This is 90% of the problem today with the elimination of the inheritance tax that the founding fathers instituted. They wanted to prohibit the creation of an aristocracy to prevent a plutocracy from taking over and ruining the representative democracy they envisioned.
This is too true. I don't think copyright is the real evil here, the fact that it is so abused by a small group of elite and powerful with an army of lawyers and lobbyists is the real problem. If copyright laws maintained an reasonable amount of time for copyright protection then it would serve the intended purpose which is to protect the artist, not the industry or corporate machine built upon said IP. I don't think anyone's grandchildren should be able to paris hilton (I'm not directly using her biographically as an example, just metaphorically) around because their great-great-grandfather wrote a catchy tune 68 years ago.
I have to agree with this. Several of people I graduated with (networking degree) were so stupid I doubt they could count to 10 without using their fingers. One of the most unintelligent people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing just happened to have an MBA. I'm not saying the MBA made him stupid, but the fact that he was not as smart at my dachshund and was able to get an MBA does not speak highly of the degree.
Its only hypocrisy if the mob had at some point claimed higher ground than this asshat, but at no point has the internet mob claimed to be anything more than a hate machine for great justice.
He's a typical douche that decided to go into marketing because he wanted to feel important for only knowing people and not actually doing anything of real importance. Marketing people are more often than not total tools, but this guy gets the dick badge for taking his over inflated ego out on a customer.
Read below before you start going all fan boy. I routinely have problems with that shitty catalyst software on a wide numbers of computers in the shop I work. It's experience talking. So I guess you could count your trolling as unsuccessful.
I'm speaking as a technician that works in a shop that uses almost exclusively ATI cards and having experienced many many problems caused DIRECTLY by shitty ATI drivers.
You're still completely full of shit. Being AC doesn't not make it so, it just means you lack the courage to be honest about your convictions because you obviously don't believe them enough to defend them without hiding.
So does investing in stock really create jobs? Our current economy would speak to the contrary. In fact, one could argue with all the evidence on their side that pushing more wealth to the wealthy does not create jobs since it disincentivizes job creation. The job market has continued to shrink while the wealth of the top 4% of Americans has done nothing but increase. Cutting taxes on investments and capital gains does not create an incentive to build factories or make jobs, all it does is reward people for gambling on things like shorting stocks and complex derivatives. So for all of your "job creation" rhetoric, there is absolutely no factual evidence.
That is true, money cannot be created simply by having it, except in the case of interest. However if I have $100K and buy $100K worth of $10 dollar stocks then when I sell them after the stock goes up to $12, I will have a profit of $20K which would then allow me to buy more of the same and turn the same deal. If you really think that the government is enriching the upper class and not the sheer volume of wealth they control, then there is no real point in explaining anything to you, you've already drank the Fox News Kool-aid.
Exactly. It is easier to make more money when you already have a shitload of it. When you open the coffers and cut all restrictions for people to make obscene amounts of money nearly tax free then you are only allowing the upperclasses to get richer while handicapping the middle and lower classes by destroying the infrastructure of the nation as well as any real incentive for people to actually create jobs. They are already filthy stinking rich, why in the hell do they need to create jobs to make more money?
Limited Government died a while back, and Social Inequity is rising. The Left needs to help the Tea Party bring back Limited Government before society has no one that fares well, save nobility.
You're joking right? The biggest threat to this country is unrestricted growth of the upper class on the backs of the lower classes. The government does have a very important place in the lives of the populace, and one of the primary roles is to protect it citizenry from abuses just like SOPA. Limiting government too much just give the businesses more power. The government ostensibly has the serve the populace. The corporation only has to serve its shareholders and they don't have to give a good god damn about your rights as an individual unless you have a vested interest in the company. Cutting social welfare just to give economic welfare to corporations and the wealthy are exactly the agenda that the tea party, knowingly or unknowingly are pushing with their idiotic "no taxes on job creators" nonsense. Seemingly, the whole agenda of the tea party is social inequity through government limitation and unrestricted economic incentives for the wealthy.
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My good sir, the war on poverty is going swimmingly. Just look at how many more people we have put into poverty by declaring a war on them.
Also, get off his lawn!
This is 90% of the problem today with the elimination of the inheritance tax that the founding fathers instituted. They wanted to prohibit the creation of an aristocracy to prevent a plutocracy from taking over and ruining the representative democracy they envisioned.
This is too true. I don't think copyright is the real evil here, the fact that it is so abused by a small group of elite and powerful with an army of lawyers and lobbyists is the real problem. If copyright laws maintained an reasonable amount of time for copyright protection then it would serve the intended purpose which is to protect the artist, not the industry or corporate machine built upon said IP. I don't think anyone's grandchildren should be able to paris hilton (I'm not directly using her biographically as an example, just metaphorically) around because their great-great-grandfather wrote a catchy tune 68 years ago.
This is the most awesome thing in the history of forever. My good sir, you win forever.
I have to agree with this. Several of people I graduated with (networking degree) were so stupid I doubt they could count to 10 without using their fingers. One of the most unintelligent people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing just happened to have an MBA. I'm not saying the MBA made him stupid, but the fact that he was not as smart at my dachshund and was able to get an MBA does not speak highly of the degree.
Its only hypocrisy if the mob had at some point claimed higher ground than this asshat, but at no point has the internet mob claimed to be anything more than a hate machine for great justice.
He's a typical douche that decided to go into marketing because he wanted to feel important for only knowing people and not actually doing anything of real importance. Marketing people are more often than not total tools, but this guy gets the dick badge for taking his over inflated ego out on a customer.
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Sounds like tech support to me.
My mistake, I did indeed mean plants. That was quite idiotic of me.
But Mendel never cross bred a pea with a firefly.
Genetic engineering doesn't splice food with animals either. Try and find a reliable source for your idiotic hysteria.
Read below before you start going all fan boy. I routinely have problems with that shitty catalyst software on a wide numbers of computers in the shop I work. It's experience talking. So I guess you could count your trolling as unsuccessful.
I'm speaking as a technician that works in a shop that uses almost exclusively ATI cards and having experienced many many problems caused DIRECTLY by shitty ATI drivers.
...that AMD can't put out a video driver that isn't total garbage.
I'd say he is trying to counter-troll them.
The deliciousness comes from the fact that it had a mother, you can almost taste the innocence!
This. Drive reliability doesn't save data, backing up data saves data, nothing more and nothing less.
If you're not ready to "come out of the closet" then you are ashamed of who you are, plain and simple. The argument is already over.
You're still completely full of shit. Being AC doesn't not make it so, it just means you lack the courage to be honest about your convictions because you obviously don't believe them enough to defend them without hiding.
So does investing in stock really create jobs? Our current economy would speak to the contrary. In fact, one could argue with all the evidence on their side that pushing more wealth to the wealthy does not create jobs since it disincentivizes job creation. The job market has continued to shrink while the wealth of the top 4% of Americans has done nothing but increase. Cutting taxes on investments and capital gains does not create an incentive to build factories or make jobs, all it does is reward people for gambling on things like shorting stocks and complex derivatives. So for all of your "job creation" rhetoric, there is absolutely no factual evidence.
That is true, money cannot be created simply by having it, except in the case of interest. However if I have $100K and buy $100K worth of $10 dollar stocks then when I sell them after the stock goes up to $12, I will have a profit of $20K which would then allow me to buy more of the same and turn the same deal. If you really think that the government is enriching the upper class and not the sheer volume of wealth they control, then there is no real point in explaining anything to you, you've already drank the Fox News Kool-aid.
So you're completely full of shit is that why you're posting AC?
Exactly. It is easier to make more money when you already have a shitload of it. When you open the coffers and cut all restrictions for people to make obscene amounts of money nearly tax free then you are only allowing the upperclasses to get richer while handicapping the middle and lower classes by destroying the infrastructure of the nation as well as any real incentive for people to actually create jobs. They are already filthy stinking rich, why in the hell do they need to create jobs to make more money?
Limited Government died a while back, and Social Inequity is rising. The Left needs to help the Tea Party bring back Limited Government before society has no one that fares well, save nobility.
You're joking right? The biggest threat to this country is unrestricted growth of the upper class on the backs of the lower classes. The government does have a very important place in the lives of the populace, and one of the primary roles is to protect it citizenry from abuses just like SOPA. Limiting government too much just give the businesses more power. The government ostensibly has the serve the populace. The corporation only has to serve its shareholders and they don't have to give a good god damn about your rights as an individual unless you have a vested interest in the company. Cutting social welfare just to give economic welfare to corporations and the wealthy are exactly the agenda that the tea party, knowingly or unknowingly are pushing with their idiotic "no taxes on job creators" nonsense. Seemingly, the whole agenda of the tea party is social inequity through government limitation and unrestricted economic incentives for the wealthy.