England, Ireland, and Scotland governments say "Hey! Our people have extra money to waste on business! Let's use confiscatory taxes to make sure more people have government pensions to do nothing and regulate everything else (in the economy) to a halt."
The US government says, "Hmm, we'll let them keep a little bit extra of the money *they earned* to invest in business".
Shutting down unclean food distributors does not do the work of cleaning food or preparing food in a clean way, but that doesn't stop the government and others from taking credit for it.
By the way, Upton Sinclair was a private citizen who exposed something without the help of any public agency. Nobody had to pay Upton for his work, but he was recognized for it anyway. That approach is far, far better than having the FDA dictate to people what they should or should not eat. If credit reporting can be accomplished just fine without government intervention, so can food reporting.
I didn't know the government cleans my food for me. And my taxes don't seem to allow me to travel through the air at the speed of sound for a few hundred dollars. Did my parents teach me English or the government?
Huh?
Are these things supposed to be worth paying 1/3 to 1/4 my paycheck for?
And what if I don't want the money I earned to go towards paying for baby murder?
Reagan's questionable achievement was "slowing the growth" of the government. As for military spending there's been a lot of R's in support of reducing it to the extent that when Obama thought the R's would give in to avoid military cuts (sequestration) the R's agreed to reductions in military spending (essentially calling his bluff). That would never have happened prior to the tea party.
As for the other R generalizations you made, yeah, you're pretty much right. The marginal difference between R's and D's is R's want to expand government less than the D's.
So I look at party as an approximation, but I would likely vote for someone with JFK's policies or maybe even Evan Bayh (especially if it was Bayh vs. McCain).
Only on slashdot can you get away with saying this.
Voting against the Infant Born Alive Act, writing a college paper about 100% taxation, favoring taxes on charitable contributions, centralizing 20% of the total US economy (ACA), raising taxes only on the people who create jobs. This man is far, far left-wing. Hillary would have been to his right. Anyone would be.
Add up all the people who have died from bad genes and add up all the people who have died from government malfeasance. If I had to make that choice I would pick the bad genes, but gene therapy is taking a lot of that away.
A lot of people on slashdot get upset about gene therapy because it takes away the popular interest in bringing in the government to control things (who has babies, killing babies, etc).
When I think of eugenics I think of Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler, both of whom were extreme racists who wanted you to know "eugenics" doesn't mean what you thought it meant and that education could fix that (in other words, the government can "help" you realize how to understand the meaning of eugenics when in gets in the way of a sickening and perverse agenda).
A doctor left my cousin alone to die after birth because he had a cleft palatte -a largely cosmetic condition in his case that ended up being cheaply rectified. You are proposing that these doctors and murders run the show? They shouldn't be calling the shots on anything. They do not deserve the life they deprive from others.
I hope my cousin has a million zillion babies. I will be glad to help take care of any that are born differently from what you think is normal. Or what you think should be "allowed".
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>> Luddite cults ...
Oh, you mean like \. where every medical and commercial product break-through is met with contempt?
Is that why the US state dept has been closing consulates left and right?
Is that why the rebels in Syria have been as supplied as they have?
There is no such thing as common law.
There is sanctioned law and the law of the jungle.
In Europe the police enforce "law and order" by making sure people use the word "courielle" instead of "email".
Also, you have to name your kids something from the national registry.
Its part of the reason why rioters set things on fire as rarely as once every couple years in Paris.
That's because much, much fewer people can afford cars (or gas) in Europe.
Obama's poll numbers seem to have been effected.
I welcome him to have a debate about that.
Having discredited global warming ... we are now moving to ... overpopulation?
England, Ireland, and Scotland governments say "Hey! Our people have extra money to waste on business! Let's use confiscatory taxes to make sure more people have government pensions to do nothing and regulate everything else (in the economy) to a halt."
The US government says, "Hmm, we'll let them keep a little bit extra of the money *they earned* to invest in business".
America succeeds and Europe gripes.
+1 for saying the obvious/clear thing no one else dares to say
Shutting down unclean food distributors does not do the work of cleaning food or preparing food in a clean way, but that doesn't stop the government and others from taking credit for it.
By the way, Upton Sinclair was a private citizen who exposed something without the help of any public agency. Nobody had to pay Upton for his work, but he was recognized for it anyway. That approach is far, far better than having the FDA dictate to people what they should or should not eat. If credit reporting can be accomplished just fine without government intervention, so can food reporting.
I didn't know the government cleans my food for me. And my taxes don't seem to allow me to travel through the air at the speed of sound for a few hundred dollars. Did my parents teach me English or the government?
Huh?
Are these things supposed to be worth paying 1/3 to 1/4 my paycheck for?
And what if I don't want the money I earned to go towards paying for baby murder?
Convenient that you can't decide.
Scientists should have ZERO say over what makes a person. It's not consciousness.
Science is just judging by appearances in a systematic way. A terrible way to evaluate anything.
You think madness is based on external stimuli (i.e. circumstances?)
Own your life, man. Take responsibility for your choices.
I can't see them charging money for Weka and getting a lot of customers to line up.
... obvious.
I'd much rather pay money for the britannica software.
And if I had to decide between paying money for the Wikipedia content or the Britannica content
Is this the same fear as not being able to find legit reasons for keeping the climate change doubters out of peer reviewed journals?
Or the same fear that we won't be able to "hide the decline" in global temperatures?
Or that someone could FOIA the taxpayer-funded information from the universities that show the temperatures not going up?
They want to legalize piracy (i.e. FOSS) because they can't make software people want to pay money for.
/. readers who do not understand what is so painfully clear.
I pity
Reagan's questionable achievement was "slowing the growth" of the government. As for military spending there's been a lot of R's in support of reducing it to the extent that when Obama thought the R's would give in to avoid military cuts (sequestration) the R's agreed to reductions in military spending (essentially calling his bluff). That would never have happened prior to the tea party.
As for the other R generalizations you made, yeah, you're pretty much right. The marginal difference between R's and D's is R's want to expand government less than the D's.
So I look at party as an approximation, but I would likely vote for someone with JFK's policies or maybe even Evan Bayh (especially if it was Bayh vs. McCain).
Hint: D's want to expand government. This is expansion.
What I don't understand about the debate is how 40% or so Americans believe this stuff. I think it is to look trendy or social or whatever.
The intellectual elites are trying to hide the decline in temperatures while keeping the real science out of peer reviewed journals on shady grounds.
Wake up people: the "scientists" are reporting what is going to get them more grant money!
Rephrasing the headline: "People are doing good things, BUT they are making money!"
Why is making money so bad? Does everyone here work for free?
Only on slashdot can you get away with saying this.
Voting against the Infant Born Alive Act, writing a college paper about 100% taxation, favoring taxes on charitable contributions, centralizing 20% of the total US economy (ACA), raising taxes only on the people who create jobs. This man is far, far left-wing. Hillary would have been to his right. Anyone would be.
It's about whatever you determine it is about. But you are responsible for that determination.
The liberal/luddite template seems to be:
1) Find an innovation
2) Claim it will only benefit the rich, disrupt structured commerce, etc
3) Push those who cannot speak for themselves off the cliff (unborn, elderly, sick)
4) Economic stagnation, technological repression
Most newspapers are opinions about news thinly disguised as facts.
Add up all the people who have died from bad genes and add up all the people who have died from government malfeasance. If I had to make that choice I would pick the bad genes, but gene therapy is taking a lot of that away.
A lot of people on slashdot get upset about gene therapy because it takes away the popular interest in bringing in the government to control things (who has babies, killing babies, etc).
When I think of eugenics I think of Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler, both of whom were extreme racists who wanted you to know "eugenics" doesn't mean what you thought it meant and that education could fix that (in other words, the government can "help" you realize how to understand the meaning of eugenics when in gets in the way of a sickening and perverse agenda).
A doctor left my cousin alone to die after birth because he had a cleft palatte -a largely cosmetic condition in his case that ended up being cheaply rectified. You are proposing that these doctors and murders run the show? They shouldn't be calling the shots on anything. They do not deserve the life they deprive from others.
I hope my cousin has a million zillion babies. I will be glad to help take care of any that are born differently from what you think is normal. Or what you think should be "allowed".