More to the point, those same big business interests are getting hit pretty hard by patent trolls of all kinds. It's really in the interest of big business to support patent reform. Most big businesses don't use patents to squash competitors, they use other more effective tools.
48 Republicans can't even agree to raise the debt ceiling with out dragging their feet. As much as I do think this administration has been meek, the political calculus is in extremely weird places. Common wisdom wasn't even that wise to begin with but even that's gone out the window.
Sure, but i'm guessing you left college with either an MS in something marketable, or you otherwise independently had marketable skills.
Most people who leave college with such degrees... Don't. Fareeh Zakaria had a great piece about the state of American higher ed. While I think we do need musicians, artists, philosophers, writers, poets, and the humanities... There's a hard reality that going into those fields isn't profitable unless you're insanely lucky or you have career aspirations elsewhere(having a Philosophy or English degree would be a great starting point for someone who'd be going into post-graduate work in law for instance).
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, John Boehner...
I could name off a list of honest politicians, but, hey, who am I to get in the way of a good out of control tirade?
The real problem here isn't honesty, it's that they're too honest. The Rs want to hate fuck you. The D's want to actually do something funny we used to do in this country called "policy" and "lawmaking"
Sure, revolution then what? What plans do you have for interstate grazing rights? What plans do you have for jobs? Repairing infrastructure? What plans do you have for the hojillion issues we face everyday as a nation that aren't on the forefront of national politics?
"America isn't easy, America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad."
not only that but during his stump speeches he made it pretty awfully clear that this would take some hard work on the ground and this wasn't going to happen over night.
This would be a giant tax cut for the absurdly wealthy and atleast a kick in the pants to the middle class, and possibly a kick in the pants to the lower classes. Even if the bottom isn't completely screwed by the income tax, the middle is going to get a huge squeeze and the guys who could really afford to take it in the pants, the rich, get off easy. When you're in the upper tax brackets, the 20, 10, and 1 percent ranges, you're going to be spending less in terms of percent of your income, on the basic necessities of life. Even if you live lavishly. You're not going to hit the 100% usage levels that those in the lower middle and lower classes hit.
This would be incredibly bad.
FactCheck also did a great run down on the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax isn't fair. It'll crunch those of us who are in the middle pretty hard. Fact Check figures that If you make more than 15k a year but less than $200k a year, you're taking it in the shorts. Given that the federal minimum wage is 15.08k a year at full time, nearly everyone who's got full time work is going to get pretty hard by this. Even if you play with the numbers, the middle class gets screwed by a "fair" tax that well, isn't fair.
Yes, this is assuming that certain numbers are true, however, no matter what numbers you pick for the bottom end to receive, in order for this to be revenue neutral, someone has to get screwed.
Of course, under a progressive income tax, those at the bottom pay less, and those at the top pay more. The 1%'ers can afford the extra percentage points in their income. The 99%ers can't.
Do we remember the guy who invented the screw or do we remember the guy who invented the screw head that was easy to use(Philips)?
We remember guys like Gutenberg, Edison, Tesla and Jobs is that they put themselves in the open to have their ideas told to the world. The reason why Dennis Ritchie didn't get remembered the same way steve jobs did was simply because he kept his head low and didn't make noise about his accomplishments.
RMS gave us emacs. Of course he has no grip on how normal people work. Bill Joy gave us vi, while that's no better, he doesnt have a list of bizarre demands.
OEMS were forced to only include MS' bootloader. There was a huge hullabaloo where Hitachi wanted to ship a line of machines with both Be and Windows. Unfortunately, MS said no. MS settled the antitrust case out of court for a goddamned pittance.
The whole browser antitrust suit was bullshit to begin with. Or at least the merits of it. The not allowing of alt browsers is hardly MS's biggest transgression. Not allowing for alternative boot loaders was.
How much do you want to bet the Firefox with Bing was an attempt to placate the doj when they announced this? "Sure you can ship an alternate browser, this Firefox bundle with Bing sure is attractive..."
Nissan put out the Leaf. Then Strve Jobs died. Therefore using Ron Paul's logic, the Nissan Leaf killed Steve Jobs.
This is hardly his first foray into this field of fallacy. We take the dollar off of the gold standard, then the economy collapses! Never mind the decades in between...
He makes a bald assertion with no evidence to back it up. I'm asking for his evidence. If there's good evidence showing that there's a link between rising college costs and the student loan program, then we start figuring out how to solve the problem based on the evidence.
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Oh jesus spare me the fucking conspiracy.
Seriously? This is "insightful?"
More to the point, those same big business interests are getting hit pretty hard by patent trolls of all kinds. It's really in the interest of big business to support patent reform. Most big businesses don't use patents to squash competitors, they use other more effective tools.
48 Republicans can't even agree to raise the debt ceiling with out dragging their feet. As much as I do think this administration has been meek, the political calculus is in extremely weird places. Common wisdom wasn't even that wise to begin with but even that's gone out the window.
Sure, but i'm guessing you left college with either an MS in something marketable, or you otherwise independently had marketable skills.
Most people who leave college with such degrees... Don't. Fareeh Zakaria had a great piece about the state of American higher ed. While I think we do need musicians, artists, philosophers, writers, poets, and the humanities... There's a hard reality that going into those fields isn't profitable unless you're insanely lucky or you have career aspirations elsewhere(having a Philosophy or English degree would be a great starting point for someone who'd be going into post-graduate work in law for instance).
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich, John Boehner...
I could name off a list of honest politicians, but, hey, who am I to get in the way of a good out of control tirade?
The real problem here isn't honesty, it's that they're too honest. The Rs want to hate fuck you. The D's want to actually do something funny we used to do in this country called "policy" and "lawmaking"
Jeez you nuts are out in force tonight.
Sure, revolution then what? What plans do you have for interstate grazing rights? What plans do you have for jobs? Repairing infrastructure? What plans do you have for the hojillion issues we face everyday as a nation that aren't on the forefront of national politics?
"America isn't easy, America is advanced citizenship. You've got to want it bad."
not only that but during his stump speeches he made it pretty awfully clear that this would take some hard work on the ground and this wasn't going to happen over night.
err, no?
This would be a giant tax cut for the absurdly wealthy and atleast a kick in the pants to the middle class, and possibly a kick in the pants to the lower classes. Even if the bottom isn't completely screwed by the income tax, the middle is going to get a huge squeeze and the guys who could really afford to take it in the pants, the rich, get off easy. When you're in the upper tax brackets, the 20, 10, and 1 percent ranges, you're going to be spending less in terms of percent of your income, on the basic necessities of life. Even if you live lavishly. You're not going to hit the 100% usage levels that those in the lower middle and lower classes hit.
This would be incredibly bad.
FactCheck also did a great run down on the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax isn't fair. It'll crunch those of us who are in the middle pretty hard. Fact Check figures that If you make more than 15k a year but less than $200k a year, you're taking it in the shorts. Given that the federal minimum wage is 15.08k a year at full time, nearly everyone who's got full time work is going to get pretty hard by this. Even if you play with the numbers, the middle class gets screwed by a "fair" tax that well, isn't fair.
Yes, this is assuming that certain numbers are true, however, no matter what numbers you pick for the bottom end to receive, in order for this to be revenue neutral, someone has to get screwed.
Of course, under a progressive income tax, those at the bottom pay less, and those at the top pay more. The 1%'ers can afford the extra percentage points in their income. The 99%ers can't.
Fuck the rich.
Pretty good read.
tl;dr version: Fair tax isn't fair.
you don't know too many philosophy, sociology, english, music or arts majors do you?
I wouldn't use it to book flights.
"Watson, I need a flight to Chicago."
"Booking your flight for Toronto; would you like an isle seat or WHAT IS LEG?"
No.
I'm smart enough not to buy a device that will perpetually be out of date and unusable.
Do we remember the guy who invented the screw or do we remember the guy who invented the screw head that was easy to use(Philips)?
We remember guys like Gutenberg, Edison, Tesla and Jobs is that they put themselves in the open to have their ideas told to the world. The reason why Dennis Ritchie didn't get remembered the same way steve jobs did was simply because he kept his head low and didn't make noise about his accomplishments.
Instead, growing up on the west coast full of gullible idiots, I call myself a "holistic digital globalistic digital metaphysicist."
RMS gave us emacs. Of course he has no grip on how normal people work. Bill Joy gave us vi, while that's no better, he doesnt have a list of bizarre demands.
What if we all got him a plush toy parrot? Would he be amused or annoyed?
I upgraded my old 3GS to iOS 5 and it wasnt "too slow" or too old. The first thing I noticed when I got my 4s was the screen. Not the speed.
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you got a conjunction wrong, it was a rectangle *that* rounded corners.
I should've been more clear.
OEMS were forced to only include MS' bootloader. There was a huge hullabaloo where Hitachi wanted to ship a line of machines with both Be and Windows. Unfortunately, MS said no. MS settled the antitrust case out of court for a goddamned pittance.
The whole browser antitrust suit was bullshit to begin with. Or at least the merits of it. The not allowing of alt browsers is hardly MS's biggest transgression. Not allowing for alternative boot loaders was.
How much do you want to bet the Firefox with Bing was an attempt to placate the doj when they announced this? "Sure you can ship an alternate browser, this Firefox bundle with Bing sure is attractive..."
Id hate to break it to you but Winsock still shits itself.
That plus a bunch of design nags made me move to something else.
There's a huge logical fallacy here.
Nissan put out the Leaf. Then Strve Jobs died. Therefore using Ron Paul's logic, the Nissan Leaf killed Steve Jobs.
This is hardly his first foray into this field of fallacy. We take the dollar off of the gold standard, then the economy collapses! Never mind the decades in between...
He makes a bald assertion with no evidence to back it up. I'm asking for his evidence. If there's good evidence showing that there's a link between rising college costs and the student loan program, then we start figuring out how to solve the problem based on the evidence.
Oh boy. What does Ron have as proof?
oh I know, but my first impression was that they're kicking them while down.
I wonder what this is going to do to Clearwire's stock price. This is clearly a vote of no confidence in their network capacity.