Please tell me you do your own taxes... if so you are giving the feds waaaay too much money... thanks!
You realize that for residents of some states, when they 'deduct' their sales tax on their federal income tax... they are not lowering the amount of federal tax paid by the amount of sales tax paid... they are reducing their taxible income by that much, the amount of federal tax savings is minor by comparison.
Really? You may want to read the bills that authorized for force in Iraq & Afghanistan... they were effectively declarations of war... just without the title of "Declaration of War."
So let me get this straight... in some bizarre way you find ANY moral equivalence between... ownership and enslavement of human beings... and an ISP being able to give preferential treatment to customers based on how much they pay?
Riiight.
Why not try to relate net neutrality to what the actions of Hitler while you are at it? It would be about as ridiculous.
In a pure legal sense yes... but you are still free to your own opinions.
OJ Simpson was found not guilty of double homicide... a sizeable number of people out there firmly believe that he did in fact commit the acts he was accused to. Should we be punished because we do not agree with the jury?
So when people carry weapons in public, we immediately assume they are enemy combatants? I know there was fighting in the area: you still have ZERO proof these were insurgents.
And there is zero evidence that these people were engaged in any warfare, or about to fire an RPG: the pilots made that shit up.
It is a shame that so many people (like you) expect that our military act with the same level of due process as the police and/or courts.
You will note that they are separate organizations... and with completely different rules... right? Once you do... things actually begin to make a wee bit more sense.
The only childish bit is the tea party crowd insisting that Obama did it instead, somehow doing it before he was elected.
Explain or withdraw the statement.
A lot of people of both sides of politics that know more about these things than any of us decided it was a good idea anyway.
And those who said such things were good... are being proven wrong as time goes on I am happy to say... sure a shame they had to bring this country and it's economy down even further in order for that to be shown.
Also I hope you are simply pretending that you think everything could be fixed instantly by magic and don't actually believe it.
Not at all... I think the free market, if left alone will fix things pretty damn well... shame it's been coming under increasing attack in this country for the better part of 80 years now.
It's going to be hard for quite a few years and if Afganistan goes very badly there might even be a draft.
A) A draft will not happen, our generals do not want such a thing. B) What does a draft have to do with anything?
You'll have plenty of reasons to hate Obama and probably whoever follows him intensely for whatever has to be done to clean up after Bush's Enron style approach.
I'd respond... but you didn't actually say anything here, just a few words that have the semblance of a typical anti-bush mantra... but devoid of any meaning.
Also... see above, I addressed some of the points I think you tried to raise.
Now... could it be that the economy was so much worse off than they knew... perhaps... but that doesn't exactly paint them in a very competent light, now does it? I mean... if they cannot be trusted to know how bad something is... how can we trust them to be able to fix it? (hint: don't do either!)
The fact is... Keynesian economics have never actually worked as proscribed... in fact, they've even gotten their implementation completely wrong and are driven more by what they want than what actually works... and what's worse is they've instead made things far far worse than they would have been than if they had sat on their hands and done nothing.
Remember... I'm not talking about perceptions here... I'm talking about what then canidate Obama, and later President Obama and his administration said they could/would do. I'm sorry for holding them to what they said.
>In case you forgot, George W Bush enacted the first bailout,
Which then Senator Obama voted for, funny how you failed to mention that.
More so... you argument is childish... it's the equivalent of "but he did it first!"
>and it's one of the few things I think he got right!
No... he "abandoning free market principals in order to save the free market" was actually a rather large mistake.
>I'd rather bail out the banks than see the economy crash into a depression.
Absolutely right! I mean, the happy days are here again!... thank god we've fixed unemployment, paid down our national debt, solved global warming, restored our place in the world, pulled out of Iraq, closed Gitmo, etc.
Sure a good thing we bailed out the banks, nationalized a couple auto companies as it's all obviously made things better... right? Oh wait... no... things keep declining... funny that... maybe those fixes weren't the right ones.
Except for neither of the last two attempts to bomb a plane were not actually *prevented* by any passengers!
Our friend the shoe bomber was unable to light his bomb... in all likelihood due to being spoiled by moisture from being worn far longer than had been planned (do note his first attempt was aborted only because of a canceled flight).
In the case of the underwear bomber, he did his job... only the ignition failed to do it's job, possible due to similar reasons as above (ie waiting until the end of the flight vs the start).
If you want to say that bank patrons are the ones who stop a robbery after the gunman's gun jams... then you are right in a very limited sense... only in all 3 cases the actual success is due to pure dumb luck on our part... and nothing to do with the vigilance of passengers or patrons.
Obtain an SPC from a commercial CA that issues digital certificates for signing kernel-mode code. The list of CAs who provide SPCs (or code-signing certificates) that can be used for kernel-mode code signing is available at the “Microsoft Cross-certificates for Windows Vista Kernel Mode Code Signing” Web page listed in “Resource” at the end of this paper.
Have you not realized that by not publically disclosing the list... Microsoft actually saves the FOSS community a lot of heart-ache and pain?
Why?
Willful patent infringement pays 3x damages of what accidental infringement does.
So yes... Microsoft could come out tomorrow and say "here are the patents that are infringed on by Linux"... and suddenly every single Linux distributor (or hardware/service company that ships an infringing device) becomes liable for 3x damages (rather than just 1x) for any ongoing infringement... which includes further distribution after the date of the announcement.
Working around the patents very well could be possible, but would not the previous infringement... and by not widely disclosing a full list, you end up in a cold war situation where things could explode at any time... but it's far more ideal to both sides than an outright (even if limited) shooting war.
I always find the 'imaginary patents' or similar lines hilarious as it assumes that Microsoft walks in and says "In this sealed envelope that you may not open or see, we have a list of patents that you are infringing on... you should license them."
Each and every company who gets involved in such a licensing deal knows full well what they are getting into and exactly what they are licensing... and if not, they probably should fire their entire legal staff who said they should go ahead with the licensing deal without knowing just what they are getting out of the deal.
So what % of traffic driving across the 520 each day do you think is that of Microsoft employees? 95%? 75%? 50.00001%? Anything less... and it 'mainly benefits NON-Microsoft employees'.
Remember... we aren't talking about the 'bridge to Microsoft' that connects two portions of the corporate campus and which Microsoft is picking up something like 80% of the tab... we are talking about one of two over-water routes across Lake Washington that is heavily used by many people who commute across for work or pleasure.
I don't know if it's done with SMART... but a month or two ago I had my Media Center PC in the livingroom give me a couple of warnings (via a dialog box) about the impending death of it's HD.
Not having much time (but having spare parts) I put in a fresh drive and put the suspect one on the shelf to look at later.
So because *some* people are irresponsible... everyone should be forced into withholdings?
Also... you realize that the mandatory withholding system was actually a later addition to the tax system right? Prior to it... tax payers were responsible for cutting a check to the feds by tax day... problem was that system didn't offer the kind of regular income the feds wanted (because they couldn't budget well themselves)... but also it made it even more clear to tax payers just how much they are actually paying.
Yes... everyone sees the $$$ amount grow on their paystub during the year... as well as a final one... those numbers don't click in for most people as they never actually had that money in their possession, to them it never truly existed... thus reducing the likelihood that they are going to be involved or vocal about in how it is spent.
I dunno about you, but had I been able to keep my whole paycheck... even just buying a couple of CD's... I could have made a few dollars on the money I owed the feds... instead I was effectively forced into giving a tax free loan (refund or not) to a group that is even less responsible with money than the average tax payer you are worried about.
So you are calling NBC/MSNBC a disreputable news organization? I knew it!
Apparently you’ve not been paying attention to how NBC Universal (NBC, MSNBC, (now) SyFy) and others have been pushing the 'green' movement more than the others... in large part to benefit it's parent company of General Electric.... but as a broader point I'm going to quote from a blog post of a friend of mine:
When FoxNews reported on NewsCorp, the FoxNews anchor always says NewsCorp is the parent company of this network.
Likewise, when FoxNews reports on Rupert Murdoch, the anchor says, Rupert Murdoch is the CEO of NewsCorp, the parent company of this network.
So, when MSNB & NBC reporter discusses Barack Obama, when they talk about Tim Geithner, why do they not say Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a major investor in the parent company of this network?
When MSNBC & NBC report on the Pay Czar restricting the take-home pay of officials at Citi, Bank of America, and GM, why do they not say that officials at GE, which also was saved from bankruptcy by Treasury backstops, was not impacted?
Well said... also interesting that the focus of most of this has been on corporations and not other groups (be it PACs, unions, etc).
I wonder at times if what they really want is to effectively limit free speech to those persons who are sufficiently eloquent or well spoken... because if there is a cause I really believe in, but am not really good at speaking on, they seem to want to prohibit me from getting together with a group of like minded people and throwing our support behind a person or two who can do the best job of making a case for what we believe.
At least Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is a little more honest than our friend jhoegl, given Mr Devaney admits that he cannot certify all of the job data on recovery.gov.
Sorry, I can't trust any web site with that much obvious bias.
Citation?
hotair.com has obviously decided that Obama sucks, and they will do anything to prove it.
Citation?
I've yet to see anything logical or factual from the Obama haters.
So you only are listening to the Obama haters and not the Obama disagree-rs? That could explain why you haven't heard much.
Not that I've had any high expectations for Obama,
Oh how I love that style of preamble, claiming to lower expectations while a moment later towing the party line or worse
but these loons seem to think he kills old people by throwing babies at them, holds seances to talk to Lenin's ghost, and farts demons.
Citation?
It's hilarious to watch loons like you writhe about in abject terror over the coming End of America.
Do you by chance see the hilarity of all of this? I provide specific links to specific cases, cases that were simply republished by the site you questioned (which was not the only site I linked to)... and somehow you declare that I am a 'loon' who "writhe about in abject terror over the coming End of America"... all without providing a single example or bit of supporting evidence.
If anything... the arguments you have made have revealed more about your own views than mine.
Given the scope of the fakery going on... there are two options... even more errors, or a deliberate attempt to cook the books.
Giving the amazing failure of the stimulus... the latter is far more likely given the continued delusional claims that it saved us from the brink... instead it is setting us up for a double dip and massive inflation.
Why is it that Obama's Czars are news when his predecessor had more Czars?
Support your argument or withdraw it.
Wikipedia claims that Obama has 32 czar jobs at present... while Bush had only 31... while the DNC claims that Bush had 47... but then they are counting every person to sit in a czar job, even double counting the same job... and given the degree of turnover in this administration, President Obama may just find himself going beyond 47 here in the next couple of years as more Van Jones or Anita Dunn like people are brought to light.
Those on the left like to talk about how Bush was an imperial president and avoided so many of the checks and balances... and yet never consider degrees. In his entire term in office, Bush only created 5 czar jobs that did not require confirmation... while in the first 7 months of his time in office, President Obama has created 17.
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Please tell me you do your own taxes... if so you are giving the feds waaaay too much money... thanks!
You realize that for residents of some states, when they 'deduct' their sales tax on their federal income tax... they are not lowering the amount of federal tax paid by the amount of sales tax paid... they are reducing their taxible income by that much, the amount of federal tax savings is minor by comparison.
Really? You may want to read the bills that authorized for force in Iraq & Afghanistan... they were effectively declarations of war... just without the title of "Declaration of War."
So let me get this straight... in some bizarre way you find ANY moral equivalence between... ownership and enslavement of human beings... and an ISP being able to give preferential treatment to customers based on how much they pay?
Riiight.
Why not try to relate net neutrality to what the actions of Hitler while you are at it? It would be about as ridiculous.
In a pure legal sense yes... but you are still free to your own opinions.
OJ Simpson was found not guilty of double homicide... a sizeable number of people out there firmly believe that he did in fact commit the acts he was accused to. Should we be punished because we do not agree with the jury?
It is a shame that so many people (like you) expect that our military act with the same level of due process as the police and/or courts.
You will note that they are separate organizations... and with completely different rules... right? Once you do... things actually begin to make a wee bit more sense.
1x American here
Explain or withdraw the statement.
And those who said such things were good... are being proven wrong as time goes on I am happy to say... sure a shame they had to bring this country and it's economy down even further in order for that to be shown.
Not at all... I think the free market, if left alone will fix things pretty damn well... shame it's been coming under increasing attack in this country for the better part of 80 years now.
A) A draft will not happen, our generals do not want such a thing. B) What does a draft have to do with anything?
I'd respond... but you didn't actually say anything here, just a few words that have the semblance of a typical anti-bush mantra... but devoid of any meaning.
Also... see above, I addressed some of the points I think you tried to raise.
And you are... or if you prefer... willfully dishonest as you ignore facts on the ground.
Need I remind you that it was THIS ADMINISTRATION (via Christina Romer) who published this rather well known graph that predicted what the unemployment rate would be with/without the '09 stimulus bill... and even with it... the actual has come out to be WORSE than they had predicted it would be without.
Now... could it be that the economy was so much worse off than they knew... perhaps... but that doesn't exactly paint them in a very competent light, now does it? I mean... if they cannot be trusted to know how bad something is... how can we trust them to be able to fix it? (hint: don't do either!)
The fact is... Keynesian economics have never actually worked as proscribed... in fact, they've even gotten their implementation completely wrong and are driven more by what they want than what actually works... and what's worse is they've instead made things far far worse than they would have been than if they had sat on their hands and done nothing.
Remember... I'm not talking about perceptions here... I'm talking about what then canidate Obama, and later President Obama and his administration said they could/would do. I'm sorry for holding them to what they said.
>In case you forgot, George W Bush enacted the first bailout,
Which then Senator Obama voted for, funny how you failed to mention that.
More so... you argument is childish... it's the equivalent of "but he did it first!"
>and it's one of the few things I think he got right!
No... he "abandoning free market principals in order to save the free market" was actually a rather large mistake.
>I'd rather bail out the banks than see the economy crash into a depression.
Absolutely right! I mean, the happy days are here again!... thank god we've fixed unemployment, paid down our national debt, solved global warming, restored our place in the world, pulled out of Iraq, closed Gitmo, etc.
Sure a good thing we bailed out the banks, nationalized a couple auto companies as it's all obviously made things better... right? Oh wait... no... things keep declining... funny that... maybe those fixes weren't the right ones.
Except for neither of the last two attempts to bomb a plane were not actually *prevented* by any passengers!
Our friend the shoe bomber was unable to light his bomb... in all likelihood due to being spoiled by moisture from being worn far longer than had been planned (do note his first attempt was aborted only because of a canceled flight).
In the case of the underwear bomber, he did his job... only the ignition failed to do it's job, possible due to similar reasons as above (ie waiting until the end of the flight vs the start).
If you want to say that bank patrons are the ones who stop a robbery after the gunman's gun jams... then you are right in a very limited sense... only in all 3 cases the actual success is due to pure dumb luck on our part... and nothing to do with the vigilance of passengers or patrons.
If are going to engage in FUD... you could at least *try* to be accurate or support your arguments with... something.
>Windows 7 only allows signed drivers,
On x64 Win 7 that is correct... but not for x86 versions.
>and the only way to get a signed driver is to pay Microsoft a lot of money.
Incorrect, to quote a whitepaper on the subject:
The section in question points you to this site with a whole list of certificate providers.
One name (Microsoft) seems to be missing from that list.
Have you not realized that by not publically disclosing the list... Microsoft actually saves the FOSS community a lot of heart-ache and pain?
Why?
Willful patent infringement pays 3x damages of what accidental infringement does.
So yes... Microsoft could come out tomorrow and say "here are the patents that are infringed on by Linux"... and suddenly every single Linux distributor (or hardware/service company that ships an infringing device) becomes liable for 3x damages (rather than just 1x) for any ongoing infringement... which includes further distribution after the date of the announcement.
Working around the patents very well could be possible, but would not the previous infringement... and by not widely disclosing a full list, you end up in a cold war situation where things could explode at any time... but it's far more ideal to both sides than an outright (even if limited) shooting war.
I always find the 'imaginary patents' or similar lines hilarious as it assumes that Microsoft walks in and says "In this sealed envelope that you may not open or see, we have a list of patents that you are infringing on... you should license them."
Each and every company who gets involved in such a licensing deal knows full well what they are getting into and exactly what they are licensing... and if not, they probably should fire their entire legal staff who said they should go ahead with the licensing deal without knowing just what they are getting out of the deal.
>that mainly benefits Microsoft employees
So what % of traffic driving across the 520 each day do you think is that of Microsoft employees? 95%? 75%? 50.00001%? Anything less... and it 'mainly benefits NON-Microsoft employees'.
Remember... we aren't talking about the 'bridge to Microsoft' that connects two portions of the corporate campus and which Microsoft is picking up something like 80% of the tab... we are talking about one of two over-water routes across Lake Washington that is heavily used by many people who commute across for work or pleasure.
At no time did Microsoft ever promise to re-write Windows from the ground up based on .NET.
I don't know if it's done with SMART... but a month or two ago I had my Media Center PC in the livingroom give me a couple of warnings (via a dialog box) about the impending death of it's HD.
Not having much time (but having spare parts) I put in a fresh drive and put the suspect one on the shelf to look at later.
So because *some* people are irresponsible... everyone should be forced into withholdings?
Also... you realize that the mandatory withholding system was actually a later addition to the tax system right? Prior to it... tax payers were responsible for cutting a check to the feds by tax day... problem was that system didn't offer the kind of regular income the feds wanted (because they couldn't budget well themselves)... but also it made it even more clear to tax payers just how much they are actually paying.
Yes... everyone sees the $$$ amount grow on their paystub during the year... as well as a final one... those numbers don't click in for most people as they never actually had that money in their possession, to them it never truly existed... thus reducing the likelihood that they are going to be involved or vocal about in how it is spent.
I dunno about you, but had I been able to keep my whole paycheck... even just buying a couple of CD's... I could have made a few dollars on the money I owed the feds... instead I was effectively forced into giving a tax free loan (refund or not) to a group that is even less responsible with money than the average tax payer you are worried about.
So you are calling NBC/MSNBC a disreputable news organization? I knew it!
Apparently you’ve not been paying attention to how NBC Universal (NBC, MSNBC, (now) SyFy) and others have been pushing the 'green' movement more than the others... in large part to benefit it's parent company of General Electric. ... but as a broader point I'm going to quote from a blog post of a friend of mine:
Never mind that most press organizations (tv, radio & print) are all run by for-profit corporations.
Well said... also interesting that the focus of most of this has been on corporations and not other groups (be it PACs, unions, etc).
I wonder at times if what they really want is to effectively limit free speech to those persons who are sufficiently eloquent or well spoken... because if there is a cause I really believe in, but am not really good at speaking on, they seem to want to prohibit me from getting together with a group of like minded people and throwing our support behind a person or two who can do the best job of making a case for what we believe.
Makes me glad I use CDMA ;)
At least Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board is a little more honest than our friend jhoegl, given Mr Devaney admits that he cannot certify all of the job data on recovery.gov.
Citation?
Citation?
So you only are listening to the Obama haters and not the Obama disagree-rs? That could explain why you haven't heard much.
Oh how I love that style of preamble, claiming to lower expectations while a moment later towing the party line or worse
Citation?
Do you by chance see the hilarity of all of this? I provide specific links to specific cases, cases that were simply republished by the site you questioned (which was not the only site I linked to)... and somehow you declare that I am a 'loon' who "writhe about in abject terror over the coming End of America"... all without providing a single example or bit of supporting evidence.
If anything... the arguments you have made have revealed more about your own views than mine.
Such a convenient excuse (if true)... but still doesn't explain all of the fake jobs 'created or saved' in New Hampshire, Florida and Georgia, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Connecticut, or Michigan.
Given the scope of the fakery going on... there are two options... even more errors, or a deliberate attempt to cook the books.
Giving the amazing failure of the stimulus... the latter is far more likely given the continued delusional claims that it saved us from the brink... instead it is setting us up for a double dip and massive inflation.
Support your argument or withdraw it.
Wikipedia claims that Obama has 32 czar jobs at present... while Bush had only 31... while the DNC claims that Bush had 47... but then they are counting every person to sit in a czar job, even double counting the same job... and given the degree of turnover in this administration, President Obama may just find himself going beyond 47 here in the next couple of years as more Van Jones or Anita Dunn like people are brought to light.
Those on the left like to talk about how Bush was an imperial president and avoided so many of the checks and balances... and yet never consider degrees. In his entire term in office, Bush only created 5 czar jobs that did not require confirmation... while in the first 7 months of his time in office, President Obama has created 17.