That is a lie, or at least uninformed. The tax on capital gains is less than half of the middle class tax rate for income. The fantastically wealthy who live off the income from investments DO pay dramatically lower percentage of their income as taxes than working middle class people.
Ad in all the loopholes and tax shelter practices and most of the very wealthy pay single digit percentages of their income as taxes compared to the 20% to 35% that the middle class pays.
You can shoot someone center of mass and the head with the same bullet. You just have to be shooting at them from directly above or below and get lucky.
Damn ambiguous pronouns. It is entirely possible that you are talking about the swedish "he" involved in the pirate bay, not the Australian "he" accused of the crime.
So if you agree to play Russian roulette and I grab the gun with 5 out of 6 rounds loaded, and aim it at you, and you change your mind, too bad? You just made a crappy choice and you should have to live with it huh. You and a buddy think about robbing a bank, plan it out, buy all the tools load them up in a van and drive to the bank, then change your mind at the last minute....too late you already decided, it doesn't matter that you changed your mind to not rob the bank. You have to rob the bank anyway with your buddy who still wants to do it. You tell me you will adopt this dog from me, and then change your mind. Nope too late you already decided, you have to take the dog, too bad you made a crap decision.
That is the most stupid line of reasoning I have ever heard.
I have never before seen someone say something so stupid. And I once listened a 25 year old guy with an IQ in the 40s tell me he could not decide if he wanted to be a doctor or an astronaut when he grew up.
All your examples are flawed because you are saying you can not change your mind about future actions, not past actions.
It is more like getting a tattoo on your face and then going back to demand it be removed free of charge because it got you fired from your job.
In this case, a woman consenting and finding out later he was also sleeping with another woman makes it rape because she decided afterward that she would not have consented to the already finished and consented act.
4) the US is the 800lb economic gorilla holding a major portion of the large banks of the world.
5) this is a huge leak from a few or single source in the banking industry and just happened to be in the US... much like the recent US intelligence leaks are most likely from a single source.
In Transylvania during the rule of Dracula, robbery and theft became very rare. Not because the penalty was death, the penalty was the thief (and the fence, and the guard on duty at the time and probably the families of those men) publicly tortured to death and the staked out along the road to rot and be eaten by buzzards.
I don't understand your statement. Murder is often a crime of passion, even with a 100% conviction and execution rate, murder would still happen occasionally. The death penalty does not act as a much of a deterrent because the difference between life in prison and death isn't that significant for a lot of people.
Death is not the most strict punishment ever awarded for theft, and it seemed to work pretty well. Vlad Tepes Dracula was a hero to his people for being tough on crime.
The first shooting incident COULD have been mistaken identity. The second shooting incident where the guy in the helicopter lied to his commander over the radio (about armed hostiles collecting weapons and bodies when it was clear the only thing they were doing was rescuing the wounded man) eager and begging in order to receive permission to open fire again? That was clearly a war crime.
easy to solve. Fill any unused ports with epoxy, epoxy any ports in use so that the device can not be removed. You still have the problem that someone might splice into the mouse cord and insert a media device that way, but that is a lot less likely.
I was also for it when they released the collateral murder video, that was a serious war crime and coverup that needed to be exposed. For the other big releases? The last one was rather meh, and this one doesn't doesn't seem to have any purpose except to harm the US based on what I have heard about it so far.
18 months as punishment for creating and operating a botnet for profit? Taking control of thousands of other peoples property.
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1 year for guessing a publicly available password reset question/answer on a published email address and then publishing the password and doing no real damage except to expose a politicians improper use of private email channels for to violate public transparency laws.
Yes, the first is a very light sentence in comparison to the second considering the crime involved.
I do java development and I am starting to feel grognardly rage at things like annotations, framework changes between struts 1 / struts 2 and the proposed features for 1.7 and 1.8.
That is how my mother had her neck broke. However, the "school for behavior disordered boys" she worked at was primarily filled with young men who were too retarded to be sent to prison for the assaults, rapes and arsons they committed.
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Blame that on the democratic primary, I would have much preferred to vote for Hillary.
That is a lie, or at least uninformed. The tax on capital gains is less than half of the middle class tax rate for income. The fantastically wealthy who live off the income from investments DO pay dramatically lower percentage of their income as taxes than working middle class people.
Ad in all the loopholes and tax shelter practices and most of the very wealthy pay single digit percentages of their income as taxes compared to the 20% to 35% that the middle class pays.
You can shoot someone center of mass and the head with the same bullet. You just have to be shooting at them from directly above or below and get lucky.
Damn ambiguous pronouns. It is entirely possible that you are talking about the swedish "he" involved in the pirate bay, not the Australian "he" accused of the crime.
He is Australian.
Sitting on a touch sensitive surface? imagine the applications... oh... right... pr0n.
So if you agree to play Russian roulette and I grab the gun with 5 out of 6 rounds loaded, and aim it at you, and you change your mind, too bad? You just made a crappy choice and you should have to live with it huh. You and a buddy think about robbing a bank, plan it out, buy all the tools load them up in a van and drive to the bank, then change your mind at the last minute....too late you already decided, it doesn't matter that you changed your mind to not rob the bank. You have to rob the bank anyway with your buddy who still wants to do it. You tell me you will adopt this dog from me, and then change your mind. Nope too late you already decided, you have to take the dog, too bad you made a crap decision.
That is the most stupid line of reasoning I have ever heard.
I have never before seen someone say something so stupid. And I once listened a 25 year old guy with an IQ in the 40s tell me he could not decide if he wanted to be a doctor or an astronaut when he grew up.
All your examples are flawed because you are saying you can not change your mind about future actions, not past actions.
It is more like getting a tattoo on your face and then going back to demand it be removed free of charge because it got you fired from your job.
In this case, a woman consenting and finding out later he was also sleeping with another woman makes it rape because she decided afterward that she would not have consented to the already finished and consented act.
Copyright is the arbitrary government created restriction of everyone's natural right to copy.
4) the US is the 800lb economic gorilla holding a major portion of the large banks of the world.
5) this is a huge leak from a few or single source in the banking industry and just happened to be in the US... much like the recent US intelligence leaks are most likely from a single source.
In Transylvania during the rule of Dracula, robbery and theft became very rare. Not because the penalty was death, the penalty was the thief (and the fence, and the guard on duty at the time and probably the families of those men) publicly tortured to death and the staked out along the road to rot and be eaten by buzzards.
I don't understand your statement. Murder is often a crime of passion, even with a 100% conviction and execution rate, murder would still happen occasionally. The death penalty does not act as a much of a deterrent because the difference between life in prison and death isn't that significant for a lot of people.
That wikileaks is exclusively an an ant-US govornment organization and that they no longer do "real whistle-blowing"?
... Some of the places here provide coffee, a tent, and insulation strippers...
You know copper recycling is profitable if they can afford to provide strippers.
Death is not the most strict punishment ever awarded for theft, and it seemed to work pretty well. Vlad Tepes Dracula was a hero to his people for being tough on crime.
The first shooting incident COULD have been mistaken identity. The second shooting incident where the guy in the helicopter lied to his commander over the radio (about armed hostiles collecting weapons and bodies when it was clear the only thing they were doing was rescuing the wounded man) eager and begging in order to receive permission to open fire again? That was clearly a war crime.
easy to solve. Fill any unused ports with epoxy, epoxy any ports in use so that the device can not be removed. You still have the problem that someone might splice into the mouse cord and insert a media device that way, but that is a lot less likely.
I was also for it when they released the collateral murder video, that was a serious war crime and coverup that needed to be exposed. For the other big releases? The last one was rather meh, and this one doesn't doesn't seem to have any purpose except to harm the US based on what I have heard about it so far.
It's called "being political" for a reason.
We hire politicians to be upfront and honest. We don't hire them to be two faced.
Those last two sentences do not seem to fit actual politics at all.
The reason for that is that international treaty supersedes the US constitution.
18 months as punishment for creating and operating a botnet for profit? Taking control of thousands of other peoples property.
VS
1 year for guessing a publicly available password reset question/answer on a published email address and then publishing the password and doing no real damage except to expose a politicians improper use of private email channels for to violate public transparency laws.
Yes, the first is a very light sentence in comparison to the second considering the crime involved.
They still riot in the streets against perceived injustice in Europe.
I do java development and I am starting to feel grognardly rage at things like annotations, framework changes between struts 1 / struts 2 and the proposed features for 1.7 and 1.8.
What the hell? If you have permission, you have permission and it isn't a copyright violation.
The increased resistance of the water made training more effective. Running down a football field is much easier than wading down a football field.
That is how my mother had her neck broke. However, the "school for behavior disordered boys" she worked at was primarily filled with young men who were too retarded to be sent to prison for the assaults, rapes and arsons they committed.