If you read the article (RTFA), it describes how the creators of the system took this into account when they designed it. At the time Social Security was started, a little over 5% of the nation was retired. They then projected that in 1990 (this was back in the 30's) that the nation would consist of abour 12.65% retirees. They were close, it was 12.4%. So when building the system, then knew that they would have to anticpate a burden further down the road, and designed the system to carry a surplus to pay for future benficiaries.
I hate to let you in on this little secret, but when you walked into that voting booth a few month back, you had your say. Social Security is one of the biggest hot button issues in politics, and if you are against it (which in my opinion is foolish), you could have (and should have) made your voice heard by choosing representatives and executives who hold your same view. It just happens that the large large majority of this country thnks Social Security is a fantastic idea, and love to pay into it.
He's referring to the policy of lots of companies that force their employees to invest some percentgae of their 401K contributions into the company they work for, instead of what they feel would be a financially sound retirement investment. This investment in the company greately increases the captial invested in the compnay, and working the books, a not-so-honest, betrayer-of-the-public-trust type executive could easily manage to make that investment drop directly in his bank account, or in a more innocent turn of events, the company tanks and the person loses the majority of their retirement, instead of having their money invested in what they wanted to. Ergo: rich ex-exec, poor hard working retiree.
Nice job trying to change the argument. I'm not defending anyone personally. I'm defending a financially sound system the prevents our country's retirees from ever having to go homeless or hungry because of market forces, like say, a recession? Social Security was created to prevent those who had saved their whole lives and lost it in a market crash.
What's even sadder is that it wasn't neccesarily pork projects that sucked up the trust fund, it was Bush's insane tax cuts. Working class is asked to have their regressive payroll tax raised to fund the Social Security surplus, and istead it's used to float the recudtion in the progressive income tax for the ultra rich.
This is exactly what Presidents Reagan and Clinton did to save Social Security. They raised the upper bracket tax rate from 33 to 35%, and increased the payroll tax to 12.5% to make our nations social contract solvent.
Please read this article, it's probably the most well researched and insightful look at the current health of our social security program. The end conclusion: It's Fine. Seriously. No Really. Totally OK.
If you took the worst case scenario given out by the Social Security Trustees as the future exactly as it will happen, Everyone will continue to recieve 100% of benefits until 2048, and then, after that, we'd recieve only 75% of benefits, and the system would continue to hum. That's if the worst case scenario mixture of immigration and ecomonmic slowdown happen, and absolutley NOTHING done to the system. Their realistic scenario call for complete 100% solvency of the system for the next 75 years, again, with NOTHING done to the system.
Social Security is the best running government program ever devised in this country. Everyone here will be able to recieve their retirement benefits that they've been paying into their whole lives.
The Social Security "crisis" stems from that 25% reduction in benefits in 2048. If we were to give everyone 100%, then we'd run about a $3 trillion deficit in SS over the next 75 years, in the mean time, Medicare is projected to start deficit spending in only 10 years, and will run an $11 trillion hole. And both of these self financed systems have a better outlook than out general acocunt budget, the pot of money that pays for the rest of the government. Best guess estimates are that our government will go $15 TRILLION MORE into debt over that same $75 years.
So what is more in crisis, $3 trillion that we don't need to even go into deficit for, or $15 that we absolutely must? Our current $440 billion deficit is the real crisis.
The president and all of the conservative commentors here want to reneg on the deal President Reagan made in 1983 when he reformed social security. He raised payroll taxes beyond the amount needed so we would run a surplus, and that would go into a trust fund that would pay for the burden of the Baby Boomer retirement. That trust fund was mandated by law to buy treasury bills, which have consequently been used to finance the upper class tax cuts. Basically, the president has done a transfer of wealth from the working class who payed more into the system than they had to so the super rich could mooch off the government even more.
"Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people. We can't even deal with that! You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison. You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can't deal with it, you know? Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, 'Well done!'"
If you look at the map (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2004-12-27/MER B_Traverse-med.jpg), you'll see 200 of the 300 days spent up there have been tooling around Endurance Crater. The majority of its travels have been from Anatolia to the crater, and that took 30 days, and then from the crater to the heat shield, which took 7. So after they finish checking out the heat shield and the soil it unearthed (or unmarsed), they could easily travel 10 km. Whether beagle 2 is only 10 km is a fact that elludes me.
Am I the only one who sees the "problem" of noob bashing a universal human experience, not just something experienced in online gaming? Hazing is hazing, whether it occurs in Everquest, the football team, the fraternity, the military, the job, pretty much anywhere there is some form of competition, and one group of people is more skilled or experienced than another group, which is, well, almost every aspect of life. "Griefing" happens.
This is the problem with most Americans. The see the government as The Man, and not themselves. THe government only has as much power as you give up to it. If you think your government has spoiled the milk, then call them on it by voting, writing letters, joining advocacy groups, and being well informed. It is YOUR government, do something about it.
The polls held directly after the first debate between Bush and Gore in 2000 had Gore winning, albeit it by a slight margin. But after the right wing spin machine got going with a full head of steam within three days those same polls showed Bush winning them by a wider margin than Gore had, and that's been the "result" ever since. Mechanisms like these, where the campaigns themselves directly distribute talking points and rebuttals directly after the debates were generally exclusively a Republican tool, while the Democratic party simple played ctach up and defense. It's interesting to see that the Bush squad has put together a better plan for distributing their version of the events than Kerry's team has, but it's not surprising. Perhaps they'll throw something together since this news has come out. I'm sure they're will be a recptive audience to it.
I can't remember if he was involved in XPrize or not, but there was a guy building a ship that used peroxide as his propellant. He was most definitely a back yard builder, he had his two huge tanks for his H202 in his garage. Does anyone remember who he was, or have a link to him? I was really interested in his project a while ago, but I've lost his url.
Who ever said anything without permissions? Think of it like norton downloading new virus def's. THey let you know when new stuff is available, and you click ok to download. Why have a check for player update in the client if you ahve to go outside of the client to get it. It seems like they could be streamlining their processes a bit, especially if they are trying to stay one step ahead of the reverse engineers and third party clients.
Plus they seem to be the best of show in reverse engineering, which would give Apple an insight on how they are doing it and what they could do to prevent it, or at least make it harder to do.
As a side note, why can't Apple make it easy for their own client to download newer versions of the whole app, or at least the protocol code, automatically from the client? Downloading and updating seems so archaic nowaways. Upgrading directly from the client would be convienient and allows them to update their stuff with a lot of reliability amongst their userbase.
If you want to be a programmer, a real hardcore programmer, you should major in something other than CS, and then minor, or perhaps double major in computers. I would suggest this to most people. Sure, there are reason to be a pure CS major, but think about the degree you have. Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics don't change nearly as quickly as Computers do, so your degree will be worth more longer. Plus, once the IT field hits rock bottom, you can simply move into the field of your degree. My cousin is a senior at NJIT, and he told me this straight up. I never went to college for programming, I just kind of picked it up along the way.
So are they basically admitting to flooding the market with crap games to offer consumers a "choice" when buying games? Were they padding their number of titles with junk just to make XBox look like a viable console next to the PS2? And now that they have a decen number of third party developers producing horrible games, they don't need to anymore? I see, gotcha. One hundred percent clear, now.
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If you read the article (RTFA), it describes how the creators of the system took this into account when they designed it. At the time Social Security was started, a little over 5% of the nation was retired. They then projected that in 1990 (this was back in the 30's) that the nation would consist of abour 12.65% retirees. They were close, it was 12.4%. So when building the system, then knew that they would have to anticpate a burden further down the road, and designed the system to carry a surplus to pay for future benficiaries.
The growth of the DOW is not what the parent was referring to. He was referring to GDP.
I hate to let you in on this little secret, but when you walked into that voting booth a few month back, you had your say. Social Security is one of the biggest hot button issues in politics, and if you are against it (which in my opinion is foolish), you could have (and should have) made your voice heard by choosing representatives and executives who hold your same view. It just happens that the large large majority of this country thnks Social Security is a fantastic idea, and love to pay into it.
He's referring to the policy of lots of companies that force their employees to invest some percentgae of their 401K contributions into the company they work for, instead of what they feel would be a financially sound retirement investment. This investment in the company greately increases the captial invested in the compnay, and working the books, a not-so-honest, betrayer-of-the-public-trust type executive could easily manage to make that investment drop directly in his bank account, or in a more innocent turn of events, the company tanks and the person loses the majority of their retirement, instead of having their money invested in what they wanted to. Ergo: rich ex-exec, poor hard working retiree.
Nice job trying to change the argument. I'm not defending anyone personally. I'm defending a financially sound system the prevents our country's retirees from ever having to go homeless or hungry because of market forces, like say, a recession? Social Security was created to prevent those who had saved their whole lives and lost it in a market crash.
What's even sadder is that it wasn't neccesarily pork projects that sucked up the trust fund, it was Bush's insane tax cuts. Working class is asked to have their regressive payroll tax raised to fund the Social Security surplus, and istead it's used to float the recudtion in the progressive income tax for the ultra rich.
This is exactly what Presidents Reagan and Clinton did to save Social Security. They raised the upper bracket tax rate from 33 to 35%, and increased the payroll tax to 12.5% to make our nations social contract solvent.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!
Please read this article, it's probably the most well researched and insightful look at the current health of our social security program. The end conclusion: It's Fine. Seriously. No Really. Totally OK.
If you took the worst case scenario given out by the Social Security Trustees as the future exactly as it will happen, Everyone will continue to recieve 100% of benefits until 2048, and then, after that, we'd recieve only 75% of benefits, and the system would continue to hum. That's if the worst case scenario mixture of immigration and ecomonmic slowdown happen, and absolutley NOTHING done to the system. Their realistic scenario call for complete 100% solvency of the system for the next 75 years, again, with NOTHING done to the system.
Social Security is the best running government program ever devised in this country. Everyone here will be able to recieve their retirement benefits that they've been paying into their whole lives.
The Social Security "crisis" stems from that 25% reduction in benefits in 2048. If we were to give everyone 100%, then we'd run about a $3 trillion deficit in SS over the next 75 years, in the mean time, Medicare is projected to start deficit spending in only 10 years, and will run an $11 trillion hole. And both of these self financed systems have a better outlook than out general acocunt budget, the pot of money that pays for the rest of the government. Best guess estimates are that our government will go $15 TRILLION MORE into debt over that same $75 years.
So what is more in crisis, $3 trillion that we don't need to even go into deficit for, or $15 that we absolutely must? Our current $440 billion deficit is the real crisis.
The president and all of the conservative commentors here want to reneg on the deal President Reagan made in 1983 when he reformed social security. He raised payroll taxes beyond the amount needed so we would run a surplus, and that would go into a trust fund that would pay for the burden of the Baby Boomer retirement. That trust fund was mandated by law to buy treasury bills, which have consequently been used to finance the upper class tax cuts. Basically, the president has done a transfer of wealth from the working class who payed more into the system than they had to so the super rich could mooch off the government even more.
I Repeat: SOCIAL SECURITY IS FINE! RTFA!
Eddie Izzard:
"Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people.
We can't even deal with that!
You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison.
You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do.
20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever.
And over that, we can't deal with it, you know?
Someone's killed 100,000 people.
We're almost going, 'Well done!'"
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Ditto
If you look at the map (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mer/2004-12-27/MER B_Traverse-med.jpg), you'll see 200 of the 300 days spent up there have been tooling around Endurance Crater. The majority of its travels have been from Anatolia to the crater, and that took 30 days, and then from the crater to the heat shield, which took 7. So after they finish checking out the heat shield and the soil it unearthed (or unmarsed), they could easily travel 10 km. Whether beagle 2 is only 10 km is a fact that elludes me.
Am I the only one who sees the "problem" of noob bashing a universal human experience, not just something experienced in online gaming? Hazing is hazing, whether it occurs in Everquest, the football team, the fraternity, the military, the job, pretty much anywhere there is some form of competition, and one group of people is more skilled or experienced than another group, which is, well, almost every aspect of life. "Griefing" happens.
Why would a christian monotheistic god name the days of the week after roman gods and celestial objects? Can anyone explain this for me?
This is the problem with most Americans. The see the government as The Man, and not themselves. THe government only has as much power as you give up to it. If you think your government has spoiled the milk, then call them on it by voting, writing letters, joining advocacy groups, and being well informed. It is YOUR government, do something about it.
I think debates.org, a cspan offshoot, carried live streaming video of the debates on the net.
After posting this, I found an excellent write up on the events after the 2000 debates at Media Matters. Take a read.
The polls held directly after the first debate between Bush and Gore in 2000 had Gore winning, albeit it by a slight margin. But after the right wing spin machine got going with a full head of steam within three days those same polls showed Bush winning them by a wider margin than Gore had, and that's been the "result" ever since. Mechanisms like these, where the campaigns themselves directly distribute talking points and rebuttals directly after the debates were generally exclusively a Republican tool, while the Democratic party simple played ctach up and defense. It's interesting to see that the Bush squad has put together a better plan for distributing their version of the events than Kerry's team has, but it's not surprising. Perhaps they'll throw something together since this news has come out. I'm sure they're will be a recptive audience to it.
Is that one gigabyte per second? Per hour? Per throw?
What could you inject into my brain that wouldn't cause me become ill within two years?
I can't remember if he was involved in XPrize or not, but there was a guy building a ship that used peroxide as his propellant. He was most definitely a back yard builder, he had his two huge tanks for his H202 in his garage. Does anyone remember who he was, or have a link to him? I was really interested in his project a while ago, but I've lost his url.
Thank Bjorn. I thought this ship was so stealthy, that pictures of it could not be taken.
Who ever said anything without permissions? Think of it like norton downloading new virus def's. THey let you know when new stuff is available, and you click ok to download. Why have a check for player update in the client if you ahve to go outside of the client to get it. It seems like they could be streamlining their processes a bit, especially if they are trying to stay one step ahead of the reverse engineers and third party clients.
Plus they seem to be the best of show in reverse engineering, which would give Apple an insight on how they are doing it and what they could do to prevent it, or at least make it harder to do.
As a side note, why can't Apple make it easy for their own client to download newer versions of the whole app, or at least the protocol code, automatically from the client? Downloading and updating seems so archaic nowaways. Upgrading directly from the client would be convienient and allows them to update their stuff with a lot of reliability amongst their userbase.
If you want to be a programmer, a real hardcore programmer, you should major in something other than CS, and then minor, or perhaps double major in computers. I would suggest this to most people. Sure, there are reason to be a pure CS major, but think about the degree you have. Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics don't change nearly as quickly as Computers do, so your degree will be worth more longer. Plus, once the IT field hits rock bottom, you can simply move into the field of your degree. My cousin is a senior at NJIT, and he told me this straight up. I never went to college for programming, I just kind of picked it up along the way.
So are they basically admitting to flooding the market with crap games to offer consumers a "choice" when buying games? Were they padding their number of titles with junk just to make XBox look like a viable console next to the PS2? And now that they have a decen number of third party developers producing horrible games, they don't need to anymore? I see, gotcha. One hundred percent clear, now.