First, since addiction is heritable, troubles would arise disproportionately in some communities.
Second, if we weren't giving people social services, we'd probably end up having to put them in institutions: either prisons, sanatoriums, or poorhouses. These are costly.
Finally, I don't think we could morally or humanly bear to do such a thing.
Targeted early intervention is not very socially popular either, but it's probably less expensive in the long run.
The wage increases get passed right back to customers (e.g., the wage-earners themselves)
To some extent, but not totally; product prices aren't totally based on labor cost, and not all labor's working at the minimum wage. And the customers are not always the same wage-earners.
The minimum wage should be raised with caution, but it's not at all fair to say that it wouldn't increase the living standard of the wage earner, or tie it directly to inflation.
*cough* Dean. well, sorta. He's for keeping and enforcing the existing federal gun laws and letting the states do their own thing if they feel they need something stronger. Vermont is a hunting state, apparently.
I've been calling and canvassing and suprised at how many aren't voting in the primaries. It makes me slightly sick, because so many of us are really invested in this race - but I know the whole mess can be very depressing where there's noone you think you can back, or when you think your vote doesn't matter.
That said, I think there's some reason to vote third party rather than abstain. At least that way your vote shows up in the count. And it may do some good - getting the third party public funding or debate invites, or at least an ear for its agenda.
Dean was attacked all last year, and brutally in Iowa going into the caucus. Gephardt attacked him with total distortions, Kerry attacked him, Kerry and Gephardt supporters together attacked him under cover of the ironically named PAC "Americans for Jobs, Healthcare, and Progressive Values" - the conservative "Club for Growth" attacked his supporters (Are the Bush people afraid?!) and the press was highly negative all year, see: the Center for Media and Public Affairs
I'd love to see you try to support that statement on the average American, or on the internet donors. Dean's fundraising continued strong into the new year and past the IA and NH losses.
I think you might fairly say the media has played their Kerry cards well, rather than the reverse.
See this: Media Chiefs back Kerry campaign
Anyway, there are still three main candidates.
Some count Dean out, but he's still got plenty of
money and is second in delegate count. Some count Edwards out, but I don't think that's fair either.
72 delegates tomorrow, 60 a week after that, and some 1200 on March 2nd, when California and New York finally get to weigh in. None of the home states of the three main guys has even voted yet!
You really haven't been paying attention, have you?
Lieberman is conservative, not liberal.
Sharpton is a very charming and acute speaker, but he's a GOP shill! Let me repeat: Sharpton is a GOP shill.
Kucinich is the most liberal remaining candidate, and the only one who's too liberal to get elected, because of his tax policy and because of his single-payer health policy - something even Clinton could not get support for, something Dean initially tried in Vermont and couldn't get through.
Electability is a false issue in the primaries. Primary voting strategy should focus on the immediate goal: the convention. The guy who shows up there with the most delegates is by definition electable, even if everybody voted their conscience.
Vote to either get your guy nominated, or to get him influence defining the platform, or to stop someone else, but vote for the convention, not November. November is far away, we know little about the candidates, and we don't know what Bush will do in the meantime.
Now, voting for the convention may not always mean voting your conscience. I think a lot of people's conscience leads them away from the current frontrunner, but they're fractured into separate camps. I know Kucinich voters are fighting for delegates, but I wish they'd consider whether they have a preference between the three more mainstream candidates who are still running.
And the Dean and Edwards camps need to take a good long look at each other and ask themselves what the heck they're doing. They're splitting an anti-Kerry vote, and I don't think either will cede it to the other because they're too different and too determined.
Well, I'm in California, so I can vote for whomever
I please and not affect the electoral vote.
Only voters in swing states need to vote strategically.
And the way you get your voice heard is to participate, even if you don't have lots of money.
Look at Dean's people - hundreds of thousands of small donors, hundreds of thousands more of volunteers. Their position now may not look like much, but they propelled their man from relative obscurity into early frontrunner status, and he defined much of the debate this year. They're
getting their issues heard, even if their candidate doesn't win (and he's still leading Edwards in delegates).
The next step for the Dean troops is to continue their action on a local scale, reshaping local politics,
running for office, making their support indispensable to local politicians.
I agree in terms of the movie - it's a total anti-climax. But for Tolkien that was probably a very important part - it's all about bringing the fantasy and the adventure home, sort of a coming back to earth, and finding out how wars and evil affect us at home and how adventures and ennoblement would teach us to deal - or something. But it would be hard to translate well in the movies, especially since they chose to emphasize the Shire as faerie and twee... it doesn't feel like earth at all.
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An 81-year-old should have known better. What she did was begging to get burned. If the coffee were at a more common serving temp, she'd have had only a few seconds more to get her clothes off to avoid third degree burns. They should design the cups better instead of making the coffee colder! And cars should have cupholders so ppl don't have to use their laps.
Land ownership could also, more innocently, be intended as a test of investment in the community. Just like stock ownership determines who gets to vote in a corporation. At least they didn't give people multiple votes in proportion to their wealth.
And the punchcard ballots are confusing the first time you use them. Takes a certain manual dexterity to line them up and vision, patience to punch the right hole. I'd think only old people would really be disenfranchised at a significant rate and since they vote disproportionately anyway, isn't it just Nature's way of restoring a balance?
Well, duh. You had to buy the lifetime subscription up front for the ReplayTV, at least when I was shopping. I haven't thought twice about ReplayTV since I bought my sweet, sweet TiVo, so I don't know if this has changed since. And I don't miss commercial skipping - the 60x fast forward is a fine alternative - although I have to admit I don't always stop it at the right moment - need to adjust the bounce-back time...
As I understand it, if they bring someone in on an H1B visa, they have to pay that person above-average salary for the position and post the salary publicly! Sounds unfair, but I guess it's to prevent the cheap part of importing cheap foreign labor.
Do what? I always thought "Right to Work State" meant one where they couldn't force you to join a union to get a job - which doesn't describe California at all.
Ah, but who's more likely to spend it in a helpful-to-the-economy way? That's the nasty thing about this tax-cuts-to-improve-the-economy BS - you really have to load it towards the wealthy and secure, because the poor and insecure will sock it away in their mattress or spend it on the gas bill or something unsexy like that. BTW: how much tax is a 4-person, $45k family paying? I would think it would be very little - less than 2400, actually. No?
I don't know what the other veto holders might do (maybe China), but the US already ignores the UN when necessary, we'd probably walk away altogether if deprived of our veto.
It's still unfair for 5 countries to have the veto, but I don't think it's a flaw, because I don't think making controversial decisions is or should be in the UN's mission.
The UN serves best as a forum for debates and to pool the resources of the member nations in achieving a widely supported goal. It's not supposed to be a world government that _decides_ things. This should be clear from the fact that it has no means to enforce its decisions.
On Iraq, we went the UN, we debated, we compromised a bit in hopes of getting other nations to help out with the bill, and then we did what we were going to do anyway. I'd say the UN served its (limited) purpose pretty well.
"You forgot to mention time. It's the most important resource of all. My time is extremely valuable."
I think I spend a lot more time dealing with telemarketers and door-to-door salesmen than with spam. The government doesn't care about your time. They care about AOL and its finances, I think.
I caught a segment on NPR of a person claiming that we could indeed prosecute those outside of California. Something about long-arm laws and "full faith and credit" and so on... yeah, I know nothing.
...then sitting down to homework will be hard for him - it's not a matter of his not liking to do it! I'd think it would be better for him if things were consistent between mom and dad's houses, or if he stayed in one place long enough to settle in. I'd think kids would have to be super far behind in reading, writing, or arithmetic before you'd hold them back at such a young age though. What's taught in fourth grade that isn't repeated in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th? The first years of school are such a damn repetitive bore, at least where I went.
Funny, at the yuppy schools I went to, flunking students was problematic precisely because of those $300k homes. Principals cave pretty quickly to rich angry parents.
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If we do this, it would be very ugly.
First, since addiction is heritable, troubles would arise disproportionately in some communities.
Second, if we weren't giving people social services, we'd probably end up having to put them in institutions: either prisons, sanatoriums, or poorhouses. These are costly.
Finally, I don't think we could morally or humanly bear to do such a thing.
Targeted early intervention is not very socially popular either, but it's probably less expensive in the long run.
The wage increases get passed right back to customers (e.g., the wage-earners themselves)
To some extent, but not totally; product prices aren't totally based on labor cost, and not all labor's working at the minimum wage. And the customers are not always the same wage-earners.
The minimum wage should be raised with caution, but it's not at all fair to say that it wouldn't increase the living standard of the wage earner, or tie it directly to inflation.
The Problem with Instant Runoff Voting
Approval or Condorcet.
Preferably Condorcet.
*cough* Dean.
well, sorta. He's for keeping and enforcing the existing federal gun laws and letting the states
do their own thing if they feel they need something stronger. Vermont is a hunting state, apparently.
I've been calling and canvassing and suprised at how many aren't voting in the primaries. It makes me slightly sick, because so many of us are really invested in this race - but I know the whole mess can be very depressing where there's noone you think you can back, or when you think your vote doesn't matter.
That said, I think there's some reason to vote third party rather than abstain. At least that way your vote shows up in the count. And it may do some good - getting the third party public funding or debate invites, or at least an ear for its agenda.
Dean was attacked all last year, and brutally in Iowa going into the caucus. Gephardt attacked him with total distortions, Kerry attacked him, Kerry and Gephardt supporters together attacked him under cover of the ironically named PAC "Americans for Jobs, Healthcare, and Progressive Values" - the conservative "Club for Growth" attacked his supporters (Are the Bush people afraid?!) and the press was highly negative all year, see:
the Center for Media and Public Affairs
I'd love to see you try to support that statement on the average American, or on the internet donors. Dean's fundraising continued strong into the new year and past the IA and NH losses.
Anyway, there are still three main candidates.
Some count Dean out, but he's still got plenty of money and is second in delegate count. Some count Edwards out, but I don't think that's fair either.
72 delegates tomorrow, 60 a week after that, and some 1200 on March 2nd, when California and New York finally get to weigh in. None of the home states of the three main guys has even voted yet!
You really haven't been paying attention, have you?
Lieberman is conservative, not liberal.
Sharpton is a very charming and acute speaker, but he's a GOP shill! Let me repeat: Sharpton is a GOP shill.
Kucinich is the most liberal remaining candidate, and the only one who's too liberal to get elected, because of his tax policy and because of his single-payer health policy - something even Clinton could not get support for, something Dean initially tried in Vermont and couldn't get through.
Electability is a false issue in the primaries.
Primary voting strategy should focus on the immediate goal: the convention.
The guy who shows up there with the most delegates is by definition electable, even if everybody voted their conscience.
Vote to either get your guy nominated, or to get him influence defining the platform, or to stop someone else, but vote for the convention, not November. November is far away, we know little about the candidates, and we don't know what Bush will do in the meantime.
Now, voting for the convention may not always mean voting your conscience. I think a lot of people's conscience leads them away from the current frontrunner, but they're fractured into separate camps. I know Kucinich voters are fighting for delegates, but I wish they'd consider whether they have a preference between the three more mainstream candidates who are still running.
And the Dean and Edwards camps need to take a good long look at each other and ask themselves what the heck they're doing. They're splitting an anti-Kerry vote, and I don't think either will cede it to the other because they're too different and too determined.
Well, I'm in California, so I can vote for whomever I please and not affect the electoral vote.
Only voters in swing states need to vote strategically.
And the way you get your voice heard is to participate, even if you don't have lots of money.
Look at Dean's people - hundreds of thousands of small donors, hundreds of thousands more of volunteers. Their position now may not look like much, but they propelled their man from relative obscurity into early frontrunner status, and he defined much of the debate this year. They're getting their issues heard, even if their candidate doesn't win (and he's still leading Edwards in delegates).
The next step for the Dean troops is to continue their action on a local scale, reshaping local politics, running for office, making their support indispensable to local politicians.
I didn't really like the set design, Agent Smith, Richard III, Gimli, Frodo, Pippin, Sam, or Merry.
Better without the lot of them, I say.
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I agree in terms of the movie - it's a total anti-climax. But for Tolkien that was probably a very important part - it's all about bringing the fantasy and the adventure home, sort of a coming back to earth, and finding out how wars and evil affect us at home and how adventures and ennoblement would teach us to deal - or something. But it would be hard to translate well in the movies, especially since they chose to emphasize the Shire as faerie and twee ... it doesn't feel like earth at all.
Better read up, you're out of date:
Study surprise: Low-carb dieters eat more, lose weight
also, just for fun:
Diet for Obese Patient Tied to Liver Inflammation
Atkins studies report meaty results
An 81-year-old should have known better. What
she did was begging to get burned. If the coffee were at a more common serving temp, she'd have
had only a few seconds more to get her clothes off to avoid third degree burns. They should design the cups better instead of making the coffee colder! And cars should have cupholders so ppl don't have to use their laps.
Land ownership could also, more innocently, be
intended as a test of investment in the community.
Just like stock ownership determines who gets to vote in a corporation. At least they didn't give people multiple votes in proportion to their wealth.
And the punchcard ballots are confusing the first time you use them. Takes a certain manual dexterity to line them up and vision, patience to punch the right hole. I'd think only old people would really be disenfranchised at a significant rate and since they vote disproportionately anyway, isn't it just Nature's way of restoring a balance?
Well, duh.
You had to buy the lifetime subscription up front
for the ReplayTV, at least when I was shopping.
I haven't thought twice about ReplayTV since I bought my sweet, sweet TiVo, so I don't know if
this has changed since. And I don't miss commercial
skipping - the 60x fast forward is a fine alternative - although I have to admit I don't always stop it at the right moment - need to adjust the bounce-back time...
As I understand it, if they bring someone in on an
H1B visa, they have to pay that person above-average salary for the position and post the salary publicly! Sounds unfair, but I guess it's to prevent the cheap part of importing cheap foreign labor.
Do what?
I always thought "Right to Work State" meant one where they couldn't force you to join a union to get a job - which doesn't describe California at all.
http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
Ah, but who's more likely to spend it in a helpful-to-the-economy way? That's the nasty
thing about this tax-cuts-to-improve-the-economy
BS - you really have to load it towards the wealthy and secure, because the poor and insecure will
sock it away in their mattress or spend it on the gas bill or something unsexy like that.
BTW: how much tax is a 4-person, $45k family paying? I would think it would be very little - less than 2400, actually. No?
I don't know what the other veto holders might do (maybe China), but the US already ignores the UN when necessary, we'd probably walk away altogether if deprived of our veto.
It's still unfair for 5 countries to have the veto, but I don't think it's a flaw, because I don't think making controversial decisions is or should be in the UN's mission.
The UN serves best as a forum for debates and to pool the resources of the member nations in achieving a widely supported goal. It's not supposed to be a world government that _decides_ things. This should be clear from the fact that it has no means to enforce its decisions.
On Iraq, we went the UN, we debated, we compromised a bit in hopes of getting other nations to help out with the bill, and then we did what we were going to do anyway. I'd say the UN served its (limited) purpose pretty well.
"You forgot to mention time. It's the most important resource of all. My time is extremely valuable."
I think I spend a lot more time dealing with telemarketers and door-to-door salesmen than with spam. The government doesn't care about your time.
They care about AOL and its finances, I think.
I thought the point on the smoking laws is that the _waiter_ can't or shouldn't have to choose between smokey work and no work?
I caught a segment on NPR of a person claiming
that we could indeed prosecute those outside of
California. Something about long-arm laws and "full faith and credit" and so on... yeah, I know nothing.
...then sitting down to homework will be hard for him - it's not a matter of his not liking to do it! I'd think it would be better for him if things were consistent between mom and dad's houses, or if he stayed in one place long enough to settle in. I'd think kids would have to be super far behind in reading, writing, or arithmetic before you'd hold them back at such a young age though. What's taught in fourth grade that isn't repeated in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th?
The first years of school are such a damn repetitive bore, at least where I went.
Funny, at the yuppy schools I went to, flunking students was problematic precisely because of those $300k homes. Principals cave pretty quickly to rich angry parents.