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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Effort to recall Arpaio fails
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on: June 02, 2013, 10:44:44 PM
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Anti "profiling" measures are the dumbest things ever.
If you take intelligent crime prevention off the table, why not just replace police officers with a monkey and roulette wheel?
Monkeys are strong (you're not getting away) and roulette wheels are random and non-profiling.
Since my elderly grandmother is just as likely to be committing criminal acts as any other thug in Detroit it only makes sense that she is just as likely to be suspected of committing a crime. Roulette wheels would give her this equal suspicion.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Detroit
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on: June 02, 2013, 04:10:48 PM
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You can buy a 2,500 sq ft house for a couple grand.
Bodybuilding related: The Redford theatre holds many local bbing contests. Sadly, as bad as that area is, it's definitely on the better half as far as Detroit areas go.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Delusional people are not just found on bbing sites...
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on: May 29, 2013, 05:54:36 PM
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Sure it does, if you have a car and get ready to sell it and others of your model and condition are selling for 5-6k would you list yours at 3? Probably not, the market tells you that you should be asking 5-6. Besides, almost nobody gets their asking price anyway.  Delusional people don't think that way...which is the point of this thread. You're welcome to start a "normal thinking and appropriate rationale" thread if you want.
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Getbig Main Boards / Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Wife An RN: Email From Her CEO...Read it!
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on: May 29, 2013, 10:02:11 AM
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You'll be hard pressed to find anyone in the medical industry who's job involves anything related to its financial aspects (administration, owning a practice, insurance, etc) who speaks highly of ACA.
Go to any of the "doctor forums" (doctorshangout, towniecentral, even the studentdoctor.net forums) and you'll see thread after thread about how to survive ACA, concern that they have to cut employees, is it worth buying a practice?, did I pick the wrong profession?, etc.
I'm sure a lot of people will write it off with "oh boo hoo...some doctor might not be as mega-rich as he used to be," but it's much more than that. You want your doctors to be rich...you want every intelligent person who also wants to be rich to want to go to medical school, because that keeps standards high enough for the dumb ones to not be accepted. You want cardiologists to have enough earning potential that every top student available is fighting for a cardiology fellowship...so that the piss-poor prospects are turned down.
Medicine isn't a "knowledge for the sake of knowledge" field. It CAN'T be...it's not a research field. Surgery is a job, not research. The upside is pay, not publications. When you are lying in cardiac surgery, you want to know that your surgeon had to earn his position because he was better than the many other intelligent people fighting for his residency spots.
You want to know that he chose to spend 4 years in undergrad, 4 years in medical school, 7 years in general surgery residence, and 3 more years as a cardiothoracic resident because the end reward was a very good one (and the fact that he didn't choose RESEARCH means that money was a large part of that)...and also that MANY other bright minds were vying for the same residency positions.
You DO NOT want to wonder if the only reason he's there is because he was convinced through various government grants and government "loan re-payment" plans to spend 10 more years AFTER medical school becoming your cardiac surgeon. *The sad part is that with the cost of school skyrocketing, the "loan repayment/indentured servant" option already has the infrastructure securely in place.
There's a lot of things wrong with the medicine/insurance industry...but the ACA (as far as I can tell) is going to do nothing but hurt people who don't deserve it (the people who are going to be calling two part-time jobs the new "normal"), lead to a lower standard-of-care future (don't forget that the future cardiac surgeons choosing to become engineers instead won't be absent from the operating room for some 15+ years from now), and cause the current force of medical professionals to tell their children "don't grow up and become a doctor like me."
Maybe I'm wrong....if it ends up being an all around success, I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong. Unfortunately, nothing has pointed in that direction thus far.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: Delusional people are not just found on bbing sites...
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on: May 28, 2013, 09:21:47 AM
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There's a 1993 Dodge D250 with over 400,000 miles on it listed on Craigslist near me for $21,999.
I'm assuming the guy thinks that because it's a Cummins 12v he'll have buyers clamoring over it. I'm sure there's plenty of hillbillies who'd love to get their hands on a nice 12v...but you can buy a billet block crate engine 12v for less than $22k...and not have 400,000 miles of engine to pull out of a rusted '93 dodge.
The truck hasn't been taken care of and neither has the engine...so this isn't some redneck's "baby" first gen.
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Getbig Main Boards / Gossip & Opinions / Re: what the F*ck happened to the UK??
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on: May 25, 2013, 09:15:29 AM
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bollocks
two nutjobs murder a soldier
sharia law being practiced??
not true at all
police were there in 9 minutes but had to wait for the armed police to get there
You have unarmed police? What's the point of that? Do people pay attention to what they say or just laugh? Sounds like a waste of money when the police have to wait for the armed police to show up
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