Soon somebody will have to make the choice to either default or inflate and default. There is no other outcome possible.
Well there is that old saw about paying their fair share. I don't know about you, but I'm more than a little angry that people of tremendous wealth pay lower tax rates than me (as well as the vast majority of the American public) - and lower rates now than in more than 50 years. These are not "job creators", these are wealth aggregators. Close the proposed loopholes and end the Bush tax cuts. Use the money to *actually* stimulate the economy through public works, national infrastructure programs, and (housing) debt relief for the most vulnerable. When unemployment shrinkage is well-underway, THEN we can have a serious talk about the deficit.
I'm all for reducing spending, but hacking up the safety net in a time of great national need is irresponsible and cruel. Maybe we can stop designing drones and battlefield HUDs for 5 years instead of forcing families into the street. Those families aren't going to disappear. There will be consequences.
I'm not crazy about monolithic elite-class conspiracies, but I could buy into competing elite-class conspiracies. I don't think the same interests would be served by both GWB and HRC administrations.
You're inferring that a cyber-crime division has ever been successful. And that's a LOT of inferring.
It doesn't take a "cybersecurity expert" to find child porn. It's almost harder NOT to find underage self-shots by (mostly) girls with low self-esteem.
That's scare tactics. There's no reason to restrict choice of doctors and every single health care system rations care. The US already has terrible wait times for non-emergency procedures and if you're like me and don't have insurance the wait time is as an additional "until I save enough money".
Until you save enough money, OR until it's such a big problem you have to go to the ER - and then it's FAR more expensive, with a worse overall outcome, and the very poor get saddled with unpayable debt. For reasons which still elude me.
The only reason I can see is my increasing frustration with the current state of affairs, and my growing sense that a new political movement is the only method to accomplish change. I saw this and thought, 'Yes! Let's do this!', but if not these people then someone else needs to step up and rally some true popular support. A single candidate probably isn't sufficient in themselves, but if the Tea Party has taught us anything, it's that a popular movement can significantly alter discourse.
They have separate questions addressing nuclear energy, but I'm not sure I understand your concern about those options. Broad, certainly - but they're only intended to match you broadly with other individuals who might fall into your sub-caucus (or whatever you'd call it). At that level, the debate becomes more specific.
I think many of the questions could have been crafted more carefully, but this place seems to be new; there likely is (or can be) a mechanism for creating additional questions which may have more nuance. Not, of course, if you throw up your hands and declare the idea "fucking bullshit" though, I grant you that.
Sure has. It's happening right now, in fact. How's that pension working out? What about those prudently-invested savings?
I take it that by "looting" you are referring to higher taxes on millionaires, but when people with vast quantities of money are just using that money to game the system rather than invest in infrastructure or job creation, we wind up with a Herbert Hoover policy. Yep, that dude was into tax cuts to stimulate the economy. I can't remember how that turned out...
The "public option" polled well because it was ill-defined.
Actually, iirc, the only polls which resulted in support for single-payer were the ones which laid out specific policy positions and not broad terms like "public option". The majority of Americans supported the components of universal healthcare.
I can at least recognize that the issues are a lot more subtle than calling the sale/consumption of drugs an essential liberty.
They sure didn't seem to agree with you in 1933 when the 21st Amendment made it into the Constitution. I don't think all drugs should be legal, but one which is demonstrably safer than alcohol (let alone coffee or aspirin) seems like a pretty damn good candidate.
It shouldn't be legal until it is demonstrated to be safe through rigorous research.
Wait... what? It is irrefutable that pot is not only less toxic than alcohol, it is effectively impossible to die from it. In fact, it's even less toxic and less addictive than coffee, the American drug of choice. I wouldn't dispute that it can have deleterious mid- to long-term effects, but the only correlation of violent crime related to marijuana seems to be drug cartel behavior (and jackbooted Feds, although I suppose that doesn't qualify as "crime" under the literal definition) which would be reduced, if not outright eliminated, by an end to prohibition.
Certainly, with such a ubiquitous drug, and the grossly disproportionate amount of Federal money spent on pot enforcement (not to mention costs of privately imprisonment), an end to prohibition and simple pot tax would take an enormous chunk out of the federal budget. In addition, there are enough thousands of local growers across the nation that a cottage industry would spring up literally overnight, creating both businesses and jobs. And (lest it go unsaid) the medical applications are exceptionally diverse; fantastically safer, and with infinitesimally fewer side effects, than even over-the-counter medications (aspirin kills hundreds of people every year), let alone prescription pharmaceuticals.
There's no shortage of legitimate studies on the effects of pot. Grabbing a link out of Google, I see one with 73 peer-reviewed studies.
Wow, that turned into a hell of an off-topic rant, sorry. Guess I had to get that off my chest.
Is there anybody here that has a had a great idea, physical or software, but not brought it to fruition "because" of the patent system? Because of the headaches of the process or even just the thought of the slight chance of being sued in to oblivion?
What part of "New York Times" confused you into thinking I was talking about/.?
NYT has had extensive coverage of all the major national issues for weeks - two to three articles a day on the debt ceiling debate, national politics, and the fate of News Corpse, among many others.
I, for one, am pleased to see some favorable coverage of games in the Good Old Media for once (even if it is DF - the game which seems deep and complex until you understand the interface, and then becomes... very repetitive and unchallenging).
This Congress would never permit anything like the actions the American government took in the 30s, even if Obama were championing such a thing. Just one example: in 1936, we raised the tax rate on the rich from 63% to 79% while holding everyone else's taxes steady.
Instead, they're planning on bumping taxes on the rich down... again.
Seems to me it's time to start taking lead OUT of heads...
The only thing preventing concrete change in the system of injustice and corruption in the US is the learned helplessness of the American people. Every vote MATTERS. Find new candidates and get them elected. LIBERALS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU. The Tea Party has shown us all the way, we just have to rally support.
Murdoch's employees, owing to Murdoch's leadership, believed they lived in a world where laws against hacking and bribing didn't exist, and therefore hacked everyone they were curious about and bribed everyone they were not curious about, in the common goal of gathering salacious information about people they were curious about. And they also believed they lived in a world where blackmail was not illegal, so once they had this curious information, they felt no reason not to use it, even if it meant the manipulation of multiple democracies.
I'd like to see these hypotheses tested in a court of law. Preferably before Emperor Palpatine dies.
I'd much rather he just die. He stands in contention for single most corrosive force to modern democracy in the world today. He set up a kiosk selling hatred and lies on the grave of the Fourth Estate. We're better off without him entirely.
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Soon somebody will have to make the choice to either default or inflate and default. There is no other outcome possible.
Well there is that old saw about paying their fair share. I don't know about you, but I'm more than a little angry that people of tremendous wealth pay lower tax rates than me (as well as the vast majority of the American public) - and lower rates now than in more than 50 years. These are not "job creators", these are wealth aggregators. Close the proposed loopholes and end the Bush tax cuts. Use the money to *actually* stimulate the economy through public works, national infrastructure programs, and (housing) debt relief for the most vulnerable. When unemployment shrinkage is well-underway, THEN we can have a serious talk about the deficit.
I'm all for reducing spending, but hacking up the safety net in a time of great national need is irresponsible and cruel. Maybe we can stop designing drones and battlefield HUDs for 5 years instead of forcing families into the street. Those families aren't going to disappear. There will be consequences.
relative fluff
Sorry, is that the veteran's benefits fluff, or grandma's groceries fluff? I get them mixed up.
I'm not crazy about monolithic elite-class conspiracies, but I could buy into competing elite-class conspiracies. I don't think the same interests would be served by both GWB and HRC administrations.
You're inferring that a cyber-crime division has ever been successful. And that's a LOT of inferring.
It doesn't take a "cybersecurity expert" to find child porn. It's almost harder NOT to find underage self-shots by (mostly) girls with low self-esteem.
I've heard.
*cough*
Uhm. Think of the children!!
I think they used to call that 'self-esteem', but I guess it's lumped in with narcissism now.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
.... why, do you want to borrow it?
Wait! ...damn.
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is this some new technology? please explain it to us, maybe the concept will fitting in the whole "stuff that matters" thingy /. is so proud of :)
I don't think there's linux support yet
I fully expect any scientific theory of study to be open to reviewing alternative theories and not just accept the current belief as gospel.
I would be open to this as long as the alternative theory isn't derived from Gospel.
That's scare tactics. There's no reason to restrict choice of doctors and every single health care system rations care. The US already has terrible wait times for non-emergency procedures and if you're like me and don't have insurance the wait time is as an additional "until I save enough money".
Until you save enough money, OR until it's such a big problem you have to go to the ER - and then it's FAR more expensive, with a worse overall outcome, and the very poor get saddled with unpayable debt. For reasons which still elude me.
Why listen to him?
The only reason I can see is my increasing frustration with the current state of affairs, and my growing sense that a new political movement is the only method to accomplish change. I saw this and thought, 'Yes! Let's do this!', but if not these people then someone else needs to step up and rally some true popular support. A single candidate probably isn't sufficient in themselves, but if the Tea Party has taught us anything, it's that a popular movement can significantly alter discourse.
They have separate questions addressing nuclear energy, but I'm not sure I understand your concern about those options. Broad, certainly - but they're only intended to match you broadly with other individuals who might fall into your sub-caucus (or whatever you'd call it). At that level, the debate becomes more specific.
I think many of the questions could have been crafted more carefully, but this place seems to be new; there likely is (or can be) a mechanism for creating additional questions which may have more nuance. Not, of course, if you throw up your hands and declare the idea "fucking bullshit" though, I grant you that.
Looting has been tried before, Skippy
Sure has. It's happening right now, in fact. How's that pension working out? What about those prudently-invested savings?
I take it that by "looting" you are referring to higher taxes on millionaires, but when people with vast quantities of money are just using that money to game the system rather than invest in infrastructure or job creation, we wind up with a Herbert Hoover policy. Yep, that dude was into tax cuts to stimulate the economy. I can't remember how that turned out...
The "public option" polled well because it was ill-defined.
Actually, iirc, the only polls which resulted in support for single-payer were the ones which laid out specific policy positions and not broad terms like "public option". The majority of Americans supported the components of universal healthcare.
Herm, here's one by ABC http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/healthcare031020_poll.html
I can at least recognize that the issues are a lot more subtle than calling the sale/consumption of drugs an essential liberty.
They sure didn't seem to agree with you in 1933 when the 21st Amendment made it into the Constitution. I don't think all drugs should be legal, but one which is demonstrably safer than alcohol (let alone coffee or aspirin) seems like a pretty damn good candidate.
It shouldn't be legal until it is demonstrated to be safe through rigorous research.
Wait... what? It is irrefutable that pot is not only less toxic than alcohol, it is effectively impossible to die from it. In fact, it's even less toxic and less addictive than coffee, the American drug of choice. I wouldn't dispute that it can have deleterious mid- to long-term effects, but the only correlation of violent crime related to marijuana seems to be drug cartel behavior (and jackbooted Feds, although I suppose that doesn't qualify as "crime" under the literal definition) which would be reduced, if not outright eliminated, by an end to prohibition.
Certainly, with such a ubiquitous drug, and the grossly disproportionate amount of Federal money spent on pot enforcement (not to mention costs of privately imprisonment), an end to prohibition and simple pot tax would take an enormous chunk out of the federal budget. In addition, there are enough thousands of local growers across the nation that a cottage industry would spring up literally overnight, creating both businesses and jobs. And (lest it go unsaid) the medical applications are exceptionally diverse; fantastically safer, and with infinitesimally fewer side effects, than even over-the-counter medications (aspirin kills hundreds of people every year), let alone prescription pharmaceuticals.
There's no shortage of legitimate studies on the effects of pot. Grabbing a link out of Google, I see one with 73 peer-reviewed studies.
Wow, that turned into a hell of an off-topic rant, sorry. Guess I had to get that off my chest.
Wake me up when /. posts a non-NYT ad prompting me to log in.
I don't know if it's a function of my NoScript or ABP, but I never get prompted for a login to NYT as long as I go in the "front door", so to speak.
http://www.nytimes.com/
"A Third Way" is the title, and it's on the right of the page.
Is there anybody here that has a had a great idea, physical or software, but not brought it to fruition "because" of the patent system? Because of the headaches of the process or even just the thought of the slight chance of being sued in to oblivion?
Uh... yes! Millions! And I'm suing for damages.
What part of "New York Times" confused you into thinking I was talking about /.?
NYT has had extensive coverage of all the major national issues for weeks - two to three articles a day on the debt ceiling debate, national politics, and the fate of News Corpse, among many others.
I, for one, am pleased to see some favorable coverage of games in the Good Old Media for once (even if it is DF - the game which seems deep and complex until you understand the interface, and then becomes... very repetitive and unchallenging).
Yeah b/c the supreme court should consist of only the liberal judges appointed by Chrétien and Martin. No need for balanced perspectives!
Yeah, right. The Court should represent both sides - the People AND the Plutocracy! It's only fair (and balanced).
This Congress would never permit anything like the actions the American government took in the 30s, even if Obama were championing such a thing. Just one example: in 1936, we raised the tax rate on the rich from 63% to 79% while holding everyone else's taxes steady.
Instead, they're planning on bumping taxes on the rich down... again.
Bully. Old Herbert Hoover would have been proud.
Time to start putting lead in heads...
Seems to me it's time to start taking lead OUT of heads...
The only thing preventing concrete change in the system of injustice and corruption in the US is the learned helplessness of the American people. Every vote MATTERS. Find new candidates and get them elected. LIBERALS, I'M LOOKING AT YOU. The Tea Party has shown us all the way, we just have to rally support.
Tell it to the Bard, dude.
Murdoch/Fox ---- ChoicePoint ---- Viet Dinh ---- USA PATRIOT Act: note any pattern here???
Many, many people note the pattern. The question is, what is the path to mending the Union?
Murdoch's employees, owing to Murdoch's leadership, believed they lived in a world where laws against hacking and bribing didn't exist, and therefore hacked everyone they were curious about and bribed everyone they were not curious about, in the common goal of gathering salacious information about people they were curious about. And they also believed they lived in a world where blackmail was not illegal, so once they had this curious information, they felt no reason not to use it, even if it meant the manipulation of multiple democracies.
I'd like to see these hypotheses tested in a court of law. Preferably before Emperor Palpatine dies.
I'd much rather he just die. He stands in contention for single most corrosive force to modern democracy in the world today. He set up a kiosk selling hatred and lies on the grave of the Fourth Estate. We're better off without him entirely.