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NuRayZ said:
Also what is the point in all that research if we can’t get the benefits from it.Every time you put a pill in your mouth you’re benefitting from research. You telling me you never take vitamins, alergy medicine, tylenol/aleve, cold medicine? I have a hard time believing that.
Go take all the pills out of your parents/grandparents cabinets and tell them they shouldn’t be taking pills made by companies that rape them. I’m sure they’ll put them back.
NuRayZ said:
We have thousands of americans flock to other countries every year to buy prescription drugs because they can’t afford them here.They’re cheaper for a reason. Just like Obamacare is cheaper for a reason. In healthccare, you get exactly what you pay for.
cheap meds = no quality assurance = you don’t know wtf you’re really taking
Also, because I have to ask, what’s wrong with a company making money? You pay for insurance and when you get cancer they give you all the care you need. If you need a kidney transplant you get it. Need bypass surgery, well that’s covered too. Now you may go through life without have any medical issues but odds are really good you won’t and those greedy insurance companies pay for your medical care. You can pay for the highest possible coverage for your whole life and still not come close to the cost of a complex tumor removal. Stop and think, you pay BCBS $60,000 over the course of your life and could easily end up getting $200,000 in medical care and pharmaceuticals. Who’s really getting raped here because those figures make this feel more like consensual sex.
That pretty much sums it up actually.
The problem is that under the current system, 1 demographic is happy and another isn’t. Under Obamacare, both demographics eventually become unhappy and the undo button is greyed out.
My fear is government rationing, which EVERY current system like that has. I mean yeah it’s nice when all you need is routine and everyday care but as soon as you need something epic like a Cleveland Clinic style operation you’re screwed.
NuRayZ said:
A wall of textThat figure you gave includes the 12-20 million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. When you remove the illegal immigrants and the people under 30 that don’t want or need insurance then the number of uninsured is actually quite low. Much lower than what most lead you to think.
O btw I’m not a douchbag. If someone doesn’t want insurance then I’m not going to change the entire system and rape those who have insurance to force it on them. If someone isn’t legally in this country, why should I pay taxes to cover them. When they revoke the automatic citizenship given to illegals born in this country that alone will fix most of the cost-related healthcare issues in 4-5 years.
It has been estimated that millions of people who have insurance and are HAPPY with it will lose it due to cost increases and employer forcing them off company plans. What about them? Acceptable losses for the greater good?
Also, what happens when BCBS can’t compete with the government plans and you lose your insurance. Will you be happy?
Also answer this, when all the current insurance companies go out of business and there is no alternative to government healthcare will you deflect blame when it turns out like every other government-run entity?
The government will only have to pay 60-75% the cost insurance companies will have to pay for the same proceedures, there’ll be no way they can compete. I assume you think that’s fair market practice.
Also, what happens when drug companies stop doing research? When you pay “too much” for drugs you are essentially donating to the development of future medicine but under the forced low costs of the government plan drug companies won’t be able to pay for research. Also, you remember all that poisoned Chinese dog food? Well under Obamacare they’ll be making your pharmaceuticals. What happens when instead of thousands of dogs dying, hundreds of thousands of Americans die because cost cutting in China ended up with toxins in your blood pressure medicine. Only an idiot would think that would never happen.
Back to the real topic though, how is that a gaffe? Obama has said virtually the same and his congress is spending insane amounts of money. Now if Obama and congress weren’t spending many times more than the “retarded” Bush I would be inclined to let this slide but the facts show that the one thing this isn’t is a gaffe.
I thought you were bashing the bump, not the picture.
There’s nothing really uncalled for about the picture IMO. Even still, Major brought the CS16 server back to life and essentially paved the way for it to be full like it is now.
Most advisors have it for a good reason.
Poopie said:
Ok so my friend just bought this pretty godly computer for gaming and apparently he cant play 1.6 because of lag problems. His internet is fine and his computer is GODLY, but he gets these lag spikes. His ping is like constant 40s. He also said he didnt have the problem the first month he was playing 1.6 just recently he would just spike a lot. his fps is fine but his ms is really high but his ping in game is good. Anyone know the solution to this?If he can’t play CS16 his computer must be terrible.
YouWinGameOver said:
MP it already takes 3 months to see a dr unless you call 3 months ahead…wait wtf…As it is now, I can walk into my doctors office and be seen in less than an hour. When I’m done I leave without paying a penny.
Oddly enough, my current medical care is alot like the Michael Moore fantasyland only it’s through BlueCross/BlueShield and not the ObamaCare.
NuRayZ said:
Only nerds and *edited* plan! Hurr in Texas we do something called “Go with your gut.” as apposed to “using your head.” You can also spell PENIS if you take the R out of SNIPER. Giggidy Giggidy-G.Dubbya
Ex-President of USA
2001-2008 Retard of the Universe
All time Retard (pending)
So are you going to answer the question or keep acting like a dumbass?
Mr. PMosh said:
F-22 is not faster than the F-35. F-35 has clocked higher speeds with the Naval Version than the F-22’s fastest time can reach. When they put the VTOL engine in it for the Army and Marine version it is significantly slower than the F-22.I use Wiki for this sort of thing and they are usually pretty accurate but they don’t mention the lower speed on the VTOL variant. Their claim is that fuel capacity was sacrificed to offset the space and weight of the VTOL system.
But like you said it’s not a carrier based plane so we’re technically comparing apples to oranges. Army planes have always had greater range and payloads than Navy planes.
Mr. PMosh said:
F-35 JSFpretty *edited*ing win aircraft… besides VTOL, being faster, and being smaller on radar than the f-22, it also was help built my my grandpa
The F-22’s cruise speed is faster than the F-35’s maximum speed and the F-22’s max speed is like 40% faster than F-35. While 20% larger, the F-22 has twice as many internally housed missiles than the F-35. The F-35’s stealth hasn’t been well described in relation to anything and it’s usually described in relation to last-gen planes like the F-16. The F-22 has the same radar signature as a steel marble and isn’t dependent on paint like the F-117 was which is why I question the article saying the paint wearing off in rain makes it less stealthy.
Sorry, I know everyone wants the F-35 because they’re cheaper but I’m all about killing 6 targets at 100 miles and another 2 at 10 miles.
Nickname said:
Lol? is that using the Bush budget that ignored Iraq spending past 2009?No it’s the one that took into account the deployments ending in 2010.
Obama has put some stuff on fiscal budgets after his term. Bush never could have planned anything quite as epic as that.
Thriller RiZzle said:
You just can’t control yourself can you? Amazing the kind of attitude that makes adviser material these days.Yes, let’s all bash Nickname. It’s not like he hasn’t been the lifeblood for LANs for the last few years.
FYI: Without him the PC side at the LAN events would have probably died by now.
NuRayZ said:
Hell what is their plan now? DO they even have a plan?They don’t need one. Obama is winning them the popular vote all by himself. Just wait until people have to wait 3 months to see a doctor, you’re screw at that point. Then again, so is everyone.
And inb4 talking point, take a good look at Canadian and British systems without the Michael Moore smoke. No one else has ever done this well and our track record for gov’t programs (medicare/medicaid) is terrible.
NuRayZ said:
Face it, this country is *edited*ed, and I highly doubt anyone from any side can do much now or in the near future to fix it.Another 2 years and the deficit would have gone away on its own, in his first 6 months Obama has increased it by 5x. So yeah we’re screwed, but not by the last guy. Excellent try though.
So back to the topic Nurayz, how does spending money avoid bankruptcy?
rainefardreamer said:
i heard F-22s can’t fly in the rain cause they are apparently made of an alloy of titanium and cotton candy and the abrasive rain damages the planes skin…I can’t imagine the most advanced fighter on the planet being damaged by rain.
I hate to bash ideas but why how would this help bring people in?
Last I played the mod was geared towards the younger audience, the kind that run the older players off.
The server completely died earlier today. The two Adams got it back up and running.
Please PM either adam37 or adambomb (or both) with any issues you encounter.
Ephraim said:
1. Fans are so mesmerized by the pretty visuals that they are willing to ignore the pure, rampaging force of bad-film that the film spews at all times, or 2. Their nostalgia-filters are overruling their good sense.Both are valid.
Having watched some of the original animated show I can tell you there was almost always a plot but it was drug out almost as bad as DBZ was. The difference was people got tired of it and the show tanked.
I get no nostalgia from remakes like this but I’m sure that’s what’s driving a chunk of the older audience.
YahooEarth said:
You guys have to realize that you are going to see an ACTION movie about ROBOTS…you can’t be expecting acting gold, or amazing plots…I beg to differ. Without a decent plot the movie becomes mediocre and all you’re really paying for is to watch one side fight another. You could get about the same amount of enjoyment by leaving out 90% of the acting.
Remember the first one wasn’t terribly good either so maybe it’s a trend with this series and/or the actors carried over from the first one.
I think it’s funny how Hollywood blames pirates for profit losses when the real problem is that the public is tired of watching the same crap over and over again simply repackaged and tuned to a different theme. How many *good* sci-fi movies have there been lately that were completely original? They’ve lost the ability to come up with inventive stuff so they take a previous book/movie/theme, toss a bunch of money into CG production, hype it up, and ship it out.
I haven’t been to a movie in years. Their $200 million in CG production doens’t make the $6 ticket price any more worth it.
__hollywood said:
mw4 for free = awesome, except i already own it, and the expansions.. but im loving the sentiment regardless. promising…Well the biggest problem with Mech4 was they quit making the game and the IS/Clan expansions became nearly impossible to find, even on ebay. Had they done this 2 years ago the community would be much stronger than it is right now.
It’s a problem with our advertisement script. I’m not seeing it now but you see it again please PM adambomb and he can fix it.
Just to give an idea about how this new company is different:
Smith and Tinker said:
In honor of BattleTech’s 25th anniversary, Smith and Tinker has authorized MekTek.net and MekTek Studios to distribute MechWarrior 4 (along with its expansion packs) completely free. For years, MekTek.net has been the central point for online distribution of MechWarrior 4 expansion packs. Now they can provide the core game free to the fans as well. Keep an eye on BattleTech.com – the free download will be available soon!They’re giving MW4 and the 4 official expansions away for free.
They’ve also shifted the “Classic Battletech” tabletop series to the front and it looks like the Dark Age stuff is being seen for the stupidity that it is and is being cast aside.
They classic rulebooks and novels are also being reprinted and they’re holding community votes to decide the order.
All in all it looks like they’re scrambling to undo the decade of damage Microsoft and Wizkids have done to the franchise.
Nickname said:
only masterp would care about this…Not here, no. The mech community used to be fairly large until developers started treating it as a quick and easy way to make money as opposed to taking the time to make a game people really want to spend money on. Even though it didn’t have a CD key, the vast majority of MW4 players bought the game as opposed to copied.
The immediate problem is that this is probably going to kill the Microsoft sanctioned Crysis mod. MWLL was one of only 4 mod teams given the Crysis SDK prior to the game’s release.
JaValon said:
Graduated. I still have my Student Computing job at WCU. Doing that while Amy does her internship. Then… who knows!Don’t kid yourself, Western owns you.
d2.sticky-icky said:
you’d be surprised how many people love piranesi…I lol at replacing office with piranesi, not adding piranesi. It’s a decent map.
Why on earth remove office? It’s one of the least retarded maps you’ve got in the rotation. Replace it with piranesi? lol?
josrocket said:
No dont get me wrong thats really cool, I was basically saying that its a shame that it can be taken much further than that do to hardware limitationsThat’s the only thing really hurting the Wii at this point. Most of the multi-platform games skip it because it’s GPU isn’t powerful and the homebrew scene has about hit the limit of what the console can do. I mean they’re literally replacing Nintendo’s firmware to increase compatibility and unlock features.
Regardless of what rank he holds, Putin will be the man running the show for the duration of his premiership and probably for a while after he’s out of office. He’s ex-KGB, that’s just how they do things.
In Iran the man in charge is Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader or Ayatolla. This is a religious appointment. He wasn’t qualified when he took office but a “few” religious leaders is all that was needed to raise his Islamic rank to that required by Iranian law. He’ll be in charge until the world grows a pair and helps the people overthrow the government when the election “winner” really comes in 3rd place.
