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Just because your premium tripled doesn't mean the cost of the plan tripled. Your employer probably just decided to pass the whole cost increase onto you.

Assuming we're talking about pre-conviction and not the horrible state of the prisons, what is wrong with the US justice system?

Heh, I got into a major accident at 17 doing exactly this. Some guy in the right lane let me out, and I got wasted by someone in the left lane who was trying to go around that guy's stopped vehicle.

You have to be a teacher for a number of years before you get tenure and the union really starts protecting you. http://www.gadailynews.com/news/6184...-facebook.html That picture (taken in a different country, and posted on her "private" Facebook) got her fired.

Teachers get fired for anything that might suggest to the Morality Brigade that you aren't pure enough to teach their little angels. If you're a mid-20s teacher just out of school and don't have tenure yet, you can't even go to bars because if you're seen there by the wrong person they'll raise...

Does anyone know if they're using the current DAoC interface or if they actually found a way to force the interface from way back then? There's a lot of stuff enabled by the new interface that you couldn't do with the old. Swapping from S/S to 2H with one button press is the most important one I...

Apparently well done is the most popular steak order by far and plain "rare" is so, well, rare that wait staff often assume "well" when they hear a one-syllable word they didn't quite catch. This is what an Outback waitress told me, anyways.

That breaks even with the total costs of this specific drug. They also have to recoup their losses of all the ones they spent billions on and didn't pan out.

Because the rest of the world won't pay $80. The only thing preventing Americans from getting the treatment course for $5 is our patent and copyright laws, which don't apply anywhere else. Europe's socialized health care systems will offer this company the manufacturing cost plus 50%. They wont...

Seriously though, while the profit margins of pharma companies are absurdly high compared to most other companies, they're still in the realm of 20-25%. You can't just lop a zero off the price of all their new products and expect them to remain in business.

Manufacturing the pills costs nothing, they just need to recoup their R&D costs. So yeah, once Americans pay for the R&D the third world can definitely get it for cheap.

I can't believe this is still going. Cesium doesn't bioaccumulate like mercury, it gets flushed out just like the sodium and potassium ions do.

Druids have regular haste. Every realm gets multiple haste buffs, but different kinds of haste buff don't stack. Celerity stacks with haste which is why it's so good, and in 1.62 only Midgard gets it. They added it to Paladins and Wardens in 1.83.

That's what Determination is for. Stun lasts less than half a second and mez lasts 4-5 with maxed out Det on a light tank. Healers get AoE mez, AoE stun, and insta-cast versions of both. However that's all in Pacification spec and if they really manage to enforce the ban on buffbots I don't...

Determination is an ability that reduces the duration of crowd control spells by something like 80%, I forget the exact number. Charge makes you immune to crowd control and makes you run at speed 3. Casters are completely pointless against charge groups as you just get steamrolled over...

Yeah, if they're running 1.62, play Midgard. Caster groups are useless because you can't CC det/charge light tanks or even slow them down at all, and Midgard has the best melee classes. If I remember correctly in this patch Midgard has celerity but the other realms don't have it at all, which...

Compared to Paladins in Old Frontiers? Yeah they're complete shit. Both classes don't do much of anything on keep sieges, but that's true of all melee classes. I'm not sure if the celerity line of buffs and chants are implemented yet at whatever historical point this server is starting at...

I'm wondering if they're going to simplify the PvE endgame. People bitch about ToA, but SI endgame PvE items are also pretty gamebreaking, especially if you use them in ways they're not intended. The Albion cleric chestpiece has a ~1200 HP HoT heal reactive proc, which is more than half your HP...

Phoenix equated drunk driving with murderous intent and said you should get executed for it. Not just this kid's crime specifically, all drunk driving.

I disagree. Texting and driving is the example I used because its clearly and obviously much easier to avoid doing. There's no possibility for confusion at all. Also, I'm not trying to say that because texting is worse, that DUI is somehow OK. But the fact is, if this kid had instead had his...

I don't "support" drunk driving, I just took exception to his assertion that it constitutes intent tonkill. That DUI is somehow worse than all the other irresponsible things you could possibly do that get someone killed that it should be the exception and count as murder instead of manslaughter...

I don't have any. I've never driven balls out drunk, I just can't say for sure I've never ever driven at 0.08.

Also, I really should point out that the kid didn't "get off" in a legal sense, he was convicted. The judge just gave him a super-lenient sentence. This type of thing is going to happen from time to time when you give judges as much leeway in sentencing as we do. What do you want to do to fix...

Oh, please. The fanaticism about drunk driving has become goddamn ridiculous. It's not about public safety anymore, just about the demonization of alcohol consumption in general. There's a whole list of things that you can do in a car that are just as dangerous or more dangerous that people do...

When my mom visits my place, she will rant for 15 minutes on how wasteful I am because she found a 1/3rd full can of coke that went flat and will have to be thrown away. I have caught my dad rummaging through his neighbors trash for cans to return to the store for the deposit. Did I mention he...

This is especially bad when the movie is also clearly funded by the military in order to increase recruitment. Top Gun, anyone?

I'm pretty convinced that she's upset that her husband is spending more money on himself than he is on her. She's definitely the one that wears the pants in that relationship. She always talks about stuff like this with her female coworkers that I can hear, last week she was talking about how...

I just ran into this at work too, and probably made some enemies because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. One of the lab assistants was complaining about how her husband was spending too much on "guy stuff" for Christmas and I said "you know, maybe you should back off a bit, I mean he's an...

They also obviously can't collect from someone who is unemployed, getting paid under the table, or is an actual serious criminal like a drug dealer or something. I'd bet that comprises the majority of deadbeat dads, to be honest.

5 semesters of calc plus diffeq was the reason I abandoned CS as a career path. Do you ever actually use advanced calc when writing code?

Even worse are all the "credit amnesty" car commercials with testimonials from absolute train wrecks of individuals. "I can't even make the minimum payments on my credit cards, but (insert dealership here) got me approved for a new car!"

I've brought it up, but she insists its been like that for years and if she was "sick" it would have gotten better or worse by now. I obviously can't see what she eats but she'll show up in 3 layers of clothing and run her space heater when everyone is in short sleeves and still shiver. She gets...

Some people really do have a much lower basal metabolic rate than others and burn far less calories doing nothing than other people burn doing nothing. They also have a harder time exercising because their body just doesn't produce as much energy and they hit the wall at a much lower level of...

"Shhh.....over the next ninety minutes, I'd like to show you how all your problems can be solved by my penis."

Has anyone also noticed that at least 75% of the chicks on POF and OKC are smokers? It's phenomenally annoying if you're disgusted by it as much as I am.

I wouldn't go this far, but you definitely want to see a lawyer and have him explain to you what kind of deal you can expect to get if you both fight versus the deal you think you have on the table right now. The fact is, with kids involved, if you both hire "pitbull" attorneys and go for each...

You should read up on how the obscenity laws work. Pornography is actually illegal in the US, the government just doesn't enforce it unless the media takes notice of something or someone in the industry is stupid enough to get into a dick-measuring contest with them.

Went to a car dealer, test drove a 2014 model car. Asked for a price on it. They gave me one, I said I'd think about it and left. The next day I called them and said if they brought the price down to X I'd buy it, they said OK. Went in, and after I'd spent an hour going through related paperwork...

I dunno about this, I've had routers that either leaked memory or some other shit so they got slower and slower the longer they ran, power cycling them always got me back up to speed.

This whole argument is weird. BDSM for money is good, fucking on the first date is bad vs. BDSM for money is bad, fucking on the first date is good?