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Comment Re:resell value already bad (Score 1) 193

It's funny you think I didn't look at what the incentive was to skip the 0% interest and take the cash. You can keep talking until you're blue in the face, unless you've got shitty credit or are absolutely retarded investing your money you'll never come out ahead paying cash for a car. Keep trying though AC, keep trying.

Comment Re:resell value already bad (Score 1) 193

Really? The last car I purchased had an interest rate of 0%. It was pretty easy finding a risk free investment with a higher return. Unless of course you're factoring in "the entire collapse of the US financial sector" as a legitimate "risk". I can get a used car loan at any point in time for under 2% from my local credit union, and bonds return a higher yield that that around here all day long. So yes, ALWAYS.

Comment Re:Fuck Obamacare (Score 1) 723

So people without insurance who currently pay nothing to go to the ER would instead go to an urgent care facility because it's less expensive? Outside of the fact that urgent care facilities already exist and have had exactly 0 impact on the ER problem, the basis of your logic is nonexistent. You can't make something cheaper than free - there's no incentive for someone to go to an urgent care facility in place of an ER.

Comment Re:Fuck Obamacare (Score 0) 723

Well, there were really two options on the table:

1. We allow emergency rooms to refuse treatment to anyone who cannot provide proof of insurance. That would likely include anyone in a bad accident whose wallet/ID didn't remain on them. I'm sure we could start embedding RFID tags into the chest of every human being to carry their identity and insurance information, but short of that, I'm open to your suggestion on how else we determine who to treat and who to turn away.

2. We force everyone to carry insurance as a cost of living in this country, realizing that as a first world nation we aren't going to let people die in the streets, but letting them go to the emergency room every time they have a sniffle is unsustainable. Or worse yet, have people who do get into a bad accident just skip out on the bill and declare bankruptcy.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. There's literally no possible way that forcing everyone to buy insurance can cost us more than having people without insurance use the ER as their regular doctors visits short of a criminal act of swindling by the insurance companies and/or hospitals.

Comment gg (Score 1) 116

Seriously, he's determining the amount of trolling going on by the number of people saying GG at the end of games? The biggest trolls I've faced have said "gg", that's half the schtick. They say "gg" just to rub in the fact that they're assholes. How about you start by killing the taunt/laugh/talking shit after the first 30 seconds of the game? The trolls have simply evolved, they now know all they have to do is talk trash in the post-game lobby, and spam everyone with annoying taunting/laughing all game, and they'll never get in trouble, because Riot doesn't give you any option to report a player for any troll-ish action beyond all chat content. gg

Comment Re:Did Fluke request this? (Score 4, Informative) 653

So hobbyists in the electronics business have never heard or seen fluke? Seriously, that's what you're going with? ANYONE that has spent 30 seconds looking for a multimeter has come across fluke, and every one of their multimeters are the same color. You'd struggle to make something look anymore similar to their multimeters short of putting the fluke name on the front.

I'll give you a hint - the guy who works for sparkfun in the comments section of his own blog post said:

Yea, it’s hard to say whether Fluke has done such an amazing job at branding that we all think Fluke yellow is the color of DMMs or if they are simply capitalizing on a color arrangement we all generically know as ‘multimeter’.

They knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

Comment Re:Did Fluke request this? (Score 3, Informative) 653

Not to mention I find it nearly IMPOSSIBLE a company that's getting into the multimeter business had no idea that they were making a product that looks identical to one of, if not THE biggest player in the market segment. You know these things were destined for ebay "multimeter, just like fluke only cheaper!"

Comment Re:obvious reason (Score 1) 101

Or I live in a large city whith the options of Comcast or Centurylink. Centurlyink doesn't provide anything faster than 7mbps (advertised) - which actually works out to about 5mbps by the time it hits your door step and struggles to stream anything in high def without buffering indefinitely. So I have one option of Comcast if I want a connection that's faster than what was offered a DECADE ago. Which is about the exact situation 90% of the US broadband market currently faces.

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