bluGill

They would not have stopped 9\11. There are many needs for box cutters in the secure zone of airports and so the security of pre then would have caught them. As such it is likely the terrorists obtained their weapons from a ‘friend’ after passing security.

Those tsa lines are the ideal attack boint for a terrorist just plant your bomb is a garbage can and you can kill many without suticide tactics. If the tsa was interested in security you would not allow people to be in lines.

Nobody knows. Serious, there are a lot of factors people will point to in here. Some of them are real factors, but every time I dig in I discovered that they do not explain everything. Prices have gone up much faster than inflation for decades even after accounting for government subsidies.

We didn’t used to fund to the tune of $70k per student though. Something just isn’t adding up, but I have no idea what.

I don’t want to hold a tablet up to my ear, and I want the privacy from holding my phone to my ear (vs a speaker phone)

While it does cost $$$ to run those plants, those plants make a lot of water and so the low price they pay is still reasonable.

Which is to say their insane profits don’t harm you at all. (if you were worried about it you would get a cheap refillable water bottle yourself and fill from you local tap water.

Doesn’t Quebec get their water from sources that are replenished by rain and thus have plenty to spare?

There are a number of jobs that count various community contributions in your review. This is a very large topic - write a paper in a major journal, give a speech at a conference, submit high profile bug reports - you can get a large raise for it. (the worry of course is that you get a reputation and thus someone gives you a great offer so if they want to keep you they better pay enough that you won’t leave). Exactly what gets you those promotions/raises isn’t clear in part because they need flexibility for someone who honestly discovers a new way to get that reputation and thus they have to give them a promotion. People who don’t deserve the promotion see the policy in place and look for ways to cheat themselves to a promotion they don’t deserve.

right to work means you can have a job in a union shop without joining the union.

My grandpa was a snow plow driver for the state of MN (retired sometimes in the 1990s), but as a republican was always opposed to the union. He still paid union dues, but they were reduced and kept in a separate fund by the union and only used for contract negotiations (important for him - he was a big republican and the union political funds of course donates to democrats). Since he wasn’t a member of the union he couldn’t vote on union leadership, but the leadership called him one of their best people there because he always attended the union meetings where contacts were discussed. As you can start to see not being a union member when there is a union is really complex weird. I’m sure there is more about this that I don’t know about (one obvious thing - what if they voted to go on strike)

It is over $1000 per moth for me that I’m turning away. there is just no way anyone can compete with that. much as I don’t like my insurance my costs must go up by a lot if I skip my companies insurance.

I hate watches. Back before pocket phones (I’m old enough to remember when car phones were a thing for the rich) I carried a pocket watch instead of a wrist watch like most people had. Once I got a flip phone which fit in my pocket I stopped using the pocket watch. (I don’t remember why I had both a “candy bar” phone and a pocket watch)

Because it is a very risky thing to do. When it works out great but if it fails you are out not only your job but also the money you put into it. workers don’t really gain much, they still end up with a ceo making money and decisions.

Democrats have been gerrymandering since they discovered it was legal. Sure a republican was first way back when, but as soon as they realized it was legal the democrats were doing the same thing. And of course both sides complained about the other doing it when the other was in power as if they were not doing the same. Once in a while someone puts some restriction in place but this is a clear case of both sides are doing it.

Right they are released patents. Fairly common in many industries to release all patents in areas like disability or safety. You gain more by releasing them any by holding them.

I’ve been around long enough to know that people who want to make a point will yell about one number in their favor and ignore everything else.

Rate is just one data point. I’m back again to asking for in depth analysis. Do people who use UHC submit more bogus claims than those who use other insurance for example? There are many more important questions that need to be asked.

What is the difference if you need a treatment you cannot get

Do you have detailed numbers or just a feeling?

UHC covers far more people than most national systems despite not being national (I’m sure china is bigger, but most countries have much smaller populations). National systems often have ways of saying “that isn’t covered” that mean the claim isn’t even attempted. there are many different national systems with different rules. There are lots of other complications here that need to be studied in depth.

National insurance denies claims all the time as well in some form.

That is written language which is sometimes minimally related to spoken languge.