Speaking of new reactor technology, China is putting a whole crap ton of resources to researching the LFTR Thorium reactor, based on the proof of concept reactor which Oak Ridge ran back in the late 60's. This is a whole new paradigm and will change the game when it goes operational, though there is a whole lot of research to be done on it yet.
So you're going to get treatment, the ACA ensures that you have actual coverage for it rather than freeloading.
The only freeloaders are those who don't pay the bill when they get treatment. Plenty of them around, but not all.
Second, the cost of paying upfront or with cash for services is about a third of what is charged to the insurance. Why? Because they already know how much the insurance will pay and charge every penny of it regardless of actual cost. I don't fault them for that, it is the way the system is set up. They wind up eating some costs and making bank on the other. In the end it all comes out in the wash.
The real issue with the ACA is that it is unconstitutional. It is the government playing nanny and telling people that they are too stupid to take care of themselves and that they will do it for them. It is also designed to fail. They know very well that they will never get enough healthy people into the system to make it work and thus when the short falls begin and people cannot afford it after the subsidy ends then they will say that the government has to take over insurance. It is a gateway to the single payer system that they could not get through not just a by-partisan congress, but their own super majority. In 3-5 years, the government will be deciding who gets what treatment.
Aside from the security and bandwidth issues which can be dealt with, the real issue here, IMO, is that Comcast is doing this and STILL charging their customers out the yingyang. They want to create a public Wifi network around the urban areas, fine, great I am all for it. However, prior to this feature, which lets them do it, they would have to pay rent on antenna and transmitter/receiver space. Now they put it in your home and then charge you to let them create this public net? I don't think so, not for me. The would need to either pay me or give me a steep discount to allow this and every single one of their customers should say the same thing. Why am I going to pay to support Comcasts infrastructure?
Sure it all involves a good dose of self-delusion, but a lot of people have improved their lives greatly with a little self-delusion. After all, no one starts down their path to self-improvement by admitting to themselves that they are an unexceptional, not particularly good or worthwhile person. They start by telling themselves "I am a good person, I can do better" even if they know deep-down that they're lying to themselves. And, quite often, the lie actually BECOMES the reality. Convincing yourself that you're a better person can actually MAKE you better. Why not apply the same principle to society as a whole?
Ummmm, yeah, about that. Hate to break it to ya but people do start on the path to self improvement by saying, 'hey you know what, I am a bad person. But I can be better, let me try.' Think about it and remember the only way to improve is to face what you are and what you have been and to remember and not do it again.
Alright I have to weigh in on at this point. The bundling of IE within the operating system may have made some small amount of sense, but when the Borg (aka, Microsoft) did it, the move was completely malicious. They did it because they could not keep up with Netscape in the browser market due to the release of the initial version of JavaScript. This was taking the web by storm and because it was proprietary the Borg had to find a way to kill the whole thing because it could not get a competing script out in time to save that market for it. So they did. As far as the Notepad being embedded, well that has been there since the earliest versions of Windows that I have ever seen and because of this it does not have the functionality of even the earliest of the word processors. In this case it was the Borg practically giving the Office Suite to the Government and Schools, taking a loss on the product to do it, which killed WordPerfect even though WP was the better product, I know cause I was using WP at the time that this happened and was forced to convert for compatibility purposes. So despite the fact that other pieces of the OS utilize the primary lifter of the IE for display purposes the embedding of it was done for malicious purposes.
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Speaking of new reactor technology, China is putting a whole crap ton of resources to researching the LFTR Thorium reactor, based on the proof of concept reactor which Oak Ridge ran back in the late 60's. This is a whole new paradigm and will change the game when it goes operational, though there is a whole lot of research to be done on it yet.
So you're going to get treatment, the ACA ensures that you have actual coverage for it rather than freeloading.
The only freeloaders are those who don't pay the bill when they get treatment. Plenty of them around, but not all. Second, the cost of paying upfront or with cash for services is about a third of what is charged to the insurance. Why? Because they already know how much the insurance will pay and charge every penny of it regardless of actual cost. I don't fault them for that, it is the way the system is set up. They wind up eating some costs and making bank on the other. In the end it all comes out in the wash. The real issue with the ACA is that it is unconstitutional. It is the government playing nanny and telling people that they are too stupid to take care of themselves and that they will do it for them. It is also designed to fail. They know very well that they will never get enough healthy people into the system to make it work and thus when the short falls begin and people cannot afford it after the subsidy ends then they will say that the government has to take over insurance. It is a gateway to the single payer system that they could not get through not just a by-partisan congress, but their own super majority. In 3-5 years, the government will be deciding who gets what treatment.
Aside from the security and bandwidth issues which can be dealt with, the real issue here, IMO, is that Comcast is doing this and STILL charging their customers out the yingyang. They want to create a public Wifi network around the urban areas, fine, great I am all for it. However, prior to this feature, which lets them do it, they would have to pay rent on antenna and transmitter/receiver space. Now they put it in your home and then charge you to let them create this public net? I don't think so, not for me. The would need to either pay me or give me a steep discount to allow this and every single one of their customers should say the same thing. Why am I going to pay to support Comcasts infrastructure?
Sure it all involves a good dose of self-delusion, but a lot of people have improved their lives greatly with a little self-delusion. After all, no one starts down their path to self-improvement by admitting to themselves that they are an unexceptional, not particularly good or worthwhile person. They start by telling themselves "I am a good person, I can do better" even if they know deep-down that they're lying to themselves. And, quite often, the lie actually BECOMES the reality. Convincing yourself that you're a better person can actually MAKE you better. Why not apply the same principle to society as a whole?
Ummmm, yeah, about that. Hate to break it to ya but people do start on the path to self improvement by saying, 'hey you know what, I am a bad person. But I can be better, let me try.' Think about it and remember the only way to improve is to face what you are and what you have been and to remember and not do it again.
Alright I have to weigh in on at this point. The bundling of IE within the operating system may have made some small amount of sense, but when the Borg (aka, Microsoft) did it, the move was completely malicious. They did it because they could not keep up with Netscape in the browser market due to the release of the initial version of JavaScript. This was taking the web by storm and because it was proprietary the Borg had to find a way to kill the whole thing because it could not get a competing script out in time to save that market for it. So they did. As far as the Notepad being embedded, well that has been there since the earliest versions of Windows that I have ever seen and because of this it does not have the functionality of even the earliest of the word processors. In this case it was the Borg practically giving the Office Suite to the Government and Schools, taking a loss on the product to do it, which killed WordPerfect even though WP was the better product, I know cause I was using WP at the time that this happened and was forced to convert for compatibility purposes. So despite the fact that other pieces of the OS utilize the primary lifter of the IE for display purposes the embedding of it was done for malicious purposes.