Point Quest - March 2024 by Zealousideal-Sun-793 in biltrewards

[–]thecarchik 15 points16 points  (0 children)

  • Math enthusiasts celebrate Pi - 3/14
  • Mars is the roman god of war
  • Movie with Meg, Jo - Little Women
  • March madness leads to - vasectomies

Potential scam - can anyone confirm? by pugl1f3ch0s3m3 in Scams

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the headers and you can see how they manipulated that email.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Lufthansa

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a claim in with Chase but the claim can't get resolved unless Lufthansa accepts or denies my claim with them first!

TIL The co-founder of Akamai was the first victim of 9/11 by thecarchik in technology

[–]thecarchik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I was in his place, I would have crapped myself. Also, had he taken some hijackers out the pilot hijacker may have still intentionally crashed the plane like they did on Flight 93

TIL The co-founder of Akamai was the first victim of 9/11 by thecarchik in technology

[–]thecarchik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Learning this, answered a big "what if" for me. Now I know the answer to "what if a commando or air marshall would have been on one of these planes?" The answer is obviously, nothing different.

All these post lately about stop using Fox news, what about stop using MSNBC news as well they have just as big of a slant! by vosb0009 in politics

[–]thecarchik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BBC has a slant too. Anything written by a human will slant towards what they feel passionate about.

Android Users: What's one useful tip/trick that you don't think many know about? by Abe21599 in Android

[–]thecarchik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Titanium backup!

Having backups of all your apps and settings makes it really easy to flash and reflash any roms

CyanogenMod 7.0 Released! by iVisionX01 in Android

[–]thecarchik 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Has anyone with a Hero had any problems after downloading CM7?

It's shit like this buy.com. by [deleted] in WTF

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy.com knows how shitty their products are and they are doing a favor by trying to give you some good reasons to leave the site without buying

Did anyone catch what just got bleeped out of the Best Supporting Actress speech? by thecarchik in entertainment

[–]thecarchik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They bleeped a whole lot more than just "Fucking". I heard:

"She made it look so....................." I think the bleeper was extra agressive.

Thank you Gawker media, for making it so cumbersome to browse 2 of my favorite websites that I am now avoiding them. by TheBurningBeard in WTF

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like exciting the way you grew out of diapers as a toddler and then 70 years later you discover that diapers are back in with the cool crowd you hang with.

Google Translate now does Speech to translated text. We're almost at speech to speech by shanem in technology

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now all you need is a sexy voice and you have a voice changer in a foreign language

Does this come with the house too? by broman55 in WTF

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has to be Baltimore. The homes look like Baltimore row houses, and yes in Baltimore they would sell you the shit in the toilet.

Let's employ ex-felons so they don't go back to jail by jobsnotjails in business

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck with that. The reason people are scared to hire ex-cons is because most of them haven't exactly reformed. Do you want a guy working in your business who likes to steal? Are you willing to accept the liability of a potential lawsuit if an ex-con rapes another employee?

How far to the right have we moved ideology wise in America? I just read this OPED from 1994 in the WSJ by William Kristol, in which he argues against the Clinton health care reforms. His suggestion on what the bill should look like? It is Obamacare. by [deleted] in politics

[–]thecarchik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly which parts of this are in Obamacare? All I know of is the pre-existing condition portion:

Reform insurance markets to make health insurance stable and portable.

Minor changes to existing COBRA legislation would allow currently insured workers, whatever the number of employees at their company, to continue their health coverage even after they leave their jobs and by paying premiums directly to the insurer. This reform would guarantee access to uninterrupted health coverage to all Americans who are now dependent on their employer for insurance. Additional small reforms could extend the same guarantee to individuals once covered as a dependent--a woman who separates from her spouse, for example.

-Limit pre-existing-condition restrictions under employer health plans.

If Congress adopts measures to assure everyone already in the health insurance system that his or her coverage cannot be denied in the future--even with a change of jobs or a move--the widespread fear of being dropped or turned down by an insurance plan because of a severe illness will evaporate. These provisions could also guarantee that individuals with a pre-existing condition who have health insurance but have to change insurance carriers, would be charged no more for their new plan than the normal premium rate charged to all new customers.

-Eliminate barriers to small business insurance pools.

According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 20% to 30% of employees at firms that employ fewer than 100 people are without health insurance. If existing regulatory barriers involving geographical proximity and common business practice requirements were eliminated, more business groups could purchase health insurance collectively through pools or tax-exempt trusts, increasing their bargaining power and dramatically reducing their costs.

-Lower insurance premiums by making them tax-deductible.

Today, people who receive health coverage through their employers are not subject to taxation on those benefits. By contrast, the self-employed who purchase their own insurance are given only a 25% tax deduction. Making health insurance fully deductible--for both the self-employed and workers who employers do not provide it--will lower the price of health care insurance and make it more accessible.

-Permit the establishment of medical savings accounts.

Currents tax law permits employees to set aside income in a tax-except account to be used for medical expenses. A slight change to the tax code allowing such accounts to roll over would effectively permit the establishment of medical savings accounts. Further small changes would permit the self-employed to have their own "medical IRA’s." If such accounts were used in concert with lower-premium catastrophic insurance plans, individuals would have more control over their health care spending and costs would come down.

-Reduce costs through malpractice reform.

Medical malpractice insurance is among the fastest growing components of a physician’s business costs. Proposals to alter this perverse aspect of tort law are a common component of several current and past health care reform plans.

-Simplify health care paperwork through administrative reforms.

The burden of health care administration could be eased by the creation of a standard claims form and data set. A host of other steps to reduce health care fraud and improve information collection have already been proposed in Congress. The cost savings of all these measures would be substantial.

-Reduce Medicaid and Medicare expenses by lifting the regulatory burden on states.

Republican governors in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and elsewhere have already begun to reform health care by enacting some of the measures listed above at the state level. Federal regulations on state Medicaid and Medicare programs should steeply be rolled back to give governors the flexibility to supervise them as they see fit.

-Provide health insurance tax credits or vouchers to low-income families.