Bullshit. Are you so fucking stupid as to believe that you don't already pay for their health care? Really? Are you that ignorant as to how this all works? Do you have Beck and Limbaugh cock shoved so far up your ass that you just can't see straight? You, me, all of us already pay for illegal aliens who go to hospitals for emergency care because by law they must treat anyone who comes in for emergency treatment. So how do you think this is paid for? Do you think hospital administrators wave wands that shoot magic pixie dust in the air to summon the money? So they jack up the prices. These prices get reflected in your insurance rates. Furthermore, what if they modified the bill to require ID. Do you know how easy it is to fake ID? It happens every day at every bar in America. Should the hospital tell the guy bleeding all over their floor to wait a few days so they can do a full background check before they treat people? Seriously, wake the fuck up to reality. You just don't get it. You're so concerned about the "socialism" bogeyman you can't see the forest for the trees. There is no capitalism in health care as it exists today. There is no real free market for health care except for things that aren't covered by health insurance. Public health care actually creates freedom because you're not dependent on a corporation to take care of you.
I have news for you: the average reader doesn't give a flying shit about grammar. They only care that what is written is understandable and reasonably fluid. Other than that, all the rules you cherish so deeply are pretty worthless. Content is king.
Just because they are acting on incomplete information, doesn't mean they aren't acting based on their own self interest. They are. It's just that it may turn out that their action ended up working against their best interest. Even when you think you have all possible information to make an informed decision, you don't because it's not possible to see the future. If someone buys stock in an undervalued company with strong financials but then the company's factory experiences a devastating earthquake and ruins the company, he would have failed your "self interest" test based on the way you define it. Sorry but it's a fucking straw man argument.
What is predictable is that people will do what they "think" is in their own self interest and whether that turns out to be true is pointless for purposes of this discussion.
There are already "days" for teachers and doctors, and it wouldn't surprise me if firemen and musicians had a day too. It's just a question of whether anyone gives a shit or not.
Bullshit. There are hundreds of thousands of people excluded from college simply because they don't have the money to go or some kind of sports talent which would give them a full scholarship.
So your value to society is determined by the size of your paycheck? Keep that in mind when one of your family members needs it...he or she is merely the sum of their paycheck and is otherwise a worthless piece of meat.
Yet another/. moron who doesn't know how to read. I spoke of deficit as a percentage of GDP, which is the only proper way to measure debt. If you don't understand why that is, then you not only need more reading comprehension but you also need to learn math. My statement about Carter was correct as well. You ranting about oil lines and disco clubs is pointless and retarded when talking about national debt. Oh and FYI...the only Republican president to ever reduce the deficit in the 20th or 21st centuries was Eisenhower (by 2% of GDP). If you doubt my numbers, you can check them yourself here: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com./ Unlike you, who talks out his ass, I actually studied the data.
lol...any suggestions? Combine poor education with fake news and a people who simply don't have time in the day to actually think about these things in any real way and you have a serious clusterfuck on your hands. Oh, and I almost forgot, the Republican party does everything in their power to twist the truth (which causes further polarization) to push their own agenda (the Dems try it on occasion but they just aren't very good at it). They have an ends justifies the means mentality without any understanding what monster they are creating. I was hoping they would figure it out when the religious right they worked so hard to seduce turned out to be far more nuts than they realized but no. Even Mary Shelley couldn't have envisioned a beast such as this.
All empires die, it's just a matter of how gracefully they go about it. This one is starting to look messy. Personally, I think we need a good enemy. I miss the Soviet Union...
Sorry but it's too late but not because of what you think. It's that the left and the right can no longer compromise on anything. Regarding your point though, and with the exception of the patriot act (which is a disastrous attack on our rights), we're more free now than we ever were. You might find that hard to believe but it's true. Shit, it used to be that individuals couldn't own gold bullion. Now you can...you just can't afford it.
In any event, the nation no longer cares about issues. Everything is about easy black and white labels and since the news media doesn't do news anymore (just sensationalism that should never see air time) and since most people in this country are extremely poorly educated, there's not much hope in changing things. Everyone is doing their best to increase the polarization and the media eats it up because it equals ratings. The key to a free nation that is able to compromise with itself is good journalism and that simply doesn't exist anymore.
Actually, Clinton was the first president since 1980 to reduce the size of the deficit (as a percentage of GDP). The last person to do it prior to Clinton was Carter. The difference between the R's and D's is that the R's love to spend money and not pay for it, while the D's love to spend money and (usually) try to pay for it. Another fundamental difference is what they like to spend money on.
Oh, so you don't like it when someone does it to you but it's ok for you to do it? I just did that to prove a point. People only care about labels when they are on the receiving end. Any more hypocrisies you want to learn about yourself?
FYI...I'm not a liberal nor a conservative. I don't have a black and white brain. Sorry if that's inconvenient for you.
I actually don't really care about the subject at hand. It's your desire to convert people into labels that I have a problem with. History is replete with examples of how unbelievably bad of a thing this is to do yet this is extremely common in our country. My point stands, if you have a valid argument then make it. It should stand on its own without the name calling. And yes it's name calling. The term liberal has been turned into a derogative term. If I called you a "fucking faggot" in my argument would you put any value in what I have to say? In effect, you're doing the same thing.
I'd be interested to hear what all those "liberal" Native Americans would think of your argument.
FYI...the trend of labeling everything as "liberal" or "conservative" just isn't helpful. It's like saying I don't have a real argument so I'll just label you to invalidate anything you say as rubbish. Your hardly the only person to do this especially with the country so polarized these days but it's still pathetic and, more importantly, dangerous (read history if you don't understand the meaning of this in this context).
It may not be the case with you but it doesn't mean it hasn't happened to her before. In fact, some guy may have said the same thing to her that you did and it turned out he wouldn't have anything to do her. Just saying there are other factors at play that you are undoubtedly unaware of.
lol...you obviously know nothing about about me. I'm not working through some "guy code" to preserve some kind of institution where we just go around fucking any and all women that turn our eye. I don't give a shit about any of that nor do I participate in or condone such behavior. Being human gives us the ability to override such desires but it doesn't change the fact that if I see a hot woman that I'm still going to be turned on by her. I don't choose attraction. It chooses me, but I choose how I want to react to it. At the end of the day, I may not try to fuck her but she's still a sex object as far as my brain is concerned and no amount of feminism will ever change that. Oh, and I have no desire whatsoever to oppress women, treat them like shit, or any other misogynistic notions you can come up with.
Finally, I think you need to take some biology classes so you can learn how this whole reproduction thing works. Both men and women are wired and specifically designed for sex. I'm sorry if that crude reality offends your sensitive intellect but it's best you learn this now rather than when you're 40.
I actually don't disagree with you, however, you should know that all women are sex objects. That's just how our brains our programmed to help propagate the species. People have this bizarre notion that we're not animals. We are -- and we actually behave a lot more like other animals when it comes to mating. Did you know that a woman's voice goes up slightly when she's ovulating? Or that she emits a hormone that attracts men during this period? Or that her skin glows every so slightly? All studied and all true.
So the real question isn't whether she's a sex object, it's whether she can become more than that. Oh and please don't resent the sex object thing...it may sound crude but none of us would be here without it.
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Bullshit. Are you so fucking stupid as to believe that you don't already pay for their health care? Really? Are you that ignorant as to how this all works? Do you have Beck and Limbaugh cock shoved so far up your ass that you just can't see straight? You, me, all of us already pay for illegal aliens who go to hospitals for emergency care because by law they must treat anyone who comes in for emergency treatment. So how do you think this is paid for? Do you think hospital administrators wave wands that shoot magic pixie dust in the air to summon the money? So they jack up the prices. These prices get reflected in your insurance rates. Furthermore, what if they modified the bill to require ID. Do you know how easy it is to fake ID? It happens every day at every bar in America. Should the hospital tell the guy bleeding all over their floor to wait a few days so they can do a full background check before they treat people? Seriously, wake the fuck up to reality. You just don't get it. You're so concerned about the "socialism" bogeyman you can't see the forest for the trees. There is no capitalism in health care as it exists today. There is no real free market for health care except for things that aren't covered by health insurance. Public health care actually creates freedom because you're not dependent on a corporation to take care of you.
I have news for you: the average reader doesn't give a flying shit about grammar. They only care that what is written is understandable and reasonably fluid. Other than that, all the rules you cherish so deeply are pretty worthless. Content is king.
Where I come from, we just call it practicality.
Just because they are acting on incomplete information, doesn't mean they aren't acting based on their own self interest. They are. It's just that it may turn out that their action ended up working against their best interest. Even when you think you have all possible information to make an informed decision, you don't because it's not possible to see the future. If someone buys stock in an undervalued company with strong financials but then the company's factory experiences a devastating earthquake and ruins the company, he would have failed your "self interest" test based on the way you define it. Sorry but it's a fucking straw man argument.
What is predictable is that people will do what they "think" is in their own self interest and whether that turns out to be true is pointless for purposes of this discussion.
There are already "days" for teachers and doctors, and it wouldn't surprise me if firemen and musicians had a day too. It's just a question of whether anyone gives a shit or not.
Artists would love it if the got $3 per CD sold. It's more like $1.60 on a CD that sells for $15.99.
Bullshit. There are hundreds of thousands of people excluded from college simply because they don't have the money to go or some kind of sports talent which would give them a full scholarship.
"The average human response time for auditory or visual input is 160--220ms."
Where did these numbers come from?
No, but to point it out like it's something unique to a government site is silly.
So your value to society is determined by the size of your paycheck? Keep that in mind when one of your family members needs it...he or she is merely the sum of their paycheck and is otherwise a worthless piece of meat.
ROFL....this your first time using the intertubes? Almost every page on the internet is loaded with errors. Try that shit with Amazon's home page: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.amazon.com&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.654
1153 errors.
Ebay: 253 errors
I could go on but what's the point.
Yes, lets prosecute and imprison all government developers who write code that his bugs in it!
Completely different material as Smart Mass shatters from rapid impact where d3o simply becomes rigid.
Yet another /. moron who doesn't know how to read. I spoke of deficit as a percentage of GDP, which is the only proper way to measure debt. If you don't understand why that is, then you not only need more reading comprehension but you also need to learn math. My statement about Carter was correct as well. You ranting about oil lines and disco clubs is pointless and retarded when talking about national debt. Oh and FYI...the only Republican president to ever reduce the deficit in the 20th or 21st centuries was Eisenhower (by 2% of GDP). If you doubt my numbers, you can check them yourself here: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com./ Unlike you, who talks out his ass, I actually studied the data.
lol...any suggestions? Combine poor education with fake news and a people who simply don't have time in the day to actually think about these things in any real way and you have a serious clusterfuck on your hands. Oh, and I almost forgot, the Republican party does everything in their power to twist the truth (which causes further polarization) to push their own agenda (the Dems try it on occasion but they just aren't very good at it). They have an ends justifies the means mentality without any understanding what monster they are creating. I was hoping they would figure it out when the religious right they worked so hard to seduce turned out to be far more nuts than they realized but no. Even Mary Shelley couldn't have envisioned a beast such as this.
All empires die, it's just a matter of how gracefully they go about it. This one is starting to look messy. Personally, I think we need a good enemy. I miss the Soviet Union...
Sorry but it's too late but not because of what you think. It's that the left and the right can no longer compromise on anything. Regarding your point though, and with the exception of the patriot act (which is a disastrous attack on our rights), we're more free now than we ever were. You might find that hard to believe but it's true. Shit, it used to be that individuals couldn't own gold bullion. Now you can...you just can't afford it.
In any event, the nation no longer cares about issues. Everything is about easy black and white labels and since the news media doesn't do news anymore (just sensationalism that should never see air time) and since most people in this country are extremely poorly educated, there's not much hope in changing things. Everyone is doing their best to increase the polarization and the media eats it up because it equals ratings. The key to a free nation that is able to compromise with itself is good journalism and that simply doesn't exist anymore.
Actually, Clinton was the first president since 1980 to reduce the size of the deficit (as a percentage of GDP). The last person to do it prior to Clinton was Carter. The difference between the R's and D's is that the R's love to spend money and not pay for it, while the D's love to spend money and (usually) try to pay for it. Another fundamental difference is what they like to spend money on.
He's not you moron. You need to seriously work on your reading comprehension.
Oh, so you don't like it when someone does it to you but it's ok for you to do it? I just did that to prove a point. People only care about labels when they are on the receiving end. Any more hypocrisies you want to learn about yourself? FYI...I'm not a liberal nor a conservative. I don't have a black and white brain. Sorry if that's inconvenient for you.
So all labels are the same? Nice. You're a moron. Thanks for playing. I'm glad the world is so black and white for you. Works well with your IQ.
I actually don't really care about the subject at hand. It's your desire to convert people into labels that I have a problem with. History is replete with examples of how unbelievably bad of a thing this is to do yet this is extremely common in our country. My point stands, if you have a valid argument then make it. It should stand on its own without the name calling. And yes it's name calling. The term liberal has been turned into a derogative term. If I called you a "fucking faggot" in my argument would you put any value in what I have to say? In effect, you're doing the same thing.
I'd be interested to hear what all those "liberal" Native Americans would think of your argument. FYI...the trend of labeling everything as "liberal" or "conservative" just isn't helpful. It's like saying I don't have a real argument so I'll just label you to invalidate anything you say as rubbish. Your hardly the only person to do this especially with the country so polarized these days but it's still pathetic and, more importantly, dangerous (read history if you don't understand the meaning of this in this context).
It may not be the case with you but it doesn't mean it hasn't happened to her before. In fact, some guy may have said the same thing to her that you did and it turned out he wouldn't have anything to do her. Just saying there are other factors at play that you are undoubtedly unaware of.
lol...you obviously know nothing about about me. I'm not working through some "guy code" to preserve some kind of institution where we just go around fucking any and all women that turn our eye. I don't give a shit about any of that nor do I participate in or condone such behavior. Being human gives us the ability to override such desires but it doesn't change the fact that if I see a hot woman that I'm still going to be turned on by her. I don't choose attraction. It chooses me, but I choose how I want to react to it. At the end of the day, I may not try to fuck her but she's still a sex object as far as my brain is concerned and no amount of feminism will ever change that. Oh, and I have no desire whatsoever to oppress women, treat them like shit, or any other misogynistic notions you can come up with.
Finally, I think you need to take some biology classes so you can learn how this whole reproduction thing works. Both men and women are wired and specifically designed for sex. I'm sorry if that crude reality offends your sensitive intellect but it's best you learn this now rather than when you're 40.
I actually don't disagree with you, however, you should know that all women are sex objects. That's just how our brains our programmed to help propagate the species. People have this bizarre notion that we're not animals. We are -- and we actually behave a lot more like other animals when it comes to mating. Did you know that a woman's voice goes up slightly when she's ovulating? Or that she emits a hormone that attracts men during this period? Or that her skin glows every so slightly? All studied and all true.
So the real question isn't whether she's a sex object, it's whether she can become more than that. Oh and please don't resent the sex object thing...it may sound crude but none of us would be here without it.