If only Google would figure out how to hire some decent usability analysts. E.g. Chrome's bookmark manager has a search function that won't what? It won't search the names of the folders you create only the bookmarks themselves. Duh? Hello! WTF is wrong with them in Mountain View?
I'll tell you what's a reflection of what. The fact that college dorms with multiple-student dorm rooms don't have "intimacy rooms" where students can go to have sex in private is a direct reflection of the nightmarish influence religion has played upon our culture. Fuck each and every church, minister, and the sheep that support them!
But I have "invested" in 3 kickstarts, all three for physical devices. Two have gotten funded. The first one delivered on schedule with the item performing within a reasonable margin of my expectations. While the second one has encountered delays, when I checked up on them, they seem to be doing some quality engineering, and that takes time, so I am not too worried. The third is still in the openfunding stage, so we'll see. Bottom line: I am still very optimistic about new kickstarts.
I have a much, much, much better idea: Start a forth branch of the Department of Defense whose mandate is to blanket the land with state of the art fission power plants that they build and then operate, selling the power produced, at very low rates, to local utilities. One of the beauties of this is that we could re-instate the universal draft, so every young man and woman would spend a few years serving their country without any of them having to risk getting shot. Obviously, part of this is the repudiation for "national security reasons" of the ban on breeder reactors.
Corporate income taxes are part of the fraud that corporations are people. Eliminate corporate income taxes entirely, bring back the 90% top tier personal income tax rate we enjoyed in the late 50s and early 60s, and save the middle class.
It is not fine that businesses buy politicians. That is where the trouble starts. There is a fix for this.
Capitalism is also part of the problem, in that, without regulation, and, under appropriate circumstances, abandonment, it leads to less than optimum outcomes. US healthcare is the poster child of that.
Firemen are fine, up until they game the pension system. Soldiers get a pass, naturally. But cops? No. Those fuckers could have stood up to the prison industrial system a long time ago, and put an end to it. They are the one group of ordinary citizens who the politicians would not be able to ignore, but they sold us out. And for bitter dregs. Fuck the police!
You said a mouthful. The company I work for is probably going to go under for lack of a $40M angel investment. What would we provide for that. Oh, nothing much, just a drug that reverses aging in humans, dogs, cats, and horses. But, we can't 100% guarantee that we can make the drug, plus it may not actually reverse aging, plus the approval process is treacherous, so why take a chance on being the world's trillionaire, not to mention being able to live long enough to spend it all? Nope, better to spend the money on Instagram.
Because then they wouldn't be executing the program. You know, the program where Canada gets the same docility inducing behavior mods that we are subjected to in the US.
You completely missed dripdry's point. He is not talking about the legalities of firearms, nor the fact that they can prevent crimes in progress. What he is talking about is about having a society where people did not fear for their lives due to artificial scarcity, and would then not act irrationally. He is talking about a society where the chances that you would have to stop a crime in progress being reduced to nil because that society's people are generally happy. It's doable, but only if people give up their various religions.
The first part of your signature is malarky. The big fail in the US for the last hundred years or so has been the government failing to govern those aspects of our commercial life where the free market does a lousy job, i.e. energy production, health care, telecommunications, circulation of money to name a few. Of course that does not mean that our government has not been involved in a bunch of stuff that they shouldn't be involved in, but that fact does not make your thesis true.
Why bother with Miami? Just take it to Ciudad Jaurez and it'll be in Espanola before you can say "Arm the warhead." We want our nation to be secure from terrorists smuggling in bombs, but we sponsor a high-stakes lottery with a captive audience of contestants where to win the price all you have to do is transport contraband into the US. I'm speaking of course of the conjunction of the drug war with our Mexican border.
barv, sooner or later we are going to have to "not use carbon fuels". They are never going to run out, but they are going to slowly but surely get scarcer and scarcer. Not only scarcer and scarcer, but less efficiently brought to market, as the amount of energy it takes to bring a fixed amount of fossil fuel energy to market is only going to increase as time goes on. We have the technology to create a fully functional non-fossil fuel society, but doing so will require a tremendous investment in infrastructure construction. We need to focus every last bit of our productive surplus towards this goal, because now, we have a productive surplus with which to accomplish it. Later we won't! And the results of waiting until then? Not pretty.
Please note: I never mentioned AGW. That is a chimera. We will have far bigger problems due to scarcity of energy sources long before AGW ever causes a problem.
Global warming is FUD to distract us from the REAL issue: The transition from fossil fuels to non-fossil fuels is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. The sooner we get started, the better. Critical fact to understand about this: the marketplace will not provide the mechanism to accomplish this. Well, actually, of course it will, but the problem is that the marketplace's solution involves a major human die off to bring demand in line with supply. Overruling the marketplace to move us to towards the goal while avoiding a major die-off is one of the proper roles of government.
Another snow job. We, the west, funded Hitler's rise to power for the express purpose of conquering Russia - the Bolsheviks had reneged on their promise to put in a central bank once they took out the Czar, so they had to be taken out. Only Hitler reneged too. So then we *had* to enter the war. Not to mention that wars are good for *some* businesses. Que Pearl Harbor...
What a fortunate PR coup that after the war, we found out how depraved Hitler had become. That sealed WWII in as a "good" war. We were such suckers.
The answer to this is to return to confiscatory income tax rates for high earners. That golden parachute doesn't look so pretty when the government is going to take 90% of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg
I agree with the libertarian platform as far as allowing people maximum liberty to do what they like as long as it doesn't harm others, however where does it make allowance for not letting people starve to death if they lose their job? Please don't hand me that demented trope about voluntary charity. That is nothing but the victimization of the empathetic - do you really think that selecting against empathy is a good long-term societal strategy?
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If only Google would figure out how to hire some decent usability analysts. E.g. Chrome's bookmark manager has a search function that won't what? It won't search the names of the folders you create only the bookmarks themselves. Duh? Hello! WTF is wrong with them in Mountain View?
I'll tell you what's a reflection of what. The fact that college dorms with multiple-student dorm rooms don't have "intimacy rooms" where students can go to have sex in private is a direct reflection of the nightmarish influence religion has played upon our culture. Fuck each and every church, minister, and the sheep that support them!
burning coal /woosh
But I have "invested" in 3 kickstarts, all three for physical devices. Two have gotten funded. The first one delivered on schedule with the item performing within a reasonable margin of my expectations. While the second one has encountered delays, when I checked up on them, they seem to be doing some quality engineering, and that takes time, so I am not too worried. The third is still in the openfunding stage, so we'll see. Bottom line: I am still very optimistic about new kickstarts.
I have a much, much, much better idea: Start a forth branch of the Department of Defense whose mandate is to blanket the land with state of the art fission power plants that they build and then operate, selling the power produced, at very low rates, to local utilities. One of the beauties of this is that we could re-instate the universal draft, so every young man and woman would spend a few years serving their country without any of them having to risk getting shot. Obviously, part of this is the repudiation for "national security reasons" of the ban on breeder reactors.
Corporate income taxes are part of the fraud that corporations are people. Eliminate corporate income taxes entirely, bring back the 90% top tier personal income tax rate we enjoyed in the late 50s and early 60s, and save the middle class.
It is not fine that businesses buy politicians. That is where the trouble starts. There is a fix for this.
Capitalism is also part of the problem, in that, without regulation, and, under appropriate circumstances, abandonment, it leads to less than optimum outcomes. US healthcare is the poster child of that.
Your WWII example make use of a false dichotomy. We had other options than to either: 1) drop a-bombs on population centers, or 2) invade Japan.
That's not a handbasket. That's a bucket: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUiutKkMeiA
Watch out for the fat guy in the purple t-shirt.
Firemen are fine, up until they game the pension system. Soldiers get a pass, naturally. But cops? No. Those fuckers could have stood up to the prison industrial system a long time ago, and put an end to it. They are the one group of ordinary citizens who the politicians would not be able to ignore, but they sold us out. And for bitter dregs. Fuck the police!
You said a mouthful. The company I work for is probably going to go under for lack of a $40M angel investment. What would we provide for that. Oh, nothing much, just a drug that reverses aging in humans, dogs, cats, and horses. But, we can't 100% guarantee that we can make the drug, plus it may not actually reverse aging, plus the approval process is treacherous, so why take a chance on being the world's trillionaire, not to mention being able to live long enough to spend it all? Nope, better to spend the money on Instagram.
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Works for me...
Why don't you just spare yourself the all fretful suspense, and step in front of a train?
Because then they wouldn't be executing the program. You know, the program where Canada gets the same docility inducing behavior mods that we are subjected to in the US.
You completely missed dripdry's point. He is not talking about the legalities of firearms, nor the fact that they can prevent crimes in progress. What he is talking about is about having a society where people did not fear for their lives due to artificial scarcity, and would then not act irrationally. He is talking about a society where the chances that you would have to stop a crime in progress being reduced to nil because that society's people are generally happy. It's doable, but only if people give up their various religions.
The first part of your signature is malarky. The big fail in the US for the last hundred years or so has been the government failing to govern those aspects of our commercial life where the free market does a lousy job, i.e. energy production, health care, telecommunications, circulation of money to name a few. Of course that does not mean that our government has not been involved in a bunch of stuff that they shouldn't be involved in, but that fact does not make your thesis true.
No, here is the most devastatingly insidious lie since "switboat": artor3 is not a gullible chump.
Why bother with Miami? Just take it to Ciudad Jaurez and it'll be in Espanola before you can say "Arm the warhead." We want our nation to be secure from terrorists smuggling in bombs, but we sponsor a high-stakes lottery with a captive audience of contestants where to win the price all you have to do is transport contraband into the US. I'm speaking of course of the conjunction of the drug war with our Mexican border.
barv, sooner or later we are going to have to "not use carbon fuels". They are never going to run out, but they are going to slowly but surely get scarcer and scarcer. Not only scarcer and scarcer, but less efficiently brought to market, as the amount of energy it takes to bring a fixed amount of fossil fuel energy to market is only going to increase as time goes on. We have the technology to create a fully functional non-fossil fuel society, but doing so will require a tremendous investment in infrastructure construction. We need to focus every last bit of our productive surplus towards this goal, because now, we have a productive surplus with which to accomplish it. Later we won't! And the results of waiting until then? Not pretty.
Please note: I never mentioned AGW. That is a chimera. We will have far bigger problems due to scarcity of energy sources long before AGW ever causes a problem.
Global warming is FUD to distract us from the REAL issue: The transition from fossil fuels to non-fossil fuels is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. The sooner we get started, the better. Critical fact to understand about this: the marketplace will not provide the mechanism to accomplish this. Well, actually, of course it will, but the problem is that the marketplace's solution involves a major human die off to bring demand in line with supply. Overruling the marketplace to move us to towards the goal while avoiding a major die-off is one of the proper roles of government.
Another snow job. We, the west, funded Hitler's rise to power for the express purpose of conquering Russia - the Bolsheviks had reneged on their promise to put in a central bank once they took out the Czar, so they had to be taken out. Only Hitler reneged too. So then we *had* to enter the war. Not to mention that wars are good for *some* businesses. Que Pearl Harbor...
What a fortunate PR coup that after the war, we found out how depraved Hitler had become. That sealed WWII in as a "good" war. We were such suckers.
There's an easy answer for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg Check out the tax rate in the 50s and early 60s. No point in pillaging if the government is going to take most of it, is there?
The answer to this is to return to confiscatory income tax rates for high earners. That golden parachute doesn't look so pretty when the government is going to take 90% of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg
You are not talking about Libertarianism; you are talking about Social Credit. Take the red pill, click the link in my sig.
I agree with the libertarian platform as far as allowing people maximum liberty to do what they like as long as it doesn't harm others, however where does it make allowance for not letting people starve to death if they lose their job? Please don't hand me that demented trope about voluntary charity. That is nothing but the victimization of the empathetic - do you really think that selecting against empathy is a good long-term societal strategy?