I heard you liked DOS.

Like many conservative arguments, it's the kind of thing that seems like it's an absolutely perfect argument. Right up until you take a look at the world around you, and how things really are.

Because taking everything you've ever earned and giving it to someone that hasn't earned it is bad, therefore, therefore, any sort of taxation, and any sort of social welfare is bad. You always think in absolutes, and the world isn't like this.

Yes, there are some people who would never work if they didn't have to. But the bulk of the country is made up of people who feel that the incremental gain they get from the destitution of welfare is something that's worth working for. And that benefits everyone.

Summation: the world is not entirely full of people who are trying to take all of your hard-earned money. Also, taxes pay for the police forces that arrest that crackhead when he tries to steal your TV. Try to base your arguments on the actual circumstances in the world around you, rather than trying to base the circumstances of the world around you on your arguments.

Also, why is Microsoft explicitly being mentioned? There's a lot of established players in Healthcare software that are getting much more out of this windfall. Microsoft barely scratches the surface, and they're, quite frankly, not significant in this particular market, unless you're counting the machines running their OS. Look for EHR (Electronic Health Record) vendor market share on Google, and you're not even going to see them mentioned. You're going to see Epic, Meditech, Allscripts, McKesson, Cerner, Siemens. MS, at best, is an "also ran".

Hospitals aren't buying into software because of "Obamacare" (or the Affordable Care Act, if brevity isn't your thing). Hospitals are buying into software because of the HITECH act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). They're getting more Medicare reimbursement for showing meaningful use of their software, so that's the trigger, not the ACA.

Well, the fact that the payroll tax rate went back to exactly the same as it was when he took office probably helped to prevent getting slaughtered in the media. It wasn't a tax increase, so much as the expiration of a tax holiday. Yes, the effect is the same, but at the end of the day, the poor and middle class aren't paying any more in payroll taxes, or federal income taxes, than they were in 2008.

I have mod points when it's already at 5 :(. This is unjust that we can't mod it up to 11.

It's also worth noting - most professions that rely on tips for income get paid less than minimum wage. Servers can work for as low as $2.13 an hour.

Department of Labor - Tipped employees

There are limits, but yes, you can declare a capital loss and deduct it from your income for taxation purposes.

If it exceeds the limit, then you can carry it over onto next year's taxes.

The pay withholding is just a whole 'hey, look at how determined we are to make this right!' political ploy. That part of the law is unconstitutional (directly violates the 27th amendment), so it would never be upheld under scrutiny. Congress has no power to affect their own pay until the next session comes into play (so if you don't like them getting a huge raise, you can vote in different people).

While I agree it's not the end of the civilized world, it is a sad state of affairs when the only way to get legislation passed is to put in a clause that is intended to actively hurt the country unless action is taken.

Ok, I really don't like what you're doing with this bill. Well, what if we also added something to it that makes it explode in a year or so. Would that make it more amenable to you? Oh, absolutely!

Just a matter of who gets caught holding the hot potato.

Or, like the Wii, it could end up as exactly the opposite of innovation, where every game feels exactly the same.

While it requires a little bit of work, you can do that with a third party program.

CutePDF is a program that will allow you to install it as a printer, so you can select it from the list of printers from any printer dropdown menu in Windows. The program then converts the output to a PDF file. Dreadfully useful.

For non-Windows users, as many have mentioned in this thread, there's functionality already out there.

It's not like they've never released products before without caring for proper naming in markets that they care about.

At the end of the day, they're a company that uses its clout in an effort to bully smaller companies out of the market by just ignoring their trademarks. Generally they figure they can just throw a little money at the problem and make it go away. Look at iCloud.

And having a camera basically operated by Michael J Fox is the weakest of all movie devices.

Ultimately, I think we've figured out that J.J. Abrams isn't really a great director.

One thing it misses - the "Final Rule" part of it implies that this is it. It's not.

The requirements from HITECH come in three stages - and this is the final rule for stage 2. There's an entire additional stage coming to further enhance what hospitals are doing to improve the quality of health care with technology.

Of note, too, hospitals who meet these requirements get additional reimbursement from Medicare (Beaucoup bucks). Those that don't get reduced reimbursement from Medicare. So a lot of these rules aren't entirely mandates, but close enough.