Cutter wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 21:29:
America accuses Senators of 'unacceptable' delay in getting the country working as it should.

Rhett wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 23:20:
Isn't it potentially illegal to have their printers do that? Or is it just a grey area? If I had an HP printer and I saw that, I would never buy another one.

ViRGE wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 00:48:

Kxmode wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 23:48:
Side Note: NMS has reached a new low! 16,403 recent reviews are Overwhelmingly Negative at 9%. I didn't even think that was possible.

Holy cow.

Tipsy McStagger wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 03:26:
What's really interesting is the only game I played in that entire list is Black & White and it was an epic piece of shit.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Sep 27, 2016, 03:17:

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 15:57:
I thought it would be interesting to note.. that shouting at your HDD can damage it Source: The internet (youtube)

You didn't know that? Keep in mind the tolerances, and the only reason why the head doesn't crash every time you spin up is because it's riding on a cushion of air. The fly-height is around 2.1-3nm(3e-6mm) a human hair is 2.5nm in thickness for reference.

Orogogus wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 16:17:

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 16:03:
One last thing, what about employers? Is insurance a shared burden between company and employee or is it 100% on the employee?

I had a hard time finding numbers. Under the ACA employers have to pay 50% (to the employee only) to claim a tax credit, but the average is apparently 83% employer coverage for the employee, and 72% for a family.

Orogogus wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 13:11:

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 09:16:
Ah thanks So normal health insurance pays the insurance for poor? What about a requirement to actually be insured if ye working a normal job (and hence removing the 2nd issue, namely that only sick people would be insured which creates huge uncovered costs in the system (aside from the already extremely high cost medical system in the US, lacking any oversight and regulations??))??

Is the insurance fee calculated based on income?

The individual mandate portion of the ACA requires everyone to buy insurance or pay a tax penalty if they're not covered by an employer. Low income applicants get a tax credit.

Also, I don't know if it's changed now, but fifteen or twenty years ago insurance companies would look for any reason to exclude anyone who might have a pre-existing condition. EDIT: Now that I look, that's expressly forbidden by the ACA now.

descender wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 09:00:

because by offloading the burden to the sick and poor ONLY you have created an asocial health care system

Under OC the exchange insurance plans "for the poor" are subsidized by the more expensive regular plans that everyone else buys. There is no burden placed on the poor, it's one of the few well-written parts of the bill.

Otherwise, OC is a republican wet dream that they can't even admit is their own baby because Obama signed it. The actual left-wing wants a single payer system but in the right wing controlled congress that just wasn't going to get passed. OC wasn't any part of the systemic overhaul that we desire, but it was a step in the right direction for certain reforms that were needed.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 26, 2016, 02:33:

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 22:03:

Cutter wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 21:15:

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 19:44:
Just like how the democrats distanced themselves from Obama in 2010? They got trounced. They need to toe his line in order to get re-elected. Not all of them will, but the majority will.

No, they failed to act and that's why they got the boot. They had complete control and didn't do anything with it.

Oh come on, the republicans started project scorched earth and were nuking obama on everything from day one. The democrats got scared, and instead of standing up to the bullshit nonsense, they ran from it, and ran from Obama.

They all saw a better chance to get re-elected by distancing themselves from their president. Many of them publicly denounced obama in a last-minute bid to get re-elected, and most of them lost their seats.

While Obama was busy spending all of his political good will doing the noble (yet stupid) act of reaching across the aisle, the GOP would have none of it, and the attacks were continuous. Pussy ass democratic representatives said: "hoo boy, they really don't like this guy, uhhh, errr, i don't like him either! someone like me?"

Nice summation. Basically this. Dems F'd up, and Obama spent 2-3 years longer than he should have giving a fuck about "bipartisanship." Funny now that he has no fucks to give and does what he thinks is best that his approval rating is higher than ever.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 16:47:

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 16:24:
What is there to debate, from an outside view, Trump dominates the news.. 100%

Along with the bottom half of the bell curve.

RedEye9 wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 12:30:
Yahoo countersues stooped customers.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 25, 2016, 12:15:
Ouch, people jumped in big time on GTA5 at $40? Not a good sign, for people hoping for better Steam deals, such as myself.


It's good to see D:OS2 on there though, although I'm probably going to pick up my Kickstarter key for that on Gog, not Steam.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Sep 23, 2016, 11:51:
Interesting. I enjoyed Wasteland 2 quite a bit, and plan on going through the director's cut/enhanced edition or whatever when the queue clears up a bit, but I would not say their 3d models were the strong point of that game.

Functional, acceptable, somewhat generic, come to mind.

NetHead wrote on Sep 20, 2016, 13:30:

Darks wrote on Sep 20, 2016, 12:03:
This guy has hi priorities set straight. He knows that Piracy is at times a good thing. especially when he talked about how they monitored sites to see what shows were being downloaded. Sometimes ass-hat programmers cancel shows that are really better then they think. They use an outdated system with the nelsons and that is not an entirely accurate system to Gage whats shows really are most popular.

At one point, I think it was Netflix, who monitored piracy/torrents to see what content to try and get and worked great for them.

Orogogus wrote on Sep 20, 2016, 06:30:

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 20, 2016, 00:36:

Orogogus wrote on Sep 19, 2016, 01:32:
From what I've seen, the Asian countries which do well in math don't go out of their way to make it relatable or fun. Parents from those countries who come to the US to raise their kids don't expect it either. Ultimately, The touchy-feely fun and relatable method is simply less effective than the do-well-so-you-don't-starve-or-die-in-the-slums school of thought.

You really wanna copy a school system with the highest youth suicide rates in the world?

That doesn't seem to bear out:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1414751/
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/