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  1. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    You do realize they did the same thing for all policies that covered those things preACA, right?
  2. Vaclav

    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

    Double Manowar was the easiest legendary, WTF...
  3. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Not familiar with Twitch much but it was grainy as hell here lots of artifacting.
  4. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Doesn't look like it hear GameStop guy quoting two more shipments scheduled for corporate level right now before Xmas. But we'll see I guess. No idea on his accuracy.
  5. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    I imagine he meant PT never heard of insurance doing chiropractic personally since I've been.an adult, although my parents did as a kid but that was Federal employee BCBS that was likely ancient.
  6. Vaclav

    Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

    Been bad the past day or so on PS3 from PSN drops. Prolly the same.
  7. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    a_skeleton_03: That's true for all NEW plans, grandfathered plans were exempt from that list.
  8. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    LOL - if you honestly believe anything you said here including my own ideals which are pretty much libertarian - the real version, not the religious right pseudo libertarians - I honestly don't know what to say to you. The ACA sucks and barely is worth a damn because it made a small step...
  9. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    See Texas on tort reform - max lawsuit is low as shit there now - and savings is 0.1%... Every bit matters but tort barely did anything there, which isn't optimistic for the nation.
  10. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Note the lack of WHEN in his future tense like I stated... CBO estimate was coincidentally $2700 in savings per family in 2020 or whatever the end of their estimate window was. As I said, context - which he never clarified - but technically might be accurate since we're in the first third...
  11. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Well the private market isn't going to fix healthcare, they created the debacle themselves. The only way we could "free market" our way out of it would be to take ALL the law out of health care, but that could cause all sorts of problems to return - snake oil salesmen, experimenting without...
  12. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Quoting an interesting detail I notice and explaining to people sample sizes = damage control... hilarious... Especially considering I personally am feeling great I waited until January or so on mine since just in case this first batch does have a flaw it should be a painless process then...
  13. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Neat they changed that I guess, used to be extended onto the original before... disappointing but would explain the price drop on it as well. (I think 3 year extended was $89.99 for PS3?)
  14. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Technically lower premiums were never stated directly - that was out of context - he was stating that the ACA OVER IT'S INITIAL TEN YEARS would slow the cost rise and that at the end of the estimated timeframe they would cost less against what they would've cost otherwise. People keep mistaking...
  15. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Didn't say anything of it, just noting that it's interesting... no conspiracy theory here... could be lots of 360 converts that never had a PS3 just as easily. =p When you assume.... you know what that does, right? They could be nonbuyers just making random comments, they could be people...
  16. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    According to WaPo print the other day - at least one insurer stated that they felt the ACA exchanges would be more profitable to them, and wanted to edge people into them for that reason. (And they have no intent even if allowed to reinstate policies that the "ACA cancelled" to reissue them...
  17. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Its a 3 year EXTENSION so + 1 yr in box warranty = 4 yrs
  18. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    If its something people were leaving out of their plans and feel forced to have it now, clearly they felt it was minutiae. (It would be minutiae for the wife and I being that we don't want kids as well - although it was already included in our insurance previously by default) I would call any...
  19. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Please explain to me if they didn't do anything out of the ordinary to get the plans cancelled why did ANY SINGLE CATEGORY BEING CHANGED TO ITS LEGAL LIMITS not trigger the "no longer legal under the ACA" issue? Why did they have to do multiple things to get it to occur? If I'm sitting...
  20. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It's interesting how many 11-14/11-15 registrations are posting this stuff - the 11-15's vs. older accounts is looking like 10-1 by page 5.... [And PSN accounts can be made for free and posted from a PC... so....]
  21. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    And two decent guys - one that gets thrashed and another that turns into a repulsive scumbag. (At least temporarily - sometimes they later post-campaign come back to reality.... i.e. McCain)
  22. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Jesus Christ, tad10 - get a fucking 6th grader to teach you some reading comprehension skills - you literally quoted my post while clearly not reading a fucking word beyond "substandard". Those policies weren't supposed to be fucking cancelled and wouldn't have been if the insurance companies...
  23. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Any of the NEW additions were exempt for grandfathered plans so that's a complete nonstarter and it had to be more than a $5 change unless you had below $10 in copays. Average plan that was cancelled had copay adjustments in the range of $10-15. (I think it was 18.75% was how much the copay...
  24. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    "Working on the issue" can mean alot of things though - don't jump the gun. They might have determined that they want to make sure they don't ship out defective units and are just running testing cycles on all the rest rather than letting them into the wild first as far as we know.
  25. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    "substandard" but not predatory plans were supposed to be grandfathered - only because of the insurance companies taking actions that invalidated them (likely intentionally) did they become "illegal". Only the predatory plans had no chance of continuing. Or for your analogy - an only 12"...
  26. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Damage control isn't an impossible theory - and with a competing release (in a light competition field) just days behind would make damage control for a few days seem more likely - but that's kind of my point, we need to see all these units actually start getting plugged in and used. Hell...
  27. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Single packages are going to be a ton more prone to shipping mishandling (i.e. throwing) than other stuff - I'd imagine that Amazon orders likely have a certain number of failures from mishandling above and beyond production issues. Hell, when I was getting my Kindle (which mental note - I...
  28. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    When health care is expected to be provided and literally you've paid more than the max value it will ever pay out in 3 years and after that you would've literally been better off putting the same money under your mattress for an "insurance fund" - it's pretty safe to say it's not valuable...
  29. Vaclav

    Health Care Thread

    Under the AMA he's required to give normal procedure codes on his billing and you can still file an "out of network" claim with almost any provider and still be covered. (i.e. Medicare is usable ANYWHERE as long as you're willing to prepay and get reimbursed unless the practice is operating...
  30. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's quite possibly true that they could, I have no idea how recalls work precisely - but Sony hasn't been particularly afraid to issue recalls in the past even before requested. Maybe they'd start to be subversive and obfuscate this time, anything is possible - but their history doesn't...
  31. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Honestly, from reading that article I think they were more worried about future sales than current ones - it was special laptops for people yachting and such and only a few failed spec, but apparently they charge ridiculous amounts for said laptops. So they probably sell only a few hundred of...
  32. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Oh voluntary ones definitely are good publicity that's an absolute, won't disagree with that - I wasn't trying to claim that they were some bastions of generosity. But lets say there's a hypothetical 10% fail rate - they're either going to recall all the unsold systems before they're sold and...
  33. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I tried to put an HDMI cable into a cinder block I painted PS4 on and it didn't work, does that count?
  34. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yes, we all saw Fight Club as well - you mangled the quote though. And if you actually read up on some of those, they were completely voluntary. Like one of them was that their "waterproof battery" on a VIAO model wasn't actually as waterproof as they said, and they expected no lawsuits for it -...
  35. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Honestly their internal number was probably tossed together from pre-release final units given out and their fail rate. That's the quickest way to do it with any real numbers unless you're going to test thousands of units manually in the lab. So say they gave out 5000 (4k Taco Bell, 1k other) -...
  36. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    sony product recalls - Google Search For not being open and honest they do seem awfully willing to do recalls when something is off before they're compelled by a Federal agency...
  37. Vaclav

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    And it's not skewed at all from people spending more time playing than reviewing thusfar, ya know - right? Most Amazon stuff that has to be returned skews high because most people go to the website to look up the return phone numbers and such, so they're literally 3 clicks away from writing...
  38. Vaclav

    XCOM: Enemy Within

    Barring undiagnosed mental illness that makes you randomly hate things, you absolutely should enjoy it. (Well, maybe expect some frustration with a few trophies if that's your thing though - a few are very obtuse situations required or vague...)
  39. Vaclav

    XCOM: Enemy Within

    The base personnel are assault rifle chumps with 5 HP - you just have to deal with it - your real guys come in in reinforcement waves.
  40. Vaclav

    XCOM: Enemy Within

    Ughhhhhh - got a freeze on the base invasion (defensive) mission and didn't have a recent save.... laaaame....