So how can people say Reagan helped the economy? The rich are getting richer, look at bill gates, and other billionares.
The stronger the economy the richer that rich people get because while sure they may hire more people, they hire them for as cheap as possible the wage barely moves for the average worker, its the executive that benifits the most.
Until we have a fair economy, making the economy only helps in in the sense that it creates more jobs, of course creating more jobs does not mean higher wages, it means more low paying jobs and more cash for big companies.
Not everyone makes enough money to save ANYTHING.. Cant you figure it out? In fact, most people are strapped with bills and cant save for their retirement, wife, kids, house, car,
You are saying only single guys who live in apartments can retire because they are the only ones who have the extra income.
Not everyone is rich and can save, some people save for their kids college, others cant save a dime paying for house, and some people live paycheck to paycheck.
Considering people who are poor outnumber you, then all of us schmucks who cant afford to save for our retirement and for our kids college education, well, we are screwed.
Oh and defending the country costs money, and this money comes from taxes. The Economy is plenty strong, having an stronger economy will make the rich richer but if the richer rich pay less taxes than the defense budget you talk about wont benifit.
Alot of opinion and no fact. Why dont you try saying facts.
Face it, not everyone likes IE better than Netscape 4x, I didnt, which is why i always used it in the first place.
People who switched to IE, did so because when you get windows98, IE is just there, theres no reason to go download netscape 4x because 4x isnt really that much better.
You act like Netscape wasnt even in the same league and i disagree.
Mozilla is better than IE, People dont use whats better, they use whats there.
AOL will put Mozilla on about half of all the Desktops in the USA, and thats going to really give IE competition because word of mouth will spread it like it spread AIM.
You shouldnt be using it on an old as hell machine. Its slow because your CPU is slow, period. they cant make your CPU faster. I mean the problems you complain about are CPU load problems not problems with ram.
Considering Microsoft most likely spent double the money and took twice as long to get IE6 to the level that its at. Lets see, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 years. Mozilla 1,2,3,4 years.
4 years vs 7 years, Mozilla did in 4 years what took Microsoft 7 years without the hundreds of millions of dollars Microsoft most likely put into IE.
So now that AOL is fully backing Mozilla, if Mozilla were to get hundreds of millions of dollars in funding (which at this point its the best so why bother?) It wouldnt speed up development because Mozilla is pretty much the best.
Whats left to develop? All AOL can/should do is make the code 100 percent bug free, optimize everything, perhaps improve the lame XUL or replace it with native interfaces for Windows, Linux and so on. Now that the money is availible theres no need to use slow as hell XUL.
Last the Mozilla team can make sure their browser supports ALL the standards and has the fastest rendering engine, Mozilla 2.0 can improve, but with a strong bug free very well written base, IE is going to be left in the dust no matter how much money they try to spend to fix bugs in their poorly designed and badly written IE.
IE is horribly designed, its worse than netscape, its been patched over and over and over year after year until it became good, also its been intergrated into windows itself so it doesnt seem bloated.
Using electronics, you can have electronic camaflauge(sp?) which adapts to the enviornment you are in making you seem invisible. Its an illusion, a very very good illusion thats generated electronically, so if you go into the desert your suit will look like desert sand, it wouldnt be hard really, just take a snapshop of the enviornment and then take that snapshot and the suit displays it
or at least thats a very cheap simple way of doing it.
A more complex way would require alot more energy, and electronics. Bending light? thats not what it will do, but it will create the illusion of being invisible
Well most of the top secret stuff i dont even think our president knows about. Its either too high tech to properly explain, or they wont explain it to him until they recommend that he needs to use it.
And you are right the top secret stuff not many people know about, if it leaks and I'm sure it has leaked, they just lie and say it doesnt exsist or its not them. Really until they make a product out of it, technically, it doesnt exsist so they arent lying, but it does exsist in the fact that its being developed.
As far as freaking out our enemies, our enemies know more of what we have, than you and I know, so i really doubt thats the case, theres spies, theres satelites all over, theres no way anyone can test anything without our enemies knowing, or even us knowing, people may see tests and not know what the hell it is so they ignore it, and our enemies may see it and may even have the papers on it.
Really, top secret stuff is obsure security, its hiding the details to such an extent that all people have is the peices.
I have enough peices and knowledge, to guess what could be developed. We have tests in labs being done by scientists, and lots of theories, and prototypes for lots of things, and because its in public places like MIT, i know alot about it. What i dont know is how our government will use it, what ideas they have to make use of it for military purposes.
I do know we have nano dust spy technology, I also know our governments newest crafts are unmanned, I know we have crafts which work like bees, unmanned crafts which are small and swarm enemies with guns and so on, but i dont really know much more than a person can find out by keeping up with science, and looking at what the military is revealing by mistake, or on purpose.
Theres the chance that they reveal alot of stuff they arent developing to confuse the enemy disinformation, but i know for a fact technoloogy wise it can be developed.
We have the specs and the technology to build a warp drive, the problem is, while on paper we can describe exactly how to build it, we dont have the power of a star (planck energy) required to build such a device.
So theres alot of issues. Perhaps our government could have discovered a new form of energy, but i really doubt that, alot of technologies cant exsist due to the amount of energy required. Alot of technologies cant exsist due to being way to expensive to be useful in an actual war. Alot of technologies if not most of them never actually get used, because they are just too exotic, technologies get used when they are required, we arent going to use high tech urban warfare weaponry until we get into a high tech urban war. So why would we need to use nano dust against some guys hiding in caves in afganastan or some guys in the desert? If it were Japan, then perhaps we would be warring with them using nano technology so on because japan has technology to fight us back with.
They are rich damnit, why do i care if they cant buy a new mansion or another car for their collection of hundreds?
Please!
Rich people pay most of the taxes because they make most of the money, that is fair.
Everyone should pay a percentage of taxes based on how much they make, the poor deserve tax breaks because most people are poor, the majority should overrule the top 1 percent.
Most people NEED social security, healthcare, public schools etc because MOST people arent rich. Why do the rich need to save money on taxes? So they can waste their money on junk they dont even need? While some poor person cant retire anymore and cant get free health care or decent schooling because of it?
The rich SHOULD pay most of the taxes because the poor are the workers of society who allow the rich to be rich in the first place.
Regean did horrible, socalism? Socialism is not a bad thing, theres benifits to Socialism, in fact if technology keeps going the way its going, Capitalism leads to Socialism and theres no way around it really.
The Regean Economic boom or whatever crap you talk about, helps the top 10 percent of business execs, and people who are already rich, the tax cuts help people who are already rich, so having a good economy = helping the rich? What about the working class? I'm not rich, most people arent rich, how do we benifit by these tax cuts when we only get a few hundred bucks, big fucking deal!
I'm not saying tax cuts are bad, I'd take a few hundred bucks extra any day, but when tax cuts happen when we dont even have the surplus for a tax cut anymore, i think its stupid.
So we are having the war on terrorism. Homeland Security is created (wheres this money going to come from?)
Raised Military Budget (wheres this money coming from?)
Increaded R&D for Nano Technology (where is this money coming from?)
Increased Budget for schools (where do they find free money?)
Bailout for Airport companies (why the hell are we paying for this?!)
If you are so pro capitalist, dont you agree we should have proper budget management?
The president and you, seem to think we can pull money out of our asses without taxing anyone, but newsflash, we dont have enough money to pay for all of this, and perhaps if we DIDNT have tax cuts we would have been able to pay for it easier.
I'm not saying keep taxes raised for the sake of keeping it raised, and I'm not saying its bad to lower taxes in a recession, What I am saying is, when theres a Surplus, lower taxes, use the Surplus money to pay for all of the emergency expenses, war, defense, and security.
When theres no surplus there should be no tax cut.I mean if we cut taxes while trying to fund a war with money we dont have, this money is coming from lets see the Education Budget, Social Security, HealthCare, etc etc that benifit the poor and middle class MAJORITY.
So its taking from the Majority who need these benifits, to pay for the war on terror? Why should we do that when we can just raise taxes and let rich guys likee Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others pay for it? Why should someone not be able to retire, or get medicine over unpredictable events?
Taxes are for Security,
In a world with absolutely no taxes at all, meaning a pure capitalist anti socialist world that you want.
Theres no law enforcement, Hire your own personal body guard or get killed by criminals.
Theres no public school, either you can afford your education or you cant.
Theres no free hospital care, either you pay for it or you die.
Theres no social security, either you have a nest egg and stock, or you dont retire period.
Dont even think about buying a house either unless you can pay in cash.
Oh and the terrorist attacks? Rich individualist capitalist types likee you would only defend yourself, your own home using your money to do so, while the people with less money would have less defense and be victims of terrorist attacks.
Alot of people think socialism is wrong, but its required so that capitalism can work, absolute capitalism is a mistake, absolute socialism perhaps is also a mistake.
People must have some individuality, but sometimes people must work as a team for the greater good of the country, humanity, etc.
Capitalism is Individualism and thats a big problem when the Individuals arent very mature, dont forget its harder to enforce a democracy as well if you can even have one in an absolute Capitalist society.
The economy isnt more important than security! What about retirement? stability? Taxes are for stability, security, etc. Its like a backbone.
IF I am brainwashed into thinking taxes help th economy (which i never stated but you assume)
Then you are brained by thinking its always a good idea to lower taxes.
If we had no taxes, we'd have no public school. no law enforcement, no way to control the people, we'd have complete anarchy.
Taxes are needed to maintain stability and security, when stability and security are threatened taxes should be raised, when people prove they can handle the responsbility of having lower taxes then you lower them.
This is my opinion. I mean if we didnt have crime we wouldnt need police and if we werent attacked by terrorists we wouldnt need homeland security.
His reactions while they seem positive, does not take into account that tax cuts are only going to hurt us.
I agree tax cuts can help revive an economy after a recession, but they should be temperary, taxes should be raised when the economy is strong, lowered when the economy is in recession.
The trillion dollar tax cut hurts us in the long run , because of the lack of the republicans to properly manage a budget.
Alot of people didnt like clinton, but we had a surplus which is now gone. That surplus could have been used to pay for 911 and the war on terrorism, etc.
Right now we have no surplus due to the tax cut, so wheres the money being used for the war on terrorism coming from? Social Security? HealthCare? or are we just overbudget and in debt again?
Tax cuts can be good at certain times, and the timing has to bee precise, such as during a recession. But in times of war i'd think a tax cut is the dumbest move possible, how do you pay for the war with less taxes?
I dont think it was a conpsircy, I do think the government is taking advantage of the situation for their own benifit.That was the mistake, sure they should raise the budget for war, but how are they doing this while aoso having tax cuts? Theres no logic in that, wheres the money comingg from? Social Security, HealthCare, etc?
If Bush were to call off his tax cut and just raise the military budget people wouldnt be crying conpiricy, but because Bush is getting everything he wants, it seems as if he planned the whole thing.
I think the Tax cut was a bad idea, back then people werent sure it was a bad idea, now we need to raise the budget for all these things and theres no money to do it with, so now we are going to be back in debt because of the tax cuts, or bush will take money from social security, its a lose lose situation.
We are at War, what I'd do is temperarly raise taxes for the period of a year, forget about the tax cut for a few years, make the military more modern by using the new surplus on the military, security and not just in airports but all highly popululated areas.
People however were so worried about saving a buck or two (litterally thats how much you save unless you are a millionare) that we got caught off guard and had to suffer through a recession, and now we are in debt and have budget problems, Bush keeps sending more money for all of these things with no taxes to actually pay for it, how can you cut taxes yet keep giving more money? Our surplus is gone due to the taxcut and 911 combo.
People believe it was planned because of the timing, as soon as the tax cut goes through, we are attacked when our guard is down the most.
I dont think Bush planned it, simply because i dont think hes smart enough to do it, not because i think he wouldnt do it.
I believe we were attacked, I believe bush was stupid and didnt have any defenses for an attack. Now we know we are under attack and hes still cutting taxes, I'm thinking WTF?! I'd cancel the whole trillion dollar tax cut because that trillion dollars is desperately needed now more than ever.
Ive heard about stuff too, such as government having anti gravity, and so on, but even if we did have all this stuff thats secret and really advanced, the cost to actually produce it would be so expensive that it wouldnt be used for 20 years.
Stealth bombers were made in the 70s. We are using them now because now its finally cheap enough. I'm sure we have anti gravity aircraft prototypes, current physics and lab experiments say its possible, I'm sure we have prototypes for teleportation becauise quantum entanglement experiments say its easily possible. I'm sure we have unmmanned crafts which use teleportation abilities, or we have attempted it, I know this because its scientific fact that we can teleport things, its scientific fact that we can do anti gravity. I'm sure our government and scientists at places like MIT have done experiments and created prototypes.
Prototypes are one thing, We may have prototypes which are way advanced and shocking, but in order to mass produce this and make it an actual product, it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
A stealth bomber costs around a billion each, thats 1970s technology, considering Bush is lowering taxes, I dont see us becoming more high tech unless we raised taxes.
Heres what we could do if we wanted, if we wanted we could make nano technology products right now, the armor could be made, invisibility doesnt seem too difficult either, neither does anything that can be done in a lab.
The reasonn its classified is, until we can mass produce it for cheap, it would be foolish to reveal it to anyone.Once we mass produce it, we unclassify it. The stuff thats classified would be too expensive or too dangerous to reveal.
Teleportation I'm 100 percent sure exsists because its been done in labs by universities and scientists, I'm not sure if our government has tried to make weapons out of fit, but its easy to see how you could use teleporting (if you managed to master it) to teleport aircrafts instead of flying.
How much do i think it would cost to make a military grade aircraft and not a prototype that can use quantum entanglement to teleport, thats if we can teleport things of such great size perfectly, I'm guessinng it would cost maybe 50 billion per craft.
Theres no way to make such a without tons of scientists, theres no way to automate the process, It could be useful to be able to push a button and have an unnmanned spy craft vanish and appear at your base, but the price of it isnt worth it.
I'm betting we'd try for invisiblee crafts simply because its cheaper not because the technology doesnt exsist.
Price is the issue. Maybe you do work on classified stuff, Ive heard of some stuff too, however even if you did work on classified stuff, it doesnt change the fact that just because technology exsists in lab, or prototype form, doesnt mean its cheap enouggh to mass produce.
I said a prototype in a lab at MIT is already made.
Scientists who make it for fun, are not the same as making it and selling it.
Of course theres a prototype, thats what scientists do, but scientists are MIT wont be the guys who mass produce these suits, some factory with guys who arent working for free (like they do in college) will be making it.
Each stealth bomber costs around a billion dollars, this stuff is very expensive, and the more state of the art the technology is, the less units exsist.
Prototypes arent the final product, a prototype can be made for cheap, hell you can make a nano computer prototype for hundreds of thousands maybe a million tops, but try making an actual product out of it.
They are doing research? well duh, but research is done so they can create products. When this research is finished whats it going to solve? Nothing because we wont be able to afford to build the products. Bush is not going to raise taxes so wheres the money going to come from to actually use what we do make?
Ever since bush got into office, all of the classified parts of the military seems to get revealed, now our stealth armor is being revealed
no its not new, nano technology is new. Nano technology works in labs, no ones made products out of them, this suit can be made, but not for $50 million. I think more like $500 million, due to the fact that theres no way create vast amounts of nano bots.
Prototypes I'm guessing, already exsist, thats why the military is willing to pay, but will this be cheap? hell no.
I'd think this technology would be very useful, not just for military but also for law enforcement.
You can go in there confident as hell, dressed up in a suit and tie, young and ambitious.
Then the guy you are competiting with, he has a few years experience, hes older, he worked with a few.com companies before the big collapse. He has certifications just like you do, and to top it all off he has a degree.
Well lets see, you are young, with no experience, no degree, and just certifications. Sorry but theres no way in hell anyone in their right mind would choose you over an experienced worker with a degree.
When you got hired at 16, there was a shortage of experienced workers, they were hiring any kid off the street.
Oh yes because of bill gates hard work and not his perfect timing hes the richest man in the world.
Its not about hard work, or knowledge, its about who you know, its about timing. Thats what it comes down to.
There ARE no internships right now in the middle of a recession where established guys are being layed off and companies are busy trying to cut back to save money due to the stock market.
When there was a shortage, yes they were hiring 16 year olds fresh out of highschool, the shortage is gone, this field is like any other field now, which means you need a degree and experience.
Of course i love technology, and i like computers, but this has nothing to do with working, working is all about making money, linux, building computers, learning about new technologies and experimenting, thats fun.
Most jobs arent fun, most jobs are repetitive, and you say find a perfect field, there is no perfect field which pays good, musician and actor and creative fields i can say are perfect the problem would be, your chances of getting in the door is about as high as your chances of going to space, becoming a professional athelete etc.
Its a mixture of what i'm naturally good at (computers) and what i know will pay well for a long time.
As far as me learning new skill, i'm betting i know more than you do and most people who are higher level than me, its not what you know its how many degrees you have, how much certification you have etc.
I dont mind learning, I hate tests and jumping through hoops. I never said i mind learning, but i want to learn in my own way on my own terms.
The diffrence between work and play is freedom. Being forced to go to college and study something you arent even interested in to keep your job, is not freedom, being forced to learn programming when you hate programming is not fun, that doesnt mean you hate technoloogy and computers you just happen to hate the most profitable aspect of it.
I dont really enjoy programming, i dont have the patience. However I have to survive, Computers, its all i know and i'm not going to switch careers because I dont like programming.
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Yeah thats why when IE crashes, Explorer.exe crashes.
IE is part of explorer.exe
You can kill explorer.exe and still run IE, it doesnt change the fact that IE is a component for Explore.exe,
Mozilla is a seperate program using XUL to for the interface which is why its slower, its NOT native.
IEs interface components are part of Explorer and the Kernel so the interface is faster.
I've thought about it in detail and even have ways to do it.
Start a project and I'll help but i cant really code well enough to help in that area, maybe in design and documentation and other little areas.
So how can people say Reagan helped the economy? The rich are getting richer, look at bill gates, and other billionares.
The stronger the economy the richer that rich people get because while sure they may hire more people, they hire them for as cheap as possible the wage barely moves for the average worker, its the executive that benifits the most.
Until we have a fair economy, making the economy only helps in in the sense that it creates more jobs, of course creating more jobs does not mean higher wages, it means more low paying jobs and more cash for big companies.
Not everyone makes enough money to save ANYTHING..
Cant you figure it out? In fact, most people are strapped with bills and cant save for their retirement, wife, kids, house, car,
You are saying only single guys who live in apartments can retire because they are the only ones who have the extra income.
Not everyone is rich and can save, some people save for their kids college, others cant save a dime paying for house, and some people live paycheck to paycheck.
Considering people who are poor outnumber you, then all of us schmucks who cant afford to save for our retirement and for our kids college education, well, we are screwed.
Oh and defending the country costs money, and this money comes from taxes. The Economy is plenty strong, having an stronger economy will make the rich richer but if the richer rich pay less taxes than the defense budget you talk about wont benifit.
Alot of opinion and no fact. Why dont you try saying facts.
Face it, not everyone likes IE better than Netscape 4x, I didnt, which is why i always used it in the first place.
People who switched to IE, did so because when you get windows98, IE is just there, theres no reason to go download netscape 4x because 4x isnt really that much better.
You act like Netscape wasnt even in the same league and i disagree.
Mozilla is better than IE, People dont use whats better, they use whats there.
AOL will put Mozilla on about half of all the Desktops in the USA, and thats going to really give IE competition because word of mouth will spread it like it spread AIM.
Meaning let the user see realtime results instead of through the web.
An IDE interface which is sorta like IRC or something
Mozilla requires 300mhz machine at LEAST.
You shouldnt be using it on an old as hell machine. Its slow because your CPU is slow, period. they cant make your CPU faster. I mean the problems you complain about are CPU load problems not problems with ram.
So how much memory does the windows Kernel, Explorer.exe and IE6 use all together?
You cant find out how much memory IE6 uses on WindowsXP, maybe on Windows95 you can.
Considering Microsoft most likely spent double the money and took twice as long to get IE6 to the level that its at. Lets see, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 years. Mozilla 1,2,3,4 years.
4 years vs 7 years, Mozilla did in 4 years what took Microsoft 7 years without the hundreds of millions of dollars Microsoft most likely put into IE.
So now that AOL is fully backing Mozilla, if Mozilla were to get hundreds of millions of dollars in funding (which at this point its the best so why bother?) It wouldnt speed up development because Mozilla is pretty much the best.
Whats left to develop? All AOL can/should do is make the code 100 percent bug free, optimize everything, perhaps improve the lame XUL or replace it with native interfaces for Windows, Linux and so on. Now that the money is availible theres no need to use slow as hell XUL.
Last the Mozilla team can make sure their browser supports ALL the standards and has the fastest rendering engine, Mozilla 2.0 can improve, but with a strong bug free very well written base, IE is going to be left in the dust no matter how much money they try to spend to fix bugs in their poorly designed and badly written IE.
IE is horribly designed, its worse than netscape, its been patched over and over and over year after year until it became good, also its been intergrated into windows itself so it doesnt seem bloated.
I think this is the end of days for IE.
No thats not weightlessness
Hows that any diffrent than being on a rollercoaster?
Using electronics, you can have electronic camaflauge(sp?) which adapts to the enviornment you are in making you seem invisible. Its an illusion, a very very good illusion thats generated electronically, so if you go into the desert your suit will look like desert sand, it wouldnt be hard really, just take a snapshop of the enviornment and then take that snapshot and the suit displays it
or at least thats a very cheap simple way of doing it.
A more complex way would require alot more energy, and electronics. Bending light? thats not what it will do, but it will create the illusion of being invisible
Well most of the top secret stuff i dont even think our president knows about. Its either too high tech to properly explain, or they wont explain it to him until they recommend that he needs to use it.
And you are right the top secret stuff not many people know about, if it leaks and I'm sure it has leaked, they just lie and say it doesnt exsist or its not them. Really until they make a product out of it, technically, it doesnt exsist so they arent lying, but it does exsist in the fact that its being developed.
As far as freaking out our enemies, our enemies know more of what we have, than you and I know, so i really doubt thats the case, theres spies, theres satelites all over, theres no way anyone can test anything without our enemies knowing, or even us knowing, people may see tests and not know what the hell it is so they ignore it, and our enemies may see it and may even have the papers on it.
Really, top secret stuff is obsure security, its hiding the details to such an extent that all people have is the peices.
I have enough peices and knowledge, to guess what could be developed. We have tests in labs being done by scientists, and lots of theories, and prototypes for lots of things, and because its in public places like MIT, i know alot about it. What i dont know is how our government will use it, what ideas they have to make use of it for military purposes.
I do know we have nano dust spy technology, I also know our governments newest crafts are unmanned, I know we have crafts which work like bees, unmanned crafts which are small and swarm enemies with guns and so on, but i dont really know much more than a person can find out by keeping up with science, and looking at what the military is revealing by mistake, or on purpose.
Theres the chance that they reveal alot of stuff they arent developing to confuse the enemy disinformation, but i know for a fact technoloogy wise it can be developed.
We have the specs and the technology to build a warp drive, the problem is, while on paper we can describe exactly how to build it, we dont have the power of a star (planck energy) required to build such a device.
So theres alot of issues. Perhaps our government could have discovered a new form of energy, but i really doubt that, alot of technologies cant exsist due to the amount of energy required.
Alot of technologies cant exsist due to being way to expensive to be useful in an actual war. Alot of technologies if not most of them never actually get used, because they are just too exotic, technologies get used when they are required, we arent going to use high tech urban warfare weaponry until we get into a high tech urban war.
So why would we need to use nano dust against some guys hiding in caves in afganastan or some guys in the desert? If it were Japan, then perhaps we would be warring with them using nano technology so on because japan has technology to fight us back with.
They are rich damnit, why do i care if they cant buy a new mansion or another car for their collection of hundreds?
Please!
Rich people pay most of the taxes because they make most of the money, that is fair.
Everyone should pay a percentage of taxes based on how much they make, the poor deserve tax breaks because most people are poor, the majority should overrule the top 1 percent.
Most people NEED social security, healthcare, public schools etc because MOST people arent rich.
Why do the rich need to save money on taxes? So they can waste their money on junk they dont even need? While some poor person cant retire anymore and cant get free health care or decent schooling because of it?
The rich SHOULD pay most of the taxes because the poor are the workers of society who allow the rich to be rich in the first place.
Regean did horrible, socalism? Socialism is not a bad thing, theres benifits to Socialism, in fact if technology keeps going the way its going, Capitalism leads to Socialism and theres no way around it really.
The Regean Economic boom or whatever crap you talk about, helps the top 10 percent of business execs, and people who are already rich, the tax cuts help people who are already rich, so having a good economy = helping the rich? What about the working class? I'm not rich, most people arent rich, how do we benifit by these tax cuts when we only get a few hundred bucks, big fucking deal!
I'm not saying tax cuts are bad, I'd take a few hundred bucks extra any day, but when tax cuts happen when we dont even have the surplus for a tax cut anymore, i think its stupid.
So we are having the war on terrorism.
Homeland Security is created (wheres this money going to come from?)
Raised Military Budget (wheres this money coming from?)
Increaded R&D for Nano Technology (where is this money coming from?)
Increased Budget for schools (where do they find free money?)
Bailout for Airport companies (why the hell are we paying for this?!)
If you are so pro capitalist, dont you agree we should have proper budget management?
The president and you, seem to think we can pull money out of our asses without taxing anyone, but newsflash, we dont have enough money to pay for all of this, and perhaps if we DIDNT have tax cuts we would have been able to pay for it easier.
I'm not saying keep taxes raised for the sake of keeping it raised, and I'm not saying its bad to lower taxes in a recession, What I am saying is, when theres a Surplus, lower taxes, use the Surplus money to pay for all of the emergency expenses, war, defense, and security.
When theres no surplus there should be no tax cut.I mean if we cut taxes while trying to fund a war with money we dont have, this money is coming from lets see the Education Budget, Social Security, HealthCare, etc etc that benifit the poor and middle class MAJORITY.
So its taking from the Majority who need these benifits, to pay for the war on terror? Why should we do that when we can just raise taxes and let rich guys likee Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others pay for it? Why should someone not be able to retire, or get medicine over unpredictable events?
Taxes are for Security,
In a world with absolutely no taxes at all, meaning a pure capitalist anti socialist world that you want.
Theres no law enforcement, Hire your own personal body guard or get killed by criminals.
Theres no public school, either you can afford your education or you cant.
Theres no free hospital care, either you pay for it or you die.
Theres no social security, either you have a nest egg and stock, or you dont retire period.
Dont even think about buying a house either unless you can pay in cash.
Oh and the terrorist attacks? Rich individualist capitalist types likee you would only defend yourself, your own home using your money to do so, while the people with less money would have less defense and be victims of terrorist attacks.
Alot of people think socialism is wrong, but its required so that capitalism can work, absolute capitalism is a mistake, absolute socialism perhaps is also a mistake.
People must have some individuality, but sometimes people must work as a team for the greater good of the country, humanity, etc.
Capitalism is Individualism and thats a big problem when the Individuals arent very mature, dont forget its harder to enforce a democracy as well if you can even have one in an absolute Capitalist society.
The economy isnt more important than security!
What about retirement? stability? Taxes are for stability, security, etc. Its like a backbone.
IF I am brainwashed into thinking taxes help th economy (which i never stated but you assume)
Then you are brained by thinking its always a good idea to lower taxes.
If we had no taxes, we'd have no public school.
no law enforcement, no way to control the people, we'd have complete anarchy.
Taxes are needed to maintain stability and security, when stability and security are threatened taxes should be raised, when people prove they can handle the responsbility of having lower taxes then you lower them.
This is my opinion. I mean if we didnt have crime we wouldnt need police and if we werent attacked by terrorists we wouldnt need homeland security.
This money has to come from somewhere right?
His reactions while they seem positive, does not take into account that tax cuts are only going to hurt us.
I agree tax cuts can help revive an economy after a recession, but they should be temperary, taxes should be raised when the economy is strong, lowered when the economy is in recession.
The trillion dollar tax cut hurts us in the long run , because of the lack of the republicans to properly manage a budget.
Alot of people didnt like clinton, but we had a surplus which is now gone. That surplus could have been used to pay for 911 and the war on terrorism, etc.
Right now we have no surplus due to the tax cut, so wheres the money being used for the war on terrorism coming from? Social Security? HealthCare? or are we just overbudget and in debt again?
Tax cuts can be good at certain times, and the timing has to bee precise, such as during a recession. But in times of war i'd think a tax cut is the dumbest move possible, how do you pay for the war with less taxes?
I dont think it was a conpsircy, I do think the government is taking advantage of the situation for their own benifit.That was the mistake, sure they should raise the budget for war, but how are they doing this while aoso having tax cuts? Theres no logic in that, wheres the money comingg from? Social Security, HealthCare, etc?
If Bush were to call off his tax cut and just raise the military budget people wouldnt be crying conpiricy, but because Bush is getting everything he wants, it seems as if he planned the whole thing.
I think the Tax cut was a bad idea, back then people werent sure it was a bad idea, now we need to raise the budget for all these things and theres no money to do it with, so now we are going to be back in debt because of the tax cuts, or bush will take money from social security, its a lose lose situation.
We are at War, what I'd do is temperarly raise taxes for the period of a year, forget about the tax cut for a few years, make the military more modern by using the new surplus on the military, security and not just in airports but all highly popululated areas.
People however were so worried about saving a buck or two (litterally thats how much you save unless you are a millionare) that we got caught off guard and had to suffer through a recession, and now we are in debt and have budget problems, Bush keeps sending more money for all of these things with no taxes to actually pay for it, how can you cut taxes yet keep giving more money? Our surplus is gone due to the taxcut and 911 combo.
People believe it was planned because of the timing, as soon as the tax cut goes through, we are attacked when our guard is down the most.
I dont think Bush planned it, simply because i dont think hes smart enough to do it, not because i think he wouldnt do it.
I believe we were attacked, I believe bush was stupid and didnt have any defenses for an attack. Now we know we are under attack and hes still cutting taxes, I'm thinking WTF?! I'd cancel the whole trillion dollar tax cut because that trillion dollars is desperately needed now more than ever.
Ive heard about stuff too, such as government having anti gravity, and so on, but even if we did have all this stuff thats secret and really advanced, the cost to actually produce it would be so expensive that it wouldnt be used for 20 years.
Stealth bombers were made in the 70s. We are using them now because now its finally cheap enough. I'm sure we have anti gravity aircraft prototypes, current physics and lab experiments say its possible, I'm sure we have prototypes for teleportation becauise quantum entanglement experiments say its easily possible. I'm sure we have unmmanned crafts which use teleportation abilities, or we have attempted it, I know this because its scientific fact that we can teleport things, its scientific fact that we can do anti gravity. I'm sure our government and scientists at places like MIT have done experiments and created prototypes.
Prototypes are one thing, We may have prototypes which are way advanced and shocking, but in order to mass produce this and make it an actual product, it would cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
A stealth bomber costs around a billion each, thats 1970s technology, considering Bush is lowering taxes, I dont see us becoming more high tech unless we raised taxes.
Heres what we could do if we wanted, if we wanted we could make nano technology products right now, the armor could be made, invisibility doesnt seem too difficult either, neither does anything that can be done in a lab.
The reasonn its classified is, until we can mass produce it for cheap, it would be foolish to reveal it to anyone.Once we mass produce it, we unclassify it. The stuff thats classified would be too expensive or too dangerous to reveal.
Teleportation I'm 100 percent sure exsists because its been done in labs by universities and scientists, I'm not sure if our government has tried to make weapons out of fit, but its easy to see how you could use teleporting (if you managed to master it) to teleport aircrafts instead of flying.
How much do i think it would cost to make a military grade aircraft and not a prototype that can use quantum entanglement to teleport, thats if we can teleport things of such great size perfectly, I'm guessinng it would cost maybe 50 billion per craft.
Theres no way to make such a without tons of scientists, theres no way to automate the process,
It could be useful to be able to push a button and have an unnmanned spy craft vanish and appear at your base, but the price of it isnt worth it.
I'm betting we'd try for invisiblee crafts simply because its cheaper not because the technology doesnt exsist.
Price is the issue. Maybe you do work on classified stuff, Ive heard of some stuff too, however even if you did work on classified stuff, it doesnt change the fact that just because technology exsists in lab, or prototype form, doesnt mean its cheap enouggh to mass produce.
I said a prototype in a lab at MIT is already made.
Scientists who make it for fun, are not the same as making it and selling it.
Of course theres a prototype, thats what scientists do, but scientists are MIT wont be the guys who mass produce these suits, some factory with guys who arent working for free (like they do in college) will be making it.
Each stealth bomber costs around a billion dollars, this stuff is very expensive, and the more state of the art the technology is, the less units exsist.
Prototypes arent the final product, a prototype can be made for cheap, hell you can make a nano computer prototype for hundreds of thousands maybe a million tops, but try making an actual product out of it.
They are doing research? well duh, but research is done so they can create products. When this research is finished whats it going to solve? Nothing because we wont be able to afford to build the products. Bush is not going to raise taxes so wheres the money going to come from to actually use what we do make?
Ever since bush got into office, all of the classified parts of the military seems to get revealed, now our stealth armor is being revealed
no its not new, nano technology is new. Nano technology works in labs, no ones made products out of them, this suit can be made, but not for $50 million. I think more like $500 million, due to the fact that theres no way create vast amounts of nano bots.
Prototypes I'm guessing, already exsist, thats why the military is willing to pay, but will this be cheap? hell no.
I'd think this technology would be very useful, not just for military but also for law enforcement.
its not science fiction, this technology exsists in labs.
MIT i suppose has the technology in labs and the government is paying for the product.
Attitude has nothing to do with it.
.com companies before the big collapse. He has certifications just like you do, and to top it all off he has a degree.
You can go in there confident as hell, dressed up in a suit and tie, young and ambitious.
Then the guy you are competiting with, he has a few years experience, hes older, he worked with a few
Well lets see, you are young, with no experience, no degree, and just certifications. Sorry but theres no way in hell anyone in their right mind would choose you over an experienced worker with a degree.
When you got hired at 16, there was a shortage of experienced workers, they were hiring any kid off the street.
Oh yes because of bill gates hard work and not his perfect timing hes the richest man in the world.
Its not about hard work, or knowledge, its about who you know, its about timing. Thats what it comes down to.
There ARE no internships right now in the middle of a recession where established guys are being layed off and companies are busy trying to cut back to save money due to the stock market.
When there was a shortage, yes they were hiring 16 year olds fresh out of highschool, the shortage is gone, this field is like any other field now, which means you need a degree and experience.
Of work, to make a buck?
Of course i love technology, and i like computers, but this has nothing to do with working, working is all about making money, linux, building computers, learning about new technologies and experimenting, thats fun.
Most jobs arent fun, most jobs are repetitive, and you say find a perfect field, there is no perfect field which pays good, musician and actor and creative fields i can say are perfect the problem would be, your chances of getting in the door is about as high as your chances of going to space, becoming a professional athelete etc.
Its a mixture of what i'm naturally good at (computers) and what i know will pay well for a long time.
As far as me learning new skill, i'm betting i know more than you do and most people who are higher level than me, its not what you know its how many degrees you have, how much certification you have etc.
I dont mind learning, I hate tests and jumping through hoops. I never said i mind learning, but i want to learn in my own way on my own terms.
The diffrence between work and play is freedom.
Being forced to go to college and study something you arent even interested in to keep your job, is not freedom, being forced to learn programming when you hate programming is not fun, that doesnt mean you hate technoloogy and computers you just happen to hate the most profitable aspect of it.
I dont really enjoy programming, i dont have the patience. However I have to survive, Computers, its all i know and i'm not going to switch careers because I dont like programming.
thats not the same as moving from sys admin, to programmer to scientist
Release the source. Do whats right. I'm sure its small enough to post up here in the next msg.