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Reply to there are two reasons why medical costs are high in the USA in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]you are right, but the doctors tend to raise their prices every year by the same amount. Medicaid or no Medicaid. at least that is what I think is happening.[/quote] Most companies raise their prices by about 3% due to that being considered the standard increase in cost of living per year. However, if this is what you are thinking is raising medical costs, I don't buy it. Medical Insurance rates raise way more than 3% a year. Why is that? It's due t

Reply to i am not illiterate nor stupid nor an idiot in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]as I have said before I do think differently than most people. I see a bigger picture than most do. probable because I don't trust people. [/quote] LOL. You think that most people are closed minded? How do you see a bigger picture than the rest of us? [quote]maybe I shouldn't have inserted that word. but I did. and to me that sort of statement is an excuse, or reason why I am not something.[/quote] The problem is that you don't read what people wri

Reply to we are talking about telling people in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]and your right i should have said all non-slave males. not everyone. [/quote] Sorry, but that is not a simple mistake. There is a HUGE difference between "everyone" and "just 'non-slave' males".

Reply to Brad's New Years Resolutions for business in Blogging JoeUser Forums

9. I will not call my customers dumb-asses But, sometimes customers are dumb-asses. Buying something from a company does not make your opinion automatically correct, nor does it allow you to say whatever you want to people who work at said company.

Reply to we are talking about telling people in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Learn a little history Daniel. In the 13 Original Colonies (before the U.S.), [/quote] Oh, my.... Dani, you need to learn a bit of history. "Ex-slaves" (as you put it) gained the right to vote with the 15th Amendment, which was passed in 1870 (we had 37 states at the time). Women didn't have the right to vote until the 19th Amendment, which was in frikkin' 1920. There were all of the continental 48 states by that time! BTW,

Reply to Brad's New Years Resolutions for business in Blogging JoeUser Forums

8. I'm going to not air my company's dirty laundry in a public place. It's probably obvious to the our internal employees, which people are going lose descision making power, and it probably makes them feel like shit to see it posted publicly. It's not "dirty laundry", it's just business. When we were smaller, Brad was the only one set

Reply to i am not illiterate nor stupid nor an idiot in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]but you seem to think yours are worse than anyone else's who doesn't [/quote] I don't. Hell, I know there are millions of people who are far worse off than I am, and I deal with all sorts of hell everyday (medically). If I sat around feeling sorry for myself and using it as an excuse, I'd probably be 400 lbs and watching TV all day. Instead, I pull my ass out of bed and go to work each day even if I feel like I got run over by a semi in my s

Reply to This is Who Will Be Choosing Our President?! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

then why do you have the company logo by your name. unless of course your brads wife. which still sets you apart from the normal joe-shmoe. I think she has been pretty clear about the fact that she is Brad's wife. However, living with somebody does not instantly transfer their talents. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="

Reply to A Broken Back in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Unless, this is fiction, then... A great piece of writing!!! Unfortunately, I don't think it is unless all her other articles are, too. How about you just don't buy the pot instead of possibly getting popped for pushing and going to jail? gah...I don't even know where to start with this one....

Reply to Mike Hucakbee is the Antichrist. in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]I know you can track my IP address, Angela, I have a couple documented cases where you did it before. I need to have a talk with Brad about this soon, I don’t think it's quite on the up and up, you made some people very unhappy.[/quote] Say what? And, how did I get pulled into this? Anyway, since you act like you have a clue of who I am and who Brad is...then you surely know that I am the VP of Operations at the company that owns this site so I have access to all

Reply to This is Who Will Be Choosing Our President?! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

No more appalling than conservatives voting for there religion. Both sides vote for religion. At least that is a passion. Voting because having a minority as a president is "cool", or for free stuff because you don't want to be responsible for yourself? Not exactly the same. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=cent

Reply to Where the hell is customer support!! in TweakVista & 7 WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Stardock support is the worst support ever on the whole planet I mean it just because I gave my opinion regarding a stupid thing that someone violated the terms and it weren't reviewed a Stardock employee content and the other approval they are deleting each one of my comments![/quote] Uh...that has nothing to do with Stardock Support. You are talking about site moderation, not product support (which is what "Stardock Support" is)- those two are COMPLETELY different.

Reply to New Babies! in Pet Care JoeUser Forums

[quote]Have a Merry Christmas, Karma!! Where are you?[/quote] Merry Christmas to you, too!!!! I've been hiding under a rock. I like it under here. It protects me from the 60+ hour weeks I've been working lately! lol How have ya' been? I need to post new pictures of the pups. They are almost grow...though they really don't look a lot different.

Reply to What Kind of Doozies Lurk Under Your Tree? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm always thankful that people think of me at Christmas and spend the time to purchase anything at all. I think it's insane how much importance people put on the gift giving during Christmas, anyway. Personally, I'd rather have a unique bad gift than to get a gift certificate. Gift Certificates just seem like a cop out- why not just give people money instead?

Reply to What can I say? I’m a taker in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I'm looking at it right now. That was an awesome gift. Yeah...well..you're getting a gift card to Panera Bread this year. KarmaGirl ducks

Reply to Helping to Make Christmas More Politically Correct in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Happy Christmakwanzukkah! Oh no! You mixed Kwanzaa in between two religious holidays! Oh, how un-PC! Ack.... I'm not Christian, but: MERRY CHRISTMAS! Last I checked, over 80% of the US identifies themselves as Christian. That's a legal super majority...so..deal with it.

Reply to What can I say? I’m a taker in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hmmm..interesting. However, I have to ask (since I'm evil): how much thought do you put into the gifts that go to the people that are giving you the generic gifts? And by that, I mean "you" not the "we" of you and your wife. I ask that because my husband does virtually nothing in the way of thinking about presents for other people, so I tell him he can't whine if that is what he gets on return ;p I know that I don't fall in the list of generic gift cards con

Reply to Christmas With No 'X' in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Thank-you for presenting what 'is so readily available' on the Internet. [/quote] Just about everything is readily available on the internet, so what's your point (if you actually have one at all). [quote]Mithra was born a grown-up, but you won't hear the copycatters mention this!'[/quote] ummm...paganism existed prior to Christ's birth. I'm really not sure how you can say that anyone is "copying" anyone else. When you really look at all religion

Reply to Christmas With No 'X' in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]I know many scholars that believe he may have been born in the fall, maybe in late fall. [/quote] Sorry, meant fall. John 1:14 suggests that he was born during the Feast of Tabernacles (late Sept, early Oct.) Luke 2:22 says that shepherds were in the field keeping watch over the flock by night (which they would have brought the flock in to shelter during that cold month). So, you even know that December 25th is not his Birthday, so why do you still cel

Reply to Christmas With No 'X' in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Wow...everyone just skips over all the pagan stuff I posted, huh? Oh well, religious appropriation occurs all the time. It's not a bad thing...I'm just one for putting things into perspective. [/quote] Naw, I'm right with ya'. I have long wondered why Christians so willingly celebrate a false birthday. I mean, by the bible's own account, Jesus was born in spring not in winter, and definitely not December 25th. So, why do Christians so willing celebrate a fa

Reply to Buy A Premium Suite, Get Winter Wonderland FREE in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]it was the iconpackage that really sucked me in. . . . [/quote] Those are Voo's icons. He hasn't been around in awhile, but he got sucked into Stardock Design...the force was too strong. lol The rest of the suite was made by MikeB. The Start menu animation cracks me up every time I open my start menu. Still not sure where the snowman's arms and nose come from...

Reply to My Six Year Old is 7 lbs Overweight...say that again Doc? in Parenting JoeUser Forums

The weight thing is such a problem with kids. My daughter eats everything that I can get her to eat, and by their charts, she is 4 pounds underweight. However, she looks, body wise, just like I did at her age, and she's super active and muscular. Luckily, my Pediatrician is not concerned at this point and sees her as being "healthy". Does your daughter resemble you or your husband at that age? If so, did the person that she resembles grow out of the "little pot

Reply to Is Your Network Engineer's Hair Important? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Hehe- GoDaddy sounds a lot like Stardock. We have a couple dress code rules- you have to be dressed, and you have to have something on your feet. We also prefer that people bathe since stinky people are bad. However, we did have an employee that left here and went to a big company. He went from having long hair and a crazy beard to clean shaven and short hair. Just didn't seem right.

Reply to Has global warming become a religion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hmm.. wait a second. I think they have created a technology that allowed, from a sample of skin, to grow in laboratory large amount of skins. Couldn't we do the same with cow meat? The actual animals would be breeded in the best situation, which favor the quality of the meat, and then we could collect samples of them and grow steaks in laboratory... Ye know, simply growing the tissu... all I can say to that is EWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That is a rea

Reply to Has global warming become a religion? in Politics JoeUser Forums

QFT. However, if the industry is given incentive to invent ways to either reduce animal emissions, it is a distinct possibility that they can find a way. Maybe create biospheres.. I don't know. But they won't lift a finger (except the theorical peoples who wants to feel good about it) if they don't have a reason to move their asses about it. An easier solution would be to eat less meat. Where does almost 1/3 of the CO2 emissions come from