The two are not comparable. In one case you have a government suppressing its own citizens and in another you have a government jailing citizens of other countries it encounters on a battlefield. You may disagree with this many do but the fact is the US has a (somewhat the worse for wear) constitution and the government has no authority to treat its own citizens the way China routinely does.
-Yes I know there was probably some US citizen member of the Taliban in Afghanistan that was picked up for some reason years ago but the point still stands.
I believe his point was that the federal government is at the moment not capable of paying for ANYTHING. So yeah a consumer that wishes to have broadband paying for the service is preferable to the government borrowing more money to pay for something they wouldn't implement correctly anyway.
You come across a little snide in that comment. What countries are you speaking of? Other than parts of Asia where it might I guess be considered an insult in many cases 'tipping' is pretty standard or it is automatically appended to the bill for you. I know you aren't talking about North or South America or Europe or the South Pacific...
I'm not necessarily a big fan of the legislation but it would seem to be constitutional. Obviously if the tax is on both on local energy produced as well as that from out of state it doesn't qualify as a tariff.
People in the USA are not starving. They are not making a choice between feeding their families or obeying the law -excluding tax law. Do you really think that most crime is a result of people stealing a loaf of bread? Here's a question: What do you get when you have an entire community of poorly educated and bored men with nothing to do all day and no sense of self worth tied to anything healthy or meaningful? Welfare is not a kindness. Welfare strips a person of their reliance on themselves. It's condescending. It nurtures poverty, a reliance on the state and... crime.
Respectfully while I agree that the judicial branch does have the right to strike down laws it believes to be unconstitutional a great deal of the problems we have today center around their refusal to honestly do this. There is a tremendous amount of current law that they seem to refuse to hear arguments for that given a strict interpretation of the constitution is not... lawful. Instead they do seem intent extremely loose 'interpretations' existing law and in effect 'legislating from the bench'.
My understanding has always been that they should strike down law if not constitutional but leave the legislating to the legislative branch. In other words send it back to the legislature for a re-write. The judicial branch's power in this regard should be that of a 'veto' on both the executive and legislative. Interpretation should not mean that you change the law to the point that it is palatable for you. It should be an honest judging of the original intent of the law.
If a judge feels that it would be nice to add something to the existing cannon, they should write their congressman.
Assuming the "rich" software engineers you're referring to made less than $250K last year, they actually got a tax cut from Obama. Stop drinking the GOP Kool-Aid
Not to defend the republicans but this is only true if you ignore the Obama letting the Bush tax cuts expire... Factoring this in every bracket but the bottom 10% are going to be taxed more. Just saying. The guy you are responding to might not be the one drinking the 'Kool-Aid'.
Boxee though is designed for exactly that. Boxee is basically an open source project whose ultimate aim is the set top market. When they start releasing hardware this could (maybe not immediately) become a not insignificant source of income for the networks I'd think. This is the only real motivation I could see for this -someone like a cable provider talking to networks which talk to Hulu which (apologetically) asks Boxee to remove the functionality.
Facebook is having serious issues finding a way to make money right now. They are now what estimated at a value of 3 billion looking at their stock? This is 1/4 or 1/5 of the estimated value of the company not too long ago and seems to be inflated anyway since they CANT MAKE MONEY. It's all about them flailing around trying to find a way to leverage all 'popularity' into something tangible. If it means them deciding that you share your intellectual property with them then that's what they will try to do.
Or it could be that my state of Texas has for the most part very flat terrain and is the second largest state in the union behind Alaska making it an ideal candidate for wireless. We also have very friendly policies for small/startup businesses and you cant even compare population densities between Texas and most of the other coastal states.
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Popcorn hour supports toggling subtitles and audio streams via the remote and playing dvd and bluray isos. It really is a nice little solution.
The two are not comparable. In one case you have a government suppressing its own citizens and in another you have a government jailing citizens of other countries it encounters on a battlefield. You may disagree with this many do but the fact is the US has a (somewhat the worse for wear) constitution and the government has no authority to treat its own citizens the way China routinely does. -Yes I know there was probably some US citizen member of the Taliban in Afghanistan that was picked up for some reason years ago but the point still stands.
I believe his point was that the federal government is at the moment not capable of paying for ANYTHING. So yeah a consumer that wishes to have broadband paying for the service is preferable to the government borrowing more money to pay for something they wouldn't implement correctly anyway.
I'm curious why on earth she would have had to wait 15 years to qualify for surgery. Was that for medical reasons?
You come across a little snide in that comment. What countries are you speaking of? Other than parts of Asia where it might I guess be considered an insult in many cases 'tipping' is pretty standard or it is automatically appended to the bill for you. I know you aren't talking about North or South America or Europe or the South Pacific...
I'm not necessarily a big fan of the legislation but it would seem to be constitutional. Obviously if the tax is on both on local energy produced as well as that from out of state it doesn't qualify as a tariff.
> He's obviously a Republican. Or someone who's actually read the constitution.
People in the USA are not starving. They are not making a choice between feeding their families or obeying the law -excluding tax law. Do you really think that most crime is a result of people stealing a loaf of bread? Here's a question: What do you get when you have an entire community of poorly educated and bored men with nothing to do all day and no sense of self worth tied to anything healthy or meaningful? Welfare is not a kindness. Welfare strips a person of their reliance on themselves. It's condescending. It nurtures poverty, a reliance on the state and... crime.
Respectfully while I agree that the judicial branch does have the right to strike down laws it believes to be unconstitutional a great deal of the problems we have today center around their refusal to honestly do this. There is a tremendous amount of current law that they seem to refuse to hear arguments for that given a strict interpretation of the constitution is not... lawful. Instead they do seem intent extremely loose 'interpretations' existing law and in effect 'legislating from the bench'. My understanding has always been that they should strike down law if not constitutional but leave the legislating to the legislative branch. In other words send it back to the legislature for a re-write. The judicial branch's power in this regard should be that of a 'veto' on both the executive and legislative. Interpretation should not mean that you change the law to the point that it is palatable for you. It should be an honest judging of the original intent of the law. If a judge feels that it would be nice to add something to the existing cannon, they should write their congressman.
Assuming the "rich" software engineers you're referring to made less than $250K last year, they actually got a tax cut from Obama. Stop drinking the GOP Kool-Aid
Not to defend the republicans but this is only true if you ignore the Obama letting the Bush tax cuts expire... Factoring this in every bracket but the bottom 10% are going to be taxed more. Just saying. The guy you are responding to might not be the one drinking the 'Kool-Aid'.
Boxee though is designed for exactly that. Boxee is basically an open source project whose ultimate aim is the set top market. When they start releasing hardware this could (maybe not immediately) become a not insignificant source of income for the networks I'd think. This is the only real motivation I could see for this -someone like a cable provider talking to networks which talk to Hulu which (apologetically) asks Boxee to remove the functionality.
Facebook is having serious issues finding a way to make money right now. They are now what estimated at a value of 3 billion looking at their stock? This is 1/4 or 1/5 of the estimated value of the company not too long ago and seems to be inflated anyway since they CANT MAKE MONEY. It's all about them flailing around trying to find a way to leverage all 'popularity' into something tangible. If it means them deciding that you share your intellectual property with them then that's what they will try to do.
Or it could be that my state of Texas has for the most part very flat terrain and is the second largest state in the union behind Alaska making it an ideal candidate for wireless. We also have very friendly policies for small/startup businesses and you cant even compare population densities between Texas and most of the other coastal states.