It can't be worse than you insulting people that disagree with you instead of contributing to a civil dialog with people who don't necessarily share your point of view.
I find the "big government" argument from the right very questionable since when it comes to budget cuts they only promote cuts in areas favored by the left. Yet the programs they favor continue at previous or even more generous spending levels. For example, what makes ensuring continued domestic oil and exploration with generous subsidies an important national issue and not diversifying our energy portfolio by spending money on research and development by government laboratories?
Which can't be worse than making generalities based on where you perceive someone may stand.
I am in favor of cutting subsidies on both domestic oil and and alternative energy exploration.
Here is an example of how things work for you. The argument that companies do not do R&D is false because it is incomplete. Companies do considerable R&D. How it is done now is that companies vie for government grants to do research. So now there is a reduced R&D line but an increased revenue line. The R&D is still there, just not reflected in the financials. The cost is there, but a as a cost of sales rather than an R&D expense. The bad part is that government takes in tax dollars at 100%, squanders a significant portion to administer the redistribution of wealth, and then funds actual research at 40%-50% of what was taken in in taxes. Even worse, the research is now not funded by the applicability or merit of the work, but by the whim of the bureaucrat administering the program. Pet projects get funded while other, more useful projects that could be commercialized die.
And while we are here, saying you are stupid and making fun of you for being slow is an insult. Stating you are waiting for bigger government to save you from big government is an accurate reflection on the fallacy of your approach.
Just cut out all the security before the flight and issue a taser to each passenger over the age of 18.
That is a closer description to where you are going under the TSA and DHS.
Every in-flight threat since 9/11 has been stopped by the passengers on the plane. Allowing someone to board with their pocket knife (or even, God forbid, 3.5oz of shampoo) is not going to create a plane full of people stabbing one another. It would, however, create an environment that 5 jackasses with box cutters will never take control of again.
Put you head back and the sand and keep telling yourself that big government groping children and grandmothers is about keeping you safe.
A simple PIN screen lock will suffice.
Yes, there is a bad ruling out there now that says the police can look through your phone. This will be overturned. Until then, lock your screen with a PIN. Yes, it can be circumvented, but the patrol cop that pulled you over will not have the equipment in their car. Even if they did, they wouldn't use it. Like most side-of-the-road searches, they are just trolling. If they really expect to find something, they will most likely get a warrant to protect the evidence as admissible.
It is good to see such optimism. They are taking an "official" position they will adhere to the ruling. In practice, you will see the abuses continue. Why? Because the government is not being held accountable.
Put the offending government employee in prison and defund/disband the agency. Then you will see them behave. With no accountability, nothing will change.
In the end it is our fault. We get the government that we tolerate.
There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order.
Well, actually I do run a business. A small corporation, in fact. And we take advantage of every tax break possible, just as everyone should do with their personal income tax. Call them loopholes if you will, which is what folks tend to call breaks for others.
The fact is that raising the corporate tax rate simply increases a businesses cost without any incremental increase in revenue. When this happens, most businesses must cut costs in order to stay in business. Labor is often a large area of cost, and is often targeted. So, when my corporate rate goes up, someone loses hours or even worse, their job. This not only takes away the personal taxes they were paying, but often leads to them further draining government coffers by relying on unemployment and other social services.
Don't assume that every corporation that will see their taxes increase has the same cash reserves and profit margins that Google does. A short sighted "fix" against a few pet peeve companies of yours will certainly do more harm than good for the rest of the business landscape.
Google hasn't left completely because they are taking advantage of the tax breaks, or loopholes as you call them. Close those, and you might just see them leave.
Just because I say something you disagree with does not mean I do not know what I am talking about. But the fact that you made a stereotype that digressed into an attempt at insult shows you are not here to gain anything other than some self-satisfaction from being abrasive.
GO IRS. Keep making the US even more anti-business so that companies not only shelter their earnings off shore, but they move more operations and maybe even their entire operation off shore. Then you won't have to worry about all of the income, property, and sales taxes the employees pay either, because they won't be here.
We have been waiting too long for the government deficit to completely explode. Continue the good work of accelerating the process.
Who cares about that outage, Id buy a blackberry before a stupid iPhone anytime, you know, something working better without paying extra money for a ugly design.
Yet this comment is posted on an article about Blackberries being down for 3 days. Irony is so ironic.
Oh wait, too many of the donut eaters couldn't survive a single, serious martial arts workout. So we give them Tasers and guns. But that didn't do anything about the delusions. And yes, many of them are more deluded than the "superhero" group.
You look down on these guys and call them deluded when the are helping others. The folks they helped are exceptionally grateful these guys are around.
Hopefully you never need someone bigger and stronger to defend you. If you do, please inform your defender that you think he is delusional before he helps you. That way he can let you get beaten or killed rather than receive help from someone you mock.
You understanding of how laws are made is flawed. Everyone may want A and agree the law will do A. However, if you write down B, and B becomes law, than B is the law, no matter how much you really want it to be A.
There is no evidence to support that the ratifiers of the 14th amendment desired it to affect the bill of rights.
1. You have evidence to the contrary? Which, even if you did is moot because,
2. It makes no difference what their desire was. What matters is what was written and passed into law.
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It can't be worse than you insulting people that disagree with you instead of contributing to a civil dialog with people who don't necessarily share your point of view.
I find the "big government" argument from the right very questionable since when it comes to budget cuts they only promote cuts in areas favored by the left. Yet the programs they favor continue at previous or even more generous spending levels. For example, what makes ensuring continued domestic oil and exploration with generous subsidies an important national issue and not diversifying our energy portfolio by spending money on research and development by government laboratories?
Which can't be worse than making generalities based on where you perceive someone may stand.
I am in favor of cutting subsidies on both domestic oil and and alternative energy exploration.
Here is an example of how things work for you. The argument that companies do not do R&D is false because it is incomplete. Companies do considerable R&D. How it is done now is that companies vie for government grants to do research. So now there is a reduced R&D line but an increased revenue line. The R&D is still there, just not reflected in the financials. The cost is there, but a as a cost of sales rather than an R&D expense. The bad part is that government takes in tax dollars at 100%, squanders a significant portion to administer the redistribution of wealth, and then funds actual research at 40%-50% of what was taken in in taxes. Even worse, the research is now not funded by the applicability or merit of the work, but by the whim of the bureaucrat administering the program. Pet projects get funded while other, more useful projects that could be commercialized die.
And while we are here, saying you are stupid and making fun of you for being slow is an insult. Stating you are waiting for bigger government to save you from big government is an accurate reflection on the fallacy of your approach.
Just cut out all the security before the flight and issue a taser to each passenger over the age of 18.
That is a closer description to where you are going under the TSA and DHS.
Every in-flight threat since 9/11 has been stopped by the passengers on the plane. Allowing someone to board with their pocket knife (or even, God forbid, 3.5oz of shampoo) is not going to create a plane full of people stabbing one another. It would, however, create an environment that 5 jackasses with box cutters will never take control of again.
Put you head back and the sand and keep telling yourself that big government groping children and grandmothers is about keeping you safe.
You just made a great argument for eliminating the federal government agencies that redistribute wealth amongst the states.
Even more doubtful that R&D can be done by the government.
You are seriously misguided if you believe the listed federal agencies are providing these things.
It's OK though. Stick your head and the sand and wait for bigger government to save you from big government.
Oh no! We can't offend the SEO deities.
A simple PIN screen lock will suffice. Yes, there is a bad ruling out there now that says the police can look through your phone. This will be overturned. Until then, lock your screen with a PIN. Yes, it can be circumvented, but the patrol cop that pulled you over will not have the equipment in their car. Even if they did, they wouldn't use it. Like most side-of-the-road searches, they are just trolling. If they really expect to find something, they will most likely get a warrant to protect the evidence as admissible.
+1
It is good to see such optimism. They are taking an "official" position they will adhere to the ruling. In practice, you will see the abuses continue. Why? Because the government is not being held accountable.
Put the offending government employee in prison and defund/disband the agency. Then you will see them behave. With no accountability, nothing will change.
In the end it is our fault. We get the government that we tolerate.
There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order.
Well, actually I do run a business. A small corporation, in fact. And we take advantage of every tax break possible, just as everyone should do with their personal income tax. Call them loopholes if you will, which is what folks tend to call breaks for others.
The fact is that raising the corporate tax rate simply increases a businesses cost without any incremental increase in revenue. When this happens, most businesses must cut costs in order to stay in business. Labor is often a large area of cost, and is often targeted. So, when my corporate rate goes up, someone loses hours or even worse, their job. This not only takes away the personal taxes they were paying, but often leads to them further draining government coffers by relying on unemployment and other social services.
Don't assume that every corporation that will see their taxes increase has the same cash reserves and profit margins that Google does. A short sighted "fix" against a few pet peeve companies of yours will certainly do more harm than good for the rest of the business landscape.
Google hasn't left completely because they are taking advantage of the tax breaks, or loopholes as you call them. Close those, and you might just see them leave.
Just because I say something you disagree with does not mean I do not know what I am talking about. But the fact that you made a stereotype that digressed into an attempt at insult shows you are not here to gain anything other than some self-satisfaction from being abrasive.
GO IRS. Keep making the US even more anti-business so that companies not only shelter their earnings off shore, but they move more operations and maybe even their entire operation off shore. Then you won't have to worry about all of the income, property, and sales taxes the employees pay either, because they won't be here.
We have been waiting too long for the government deficit to completely explode. Continue the good work of accelerating the process.
+1 for you, if I had mod points today.
Blackberry has some years left. At the moment, the only people who can put the final nail in RIM's coffin are RIM.
And an extended outage is not trying very hard to do that how?
The Ghost of Steve has better things to do than haunt the Ghost of RIM.
Whoosh!
The one that explained it seems to be the only one needing an explanation.
Who cares about that outage, Id buy a blackberry before a stupid iPhone anytime, you know, something working better without paying extra money for a ugly design.
Yet this comment is posted on an article about Blackberries being down for 3 days. Irony is so ironic.
Why would the cops want to stifle someone who is doing their jobs better than they are without pay? There is certainly no conflict of interest there.
So, you are against the police?
Oh wait, too many of the donut eaters couldn't survive a single, serious martial arts workout. So we give them Tasers and guns. But that didn't do anything about the delusions. And yes, many of them are more deluded than the "superhero" group.
You look down on these guys and call them deluded when the are helping others. The folks they helped are exceptionally grateful these guys are around.
Hopefully you never need someone bigger and stronger to defend you. If you do, please inform your defender that you think he is delusional before he helps you. That way he can let you get beaten or killed rather than receive help from someone you mock.
Whoosh
Now it is c+1?
+1,000,000 internets to you.
You understanding of how laws are made is flawed. Everyone may want A and agree the law will do A. However, if you write down B, and B becomes law, than B is the law, no matter how much you really want it to be A.
There is no evidence to support that the ratifiers of the 14th amendment desired it to affect the bill of rights.
1. You have evidence to the contrary? Which, even if you did is moot because,
2. It makes no difference what their desire was. What matters is what was written and passed into law.
A simple rounding error when converting from Library of Congresses.
Your user fees have been refunded. Go hang out on Facebook.