Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread chuck
I am guessing there are some CPA type of ethics rules for companies managing blind trusts. But I really don’t know much about them. From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 8:28 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Is it blind if it's your kids managi

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Bill Prince
Users Group *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Id support it to a degree for basic care and privatized insurance for everything else. but there would have to be fat cut from the national budget and I dont see that ever happening, Would have the caveat that no politician can hold any pr

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Steve Jones
AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays > > Id support it to a degree for basic care and privatized insurance for > everything else. but there would have to be fat cut from the national > budget and I dont see that ever happening, Wou

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Bill Prince
uly 8, 2024 11:10 AM *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I am all for nationalized health care.  But I am old enough that it is right around the corner for me. My wife just about croaked in Barcelona last summer. Spent a week in a hospital

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
ointment, very modest charge compared to what we’d expect here. Very different system. I guess it was like an old episode of Marcus Welby MD. From: AF On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 1:33 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Your comments about

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Nate Burke
ll sits at the nurses station filling out paperwork on the computer.  (Am I being naïve assuming the doctor is doing paperwork not playing games?) *From:*AF *On Behalf Of *ch...@go-mtc.com *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 11:10 AM *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' *Subject:* Re:

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
, July 8, 2024 11:10 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I am all for nationalized health care. But I am old enough that it is right around the corner for me. My wife just about croaked in Barcelona last summer. Spent a week in a hosp

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Users Group" Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 12:41:08 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Right. I recently heard that the US Congress persons on average out performs hedge funds by about 13%. Presumably it’s not populated with stock trading experts. I wonder what prevents th

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread dmmoffett
Behalf Of ch...@go-mtc.com Sent: Monday, July 08, 2024 1:04 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I doubt they would ever go for that but I do think their investments need to be managed by a blind trust. From: Steve Jones Sent: Monday, July

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread chuck
I doubt they would ever go for that but I do think their investments need to be managed by a blind trust. From: Steve Jones Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 10:33 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Id support it to a degree for basic care and

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread chuck
AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays & you probably make enough that it is going to cost extra... On 7/8/24 9:10 AM, ch...@go-mtc.com wrote: I am all for nationalized health care. But I am old enough that it is right around the corner for me. My wife just a

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Steve Jones
wife just about croaked in Barcelona last summer. Spent a week in a > hospital there until I arranged a jail break. Paid absolutely nothing. > > > *From:* dmmoff...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 8:16 AM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Robert
here until I arranged a jail break.  Paid absolutely nothing. *From:* dmmoff...@gmail.com *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 8:16 AM *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays To the original post: People hung up on college degrees might not be if they sa

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread chuck
, July 8, 2024 8:16 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays To the original post: People hung up on college degrees might not be if they saw what some of the trades are making. I’ve been in communications & IT for 24 years, but if I’d

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Steve Jones
t; > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *dmmoff...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2024 9:16 AM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays > > > > To the original post: People hung up on college degrees might not be if >

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread Ken Hohhof
Awww, you’re telling me they took the coke out of Coke? Next you’re going to tell me there’s no worm in tequila bottles. From: AF On Behalf Of dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 9:16 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-08 Thread dmmoffett
half Of Steve Jones Sent: Friday, July 05, 2024 7:24 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I think im one of the only conservatives that is pro free higher education. More as an investment than as an expense remove all liberal arts, STEM, not STEAM

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread Steve Jones
a path for repayment or you ain’t gonna git it. > > > > *From:* Ken Hohhof > *Sent:* Saturday, July 6, 2024 11:16 AM > *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays > > > Seems a tad dystopian. Wasn’t there a TV show or

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread chuck
Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I think like medical care, a good question is why college has become so expensive. How much goes to actual costs of education vs. sports, fancy food and housing, etc. I would also argue that the first two years where big lecture hall classes p

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
degrees but doesn’t think highly of a college education. From: AF On Behalf Of ch...@go-mtc.com Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2024 12:29 PM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Maybe student loan availability should be based on ROI calculation

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread chuck
lFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Seems a tad dystopian. Wasn’t there a TV show or movie where at a certain age people were assigned a role in life, whether that’s what they want or not? Or I guess they could use the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter. From: AF

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread Ken Hohhof
AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays I have two British grandsons. They are tested at 15 to determine whether they take a vocational track or an academic track for college. Seems to work out pretty well for them. Best Regards, Chuck McCown

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread chuck
Office 435-830-4306 Cell www.mccowntech.com www.microtrench.pro www.terabitnetworks.com From: Chuck McCown Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2024 9:53 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays Only for BS degrees. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2024, at 5:24 PM

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-06 Thread Chuck McCown
Only for BS degrees.Sent from my iPhoneOn Jul 5, 2024, at 5:24 PM, Steve Jones wrote:I think im one of the only conservatives that is pro free higher education. More as an investment than as an expenseremove all liberal arts, STEM, not STEAM only (you want an art history degree, you can pay for i

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-05 Thread Nate Burke
Since I don't have kids, and am 20 years post college,  Does STEAM replace STEM?  You only have to choose 1 of the letters?  I thought they were all supposed to work in conjunction.  I went to a small liberal arts school, and I wouldn't be the person that I am now without having some of the Art

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-05 Thread Steve Jones
I think im one of the only conservatives that is pro free higher education. More as an investment than as an expense remove all liberal arts, STEM, not STEAM only (you want an art history degree, you can pay for it), 1:1 community service requirement per classroom instruction hour, manual labor or

Re: [AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-04 Thread Forrest Christian (List Account)
I feel that it's time for college to go through a major revision. First, I lean quite strongly toward the Mike Rowe worldview in that we need to quit telling our kids that they need a college education to make it in this world. Right now if you're in one of the blue collar trades you're far bett

[AFMUG] OT Happy Holidays

2024-07-04 Thread chuck
With the risk of starting something, I thought I would inject some observations: I do watch Charley Kirk on YouTube for a quick fix of watching him dissolve some of the woke ideology being spouted by young college kids. For me it is like junk food for my worldview. Can only take so much of it,