I sympathise and very much agree, but that's not what we usually called "killed." Raj may end up dead, but his condition is what killed him
Bullshit. What killed him is a lack of liberty.
The idea that none of the 7+ billion people on the planet would be offering the $10 treatment that would have saved Raj's life is simply laughable. The only reason this theoretical person doesnt get the theoretical $10 treatment today is the very real problem with the concept of intellectual property imposed upon the theory-verse.
In the real world, the government created another monopoly. People really die because of it.
Would you ever try to pull the same horse-shit argument if it was about Food and Starvation? The government grants a monopoly to a single company for all food production, and they want $10,000 dollars per sandwich.... would you really say "its the need for food that killed, not some greedy, heartless food corporation" ??
Of course not. You would say that its the government that was responsible for the killing. Why do you pretend that medicine is different?
So what you are saying is a pure democracy would reduce the power of small but passionate groups while giving a voice in government to small but passionate groups such as third parties?
So your story is that it never happens except when the liberals complain about all the "evil rich" that move away from high taxation. Then your story is that it happens all the time, right?
..and this is why corporations should get to act as a "person" with regards to many laws. Thats over $100 billion in paid taxes right there for just those 12 corporations, equivalent to about ~$900 per household.
Of course they get to donate to political campaigns.. so do unions, for pretty much the same reason. Remember that this country was started specifically because of taxation without representation.
but I don't understand how employees cashing in stock options is an incentive so strong that it deserves a tax refund for a company.
Why is it that you dont understand this? You do know what a refund is, right? Its when you already paid more in taxes than you ultimately end up owing at the final tally.
In other words, Facebook has actually handed the government nearly half a billion dollars in direct tax payments to the government this year, and thats not counting payroll taxes and so forth.
Its normally not an issue but when you get a program from a 3rd party such as a mirror or from a torrent, which you would know is exactly this case with this benchmark if you bothered to try to download it, then its nice to have evidence that the program was packaged up using the keys of the developer even if there is some small chance that someone other than the developer might have gotten the keys.
Makes your argument seem a bit silly now, doesnt it?
We are spending far more per person than we did in 1943, the height of World War II spending. And we aren't even in a major war.
This, and few seems to fucking know it, and its starting to piss me off that so few do.
The raw facts:
Government spending in 2011 was $6.251 trillion dollars (source: OECD.ORG
Total number of households in 2011 was 114.761 million (source: CENSUS.GOV
Government spending per household was $54469.72 in 2011, more than the median household income (source: basic math)
People seem to get caught up in the Federal numbers as if thats all that was spent, all that was borrowed, and all that is owed. Its not the case. People also jump to erroneous conclusions such as if the Federal government was greatly downsized that many government services would be cut, when in actuality the State and Local governments are funding and providing most of the cost of most of the services they cite as potentially lost or harmed (education, police, fire, justice, etc..)
The solution to the problem isn't cutting taxes on the middle class, raising taxes in the rich, or the ridiculous idea of spending even more.. no, the solution really is to stop spending so god damned much.
If you want to drink milk straight from a cow, you can still buy a cow.
Gee thanks. Now please explain what that has to do with what i said? It has nothing to do with it.. you are just pretending that it does.
Its like saying "well you still have the freedom to make your own car" after they take away your freedom to buy one and another persons freedom to sell one. Its a bullshit argument and you know it. It doesnt even pass simple scrutiny.
Liberty includes the freedom to voluntarily trade labor between consenting people. You don't get to redefine it.
By "screwing up" do you mean that they told this reporter that even though the display range said 32 miles, they told him it would go the 61 miles planned?
This is not the kind of thing that is a "screw up" -- this is the kind of thing that someone would claim to have happened while lying his ass off.
It's because electric cars use a *lot* of power - this is the same reason electric cars don't come with solar panels on the roof so you never need to charge them - it takes a lot of energy to charge an electric car.
Its not really restricted to 'electric cars' tho.
I remember one guy insisting that if a small gas powered generator can "power his entire house" when the lines go down, then somehow it should also adequately power his vehicle.
This isn't the case. Your house almost certainly requires less power than your car because the moving parts you might have inside of it don't weigh nearly as much as the car. The watts you use for things like light generation are just a rounding error compared to the watts needed to provide proper performance of a road-ready multi-thousand kilogram vehicle.
You aren't allowed to sell a particular product, big deal. You can't sell unpasteurized milk,...
By definition, this also means that you cannot buy unpasteurized milk... So in actuality, a ban on unpasteurized milk violates everyones freedom and not just the milk producers freedom.
It doesnt just ban the act of selling the product. It eliminates the market for the product.
Would you also consider a government ban on uncapped bandwidth no big deal? How about a government ban on birth control? A government ban on hard drives larger than 20 megabytes?
Here is an idea.. you should never ever ever have a say in shit that doesnt effect you, because otherwise people that dont need more than 20 megabytes of storage, never go over their monthly cap, and never get laid just may decide that its 'no big deal' that you arent allowed to buy certain products.
The primary problem is that too many people want to blame the lobbyists instead of the politicians.
Things have been framed as 'government vs corporations' by both government and corporations, because when people buy into that line of bullshit then they blame the corporations instead of the government, which results in nothing ever changing. The reality is that its 'government and corporations vs the people' and this is only possible because the politicians enable it.
You pay for what you get, and you get what you pay for. The US does not spend more per household than other major economies.
2010, the OECD numbers for total government spending in the United States was $6.134 trillion dollars. The 2010 census reports 115 million households. Thats $53,043 per household.
Which 1st world country did you have in mind that spends more per household?
A huge chunk of that is the cost of, or paying interest on the debt accumulated by, the military, war and killing people in other countries our government doesn't like.
You don't know that to be true and are just saying it, because in your world making claims is more important than knowing what you are talking about.
You know how I know that you don't know its true? Because I, unlike you, didnt just decide to make shit the fuck up. I have looked at the numbers because they are public knowledge and shit... something you could have done yesterday, the day before, the day before that, the day before that,... how many years of willful and deliberate ignorance backs your bullshit flapping of the mouth?
For your information, the Federal government accounts for less than half of the government spending done on your behalf. Diidn't fucking know that, did ya? Yet here you are talking about some fraction of the federal budget like its some sort of holy amount that is suppose to turn off the critical thinking of the people that listen to your dogmatic bullshit.
You are a useless American because you are a willfully ignorant shithead that acts like an authority when you know full well that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Thats right.. your ignorance makes me angry.. because fuck you for ruining the country.
Or you could indiscriminately fire 40+ rounds into a vehicle containing a 71 year old woman and her daughter without any warning at all, triggering otherwise rational people into considering a rampage.
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When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you get ever increasing evil.
Why the hell would excuses about R&D priorities matter to the end user?
You might as well of just held up a sign declaring your inner fanboy.
Yup, it will be a voting block of organizations destroying all the competing ones.
I sympathise and very much agree, but that's not what we usually called "killed." Raj may end up dead, but his condition is what killed him
Bullshit. What killed him is a lack of liberty.
The idea that none of the 7+ billion people on the planet would be offering the $10 treatment that would have saved Raj's life is simply laughable. The only reason this theoretical person doesnt get the theoretical $10 treatment today is the very real problem with the concept of intellectual property imposed upon the theory-verse.
In the real world, the government created another monopoly. People really die because of it.
Would you ever try to pull the same horse-shit argument if it was about Food and Starvation? The government grants a monopoly to a single company for all food production, and they want $10,000 dollars per sandwich.... would you really say "its the need for food that killed, not some greedy, heartless food corporation" ??
Of course not. You would say that its the government that was responsible for the killing. Why do you pretend that medicine is different?
So what you are saying is a pure democracy would reduce the power of small but passionate groups while giving a voice in government to small but passionate groups such as third parties?
Do you even listen to yourself?
So your story is that it never happens except when the liberals complain about all the "evil rich" that move away from high taxation. Then your story is that it happens all the time, right?
I think Penn Jilette said it best.
"When you vote for the lesser of two evils you get ever-increasing evil."
..and this is why corporations should get to act as a "person" with regards to many laws. Thats over $100 billion in paid taxes right there for just those 12 corporations, equivalent to about ~$900 per household.
Of course they get to donate to political campaigns.. so do unions, for pretty much the same reason. Remember that this country was started specifically because of taxation without representation.
but I don't understand how employees cashing in stock options is an incentive so strong that it deserves a tax refund for a company.
Why is it that you dont understand this? You do know what a refund is, right? Its when you already paid more in taxes than you ultimately end up owing at the final tally.
In other words, Facebook has actually handed the government nearly half a billion dollars in direct tax payments to the government this year, and thats not counting payroll taxes and so forth.
Its normally not an issue but when you get a program from a 3rd party such as a mirror or from a torrent, which you would know is exactly this case with this benchmark if you bothered to try to download it, then its nice to have evidence that the program was packaged up using the keys of the developer even if there is some small chance that someone other than the developer might have gotten the keys.
Makes your argument seem a bit silly now, doesnt it?
I don't even know where to start with this...
Then you should probably start here.
As long as the project is funded by Californians, I say go for it. They don't seem to mind dismal-looking cost/benefit analyses
We are spending far more per person than we did in 1943, the height of World War II spending. And we aren't even in a major war.
This, and few seems to fucking know it, and its starting to piss me off that so few do.
The raw facts:
Government spending in 2011 was $6.251 trillion dollars (source: OECD.ORG
Total number of households in 2011 was 114.761 million (source: CENSUS.GOV
Government spending per household was $54469.72 in 2011, more than the median household income (source: basic math)
People seem to get caught up in the Federal numbers as if thats all that was spent, all that was borrowed, and all that is owed. Its not the case. People also jump to erroneous conclusions such as if the Federal government was greatly downsized that many government services would be cut, when in actuality the State and Local governments are funding and providing most of the cost of most of the services they cite as potentially lost or harmed (education, police, fire, justice, etc..)
The solution to the problem isn't cutting taxes on the middle class, raising taxes in the rich, or the ridiculous idea of spending even more.. no, the solution really is to stop spending so god damned much.
They have suspects they are sure that did it.
Did what?
The accusation is rape, but not all accusations of rape are because of actual incidents of rape.
They have a method of determining which one, but they are dicking around because of cost?
Of course. Contrary to stupid peoples opinions, the burden imposed upon society actually matters.
If you want to drink milk straight from a cow, you can still buy a cow.
Gee thanks. Now please explain what that has to do with what i said? It has nothing to do with it.. you are just pretending that it does.
Its like saying "well you still have the freedom to make your own car" after they take away your freedom to buy one and another persons freedom to sell one. Its a bullshit argument and you know it. It doesnt even pass simple scrutiny.
Liberty includes the freedom to voluntarily trade labor between consenting people. You don't get to redefine it.
By "screwing up" do you mean that they told this reporter that even though the display range said 32 miles, they told him it would go the 61 miles planned?
This is not the kind of thing that is a "screw up" -- this is the kind of thing that someone would claim to have happened while lying his ass off.
Do you even listen to yourself?
It's because electric cars use a *lot* of power - this is the same reason electric cars don't come with solar panels on the roof so you never need to charge them - it takes a lot of energy to charge an electric car.
Its not really restricted to 'electric cars' tho.
I remember one guy insisting that if a small gas powered generator can "power his entire house" when the lines go down, then somehow it should also adequately power his vehicle.
This isn't the case. Your house almost certainly requires less power than your car because the moving parts you might have inside of it don't weigh nearly as much as the car. The watts you use for things like light generation are just a rounding error compared to the watts needed to provide proper performance of a road-ready multi-thousand kilogram vehicle.
You aren't allowed to sell a particular product, big deal. You can't sell unpasteurized milk, ...
By definition, this also means that you cannot buy unpasteurized milk... So in actuality, a ban on unpasteurized milk violates everyones freedom and not just the milk producers freedom.
It doesnt just ban the act of selling the product. It eliminates the market for the product.
Would you also consider a government ban on uncapped bandwidth no big deal? How about a government ban on birth control? A government ban on hard drives larger than 20 megabytes?
Here is an idea.. you should never ever ever have a say in shit that doesnt effect you, because otherwise people that dont need more than 20 megabytes of storage, never go over their monthly cap, and never get laid just may decide that its 'no big deal' that you arent allowed to buy certain products.
Well, if the logs to show that he didnt fully charge the battery.. then he didnt fully charge the battery.
What makes you think NK wont turn into a US puppet state anyways, only now with nukes?
The primary problem is that too many people want to blame the lobbyists instead of the politicians.
Things have been framed as 'government vs corporations' by both government and corporations, because when people buy into that line of bullshit then they blame the corporations instead of the government, which results in nothing ever changing. The reality is that its 'government and corporations vs the people' and this is only possible because the politicians enable it.
I've got post-it notes on my desk older than this thing.
Still havent called mom.
You pay for what you get, and you get what you pay for. The US does not spend more per household than other major economies.
2010, the OECD numbers for total government spending in the United States was $6.134 trillion dollars. The 2010 census reports 115 million households. Thats $53,043 per household.
Which 1st world country did you have in mind that spends more per household?
A huge chunk of that is the cost of, or paying interest on the debt accumulated by, the military, war and killing people in other countries our government doesn't like.
You don't know that to be true and are just saying it, because in your world making claims is more important than knowing what you are talking about.
... how many years of willful and deliberate ignorance backs your bullshit flapping of the mouth?
You know how I know that you don't know its true? Because I, unlike you, didnt just decide to make shit the fuck up. I have looked at the numbers because they are public knowledge and shit... something you could have done yesterday, the day before, the day before that, the day before that,
For your information, the Federal government accounts for less than half of the government spending done on your behalf. Diidn't fucking know that, did ya? Yet here you are talking about some fraction of the federal budget like its some sort of holy amount that is suppose to turn off the critical thinking of the people that listen to your dogmatic bullshit.
You are a useless American because you are a willfully ignorant shithead that acts like an authority when you know full well that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Thats right.. your ignorance makes me angry.. because fuck you for ruining the country.
Or you could indiscriminately fire 40+ rounds into a vehicle containing a 71 year old woman and her daughter without any warning at all, triggering otherwise rational people into considering a rampage.