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Recent Comments by Doc_M

Microwaving a Jumbo Size 15" Diameter Plasma Globe

Should have dipped it in water first.

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| 7 hours 39 minutes ago | CH

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Health Insurance Companies' Profit Margins: Not so Fat (Lies Talk Post)

Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of regulation. In fact, I took a very significant and active roll in requiring insurance companies in my state to insure at least a certain minimum percent coverage of mental illnesses. I see government oversight as valuable. As I referred to history earlier, I refer to it again saying that oversight of this kind works. Overarching control, however, never has.

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| 1 week ago | CH

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Health Insurance Companies' Profit Margins: Not so Fat (Lies Talk Post)

Also, I should say that a company is SUPPOSED to make money. If they aren't, than they're doing something wrong. That's the way that a successful capitalist market works. If you don't like capitalism, that's another argument entirely, but in this society... the most successful economic society in the history of the world... you must make profit as a company to survive as a company. To expect an independent company to LOSE money in any given time is just foolish. In addition, we expect the same of our tax dollars. We expect that the services that our taxes provide are worth more than we are spending to provide them. We therefore expect profit, not loss. Yet our government is notorious for spending outrageous amounts of money for even simple services. I would cite examples, but any idiot could find 20 in 2 minutes with google. The bottom line is that the government is responsible to no one when it comes to one detailed and complicated issue. You may say that they're responsible to voters, but most voters don't pay any attention to this sort of thing. Anyway, the tax-payers don't have a vested interest that they can plainly see in this. A COMPANY has investors that are constantly studying performance reports, and these people understand the business. They, if anyone, are the ones you want to win over, not congressmen.

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| 1 week ago | CH

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Health Insurance Companies' Profit Margins: Not so Fat (Lies Talk Post)

In my eyes, giving the government control of our healthcare is like giving a fugative a gun. You know they're going to screw up and someone's going to get hurt because their record so obviously says they will. Seed is right. It comes down to whether you actually trust the feds to run this well. History, even very recent history, says NO. To ignore that history is to blind yourself and close your mind. Look at all the businesses that the government has taken over. NONE of them has really succeeded. They've all been laughable sinks of tax money and even more laughable in general opinion of their work.

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| 1 week ago | CH

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Whatever you do... (Blog Entry by rottenseed)

Nah, it's really a culture shock issue. It's the sudden shift from juvenile college to a diverse professional environment. It's a shift from "yeah, let's make fun of everyone who thinks differently than we do," to an environment of mutual and almost universal respect, and to a realization that the thought that there is a "we" (as in "we normal people") group at all is a relatively shallow and poorly reasoned concept. People think "wtf?" because such mockery can be considered ignorance, if not bigotry here especially due to the ethnic origins of many of the belief systems. The same goes for lifestyles such as customs, traditions, and such things as sexual preference. Even "young earthers" are given their fair shake in a discussion if they have something to back it up or some perspective to give that is at least interesting if anything. It's not really being "PC" so much as it is being friendly and respectful. It's a very pleasant place to work in that respect.

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| 1 week 2 days ago | CH

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Whatever you do... (Blog Entry by rottenseed)

Hehe, pwnd.
I guess one of the advantages of working at a place that is as extremely diverse as it is here is the total lack of any form of mockery. We've got people from just about every side of every conflict, every nationality, and every religion or lack thereof. It generally makes mockery of a religion just look childish and sad. When people hear it, they generally make a "wtf?" face and shake their heads and make a mental note. First years tend to make that mistake... once. The only people that still catch flack are "young-earthers" and I don't know any of them here.

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| 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Singapore Navy - We have giant Transformers. Join up!

>> ^looris:
I just fucked up, sorry.

'ts all good.

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| 1 week 4 days ago | CH

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Do you play WoW? (Videogames Talk Post)

@knives. I remember that merge well. Your name?
Mine: Dorander

I've considered Lotr, but I don't think I can split my time up too far.

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| 2 weeks 3 days ago | CH

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Do you play WoW? (Videogames Talk Post)

Have a priest on Stormrage in Militis Justica. Only now starting to level an alt. Carbonite's a great mod for that.

I tried out Aion, and it's really beautiful... the interface is a downright WOW-clone so it's great, but the game is like beating your head against a wall and WoW has a humor I can't get enough of.

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| 2 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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For the old-timers: Should Choggie be allowed back in the sift? (User Poll by gwiz665)

Bring him back. This place has a tendency to become more and more homogeneous rather than diverse. He's always got something entertaining to say. If his powers are removed, than that's a good enough penalty in my book.

Funny enough, on "trolling", if you open any video with a conservative spin, you'll find a great many "normal" sifters become instant trolls...

Example (with a healthy bit of exageration):
Obama speech comments:
"I hate this guy"
"What a liar"
"He doesn't know what he's talking about!"
Sift response: "Get out troll!"

O'Reily monologue comments:
"I hate this guy"
"What a liar"
"He doesn't know what he's talking about!"
Sift response: "AMEN BROTHER!"

I used to be annoyed by this, but now I just think its hilarious.

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| 3 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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