What do you think that power will be used for if the "majority race and religion capitalists" gain control of the government?
A big pet peeve of mine is that in the few places where homosexuals can get married, nobody bothers to address the real problem. The real problem is that married people have extra rights and privileges that unmarried people cannot have. Hell they even get tax breaks. Letting homosexuals in on it doesnt make it right either. The absurdity of this false dichotomy just doesnt occur to people pushing a morality
And a lot of that tape prevents fraud, tax cheats, skirting labor laws, and your screwy idea from polluting the environment
You realize that you are replying to a strand which specifically mentioned the removal of limited liability, right?
I suspect that you didnt even consider it a possibility that the real problem with corporations is that their members are not generally treated on a legal level as individuals responsible for their corporate actions.
...excluding people by race color creed and national origin (and perhaps a few more characteristics, depending on juridiction).
Ah yes, the ol' legislate morality bullshit. If in one breath we complain about the dangers of corporate influences on the centralized government and thus the people, then how is it OK that in another we champion special-interest influences on the centralized government and thus the people?
The problem with both corporations and government is the centralization of the very things that shouldnt be centralized. We have corporate welfare on the grandest scale ever, while the government strips us of our rights at the fastest pace ever. You lost your 4th amendment rights just shy of a decade ago, and last month you just lost your 6th amendment rights.
I am too lazy to find the benchmark, but IRIC at that clockcycle the PIII still is their fastest architecture...
No way that can be true.
The P3 could achieve a peak throughput of 3 micro-ops per clock cycle with carefully selected integer instructions, when also following the 4-1-1 rule, while even shitty Athlon64's can pull up to 6 micro-ops per cycle, and without the silly asymmetric limitations that the P3 had.
The fact that Phenom II's are still limited to that same peak performance of 3 instructions (2 micro-ops each) per cycle that the Athlon64's had makes AMD look fairly mediocre in the modern arena.. but it still kicks the shit out of Pentium 3's at equal clock rates.
AFAIK, the Tea Party folk always got permits to hold their rallies, and when the permit period was up they performed the novel act of going home.
Trying to equate the Tea Party rallies to the Occupy movement is a gross generalization. One was an organized effort, the other is an effort to organize.
Nobody in his administration accepts gifts from lobbyists, and of course there arent any earmarks any more, and you have 5 days to look at bills before he signs them, and he enumerates which corporations gets tax breaks before he signs those bills as well.
Its amusing that you get modded up for lying about Obama not lying. Even Bill Clinton noted during Obama's election campaign that Obama's constant lying about the Iraq war was "the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen."
Its not like we can go on and on providing seemingly endless links to videos of him lying or anything.
What apple pays for the "rights to distribute" is out of context. The person that downloads Lada Gaga is not claiming they have the right to distribute, they have no intent to distribute, and they do not profit from the distribution that does occur.
You are trying to use the out of context letter of the law as a weapon to circumvent the obvious spirit of the law.
Let me rep\eat myself... dont be a dumbfuck... or are you a lawyer? Is that it? Lawyer? Dumbfuck.
The RIAA doesn't go after downloaders... they go after uploaders, and so a $10,000 fine for illegally distributing "Poker Face," which Apple paid significantly more for, is abso-fucking-lutely constitutional.
The RIAA goes after people that had no intent to distribute, and no.. Apple does not pay significantly more.. they pay significantly less than $1.29 per download. Dont be a dumbfuck.
Lieberman just didnt get his parties nomination in 2006. It isnt that Lieberman isnt a liberal, or isn't a Democrat, its just that he wasn't enough of a puppet for the Connecticut Democrat officials.
I live in Connecticut. You have no idea. He caucuses with the Senate Democrats, and is officially an "Independent Democrat" per congressional enrollment records.
In a state where both Republicans-turned-independents and Democrats-turned-independents have historically done very well on state matters, this turned out to not be a surprise. Connecticut liberals elected him as the real ("unofficial") Democrat candidate, throwing a big middle finger to the establishment that wanted a new toy instead.
As far as Lieberman being against the public option, that couldnt possibly have anything to do with Hartford being the home of most of the largest insurance companies in the world... right? It has to do with him being Independent.. right? You make me laugh.
Connecticut folk are liberal, but not loyal to the string pulling that goes on from Massachusetts Democrats trying to control out state with puppets.
I agree with the RIAA that infringement is against the law (don't like it? work to change it), but I disagree entirely about the penalties being imposed on people pursuing absolutely no commercial interest with their infringement activities. I think that current infringement penalties are excessive and thusly not constitutional.
For those not in America, or are simply ignorant, the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution (part of the 10 amendments we call "The Bill of Rights") reads: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
A $10000 fine for downloading Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", which you can own for $1.29 on iTunes, is unfuckingconstitutional. Period.
I was watching when 40 Republicans in the Senate voted against the health care bill. It passed anyways. Which part of this is confusing you? The Democrats got what they wanted. They didnt buy Republican votes with thousands of pages of corruption. They were buying Democrat votes with thousands of pages of corruption.
On public option healthcare: It was filibustered to death.
Every time that a filibuster was attempted in 2009, the Democrats always (thats 100% of the time) found 60+ to force a cloture vote.
The Democrats knew in 2009 when they got rid of the public option from the health care bill that they couldn't blame what they were doing on filibusters (since there were *zero* successful filibusters in 2009), which is why they blamed it on "threats of filibusters." Perhaps you should check what even the Democrats were saying, because you just fucking rewrote history.
If you want to blame the Republicans for something, at least have the fucking decency and intellectual honesty of finding one of the many things that they are actually guilty of. All those back room deals over the health care bill that completely castrated it and sold us all out, that wasn't to get enough Republicans on board, that was to get enough Democrats on board. You shouldnt need a citation since I just gave it.
Then you have the balls to call out the Republicans on the Iraq war when more Republicans voted against that than had voted for that pig of a health care bill you just fucking complained about?
This year they were overwhelmingly in favor of pushing 'In God We Trust' on school children. Thats both Democrats and Republicans.. yet you are going on about how the Democrats were against teaching creationism which wasnt even a matter in front of either House or Senate?..that maybe in two states total some single politician floated a bill that had zero chance of passing? Really?
Your problem is that you listen to what the Democrats say, but never bother to pay attention to what they actually do. Your priorities are fucked up. You care about what the media is talking about, rather than what the politicians are passing into law. That makes you the problem.
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In the US, healthcare isn't about getting people better, it's about maximising profits.
I have investigated this but could not find substantial evidence that the U.S. was significantly different from most other countries. That isnt to say that in the U.S. it isnt about profit, its to say that health care spending is surprisingly predictable simply based on the wealth of the people regardless of the country.
The United States is right on the line with most everyone else, and those not near the line each have remarkable economic and political situations (oil rich nations, countries in political turmoil, bankrupt economies, etc..)
The real issue is that the price of panels has been driven down by the Chinese dumping (selling at a loss) of panels.
Thats an issue for them, not for us.
It is the fact that we subsidized this horrible industry that is the problem., We don't even want them when they are manufactured in a country with very low wages and then sold at a fucking loss. It obviously never made sense to try to manufacture large panels here.
Green corruption at its finest, brought to you by Congress.
Probably... its kinda remarkable that you don't know what it means...
It means that he owes more on the house than its worth. This isnt unusual at all.
Say a home is worth $250K and you pick up a 30 year mortgage at 5% with $50K down payment. Monthly mortgage payments will be $1073.64 for 360 months, for a grand total of $386K.
Right off the hop you owe $386K for a $200K loan on a $250K home. It will take 126 months (thats over 10 years) before you have any equity at all in the home, until that time the home is "upside down."
When you add to this a housing market crash... now even people that are 15 or more years into their mortgage might still be upside down.
but there's no reason (except profit) to make life harder for everyone.
The thing is that not doing what we are doing is completely unacceptable. Cheap energy lifts populations out of poverty.
This idea that we would be better off if we didnt burn so much fossil fuels is complete and utter bullshit. It could be argued that the wealth generated by burning fossil fuels could be spread out better (especially into places like Africa and India) but it really cannot be argued that a Hot Earth scenario is better than a Poor Earth scenario.
With GapMinder you can set the scale for GDP/Capita axis to logarithmic, which is really what such a metric should be (economic growth is exponential.)
Instead of the regression curve that levels off, its a straight line from one corner to the opposite. This cannot be explained by any other means other than that GDP/Capita is really a very good proxy for HDI.
You also wont have the same argument about those two countries with a logarithmic GDP/Capita, but you might then notice that Equatorial Guinea is a country with a relatively high GDP/Capita but still has a really crappy HDI index. This is easily explained as a complete lack of economic freedom. Almost their entire GDP is based on oil exports that the government controls.
I'm not sure that cost/time matters as long as you have a large enough sampling from a diverse group. Generate weighting Wi for each point on the grid based on what the crowd thinks, and then start the "expert" cost/time analysis at the highest weight and work down..
At each iteration all the weights can be adjusted based on the experts input about the specific grid point he or she is looking at.
I think the point is that for more and more people, the phone and tablet are the only day-to-day computing devices, and that as time goes on this situation will continue to grow especially in the 2nd and 3rd world countries.
The idea that hobby development should be done on these devices, rather than end on these devices, seems to be to be an interesting one. BASIC probably isnt the best choice, but not because any of the other text-based choices are any better. I could see a programming language and IDE based upon positioning icons and tying them together to be something worth considering.
There isnt even a single country in the world that has a high GDP/Capita but a low HDI. We can conclude that a high GDP/Capita by necessity means a high HDI.
The demographics of the voter turnout is more important than the total percentage.
The same basic reason that Social Security and Medicare can't be touched is the same reason the politicians lean towards policies that support the beliefs of the religious.
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What do you think that power will be used for if the "majority race and religion capitalists" gain control of the government?
A big pet peeve of mine is that in the few places where homosexuals can get married, nobody bothers to address the real problem. The real problem is that married people have extra rights and privileges that unmarried people cannot have. Hell they even get tax breaks. Letting homosexuals in on it doesnt make it right either. The absurdity of this false dichotomy just doesnt occur to people pushing a morality
And a lot of that tape prevents fraud, tax cheats, skirting labor laws, and your screwy idea from polluting the environment
You realize that you are replying to a strand which specifically mentioned the removal of limited liability, right?
I suspect that you didnt even consider it a possibility that the real problem with corporations is that their members are not generally treated on a legal level as individuals responsible for their corporate actions.
...excluding people by race color creed and national origin (and perhaps a few more characteristics, depending on juridiction).
Ah yes, the ol' legislate morality bullshit. If in one breath we complain about the dangers of corporate influences on the centralized government and thus the people, then how is it OK that in another we champion special-interest influences on the centralized government and thus the people?
The problem with both corporations and government is the centralization of the very things that shouldnt be centralized. We have corporate welfare on the grandest scale ever, while the government strips us of our rights at the fastest pace ever. You lost your 4th amendment rights just shy of a decade ago, and last month you just lost your 6th amendment rights.
I am too lazy to find the benchmark, but IRIC at that clockcycle the PIII still is their fastest architecture...
No way that can be true.
The P3 could achieve a peak throughput of 3 micro-ops per clock cycle with carefully selected integer instructions, when also following the 4-1-1 rule, while even shitty Athlon64's can pull up to 6 micro-ops per cycle, and without the silly asymmetric limitations that the P3 had.
The fact that Phenom II's are still limited to that same peak performance of 3 instructions (2 micro-ops each) per cycle that the Athlon64's had makes AMD look fairly mediocre in the modern arena.. but it still kicks the shit out of Pentium 3's at equal clock rates.
AFAIK, the Tea Party folk always got permits to hold their rallies, and when the permit period was up they performed the novel act of going home.
Trying to equate the Tea Party rallies to the Occupy movement is a gross generalization. One was an organized effort, the other is an effort to organize.
Everything he said here was true.
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Everything he said here was true too.
I guess he cut the deficit in half.
Nobody in his administration accepts gifts from lobbyists, and of course there arent any earmarks any more, and you have 5 days to look at bills before he signs them, and he enumerates which corporations gets tax breaks before he signs those bills as well.
Its amusing that you get modded up for lying about Obama not lying. Even Bill Clinton noted during Obama's election campaign that Obama's constant lying about the Iraq war was "the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen."
Its not like we can go on and on providing seemingly endless links to videos of him lying or anything.
Yes, context.
What apple pays for the "rights to distribute" is out of context. The person that downloads Lada Gaga is not claiming they have the right to distribute, they have no intent to distribute, and they do not profit from the distribution that does occur.
You are trying to use the out of context letter of the law as a weapon to circumvent the obvious spirit of the law.
Let me rep\eat myself... dont be a dumbfuck... or are you a lawyer? Is that it? Lawyer? Dumbfuck.
The RIAA doesn't go after downloaders... they go after uploaders, and so a $10,000 fine for illegally distributing "Poker Face," which Apple paid significantly more for, is abso-fucking-lutely constitutional.
The RIAA goes after people that had no intent to distribute, and no.. Apple does not pay significantly more.. they pay significantly less than $1.29 per download. Dont be a dumbfuck.
Lieberman just didnt get his parties nomination in 2006. It isnt that Lieberman isnt a liberal, or isn't a Democrat, its just that he wasn't enough of a puppet for the Connecticut Democrat officials.
I live in Connecticut. You have no idea. He caucuses with the Senate Democrats, and is officially an "Independent Democrat" per congressional enrollment records.
In a state where both Republicans-turned-independents and Democrats-turned-independents have historically done very well on state matters, this turned out to not be a surprise. Connecticut liberals elected him as the real ("unofficial") Democrat candidate, throwing a big middle finger to the establishment that wanted a new toy instead.
As far as Lieberman being against the public option, that couldnt possibly have anything to do with Hartford being the home of most of the largest insurance companies in the world... right? It has to do with him being Independent.. right? You make me laugh.
Connecticut folk are liberal, but not loyal to the string pulling that goes on from Massachusetts Democrats trying to control out state with puppets.
I agree with the RIAA that infringement is against the law (don't like it? work to change it), but I disagree entirely about the penalties being imposed on people pursuing absolutely no commercial interest with their infringement activities. I think that current infringement penalties are excessive and thusly not constitutional.
For those not in America, or are simply ignorant, the 8th Amendment to the United States Constitution (part of the 10 amendments we call "The Bill of Rights") reads: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
A $10000 fine for downloading Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", which you can own for $1.29 on iTunes, is unfuckingconstitutional. Period.
I think its hard to define 'actual, military need'
I would certainly support slashing the entire military spending by 65%, keeping us on top but not so over the god damned top.
I was watching when 40 Republicans in the Senate voted against the health care bill. It passed anyways. Which part of this is confusing you? The Democrats got what they wanted. They didnt buy Republican votes with thousands of pages of corruption. They were buying Democrat votes with thousands of pages of corruption.
Ron Paul is the only candidate that wants to eliminate the TSA
Ron Paul speaking on the House floor, November 17th 2010
On public option healthcare: It was filibustered to death.
Every time that a filibuster was attempted in 2009, the Democrats always (thats 100% of the time) found 60+ to force a cloture vote.
The Democrats knew in 2009 when they got rid of the public option from the health care bill that they couldn't blame what they were doing on filibusters (since there were *zero* successful filibusters in 2009), which is why they blamed it on "threats of filibusters." Perhaps you should check what even the Democrats were saying, because you just fucking rewrote history.
One party fought for public option health care.
In the House, 100% of the Aye votes for the health care bill that passed were Democrats.
..that maybe in two states total some single politician floated a bill that had zero chance of passing? Really?
If you want to blame the Republicans for something, at least have the fucking decency and intellectual honesty of finding one of the many things that they are actually guilty of. All those back room deals over the health care bill that completely castrated it and sold us all out, that wasn't to get enough Republicans on board, that was to get enough Democrats on board. You shouldnt need a citation since I just gave it.
Then you have the balls to call out the Republicans on the Iraq war when more Republicans voted against that than had voted for that pig of a health care bill you just fucking complained about?
This year they were overwhelmingly in favor of pushing 'In God We Trust' on school children. Thats both Democrats and Republicans.. yet you are going on about how the Democrats were against teaching creationism which wasnt even a matter in front of either House or Senate?
Your problem is that you listen to what the Democrats say, but never bother to pay attention to what they actually do. Your priorities are fucked up. You care about what the media is talking about, rather than what the politicians are passing into law. That makes you the problem.
In the US, healthcare isn't about getting people better, it's about maximising profits.
I have investigated this but could not find substantial evidence that the U.S. was significantly different from most other countries. That isnt to say that in the U.S. it isnt about profit, its to say that health care spending is surprisingly predictable simply based on the wealth of the people regardless of the country.
Here is a graph of health spending vs GDP/Capita.
The United States is right on the line with most everyone else, and those not near the line each have remarkable economic and political situations (oil rich nations, countries in political turmoil, bankrupt economies, etc..)
The real issue is that the price of panels has been driven down by the Chinese dumping (selling at a loss) of panels.
Thats an issue for them, not for us.
It is the fact that we subsidized this horrible industry that is the problem., We don't even want them when they are manufactured in a country with very low wages and then sold at a fucking loss. It obviously never made sense to try to manufacture large panels here.
Green corruption at its finest, brought to you by Congress.
Probably... its kinda remarkable that you don't know what it means...
It means that he owes more on the house than its worth. This isnt unusual at all.
Say a home is worth $250K and you pick up a 30 year mortgage at 5% with $50K down payment. Monthly mortgage payments will be $1073.64 for 360 months, for a grand total of $386K.
Right off the hop you owe $386K for a $200K loan on a $250K home. It will take 126 months (thats over 10 years) before you have any equity at all in the home, until that time the home is "upside down."
When you add to this a housing market crash... now even people that are 15 or more years into their mortgage might still be upside down.
but there's no reason (except profit) to make life harder for everyone.
The thing is that not doing what we are doing is completely unacceptable. Cheap energy lifts populations out of poverty.
This idea that we would be better off if we didnt burn so much fossil fuels is complete and utter bullshit. It could be argued that the wealth generated by burning fossil fuels could be spread out better (especially into places like Africa and India) but it really cannot be argued that a Hot Earth scenario is better than a Poor Earth scenario.
Here is what it looks like with logarithmic GDP/Capita axis
With GapMinder you can set the scale for GDP/Capita axis to logarithmic, which is really what such a metric should be (economic growth is exponential.)
Instead of the regression curve that levels off, its a straight line from one corner to the opposite. This cannot be explained by any other means other than that GDP/Capita is really a very good proxy for HDI.
You also wont have the same argument about those two countries with a logarithmic GDP/Capita, but you might then notice that Equatorial Guinea is a country with a relatively high GDP/Capita but still has a really crappy HDI index. This is easily explained as a complete lack of economic freedom. Almost their entire GDP is based on oil exports that the government controls.
I'm not sure that cost/time matters as long as you have a large enough sampling from a diverse group. Generate weighting Wi for each point on the grid based on what the crowd thinks, and then start the "expert" cost/time analysis at the highest weight and work down..
At each iteration all the weights can be adjusted based on the experts input about the specific grid point he or she is looking at.
I think the point is that for more and more people, the phone and tablet are the only day-to-day computing devices, and that as time goes on this situation will continue to grow especially in the 2nd and 3rd world countries.
The idea that hobby development should be done on these devices, rather than end on these devices, seems to be to be an interesting one. BASIC probably isnt the best choice, but not because any of the other text-based choices are any better. I could see a programming language and IDE based upon positioning icons and tying them together to be something worth considering.
Here is a non-interactive version of the graph.
wikipedia PNG file
There isnt even a single country in the world that has a high GDP/Capita but a low HDI. We can conclude that a high GDP/Capita by necessity means a high HDI.
Struck down another one ma'!
You hear you claim that HDI isnt linked with GDP/Capita.
Please explain why the correlation is so strong.
(may require Java?)
The demographics of the voter turnout is more important than the total percentage.
The same basic reason that Social Security and Medicare can't be touched is the same reason the politicians lean towards policies that support the beliefs of the religious.
Old people vote more often and they tend to be religious. Fucking with old people is political suicide.