Mbps
I live in a state that passed Voter ID. Since the law passed, local Democratic Party workers no longer come to my house asking to speak to several other voters registered to my address who definitely don't live at my address. So yes, there is fraud, and yes voter ID has prevented fraud.
The state will issue an ID for free for the purposes of voting so there is no financial barrier to voting.
You say voter suppression, sensible people say fraud prevention.
It is significantly more a matter of convenience than baby size. The entire OB industry is based around convenience, painlessness and reducing the amount of time medical staff need to actually work on you. They want to clear the bed for the next patient as quickly as possible. Another significant part of the problem is medical care professionals (at least in the U.S.) treat childbirth like a pathology rather than a life event. Both the doctors and the patients treat this like something that should be scheduled, painless, and regimented when the process is unpredictable and defies easy scheduling.
My wife had both of our children at home under the care of a midwife. The birth was painful and messy, but our children are healthy. Contrary to what you see on medical shows, movies and TV, most of the events of birth take a significant amount of time... it's not 5 minutes between "my water broke" and "baby is born" unless you have to fit a birth inside a 22-minute show.
Cost-wise, the home birth cost much more out of pocket, but was actually significantly cheaper overall - somewhere between 15 and 30% of the cost of a hospital birth. Of course, these costs are hidden when you have insurance, but be assured that somebody pays that extra 70-85%.
They are sociopaths and psychotics and we can only hope they die of old age before the country falls headlong into a French Revolution of purges, pogroms, and random bloodletting.
What makes you think their children will be any different? There has been a trend for the ruling class in the US to function equivalently to royalty (Bush I & II, Clintons, Kennedys). I don't see why the next generation of sociopaths will be any better than the current batch.
"we're looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute."
No seriously... how are 100 users generating that many questions to your helpdesk? If they're spending that much time on with the helpdesk, I question whether they'd be able to actually spend any time doing their actual job. The neediest helpdesk userbase I've ever dealt with had 1000+ users who couldn't generate more than 250-300 requests in a day. Your users generate 1000% the call volume with 10% of the staff? I call BS or at the very least exaggeration. You don't need a call tracking system, you need a subscription to a suicide hotline for your helpdesk techs.
Weird Al puts on a great show. Took the wife to a concert for her birthday. We had aisle seats, and when Weird Al was performing "Wanna B Ur Lovr" in his bright red pimp suit, he jumped up on the seat in front of us and sang a cheesy pickup line right at her. It was awesome.
Musicians used to make their money doing just that - putting on a show people are willing to pay for, not being signed with the biggest label.
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It's funny how my cable Internet service went from $80 for ~10-15 megabit when it was a monopoly to $45 for 300 megabit within 2 weeks of AT&T laying fiber behind my house.
Though they still try to get me to rent a cable modem from them, because the 'substandard' modem I own wouldn't handle the speed, when it's rated for ~400 Mbps
I live in a state that passed Voter ID. Since the law passed, local Democratic Party workers no longer come to my house asking to speak to several other voters registered to my address who definitely don't live at my address. So yes, there is fraud, and yes voter ID has prevented fraud.
The state will issue an ID for free for the purposes of voting so there is no financial barrier to voting.
You say voter suppression, sensible people say fraud prevention.
It is significantly more a matter of convenience than baby size. The entire OB industry is based around convenience, painlessness and reducing the amount of time medical staff need to actually work on you. They want to clear the bed for the next patient as quickly as possible. Another significant part of the problem is medical care professionals (at least in the U.S.) treat childbirth like a pathology rather than a life event. Both the doctors and the patients treat this like something that should be scheduled, painless, and regimented when the process is unpredictable and defies easy scheduling.
My wife had both of our children at home under the care of a midwife. The birth was painful and messy, but our children are healthy. Contrary to what you see on medical shows, movies and TV, most of the events of birth take a significant amount of time... it's not 5 minutes between "my water broke" and "baby is born" unless you have to fit a birth inside a 22-minute show.
Cost-wise, the home birth cost much more out of pocket, but was actually significantly cheaper overall - somewhere between 15 and 30% of the cost of a hospital birth. Of course, these costs are hidden when you have insurance, but be assured that somebody pays that extra 70-85%.
'Nokia' and 'quality' should not be put in the same sentence.
Poor quality is still quality.
I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures
Why would a new amendment make any more difference than the ones we already have?
Isn't the quote actually "Houston, we've had a problem?"
I know Tom Hanks said it the other way but c'mon submitter.
They are sociopaths and psychotics and we can only hope they die of old age before the country falls headlong into a French Revolution of purges, pogroms, and random bloodletting.
What makes you think their children will be any different? There has been a trend for the ruling class in the US to function equivalently to royalty (Bush I & II, Clintons, Kennedys). I don't see why the next generation of sociopaths will be any better than the current batch.
"we're looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute."
No seriously ... how are 100 users generating that many questions to your helpdesk? If they're spending that much time on with the helpdesk, I question whether they'd be able to actually spend any time doing their actual job. The neediest helpdesk userbase I've ever dealt with had 1000+ users who couldn't generate more than 250-300 requests in a day. Your users generate 1000% the call volume with 10% of the staff? I call BS or at the very least exaggeration. You don't need a call tracking system, you need a subscription to a suicide hotline for your helpdesk techs.
Weird Al puts on a great show. Took the wife to a concert for her birthday. We had aisle seats, and when Weird Al was performing "Wanna B Ur Lovr" in his bright red pimp suit, he jumped up on the seat in front of us and sang a cheesy pickup line right at her. It was awesome. Musicians used to make their money doing just that - putting on a show people are willing to pay for, not being signed with the biggest label.