Oh and the eligibility would be based on lifetime income. If you fell short at the end of your life, or had a period of unemployment in the middle, you would fall below..... say $3 million ($60,000 per year per person) then you could collect SS.
Simple. Do you get a pass on the Welfare or Food stamp or Unemployment taxes, even though you never collect? Do you get a pass on Government school tax, even though you never had kids, or you sent your kids to a private school?
>>>Rob the middle class so the rich can have even more tax cuts.
Actually I think the rich's income (over $10 million) should be taxed 100%. And capital gains tax should be a graduated tax just like income tax... the more you make the more you pay. Make Warrne Buffett pay more.
AND I think the first $100,000 should be 0% income tax (though you still have to pay state and sales and gas and electric tax). So your attempt to paint me as some kind of anti-middle-class, pro-rich republican has failed. And for the record: I also hate corporations.
>>>Would you also be amazed to discover that Microsoft holds a monopoly because its products are better than the competition's?
Yes. I don't see how IE is any better than Firefox, seaMonkey, or Opera. Or Lotus Notes better than Thunderbird. I don't see how Office is any better than OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. I don't see how WMP is any better than VLC Player or Winamp. I don't see how MS Torrent... oh wait they don't have that... well I use uTorrent.
About the only Microsoft product I use at home is Windows (it came free with the hardware). Everything else is non-microsoft.
What do you need an app for? You can get these magazines through Safari browser! Almost all of them are free on the web. (The only ones I still pay for are Asimovs and F&SF magazines, since their content is locked up.)
>>>the media are purposely not covering and reporting Paul and keeping people in the dark.
99% true. But the other 1% of the time, when they actually do report on Paul, it's to tell tell us he is either nuts or unelectable, and he doesn't stand a chance (even though he's in a solid second place in the delegate count). Do I think Paul will beat Romney?
No. But he did do better than the other 15 candidates... he came in a strong second. The TV media's decision to tell everyone that Paul should be ignored was a violation of their journalistic oath. They are supposed to REPORT the news, not tell us how to think. Or try to rig an election.
>>>If you call it GNULinux, Ubuntu and its derivatives aren't for you anyway.
Why not? Ubuntu is running on the GNU core with the linux front end, plus desktop. It is entirely accurate to call it what it is: Ubuntu variant of GNUlinix.
>>>PC games are orders of magnitude cheaper and you only need one computer with a good video card
My $250 Win7 PC doesn't run the latest games. It doesn't even play HD video at proper speed (480p is the best it can do). On the other hand my PS3 does play the latest games. I'll continue using the PS3 (and Nintendo wii) for my entertainment.
>>>pharmacology classes where they explained exactly who is responsible for what part of the drug discovery process
Yeah I'm sure the liberal professors really told you the truth (not). Just as they claim 100% socialism is the answer to all our problems. Professors have opinions, but if those opinions are not backed by anything, then they are worthless. You could have cited some examples where only government provides us with new drugs..... but you didn't. So you did not prove your claim.
>>>It's not likely that the thief will steal just the one item and never offend again
A common misconception. Studies show that most people have committed at least one crime, usually petty theft, and never done it again. Just as many people have smoked weed, or hired a stripper, and never done it again. The "if you steal once, you'll steal again" belief is a myth.
If you look at Ron Paul's plan to cut 990 billion dollars, that's essentially what he does. The bulk of the savings comes from stopping the killing of foreigners, while the last third comes from merging departments together for greater efficiency.
But ya know..... Paul is nuts. Why would we listen to a nutty idea like promoting peace & increasing efficiency? It's craaaaazy. So the Cable News tells me.;-)
>>>Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.
One simplification is to make SS and M like the food stamps program..... a needs-based system designed to help the 20-30 million poor persons. Those of us who have money will buy our own retirement through saving, our own medicine/insurance, and our own food at the store.
>>>Because Kim Dotcom is an innocent angel, right?
As a matter of fact YES he is innocent in the eyes of the law. It is now the job of the government to demonstrate why he is not inocent (which the judge overseeing the case says is unlikely, because they did not have authority to seize the items).
>>>You make the idiot pay for the police investigation, and some more.
No because most of these idiots don't have the money.... that's why they stole in the first place. Better for police to weigh the cost of an investigation. If it costs $1000 to recover a $200 phone, it's not worth it. The police chief can buy his kid a new phone.
If it costs $1000 to recover 3000 dollars worth of phones..... then go for it. This is the same analysis a private insurance company does: Do they fix your car after it's recovered... or do they just hand you $500 and junk it. In my case the car was 20 years old so they junked it. Police need to do the same cost-benefit analysis.
You do realize when you censor my post and make it invisible with a -1 Mod, I'll just repost it right? I am entitled to hold an opinion even if you disagree with it
ANSWER: Because trying to make a game work on a PC is an exercise in frustration. I quit PC gaming in the late 90s when I couldn't make several games install without getting errors (or else they installed but kept crashing). It wasn't like the old days of the Atari or Commodore or Amiga gaming when the game *just worked* straight out of the box.
Wintel PC gaming sucks. It is an exercise in banging your head against the desk out of frustration that the damn game won't work. I prefer the plug-and-play ease of my old PCs (Atari, Commodore, etc) and modern day consoles. So do most customers which is why console games sell millions of copies, while PC games barely sell a few thousand.
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>>>It's not like I've taken medical pharmacology classes where they explained exactly who is responsible for what part of the drug discovery process
Yeah I'm sure the liberal professors really told you the truth (not). Just as they claim 100% socialism is the answer to all our problems (not). ANYWAY you could have cited some examples where only government provides us with new drugs..... but you didn't. So you did not prove your claim.
Thanks for modding me down jackass. You could have INFORMED me of that fact without punishing me with a -1 whip. (And if it wasn't you, then I direct my comment to the other fucker that did it.)
Never mind. I reread the summary... it was stolen. Nevertheless I STILL don't think it's worthwhile to spend $1000 to recover a $200 item. That's just very, very bad financial planning and would be cheaper if the taxpayers just directly-bought a new iPhone for the little kid.
Now if there was a rash of stolen phones, such that the total lost value exceeded $1000, THEN it would be worth the expenditure to recover the 2000 or 3000 dollars worth of phones. BUT that does not appear to be the case here. The article says nothing about a serial thief.
Disclosure: I hate government. I hate corporations. I hate monopolies. I don't trust ANY of these organizations, or the ways they abuse the people below them.
Probably spent close to $1000 in overtime pay just to find a $200 phone. Ridiculous. We should turn police duties over to a private company that way, when they do dumb shit like this, we can fire them and hire a different company. But as things stand now, we taxpayers are forced to eat the thousand dollar loss.
>>>Every microwave oven uses a vacuum tube to produce the microwaves.
Really? When I opened my microwave to replace a burned-out bulb, there was no tube in there. Just an exposed element which (I presume) emits the microwaves. I bet no-tube is standard for ovens. ----- And I think you mean 1890s technology.
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Oh and the eligibility would be based on lifetime income. If you fell short at the end of your life, or had a period of unemployment in the middle, you would fall below..... say $3 million ($60,000 per year per person) then you could collect SS.
>>>do I get a pass on my SS tax?
Simple. Do you get a pass on the Welfare or Food stamp or Unemployment taxes, even though you never collect? Do you get a pass on Government school tax, even though you never had kids, or you sent your kids to a private school?
>>>Rob the middle class so the rich can have even more tax cuts.
Actually I think the rich's income (over $10 million) should be taxed 100%. And capital gains tax should be a graduated tax just like income tax... the more you make the more you pay. Make Warrne Buffett pay more.
AND I think the first $100,000 should be 0% income tax (though you still have to pay state and sales and gas and electric tax). So your attempt to paint me as some kind of anti-middle-class, pro-rich republican has failed.
And for the record: I also hate corporations.
>>>Would you also be amazed to discover that Microsoft holds a monopoly because its products are better than the competition's?
Yes.
I don't see how IE is any better than Firefox, seaMonkey, or Opera. Or Lotus Notes better than Thunderbird. I don't see how Office is any better than OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. I don't see how WMP is any better than VLC Player or Winamp. I don't see how MS Torrent... oh wait they don't have that... well I use uTorrent.
About the only Microsoft product I use at home is Windows (it came free with the hardware). Everything else is non-microsoft.
>>>open up iOS to Android magazine apps.
What do you need an app for? You can get these magazines through Safari browser! Almost all of them are free on the web. (The only ones I still pay for are Asimovs and F&SF magazines, since their content is locked up.)
>>>the media are purposely not covering and reporting Paul and keeping people in the dark.
99% true. But the other 1% of the time, when they actually do report on Paul, it's to tell tell us he is either nuts or unelectable, and he doesn't stand a chance (even though he's in a solid second place in the delegate count). Do I think Paul will beat Romney?
No. But he did do better than the other 15 candidates... he came in a strong second. The TV media's decision to tell everyone that Paul should be ignored was a violation of their journalistic oath. They are supposed to REPORT the news, not tell us how to think. Or try to rig an election.
>>>If you call it GNULinux, Ubuntu and its derivatives aren't for you anyway.
Why not? Ubuntu is running on the GNU core with the linux front end, plus desktop. It is entirely accurate to call it what it is: Ubuntu variant of GNUlinix.
>>>PC games are orders of magnitude cheaper and you only need one computer with a good video card
My $250 Win7 PC doesn't run the latest games. It doesn't even play HD video at proper speed (480p is the best it can do). On the other hand my PS3 does play the latest games. I'll continue using the PS3 (and Nintendo wii) for my entertainment.
>>>pharmacology classes where they explained exactly who is responsible for what part of the drug discovery process
Yeah I'm sure the liberal professors really told you the truth (not). Just as they claim 100% socialism is the answer to all our problems. Professors have opinions, but if those opinions are not backed by anything, then they are worthless. You could have cited some examples where only government provides us with new drugs..... but you didn't. So you did not prove your claim.
>>>It's not likely that the thief will steal just the one item and never offend again
A common misconception. Studies show that most people have committed at least one crime, usually petty theft, and never done it again. Just as many people have smoked weed, or hired a stripper, and never done it again. The "if you steal once, you'll steal again" belief is a myth.
If you look at Ron Paul's plan to cut 990 billion dollars, that's essentially what he does. The bulk of the savings comes from stopping the killing of foreigners, while the last third comes from merging departments together for greater efficiency.
But ya know..... Paul is nuts. Why would we listen to a nutty idea like promoting peace & increasing efficiency? It's craaaaazy. So the Cable News tells me. ;-)
>>>Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.
One simplification is to make SS and M like the food stamps program..... a needs-based system designed to help the 20-30 million poor persons. Those of us who have money will buy our own retirement through saving, our own medicine/insurance, and our own food at the store.
>>>Because Kim Dotcom is an innocent angel, right?
As a matter of fact YES he is innocent in the eyes of the law. It is now the job of the government to demonstrate why he is not inocent (which the judge overseeing the case says is unlikely, because they did not have authority to seize the items).
>>>You make the idiot pay for the police investigation, and some more.
No because most of these idiots don't have the money.... that's why they stole in the first place. Better for police to weigh the cost of an investigation. If it costs $1000 to recover a $200 phone, it's not worth it. The police chief can buy his kid a new phone.
If it costs $1000 to recover 3000 dollars worth of phones..... then go for it. This is the same analysis a private insurance company does: Do they fix your car after it's recovered... or do they just hand you $500 and junk it. In my case the car was 20 years old so they junked it. Police need to do the same cost-benefit analysis.
You do realize when you censor my post and make it invisible with a -1 Mod, I'll just repost it right? I am entitled to hold an opinion even if you disagree with it
ANSWER: Because trying to make a game work on a PC is an exercise in frustration. I quit PC gaming in the late 90s when I couldn't make several games install without getting errors (or else they installed but kept crashing). It wasn't like the old days of the Atari or Commodore or Amiga gaming when the game *just worked* straight out of the box.
Wintel PC gaming sucks. It is an exercise in banging your head against the desk out of frustration that the damn game won't work. I prefer the plug-and-play ease of my old PCs (Atari, Commodore, etc) and modern day consoles. So do most customers which is why console games sell millions of copies, while PC games barely sell a few thousand.
>>>You've retroactively earned it.
Burj in hell tuerhf cufiekr. and STOP PSOTUNG under anonymnous cowerard. Post under your own Id aso wwe fna mod you dowsn and destro6y oyurt kdarm a, yous tudpic ock-0suck,ign BACATrrd,.
>>>It's not like I've taken medical pharmacology classes where they explained exactly who is responsible for what part of the drug discovery process
Yeah I'm sure the liberal professors really told you the truth (not). Just as they claim 100% socialism is the answer to all our problems (not). ANYWAY you could have cited some examples where only government provides us with new drugs..... but you didn't. So you did not prove your claim.
Thanks for modding me down jackass. You could have INFORMED me of that fact without punishing me with a -1 whip. (And if it wasn't you, then I direct my comment to the other fucker that did it.)
Never mind. I reread the summary... it was stolen. Nevertheless I STILL don't think it's worthwhile to spend $1000 to recover a $200 item. That's just very, very bad financial planning and would be cheaper if the taxpayers just directly-bought a new iPhone for the little kid.
Now if there was a rash of stolen phones, such that the total lost value exceeded $1000, THEN it would be worth the expenditure to recover the 2000 or 3000 dollars worth of phones. BUT that does not appear to be the case here. The article says nothing about a serial thief.
Disclosure: I hate government. I hate corporations. I hate monopolies. I don't trust ANY of these organizations, or the ways they abuse the people below them.
What the hell are you talking about? There's no thief. The kid lost his phone.
The tech angle is pretty obvious. It's in the 3rd-to- last sentence.
Cops can't find our lost or stolen smartphones, even when said phone is broadcasting its location, so clearly that's a deficiency in the design.
Probably spent close to $1000 in overtime pay just to find a $200 phone. Ridiculous. We should turn police duties over to a private company that way, when they do dumb shit like this, we can fire them and hire a different company. But as things stand now, we taxpayers are forced to eat the thousand dollar loss.
>>>Every microwave oven uses a vacuum tube to produce the microwaves.
Really? When I opened my microwave to replace a burned-out bulb, there was no tube in there. Just an exposed element which (I presume) emits the microwaves. I bet no-tube is standard for ovens. ----- And I think you mean 1890s technology.
You laugh, but I would *love* to have an AM radio in my MP3 player. So far I have not found any..... now maybe with microtubes, it will be possible.
Why would I want to use GNUlinux Mint instead of the standard Ubuntu? Or Lubuntu (lightweight variant that fits in my laptop).