Yeah, pretty much. But in this case, I will put my money on the hull of a schooner. Old piece of garbage got dumped there wholesale I'll wage.

150 years ago:
Person A: "Hey, we need landfill. Do you want this leaky decrepit hulk any more?"
Person B "Give me 20 bucks and it's yours."
Person A: "Here you go, thanks! That'll make great landfill and as long as anyone doesn't try to dig a giant tunnel through here, we're set!

Some badguy once said that the way to win a battle was "He who gets there fustest with the mostest". That typically works pretty well for most human endeavors. We should want a scramble to get to the moon. Human innovation, powered by greed, has typically been the best catalyst for moving forward. I fail to see why this would be any different.

The UN would undoubtedly screw it up, as would any other controlling agency. So for the time being, leave it uncontrolled. It causes no harm and may do good.

"I came here with a simple dream. A dream of killing all humans." B.B. Rodriguez

that left tens of millions without health insurance

At this rate, it's highly likely that there will be more uninsured in the U.S. over the next few years than over the last few years. That's what happens when you make a product significantly more expensive and more difficult to sell and to purchase.

If you think things are bad now, wait until next year when the business mandate that Obama unilaterally delayed kicks in. That's going to be even worse for the people who already had insurance....

The real question is why the Democrats needed to take over the entire health insurance industry if the goal was to just help pay for insurance for a few million folks that didn't have it and wanted it. You could have covered that with a check just out of what's been spent on the federal and state ACA exchanges.

The reality is that this has always been about the Dems making a federal power grab over health insurance and the health industry. That was never going to do anything but make the already massive government-induced problems in the insurance and health industries worse.

If it's a small office, you can use Ethernet over power lines. I have not used it before, but it seems to be what you are looking for.

That being said, it's difficult to give up the 1000 Mb connections from modern ethernet cables, along with POE for phones, etc. The designer by not putting ethernet cables in place did your business a disservice. A secure business requires secure ethernet.

You may want to also factor in that insurance in NY is much more expensive than in many other parts of the country. The OP didn't specify a location, so it's difficult to tell, but I've had plans on the individual market before that were $350/month for a family of 6 in one state (after paying $1300/month in a high cost state), so $165/month for an younger individual doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

Now, of course, the whole country is being forced into NY/NJ/MA-style expensive plans, so that all goes way up...

It's called John's Phone. They seem to be a bit on the out of business side however. Still, it was a good idea. It's just a cell phone. Nothing else. No address book, no texting, no surfing. Just a phone. With 2 week battery time.

I'll stick with gold. Thanks.

That's funny. Pheasants also freak out at my 16 gauge.

I would eat some mummy meat. I bet it might be tasty.

Heh. In more practical terms, it would be cool to figure out what went into making this meat. We could eat ancient Egyptian meat, much in the same way that we enjoy Midas Touch from Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales.

I wish I had mod points. The only thing I would add to this is:

1. The cost of keeping people in prison and the rise of the prison-industrial complex. People make millions off of other Americans' misery.

2. The absolute disgrace of sentencing CHILDREN to adult prison. No attempt at rehabilitation. No effort made to protect their freedoms - which is unconscionable, as we remove their rights to pursue their particular happiness.

The prison system in the United States should make each and every one of us physically ill.

Did you read the page I linked to?
"... the increase in dishwasher efficiency has, in the past, resulted in longer cycle times, as machines are forced to stretch less heated water over longer periods to get dishes clean. Following the last Energy Star specification update in August 2009, a few of the models we tested required three hours per load."

It's a simple trade-off for heating efficiency... if you heat less, but wait longer for the heat to be absorbed over time, you'll be more energy efficient, but take longer to finish.

It's not a big mystery...think of driving your car. If you accelerate quickly and drive faster, you'll get places faster, but use more fuel. If you want to be more "efficient" in your fuel use, one way is to end up getting places slower and being less time efficient. That's the simplest way for manufacturer's to meet energy star standards without any fundamental changes in how their product works.

Of course, those estimates are wildly inaccurate, to the point of being worse than no estimates at all....

Notice that following the estimate process, you get told about possible subsidies repeatedly, but that never once do they ask for your age? Wait, isn't that one of the most important things to determine what your premium will be??? Ooops.... it's almost like they're just quoting based on an assumption that you're 27 years old or something like that...

I know this is /., but some of us have a family with kids, etc... and not only need to do more than one load of dishes a day, but occasionally want to re-use dishes for preparing the next meal...