Summary: when you do it that's OK, but when someone else does it, that's bad.
Kind of a matter of scale. I'm reminded of the saying “If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.” Except that it's reversed for a number of reasons.
If Fluffeh takes every tax break he can and saves $500 a year on state taxes, I don't begrudge him that. He's using the roads, the police, resources, etc, but the $500 he saves is probably being spent back into the economy. And $500 is not going to change much when it comes to the budget.
Large corporations avoiding billions in taxes is a much different situation. Corporations use up far more resources than any individual person. I'd guess that on average, you see less of the money saved on taxes going back into the economy as opposed to straight to some CEO's bank account in Switzerland. And billions in taxes DOES change the state budget situation.
Fluffeh is only a hypocrite if he says it's not okay when other people in his socioeconomic status reduce their taxes. Corporate tax is a completely different situation.
Then there's the lack of social skills among the "self-anointed." Plus their childish insistence on labeling it GNU/linux (do you call it a Firestone/Mustang)? Or M$. Yes, we see what you did there, and no, after the 5,000th time, it's just stupid.
I'd suggest it's a very small subset of users who would be dealing with that. My experience with ubuntu has been that it's about as stable for my uses as iOS. I'm not doing much with either besides internet browsing. I have no need to wade into the forums. Neither will most users.
Thus I'd suggest this is not actually a reason linux on the desktop is not taking off.
Social security numbers are a good example of this. As the name implies, it's supposed to just be used for social security benefits.
Hey, why not use it for credit reporting too? That's not abuse, right? No malicious intent there!
Except now you have identity thieves stealing children's social security numbers and using them to get fraudulent credit cards, ruining their credit before the kids even realize that previous generations are going to let social security go bankrupt.
The baby boomers really are the greatest generation of trolls.
Anyway, you're correct in my opinion: using a law except in the exact way it was intended to be used is always abuse.
Lets say you made glass so durable that it wouldn't fracture when hit with a hammer, then you might not want to use that glass in an emergency box which says,"In case of emergency, smash glass"
That would only be a drawback if this new "super" glass, when synthesized, automatically replaces all existing glass. Or somehow makes it impossible to make regular glass.
Also, most of those have been replaced with "OPEN in the case of emergency." Like as in the fire extinguisher is behind a door and you can just open it. Much less dramatic, which is, I suppose, a drawback. You'll still look like a hero putting out the fire, but without blood dripping down your arm while doing so, you'll lose a bit of heroicness.
False dichotomy: you get molested at the gate, and that does absolutely nothing to reduce your chances of dying in a terrorist attack.
If I'm going to die due to terrorism, I'd rather not have my last hour of life involve being yelled at for putting my arms down too soon, while going through a machine that is a $100k waste of my tax dollars.
The parks service could turn the badlands into a parking lot and far fewer people would be upset about that than if they sold the statue of liberty for scrap metal, but there are other people, myself included, who are far more impressed with natural beauty than a statue. Better to save both than to cut one for something as stupid as "Congress wants to cut the budget and the parks service's lobbyists were the least effective."
Turning back to the situation at UF, sure they could have taken the cuts and eliminated the theater department and scaled back some construction of new labs or dorms, and maybe fewer people would have objected. Then Rick Scott could get back to cutting taxes in peace and easily get re-elected. It might be that lowered corporate taxes ($458 million from the budget last year) will do more good than the theater department would have, but as a crazy liberal, I'd rather take a chance on students.
Of course, monkey social hierarchy is often enforced by the high ranking males mounting the lower ranking males. Not sure "bully" is an appropriate comparison for schoolyards. Jails maybe.
I feel embarrassed I forgot about this change (AND how it happened after Obama and the CEO of that company took a trip to India together). We've always been at war with Eastasia...
There were other individuals who were aware they were spreading a deadly disease without changing jobs who were not incarcerated? From what I just read, it was the fact that she willfully endangered other people by adopting a false identity and working as a cook the second time that got her confined for life. She also refused treatment, though I'm not sure what that would have been.
I'd say it's not security theater. She was informed of what would happen if she worked as a cook, ignored it, and killed people as a result.
Maybe, instead of blaming everyone else for your bad decisions, you should stop bitching and take responsibility for your own actions.
I don't think anyone is actually blaming him. I think NC is thinking if people take unqualified advice and they get sick, that will cost society more to clean up. Which is still stupid, but for different reasons.
You would have to shut down all the biology departments in schools for practicing Religion without the tax exempt status
But biology isn't a religion, and you can practice religion anyway without tax exempt status. So there are two huge differences between that comparison and what's going on here: the guy WAS giving out nutrition advice and charging for it, and you're NOT allowed to do that without some approval process.
You would have to jail all the "Job Creator" appologists for operating without a "Snake Oil" license.
Now you're just making up licenses. And free speech wouldn't be shoehorned into such a license. Anyway, the law in question here is presumably specifically to prevent snake oil salesmanship.
Who the hell modded this insightful? "Funny" would be debatable, I don't personally consider saying really dumb things to be funny, but some do. Insightful though, there are people who think this is actually a slippery slope to shutting down biology departments? Perhaps you should stop listening to quack blogs and start taking your meds again.
Some banks are so good at fraud detection, they shut down your bank account when you make a purchase overseas even after telling them a week in advance exactly where you were going, leaving you in a foreign country with no money.
To be fair, any large organization is going to make clerical errors, and it's better that they err on that side, since it happens a lot less frequently.
But the third amendment is still safe, right? I hate unreasonable searches, but even more than that I hate being forced to quarter soldiers in my home.
I think you're actually managing to underestimate the media: it's pretty self-evident that no such explosion has taken place on the ground. Even the dumbest news organizations aren't going to bother reporting on it without some footage of an explosion site.
If you can't get your fanatics under control, they are going to continue to shape your public image. Sorry.
I'd say more than that: your message being over-simplified and distorted happens to EVERY OTHER POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Welcome to the club.
Conservatives want to make us all slaves to corporations and church, liberals want to make you the slave to the state and abolish guns and religion. Moderates don't care and/or can't make up their minds. Environmentalists want to kill off everyone to save the spotted owls, businesses want to leave the earth a smoking crater just for money now. Pro-lifers want to make women incubators, pro-choicers just want consequence-free, irresponsible sex and don't value human life. The NRA wants everyone to be shooting everyone. Gun control advocates want to make you defenseless against tyrants. Atheists and religious people both want to brainwash your children. People who support ending the drug war are stoner hippies, people who want to keep pot illegal are just "the man" and hate fun and want an excuse to lock you up.
And we all do it too. With each of those pairs, you probably thought one was reasonably accurate while the other was wrong.
"Re-aligning" and "staking your company on" are two different things.
McDonalds aligns it's advertising to the McRib sandwich every time it comes out. They do not stake themselves on the McRib though. They spend a lot on advertising that one sandwich each time, but if they don't sell any, McDonalds is not going to declare bankruptcy.
Google is putting a lot of effort into getting you to use google plus, and maybe all the top people over at google are trying to beat facebook at the social media game, they are aligning to that. The front page has google plus tie ins. This does not mean they're putting all their eggs in google plus's basket. If google plus never goes anywhere, we'll still be using google maps, gmail, and google search, and they'll still be getting a lot of money for adsense based on just our searches, e-mail, and map searches.
Staking the company on google plus would probably look like "In order to use google search, gmail, or google maps, you MUST BE SIGNED INTO GOOGLE PLUS." Which would be a stupid move and I'd be surprised if anyone working at google would be dumb enough to suggest it.
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Summary: when you do it that's OK, but when someone else does it, that's bad.
Kind of a matter of scale. I'm reminded of the saying “If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.” Except that it's reversed for a number of reasons.
If Fluffeh takes every tax break he can and saves $500 a year on state taxes, I don't begrudge him that. He's using the roads, the police, resources, etc, but the $500 he saves is probably being spent back into the economy. And $500 is not going to change much when it comes to the budget.
Large corporations avoiding billions in taxes is a much different situation. Corporations use up far more resources than any individual person. I'd guess that on average, you see less of the money saved on taxes going back into the economy as opposed to straight to some CEO's bank account in Switzerland. And billions in taxes DOES change the state budget situation.
Fluffeh is only a hypocrite if he says it's not okay when other people in his socioeconomic status reduce their taxes. Corporate tax is a completely different situation.
Cheap, tiny computer that you can't actually get until some vague time in the future?
Seems like an apt comparison to me.
Then there's the lack of social skills among the "self-anointed." Plus their childish insistence on labeling it GNU/linux (do you call it a Firestone/Mustang)? Or M$. Yes, we see what you did there, and no, after the 5,000th time, it's just stupid.
I'd suggest it's a very small subset of users who would be dealing with that. My experience with ubuntu has been that it's about as stable for my uses as iOS. I'm not doing much with either besides internet browsing. I have no need to wade into the forums. Neither will most users.
Thus I'd suggest this is not actually a reason linux on the desktop is not taking off.
No, it seems to be more like 120 hZ TVs, how everyone initially thinks it looks like a cheap mexican soap opera or something. Movement is too fluid.
Social security numbers are a good example of this. As the name implies, it's supposed to just be used for social security benefits.
Hey, why not use it for credit reporting too? That's not abuse, right? No malicious intent there!
Except now you have identity thieves stealing children's social security numbers and using them to get fraudulent credit cards, ruining their credit before the kids even realize that previous generations are going to let social security go bankrupt.
The baby boomers really are the greatest generation of trolls.
Anyway, you're correct in my opinion: using a law except in the exact way it was intended to be used is always abuse.
You blame 1) a guy who is threatening to veto it, and 2) a guy who is not in office and has no part in this, rather than the voters?
Complex scapegoating you're doing there.
Lets say you made glass so durable that it wouldn't fracture when hit with a hammer, then you might not want to use that glass in an emergency box which says,"In case of emergency, smash glass"
That would only be a drawback if this new "super" glass, when synthesized, automatically replaces all existing glass. Or somehow makes it impossible to make regular glass. Also, most of those have been replaced with "OPEN in the case of emergency." Like as in the fire extinguisher is behind a door and you can just open it. Much less dramatic, which is, I suppose, a drawback. You'll still look like a hero putting out the fire, but without blood dripping down your arm while doing so, you'll lose a bit of heroicness.
False dichotomy: you get molested at the gate, and that does absolutely nothing to reduce your chances of dying in a terrorist attack.
If I'm going to die due to terrorism, I'd rather not have my last hour of life involve being yelled at for putting my arms down too soon, while going through a machine that is a $100k waste of my tax dollars.
For comparison here's the statue of liberty and here's a campground in South Dakota.
The parks service could turn the badlands into a parking lot and far fewer people would be upset about that than if they sold the statue of liberty for scrap metal, but there are other people, myself included, who are far more impressed with natural beauty than a statue. Better to save both than to cut one for something as stupid as "Congress wants to cut the budget and the parks service's lobbyists were the least effective."
Turning back to the situation at UF, sure they could have taken the cuts and eliminated the theater department and scaled back some construction of new labs or dorms, and maybe fewer people would have objected. Then Rick Scott could get back to cutting taxes in peace and easily get re-elected. It might be that lowered corporate taxes ($458 million from the budget last year) will do more good than the theater department would have, but as a crazy liberal, I'd rather take a chance on students.
I think they should focus on bringing it onto all platforms, from ipads to the nintendo wii. They should call it "Slutty Squirrel."
Of course, monkey social hierarchy is often enforced by the high ranking males mounting the lower ranking males. Not sure "bully" is an appropriate comparison for schoolyards. Jails maybe.
Cats, however, take a stepped-on tail as an unforgivable, grievous insult against their Gods. Which are themselves, incidentally.
I feel embarrassed I forgot about this change (AND how it happened after Obama and the CEO of that company took a trip to India together). We've always been at war with Eastasia...
No, I think it's actually just the money. The rest is probably just to justify a budgetary move.
There were other individuals who were aware they were spreading a deadly disease without changing jobs who were not incarcerated? From what I just read, it was the fact that she willfully endangered other people by adopting a false identity and working as a cook the second time that got her confined for life. She also refused treatment, though I'm not sure what that would have been.
I'd say it's not security theater. She was informed of what would happen if she worked as a cook, ignored it, and killed people as a result.
Maybe, instead of blaming everyone else for your bad decisions, you should stop bitching and take responsibility for your own actions.
I don't think anyone is actually blaming him. I think NC is thinking if people take unqualified advice and they get sick, that will cost society more to clean up. Which is still stupid, but for different reasons.
You would have to shut down all the biology departments in schools for practicing Religion without the tax exempt status
But biology isn't a religion, and you can practice religion anyway without tax exempt status. So there are two huge differences between that comparison and what's going on here: the guy WAS giving out nutrition advice and charging for it, and you're NOT allowed to do that without some approval process.
You would have to jail all the "Job Creator" appologists for operating without a "Snake Oil" license.
Now you're just making up licenses. And free speech wouldn't be shoehorned into such a license. Anyway, the law in question here is presumably specifically to prevent snake oil salesmanship.
Who the hell modded this insightful? "Funny" would be debatable, I don't personally consider saying really dumb things to be funny, but some do. Insightful though, there are people who think this is actually a slippery slope to shutting down biology departments? Perhaps you should stop listening to quack blogs and start taking your meds again.
Some banks are so good at fraud detection, they shut down your bank account when you make a purchase overseas even after telling them a week in advance exactly where you were going, leaving you in a foreign country with no money.
To be fair, any large organization is going to make clerical errors, and it's better that they err on that side, since it happens a lot less frequently.
Honest question: how is the TSA worse than it was under Bush?
But the third amendment is still safe, right? I hate unreasonable searches, but even more than that I hate being forced to quarter soldiers in my home.
I'd be surprised if any elected officials were afraid of it. Ravers are not going to rise up and throw incumbents out.
I think you're actually managing to underestimate the media: it's pretty self-evident that no such explosion has taken place on the ground. Even the dumbest news organizations aren't going to bother reporting on it without some footage of an explosion site.
Another way of putting it is it's 2700 kilograms of steel for a soccer mom and one child passenger. You know, for safety.
If you can't get your fanatics under control, they are going to continue to shape your public image. Sorry.
I'd say more than that: your message being over-simplified and distorted happens to EVERY OTHER POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Welcome to the club.
Conservatives want to make us all slaves to corporations and church, liberals want to make you the slave to the state and abolish guns and religion. Moderates don't care and/or can't make up their minds. Environmentalists want to kill off everyone to save the spotted owls, businesses want to leave the earth a smoking crater just for money now. Pro-lifers want to make women incubators, pro-choicers just want consequence-free, irresponsible sex and don't value human life. The NRA wants everyone to be shooting everyone. Gun control advocates want to make you defenseless against tyrants. Atheists and religious people both want to brainwash your children. People who support ending the drug war are stoner hippies, people who want to keep pot illegal are just "the man" and hate fun and want an excuse to lock you up.
And we all do it too. With each of those pairs, you probably thought one was reasonably accurate while the other was wrong.
"Re-aligning" and "staking your company on" are two different things.
McDonalds aligns it's advertising to the McRib sandwich every time it comes out. They do not stake themselves on the McRib though. They spend a lot on advertising that one sandwich each time, but if they don't sell any, McDonalds is not going to declare bankruptcy.
Google is putting a lot of effort into getting you to use google plus, and maybe all the top people over at google are trying to beat facebook at the social media game, they are aligning to that. The front page has google plus tie ins. This does not mean they're putting all their eggs in google plus's basket. If google plus never goes anywhere, we'll still be using google maps, gmail, and google search, and they'll still be getting a lot of money for adsense based on just our searches, e-mail, and map searches.
Staking the company on google plus would probably look like "In order to use google search, gmail, or google maps, you MUST BE SIGNED INTO GOOGLE PLUS." Which would be a stupid move and I'd be surprised if anyone working at google would be dumb enough to suggest it.