And why are you assuming that people can't / won't tell everyone they know that "I'm not flying due to these new searches"?
People try all the time to do these "annoy a company for a day" events (the most common being "don't buy any gas on day X) - and they all have one thing in common........they never amount to anything because after that day's over, people go right back to acting as they did before. This one will fail worse than others since you're still rewarding the airlines and the TSA with your money that day, you're just getting a handjob with your flight as well.
Trying to annoy the TSA for a day will do absolutely nothing. If you want to end these policies, refuse to fly until they're gone. If airlines see their bank accounts turn red with no hope of them being profitable unless the TSA is removed, you better believe they'll start doing everything imaginable to get rid of the TSA.
All they have to do is their JOB and "investigate" to see if there's any reasonable amount of truth behind the post. If there is, detain the person and investigate further. If there's not, forget about it. The problem is that the police fall victim to the same failings as everyone else - most people just want to do the least work possible to get paid.
Actually, I would have supported him pulling troops out. It is not our job to be the government of Afghanistan and Iraq. We've been "training" and "building" their troops and government for years now. If they don't want to take care of their country, that's their problem, not ours.
I only voted for people like Bush because the alternative was worse - that's why the US desperately needs to get away from the two party system where you're stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Also, you're ignoring all the countless DEMOCRATS who voted for the war (the President can NOT declare war - only CONGRESS has the ability to do that) and even once the Democrats had a majority a couple years later, they continued to vote for keep the war going instead of voting to end it. I never supported the war and I sure as hell don't support this 10 years dicking around and not fighting a real war crap either. As for you wanting me to feel bad for soldiers? Fuck them. They sold their souls to the government to make a quick buck. They hide behind the lie of "defending our freedoms" while they fight a war that has nothing to do with our freedom - just like every war (save the Pacific theater during WWII) for over a century. They serve politiciansNOT America. They're the ones that do horrible things just because they were told to and don't have the guts to do the right thing. They're the ones supporting assholes like Bush and Obama as they take away our freedoms and ass rape our economy.
First, just because I don't worship Obama as you do does not mean I'm trolling. But you, like so many others think that someone disagreeing with you equals trolling. Secondly we can easily pack up and leave at any time - that's how wars work...you go in, beat their ass and then (if you don't make their country part of yours) you leave. This whole bullshit of "nation building" is NOT part of war. Third, I guess you don't understand the difference between "loan" and "the government bought the goddamn company" - not to mention that Obama invented new bankruptcy laws to keep the UAW intact instead of using the normal bankruptcy laws which would've resulted in GM and Chrysler being sold off to the highest bidder. What Bush did was a "loan" (a loan that they only paid back by using MORE taxpayer money from the TARP bank account) - what Obama did was flatout buy the damn company. Lastly, you didn't bother to read what I wrote - I didn't say "edited a document" I said "then got caught and said "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"". I don't recall them trying to deny that they did it, as the current administration is.
I'm with you on everything except Katrina. That was a State level issue and the Governor and Mayor of New Orleans were responsible for dealing with it - after they proved utterly incompetent, they tried to claim it was a Federal issue (when no hurricane has ever been labeled as such) in order to shift the blame to someone else.
Sorry, but even if it's someone I dislike (such as Bush) I hate when people blame them for something that was not their fault in any way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did the Bush administration take a report written by non-government people, do a cut and paste job to make it say what they want, then get caught and say "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"?
As for your comments regarding war and large amounts of money going to corporations, I suppose you missed when Obama said it was necessary to give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler after they ran themselves into the ground or we he decided to continue the very war he claimed to be against.
I'm with you - the war is pointless and a huge waste of money. However, wasn't the Messiah supposed to have ended this war that he's continuing to fight?
Ditto. I used to work for a company where the owner was ridiculously paranoid like this. Security was tighter at this company than most big companies like MS, GE, or probably anything short of a high security government job. This guy spent a good $1 million or more a year just on security when the overwhelming majority of people have never even heard the guys name, let alone contemplated robbing him. But then again, there's that old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted".
while i am against total lockdowns that cripple a phone(think VZW) I do think that some security is in order.
"In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society."
I never said that CLI wasn't good - I merely pointed out that it's much easier to look at a picture on a screen and remember what you need to select than to try to remember text commands that you virtually never use. For things where it's easier and I do it often enough, I use the CLI because I'm faster at it - for things I don't do very often, I use the GUI because it's easier than looking up the commands I'd need and their syntax for CLI.
At the end of the day a GUI is fundamentally limited by the presentation logic
You had plenty of good points in your post and I agree that the CLI is useful - however, you forget that at the end of the day a CLI is fundamentally limited by your ability to remember an insanely long list of commands. THAT is why I prefer to use GUI's more than CLI - because for things that I don't use all that often, it's much easier to pull up a menu and see my options than try to remember the exact name and spelling of a command that I haven't used in a year.
Well first off, I was referring to INCOME taxes, which outweigh all other taxes combined and are what most people are talking about when they say "taxes". Secondly, not all states have sales tax. Thirdly, you are aware of things called "government transfers" where the government gives you money (such as the EITC) and equates to a NEGATIVE income tax, right?
Exactly - they act as if it's a "there's only solution" type of problem.
Here's a possible solution that I came up with (is it perfect, probably not, but no solution is).
1) Get the government out of healthcare. Currently, there are many laws preventing insurance companies from operating in all 50 states. This reduces competition and drives prices up. There should be made a federal law that explicitly bans the limitation of states or any other government institution on preventing insurance companies from operating on all 50 states (or any potential future states). There should also be a law that prevents you from being dropped from your insurance as well as requiring you to pay up to a certain percent of your income (as a maximum limit) for any prexisting conditions. Then, one more law that prevents employers from purchasing health care for employees and instead restricts them to reimbursing employees for insurance costs instead (thus ending the "if you lose your job, you lose your insurance" problem). Other than those laws and federal standards for medical training for doctors and nurses / acceptable procedures and sanitation requirements for medical facilities, the government should get out and lets people and businesses decide what they want best.
2) End businesses paying for health insurance. Yes, I know I mentioned the law regarding this in the previous post, but I want to elaborate on it. With businesses only being allowed to reimburse you for insurance costs, then when you negotiate pay at a job, you can negotiate how much they'll pay. Also, since everyone will be purchasing insurance on their own now and can shop around, you can choose the type of plan you want - if you want, you can take a low cost plan that is entirely covered by how much the company will reimburse you or you can choose a higher cost plan and pay for part of it out of your own pocket (which you currently do anyways with employer provided health insurance). The point is that it's up to you. Once you combine this with the law removing restrictions on insurance company competition, you will have a massive number of options to choose from and if an insurance company doesn't please you, you can easily change companies, so insurance companies will be pressured to lower costs and provide better customer service, just like any other competitive business. Then insurance companies won't just compete on price, but also on what extras they offer - how long you can keep your children on insurance while they're in college / grad school / medical school would be one factor that they would compete over as well as insurance companies pressuring medical institutions to lower costs so that they can lower their insurance costs and pass those savings on to consumers.
3) Tort reform. One of the biggest problems in the US today is the massive number of bogus lawsuits. Everyone wants to sue everyone because it's easy money if you win. Malpractice insurance (paid for out of doctors own pockets) is incredibly expensive and with the increase in lawsuits, costs have gone up because you're more likely to be sued and need to take money out from the malpractice insurance company. As long as a doctor did not do anything criminal or negligent, you should not be able to sue. If a doctor tells you that there's a risk of something bad happening during an operation and you consent to the operation and that bad thing happens, you do not have the right to sue - he did nothing wrong and you were made aware that this was a possibility. With this gone, doctors won't need to do all of the unnecessary tests they're forced to do for fear of being sued and malpractice insurance will go down, which means that doctors salaries can go down to compensate for the lower cost of malpractice insurance (their after-tax and after-malpractice insurance income will be the same).
And what makes you think that the taxes will equal what's currently paid by people? I pay $120 a month for my insurance - do you really think that I'll only pay $120 a month in taxes? I can guarantee you that I won't. I'd be surprised if I got away with only paying $300 a month in taxes for government run health care. Do you have any basis to make this claim or is it just your opinion and a bit of wishful thinking?
You're confusing "blogs" with "Bloggers" who are "professionals". I'm talking reading the sites of normal people just writing about their views, regardless of if anyone reads it or not.
I've heard plenty of people say that they shouldn't have to pay taxes. Also, currently 50% of the US working population pays a total of 3% of the taxes and the proportion that pay no taxes is constantly increasing. We're almost to the point of half the country NOT paying taxes, yet receiving the benefits of taxes.
Also, I'd like to know why you think a progressive tax system is fair? Why is it OK for one person to get to keep 90% of what they earned but another should be punished and only get to keep 50% of what they earn? I'm assuming that you understand percentages and realize that even if everyone pays the same percent, the more you make, the more you pay in taxes. The common reason given for supporting progressive taxes is "they have more money than I do" - again, even at the same percent tax rate, they'd be paying more, so why have a punitive tax system other than jealousy?
You think higher taxes on both employers and employees will be better for business? Companies will have less money to pay people with and people will have less money to spend, meaning that they buy less, meaning that companies higher fewer people...
As for your "it'll be great when it happens" comment, given how things work in other countries and the governments track record with everything else they run (Medicare, Social Security, BMV, etc) I definitely have to disagree with you there.
Too true, I've noticed that plenty of times and I don't run any extensions that would cause an error. Now what I want to know is has anyone else noticed this damn bug they've recently developed with trying to paste into Slashdot while using Chrome? I've seen it on half a dozen computers where everything works perfectly, until you're commenting on Slashdot and try to paste, then you have to hit paste like 30 times for it to paste.
You're forgetting that, if there's a crosswalk, pedestrians have the right of way and you're not allowed to run them over. Besides, other than the occasional moron jumping out in front of your car (I go to grad school at a university in a big city and you'd be amazed how many idiots just walk right into oncoming traffic), cyclists are much more of a problem than pedestrians.
Wait wait wait, I'm confused since this isn't a car analogy. Are you saying that in order to get a politician to do something, we have to hit them with a hammer? If so, what type of hammer are we talking here? Carpentry? Ball-peen? Mallet? Sledge?
Yes - IF enough people do that. However, the media has the overwhelming majority of Americans convinced that voting for a third party candidate is a sign of a mental disorder and that all third party candidates are in league with Lucifer.
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And why are you assuming that people can't / won't tell everyone they know that "I'm not flying due to these new searches"?
People try all the time to do these "annoy a company for a day" events (the most common being "don't buy any gas on day X) - and they all have one thing in common........they never amount to anything because after that day's over, people go right back to acting as they did before. This one will fail worse than others since you're still rewarding the airlines and the TSA with your money that day, you're just getting a handjob with your flight as well.
Trying to annoy the TSA for a day will do absolutely nothing. If you want to end these policies, refuse to fly until they're gone. If airlines see their bank accounts turn red with no hope of them being profitable unless the TSA is removed, you better believe they'll start doing everything imaginable to get rid of the TSA.
Stafford loans for undergraduates are pretty reasonable - however, once you go to grad school the interest rates roughly doubles.
All they have to do is their JOB and "investigate" to see if there's any reasonable amount of truth behind the post. If there is, detain the person and investigate further. If there's not, forget about it. The problem is that the police fall victim to the same failings as everyone else - most people just want to do the least work possible to get paid.
He did not make a bomb threat. He was annoyed at the crap service and posted about it using hyperbole.
Not that I agree with banning gay marriage, but the Constitution doesn't give ANYONE the "right" to get married, straight or otherwise.
Actually, I would have supported him pulling troops out. It is not our job to be the government of Afghanistan and Iraq. We've been "training" and "building" their troops and government for years now. If they don't want to take care of their country, that's their problem, not ours.
I only voted for people like Bush because the alternative was worse - that's why the US desperately needs to get away from the two party system where you're stuck voting for the lesser of two evils. Also, you're ignoring all the countless DEMOCRATS who voted for the war (the President can NOT declare war - only CONGRESS has the ability to do that) and even once the Democrats had a majority a couple years later, they continued to vote for keep the war going instead of voting to end it. I never supported the war and I sure as hell don't support this 10 years dicking around and not fighting a real war crap either. As for you wanting me to feel bad for soldiers? Fuck them. They sold their souls to the government to make a quick buck. They hide behind the lie of "defending our freedoms" while they fight a war that has nothing to do with our freedom - just like every war (save the Pacific theater during WWII) for over a century. They serve politicians NOT America. They're the ones that do horrible things just because they were told to and don't have the guts to do the right thing. They're the ones supporting assholes like Bush and Obama as they take away our freedoms and ass rape our economy.
First, just because I don't worship Obama as you do does not mean I'm trolling. But you, like so many others think that someone disagreeing with you equals trolling. Secondly we can easily pack up and leave at any time - that's how wars work...you go in, beat their ass and then (if you don't make their country part of yours) you leave. This whole bullshit of "nation building" is NOT part of war. Third, I guess you don't understand the difference between "loan" and "the government bought the goddamn company" - not to mention that Obama invented new bankruptcy laws to keep the UAW intact instead of using the normal bankruptcy laws which would've resulted in GM and Chrysler being sold off to the highest bidder. What Bush did was a "loan" (a loan that they only paid back by using MORE taxpayer money from the TARP bank account) - what Obama did was flatout buy the damn company. Lastly, you didn't bother to read what I wrote - I didn't say "edited a document" I said "then got caught and said "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"". I don't recall them trying to deny that they did it, as the current administration is.
I'm with you on everything except Katrina. That was a State level issue and the Governor and Mayor of New Orleans were responsible for dealing with it - after they proved utterly incompetent, they tried to claim it was a Federal issue (when no hurricane has ever been labeled as such) in order to shift the blame to someone else.
Sorry, but even if it's someone I dislike (such as Bush) I hate when people blame them for something that was not their fault in any way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did the Bush administration take a report written by non-government people, do a cut and paste job to make it say what they want, then get caught and say "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"?
As for your comments regarding war and large amounts of money going to corporations, I suppose you missed when Obama said it was necessary to give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler after they ran themselves into the ground or we he decided to continue the very war he claimed to be against.
I'm with you - the war is pointless and a huge waste of money. However, wasn't the Messiah supposed to have ended this war that he's continuing to fight?
Ditto. I used to work for a company where the owner was ridiculously paranoid like this. Security was tighter at this company than most big companies like MS, GE, or probably anything short of a high security government job. This guy spent a good $1 million or more a year just on security when the overwhelming majority of people have never even heard the guys name, let alone contemplated robbing him. But then again, there's that old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted".
while i am against total lockdowns that cripple a phone(think VZW) I do think that some security is in order.
"In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society."
I never said that CLI wasn't good - I merely pointed out that it's much easier to look at a picture on a screen and remember what you need to select than to try to remember text commands that you virtually never use. For things where it's easier and I do it often enough, I use the CLI because I'm faster at it - for things I don't do very often, I use the GUI because it's easier than looking up the commands I'd need and their syntax for CLI.
At the end of the day a GUI is fundamentally limited by the presentation logic
You had plenty of good points in your post and I agree that the CLI is useful - however, you forget that at the end of the day a CLI is fundamentally limited by your ability to remember an insanely long list of commands. THAT is why I prefer to use GUI's more than CLI - because for things that I don't use all that often, it's much easier to pull up a menu and see my options than try to remember the exact name and spelling of a command that I haven't used in a year.
Well first off, I was referring to INCOME taxes, which outweigh all other taxes combined and are what most people are talking about when they say "taxes". Secondly, not all states have sales tax. Thirdly, you are aware of things called "government transfers" where the government gives you money (such as the EITC) and equates to a NEGATIVE income tax, right?
Exactly - they act as if it's a "there's only solution" type of problem.
Here's a possible solution that I came up with (is it perfect, probably not, but no solution is).
1) Get the government out of healthcare. Currently, there are many laws preventing insurance companies from operating in all 50 states. This reduces competition and drives prices up. There should be made a federal law that explicitly bans the limitation of states or any other government institution on preventing insurance companies from operating on all 50 states (or any potential future states). There should also be a law that prevents you from being dropped from your insurance as well as requiring you to pay up to a certain percent of your income (as a maximum limit) for any prexisting conditions. Then, one more law that prevents employers from purchasing health care for employees and instead restricts them to reimbursing employees for insurance costs instead (thus ending the "if you lose your job, you lose your insurance" problem). Other than those laws and federal standards for medical training for doctors and nurses / acceptable procedures and sanitation requirements for medical facilities, the government should get out and lets people and businesses decide what they want best.
2) End businesses paying for health insurance. Yes, I know I mentioned the law regarding this in the previous post, but I want to elaborate on it. With businesses only being allowed to reimburse you for insurance costs, then when you negotiate pay at a job, you can negotiate how much they'll pay. Also, since everyone will be purchasing insurance on their own now and can shop around, you can choose the type of plan you want - if you want, you can take a low cost plan that is entirely covered by how much the company will reimburse you or you can choose a higher cost plan and pay for part of it out of your own pocket (which you currently do anyways with employer provided health insurance). The point is that it's up to you. Once you combine this with the law removing restrictions on insurance company competition, you will have a massive number of options to choose from and if an insurance company doesn't please you, you can easily change companies, so insurance companies will be pressured to lower costs and provide better customer service, just like any other competitive business. Then insurance companies won't just compete on price, but also on what extras they offer - how long you can keep your children on insurance while they're in college / grad school / medical school would be one factor that they would compete over as well as insurance companies pressuring medical institutions to lower costs so that they can lower their insurance costs and pass those savings on to consumers.
3) Tort reform. One of the biggest problems in the US today is the massive number of bogus lawsuits. Everyone wants to sue everyone because it's easy money if you win. Malpractice insurance (paid for out of doctors own pockets) is incredibly expensive and with the increase in lawsuits, costs have gone up because you're more likely to be sued and need to take money out from the malpractice insurance company. As long as a doctor did not do anything criminal or negligent, you should not be able to sue. If a doctor tells you that there's a risk of something bad happening during an operation and you consent to the operation and that bad thing happens, you do not have the right to sue - he did nothing wrong and you were made aware that this was a possibility. With this gone, doctors won't need to do all of the unnecessary tests they're forced to do for fear of being sued and malpractice insurance will go down, which means that doctors salaries can go down to compensate for the lower cost of malpractice insurance (their after-tax and after-malpractice insurance income will be the same).
And what makes you think that the taxes will equal what's currently paid by people? I pay $120 a month for my insurance - do you really think that I'll only pay $120 a month in taxes? I can guarantee you that I won't. I'd be surprised if I got away with only paying $300 a month in taxes for government run health care. Do you have any basis to make this claim or is it just your opinion and a bit of wishful thinking?
Not really. In some cases, yes, in others, the media shapes opinions. Why do you think companies invest in advertising? To shape people's views.
You're confusing "blogs" with "Bloggers" who are "professionals". I'm talking reading the sites of normal people just writing about their views, regardless of if anyone reads it or not.
I've heard plenty of people say that they shouldn't have to pay taxes. Also, currently 50% of the US working population pays a total of 3% of the taxes and the proportion that pay no taxes is constantly increasing. We're almost to the point of half the country NOT paying taxes, yet receiving the benefits of taxes.
Also, I'd like to know why you think a progressive tax system is fair? Why is it OK for one person to get to keep 90% of what they earned but another should be punished and only get to keep 50% of what they earn? I'm assuming that you understand percentages and realize that even if everyone pays the same percent, the more you make, the more you pay in taxes. The common reason given for supporting progressive taxes is "they have more money than I do" - again, even at the same percent tax rate, they'd be paying more, so why have a punitive tax system other than jealousy?
You think higher taxes on both employers and employees will be better for business? Companies will have less money to pay people with and people will have less money to spend, meaning that they buy less, meaning that companies higher fewer people...
As for your "it'll be great when it happens" comment, given how things work in other countries and the governments track record with everything else they run (Medicare, Social Security, BMV, etc) I definitely have to disagree with you there.
Too true, I've noticed that plenty of times and I don't run any extensions that would cause an error. Now what I want to know is has anyone else noticed this damn bug they've recently developed with trying to paste into Slashdot while using Chrome? I've seen it on half a dozen computers where everything works perfectly, until you're commenting on Slashdot and try to paste, then you have to hit paste like 30 times for it to paste.
You're forgetting that, if there's a crosswalk, pedestrians have the right of way and you're not allowed to run them over. Besides, other than the occasional moron jumping out in front of your car (I go to grad school at a university in a big city and you'd be amazed how many idiots just walk right into oncoming traffic), cyclists are much more of a problem than pedestrians.
Wait wait wait, I'm confused since this isn't a car analogy. Are you saying that in order to get a politician to do something, we have to hit them with a hammer? If so, what type of hammer are we talking here? Carpentry? Ball-peen? Mallet? Sledge?
Yes - IF enough people do that. However, the media has the overwhelming majority of Americans convinced that voting for a third party candidate is a sign of a mental disorder and that all third party candidates are in league with Lucifer.