A big government is much better than a small government. We liberals know that, and intend to grow the power of government at the expense of private parties.
If by private parties you mean passing that expense off to the 200 million+ middle class Americans you are correct because that is exactly who will end up paying it in the end. The problem is we can't afford it and at some point someone will offer a way out and we will vote them into office, the question is how much worse will it get before it get's better and can silly stuff like this keep us occupied while we are spiraling down the drain.
The company I work at switched to open office when Sun was still around. It took some months for the users to become familiar enough with open office to be as efficient as they were in MS office and I had to answer an awful lot of questions many I had to look up. Today we run on Libre Office and have many users that are extremely efficient with it. Some still miss MS office not many.
If young adults just starting out or uneducated persons are working for minimum wage or even a couple dollars more but are getting a max of 30 hours a week then none of them gross more than 15k a year. They still don't have health benefits and are worse off than before {when they were getting 40 or more hours}.
I think you are correct and I am all for freedom of speech. As for foul language I rarely use it and those that know me well know that when I do I mean serious business. That however is a personal choice.
We are talking about campaign contributions, as a corporation with a goals I am going to contribute to politicians that have ideals that can further my goals. They are not being paid to vote against their ideals they are getting contributions because those are their ideals. Who is going to contribute big money to someone, corporations because they have money. When election time rolls around I find myself thinking which is going to do the least damage because there are no candidates that will serve my interest {that were able to campaign and have any chance of winning}.
My Rep voted No and I'm not surprised I voted against him for that and some other reasons but he still got elected.
My wife with insurance had a back injury. The easiest way to get me wound up and angry is to talk about sub par health care at ridiculous prices, 30k for a herniated disc after insurance not to mention therapy costs and the worthless injection treatments 5k each before they decided to do the surgery.
I don't really trust opinion polls they are to easy to effect with wording.
I could say that most of my friends disapprove of what has been taken in the name of security but if we were not like minded then they probably wouldn't be my friends so that doesn't give me perspective enough to say.
You are correct there were other factors not the least of which was the sellers motivation. All these houses were built at the same time and they were looking to build a neighbor hood for the average family you know 2.5 kid. Most of the houses for sale in the neighborhood are still the first owner and they are looking to downsize.
I am very familiar with the houses in that neighborhood I have two brothers and a few friends that own houses in that neighborhood. This house has the original floor plan. I have kids and I'll be replacing the floor covering in about five years regardless {it has very new floor coverings clean no stains}.
I also took into account things like shingles, flashings, gutters, run off, landscaping, erosion, and foundation these can be a big money sink.
I could have probably picked up the same basic house about a block down but it had a patio over the sewer and a great big tree about 7ft from the sewer line funny thing is they would have tried to use that otherwise nice looking patio and shade tree as a selling point.
I was recently researching an area where I was going to place an offer on a house. After taking into account square footage and the asking price of other homes in the area along with public tax records and other public records that i was able to find I decided on a house and a price. I offered 15k less than the asking price and they excepted with in 45 minutes. There is already plenty of information available to annoy Realtors.
My younger brother used to play in multiple local bands, but has moved on to equipment rental, sound engineering, and booking for local bands because he wanted them to get more than $20 a gig {and it's a service not available locally}. People forget that you can have $20k+ on the stage in equipment easily and that it requires maintenance. Recently he has been angry about a bitter ex-bandmate underbidding bookings so much that the bands he is booking are paying to play.
or is it just me that finds a $20 advance to be an insult.
They don't increase your home's value because they are not permanent... You also see a lot of aluminum sheds with dirt floors or wood sheds on pallets in the mid-west because once you stick them on a concrete slab the taxes go up.
It's very common in the mid-west to see solar lighting around patios and walk ways. You can get small ground lights to stake along the sidewalk some for less than $3 they are easy to install since they don't require wiring. They provide enough light to walk down the sidewalk find your car keys but do not attract as many insects as a flood light or regular patio light {don't bother the neighbors}. Most home improvements stores carry multiple models ranging from the ground light to much nicer more conventional looking patio or yard lights.
One of the sillier things that the culture of individualism has brought is heroism: the idea that one person or a very small group of people are supermen
Supermen are not required to secure a system and a few or one intelligent person can challenge the ideas of the day and keep moving us forward.
Sure I could probably hand pick a group of a hundred people that couldn't set the clock on your microwave or I could find just one person that could build you a microwave and set the clock.
After all we are individuals, I have no idea what you had for breakfast.
My ex-wife used to tell people she was a vegetarian {she wasn't}. She just stayed away from beef, pork, and fried foods because they did not settle well with her stomach after having her gallbladder removed.
Yes and traveling from one to the other is like going to a different country, but that is the way it is with many of the states the farther they are apart geographically the more differences.
I wouldn't expect to do a bunch of work on a tablet to begin with. It would be more like streaming audio/video, email around the house on the weekend watching netflix or hulu on the patio while BBQing.
I've not even seen any Surface RT {seen windows 8 though} and everyone I know business associate, friend, or family own Galaxy Tabs or Ipads. Not that I wouldn't want to get my hands on a Surface RT to play with and see what it's like but for the price I'm not buying one, I'll purchase an android first.
I have since turned my cooling cost dilemma to a new solution the under ground home {or mostly underground kitchens are hard to ventilate underground}.
It depends on where in the US you are talking about. I heat my home two months a year, three if it is a really bad year. I cool my house usually four months of the year. It is July and I am feeling the bite from the electric company this month. I love winter it's two month of low bills and little usage on the electric bill.
I have been to the northern states and yes they may benefit from that but the mid-west and farther south probably not.
I live in the US-Midwest and wanted to install a wind turbine {the land is flat and the wind never stops} but they have been banned in my county to protect the wild life. I'm not sure how much a wind turbine would disturb the wild life more than me putting up a chain link fence and a huge patio.
You can connect your solar back to the grid and get paid but they limit how much you can get paid for putting back in.
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A big government is much better than a small government. We liberals know that, and intend to grow the power of government at the expense of private parties.
If by private parties you mean passing that expense off to the 200 million+ middle class Americans you are correct because that is exactly who will end up paying it in the end. The problem is we can't afford it and at some point someone will offer a way out and we will vote them into office, the question is how much worse will it get before it get's better and can silly stuff like this keep us occupied while we are spiraling down the drain.
The company I work at switched to open office when Sun was still around. It took some months for the users to become familiar enough with open office to be as efficient as they were in MS office and I had to answer an awful lot of questions many I had to look up. Today we run on Libre Office and have many users that are extremely efficient with it. Some still miss MS office not many.
If young adults just starting out or uneducated persons are working for minimum wage or even a couple dollars more but are getting a max of 30 hours a week then none of them gross more than 15k a year. They still don't have health benefits and are worse off than before {when they were getting 40 or more hours}.
Cicada are served in restaurants and eaten in the US {Kentucky} just not by me.
I was really surprised about Obama getting the peace prize... wasn't Linus Torvalds nominated at some point? I think he is more deserving.
I think you are correct and I am all for freedom of speech. As for foul language I rarely use it and those that know me well know that when I do I mean serious business. That however is a personal choice.
We are talking about campaign contributions, as a corporation with a goals I am going to contribute to politicians that have ideals that can further my goals. They are not being paid to vote against their ideals they are getting contributions because those are their ideals. Who is going to contribute big money to someone, corporations because they have money. When election time rolls around I find myself thinking which is going to do the least damage because there are no candidates that will serve my interest {that were able to campaign and have any chance of winning}.
My Rep voted No and I'm not surprised I voted against him for that and some other reasons but he still got elected.
My wife with insurance had a back injury. The easiest way to get me wound up and angry is to talk about sub par health care at ridiculous prices, 30k for a herniated disc after insurance not to mention therapy costs and the worthless injection treatments 5k each before they decided to do the surgery.
I don't really trust opinion polls they are to easy to effect with wording.
I could say that most of my friends disapprove of what has been taken in the name of security but if we were not like minded then they probably wouldn't be my friends so that doesn't give me perspective enough to say.
You are correct there were other factors not the least of which was the sellers motivation. All these houses were built at the same time and they were looking to build a neighbor hood for the average family you know 2.5 kid. Most of the houses for sale in the neighborhood are still the first owner and they are looking to downsize.
I am very familiar with the houses in that neighborhood I have two brothers and a few friends that own houses in that neighborhood. This house has the original floor plan. I have kids and I'll be replacing the floor covering in about five years regardless {it has very new floor coverings clean no stains}.
I also took into account things like shingles, flashings, gutters, run off, landscaping, erosion, and foundation these can be a big money sink.
I could have probably picked up the same basic house about a block down but it had a patio over the sewer and a great big tree about 7ft from the sewer line funny thing is they would have tried to use that otherwise nice looking patio and shade tree as a selling point.
Could be but I still got it for about $18 less/sq.ft. than they have been selling {not asking} for in that neighborhood.
I was recently researching an area where I was going to place an offer on a house. After taking into account square footage and the asking price of other homes in the area along with public tax records and other public records that i was able to find I decided on a house and a price. I offered 15k less than the asking price and they excepted with in 45 minutes. There is already plenty of information available to annoy Realtors.
Those kind of drones are not as sleek or as fast as the one on the sign.
What no Zombie Crossing Signs?
The most annoying would be the "Dead End" sign posted a block to late to be useful in letting me know to turn off.
My younger brother used to play in multiple local bands, but has moved on to equipment rental, sound engineering, and booking for local bands because he wanted them to get more than $20 a gig {and it's a service not available locally}. People forget that you can have $20k+ on the stage in equipment easily and that it requires maintenance. Recently he has been angry about a bitter ex-bandmate underbidding bookings so much that the bands he is booking are paying to play.
or is it just me that finds a $20 advance to be an insult.
They don't increase your home's value because they are not permanent... You also see a lot of aluminum sheds with dirt floors or wood sheds on pallets in the mid-west because once you stick them on a concrete slab the taxes go up.
It's very common in the mid-west to see solar lighting around patios and walk ways. You can get small ground lights to stake along the sidewalk some for less than $3 they are easy to install since they don't require wiring. They provide enough light to walk down the sidewalk find your car keys but do not attract as many insects as a flood light or regular patio light {don't bother the neighbors}. Most home improvements stores carry multiple models ranging from the ground light to much nicer more conventional looking patio or yard lights.
One of the sillier things that the culture of individualism has brought is heroism: the idea that one person or a very small group of people are supermen
Supermen are not required to secure a system and a few or one intelligent person can challenge the ideas of the day and keep moving us forward.
Sure I could probably hand pick a group of a hundred people that couldn't set the clock on your microwave or I could find just one person that could build you a microwave and set the clock.
After all we are individuals, I have no idea what you had for breakfast.
My ex-wife used to tell people she was a vegetarian {she wasn't}. She just stayed away from beef, pork, and fried foods because they did not settle well with her stomach after having her gallbladder removed.
Yes and traveling from one to the other is like going to a different country, but that is the way it is with many of the states the farther they are apart geographically the more differences.
I wouldn't expect to do a bunch of work on a tablet to begin with. It would be more like streaming audio/video, email around the house on the weekend watching netflix or hulu on the patio while BBQing.
I've not even seen any Surface RT {seen windows 8 though} and everyone I know business associate, friend, or family own Galaxy Tabs or Ipads. Not that I wouldn't want to get my hands on a Surface RT to play with and see what it's like but for the price I'm not buying one, I'll purchase an android first.
Thank you, I was not aware of that.
I have since turned my cooling cost dilemma to a new solution the under ground home {or mostly underground kitchens are hard to ventilate underground}.
It depends on where in the US you are talking about. I heat my home two months a year, three if it is a really bad year. I cool my house usually four months of the year. It is July and I am feeling the bite from the electric company this month. I love winter it's two month of low bills and little usage on the electric bill.
I have been to the northern states and yes they may benefit from that but the mid-west and farther south probably not.
I live in the US-Midwest and wanted to install a wind turbine {the land is flat and the wind never stops} but they have been banned in my county to protect the wild life. I'm not sure how much a wind turbine would disturb the wild life more than me putting up a chain link fence and a huge patio.
You can connect your solar back to the grid and get paid but they limit how much you can get paid for putting back in.
Punch Cards!
I'm so glad those were gone by the time I started into computers.