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  1. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    How much is the pre-insurance rate for them up in Upper Canuckistan anyhow? $2k is about the norm I had to pay for my MRIs when I was having to pay them with cash. (ITHINK$2.2k but not going into my records)
  2. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    I'd like to start a motion to change Trollface's avatar to that GIF.
  3. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Sprint Framily for my unit with 4 lines at current is running us $180ish including everything with our phones paid off. ($40/line + $20ish in fees) [Was $240 counting fees pre-framily - $55/line + same fees] And of course -$20 for each extra member of the Framily down to to $120ish (since the...
  4. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    If it wasn't a tax the Fed would have even less of a leg to over-ride state rights at all... and frankly, because it is a tax... A penalty assessed via taxation is pretty easy to define as a tax. (Or more accurately a subtax)
  5. Vaclav

    Playstation 4

    In other news, water is surprisingly wet. Writing was on the wall for Titanfall, not entirely exclusive and only appealing to FPS fans makes it really limited.
  6. Vaclav

    Amazon Fire TV

    Tempting, but too many boxes on my TV right now for it's HDMIs and don't feel like messing with a splitter free move.
  7. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Dunno, just presuming - got a friend obsessed with otterboxes and he's always doing clumsy shit and praising the waterproofness.
  8. Vaclav

    EQN:Landmark Beta Starts March 26th!

    Might know of an extra, Corvid. Laura's friend has only handed out 3 we think.
  9. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    January, February, November, April... where did you guys go to school, Merlin is right guys..
  10. Vaclav

    Upcoming Games of 2014

    Akiba's Trip: Undead Undressed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediafor a proper link for now - he deleted the last bracket on the URL by accident from the looks of it to me.... Weird looking game... (Not good weird IMO either...)
  11. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Some of the most widely circulated early political writings was the Anti-Federalist Papers - so I'd really posit that to be false - there's always been a pushback from too much dependence prevalent in the media, that was turned around harshly by the Depression however - but that's more to do...
  12. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    For netcode? Hahahaha.... That's a great April Fools, bro.
  13. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    The cover thing with an Otterbox? That was supposed to stay, yea. They're waterproof cases, thus the Otter part of the name - shouldn't harm it besides water issues though. If you decide you want to ditch the case since its "damaged", look at the DotView cases. I'm more excited about the...
  14. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    EQ another online product took 4+ years to develop, yet even when catastrophic shit happened they had it back and square in under a few days, usually hours. With a smaller budget and fewer employees at that... So about that whole doubling schedule thing.... horseshit.
  15. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    1800s sure were but only around 10-20% of people read papers back then (largely because of literacy), modern media touches near 100% of people that have any interest. Not to mention frequency counts for something as well as distance of coverage.
  16. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Conveniently in line with an increasingly active media. Ever think it's mostly perspective?
  17. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    You don't think a working website is easier to poll for data than a broken one? Wow. I guess FOHguild.org is still a good place to discuss things as well, right?
  18. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    The original version where the exchanges would've only have been a PO changed to PO and other choices, with the PO having a fixed rate to make sure rate hikes never leave people in a lurch. It's half assed compared to the original theory, but it's still got a public option lowercased even though...
  19. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Yea, it tempted me for a few but then I looked at their data rates...
  20. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Amazing what a functional website does for tracking things doesn't it?
  21. Vaclav

    Dark Souls 2

    Fire pits in The Rotten were worse than the boss IMO as well.
  22. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    1) Debt is a symptom, deficit is the cause - you deal with the deficit to deal with debt, they are inexorably intertwined with deficit being the method for action on the latter. The only exception being a massive windfall happening, but when you're talking a national level that's impossible...
  23. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    What the fuck are you talking about? He went for a public option you fucking moron - perhaps you meant UHC but you in your normal retardation are using words without understanding them. (Every exchange is required to have a state run plan as one of the options in case you're uninformed - so...
  24. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    It's more depressing to have to explain how math and the universe operate, personally. So many, "I expect X" nonsense without considering what is possible. And of course on top there's those that fake it with constant pessimism where every figure is assumed to be it's worst, rather than...
  25. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Frq: Initial velocity is an important factor in evaluating something like that fairly. And it's funny, for being supposedly nonpartisan, it's only the fringe right that push that stupid argument once presented with the spending data. I'll say it another way. You seem t o understand too much...
  26. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Christ dude, you are too stupid to live... You say exactly the point and then go on to miss it or ignore it. When spending was sky high as he came in and slowing has to be done at a safe pace, it's going to keep carrying forward a long time. Again, back to cars... Indy 500 first 400 laps...
  27. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Ok, stupid math analogy time... Picture a car going 20... then 30... then 40.... then slamming the gas up to 120 all of a sudden. (Each for a 1 min interval) How far would that car travel? 1/3 of a mile + 1/2 a mile + 2/3 of a mile + 2 miles - a net of 3 1/2 miles. Now picture the driver...
  28. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    2009 non-bailout spending was close to $1t as I tried to make clear earlier. TARP was not a one year program - it was staggered in how it was spent budgetwise. And wonderful link there - it mirrors exactly what I posted, shocker - but yet you want to make claims contrary to the facts in there.
  29. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    You understand how debt works right? You can be putting the brakes on and debt will continue to accrue because it's a net value. Unless he was reducing the deficit by $300b every year so far it would still have been creeping up at this point because until its back to generating $1 surplus it...
  30. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    You do realize that TARP was a two year program, right? That $400-500b was immediate with the rest for the next year, right? Additionally there was $400-500b of off the books (AKA draining the SS trust under "presidential discretionary spending") military spending on Iraq that Obama put back on...
  31. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    They adjust it to take more and more from the high ticket people, it's not really rocket science - considering the average CEO pays close to $200k/year for their insurance policy, there's a ton of wiggle room to either charge them more, or offer them less services that their boku bucks insurance...
  32. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Possibly true not ordered anything through them.
  33. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    This is his pre-edit quote (he was responding to wormie) - I think he caught what he ended up saying not realizing that we've been reducing things the last few years... (except 2012 I think? Or was it 2011?) Our current administration clearly has that in mind since they've been motioning that...
  34. Vaclav

    Smartphones

    Free shipping vs. $10 shipping - so it's closer to $15 (compared to Google Play) but yea, it's not really a big deal.
  35. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    I'm stating a) it's an editorial which should be taken with a grain of salt and b) presenting direct evidence of him over editorializing in the past - if you understood ad hom, you'd realize you're applying it wrong. (frankly it's closer to reductio ad absurdum - but I am a debate hobbyist at...
  36. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    It's the IM-fucking-F - look at their history for doomcrying about the same things and come back to me. (And of course note how many nations in the past have taken their advice to belt-tighten and ended up depressing their economy drastically...) They're considered "out of touch" by many, and...
  37. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    No homo or at least that's what I tell myself while banging the wife. And technically wasn't silver spooned, my money all showed up around 26 when my grandfather passed and the other half around 30 with grandmom passing. Before the it was all bootstrapping and personal investment. [Edits...
  38. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Funny even your own link says the first 8300 and change is tax free amongst other oopsies. Additionally checking other 2014 sources they're showing 14% minimum rate as well (from the EU website itself, more likely to be reputable compared to whatever expatica is). And regardless it's moot...
  39. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    You mean as a source of funding? Any savings would have to recouped elsewhere via taxes or something.
  40. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    And of course there's that too but the core of his numbers are mishandled even.