But this generally isnt as you say it. Pharmecuticals only spend 15% of their revenue on research, as reported in their own statements[1]. And then of that the majority goes to evading each others patents, not actual science of any sorts. Most of the money and research is done with public money from the NIH and such, and done on a competitive bidding system with publicly available papers, none of this requires the current type of pharmecutical system, structured only on new drugs, and on patents. If we got rid of that model we would be able to spend more on research, less on health care (of which alot is government money), treat people better, AND get rid of the horrible pharmaceutical advertising that takes most of those companies budgets and disgraces the medical profession.
The US does have a amazing public funding for research, but i dont think that is so heavily linked to the medical system as you make it out to be, at least in the pharmaceutical world.
Nobody runs root on linux. All you need is people signed applications from the distrobution repos, people check what they run as root. Also:if you run malicious code as root your already fucked.
This is just some FUD on microsofts part: it would be much easier on windows cause so many people run root on windows.
Also: who cares? on any computer once you are root your screwed, and the computer is toast. And it is just one motherboard.
cat 5e can support 10GigaBits/s at 45m so there really is no reason to replace it unless you really need to have speeds faster than any bus on your computer. cat5 on the other hand has problems supporting 1Gbit so if your really into maybe replace it. You only really need to think about it when you are laying new cable where you should decide between 5e, 6, 6c, and 7.
your idea is completely broken because under your idea a bank could make known bad loans and barrow on margin (thats what fractional reserve banking is all about) from other banks in a circle until then all go down at once and the CEOs take the cash. This is basically what happened.
The problem with zero regulation is that it creates a boom and bust cycle where the banks repeatedly give you a lolli-pop and then slam a pineapple up your ass. And zero regulation is impossible with a modern system, it will always be based upon faith of some government.
You either have to completely get rid of fractional reserve banking and return to hard money (with creates a boom and bust system) or you have a well-regulated central banking system. Elizabeth Warren said this well on the Daily Show. The US has had a boom and bust cycle of every 20 years until the great depression. Then finially we had a sne regulatory system and had a clean system for 50 years, then we started pulling out threads and creating a hybrid private interests/public money system: S&L and then Enron. I think regulation is really scary because it requires work on making sure it is enforced correctly and consistently, but its really the only way to both have a stable economy without boom and bust, and to have a have any market for credit.
Your computer has not passed the "Windows Genuine Advantage". You have 30 seconds to "Get Genuine" before this computer will automatically self destruct.
Whats going on is that the government is always irritated by this thing called "innocent until proven guilty" and "jury by a trial of your peers" so they have to create "irrefutable evidence" (even thought its entirely in their hands to make those results say whatever they want for the most part) in order to attempt to convince and sedate the masses.
They cant vote there if they don't live there. This doesn't sound like tourism but retirement populations. The other tax is property tax. I do consider Montana quite nice, but i just dont think of it as tourism at all, but retirement is a entirely different business: people coming for the cheap living/property costs etc.
Have you not heard of _suspend_ and _hibernation_? I mean seriously, these things are not rocket science, nor are they recent developments. You just view it as Someone Else's Problem and therefore summarily write off anyone who suggests anything other than the inefficient ways you are use to.
WOL, its existed for eons. You can easily power on a machine 10 minutes before that person is suppose to arrive for work. of course stupid IT departments that cant do a professional job wouldn't have a clue how to implement it, even which it is fairly trivial. I could do it.
The republicans seem to continue to try to drive this country into the ground even when they aren't in power. They seem to have had this moment of clarity whereby they only support this tiny rich minority who will notice and pretend to serve the very people who they are royally screwing. These supporters: people whose social services are getting cut and may end up in poverty, are so confused that they will vote in their direct disinterest.
yep. people complain about having the government on their asses and then they complain when private garbage costs 5 times as much, when their roads don't work, and when their air is unhealthily polluted. Not that there doesn't exist inefficiencies, but when anybody tries listen or implement what these people propose these things get less efficient.
News flash for you: we are over taxed, this is not new we have been saying this for a long time.
The biggest tax is the deficient spending. With a currency that is not linked to anything all deficit spending is a direct tax.
The government needs to stop funding things it was never meant to do in the first place; the war on drugs, welfare programs, rebuilding other countries, and the list goes on.
War on drugs: Thats sensationalist politics for you.
One note: we don't rebuild other countries: we give so little to other countries that it doesn't even render on the map. Small earmarks are larger than the money we give to other countries, so forget that misnomer. Then if you are talking about Iraq there was no rebuilding. It was all no-bid contracts to give military-industrials monopoly interests so they can keep the iraqis poor forever. They ripped up an existing cell phone network and gave huge amounts of money, in a no bid contract, to build a patented cell network, that would, do to tearing up the old one, be a instituted monopoly.
The United States of America is not a democracy! It never has been a democracy! it is a Representative Republic. We are Representative Republic because the founding fathers happened to plan for just what you complain about in your last statement ;
The problem with that setup is what we are seeing now. Our representatives are not Representing us any more, it has been like this for some time now. People are starting to wake up and see this, as the haze clears they look at their wallets and get angry.
This is pretty good, although I would like to say that its not just now, its been like this for a long time. Also, having representatives represent you and having the majority represent you is two entirely different things.
The majority having the power to squash the minority, the system is set up to help prevent that.
Where the hell did come from? Didn;t you notice what has happened during the last 10 years? The majority completely ignored anyone but campaign funders, evangelicals, and military nutsos. They ran the country into a shit-hole, took away your liberties, entered unnecessary wars, made Americans less safe, both to foreign entieties and the government, etc etc. Take in what John Steward said: "You're in the minority now. It's supposed to taste like a sh!t taco." You then just bury yourself:
That is what the Tea Parties are about.
Sorry, but no it isn't. "Tea Parties" is a Faux News PR joke where they astroturf, and ironically attempt to protest wasteful government spending by buying millions of pounds of useless tea.
The blame falls on the whole country's shoulders, we became complacent, we let them strip our rights and our money from us! As they did it we smiled because we were living in good times with a strong economy. This country needs another great depression it just might be the glass of cold water that wakes us up.
No it doesn't. If you want something changed it is your responsibility to have it changed. If people share your views then they may join you but you cannot obligate them to do so. You have seem to have a complete misunderstanding of systems work: you will only accept a argument if it meets your immeditate selfish interests, and assume that everyone must want to serve your interests. Also, I dont even think you know what your own interests are, and instead are hoping that other people will tell you correctly and defend your interests.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but the only person that can protect your own interests is yourself. And your interests and not identical to the interests anyone else tells you you have.
IANAL But Congress DOES have the right to regulate interstate commerce: read the line.
If congress creates a law stating that they will tax people at the rate the state the person resides in at the rate the state charges inter-state commerce, and that that money will be payed back to the states whose residents it concerns than that is completely in the rights on congress and does not go against SCOTUS.
SCOTUS was about arguing that the STATE of Iowa did not have a right to tax the sale arguing that it was inter-state commerce, with the court refusing on the reasoning that if the seller has a business residence in the state its obligations are identical to a sale when the product does not cross state borders. This law would have nothing to do with that law because it would be a federal law over inter-state commerce, something congress has direct authority over.
The framers were making sure that no strong state, or pack of states could bully other states into bad trade agreements, and could not pass protective tariff against other states: they instead mandated that only Congress could do it, therefore it could be done in a less discriminatory manner: such as this legislation.
arguably the tax loophole is subsidizing shipping and creating inefficiencies of shipping small objects unnecessarily.
The way this tax is collected could be a nightmare and really be done in a way to horribly clobber e-commerce and remove what makes it go incredibly beneficial to consumers and entrepreneurs: low cost on entry. However, having them pay tax I consider quite reasonable.
I'd much rather see sales taxes abolished since they complicate retail and hurt the poorest people the most (they have to spend most of their income to live and hence proportionally pay way more sales tax).
Not necessarily, but it is a flat tax, to which merits are discussable. Also, most people spend most their income, hell: most people in the US spend more than their income. Sales tax is not just little things: its also things like houses and cars and airplanes. (you'd be amazed the sales tax paid on airplanes.)
No tax system: property tax, income tax, excise tax, etc is perfect.
hmm, well i guess West Yellowstone is slightly in Montana. But anyways, sales tax is not focused on tourism--officially they can even have sales tax waived, the main tourist tax is lodging taxes.
Good for retirees, but for a state [(Montana)] with so much of the economy supported by tourism, you'd think the state would want to tax some of that.
wut? wheres the tourism in Montana? I mean seriously, its a huge state between North Dakota and Idaho, two places people also do not visit. Also, West Yellowstone was in Idaho last time I was there, and I doubt that has changed.
Yeah thats how it will happen here too I'm sure, as already if you are no a resident of the state you can legally get sales tax waived when you purchase in a sales-tax state.
If you would just read it you would notice that the entire affidavit is just a list of cursory accusations against the student (Calixte) and does not show probably cause for anything that is a crime. The main accusation is that sending email to a open list server is somehow a willful violation of security, and even those accusations are made in a way the side-steps the question of weather any such activities are illegal.
RTFA, for example here, before making such cursory judgments.
From what I understand, they also don't need a search warrant from BC for on-campus searches, because technically that space is privately owned by BC, not the college student, and the BCPD is always given tacit consent by the college.
Incorrect. A tenant is the only person that can give consent to search his room or dwelling. A renter does not have this right to give consent until he/she has successfully evicted the tenant.
This is long held: in Georgia v. Randolph for example.
Slashdot Mirror
that site is ipv4-only
And now tell me how extending the copyright of works already created "promote[s] the science and the useful arts"...
But this generally isnt as you say it. Pharmecuticals only spend 15% of their revenue on research, as reported in their own statements[1]. And then of that the majority goes to evading each others patents, not actual science of any sorts. Most of the money and research is done with public money from the NIH and such, and done on a competitive bidding system with publicly available papers, none of this requires the current type of pharmecutical system, structured only on new drugs, and on patents. If we got rid of that model we would be able to spend more on research, less on health care (of which alot is government money), treat people better, AND get rid of the horrible pharmaceutical advertising that takes most of those companies budgets and disgraces the medical profession.
The US does have a amazing public funding for research, but i dont think that is so heavily linked to the medical system as you make it out to be, at least in the pharmaceutical world.
[1]
http://www.novartis.com/downloads/investors/reports/AR06_E_web.pdf - p 143
http://www.pfizer.com/pfizer/annualreport/2006/financial/p2006fin13.jsp
http://www.astrazeneca.com/article/11183.aspx
Personally I don't see how private interests are anything but harmful when it comes to running of important public infrastructures.
absolutely,but it seems some people don't get it. My city has great cheep sewage and water. Bonaville Power Administration is cheap because of public funding of the Grand Coulée Damn and others led to cheap electricity. Predatory cable and telephone companies are now preventing progess to save their outdated commercial model: we could be in the place of Sweden with fiber everywhere if we just got our heads out of our asses.
Nobody runs root on linux. All you need is people signed applications from the distrobution repos, people check what they run as root. Also:if you run malicious code as root your already fucked.
This is just some FUD on microsofts part: it would be much easier on windows cause so many people run root on windows.
Also: who cares? on any computer once you are root your screwed, and the computer is toast. And it is just one motherboard.
cat 5e can support 10GigaBits/s at 45m so there really is no reason to replace it unless you really need to have speeds faster than any bus on your computer. cat5 on the other hand has problems supporting 1Gbit so if your really into maybe replace it. You only really need to think about it when you are laying new cable where you should decide between 5e, 6, 6c, and 7.
your idea is completely broken because under your idea a bank could make known bad loans and barrow on margin (thats what fractional reserve banking is all about) from other banks in a circle until then all go down at once and the CEOs take the cash. This is basically what happened.
The problem with zero regulation is that it creates a boom and bust cycle where the banks repeatedly give you a lolli-pop and then slam a pineapple up your ass. And zero regulation is impossible with a modern system, it will always be based upon faith of some government.
You either have to completely get rid of fractional reserve banking and return to hard money (with creates a boom and bust system) or you have a well-regulated central banking system. Elizabeth Warren said this well on the Daily Show. The US has had a boom and bust cycle of every 20 years until the great depression. Then finially we had a sne regulatory system and had a clean system for 50 years, then we started pulling out threads and creating a hybrid private interests/public money system: S&L and then Enron. I think regulation is really scary because it requires work on making sure it is enforced correctly and consistently, but its really the only way to both have a stable economy without boom and bust, and to have a have any market for credit.
Your computer has not passed the "Windows Genuine Advantage". You have 30 seconds to "Get Genuine" before this computer will automatically self destruct.
Whats going on is that the government is always irritated by this thing called "innocent until proven guilty" and "jury by a trial of your peers" so they have to create "irrefutable evidence" (even thought its entirely in their hands to make those results say whatever they want for the most part) in order to attempt to convince and sedate the masses.
they consistently vote down a sales tax.
They cant vote there if they don't live there. This doesn't sound like tourism but retirement populations. The other tax is property tax. I do consider Montana quite nice, but i just dont think of it as tourism at all, but retirement is a entirely different business: people coming for the cheap living/property costs etc.
if only Microsoft didn't spend all their time trying to break ACPI rather than improve it:
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf
Have you not heard of _suspend_ and _hibernation_? I mean seriously, these things are not rocket science, nor are they recent developments. You just view it as Someone Else's Problem and therefore summarily write off anyone who suggests anything other than the inefficient ways you are use to.
WOL, its existed for eons. You can easily power on a machine 10 minutes before that person is suppose to arrive for work. of course stupid IT departments that cant do a professional job wouldn't have a clue how to implement it, even which it is fairly trivial. I could do it.
The republicans seem to continue to try to drive this country into the ground even when they aren't in power. They seem to have had this moment of clarity whereby they only support this tiny rich minority who will notice and pretend to serve the very people who they are royally screwing. These supporters: people whose social services are getting cut and may end up in poverty, are so confused that they will vote in their direct disinterest.
yep. people complain about having the government on their asses and then they complain when private garbage costs 5 times as much, when their roads don't work, and when their air is unhealthily polluted. Not that there doesn't exist inefficiencies, but when anybody tries listen or implement what these people propose these things get less efficient.
News flash for you: we are over taxed, this is not new we have been saying this for a long time.
The biggest tax is the deficient spending. With a currency that is not linked to anything all deficit spending is a direct tax.
The government needs to stop funding things it was never meant to do in the first place; the war on drugs, welfare programs, rebuilding other countries, and the list goes on.
War on drugs: Thats sensationalist politics for you.
One note: we don't rebuild other countries: we give so little to other countries that it doesn't even render on the map. Small earmarks are larger than the money we give to other countries, so forget that misnomer. Then if you are talking about Iraq there was no rebuilding. It was all no-bid contracts to give military-industrials monopoly interests so they can keep the iraqis poor forever. They ripped up an existing cell phone network and gave huge amounts of money, in a no bid contract, to build a patented cell network, that would, do to tearing up the old one, be a instituted monopoly.
The United States of America is not a democracy! It never has been a democracy! it is a Representative Republic. We are Representative Republic because the founding fathers happened to plan for just what you complain about in your last statement ;
The problem with that setup is what we are seeing now. Our representatives are not Representing us any more, it has been like this for some time now. People are starting to wake up and see this, as the haze clears they look at their wallets and get angry.
This is pretty good, although I would like to say that its not just now, its been like this for a long time. Also, having representatives represent you and having the majority represent you is two entirely different things.
The majority having the power to squash the minority, the system is set up to help prevent that.
Where the hell did come from? Didn;t you notice what has happened during the last 10 years? The majority completely ignored anyone but campaign funders, evangelicals, and military nutsos. They ran the country into a shit-hole, took away your liberties, entered unnecessary wars, made Americans less safe, both to foreign entieties and the government, etc etc. Take in what John Steward said: "You're in the minority now. It's supposed to taste like a sh!t taco." You then just bury yourself:
That is what the Tea Parties are about.
Sorry, but no it isn't. "Tea Parties" is a Faux News PR joke where they astroturf, and ironically attempt to protest wasteful government spending by buying millions of pounds of useless tea.
The blame falls on the whole country's shoulders, we became complacent, we let them strip our rights and our money from us! As they did it we smiled because we were living in good times with a strong economy. This country needs another great depression it just might be the glass of cold water that wakes us up.
No it doesn't. If you want something changed it is your responsibility to have it changed. If people share your views then they may join you but you cannot obligate them to do so. You have seem to have a complete misunderstanding of systems work: you will only accept a argument if it meets your immeditate selfish interests, and assume that everyone must want to serve your interests. Also, I dont even think you know what your own interests are, and instead are hoping that other people will tell you correctly and defend your interests.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but the only person that can protect your own interests is yourself. And your interests and not identical to the interests anyone else tells you you have.
IANAL But Congress DOES have the right to regulate interstate commerce: read the line.
If congress creates a law stating that they will tax people at the rate the state the person resides in at the rate the state charges inter-state commerce, and that that money will be payed back to the states whose residents it concerns than that is completely in the rights on congress and does not go against SCOTUS.
SCOTUS was about arguing that the STATE of Iowa did not have a right to tax the sale arguing that it was inter-state commerce, with the court refusing on the reasoning that if the seller has a business residence in the state its obligations are identical to a sale when the product does not cross state borders. This law would have nothing to do with that law because it would be a federal law over inter-state commerce, something congress has direct authority over.
The framers were making sure that no strong state, or pack of states could bully other states into bad trade agreements, and could not pass protective tariff against other states: they instead mandated that only Congress could do it, therefore it could be done in a less discriminatory manner: such as this legislation.
arguably the tax loophole is subsidizing shipping and creating inefficiencies of shipping small objects unnecessarily.
The way this tax is collected could be a nightmare and really be done in a way to horribly clobber e-commerce and remove what makes it go incredibly beneficial to consumers and entrepreneurs: low cost on entry. However, having them pay tax I consider quite reasonable.
I'd much rather see sales taxes abolished since they complicate retail and hurt the poorest people the most (they have to spend most of their income to live and hence proportionally pay way more sales tax).
Not necessarily, but it is a flat tax, to which merits are discussable. Also, most people spend most their income, hell: most people in the US spend more than their income. Sales tax is not just little things: its also things like houses and cars and airplanes. (you'd be amazed the sales tax paid on airplanes.)
No tax system: property tax, income tax, excise tax, etc is perfect.
hmm, well i guess West Yellowstone is slightly in Montana. But anyways, sales tax is not focused on tourism--officially they can even have sales tax waived, the main tourist tax is lodging taxes.
Good for retirees, but for a state [(Montana)] with so much of the economy supported by tourism, you'd think the state would want to tax some of that.
wut? wheres the tourism in Montana? I mean seriously, its a huge state between North Dakota and Idaho, two places people also do not visit. Also, West Yellowstone was in Idaho last time I was there, and I doubt that has changed.
The tax is based on the purchaser's province.
Yeah thats how it will happen here too I'm sure, as already if you are no a resident of the state you can legally get sales tax waived when you purchase in a sales-tax state.
The warrent is posted right here. RTFA before making such vague claims.
If you would just read it you would notice that the entire affidavit is just a list of cursory accusations against the student (Calixte) and does not show probably cause for anything that is a crime. The main accusation is that sending email to a open list server is somehow a willful violation of security, and even those accusations are made in a way the side-steps the question of weather any such activities are illegal.
RTFA, for example here, before making such cursory judgments.
From what I understand, they also don't need a search warrant from BC for on-campus searches, because technically that space is privately owned by BC, not the college student, and the BCPD is always given tacit consent by the college.
Incorrect. A tenant is the only person that can give consent to search his room or dwelling. A renter does not have this right to give consent until he/she has successfully evicted the tenant. This is long held: in Georgia v. Randolph for example.