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- Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:36 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Awesome
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2017
Re: Awesome
hey at least i admit to being open to both sides of an argument!
- Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:04 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1395
Re: Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
like kiryan said if i don't talk for a few minutes then it will arbitrarily just decide to stop working altogether, despite still showing as connected, being identified in the device manager, the headset itself remaining powered and functional - so i said screw it and spent 60 bucks on the fatal1ty ...
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:40 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1395
Re: Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
i don't think that the service shutting down after 30 minutes on a brand new headset would be caused by battery life issues, although that was an early suspicion of mine
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:27 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1395
Windows 7 and Bluetooth Headsets
So I bought a bluetooth dongle for my PC and a new bluetooth headset because i was thinking that using a bluetooth headset as a mic would be much more comfortable than any of those bulky gaming headsets. the thing is - after a while it always just disappears from the audio devices and stops function...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:29 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare, taxes and wages
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4971
Re: healthcare, taxes and wages
My health insurance went up along with my taxes . Proof enough. Even before the bill was passed?! Wow. I didn't realize time travel was in there, too. that was my thought. although from what im hearing from individuals, apparently the health care companies have already started inflating costs befor...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:24 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
kiryan you ask a lot of reasonable questions that i agree should be clearly answered and are not, but i also think that you make a lot of assumptions that i really just can't find a basis on beyond the widely shared pessimistic view that everyone is out to screw everyone. the one thing that stood ou...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:03 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
Yayaril wrote:It's kind of dumb that anyone would have to choose between dying and placing their family in financial burden.
how sad is it that i'm not 100% certain if this statement means that you oppose or support the reform bill.
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:02 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: State's Rights
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1287
Re: State's Rights
the majority votes for the campaign promises that sound most congruent with their lifestyle and economic principles and that campaign devotes his term to taking care of the interests of the industries that financed those campaign promises while reconciling the difference to the best of his ability i...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare, taxes and wages
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4971
Re: healthcare, taxes and wages
Except you've missed a major problem:they are going to extract even more massive amounts of money now. Congratulations? prove it. show me a single credible economist who believes that this bill is going to increase the burden on taxpayers. and if you show me someone who uses the cost of health care...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:35 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare, taxes and wages
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4971
Re: healthcare, taxes and wages
we tried the private health care option. what happened? they showed that they are capable of extracting massive amounts of money in the name of security of health and that they would not pay out. so we are changing it. if you were a gambling addict, and your bookie kept taking your bets but eventual...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:30 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: State's Rights
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1287
Re: State's Rights
for the record, its partially our own fault for allowing our representatives to ask for so much from the federal government on various lobbyist platforms' behalf. just my opinion, before you call me stupid, tell me how im wrong please and thank you.
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: The American Life
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1481
Re: The American Life
the salad/big mac diagram is probably the most useful and relevant information i've taken from a toril forum in quite some time. thank you. i've always wondered why eating healthy costs so much more, but never thought to actually ask. thank you for giving me a starting point into my own private inve...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:26 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: healthcare, taxes and wages
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4971
Re: healthcare, taxes and wages
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html Well look at this, walgreens no longer accepting new medicaid patients in Washington because basically the state doesnt' reimburse enough. Its happening all over the country from pharmacies to doctors. And you want governm...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:23 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Awesome
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2017
Re: Awesome
i see your Jane McGonigal and raise you some more awesome!
(we actually got our first Evoke a couple weeks ago, its an interesting place to say the least)
(we actually got our first Evoke a couple weeks ago, its an interesting place to say the least)
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:02 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
i think denial of claims plus lack of coverage combined to create the very hostile public sentiment in regards to their industry as a whole
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:28 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
you've heard the audio tapes from the presidential meetings leading up to the public announcement of the private health care industry right? i hate using michael moore's information, but you can hear for yourself here . basically from the very beginning the health care industry was created on the pr...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:06 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
or maybe its because the people running health care coverage have gotten progressively greedier - dipping their fingers into the cookie jar more and more. i'd like to see a chart showing the frequency of coverage denial and claim rejections for that period. my suspicion is that the answer to your qu...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:59 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
You are incredibly deluded if you think this is going to cost the middle class .9% of their income. Again - no free lunch. Someone is paying for this, and we can only begin to imagine the unintended consequences of that to all of us (including said middle class). i didnt say it would cost them - i ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:58 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
Nobody manipulating the system will get sympathy from you? The system is not manipulatable. It is what it is. It's kind of like the difference between tax evasion and tax avoidance. Tax evasion means that in order to save money on tax you didn't follow the law, thus you goto jail. Tax avoidance mea...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:53 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
i do not believe it is going to be a failure, but i think rather that the health care provider industry may collapse as they attempt to fail in hopes of a bailout or some sympathy that they might dellusionally think is coming their way from the public sector. as for taxing the rich too much....a .9 ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:41 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
So the tax is only 2% of income. Let's get rid of the first $30k or so, as they will get Medicare. 40k income = $800 per year tax 60k income = $1,200 per year tax 80k income = $1,600 per year tax 160k income = $3,200 per year tax 320k income = $6,400 per year tax Ok so it seems pretty clear to me t...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:36 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
if one guy in a 25 man firm has a wife with cancer nothing will happen because effective 2011 providers are barred from basing price of coverage on your current health. At the end of the day, someone pays for it. You want to increase the amount of healthcare services that are being provided to peop...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:27 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
Insurance companies by their very nature spread risk around. For instance life insurance. They hire smart people who are able to figure out what the odds are that any particular person will die at any particular age. I bought a $750,000 policy that I pay about $500 per year on. If I die this year, ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:22 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
thanks corth - while i haven't read the entire text of the final version that crossed the desk i did actually download the pdf predecessors and read through that books, and i've scoured the internet for viewpoints and the one thing i notice is that almost unequivocally the people who are inciting op...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:11 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
If one guy in a 25 man firm has a wife with cancer, you're rates are going through the roof. 5. Socalized medicine is on the way...Give it 10 years and recommendations not to do breast cancer screenings will actually become law. you haven't even looked at the bill, have you? if one guy in a 25 man ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform blah blah blah greater access blah blah blah more fairness blah blah blah. Wait. My health insurance premium just went up what? not unless the republicans just passed a secret 'members only' legislation that i am not aware of. have you even looked at the bill itself? where are you...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:05 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
From whitehouse.gov : "Larger companies that offer coverage must automatically enroll any new eligible employees. Any company with 50 or more employees that does not offer coverage and whose employees access taxpayer supported health programs will be required to help offset the costs to the Am...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:03 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
sorry - it being a toril forum you know how it goes, i was anticipating hostility. i don't really have a hatred against the right, but i do have a strong disdain for how private HMO's make their money. i have close friends who work for CITNA and AETNA etc, and talking with them about their work both...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:42 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
a quick throwback to those polls - those polls reflect the current sentiment that americans are being fed at the moment - now that the battle is lost, the anti-reform marketing blitz is going to dry up, everyone is going to try and hop on the bandwagon, and the next batch of polls 6 months from now ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
one popular theory is that this legislation is going to FORCE the private health care industry to play the game in a whole new way, and i believe that in 10-20 years when the HMO's realize that raping the sick and elderly is no longer the profitable fountain they have been drinking from for the last...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:28 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
a company that doesn't provide health insurance these days. Read the latter part of my old post Sarvis. Your statement was true before last night, but if we now all get "Universal Healthcare", why should companies have ANYTHING to do with it anymore? We just pay the standard(?) fee of $x ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:25 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
So all the hundreds of thousands of people currently working for those HMOs will be out of a job soon? BTW, if those HMOs (which are crap) were making such a huge killing, did you invest money in their stock Daz? well the CEO of CIGNA health care has made over 120 million dollars in the last five y...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:20 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
businesses get an incentive Why should businesses have anything to do with my health insurance? you know, i keep hitting the backspace button a lot in this question. the short answer is that because it is the best way to provide coverage to the majority of americans without forcing every company in...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:10 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
from what i understand they are creating an 'exchange' where people without coverage can shop among various providers and options, you are right, there are few details available because the details have been changing so frequently and rapidly. to be honest, i'll bet the vast majority of people votin...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:03 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
Can someone explain to me why, if the purpose of this bill was to "reform" healthcare, did it not remove the responsibility of providing healthcare from companies and place it solely on the individual? Why should the place of business I work for be the one responsible for my healthcare? W...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Healthcare Reform
- Replies: 74
- Views: 11653
Re: Healthcare Reform
While you seem upset that the government will 'require' everyone to have health care, and this is supposedly a bad thing - I can't help but wonder, isn't this simply a phrasing language? I mean I don't really believe at all that the government can be using this as an agenda to fine people into pover...
- Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:40 am
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Professor Obama the ego maniac
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1324
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:33 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: ClimateGate Rebunked
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6985
Re: ClimateGate Rebunked
Maurice Strong, is the 'father' of the whole carbon-trading UN sceme, a canadian oil commodities trader who lives in China and is friends with Al Gore and happens to run a company that specializes in a $592 trillion dollar industry that depends upon the fear of global warming...then we discover that...
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:07 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Flowchart please?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1071
Re: Flowchart please?
i have been, i ran out of internet to surf and typed in torilmud.com for the hell of it and was like 'holy pants on the floor, they updated the site' so sheer shock drove me here
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:15 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance
- Replies: 4
- Views: 711
Re: SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance
If corporations and organizations are to be treated as 'people' or citizens, shouldn't they be capped at the $2,300 campaign contribution limits like we are? :P
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:12 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Dragon Age: Origins
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2164
Re: Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age Origins is a sequel to Mass Effect 3, which I didn't realize until someone pointed it out. From spaceships to dragons, go figure
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:09 pm
- Forum: T2 General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Flowchart please?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1071
Flowchart please?
I have been gone a while, but after a cursory examination of the board, I see that not much has changed in that Teflor and Sarvis still wage war like an Italian Catholic couple, with Kiryan and Corth chiming in with informed opinions occasionally, and Dalar linking MMO's ferverishly. Can someone pro...
- Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Anyone wanna see my bone structure?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2278
- Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Truth in Environmental Science
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7327
if i wasnt unemployed, uninsured, handicapped, and two hundred thousand dollars in debt, i'd be all about people doing things for each other for money. that said, i am essentially useless as a human being, and every day becoming more so. thank you hippies, even though none of the millions of incenti...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Truth in Environmental Science
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7327
- Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:16 am
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Anyone wanna see my bone structure?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2278
- Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Interesting News Story, I instantly thought of Daz/Kwirl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1910
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Are you proud to be an american?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1762
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: Are you proud to be an american?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1762
Are you proud to be an american?
I am undertaking a survey, the results will be published and the sources credited - so voting is appreciated.
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Archive
- Topic: East Coast Mudders
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4192