I don't think he is referring to your fully restored 1956 Corvette. Instead he is referring to the 1986 Mercury Topaz with one hubcap ('cause three got stolen) which has not had a tune up in 5 years.
You are not the only one in that situation. My wife and I get dozens of "PRE-APPROVED" (to apply) credit card offers each week. The difference between a credit card and a house is that the mortgage company uses your house as collateral for the loan. Also if you are a first time buyer, there are foundations, Fannie-Mae et al, which will insure the loan so even if you default the bank doesn't loose its money.
Wal-Mart doesn't sell that issue in Iran. If they did, and Iranian courts ordered them to stop, I'm sure they would stop
Yes, but the difference is that the Iranian court can only make them stop selling that issue in Iran. They can not force Wal-Mart to stop selling that issue in the US. With Yahoo! however, no matter where you are, France, U.S., Zimbabwe... you can no longer access Nazi stuff in the auctions.
Why are they trying to do this, and why is the patent office letting them?
This is very easy to understand. First they are doing it because they can and thye hope to be able to sue/license/harass anyone else who even thinks of using something similar. Second the Patent office lets them because by default the patent office will grant a patent and then let all the players fight it out in court.
The main problem is NOT the companies seeking to patent the fork, breathing, sex... The problem is the patent office granting all these silly patents. Many (most, all) of the people at the patent office (and everywhere else) see computers as a big magic box. Therefore if it has to do with computers, it must be new and original and therefore patentable. Until the folks at the patent office get some people who know what they are ding with regards to computers, this disturbing trend will continue.
If none of this made sense, sorry. Im on hold with our ISP right now.
The Illiad and Oddessy et al were written long before the beginning of the millenium.
WRT Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectation, perhaps it is the fact that most people were forced to read them during high-school that many people have a distaste for them. Perhaps we need to change the way we expose children to "the classics" instead of just declaming that "THESE ARE GREAT WORKS AND THOU SHALT READ THEM!!"
You can't expect a child of today to waste hours and hours of their life plodding through a book
Why not?! Why can we not expect children to read? If, as you freely admit, certain books are something to which children need to be expoosed, why do you consider reading the book to be a waste of time, but watching the movie, or playing the game, it not?
Personally I feel you have it backwards, the PS2 cannot compete with books. Books are superior in every way. You are correct though, the Dragonlance books would make great movies.
Unfortunately you can't do that. The main plus of this calendar is that things happen on the same day of the week avary year. With a longer calendar (i.e. 12 31 day months) celestial events such as the Equinoxes and solstices will occur on a different day every year.
The only drawback I see to this calendar is that every month will have a Friday the 13th
I think there should be some sort of Moore's Law for 3D Graphics that will account for the fact that as computers become faster artists will always find a way to bog them down with more and more stuff
I thought this was Gates's corrolary to Moore's law "Every 18 months the speed of software is halved."
How can they recast ballots. I am not a resident of Florida, but in my state, Texas, the ballots themselves have no identification features on them. Therefore, out of millions of ballots there is no way of telling for whom I voted.
How can they determine who voted for Buchannan accidentally, and who actually meant to? How can they determine that people are not voting for Gore twice? Would they simply invalidate the results for the entire precinct and have another election in that precinct? If so, couldn't the two parties go through all types of shenannigans to help bolster their numbers?
Our country used to be, sorta, like that. Originally the Constitution called for the the electors to meet and cast two ballots. The person who receives the most votes in the election to be President, and the person who receives the second most votes to be Vice-President. But that didn't last long. The 12th ammendment, added in 1804 changed the electoral system, whereby each elector votes for a specific President and Vice President.
Besides, isn't not voting a powerful political statement, sending a message to the politicians right where it hurts
The only message not voting sends to the politicians is that they do not have to pay attention to you.
Look at it this way... If only one person were to vote this comming Tuesday, that single person would determine who will be president for the next four years. During that time the politicians will not be trying to get more people to vote, instead they will concentrate on getting that one person to vote for them. All that matters to most (all?) politicians is getting into or staying in office. Therefore, the only thing that will hurt a politician is getting voted out of office, and that won't happen if people do not vote. So, not voting does not hurt politicians, it merely gives them license to ignore you.
I think your demonstration is vastly oversimplified. For instance it maintains that the only reason to live in or move to Counties A and B is their welfare program. It completely ignores the fact that many wealthy individuals in County B may nave a greater incentive, weather for business or social reasons to remain in County B, rather than move. By the same token the poor of County A may have reasons to remain. It also ignores the fact that the poor of any region may be effectivly "trapped" there. By lacking the basic necessities to survive, they would likely not have the fiscal means to move.
Also, this could turn out to be a self correcting system. As the wealthy move from B to A there will be a smaller economic base in County B from which to provide welfare etc... to the poor of County B. Likewise as the wealthy move to County A there is a larger economic base to provide those same services.
The main problems with a Federal program in this country, are inefficiency, as I already pointed out, and the imposition of a "cookie-cutter" solution to many varied parts of the country. In a Federal program the poor in say, San Jose, CA receive the same type of benefits that the poor in Ottumwa, IA, even though their economic situations may be vastly different.
Most proposals only tax the income above a certain level. i.e. in you example above, step 1.5 woulb be subtract $11,350 if you are single or $22,700 if married, and subtract $5,300 per child. If the result is <= 0 you pay no taxes.
Of course it is a logistical problem, that is my point entirely. That is why local or state control of such programs would be much better. Programs could then be tailored to fit the needs of different states or communities. In a country with a population of 15,892,237 and an area of 41,532sqkm, a centralised federal program can work. In a coutry of 250million and an area of 9.6million sqkm, any centralised program will face huge problems. That is why we need to get back to having stronger state and local governments and let the Federal government do what the Constitution authorizes, i.e. maintain a postoffice, coin money, and "provide for the common defense." All other powers, as the 9th and 10th ammendments state, should be left up to the States or the People.
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P.S. All population/area numbers are from the CIA WorldFactBook
If I have to pay taxes so other people don't starve, I'll pay.
Then please feel free to do so. Libertarians are not saying that noone should be allowed to help anyone they see fit. But, no person should be REQUIRED to contribute to charities. Should you feel the need/desire to do so, no one will stop you, but do not try to force me to.
Even if you still think there should be some type of governmental welfare program in place, would it not be better to implement such a program at the state or local level. Federal bureaucracies are notoriously inefficient. And the Federal government will impose the same program on the residents of Barrow, Alaska and Key West, Florida. Would it not be better to have more local control over such programs?
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"Bend over and enjoy it!"
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You are not the only one in that situation. My wife and I get dozens of "PRE-APPROVED" (to apply) credit card offers each week. The difference between a credit card and a house is that the mortgage company uses your house as collateral for the loan. Also if you are a first time buyer, there are foundations, Fannie-Mae et al, which will insure the loan so even if you default the bank doesn't loose its money.
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Yes, but the difference is that the Iranian court can only make them stop selling that issue in Iran. They can not force Wal-Mart to stop selling that issue in the US. With Yahoo! however, no matter where you are, France, U.S., Zimbabwe... you can no longer access Nazi stuff in the auctions.
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This is very easy to understand. First they are doing it because they can and thye hope to be able to sue/license/harass anyone else who even thinks of using something similar. Second the Patent office lets them because by default the patent office will grant a patent and then let all the players fight it out in court.
The main problem is NOT the companies seeking to patent the fork, breathing, sex... The problem is the patent office granting all these silly patents. Many (most, all) of the people at the patent office (and everywhere else) see computers as a big magic box. Therefore if it has to do with computers, it must be new and original and therefore patentable. Until the folks at the patent office get some people who know what they are ding with regards to computers, this disturbing trend will continue.
If none of this made sense, sorry. Im on hold with our ISP right now.
Hooptie
WRT Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectation, perhaps it is the fact that most people were forced to read them during high-school that many people have a distaste for them. Perhaps we need to change the way we expose children to "the classics" instead of just declaming that "THESE ARE GREAT WORKS AND THOU SHALT READ THEM!!"
Hooptie
Why not?! Why can we not expect children to read? If, as you freely admit, certain books are something to which children need to be expoosed, why do you consider reading the book to be a waste of time, but watching the movie, or playing the game, it not?
Personally I feel you have it backwards, the PS2 cannot compete with books. Books are superior in every way. You are correct though, the Dragonlance books would make great movies.
Hooptie
The only drawback I see to this calendar is that every month will have a Friday the 13th
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I think I may get one...
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I thought this was Gates's corrolary to Moore's law
"Every 18 months the speed of software is halved."
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Oh, no. They tried and died.
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You should have been able to understand it quite clearly then, John. Or are you just afraid of the competetion?
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http://elections.co.denton .tx .us/20001107/ballots.htm
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How can they determine who voted for Buchannan accidentally, and who actually meant to?
How can they determine that people are not voting for Gore twice?
Would they simply invalidate the results for the entire precinct and have another election in that precinct? If so, couldn't the two parties go through all types of shenannigans to help bolster their numbers?
This whole thing is a giant cluster fsck!
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The only message not voting sends to the politicians is that they do not have to pay attention to you.
Look at it this way...
If only one person were to vote this comming Tuesday, that single person would determine who will be president for the next four years. During that time the politicians will not be trying to get more people to vote, instead they will concentrate on getting that one person to vote for them. All that matters to most (all?) politicians is getting into or staying in office. Therefore, the only thing that will hurt a politician is getting voted out of office, and that won't happen if people do not vote. So, not voting does not hurt politicians, it merely gives them license to ignore you.
Hooptie
Also, this could turn out to be a self correcting system. As the wealthy move from B to A there will be a smaller economic base in County B from which to provide welfare etc... to the poor of County B. Likewise as the wealthy move to County A there is a larger economic base to provide those same services.
The main problems with a Federal program in this country, are inefficiency, as I already pointed out, and the imposition of a "cookie-cutter" solution to many varied parts of the country. In a Federal program the poor in say, San Jose, CA receive the same type of benefits that the poor in Ottumwa, IA, even though their economic situations may be vastly different.
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P.S. All population/area numbers are from the CIA WorldFactBook
Then please feel free to do so. Libertarians are not saying that noone should be allowed to help anyone they see fit. But, no person should be REQUIRED to contribute to charities. Should you feel the need/desire to do so, no one will stop you, but do not try to force me to.
Even if you still think there should be some type of governmental welfare program in place, would it not be better to implement such a program at the state or local level. Federal bureaucracies are notoriously inefficient. And the Federal government will impose the same program on the residents of Barrow, Alaska and Key West, Florida. Would it not be better to have more local control over such programs?
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Not all taxes show up on your pay stub.
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Will you still think that laws are irrelevant when there is a tax rate of 100% on all income over, say $40,000?
Just curious.
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