Pythagoras

Best of luck in the job search. If he wants to move to Miami for a bitcoin-related startup, let me know.

Ok Luso, I am officially convinced. Let's do this.

This. Our medical world is one giant cycle of charging too much and haggling down and increasing prices and haggling down over and over again. Capitalism dictates that insurance companies are in the business to get paid - they have a large incentive to screw over their clients because it's good for the bottom line. Way high prices for the uninsured do a good job of coercing people to buy insurance. Of course the system is broken (actually, I think it's working exactly how it was designed....just broken for us) but allowing ourselves to be coerced into having health insurance is fiscally prudent, at this juncture, should something go wrong - but in the meantime, we should work to reform it. I also think the ACA fails at this reformation, and I do NOT think it's okay to force someone to buy a product.... but I'm not sure what the answer is.

I can give you a gallon of gasoline for a dime..... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaeRZ4S2Orw

Yes, college insurance plans are sufficient for Obamacare standards (I just went through this myself). For example, Rutgers contracts directly with United Healthcare so the college health insurance is actually UHC policy. You even get a card straight from UHC- it's exactly as if you are insured through your job, but instead of having it through XYZ Company, you have it through the school. Depending on the price, this may not be cost-effective. My college student plan was a little barebones for my taste (I have asthma and have had a few surgeries so I need good coverage for checkups), but it is definitely sufficient to avoid the penalty. I don't know what your school situation is, but Rutgers forces all of its students above a certain credit number (I think above halftime but don't quote me on it) to have health insurance - either through them or an external source - as a condition of enrollment. Check if your college has any requirement like that so you don't get burned when you try to register for class next term. If no requirement, then like others have said- Obamacare has no teeth unless you get a refund, so going without insurance may be an option for you without penalty. But the upside of college insurance plans is you can go to the student clinic as many times as you need without copay (at least at RU) because it's all paid for by student fees well over the cost to run the place. Definitely consider using student clinic for non-dire concerns.

Truth. But all the gun fail makes me cringe more than the zombies....

Amazon Prime is so boss, for all of the above enumerated reasons. The Student version is so worth it for free shipping on all those textbooks I have to keep buying.

A big thank you to all who have served.

That whole scene was full of fail. The guns chilling outside, Carl using an M4 in live combat against zombies for the VERY first time (didn't even know how to load it before) and scoring instant headshots.... using full auto against zombies instead of well-placed semiauto fire? /facepalm

Cue vladtepes doing a happy dance

Devious!

Does there exist at least one way in which it possible for a visually-impaired person to use a firearm safely? In my view, yes. Therefore, they have every right in the world to own and carry one, so long as they use it in a safe manner.

Those evil geniuses!

I think you're right. California's ruling is completely null and void in light of the "recent" jurisprudence. Let's hope everyone else realizes it....

New Jersey's laws have sucked since before I was born. I wasn't, and still am not, about to commit felonies to disobey purchasing laws that predate my birth in this state- not even you would recommend I do that. It seems to me that like Cali just took the good old fashioned "the founders only meant muskets" bullspit to get their foot in the door toward banning all semiautos. I really hope the Californians start being civilly disobedient. Likewise, if NJ tried that it's civil disobedience time. P.S. Actually no, I don't live in Jersey anymore. Nothing but sunshine and gunshine now....

+1. His analysis of the politics involved is so good.

That's kind of what I was thinking. If I lived in Cali, this would be Molon Labe time

I will never set foot in California. Shame on them.

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Yup, people always forget Staten Island. My mother (native Brooklynite who moved to Staten Island for a decade) told me a fun fact: Staten Island is actually closer to NJ than NY and its ownership was originally disputed. The only reason it's city property and not NJ is because they had a boat race, winner gets the island, and the NY boat won.

Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for the report! How's the weather up there this time of year?

Hysterical!

Does anything make sense in this state?

Thank you! Sorry for my part in the thread-jack