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I see in this poll more people favored carter over Reagan? Carter got absolutely destroyed by Reagan in the 80' election. I just find it funny but anyone can get a poll to get the results they want in any situation. Not trying to say this poll is terrible, but I keep an "open mind" when looking at polls in general.

The poll is not saying that. The poll is comparing the FIRST approval ratings for each of these Presidents. Carter's FIRST approval poll rating after taking office was higher than Reagan's FIRST approval poll rating after taking office ~4 years later...

Nobody will remember who is at fault. The Repub's will say it failed because Obama & the Dem's propped up a broken system. When the Repub's even looked at trying to fix it, the ACA totally collapsed under the weight of its issues. The aftermath of this approach pretty much guarantees nothing like the ACA or widespread meaningful Healthcare reform is attempted again in our lifetimes.

If the fallout is as bad as it could be, the insurance companies know they'll be singled out when control of Congress changes... In a weird way, the ONLY option that everyone knows needs to be avoided IS the option GOP/WH is pursuing...

One thing many do not account for in this situation is the impact of uninsured/under-insured on the rising cost of healthcare. If a hospital has a high number of these, they have to recoup that money somehow and the preferred accounting approach is to charge more. One part of controlling cost increases is ensuring some level of coverage, right??? lulz

 

It is not that I care that much. I just do not understand how people like a small screen having a larger screen, a keyboard, a mouse at their disposition

and semingly preffer to swipe or long press instead.

 

It's probably because you can't take your huge screen, mouse, keyboard, etc. to the bathroom with you while you dump out

 

It you would get with current technology, this wouldn't be an issue...

https://www.cnet.com/news/lg-displays-latest-oled-tv-sticks-to-the-wall-is-under-1mm-thick/

Tumpkin's issues here have been the worst-kept secret (out here) for quite a while. If it wasn't for the egregious football assault scandals (Baylor/Minny/etc), CU would have sat on it longer. They still didn't fire him, they allowed him to resign.

The previous AD (Bohn) supported/created a hostile environment towards females, especially by the male athletes. It was hard to listen to his Title IX hypocrisy. The new administration has just a passing interest in changing this culture since the Athletic Dept is so estranged from the Academic side of the university regardless of what they do. The Boulder PD is an active enabler in this as well.

It's a very sad situation and I hope the ex-girlfriend is able to get past her ordeal...

Knapp gave some really good advice. Only things I would add to his comments:

Check the audio recording laws for you state; if single-party consent is allowed, record your conversations with the landlard/manager(s). If you get to a point of having to communicate via written letters, the landlord/manager is usually going to take a harder stance.

I would contact your local Housing Authority and see what you can find out about your complex/landlord from them. Many times if there is 1 old person in a complex like this, it's a subsidized or low income unit situation. If that's the case, you will lose any complaints they make. You may offer to move units to avoid this person with highly sensitive hearing. Lastly, if you can record the noise from others, you can have some evidence of being singled out...

 

I've been hearing the same story from different senior management sources at 3 of the 5 largest healthcare insurance providers over the last week. The info is very consistent across unrelated sources but I cannot find anything that proves this is actual policy.

 

Most of the large insurance providers' leadership has been speaking with Trump's staff since the election trying to feel out direction with ACA. Trump's administration has settled on a position that is basically: insurance companies will know what is going on with ACA in 2018 on 1/1/2018. It sounds like the WH is trying to create enough uncertainty so most of the insurance providers choose to leave the exchanges on their own. This will functionally repeal the ACA and force an actual repeal.

 

Will be interesting to see what happens here...

 

Are you saying that you're hearing they're likely to change little to nothing and try to force the ACA into this vaunted death spiral they complain about so much?

 

More or less. The White House is trying to force insurance providers to create the ACA death spiral. Insurance is about risk pooling and anything unknown is high risk. Looking at the news since that post, that's what with the insurance providers demands/warnings are trying to address. If insurance providers don't start jumping off the exchanges, I think WH/GOP will move towards changes with the intent of getting insurance providers to withdraw. It's a massive game of chicken and the insurance providers are convinced the WH will only settle for a collision or insurance to balk...

jaws - yeah. I can pull up links if you want me to, or you can google "fossil fuel campaign donations" and you'll find results for most candidates from either side of the aisle. They're protecting their industry, and I understand that, but I'm more concerned with my environment than their profits.

In my area, Encana has been prospecting and installing NG wells like crazy last few years. A lot of my neighbors installing solar kept getting contacted by the county about code complaints. Turns out, the field supervisors were told to identity properties with solar as they were out inspecting the rigs or wells. Someone from the company would then call in a complaint. Completely petty practice just trying to inconvenience individuals/government departments for having solar.

If you are going to use Malwarebytes to try and do cleanup, visit their forum and follow their cleanup procedures. They recommend at least 1 (preferably 2) other products for this type of situation. If you have browser hijackers and fake security apps already installed, MW is not going to remove it all. Once everything is clean, a single solution is fine to prevent reinfection moving forward.

If you go with a free AV product, make sure the AV definitions are updated just as quickly as the paid version. AVG has some bad reviews in this regard.

 

For small scale and/or residential, the vertical axis type is the most common due to a variety of factors. On a small scale, a short blade horizontal axis turbine is very temperamental, especially with turbulent winds. In my case there were also county ordinance & zoning issues that came into play. I'm on several acres with multiple zoning. My house is on 2 acre parcel zoned residential surrounded by many acres zoned ag/com. The codes and ordinances are very different depending on the zoning. A horizontal axis wind turbine on the residential parcel could not be higher than the base of the roofline. Factor in location of trees/outbuildings/etc and it becomes a problem.

There was a study done a few years ago into whether small vertical or horizontal axis wind turbines were more efficient, and it turned out that horizontal was more efficient both in power generation and cost. It was done in Amsterdam, I think. I'll see if I can find that study later.

 

You are ignoring the installation factors. Height from ground and blade length are the primary components of the horizontal axis design creating the increase in efficiency. In most residential zoning building codes in this country, that design is not allowed. If you cannot install it, efficiency doesn't matter.

 

Solar vs wind is difficult. I think the solution ultimately has to include widespread residential & distributed green energy rather than relying almost entirely on massive farms. I have 2 residential wind turbines installed by a Boulder company and they produce more energy refund than my neighbors' full roof solar installs. Part of the reason is my turbines are going 8-18 hours per day, 330+ days per year. They are always at optimal position and the install cost was close to half that of full roof solar. We routinely get winds between 55-80 mph and microbursts up to 120 mph. Not every location is so blessed.

 

The design is a vertical cylinder similar to the one on right below.

 

 

As far as wildlife, it can be much better but all the numbers I have seen are lower than referenced above. Definitely less compared to wildlife impact of other infrastructure. I know NREL tracks this info as part of their testing and I asked a friend that's an engineer at the Boulder test farm (http://www.nrel.gov/nwtc/) if he can share the data. If he is able to provide it, I will post it.

 

I agree that residential and local use are essential to long-term success.... Can you imagine a small solar panel on the top of every city street-light pole in the US? Just add it to the design of any new poles, it would be a game changer.

 

The newer UV and IR panels are awesome, plus I've also heard of some that can work off of water & air-humidity in addition to UV and IR. Which would mean energy could be produced at respectable levels during prolonged cloud-cover and during a rain storms.

 

I am not finding the article atm but an EE wrote an interesting article couple years ago on the impact of getting traffic & street lights off the electrical grid. It was like 8% decrease overall. It's not necessarily practical but the opportunity is there to make substantial difference in small increments...

 

Solar vs wind is difficult. I think the solution ultimately has to include widespread residential & distributed green energy rather than relying almost entirely on massive farms. I have 2 residential wind turbines installed by a Boulder company and they produce more energy refund than my neighbors' full roof solar installs. Part of the reason is my turbines are going 8-18 hours per day, 330+ days per year. They are always at optimal position and the install cost was close to half that of full roof solar. We routinely get winds between 55-80 mph and microbursts up to 120 mph. Not every location is so blessed.

 

The design is a vertical cylinder similar to the one on right below.

 

 

As far as wildlife, it can be much better but all the numbers I have seen are lower than referenced above. Definitely less compared to wildlife impact of other infrastructure. I know NREL tracks this info as part of their testing and I asked a friend that's an engineer at the Boulder test farm (http://www.nrel.gov/nwtc/) if he can share the data. If he is able to provide it, I will post it.

You are correct that it's not always easy to compare wind and solar. Some places the wind blows hard enough and often enough that wind generation makes sense. Determining whether wind even makes sense can be challenging. But almost everywhere that's not in the Arctic/Antarctic gets some sun and can be evaluated for PV.

 

FYI, I'm glad you are having success with a vertical axis wind turbine, but they can't compete with the horizontal axis ones (except in a few niche applications perhaps). The vertical is losing at least half the exposed area to the wind as compared to the horizontal one.

 

If you are comparing horizontal vs vertical axis turbines, it really does depend upon application and factors such as location. The blade length of the horizontal axis turbine contributes a lot to its efficiency. For wind farms and large applications, nothing comes close to the long bladed horizontal design.

For small scale and/or residential, the vertical axis type is the most common due to a variety of factors. On a small scale, a short blade horizontal axis turbine is very temperamental, especially with turbulent winds. In my case there were also county ordinance & zoning issues that came into play. I'm on several acres with multiple zoning. My house is on 2 acre parcel zoned residential surrounded by many acres zoned ag/com. The codes and ordinances are very different depending on the zoning. A horizontal axis wind turbine on the residential parcel could not be higher than the base of my house's roofline. Factor in location of trees/outbuildings/etc and it becomes a problem.

Solar vs wind is difficult. I think the solution ultimately has to include widespread residential & distributed green energy rather than relying almost entirely on massive farms. I have 2 residential wind turbines installed by a Boulder company and they produce more energy refund than my neighbors' full roof solar installs. Part of the reason is my turbines are going 8-18 hours per day, 330+ days per year. They are always at optimal position and the install cost was close to half that of full roof solar. We routinely get winds between 55-80 mph and microbursts up to 120 mph. Not every location is so blessed.

The design is a vertical cylinder similar to the one on right below.

As far as wildlife, it can be much better but all the numbers I have seen are lower than referenced above. Definitely less compared to wildlife impact of other infrastructure. I know NREL tracks this info as part of their testing and I asked a friend that's an engineer at the Boulder test farm (http://www.nrel.gov/nwtc/) if he can share the data. If he is able to provide it, I will post it.

He's apparently skeptical of cops, I am too, great pick!

Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon!

Good thing too with the massive bacon shortage and all...

/s

I saw the google headlines but had not dug into it yet. I had read that he is not a fan of organized protest.

Here's some articles with links to his college writings that you reference:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/neil-gorsuch-apartheid-protests-donald-trump-supreme-court-nominee-scotus-a7556706.html

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/neil-gorsuch-viewpoints-opinion-columbia-234498

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-scotus-pick-expressed-contempt-protesters-article-1.2961074

Either they get removed from the composite ranking, they stay and 247 data gets counted twice, or somebody else steps in to fill the void. It's not exactly clear what Heckman's new venture entails but it doesn't sound like a direct competitor to Scout or Rivals...

Here's Heckman's new endeavor theMaven Network, inc. http://www.themaven.net/Press.php

And here's some background: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161018005883/en/Digital-Media-Network-theMaven-Announced-James-Heckman

They forced Heckman (CEO, original founder) out last year and he started a competing company then poached most of the top talent from Scout. It sounds like Scout Media has been gutted and CBS is only interested in cherry-picking the team publisher contracts and a name for another sub-network (mobile app & website channels). It will probably be a named property but backed by the 247 site data/staff. It doesn't sound like CBS wants anything more than that. Heckman originally founded Rivals.com as well...

This has been going on for a while. They were hit with involuntary chapter 11 a couple months back after failing to pay a judgement. 247 was the only interested from the reports I saw and they picked scout up for very cheap...

He's measurably more conservative than Scalia was when Scalia joined SCOTUS and slightly more conservative than in Scalia's later years. But yes, nothing surprising as Republican nominee other than a lack of record with civil/individual rights.

So just taking a quick look at his court decisions and statement to questions:

• Applied 2nd Amendment as individual's right to gun possession and argued that being felon is not enough to bar gun ownership; person has to know & believe they are a felon at a minimum...
• Stated the ACA mandate for birth control was unconstitutional as the government cannot determine the degree of value of a specific religious teaching
• Has stated he is anti-abortion but recognized precedent must be acknowledged
• Has declared himself an "origininalst" & "textualist" while stating too much value is given to precedent
• Has ignored the 1984 Chevron Doctrine decision which gives government agencies leeway to apply and interpret law through regulations when the law is unclear. Has stated this doctrine violates the Constitution framer's design and only courts can interpret the law.
• Has a record of viewing individual rights' through his position of government agencies not being allowed to interpret law. For now, he's really going to be a wildcard in civil & individual rights issues (i.e. LGBTQ).

Overall he is typically conservative for religious rights; extremely pro State rights'; very conservative on government's right to interpret law; typically conservative on role of government; unknown on civil/individual rights...

This seems like a fairly prototypical conservative SCOTUS pick. Am I wrong? I haven't read too much about him. Capable, respected Judge.

 

I'd feel happier about this if not for the travesty of Merrick Garland's non consideration. I mean, if they had considered him and voted him down, fine. But they didn't even contemplate his nomination.

People I know that know him respect him within financial and insurance cases which were his main area while in Denver. Outside that, he's all over the map on the conservative side. He is heavily against Federal agencies being allowed to interpret the law or having any leeway in this regard. That could be very bad for our civil service & many Federal/State agencies. I could see him becoming the far-right anchor of SCOTUS with the Immigration & Healthcare issues....

Don't even start with Garland; that scab isn't gonna heal anytime soon

Nobody wrote articles on me when I was doing this for Wayne State College 9 years ago

As a someone who is a member of the LBGTQIA, I get dumped on by pretty much everyone in society-even by Democrats.

 

I bring all this up because it seems that I, as a still a relatively new poster here, am held to higher standard and have far less "leeway" with regards to what I say. I also think there is some very blatant favoritism at work here.

 

Hang in there; I have family, friends, colleagues, and employees that are LBFTQIA and are dealing the same emotional burden, some for a very long time. I believe it will get better as more people realize they can no longer sit on the sidelines. My heart & thoughts go out to you.

As far as the favoritism, I think the issue is familiarity. I notice the longer a poster has been here, the more leeway the member seems to be given with posts that would appear to violate the rules. I think as Mods/Admins get to know someone's posting style, they interpret the post in favor of the poster. With newer members, they seem to focus purely on the wording without interpretation or much benefit of the doubt. I think it's a consequence of having mods/admins that are so active in the forum. This is just my perspective, though.

 

 

I think the Oregon shooting is probably a pretty poor example. He dealt with how many mass shootings during his term? Each time congress did absolutely nothing to work on the situation. There are plenty of other good examples though...

I know pretty much everyone has criticized him in some form or another for Obamacare. Many have criticized his handling of Syria. He's been criticized for letting Wall Street off the hook and not going after the Big Banks. All of those are valid criticism that I think should be disgust. It's not my fault, or Knap's, or Enhanced's fault that you choose not to see those criticism.

Obama gets a bad wrap over that. GW set the course on letting them off the hook before Obama got sworn in with the way the bailout was structured. As a result there wasn't much Obama could do that wouldn't end up being an economic nuclear option. The Repub's were also hell-bent on not breaking up any of the banks which sorely is needed...

He could have not hired Wall Street execs to his team for one. He also could have charge them for crimes, and fined the hell out of them.

 

Not on the last part with the way GW structured/organized the bailout without blowing up the industry. We worked with HUD & the big banks helping with the cleanup/sorting of the dead. There were a lot of backroom deals from GW around the bailout. Obama wasn't left with room to maneuver without making the downturn much worse. Why would several banks spend in excess of $50mil to buy up worthless mortgage pools and not initiate mortgage proceedings? I am not defending Obama but the blame needs to fit.

EDIT: And as far as Wall St execs, that's what every POTUS does even Trump. Generally they are pulled from WS rather having been forced out as say a GS exec/partner but that is the path. There are several books on how GS owns our government going back at least since WWII. It's not good but IIWII...

You asking GSG? He loves athletes with mittens, or wrenches. Either one...

His twitter & the interwebs say he's grayshirting at 'bama...

https://www.google.com/#q=Jarez+Parks+greyshirt

I've been hearing the same story from different senior management sources at 3 of the 5 largest healthcare insurance providers over the last week. The info is very consistent across unrelated sources but I cannot find anything that proves this is actual policy.

Most of the large insurance providers' leadership has been speaking with Trump's staff since the election trying to feel out direction with ACA. Trump's administration has settled on a position that is basically: insurance companies will know what is going on with ACA in 2018 on 1/1/2018. It sounds like the WH is trying to create enough uncertainty so most of the insurance providers choose to leave the exchanges on their own. This will functionally repeal the ACA and force an actual repeal.

Will be interesting to see what happens here...