I use it to aggregate a lot of information from feeds of my choosing into one place. RSS does this as well, but the same content is not available and it's not as bite sized and scannable to me.
Plus it allows me to interact, which RSS does not.
I'm not finding it hard to make ends meet. No one said that or anything like that.
I'm making two points. One, making $200,000 is not at all like having million dollar homes or yachts. Anyone can do this. There's no reason to punish people for being successful, responsible producers in this economy.
Second, these people are the ones who are productive in this economy, they put their money to use in useful ways and many help create other jobs.
They are not people whose throats ought to be slashed by the government simply because they can't control their spending habits.
I don't think it's any better to beat up on single professionals who are homeowners and simply live responsibly and make good salaries.
We are spenders and investors, we aren't on the government dole. We are the people that they in government say they want to create - self sufficient professionals, investors and spenders - so why slap down the responsible class in taxes?
These people need the tax BREAKS because they are buying durable goods and investing, not sending the money directly to the coffers and share price of McDonald's corp or Wal-Mart or whomever. (there's value in that, but that's not what we sorely need right now)
If you live in the metro, own a home, and your wife stays at home with the kids - making $200,000 hardly qualifies you as "rich". Especially if you are a small business owner.
But then again, the government will stop at nothing to take all the money it can away from the people and organizations who create jobs.
Why would I bother? If I produce them, the other party will simply disbelieve them or drum up their own. Then I could find someone who reported what I suspected was true. Ad infinitum. It's an exercise in futility.
I remember looking at exit polling around the 2008 presidential election and basically it said that McCain got the middle class pretty handily, but generally the lowest tier and wealthiest tier largely voted for Obama.
But I can't be bothered to look it up... if anyone else is interested then pull it.
The media only wants to manufacture division and controversy for the purpose of selling ad space. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS (Comedy Central) all are motivated by this goal.
Which is the point of this publicity event after all.
Dressing something up as satire leaves you holding all the cards. His agenda is advanced, and any shortcomings are glossed over with "this is satire". It removes any accountability or responsibility, or even any demand for consistency or explanation.
It definitely is. Self-promotion... getting the public involved in generating revenue for Viacom instead of just spinning their DVRs.
It's great commercial theatre. Many of the people who complain loudest about obtrusive advertising are enthusiastically becoming living advertisements for one of the world's largest media conglomos
It's all marketing, but it's a different kind of marketing. Not exactly viral marketing but definitely not traditional. It's marketing where you convince the customer to market to themselves.
The argument about whether an average Republican voter or an average Democratic voter is paying more in federal income taxes is probably not much of an argument.
Income doesn't have any bearing on the merits of one's ideas, of course, but I doubt if this would be much of a contest.
I agree. They used to be more even-handed. And on top of that, it used to be that the party in power got most of the jabs.
Their cynical attempt to cash in on the public's historic level of dissatisfaction with government is just that... a cynical attempt to cash in. These guys are trying to make money, as much as possible. Nobody should believe they have any motives other than those. And they couldn't hope to draw the same number of people as these other rallies, so that explains the opposing events.
These people take themselves far too seriously. It's just a shame that people think this qualifies as participation in the political process. Satire has a place but it's not a substitute for serious discussion or constructive contribution.
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I use it to aggregate a lot of information from feeds of my choosing into one place. RSS does this as well, but the same content is not available and it's not as bite sized and scannable to me.
Plus it allows me to interact, which RSS does not.
If they were using old Adobe employees, Twitter would start requiring you to update your system every 2 or 3 hours.
Ok, it's midnight. One more turn.
One more.
Five more.
Oh crap, sunrise! I gotta go to work!
One more.
Who do you believe creates jobs, then?
How do you propose we create more?
Do you feel that increasing taxes creates jobs?
You apparently didn't even read the first line, where I said this had nothing to do with my budget which is fine.
If you want to create jobs, you have to help job creators.
If government keeps beating up on job creators, there won't be any new jobs. We'll keep seeing negative jobs like we have been.
I'm not finding it hard to make ends meet. No one said that or anything like that.
I'm making two points. One, making $200,000 is not at all like having million dollar homes or yachts. Anyone can do this. There's no reason to punish people for being successful, responsible producers in this economy.
Second, these people are the ones who are productive in this economy, they put their money to use in useful ways and many help create other jobs.
They are not people whose throats ought to be slashed by the government simply because they can't control their spending habits.
Thanks for the clarification
That would be great, let's just stop all the activity that was so in demand that these high earners became high earners.
You have 75% of what you earn taken, and you're happy? ...disproving once again that there is any more profitable business to be in than government...
The worst political development in American history was that it gradually became ok to just vote other people's money to yourself.
Well then, what if you aren't married?
I don't think it's any better to beat up on single professionals who are homeowners and simply live responsibly and make good salaries.
We are spenders and investors, we aren't on the government dole. We are the people that they in government say they want to create - self sufficient professionals, investors and spenders - so why slap down the responsible class in taxes?
These people need the tax BREAKS because they are buying durable goods and investing, not sending the money directly to the coffers and share price of McDonald's corp or Wal-Mart or whomever. (there's value in that, but that's not what we sorely need right now)
If you live in the metro, own a home, and your wife stays at home with the kids - making $200,000 hardly qualifies you as "rich". Especially if you are a small business owner.
But then again, the government will stop at nothing to take all the money it can away from the people and organizations who create jobs.
Is there a (preferably free) alternative to Zone Alarm?
I installed this several years ago on my parents computer because they kept getting it inundated with viruses and spyware and such.
Why would I bother? If I produce them, the other party will simply disbelieve them or drum up their own. Then I could find someone who reported what I suspected was true. Ad infinitum. It's an exercise in futility.
We were talking about income level, not education level.
I remember looking at exit polling around the 2008 presidential election and basically it said that McCain got the middle class pretty handily, but generally the lowest tier and wealthiest tier largely voted for Obama.
But I can't be bothered to look it up... if anyone else is interested then pull it.
Health care? Global warming? The economy?
I'm sad that you think there are politicians who DON'T do this.
The media only wants to manufacture division and controversy for the purpose of selling ad space. Fox, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS (Comedy Central) all are motivated by this goal.
Which is the point of this publicity event after all.
Dressing something up as satire leaves you holding all the cards. His agenda is advanced, and any shortcomings are glossed over with "this is satire". It removes any accountability or responsibility, or even any demand for consistency or explanation.
It definitely is. Self-promotion... getting the public involved in generating revenue for Viacom instead of just spinning their DVRs.
It's great commercial theatre. Many of the people who complain loudest about obtrusive advertising are enthusiastically becoming living advertisements for one of the world's largest media conglomos
It's all marketing, but it's a different kind of marketing. Not exactly viral marketing but definitely not traditional. It's marketing where you convince the customer to market to themselves.
The argument about whether an average Republican voter or an average Democratic voter is paying more in federal income taxes is probably not much of an argument.
Income doesn't have any bearing on the merits of one's ideas, of course, but I doubt if this would be much of a contest.
I agree. They used to be more even-handed. And on top of that, it used to be that the party in power got most of the jabs.
Their cynical attempt to cash in on the public's historic level of dissatisfaction with government is just that... a cynical attempt to cash in. These guys are trying to make money, as much as possible. Nobody should believe they have any motives other than those. And they couldn't hope to draw the same number of people as these other rallies, so that explains the opposing events.
These people take themselves far too seriously. It's just a shame that people think this qualifies as participation in the political process. Satire has a place but it's not a substitute for serious discussion or constructive contribution.
argh. damn. Joke fail.
Plop is a funny word.
I think if you went back there today, all those Atari 2600 Pac-Man cartridges would hold the silt down.