History shows us that famine, war, and plague occur when we run out of resources or populate an area too densely. Some of the strong, smart, and lucky will survive to repopulate.
Show me one job in the civil sector where you run a department or bureau with 500 employees and make less than $150K.
It looks like the most you can make in Kansas is just over $100K. I worked for the State of Kansas long ago, I left because the pay was so low. I doubled my pay when I left.
Palin just lost my vote. I liked her because she managed to balance the budget in Alaska...
Balance the budget in Alaska? How hard is that?
More than 80% of Alaska's state revenue is from oil taxes, royalties and fees.
In Alaska you don't pay state income tax or state sales tax, the
state pays you
As the price of oil increased she could (and did)
spend more
I once thought some guy from Texas born with a silver foot in his mouth, who had basically relied on daddy's friends and connections his entire adult life, would have been equally unelectable. I was disastrously wrong.
That's just proof that the "American Dream" is alive and well. In America, anyone can grow up to be President. Even a idiot.
The fact that you have a 3G signal doesn't guarantee any minimum performance...
Well it provides for a sort of minimum performance. The wikipedia article to which you linked claims it does anyway.
From the first paragraph;
a 3G system must allow simultaneous use of speech and data services, and provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s according to the IMT-2000 specification.
...I'm laughing at this. Nobody is going to go back, find the former president, put him on trial, say "You did shit during a war while you were president that we should hang you for,"
Also I think your confusing and/or commingling taxes and royalties
The government collects production royalties to compensate the general public for the market value of the resources that businesses remove from public lands.
It's not BP's oil, it the people of the United States oil. We agreed to let them take it out of our ground and sell it, if they give us a share. That's not a tax.
Being raised by a good rancher is a great bargain for a cow.
Remember that great bargain of yours includes having your balls removed (for what, maybe 99% of the males) without anesthesia?
And of course I assume your good rancher does not send his cattle to a feedlot since I don't see how anyone could consider that to be less suffering than being free.
Private industry is doing all sorts of analysis of you as a consumer to provide you better service and to let them make more profit....
I'm not OK with Private industry doing all sorts of analysis on me as a consumer, but I'm powerless to make them stop. I guess if I had enough money I could buy enough shares to effect change in all publicly traded companies... but I don't have that kind of cash.
If they have been providing me better service as a result, It's gone unnoticed.
But the same consumer that's okay with private industry doing that is not okay, in a knee-jerk reaction, with government doing that.
That's a false premise, I'm not OK with private industry doing it.
I don't think my reaction is "knee-jerk", it's grown over the years as I've learned more and more about how governments in general and this one in particular abuse their power.
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This is Business as usual in the Corporate States of America.
The companies write the laws that say we have to pay them.
profit.
"Yes, I've just had a medical procedure involving a radioactive isotope, here's a letter from the doctor."
Lucky for us it's impossible to fake a note from a doctor.
History shows us that famine, war, and plague occur when we run out of resources or populate an area too densely. Some of the strong, smart, and lucky will survive to repopulate.
Not always
nuclear power has not directly killed anyone in the United States.
Unless maybe you wanted to count Karen Silkwood
It looks like the most you can make in Kansas is just over $100K. I worked for the State of Kansas long ago, I left because the pay was so low. I doubled my pay when I left.
Palin just lost my vote. I liked her because she managed to balance the budget in Alaska ...
Balance the budget in Alaska? How hard is that?
More than 80% of Alaska's state revenue is from oil taxes, royalties and fees.
In Alaska you don't pay state income tax or state sales tax, the state pays you
As the price of oil increased she could (and did) spend more
I once thought some guy from Texas born with a silver foot in his mouth, who had basically relied on daddy's friends and connections his entire adult life, would have been equally unelectable. I was disastrously wrong.
That's just proof that the "American Dream" is alive and well.
In America, anyone can grow up to be President. Even a idiot.
I can't distinguish the pope from some loony old guy who keeps talking weird stuff
You forgot the important part, he does it while wearing a funny hat.
Hell most of us carry around portable, largely untraceable Internet devices in our pockets these days.
I don't know what your carrying around in you pocket, but I've never heard of a "largely untraceable Internet devices" before. Please tell me more.
The fact that you have a 3G signal doesn't guarantee any minimum performance...
Well it provides for a sort of minimum performance. The wikipedia article to which you linked claims it does anyway.
From the first paragraph;
a 3G system must allow simultaneous use of speech and data services, and provide peak data rates of at least 200 kbit/s according to the IMT-2000 specification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G
That may be just a step to far. How about this instead;
Before casting a vote for any bill the voting member must have personally read the bill in it's entirety.
Does that not seem reasonable?
Better take that "and justice for all" out of that silly pledge of yours
...I'm laughing at this. Nobody is going to go back, find the former president, put him on trial, say "You did shit during a war while you were president that we should hang you for,"
That never happens to former presidents,
Slobodan Milosevi
It's unthinkable
Charles Taylor
Former presidents are untouchable
Radovan Karadzi
Can't happen to soon I say.
Oops. You forgot to include the cost of dealing with the spent fuel.
Then, see if the monkeys are just as interested in watching other monkeys handle situations, as we are in watching humans...
So you want to show them re-runs of Lancelot Link Secrent Chimp? Seems a little like cruelty to animals.
14 patients?
Was that a taxi or a clown car?
Where did you get $13 billion?
I looked up BP's 2009 revenue and came up with $246.14 billion
Also I think your confusing and/or commingling taxes and royalties
The government collects production royalties to compensate the general public for the market value of the resources that businesses remove from public lands.
It's not BP's oil, it the people of the United States oil. We agreed to let them take it out of our ground and sell it, if they give us a share. That's not a tax.
Being raised by a good rancher is a great bargain for a cow.
Remember that great bargain of yours includes having your balls removed (for what, maybe 99% of the males) without anesthesia?
And of course I assume your good rancher does not send his cattle to a feedlot since I don't see how anyone could consider that to be less suffering than being free.
OK, I give up.
How did you compute a 38% difference between Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola.com,
Did you use the Levenshtein distance in the caculation?
What invasion of privacy is going to happen after that event?
Free colonoscopy before each flight.
Private industry is doing all sorts of analysis of you as a consumer to provide you better service and to let them make more profit....
I'm not OK with Private industry doing all sorts of analysis on me as a consumer, but I'm powerless to make them stop. I guess if I had enough money I could buy enough shares to effect change in all publicly traded companies... but I don't have that kind of cash.
If they have been providing me better service as a result, It's gone unnoticed.
But the same consumer that's okay with private industry doing that is not okay, in a knee-jerk reaction, with government doing that.
That's a false premise, I'm not OK with private industry doing it.
I don't think my reaction is "knee-jerk", it's grown over the years as I've learned more and more about how governments in general and this one in particular abuse their power.
I've been trying to find something for over a year to do just that.
Nothing meets all my needs yet.
Right now I'm using racktables,Open-AudIT and some stuff I wrote to fill in the gaps.
The real problem of course is getting all the techs to actually update stuff when they move it.
I've been voting, but there is never anyone on the ballot that gives a damn about this issue.
And Microsoft promised to support OS/2 after it sold 2 million copies.
Never happened.