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QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 02:53 PM) How do you know the rate isn't the same for insured people? I've been covered under my wife's plan for 4 years. I've never gone to the doctor. Our insurance premium at this point is just another deduction out of her paycheck, just like taxes. We don't really think twice about it (well, we didn't, until we had to change the plan to get a kid). I feel like people forget that insurance coverage doesn't necessarily mean healthier people. The majority of people DON'T get medical treatment despite being covered. That's how insurance companies stay in business. You are literally arguing now that insurance isn't actually useful and that people without insurance aren't forgoing medical care because they probably wouldn't have to go even if they did have insurance. This is completely absurd. Without a mandate and with guaranteed coverage, everyone can just wait until they are ill and then get insurance. The system can't function that way. There are systems where health care is much more reasonable and affordable. They're socialized.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 03:07 PM) The bolded is irrelevant. They play basketball, every year. And 25-35k people show up in a stadium to watch them play (supposedly the upcoming Duke game they might move the court so 50k can attend). And hundreds of thousands/millions watch every game on TV. If the program sucked, they wouldn't draw like that. http://espn.go.com/blog/bigeast/post/_/id/...etball-revenues It's not irrelevant. Boeheim's value is $0 if there aren't people paying basketball. Why should the person who convinces them to play basketball and tells them how to play basketball earn millions upon millions of dollars, but the people actually paying basketball earn nothing? This assumes that someone else couldn't come in and do his job for less, or that he couldn't do the same job for less if the revenues were split with the people actually playing the sport as well. And it still remains 100% true that, without a basketball team, 0 people will show up to watch Boeheim stand on the side of a basketball court.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 03:01 PM) Ok, let's break this down. Who are "they" we're talking about? The star athletes that have the only argument for being paid? Every person providing labor that generates revenue for the NCAA has an argument for being paid directly by the NCAA/their colleges. They certainly have an argument for being able to profit off of their images, names, likeness, etc. I am doubtful that a 3rd string kicker is receiving a full scholarship. If he's not making the school a dime, then why are we worried about allowing them to be compensated? We're talking about every athlete who generates billions of dollars collectively for the NCAA but, god forbid, somebody buys them a cheeseburger, let alone gives them compensation for the labor that is generating massive profits and wealth for others. Oddly enough, there are many sports leagues that exist and actually do pay the athletes. They also allow these athletes to benefit off of their own name and likeness through apparel deals and endorsements. How do colleges manage to figure out if they should pay a coach $50k a year or $2M a year? How does any other labor market function? Why should college athletics be any different? If college athletics can only exist if it exploits unpaid labor as the overwhelming majority of its workforce and the sole reason they generate revenues, then college athletics shouldn't exist. I've very doubtful that college athletics would be ruined if people were actually fairly compensated for their labor, though.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 02:39 PM) How many people does Boeheim allow the University to employ because he's really good at his job? How much money has he made the University and local economy because of what he can do and the kinds of recruits he's been able to bring in? I think college coaches are vastly overpaid but at the same time they bring in ten times what they earn. Boeheim brings in exactly zero dollars to the school if there aren't people playing basketball. Why should some become extremely wealthy off of this billion-dollar industry while the bulk of the labor is unpaid and barred from any compensation? I'm also skeptical that Boeheim really does bring in about $20M a year to the school.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 02:37 PM) Oh please, they get everything they need for free - food, housing, transportation, equipment, clothes, etc. They go on trips to foreign countries and participate in different group activities. Let's not pretend they have to pay for their own sneakers to play basketball. No, many of them don't get "everything they need for free." Many leave with debt or have to scrape by, especially if they didn't come from backgrounds where their family could financially support them. Only if I'm working for Google but not getting paid.

Boeheim gets $77,000 a year to buy a car. More than the average family of four earns in a year. 50% more than they earn in a year. Just for his car. The richer you are, the less you actually have to pay for stuff.

Fox News asks Nicaraguan meteorologist to host ‘Taco Day’ segment: ‘You grew up on tacos’

jesus christ please no

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 11:43 AM) I don't buy that the lack of health insurance means you go without care. Ok, but that doesn't change the reality that an awful lot of people actually do go without care, which leads to chronic illness, untreated illness or worse complications down the road. how do you pay for these things without the mandate?

Jenks, do you not believe that millions of Americans lack(ed) access to affordable health care? Would my statement be agreeable if I modified it to "Millions of us don't have any candy at all and we literally suffer and sometimes die because of it"?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 10:44 AM) Yuck. Owns what? Being smarmy and occasionally looking at the camera? She's a spoiled, self-centered brat for 8 episodes and sometime in between she'll do something "nice." I think she's a pretty useless character. being hilarious

The Republicans have trolled themselves into arguing in favor of government-created jobs (National Parks help small communities flourish!), government programs and government healthcare. It's at least a moral victory. What's sad is that the Senate has sent back only a six week extension of the CR. So we're just going to keep fighting these battles over and over and over now.

Also left out of the conversation: liberals and leftists advocating for a real, actual fix that works in every other OECD country. Though I suppose that's accurate

There's debate as to whether unterminated (i.e. open) ports on a splitter cause signal issues due to impedance mismatch and reflections. I'm not sure how far upstream it could really cause issues, though. The solution is to buy a splitter with the number of ports you need, or by a 75-ohm terminator cap (less than $1/ea), which is basically just the threaded connection with a resistor inside. edit: that said, Comcast technicians are generally awful

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 4, 2013 -> 09:00 AM) Have to disagree. The Ron off the grid stuff was funny, but everything else was kinda meh. April is one of the worst characters on TV right now. Leslie/Ben can be gag-inducing. And the funniest guy on the show after Ron (Andy) wasn't in it. Parks and Rec and Modern Family are kind of in the same boat for me - they've run out the same formula for so long now it's getting a little old. They need some new characters or something to spice things up. Maybe a new Tammy episode. Anyone watch Masters of Sex? The wife and I caught the pilot last night. Very well done. I think we'll stick with it. You are wrong, April owns

There's a key component missing, though: Americans (US): Millions of us don't have any candy at all and we literally die because of it. It doesn't look like this happens in any other developed country in the world?? Please fix this, thanks in advance!

Not necessarily political, but contentious enough to keep out of the NCAA sports threads. Man Rich Thanks To College Athletics Blasts Paying College Athletes

That is a compelling argument in favor of actual socialized health care. Thank you, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, for your support of a single-payer system.

There was a DEA agent there. He wasn't in on the scope of the operation, but I'm sure as soon as he found out Hank and Steve were dead, he realized what was going on. Huell might have been charged with some kind of criminal conspiracy charges, though. If they find the barrels on the compound, yes, it'll be seized as part of the drug operation. I dunno, I always thought they were pretty clear that it was a love triangle thing. Ok so really there were 9 decent questions, but they needed something to make it a nice, round 10?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 01:20 PM) And check out this article. Here's a snippet: That would have been terrible, I'm so glad they didn't go that route. Walt's and Jesse's relationship wasn't nearly strong enough at that point, nor was Walt that far descended into that world. He never really became sadistic, only the one time when he told Jesse that he watched Jane die.

Somebody here works for grainger, bigruss maybe?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 11:56 PM) So if I offer Adrian Peterson for DeAngelo Williams because I really really like DeAngelo Williams, the trade should go through? Collusion or no collusion, making lopsided trades makes the league less competitive. Sure, how is that any different than someone having a terrible draft?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 04:41 PM) That's the twitter from the NYT, trying to link the shooting to the shutdown. They didn't come out and say republicans, but we all know that every headline and story they have blames Republicans, so what better way to connect the two. lol

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 3, 2013 -> 04:40 PM) Trying to figure out what that has to do with "actually just police officers shooting in crowded areas." Weird logical leap there. Initial reports seemed to indicate that there was a shooter at the Capitol building, but it turns out only the police were armed.