Deadly_Nightshade

Personally I think that having insurance tied to employment is a horrible idea, likewise having insurance not cross state lines. Ideally there would be a mandatory federal payer system that everyone could pay into or, if they wanted to, they could buy private insurance - at least that seems like a better solution than what we have now. The government system will be there to cover anyone who couldn't afford private insurance or didn't want to buy it and then private insurance would be there for anyone who wanted additional coverage. At least that's the solution that I thought of off the top of my head. There needs to be some kind of safety net/option and it seems like a rival program might be more effective than subsidies.

I doubt they'll get their act together seeing how they've been acting/voting.

On all 50 States I should add.

Hopefully this will push down the price of other Pascal cards (I've planning on upgrading my desktop and also my girlfriend's soon). I've got a laptop with a 1060 but it'd be nice to have a full tower again.

I'm about to spend entirely too much getting a custom heatsink installed in my laptop along with a complete liquid metal repaste (my other laptop also needs work but I'll do that myself as it's much cheaper to replace if something goes wrong). I've also got to order parts to rebuild my desktop and upgrade my girlfriend's.

I'm getting off work in a couple of hours and then comes dinner, movie, and trying to get all the achievements in co-op Portal 2 (because she wants to collect them all). I'm assuming that we'll fail and end up doing/playing other things instead.

Wasn't this announced awhile ago? I might be wrong but I seem to recall reading that Obsidian was going to be phased out in the semi-near future about six-months-to-a-year-ago.

I guess that depends on your criteria. While in an ideal world the US would be awesome the current implementation has much to be desired.

Taxes are in and it looks like I'm getting more of a refund than I expected so that's nice.

Federal judge stays deportations of travelers in Trump immigration order Trump executive order: US judge temporarily halts deportations

Unless the technology was directly funded and owned by the American Government I don't think there would be as many issues as you think as they'd still be working for the same companies and so the ownership wouldn't be an issue? Although I'm also sick and on meds that make my head a bit fuzzy so I might be missing something obvious.

Personally I think that we should not tap into our native oil reserves until we absolutely must (because why run them down when we don't have to, I'd rather pay more and have strategic advantage later than use them now and find ourselves short when we really need them).

Huh, weird. I honestly thought that you might have been talking about a third person that I'd not heard about.

Bradass?

Personally I would have rather Snowden pardoned than Manning since it seems like he was more careful about what he released and tried to make sure not to endanger US assets or personal (as opposed to Manning who indiscriminately gathered everything and gave it to Wikileaks).

Then we're in agreement.

I'm confused, are you saying there should be stricter gun control or are you saying that gun control doesn't work? It seems to be the former and that's not what I would have expected.

Is it an ultra low voltage chip? Those are normally dual core.

It looks like they're citing both the victim's handicap and his race in the hate crime charges:

Do you mean the for that were just charged with a hate crime among other things?

I suspect that we're actually more in agreement than not, I think that you're right and Medicaid and Medicare have contributed to the rise in costs - and TriCare is just awful from what I've seen/experienced. Likewise insurance itself has been driving up costs. But, at that same time, I don't like the idea of people forgoing insurance until the system is changed as I think that everyone being able to receive affordable medical care is important to maintaining good public health (vaccinations come to mind, but then I'd also make those mandatory).

One of the easiest fixes would be a single payer system although that has its own issues. Another possible fix would be more regulation of prices but that's hard as treatment at hospital X might be vastly different than hospital Y. In the meantime ensuring everyone has insurance is a good stop-gap measure. Plus I prefer the idea of insurance that I buy and can take with me if I switch kind than one that ties me down with a particular employer.

And tax-free medical savings accounts will empty fast (assuming people have any money to put in them at all). The entire system is broken and while the Affordable Care Act was needed at the time, and still is, we need more fundamental changes or else the healthcare system is going to collapse.

The new laptop I ordered has 5% battery wear out of the box, as long as it doesn't get worse I can live with that otherwise it will be time to call up and get a replacement shipped out so I can replace it.

I suspect that if you copied the Steam files into another folder and used the DRM-free .exe from the disc version you might be able to get mods working (I had to do something similar for Bloodlines and a couple of other games). And it's easier to have a backed up .exe in case the discs fail or get lost than the entire game... Although not by much given how cheap storage is now.