The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXV
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Disgustipated
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Dumb question. I haven't really followed Obamacare that much since it doesn't affect me, but I saw some blurb on Drudge that made me think we still have to sign up even if we have insurance through our employer? Is this true? I didn't bother with the website since I already have insurance through my employer. Edit: It wasn't Drudge, it was a less than reputable website- Daily fail. Do I have to sign in and say I already have insurance?
PlutonianEmpire
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Why are you even worried about it, then?
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Farm Boy
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Could be totally wrong so somebody else needs to back me up I suppose, but I'm under the impression the mandate is simply that you maintain some form of health insurance, the level of which keeps being rolled back and tinkered with much to the frustration of health insurance companies. I think not maintaining the level of whatever happens to be required when it actually kicks in is what opens you to the levying of the fine.
sophie
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If you have insurance through your employer and are happy with it then you do not need to sign up with Obamacare.
The ACA at its most basic is a) a mandate that every citizen¹ must have health insurance of some variety, or else incur a tax, b) a regulated marketplace (in addition to a number of state-run marketplaces) which enable customers to see plan coverages and prices upfront and choose their healthcare from a list of options, and c) an expansion of medicaid to include more tax levels, as well as temporary subsidies to the states to help pay for the expansion.
¹Above a specified income bracket
There's obviously a lot more to it than that, but that's the basic gist of the law.
Disgustipated
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That's what I thought. I think you just have to indicate on next year's tax return that you have insurance.
And what happened to the other off topic forum?
And what happened to the other off topic forum?
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The Tavern conducted an elaborate hostile take-over. All Chamber assets have now been liquidated and sold to the highest bidder from our community.
I seem to remember my teacher telling me that two spaces were to be put in between sentences in grammar school, and, a few years later, being taught that the rules had "changed" and that only one space was required. I'm incredibly confused. Did people actually used to do this?
Chukchi Husky
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When I was at school the two spaces after a sentence was still taught as the rule.
Farm Boy
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If you want to be overly detailed, two spaces after a period is helpful when typing in a monospaced font(like courier, as an example). Typewriters and early electronic fonts were monospaced. Now that people rarely type or print in monospace and a word processor can insert enough white space automatically after a period for easy reading, double spaced sentence breaks are usually an unnecessary anachronism.
Seriously, how old are you?
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Mr. B is my great grand pappy and is clocking in at a spruced up 112.
He's old enough to know what the proper rules are. It's how I was taught as well and I'll abide by those rules until the day I die. TWO SPACES AFTER PERIOD AND COLON OR DIE!
Take that, New Hampshire.
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My school district was still teaching people to type on typewriters alongside monochrome Apple IIe's in 1993. Given that typing lessons would probably start at that point in late grade school, I'd say it's entirely possible for somebody in their late 20s to have learned on a typewriter. They hung around well into the 2000s for some government forms and they're still somewhat handy for bureaucratic work that uses carbon copy forms to capture original signature duplicates.
AdamCrock
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[__]STOP.Should I read or watch Game of Thrones/Song of Fire and Ice first? Watching Goblet of Fire as a kid sure took the punch out of what seems now to be an amazing book. Although the Harry potter films were admittedly awful.
Actually, I think doing either one first spoils the other.
Actually, I think doing either one first spoils the other.
madviking
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they're only like a third through the books on the tv series. read them.
sophie
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If you judge film solely on the basis of plot: read the books. If you judge film on the basis of visuals: it doesn't matter.
MagisterCultuum
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I watched the first season, then read all the books, then watched the other seasons. I think that is a pretty good way to do it.
I don't think that the first season ruined the first book at all, but I do think that as the story gets more and more complicated that it is much better to read about it first.
The most recent episodes cram hundreds of pages of material into a single hour, and so have to leave off some important things. In the first season they were able to cover the main points much better, while still finding time to add gratuitous nude scenes that are not in the books.
I don't think that the first season ruined the first book at all, but I do think that as the story gets more and more complicated that it is much better to read about it first.
The most recent episodes cram hundreds of pages of material into a single hour, and so have to leave off some important things. In the first season they were able to cover the main points much better, while still finding time to add gratuitous nude scenes that are not in the books.
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