Partial Zero Emission Vehicle? [Spotted on a Toyota Camry]
Ahhh:
This vehicle category was created as part of a bargain with the California Air Resources Board (CARB), so that the automobile manufacturers could postpone producing mandated zero emission vehicles (ZEVs), which will require the production of electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
I might have guessed it was California where words cost more and mean less than you think they do.
[Updated Feb. 6, 2015, just 8 days later]
Turns our “Asshole Brown” isn’t alone. Comcast has just added “Super Bitch” Bauer to the ranks, along with “Dummy,” and “Bitch Dog” Govan.
And those are just the ones we know about. Comcast has created a company culture where to lie, to cheat, to malign, and to malinger isn’t just common; it seems to us mere mortals to be company policy. I have a lot of trouble believing the fine hand of CEO Brian L. Roberts isn’t in here somewhere.
The government has stopped openly sharing your personal information from the still-troubled Obamacare website with the usual cookie collectors. The Associated Press found that Healthcare.gov was relaying users’ personal information including zip code, income level, pregnancy status, and smoking status with Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and companies that track people online, such as the ad service DoubleClick.
Caught redhanded, Healthcare.gov changed its site coding overnight.
As CNN notes, though, “While Healthcare.gov is no longer relaying your personal information on the front end, there’s no telling what information might get shared once it is stored in the government’s computers.”
Oh, goody.
Posted at 4:56 a.m. today.
Vermont Health Connect is the state’s exchange website and the bureaucracy that acts as the “agent” between the public and the two remaining ACA insurers in Vermont. This morning, the Burlington Free Press reported behind its paywall that “Vermont Health Connect problems continue despite improvements.”
Management of health coverage through Vermont Health Connect continues to be rocky as the website continues to rely on manual back-end processes when someone’s household income has changed or when a dependent has been added or removed from coverage. In those cases, a staff member has to manually enter the information into multiple databases.
For people who had a change in circumstance or some other issue carried over from the previous year, problems can take weeks or even months to resolve. A lot of those people have had their problems snowball, Vermont Legal Aid’s health care advocate said. “Our call volume has actually gone up for problems. … The calls we’re getting, the problems are taking way longer to resolve. They’re more complicated.”
What a surprise.