"how do you go about removing monarchy???"
"the monarchy is just a tradition"
well fuck, sounds like you could just cut the flow of money and leave them off to live whatever wealth they already accumulated, paying taxes on their profits from whatever business they turn their cash into.
doesn't effect tourism much, imho either. the place would be a tourist attraction anyhow, because of the history.
and if the monarchs had to actually work for that tourism money they might bring more of it to britain.
but this article doesn't really reveal anything anyways nor does the speech - "queen gives a scheduled speech written by government that goes blablablabla" would have been an apt title, free speech meaning nothing in the context. if she had written her own speech where she would have sworn to uphold secrecy of correspondence, then THAT would be real news, now she is just throwing that away and saying she'll uphold free speech laws which are inequal about who can say who fucked who - literally.
What the British people see in their monarchy, I'll never know. I do know that until Britains stop shelling out $60 million (about 40 million Pounds) per year tax dollars to keep up the properties and lifestyle of these royal idiots http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/Sourcesoffunding/Overview.aspx , they have no right making fun of the US's fascination with celebrity. At least we don't directly pay ours with tax dollars and our celebrities pay taxes. If the Queen's just a "figure head" and only reads what's written by the Tories, we could have Britney Spears give an annual speech to the senate for a lot less cash and roughly equal mental capacity.
Unregulated capitalism China is DEFINITELY NOT. Just go read about what happened to the guy who shipped lead-painted toys to the U.S. He was not asked to resign.
That he committed suicide? Tell me how the guy who shipped lead painted toys has anything to do with China's economic system.
Yeah, the whole article is just a business case for this because they know what would happen if there wasn't a business case. And there wouldn't be a business case, but for carbon taxes. Exactly how it was supposed to work. Good job, government. Good job doing what you had to do, MS.
Microsoft is EVIL EVIL EVIL they're a MONOPOLY!!!!!
"Green" is a farse and it IS a way to tax us more, limit our FREEDOMS, and bring our way of life to an END! The fact that MS is involved just proves that "Green" is EVIL!!
from what I have read on Slashdot,l going green means massive taxes, a completly lock down on personal freedom, and removing the ability for companies to succeed. herp derp.
Good Job MS.
Do you learn everything you know from Slasdot? I mean, if I went by your posts, I'd be miguided, too. Open a book, dummy.
I think this is a great initiative by Microsoft. They have shown that they greatly care about the environment and common good. Not only that, but they spend lots of money on their R&D (Microsoft Research) which has come up with tons of great things that has made the world better.
On top of that Microsoft's founder Bill Gates has spent most of his fortune to help the world, especially for healthcare and making the poor countries better. Even if you don't like MS products you have to have deep respect for them for this reason. Compare this to Google CEO's who spend their money on luxury yachts.
I have a better idea. How about stop raping the planet and exploiting the human inhabitants under wage slavery and see if food/medicine distriubtion doesn't improve. Sorry, but I'm not going to get all weak in the knees because some douche put the 50 billion he received by monopolizing into what amounts to a mutual fund where the profits go to vaccinating and helping people who never had to be in poverty in the first place, but for the inequitable economic system they were exploited under in the first place. Show me a poverty stricken country and I'll show you how it's capitalism and usually directly the US's doing. History goes back a long time, most of you seem to have a poor grasp of even current events. Take a look at what caused all this misery and you won't be so impressed by these generous foundations that are all the rage these days. And by the way, they're over reported (for a reason); most rich people sit on their money and leave it to their brats.
My son has the 299.00 diagnosis, and he so far shows no signs of concern for the feelings of anyone. He finds it funny when I wince or say OUCH as he kicks me in the face or nads.
I've never known a little boy who doesn't laugh when he kicks me and I say ouch. All my nephews, all my cousins...all thought it was hilarious. Don't assign to a disease something that's fairly normal in young boys. I don't doubt the diagnosis, but that particular example seems normal in my world. Ever heard "little boys are cruel". It's true.
Like on Brewster's Millions, they spent $20 million in 20 days, but only rented everything. The scoundrels did some accounting after a last minute furniture deposit snafu and found the $100k. It was all the government could take!! Now for the real prize....the $200,000,000 windfall from Uncle Rupert!!
Carl: Homer, have we hit international waters yet? Because, eh,
things are gettin' real ugly.
[cut to Moe, who stands in front of a keg of beer, holding
off the advancing crowd with a bullwhip]
Moe: I can't sell you beer until we cross the line!
Barney: Legally, you can give us free beer.
[Moe whips him] Ow!
One small thing; If these "mathematical models" have anything to do with assuming Sauropods farted proportionally as much as industrial cows, I'd politely disagree and want more proof. Sauropods ate what they were designed to eat; most cows do not. If they take a grass fed and naturally pastured cow, if not wild (not corn and grain fed and stressed to the max) and calculate based on the amount of flatulence those cows produce, I'd be more convinced. There's a reason conventional cows have to be given daily antibiotics in their "feed" and that's because they shouldn't be eating that food in the first place. Affect bowels? You bet your gassy, grain fed ass it does.
It is worse than that. There is a group of people in the US Congress who just hate anything that the "other side" supports. It does not matter what it is they will work against anything that they think the other side wants to support. They care more about the success of their party than they do the country they swore to serve. The sad thing is that it has gone on long enough that two such groups have formed. We just have a bunch of obstinate dick heads now due to gerrymandering and an absent media.
Close. The media isn't absent, it's just serving its corporate masters which causes the "obstinate dickheads" in the "'two such groups" to pretend to be gerrymandering. Example: You have two friends. Friend A is a close friend and you also do some limited business together, which you like and the extra cash comes in handy. Friend B is a friend and has been there for you, but there's no real advantage to this friend, other than the occasional pat on the back. Friend A and B know each other, but aren't super close. Now, say something comes up and Friend A and B have conflicting opinions and you have to actually please A, but placate B. Well, that's where the gerrymandering comes in...or just not bringing the topic up much (NAFTA?). Friend A is Corporations, Friend B is Voters. Using that formula, you can pretty much predict the outcome of anything. Note: Friend A usually wins, but Friend B actually has all the power, he's just a little schizoid.
Great way for the autorities to collect even more information on everybody, especailly with stupid people flippantly texting everything they see to dispatchers. I'd call the feature worthless, if it wasn't so valutable for the police.
You are wrong.
They very mush are about those things, there just not doing it well, or thinking it through.
"They're actually quite effective and are doing exactly what they're designed to do"
a chalk up bed decisions to some sort of conspiracy theory. That idea is laughable,.
HA!
Thanks for your usual, illiterate reply. Next time i want your kind of "wisdom", I'll turn the TV on.
Any literate teenager should know that the "war on terror" has nothing to do with preventing terror. Just like the "war on drugs" has nothing to do with drugs. I love these people who say that these security measures are "ineffective", as if they're put in place with lofty ideals, but just aren't executed well or whatever. That's a load of garbage. They're actually quite effective and are doing exactly what they're designed to do! Who said the government is inefficient? Yeah, it's inefficient for anything YOU desire, but it's actually quite efficient at keeping a hold on power. The "wars" keep the American empire "secure" and keep internal fear at a high and dissent at a low.
So there might be water there...we can't even get back to the moon let alone establish a base there yet we waste tones of money on 'pie in the sky' dreaming. It's so sad the Chinese will probably beat us to the moon and if there is a chance to turn it into a commercial venture do you really think they will use it for the benefit of earth-kind?
All the money spent designing and testing mars habitats and human rovers would probably have paid for us to be back on the moon. And I somehow think that if we accomplish that it makes the next step...Mars, that much easier and cheaper.
And who were you thinking would be most likely to use it "for the benefit of earth-kind? The US? LOL!!
brain damage can be done a number of ways. the rules of football have changed a lot, but the stress these players put upon themselves is a source of mental stress far more than a normal person can handle. it's not just the concussions it puts your mind on edge when you can't cross an invisible line until the guy in the middle moves the ball. where a fraction of a second you have to push forward and not the side etc. football players are not dumb, just because they don't all take school smarts seriously. so a few of them snap. add in the wierd crap they get told, the substances they might take to have an edge... and they get paid a lot of money. to take a risk. do you tell high wire crews fixing storm damaged lines to 'not take the money for the risk' you and i would not be discussing this topic at all if people weren't allowed to take a risk because they'd have to shut down the entire grid (not easy) at certain points just to 'safely' repair some things that can only be fixed either by shutting down a lines power or else work on 'hot' equipment. the nfl players are paid to take a risk. and they are smart enough to try to manipulate others into going 'wah concussion, ptsd we need more money waa' apparently the millions they make a season isn't enough. the bench warmer players get at least 100,000 for 2012 minnesota vikings with the top player getting 11 million dollars. http://www.sportscity.com/NFL/Minnesota-Vikings-Salaries
wah wah wah they know the risks, and they make good money for it. but you can't blame them for trying to get sympathy and more cash with laywers or can you?
Think I understand what you're saying. So the scientific community will be shocked to find football player brain damage not actually caused by repeated head trauma, but by emotional and mental stress regarding an invisble line and ball location, "weird crap they get told", drugs they might take and cash (for sympathy and more lawyers for more cash for sympathy....vicious cycle). Got it.
It would end civilization as we know it. But there would still be patches of families and clans roaming about even if they're reduced to a nomadic lifestyle.
If you want to have people spend 25% of their income on food, then you enable the big food producers who are the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in their petrochemical fertilizers. That and you need to cut taxes from the total 50-60% rate of gross income (income, sales, VATs, hidden) to free up the money for the increased cost.
Seriously, you lefties don't know much of anything--including how food is actually grown.
Somedays I think the real cause of CO2 increases is all the mindless left-wing Chicken-Little bloviating about CO2 increases...
Enable them by cutting them off and buying organic? I don't even know what you're talking about. What you said makes no sense period, but it especially makes no sense in the context of what I was discussing. Good day, sir. I SAY GOOD DAY!!!
Are you insinuating you fuck the troops? Do you bottom out for them? Can you tell me how you fully fucking support them? Still trying to figure out what exactly that means.
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"how do you go about removing monarchy???" "the monarchy is just a tradition"
well fuck, sounds like you could just cut the flow of money and leave them off to live whatever wealth they already accumulated, paying taxes on their profits from whatever business they turn their cash into.
doesn't effect tourism much, imho either. the place would be a tourist attraction anyhow, because of the history. and if the monarchs had to actually work for that tourism money they might bring more of it to britain.
but this article doesn't really reveal anything anyways nor does the speech - "queen gives a scheduled speech written by government that goes blablablabla" would have been an apt title, free speech meaning nothing in the context. if she had written her own speech where she would have sworn to uphold secrecy of correspondence, then THAT would be real news, now she is just throwing that away and saying she'll uphold free speech laws which are inequal about who can say who fucked who - literally.
With a half billion dollars, if she can't pay for her lifestyle herself, she should sell some properties. http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/politician/royal/queen-elizabeth-net-worth/
What the British people see in their monarchy, I'll never know. I do know that until Britains stop shelling out $60 million (about 40 million Pounds) per year tax dollars to keep up the properties and lifestyle of these royal idiots http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/Sourcesoffunding/Overview.aspx , they have no right making fun of the US's fascination with celebrity. At least we don't directly pay ours with tax dollars and our celebrities pay taxes. If the Queen's just a "figure head" and only reads what's written by the Tories, we could have Britney Spears give an annual speech to the senate for a lot less cash and roughly equal mental capacity.
Unregulated capitalism China is DEFINITELY NOT. Just go read about what happened to the guy who shipped lead-painted toys to the U.S. He was not asked to resign.
That he committed suicide? Tell me how the guy who shipped lead painted toys has anything to do with China's economic system.
Yeah, the whole article is just a business case for this because they know what would happen if there wasn't a business case. And there wouldn't be a business case, but for carbon taxes. Exactly how it was supposed to work. Good job, government. Good job doing what you had to do, MS.
Microsoft is EVIL EVIL EVIL they're a MONOPOLY!!!!!
"Green" is a farse and it IS a way to tax us more, limit our FREEDOMS, and bring our way of life to an END! The fact that MS is involved just proves that "Green" is EVIL!!
AAHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg.
*Head assplodes*
This must be a corporation with personhood who's achieved self awareness. Yeah, I guess it would seem bad to this...uh..."person".
from what I have read on Slashdot,l going green means massive taxes, a completly lock down on personal freedom, and removing the ability for companies to succeed. herp derp.
Good Job MS.
Do you learn everything you know from Slasdot? I mean, if I went by your posts, I'd be miguided, too. Open a book, dummy.
I think this is a great initiative by Microsoft. They have shown that they greatly care about the environment and common good. Not only that, but they spend lots of money on their R&D (Microsoft Research) which has come up with tons of great things that has made the world better. On top of that Microsoft's founder Bill Gates has spent most of his fortune to help the world, especially for healthcare and making the poor countries better. Even if you don't like MS products you have to have deep respect for them for this reason. Compare this to Google CEO's who spend their money on luxury yachts.
I have a better idea. How about stop raping the planet and exploiting the human inhabitants under wage slavery and see if food/medicine distriubtion doesn't improve. Sorry, but I'm not going to get all weak in the knees because some douche put the 50 billion he received by monopolizing into what amounts to a mutual fund where the profits go to vaccinating and helping people who never had to be in poverty in the first place, but for the inequitable economic system they were exploited under in the first place. Show me a poverty stricken country and I'll show you how it's capitalism and usually directly the US's doing. History goes back a long time, most of you seem to have a poor grasp of even current events. Take a look at what caused all this misery and you won't be so impressed by these generous foundations that are all the rage these days. And by the way, they're over reported (for a reason); most rich people sit on their money and leave it to their brats.
My son has the 299.00 diagnosis, and he so far shows no signs of concern for the feelings of anyone. He finds it funny when I wince or say OUCH as he kicks me in the face or nads.
I've never known a little boy who doesn't laugh when he kicks me and I say ouch. All my nephews, all my cousins...all thought it was hilarious. Don't assign to a disease something that's fairly normal in young boys. I don't doubt the diagnosis, but that particular example seems normal in my world. Ever heard "little boys are cruel". It's true.
Like on Brewster's Millions, they spent $20 million in 20 days, but only rented everything. The scoundrels did some accounting after a last minute furniture deposit snafu and found the $100k. It was all the government could take!! Now for the real prize....the $200,000,000 windfall from Uncle Rupert!!
I'm pretty sure the American Medical Association (made up of doctors) is going to go apeshit over even the suggestion of this.
Made up of lobbyists more like. http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/200906110008
Carl: Homer, have we hit international waters yet? Because, eh, things are gettin' real ugly. [cut to Moe, who stands in front of a keg of beer, holding off the advancing crowd with a bullwhip] Moe: I can't sell you beer until we cross the line! Barney: Legally, you can give us free beer. [Moe whips him] Ow!
...Not Shuttering Its doors, Yet
One small thing; If these "mathematical models" have anything to do with assuming Sauropods farted proportionally as much as industrial cows, I'd politely disagree and want more proof. Sauropods ate what they were designed to eat; most cows do not. If they take a grass fed and naturally pastured cow, if not wild (not corn and grain fed and stressed to the max) and calculate based on the amount of flatulence those cows produce, I'd be more convinced. There's a reason conventional cows have to be given daily antibiotics in their "feed" and that's because they shouldn't be eating that food in the first place. Affect bowels? You bet your gassy, grain fed ass it does.
It is worse than that. There is a group of people in the US Congress who just hate anything that the "other side" supports. It does not matter what it is they will work against anything that they think the other side wants to support. They care more about the success of their party than they do the country they swore to serve. The sad thing is that it has gone on long enough that two such groups have formed. We just have a bunch of obstinate dick heads now due to gerrymandering and an absent media.
Close. The media isn't absent, it's just serving its corporate masters which causes the "obstinate dickheads" in the "'two such groups" to pretend to be gerrymandering. Example: You have two friends. Friend A is a close friend and you also do some limited business together, which you like and the extra cash comes in handy. Friend B is a friend and has been there for you, but there's no real advantage to this friend, other than the occasional pat on the back. Friend A and B know each other, but aren't super close. Now, say something comes up and Friend A and B have conflicting opinions and you have to actually please A, but placate B. Well, that's where the gerrymandering comes in...or just not bringing the topic up much (NAFTA?). Friend A is Corporations, Friend B is Voters. Using that formula, you can pretty much predict the outcome of anything. Note: Friend A usually wins, but Friend B actually has all the power, he's just a little schizoid.
Great way for the autorities to collect even more information on everybody, especailly with stupid people flippantly texting everything they see to dispatchers. I'd call the feature worthless, if it wasn't so valutable for the police.
You are wrong. They very mush are about those things, there just not doing it well, or thinking it through.
"They're actually quite effective and are doing exactly what they're designed to do" a chalk up bed decisions to some sort of conspiracy theory. That idea is laughable,.
HA!
Thanks for your usual, illiterate reply. Next time i want your kind of "wisdom", I'll turn the TV on.
Because we don't have enough problems with crackers already!
This just adds a little salt to that cracker.
Any literate teenager should know that the "war on terror" has nothing to do with preventing terror. Just like the "war on drugs" has nothing to do with drugs. I love these people who say that these security measures are "ineffective", as if they're put in place with lofty ideals, but just aren't executed well or whatever. That's a load of garbage. They're actually quite effective and are doing exactly what they're designed to do! Who said the government is inefficient? Yeah, it's inefficient for anything YOU desire, but it's actually quite efficient at keeping a hold on power. The "wars" keep the American empire "secure" and keep internal fear at a high and dissent at a low.
So there might be water there...we can't even get back to the moon let alone establish a base there yet we waste tones of money on 'pie in the sky' dreaming. It's so sad the Chinese will probably beat us to the moon and if there is a chance to turn it into a commercial venture do you really think they will use it for the benefit of earth-kind? All the money spent designing and testing mars habitats and human rovers would probably have paid for us to be back on the moon. And I somehow think that if we accomplish that it makes the next step...Mars, that much easier and cheaper.
And who were you thinking would be most likely to use it "for the benefit of earth-kind? The US? LOL!!
brain damage can be done a number of ways. the rules of football have changed a lot, but the stress these players put upon themselves is a source of mental stress far more than a normal person can handle. it's not just the concussions it puts your mind on edge when you can't cross an invisible line until the guy in the middle moves the ball. where a fraction of a second you have to push forward and not the side etc. football players are not dumb, just because they don't all take school smarts seriously. so a few of them snap. add in the wierd crap they get told, the substances they might take to have an edge... and they get paid a lot of money. to take a risk. do you tell high wire crews fixing storm damaged lines to 'not take the money for the risk' you and i would not be discussing this topic at all if people weren't allowed to take a risk because they'd have to shut down the entire grid (not easy) at certain points just to 'safely' repair some things that can only be fixed either by shutting down a lines power or else work on 'hot' equipment. the nfl players are paid to take a risk. and they are smart enough to try to manipulate others into going 'wah concussion, ptsd we need more money waa' apparently the millions they make a season isn't enough. the bench warmer players get at least 100,000 for 2012 minnesota vikings with the top player getting 11 million dollars. http://www.sportscity.com/NFL/Minnesota-Vikings-Salaries wah wah wah they know the risks, and they make good money for it. but you can't blame them for trying to get sympathy and more cash with laywers or can you?
Think I understand what you're saying. So the scientific community will be shocked to find football player brain damage not actually caused by repeated head trauma, but by emotional and mental stress regarding an invisble line and ball location, "weird crap they get told", drugs they might take and cash (for sympathy and more lawyers for more cash for sympathy....vicious cycle). Got it.
It would end civilization as we know it. But there would still be patches of families and clans roaming about even if they're reduced to a nomadic lifestyle.
More like elevated to.
If you want to have people spend 25% of their income on food, then you enable the big food producers who are the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in their petrochemical fertilizers. That and you need to cut taxes from the total 50-60% rate of gross income (income, sales, VATs, hidden) to free up the money for the increased cost.
Seriously, you lefties don't know much of anything--including how food is actually grown.
Somedays I think the real cause of CO2 increases is all the mindless left-wing Chicken-Little bloviating about CO2 increases...
Enable them by cutting them off and buying organic? I don't even know what you're talking about. What you said makes no sense period, but it especially makes no sense in the context of what I was discussing. Good day, sir. I SAY GOOD DAY!!!
Yes, I fully fucking support our troops
Are you insinuating you fuck the troops? Do you bottom out for them? Can you tell me how you fully fucking support them? Still trying to figure out what exactly that means.
Auto industries don't want there cars tied to thugs on killing sprees
Their cars,,,that's 3 today. I really think you should take this test, geekoid. Wouldn't want you to look uneducated. http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm
Regardless of there IQ.
their IQ. That's twice today...tsk tsk. http://www.better-english.com/easier/theyre.htm