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  1. Posted

    On 11/20/2016 at 0:14 AM, Troacctid said:

    I believe Trump has said he would like to eliminate the federal minimum wage, if that counts.

    He doesn't have the power, that said the Congress (technically Congress is both the Senate & House even though many use it to refer to only the House) and it's key supporter may find that proposal attractive and they DO have the power.

    On 11/20/2016 at 2:07 AM, ijuin said:

    The biggest reason IMO that lots of people can't live on $10 an hour no matter how thrifty they are is that there are huge regions in this country where cheap housing and cheap transit simply aren't to be had. There are plenty of people who, like Looney above, are willing to live in what amounts to a single bedroom with minimal bath and kitchenette (my apartment in college was 200 square feet including the bath and kitchenette), but those aren't available because developers prefer higher-margin-per-tenant units whenever they can fill them, so would-be renters have to go searching for housing far enough away from their jobs that motor transport is essential (nobody is going to spend more than about four hours on foot just getting to and from work). But, there aren't enough buses going between this housing and where the non-retail/school jobs are (Of the approximately four bus lines that come within two miles of my home, ALL of them go to retail or school sites and none of them go to industrial sites/office parks--I have to transfer buses for that, and at that point the commute now exceeds two hours one-way). The only reason anybody is surviving around here on jobs whose total paycheck is less than the monthly rent of the minimal housing is because most such people are either living under their parents' roofs into their 20s and beyond, or else are tripling and quadrupling up with roommates who are in the same boat.

    QFT, I'll also note studio/efficiency apartments in my area start at $480 unless you qualify for low income housing or section 8.

  5. Posted

    16 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Still no results. The suspense is getting to me.

    Slip a shock collar on the doc and have it give them a jolt every day they don't let you know what's going on.

    Dr Brennen seems to think surgery is likely needed for the shoulder (hardly unexpected considering he is a surgeon) but would like to see the results of a shoulder MRI (yeah good luck there doc, the last two could have gone better).

  8. Posted

    Friendly reminder of electoral process timeline.

    May or may not be related.

    As noted, there is little likelihood of changes but then alway's remenber the words of  the ancient sportman sage.

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    It ain't over till it's over.

     

  11. Posted

    57.15% (which is also 12/13ths or 0.923076923 specific gravity) or above using the old gunpowder test as a standard for 100 proof. Most countries the 4/7ths (57.14%) scale for proof because it's close enough to accurate while being easier to calculate than 57.15%. The US simplified it down to proof is twice percentage. By US standard alcohol isn't flammable until it's 114.3 proof.

    • 100 proof = 57.15% ABV according to science
    • 100 proof = 57.14% ABV according to the laws of most countries
    • 100 proof = 50% ABV according to the US laws

    According to science & and most countries laws, 100% ABV (if it were feasible) would be about 175 proof while in the US it would be 200 proof. Since 100% ABV is not feasible, rectified alcohol achieves a maximum of 95.6% ABV which is about 167.3 proof by science or most most countries laws or 191.2 proof in the US.

  15. Posted

    Florida passed medical marijuana and defeated a bill which claim to make solar a right while forever closing of any option of acquiring it save for new home construction. There are still no provisions for providing options (like incentives) to get solar outside of having it's cost included being in a mortgage as the house is built but there is nothing still nothing expressly forbidding them thanks to the amendment's failure.

    Beyond that the post election increase in acts of racism & hate has convinced my niece it's probably a lot safer to come back from Tampa to the East Coast where her family lives.

  17. Posted

    Apparently Wednesday meant 11/16 not 11/9. The irony is before I found that out. I found out my primary care physician double referred me with 2 ENTs (one of which I've dealt with before and like but can't see before 11/28).

    I finally, Finally, FINALLY got in to see an ophthalmologist Friday about my double vision and the news is worse than I hoped but not as grim as I feared. My left eye is 20/150 and not really correctable, the other eye has actually improved a a bit and  is 20/30 farsighted with astigmatism, the difference made my normal misalignment worse past the point of correction with prism and while surgically it could be corrected it's a only a matter of time before I would have the same issue again. The best option is to get a pair of glasses with a frosted lens for the left eye and an updated  prescription on the right. Kinda a kick in the ass after all I went through all those surgeries to save the retina and remove the cataract in the right eye. Being able to see out of both eye albeit out of one so badly and have some sort of peripheral vision on my blind side is better than the alternative. I have a followup to get refracted the actual lens on 12/9 (a minor miracle considering he was triple booked until 12/28 and it's considered a long appointment).

    While I was at the ophthalmologist I took advantage of the free hearing test machine they had in the office. While I probably she have thins checked after treatment by the ENT I suspect the significant hearing loss the machine was seeing wasn't very exaggerated. I'/t sometime have issues even without sinus issue even when I'm explicitly paying attention.

    Finally two appointments on Tuesday one at Atlantis Diagnostic to X-ray my shoulder, and one upstairs at the orthopedic doctor to see what needs to be done.

  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, Scotty said:

    Maybe there's personality based affinities? Like Rhoda had an affinity for size manipulation magic which contributed to her distorted perception of scale? I can see that being confused for yearning.

    Well Rhoda is a bit shorter than most people around her and that in itself can affect one's perception. (For instance the people around me seem run a little taller than the average height especially among the women and I always seemed to be the last person around me to get a growth spurt; this has had the consequence of me feeling shorter than I really am despite actually being pretty close to average male height so I can relate to her perception a little and her desire to be taller on occasion.) It may be possible a strong enough yearning may be indistinguishable from an affinity in certain respects even it differs in others. Either that or personality based affinities could certainly explain things.

  21. Posted

    7 hours ago, Vorlonagent said:

    One can just as rightly say that it is Obama that is standing in the way of Congress' agenda.  Who you blame is much a function of partisanship as anything else

    Gridlock can be a surprisingly good thing.  It means Congress is not making many new laws.  It creates a stable taxation, legal and regulatory environment.  Business likes that. 

    The US budget deficit is down from its obscene 2009 and 2010 levels and gridlock is why.  Nobody can embark on new spending sprees which drive the deficit up, nobody dares change Sequester, which clips federal programs back toward a balanced budget and the stable business environment brings in more tax revenue.  20 years ago, gridlock combined with a boom/bubble economy to give us a budget surplus.

    That aspect was there as well but even when Obama was bending over backwards to compromise which happened way more than the right will ever admit or the left will ever be happy with, they were were obstructing almost anything from happen in his 8 years as President he signed 60 bills and vetoed 12. (one of which was overridden). 

  22. Posted

    I really do hope they just come back and some stupid infection. That said you have pretty much the right attitude. Whatever it is worrying isn't gonna help or change anything. You can only really wait for the results and act upon what you find out.

    Not at all happy with the runaround my insurance is putting me through. The good news is I have an Otolaryngology appointment Wednesday and an X-Ray & Orthopedic consultation on my shoulder next Tuesday. The bad news is I am still searching for a ophthalmologist who specializes in double vision. So far my insurance suggested retina specialists, cataract specialists, and a glaucoma specialist, I really miss having glasses. I'm also having similar issues with trying to replace my psychiatrist. No one they refer me to seems to accept my plan with my provider or if they do they are no longer accepting it for new patients.

  24. Posted

    23 minutes ago, Troacctid said:

    There is no danger of Clinton's executive orders being overturned by Congress. She can veto any attempt to do so. The Republicans are nowhere near a veto-proof majority in the Senate, if they can even get a majority at all.

    I really hope not they caused enough problems in the last 8 years and I know I'm not voting to reelect any of the Republicans in the Congress at the minimum on the merit they haven't been doing the job we elected them to do (in addition to political differences and whatever issues I have with individual members of the party).

    That said what the President can accomplish with Executive order is really kinda limited by the fact they only affect his cabinets (State Dept, Dept of the Interior, etc)

    10 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    We've had Republicans running Congress, and they've been deliberately trying to keep government from accomplishing anything.  They hate the government and want it to be as small as possible, so they try to make it fail wherever possible, and then point to those failures as reasons to hate the government.  It's the worst kind of self-fulfilling catch-22.

    If you really want to see change, to shake up the system and see some progress, the solution isn't just in the White House.  The solution is to throw out the bums who have been sabotaging the system from within for decades, and get a majority in Congress who will actually work toward making the govenrment work.  End the gridlock.

    Exactly, the sad thing is the average American really doesn't seem to get this. The President only has more political power than any individual American but has far, far less than the Legislative branch as a whole.

  25. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Troacctid said:

    Actually, she's probably going to change the status quo in a lot of ways. Presidents can't unilaterally pass legislation, but they can sign executive orders and appoint federal officials, including, this term, at least one Supreme Court Justice. So she can effect some real changes.

    The Congress promised to double down on blocking any appointments should Hillary win and Executive Orders only affect the President's departments. That said those orders can be countermanded by legislation. The President has the opportunity to block it either by not signing it within a certain time frame of receiving it while the Congress is not in session or actively vetoing it in which case the Congress has the opportunity to override (with a supermajority in both branches of Congress). Signing a bill is mostly acknowledgement of its legitimacy while any other action is a questioning of which.