Monday, November 04, 2013
Turns out all that Rt-Wing Propaganda was right
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have now gotten cancellation notices from their health insurance companies in the mail. The Obama M.O. - get people off insurance to get them back on again, the running carousel. Presidential flackey Jay Carney has said they were substandard policies anyway. The NYT has opined in one of their trademark by now way out there editorials that Obama didn't outright lie when he said oh about a hundred times you'll be able to keep your doctor and your health-care policy, he simply misspoke. The happy and breezy young girl of the government website is no longer there either. Maybe that's because she too has recognized that ObamaCare is going down as one of the biggert clusterfucks in American history. When Biebs finally comes down with the Brazilian clap he doesn't have to worry but the rest of us as the song says don't come from money, we're not royals. Dems are stuck with this and it'll be real interesting how all this plays out in the 014 midterms.
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"...it'll be real interesting how all this plays out in the 014 midterms."
ReplyDeleteI hear that a lot but the reality is all that happens is a few sociopaths get replaced by another group of sociopaths. Been that way throughout the course of American history.
Thomas Sowell says pretty much the same thing.
ReplyDeleteGuess we should have elected Pat Robertson back then...
ReplyDeleteBut here's the thing he doesn't lie. He might say loopy things from time to time, go on theological acid trips (e.g. gay marriage causes earthquakes) but he actually believes in the things he says. Obama on the other hand just plain lies through his teeth but he's your guy. I ask you who's worse the Rev. Pat Robertson who we can all just laugh at or the president? Those folks who got cancellation notices in the mail they can't laugh at what's just happened. You think they're more worried about Robertson or Obama?
ReplyDeleteThe gov't is not cancelling health insurance, private companies are. Remember, you
ReplyDeleteget what you pay for . If Obama knew that private insurance companies would cancel policies, we might assume he was lying. if Bush didn't know there were no WMDS, we might assume he was telling the truth.
Fact of the matter is many health insurance cos. have nixed policies because they don't meet many of the new mandatory criteria of the ACA. You can't discount government's role in all of this BB.
DeleteNo private enterprise can compete with a government monopoly. They cancel by default.
DeleteI'm not impressed with his "pay for" link even though it is Consumer Reports. What people are too dumb to judge whether they have a substandard policy or not? We need the Gov't to tell us? Let's say the gov't passed some kind of car insurance reform with new rules, folks w/o Geico let's say got cancellation notices in the mail etc. Gov't tells you we got a better deal for you but doesn't the ultimate power always reside with the consumer at least it used to?
DeleteWe note that amid the brouhaha, the facts are getting swept aside-
ReplyDelete"Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, said major health insurance companies are simply taking advantage of the confusion surrounding the new health care law to engage in price gouging.
“This is not the fault of the Affordable Care Act or President Obama. This is the fault of the insurance company. This is a handful of insurance companies that have convinced a very gullible state agency, Covered California, to allow them to drop plans that could very easily…with a few little tweaks… be compliant under the Affordable Care Act, and people wouldn’t have to leave their plans,” said Court."
Facts are not getting swept aside here you're just automatically filtering out those that are unfavorable to Obama. The Electronic Records Mandate of the ACA for instance which is bogging down alot of doctors.
ReplyDeleteBB's whole theory is Gov't as agent of Virtue. It's a Graphic Novel, it's liberal manga but it's not reality. OK so we now have the situation because of the ACA many businesses have slashed the hours of their part-time staff. In addition we now have health insurance companies mailing out cancellation notices to quite alot of Americans. OK so I think we can all agree on this is a negative situation but who gets the blame? BB apparently doesn't assign any blame whatsoever to Obama which is an interesting analysis and he makes it well but personally I spread the blame around. Sure those companies who cut pt'ers hours are partially to blame but they're reacting to the ACA which is Obama's baby. As well those insurance cos. now cancelling policies don't come out smelling too good either but why did they do it? because of ObamaCare with its stringent new regs and mandates, simple cause and effect. It's a complicated issue but again I think blame can be spread equally across the board. It's hard to imagine Obama or the Democrats not really foreseeing any of this so I still hold to the view he lied.
ReplyDeleteI have had health insurance for 50 years. Every single year the rates went up. Every single damn year. Blame Obama?
DeleteThat's politics for ya.
DeleteSeriously though, the policies have and will continue to exacerbate the problem.
BB's overall theory is that Obama is trying to do the right thing but businesses and insurance companies won't cooperate. Most people are gonna see him as president presiding over a bad situation and mostly blame him for it just like most people blamed Jimmy Carter for inflation and national malaise. BB is generous.
Delete"...insurance companies won't cooperate.
DeleteInsurance companies helped write the legislation.
Do not ye know how this racket works? Government is a monopoly, the denial of free will, a glorification of slavery, a perverse worship of the collective, a death cult. It is the one ring to rule them all.
Why wouldn't a business aspire to have the ring? To reign supreme over their competition? This country was bought and paid for many many years ago. That people actually still believe it has any interest in protecting the citizenry from said evil businesses is hilarious.
Obama is a lair and a hypocrite. Just like Hillary is.
ReplyDeleteJust like many on the far Left are, that is why they can identify with him.
Do you have trouble making decisions?
obama is a lying scumbag. period.
No other qualifiers need be added
Chris that's a good comment. As for Saty and BB I don't know why they'd even be for ObamaCare and it ties in with this incestuous relationship between business including the insurance companies and government. Saty and BB are both for a single-payer system, that's the pure goal for them and while I don't agree I get their point. Having said that the reason WHY ObamaCare is not working is because it's not that pure form (and that wouldn't work either btw, see Englad's rationing), it's a mixture of government edicts and the private sector and as such the private sector comes up with things like cutting part-timers' hours and insurance companies mailing out cancellation notices. So basically a MIXTURE of gov't and the private sector re health insurance DOES NOT WORK and I'm surprised BB and Saty ain't seeing that yet. Obama and most Democrats didn't choose to go full-bore socialist re health-care reform, he also didn't want to go full-bore free-market system so what we got is this thing that ain't working out and the website glitches are only the symptom of a much wider problem.
ReplyDeleteThey'll figure it out soon enough. And why? Because while you can play ignorant and evade reality, reason, logic, and truth, you cannot evade the consequences of them. Existence exists. The consequences of these actions will come to bear. They always come to bear.
ReplyDeleteOr as John Galt said you can't fake reality. Nobody stays in Galt's Gulch until they stop faking reality.
DeleteExistence exists. sort of a Wittgenstein-Randian tautology like being is or reaction reacts. I agree as regards cause;effect, action:reaction, however. Things do come to bear. Human nature is such, moreover, that reason, logic and truth get pushed, pulled, expanded, contracted and twisted by the common 'my truth' good, your truth
ReplyDeletebad. Tis the old problem with politics, religion and human interactions. Consequences for actions...the basis for religion: we cannot know of punishment or reward in some afterlife, but O.J. Simpson might be interested.
People like to obfuscate such things and paint them gray. It's not a matter of my truth good or your truth bad. It's rather simple really, thou shall not aggress against me. If you use force, coercion, intimidation, or outright violence against me it's wrong. It's immoral and it's bad.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with the Golden Rule. The ethics of reciprocity have been recognized since ancient times. It becomes a bit complicated because of
Deleteempathetic perception. One may want to be left alone. if one has been in an accident, one may want a passerby to apply a tourniquet to a severed
femoral artery, etc. I agree with your assessment of immoral and bad, just
qualifying the concept with John Donne's generality,'no man is an island'.
"...just qualifying the concept with John Donne's generality,'no man is an island'.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you feel it necessary to qualify the concept with Donne's generality? Every time I hear that very statement you know what it is associated with? It's associated with the narrow scope that most individuals have about libertartianism. The Ayn Rand school as Z might call it.
I know full well man isn't an island. But no more is man an island than he is a beast that can be tamed. What's more, given the degree to which free market economics, ethics, and praxeology play a role in libertarianism's history up to the present it is without merit to associate it with such a statement of isolation.
"One may want to be left alone. if one has been in an accident, one may want a passerby to apply a tourniquet to a severed
ReplyDeletefemoral artery, etc."
Which one is it? Does one wish to be left alone or does one wish to have a passerby apply a tourniquet?
My truth good/your truth bad. That's pretty much how Obama and the Democrats went about the ACA with very little Republican support or agreement so we're basically left with one party's version of the Truth.
ReplyDeleteMeh. It's all relative. Republicans gave us Medicare Part D and No Child Left Behind.
ReplyDeleteACA breaks both ways. Some folks are OK with it:
ReplyDeleteLucy from Texas:
"I signed up at Healthcare.gov and I'm going to save $2,300 a year on my premium alone -- and more, because my deductible will drop from $7,500 a year to $3,000 a year. It's still Blue Cross insurance, and I don't have to change doctors, either. I had a choice of over 30 plans and several different companies."
Larry from California:
"HealthCare.gov directed me to Covered California. My new plan gives me better coverage than what I've had with the same insurer and will cost $188.00 a month less. That's why it's important for others to check it out. In California I experienced some glitches at first and I would check in every few days and things kept getting better."
Mark from Idaho:
"Yes, the website had some problems, but saving roughly $2,500 next year (in premiums alone!) seems well worth a little extra patience. Having coverage that actually protects me from financial ruin if I, or my son, get sick or injured? I don't think you can put a price tag on that…"
Margaret from Washington:
My responsible, hardworking niece was laid off from her job four years ago and lost her insurance. She became a nursing aide for the elderly and has been carrying a "catastrophic" insurance plan for which she was paying over $300 a month, with very limited coverage and a $1300 deductible. She had no trouble signing up for ACA insurance with much more extensive coverage for $150 a month. She said she feels like she can breathe again."
"Having coverage that actually protects me from financial ruin if I, or my son, get sick or injured? I don't think you can put a price tag on that…"
ReplyDeleteOf course these people never in a million years would think to consider or ask the subset of individuals who've been forced to pay higher premiums/taxes to now subsidize the premiums of others.
Legalized theft. Legalized plunder. Spend sometime seeing the unseen once in a while.
Legalized theft. Legalized plunder; a definition of insurance.
DeleteBut not government?
ReplyDeleteOf course these people never in a million years would think to consider or ask the subset of individuals who've been forced to pay higher premiums/taxes to now subsidize the premiums of others.
ReplyDeleteLike those of us who have been paying for the noninsured for years, right?
So, instead of challenging something on a moral principle you rationalize it because well "we've been paying for the noninsured all along...".
DeleteSeriously...it's just all shades of fucked up. You're right...you'll never come even remotely close to reaching the divinity of Krishna if you can't even exhibit the mental clarity to recognize that theft and force are immoral.
if it is an insurance business 'theft and force' it would not be immoral, since it would be optional. If then, you choose to be uninsured either
Deletea serious illness could bankrupt you and you could lose everything you
own-which would be stupid- or if you choose to be uninsured and hope that
your care be free, Saty is correct, others will pay in higher insurance cost and higher health care cost. Arguably THAT would be immoral. If, by
law you are subject to 'theft and force', that is legal and an immorality
would be personal and subjective.
What is your point? Do you have one? That is equally immoral as well. I am not my brother's keeper. Sure I can help my fellow man but if you've got to force me to do it where is the morality and virtue in that?
ReplyDeleteThere is none.
Hey President Obama, did you forget that you still have 50,000 troops in Afghanistan? I was just checking because I have not heard you say much about us since October 2012...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that our Guys out there haven't forgotten. But you seem to be so busy with your Obamacate Bull Shit and they are out there fighting for their lives!
They're protecting poppy fields which they voluntarily signed up for.
DeleteTheft and force are immoral period. Just because you as an individual have an option to not be subjected to it doesn't mean that said action is not immoral. But yes, having an option to not particiapte or lend oneself to such action is indeed preferable.
ReplyDelete"If then, you choose to be uninsured either
a serious illness could bankrupt you and you could lose everything you
own-which would be stupid..."
I suppose yeah if you owned a lot and had a lot of assets. But, whose choice should that be to decide? It ought to be left to the individual whether they wish to take such a risk.
"...or if you choose to be uninsured and hope that
your care be free"
Free...well it isn't free. It's more like have someone else pick up the tab which is what I am getting at. It is an immoral premise.
"If, by law you are subject to 'theft and force', that is legal and an immorality
would be personal and subjective."
Just because a bunch of psychopaths wrote a law, another psychopath signed it, and a flurry of psychopaths enforce it doesn't make it moral BB. Theft is immoral and I don't care if it's a burglar stealing your jewelry or a politician taxing you to pay someone else.
'Just because a bunch of psychopaths wrote a law, another psychopath signed it, and a flurry of psychopaths enforce it doesn't make it moral BB.'
Delete..very narrow and subjective opinion. That brushstroke makes criminals of
George Washington, the founding fathers and the country within which you
choose to reside.
Are you saying today's government resembles the government of the founding fathers BB?
Delete..very narrow and subjective opinion."
DeleteA narrow and subjective opinion to hold that any other man or men shall have authority to write laws which I must follow and obey? Who grants them this authority?
And yeah, who granted the founding fathers this authority? I didn't grant this authority. I was just born here BB. As for choice in living here...it's a lot like the state run schools. Sure you have choice but you're still gonna pay. The state will be sure that you pay.
So is Lorde right dissing fellow pop stars like Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus?
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about pop culture.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it is about Gaga, she's got a decent enough voice and some talent but part of her act is she's got the mental thing going. It's tired, it's so yesterday, just sing and entertain us.
DeleteI gotta hand it to BB, he puts the best spin on hundreds of thousands of Americans getting insurance policy cancellation notices in the mail. I just love his informercial above, James from Peoria says...well James from Peoria doesn't say the exchanges have smaller networks with not the best known doctors and not the more prestigious and advanced hospitals. The exchanges were basically designed with poor folk in mind and not Mary from Rochester who's more than happy with her coverage she's had all these years and the whole ACA scheme is they gotta have enough young and healthy people to enroll in order to subsidize the older ones more likely to get sick otherwise it all just collapses like a house of cards. BB has out-Carneyed Carney.
ReplyDeletePlease. If it was a bed of roses you'd find a cat to piss in it.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading Kafka right now. I'd say Kafka is like Dali applied to Literature. I'd say there are elements of the absurd and surreal in Obama's 2nd term. How would a Banksy represent it?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't a Banksy but I think it'd go something like this:
ReplyDeletehttp://cl.jroo.me/z3/f/4/t/d/a.aaa-Banksy-Strikes-Again.jpeg
That's a good one Chris and brings to mind what I've always been saying about this false dichotomy of Bush good president/Obama bad OR Bush bad president/Obama good. Why isn't it an option that they both can suck? This is where political blogging gets stuck in a rut, a kind of grooved thought-mode.
ReplyDeleteWhere I'm at an advantage I can say that BOTH Bush and Obama have done damage to the country, Bush with his wars and Obama with his health-care debacle. The average American voter cuts both ways, whenever one party gets out of hand they'll vote for the other party as payback. Well guess which party is out of hand right now, doesn't look good for the Dems in the midterms and Obama is toxic.
ReplyDeletePresident Palin....hmmm.
ReplyDeletePresident Cruz. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
ReplyDeleteThose are the only two candidates? I didn't know Palin was even in the running.
DeletePretty disappointing #'s out today eh? Oh yeah Bill Clinton said Obama should keep his promise (translation: ObamaCare is an albatross for Hillary in 016).
ReplyDeleteYou just don't get it that insurance companies are free to cancel plans regardless of what the president said....
ReplyDeleteYou just don't get it that insurance companies are free to cancel plans because of all the new stringent rules and mandates of the ACA.
ReplyDelete+1 Z
ReplyDeleteInsurance companies have always been free to cancel plans, and they have always done so, especially the plans of people who actually needed and used their plans. Right now many insurance companies are cancelling plans in order to encourage their subscribers to purchase more expensive ones, rather than seek coverage elsewhere. It's one more way they can try to rip people off.
ReplyDeleteThat may well be but in the millions and why all of a sudden now? You make it sound like it has nothing at all to do with the ACA.
ReplyDelete+2
Because they have an unerring sense of the words 'AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO SCREW THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND BLAME IT ON SOMEONE ELSE'. It has plenty to do with the ACA. They've been given a legal opportunity to cancel plans in order to push people into more expensive plans (that they don't need to get) and blame it on the government. Seriously. You think CIGNA got to be CIGNA by being naïve?
DeleteWhich is why I don't get why you like ObamaCare so much. As should be apparent by now when it comes to health care the government and the private sector don't mix.
DeleteBecause getting millions of people health insurance is better than not.
DeleteBut many of those millions already had health insurance that they liked, doctors too. Kafkaesque:)
DeleteLast study I saw said that was 3%. I'm sorry for those people, but on the other hand no matter what kind of system you put in place someone is going to fall through the cracks or otherwise be some collateral damage. It seems that a lot of these people 'coming forth' with horror stories, however, have been scammed up or spun hard to the right to make the ACA look bad, and have been debunked.
DeleteI'm not sure I follow you. There have been literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who have received their cancellation notices in the mail. It's such a dire situation for the Democrats that they've had nothing but closed-door meetings with Obama or his representatives. Obama is a kind of Ralph Kramden of politics, has a great idea or grand scheme every now and then and it blows up in his face.
DeleteHundreds of thousands in a country of 300 million is not necessarily as big of a percentage as you might like. My take on this in a lot of ways is that insurance companies are as a whole taking an opportunity to screw the people with one last mighty hurrah while blaming it on the government. The government said, you can keep your policy. Well, they didn't stop to think that the insurance companies were still free to cancel those policies. That was a big mistake on the government's part. Sure, you can keep your policy, but obviously, if your insurance company decides to cancel it, first off, how can the government prevent them from doing that, and really, in the end-logical game, how is it the government's fault that the insurance company is taking this opportunity to screw you? But that's how the blame game gets called out. The point I was making in the last comment though, is that no matter how perfectly this system was or no matter how perfectly it rolled out, there is no way to prevent the fact that for a certain percentage of people (3% according to the studies), it's not going to work, it's not going to be optimal, they're going to be collateral damage. Can you realistically shut down a system that's going to benefit 97% because it won't benefit 3%? No you cannot, and no you should not. And yes, a lot of these people coming on Fox et al with horror stories have been shown to be nonsense.
DeleteIt takes a special sort of ignorance to think the government is at all interested in protecting you from "greedy" insurance and pharmaceutical companies, etc.
ReplyDeleteJust like government wants to protect you from cigarette smoke by endlessly raising taxes on smokes or your local gov't wants to protect you by installing red-light traffic cameras everywhere. It all has to do with the revenue.
ReplyDeleteNo. It has to with power and the centralization thereof. While they like the revenue for sure, they really don't need it so long as the Fed is in business.
ReplyDeleteI think Saty has a valid point and I'm not dismissing it that websites with large amounts of traffic at the same time are gonna experience problems esp. new sites. On the flipside you don't really hear about pornsites crashing which leads me to believe to fix the technical glitches at HealthCare.gov they really need to hire a bunch of techno-pornsters:)
ReplyDeleteHigh tech stuff; some try to fix it and some try to wreck it .
ReplyDeleteDid you know if you go into an appstore like GetJar there's a couple of apps called Wi-Fi Hackers.
ReplyDeleteSome sites are self-hacking. Last week IE surfers (including me) ran into a problem
ReplyDeleteat YouTube where their new ads and a gadget to enable some brand of pad access causes it to freeze for a few million folk. Too complicated for me, I'll leave it to the
e-geeks. Bill Gates: if we can't write clean efficient code, let's build bigger memory.
I don't know how often you visit your public library but there's a core group of library-goers many of them young and it's obvious they don't work. Go there at any time of day and many of them are there with their laptops, the same ones and the other question is if they don't work how do they have laptops? The main library I go to now, Greenburgh in Westchester there's just too many people with their laptops plugged in, who knows how many are using the wifi but my tablet sometimes acts erratic here like me with my humble little device am getting my power sucked away. Libraries have been revamped and are more computer-friendly now, there's special tables set up with outlets so I can see going there every few days to recharge your lap's battery BUT EVERY DAY? They you got your mentals hanging around...ah the library scene!
ReplyDeleteI've noticed the gregarious pack phenomenon: Barnes & Noble, Borders...
Deletefolks sit in there all day reading and getting a snack and coffee once in awhile. Ya get out in the hinterlands and see old retired farmers and loggers
hanging out mornings in the cafes. Asked a waitress one time and she said
she identifies them by group time, 5-7, 8-10, 9-11. She said the early bunch was the friskiest...surprisingly. Stopped at a model trains store in
Topeka last Summer: sure enough, there were the toy train old guys, sitting around on folding chairs drinking coffee and arguing about trains. I went over and talked to them for 45 minutes. They were real surprised that I had
three National Forests on my big layout. ..probably a new topic for them that should last 2-3 months.
When I was growing up it was The Kent Cliffs General Store which is at the intersection of Peekskill Hollow and 301. My father would go down there in the mornings and on the weekend he might be there two hours, drinking coffee and BSing with the rest of the locals. It's actually a pretty important sociological thing, this is how groups bond, they network, they form relationships... this is where local politics get hashed out, handshake agreements, all that stuff. I am not sure if it's still there, it probably is, but when I was a kid there was an apartment upstairs that the owner's son lived in, and wide wooden plank floors, and if I wanted to walk the 3 miles down the mountain from our house I could get an ice cream or a pack of grape Bubble Yum and my father would pay for it the next morning.
ReplyDeleteI'm having surgery tomorrow. I'll be out of work at least two weeks. It isn't directly lifethreatening (any more than any surgery is) but they tell me it's going to be incapacitatingly painful. I'll be the judge of that; I'm hurting pretty bad right now.
I don't hate my local library groups I'm just envious they seem to have more leisure time than me while I'm putting up with bullshit at work. Probably a bunch of trust-fund babies. What kind of surgery?
ReplyDeleteFound something where nothing ought to be.
ReplyDeleteTrust fund babies? Nothing like earning your money the hard way. But, let's face it:
ReplyDeletesounds pretty boring.
So over the weekend my brother and I were discussing Katy Perry. Her pop music - it's like cheap food, I mean you'll eat it...
ReplyDeleteSo today I heard on the radio while driving to work that four cybersecurity experts have said HealthCare.gov should be shut down. I thought Obama was supposed to be our most technological president, hip mod and cool.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP healthcare plan wouldn't have that trouble.
ReplyDeleteIn other news the Money Honey is moving to Fox Business Network.
ReplyDeleteInteresting; she is the highest rated business show and Fox business is lowest. Will she take her audience with her?
DeleteIs that money guy who always gets worked up still on the air? What's his name, Jim Kramer.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. I think he used to be an auctioneer. I cannot watch any of the business shows very long...those Wall Street types are so gullible. Ever notice the whole dang market has daily swings for something like 'Northern
DeleteConsolidated Plastic Widget failed to meet predicted profits by two bucks'?
How's the Twitter IPO doing?
ReplyDeleteOn your mobile site bsckground is black and text dark gray.not friendly.
ReplyDeleteReally? that's like a soapie format. If I could retire early I could figure out all these technological issues.
DeleteIt's bad. I can't hardly read anything.
Delete43 US presidents have had their nominations blocked by filibuster a total of 86 times.
ReplyDeleteObama's have been blocked by filibuster 82 times. Amazing record.
I have to say the more I consider Saty's POV about the HealthCare.gov website the more of a point she seems to have. It's like when I go to sites with my tablet some days it's great and other times frustrating and it's not the device it's the websites out there. Some days I can go to the library and download a free ebook within ten minutes and that includes search and everything, other times other sites make you jump through hoops first and something always fails. There's some annoying mobilism site out there and you can't use their search function until you register but how can you decide you want to register if you can't search and see what quality and breadth of collection they have??? This was one of the early complaints about the gov't website that users couldn't just browse first before opening an account and judging by my Internet experiences of late maybe it's not such an anomaly. I honestly think the designers of websites have a perverse streak in them, maybe they get their rocks off:)
ReplyDeleteIMO, website designers are a subset of e-geek. By nature these folks possess no empathy and have only a minimal understanding of the average end-user. Probably why most online help these days is some Calcutta kid
Deletenamed Phil.
Of course you know they've confirmed that the site is being attacked by malicious code trying to result in denial of services. There is more reality to the conspiracy theory here than there has been in 50 years.
DeleteI am not doing as well as I think I am, btw.
2013 has been a poor year for my health as well. I too am beginning to subscribe to your maltech theory although I'm probably the only conservative. At any rate no matter whose fault it is I don't know why Obama doesn't halt enrollment for the time being.
Delete& it's no secret that many of those device manuals are written by foreigners with limited English. So a few typical downloading sites will say Full Download/Direct Download/Verified/Download/Fast Download & Slow Download ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. I'd like to see another option - Fuckin' Download.
ReplyDeleteBack to Sat's point about the look of my mobile site which hasn't increased mobile traffic btw. If you use the Opera Mini browser the site looks just like here 'cept in the mobile format. When I use my regular cell browser it does have that hard metallic Randian look. I'm not a technohead but am aware of it.
ReplyDeleteMobile traffic ? You catering to those dudes out on the freeway with one eye on their mobile, one eye on the road, one eye on the GPS, one eye
Deleteon the rear view mirror, one eye on their biggy fries and one eye on their
girlfriend?
And one hand in their pants?
DeleteI still don't get why so many laptoppers make themselves so dependent on public libraries. The library in Hastings-on-the-Hudson the wifi is a maelstrom of networks. The Village Hall and PD are all next to the library and I think it's easier to go to a Mickie D's.
ReplyDeleteLibrary comes from the Latin 'libra' meaning book. After a couple thousand years
ReplyDeleteof stone, clay, papyrus, vellum and paper, we note the first all digital library. We may expect the word page to be replaced by
frame shortly.
If I were in the San Antonio area I'd definitely pay a visit. That could be the trend of the future which really means forcing everybody oldtimers included to get with the new tech paradigm. I much prefer the libraries we have here which are half tech and half good old-fashioned books. One thing about a tablet is you do save on shelf space.
ReplyDeleteI really think conservative commentary on HealthCare.gov's tech problems really missed the boat and it pretty much amounts to political gloating. I'm guessing most of these pundits only go to pretty mainstream sites like Amazon.com and Nat'l Review Online which work just fine. If however they're like me they'd surf much more and find out that maybe HealthCare.gov is fairly typical as sites go and not the techno-aberration they're making it out to be. I go to one site rather often where they boast you can download everything and I haven't been able to download anything yet and it's not the device because I go to other sites no problem. So your typical right-wing commentary on HealthCare.gov reflects a rather sheltered life imo. They need to get out more:)
ReplyDeleteWell said.
ReplyDeleteDid I tell you about my Sears Card? I know who is responsible for all of this, Nolan the gay geek character on "Revenge."
ReplyDeleteI bought a lawnmower at Sears last winter. I get daily e-mails and ads from
Deletethem. Sears must have their own NSA section.
So Xbox has just released its new hardware and some purchssers are experiencing a fatal hard drivr glitch that renders their expensive purchase unusable. No one is claiming Xbox is a failurej because everyone understands thst a massive rollout brings glitches. Microsoft just replsces the faulty ones, fixescthe problem and life goes on. Amaxing huh? An understanding that massive rollout:glitches. Theyre expected actually. If Microsoft effs it up....seriously? Can you say unrealistic standards plus concerted attempts to sabotage? Really.
ReplyDeleteI did the above on my phone and obviously I was having some difficulty with your site :P but the point remains.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not I understood it. I got my mobile settings set to Picture Window but maybe download the Opera Mini app for now. I'm repeating myself but with the federal exchanges' glitches and everything why do people still have to enroll? Yes I understand there's been some minor delay of not many days but just put the whole thing on hiatus for now. You know some people like Harry Reid feel ObamaCare is simply on the road to single-payer...dunno, there has to be some conspiracy theory out there about a deliberate fuckup.
ReplyDeleteIf we had gone single payer we wouldn't be having these mass website glitches because the system would be five thousand percent simpler. And someday, maybe in my lifetime, reason will champion and we will finally see a single payer system. Until then I am willing to take half an enchilada. Imagine, the entire GOP has spent four years trying to derail these things and this is the best they can do, a website fuckup? Can you imagine how amazingly great this could have rolled out if they actually tried to be team players and support what's already been made law rather than try at every available moment to piss in the machinery? It's amazing any of this is happening at all given the vast sums of energy and money that have been dedicated to destroying it.
ReplyDeleteThe fallout from the ACA argument is telling. Latest poll show Obama disapproval at 53%, GOP congress disapproval at 74%.
DeleteSo Harry Reid's "nuclear option" is the way to go?
ReplyDeleteWhere did you folks find Pope Francis anyway?
Delete...and Francis is making enemies of Italy's uber capitalists as well. Darn interesting....
DeleteI told my mother the other day that Pope Francis is the best thing that has happened to the Catholics since, like, the Council of Nicea. It's nice to see them get some good press for a change.
ReplyDeleteHe's a Jesuit what do you want? Even JP2 wasn't that down with capitalism judging from some Nat'l Review comments at the time.
ReplyDeleteHe's walking what he's talking. He's going to singlehandledly change the way the world views the RC. And Sarah Palin was 'taken aback' by his liberalism. LOL
ReplyDeleteChanging the way the world views the RC, that's not always for the better. In my view with the notable exception of the sexual and life issues the RC Church is very left-wing. Go on down the list: immigration reform, health care reform (w/the exception of the bc mandate of course), rent control, war, the death penalty...Francis has a right to his views but I don't recall any of these topics being covered in the Baltimore Catechism (ok though there's Aquinas' Just War Doctrine). My only issue with Francis and popes like him is say these are your personal views but don't foist them on the public as somehow being official church teachings. Pat Buchanan can be just as good a Catholic as Nancy Pelosi:)
ReplyDeleteChanging the way the world views the RC, the way things have been for them lately, can NOT be ANYTHING except for the better. Ah, Catholics... your Big Papi is a Socialist. I love it.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile he uses a tablet which is a free market invention.
ReplyDelete..as is his 1984 Renault.
Delete"...which is a free market invention." So what does this mean, he's supposed to dig a piece of chalk out of the ground and write on a rock? This is the same kind of logic that says only people who are anorexic should qualify for food stamps. Cmon.
ReplyDeleteHe should at least look on the brighter side of capitalism in his grumpy analysis.
ReplyDeleteThere is really not a bright side to capitalism. Papi gets it.
ReplyDeleteThen return the tablet, give up the tv and throw your Galaxy in the Tiber.
ReplyDeleteA Galaxy (whatever that is-an older Ford model?) in the Tiber is environmentally unacceptable. We note:
Delete"In ancient Rome, executed criminals were thrown into the Tiber. People executed at the Gemonian stairs were thrown in the Tiber during the later part of the reign of the emperor Tiberius. This practice continued over the centuries. For example, the corpse of Pope Formosus was thrown into the Tiber after the infamous Cadaver Synod held in 897."
Vesuvius would be a better choice for Galaxy disposal.
He's YOUR Big Papi.
ReplyDelete"This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope."
ReplyDelete-Rush Limbaugh
"Palin had said on CNN on Tuesday that the Pope has "had some statements that to me sound kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me."
-Sarah Palin
"It was not my intention to be critical of Pope Francis," Palin wrote. .. Knowing full well how often the media mischaracterizes a person’s comments (especially a religious leader’s), I don’t trust them to get it right when it comes to reporting on the Vatican.
-Sarah Palin hmmm
The possibility exists that he's simply a bad pope. Look Pope John Paul II took on parts of capitalism as well but he knew when to stop. He knew it was more important to defeat communism and formed an alliance with Reagan. I too get it about the darker aspects of capitalism as witness my remarks re Black Thursday/Friday but on the other hand some great inventions and creations came out of the free market system that have helped humanity in amazing ways to this day. For all my criticisms of the novel this was Ayn Rand's point in Atlas Shrugged, look what the modern railroad has done for civilization. Would we rather give all these things back?
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, US astronauts get into space using powerful rockets made by
DeletesomeRussian John Galt ?
..or for that matter, the underside of capitalism/free market economy frequently rewards not the inventive creators but the imitators and sales folk.
Ayn never considered that probably most innovation is not done to get rich, but many are satisfied with the act of innovation itself, just one of the many flies in her ointment.
When you dredge into Rand's philosophy it's confusing and contradictory. For example she starts out with it's evil of any gov't to coerce, force, intimidate etc. any individual and yet she was for the death penalty at least in theory and I can't think of a more awesome power of the gov't over an individual life. She was an extreme libertarian also in favor of law and order...I actually think soapie though he follows her philosophy is actually far more libertarian than she ever was.
DeleteI don't think he's a bad Pope. He's pointing out that the love of money has trumped other things and become a new idolatry, a new god for the masses, and that's a violation of the first Commandment. His job as Pope is to one, point out the problem, and two, point to the solution. Seems to me he's doing both. People don't want to hear it because they don't want to personally be inconvenienced, and so they vilify his message, call him a Marxist or a bad Pope. He's right on time.
ReplyDeleteBad Pope....
ReplyDelete'And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.' Luke 6-20
How did it come about that you and me are defending Big Papi, BB? LOL
ReplyDeleteDunno, ...cuz they finally got a decent Pope?
DeleteThat's my whole point. As one commentator pointed out when you're pope and you get a thank you card from NARAL something's wrong.
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