WE don't buy the private jets, they do.
The most guilty corp is Apple, sitting on $70bn in liquid cash. Hope you arent an iZombie when you are spouting all this 99% bullshit.
Really we would need more than one settlement on any one planet, preferably done simultaneously. If one settlement has a problem they can possibly get at least temporary assistance locally. All settlements would have to grow their resources for redundancy to be able to support more than their "fair share" so that it can be preserved for emergencies or rescue efforts. Something many people forget is one colony just isn't enough. Especially when there are so many possible unforeseen events that could possibly happen. With one colony, a recurrence of Roanoke is far too likely.
I am so sick of fringe vocal minorities (the "99%", iZombies etc) telling me that their loud but insignificant numbers are indicitive of some sort of "norm" that I should obviously be part of.
But what about all the "Poor Minorities" who may not have internet access? I mean isn't that the whole reason we don't have to check I.D.s at polls? "What if they can't afford I.D.? Its racial descrimination because it will most affect the black communities"
The only way the democratic party would ever go for online voting is if it allowed many more unsubstantiably elligible voters the ability to vote.
Free market dictates you get paid what the employer thinks the job is worth, not what YOU think its worth... This is why unemployment is so high, despite companies being willing to hire.
Okay, so someone buys a lakeside house in a trendy community and sits on it to sell it later because they understand the property will be in high demand in a couple years is a scumbag speculator because someone who wants to buy it (because of its exclusive location) wants to live in it now. This is a dumb conversation full of ignorance.
So, what the article is really saying is that McAfee in an interview with Xinhua (a subsidiary of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council "SASAC") denied that they thought the "Gubm't did it". Awesome.
America has the most external debt of any country but is far from the worst borrower. As a % of gross GDP our debt isnt even in the top 30. All of Europe leads us in debt compared to GDP, which is proof socialism doesnt fucking work.
Im unaware? The minute the media farts about SSA and I become aware of at least 5 people complaining about it a day. No i suspect your memory is in error. And the link you pointed to is a list of "proposals" by lobbyists and congressmen.
I love people who can sneeze at $70 million dollars annual savings and say its not worth it. Social Security is the only part of the Government that actually PAYS for itself. The news says they are running at a deficit. Yes, this year they expect to...for the first time ever...have to borrow money....from...THEMSELVES! YES they have to actually use all the money they've socked away in the trust fund to cover about 2% of their expenses. This is what happens when you have a gigantic number of people retiring and fewer people paying into the program. Keep in mind also that many people who have never paid into Social Security also collect. Many spouses, widows, children of deceased and disabled beneficiaries to name a few.
And how many 80 year olds are still working age and have yet to file for Social Security, since you had to have worked within the last 3 years to get a statement in the first place. ITS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING TO RETIRE SOMEDAY! *ahem* Its a tool so that tools like you can verify that your employer hasn't farked up your earnings last year so when/if you retire you get the proper amount instead of waiting until you are 67 and saying "hey...30 years ago i made more than $240 for the year".
The paper statements they send out are a hoot, too. They have a little insert that says something to the effect of 'I've heard that Social Security will be insolvent by the year 20xx (usually around 2030). Will I stop receiving payments?'
'No! Social security will continue to operate as normal. If Congress does not authorize additional funding, you can expect to receive seventy cents on the dollar.'
Their definition of 'insolvent' must be 'nobody receives anything,' but I can lose 30% of what I'm 'owed' without government assistance.
You sir, are a liar. Having received one in March, just before they stopped printing them there was no such insert. And since I also work for Social Security, I can say you are the FIRST PERSON I’ve EVER HEARD say that. And trust me, if they planted that in a statement I would have heard at least a couple dozen complaints by now. Social Security voluntarily stopped printing the statements because no one reads them and it costs about $70 million a year to operate the service. Get some facts. The story you state is lunacy. For a Government entity that won't even give a hint or speculate about cost of living increases until the consumer price index is officially out every year, you think they would actually have an official stance on something as completely undecided as what *if* congress doesn't fix the problem in the next 15 years? Right-O!
No you directly said "China and Japan, Since they own most of the national debt (the US government holds most of the rest. This is a classic "I'll say total misleading bullshit and when someone catches me I'll pretend that's what i actually meant." By the time someone catches you, hundreds of ignorant/.ers have already read your comment and added the information to their group think. Good going, just admit what you've done.
Absolutely. Anything that makes learning fun and helps students relate is awful. Back to the dry (re: Not dripping with the leftist social pogrom), old (before we started rewriting history to make people think Abe Lincoln was gay and George Washington was secretly a glory monger to the extent of lying to his own wife about it) history tomes for you!
The lack of concern over if a gay person might accidentally be searching for color swatch apps and stumble over a dangerous app that will teach them the benefits of heterosexual unions does not make one "gay hating" or by inference some other unemployed or under-deserving sub-human. It simply means you should spend more time minding your own f'n business and less time minding someone elses, regardless of your ideological bent.
I'm not gay, I'm not friends with anyone who is gay, but I don't believe what gay people do is any of my business and wish you would stop f'n waving flags all over the place about it. When I was a lad, i dressed funny, then i would get all upset at people cause they would lable me, point, laugh, call names. Since the dawn of time people who are different have always been singled out. It happens all throughout the animal kingdom.
The crazy thing about this is most people who are extremist pro-gay are also the same people going on about climate change and animal rights. Well here's your big chance....where in the animal kingdom does a minority member of any species force the rest of its species to be okay with its minority behavior?
So, hump what you want, but just realize the rest of the pack thinks your dick smells like ass, and may laugh at you for it.
Born here, have a solid job. The states unemployment hasnt gone down in 3 years, we just re-elected a governor for a 3rd term who is actually responsible for most of the problems the state is currently in (such as the PERS problem), and if the trains weren't paid for by taxes i'd have no problem, but the problem is that METRO's only solution to traffic is to build trains, screw buses, screw road expansion. Pay for trains and street cars at $30million/mile and then subsidize each rider's fare with $2 in taxes. Businesses that can are moving to Washington where they don't have to pay state income tax which the libs in portland have proven time and again that as long as the bottom 50% doesnt have to pay taxes, screw the job creators (as they said with 56 and 57).
and if you don't care that an elected official is a child molester, then you have larger problems than I do for choosing to live here.
In one of the most recent cases that they are freaking out over the guy was brandishing a weapon had blood all over him and charged at the cops when they told him to drop the weapon.
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God help you when Iran gets a nuke, they predict less than a year after that the entire middle east will have nukes and a dire hate of YOU. Good luck.
WE don't buy the private jets, they do. The most guilty corp is Apple, sitting on $70bn in liquid cash. Hope you arent an iZombie when you are spouting all this 99% bullshit.
Really we would need more than one settlement on any one planet, preferably done simultaneously. If one settlement has a problem they can possibly get at least temporary assistance locally. All settlements would have to grow their resources for redundancy to be able to support more than their "fair share" so that it can be preserved for emergencies or rescue efforts. Something many people forget is one colony just isn't enough. Especially when there are so many possible unforeseen events that could possibly happen. With one colony, a recurrence of Roanoke is far too likely.
NASA Langley Research Center charges 2% to 8% of the profits from licensing their technology. Where do you get free? My source is NASA.
Finally a 99% movement I can get behind!
I am so sick of fringe vocal minorities (the "99%", iZombies etc) telling me that their loud but insignificant numbers are indicitive of some sort of "norm" that I should obviously be part of.
Okay, I call bullshit. Where is your historical source? I simply don't trust revisionist history without some sort of historical source.
But what about all the "Poor Minorities" who may not have internet access? I mean isn't that the whole reason we don't have to check I.D.s at polls? "What if they can't afford I.D.? Its racial descrimination because it will most affect the black communities" The only way the democratic party would ever go for online voting is if it allowed many more unsubstantiably elligible voters the ability to vote.
They are doing it so sites can't get the information without using their service, "Google Insights for Search".
Free market dictates you get paid what the employer thinks the job is worth, not what YOU think its worth... This is why unemployment is so high, despite companies being willing to hire.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Okay, so someone buys a lakeside house in a trendy community and sits on it to sell it later because they understand the property will be in high demand in a couple years is a scumbag speculator because someone who wants to buy it (because of its exclusive location) wants to live in it now. This is a dumb conversation full of ignorance.
Wah, someone thought of this domain name first and registered it. They want money for having done so before me. Wah. *yawn*
So, what the article is really saying is that McAfee in an interview with Xinhua (a subsidiary of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council "SASAC") denied that they thought the "Gubm't did it". Awesome.
No news here.
America has the most external debt of any country but is far from the worst borrower. As a % of gross GDP our debt isnt even in the top 30. All of Europe leads us in debt compared to GDP, which is proof socialism doesnt fucking work.
Im unaware? The minute the media farts about SSA and I become aware of at least 5 people complaining about it a day. No i suspect your memory is in error. And the link you pointed to is a list of "proposals" by lobbyists and congressmen.
I love people who can sneeze at $70 million dollars annual savings and say its not worth it. Social Security is the only part of the Government that actually PAYS for itself. The news says they are running at a deficit. Yes, this year they expect to...for the first time ever...have to borrow money....from...THEMSELVES! YES they have to actually use all the money they've socked away in the trust fund to cover about 2% of their expenses. This is what happens when you have a gigantic number of people retiring and fewer people paying into the program. Keep in mind also that many people who have never paid into Social Security also collect. Many spouses, widows, children of deceased and disabled beneficiaries to name a few.
And how many 80 year olds are still working age and have yet to file for Social Security, since you had to have worked within the last 3 years to get a statement in the first place. ITS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING TO RETIRE SOMEDAY! *ahem* Its a tool so that tools like you can verify that your employer hasn't farked up your earnings last year so when/if you retire you get the proper amount instead of waiting until you are 67 and saying "hey...30 years ago i made more than $240 for the year".
The paper statements they send out are a hoot, too. They have a little insert that says something to the effect of 'I've heard that Social Security will be insolvent by the year 20xx (usually around 2030). Will I stop receiving payments?'
'No! Social security will continue to operate as normal. If Congress does not authorize additional funding, you can expect to receive seventy cents on the dollar.'
Their definition of 'insolvent' must be 'nobody receives anything,' but I can lose 30% of what I'm 'owed' without government assistance.
You sir, are a liar. Having received one in March, just before they stopped printing them there was no such insert. And since I also work for Social Security, I can say you are the FIRST PERSON I’ve EVER HEARD say that. And trust me, if they planted that in a statement I would have heard at least a couple dozen complaints by now. Social Security voluntarily stopped printing the statements because no one reads them and it costs about $70 million a year to operate the service. Get some facts. The story you state is lunacy. For a Government entity that won't even give a hint or speculate about cost of living increases until the consumer price index is officially out every year, you think they would actually have an official stance on something as completely undecided as what *if* congress doesn't fix the problem in the next 15 years? Right-O!
No you directly said "China and Japan, Since they own most of the national debt (the US government holds most of the rest. This is a classic "I'll say total misleading bullshit and when someone catches me I'll pretend that's what i actually meant." By the time someone catches you, hundreds of ignorant /.ers have already read your comment and added the information to their group think. Good going, just admit what you've done.
Absolutely. Anything that makes learning fun and helps students relate is awful. Back to the dry (re: Not dripping with the leftist social pogrom), old (before we started rewriting history to make people think Abe Lincoln was gay and George Washington was secretly a glory monger to the extent of lying to his own wife about it) history tomes for you!
Yes, that's much better now.
What part of "Reduced Cost" == paying PC Manufacturers? With that kind of blind economic stupidity you should go work for the White House.
Its a web design issue if they cant test it in multiple popular browsers to make sure it works reasonably the same.
The lack of concern over if a gay person might accidentally be searching for color swatch apps and stumble over a dangerous app that will teach them the benefits of heterosexual unions does not make one "gay hating" or by inference some other unemployed or under-deserving sub-human. It simply means you should spend more time minding your own f'n business and less time minding someone elses, regardless of your ideological bent.
I'm not gay, I'm not friends with anyone who is gay, but I don't believe what gay people do is any of my business and wish you would stop f'n waving flags all over the place about it. When I was a lad, i dressed funny, then i would get all upset at people cause they would lable me, point, laugh, call names. Since the dawn of time people who are different have always been singled out. It happens all throughout the animal kingdom.
The crazy thing about this is most people who are extremist pro-gay are also the same people going on about climate change and animal rights. Well here's your big chance....where in the animal kingdom does a minority member of any species force the rest of its species to be okay with its minority behavior?
So, hump what you want, but just realize the rest of the pack thinks your dick smells like ass, and may laugh at you for it.
Born here, have a solid job. The states unemployment hasnt gone down in 3 years, we just re-elected a governor for a 3rd term who is actually responsible for most of the problems the state is currently in (such as the PERS problem), and if the trains weren't paid for by taxes i'd have no problem, but the problem is that METRO's only solution to traffic is to build trains, screw buses, screw road expansion. Pay for trains and street cars at $30million/mile and then subsidize each rider's fare with $2 in taxes. Businesses that can are moving to Washington where they don't have to pay state income tax which the libs in portland have proven time and again that as long as the bottom 50% doesnt have to pay taxes, screw the job creators (as they said with 56 and 57).
and if you don't care that an elected official is a child molester, then you have larger problems than I do for choosing to live here.
In one of the most recent cases that they are freaking out over the guy was brandishing a weapon had blood all over him and charged at the cops when they told him to drop the weapon.