And that's exactly what the Senate Gun bill that would ban "assault' weapons did.
Mini-14s are banned if they look one way, and legal if they look another way. Both are weapons that can handle 30 round clips and will kill people, but the look is what makes one dangerous, and one not.
Really it seems like this is a way to force younger people into criminal hacking. Hey, I found a bug on Paypal, I could do the responsible thing, and turn it in and not get paid, or I could exploit it and get paid even better. As if I needed anymore reason to hate Paypal.
From the conversation, they were looking for a reason to shut his service down, but until he said he was running a server, they didn't have reason. This is one of those times when shutting up would have been better.
I think that was his point. In the US Dems and Repubs are just two sides of the same coin. Doesn't matter which side it lands on, the US people are going to get screwed.
You are partially correct, where is the personally liability the student should have shown? She broke the rules, and instead of being punished, she is being rewarded.
I agree that charging her with a crime was a gross overreaction, but you have to take into account incidents that happened just shortly prior to this. Had this happened 6 months ago, I don't feel like she would have been charged.
I don't subscribe to any particular political idealogy, I admit the idea might be far-fetched, but there is no better way to work out problems than posting on Slashdot, and having the hell beat out of them.
Any food (excluding alcohol, acutally I don't care about this one. I drink a six pack a week, and a bottle of crown twice a year, I'll pay taxes on that) is tax exempt, gas, utilities, health care is all tax-free. Cars up to a certain amount are tax free (say 30k?, we can let the politicans argue over that value, they need something to argue about). Internet should probably be tax free. Set different limits based on the broad category it's in. Any computer over 2k, tax it. Any motorcycle, boat, four-wheeler tax it. Software (I think I'm okay with taxes on that, but I'm sure some could be tax exempt.) Again let the politicians argue over some of that.
But yes basic necessities, like food (any food, including chocolate, put an exclusion limit on that if the item is less than X% of national average salary, make it tax free, charge the tax if you spend a 1k on caviar or a 2k bottle of wine), gas, healthcare, internet, clothing (again to a certain limit, if I can afford to spend 10k on a suit, I can afford to pay 10% sales tax on it), utilities (not sure we need to ever charge tax on this whether you are Google/Microsoft/Apple running a datacenter, or a McDonalds employee making minimum wage).
No I don't trust politicans at all, that's why I implied a Constitutional Amendment in my post. (I'm not sure how that works in any country but the US, which is why I didn't state it that way). An amendment to the Consitution would be very hard for the politicians to break, and if it received the popular support that it would require to make it the law of the land, no politician in his/her right mind would attempt to break it in our generation. They would be hopefully be kicked out of office so quick, they wouldn't no what hit them.
CEO's don't dictate taxes, politicians dictate taxes. This isn't a new problem, it has always been a problem, its just that now, the governments are going broke from lower tax revenues, and they are squawking for more money.
Corporations do not pay taxes at any level. Raise taxes on a corp, and they raise their prices. That is why countries should get rid of income taxes, corporate taxes and the like. Go to a universal sales tax. Don't tax food and other necessities (what constitutes a necessity can be debated). Figure out what your GDP is, make an amendment that the nation budget can only be X% of the GDP, and that should be the sales tax rate nationally.
Don't want to pay taxes, don't buy shit. A company buys $1,000,000 worth of servers in the US, they pay US sales tax. A company buys same servers in the UK, they UK sales tax. No more (at least in the US, sorry I'm too lazy to look up the relevant European tax divisions) IRS. This should help avoid some of the tax haven problems.
They owe you health insurance since it lowers their taxes. If the govt would remove those subsidies from employers, then the insurance companies would be forced to peddle their wares like car insurance companies. This may or may not be a good thing in the end, but trying something and failing is better than not trying anything at all.
I've found a website where you can buy an 80% lower. Which means it's a trigger mechanism (sorta) that is 80% complete. Supposedly, you only need a hand drill to finish out the other 20%. I'm not sure how accurate it is, they were sold out when I looked, and I don't care enough to see how often they are in stock to try it myself.
I too have worked in market research and I would like to see the actual questions asked.
We actually gave a survey that skipped out middle-class whites, so that the electric company could get the data that said round-up and helping poor people pay their elecric bills was a good idea. Talk about biased survey.
Not to mention that Ubuntu has LibreOffice pre-installed, so none of those users have a reason to download LibreOffice. That could skew the download counts.
You are absolutely correct. The funny thing is that I somewhat agree with the OP on banning large capacity magazines. If I saw a poll that was scientific, and unbiased, that said that 51% percent of USians agreed to ban all guns, I would have no problem with laws being passed to ban them. I am not going to write my Reps though and ask for that to be done though. I feel that by giving up any right, then we are giving consent for the Govt to ask for us to give up more rights. This doesn't just apply to gun laws, it applies to free speech, copyright, search and seizure laws. The "free" peoples of this world (mostly Westerners) have allowed the govt to take our rights in the name of safety and think of the children. This is unacceptable to me. Every person who lives in a democratic nation needs to stand up for their rights, and declare that we are going to take them back.
Hey if you like Venezuela so much, why don't you fucking move there. This is the US, not some other fucking foreign country. That's the great thing about having freedom, you have th freedom to get the fuck out.
Sorry, I don't mean to take it out on you, but I'm so tired of people comparing the US to other countries. The US is not other countries, it has different priorities.
So a guy who votes Republican is being oppressed by a healthcare law passed by Democrats? I don't understand you're logic?
I'm not commenting the ACA as much as I'm commenting on why you're argument doesn't make sense. I also vote Republican, and my health care coverage has increased almost 5 times as much in the last 6 years, and my wife works for the insurance company. My companies insurance is so stupid, I actually feel like it would cost me less to just do without (barring any serious illnesses).
There is also plenty of upaward mobility in the US if you are willing to sacrifice and work for it. My wife and I both went to school fulltime, I worked fulltime and we raised between 3 and 5 kids during that time. 5 years ago we were making about 40-50k a year, today we are making above 100k. We have a lot of student loan debt, but not much other debt. It's not unbearable though. The payments are affordable, we live outside of town, but it's a good area, with some of the best in the state. We both started new jobs in the early part of this year. There are jobs, there are ways to increase your personal well being (I don't want to call it mobility), and there are ways to go to school (yes most of them involve going into debt), but the alternative is perfecting "Do you want fries with that?'.
I actually feel like this is the best time for intelligent people to be alive. Between programmers being able to create apps and sell them on the various mobile phone marketplaces, between writers being able to avoid the publishers with ebooks and blogs, and with recording artists being able to bypass the RIAA with the various music marketplaces. Any intelligent person who can't make a living with a little hard work and ingenuity is really just a lazy person. (I've been there, done that). No everything not rosy, but I feel like if people would do less complaining and more working, then maybe this capitalistic society will survive and might even be a better place to live.
They stole prepaid debit card numbers. They did not steal from the rich, they stole from the poor. This isn't a gang of Robin Hoods, but a gang of Jesse James's (?).
Benghazi is bad, but nowhere near as bad interring Japanese Americans during WWII. Ambassadors and Navy Seals should know that they are going into hostile territory, and should be aware that they will be targets.
Interring Americans during a war is just a horrible thing to do. I understand the history of why it was done, but we all know it was wrong. It should never have happened, much like slavery and the Indian Wars.
I think your last statement is spot on though. I hope the truth is found out, and if any wrong doing was done (I still believe in innocent until proven guilty, even if it has to do with the highest figures in our govt), I hope they are punished to the fullest extend of the law, up to and including impeachment if needed (not that I want Joe Biden as President, Obama is better than that).
CenturyLink jacked my rates up, but I called them, they gave me a new deal. What's surprising about it is, in my BFE town, they are the only game in town, unless I pay over $100 a month for cable plus internet from Suddenlink.
It's the entire US system. We're taught from an early age that those evil Communist Russians and Chinese are eviiiiil. We are not taught that Socialism and Communism are not the same. We are also not taught the difference between a true democracy and a republic. (The US is not a democracy). There are a few other issues that need to be worked on to. There are aspects of Socialism that work, and there are aspects of Democracy that work. But you must be evil if you teach that in school.
My personal belief is that in a perfect world Communism is the best form of government, in an imperfect world, a combination of governmental philosophies are the best.
I didn't RTFA, but the summary implies that someone is (i.e. Google, Microsoft, et al) is storing the data and that the government can access it. I can believe that, but not that the US govt can record everything in real time.
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And that's exactly what the Senate Gun bill that would ban "assault' weapons did.
Mini-14s are banned if they look one way, and legal if they look another way. Both are weapons that can handle 30 round clips and will kill people, but the look is what makes one dangerous, and one not.
Really it seems like this is a way to force younger people into criminal hacking. Hey, I found a bug on Paypal, I could do the responsible thing, and turn it in and not get paid, or I could exploit it and get paid even better. As if I needed anymore reason to hate Paypal.
Tim Cook?
From the conversation, they were looking for a reason to shut his service down, but until he said he was running a server, they didn't have reason. This is one of those times when shutting up would have been better.
I think that was his point. In the US Dems and Repubs are just two sides of the same coin. Doesn't matter which side it lands on, the US people are going to get screwed.
The second is personal liability.
You are partially correct, where is the personally liability the student should have shown? She broke the rules, and instead of being punished, she is being rewarded.
I agree that charging her with a crime was a gross overreaction, but you have to take into account incidents that happened just shortly prior to this. Had this happened 6 months ago, I don't feel like she would have been charged.
No that makes them racist terrorists.
I don't subscribe to any particular political idealogy, I admit the idea might be far-fetched, but there is no better way to work out problems than posting on Slashdot, and having the hell beat out of them.
It needs a lot of refining.
So refine it, and get it made into law.
Any food (excluding alcohol, acutally I don't care about this one. I drink a six pack a week, and a bottle of crown twice a year, I'll pay taxes on that) is tax exempt, gas, utilities, health care is all tax-free. Cars up to a certain amount are tax free (say 30k?, we can let the politicans argue over that value, they need something to argue about). Internet should probably be tax free. Set different limits based on the broad category it's in. Any computer over 2k, tax it. Any motorcycle, boat, four-wheeler tax it. Software (I think I'm okay with taxes on that, but I'm sure some could be tax exempt.) Again let the politicians argue over some of that.
But yes basic necessities, like food (any food, including chocolate, put an exclusion limit on that if the item is less than X% of national average salary, make it tax free, charge the tax if you spend a 1k on caviar or a 2k bottle of wine), gas, healthcare, internet, clothing (again to a certain limit, if I can afford to spend 10k on a suit, I can afford to pay 10% sales tax on it), utilities (not sure we need to ever charge tax on this whether you are Google/Microsoft/Apple running a datacenter, or a McDonalds employee making minimum wage).
No I don't trust politicans at all, that's why I implied a Constitutional Amendment in my post. (I'm not sure how that works in any country but the US, which is why I didn't state it that way). An amendment to the Consitution would be very hard for the politicians to break, and if it received the popular support that it would require to make it the law of the land, no politician in his/her right mind would attempt to break it in our generation. They would be hopefully be kicked out of office so quick, they wouldn't no what hit them.
CEO's don't dictate taxes, politicians dictate taxes. This isn't a new problem, it has always been a problem, its just that now, the governments are going broke from lower tax revenues, and they are squawking for more money.
Corporations do not pay taxes at any level. Raise taxes on a corp, and they raise their prices. That is why countries should get rid of income taxes, corporate taxes and the like. Go to a universal sales tax. Don't tax food and other necessities (what constitutes a necessity can be debated). Figure out what your GDP is, make an amendment that the nation budget can only be X% of the GDP, and that should be the sales tax rate nationally.
Don't want to pay taxes, don't buy shit. A company buys $1,000,000 worth of servers in the US, they pay US sales tax. A company buys same servers in the UK, they UK sales tax. No more (at least in the US, sorry I'm too lazy to look up the relevant European tax divisions) IRS. This should help avoid some of the tax haven problems.
They owe you health insurance since it lowers their taxes. If the govt would remove those subsidies from employers, then the insurance companies would be forced to peddle their wares like car insurance companies. This may or may not be a good thing in the end, but trying something and failing is better than not trying anything at all.
I've found a website where you can buy an 80% lower. Which means it's a trigger mechanism (sorta) that is 80% complete. Supposedly, you only need a hand drill to finish out the other 20%. I'm not sure how accurate it is, they were sold out when I looked, and I don't care enough to see how often they are in stock to try it myself.
I too have worked in market research and I would like to see the actual questions asked.
We actually gave a survey that skipped out middle-class whites, so that the electric company could get the data that said round-up and helping poor people pay their elecric bills was a good idea. Talk about biased survey.
Not to mention that Ubuntu has LibreOffice pre-installed, so none of those users have a reason to download LibreOffice. That could skew the download counts.
You are absolutely correct. The funny thing is that I somewhat agree with the OP on banning large capacity magazines. If I saw a poll that was scientific, and unbiased, that said that 51% percent of USians agreed to ban all guns, I would have no problem with laws being passed to ban them. I am not going to write my Reps though and ask for that to be done though. I feel that by giving up any right, then we are giving consent for the Govt to ask for us to give up more rights. This doesn't just apply to gun laws, it applies to free speech, copyright, search and seizure laws. The "free" peoples of this world (mostly Westerners) have allowed the govt to take our rights in the name of safety and think of the children. This is unacceptable to me. Every person who lives in a democratic nation needs to stand up for their rights, and declare that we are going to take them back.
Hey if you like Venezuela so much, why don't you fucking move there. This is the US, not some other fucking foreign country. That's the great thing about having freedom, you have th freedom to get the fuck out.
Sorry, I don't mean to take it out on you, but I'm so tired of people comparing the US to other countries. The US is not other countries, it has different priorities.
By the way, an assault rifle was not used in the Sandy Hook shooting http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/
Only pistols, so please explain to me one more time how banning an assault rifle would have stopped this or other tragedies?
So a guy who votes Republican is being oppressed by a healthcare law passed by Democrats? I don't understand you're logic?
I'm not commenting the ACA as much as I'm commenting on why you're argument doesn't make sense. I also vote Republican, and my health care coverage has increased almost 5 times as much in the last 6 years, and my wife works for the insurance company. My companies insurance is so stupid, I actually feel like it would cost me less to just do without (barring any serious illnesses).
There is also plenty of upaward mobility in the US if you are willing to sacrifice and work for it. My wife and I both went to school fulltime, I worked fulltime and we raised between 3 and 5 kids during that time. 5 years ago we were making about 40-50k a year, today we are making above 100k. We have a lot of student loan debt, but not much other debt. It's not unbearable though. The payments are affordable, we live outside of town, but it's a good area, with some of the best in the state. We both started new jobs in the early part of this year. There are jobs, there are ways to increase your personal well being (I don't want to call it mobility), and there are ways to go to school (yes most of them involve going into debt), but the alternative is perfecting "Do you want fries with that?'.
I actually feel like this is the best time for intelligent people to be alive. Between programmers being able to create apps and sell them on the various mobile phone marketplaces, between writers being able to avoid the publishers with ebooks and blogs, and with recording artists being able to bypass the RIAA with the various music marketplaces. Any intelligent person who can't make a living with a little hard work and ingenuity is really just a lazy person. (I've been there, done that). No everything not rosy, but I feel like if people would do less complaining and more working, then maybe this capitalistic society will survive and might even be a better place to live.
They stole prepaid debit card numbers. They did not steal from the rich, they stole from the poor. This isn't a gang of Robin Hoods, but a gang of Jesse James's (?).
Benghazi is bad, but nowhere near as bad interring Japanese Americans during WWII. Ambassadors and Navy Seals should know that they are going into hostile territory, and should be aware that they will be targets.
Interring Americans during a war is just a horrible thing to do. I understand the history of why it was done, but we all know it was wrong. It should never have happened, much like slavery and the Indian Wars.
I think your last statement is spot on though. I hope the truth is found out, and if any wrong doing was done (I still believe in innocent until proven guilty, even if it has to do with the highest figures in our govt), I hope they are punished to the fullest extend of the law, up to and including impeachment if needed (not that I want Joe Biden as President, Obama is better than that).
You are correct, I used true democracy, when I should have used direct democracy and democratic republic. I can only blame my US education.
CenturyLink jacked my rates up, but I called them, they gave me a new deal. What's surprising about it is, in my BFE town, they are the only game in town, unless I pay over $100 a month for cable plus internet from Suddenlink.
It's the entire US system. We're taught from an early age that those evil Communist Russians and Chinese are eviiiiil. We are not taught that Socialism and Communism are not the same. We are also not taught the difference between a true democracy and a republic. (The US is not a democracy). There are a few other issues that need to be worked on to. There are aspects of Socialism that work, and there are aspects of Democracy that work. But you must be evil if you teach that in school.
My personal belief is that in a perfect world Communism is the best form of government, in an imperfect world, a combination of governmental philosophies are the best.
I didn't RTFA, but the summary implies that someone is (i.e. Google, Microsoft, et al) is storing the data and that the government can access it. I can believe that, but not that the US govt can record everything in real time.
But the CEO said that tablets will be gone in 5 years. Surely he knows it all from behind the walls of his struggling company?
In 5-10 years, that statement will be on par with "Nobody will ever need more than 640k"