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  1. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I had AP calc in HS after lunch, and of course I was blazing everyday at lunch, got out of there with an A-, as well as getting paid by the preppy rich kids parents for tutoring.

  2. Re:Rational on Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer's, New Study · · Score: 1

    anything under $250=some shitty weed, at least in MN.

  3. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    And I'm pretty sure silencers are already illegal.

  4. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    What other explanation do you have for the trend lines in GDP & unemployment?

    Inflation. Do some research on the relation between GDP and inflation and you will find your answer. As far as unemployment, when the government pays some people to dig a hole, and a few more to fill it back in, then yes, unemployment will go down, but its basically a hand-out/make-work program.

  5. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1
    Umm, and they were stopped because they weren't working, making the situation worse, artificially trying to raise prices by "the so-called First New Deal (1933-34) was one giant cartel scheme, whereby the government attempted to enforce cartel pricing and output reductions... it is hardly a secret that if less production takes place, fewer workers will be needed by employers and unemployment will subsequently be higher."

    Please just read the entire article I posted.

  6. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1
    Moonbat Keynesian comes to mind... anyways "U.S. Census Bureau statistics show that the official unemployment rate was still 17.2 percent in 1939 despite seven years of "economic salvation" at the hands of the Roosevelt administration (the normal, pre-Depression unemployment rate was about 3 percent). Per capita GDP was lower in 1939 than in 1929 ($847 vs. $857), as were personal consumption expenditures ($67.6 billion vs. $78.9 billion), according to Census Bureau data. Net private investment was minus $3.1 billion from 1930-40."

    http://mises.org/story/1623

    or

    http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/1940.htm

    since you think anything from the Austrian school of econ is flawed, you can look at the census info.

  7. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    I see my points have already been made by AC's. All I would like to add it that it is sad that a conversation on economic theory turns into name calling.

  8. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    Communism doesnt work because those who come into power will ALWAYS abuse it.

  9. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    If arresting troops were wanting to evade US law or any law for that matter, they would have taken care of it on the battlefield

  10. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because there is no way a market or economy can straighten itself out if it is being systematically skewed by government interference. With gov't stimulus comes inflation, and then it just takes more time for wages to catch up to the price of goods, causing a period of time where pretty much all people are relatively poorer than they were before.

  11. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 0, Troll
    But he is going against the things he ran on, classic flip flop, get elected on it, then go back on it. Just like Iraq switching from 16 month to 24 month pullout, just like public financing early (flipped after attaining nomination), how he is all about honesty and a new kind of politics, then appoints a tax cheat to head of secretary.

    Not really a flip, but more of hypocrisy, on how he is a part of the environmentalist global warming crowd, then his inauguration sets a record for private jet use, as well as the largest temporary bathroom event ever.

  12. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 2, Informative
    Not making snap judgments? Like not dropping billions and possibly trillions on "infrastructure", and of course it needs to be done NOW because it is apparently an EMERGENCY. Government spending is what turned just another recession into the Great Depression.

    Also, I am not aware of any snap judgments (other than that bullshit TARP bill) made by the Bush Admin. Would you enlighten me??

  13. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    But here he is not referring to torture, he is referring to Bush's wiretap program, which many on the left, and Obama (in his campaign at least) referred to as being unconstitutional.

  14. Re:Well, duh on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 2
    Especially when he campaigns against something, then gets elected and suddenly approves of it.

    Obama: "Dick Cheney's advice was good, which is let's make sure we know everything that's being done... we shouldn't be making judgments on the basis of incomplete information or campaign rhetoric"

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503149.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

  15. Re:I don't get it on Google Challenging Proposition 8 · · Score: 1

    No, they fired all those people so they can hire gays and pay them less, because "gay" is the new "woman" as far as pay rate is concerned. /sarcasm

  16. Re:saving is not the right adjective on Saving Journalism With Flash and Java · · Score: 2

    Agreed. When I want information I want straight-up text and regular picture and diagrams, maybe a video if it is necessary, but none of this animation nonsense.

  17. Re:WTF do they need GPS for? on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Yup, we can thank the car insurance lobby for that wonderful device. The law doesnt require you to have one, but if your car comes with one, I guess its illegal to tamper with.

  18. Re:WTF do they need GPS for? on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    The one that sits in newer cars and records your speed and braking patterns so the data can be looked at by police and insurance companies after a crash to find out whose fault it was and if the insurance company has to actually give you money.

  19. Re:Great idea - it can replace the Gas Tax! on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Oh, and also it's only on NEW cars- old cars are grandfathered into the gas tax.

    Which is why I hope to drive my 1990 300zx until I die

  20. Re:Why not raise the tax on gas? on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that if you tax a staple good, and people will be consuming less of that staple good due to an increase in efficiency... meaning you'll bring in less money from those taxes...

    Yup, its called Laffer's Curve

  21. Re:WTF do they need GPS for? on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because you can turn those back, at least on older cars, on the newer ones that might get reported to the black box, but I know people who can disconnect those too. Looks like its an arms race between motorists and state gov'ts.

  22. Re:Not astonishingly suprising... on Hacked Business Owner Stuck With $52k Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    I think HUB just got slashdotted in the face.

  23. Re:Global Warming Heretics on Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming · · Score: 1
    Did you read the quotes?? Some of those guys worked for the UN IPCC, now that they don't need to worry getting fired, they are telling the truth, plain and simple.

    "Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in the history.When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

  24. Re:Whaaambulance on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    ACORN sued CitiBank and Wells Fargo because"Plaintiffs alleged that the Defendant-bank rejected loan applications of minority applicants while approving loan applications filed by white applicants with similar financial characteristics and credit histories." This forced these banks to make shitty loans, and other banks, in fear of also being sued, followed suit.

  25. Re:Whaaambulance on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    Is there a different reason you used the number of years 8 then??