That is the biggest lie in US political history. Tax cuts do NOT increase revenues.
The fact is that revenues increases are due to the organic growth of the US economy, population growth, and inflation. Once you factor these principle causes out one finds that tax cuts actually decrease revenues.
The idea that federal tax revenue cannot go above 20% based on US historical data is off-cited but is really the result of cherry-picking results so that non-US data are not considered. Expand the data set to include historical results from outside the US and you will immediately see that it is utter nonsense.
The reasons the Federal Deficit is so much bigger than before is:
1. We are fighting 4 wars. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia) 2. At the same time we made massive tax cuts. 3. The economy is in the tank thereby reducing tax revenues even further.
No we can't. Current Medicare and Social Security unfunded liabilities exceed the total net worth of the US. Tax everything at 100% just for entitlement programs and it still isn't enough.
It's going to take several steps:
1. Yes increase taxes. 2. Universal health care. 3. Strict cost controls on health care. One of the biggest problems is we send 18% of GDP on health care; most nations spend less than 10%. People are going to scream bloody murder when they find that Grandma can't get a hip replacement or brain surgery for a metastasised tumour. 4. Increases age of eligibility on some SS and Medicare. 5. Monetize existing debt through inflation. 6. Eviscerate defense spending. 7. Pretty much put an end to discretionary spending.
Then you MIGHT have a SLIM chance on making it through. But a lot of people are going to be living on ramen noodles.
What you are describing would have EXACTLY the same effect as a default. Nobody would ever buy US government debt again and interest rates would be stuck at crippling levels, and hyperinflation would be very likely.
Look up the consequences of that under Weimar Republic.
Yes. Now what about all the Republicans who cheerfully voted 7 times to raise the debt ceiling when Bush was in power now refusing to do so without massive budget cuts, or in some cases at all.
Microsoft brass and bean counters see Bing as a reusable component and asset that will be built into more and more products. Those who think Microsoft will discard Bing or sell it to the highest bidder are dead wrong â" that won't happen now or any time soon.'"
This is the sort of reasoning that led me to sell all of my Microsoft stock years ago. Glad to see that I made the correct decision. Clearly none of the brass and bean counters have ever pruned a tree.
The US-France extradition treaty is very limited unlike the US-UK treaty. So basically is no legal basis for the US to extradite Mr. Polanski, who by the way is wanted on a charge of raping a 13-year old girl.
If you think it's fine that he should be able to evade such a charge, your are an idiot.
When I joined Netflix streaming didn't exist and DVDs were $7.99 for one disk at a time. Streaming was later added free. When streaming started to look interesting the combined plan went up and a separate streaming only plan was added.
Now the plans are ala carte and one disk is $7.99. Which suits me since I find that while streaming has great convenience the content and quality sucks so I don't watch it. I just dropped streaming.
I was pissed that last round of price increases because they didn't offer a DVD only plan. Streaming basically sucks. Lousy quality, often stereo sound and NOT the content I want. Less than 10% of my queue was even available for streaming.
Now I've got a DVD only plan again without paying for that useless streaming service.
YAY.
The idea that streaming is the future - not in it's current form, that's for sure.
The Federal Court Restructuring Plan was never enacted into law, so there was nothing illegal or corrupt about the Supreme Court's rulings on the New Deal legislation.
There is no particular reason that this town could not adopt this form of government.
Having lived in a town that used the Town Meeting system I'd say that it is not actually better than the representative systems as meeting turnout tends to consist of classes of people with special interests in the results.
Two years ago on a darkened stretch of South Jersey highway, Clayton Tanksley was almost killed when his SUV was rammed from behind and sent tumbling to the side of the road â" by a man who doesnâ(TM)t exist.
"He hit me hard enough to crush the back of the car like an accordion," said Tanksley, 46. "It was like a shark attack. Itâ(TM)s so sudden, out of the blue."
The accident, on Route 295 in Camden County, left Tanksley with a demolished car, back problems and recurring flashbacks.
"In the middle of night, everything is calm and peaceful," Tanksley said. "And then you live through it again. Even the smells."
According to the State Police crash report, a man named William Gillespie was behind the wheel of the other car that night. As Tanksleyâ(TM)s medical bills from the crash neared $30,000, his lawyer filed a lawsuit against Gillespie.
But when it came time to serve him, Gillespie was nowhere to be found. A private investigator couldnâ(TM)t find Gillespie at the home or business listed on the State Police report of the accident, and the insurance company named did not recognize the information about his car.
It was as if Gillespie didnâ(TM)t exist, and for good reason â" he doesnâ(TM)t.
Through a series of interviews and a trail of documents, The Star-Ledger has learned that Gillespie is the undercover name for State Police Detective Sgt. William Billingham and that his true identity was withheld from Tanksley â" in violation of State Police policy â" leaving Tanksley and his lawyer to go on a prolonged wild goose chase for a phantom. The newspaper also found that Billinghamâ(TM)s fellow troopers provided Tanksleyâ(TM)s insurance company with fictional and incomplete information.
In fact, Tanksley â" an actor who has appeared in movies and on television in "The Cosby Show" under the name Clayton Prince â" had no idea who really hit him until The Star-Ledger tracked him to his Philadelphia home in April.
Tanksleyâ(TM)s lawyers are considering a lawsuit against the state claiming his civil rights were violated.
What the patent covers is laid out in claim 1, and in no other place in the patent. Not the abstract, not the title, not the description. That stuff is legally required window dressing. The important stuff is in claim 1.
Claim 1 for this patent.
A computer-implemented method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display and one or more accelerometers, displaying information on the touch screen display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers; detecting a predetermined finger gesture on or near the touch screen display while the information is displayed in a first view, wherein the first view is one of the portrait view and the landscape view; in response to detecting the predetermined finger gesture, displaying the information in a second view and locking the display of information in the second view, wherein the second view is the other of the portrait view and the landscape view; and unlocking the display of information in the second view in response to a determination that the device is placed in an orientation where the second view matches an orientation of the display based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers.
So this has to be a portable touchscreen with accelerometers, using an interaction between the touchscreen gesture and the accelerometer to rotate the screen.
The prior art cited in the summary is completely irrelevant.
Why can't slashdot editors read claim 1 on these patent submissions before posting them? It only takes about 10 seconds.
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The fact the President Present's monthly deficits are about as big as Bush's yearly deficits wouldn't have anything to do with that, right?
Horse Shit. Bush's per capita deficit in his last year in office is within 10% of Obama's.
http://www.skymachines.com/US-National-Debt-Per-Capita-Percent-of-GDP-and-by-Presidental-Term.htm
That is the biggest lie in US political history. Tax cuts do NOT increase revenues.
The fact is that revenues increases are due to the organic growth of the US economy, population growth, and inflation. Once you factor these principle causes out one finds that tax cuts actually decrease revenues.
http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/supply-side_spin.html
http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2010/07/14/197886/tax-cuts-dont-increase-revenues/
However tax cuts are great at increasing the deficit because they are rarely accompanied by spending cuts.
http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
The idea that federal tax revenue cannot go above 20% based on US historical data is off-cited but is really the result of cherry-picking results so that non-US data are not considered. Expand the data set to include historical results from outside the US and you will immediately see that it is utter nonsense.
What the hell are you talking about? Your statements are nonsense.
The TARP program is over; it ended October 2010.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/banking-financial-institutions/122247-tarp-ends-officially-as-lawmakers-continue-battle-over-bailouts
The reasons the Federal Deficit is so much bigger than before is:
1. We are fighting 4 wars. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia)
2. At the same time we made massive tax cuts.
3. The economy is in the tank thereby reducing tax revenues even further.
No we can't. Current Medicare and Social Security unfunded liabilities exceed the total net worth of the US. Tax everything at 100% just for entitlement programs and it still isn't enough.
It's going to take several steps:
1. Yes increase taxes.
2. Universal health care.
3. Strict cost controls on health care. One of the biggest problems is we send 18% of GDP on health care; most nations spend less than 10%. People are going to scream bloody murder when they find that Grandma can't get a hip replacement or brain surgery for a metastasised tumour.
4. Increases age of eligibility on some SS and Medicare.
5. Monetize existing debt through inflation.
6. Eviscerate defense spending.
7. Pretty much put an end to discretionary spending.
Then you MIGHT have a SLIM chance on making it through. But a lot of people are going to be living on ramen noodles.
What you are describing would have EXACTLY the same effect as a default. Nobody would ever buy US government debt again and interest rates would be stuck at crippling levels, and hyperinflation would be very likely.
Look up the consequences of that under Weimar Republic.
Are you kidding? The Republicans aren't even sure if their own bill will pass the House.
Yes. Now what about all the Republicans who cheerfully voted 7 times to raise the debt ceiling when Bush was in power now refusing to do so without massive budget cuts, or in some cases at all.
Hypocrisy is the mother's milk of politics.
Microsoft brass and bean counters see Bing as a reusable component and asset that will be built into more and more products. Those who think Microsoft will discard Bing or sell it to the highest bidder are dead wrong â" that won't happen now or any time soon.'"
This is the sort of reasoning that led me to sell all of my Microsoft stock years ago. Glad to see that I made the correct decision. Clearly none of the brass and bean counters have ever pruned a tree.
The head of the board is a more moderate guy,
I agree. Just trying to preempt the idea that there is some doubt that Polanski worthy of any sort of sympathy and thus should not be extradited.
The US-France extradition treaty is very limited unlike the US-UK treaty. So basically is no legal basis for the US to extradite Mr. Polanski, who by the way is wanted on a charge of raping a 13-year old girl.
If you think it's fine that he should be able to evade such a charge, your are an idiot.
http://jezebel.com/5372888/chris-rock-on-roman-polanski-its-rape-rape
When I joined Netflix streaming didn't exist and DVDs were $7.99 for one disk at a time. Streaming was later added free. When streaming started to look interesting the combined plan went up and a separate streaming only plan was added.
Now the plans are ala carte and one disk is $7.99. Which suits me since I find that while streaming has great convenience the content and quality sucks so I don't watch it. I just dropped streaming.
So no the price of disks hasn't gone up.
5TB of movies? At what compression ratio are you talking?
The Netflix catalog is over 122,000 titles and at 8 GB that is 1PB.
Heck my own personal collection of DVDs and BDs is something like 12TB.
I was pissed that last round of price increases because they didn't offer a DVD only plan. Streaming basically sucks. Lousy quality, often stereo sound and NOT the content I want. Less than 10% of my queue was even available for streaming.
Now I've got a DVD only plan again without paying for that useless streaming service.
YAY.
The idea that streaming is the future - not in it's current form, that's for sure.
Cops certainly can be sued personally. It happens all the time.
http://www.wcax.com/story/14953981/embattled-s-burlington-police-officer-sued-again
The bill you are referring to, the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, never passed into law.
They build a complete fake Disneyland.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/05/02/disneyland-in-china/
The Federal Court Restructuring Plan was never enacted into law, so there was nothing illegal or corrupt about the Supreme Court's rulings on the New Deal legislation.
Few seem to realize it any more but the actual definition of Socialism is government ownership of the means of production.
The city buying into this company is a classical example of socialism.
The United States is not uniformly a representative democracy. Examples where it is a direct democracy:
1. Referendum and initiatives on state ballots.
2. Cases where the Town Meeting system of government is practiced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting
There is no particular reason that this town could not adopt this form of government.
Having lived in a town that used the Town Meeting system I'd say that it is not actually better than the representative systems as meeting turnout tends to consist of classes of people with special interests in the results.
This is nothing.
Don't EVER get into a traffic accident with a police officer. Seriously it will screw up your life big time.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/05/off-duty_nj_state_police_offic.html
Two years ago on a darkened stretch of South Jersey highway, Clayton Tanksley was almost killed when his SUV was rammed from behind and sent tumbling to the side of the road â" by a man who doesnâ(TM)t exist.
"He hit me hard enough to crush the back of the car like an accordion," said Tanksley, 46. "It was like a shark attack. Itâ(TM)s so sudden, out of the blue."
The accident, on Route 295 in Camden County, left Tanksley with a demolished car, back problems and recurring flashbacks.
"In the middle of night, everything is calm and peaceful," Tanksley said. "And then you live through it again. Even the smells."
According to the State Police crash report, a man named William Gillespie was behind the wheel of the other car that night. As Tanksleyâ(TM)s medical bills from the crash neared $30,000, his lawyer filed a lawsuit against Gillespie.
But when it came time to serve him, Gillespie was nowhere to be found. A private investigator couldnâ(TM)t find Gillespie at the home or business listed on the State Police report of the accident, and the insurance company named did not recognize the information about his car.
It was as if Gillespie didnâ(TM)t exist, and for good reason â" he doesnâ(TM)t.
Through a series of interviews and a trail of documents, The Star-Ledger has learned that Gillespie is the undercover name for State Police Detective Sgt. William Billingham and that his true identity was withheld from Tanksley â" in violation of State Police policy â" leaving Tanksley and his lawyer to go on a prolonged wild goose chase for a phantom. The newspaper also found that Billinghamâ(TM)s fellow troopers provided Tanksleyâ(TM)s insurance company with fictional and incomplete information.
In fact, Tanksley â" an actor who has appeared in movies and on television in "The Cosby Show" under the name Clayton Prince â" had no idea who really hit him until The Star-Ledger tracked him to his Philadelphia home in April.
Tanksleyâ(TM)s lawyers are considering a lawsuit against the state claiming his civil rights were violated.
Where in the camera world is there a touch screen locking orientation based on user input gestures?
THAT is what this patent covers.
Read Claim 1. This is about using gestures on a portable touch screen device to override the accelerometer data and lock the orientation.
Portable, using accelerometers and a touch screen where the gestures received from the touch screen override the accelerometer data.
Yeah, that's the same as a Radius screen.
NOT.
What the patent covers is laid out in claim 1, and in no other place in the patent. Not the abstract, not the title, not the description. That stuff is legally required window dressing. The important stuff is in claim 1.
Claim 1 for this patent.
A computer-implemented method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display and one or more accelerometers, displaying information on the touch screen display in a portrait view or a landscape view based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers; detecting a predetermined finger gesture on or near the touch screen display while the information is displayed in a first view, wherein the first view is one of the portrait view and the landscape view; in response to detecting the predetermined finger gesture, displaying the information in a second view and locking the display of information in the second view, wherein the second view is the other of the portrait view and the landscape view; and unlocking the display of information in the second view in response to a determination that the device is placed in an orientation where the second view matches an orientation of the display based on an analysis of data received from the one or more accelerometers.
So this has to be a portable touchscreen with accelerometers, using an interaction between the touchscreen gesture and the accelerometer to rotate the screen.
The prior art cited in the summary is completely irrelevant.
Why can't slashdot editors read claim 1 on these patent submissions before posting them? It only takes about 10 seconds.