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Tell Me About Texas a&m
The only thing missing from that game was a pimp cane.
- 2024 Axis of Evil (OU, ARK, aggy) Gameday Thread
- 2024 Axis of Evil (OU, ARK, aggy) Gameday Thread
- 2024 Axis of Evil (OU, ARK, aggy) Gameday Thread
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SEC Catch-all Thread
- USN beats USN
You can't tell from radar if an AC is piloted or not. You can get clues from size and flight profile, but it can't distinguish piloted vs unpiloted. Aegis is good, but not that good. But this also goes back to my theory... operator had one contact "hooked," somehow got mixed up, and made engagement decision based on data from another contact. That's what happened with VINCENNES.- USN beats USN
Ever hear of Houthis?- USN beats USN
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I would be shocked if it was CIWS that engaged. CIWS only engages threats with very specific flight profile and closing speed indexed to own ship. It is a 100% self-defense weapon and cannot be used to engage targets headed towards other ships in company. I highly doubt that a friendly F/A-18F would fly a path towards the CG that would meet engagement criteria for CIWS. My Navy SWO speculation is that this smells a lot like VINCENNES incident where an operator had one contact hooked but was reading data for another contact and engaged with SM-2 based on the wrong data.- SEC Catch-all Thread
Coulda thrown a “real UT” gag in there, but they continue to have no clue how to deal with the Texas dilemma. They know they can’t really claim us as SEC, nor can they acknowledge that Texas has repeatedly shat upon the SEC dominance argument over the past six years. So yeah, go ahead and tell yourselves that the Tennessee loss set that argument back if it makes you feel better. Mentioning Texas would have ruined the already weak bit.- Skeleton Crew (Star Wars Disney+ show)
I am so disappointed in myself for not catching this reference sooner.- Colonoscopy
Not 100% true. I went for a nice brunch after my procedure and before chowing down made a stop in the restroom to "decompress", and it came out a bit "lubey".- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Lifestyle choices are not limited to food choices or drug and alcohol use. They are not necessarily a judgment on "character." The fact that we are an automobile society with limited public transportation means that traffic deaths contribute significantly to our lower life expectancy. The fact that we are a gun culture with the attendant homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths brings our life expectancy down - could be argued that this speaks to character.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
I didn't mean to paint a rosy picture of the US Healthcare system. It's pretty bleak. I'm just pointing out that a country with a 70+ year old universal health care system has major problems as well. Which takes me back to my initial point I started with. Health care is a hard problem to solve.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
That's not the point I was making in my post, but I think you know that. My point was that the relatively poor numbers for US life expectancy and health outcomes as compared to other countries have more to do with lifestyle choices than the quality and quantity of care provided by our healthcare system.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
I'm not insane... I just live in the real world where governments are hamstrung when it comes to cutting budgets when the economy tanks. When a business hits hard times, it can cut costs and make adjustments. If the government is in the business of being a single payer for a health care system, it does not have the luxury of immediately cutting spending when revenues go down. It goes into deficit spending. NHS took it in the shorts from 2007-2009. The reductions in 2010 had to happen for austerity purposes. The fact that there weren't actually cuts was a testament to the government's dedication to the program. Now this is being thrown back in the government's face as a "slash" in spending.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
But that's not how GOVERNMENTS work.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
I have a minor in economics and consider it a bit of a hobby. Not to mention that I also have an MBA. I fully understand the math and the mechanisms being discussed. What I question is the hyperbolic language being applied and the assumptions that go into declaring a "funding gap."- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
No.... I'm not bad at math at all. But I am intimately familiar with the inefficiencies of government agencies that work outside the constraints of profit. I've been in the belly of the beast. Your example has faulty assumptions. It assumes that 1) I need X amount of goods and 2) that every dollar spent on X amount of goods was spent efficiently to maximize utility. It also assumes that my employer has an unlimited capacity to continue salary increases.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Horseshit. My FIL (a retired assistant manager of a cotton co-op in southwest Oklahoma) had a heart valve replaced earlier this year in an outpatient procedure.- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
It's a pretty wild world we live in where a lower rate of increase in spending is somehow viewed as a "slash" in spending. It's also wild that people can, with a straight face, proclaim that because an unsustainable rate of spending wasn't maintained that there is now a "funding gap."- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
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- CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
I wish we could all be honest about how health care is just a hard fucking problem to tackle rather than saying that a particular system is completely broken while another system has got its shit in one sock. Despite general displeasure with the US healthcare system, 71% of Americans are happy with the quality of their personal care. Despite general support of the UK's NHS, only 24% of UK public are satisfied with the care provided by NHS, with 71% saying the number one dissatisfier is wait times for care. The US healthcare system is expensive and by some measures less effective* than other country's systems, but no other country's system comes close to producing the level of consistent investment and advancement in medical innovation/technology seen in the US system. All systems have trade-offs, and anyone telling you otherwise is only trying to win an election. *Poor health outcomes in the US are more attributable to lifestyle choices (diet, transportation, gun culture) than the quality of care provided by the system - USN beats USN
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