Taxes are collected from privately owned assets. Tax deductions are government taking less private property.
One can only believe what you do if one believes that the concept of private property does not exist. For your premise to be true, all property would have to be owned by the government.
Your property and your money is not yours. It belongs to the government. The government takes your wealth at the barrel of a gun and the decides how you get it back.
Public assistance recipients haven't earned that money. That money was taken from those who earned it and was distributed to those who did not.
A tax break is government taking less of your money. Assistance programs are government distributing the wealth of others.
Why should the government test anyone for anything when the government is taking property that is rightfully yours?
She disregarded the Freedom of Information Act by keeping her official State Department communications on her server and therefore unavailable for retrieval and archiving as per FOIA.
That's illegal - she broke the law simply by operating her own server.
Security and the hacking of her server is irrelevant. Clinton stripping classified headers off of documents is irrelevant. Those charges, if proven, will simply add to her punishment (if there is any at all).
In a just world, she would have already been convicted in a court of law. What we know she did, by her own admission, should be enough for criminal prosecution and should disqualify her from the presidency.
I've got a Moto 360 (1st gen), a Samsung Gear S2, and a Samsung Gear Fit. All were bought as refurbs at a significant discount.
The only watch I paid full MSRP for was my wife's Apple watch.
Apple's reputation of long-term support of its hardware was the only reason I felt comfortable paying full price. The A.D.D. that exists in the Google/Samsung world means that I will only buy these devices as refurbs - and I won't spend more than $100. I refuse to pay full price for a device that will be obsolete in less than two years.
If these manufacturers want higher margins, they will need to commit to long-term support for these devices.
France is a very small country compared to the US. Charlie Hebdo happened on 7 January 2015 and the Bataclan shooting happened on 13 November 2015. Your statistic of "1" is cherry picked data.
And your mass shooting statistic is BS - or at the very least a manipulated statistic. Congress and the FBI have defined mass shootings as 3-4 shooting victims in an event - this could also include the shooter when killed by law enforcement.
So if you have two victims, plus a gunman - it's a mass shooting. Is a love triangle shooting really a "mass shooting"?
Most real mass shooting are caused by more complicated issues such as poverty and ideological extremism. But the gun thing fits on a bumper sticker and is easier to sell to simple minds.
Of course - you will say that weren't spree killings or mass shootings - well it could be that a "mass shooting" was prevented in many of these single instances of defensive gun uses.
I've noticed that many people who claim guns are useless for defense are not gun owners or have never carried one for self-defense.
I defend the first amendment just as I do the second amendment. Those rights are sacrosanct....
But there are "polite society" limits.
I don't condone outing someone's personal life just as I don't condone showing or displaying a firearm in public. It may be your right....but you probably shouldn't do it.
I work in an old neighborhood. The surrounding area is residential. For years this neighborhood has endured road repairs as a result of gas, water, and sewer repairs. Most of the trunk lines run right down the main street where my company is located.
During road work the local police set up detours at either end of the work area. Naturally, since the surrounding community is residential, the traffic must flow into back roads and through residential neighborhoods.
Since the infrastructure her is well over 100 years old, these projects go on for months. Therefore the detours and traffic diversions persist for months.
The local police are diverting traffic the exact same way waze does. By your logic, the police are at fault for ruining the lives of the surrounding community.
No sane person should come to that conclusion.
What I see is a whiny guy who can't stand a little extra traffic on his street - caused by a TEMPORARY condition.
Blame waze all you want, but it looks like a bunch of overly entitled people looking for someone or something to blame.
Providing water service is a perfect example of private companies supplying a service that is regulated by the government.
Here in NJ, many municipalities simply could not afford to maintain and upgrade their water infrastructure (why is a different discussion). Private operation of these municipal water systems were put out to bid.
It's the best of both worlds. Private efficiency in operations and public accountability in cost and safety. I trust neither entity to do both jobs of supply and regulation.
The long standing argument is that private business and industry cannot self-regulate - and I largely agree with that.
If that is really true, why do we expect that government will self-regulate the businesses/services that it provides?
It would be best to have private industry compete to provide these services and then have government regulate those private industries. That should keep all the players honest - and the ones that aren't should end up in prison.
I have a Nexus 6, Nexus 6P and a Nexus 5X. The 6P is, by far, the best phone I have ever owned. I only switch to the 5X during summer since the 6P is pocketly challenged.
Wireless charging sounds like a great idea until you have to live with it. Having to perfectly line up the phone with the charging base is an exercise in frustration - even more so with the Nexus 6's curved back. It sucks to have your kids bump the phone off the charger and then come back to a phone with a dead battery.
The fingerprint thing is very cool. Much easier than entering a password or PIN. The only real problem with it is that imprint isn't supported by many 3rd party apps. It would be awesome to authenticate in every app with a touch of a finger.
I loved my Nexus 6, but you should seriously check out the 6P - it's a fabulous phone.
In the Model 3 launch video Musk clearly says the Model 3 will be supercharger "capable". Anyone paying attention will have noticed that Musk did not promise free supercharging. Why some Model 3 reservation holders expect this is a mystery.
In other news, none of the manufacturers of any of my ICE powered cars have given me free fuel either.
When I get my Model 3, I will be perfectly content to pay for all the electricity I use to charge my car.
Turbochargers, superchargers - all made up terms anyway.
Turbocharger uses exhaust gas to compress an intake charge. Supercharger uses a belt driven compressor to compress intake charge.
"Turbo" and "Super" don't really mean anything and are simply marketing terms.
Just like the really big electric charger called "supercharger" - it's marketing - it means nothing. Would you have been happier if Musk called them "ultra-super-duper-chargers"?
I built my house a few years ago and I installed flat screen TVs in quite a few rooms in the house. When the kids were really young they liked the one in the toy room.
Now my wife and kids all watch "TV" on their iPads. The other TVs hardly ever get used.
I watch sports on the big TV in the family room - but that's about it. I'm pretty sure if I offered to hang flat screen TVs in the kids rooms, they wouldn't want them.
Here it is folks - one reason why people pay a premium for the shiny Aluminum case - driver hell sucks.
I dumped windows for personal use years ago and never looked back. I maintain one laptop that runs windows and my blood pressure goes up every time I am forced to use it.
Our country and government should not give the telecoms a dime until they do what they say they will to the satisfaction of the auditors and regulators. Promises are worthless.
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My comment only dealt with property rights. I never said that assistance programs were improper.
What is improper is the view that taxes "belong" to the government and that tax-breaks and incentives are somehow "stealing" from the government.
That is a wrongheaded view.
Taxes are necessary for a functional nation, and yes, some of those taxes are distributed to the less-fortunate.
What I dislike is the view that if the government takes less money from its citizens, somehow those citizens are doing something wrong.
Taxes are collected from privately owned assets. Tax deductions are government taking less private property.
One can only believe what you do if one believes that the concept of private property does not exist. For your premise to be true, all property would have to be owned by the government.
If you want that shit, move to Venezuela.
Adults have the right to consume any substances they choose so long as they do not hurt others while doing so.
Your property and your money is not yours. It belongs to the government. The government takes your wealth at the barrel of a gun and the decides how you get it back.
Public assistance recipients haven't earned that money. That money was taken from those who earned it and was distributed to those who did not.
A tax break is government taking less of your money. Assistance programs are government distributing the wealth of others.
Why should the government test anyone for anything when the government is taking property that is rightfully yours?
The state department has said that her mail server was never authorized and would not have been permitted had she asked:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/...
She disregarded the Freedom of Information Act by keeping her official State Department communications on her server and therefore unavailable for retrieval and archiving as per FOIA.
That's illegal - she broke the law simply by operating her own server.
Security and the hacking of her server is irrelevant. Clinton stripping classified headers off of documents is irrelevant. Those charges, if proven, will simply add to her punishment (if there is any at all).
In a just world, she would have already been convicted in a court of law. What we know she did, by her own admission, should be enough for criminal prosecution and should disqualify her from the presidency.
We have 8 year old Macs running El Capitan and I know people running ios 9.1 on iPhone 4s.
That's as good as you can expect in the tech world.
I've got a Moto 360 (1st gen), a Samsung Gear S2, and a Samsung Gear Fit. All were bought as refurbs at a significant discount.
The only watch I paid full MSRP for was my wife's Apple watch.
Apple's reputation of long-term support of its hardware was the only reason I felt comfortable paying full price. The A.D.D. that exists in the Google/Samsung world means that I will only buy these devices as refurbs - and I won't spend more than $100. I refuse to pay full price for a device that will be obsolete in less than two years.
If these manufacturers want higher margins, they will need to commit to long-term support for these devices.
Murder is already illegal.
France is a very small country compared to the US. Charlie Hebdo happened on 7 January 2015 and the Bataclan shooting happened on 13 November 2015. Your statistic of "1" is cherry picked data.
And your mass shooting statistic is BS - or at the very least a manipulated statistic. Congress and the FBI have defined mass shootings as 3-4 shooting victims in an event - this could also include the shooter when killed by law enforcement.
So if you have two victims, plus a gunman - it's a mass shooting. Is a love triangle shooting really a "mass shooting"?
Most real mass shooting are caused by more complicated issues such as poverty and ideological extremism. But the gun thing fits on a bumper sticker and is easier to sell to simple minds.
France and Belgium have huge gun control - way more comprehensive than the US - yet they have mass shootings as well.
Do you honestly believe that terrorists looking for a body count will obey gun control laws?
These guys keep an archive of defensive gun uses:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c...
Of course - you will say that weren't spree killings or mass shootings - well it could be that a "mass shooting" was prevented in many of these single instances of defensive gun uses.
I've noticed that many people who claim guns are useless for defense are not gun owners or have never carried one for self-defense.
I defend the first amendment just as I do the second amendment. Those rights are sacrosanct....
But there are "polite society" limits.
I don't condone outing someone's personal life just as I don't condone showing or displaying a firearm in public. It may be your right....but you probably shouldn't do it.
Just because you can - does not mean you should.
Patents have no inherent value. You buy a patent because you intend to "monetize" the patent by developing a product or service that generates cash.
OR
You buy a patent for use as a legal weapon. The value of that patent is only relative to the potential legal costs of not holding the patent.
If these patents were worth $1 billion in either case - why wouldn't Yahoo hold on to them and develop them for the benefit of their shareholders?
The truth is they aren't worth this much - and Yahoo has FA ideas of how to monetize them.
Yahoo is an old car heading to the junkyard to be chopped up for parts.
I work in an old neighborhood. The surrounding area is residential. For years this neighborhood has endured road repairs as a result of gas, water, and sewer repairs. Most of the trunk lines run right down the main street where my company is located.
During road work the local police set up detours at either end of the work area. Naturally, since the surrounding community is residential, the traffic must flow into back roads and through residential neighborhoods.
Since the infrastructure her is well over 100 years old, these projects go on for months. Therefore the detours and traffic diversions persist for months.
The local police are diverting traffic the exact same way waze does. By your logic, the police are at fault for ruining the lives of the surrounding community.
No sane person should come to that conclusion.
What I see is a whiny guy who can't stand a little extra traffic on his street - caused by a TEMPORARY condition.
Blame waze all you want, but it looks like a bunch of overly entitled people looking for someone or something to blame.
Taxpayers are driving on taxpayer funded roads, this guy doesn't like it, and Waze is to blame?
What next? Blaming Amazon for the increase in UPS trucks in the neighborhood?
If you don't want other people driving on your street, buy a house on a cul de sac.
Providing water service is a perfect example of private companies supplying a service that is regulated by the government.
Here in NJ, many municipalities simply could not afford to maintain and upgrade their water infrastructure (why is a different discussion). Private operation of these municipal water systems were put out to bid.
It's the best of both worlds. Private efficiency in operations and public accountability in cost and safety. I trust neither entity to do both jobs of supply and regulation.
I say in the very first sentence that businesses can not self-regulate.
Next time you go on a liberal pro-big-government rant pause, then listen. The person you are lecturing may actually somewhat agree with you.
The long standing argument is that private business and industry cannot self-regulate - and I largely agree with that.
If that is really true, why do we expect that government will self-regulate the businesses/services that it provides?
It would be best to have private industry compete to provide these services and then have government regulate those private industries. That should keep all the players honest - and the ones that aren't should end up in prison.
We have a fleet of 6-8 year old Macs that run El Capitan just fine. Sure, they are a little slow, but they work.
I have a Nexus 6, Nexus 6P and a Nexus 5X. The 6P is, by far, the best phone I have ever owned. I only switch to the 5X during summer since the 6P is pocketly challenged.
Wireless charging sounds like a great idea until you have to live with it. Having to perfectly line up the phone with the charging base is an exercise in frustration - even more so with the Nexus 6's curved back. It sucks to have your kids bump the phone off the charger and then come back to a phone with a dead battery.
The fingerprint thing is very cool. Much easier than entering a password or PIN. The only real problem with it is that imprint isn't supported by many 3rd party apps. It would be awesome to authenticate in every app with a touch of a finger.
I loved my Nexus 6, but you should seriously check out the 6P - it's a fabulous phone.
In the Model 3 launch video Musk clearly says the Model 3 will be supercharger "capable". Anyone paying attention will have noticed that Musk did not promise free supercharging. Why some Model 3 reservation holders expect this is a mystery.
In other news, none of the manufacturers of any of my ICE powered cars have given me free fuel either.
When I get my Model 3, I will be perfectly content to pay for all the electricity I use to charge my car.
Turbochargers, superchargers - all made up terms anyway.
Turbocharger uses exhaust gas to compress an intake charge. Supercharger uses a belt driven compressor to compress intake charge.
"Turbo" and "Super" don't really mean anything and are simply marketing terms.
Just like the really big electric charger called "supercharger" - it's marketing - it means nothing. Would you have been happier if Musk called them "ultra-super-duper-chargers"?
I built my house a few years ago and I installed flat screen TVs in quite a few rooms in the house. When the kids were really young they liked the one in the toy room.
Now my wife and kids all watch "TV" on their iPads. The other TVs hardly ever get used.
I watch sports on the big TV in the family room - but that's about it. I'm pretty sure if I offered to hang flat screen TVs in the kids rooms, they wouldn't want them.
Here it is folks - one reason why people pay a premium for the shiny Aluminum case - driver hell sucks.
I dumped windows for personal use years ago and never looked back. I maintain one laptop that runs windows and my blood pressure goes up every time I am forced to use it.
The day my 2010 Samsung TV starts showing me ads is the day I disconnect its network connection.
No internet = No ads.
I've got plenty of external set top boxes that do not force ads down my throat.
We never learn from our mistakes:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pu...
Our country and government should not give the telecoms a dime until they do what they say they will to the satisfaction of the auditors and regulators. Promises are worthless.