And I used to think you could answer simple questions like, "How is Kucinich any more liberal than Obama?"
I'm sorry that was too tough for you. I'll try to be easier in the future. What's 2 + 2? - It is a FACT that Kucinich voted in favor of the Obama/Pelosicare bill, so maybe he's a radical in his rhetoric but in his actions he's in the same political spot as Obama and Pelosi.
>>>Obama wasn't picked by Republicans, he was picked by people who registered themselves as Democrats and voted in the Primaries for him. Just like McCain was picked by people who registered themselves as Republicans.
Actually most of the early primaries (the ones that gave Obama and McCain early wins) allow cross-party voting. So it would be correct to say Republican helped pick Obama, and Democrats helped pick McCain, as their respective party's candidate.
A website that falsely labels Washington a "federalist" is a website that can not be trusted for information. At all. Washington did not run unopposed. There were several men who wanted the job and one (John Adams) who was very vocally disappointed that he lost in 1789.
Your statement "Washington ran unopposed twice" is flat wrong. You're inability to admit your sentence was wrong indicates a weakness in your character.
>>>So market-fan-boys, explain how do you get sick people coverage? How to get coverage for existing preconditions?
You pass a law that forces insurance corps to accept everyone. I'm okay with that - after all a corporation is a thing, not a person. It shouldn't have rights. If it doesn't like it, it is welcome to give-up its corporate license so it will no longer be subject to this law.
He wants to (slowly but surely) turn the USA into a central, government-run economy (like Cuba is today, or the Soviet Union used to be). How much more liberal can a person be?
This could be one of those infamous bugs that MS has known about (secretly) for two years, but they never bothered to fix. If that's true and the programmer knew the bug had existed for two years, then I consider him a cyber-patriot for whistle-blowing. Maybe now MS will get off its 1200 pound ass and fix it.
>>>"...without giving us time to resolve the issue..."
Oh well. It's no different than how you routinely acted in the 80s and 90s Mr. Microsoft. I guess people should "do as we say, not as we act" eh? It's okay for MS to act like an ass, wiping-out competition left and right, but not other companies to copy the MS Warbook. Hypocritical corporation.
Whatever it takes to damage Microsoft is okay with me. I've hated this company since the 80s - not because I randomly like to hate inanimate objects, but because Microsoft's products were 5-10 years behind what other companies like Apple, Atari, and Commodore were doing. MS == crap for a long long time.
And because Microsoft would do anything short of murder to "win" in the marketplace, such as stealing trade secrets, locking-out competitors products, or suing smaller companies in court until they went bankrupt (i.e. MS was patent trolling). It's about time MS received a dose of its own medicine.
>>>As I understand things [if you claim you forgot the key], they assume you are lying, and bang you up.
Yes and after I eventually got out of jail, several politicians who voted "yes" to support this stupid law would suddenly turn-up dead. If I'm going to serve time, when I'm innocent of the crime, then somebody will pay the consequences for my lost life. - "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Revolution is its natural fertilizer." - Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democrat Party, author of the Declaration of Independence.
>>>EU Directive 2006/24/EC did require member states to retain the data.
Why does the EU Parliament look more-and-more like the US Congress? Are they following the same guidebook? I find it ironic that our VP Biden praised the EU as the new center for "freedom" when they are passing laws that are the exact opposite.
I guess if you repeat a law often enough ("Spying on you makes you more free"), the People will start to believe it.
Nah, the Aussies will come up with either a US or UK solution:
- Encryption is allowed but the US government holds all the keys. - Encryption is allowed but the UK will throw you in jail if you refuse to provide the key. Assumed guilt even if you are innocent of the crime.
It is times like these that try men's souls. Isn't the government supposed to be the servant, and the People the master? When exactly did this flip around so the people became mere serfs/puppets of the politicians? Perhaps it is time to consider an abolishment of our respective governments, and to craft new Constitutions.
Healthcare is a right. I agree. You have the right to go to a doctor, say I feel sick, and expect the doctor to heal you as per his professional duty.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take the doctor's bill, and raid your neighbors' wallets to pay for it. That's called stealing. You've got a job, you've got money, so you should pay it yourself. You afforded that ~$30,000 Lexus in your front drive (times two if you have a wife), so I think you can afford a $200 annual visit, or the rare $10,000 hospital stay.
The only exception is if you're homeless/jobless. Then like food stamps, I think the government should assist you. But that's it. There should be NO help for people like us who have a jobs. We can pay our own bills.
Bull. Shit. The Nationwide Company quoted high-deductible, catastrophic insurance for me. $140/month. I then negotiated the price downto $95, so that's only ~$1200 a year. Other than those living on the street, anybody could afford that. It's less than what most people spend for cable TV and cellphone. If money is tight, cancel the cable/cellphone and then you'll have the money to buy this same plan I am currently investigating.
>>>1 in 6 American's are currently without health insurance
Exaggerate much? The number the Democrats stated was 40 million from a scientifically inaccurate postcard study whose numbers are worthless. Or about 1 in 8.
BUT even that number is not accurate. According to a *science study*, that figure included approximately 10 million people who are not Americans (i.e. they are intruders that entered illegally). Another 10 million don't have private insurance, but they ARE covered by existing government insurance (Medicare, SCHIP, SSI). And another 10 million are people like me who can afford insurance but simply choose not to, because we're young and healthy and don't need it.
So the conclusion of this scientific study was that 7-8 million U.S. citizens are not currently covered, and cannot afford to buy coverage. That's only 1 in 39, not 1 in 6.
>>>Obama hasn't instituted the killing of people politically opposed to him
I don't recall Lenin doing that either, after the old dictatorship had been toppled, a new government had been instituted and peace achieved. He even quit fighting World War 1 since he considered it a waste of lives.
>>>nor has there been a mandate to sell off farms Zimbabwe style with a mandatory percentage of the crops going to the urban workers.
True. Instead he mandated I have to buy a product I don't want, or else be fined $950 a year. Same difference in my book.
I've never understood this. Fascists supported a dictatorship where individual freedom is all but dead. Republicans support a libertarian philosophy (albeit not as extreme as the actual LP) for maximum individual freedom. They are polar opposites of one another, so how can people claim they are the same? Or even similar?
>>>There was nothing in the Constitution that allowed other races to vote until 1870
But the U.S. Constitution is just ONE constitution of several. There were state constitutions as well, and the northern constitutions allowed "freemen" (blacks) to vote the same as whites. And for women: New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and a few others allowed female suffrage.
False. I don't understand how people like you can make these false statements (and with such certainty), when it's extremely easy to google the answer. If you had done that: You'd see that multiple men received votes in 1788 and 1792, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
And since the electoral college was "chusen" by the State Legislatures, it was essentially the States who were electing the president during those early years, since the Electors voted as the legislature directed them to vote.
It's a royal pain in the ass for those of us using Laptops and dial-up. Even with image compression turned "on" the full page image was still 100 kilobytes or about a 20 second wait. Google's plain-white background is better.
>>>I think Apple owes a lot of its success to a realizing that most consumers [don't understand technical specs]
There. Fixed that for you. This is why communications majors loved the Macs so much from the 1980s onward - it was filled with pretty pictures and nary a C: or DIR or any other confusing stuff in sight. "Retina display" is something they (and the general public) can grasp.
As for the article - I don't think we should dumb down our technology for "normals" ability. Most of these "normals" think a 128 kbit/s MP3 sounds great, but for those of us with discernment it sounds like a screeching, mosquito-laden mess. I'd sooner have the 340 kbit/s MP3. Likewise I'd rather have a 640 pixel/inch screen than a 320 ppi screen where I can see the dots.
False. Several states, especially the northern ones, allowed women to vote in the 1700s. And blacks. Some let people without property vote as well, although that was rarer. To say "only" is a distortion of history.
His Democrats Congress passed a bill, and he signed into law, a requirement that I MUST buy health insurance, or be punished (fined $950). Now they are pushing a bill that would require me to have a license to publish on the web. Plus this idea to charge people for how much carbon they use. They bail-out companies like GM that should be been allowed to pass away.
What's next? I buy a normal car instead of a hybrid car, and I get fined $1000 per year? This is called central government control of the economy.
>>>at least now the economy has been pulled back from the cliff.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Boy that was a good joke. The Euro is collapsing (due to extreme debt collapsing Member States), and the Dollar is on the brink itself. Yeah the economy is still on the edge of the cliff. What was a bad stock crisis has now become a much, much worse currency crisis.
>>>I've completely lost all hope that the American public is able to pick any type of decent leader.
Maybe it's time to go back to how it was done in 1792, 1796, 1800, et cetera - let the States pick the president of the Union. The People already have representation in both the House and Senate, and in their local State Legislatures..... so it's not as if they won't be heard.
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And I used to think you could answer simple questions like, "How is Kucinich any more liberal than Obama?"
I'm sorry that was too tough for you. I'll try to be easier in the future. What's 2 + 2? - It is a FACT that Kucinich voted in favor of the Obama/Pelosicare bill, so maybe he's a radical in his rhetoric but in his actions he's in the same political spot as Obama and Pelosi.
>>>Obama wasn't picked by Republicans, he was picked by people who registered themselves as Democrats and voted in the Primaries for him. Just like McCain was picked by people who registered themselves as Republicans.
Actually most of the early primaries (the ones that gave Obama and McCain early wins) allow cross-party voting. So it would be correct to say Republican helped pick Obama, and Democrats helped pick McCain, as their respective party's candidate.
Personally I don't think this should be allowed.
A website that falsely labels Washington a "federalist" is a website that can not be trusted for information. At all. Washington did not run unopposed. There were several men who wanted the job and one (John Adams) who was very vocally disappointed that he lost in 1789.
Your statement "Washington ran unopposed twice" is flat wrong. You're inability to admit your sentence was wrong indicates a weakness in your character.
>>>So market-fan-boys, explain how do you get sick people coverage? How to get coverage for existing preconditions?
You pass a law that forces insurance corps to accept everyone.
I'm okay with that - after all a corporation is a thing, not a person. It shouldn't have rights.
If it doesn't like it, it is welcome to give-up its corporate license so it will no longer be subject to this law.
He wants to (slowly but surely) turn the USA into a central, government-run economy (like Cuba is today, or the Soviet Union used to be). How much more liberal can a person be?
How do we know it was 5 days?
This could be one of those infamous bugs that MS has known about (secretly) for two years, but they never bothered to fix. If that's true and the programmer knew the bug had existed for two years, then I consider him a cyber-patriot for whistle-blowing. Maybe now MS will get off its 1200 pound ass and fix it.
>>>"...without giving us time to resolve the issue..."
Oh well. It's no different than how you routinely acted in the 80s and 90s Mr. Microsoft. I guess people should "do as we say, not as we act" eh? It's okay for MS to act like an ass, wiping-out competition left and right, but not other companies to copy the MS Warbook. Hypocritical corporation.
Whatever it takes to damage Microsoft is okay with me. I've hated this company since the 80s - not because I randomly like to hate inanimate objects, but because Microsoft's products were 5-10 years behind what other companies like Apple, Atari, and Commodore were doing. MS == crap for a long long time.
And because Microsoft would do anything short of murder to "win" in the marketplace, such as stealing trade secrets, locking-out competitors products, or suing smaller companies in court until they went bankrupt (i.e. MS was patent trolling). It's about time MS received a dose of its own medicine.
>>>As I understand things [if you claim you forgot the key], they assume you are lying, and bang you up.
Yes and after I eventually got out of jail, several politicians who voted "yes" to support this stupid law would suddenly turn-up dead. If I'm going to serve time, when I'm innocent of the crime, then somebody will pay the consequences for my lost life. - "From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Revolution is its natural fertilizer." - Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democrat Party, author of the Declaration of Independence.
>>>EU Directive 2006/24/EC did require member states to retain the data.
Why does the EU Parliament look more-and-more like the US Congress? Are they following the same guidebook? I find it ironic that our VP Biden praised the EU as the new center for "freedom" when they are passing laws that are the exact opposite.
I guess if you repeat a law often enough ("Spying on you makes you more free"), the People will start to believe it.
Nah, the Aussies will come up with either a US or UK solution:
- Encryption is allowed but the US government holds all the keys.
- Encryption is allowed but the UK will throw you in jail if you refuse to provide the key. Assumed guilt even if you are innocent of the crime.
It is times like these that try men's souls. Isn't the government supposed to be the servant, and the People the master? When exactly did this flip around so the people became mere serfs/puppets of the politicians? Perhaps it is time to consider an abolishment of our respective governments, and to craft new Constitutions.
Healthcare is a right. I agree. You have the right to go to a doctor, say I feel sick, and expect the doctor to heal you as per his professional duty.
What you do NOT have a right to do is take the doctor's bill, and raid your neighbors' wallets to pay for it. That's called stealing. You've got a job, you've got money, so you should pay it yourself. You afforded that ~$30,000 Lexus in your front drive (times two if you have a wife), so I think you can afford a $200 annual visit, or the rare $10,000 hospital stay.
The only exception is if you're homeless/jobless. Then like food stamps, I think the government should assist you. But that's it. There should be NO help for people like us who have a jobs. We can pay our own bills.
>>>$15,000 a year for health care
Bull. Shit. The Nationwide Company quoted high-deductible, catastrophic insurance for me. $140/month. I then negotiated the price downto $95, so that's only ~$1200 a year. Other than those living on the street, anybody could afford that. It's less than what most people spend for cable TV and cellphone. If money is tight, cancel the cable/cellphone and then you'll have the money to buy this same plan I am currently investigating.
>>>1 in 6 American's are currently without health insurance
Exaggerate much? The number the Democrats stated was 40 million from a scientifically inaccurate postcard study whose numbers are worthless. Or about 1 in 8.
BUT even that number is not accurate. According to a *science study*, that figure included approximately 10 million people who are not Americans (i.e. they are intruders that entered illegally). Another 10 million don't have private insurance, but they ARE covered by existing government insurance (Medicare, SCHIP, SSI). And another 10 million are people like me who can afford insurance but simply choose not to, because we're young and healthy and don't need it.
So the conclusion of this scientific study was that 7-8 million U.S. citizens are not currently covered, and cannot afford to buy coverage. That's only 1 in 39, not 1 in 6.
>>>Obama hasn't instituted the killing of people politically opposed to him
I don't recall Lenin doing that either, after the old dictatorship had been toppled, a new government had been instituted and peace achieved. He even quit fighting World War 1 since he considered it a waste of lives.
>>>nor has there been a mandate to sell off farms Zimbabwe style with a mandatory percentage of the crops going to the urban workers.
True. Instead he mandated I have to buy a product I don't want, or else be fined $950 a year. Same difference in my book.
>>>the Facist^W Republican party
I've never understood this. Fascists supported a dictatorship where individual freedom is all but dead. Republicans support a libertarian philosophy (albeit not as extreme as the actual LP) for maximum individual freedom. They are polar opposites of one another, so how can people claim they are the same? Or even similar?
How is Kucinich any more liberal than Obama? They share many of the same ideas. Mr. K even voted for Obama's healthcare bill
>>>There was nothing in the Constitution that allowed other races to vote until 1870
But the U.S. Constitution is just ONE constitution of several. There were state constitutions as well, and the northern constitutions allowed "freemen" (blacks) to vote the same as whites. And for women: New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and a few others allowed female suffrage.
>>>Washington had run unopposed twice.
False. I don't understand how people like you can make these false statements (and with such certainty), when it's extremely easy to google the answer. If you had done that: You'd see that multiple men received votes in 1788 and 1792, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
And since the electoral college was "chusen" by the State Legislatures, it was essentially the States who were electing the president during those early years, since the Electors voted as the legislature directed them to vote.
>>>There was still the electoral college then,
There still is today dummkopf.
It's a royal pain in the ass for those of us using Laptops and dial-up. Even with image compression turned "on" the full page image was still 100 kilobytes or about a 20 second wait. Google's plain-white background is better.
>>>I think Apple owes a lot of its success to a realizing that most consumers [don't understand technical specs]
There. Fixed that for you. This is why communications majors loved the Macs so much from the 1980s onward - it was filled with pretty pictures and nary a C: or DIR or any other confusing stuff in sight. "Retina display" is something they (and the general public) can grasp.
As for the article - I don't think we should dumb down our technology for "normals" ability. Most of these "normals" think a 128 kbit/s MP3 sounds great, but for those of us with discernment it sounds like a screeching, mosquito-laden mess. I'd sooner have the 340 kbit/s MP3. Likewise I'd rather have a 640 pixel/inch screen than a 320 ppi screen where I can see the dots.
>>>Only white, male landowners.
False. Several states, especially the northern ones, allowed women to vote in the 1700s. And blacks. Some let people without property vote as well, although that was rarer. To say "only" is a distortion of history.
Corporatism and central planning are the same thing - it's government and corporations working as one. Obama's policies certainly qualify
His Democrats Congress passed a bill, and he signed into law, a requirement that I MUST buy health insurance, or be punished (fined $950). Now they are pushing a bill that would require me to have a license to publish on the web. Plus this idea to charge people for how much carbon they use. They bail-out companies like GM that should be been allowed to pass away.
What's next? I buy a normal car instead of a hybrid car, and I get fined $1000 per year? This is called central government control of the economy.
>>>at least now the economy has been pulled back from the cliff.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Boy that was a good joke. The Euro is collapsing (due to extreme debt collapsing Member States), and the Dollar is on the brink itself. Yeah the economy is still on the edge of the cliff. What was a bad stock crisis has now become a much, much worse currency crisis.
>>>I've completely lost all hope that the American public is able to pick any type of decent leader.
Maybe it's time to go back to how it was done in 1792, 1796, 1800, et cetera - let the States pick the president of the Union. The People already have representation in both the House and Senate, and in their local State Legislatures..... so it's not as if they won't be heard.