Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Having been "on fire" literally, and being perpetually cold when the weather Temp is below 75 F.. I can assure you that your statement is not accurate.;)
The Right and Left love to abridge speech, just different angles of it.
Nobody remembers the "Fairness Doctrine", and yet it keeps getting promoted by the left to quash the free speech rights of people they disagree with. By "Fairness" the left means "Hey, we can't compete in the world of ideas, freely expressed, lets limit the other side by making it about "fairness".
While the right typically targets specific kinds of speech, the left has pretty much declared war on any speech that isn't their version of "correct" (aka Politically Correct). They gleefully are willing to shout down with hate filled speech anyone that disagrees with them.
They will deny a permit for the KKK to rally, but are all for "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon" and "Burn this bitch down" (Inciting to riot). Why? Because they support the cause in one case, and oppose it in another. This is exactly the same as those on the Right that do the exact same thing.
So if your point was that only Right Wingers are against free speech, you are sadly mistaken. The left is filled with people who hate free speech and see it as a danger to their socialist agenda.
I am a radical Idealist and libertarian. There are many people who claim to be Democratic that also don't like liberty and choice. These are Democratic Fascists.
The problem is, we do need radicals, to remind us of what is really at stake. We need radical Muslims to shake us to the core, so we can know what our core is. Without having the seeds of tyranny in place, we become complacent in a place where tyranny can grow, silently, slowly, eating our core beliefs in the name of whatever it needs to take Liberty away.
And while I don't relish the thought of Muslim Extremists, we do need them to remind us of what we REALLY should be fighting for. The dialog we are having is exactly what is needed, and we do need a few extremists to amplify the simple truths we need to rediscover.
In the end, we need both Muslims Extremists and Trump Supporters, both being their version of idealist. We need them to form our own version of Idealism, from which we can fight both.
Yes, I am a radical Extremist. I fight for Liberty.
Hillary Clinton has just announced that her "Email Server" and all the "Emails" were held hostage by Ransomware and she didn't pay, and that is why she doesn't have those emails everyone doesn't care about.
You're simply wrong, because you don't know the efficacy of the particular vaccine in question. Mandating vaccinations with known rates of failure (whole population), compared to the number of people who actually get the disease is the problem. Because it is know, the numbers are known, and if you multiply out the numbers of Mandated people getting vaccinated, by the failure rate of the vaccine, you'll find that you don't actually save anyone, but harm more than nature itself harms.
But that doesn't fit the narrative you're seeking.
Do a quick search on the effects of the Menegitis vaccine and the numbers of people who actually get the disease and the results of each. Now calculate out the actual known damage caused by bad reactions to the vaccine, to the actual problems caused by the disease itself. See which one is "greater".
The fact is, the cure is worse than the disease, if everyone has to get the cure.
The problem isn't with what Microsoft is doing, as Google is doing it too, and Apple to a lesser extent. The problem is, that they have a legacy of being evil, one they continue to embrace and extend. Who here remembers their "Scroogle" marketing push? Well all that supposed good will is now gone, as they are doing the very thing they were chastising Google for, only worse.
The thing of it is, this will lead to their eventual death, as they think this is still the 90's and that they have a monopoly.
It isn't just planning, you must ALSO take a step to carry out said plans. The actual crime is not the planning, but taking a step to carry it out.
I can plan all day with my wife and kids and anyone else about how to beat someone with a baseball bat. But if I don't have a bat, that isn't a crime. The moment I go and buy a bat with the intention of carrying out a crime, then all bets are off. Read the statute very carefully.
do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy
Anyone with access to the internet can learn to code if they have the aptitude for it. The evidence points to a very obvious conclusion: there are two populations: one that finds programming a relatively painless and indeed enjoyable thing to learn and another that can't learn no matter how good the teaching.
I fall somewhere in the middle. I have programmed in languages from Assembly to PHP/Javascript (if you call those languages), so I have the ability to code.. I also know I don't have the aptitude to; I find typing at a keyboard to be very monotonous and am quickly bored. This doesn't mean I don't have desire to code, I just find it boring. I wish I wasn't bored with it.
However, I have a colleague who loves to code and is quite good at it. However, when he gets stuck he doesn't ask other programmers (I no longer code), he asks me, because I don't see the code, I only see the logic. I've helped him solve a number of problems simply by not being a coder but being a problem solver. I'll let him code the details needed to accomplish the solution.
That being said, knowing logic is fundamental to solving problems. People with strong logic skills can solve problems. Coding does help you learn how to be logical and solve problems.
Mandated Anti-Viruses that cause more damage/harm than they fix. Why, because we'll kill 20 kids instead of letting 5 kids die because they got sick (Meningitis vaccine). Because we Vaccinate everyone for something that only affects a small percentage of the population, but the vaccine has a known failure rate that if you vaccinate everyone, harms more people than the actual disease does.
Yeah, you're all for mandated vaccines, it doesn't matter the relative efficacy.
Everybody has to use health care so having a system where some people don't or can't participate is a broken system.
Participation ability hasn't changed. The indigent were never excluded from healthcare. It is one of the reasons why Emergency rooms were filled with coughs and sniffles.
The system is being torn apart trying to get everyone "insurance" to a system that can't handle more load. And the inefficiencies of man in the middle overhead and government interference is really starting to kill what was top of the line Medical System, and replacing it with third world crap.
If you like European Healthcare, you should move there and actually try it. It isn't the roses that people love to claim it is. I know, I have French Cousins who tell us what a joke it is.
Only if you're using each countries metrics (hint, they aren't the same). It also might be indicative that medicine doesn't actually work as advertised. You might live longer with cancer if you forego radiation (because you can't see the doctor, long lines). But how many people want to do nothing when they have cancer, even though that might let you live longer?
What I can say is that who ever develops this crap does not seem to ask the Doctors or RN's how they do there job.
It wasn't designed for RNs and Drs. It was designed for analytics for better cost tracking. The problem is, they aren't tracking the real costs (extra office help needed to input all the data that is not needed). I was at the Dr's office yesterday, and the doctor had basically a secretary in the room documenting everything on the EHR system. They spent more time on inputing required but useless data than they did helping me. Ten minutes helping me, 30 minutes each on the computer putting in the records. Tell me, is that efficient?
But they got all the data points needed to provide "better care". Yeah right.
But who are you to decide how I should live my life?
Without mandatory car insurance, people would get wiped out when some drunken asshole plows into them.
Chances are, you're gonna find you should have had insurance the whole time. That is kind of the point of insurance. And that drunk driver that just drove you off the road wasn't insured in the first place. My wife, mom and daughters were involved with a hit/run and it has nearly ruined us, because insurance doesn't pay for everything, especially if you don't have enough to pay for the injuries.
The problem is that do gooders love to think they know how to solve the worlds problems, don't actually solve anything and create a whole new set of problems to solve (which they only know how to solve). Healthcare Insurance is a function of supply and demand, and the fact that ObamaCare increased demand (and costs) it didn't address supply. Not only that, it restricted the pricing of the marketplace and is driving the whole industry (Insurance/healthcare) into an unmitigated crisis. Of course, this was either by design or by incompetence, but you'll suggest the fix is more of the same, government interference into private enterprise.
Because in the end, you can't admit that you made things worse with your scheme to fix it. So you'll fix it till it is really broken.
No, this is how Taxes work. The rich can always avoid taxes, and the middle class always gets nailed by them. I call it for what it is. All taxes are regressive. Those that can avoid them will always avoid them, and search for ways to avoid them. This is not evil unto itself.
What is evil is the tacit belief that YOU (WarJolt) are somehow entitled, via taxation, to other people's money, and have the right to direct that money into government for it to waste as it sees fit, rather than spent as the person who earned it sees fit. How much taxes must we pay to avoid your "Criminal" Label?
IMHO taxing wealth is criminal, because it always (every time) hits the middle class the hardest. These are the people least able to avoid paying these kinds of taxes. Don't blame the rich for tax avoidance, blame the people who think taxing wealth is a good tax policy.
I'm not sure why everyone is hung up on the tax structure of a billionaire's charitable doings
Because of taxes, and government and such, people feel entitled to his money. Therefore when the money stays out of government's hands, people get upset, because they don't control another person's money (directly or indirectly via tax/spend policies).
There is a very subtle evil here, that most people are unwilling to address. People are greedy, but when they spend other people's money, they don't feel they are greedy.
There is an evil undertone to your post. It is that Government has the right to everyone's income/wealth. This line of thinking (regardless of your willingness to admit it) is what is wrong with our taxation policies and our governments. IF you have to justify taking of people's wealth in order to take it, it becomes much harder task. However if your view is that government is allowing you to keep any of your wealth, the state becomes the tyrant we all know it can be.
Taxation itself is a problem when people don't understand that taxes are regressive. We should seek to minimize taxes on everyone, not punish success. The government should be promoting economic activity, not seeking ways to punish it.
Here is a little tidbit... all taxes are regressive. The rich can always figure out a way to avoid them.
My suggestion for a "fair" tax system isn't a "flat tax" it is a "velocity of money" tax. Every transaction has a tax. It would solve a number of problems with Wall Street/CEO/Corporate tax avoidance issues. It would have a built in incentive to be low, as lower velocity tax would increase transaction speed, and higher taxes would slow them down. And everyone rich and poor would pay the same rate. Those people making lots of transactions (HST on WallStreet) would pay more, and those that make fewer (poor people) would pay less.
However, that being said, I oppose generalized taxes on economic activity, as taxes are a drag on the economy, and are a punishment for economic activity.
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Not all are gone. Some of us still exist. The problem is that far too many see (D) or (R) and kneejerk their reaction.
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Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Having been "on fire" literally, and being perpetually cold when the weather Temp is below 75 F .. I can assure you that your statement is not accurate. ;)
So, when I say "Under threat of government guns", you know what I mean.
The Right and Left love to abridge speech, just different angles of it.
Nobody remembers the "Fairness Doctrine", and yet it keeps getting promoted by the left to quash the free speech rights of people they disagree with. By "Fairness" the left means "Hey, we can't compete in the world of ideas, freely expressed, lets limit the other side by making it about "fairness".
While the right typically targets specific kinds of speech, the left has pretty much declared war on any speech that isn't their version of "correct" (aka Politically Correct). They gleefully are willing to shout down with hate filled speech anyone that disagrees with them.
They will deny a permit for the KKK to rally, but are all for "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon" and "Burn this bitch down" (Inciting to riot). Why? Because they support the cause in one case, and oppose it in another. This is exactly the same as those on the Right that do the exact same thing.
So if your point was that only Right Wingers are against free speech, you are sadly mistaken. The left is filled with people who hate free speech and see it as a danger to their socialist agenda.
I am a radical Idealist and libertarian. There are many people who claim to be Democratic that also don't like liberty and choice. These are Democratic Fascists.
The problem is, we do need radicals, to remind us of what is really at stake. We need radical Muslims to shake us to the core, so we can know what our core is. Without having the seeds of tyranny in place, we become complacent in a place where tyranny can grow, silently, slowly, eating our core beliefs in the name of whatever it needs to take Liberty away.
And while I don't relish the thought of Muslim Extremists, we do need them to remind us of what we REALLY should be fighting for. The dialog we are having is exactly what is needed, and we do need a few extremists to amplify the simple truths we need to rediscover.
In the end, we need both Muslims Extremists and Trump Supporters, both being their version of idealist. We need them to form our own version of Idealism, from which we can fight both.
Yes, I am a radical Extremist. I fight for Liberty.
Hillary Clinton has just announced that her "Email Server" and all the "Emails" were held hostage by Ransomware and she didn't pay, and that is why she doesn't have those emails everyone doesn't care about.
Capitalism is grand.
You're simply wrong, because you don't know the efficacy of the particular vaccine in question. Mandating vaccinations with known rates of failure (whole population), compared to the number of people who actually get the disease is the problem. Because it is know, the numbers are known, and if you multiply out the numbers of Mandated people getting vaccinated, by the failure rate of the vaccine, you'll find that you don't actually save anyone, but harm more than nature itself harms.
But that doesn't fit the narrative you're seeking.
Do a quick search on the effects of the Menegitis vaccine and the numbers of people who actually get the disease and the results of each. Now calculate out the actual known damage caused by bad reactions to the vaccine, to the actual problems caused by the disease itself. See which one is "greater".
The fact is, the cure is worse than the disease, if everyone has to get the cure.
Nazi, Communist, Feminist
The problem isn't with what Microsoft is doing, as Google is doing it too, and Apple to a lesser extent. The problem is, that they have a legacy of being evil, one they continue to embrace and extend. Who here remembers their "Scroogle" marketing push? Well all that supposed good will is now gone, as they are doing the very thing they were chastising Google for, only worse.
The thing of it is, this will lead to their eventual death, as they think this is still the 90's and that they have a monopoly.
Emotions aren't logical.
It is why certain politicians use emotional strings to garner votes. "Do it for the Children", "Right Wing Extremist", "Hater".
It isn't just planning, you must ALSO take a step to carry out said plans. The actual crime is not the planning, but taking a step to carry it out.
I can plan all day with my wife and kids and anyone else about how to beat someone with a baseball bat. But if I don't have a bat, that isn't a crime. The moment I go and buy a bat with the intention of carrying out a crime, then all bets are off. Read the statute very carefully.
do any overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy
Have to advance the conspiracy.
Anyone with access to the internet can learn to code if they have the aptitude for it. The evidence points to a very obvious conclusion: there are two populations: one that finds programming a relatively painless and indeed enjoyable thing to learn and another that can't learn no matter how good the teaching.
I fall somewhere in the middle. I have programmed in languages from Assembly to PHP/Javascript (if you call those languages), so I have the ability to code.. I also know I don't have the aptitude to; I find typing at a keyboard to be very monotonous and am quickly bored. This doesn't mean I don't have desire to code, I just find it boring. I wish I wasn't bored with it.
However, I have a colleague who loves to code and is quite good at it. However, when he gets stuck he doesn't ask other programmers (I no longer code), he asks me, because I don't see the code, I only see the logic. I've helped him solve a number of problems simply by not being a coder but being a problem solver. I'll let him code the details needed to accomplish the solution.
That being said, knowing logic is fundamental to solving problems. People with strong logic skills can solve problems. Coding does help you learn how to be logical and solve problems.
Mandated Anti-Viruses that cause more damage/harm than they fix. Why, because we'll kill 20 kids instead of letting 5 kids die because they got sick (Meningitis vaccine). Because we Vaccinate everyone for something that only affects a small percentage of the population, but the vaccine has a known failure rate that if you vaccinate everyone, harms more people than the actual disease does.
Yeah, you're all for mandated vaccines, it doesn't matter the relative efficacy.
Everybody has to use health care so having a system where some people don't or can't participate is a broken system.
Participation ability hasn't changed. The indigent were never excluded from healthcare. It is one of the reasons why Emergency rooms were filled with coughs and sniffles.
The system is being torn apart trying to get everyone "insurance" to a system that can't handle more load. And the inefficiencies of man in the middle overhead and government interference is really starting to kill what was top of the line Medical System, and replacing it with third world crap.
If you like European Healthcare, you should move there and actually try it. It isn't the roses that people love to claim it is. I know, I have French Cousins who tell us what a joke it is.
Only if you're using each countries metrics (hint, they aren't the same). It also might be indicative that medicine doesn't actually work as advertised. You might live longer with cancer if you forego radiation (because you can't see the doctor, long lines). But how many people want to do nothing when they have cancer, even though that might let you live longer?
What I can say is that who ever develops this crap does not seem to ask the Doctors or RN's how they do there job.
It wasn't designed for RNs and Drs. It was designed for analytics for better cost tracking. The problem is, they aren't tracking the real costs (extra office help needed to input all the data that is not needed). I was at the Dr's office yesterday, and the doctor had basically a secretary in the room documenting everything on the EHR system. They spent more time on inputing required but useless data than they did helping me. Ten minutes helping me, 30 minutes each on the computer putting in the records. Tell me, is that efficient?
But they got all the data points needed to provide "better care". Yeah right.
But who are you to decide how I should live my life?
Without mandatory car insurance, people would get wiped out when some drunken asshole plows into them.
Chances are, you're gonna find you should have had insurance the whole time. That is kind of the point of insurance. And that drunk driver that just drove you off the road wasn't insured in the first place. My wife, mom and daughters were involved with a hit/run and it has nearly ruined us, because insurance doesn't pay for everything, especially if you don't have enough to pay for the injuries.
The problem is that do gooders love to think they know how to solve the worlds problems, don't actually solve anything and create a whole new set of problems to solve (which they only know how to solve). Healthcare Insurance is a function of supply and demand, and the fact that ObamaCare increased demand (and costs) it didn't address supply. Not only that, it restricted the pricing of the marketplace and is driving the whole industry (Insurance/healthcare) into an unmitigated crisis. Of course, this was either by design or by incompetence, but you'll suggest the fix is more of the same, government interference into private enterprise.
Because in the end, you can't admit that you made things worse with your scheme to fix it. So you'll fix it till it is really broken.
We all know that Separate but equal isn't.
No, this is how Taxes work. The rich can always avoid taxes, and the middle class always gets nailed by them. I call it for what it is. All taxes are regressive. Those that can avoid them will always avoid them, and search for ways to avoid them. This is not evil unto itself.
What is evil is the tacit belief that YOU (WarJolt) are somehow entitled, via taxation, to other people's money, and have the right to direct that money into government for it to waste as it sees fit, rather than spent as the person who earned it sees fit. How much taxes must we pay to avoid your "Criminal" Label?
IMHO taxing wealth is criminal, because it always (every time) hits the middle class the hardest. These are the people least able to avoid paying these kinds of taxes. Don't blame the rich for tax avoidance, blame the people who think taxing wealth is a good tax policy.
I'm not sure why everyone is hung up on the tax structure of a billionaire's charitable doings
Because of taxes, and government and such, people feel entitled to his money. Therefore when the money stays out of government's hands, people get upset, because they don't control another person's money (directly or indirectly via tax/spend policies).
There is a very subtle evil here, that most people are unwilling to address. People are greedy, but when they spend other people's money, they don't feel they are greedy.
There is an evil undertone to your post. It is that Government has the right to everyone's income/wealth. This line of thinking (regardless of your willingness to admit it) is what is wrong with our taxation policies and our governments. IF you have to justify taking of people's wealth in order to take it, it becomes much harder task. However if your view is that government is allowing you to keep any of your wealth, the state becomes the tyrant we all know it can be.
Taxation itself is a problem when people don't understand that taxes are regressive. We should seek to minimize taxes on everyone, not punish success. The government should be promoting economic activity, not seeking ways to punish it.
Here is a little tidbit ... all taxes are regressive. The rich can always figure out a way to avoid them.
My suggestion for a "fair" tax system isn't a "flat tax" it is a "velocity of money" tax. Every transaction has a tax. It would solve a number of problems with Wall Street/CEO/Corporate tax avoidance issues. It would have a built in incentive to be low, as lower velocity tax would increase transaction speed, and higher taxes would slow them down. And everyone rich and poor would pay the same rate. Those people making lots of transactions (HST on WallStreet) would pay more, and those that make fewer (poor people) would pay less.
However, that being said, I oppose generalized taxes on economic activity, as taxes are a drag on the economy, and are a punishment for economic activity.