Seasons are caused by the relation of the planet to the sun, one hemisphere getting more light than the other when the axis moves. You wouldn't need a moon/satellite to have seasons.
When we stop being a first world country and our wages rival third world countries. The ultimate goal of globalization is not to bring up the standard of living in poor countries, it is to lower the bar for everyone. The sad thing is I am a huge backer of pure capitalism, where the buyers, not the sellers are the driving force behind supply and demand scales. What we are seeing is Socialist Capitalism, where corporations manipulate governments in order to manipulate markets. This will eventually collapse upon itself when people realize that the philosophy of Socialism will not work.
Any empire in history has subjugated the poor of other nations in order to sustain it's own wealth. The US is acting similar in this regard. Unfortunately for you and I, we do not get to reap the benefits alongside the corporations, we are merely discarded in the process. The term globalization does not mean that we will all live easier and everyone will have a job, it means that the empire will no longer have a home base, just as corporations have become a faceless entity to complain about, they are becoming a stateless entity that is no longer subject to the free market rules. These new global corporations may cut a large swath of productivity, but they move from third world country to third world country leaving devastation and ruin in their wake.
Today the beneficial country may be India and Singapore, but as wages there begin to climb, those same companies will pack up and move elsewhere to start the whole process anew. There is no ethics in that, and there is no sense of responsibility in global corporations who continue in such endeavors.
We are too stupid to mind our own business, so we let the government do everything for us. Now that those in power have taken the next logical step (raise our kids, run our lives, make decisions FOR us) everyone is getting upset. Why are you suprised? This is what everyone in America has been pleading for since the 60s. We wanted a government that would take care of us, and we let them do whatever it took, so why are you suprised when the result is that you no longer have control of your own life?
The only way you are going to get anything back is if you MAKE the government get out of the way. It is time to force them to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!
The only means at this point is a Revolution. And just because US troops are heading to the MidEast does not mean there wion't be any opposition, it means that there won't be US troops acting as "Peacekeepers". More likely it will be UN troops, and as everyone knows, the outside world is getting more and more pissed with the US every day so UN troops won't react the same as US troops.
Please note the irony in using the google cache to display a site that has been served a cease and desist from google. Google should just delete your domain from their database or modify your listing so it always goes back to them.
Changing the wording of their logo like that makes it appear that you are trying to capture misspelled traffic for your own benefit. I fail to see how it was in any way a parody aside from the changing of the letters and hawking your links and providing an interface to their engine that can easily be construed as "intentionally confusing" to users.
That's because you have no concept of parody or satire. I have received no trouble from either United Media or Google after I did a parody of the google/dilbert logo week.
Decisions are never made by bureaucracy; and I doubt 500 federal workers were crammed into a meeting between Chevron, Enron and the Taliban. The difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact in this case is that the facts are in plain view, they are just ignored by the major media outlets. You can whisper that Clinton handed technology over to North Korea (which is true) and the news will be the lead story, but try yelling about Afghanistan president Karzai's ties to UNOCAL and to the Bush oil team and you will only find the facts in independent media.
The game is not about just lying, it's about lying and denouncing the truth as conspiracy, leftist propoganda and an agenda of the peaceniks.
Big media is nothing more than a weapon of mass distrAction.
What about his Unified Field Theory? IMO that's where the meat is, e=mc^2 is just the sizzle to help explain it to the dumber scientists.
If all energy comes from a single origin, then it would make sense that they have the same speed (on or off, 1 or 0). Quite an interesting theory, i suspect that the final equation will have a third denominator though.
His description is horribly flawed... A true flat tax will never touch personal income. It taxes goods and services at time of sale, a true flat tax.
Here's the REAL example of a flat tax at work (15%):
Joe ($20,000): Joe takes home all $20K, but he rents his home for $100 a month, his service tax would be $15/mo paid to his landlord. Joe has a cellphone and his bill is $40 a month, his service tax would be $6/mo.
Starting to get the idea? The idea of the deduction goes away, after all you do not pay taxes based on how long you have had something. If your company bought a copier at $10K and resold it for $2K in five years, it is obviously not a good investment item.
At the higher end of the scale, this tax is just as fair as at the lowest common denominator... because wealthy people tend to spend money on high ticket items and services (ditto for business expenses). What is being taxed is not the income, but the service or good AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSACTION.
Naturally this type of tax creates more year-round paperwork for IRS people because transactions occur all the time. It is also treated with disdain because anyone can get around it simply by not paying the tax or re-introducing bartering to our economic system. That would not be healthy for the IRS and government services (even though centuries of history proclaim that is is perfectly acceptable for economics).
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What good is an unguided rocket anyways? That is so 1981 Hezbollah.
Everyone knows all the terrorists these days are using C4 strapped to RF model airplanes. Try shooting that down with a Patriot missile.
When did all the slashdot folks start reading fark?
Seasons are caused by the relation of the planet to the sun, one hemisphere getting more light than the other when the axis moves. You wouldn't need a moon/satellite to have seasons.
Right, so could somebody explain what the article is trying to say?
Share all your bandwidth and hope that everyone is as altruistic as you. What a moron.
Opera is smarter than that, banners start to show up after 15 days or so. Not really annoying but who wants banner clutter?
You can get a student license for $20, it's worth it for a browser that's so functional (and pretty too).
Who do you think made the most money when a dotcom went IPO? Surely it couldn't be the same people who put up the dotcom money!
Haha, that's probably more like it.
The true purpose is to allow the rich to gamble under the guise of investing.
When the rich invest in the stock market, it's never a gamble.
It's the new depression, instead of all the farmers moving to California for jobs picking fruit, you have programmers moving there to code.
When we stop being a first world country and our wages rival third world countries. The ultimate goal of globalization is not to bring up the standard of living in poor countries, it is to lower the bar for everyone. The sad thing is I am a huge backer of pure capitalism, where the buyers, not the sellers are the driving force behind supply and demand scales. What we are seeing is Socialist Capitalism, where corporations manipulate governments in order to manipulate markets. This will eventually collapse upon itself when people realize that the philosophy of Socialism will not work.
Any empire in history has subjugated the poor of other nations in order to sustain it's own wealth. The US is acting similar in this regard. Unfortunately for you and I, we do not get to reap the benefits alongside the corporations, we are merely discarded in the process. The term globalization does not mean that we will all live easier and everyone will have a job, it means that the empire will no longer have a home base, just as corporations have become a faceless entity to complain about, they are becoming a stateless entity that is no longer subject to the free market rules. These new global corporations may cut a large swath of productivity, but they move from third world country to third world country leaving devastation and ruin in their wake.
Today the beneficial country may be India and Singapore, but as wages there begin to climb, those same companies will pack up and move elsewhere to start the whole process anew. There is no ethics in that, and there is no sense of responsibility in global corporations who continue in such endeavors.
We are too stupid to mind our own business, so we let the government do everything for us. Now that those in power have taken the next logical step (raise our kids, run our lives, make decisions FOR us) everyone is getting upset. Why are you suprised? This is what everyone in America has been pleading for since the 60s. We wanted a government that would take care of us, and we let them do whatever it took, so why are you suprised when the result is that you no longer have control of your own life?
The only way you are going to get anything back is if you MAKE the government get out of the way. It is time to force them to GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!
The only means at this point is a Revolution. And just because US troops are heading to the MidEast does not mean there wion't be any opposition, it means that there won't be US troops acting as "Peacekeepers". More likely it will be UN troops, and as everyone knows, the outside world is getting more and more pissed with the US every day so UN troops won't react the same as US troops.
Amen to that. Let parents govern their own children instead of tying their hands on so much stupid bullshit.
The world will always need ditch diggers, or you could join the military and shoot brown people for fun and profit.
Please note the irony in using the google cache to display a site that has been served a cease and desist from google. Google should just delete your domain from their database or modify your listing so it always goes back to them.
Changing the wording of their logo like that makes it appear that you are trying to capture misspelled traffic for your own benefit. I fail to see how it was in any way a parody aside from the changing of the letters and hawking your links and providing an interface to their engine that can easily be construed as "intentionally confusing" to users.
That's because you have no concept of parody or satire. I have received no trouble from either United Media or Google after I did a parody of the google/dilbert logo week.
Is it time to start callng it Microsoft bob.NET?
If we rely on the government to regulate this field, we might as well load up on useless certifications like low-voltage and mechanical licenses.
Anyone who thinks that the government has a better solution than the free market needs to have their head examined.
Saddam is hiding them with his Weapons of Mass Destruction. Invade Now!!!
Here's another conspiracy or whatever you want to call it dealing with the Afghan-big-Oil connection.
Decisions are never made by bureaucracy; and I doubt 500 federal workers were crammed into a meeting between Chevron, Enron and the Taliban. The difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact in this case is that the facts are in plain view, they are just ignored by the major media outlets. You can whisper that Clinton handed technology over to North Korea (which is true) and the news will be the lead story, but try yelling about Afghanistan president Karzai's ties to UNOCAL and to the Bush oil team and you will only find the facts in independent media.
The game is not about just lying, it's about lying and denouncing the truth as conspiracy, leftist propoganda and an agenda of the peaceniks.
Big media is nothing more than a weapon of mass distrAction.
Inform yourself: The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection
What about his Unified Field Theory? IMO that's where the meat is, e=mc^2 is just the sizzle to help explain it to the dumber scientists.
If all energy comes from a single origin, then it would make sense that they have the same speed (on or off, 1 or 0). Quite an interesting theory, i suspect that the final equation will have a third denominator though.
His description is horribly flawed... A true flat tax will never touch personal income. It taxes goods and services at time of sale, a true flat tax.
Here's the REAL example of a flat tax at work (15%):
Joe ($20,000): Joe takes home all $20K, but he rents his home for $100 a month, his service tax would be $15/mo paid to his landlord. Joe has a cellphone and his bill is $40 a month, his service tax would be $6/mo.
Starting to get the idea? The idea of the deduction goes away, after all you do not pay taxes based on how long you have had something. If your company bought a copier at $10K and resold it for $2K in five years, it is obviously not a good investment item.
At the higher end of the scale, this tax is just as fair as at the lowest common denominator... because wealthy people tend to spend money on high ticket items and services (ditto for business expenses). What is being taxed is not the income, but the service or good AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSACTION.
Naturally this type of tax creates more year-round paperwork for IRS people because transactions occur all the time. It is also treated with disdain because anyone can get around it simply by not paying the tax or re-introducing bartering to our economic system. That would not be healthy for the IRS and government services (even though centuries of history proclaim that is is perfectly acceptable for economics).
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