It's a way of respecting the dead. Not that the dead care, since they are dead, but it is one of the few things we as the living can do to feel like we are helping them.
I still want to upgrade the headstone on my wife's grave to something that stands out to honor her. That said, she doesn't care and the money would be better spent doing a donation in her name or something similar to that.
I cannot count the amount of times I have re-watched the final episode. It is one of the most emotional and satisfying ending to a show that I have ever seen.
If you liked Westworld, watch person of interest while waiting for the next season. The first season is pretty procedural but builds the characters and foundation of the show. By the end of the show, it's full AI and how it can direct/control a civilization. It's by the same people.
That would be a stupid law. You'd get rid of insurance contracts and the rates for everyone would increase.
The insurance companies can negotiate rates because they are promising to pay a percentage that a hospital would never be able to recoup from a patient. In addition to that, they are taking the negotiated rate for the advertising of being in-network.
Ambulances and anesthesiologists usually do not have hospital rates. And those providers can and do charge whatever they want since there are no price controls. (I'm guess your solution would be another federal law setting rates....)
Contract cost for Blue Cross members versus UHC members versus private pay versus medicare versus medicaid and so on.
There is a new movement in the health insurance industry (and one that TPAs would very much like to switch to) for reference-based pricing which would end the need for contractual rates. The problem with that is that big insurance doesn't want that and for the most part providers don't want that (the reimbursement rates are usually closer to that of Medicare rates.)
It is incorrect that insurance makes money off of sick people. Insurance makes money off of healthy people. Providers make money off the sick but I'm glad we have them:)
I don't work from home. I like that packages are left on my porch.
I remember the days where the UPS driver would run to my door (without taking the package out of his truck), ring the door bell, then run back to his truck before I could get to the door (even when I spent the day in the living room next to the door.
They'd do this 2 or 3 times and then make me pick it up from the UPS store (or they would return it to the sender.)
I'll go with greed as an explanation for the toy company too.....You take the $3 and deprive the kid, because you don't care about the kid, you only care about whether or not you can tap him for money.
And people wonder why capitalism is sick.
And yet, donations are pretty high in capitalist societies.
I hate linking to mother jones but you are only partially right. It is legal on a federal level but at a local level, it can still be considered illegal.
Really? You should. Copyright should not be some eternal thing. They should have to keep inventing new works instead of milking work done by people who have been dead and buried for decades
While I agree that copyrights should not be eternal, your justification for why it's wrong is flawed and a slippery slope unless you think we should get rid of inheritances all together. Also, if the person who made it is alive, are you saying that it should not be allowed to enter the public domain? How do you define who made something, when talking about products made under funding of a corporation?
the deal is that the government puts it's resources behind protecting your works (keep in mind, your tax dollars are paying for the courts Disney uses to enforce their copyright; more so if you consider how Disney dodges taxes like all major corps)
Disney pays the upfront legal fees and can sue for reimbursement. Unless you are talking about the costs to the actual court (paying a judge, etc.) Are you suggesting that we should switch to a business model where the court charges for it's use?
I criticizing the end of the world chicken little crap. Enough high profile people make the claim and it comes out false or grossly exaggerated, the less people will react if the claim is ever true.
You can bitch about how unfair that it, but it's the truth.
I posted people forgetting what the former vice president and one of the more vocal leaders of the global warming community stated and you linked to your own post.
We all look for stories that prove our points GameboyRMH. The trick is to also read the stuff sent by others that try to refute it.
Reading an article about cherry picking doesn't really refute anything.
Maybe it's time for the global warming crowd to publicly disavow Gore so they can spent more time preaching and less time defending that man. As a Catholic, I definitely understand not wanting to throw one of your priests overboard, but sometimes you need to do it
It's possible and probably helpful to ourselves and the planet to make the world cleaner - I mean who doesn't want to be clean? But tying it end to end of the world warnings is just exhausting. And the more exhausted people are, the less they have energy to care.
I'm not making that assumption at all. Indeed 20% of families have someone with pre-existing conditions and until Obamacare moving in hopes of a better job wasn't an option.
You're giving credit to the wrong person. Clinton took care of that problem in the late 90's early 2000s with HIPPA.
ObamaCare made it so that people can now wait until they get sick to get insurance with the only penalty being a tax (and now that tax is gone.)
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It's a way of respecting the dead. Not that the dead care, since they are dead, but it is one of the few things we as the living can do to feel like we are helping them.
I still want to upgrade the headstone on my wife's grave to something that stands out to honor her. That said, she doesn't care and the money would be better spent doing a donation in her name or something similar to that.
Why should the company that made the new game pay 50 percent to past contributors?
They aren't Disney ;)
Same. It's hard to even notice it outside the news. I'd bet most people don't even know there is a partial government shutdown.
And that person stated their opinion. The nice thing about these topics is to read differing viewpoints.
I cannot count the amount of times I have re-watched the final episode. It is one of the most emotional and satisfying ending to a show that I have ever seen.
Try it on the nvidia sheild. It's a pure android TV experience and it works very well.
If you liked Westworld, watch person of interest while waiting for the next season. The first season is pretty procedural but builds the characters and foundation of the show. By the end of the show, it's full AI and how it can direct/control a civilization. It's by the same people.
There wouldn't be. You are posting diagnosis codes not procedures codes.
I meant "Ambulances and anesthesiologists usually do not have insurance rates"
That would be a stupid law. You'd get rid of insurance contracts and the rates for everyone would increase.
The insurance companies can negotiate rates because they are promising to pay a percentage that a hospital would never be able to recoup from a patient. In addition to that, they are taking the negotiated rate for the advertising of being in-network.
Ambulances and anesthesiologists usually do not have hospital rates. And those providers can and do charge whatever they want since there are no price controls. (I'm guess your solution would be another federal law setting rates....)
It is difficult.
Costs are variable.
Contract cost for Blue Cross members versus UHC members versus private pay versus medicare versus medicaid and so on.
There is a new movement in the health insurance industry (and one that TPAs would very much like to switch to) for reference-based pricing which would end the need for contractual rates. The problem with that is that big insurance doesn't want that and for the most part providers don't want that (the reimbursement rates are usually closer to that of Medicare rates.)
It is incorrect that insurance makes money off of sick people. Insurance makes money off of healthy people. Providers make money off the sick but I'm glad we have them :)
I don't work from home. I like that packages are left on my porch.
I remember the days where the UPS driver would run to my door (without taking the package out of his truck), ring the door bell, then run back to his truck before I could get to the door (even when I spent the day in the living room next to the door.
They'd do this 2 or 3 times and then make me pick it up from the UPS store (or they would return it to the sender.)
I'll go with greed as an explanation for the toy company too.....You take the $3 and deprive the kid, because you don't care about the kid, you only care about whether or not you can tap him for money.
And people wonder why capitalism is sick.
And yet, donations are pretty high in capitalist societies.
I hate linking to mother jones but you are only partially right. It is legal on a federal level but at a local level, it can still be considered illegal.
https://www.motherjones.com/po...
(Disclaimer: I work for Catholic Charities nowadays, though not in the dining hall. My opinions are mine, not theirs.)
I'm envious. I wish I worked for a place that I could say did spiritual good.
I know I keep harping on about this in various threads, but if we want this to stop we need to vote for candidates who refuse corporate PAC money
Sure will. If I was a single issue voter
Really? You should. Copyright should not be some eternal thing. They should have to keep inventing new works instead of milking work done by people who have been dead and buried for decades
While I agree that copyrights should not be eternal, your justification for why it's wrong is flawed and a slippery slope unless you think we should get rid of inheritances all together. Also, if the person who made it is alive, are you saying that it should not be allowed to enter the public domain?
How do you define who made something, when talking about products made under funding of a corporation?
the deal is that the government puts it's resources behind protecting your works (keep in mind, your tax dollars are paying for the courts Disney uses to enforce their copyright; more so if you consider how Disney dodges taxes like all major corps)
Disney pays the upfront legal fees and can sue for reimbursement. Unless you are talking about the costs to the actual court (paying a judge, etc.) Are you suggesting that we should switch to a business model where the court charges for it's use?
What is the reason for these posts? I curios why cdreimer gets so much attention
I criticizing the end of the world chicken little crap. Enough high profile people make the claim and it comes out false or grossly exaggerated, the less people will react if the claim is ever true.
You can bitch about how unfair that it, but it's the truth.
I posted people forgetting what the former vice president and one of the more vocal leaders of the global warming community stated and you linked to your own post.
We all look for stories that prove our points GameboyRMH. The trick is to also read the stuff sent by others that try to refute it.
Reading an article about cherry picking doesn't really refute anything.
Maybe it's time for the global warming crowd to publicly disavow Gore so they can spent more time preaching and less time defending that man. As a Catholic, I definitely understand not wanting to throw one of your priests overboard, but sometimes you need to do it
The dire global warnings cause most people with a memory to roll their eyes now.
https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/de...
It's possible and probably helpful to ourselves and the planet to make the world cleaner - I mean who doesn't want to be clean? But tying it end to end of the world warnings is just exhausting. And the more exhausted people are, the less they have energy to care.
Actually, yes, I would like more stories like that
I'm not making that assumption at all. Indeed 20% of families have someone with pre-existing conditions and until Obamacare moving in hopes of a better job wasn't an option.
You're giving credit to the wrong person. Clinton took care of that problem in the late 90's early 2000s with HIPPA.
ObamaCare made it so that people can now wait until they get sick to get insurance with the only penalty being a tax (and now that tax is gone.)
Sure, when you use their services and they agree with your TOS