Look at health care. There's no fix more obvious that the government, and only the government can do to improve the course of this country, yet it drives conservatives completely around the bend. Even when the final bill turns out to be more conservative, more free-market, with less government than anyone could have imagined 12 months ago, conservatives are still around the bend.
Government is the cause of the health care problem. Regulations that mandate services drive up the cost of coverage. Lawsuits drive up costs for everything. I love how everyone likes to tout how much the USA spends more on health insurance but by the same token what is never stated is that you effectively cannot sue for malpractice in countries with national health insurance.
nd her failed monetarist experiment that gutted our industrial base. And her extra-judicial murders.
The thing is, you left wingers have it as rule #1 in your book, that you don't have to tell the truth about anything. It's all just accusation and throwing as much mud at a person as you can get your hands on so you can have your people's revolution. But the thing is, every time you jackasses get in power, you invariably make things worse. I mean, you complain about Thatcher, but at least she didn't give a pair of Rolls Royce Nene engines to Joseph Stalin as a gift. How many Americans died from that fricking mistake, I wonder, in the skies above Korea.
You are full of shit. You're a racist, plain and simple.
Actually don't you think you would be a racist for even daring to assume that the black caucus would have the same economic priorities as the white caucus? White people are in fact, fairly well off, and it is easier for us to justify spaceships. But have yourself a walk downtown the streets of any American ghetto - and I've LIVED in them, and ask the residents if they think American money should go into buying space stuff. These are people that have nothing, and they are represented by their leaders. Obama's just listening to them, that's all.
Now if you want to talk about science, and what's killing it, have a gander the handiwork your Democratic buddies have wrought upon states like New Jersey, where science programs and other academic programs in affluent districts are being cut in the name of social egalitarianism. Essentially, since some people in NJ cannot afford a great education, no one should be allowed to. That's your Dems for you, and if they weren't doing stuff like that to drag down the best and brightest in public schools, you wouldn't have the tidal wave of home schooling your seeing now.
All of this talk about creationism and creationists is really so much of a strawman set up by the left to detract from the very real fact that the left has wrecked public schools by dragging down the excellent, funneling contracts off to patronage jobs, and basically just looting their own children.
You can't transition a town full of machinists into some sort of data entry clerks. I mean, the answer is, you need to keep a manufacturing society and have all the elements of an income ladder in place for a diverse population, and the only way to do that is to get rid of free trade.
If you got rid of free trade, you'd have a stabler society, more jobs for more different kinds of people, and you wouldn't have to have nearly the welfare state that you do today.
It's a wicked, wicked idea. Society should be built around the idea of helping everyone succeed, not rewarding an arbitrarily-chosen lucky few while punishing everyone else for things that aren't their fault.
First off, a lot of failure is people's fault. The left has to own up to this, and it is true, moral failures have a lot to do with it. Too much drinking, drugging, gambling, womanizing, entertaining oneself, the whole liberal idea that if it feels good do it, is just totally wrong.
Now, with that said, I'm all on board with the idea of having some wiggle room so that people can make some mistakes and not get ruined by them. I've made some tremendously bad decisions but was fortunate to be in computers at the right time and recovered from it somewhat with a lot of hard work.
The answer is, free trade has to go. The only way all Americans can succeed in a society where 100 million workers have to compete against 5 billion workers for jobs for their own market is if they are absolutely perfect, supremely educated, and even then, the whole idea that the USA will somehow "win" an economic competition against the whole world is the stupidist possible jingoism. We cannot possibly win that competition. Chinese people are smart. Indians are smart. Mexicans are smart, and everyone around the world works hard. There is nothing the American worker can do to better himself or herself that one in ten counterparts around the world cannot do.
So, free trade has to go. You can't just say "oh, this job in the factory is something no one in the USA wants... there's plenty of people out there that would do anything just to have a 9-5 in the factory droning on and making cars. You can't do that with any skill. It's enormously disrepectful, its just arrogantly headed, and wrong. Free trade, its just got to go. It's not worth throwing away the lives of millions of people with every flow of capital or consumer fancy.
Yes, please ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war industry.
I trade a cut in the military for a cap on entitlements.
And hey, let's throw out every social service program and see how our society looks when kids are starving in the streets
Why can't their parents have jobs. I mean, you have people running into ERs to get IVs added, then running out, so they can mainline some smack, and the answer is to deregulate drugs?
How about we just return tax levels - literally 4 to 5 points higher at incomes above 90,000 a year - to the Clinton days, and balance the budget that way? Or, end the war tourism programs that are actually draining the treasury, and have been for fifty years.
Because entitlements spending has doubled since then. The fact is, under George W Bush's last couple of years, revenues were -way- higher, but what broke the piggy bank is exploding entitlements spending. If you really wanted to fix the budget and the economy, you would:
a) get the USA out of all the military alliances worldwide, except for the UK and Australia.
b) reduce the defense budget to match the reduced commitments. Change the USAF to just be launching nukes and build more nukes, fold in tactical air support in the Army and let the Navy do strategic air power and transportation in general.
c) cap entitlements, and fund them not with an income tax, but with a national sales tax on food and energy. The reason is that you need to cap entitlements but you can at least let the cap be tied to a consistent source of taxes that is both flat - which keeps the income consistent, and is growing somewhat to match the long term economic growth.
e) get rid of free trade. In order to have a healthy economy, you need one that doesn't try to shoe-horn every citizen into being a computer programmer or a lab technician. Some people, a lot of people, just do stuff with their hands, can work in a structured setting like a factory, and so on, and when you yank out that rug for China or India, you've basically eliminated stable employment for an entire class of people.
Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.
It's a damn shame that there just isn't enough money for NASA right now, but blaming liberals for it is just asinine.
I have the Federal Budget right in front of me as I'm building an application that details the number of days the average citizen has to work to fund each and every 600 odd line items, including details of entitlements.
The fact is welfare has been a persistent and chronic drain on the federal budget now, for a generation. We've spend a trillion dollars a year to help urban centers and eradicate poverty, and what has it accomplished? I mean nothing.
You want funding for NASA? I'll tell you what, I got it for your right in these line items:
50 billion plus for food stamps 20 billion for school lunches 150 billion plus for unenemplyment 150 billion plus for SSI disability
And I haven't even started on Medicare or Social Security yet.
So, here's the deal, I'll cut 10 billion from food stamps, 5 billion from school lunches, 30 billion from disability, and 30 billion from unemployment, and in just one year I've got nearly the entire cost of the Constellation Program.
?When did this happen? Last I heard, a NASA project that was even more horrendously delayed and over-budget than usual got canned. There's nothing to stop another, better, project from taking it's place.
If Obama gets re-elected, there won't be one to even begin for 8 years, because in their hearts of hearts, liberals don't want to spend money on spaceships for white people, when there are so many suffering minorities. It's racial politics, is all this is.
Of course, Jeff Sessions in Alabama did not help himself AT ALL when he bitched about GM getting a handout in Detroit. He's sitting there on top of a huge NASA budget coming into his state, and he's complaining about a fraction of that going into GM. Oh I was pissed off when he did it, and I could see this result coming from a mile away.
The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.
God, the North is SO STUPID these days, and the liberals are just leading the charge of dumb.
All I gotta say is the if I ever had my own private sector asteroid, and the liberals wanted to tax it after killing manned space flight and wrecking the future of America so some morons can gobble down their welfare government cheese, than I'm dropping the dino-killer right on their fricking heads.
Conservatives are not opposed to federal spending when it is in the geo-political interest of the nation as whole. Eisenhower kicked off the federal highway system. Republicans and conservative Democrats came through with money for Apollo. Richard Nixon, actually, Caspar Weinburger, kept the space shuttle alive, and none other than Dan Quayle intervened to keep the Space Station and Space Shuttle going when Bush the Elder proposed cutting it.
The issue with federal spending is usually around entitlements, which are a different argument that I don't want to start here.
But...
The way I read the whole killing of manned space flight is that there has been, even dating back to Apollo, this idea in liberal camps that we should not be spending any money on things like space or defense, or even roads, for that matter. Instead, the federal government in their eyes should not do anything until every poor person is somehow fixed. Walter Mondale made this argument in the 1960s, and Barrack Obama made this argument elliptically during his campaign. There's not a talk of the "private sector" building into space. There's no economic benefit immediately of sending a man to explore Mars or the Moon or an Asteroid. It's a national project with payoffs in intangibles that are hard to even forsee. But it is one of those things the country must do, and keep getting better at, to get ahead.
But the fact is, space exploration is dead in this administration. It just is. Democrats aren't pro-science. They are a pro-poor party these days. Exploration, as the government would do it, in the tradition of Columbus and Cook and Shepard and Armstrong, is now dead to Democrats. Once again, conservatives have to pick up the torch, because the left is so fixated on redistribution of wealth that it has forgotten how to manage a nation as a whole. You can't stop exploration to ensure that every idiot has a slice of bread.
Sometimes people have to be left behind, and that's what this is about.
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what NASA is going to do with in orbit manufacturing. If you can't see the obvious implications and how this opens NASA up to greater exploration I can't help you
No, that is what NASA has been doing for the last 35 years.
Personally, I hope this allows the revitalization of Project Orion type Nuclear Pulse Propulsion tech since it can start from orbit and not earth. 10% the speed of light is pretty fast and it's cheap. Round trip to Saturn in three years. Round trip to Mars with 8 crew and 100 tons cargo 125 days.
A bunch of stuff that this administration would never do. The best hope we had for this sort of thing was the Jupiter Icey Moons Orbit, which the previous administration had to kill because the political party of the present administration is so rabidly anti-technology, er uh, nuclear.
I mean, the essence of the Orion plan was the serial detonation of hundreds, if not thousands, of atomic bombs... like, the Obama administration and flower waving liberals are going to be like, "hey, lets launch a thousand nuclear weapons into space." Your whole vision is ridiculous.
I'm sorry you're stuck with the Ares "gettin' to work in 2015" mentality while the rest of us eagerly await Falcon 9's launch next month and the Dragon modules test flights this year with a possible full resupply mission of the ISS.
Which is really what it boils down to. Kill off the government program so that President Obama can go dole out some patronage money to his buddy Elon Musk in exchange for more campaign donations.
That's it. There's no science. I hope Falcon kills Elon Musk in an explosion on the pad.
The whole problem with this concept, is that it fails to realize is that, as seemingly insignificant a piece of paper is, it is a thing, and it does have value. This value is in its permanence. Good paper products will utterly outlive us, and that's why we use them.
It is why some people insist on a paper audit trail when we vote.
It is why we tend to like to get paper receipts and statements.
It is like even a pointless award or certificate, but printed on nice paper, can mean a great deal emotionally.
So, when you have re-usable paper, its like, you are giving back your receipt, your award, your audit trail, your gift, your thing. It creates this whole environment where you are in the office and the one thing you used to be able to get, a piece of paper from the printer, you now have to give back. It's honestly smacks of so much corporate money grubbing greed that you "hey, that good conduct award I printed... well, I need that back so I can re-use the paper...", well, you have to give your life record back to these people as well?
What a terrible invention, and a what terrible people that we have become to even think that such a thing should be invented.
Tough shit your son is too stupid for college anyways.
And that is supposed to make me somehow believe that medical payments for you than my own interests, how? Seems to me that if you don't like me that much, I may as well let your illness run its course.
Given your demonstrated extreme biases, and ability to interpret almost anything as a leftist plot, no matter how benign; I'm going to conclude that this is a falsehood.
Obviously your slanderous attack must be part of the leftist conspiracy against me.
You don't want to strike it, you like getting more than your fair share and you don't give a damn about other people less lucky than you. That's fine, good for you! Sleep well.
Like, I'm asking for more than my fair share by wanting my son to go college.
If I were you, I'd find a nice doorway and a belt, and just do it man. Just do it.
Just do what? Christ, can you lefties for once not be so fricking passive aggressive. God almighty, why can't you just write "I want to shoot you".
Oh no, but that would be what, well honest? Yeah, then that would break down all the other walls you've put up...
Instead, of "it's a medical decision", you could write, "I killed my baby because I'd rather buy some stuff and get my hole drilled by more guys".
Instead of, "its a hand up not a hand out", you could be like, "really, I think the system sucks and don't feel like working so I'm just going to collect disability and smoke dope"
Yeah, your whole world will come down. It will anyway.. I mean, nobody likes be dragged down for long.
What a lovely country you live in, filled with wonderful human beings like yourself who would happily let a stranger suffer so that they could buy a bigger TV.
Yeah, like sending my son to college is having a better tv.
So, you pontificating cockroach, try this on:
If you care about these people so much, why don't you sell your computer and mail out a check?
After all, does your right to post on slashdot exceed the need of some suffering dude in Africa who doesn't even eat? Your time of relaxation is more deservedly spent working for the benefit of your hopeless pets. But oh no, you have some exception for yourself, I'm sure.
Goddmanned imperialist! The King cries! Will there ever be a knight to deal with this Beckett!
Two can play the racist game. In essence, the post is, "the NASA space program is something for white southern people", so therefor, we should all want to kill it.
I should be ok with that, except that, I'm white, and my spin on it is this:
The reality, is a bunch of homeboys and liberals don't want to have any possibility of people going into space ever. As long as there's some crack head out there to keep their aids infested homo bodies alive on the federal dole, no one else will ever be allowed to do anything visionary with the federal government. This is the essence of the chicago politics and pretty much what the current democratic leadership is all about.
The liberals have finally won. This country is ruined, utterly ruined, taken over by bunch of a fucking insects posing as people.
then your problem is the draconian, almost near feudal insurance system in usa.
No, his problem is MS. It's just that people who need medication think they are entitled to it, and its a pretty reasonable to thing to just give it to them when it is cheap, but, now, that is expensive, that question needs to be reasked.
First off, if you need 2k a year in medical expenses, can you ever really be considered "productive". Only if you are in a high end job. Secondly, if that 2k a year is not coming out of his pocket, then whose pocket is it coming out of, mine? So that's great, my dream of sending my son to college or even having a retirement just evaporated so I can foot the bill for someone else's problem.
In your society, I should be running up to some government honcho through my political representatives arguing that my problems are worse than his, so I would not be taxed, turning myself, like every does, into a victim to curry myself some perceived favor on the altar of mercy. But I don't care, I don't need that.
Maybe its because they don't believe in god, or maybe they think they are more important than they really are, maybe they are just too into themselves, but as for me, I've got a couple of things I want to get done with life, if I didn't have a son, I'd have probably blown myself up doing something already, and I just don't give a shit that much that I'm going die. But the fact is, all of this pay people in the name of mercy is just another form of greed. Everybody is entitled to what I do, except for me, and honestly, I don't need to rationalize what I have to anyone, and certainly not to anyone who would be unable to work at all without my support.
But of course, all of those 5.700.000.000 people from outside America aren't as smart or deserving as real Americans...
You know, I'm sick of the fine and dandy people that somehow seem to think that they are entitled to sell their products from around America. If these 5.7 billion people around the world are so damned smart, why are they unable to build up their fricking countries rather than unload all their crap on us. Frankly, I would just as soon bar all imports of any good whatsoever and just have the USA explore space and deep seas to get needed raw materials. The rest of the world can go fuck itself.
he ports of GNU utilities to Windows [sourceforge.net] or Cygwin [cygwin.com] or even your own company's Interix [wikipedia.org] and Services for UNIX [wikipedia.org] products?
I had Win7 and Vista Ent with Services for Unix I downloaded, and it just did not feel right or work right. The command line utilities work, in part, because the whole OS in Unix is basically a tree of text files. windows isn't, and so, the utilities tend to be less effective. Plus, some gotchas like how Windows handles open files with applications, its all different.
I thought interix would be the ultimate, but it instead it taught me the opposite. If you want unix, use unix. It's that simple.
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Look at health care. There's no fix more obvious that the government, and only the government can do to improve the course of this country, yet it drives conservatives completely around the bend. Even when the final bill turns out to be more conservative, more free-market, with less government than anyone could have imagined 12 months ago, conservatives are still around the bend.
Government is the cause of the health care problem. Regulations that mandate services drive up the cost of coverage. Lawsuits drive up costs for everything. I love how everyone likes to tout how much the USA spends more on health insurance but by the same token what is never stated is that you effectively cannot sue for malpractice in countries with national health insurance.
nd her failed monetarist experiment that gutted our industrial base. And her extra-judicial murders.
The thing is, you left wingers have it as rule #1 in your book, that you don't have to tell the truth about anything. It's all just accusation and throwing as much mud at a person as you can get your hands on so you can have your people's revolution. But the thing is, every time you jackasses get in power, you invariably make things worse. I mean, you complain about Thatcher, but at least she didn't give a pair of Rolls Royce Nene engines to Joseph Stalin as a gift. How many Americans died from that fricking mistake, I wonder, in the skies above Korea.
You are full of shit. You're a racist, plain and simple.
Actually don't you think you would be a racist for even daring to assume that the black caucus would have the same economic priorities as the white caucus? White people are in fact, fairly well off, and it is easier for us to justify spaceships. But have yourself a walk downtown the streets of any American ghetto - and I've LIVED in them, and ask the residents if they think American money should go into buying space stuff. These are people that have nothing, and they are represented by their leaders. Obama's just listening to them, that's all.
Now if you want to talk about science, and what's killing it, have a gander the handiwork your Democratic buddies have wrought upon states like New Jersey, where science programs and other academic programs in affluent districts are being cut in the name of social egalitarianism. Essentially, since some people in NJ cannot afford a great education, no one should be allowed to. That's your Dems for you, and if they weren't doing stuff like that to drag down the best and brightest in public schools, you wouldn't have the tidal wave of home schooling your seeing now.
All of this talk about creationism and creationists is really so much of a strawman set up by the left to detract from the very real fact that the left has wrecked public schools by dragging down the excellent, funneling contracts off to patronage jobs, and basically just looting their own children.
Anyone who wants to destroy jobs by moving to new technology is a sinner and a tyrant
Yeah, that's exactly right.
Oh, and I would fund the military with the tariff (you already earmarked sales tax for entitlements).
I could go along with that.
You can't transition a town full of machinists into some sort of data entry clerks. I mean, the answer is, you need to keep a manufacturing society and have all the elements of an income ladder in place for a diverse population, and the only way to do that is to get rid of free trade.
If you got rid of free trade, you'd have a stabler society, more jobs for more different kinds of people, and you wouldn't have to have nearly the welfare state that you do today.
It's a wicked, wicked idea. Society should be built around the idea of helping everyone succeed, not rewarding an arbitrarily-chosen lucky few while punishing everyone else for things that aren't their fault.
First off, a lot of failure is people's fault. The left has to own up to this, and it is true, moral failures have a lot to do with it. Too much drinking, drugging, gambling, womanizing, entertaining oneself, the whole liberal idea that if it feels good do it, is just totally wrong.
Now, with that said, I'm all on board with the idea of having some wiggle room so that people can make some mistakes and not get ruined by them. I've made some tremendously bad decisions but was fortunate to be in computers at the right time and recovered from it somewhat with a lot of hard work.
The answer is, free trade has to go. The only way all Americans can succeed in a society where 100 million workers have to compete against 5 billion workers for jobs for their own market is if they are absolutely perfect, supremely educated, and even then, the whole idea that the USA will somehow "win" an economic competition against the whole world is the stupidist possible jingoism. We cannot possibly win that competition. Chinese people are smart. Indians are smart. Mexicans are smart, and everyone around the world works hard. There is nothing the American worker can do to better himself or herself that one in ten counterparts around the world cannot do.
So, free trade has to go. You can't just say "oh, this job in the factory is something no one in the USA wants... there's plenty of people out there that would do anything just to have a 9-5 in the factory droning on and making cars. You can't do that with any skill. It's enormously disrepectful, its just arrogantly headed, and wrong. Free trade, its just got to go. It's not worth throwing away the lives of millions of people with every flow of capital or consumer fancy.
Yes, please ignore the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war industry.
I trade a cut in the military for a cap on entitlements.
And hey, let's throw out every social service program and see how our society looks when kids are starving in the streets
Why can't their parents have jobs. I mean, you have people running into ERs to get IVs added, then running out, so they can mainline some smack, and the answer is to deregulate drugs?
How about we just return tax levels - literally 4 to 5 points higher at incomes above 90,000 a year - to the Clinton days, and balance the budget that way? Or, end the war tourism programs that are actually draining the treasury, and have been for fifty years.
Because entitlements spending has doubled since then. The fact is, under George W Bush's last couple of years, revenues were -way- higher, but what broke the piggy bank is exploding entitlements spending. If you really wanted to fix the budget and the economy, you would:
a) get the USA out of all the military alliances worldwide, except for the UK and Australia.
b) reduce the defense budget to match the reduced commitments. Change the USAF to just be launching nukes and build more nukes, fold in tactical air support in the Army and let the Navy do strategic air power and transportation in general.
c) cap entitlements, and fund them not with an income tax, but with a national sales tax on food and energy. The reason is that you need to cap entitlements but you can at least let the cap be tied to a consistent source of taxes that is both flat - which keeps the income consistent, and is growing somewhat to match the long term economic growth.
e) get rid of free trade. In order to have a healthy economy, you need one that doesn't try to shoe-horn every citizen into being a computer programmer or a lab technician. Some people, a lot of people, just do stuff with their hands, can work in a structured setting like a factory, and so on, and when you yank out that rug for China or India, you've basically eliminated stable employment for an entire class of people.
Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129115539AABRPXx
http://www.niggaknow.com/technology/white-people-dont-know-shit-about-space/
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911165052AAbljAt
http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/09/09/space-race-matters/
and it goes on and on...
and then you have Obama's own plan to cut NASA manned space flight and dole out bucks to the third world...
It's a damn shame that there just isn't enough money for NASA right now, but blaming liberals for it is just asinine.
I have the Federal Budget right in front of me as I'm building an application that details the number of days the average citizen has to work to fund each and every 600 odd line items, including details of entitlements.
The fact is welfare has been a persistent and chronic drain on the federal budget now, for a generation. We've spend a trillion dollars a year to help urban centers and eradicate poverty, and what has it accomplished? I mean nothing.
You want funding for NASA? I'll tell you what, I got it for your right in these line items:
50 billion plus for food stamps
20 billion for school lunches
150 billion plus for unenemplyment
150 billion plus for SSI disability
And I haven't even started on Medicare or Social Security yet.
So, here's the deal, I'll cut 10 billion from food stamps, 5 billion from school lunches, 30 billion from disability, and 30 billion from unemployment, and in just one year I've got nearly the entire cost of the Constellation Program.
Entitlements aren't too blame.
I thought liberals knew how to add.
?When did this happen? Last I heard, a NASA project that was even more horrendously delayed and over-budget than usual got canned. There's nothing to stop another, better, project from taking it's place.
If Obama gets re-elected, there won't be one to even begin for 8 years, because in their hearts of hearts, liberals don't want to spend money on spaceships for white people, when there are so many suffering minorities. It's racial politics, is all this is.
Of course, Jeff Sessions in Alabama did not help himself AT ALL when he bitched about GM getting a handout in Detroit. He's sitting there on top of a huge NASA budget coming into his state, and he's complaining about a fraction of that going into GM. Oh I was pissed off when he did it, and I could see this result coming from a mile away.
The ironic end game though is that you'll see southern states waiving environmental, wage, and other regulations to get aerospace jobs, while the liberal north languishes, as usual, and so, when the south does "rise again", the Confederate Army will be in the position of having the spaceships while the North will be cut off and begging for some foreign powers to help it.
God, the North is SO STUPID these days, and the liberals are just leading the charge of dumb.
All I gotta say is the if I ever had my own private sector asteroid, and the liberals wanted to tax it after killing manned space flight and wrecking the future of America so some morons can gobble down their welfare government cheese, than I'm dropping the dino-killer right on their fricking heads.
Conservatives are not opposed to federal spending when it is in the geo-political interest of the nation as whole. Eisenhower kicked off the federal highway system. Republicans and conservative Democrats came through with money for Apollo. Richard Nixon, actually, Caspar Weinburger, kept the space shuttle alive, and none other than Dan Quayle intervened to keep the Space Station and Space Shuttle going when Bush the Elder proposed cutting it.
The issue with federal spending is usually around entitlements, which are a different argument that I don't want to start here.
But...
The way I read the whole killing of manned space flight is that there has been, even dating back to Apollo, this idea in liberal camps that we should not be spending any money on things like space or defense, or even roads, for that matter. Instead, the federal government in their eyes should not do anything until every poor person is somehow fixed. Walter Mondale made this argument in the 1960s, and Barrack Obama made this argument elliptically during his campaign. There's not a talk of the "private sector" building into space. There's no economic benefit immediately of sending a man to explore Mars or the Moon or an Asteroid. It's a national project with payoffs in intangibles that are hard to even forsee. But it is one of those things the country must do, and keep getting better at, to get ahead.
But the fact is, space exploration is dead in this administration. It just is. Democrats aren't pro-science. They are a pro-poor party these days. Exploration, as the government would do it, in the tradition of Columbus and Cook and Shepard and Armstrong, is now dead to Democrats. Once again, conservatives have to pick up the torch, because the left is so fixated on redistribution of wealth that it has forgotten how to manage a nation as a whole. You can't stop exploration to ensure that every idiot has a slice of bread.
Sometimes people have to be left behind, and that's what this is about.
Uh, yeah. That's exactly what NASA is going to do with in orbit manufacturing. If you can't see the obvious implications and how this opens NASA up to greater exploration I can't help you
No, that is what NASA has been doing for the last 35 years.
Personally, I hope this allows the revitalization of Project Orion type Nuclear Pulse Propulsion tech since it can start from orbit and not earth. 10% the speed of light is pretty fast and it's cheap. Round trip to Saturn in three years. Round trip to Mars with 8 crew and 100 tons cargo 125 days.
A bunch of stuff that this administration would never do. The best hope we had for this sort of thing was the Jupiter Icey Moons Orbit, which the previous administration had to kill because the political party of the present administration is so rabidly anti-technology, er uh, nuclear.
I mean, the essence of the Orion plan was the serial detonation of hundreds, if not thousands, of atomic bombs... like, the Obama administration and flower waving liberals are going to be like, "hey, lets launch a thousand nuclear weapons into space." Your whole vision is ridiculous.
I'm sorry you're stuck with the Ares "gettin' to work in 2015" mentality while the rest of us eagerly await Falcon 9's launch next month and the Dragon modules test flights this year with a possible full resupply mission of the ISS.
Which is really what it boils down to. Kill off the government program so that President Obama can go dole out some patronage money to his buddy Elon Musk in exchange for more campaign donations.
That's it. There's no science. I hope Falcon kills Elon Musk in an explosion on the pad.
The whole problem with this concept, is that it fails to realize is that, as seemingly insignificant a piece of paper is, it is a thing, and it does have value. This value is in its permanence. Good paper products will utterly outlive us, and that's why we use them.
It is why some people insist on a paper audit trail when we vote.
It is why we tend to like to get paper receipts and statements.
It is like even a pointless award or certificate, but printed on nice paper, can mean a great deal emotionally.
So, when you have re-usable paper, its like, you are giving back your receipt, your award, your audit trail, your gift, your thing. It creates this whole environment where you are in the office and the one thing you used to be able to get, a piece of paper from the printer, you now have to give back. It's honestly smacks of so much corporate money grubbing greed that you "hey, that good conduct award I printed... well, I need that back so I can re-use the paper...", well, you have to give your life record back to these people as well?
What a terrible invention, and a what terrible people that we have become to even think that such a thing should be invented.
Tough shit your son is too stupid for college anyways.
And that is supposed to make me somehow believe that medical payments for you than my own interests, how? Seems to me that if you don't like me that much, I may as well let your illness run its course.
NASA has received more funding to develop new rocket technologies and to develop in orbit manufacturing and refueling.
In orbit manufacturing? Are you an idiot? The space station was built in orbit, and has been refueled and resupplied and then some....
How can you even support this lie?
Given your demonstrated extreme biases, and ability to interpret almost anything as a leftist plot, no matter how benign; I'm going to conclude that this is a falsehood.
Obviously your slanderous attack must be part of the leftist conspiracy against me.
You don't want to strike it, you like getting more than your fair share and you don't give a damn about other people less lucky than you. That's fine, good for you! Sleep well.
Like, I'm asking for more than my fair share by wanting my son to go college.
If I were you, I'd find a nice doorway and a belt, and just do it man. Just do it.
Just do what? Christ, can you lefties for once not be so fricking passive aggressive. God almighty, why can't you just write "I want to shoot you".
Oh no, but that would be what, well honest? Yeah, then that would break down all the other walls you've put up...
Instead, of "it's a medical decision", you could write, "I killed my baby because I'd rather buy some stuff and get my hole drilled by more guys".
Instead of, "its a hand up not a hand out", you could be like, "really, I think the system sucks and don't feel like working so I'm just going to collect disability and smoke dope"
Yeah, your whole world will come down. It will anyway.. I mean, nobody likes be dragged down for long.
What a lovely country you live in, filled with wonderful human beings like yourself who would happily let a stranger suffer so that they could buy a bigger TV.
Yeah, like sending my son to college is having a better tv.
So, you pontificating cockroach, try this on:
If you care about these people so much, why don't you sell your computer and mail out a check?
After all, does your right to post on slashdot exceed the need of some suffering dude in Africa who doesn't even eat? Your time of relaxation is more deservedly spent working for the benefit of your hopeless pets. But oh no, you have some exception for yourself, I'm sure.
Goddmanned imperialist! The King cries! Will there ever be a knight to deal with this Beckett!
Two can play the racist game. In essence, the post is, "the NASA space program is something for white southern people", so therefor, we should all want to kill it.
I should be ok with that, except that, I'm white, and my spin on it is this:
The reality, is a bunch of homeboys and liberals don't want to have any possibility of people going into space ever. As long as there's some crack head out there to keep their aids infested homo bodies alive on the federal dole, no one else will ever be allowed to do anything visionary with the federal government. This is the essence of the chicago politics and pretty much what the current democratic leadership is all about.
The liberals have finally won. This country is ruined, utterly ruined, taken over by bunch of a fucking insects posing as people.
then your problem is the draconian, almost near feudal insurance system in usa.
No, his problem is MS. It's just that people who need medication think they are entitled to it, and its a pretty reasonable to thing to just give it to them when it is cheap, but, now, that is expensive, that question needs to be reasked.
First off, if you need 2k a year in medical expenses, can you ever really be considered "productive". Only if you are in a high end job. Secondly, if that 2k a year is not coming out of his pocket, then whose pocket is it coming out of, mine? So that's great, my dream of sending my son to college or even having a retirement just evaporated so I can foot the bill for someone else's problem.
In your society, I should be running up to some government honcho through my political representatives arguing that my problems are worse than his, so I would not be taxed, turning myself, like every does, into a victim to curry myself some perceived favor on the altar of mercy. But I don't care, I don't need that.
Maybe its because they don't believe in god, or maybe they think they are more important than they really are, maybe they are just too into themselves, but as for me, I've got a couple of things I want to get done with life, if I didn't have a son, I'd have probably blown myself up doing something already, and I just don't give a shit that much that I'm going die. But the fact is, all of this pay people in the name of mercy is just another form of greed. Everybody is entitled to what I do, except for me, and honestly, I don't need to rationalize what I have to anyone, and certainly not to anyone who would be unable to work at all without my support.
But of course, all of those 5.700.000.000 people from outside America aren't as smart or deserving as real Americans...
You know, I'm sick of the fine and dandy people that somehow seem to think that they are entitled to sell their products from around America. If these 5.7 billion people around the world are so damned smart, why are they unable to build up their fricking countries rather than unload all their crap on us. Frankly, I would just as soon bar all imports of any good whatsoever and just have the USA explore space and deep seas to get needed raw materials. The rest of the world can go fuck itself.
he ports of GNU utilities to Windows [sourceforge.net] or Cygwin [cygwin.com] or even your own company's Interix [wikipedia.org] and Services for UNIX [wikipedia.org] products?
I had Win7 and Vista Ent with Services for Unix I downloaded, and it just did not feel right or work right. The command line utilities work, in part, because the whole OS in Unix is basically a tree of text files. windows isn't, and so, the utilities tend to be less effective. Plus, some gotchas like how Windows handles open files with applications, its all different.
I thought interix would be the ultimate, but it instead it taught me the opposite. If you want unix, use unix. It's that simple.