No, all humans have the same inalienable rights - not created by the government. True that only some of us have governments that we create to protect those rights. But in the US we have one that we created to protect the right to privacy. The Fourth Amendment says the government must protect "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures", AKA privacy. Americans don't respect governments that don't protect people's rights. At least not patriotic Americans.
No you don't. You Teabaggers always think you speak for all of us, then say something crazy and irresponsible that only a tiny but "exciting" fringe would say.
So? Sony isn't a monopoly. The question isn't which has been around longer. The question is which has a bigger effect on IT. Microsoft's monopoly undeniably has a bigger effect on IT than does Sony's business practices.
The thing about Microsoft's monopoly is that it's been around so long, and its backroom influence is so subtly orchestrated (as proven in the monopoly court) that you just don't know what life in IT would be like without the monopoly in action. Microsoft is a lot more than just the XBox.
Does this jailbreak HW let programmers access the RSX videochip that the PS3 hypervisor kept locked out from Linux apps? If only for the extra 256MB (V)RAM that lets real sized apps run under Linux, but especially to get to the 1.8TFLOPS RSX, the real powerhouse of the platform. Otherwise all the graphics/video has to be rendered directly by the Cell CPU. Since there isn't a video driver that uses the Cell's SPUs, all that has to be done by the 3.2GHz PPC at the core of the Cell, which is also handling all the other app processing. Offloading graphics to the RSX graphics chip would finally unleash this beast.
Write PS3 games without paying $100K to Sony for their "development kit". Run all your Linux desktop and dev stuff. Much more likely that developers will code for the SPUs, and finally tap the potential of that "game supercomputer".
OTOH, if the jailbreak is only for pirating PS3 games, then Sony has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot by locking legit Linux developers out of the platform. And in that case, I've got two original fat PS3s for sale.
I'd like to see GMail support a Reply-Request header that can be set by the sender and displayed to the recipient. That way when I send a question to someone I can sort my outstanding messages not yet replied to, and send a followup. An automatic timeout that prompts me with a composed followup request would be good. Recipients could see which requests are outstanding in their inbox. When my actual request is satisfied I could mark the thread as completed. The message IDs of the messages could link them all together.
Email features like that one are hard to get started on one's own, a chicken/egg problem without the ability to upgrade a lot of other people's email systems. Microsoft doesn't innovate protocol features. So I'd like to see GMail do so, especially if Google is pursuing these kinds of productivity features.
Abroad, Cocaine is tolerated and seen as a great resource in South America yet America is killing civilians to thwart a domestic problem??????
America's Drug War is a criminal enterprise that only makes any drug problems worse. But that's not because cocaine is "a great resource" to an except drug gangs and a very few doctors/researchers. Cocaine is "tolerated" in countries whose part of the global Drug War scam is to produce drugs, so their bigshot drug ganglords protect the local circulation.
Cocaine is toxic, highly addictive, and causes all kinds of major health problems. Not just damaging brain tissue, livers, kidneys, hearts, vascular systems and other major organs on a large scale, but causing acute psychosis both in the short term and chronically.
Cocaine abuse is a major public health problem, even if the Drug War response makes the problems worse instead of fixing them. Sure, some people could use cocaine a little without abusing it, but very few do. Cocaine addiction reduces people to hurting friends, family an strangers alike, not just through violence and theft to support the high prices, but in abberant behavior directly caused by the drug. Cocaine is worse than alcohol, which is itself a dangerous toxin that causes a lot more harm that we should tolerate.
None of this justifies the Drug War. People with drug problems need medical help, usually psychological or social therapy to fix the underlying problem leading them to abuse the drugs. But that doesn't mean a dangerous drug like cocaine should be merely "tolerated" as a dangerous resource. It should be available only to adults from licensed dealers, and prohibited to anyone in a central registry checked at purchase time and generated by doctors or judges. Anyone attempting a second time to buy after being rejected once for being blacklisted should be required to attend counseling to determine why they're backsliding.
Cocaine and other addictive drugs that make people aggressive must be controlled by the state. Because its effects damage or destroy the user's natural ability to self control. Some people can handle it, but the system has to deal with those who can't. A rational system like what I describe would protect those of us who can deal with it, but also protect us from those who can't.
I'm more interested in quantum computing to generate encryption keys that can't be broken by other quantum computing. Is there even a theoretical model for that?
A solar/Lunar platform can be manufactured from mostly Lunar materials, rather than launching the materials, making it the cheapest power at the largest scale. But deep/hot geothermal could already replace all America's baseload energy generation for cheaper than any terrestrial technology.
As for StratoSolar, it's quite interesting. I've had plans for a system like that for about 10 years. But no light pipe materials gives good net efficiency over 29Km, and doesn't cost only $3750 per Km. There's no way for the giant concentrator prong to orient properly to the Sun in stratospheric winds. The insurance exposure is a lot more than $400K-$16M for a 20KM whip hanging over the land, with a huge hydrogen balloon floating around like a ginormous Hindenburg. I don't know anyplace that would grant a building permit for it. It's "going public" in a month, even though it hasn't even raised the $50M claimed necessary for a pilot plant - an IPO of a PowerPoint.
The idea is great. StratoSolar's application of it has deep flaws. Its economics are laughable. This isn't 1998, where even $50M can be raised in an IPO for a science fiction PowerPoint. It's a "pie (chart) in the sky" project I'd like to see a concentrating solar balloon infrastructure someday. I hope that StratoSolar doesn't burn the public into always treating the approach as a mockery.
In the meantime, deep/hot geothermal for power generation (and backyard geothermal heat sinks for efficiency) could already revolutionize the world's energy/pollution infrastructure - and the US economy with it. It's already being implemented. I hope it saves us enough energy and pollution that we can more easily afford to launch site assemblers for solar/Lunar generation sometime soon.
Its' true that some dictators are not fascists. Castro is not and was not a fascist, nor were any number of other Communist dictators, nor were most dictators before the Industrial Age, including the dictators of Rome.
But the argument that Pinochet was not a fascist says that he was a non-fascist in a category with non-fascists like Hitler. Therefore, apart from purely academic mental masturbation, Pinochet was a fascist.
It's not an odd argument. All that output from the US and China is not consumed by the US and China - it's consumed by the rest of the world, too. The world has outsourced its manufacturing and other polluting industries to the US and China. At least the US does it with little pollution, while China does it with a lot of pollution. But the pollution is not produced "per capita". It's produced per output. As I explained, most Chinese population has little to do with the output or pollution counted in the "per capita" stats, any more than, say, people in Taiwan have to do with China's stats. Per capita is a scam to hide the terrible rate of pollution in big developing countries like India and China (and Indonesia and Russia), and to discount the decent pollution rate in the US.
Yes, in order to make that 40% above poverty line pension payout, people who don't need the pension don't get as much, and people who would starve and freeze without it get more. Meanwhile, the portion of the salary from which Social Security is deducted is capped at a relatively low amount, so really rich people who don't really need it still get it, but don't pay as much as those who do. Yes, there's some "wealth redistribution", so people don't starve and freeze to death when they're old the way they used to.
As for the borrowing from and repayment to Social Security, it's "co-mingled" is a way that's meaningless, except that it keeps a lot of America's debt dependent on Americans rather than foreigners. The notion that the money is sitting somewhere waiting for the day it is needed might be ridiculous, but it's your strawman; nobody else said so. The 50% total interest over 30-40 years is an extremely low interest, over a long time, reflecting the extremely low risk - high quality Treasuries. Exactly how pension funds should be invested. Unlike how you Teabaggers would have put it all into Wall Street starting on Bush's watch, and lost it. The Social Security fund pays for itself, and will continue to do so until at least 2037. If we just lifted the cap on the highest income from which Social Security is collected, it would continue to pay for itself. Or any of a number of other tweaks that are entirely possible, and far enough into the future that they'll have plenty of time to work.
But for some bizarre reason, you Teabaggers are hellbent on not getting back the Social Security money you've already invested. You're hellbent on starving and freezing grandma to death - after you spent a year terrorizing her with lies about healthcare reform "death commissions". It's easy to tell you're the people who sent America into a tailspin while you had power over our government and economy. But we pulled out of your death spiral, and we're not going back.
I don't know why you're supposed to disagree with me:).
I think Kennedy was killed by Elvis in jealousy over Marilyn Monroe. Even though everyone knows the joint operations of the CIA/mafia killed him for getting in the way of their joint crime wave in guns, drugs and general mayhem that the Republican Party was busy embracing in Nixon/Bush/Reagan.
Looks like the Teabagger zombie army is back from Beckistan, long enough to trollmod my post explaining with citations that Alveda King is a travesty who Martin Luther King would have abhorred for lying in his name.
I'm fascinated by your offer to both stop posting Teabagger propaganda and to deliver more propaganda about Teabagger conspiracy theories targeting "liberals" (anyone more liberal than some arbitrarily selected Teabagger) who make Teabaggers look racist. When it's Teabaggers like Mark Williams, Tea Party Express spokesman and Conservative Party USA chief who are undeniably racists. Now you'll tell me that "the" Tea Party kicked out Williams after his racism went beyond any excuses, but that's just damage control.
But I'm even more fascinated by
No, we want all government programs including Medicare audited for constitutionality and for waste and cut back as necessary. I personally want Medicare completely eliminated, as well as the Medicaid, Social Security and all Unemployment Benefits. If we want to help our fellow citizens (and I do) we should do it voluntarily through charity. We have no right to do it with other people's money.
Social Security is not "other people's money". Workers pay into Social Security our whole lives, which the Federal government borrows from to pay for the $TRILLION wars you Teabaggers love instead of, say, better and more universal education, more effective transit infrastructure, or other investments in our people. Social Security gets interest on those extremely safe Treasury bond investments, paying a minimum pension of about $14,000 annually per worker, substantially above the $11,000 poverty line. A government pension that people pay into themselves, rather than the private corporate pensions that routinely disappear, especially when you Republicans are running the economy. Medicare is also funded by its recipients, mostly, with subsidies earned on the basis of the common good, like investing in preventive care rather than much more expensive (in care and lost productivity) responsive care. Government pensions and healthcare make our labor force more competitive with global labor, and easier for entrepreneurs to start and run companies without being arbitrarily forced into the healthcare or retirement business. Not to mention that most Americans don't want the country's grandmas living off catfood and freezing to death, which is exactly what used to happen before we got civilized with these social programmes. Yet you Teabaggers turned out to vote for the Republicans who almost privatized Social Security, right before it would have lost 40% or more of its savings in the stock market crash you shephered in.
Yes, taxes are going up. You Republicans fight tooth and nail to stop the Walmart family from paying the Estate Tax, and any other taxes, while borrowing at something like 50% total interest $TRILLIONS for wars, including totally unnecessary ones, for bank bailouts, for oilco/pharmaco/agrico/telco/whateverco subsidies until the system crashes expensively. All that debt and rotten infrastructure is even more expensive to pay off, but you still refuse to pay the taxes.
But this is all just a load of details, all of which are against you Teabagger Republicans, but against which your corporate PR organizers have ginned up any number of shallow rationalizations. The simple fact is that you Republicans insisted on the government that caused these problems, primarily the torture, domestic spying, deregulated banks, insane and catastrophic wars, but never blinked at the costs - either monetary or to our democracy - until a Black Democrat showed up to start shoveling us out. Then you strutted around in public wearing guns, talking about your love of a country you'd long ago sold out. You're clamoring for another chance at the power you've used to do nothing but ruin the country, and you've learned nothing from it except that you could get the power back again.
Intel's Atom chips are low power. They're not good for putting into smartphones?
Are there some Infineon chips now used for only smartphones that will show up in netbooks? Do they run Linux? Do they run x86 instructions? And if not, will Intel sustain a product line that splits its main CPU culture away from x86?
Correct. Which is why we have so many international organizations and alliances. The UN itself is the forum for getting governments to coordinate international law. These laws are typically enforced by individual countries on each other by enforcing import and export taxes penalizing noncompliance. The US imports and exports so much among so many countries that our taxing those imports/exports can be more expensive than complying with the law.
The "Contract" you gave is just propaganda. Like the Newt Gingrich "Contract With America" that got Republicans elected on tax promises a decade and a half ago, but was ignored once the propaganda got them into office.
The point of the Tea Party (it's not a party) is for Republicans to call yourselves something else, because the Republicans you put and kept in office crashed the country. You never call for cutting the military/intelligence budget down from the $TRILLION+ to something actually justifiable like $200B. You want to get government out of healthcare, but hands off your Medicare. You talk about entitlement as if people aren't entitled to things like Social Security they paid into and which don't add a penny to the deficit. You never complained while you were voting for Bush/Cheney twice, but the moment a Democrat is elected you answer the call of your corporate funders and organizers like Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to "take back" your country - that you and your fellow Republicans brought to ruin. As for the Constitution, you want to gut the 14th Amendment, ignore the 4th Amendment, add a homophobia amendment... and march with racists who really just prefer the original intent of the Constitution that protects slavery.
As for namecalling, you walk around waving and wearing teabags. You're Teabaggers.
King increased his message's scope beyond just Black people to include all poor people (as it always had, though Black people had always been his focus, for obvious rhetorical and practical reasons). By 1968, he was organizing far beyond just Black people and others sympathetic to them. His movement was snowballing, including more and more White people and spawning other movements (like "Brown Power" Latinos and the American Indian Movement) that themselves were naturally social justice movements more than racial ones. The power of King's message was that it did actually move past racism by transcending race. Because race is just a tool of class, which is a tool of political economy. America's political economy has been distorted since perhaps the beginning, born in war, but increasingly so since the Founders themselves died, funding a standing army constantly deployed first to conquer the US continent, then to keep it, and immediately to protect access by the US and its global trade/finance partners to cheap resources and labor. King raised consciousness across the board about all that, from general truth telling to specifically railing against the Vietnam War.
Which is why they killed him in 1968. Whether James Earl Ray was just the first murderer among a seething backlash of Establishment White people to succeed, or whether Ray was either organized by mafia/CIA or just allowed to succeed even though King should have been protected by a legitimate government, it was King's increasing threat to the military industrial complex that caused people from FBI's Hoover to Ray to say he was "Communist", and to want him dead. And dead he was.
Though as a martyr he only returned more powerful than they could possibly imagine. Yet not powerful enough, yet, to lead us truly out of the injustice that underlies all our problems.
Yes. The Teabaggers out in the streets and on TV will never pay any taxes if they can avoid them. They oppose taxes one by one, because they're organized and funded by corporate orgs each with their own agenda of taxes to get out of. But there's no end to the list. They're "taxed enough already", want to "take their country back", even though they're taxed less than when the country was run by the people they voted into power through the last two generations.
Libertarians always seem like they're the mayor of Sim City. In the real world, we need government, which costs money, which comes from taxes, which Teabaggers refuse to pay.
I'll just pick the most obvious fallacy in your bag of bad logic:
50 years of anti-tech green/ 25% unemployment rate.
Even considering just the past 50 years shows us a global civilization that has lately, occasionally and superficially had any "green" component. It has been overwhelmingly industrialized, polluting, and unsustainable. All underwritten by a fraudulent global finance system. All of which has collapsed several times: environmentally only locally, though the global collapse is now on us as we change the climate; economically locally all the time and periodically globally, today featuring a 25% unemployment rate. You are blaming the doctor called to the deathbed for the occupational hazard disease that's been killing the person. Like blaming a smoker's cancer on their family trying to get them to stop.
The employment bottom-outs is part of what's unsustainable about the anti-green industry of the past 50 years (and worse before that, but not in as great a scale). The green changes now coming in the undeniable (though denied, by people like you) face of disasters are mostly tech-centric. We'll probably get out of the crisis after a while. But some people, like you, won't have learned anything from the greatest lessons taught humanity in the modern age.
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No, all humans have the same inalienable rights - not created by the government. True that only some of us have governments that we create to protect those rights. But in the US we have one that we created to protect the right to privacy. The Fourth Amendment says the government must protect "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures", AKA privacy. Americans don't respect governments that don't protect people's rights. At least not patriotic Americans.
No you don't. You Teabaggers always think you speak for all of us, then say something crazy and irresponsible that only a tiny but "exciting" fringe would say.
So? Sony isn't a monopoly. The question isn't which has been around longer. The question is which has a bigger effect on IT. Microsoft's monopoly undeniably has a bigger effect on IT than does Sony's business practices.
Do the fingerprint scanners embedded into some phones and notebooks actually work well to secure them?
The thing about Microsoft's monopoly is that it's been around so long, and its backroom influence is so subtly orchestrated (as proven in the monopoly court) that you just don't know what life in IT would be like without the monopoly in action. Microsoft is a lot more than just the XBox.
Does this jailbreak HW let programmers access the RSX videochip that the PS3 hypervisor kept locked out from Linux apps? If only for the extra 256MB (V)RAM that lets real sized apps run under Linux, but especially to get to the 1.8TFLOPS RSX, the real powerhouse of the platform. Otherwise all the graphics/video has to be rendered directly by the Cell CPU. Since there isn't a video driver that uses the Cell's SPUs, all that has to be done by the 3.2GHz PPC at the core of the Cell, which is also handling all the other app processing. Offloading graphics to the RSX graphics chip would finally unleash this beast.
Write PS3 games without paying $100K to Sony for their "development kit". Run all your Linux desktop and dev stuff. Much more likely that developers will code for the SPUs, and finally tap the potential of that "game supercomputer".
OTOH, if the jailbreak is only for pirating PS3 games, then Sony has done nothing but shoot itself in the foot by locking legit Linux developers out of the platform. And in that case, I've got two original fat PS3s for sale.
I'd like to see GMail support a Reply-Request header that can be set by the sender and displayed to the recipient. That way when I send a question to someone I can sort my outstanding messages not yet replied to, and send a followup. An automatic timeout that prompts me with a composed followup request would be good. Recipients could see which requests are outstanding in their inbox. When my actual request is satisfied I could mark the thread as completed. The message IDs of the messages could link them all together.
Email features like that one are hard to get started on one's own, a chicken/egg problem without the ability to upgrade a lot of other people's email systems. Microsoft doesn't innovate protocol features. So I'd like to see GMail do so, especially if Google is pursuing these kinds of productivity features.
Fascists always have time to trollmod the truth about fascism.
They don't have eyeballs. They're corporations. That's the point.
America's Drug War is a criminal enterprise that only makes any drug problems worse. But that's not because cocaine is "a great resource" to an except drug gangs and a very few doctors/researchers. Cocaine is "tolerated" in countries whose part of the global Drug War scam is to produce drugs, so their bigshot drug ganglords protect the local circulation.
Cocaine is toxic, highly addictive, and causes all kinds of major health problems. Not just damaging brain tissue, livers, kidneys, hearts, vascular systems and other major organs on a large scale, but causing acute psychosis both in the short term and chronically.
Cocaine abuse is a major public health problem, even if the Drug War response makes the problems worse instead of fixing them. Sure, some people could use cocaine a little without abusing it, but very few do. Cocaine addiction reduces people to hurting friends, family an strangers alike, not just through violence and theft to support the high prices, but in abberant behavior directly caused by the drug. Cocaine is worse than alcohol, which is itself a dangerous toxin that causes a lot more harm that we should tolerate.
None of this justifies the Drug War. People with drug problems need medical help, usually psychological or social therapy to fix the underlying problem leading them to abuse the drugs. But that doesn't mean a dangerous drug like cocaine should be merely "tolerated" as a dangerous resource. It should be available only to adults from licensed dealers, and prohibited to anyone in a central registry checked at purchase time and generated by doctors or judges. Anyone attempting a second time to buy after being rejected once for being blacklisted should be required to attend counseling to determine why they're backsliding.
Cocaine and other addictive drugs that make people aggressive must be controlled by the state. Because its effects damage or destroy the user's natural ability to self control. Some people can handle it, but the system has to deal with those who can't. A rational system like what I describe would protect those of us who can deal with it, but also protect us from those who can't.
I'm more interested in quantum computing to generate encryption keys that can't be broken by other quantum computing. Is there even a theoretical model for that?
A solar/Lunar platform can be manufactured from mostly Lunar materials, rather than launching the materials, making it the cheapest power at the largest scale. But deep/hot geothermal could already replace all America's baseload energy generation for cheaper than any terrestrial technology.
As for StratoSolar, it's quite interesting. I've had plans for a system like that for about 10 years. But no light pipe materials gives good net efficiency over 29Km, and doesn't cost only $3750 per Km. There's no way for the giant concentrator prong to orient properly to the Sun in stratospheric winds. The insurance exposure is a lot more than $400K-$16M for a 20KM whip hanging over the land, with a huge hydrogen balloon floating around like a ginormous Hindenburg. I don't know anyplace that would grant a building permit for it. It's "going public" in a month, even though it hasn't even raised the $50M claimed necessary for a pilot plant - an IPO of a PowerPoint.
The idea is great. StratoSolar's application of it has deep flaws. Its economics are laughable. This isn't 1998, where even $50M can be raised in an IPO for a science fiction PowerPoint. It's a "pie (chart) in the sky" project I'd like to see a concentrating solar balloon infrastructure someday. I hope that StratoSolar doesn't burn the public into always treating the approach as a mockery.
In the meantime, deep/hot geothermal for power generation (and backyard geothermal heat sinks for efficiency) could already revolutionize the world's energy/pollution infrastructure - and the US economy with it. It's already being implemented. I hope it saves us enough energy and pollution that we can more easily afford to launch site assemblers for solar/Lunar generation sometime soon.
Its' true that some dictators are not fascists. Castro is not and was not a fascist, nor were any number of other Communist dictators, nor were most dictators before the Industrial Age, including the dictators of Rome.
But the argument that Pinochet was not a fascist says that he was a non-fascist in a category with non-fascists like Hitler. Therefore, apart from purely academic mental masturbation, Pinochet was a fascist.
It's not an odd argument. All that output from the US and China is not consumed by the US and China - it's consumed by the rest of the world, too. The world has outsourced its manufacturing and other polluting industries to the US and China. At least the US does it with little pollution, while China does it with a lot of pollution. But the pollution is not produced "per capita". It's produced per output. As I explained, most Chinese population has little to do with the output or pollution counted in the "per capita" stats, any more than, say, people in Taiwan have to do with China's stats. Per capita is a scam to hide the terrible rate of pollution in big developing countries like India and China (and Indonesia and Russia), and to discount the decent pollution rate in the US.
At least Chile has gotten over fascism. Elsewhere, we're still working on it.
Yes, in order to make that 40% above poverty line pension payout, people who don't need the pension don't get as much, and people who would starve and freeze without it get more. Meanwhile, the portion of the salary from which Social Security is deducted is capped at a relatively low amount, so really rich people who don't really need it still get it, but don't pay as much as those who do. Yes, there's some "wealth redistribution", so people don't starve and freeze to death when they're old the way they used to.
As for the borrowing from and repayment to Social Security, it's "co-mingled" is a way that's meaningless, except that it keeps a lot of America's debt dependent on Americans rather than foreigners. The notion that the money is sitting somewhere waiting for the day it is needed might be ridiculous, but it's your strawman; nobody else said so. The 50% total interest over 30-40 years is an extremely low interest, over a long time, reflecting the extremely low risk - high quality Treasuries. Exactly how pension funds should be invested. Unlike how you Teabaggers would have put it all into Wall Street starting on Bush's watch, and lost it. The Social Security fund pays for itself, and will continue to do so until at least 2037. If we just lifted the cap on the highest income from which Social Security is collected, it would continue to pay for itself. Or any of a number of other tweaks that are entirely possible, and far enough into the future that they'll have plenty of time to work.
But for some bizarre reason, you Teabaggers are hellbent on not getting back the Social Security money you've already invested. You're hellbent on starving and freezing grandma to death - after you spent a year terrorizing her with lies about healthcare reform "death commissions". It's easy to tell you're the people who sent America into a tailspin while you had power over our government and economy. But we pulled out of your death spiral, and we're not going back.
I don't know why you're supposed to disagree with me :).
I think Kennedy was killed by Elvis in jealousy over Marilyn Monroe. Even though everyone knows the joint operations of the CIA/mafia killed him for getting in the way of their joint crime wave in guns, drugs and general mayhem that the Republican Party was busy embracing in Nixon/Bush/Reagan.
Looks like the Teabagger zombie army is back from Beckistan, long enough to trollmod my post explaining with citations that Alveda King is a travesty who Martin Luther King would have abhorred for lying in his name.
I'm fascinated by your offer to both stop posting Teabagger propaganda and to deliver more propaganda about Teabagger conspiracy theories targeting "liberals" (anyone more liberal than some arbitrarily selected Teabagger) who make Teabaggers look racist. When it's Teabaggers like Mark Williams, Tea Party Express spokesman and Conservative Party USA chief who are undeniably racists. Now you'll tell me that "the" Tea Party kicked out Williams after his racism went beyond any excuses, but that's just damage control.
But I'm even more fascinated by
Social Security is not "other people's money". Workers pay into Social Security our whole lives, which the Federal government borrows from to pay for the $TRILLION wars you Teabaggers love instead of, say, better and more universal education, more effective transit infrastructure, or other investments in our people. Social Security gets interest on those extremely safe Treasury bond investments, paying a minimum pension of about $14,000 annually per worker, substantially above the $11,000 poverty line. A government pension that people pay into themselves, rather than the private corporate pensions that routinely disappear, especially when you Republicans are running the economy. Medicare is also funded by its recipients, mostly, with subsidies earned on the basis of the common good, like investing in preventive care rather than much more expensive (in care and lost productivity) responsive care. Government pensions and healthcare make our labor force more competitive with global labor, and easier for entrepreneurs to start and run companies without being arbitrarily forced into the healthcare or retirement business. Not to mention that most Americans don't want the country's grandmas living off catfood and freezing to death, which is exactly what used to happen before we got civilized with these social programmes. Yet you Teabaggers turned out to vote for the Republicans who almost privatized Social Security, right before it would have lost 40% or more of its savings in the stock market crash you shephered in.
Yes, taxes are going up. You Republicans fight tooth and nail to stop the Walmart family from paying the Estate Tax, and any other taxes, while borrowing at something like 50% total interest $TRILLIONS for wars, including totally unnecessary ones, for bank bailouts, for oilco/pharmaco/agrico/telco/whateverco subsidies until the system crashes expensively. All that debt and rotten infrastructure is even more expensive to pay off, but you still refuse to pay the taxes.
But this is all just a load of details, all of which are against you Teabagger Republicans, but against which your corporate PR organizers have ginned up any number of shallow rationalizations. The simple fact is that you Republicans insisted on the government that caused these problems, primarily the torture, domestic spying, deregulated banks, insane and catastrophic wars, but never blinked at the costs - either monetary or to our democracy - until a Black Democrat showed up to start shoveling us out. Then you strutted around in public wearing guns, talking about your love of a country you'd long ago sold out. You're clamoring for another chance at the power you've used to do nothing but ruin the country, and you've learned nothing from it except that you could get the power back again.
Intel's Atom chips are low power. They're not good for putting into smartphones?
Are there some Infineon chips now used for only smartphones that will show up in netbooks? Do they run Linux? Do they run x86 instructions? And if not, will Intel sustain a product line that splits its main CPU culture away from x86?
Correct. Which is why we have so many international organizations and alliances. The UN itself is the forum for getting governments to coordinate international law. These laws are typically enforced by individual countries on each other by enforcing import and export taxes penalizing noncompliance. The US imports and exports so much among so many countries that our taxing those imports/exports can be more expensive than complying with the law.
The "Contract" you gave is just propaganda. Like the Newt Gingrich "Contract With America" that got Republicans elected on tax promises a decade and a half ago, but was ignored once the propaganda got them into office.
The point of the Tea Party (it's not a party) is for Republicans to call yourselves something else, because the Republicans you put and kept in office crashed the country. You never call for cutting the military/intelligence budget down from the $TRILLION+ to something actually justifiable like $200B. You want to get government out of healthcare, but hands off your Medicare. You talk about entitlement as if people aren't entitled to things like Social Security they paid into and which don't add a penny to the deficit. You never complained while you were voting for Bush/Cheney twice, but the moment a Democrat is elected you answer the call of your corporate funders and organizers like Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to "take back" your country - that you and your fellow Republicans brought to ruin. As for the Constitution, you want to gut the 14th Amendment, ignore the 4th Amendment, add a homophobia amendment... and march with racists who really just prefer the original intent of the Constitution that protects slavery.
As for namecalling, you walk around waving and wearing teabags. You're Teabaggers.
King increased his message's scope beyond just Black people to include all poor people (as it always had, though Black people had always been his focus, for obvious rhetorical and practical reasons). By 1968, he was organizing far beyond just Black people and others sympathetic to them. His movement was snowballing, including more and more White people and spawning other movements (like "Brown Power" Latinos and the American Indian Movement) that themselves were naturally social justice movements more than racial ones. The power of King's message was that it did actually move past racism by transcending race. Because race is just a tool of class, which is a tool of political economy. America's political economy has been distorted since perhaps the beginning, born in war, but increasingly so since the Founders themselves died, funding a standing army constantly deployed first to conquer the US continent, then to keep it, and immediately to protect access by the US and its global trade/finance partners to cheap resources and labor. King raised consciousness across the board about all that, from general truth telling to specifically railing against the Vietnam War.
Which is why they killed him in 1968. Whether James Earl Ray was just the first murderer among a seething backlash of Establishment White people to succeed, or whether Ray was either organized by mafia/CIA or just allowed to succeed even though King should have been protected by a legitimate government, it was King's increasing threat to the military industrial complex that caused people from FBI's Hoover to Ray to say he was "Communist", and to want him dead. And dead he was.
Though as a martyr he only returned more powerful than they could possibly imagine. Yet not powerful enough, yet, to lead us truly out of the injustice that underlies all our problems.
Yes. The Teabaggers out in the streets and on TV will never pay any taxes if they can avoid them. They oppose taxes one by one, because they're organized and funded by corporate orgs each with their own agenda of taxes to get out of. But there's no end to the list. They're "taxed enough already", want to "take their country back", even though they're taxed less than when the country was run by the people they voted into power through the last two generations.
Libertarians always seem like they're the mayor of Sim City. In the real world, we need government, which costs money, which comes from taxes, which Teabaggers refuse to pay.
I'll just pick the most obvious fallacy in your bag of bad logic:
Even considering just the past 50 years shows us a global civilization that has lately, occasionally and superficially had any "green" component. It has been overwhelmingly industrialized, polluting, and unsustainable. All underwritten by a fraudulent global finance system. All of which has collapsed several times: environmentally only locally, though the global collapse is now on us as we change the climate; economically locally all the time and periodically globally, today featuring a 25% unemployment rate. You are blaming the doctor called to the deathbed for the occupational hazard disease that's been killing the person. Like blaming a smoker's cancer on their family trying to get them to stop.
The employment bottom-outs is part of what's unsustainable about the anti-green industry of the past 50 years (and worse before that, but not in as great a scale). The green changes now coming in the undeniable (though denied, by people like you) face of disasters are mostly tech-centric. We'll probably get out of the crisis after a while. But some people, like you, won't have learned anything from the greatest lessons taught humanity in the modern age.