If anything, it will simply expose europeans to spying by european governments by labeling your secret information secret and then putting it in their pocket.
Oh 80 years? Then it will go on forever. Nothing that has gone on for 76 years could ever possibly end horribly in epic failure and collapse.
You sir fail history.
In the words of Marcus Aurelius, "things that can't go on forever... don't."
The system is going through a predictable demographic melt down as the number of people paying into the system goes down and the number of people pulling from it goes up.
Minimum the SS system will have to raise the vesting age. And again... you do not own any of it. You are entitled to nothing. If they give you more or less you can't audit them or sue them or do anything short of shake a cardboard sign at some politicians.
And THIS is your idea of a retirement program. Twit.
Not that the EU passed a law... I get that... its just sad that they needed to do that.
The vendors should have created their own standards a long time ago to not be this obnoxious. Every phone needs a new charger even though practically all of them are just USB. But they all have a different type of USB connector which is different for no apparent reason.
Look, obviously there are times and reasons to have different types of charges. But they seem to go out of their way to confuse the situation.
Then we agree. Segment SS and grant those that pay into it ownership of the money they contribute. Yes yes... you can do your redistribution to take some money out of some accounts and put more into others... fine. But after you've had your fun with that... we need to own what is left.
Washington will do neither because they want it as a slush fund. Which is what it is now.
If it defaults tomorrow... who will be accountable? No one. They'll say "mistakes were made" and your money will be gone.
That you trust this system to guard the retirement of millions is inexcusable.
A retirement plan is about planning for the future. A proper retirement plan should give each person ownership of their contribution to the plan.
Now you want to give some people more then they put in and some less? Fine. Doesn't mean I can't own my share.
Do that and the system can't get under funded. I will own my share. Touch my share and you're stealing. I can sue you.
As it stands right now, I own NOTHING in regards to SS. Everything I get is subject to government whim. If I contribute to the plan and then die, my family doesn't get that money. If it were a retirement plan that I owned, they would.
That isn't a retirement program. Its a ponzi scheme everyone is forced to join and where the payouts can arbitrarily change... so it hasn't collapsed... yet.
Had Madoff had the backing of the US government and could change payouts on a whim... how long could he keep his program going?
Except they don't pay for your retirement with that money. They pay for someone else's. And when you retire someone pays for you.
Were it a real retirement policy it would work the way ACTUAL retirement policies work.
Every person would pay into a fund. You OWN that fund. Its yours. The account increases in value and then you retire... and when you retire you draw from that account.
We could do that with SS right now. Government won't do it because it would make it harder to raid as a government slush fund. Which is basically what is now.
As to percentages, add medicare etc to the list and recalculate. You little programs have gobbled up about 70 percent of the federal budget.... and counting.
I have health insurance, idiot. My health insurance was deemed illegal by obamacare.
Premiums around the country are doubling to tripling due to this legislation. Do not tell me it isn't happening. It happened to my brother and I've seen a few companies slash work forces BECAUSE of this bill.
You wanted something. And you didn't care who you hurt to get it. It didn't matter that you were pissing our rights. It didn't matter that it would hurt the economy. Nothing matters to you if you get what you want. I'd call that evil if weren't so oblivious that you didn't even realize it. So you're just stupid. You can take offense or not on that... its just logically inescapable. You're either a scum bag or clueless. Pick one.
Open a newspaper. Do you think your stupid law is making the economy better or worse? Ask corporate America. Ask the small business people. Even ask the big labor unions. They all hate this bill. They all want out.
Even congress wanted out... which is why congress is exempted from Obamacare. The only difference between us and them is that we don't have the power to opt out.
NO ONE likes this law that understands it. The only supporters at this point are the ignorant and the corrupt. I suspect you're in the first category.
As to the whims of adjusters... you could make the same argument about anything. What's next? Free food? Free housing? Free clothing?
And who pays for it because nothing is free.
And as to other countries... the US is not alone in being eaten alive by socialist welfare policies. Europe is full of such countries... The EU is melting down as we speak.
Actually, for most of us it has gone from fury to contempt. It is turning to utter spite.
You want me to just let it go... but I can't. You have violated my rights and violated the constitution. You have perverted every law in the land. You have used every political trick in the book to get what you want.
That's fine. You play the game well. But what would I be if I just knuckled under and took it?
No. You're going to regret this one way or another. That's not a threat of violence... possibly future generations will change their mind on that point and string you up from lamp posts. But in my generation at least, we have the option to politically bleed you to death. Maybe we'll only have papercuts and lemons to make our point. But we'll keep doing it until you at least respect our ability to make it cost you.
You want a one party system? That's how banana republics are born. And with the US debt expanding geometrically the US is headed to a default whether the debt ceiling is increased or not.
The US is dying. And you are killing it with your own pigheaded stupidity.
You don't even realize it. And for that, you earn my spite. It is deserved.
The democrats really have no idea how mad they've made some people. This thing is intolerable. And I and those I support in politics will go for pretty much whatever option is open to frustrate or destroy it.
Understand... this will not be worth it for the democrats. They've stuck their foot into something that has grown larger and more involved and enflamed more passions then they could comprehend.
Their reactions throughout have been "so what" "what's the big deal"... they don't get it.
Every trick in the book is on the table with this thing. By hook, crook, nail, and claw... this thing is going down or it will be so horribly scrambled that the democrats will wish it did die.
Politically, the republicans were completely sidelined for this thing. Utterly emasculated. To survive as a political organization, the republicans need to so thoroughly annihilate this move that the democrats for generations to come remember it.
Anything less and we transition to a one party system.
Let me opt out and we have peace. That's all we've ever wanted in this venture. Let people vote with their feet. If its such a great program you wont' need to force people to join it. If you do need to force people then its not actually a great program you irredeemable lying aholes.
Doubtless I'm going to get some snarky replies from some democrats. That's fine. Game on, stooges.
It was visually impressive and had voice acting and actors... but was the game play great? Not so much. There were some puzzles and some mysteries. But it was a point and click adventure game. And from a gameplay stand point, most of its competitors were better.
Which would you rather play again... Myst or Monkey's Island? Exactly.
Myst was pretty. That was what it was... And since there have been prettier games. So yeah... no one cares about myst anymore.
Stop it. Neither microsoft nor apple nor google can afford to fragment their markets.
Apple understands this which is why the new iOS is 64 bit. They're moving iOS closer to their desktop OS.
These systems need to not just be close but interchangeable.
Existing tablets and smart phones are fully capable of running desktop operating systems.
Obviously the interfaces and GUIs need to be tailored to those devices however there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to run legacy software for a desktop on a modern tablet.
Now someone is going to tell me that there is a difference between x86 processors and whatever the tablets are running. I get that. However, worst case you're looking at some emulation which wouldn't be a huge deal especially if performance weren't a critical factor. What's more, if you designed the OS to make use of that sort of thing from the ground up the efficiency hit might not be so bad.
What is more, Intel is offering increasingly competitive processors that use roughly the same amount of power as the common tablet CPU while being fully compatible with the conventional desktop architecture.
Will this be a big project? Sure.
But the first major OS that offers a reasonably priced phone/tablet with a reasonable GUI that can run desktop applications wins.
MS should have won this a long time ago. They had everything in their court to do it. They've dropped the ball repeatedly.
Surface needs to be a GUI but the underlying guts of the OS needs to be windows.... or give up. I need to be able to transfer a common windows application to my surface tablet without having it recoded by a team of programmers and have it just run... Ideally natively. Worst case, with some emulation that is reasonably efficient.
How many operating systems do we need here?
We have a windows desktop OS. Apple desktop OS. Google Chrome book. At least three to four flavors of windows moble OS. At least two flavors of apple mobile OS. At least two flavors of Android OS. And of course the endless sea of linux distros that I frankly don't know enough about to have a meaningful opinion.
At the very least, both apple and MS need to unify their operating systems.
Even the xbox should do this by unifying with windows.
By all means, have the xbox, smart phone, tablet, and laptop all have unique GUIs tailored for the input environment. If they're touch or controller or remote or keyboard and mouse... whatever. Give them the GUI that they need. But the underlying OS can be the desktop OS.
If I want to install power point on my xbox.. why not? If I want to play an xbox game on my tablet... why not? There's no reason to make all of these bits of software exclusive to these bits of hardware when the hardware technically could run a unitary OS that was inter-compatible with everything.
Every time you make a citation, copy it into a legal database, and then reference that entry into the database IN ADDITION to original URL. Include date and time... end of controversy.
Lets say they say it is a fake name. What then? Do they know your real name? Will they type your real name and other information into the system?
Furthermore, how many people on social networks do you want to know your real name? Forget the company... For example, do you know my real name? Do you want me to know yours?
Obviously not. So how can you rat me out if you don't even know my name?
Precisely.
Now if we're talking about real life friends that you talk to on your social network... why would they rat you out especially if they knew you deliberately were using a false name?
They wouldn't unless they intentionally wanted to slight you. So already we're talking about a somewhat exotic set of conditions on your argument.
Point being, if you are careful about it, you can maintain a fiction easily on the internet.
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Who would have actually thought that the systems would have remained secure here?
And yet the LAUSD was surprised. Their quality of help must be astounding.
The average idiot on this board knows better... and they don't while making billion dollar choices. Just process that.
it won't protect anyone.
If anything, it will simply expose europeans to spying by european governments by labeling your secret information secret and then putting it in their pocket.
Oh 80 years? Then it will go on forever. Nothing that has gone on for 76 years could ever possibly end horribly in epic failure and collapse.
You sir fail history.
In the words of Marcus Aurelius, "things that can't go on forever... don't."
The system is going through a predictable demographic melt down as the number of people paying into the system goes down and the number of people pulling from it goes up.
Minimum the SS system will have to raise the vesting age. And again... you do not own any of it. You are entitled to nothing. If they give you more or less you can't audit them or sue them or do anything short of shake a cardboard sign at some politicians.
And THIS is your idea of a retirement program. Twit.
yes, but this is mostly fresh eating due to impurities.
Not that the EU passed a law... I get that... its just sad that they needed to do that.
The vendors should have created their own standards a long time ago to not be this obnoxious. Every phone needs a new charger even though practically all of them are just USB. But they all have a different type of USB connector which is different for no apparent reason.
Look, obviously there are times and reasons to have different types of charges. But they seem to go out of their way to confuse the situation.
So walt would be able to fix it so your skin didn't fall off... bonus.
the drug apparently needs some work....
in this day... not getting an agreement in writing? Dumb.
You don't need a lawyer to do this sort of thing. Write on a napkin "this is how the arrangement works" and sign it.
When you go to court... show that to the judge... the judge will ask if those are the your signatures... end of dispute.
Then we agree. Segment SS and grant those that pay into it ownership of the money they contribute. Yes yes... you can do your redistribution to take some money out of some accounts and put more into others... fine. But after you've had your fun with that... we need to own what is left.
Washington will do neither because they want it as a slush fund. Which is what it is now.
If it defaults tomorrow... who will be accountable? No one. They'll say "mistakes were made" and your money will be gone.
That you trust this system to guard the retirement of millions is inexcusable.
A retirement plan is not about risk.
A retirement plan is about planning for the future. A proper retirement plan should give each person ownership of their contribution to the plan.
Now you want to give some people more then they put in and some less? Fine. Doesn't mean I can't own my share.
Do that and the system can't get under funded. I will own my share. Touch my share and you're stealing. I can sue you.
As it stands right now, I own NOTHING in regards to SS. Everything I get is subject to government whim. If I contribute to the plan and then die, my family doesn't get that money. If it were a retirement plan that I owned, they would.
That isn't a retirement program. Its a ponzi scheme everyone is forced to join and where the payouts can arbitrarily change... so it hasn't collapsed... yet.
Had Madoff had the backing of the US government and could change payouts on a whim... how long could he keep his program going?
Exactly.
My policy didn't coverage pregnancy, birth control, or breast cancer...
I'm a man.
Your health law is retarded and so are you.
My policy covered cancer, heart conditions, any neurological condition you could imagine, accidents like getting hit by car, etc.
What more do I really need here? it is health INSURANCE.
I'm a young healthy guy. What I need is accident insurance. And it gave me that.
Your plan is making my bills go up because it won't let me negociate the plan I WANT for myself with the company.
You took my choices away. You made us all less free.
And yeah... for that, I hate you. You hurt me. You hurt my family. You hurt this country.
And you're too dumb to realize it.
Except they don't pay for your retirement with that money. They pay for someone else's. And when you retire someone pays for you.
Were it a real retirement policy it would work the way ACTUAL retirement policies work.
Every person would pay into a fund. You OWN that fund. Its yours. The account increases in value and then you retire... and when you retire you draw from that account.
We could do that with SS right now. Government won't do it because it would make it harder to raid as a government slush fund. Which is basically what is now.
As to percentages, add medicare etc to the list and recalculate. You little programs have gobbled up about 70 percent of the federal budget.... and counting.
I have health insurance, idiot. My health insurance was deemed illegal by obamacare.
Premiums around the country are doubling to tripling due to this legislation. Do not tell me it isn't happening. It happened to my brother and I've seen a few companies slash work forces BECAUSE of this bill.
You wanted something. And you didn't care who you hurt to get it. It didn't matter that you were pissing our rights. It didn't matter that it would hurt the economy. Nothing matters to you if you get what you want. I'd call that evil if weren't so oblivious that you didn't even realize it. So you're just stupid. You can take offense or not on that... its just logically inescapable. You're either a scum bag or clueless. Pick one.
Open a newspaper. Do you think your stupid law is making the economy better or worse? Ask corporate America. Ask the small business people. Even ask the big labor unions. They all hate this bill. They all want out.
Even congress wanted out... which is why congress is exempted from Obamacare. The only difference between us and them is that we don't have the power to opt out.
NO ONE likes this law that understands it. The only supporters at this point are the ignorant and the corrupt. I suspect you're in the first category.
That's fine. Only I would pay for MY healthcare so I wouldn't be left to die.
So you know what... I accept that option. I'm good with it. Your system can rot and my system won't.
You claimed affiliation so I assumed you had it.
As to the whims of adjusters... you could make the same argument about anything. What's next? Free food? Free housing? Free clothing?
And who pays for it because nothing is free.
And as to other countries... the US is not alone in being eaten alive by socialist welfare policies. Europe is full of such countries... The EU is melting down as we speak.
Furious? Yes.
Actually, for most of us it has gone from fury to contempt. It is turning to utter spite.
You want me to just let it go... but I can't. You have violated my rights and violated the constitution. You have perverted every law in the land. You have used every political trick in the book to get what you want.
That's fine. You play the game well. But what would I be if I just knuckled under and took it?
No. You're going to regret this one way or another. That's not a threat of violence... possibly future generations will change their mind on that point and string you up from lamp posts. But in my generation at least, we have the option to politically bleed you to death. Maybe we'll only have papercuts and lemons to make our point. But we'll keep doing it until you at least respect our ability to make it cost you.
You want a one party system? That's how banana republics are born. And with the US debt expanding geometrically the US is headed to a default whether the debt ceiling is increased or not.
The US is dying. And you are killing it with your own pigheaded stupidity.
You don't even realize it. And for that, you earn my spite. It is deserved.
That's right. SS makes money.
You didn't answer my question.
What portion of the federal budget is SS?
Can you process that without your cognitive dissonance turning you into a vegetable?
Because your last post suggests you're not actually able to have this discussion.
That's right. And what portion of the total federal budget is taken up by SS today?
Had that been known when it was being pushed through would it have passed?
No.
Your whole ideology thrives on ignorance, misinformation, and lies.
In the full light of day - you wither.
The democrats really have no idea how mad they've made some people. This thing is intolerable. And I and those I support in politics will go for pretty much whatever option is open to frustrate or destroy it.
Understand... this will not be worth it for the democrats. They've stuck their foot into something that has grown larger and more involved and enflamed more passions then they could comprehend.
Their reactions throughout have been "so what" "what's the big deal"... they don't get it.
Every trick in the book is on the table with this thing. By hook, crook, nail, and claw... this thing is going down or it will be so horribly scrambled that the democrats will wish it did die.
Politically, the republicans were completely sidelined for this thing. Utterly emasculated. To survive as a political organization, the republicans need to so thoroughly annihilate this move that the democrats for generations to come remember it.
Anything less and we transition to a one party system.
Let me opt out and we have peace. That's all we've ever wanted in this venture. Let people vote with their feet. If its such a great program you wont' need to force people to join it. If you do need to force people then its not actually a great program you irredeemable lying aholes.
Doubtless I'm going to get some snarky replies from some democrats. That's fine. Game on, stooges.
It was visually impressive and had voice acting and actors... but was the game play great? Not so much. There were some puzzles and some mysteries. But it was a point and click adventure game. And from a gameplay stand point, most of its competitors were better.
Which would you rather play again... Myst or Monkey's Island? Exactly.
Myst was pretty. That was what it was... And since there have been prettier games. So yeah... no one cares about myst anymore.
Stop it. Neither microsoft nor apple nor google can afford to fragment their markets.
Apple understands this which is why the new iOS is 64 bit. They're moving iOS closer to their desktop OS.
These systems need to not just be close but interchangeable.
Existing tablets and smart phones are fully capable of running desktop operating systems.
Obviously the interfaces and GUIs need to be tailored to those devices however there is no reason why I shouldn't be able to run legacy software for a desktop on a modern tablet.
Now someone is going to tell me that there is a difference between x86 processors and whatever the tablets are running. I get that. However, worst case you're looking at some emulation which wouldn't be a huge deal especially if performance weren't a critical factor. What's more, if you designed the OS to make use of that sort of thing from the ground up the efficiency hit might not be so bad.
What is more, Intel is offering increasingly competitive processors that use roughly the same amount of power as the common tablet CPU while being fully compatible with the conventional desktop architecture.
Will this be a big project? Sure.
But the first major OS that offers a reasonably priced phone/tablet with a reasonable GUI that can run desktop applications wins.
MS should have won this a long time ago. They had everything in their court to do it. They've dropped the ball repeatedly.
Surface needs to be a GUI but the underlying guts of the OS needs to be windows.... or give up. I need to be able to transfer a common windows application to my surface tablet without having it recoded by a team of programmers and have it just run... Ideally natively. Worst case, with some emulation that is reasonably efficient.
How many operating systems do we need here?
We have a windows desktop OS.
Apple desktop OS.
Google Chrome book.
At least three to four flavors of windows moble OS.
At least two flavors of apple mobile OS.
At least two flavors of Android OS.
And of course the endless sea of linux distros that I frankly don't know enough about to have a meaningful opinion.
At the very least, both apple and MS need to unify their operating systems.
Even the xbox should do this by unifying with windows.
By all means, have the xbox, smart phone, tablet, and laptop all have unique GUIs tailored for the input environment. If they're touch or controller or remote or keyboard and mouse... whatever. Give them the GUI that they need. But the underlying OS can be the desktop OS.
If I want to install power point on my xbox.. why not? If I want to play an xbox game on my tablet... why not? There's no reason to make all of these bits of software exclusive to these bits of hardware when the hardware technically could run a unitary OS that was inter-compatible with everything.
Every time you make a citation, copy it into a legal database, and then reference that entry into the database IN ADDITION to original URL. Include date and time... end of controversy.
Everyone go home... false alarm.
A photo is irrelevant?
Well, then exactly what is relevant?
Lets say they say it is a fake name. What then? Do they know your real name? Will they type your real name and other information into the system?
Furthermore, how many people on social networks do you want to know your real name? Forget the company... For example, do you know my real name? Do you want me to know yours?
Obviously not. So how can you rat me out if you don't even know my name?
Precisely.
Now if we're talking about real life friends that you talk to on your social network... why would they rat you out especially if they knew you deliberately were using a false name?
They wouldn't unless they intentionally wanted to slight you. So already we're talking about a somewhat exotic set of conditions on your argument.
Point being, if you are careful about it, you can maintain a fiction easily on the internet.
I don't think the Brazilians understand that the US can do this to the North Koreans and they have as much their own internet as anyone.