Many people don't "Pay" taxes, they have taxes taken out of their Paycheck and call it normal. IF we gave people their whole paycheck, and then had them write a check each month to each of the various taxing authorities for the tax payer's portion, you would have a revolt. Hiding the taxes are the best form of wage slavery ever devised.
The rape was real, those accused were vindicated. Additionally, it is likely that the person who did the rape did not act alone, it couldn't be proven who the others were.
So, while there is insufficient evidence to convict, there is evidence that it happened. IT was a real event, with real consequences.
Any research done into the mass shootings in the last couple of decades will show a very strong correlation between anti psychotic pharmaceuticals and those shootings. But we aren't banning those drugs, just the guns the drugged up nuts were using.
I've found that there are two kinds of people that allow work and the rest of their lives to intermingle, and I can't stand either.
The first are those that have no lives, and are their work. These people work to live and live to work. They are rotten humans of the worst kind, and are impossible to have any sort of friendship with, even at work.
The second are almost as bad as the first, and often turn into the first. These people, work to "get ahead' and typically will do anything "extra" to earn brownie points or brown nose points. Most of the time, these people slave away, and never "get ahead", and it ends up eating them up and spitting them out, or turning them into the first kind, after they have killed any relationships they once had. On a few occasions, someone from here can advance to a higher stage in life.
Me, I work hard for my 8 hours, and after that, you either pay me more, or I go and live my life. I emphasize that I work hard for 8 hours, if that isn't good enough for the boss, too bad, pay me more.
And the folks running Solyndra et al were committed Democrats. Selectively portraying only (R) as being greedy evil capitalists is disingenuous at best. BOTH The (D) and (R) parties are corrupt beyond repair. Government should not be making loan guarantees for businesses, period.
Sex is not wrong. Sex leads to pregnancy and if you are unable to support said pregnancy, said sex is irresponsible. And I don't care how careful one is, "accidents happen" and again, being unwilling to deal with accidents, is irresponsible. Because if you frame it wrong (sex is wrong) they will ignore you, if you frame it wrong (sex is great, have at it) they will. If you frame it right and teach responsibility it transfers to many other aspects of life.
Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android are offspring / cousins of Unix Windows 8 is "Windows", even in RT version.
We haven't had a new OS commercially successful in 30 years. You might argue "Linux" was "new" 20 years ago, but that was 20 years ago, and it still is a cousin to Unix with a lot of code ideas shared between the two.
Internet and Computers combined = Creation and Spread of knowledge. Knowledge is power, power allows for creation of wealth, and in the case of the Information Age, that wealth is found in knowledge.
The only thing we need to worry about is limited resources.
Tag on 3D printing and automated machining of parts and you don't have to have humans except to fix the things that robots can't. And to do all that, you need energy. Energy is key to producing wealth.
Want to fix our economy? Give tax breaks for creating energy. Actually, do not tax production of energy at all. Make it THE tax free enterprise. If we did that, the world would follow, and all the stupid wars over oil would be gone. We could then cut military, because we wouldn't be in every hell hole in the world.
The reality is, 15 year olds having sex is way too common because all of society seems okay with it. And it is 14, and 13 too. When, as a society, are we (society) going to take responsibility for the message that "sex is great, do not wait" message that is permeating media today? I have daughters who are virgins into their 20's, and people think this is crazy!
" teens will hump like rabbits, it's in their nature. "
You have, in one short part of a sentence, described exactly why YOU shouldn't be a parent, ever. While simultaneously expressing that you don't think humans are "evolved" in any sort of meaningful way. You're excusing the poor choices of people as "nature" is exactly why our societies are breaking down, why teen pregnancy and single motherhood is rampant.
As counter, I have raise three daughters, who do not "hump like bunnies" and are virgins into their twenties, because they didn't have "daddy issues" because I am a damn good father who actually pays attention to them, so they don't feel the need to go out and "hump like bunnies" to feel loved by a male figure in their lives. AND If they ever did go out and "hump like bunnies", they also know that I would be there to help them with the fallout of those choices, while not excusing their behavior.
And lastly, it isn't the uneducated backwater hillbillies that are getting pregnant, it is daughters in ALL sorts of economic situations and social status'. The rich ones can hide their bad choices better. Which is why Abortion is every liberals dream, as it simply erases consequences by murdering the unborn...
Or as Obama says about his daughters "But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby."
"If you're going to claim systemic discrimination against conservatives"
Juan Williams, a liberal, expressed a "conservative" opinion, and was fired for it. He is a black man, and claiming bigotry against him is almost comical, except for his being fired.
" If some one holds a completely liberal ideology but hates the "Jews,here is no reason any one should tolerate them" "
You mean like many, well documented cases in the OWS protests? Well, that never happened, because they were good little Liberal Protestors, so.... excused
Yeah, I'm sure you never heard about such things, because John Stewart (liberal jew) didn't report it. He was too busy protesting Sarah Palin (not running anything or for anything), or Bill Maher (another liberal jew) calling her misogynist names (again, excused). I'm sure you're lining up the excuses right now (yeah, SP is one..., they were plants by teabaggers...etc) They are all Hypocrites.
Elevators weren't paid for by US Treasure notes or other financing instruments, they were financed by the building and business owners who were required to build them, and increase prices on everything until they went out of business because they were regulated to death, and can no longer compete with out of state, out of country products coming from places that aren't regulated to death. And people want to know why my city has 30% unemployment and people with Master's Degrees are working at Starbucks.
And yet, there are plenty of businesses that have closed because of the regulations that require elevators. You won't actually see that though, because they simply disappear rather than spend millions retrofitting old buildings.
Exactly, and with the number of people that are planned on using the HSR, the "unless it is for you" is miniscule. You won't see Millions of people opting for the HSR instead of driving I5. So, HSR is just a romantic notion... still.
It is a success, because it works, and tons of goods and millions of people use it everyday. HSR, will be not be, because it is simply too limited. I can take my car to from Sacramento to LA in about 6 hours, at a cost of (Gas Guzzler) less than $150 in petrol, taking my family (four additional people) as a bonus. HSR will make the trip in 4 hours (not that much faster) and at more than $250 per person, AND still lose money. AND once I get there, I would still need to rent a car. And further trips, I would simply just take a plane.
I can rent a car for a week for that, drive and come back for less money. The only benefit of HSR in this situation is that I can get up and walk around or sleep instead of driving, and with Google Cars on the way, I can even do most of those things. HSR is romantic notion for idiots. IT never pans out like the proponents claim.
"Reviews are only valid from people that maintain that as their profession"
Reviews are only valid if the reviewer is professional? Obtuse. I don't generally value the opinions of people paid to have opinions, because I've found that they are generally (as a group) a prostitute in disguise. Please note: there are exceptions, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.
The best reviews* are done by average public, because they skip all the "nuanced" verbiage of opinion writers and say it like it is.
*50 Shades fans excluded, because they are a brain damaged lot.
When you can build a HSR train, not have it subsidized (heavily) by tax payers, have it affordable and convenient (fast) for people to use, THEN and only then will I accept it as an option. Problem is, you can't, as HSR fails on all these accounts. In California, we passed HSR and the costs have already tripled what they proponents claimed it would cost, AND it hasn't even started. The estimated ticket prices are such that is is still cheaper to fly (air rail system). Nobody that is proposing HSR is based on anything in reality, only romantic feelings about trains.
If you remove all the emotionalism from those proposing HSR, you are left holding a big, expensive, "me too" toy that. It boarders upon religious fanaticism.
Juan Williams did. And he isn't right wing, just one of his views was, and that was enough. No tolerance from the tolerance crowd, we call that irony (or hypocrisy)
It wasn't anti-liberal rant. It was a rant on hypocrisy. Don't attack an idea because of the failures of those that hold that view. I picked on Liberals, because they are some of the biggest hypocrites in this area, and I gave examples. "The rich should pay their fair share... unless they are liberals, so we'll excuse them"
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Many people don't "Pay" taxes, they have taxes taken out of their Paycheck and call it normal. IF we gave people their whole paycheck, and then had them write a check each month to each of the various taxing authorities for the tax payer's portion, you would have a revolt. Hiding the taxes are the best form of wage slavery ever devised.
The rape was real, those accused were vindicated. Additionally, it is likely that the person who did the rape did not act alone, it couldn't be proven who the others were.
So, while there is insufficient evidence to convict, there is evidence that it happened. IT was a real event, with real consequences.
Any research done into the mass shootings in the last couple of decades will show a very strong correlation between anti psychotic pharmaceuticals and those shootings. But we aren't banning those drugs, just the guns the drugged up nuts were using.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/
Let us blame, if anything, behavior altering drugs for people's behavior.
I've found that there are two kinds of people that allow work and the rest of their lives to intermingle, and I can't stand either.
The first are those that have no lives, and are their work. These people work to live and live to work. They are rotten humans of the worst kind, and are impossible to have any sort of friendship with, even at work.
The second are almost as bad as the first, and often turn into the first. These people, work to "get ahead' and typically will do anything "extra" to earn brownie points or brown nose points. Most of the time, these people slave away, and never "get ahead", and it ends up eating them up and spitting them out, or turning them into the first kind, after they have killed any relationships they once had. On a few occasions, someone from here can advance to a higher stage in life.
Me, I work hard for my 8 hours, and after that, you either pay me more, or I go and live my life. I emphasize that I work hard for 8 hours, if that isn't good enough for the boss, too bad, pay me more.
And the folks running Solyndra et al were committed Democrats. Selectively portraying only (R) as being greedy evil capitalists is disingenuous at best. BOTH The (D) and (R) parties are corrupt beyond repair. Government should not be making loan guarantees for businesses, period.
A Democrat is just a Liberal who spends other people's money to not feel guilty when he helps homeless people.
Sex is not wrong. Sex leads to pregnancy and if you are unable to support said pregnancy, said sex is irresponsible. And I don't care how careful one is, "accidents happen" and again, being unwilling to deal with accidents, is irresponsible. Because if you frame it wrong (sex is wrong) they will ignore you, if you frame it wrong (sex is great, have at it) they will. If you frame it right and teach responsibility it transfers to many other aspects of life.
Let me guess, the new and improved version of Punch and Judy will be Apple and Samsung?
Linux, MacOS, iOS and Android are offspring / cousins of Unix
Windows 8 is "Windows", even in RT version.
We haven't had a new OS commercially successful in 30 years. You might argue "Linux" was "new" 20 years ago, but that was 20 years ago, and it still is a cousin to Unix with a lot of code ideas shared between the two.
The internet is just communication.
Computing is the creation of knowledge.
Internet and Computers combined = Creation and Spread of knowledge. Knowledge is power, power allows for creation of wealth, and in the case of the Information Age, that wealth is found in knowledge.
The only thing we need to worry about is limited resources.
Tag on 3D printing and automated machining of parts and you don't have to have humans except to fix the things that robots can't. And to do all that, you need energy. Energy is key to producing wealth.
Want to fix our economy? Give tax breaks for creating energy. Actually, do not tax production of energy at all. Make it THE tax free enterprise. If we did that, the world would follow, and all the stupid wars over oil would be gone. We could then cut military, because we wouldn't be in every hell hole in the world.
The reality is, 15 year olds having sex is way too common because all of society seems okay with it. And it is 14, and 13 too. When, as a society, are we (society) going to take responsibility for the message that "sex is great, do not wait" message that is permeating media today? I have daughters who are virgins into their 20's, and people think this is crazy!
" teens will hump like rabbits, it's in their nature. "
You have, in one short part of a sentence, described exactly why YOU shouldn't be a parent, ever. While simultaneously expressing that you don't think humans are "evolved" in any sort of meaningful way. You're excusing the poor choices of people as "nature" is exactly why our societies are breaking down, why teen pregnancy and single motherhood is rampant.
As counter, I have raise three daughters, who do not "hump like bunnies" and are virgins into their twenties, because they didn't have "daddy issues" because I am a damn good father who actually pays attention to them, so they don't feel the need to go out and "hump like bunnies" to feel loved by a male figure in their lives. AND If they ever did go out and "hump like bunnies", they also know that I would be there to help them with the fallout of those choices, while not excusing their behavior.
And lastly, it isn't the uneducated backwater hillbillies that are getting pregnant, it is daughters in ALL sorts of economic situations and social status'. The rich ones can hide their bad choices better. Which is why Abortion is every liberals dream, as it simply erases consequences by murdering the unborn...
Or as Obama says about his daughters "But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby."
"If you're going to claim systemic discrimination against conservatives"
Juan Williams, a liberal, expressed a "conservative" opinion, and was fired for it. He is a black man, and claiming bigotry against him is almost comical, except for his being fired.
" If some one holds a completely liberal ideology but hates the "Jews,here is no reason any one should tolerate them" "
You mean like many, well documented cases in the OWS protests? Well, that never happened, because they were good little Liberal Protestors, so .... excused
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/07/anti-semitism-at-occupy-wall-street/
Yeah, I'm sure you never heard about such things, because John Stewart (liberal jew) didn't report it. He was too busy protesting Sarah Palin (not running anything or for anything), or Bill Maher (another liberal jew) calling her misogynist names (again, excused). I'm sure you're lining up the excuses right now (yeah, SP is one ..., they were plants by teabaggers ...etc) They are all Hypocrites.
Elevators weren't paid for by US Treasure notes or other financing instruments, they were financed by the building and business owners who were required to build them, and increase prices on everything until they went out of business because they were regulated to death, and can no longer compete with out of state, out of country products coming from places that aren't regulated to death. And people want to know why my city has 30% unemployment and people with Master's Degrees are working at Starbucks.
And yet, there are plenty of businesses that have closed because of the regulations that require elevators. You won't actually see that though, because they simply disappear rather than spend millions retrofitting old buildings.
Exactly, and with the number of people that are planned on using the HSR, the "unless it is for you" is miniscule. You won't see Millions of people opting for the HSR instead of driving I5. So, HSR is just a romantic notion ... still.
It is a success, because it works, and tons of goods and millions of people use it everyday. HSR, will be not be, because it is simply too limited. I can take my car to from Sacramento to LA in about 6 hours, at a cost of (Gas Guzzler) less than $150 in petrol, taking my family (four additional people) as a bonus. HSR will make the trip in 4 hours (not that much faster) and at more than $250 per person, AND still lose money. AND once I get there, I would still need to rent a car. And further trips, I would simply just take a plane.
I can rent a car for a week for that, drive and come back for less money. The only benefit of HSR in this situation is that I can get up and walk around or sleep instead of driving, and with Google Cars on the way, I can even do most of those things. HSR is romantic notion for idiots. IT never pans out like the proponents claim.
"Reviews are only valid from people that maintain that as their profession"
Reviews are only valid if the reviewer is professional? Obtuse. I don't generally value the opinions of people paid to have opinions, because I've found that they are generally (as a group) a prostitute in disguise. Please note: there are exceptions, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.
The best reviews* are done by average public, because they skip all the "nuanced" verbiage of opinion writers and say it like it is.
*50 Shades fans excluded, because they are a brain damaged lot.
When you can build a HSR train, not have it subsidized (heavily) by tax payers, have it affordable and convenient (fast) for people to use, THEN and only then will I accept it as an option. Problem is, you can't, as HSR fails on all these accounts. In California, we passed HSR and the costs have already tripled what they proponents claimed it would cost, AND it hasn't even started. The estimated ticket prices are such that is is still cheaper to fly (air rail system). Nobody that is proposing HSR is based on anything in reality, only romantic feelings about trains.
If you remove all the emotionalism from those proposing HSR, you are left holding a big, expensive, "me too" toy that. It boarders upon religious fanaticism.
Juan Williams did. And he isn't right wing, just one of his views was, and that was enough. No tolerance from the tolerance crowd, we call that irony (or hypocrisy)
"individual sovereignty"
The question Alex is "What is missing from today's governance?"
I'd be willing to let anyone contact me and pay me a $1 to do so. Screw the middle man!
It wasn't anti-liberal rant. It was a rant on hypocrisy. Don't attack an idea because of the failures of those that hold that view. I picked on Liberals, because they are some of the biggest hypocrites in this area, and I gave examples. "The rich should pay their fair share ... unless they are liberals, so we'll excuse them"
Jimmy Carter practically invented the term.