So, you're saying it's like the difference between cheering that a mentally disabled person crossed a finish line in a 100m race, or cheering an otherwise mentally healthy adult for getting up from his world of warcraft and throwing his pile of empty mountain dew cans in the trash can?
Evolution of my poor reading compression: first glance "Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, WHO raised the pandemic threat level from H1N1 "swine flu" to 5?" my thought "What scale goes from H1N1 to 5? let me re read that"
second glance "The WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5." My thought "The WHO did this as some publicity stunt? Are they even together/alive any more? What's Slashdot think, "
"heh he had a similar thought I should reply to that"
"ok now I'm going to far"
"I should spell/grammar check this. Ehh never mind."
"...including illegal immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership..." and "Disgruntled Military Veterans"
>90% of Americans think that way. It's funny to sit on the outside and see Democrats fear monger about the Patriot act being a horrible piece of legislation that the Republicans put into place, then instead of repealing it when they took power the Democrats use it to put Conservative Idealists on a list of possible terrorists.
I'd be more interested in a computers ability to scan all these papers on a single subject, combine the points and generate a single paper that covers every possible point.
Delusional viewpoints such as this are the reason these things get perpetuated well past their useful lifetime.
"making do with 15% less compensation, less vacation time, no pension and crappy health care benefits" sure seems better than no compensation, 100% more vacation time, no pension and no healthcare at all as many are getting laid off because of these wages and benefits are set higher than market value. Other than being forced to by a union, why should I pay you $25 an hr when your unemployed neighbor would love to do the same job, as good or better, for $20 an hour.
Hollywood leaches off the governments regulation of copyright. Unions leach off the workers as much or more than any company they are suppose to protect the workers from, and produce nothing in return. Education leaches directly off the government for money. Art and entertainment you may have an argument for. Government social programs are set up to feed the leaches directly.
The word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. - George Orwell, What is Fascism?. 1944.
Its the 51% majority deciding what to do with their, and the 49% minorities money even though the 49% minority doesn't want their money spent that way.
You are thinking of it wrong, and the quoted part isn't quite right either. The movie may be worth making to some, but if it doesn't make money then most investors would see it as a bad investment. No two ways about that. If you throw money into it because you want the movie to be made then it is your hobby, not your job, and you shouldn't care about box office numbers.
You've only hit the tip of the iceberg. Republicans=working business (oil, gas, banking, construction, manufacturing etc) and Democrats=leaching business (Hollywood, unions, education, art, entertainment, government social programs etc).
Not my job to find the solution (or if I had an idea how I could be rich because of it) but abolish copyright and let the free market find the solution. Copyright is another form of socialism that so many here seem to like and hate at the same time. Just like there are many new companies building billions off of the government regulation of the "green" movement and global warming scare. There has been two hundred plus years of companies building billions off of copyright.
But this isn't really all that critical of republicans but more so of fake liberal democrats.
The last few paragraphs of the article talk about how many of the new "green-tech" venture moneys depend on the government regulation and forcing people to use them. So these businessmen are calling themselves liberal democrats and supporting there ideals in order to cash in on it. Not much diffrent than changing a research project's name from "studding ____" to "studding ____s effect on global climate change" in order to get more funding.
What country does it efficiently? What privatization disasters are you talking about?
Here's a hint if a government seems to be doing things efficiently they are lying to you. Check your real tax rate to find out your real costs.
The closest thing to a privatization disaster as you call it is the disruption that happens during the transition that the big brother advocates like to point to as a disaster when things end up running much more smoothly.
On Socialism: I don't use it as an insult, it is a tool. If I said, "A hammer was a tool used by contractors to build houses in and attempt to gain money." I wouldn't be insulting hammers. I too enjoy paying taxes as a way to purchase civilization. Unfortunately that money is going into the hands of someone else's idea of civilization. It may be good while your guy is in, but it is bad when your guy isn't in.
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Sorry, I'll try to phrase it in the form of a car analogy next time.
So, you're saying it's like the difference between cheering that a mentally disabled person crossed a finish line in a 100m race, or cheering an otherwise mentally healthy adult for getting up from his world of warcraft and throwing his pile of empty mountain dew cans in the trash can?
Is it funny or ironic that the very way this flu works on the internal immune system is what we're afraid of doing in our social environment?
The government can very possibly overreact and kill people off like it did last time bird flu came about.
Evolution of my poor reading compression:
first glance "Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, WHO raised the pandemic threat level from H1N1 "swine flu" to 5?"
my thought "What scale goes from H1N1 to 5? let me re read that"
second glance "The WHO raised the pandemic threat level for H1N1 "swine flu" to 5."
My thought "The WHO did this as some publicity stunt? Are they even together/alive any more? What's Slashdot think, "
"heh he had a similar thought I should reply to that"
"ok now I'm going to far"
"I should spell/grammar check this. Ehh never mind."
yea single issues like:
"...including illegal immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership ..." and "Disgruntled Military Veterans"
>90% of Americans think that way. It's funny to sit on the outside and see Democrats fear monger about the Patriot act being a horrible piece of legislation that the Republicans put into place, then instead of repealing it when they took power the Democrats use it to put Conservative Idealists on a list of possible terrorists.
Plagiarizing Butthead's comment on the Melvins:
"Huh, Huh, those words are cool."
I'd be more interested in a computers ability to scan all these papers on a single subject, combine the points and generate a single paper that covers every possible point.
All I do is change the authors name.
"Not having a union makes for more layoffs because then management pays no price for laying off your dumb ass."
Are you saying you actually believe this?
You seem to be confuseing:
Delusional viewpoints such as this are the reason these things get perpetuated well past their useful lifetime.
"making do with 15% less compensation, less vacation time, no pension and crappy health care benefits" sure seems better than no compensation, 100% more vacation time, no pension and no healthcare at all as many are getting laid off because of these wages and benefits are set higher than market value. Other than being forced to by a union, why should I pay you $25 an hr when your unemployed neighbor would love to do the same job, as good or better, for $20 an hour.
Your new universal desktop picture:
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/05/bigbrother.jpg
Hollywood leaches off the governments regulation of copyright.
Unions leach off the workers as much or more than any company they are suppose to protect the workers from, and produce nothing in return.
Education leaches directly off the government for money.
Art and entertainment you may have an argument for.
Government social programs are set up to feed the leaches directly.
I think Orwell said it best:
The word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. - George Orwell, What is Fascism?. 1944.
Its the 51% majority deciding what to do with their, and the 49% minorities money even though the 49% minority doesn't want their money spent that way.
Adjusted for inflation 9 of the top 10 films are over 25 years old. Many well over.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm
You are thinking of it wrong, and the quoted part isn't quite right either. The movie may be worth making to some, but if it doesn't make money then most investors would see it as a bad investment. No two ways about that. If you throw money into it because you want the movie to be made then it is your hobby, not your job, and you shouldn't care about box office numbers.
You've only hit the tip of the iceberg. Republicans=working business (oil, gas, banking, construction, manufacturing etc) and Democrats=leaching business (Hollywood, unions, education, art, entertainment, government social programs etc).
Not my job to find the solution (or if I had an idea how I could be rich because of it) but abolish copyright and let the free market find the solution. Copyright is another form of socialism that so many here seem to like and hate at the same time. Just like there are many new companies building billions off of the government regulation of the "green" movement and global warming scare. There has been two hundred plus years of companies building billions off of copyright.
I have one connected to my cable modem it lets me watch youtube in high def.
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cornhole porn?
But this isn't really all that critical of republicans but more so of fake liberal democrats.
The last few paragraphs of the article talk about how many of the new "green-tech" venture moneys depend on the government regulation and forcing people to use them. So these businessmen are calling themselves liberal democrats and supporting there ideals in order to cash in on it. Not much diffrent than changing a research project's name from "studding ____" to "studding ____s effect on global climate change" in order to get more funding.
What country does it efficiently? What privatization disasters are you talking about?
Here's a hint if a government seems to be doing things efficiently they are lying to you. Check your real tax rate to find out your real costs.
The closest thing to a privatization disaster as you call it is the disruption that happens during the transition that the big brother advocates like to point to as a disaster when things end up running much more smoothly.
On Socialism:
I don't use it as an insult, it is a tool. If I said, "A hammer was a tool used by contractors to build houses in and attempt to gain money." I wouldn't be insulting hammers. I too enjoy paying taxes as a way to purchase civilization. Unfortunately that money is going into the hands of someone else's idea of civilization. It may be good while your guy is in, but it is bad when your guy isn't in.