It's pretty remarkable that Texas and California seem to elect the scummiest people possible to the Senate. I guess that's what happens when you have a massive population of mostly apathetic voters?
I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).
>I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).
Removing national government representation would be more antithetical to democracy than anything that's going on now. A better solution, in my opinion, would probably be new state redistricting. Voters are apathetic because they feel their votes don't count due to overwhelming concentrations of opposing viewpoints, which probably should be split off into their own states (Bay Area, New York City, so on).
There's nothing really wrong with Barbara Boxer, and she's retiring this year anyways. Sure California has one bad senator, but when you can only have two at a time, it's hard to even out one mistake.
If I understand correctly, ETF and index fund are orthogonal terms. An ETF is traded on the stock market -- in contrast to a mutual fund which you have to buy through other channels.
An index fund tracks an index rather than being actively managed.
I don't know about VSGAX specifically, but it could be both an ETF and an index fund.
I don't use OSX I use elementary OS and I installed everything but it says incorrect password and I have no damn clue what the default password is because while installation it didn't ask me for a password!
What documentation or tutorial were you following? The first thing you need to do is create a user (or act as the postgres user on your os) and if the doc or tutorial was an official one, it should be made more clear and you should file a bug, if it wasn't then you should contact the owner and tell them their tutorial isn't clear.
They get around it by claiming your house or car (or whatever) is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately, inanimate objects can't represent themselves in court.
As much as I like to beat on the MSM, they did pick it up; plenty of major publications (the Economist, the New Yorker, USA Today, Forbes, the WSJ, PBS, NPR, and many more) had articles on it before John Oliver's episode.
I don't see how this is a middle class failure issue. We should prescribe less opiates, full stop. Without over prescription this issue would not exist.
No. We'd be giving people who have chronic pain better treatment of that pain without addicting them to opioids.
People with long term pain need rapid access to pain management clinics. They often need to detox off the not-working opioids they were previously prescribed. Then they need to start running through the other alternative.
You're making the mistake of thinking that people addicted to opioids are also getting pain relief from those opioids, when actually they still have the pain, and then they have the problems of an addiction on top.
You are going to find always consumers of cheap money. That's a fact. Specially if you going searching for them actively as the banks did before the crisis.
There is a reason because controls have to be in the side of the lender.
Banks, and everyone else, are always going to be greedy. The source of the problem was not greed (that is a constant) but deregulation, that have not been properly corrected.
I don't think it's legal to import prescription drugs from overseas, FYI. So it might not be a good idea to discuss the transaction with your CC provider.
> I don't think it's legal to import prescription drugs from overseas, FYI. So it might not be a good idea to discuss the transaction with your CC provider.
Doctors can import prescriptions drugs from other countries if they wish too, with a special import form to justify the exception.
That's the whole idea of patents, isn't it? Just like you can't import medicine that infringes patents you also cannot parallel import iPhones or start making jeans and attach a Levi's tag to it...
edit @aikah: ok, point taken. You recall the issues Apple and Samsung had with the one phone looking like the other? Fighting on the streets and in court to prove that the edges were different or the home button is not the same? Patents are valid for phones, then why not for medicine? Because lives are involved? That seems a slippery argument - next animal life is endangered or quality of living is impacted: where does it stop?
It's not possible to start making exceptions, because there is always someone with a tear-jerking story who is impacted by not being excepted too...
> That's the whole idea of patents, isn't it? Just like you can't import medicine that infringes patents you also cannot parallel import iPhones or start making jeans and attach a Levi's tag to it...
That's not a good analogy. one could make an phone that has the exact same specs as the iphone or jeans that is the exact replica of a Levi's ,without the brand and the logo on it and it would not be an iPHone or a Levi's Jean.
it might not be legal but it wouldn't be shocking. The fact that you can't reproduce a formula ... TO SAVE LIVES ... is shocking.
US government prefers people dying because they can't afford meds rather than violating something that has nothing to do with the free market, ie , patents. We're not talking about phones or clothes here , we're talking about medication people's life depend on.
>That's not a good analogy. one could make an phone that has the exact same specs as the iphone or jeans that is the exact replica of a Levi's ,without the brand and the logo on it and it would not be an iPHone or a Levi's Jean.
I'm not sure this is true. You'd likely fall afoul of one of Apple's design patents (like the famous "rounded corners" patent).
Well if they doubled the price of iPods in order to manufacture them inside the United States, no one would buy an iPod and the product would fail.
That's not to say American manufacturing would cause the price to double, just pointing out that where you manufacture something is an important part of the product planning process.
I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).