"Cut unemployment", meaning put an end to the increasing length of time unemployment benefits have been extended. One might also ask "Which party wants a permanent underclass of people dependent on unemployment aid"?
You really asked that? The answer is republicans and their big business partners of course! Tool.
he also apparently doesnt understand the concept of a independent national regulatory agency, an agency specifically empowered to enact regulations with the force of law in a specific "theater of operations" (so to speak). he somehow thinks they are required to run to mommy for permission for everything they do, thereby uncercutting the entire concept of "independent". the entire point in being indepent is to keep them insulated from the pressures and vagaries of political "discourse", ie, lobbying and bribes, so they can actually do their job. an Envirnmental agency who can be pressured by the groups its meant to control is worthless. but apparently thats how Karmashock thinks it should be.
Bull. The EPA is an independent government agency. They are not required to run to mommy for permission for everything they do. FACT: The EPA Is Essentially Required To Regulate Carbon Emissions By Law.
Same goes for water and everything else they do. After all, what is the point of creating a independent national agency otherwise?
And "Agree to disagree" is the dodge of the ignorant who cannot support his position.
Which party is trying to cut food stamps and unemployment when its a known fact these things helps slow and arrest the falling economy? Which party thinks the poor deserve their fate, and if they die younger, poorer, and more often to violence "oh well its a cultural problem"? Which party reguarly use dogwhistle attacks to appeal to racism, or openly ponders if certain folks were better off as slaves? Which party regularly denies basic science because "God said so"? Which party supports basic rights only for WASHPs and only when convenient, and which supports it for all persons at all times even for people they rather dislike? You go away gutless AC.
If specific states have a problem those specific states need to correct it. Don't drag every state into a giant federal clusterfuck simply because some states are run by halfwits.
then dont assume all central regulation is bad just because one current chairman is a former lobbyist toadie without the stones to use existing regulations to what should be done and label ISPs under Title 2.
two can play that game, and I'll win, because regardless of what you may think most government programs are actually successful and achieve the goals they set out to accomplish. and most actually go away once their mandate is met. several dozen come and go every year and you never hear of them, because most of them ARENT the social security's, the medicares, etc.
calls for decentraliziation are not much different from calls for privatization. there are limited cases where it might be warranted but by and large its a useless misdirection because subordinate personel and agencies ALREADY have sufficient autonomy to do their jobs and meet the minimum goals or standard set, and considerable discretion to beyond their mandates in limited ways (and answerable when they go beyond and fail). It's called Delegation and its a form of decentralizaion. We already have that. actually we have more than that: You want total segragation with each state being totally independent, with 50 different standards. We actually have that already too, but its not completely segregated because by and large they are still united by a common minimum standard or framework from the Federal level. You seem to want to abolish even that.
Thats nonsense. In all, you dont seem to actually know what youre talking about. You think the EPA is a technocracy, a rogue agency. You dont seem to actually know what state legislatures are doing or what they talk about, or how often they actually meet (hint: most of them dont actually meet 5 days a week 52 weeks a year). states have TREMENDOUS control over their school systems, and many states pass that control down to the cities and counties. The states micromanage their schools far more than the fed does; all the fed really does is contribute cash. Thats it. Literally. We have one of the most decentralized educational systems in the world.
The US Department of Education itself dictates NOTHING to the states. It exists almost solely to funnel the federal funding allocated by congress to the state departments of education. They also get to enforce federal civil rights and privacy laws regarding schools, cheifly in regards to Universities. The only real federal standard in this area is NCLB which came from Congress. Actual enforcement of standards is handled through accredidation, a process which the USDOE is completely uninvolved in.
So I say again: you post many words, but you say little of merit or value. You quite literally don't know what youre talking about.
We already see some of that happening already with the EPA etc just doing what they want indifferent to law, court orders, or public opinion. But it could get a lot worse.
oh boo hoo. government, in its role as an abstract of and for the People, incentives help get socially important benefits to the table. namely in this case by overcoming market pressures to bring about a better good for the many. it is in our best interests to lower our fossil fuel dependence, and electric cars are a BIG part of that. the market itself wont do it, as it has shown time and again. so gov incentives help bring it about. just like they helped bring telephone to every timbuktoo rural hamlet, internet, and hundreds of dozens of other things.
Yes. Because engineers then didnt believe in planned obsolescence. They didnt build the prettiest, or the fastest, and the most high tech bomber. They built a bomb truck. A reliable, tough, adaptable truck. Like a 70s Ford F150.
the Devastator wasn't really a failure either. at the time of its adoption it was the most advanced aircraft in the fleet. the fact that it was adopted during a time of rapid development progress are became obsolete within 4 years doesnt make it failure: many well regarded and fondly remembered warbirds suffered the same fate.
not really no. all it really does is improve ease of maintenance (which maintainers admittedly do rather appreciate).
in fact, until Boeing popularized the underslung engine on a pylon concept, itself more an outgrowth of their experience with piston engines being placed in the leading edge of hte wing, most jet engines were buried due to the superior aerodynamics (this being before "area rule" and other innovations that largely compensated for the additional drag of underslung engine nacelles)
i find it interesting they mention the Bullet, because cantilever wings soon after became the standard, and today we now have many projects investing dynamical wing warping/shapechanging both for control and efficiency purposes. Hell, even the B52 wings were specifically allowed to flex (albeit with a dampening system) due to their long skinny nature.
Rather than a charlatan, he was simply ahead of his time. his biggest mistake was he didnt use aircraft grade materials. if he had, history could have been quite different for him.
for years no one touched automatic pistols either, for the same reason. yet now they are ubiquitous. its an engineering problem no different from any other.
The NRA absolutely uses FUD. They also represent the gun industry, and their own vision/cersion of America (their own politics), rather than gun owners. Only something like 4% of gun owners are members of the NRA, yet they claim to speak for all of us. And I for one, want nothing to do with the NRA, no matter how many weapons i own.
Even the privateer situation was more akin to the modern concept of "disavowing knowledge and association" of clandestine operations, rathen than an actual private citizen with an actual private ship. usually the captain was previously in the navy and simply "officially" discharged and given a ship that was likewise "no longer a part" of the fleet.
There was a parity of equipment used: they had the same weapons (muskets) as the other guys did, and fought in terrain and tactics that favored them (hit and run, ambushes, guerilla/insurgent tactics) rather than the British's strengths (orgianization, mass firepower, and sea strenght).
There was an ocean in the way, that took a really long time to cross, and England simply didnt have the resources on this side, or the time to get reinforcements across, to prosecute the war effectively, especially while they were also engaged is several other happenings at the same time.
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"Cut unemployment", meaning put an end to the increasing length of time unemployment benefits have been extended. One might also ask "Which party wants a permanent underclass of people dependent on unemployment aid"?
You really asked that?
The answer is republicans and their big business partners of course!
Tool.
he also apparently doesnt understand the concept of a independent national regulatory agency, an agency specifically empowered to enact regulations with the force of law in a specific "theater of operations" (so to speak). he somehow thinks they are required to run to mommy for permission for everything they do, thereby uncercutting the entire concept of "independent". the entire point in being indepent is to keep them insulated from the pressures and vagaries of political "discourse", ie, lobbying and bribes, so they can actually do their job. an Envirnmental agency who can be pressured by the groups its meant to control is worthless. but apparently thats how Karmashock thinks it should be.
as i said: he's a fool
Bull.
The EPA is an independent government agency.
They are not required to run to mommy for permission for everything they do.
FACT: The EPA Is Essentially Required To Regulate Carbon Emissions By Law.
Same goes for water and everything else they do. After all, what is the point of creating a independent national agency otherwise?
And "Agree to disagree" is the dodge of the ignorant who cannot support his position.
Here ya go, from http://mediamatters.org/resear...
You've been show the path to edumication, but will you take it?
they would fight it because one of hte most popular HFT scams involves exploiting the lag time between different markets.
Which party is trying to cut food stamps and unemployment when its a known fact these things helps slow and arrest the falling economy?
Which party thinks the poor deserve their fate, and if they die younger, poorer, and more often to violence "oh well its a cultural problem"?
Which party reguarly use dogwhistle attacks to appeal to racism, or openly ponders if certain folks were better off as slaves?
Which party regularly denies basic science because "God said so"?
Which party supports basic rights only for WASHPs and only when convenient, and which supports it for all persons at all times even for people they rather dislike?
You go away gutless AC.
Bingo. Mod up.
If specific states have a problem those specific states need to correct it. Don't drag every state into a giant federal clusterfuck simply because some states are run by halfwits.
then dont assume all central regulation is bad just because one current chairman is a former lobbyist toadie without the stones to use existing regulations to what should be done and label ISPs under Title 2.
two can play that game, and I'll win, because regardless of what you may think most government programs are actually successful and achieve the goals they set out to accomplish. and most actually go away once their mandate is met. several dozen come and go every year and you never hear of them, because most of them ARENT the social security's, the medicares, etc.
calls for decentraliziation are not much different from calls for privatization. there are limited cases where it might be warranted but by and large its a useless misdirection because subordinate personel and agencies ALREADY have sufficient autonomy to do their jobs and meet the minimum goals or standard set, and considerable discretion to beyond their mandates in limited ways (and answerable when they go beyond and fail). It's called Delegation and its a form of decentralizaion. We already have that. actually we have more than that: You want total segragation with each state being totally independent, with 50 different standards. We actually have that already too, but its not completely segregated because by and large they are still united by a common minimum standard or framework from the Federal level. You seem to want to abolish even that.
Thats nonsense. In all, you dont seem to actually know what youre talking about. You think the EPA is a technocracy, a rogue agency. You dont seem to actually know what state legislatures are doing or what they talk about, or how often they actually meet (hint: most of them dont actually meet 5 days a week 52 weeks a year). states have TREMENDOUS control over their school systems, and many states pass that control down to the cities and counties. The states micromanage their schools far more than the fed does; all the fed really does is contribute cash. Thats it. Literally. We have one of the most decentralized educational systems in the world.
The US Department of Education itself dictates NOTHING to the states. It exists almost solely to funnel the federal funding allocated by congress to the state departments of education. They also get to enforce federal civil rights and privacy laws regarding schools, cheifly in regards to Universities. The only real federal standard in this area is NCLB which came from Congress. Actual enforcement of standards is handled through accredidation, a process which the USDOE is completely uninvolved in.
So I say again: you post many words, but you say little of merit or value.
You quite literally don't know what youre talking about.
We already see some of that happening already with the EPA etc just doing what they want indifferent to law, court orders, or public opinion. But it could get a lot worse.
you were doing well until this bit of BS.
precisely.
the vaccinated and healhty folks have nothing to fear.
its the folks who -cannot- be vaccinated who have anything to fear from those who -will not- get vaccinated.
oh boo hoo.
government, in its role as an abstract of and for the People, incentives help get socially important benefits to the table.
namely in this case by overcoming market pressures to bring about a better good for the many. it is in our best interests to lower our fossil fuel dependence, and electric cars are a BIG part of that. the market itself wont do it, as it has shown time and again. so gov incentives help bring it about.
just like they helped bring telephone to every timbuktoo rural hamlet, internet, and hundreds of dozens of other things.
whiich is intended to provide incentive to work on getting the price down
You know nothing Jon Snow.
I had a big long post, but its just easier to say: "Shut up, you dont know what youre talking about."
Yes. Because engineers then didnt believe in planned obsolescence. They didnt build the prettiest, or the fastest, and the most high tech bomber.
They built a bomb truck.
A reliable, tough, adaptable truck.
Like a 70s Ford F150.
the Gee Bee predated the F104.
and Germany was still flying their 104's until only just recently.
its really quite a remarkable plane
the Devastator wasn't really a failure either. at the time of its adoption it was the most advanced aircraft in the fleet. the fact that it was adopted during a time of rapid development progress are became obsolete within 4 years doesnt make it failure: many well regarded and fondly remembered warbirds suffered the same fate.
not really no.
all it really does is improve ease of maintenance (which maintainers admittedly do rather appreciate).
in fact, until Boeing popularized the underslung engine on a pylon concept, itself more an outgrowth of their experience with piston engines being placed in the leading edge of hte wing, most jet engines were buried due to the superior aerodynamics (this being before "area rule" and other innovations that largely compensated for the additional drag of underslung engine nacelles)
agreed
i find it interesting they mention the Bullet, because cantilever wings soon after became the standard, and today we now have many projects investing dynamical wing warping/shapechanging both for control and efficiency purposes. Hell, even the B52 wings were specifically allowed to flex (albeit with a dampening system) due to their long skinny nature.
Rather than a charlatan, he was simply ahead of his time. his biggest mistake was he didnt use aircraft grade materials. if he had, history could have been quite different for him.
for years no one touched automatic pistols either, for the same reason.
yet now they are ubiquitous.
its an engineering problem no different from any other.
oh shut up
The NRA absolutely uses FUD.
They also represent the gun industry, and their own vision/cersion of America (their own politics), rather than gun owners.
Only something like 4% of gun owners are members of the NRA, yet they claim to speak for all of us.
And I for one, want nothing to do with the NRA, no matter how many weapons i own.
Even the privateer situation was more akin to the modern concept of "disavowing knowledge and association" of clandestine operations, rathen than an actual private citizen with an actual private ship. usually the captain was previously in the navy and simply "officially" discharged and given a ship that was likewise "no longer a part" of the fleet.
They werent nearly as ragtag as you think.
They had a LOT of help.
They came really close to losing several times.
There was a parity of equipment used: they had the same weapons (muskets) as the other guys did, and fought in terrain and tactics that favored them (hit and run, ambushes, guerilla/insurgent tactics) rather than the British's strengths (orgianization, mass firepower, and sea strenght).
There was an ocean in the way, that took a really long time to cross, and England simply didnt have the resources on this side, or the time to get reinforcements across, to prosecute the war effectively, especially while they were also engaged is several other happenings at the same time.
The short of it is: we got lucky.
Mandates, however, make no sense. Build good enough technology and people will buy them.
yep.
it worked for seat belts after all.
people jsut started demanding them, no laws or regulations required.
air bags too.
thats an engineering problem, not a political one.
as for the demand...there was demand, or else the shop owner wouldnt have been willing to start selling them.
there just wasnt enough demand for him to ignore the death threats he recieved*.
* "let the the market decide"...hah.