There is taxation, then there is theft... there is a difference...
A flat tax where everyone pays the same rate with no deductions is "fair"...
Taxing half the people at nearly nothing and the top 5% at huge amounts is immoral...
I make more money than the average person and probably pay a smaller percentage than average, simply because that is how the system is designed...
A "flat tax" would actually be better, but people like you can't get past your own "moral high ground" to see that, so you have the current system because of it...
Robber Barrons, Pinkertons, and other past wealthy leaders lack something that future wealthy leaders will have access to...
Terminators... ignore Skynet and all, just picture an army of a million Terminators that obey without question any order from the elite, and tell me how effective that "bullet in the brain" plan will be?
When your goal is to reduce headcount, you should have to pay for it.
People who say this are morons...
If you make it expensive to fire people or lay them off (like they do in parts of Europe), then people are very reluctant to hire in the first place...
Companies will then do anything they can to avoid hiring anyone extra to start with...
No, you aren't an expert, and yes, a handgun does give me a decent chance.
An AK is not body armor, if he is busy shooting someone else, he isn't shooting me, and don't overestimate the accuracy of an AK, they are pretty bad in general.
Under 50 yards, I'm almost as accurate with my.45 as I am with an AK, and he won't see it coming.
"A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society."
What about that statement is wrong? From a simple economic point of view, if you have no monetary value, then go die in a ditch like a good citizen.
Except, that we ARE more than an economy, humans are more valuable than just what they provide to the GDP of a nation.
I don't see China leaping over themselves to allow Americans to fully own businesses there, yet we let them do it here. Either China needs to open up, or we need to shut them out, either solution is fine.
Or do you put it somewhere safe for two years, fanning it with a breeze of rage against perceived injustice, in an environment where there are no moderating influences, and feeding it with plenty of tinder-dry fodder, so that when you finally let it loose, it will be well-behaved and extinguish itself?
I think I remember hearing from somewhere it was like 10% of the population.
I've read it is more like 2% of the population... but it probably depends on what you are calling "gay"...
There are the "out there and want you to know it" gays... then there are the "don't talk about, just do it" gays...
I honestly don't give a crap, I don't think Government should be telling people how to live nearly as much as they do... I'm just tired of having it thrown in my face every five seconds.
So you're gay, good for fucking you, have a cookie... I honestly, seriously, don't care...
I find Bernie Sanders interesting to listen to, and I disagree with many of his points, but not all of them...
I also do disagree with some of what Trump says...
We have gone WAY too far in rooting for our own team and anything the other side says is "evil". That's silly...
If we are going to require health insurance to cover everyone, we probably should have single-payer... We also probably do need a min wage increase, perhaps to $10/hr to start with...
That being said, Corporate Tax really does need to come down to 15%, but with it needs to go away a lot of the subsidies and deductions... The death tax also needs to go...
So I see upsides to both points of view, I just wish more people were moderate in the middle, being more interested in solutions for everyone rather than rooting for a team to win and another to lose...
including here in Texas, where the wholesale price of electricity (dynamically auctioned via computer) has sometimes been pushed to zero.
I live in Texas, people love to say this about wind-power without understanding WHY that happens...
No one just "gives away" power for nothing... the price goes to zero (and sometimes BELOW zero) because of the government money attached. You can actually pay people to take wind power off your hands and still make money, thanks to government subsidies.
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This video is a year old...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Give it 10 years, give this robot a gun and armor, then build a million of them...
It won't be funny...
If you don't take care of them, they will come for you with pitchforks and robocop won't be enough to stop them.
1 won't be enough...
1 Million might be...
You mean 24 million Americans have crappy expensive health insurance that isn't affordable because the deductibles will bankrupt them?
This lie is the biggest joke and anyone who repeats it shows their ignorance...
So congratulations, you just showed the world how stupid you really are...
The lesson: ignoring the displaced will backfire. We may have only seen the first wave of rebellion
For now, yes... because the Army is still made up of regular people...
What happens in 30 years when the Army is largely made up of elite officers and a million Terminators who obey orders without question?
You believe you have the vote?
That's funny... Look at the recent US election and the two idiots running for office...
Your choice was what again? Between two rich people who don't give a crap about anyone else but themselves?
What about Congress? A bunch of people who are hated so much, they keep getting reelected over and over?
Funny that...
There is taxation, then there is theft... there is a difference...
A flat tax where everyone pays the same rate with no deductions is "fair"...
Taxing half the people at nearly nothing and the top 5% at huge amounts is immoral...
I make more money than the average person and probably pay a smaller percentage than average, simply because that is how the system is designed...
A "flat tax" would actually be better, but people like you can't get past your own "moral high ground" to see that, so you have the current system because of it...
Robber Barrons, Pinkertons, and other past wealthy leaders lack something that future wealthy leaders will have access to...
Terminators... ignore Skynet and all, just picture an army of a million Terminators that obey without question any order from the elite, and tell me how effective that "bullet in the brain" plan will be?
What happens when the army is made up of Terminators that obey without question?
(ignoring the whole Skynet thing, assume the Terminators obey the wealthy leaders)
What do you think it costs to create a tank of 5 million gallons, 100 meters in the air?
Do you think farmers have that much money?
10,000 whole gallons, huh? Sounds impressive... until you consider that they use pumps that move 2,000 gallons of water a minute...
You'd need a thousand such tanks... the farmers are not idiots waiting for Slashdot to save them...
When your goal is to reduce headcount, you should have to pay for it.
People who say this are morons...
If you make it expensive to fire people or lay them off (like they do in parts of Europe), then people are very reluctant to hire in the first place...
Companies will then do anything they can to avoid hiring anyone extra to start with...
No, you aren't an expert, and yes, a handgun does give me a decent chance.
An AK is not body armor, if he is busy shooting someone else, he isn't shooting me, and don't overestimate the accuracy of an AK, they are pretty bad in general.
Under 50 yards, I'm almost as accurate with my .45 as I am with an AK, and he won't see it coming.
No, of course not, but then I'd shoot the guy first.
But that misses the point. Sometimes the solution is worse than the problem, don't shoot the kid to cure the chicken pox.
Yes, but since I'm not the shooter, the solution is not to take away my AK-47.
If your solution to the guy with the AK-47 is to ban guns, then you are in fact worse than the problem.
But I'm sure you won't see it...
Then it is doing a crappy job, because most people who go to college still can't think when they leave...
And yet, for all that free college, your country is still a third world nation...
No, that isn't an attack, it is the truth, deal with the why, not the person who pointed it out...
You are mistaken and projecting...
I haven't liked Hillary for 20 years, she sucked in the 90s and she still sucks today.
I didn't need Trump to tell me that.
A lot of people voted against Hillary, not for Trump.
"A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society."
What about that statement is wrong? From a simple economic point of view, if you have no monetary value, then go die in a ditch like a good citizen.
Except, that we ARE more than an economy, humans are more valuable than just what they provide to the GDP of a nation.
I don't see China leaping over themselves to allow Americans to fully own businesses there, yet we let them do it here. Either China needs to open up, or we need to shut them out, either solution is fine.
Or do you put it somewhere safe for two years, fanning it with a breeze of rage against perceived injustice, in an environment where there are no moderating influences, and feeding it with plenty of tinder-dry fodder, so that when you finally let it loose, it will be well-behaved and extinguish itself?
True, that point has been overlooked...
So take him out behind the barn and shoot him...
Oh, wait... he is a person...
I think I remember hearing from somewhere it was like 10% of the population.
I've read it is more like 2% of the population... but it probably depends on what you are calling "gay"...
There are the "out there and want you to know it" gays... then there are the "don't talk about, just do it" gays...
I honestly don't give a crap, I don't think Government should be telling people how to live nearly as much as they do... I'm just tired of having it thrown in my face every five seconds.
So you're gay, good for fucking you, have a cookie... I honestly, seriously, don't care...
I find Bernie Sanders interesting to listen to, and I disagree with many of his points, but not all of them...
I also do disagree with some of what Trump says...
We have gone WAY too far in rooting for our own team and anything the other side says is "evil". That's silly...
If we are going to require health insurance to cover everyone, we probably should have single-payer... We also probably do need a min wage increase, perhaps to $10/hr to start with...
That being said, Corporate Tax really does need to come down to 15%, but with it needs to go away a lot of the subsidies and deductions... The death tax also needs to go...
So I see upsides to both points of view, I just wish more people were moderate in the middle, being more interested in solutions for everyone rather than rooting for a team to win and another to lose...
No, there really aren't... You think there are you shout about it, but no, there aren't very many gay people.
Not all of us are idiots...
I voted Trump and yet watched CNN election night. I follow the DNC on Twitter.
If I live in an echo chamber, I'm going to wake up surprised one day.
including here in Texas, where the wholesale price of electricity (dynamically auctioned via computer) has sometimes been pushed to zero.
I live in Texas, people love to say this about wind-power without understanding WHY that happens...
No one just "gives away" power for nothing... the price goes to zero (and sometimes BELOW zero) because of the government money attached. You can actually pay people to take wind power off your hands and still make money, thanks to government subsidies.