More specifically, if your wallet/keys and *phone* are separated by 20-85 feet. So now I have to carry my phone *everywhere* I take my wallet or keys? Like using my keys to get something from the car in the driveway or shed in the back yard - or running out to get some milk. There are numerous activities for which one wants to use keys or a wallet, but doesn't need their cell phone.

I think that was the original title and plot of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie ...

Alternatively, my recommendation for a long, happy marriage is that you *never* refer to your wife's clitoris (nor she your penis) as either "that pointer thing" or "a nub". Just my $0.02.

... our ability to rape, pillage and plunder our victims, I mean "customers", with impunity may be in jeopardy.

More competition in work force to suppress wages. I'm sure once they get to be big enough, companies will ship them off to India and hire them back using H-1B visas. Let us all pray these ants don't get any IT training.

... the Code of Conflict will be in C++

If you had bothered to actually *read* the New-PCIP-WA Brochure on the "About PCIP-WA" site you linked to, you would have seen this:

So, now I'm quoting a Washington State site - Jesus, get a clue and/or learn how to research.

Just great. Take a nap, wake and exclaim, "I know TeamForge" - as River Tam put it, "Put a bullet to me. Bullet in the brain pan. Squish."

It looks like we-re *both* correct. (Though I'm more so.) According to this Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions:

So your relative, who has worked in a doctor's office for many years and "damn well knows what she's talking about", should know all this and tell patients with grand-fathered insurance plans to switch to a Marketplace plan that does.

You are flatly incorrect. The ACA is a Federal Law and the only thing the states can opt-opt of is the Medicaid expansion - as per the Supreme Court ruling.

Perhaps you're thinking of the Pre Existing Condition Insurance Plan which was a *temporary* measure (that states could choose to participate in) that expired in 2014:

If you're in the US, you can no longer can be denied medical insurance based on pre-existing conditions nor can your premiums be different because of those conditions - unless, of course, the Republicans succeed in abolishing the ACA.

I'm confused. Are you saying: (punctuation added)
(a) Google, being stupid again, ...
(b) Google "being stupid" again, ...

Because those two interpretations seem very different.

Guessing they needed to heat their apartment and having the server run flat-out for 9 months helped - a lot.

It's not really a Florida thing, but a Republican thing. From TFA:

Be prepared for this sort of thing from other Republican states because apparently, according to their ostrich-like logic, not talking about something means it isn't happening and can't/won't happen. (Though, in Florida, sticking your head in the sand might mean you might drown from the increasingly rising tides.)

Of course, Rick Scott and many other Republicans have otherwise simply side-stepped these kind of issues by declaring: I am not a scientist.

I read that as more snarky than hostile.