Don't be a doofus. Is the 19" one portable? No! And that is important to some of us. We already have large/cheap displays. We want portable/cheap displays!
The 7" one you listed is utter joke. First of all it is not under $100. You forgot to look at the sneaky $70 shipping charge. After you add that, you are looking at $150. Oh and you also forgot to look at the resolution. 1024x768. It seems that you haven't been paying attention. But, by now, that isn't surprising.
I read the entire "The Telegraph" story. There was no mention of Pakistani spies in Britain, other than in the headline. And the two "spies" in the US, were more like lobbyists. They had donated money to politicians to get favorable opinion of Pakistani side of the Kashmir issue. This is hardly what you would call "spying".
So he is shooting at people and has already killed one TSA officer. Why even try to take him alive? If there is ever a justification for shoot first and ask questions later, this is it. Now we'll have to pay for his room and board and legal fees for years to come.
My question was: "What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?"
Your answer seems to imply that the older method of reading license plates is a more precise privacy busting tool. If that is correct then we are in agreement. The hoopla over bluetooth scanning of vehicles is unwarranted.
Your vehicle already had a big bright license plates, in the front and the back, advertising your license plate number to anyone who cares to look. People, cameras etc. etc. And yes we have had automated readers of license plates for quite some time. What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?
I imagine that you buy stuff over the internet, or hand your credit card to a high school kid working a part-time job at a restaurant. Do you perform the same level of evaluation at all these places?
>... if my email provider suddenly added an 'attach money' option and stored my card details I'd be thinking of moving to another provider that didn't integrate everything.
Wouldn't it be easier to not share your credit card details with the email provider? Rather than move away to another email provider?
I do not know if this is a good example. I have occasionally wondered if the abortion problem is mostly a manufactured problem used by the parties to divide people into groups. It appears to me that the majority supports a compromise of sorts. Late term abortions not OK, very early term abortions OK. There are people on the fringes, and they are loud but they are in minority.
I don't like buying from a dealer, but I don't like paying MSRP either. If dealing with the dealer means I save a few thousand dollars and not pay MSRP then I'll gladly sit through the upsell process and constantly say NO for an hour or so to various options they try to sell me. I have done that a few times by now and I think I have mastered it.
> If this work was being done by Americans who actually need to rely on the ACA for their health care coverage, you can bet your ass that it would have been done right - the first time.
We'd all like to believe that. Many states that setup their own local exchanges paid the big bucks to Oracle. They had similar problems too.
You thought wrong. Parts of the govt. that are not funded by congress have been shutdown. Obamacare and many other govt. functions have been funded by congress.
Healthcare.gov problems are real. But asking for opinions from people who have a dog in the fight is probably less than ideal. When you ask the likes of Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch's conservative rag) or healthcare technology company EXL (sour that they did not get the contract), you'll get answers that are entirely predictable.
Why is the website a clusterF? Several reasons come to mind.
1. It is a 1.0 product. 2. It is a government project, what do you expect? 3. The states who setup smaller (in comparison) exchanges had similar problems. My state of OR paid Oracle about $50,000,000 for a much simpler setup where you cannot buy anything, but can only view plans on offer. And even that did not work for first few days. 4. The developers were stupid and did not anticipate the traffic they got. Even engineering oriented companies like Google often make that mistake. If you have ever tried registering for Google I/O you would know what I am talking about. 5. Obama's coding skills are simply not up to snuff.
Team Red would like you to think that the govt. has all of a sudden become very inefficient under Obama's presidency. And under their guy Bush, it was a model of transparency and efficiency.
Oregon paid millions to Oracle for their own solution. It was a disaster. It did not work for me as I kept getting errors. And Oregon actually opted for a simple solution where you could not actually sign up for a plan online. You only received information about available plans. 3 years and millions of dollars later, they could not make that work reliably. As a developer I am baffled.
Repubs: Stop Obamacare or we shut down the govt. Obama: ACA is the law, approved by congress, signed by me and upheld by the conservative majority on supreme court and has already been funded. If you want it repealed, please follow the constitutional process and get enough votes. Repubs: We cannot get enough votes. So we are shutting down the govt. And it is entirely your fault, since you did not give into our demands. Obama: Children, you cannot throw temper tantrums every time you do not get your way. Repubs: Watch us.
> In the period leading up to the passage of the ACA in march 2010, were we not told repeatedly that coverage would be better, and less expensive? Fuck you.
It appears that you have made up your mind, well before the final details of the various new plan options are made available to everybody. Not only have you closed your mind to new ideas and information, you have been cursing like a sailor on this page. Is it yet time to grow up?
Your plan cost went from $187 to $200. And you are blaming this on Obama? Have you been sleeping through the Bush years?
Also, as I have said in previous posts. Please tell us what plan (company name and policy) you have so that we can do a proper apples to apples comparison. If Obamacare is really putting the hurt on you, please provide some verifiable details instead of getting your panties in a twist.
> After doing a little more research it turns out some are predicting that an individual plan in Wisconsin, for a healthy young male could triple. Again, go to hell.
The world could end on Jan 1st, 2014. People like Harold Camping *predict* this sort of thing all the time. Should we start planning for this soon?
The parent post claimed that Obamacare would actually discourage people from starting new businesses. A claim that is direct opposite of what the original story claimed. Since it did not make sense to me, I asked "Why exactly would people feel discouraged by ACA from starting new businesses?"
It appears you did not want to answer that question and went on repeating some talking points. If you are going to reply to my post, then at least make an attempt to answer the question being asked in that post.
> My rates are predicted to triple on January 1st. Why is that? When has that happened before?
If you are going to make such a claim, please provide at least minimal amount of data to back it up. How about the name of your plan/policy and what state you are in? This allows us to determine if you are being political or factual. Thanks.
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Don't be a doofus. Is the 19" one portable? No! And that is important to some of us. We already have large/cheap displays. We want portable/cheap displays!
The 7" one you listed is utter joke. First of all it is not under $100. You forgot to look at the sneaky $70 shipping charge. After you add that, you are looking at $150. Oh and you also forgot to look at the resolution. 1024x768. It seems that you haven't been paying attention. But, by now, that isn't surprising.
I read the entire "The Telegraph" story. There was no mention of Pakistani spies in Britain, other than in the headline. And the two "spies" in the US, were more like lobbyists. They had donated money to politicians to get favorable opinion of Pakistani side of the Kashmir issue. This is hardly what you would call "spying".
So he is shooting at people and has already killed one TSA officer. Why even try to take him alive? If there is ever a justification for shoot first and ask questions later, this is it. Now we'll have to pay for his room and board and legal fees for years to come.
> and making sure that people have to pay vastly inflated prices to health insurers under ACA
Not true. At least for me here in Oregon, my insurance costs have gone down with the ACA. And that is without a dime of govt. assistance.
My question was: "What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?"
Your answer seems to imply that the older method of reading license plates is a more precise privacy busting tool. If that is correct then we are in agreement. The hoopla over bluetooth scanning of vehicles is unwarranted.
Your vehicle already had a big bright license plates, in the front and the back, advertising your license plate number to anyone who cares to look. People, cameras etc. etc. And yes we have had automated readers of license plates for quite some time. What sort of *new* privacy concerns does the bluetooth device introduce?
I imagine that you buy stuff over the internet, or hand your credit card to a high school kid working a part-time job at a restaurant. Do you perform the same level of evaluation at all these places?
Google lets me send money to other people. How is this different? I may have missed an important detail.
> ... if my email provider suddenly added an 'attach money' option and stored my card details I'd be thinking of moving to another provider that didn't integrate everything.
Wouldn't it be easier to not share your credit card details with the email provider? Rather than move away to another email provider?
I do not know if this is a good example. I have occasionally wondered if the abortion problem is mostly a manufactured problem used by the parties to divide people into groups. It appears to me that the majority supports a compromise of sorts. Late term abortions not OK, very early term abortions OK. There are people on the fringes, and they are loud but they are in minority.
I don't like buying from a dealer, but I don't like paying MSRP either. If dealing with the dealer means I save a few thousand dollars and not pay MSRP then I'll gladly sit through the upsell process and constantly say NO for an hour or so to various options they try to sell me. I have done that a few times by now and I think I have mastered it.
> If this work was being done by Americans who actually need to rely on the ACA for their health care coverage, you can bet your ass that it would have been done right - the first time.
We'd all like to believe that. Many states that setup their own local exchanges paid the big bucks to Oracle. They had similar problems too.
> I thought the government was shutdown ?
You thought wrong. Parts of the govt. that are not funded by congress have been shutdown. Obamacare and many other govt. functions have been funded by congress.
Oregon did just that. About $50mil later they had a website that did not work for the first few days. And it is a view-only site to begin with.
Giving lots of money to a large company is no guarantee of success.
> Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ?
Obamacare by phone: 800-318-2596
Healthcare.gov problems are real. But asking for opinions from people who have a dog in the fight is probably less than ideal. When you ask the likes of Wall Street Journal (Rupert Murdoch's conservative rag) or healthcare technology company EXL (sour that they did not get the contract), you'll get answers that are entirely predictable.
Why is the website a clusterF? Several reasons come to mind.
1. It is a 1.0 product.
2. It is a government project, what do you expect?
3. The states who setup smaller (in comparison) exchanges had similar problems. My state of OR paid Oracle about $50,000,000 for a much simpler setup where you cannot buy anything, but can only view plans on offer. And even that did not work for first few days.
4. The developers were stupid and did not anticipate the traffic they got. Even engineering oriented companies like Google often make that mistake. If you have ever tried registering for Google I/O you would know what I am talking about.
5. Obama's coding skills are simply not up to snuff.
Team Red would like you to think that the govt. has all of a sudden become very inefficient under Obama's presidency. And under their guy Bush, it was a model of transparency and efficiency.
Oregon paid millions to Oracle for their own solution. It was a disaster. It did not work for me as I kept getting errors. And Oregon actually opted for a simple solution where you could not actually sign up for a plan online. You only received information about available plans. 3 years and millions of dollars later, they could not make that work reliably. As a developer I am baffled.
Please resists the urge to cite breitbart dailycaller or foxnews as your sources. These places do not have any credibility in many people's eyes.
Repubs: Stop Obamacare or we shut down the govt.
Obama: ACA is the law, approved by congress, signed by me and upheld by the conservative majority on supreme court and has already been funded. If you want it repealed, please follow the constitutional process and get enough votes.
Repubs: We cannot get enough votes. So we are shutting down the govt. And it is entirely your fault, since you did not give into our demands.
Obama: Children, you cannot throw temper tantrums every time you do not get your way.
Repubs: Watch us.
> In the period leading up to the passage of the ACA in march 2010, were we not told repeatedly that coverage would be better, and less expensive? Fuck you.
It appears that you have made up your mind, well before the final details of the various new plan options are made available to everybody. Not only have you closed your mind to new ideas and information, you have been cursing like a sailor on this page. Is it yet time to grow up?
Your plan cost went from $187 to $200. And you are blaming this on Obama? Have you been sleeping through the Bush years?
Also, as I have said in previous posts. Please tell us what plan (company name and policy) you have so that we can do a proper apples to apples comparison. If Obamacare is really putting the hurt on you, please provide some verifiable details instead of getting your panties in a twist.
> After doing a little more research it turns out some are predicting that an individual plan in Wisconsin, for a healthy young male could triple. Again, go to hell.
The world could end on Jan 1st, 2014. People like Harold Camping *predict* this sort of thing all the time. Should we start planning for this soon?
What makes you think that if you break your leg, you can buy insurance on the way to the hospital and have it be effective by the time you get there?
I have no reason to believe that you will be treated as anything other than an un-insured person.
The parent post claimed that Obamacare would actually discourage people from starting new businesses. A claim that is direct opposite of what the original story claimed. Since it did not make sense to me, I asked "Why exactly would people feel discouraged by ACA from starting new businesses?"
It appears you did not want to answer that question and went on repeating some talking points. If you are going to reply to my post, then at least make an attempt to answer the question being asked in that post.
Name the plan please, so that we can do an apples to apples comparison.
> My rates are predicted to triple on January 1st. Why is that? When has that happened before?
If you are going to make such a claim, please provide at least minimal amount of data to back it up. How about the name of your plan/policy and what state you are in? This allows us to determine if you are being political or factual. Thanks.