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Of course insurance company’s stocks just went up…. everyone is going to be required to buy insurance.. if they can survive the next 4 years guaranteed business sounds pretty good doesn’t it?
The only reason for them forcing people to have insurance is a concession to the insurance companies accepting all pre-existing conditions.. but if everyone IS FORCED to have insurance then pre-existing conditions will become extinct.
This is no surprise ..
NuRayZ said:
Damage? what damage? You mean the fact that insurance companies can’t drop people for being sick? Or that people with cancer can actual afford treatment now? How can you better yourself if you are terminally ill? How can you better yourself if you have *edited*ing cancer and need thousands or even millions of dollars worth of treatment, but are dropped by your insurance company because you aren’t making them a profit.
My Dad has sold insurance for 26 years and then been on the other side working for the SC Department of Insurance for another 10 and the number one problem with people is that they don’t read their insurance contract before they sign it. Insurance companies can’t just drop you for being sick, but they shouldn’t be required to take people who already are… It’s called insurance, meaning just in case.. no business of any kind should have to knowingly take a loss.
NuRayZ said:
Are you upset because we aren’t the same country our founding fathers created? Lets just reestablish slavery and drop the civil rights to get back to that capitalistic society you so care and dream about. Hell lets go back to the roaring 20’s, deregulate everything, let kids under 16 work over 40 hours a week, let our water and air become dirty as ever, and let the Corporations do whatever they want. Yeah, lets go back to no goverment, survival of the *edited*ing fittest baby that’s what we need. I want to be able to *edited*ing challenge people to a dual.
You’re speaking of REFORM now, of which this bill should not be compared to. Freeing slaves gives liberties where as this Bill takes them away.
NuRayZ said:
Making a profit on a tv, or car, or a *edited*ing cellphone is one thing, but the fact that people sleep at night knowing insurance companies make profits off of sick people is just disgusting.
It’s a business just like anything else. If they didn’t make money what would be their motivation to provide insurance. Again that I stress if you are going to buy insurance, there should always be a chance you don’t need it or else it wouldn’t be called insurance. If that wasn’t the case then it would be impossible for any insurance company to even break even, let alone make a profit.
NuRayZ said:
Like the president said, it aint perfect…but it’s *edited* sure better than it was. The parts that people are *edited*ing about can be thrown out (and probably will be) But this bill IS needed and millions will benefit. All your speculations and worries are just that. Let’s see in a couple years before we pass judgment on a guy who was just trying to help more people.
You know I honestly don’t see any benefit that he’s getting from pushing this so hard. I seriously doubt he will be re-elected, that is, if there is any decent opposition. It seems to me that he is trying to help more people, but I think he has gone about it all the wrong way.
And I understand, I’m not trying to start any trouble either, but I have been ranting as well.
I was originally going to post this in the political discussion, but due to my remarks regarding the anti-christ etc.. I decided to put it here.
Nevertheless, I do believe this Bill to be unconstitutional and the fact that it passed has severely lowered any faith in our government that I ever had. I am not racist. I really want to like they guy. I’m impressed with the way he presents himself and his amazing speaking ability. I had thought that it would almost be best for him to stay in office again because he is the only person who would see any of his plans through about the economy and we would have wasted another four years, but he has done too much damage and I’m convinced however smart and charming he may be we have no need for anyone with these policies.
Listening to people talk about how this is compared to Social Security and Medicare makes me sick. Like those two programs are anything near a success right now. Social Security started out as a good thing but now there is no way to sustain it. The only reason to compare it to Social Security is to say that just like Social Security, we who will be paying for this Obama-care will never see any benefits from it. Programs such as these suffocate all motivation for people to better themselves. They are a far cry from a Capitalistic Society as we were meant to be.
Also, REFORM is a bad word for this Bill and I will never call it that. Reform means fixing something, not breaking it even further.
Finally, I would like to say that prohibition was once recognized too… for no more than three years.
From what I understand you’re trying to start up another club to compete with ours? What reason is there for you to have access here?
this one is royal Caribbean… were scheduled to go snorkeling in Cozumel.. supposedly the place where we are snorkeling has an open bar all day so that should be fun
I’m not allowed to bring any alcohol with me which really sucks but hopefully the food will be good… I’m having trouble right now cus my inhaler just ran out last night and I don’t know that I’m going to be able to get it filled before I leave…
don’t really wanna die in Mexico.. or a boat
nako said:
Lieutenant Dan said:
The meetings are just as important as the LANs are.
Enough people showing up to vote a game in is the work that must be done to reap the reward of having the game at the LAN.
If you don’t work for a reward, don’t whine when you don’t get it.
(Don’t get me wrong, I am all for the rule Shingi suggested a while back of having the highest attended games voted in automatically.)
seriously. the more likely someone is to come to the meeting to vote the more likely a person will show up at the LAN. everyone can complain abotu not getting their game voted in because they live however many hours away. if they live that far away there is no way to guarantee they will show up. even with their word to many things from there to here can happen to make them not show up. however people already on campus are far more likely to show up.
If that’s the case then you should really try harder to give at least a weeks notice on your meeting times or even Two weeks… 3 days notice and having to travel on a Thursday night is a hell of a lot different than a month and a Saturday for a LAN
Lieutenant Dan said:
MasterP said:
Lieutenant Dan said:
Only games I have on Steam is the Orange Box set and I haven’t played them in months because my laptop sucks balls for them.
If it sucks at orange box then it should suck at almost every game you listed…
Most of them do run badly on my laptop.
My desktop is at home, so I play PC more during the summer. I don’t crave PC games enough to upgrade my laptop or haul my desktop to campus.
I play on a laptop too.. and with fps scripts my laptop runs all source games fine.. css orange box etc.. but l4d2 is another thing.. work with your config and you’re almost guaranteed to get 30+ frames more
Also try running on dxlevel 81
MajorMajorMajor said:
So a meteorologist, the guys who guess on the weather each day, and bill nye the *edited*ing science guy.
gee… what a waste of both bill’s talents.
I’m gonna say this. These television debates are so unregulated. If you have ever attend a panel or a real time debate, each person is allowed equal time to form an argument, and each person gets time for a rebuttal. This *edited* on TV really seems like a yelling match and whoever is louder and has better graphs is listened to over the other. Not saying there is a winner in this case, just that they are both losers because I feel each one had a good point to make, but could not get a word in to explain themselves without an interruption.
I would have liked to see this debate done in a 10 minute span, where each one is allowed to speak, defend, and rebuke each other in a regulated matter. O’Reilly has done that before, and it proved successful.
I’d just liked to say that Major is so *edited*ing unregulated that he should salgkejdkdfkjdkfjdk and that is all ..
DRUNK
meh for some games it’s real easy to just use fraps for ur frag vids and cut off the fraps *edited* like … widescreen letterbox that *edited*
DRUNK
Raven said:
First of all, there was NOTHING wrong with World at War. Treyarch made a great game in world at war, and I have the authority to say that because I’ve been playing CoD games since they were Wolfenstein (Lets get real, RTCW is the same engine, models, look and feel of COD1). The single player was epic of CoD caliber, the multiplayer was balanced, it had dedicated servers, had all the WW2 weapons you could want, the graphics kicked *edited*, and it brought us nazi zombies. The main reason people say it was bad is because of the WW2 aspect and them getting tired of WW2. Lets also not forget, WaW brought the PC users Prestige mode for the first time. Your opinion, not fact. In reality, there was no real flaws in WaW (at least not enough to make people bash it like they do). Now, did it have the fun factor that CoD2 did for a WW2 game? No, but that’s like how GTA San Andreas didn’t have the feel of Vice City. COD2 was all about skill. No perks, everyone had to deal with set classes, and that was okay. *edited* has evolved. It got boring for some. (Although Bolt action rifles will never measure to how kickass they were in CoD2).
Secondly, MW2 is a fantastic game. It really is, and people need to give up comparing it to battlefield BC2. I own both, and they are a totally different style of game. The only thing holding MW2 back from being perfection (in my eyes) was the lack of dedicated servers, and the addition of Tactical Nuke. It turned alot of fun players into people who go for nukes and rage when they fail. Heartbeat sensors should have never been considered for multiplayer either…but what are you gonna do.
Again, don’t talk *edited* about Treyarch.
Perks and ww2 don’t mix… once they take the skill out of the game… it sucks. People played the WW2 for the competitive nature. Leagues, scrims etc. Once it’s dumbed down it sucks. That’s why WAW is a bad game. They took a good thing and nubbed it out. Same reason I didn’t like UO. Sure it made the game more interesting but it did it with a lot of bloat… artillery and things like that ruin the competitive nature of the game. vCoD and CoD2 are my two favorites. At least with UO you could decently remove some of the crap and it remained competitive .. plus it introduced CTF so I’d have to put that in the top 3 CoD as well.
All in all.. IMO Treyarch takes a good thing.. bloats it up.. makes it run worse and packages it as another CoD.. That’s why i don’t like treyarch
PS. I’ve been playing CoD just as long if not more than you have Raven
Bitey said:
Too true from Nickname, since they royally messed computers up on MW2 by not allowing people to setup their own servers.
Just host them on someone’s computer… I’m sure you could have mw2 at the LAN.
meh I personally don’t have much faith in the global warming.. but I did think it was funny that the camera man wouldn’t even zoom in on Bill Nye’s little post cards when Joe had nice graphics that encompassed the whole screen. I’m sure carbon dioxide affects the global temperature in some way, but I doubt it’s doing it enough to make a really big difference…
Oxygen naturally dissipates. Maybe we just need more trees.
I like the old school CoD personally … vCoD, UO, and 2
I know some people do, but I really don’t like the leveling.. it’s the only thing that made me keep playing mw and waw though.. until i found a leveling server on waw .. lol i got to level 65 will full prestige of 10 in about a week.. haven’t played it since
Liquid said:
We’re not. You are. If people want MW2 on the PC (or any other game for that matter), they can come to the meetings and vote for it.
I don’t know about you but I’m not about to drive 2 hours to a meeting that’s maybe an hour long when I only have 2 days notice just to MAYBE get a word in. That’s why we used to allow IRC..
yeah i’d buy it… but wtf…
TREYARCH is horrible.. I know they have a deal where treyarch and IW alternate every year but why let treyarch do it… I guess if you’re planning on making a bad game let a bad developer do it cus WaW and CoD3 were such big successes…
and then dismiss the iw bosses.. prolly the only people who brought you the cod money
Liquid said:
In all honesty, CS is played much around here simply because it is unpopular.
inb4 2009.4 lan attendence: when the main lifeforce of a game all live hours away from the campus, maybe they should try to hold their own events closer to them so they have more control over the game and don’t have to drive as much.
encourage members to leave and start their own community…. real good idea
