Watch the movie and read the comic. The sex scene is totally relevant to the plot, you just have to THINK about what you're seeing and look at the deeper meaning. It's there.
You've never seen it, yet you think you have room to say it's not good? Now that my friends, is a great mixture of arrogance and incompetence. Have you considered running for President? You'd fit right in.
Watson's answer was correct - he just didn't phrase it the way they want. Human contestants get hit with that rather frequently on Jeopardy for forgetting to say "What / Who / Where is....?". Hell, he actually had more correct answers than he buzzed in because he's programmed to not buzz in if he's not above a certain confidence level for the answer (I forget what it was in the video....under 90% and he wouldn't buzz in, I believe).
the society provides you and your potential clients with the security and infrastructure you need for business transactions.
Which I have never argued against taxes for police and roads. However, paying people to NOT work and punishing those who work hard in order to benefit the lazy and incompetent does NOT benefit me or society as a whole.
The rest of your post is irrational crap that's totally off the point of what I said regarding rent. However, if you suggest moving to another country - I've considered it. The only problem is any other first world country rapes you even harder than the US government does when it comes to taxes punishing hard work and success, so unfortunately, there are no viable alternatives.
And as for calling me a troll and implying me being a leech, I am actually one of those who at the same time are in favour of high taxes and actually do pay them. If you absolutely want to know, last year I've paid EUR 14424 in income taxes - which at the current exchange rate is almost as much as you've earned.
Well given the fact that the BOTTOM tax bracket in Europe tends to be around 40%, you could've made a whopping (that's sarcasm, by the way) $50,000 and paid as much in taxes as I earned in a year.
Who has failed at life now?
I never said anyone here failed at life. What you failed to read was me saying that YOU should not be held financially responsible if I mess up MY life. As for my income? Two factors there - one is that I was unemployed the first three months of the year and two, I'm in grad school, so after I graduate I'll probably be making more than you (and that's just straight out of school), paying less taxes, and having a higher quality of life than you. Oh, and the comment about you trolling is in regards to your nonsensical and fallacious "arguments" in favor of absurdly high taxes.
Wow, I didn't realize that forcing one person to work against their will for another persons benefit (also known as "slavery") was "civilized". And to think all these people cried when the South made blacks work for another persons benefit! I guess it's OK though as long as it's only white people who worked harder in life than you did being forced to work for your benefit, right?
When did I say "no taxes"? Oh, that's right, I didn't. I selected assholes like you (I just realized from your sig, you're the same troll from a few posts up) who say "Make that group pay for everything while I pay nothing and reap all the reward". I'd save a fortune if I only had to pay for the services I use instead of also having to pay to support the leeches like yourself.
Wow, totally fallacious argument. Not only do I voluntarily decide to rent apartment X at monthly price Y, but he is providing a service and I am paying for it. That is 100% different from you being taxed to pay me to sit at home doing nothing because I failed at life and can't keep a job.
In a closed economy, you would be correct. However, we do not live in a closed economy and we do business (both buying and selling) with pretty much every country in the world.
From what I've seen (just my experience, perhaps it's my state), taxes and fees on cell phones are the same regardless of plan, so the relative tax rate decreases as the cost of your cellphone plan increases.
I just wish all the people in favor of high taxes were the ones who actually have to pay those high taxes. Unfortunately it's always those who pay little or no taxes demanding others pay higher taxes to subsidize their lifestyle.
Note: Before anyone claims that I'm some rich person who doesn't want to pay taxes, I made a whopping $22,000 last year before taxes, I simply believe in wacky notions like personal responsibility and that one person shouldn't be forced to pay for another.
Actually SS and Medicare aren't forced savings - that's the problem. They're a pyramid scheme of wealth redistribution where the current workforce is required to pay money to support the now-retired former workers of a generation ago. This works just fine as long as you have a constantly rate of population growth ( for any population growth rate >= 0), but once you have a significant decrease in population growth from one generation to the next (as the US did going from the baby boomers to the current generation), then it all falls apart (which is exactly what's happening to the US) because either a) you keep the contributions per worker the same and then run a massive deficit due to the lower ratio of workers per retirees or b) you drastically raise taxes to compensate for the lower ratio of workers to retirees, but then the current generation both has a lower standard of living and less money to save for retirement.
No, taxes are a way to take money from a person who earned it and give it to a person who did not earn it. People like you think it's OK when the government takes money from those you dislike and gives it to you or those you deem "worthy", even though they didn't earn it or do a single thing to deserve it. However, if an individual forcefully takes money from someone and gives it to someone else they deem more worthy (or keeps it for themselves) we call this "theft". As someone (I forget who) once said, "If I cannot legally do something, what right do I have to petition the government to do it on my behalf?"
Lower corporate taxes are a good thing for creating jobs. Countries with high corporate taxes (like the US) experience outsourcing because the high taxes increase the cost of doing business, where countries with low corporate taxes experience insourcing (they're the ones the outsourced jobs go to). That's why pretty much every economist will tell you that the best way to improve the US economy is to drastically cut corporate taxes to get companies to move back to the US (then you get income taxes on all the jobs created). But that won't happen, because "corporations are evil" and fuck if we all end up unemployed as long as those "evil" job providing businesses are punished.
Which is absurd. You not only pay twice as much as the US in income taxes, but then you pay more than twice as much in sales tax on EVERY thing you buy, plus all the other mountains of taxes they add on. Wouldn't you like to, I dunno, actually have some money left from your paycheck to buy something you want or to save for the future?
A professor who's good in his field is well known in the area (potentially the country / global industry) and thus, if they see you are a good student, will recommend you for a job (as in an ACTUAL job, not an internship). Your bitterness implies that you're a poor student and thus no one would recommend you for jobs.
Yea, no micro SD / SD slot, no USB port, no HDMI port, AND no physical buttons? Congratulations Samsung - I went from looking forward to the Tab II to being guaranteed to never buy one.
Yes, me thinking that people have the right to decide who they want to do business with makes me a moron. Jesus Christ, people like you are why the government is constantly taking away more and more freedoms.
The freedom the bar keeper has to establish the rules of his establishment , do not weigh up against the limitation to freedom a person receives from not being allowed entrance to the place.
I'm sorry, I guess I missed the part in the Constitution where we were granted the right to enter private property against the owners wishes.
Do I think someone saying no blacks / hispanics / gays / asians / muslims is a moron? Yes, but if they own the business, then they have the right to decide that because it's their property. Just as you can't force me to let anyone into my home against my will, you have no right to force me to let anyone into the business I own against my will.
I'm in grad school at the same university where I got my bachelors. They've set it up now so that professors just need to click a button on the computer in the classroom and it records all audio and anything projected onto the board (powerpoint, overhead, video, etc) - these are then automatically posted online. It's great because it allows an easy review of the lecture, to see the professor work out examples again, and if you miss class you can still get every last bit of the lecture. However, it's not a worthy replacement for going to class at all, merely a supplement. If you never interact with a professor, you never get to ask questions related to their research and side projects as well as they never get to see what kind of a person you are and thus be able to recommend you for jobs.
I don't think it's a complete waste if you're not the A/V type of learner - I don't see Kahn Academy as a replacement for teachers and schools, I see it as a supplement / tool for learning ahead (parents can use K-A to teach their kids math and science over the summer between school years, students can use it as refreshers on old topics or ways to clarify topics they're currently studying).
You know, if you had a smartphone, you wouldn't need to carry a separate phone, music player, gps, camera, mobile broadband card, and netbook. Not telling you what to do, merely that there are alternatives. All I ever have in my pockets are my Evo, keys, and wallet.
And you would be a terrible teacher because, instead of teaching and holding them to some semblance of standards, you just spend the whole time telling them that they're perfect just the way they are and they don't need to learn anything.
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Watch the movie and read the comic. The sex scene is totally relevant to the plot, you just have to THINK about what you're seeing and look at the deeper meaning. It's there.
You've never seen it, yet you think you have room to say it's not good? Now that my friends, is a great mixture of arrogance and incompetence. Have you considered running for President? You'd fit right in.
Well, depending on how you view the situation, you could argue that Harry DID in fact kill Snape.
Watson's answer was correct - he just didn't phrase it the way they want. Human contestants get hit with that rather frequently on Jeopardy for forgetting to say "What / Who / Where is....?". Hell, he actually had more correct answers than he buzzed in because he's programmed to not buzz in if he's not above a certain confidence level for the answer (I forget what it was in the video....under 90% and he wouldn't buzz in, I believe).
the society provides you and your potential clients with the security and infrastructure you need for business transactions.
Which I have never argued against taxes for police and roads. However, paying people to NOT work and punishing those who work hard in order to benefit the lazy and incompetent does NOT benefit me or society as a whole.
The rest of your post is irrational crap that's totally off the point of what I said regarding rent. However, if you suggest moving to another country - I've considered it. The only problem is any other first world country rapes you even harder than the US government does when it comes to taxes punishing hard work and success, so unfortunately, there are no viable alternatives.
And as for calling me a troll and implying me being a leech, I am actually one of those who at the same time are in favour of high taxes and actually do pay them. If you absolutely want to know, last year I've paid EUR 14424 in income taxes - which at the current exchange rate is almost as much as you've earned.
Well given the fact that the BOTTOM tax bracket in Europe tends to be around 40%, you could've made a whopping (that's sarcasm, by the way) $50,000 and paid as much in taxes as I earned in a year.
Who has failed at life now?
I never said anyone here failed at life. What you failed to read was me saying that YOU should not be held financially responsible if I mess up MY life. As for my income? Two factors there - one is that I was unemployed the first three months of the year and two, I'm in grad school, so after I graduate I'll probably be making more than you (and that's just straight out of school), paying less taxes, and having a higher quality of life than you. Oh, and the comment about you trolling is in regards to your nonsensical and fallacious "arguments" in favor of absurdly high taxes.
Wow, I didn't realize that forcing one person to work against their will for another persons benefit (also known as "slavery") was "civilized". And to think all these people cried when the South made blacks work for another persons benefit! I guess it's OK though as long as it's only white people who worked harder in life than you did being forced to work for your benefit, right?
When did I say "no taxes"? Oh, that's right, I didn't. I selected assholes like you (I just realized from your sig, you're the same troll from a few posts up) who say "Make that group pay for everything while I pay nothing and reap all the reward". I'd save a fortune if I only had to pay for the services I use instead of also having to pay to support the leeches like yourself.
Wow, totally fallacious argument. Not only do I voluntarily decide to rent apartment X at monthly price Y, but he is providing a service and I am paying for it. That is 100% different from you being taxed to pay me to sit at home doing nothing because I failed at life and can't keep a job.
In a closed economy, you would be correct. However, we do not live in a closed economy and we do business (both buying and selling) with pretty much every country in the world.
From what I've seen (just my experience, perhaps it's my state), taxes and fees on cell phones are the same regardless of plan, so the relative tax rate decreases as the cost of your cellphone plan increases.
I wish there was a hipster tax.
I just wish all the people in favor of high taxes were the ones who actually have to pay those high taxes. Unfortunately it's always those who pay little or no taxes demanding others pay higher taxes to subsidize their lifestyle.
Note: Before anyone claims that I'm some rich person who doesn't want to pay taxes, I made a whopping $22,000 last year before taxes, I simply believe in wacky notions like personal responsibility and that one person shouldn't be forced to pay for another.
Actually SS and Medicare aren't forced savings - that's the problem. They're a pyramid scheme of wealth redistribution where the current workforce is required to pay money to support the now-retired former workers of a generation ago. This works just fine as long as you have a constantly rate of population growth ( for any population growth rate >= 0), but once you have a significant decrease in population growth from one generation to the next (as the US did going from the baby boomers to the current generation), then it all falls apart (which is exactly what's happening to the US) because either a) you keep the contributions per worker the same and then run a massive deficit due to the lower ratio of workers per retirees or b) you drastically raise taxes to compensate for the lower ratio of workers to retirees, but then the current generation both has a lower standard of living and less money to save for retirement.
No, taxes are a way to take money from a person who earned it and give it to a person who did not earn it. People like you think it's OK when the government takes money from those you dislike and gives it to you or those you deem "worthy", even though they didn't earn it or do a single thing to deserve it. However, if an individual forcefully takes money from someone and gives it to someone else they deem more worthy (or keeps it for themselves) we call this "theft". As someone (I forget who) once said, "If I cannot legally do something, what right do I have to petition the government to do it on my behalf?"
Lower corporate taxes are a good thing for creating jobs. Countries with high corporate taxes (like the US) experience outsourcing because the high taxes increase the cost of doing business, where countries with low corporate taxes experience insourcing (they're the ones the outsourced jobs go to). That's why pretty much every economist will tell you that the best way to improve the US economy is to drastically cut corporate taxes to get companies to move back to the US (then you get income taxes on all the jobs created). But that won't happen, because "corporations are evil" and fuck if we all end up unemployed as long as those "evil" job providing businesses are punished.
Which is absurd. You not only pay twice as much as the US in income taxes, but then you pay more than twice as much in sales tax on EVERY thing you buy, plus all the other mountains of taxes they add on. Wouldn't you like to, I dunno, actually have some money left from your paycheck to buy something you want or to save for the future?
A professor who's good in his field is well known in the area (potentially the country / global industry) and thus, if they see you are a good student, will recommend you for a job (as in an ACTUAL job, not an internship). Your bitterness implies that you're a poor student and thus no one would recommend you for jobs.
Yea, no micro SD / SD slot, no USB port, no HDMI port, AND no physical buttons? Congratulations Samsung - I went from looking forward to the Tab II to being guaranteed to never buy one.
Thankfully, the courts disagree with your freedom-friendly interpretation of the constitution.
FTFY.
Yes, me thinking that people have the right to decide who they want to do business with makes me a moron. Jesus Christ, people like you are why the government is constantly taking away more and more freedoms.
The freedom the bar keeper has to establish the rules of his establishment , do not weigh up against the limitation to freedom a person receives from not being allowed entrance to the place.
I'm sorry, I guess I missed the part in the Constitution where we were granted the right to enter private property against the owners wishes.
Do I think someone saying no blacks / hispanics / gays / asians / muslims is a moron? Yes, but if they own the business, then they have the right to decide that because it's their property. Just as you can't force me to let anyone into my home against my will, you have no right to force me to let anyone into the business I own against my will.
I'm in grad school at the same university where I got my bachelors. They've set it up now so that professors just need to click a button on the computer in the classroom and it records all audio and anything projected onto the board (powerpoint, overhead, video, etc) - these are then automatically posted online. It's great because it allows an easy review of the lecture, to see the professor work out examples again, and if you miss class you can still get every last bit of the lecture. However, it's not a worthy replacement for going to class at all, merely a supplement. If you never interact with a professor, you never get to ask questions related to their research and side projects as well as they never get to see what kind of a person you are and thus be able to recommend you for jobs.
3. A professor who knows you and sees that you are bright and a hard worker will recommend you for internships, grad school, and job openings.
I don't think it's a complete waste if you're not the A/V type of learner - I don't see Kahn Academy as a replacement for teachers and schools, I see it as a supplement / tool for learning ahead (parents can use K-A to teach their kids math and science over the summer between school years, students can use it as refreshers on old topics or ways to clarify topics they're currently studying).
You know, if you had a smartphone, you wouldn't need to carry a separate phone, music player, gps, camera, mobile broadband card, and netbook. Not telling you what to do, merely that there are alternatives. All I ever have in my pockets are my Evo, keys, and wallet.
And you would be a terrible teacher because, instead of teaching and holding them to some semblance of standards, you just spend the whole time telling them that they're perfect just the way they are and they don't need to learn anything.