You think you're so smart with your bold "1929" correction and wikipedia quote. (1) I did not say "great" depression. I just said depression. (2) This country has had a LOT of depressions in its history, not just one. There was a depression that started in late 1921 and lasted throughout 1922.
The government did not bailout any companies, which means they died, and the economy was booming by 1923 because all the bad debt had been cleaned out. THIS is what the government should have done in 2008, rather than bailouts (corporate welfare). But no. Instead we just made the debt/derivatives bubble bigger and it will pop... probably before the end of the decade.
>>>And how do you think a 3rd party overtook one of the top 2 parties?
It didn't. One of the top 2 parties disappeared, and that left a vacuum to be filled. Therefore for the LP to win, either the GOP or DNC would have to die..... and I don't see that happening between now and election day.
Good luck with any company trying to track it. In fact my phone is so old, it has an analog transceiver for use on old networks (like rural Wyoming). So I don't care if my company TRIES to track me; they will fail.
Xbox 360 is the 2nd best. Which means it lost. And not just a minor loss, but only 1/2 as many sales as Nintendo. That's like an Olympic marathon where the 2nd place guy shows-up an hour after the gold medalist. Granted it's better than last time when Xbox was outsold 130 million to 30 million by PS2, but still nothing to brag about.
>>>I have seen both Firefox and Chrome take 1GB+ of ram,
That's been my observation as well, and I actually HAVE a 512 MB system. I have to close-and-reopen chrome about once an hour to free-up the RAM. And with Firefox I just continue using Firefox 4, since it's well behaved with small memory amounts. (I'm afraid what the latest version would be like... probably a hog like chrome)
>>>Reminds me less of cars, more of 1995, when everyone was bagging on Microsoft for being behind the curve on browsers. The world was going to be Netscape soon! MS has a pretty good track record of catching up to markets that didn't see coming. >>> Well yeah it's easy when you (1) Buy someone else's ready-made browser called Mosaic, make a few changes, and rename it Explorer. (2) Have the dominant OS. Just include the new program with your $200 OS, and no way can Netscape compete because they can't afford to give it away for free.
But Microsoft doesn't have #2 this time around. In the mobile world it is Apple & Google that hold that dominant OS.
BTW I've stayed loyal to Netscape/Mozilla all these years. No way am I going to support Microsoft if I can avoid it. I use the OS because I need to run the same software as work (like Visio), but use free alternatives otherwise.
I approve of this message. We need an alternative that can run Windows programs, but is not windows. Just like we have alternatives to MS Office, MS Media Player, MS Explorer, and MS Visio.
Yes it's overkill. It's just a damn movie (or TV show). Especially since most of the sound isn't even real. It's just guys in a studio banging on drums and other crap to insert footsteps, closing doors, and other fake effects.
I corrected my mistake right here, in that same topic. Maybe if you stopping hating, your eyes would clear-up and you'd be able to SEE the posts right in front of you:
It's actually 1 billion not 1 trillion (oops). Still my point stands: The politicians let guys him & other megacorps go slide w/o consequences, but instead go after us who owe just 0.0001% as much. Why? Because the rich & corporations buy immunity.
If you were living during the Cold War, and seen this movie, that's pretty much what it did. I've always thought an emotional purging was educational. That movie certainly made me "wake up" and realize how dangerous it is to toy with war (especially if our victims have nuclear-equipped allies like Russia).
>>>"Just rammed it through" def'n: any legislation that passes that you don't like.
Actually the Maryland Democrats do pass some good laws. Like the recent decision to allow a student to attend any public school in the state they choose. But the reason I said "ram it through" is because the Republican legislators have no power. They could stay at home and it would make absolutely no difference.
As for "majority rules" Democracy..... well ask the Executed Socrates how he feels about it. He was murdered by a simple democratic vote (they didn't like his speeches so they killed him). That's why Maryland and all the other States are REPUBLICS (rule of law & protection of basic human rights), not democracies.
Well I have this novel idea that the People's House of Representatives should actually BE the People's House, and that they should have a direct-vote on final passage of any bill. That wasn't possible in the 1780s when the Constitution was originally designed, but its certainly possible now. We need representatives to write laws and hold meetings, but we no longer need them to vote on our behalf. (I guess you prefer the current method where the House is controlled by the corporations who buy politicians and votes.)
>>>Movies, not reason, dictates their city policy.
It all depends upon your viewpoint. The Greeks believed that plays (which is what a movie is: a film play) can not just entertain but also educate the audience. If I recall my AP english terms correctly, they called it "catharasis".
I guess the Maryland Democrats who run this city experienced catharsis after viewing the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, and decided to no longer be part of any weapon manufacturing business.
>>>At no point do you mention you're talking about the sets for then entire series.
QUOTING THE GUY I WAS TALKING TO AND MYSELF. Do you see where I said 8 seasons? I'll bold it for you:
>>>Say I want to watch two hours of television per week..... that's ~$7/year. >> >>$7 for 104 hours? That's equivalent to eight seasons of Doctor Who..... The Season Set DVDs would be $400 alone......
It's actually 1 billion not 1 trillion (oops). Still my point stands: The politicians let guys like Buffett, his company, and CEOs go slide w/o consequences. BUT if one of us owes money they hit us hard, even when we owe just 0.0001% as much as the Big dogs owe. Why? Because the rich & corporations buy immunity from politicians via donations.
I have better things to do with my time (and money and gasoline) then to drive to the booth and vote 3rd party for president. In the entire history of the Republic no third party has ever won the executive..... it has always been the top 2 parties.
And although I am a Republican I have to agree that Romney probably will be worse than Obama. Romney said he wants to take us to war against Iran, which will escalate to a war with Russia, which will be hell. Obama at least wants to keep us at peace (he says).
Thanks. Your wikipedia quotation is UNSOURCED and therefore invalid. For all I know the wiki-editor enjoys writing fiction, and made-up the quote on the spot. Got something better?
>>>Bagging groceries isn't going to help your coding abilities but if it gives you enough breathing room to prevent a loan shark from taking advantage of you in college, I'd take that option.
My college advisor steered me away from doing that. He said having a high GPA will net me FAR more money long-term, then the measly 7/hour at a store. At the time I didn't listen to him (I still worked 15 hours/week) but in retrospect he was right. My current yearly income is 35 times larger than that crappy store job, and I wonder how much more-advanced in my career I would be if my GPA was closer to 4.0, because I had more time to study and get better grades.
>>>So you are doing the exact thing the RIAA is trying to stop?
Maybe the record companies should make their songs (like Prince's songs) AVAILABLE on youtube, so I can hear them legally. If they fail to do that then I guess I have no other choice but to acquire them via black market.
>>>So you imply that because European world didn't know other cultures beyond what you see now,
No. I'm saying under the Roman Empire, they had the common tongue of Latin. Whether you were in Rome, or a thousand miles away in Britannia or Spain, you could communicate. AFTER the fall of Rome the single language diverged into dozens of tongues/dialects, and you could no longer communicate with a neighbor a mere hundred miles away. My point: Europe was better-off sharing one language that everyone spoke in 500 A.D. It provided commonality and community.
>>>you're not forced to vote, you're forced to go to the voting booth with a ballot.
Still FORCE. I don't want to waste my time, money, or gasoline driving to the booth, especially given our present choice (Obomba or Rmoney). I am a freman, not a serf to be ordered to do things I do not want to do.
>>>They charge more for service depending on what phone you have? Sheesh.
Actually they charge LESS because it's an iphone. It's a discount. Ya know, like stores often do. Motel6 gave me a 10% discount for reserving online..... PizzaHut gave me $1 off for ordering online..... VirginMobile gives $5 discount for iPhone users who pay online. (They also give a $5 discount for PayLo users.)
>>>The reason why TARP passed was because without it we would have fallen into the Great Depression II
There was no TARP for the Depression of 1922, and that only lasted a year. And then it was done. Because the bad debt/companies were erased, and then the economy recovered. THAT is what we should have done this time around. (Instead the debt/leveraged derivatives are WORSE now then they were in 2008.)
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You think you're so smart with your bold "1929" correction and wikipedia quote. (1) I did not say "great" depression. I just said depression. (2) This country has had a LOT of depressions in its history, not just one. There was a depression that started in late 1921 and lasted throughout 1922.
The government did not bailout any companies, which means they died, and the economy was booming by 1923 because all the bad debt had been cleaned out. THIS is what the government should have done in 2008, rather than bailouts (corporate welfare). But no. Instead we just made the debt/derivatives bubble bigger and it will pop... probably before the end of the decade.
>>>And how do you think a 3rd party overtook one of the top 2 parties?
It didn't. One of the top 2 parties disappeared, and that left a vacuum to be filled. Therefore for the LP to win, either the GOP or DNC would have to die..... and I don't see that happening between now and election day.
Nude images/videos are legal in the U.S. regardless of age. (Besides I thought they were all 18 now?)
Here's iCarly.
Here's iCarly enhanced..... you can see right through their shirts! (Watch; you'll see.)
Good luck with any company trying to track it. In fact my phone is so old, it has an analog transceiver for use on old networks (like rural Wyoming). So I don't care if my company TRIES to track me; they will fail.
>>>You mean the second-best selling console
Xbox 360 is the 2nd best. Which means it lost. And not just a minor loss, but only 1/2 as many sales as Nintendo. That's like an Olympic marathon where the 2nd place guy shows-up an hour after the gold medalist. Granted it's better than last time when Xbox was outsold 130 million to 30 million by PS2, but still nothing to brag about.
>>> Kindle Fire is the best selling Android-based tablet and they can't even call it Android.
Why not? Surely Amazon can advertise it as "andoid kindle" if they wish. (Do the older black-and-white kindles have android software?)
>>>I have seen both Firefox and Chrome take 1GB+ of ram,
That's been my observation as well, and I actually HAVE a 512 MB system. I have to close-and-reopen chrome about once an hour to free-up the RAM. And with Firefox I just continue using Firefox 4, since it's well behaved with small memory amounts. (I'm afraid what the latest version would be like... probably a hog like chrome)
>>>Reminds me less of cars, more of 1995, when everyone was bagging on Microsoft for being behind the curve on browsers. The world was going to be Netscape soon! MS has a pretty good track record of catching up to markets that didn't see coming.
>>>
Well yeah it's easy when you (1) Buy someone else's ready-made browser called Mosaic, make a few changes, and rename it Explorer. (2) Have the dominant OS. Just include the new program with your $200 OS, and no way can Netscape compete because they can't afford to give it away for free.
But Microsoft doesn't have #2 this time around. In the mobile world it is Apple & Google that hold that dominant OS.
BTW I've stayed loyal to Netscape/Mozilla all these years. No way am I going to support Microsoft if I can avoid it. I use the OS because I need to run the same software as work (like Visio), but use free alternatives otherwise.
I approve of this message. We need an alternative that can run Windows programs, but is not windows. Just like we have alternatives to MS Office, MS Media Player, MS Explorer, and MS Visio.
Yes it's overkill.
It's just a damn movie (or TV show). Especially since most of the sound isn't even real. It's just guys in a studio banging on drums and other crap to insert footsteps, closing doors, and other fake effects.
I corrected my mistake right here, in that same topic. Maybe if you stopping hating, your eyes would clear-up and you'd be able to SEE the posts right in front of you:
Re:I don't see the outrage (Score:2)
by cpu6502 (1960974) on Friday June 15, @06:55AM (#40337971)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/warren-buffett-taxes-berkshire-hathaway_n_941099.html [huffingtonpost.com]
It's actually 1 billion not 1 trillion (oops). Still my point stands: The politicians let guys him & other megacorps go slide w/o consequences, but instead go after us who owe just 0.0001% as much. Why? Because the rich & corporations buy immunity.
Corporations that paid zero taxes:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/150387/2_3rds_of_us_corporations_pay_zero_federal_taxes%3A_us_uncut_movement_builds_to_make_them_pay_up [alternet.org]
If you were living during the Cold War, and seen this movie, that's pretty much what it did. I've always thought an emotional purging was educational. That movie certainly made me "wake up" and realize how dangerous it is to toy with war (especially if our victims have nuclear-equipped allies like Russia).
>>>"Just rammed it through" def'n: any legislation that passes that you don't like.
Actually the Maryland Democrats do pass some good laws. Like the recent decision to allow a student to attend any public school in the state they choose. But the reason I said "ram it through" is because the Republican legislators have no power. They could stay at home and it would make absolutely no difference.
As for "majority rules" Democracy..... well ask the Executed Socrates how he feels about it. He was murdered by a simple democratic vote (they didn't like his speeches so they killed him). That's why Maryland and all the other States are REPUBLICS (rule of law & protection of basic human rights), not democracies.
Well I have this novel idea that the People's House of Representatives should actually BE the People's House, and that they should have a direct-vote on final passage of any bill. That wasn't possible in the 1780s when the Constitution was originally designed, but its certainly possible now. We need representatives to write laws and hold meetings, but we no longer need them to vote on our behalf. (I guess you prefer the current method where the House is controlled by the corporations who buy politicians and votes.)
>>>Movies, not reason, dictates their city policy.
It all depends upon your viewpoint. The Greeks believed that plays (which is what a movie is: a film play) can not just entertain but also educate the audience. If I recall my AP english terms correctly, they called it "catharasis".
I guess the Maryland Democrats who run this city experienced catharsis after viewing the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, and decided to no longer be part of any weapon manufacturing business.
>>>At no point do you mention you're talking about the sets for then entire series.
QUOTING THE GUY I WAS TALKING TO AND MYSELF. Do you see where I said 8 seasons? I'll bold it for you:
>>>Say I want to watch two hours of television per week..... that's ~$7/year.
>>
>>$7 for 104 hours? That's equivalent to eight seasons of Doctor Who..... The Season Set DVDs would be $400 alone......
Citation - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/warren-buffett-taxes-berkshire-hathaway_n_941099.html
It's actually 1 billion not 1 trillion (oops). Still my point stands: The politicians let guys like Buffett, his company, and CEOs go slide w/o consequences. BUT if one of us owes money they hit us hard, even when we owe just 0.0001% as much as the Big dogs owe. Why? Because the rich & corporations buy immunity from politicians via donations.
Corporations that paid zero taxes:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/150387/2_3rds_of_us_corporations_pay_zero_federal_taxes%3A_us_uncut_movement_builds_to_make_them_pay_up
I have better things to do with my time (and money and gasoline) then to drive to the booth and vote 3rd party for president. In the entire history of the Republic no third party has ever won the executive..... it has always been the top 2 parties.
And although I am a Republican I have to agree that Romney probably will be worse than Obama. Romney said he wants to take us to war against Iran, which will escalate to a war with Russia, which will be hell. Obama at least wants to keep us at peace (he says).
Thanks. Your wikipedia quotation is UNSOURCED and therefore invalid. For all I know the wiki-editor enjoys writing fiction, and made-up the quote on the spot. Got something better?
>>>Bagging groceries isn't going to help your coding abilities but if it gives you enough breathing room to prevent a loan shark from taking advantage of you in college, I'd take that option.
My college advisor steered me away from doing that. He said having a high GPA will net me FAR more money long-term, then the measly 7/hour at a store. At the time I didn't listen to him (I still worked 15 hours/week) but in retrospect he was right. My current yearly income is 35 times larger than that crappy store job, and I wonder how much more-advanced in my career I would be if my GPA was closer to 4.0, because I had more time to study and get better grades.
>>>So you are doing the exact thing the RIAA is trying to stop?
Maybe the record companies should make their songs (like Prince's songs) AVAILABLE on youtube, so I can hear them legally. If they fail to do that then I guess I have no other choice but to acquire them via black market.
>>>So you imply that because European world didn't know other cultures beyond what you see now,
No. I'm saying under the Roman Empire, they had the common tongue of Latin. Whether you were in Rome, or a thousand miles away in Britannia or Spain, you could communicate. AFTER the fall of Rome the single language diverged into dozens of tongues/dialects, and you could no longer communicate with a neighbor a mere hundred miles away. My point: Europe was better-off sharing one language that everyone spoke in 500 A.D. It provided commonality and community.
>>>you're not forced to vote, you're forced to go to the voting booth with a ballot.
Still FORCE. I don't want to waste my time, money, or gasoline driving to the booth, especially given our present choice (Obomba or Rmoney). I am a freman, not a serf to be ordered to do things I do not want to do.
>>>They charge more for service depending on what phone you have? Sheesh.
Actually they charge LESS because it's an iphone. It's a discount. Ya know, like stores often do. Motel6 gave me a 10% discount for reserving online..... PizzaHut gave me $1 off for ordering online..... VirginMobile gives $5 discount for iPhone users who pay online. (They also give a $5 discount for PayLo users.)
>>>The reason why TARP passed was because without it we would have fallen into the Great Depression II
There was no TARP for the Depression of 1922, and that only lasted a year. And then it was done. Because the bad debt/companies were erased, and then the economy recovered. THAT is what we should have done this time around. (Instead the debt/leveraged derivatives are WORSE now then they were in 2008.)