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  1. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    Alright, 45% is hyperbole, but lets really get an itemized total:

    15% payroll tax (half of this is usually hidden from the employee, but make no mistake, it is a tax they pay.)
    4% state income tax
    16% federal income tax (total tax/total income)

    For a grand total of: 35%. Considering that there is a point where the supposed non-rich only pay payroll tax, the contrast remains striking. I pay twice the percentage.

    Now that I been perfectly frank with you, please return the favor by answering the actual question: At what point are the supposed rich paying their fair share?

  2. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

    Jesus is telling you that your taxes count as taxes, your charity counts as charity, and not to confuse the two.

  3. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    This is why I find it particularly hypocritical to see self-proclaimed "Christians" running on the Republican ticket, when that party's economic policies are precisely the opposite of what the Bible teaches.

    For all of these years everybody thought the bible was teaching about charity and giving money to the church, when it turns out you have discovered it actually wants you to pay federal income tax. Silly Christians!

    Liberal policies are just forcing the rich to cough up a tiny fraction of their fair share.

    My relatively modest income requires almost 45% of my income go to income taxes, but if you make half of what I do, tax liability drops nearly to 15% (payroll tax only). At what point are the supposed rich paying their fair share? Are you thinking something closer to 75% of their income, or perhaps 100%....

  4. Re:real socialism on GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses · · Score: 1

    Do you mean to say that those on the right never say statements that are misleading?

    Brilliant rhetorical strategy, "The other side says stupid stuff too!"

  5. Re:Word unlocked. on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, he did not win, but you have mistakenly stumbled upon the point. Do you see anything disturbing about the fact that he had 36% of the vote?

  6. Re:Word unlocked. on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just remember that Germany voted for Hitler. History can and does happen again, unless we care to learn from it.

  7. Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Stupid on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    This article is just marketing bullshit double speak without a concrete implementation.

  8. Re:News to me on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 1

    It's all greed. FTFY

  9. Re:Common knowledge on For First Three Years, Consumer Hard Drives As Reliable As Enterprise Drives · · Score: 1

    the HP drives are guaranteed to work in our HP servers with RAID controllers. no spending weeks doing money work figuring out why something doesn't work we call in and stuff is replaced since everything is HP. no blame game saying its the other manufacturer's fault

    HP makes it hard to use commodity drives because they want to make a $300 markup on each unit... not because SAS is somehow lacking in standardization.

  10. Re:Overrated on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 0

    s/its/it's/

  11. Re:Overrated on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 0

    To Kill a Mockingbird, is another over rated turd.

  12. Re:That's terrible... Salinger won't write any mor on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: -1

    Whoooosh.

  13. Re:There really know why... on FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed · · Score: 1

    No, it is a good point. The data is encrypted by the time complexity of finding anything useful.

  14. Re:And why do you think they are? on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 1

    That's what I'm talking about: the author is a right wing troll, and anyone who touts his book is a troll as well, or a fuckwit dumber than pond scum. You might as well cite a work by Baghdad Bob, the level of credibility is the same.

    Your argument--"the author is an idiot, because I said so, please disregard everything he says"--is pretty timid. A more enlightened person might notice that you are the shitbag internet troll, while Jonah Goldberg is successful beyond your wildest dreams.

  15. Re:And why do you think they are? on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 2

    Try reading the book.

  16. Re:And why do you think they are? on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 1

    What if you change the hash?!? Use your brain.

  17. Re:Pointless on Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    This guy, The Cat, is an asshole. He makes contentious posts, then pretends to be offended when someone else takes the bait. The self comparison to Robert Frost, while amusing, should probably indicate the grade of turd we are dealing with here.

  18. When Atlas Attacks. on DARPA's Atlas Walking Over Randomness · · Score: 1

    When Atlas attacks, just throw down some piles of rope and cut 2x4s.

  19. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    or just use honey which is nature's antibiotic

    Medical grade honey is frequently used when other conventional wound management treatments have failed.

  20. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Yes, I think that is consistent with the logic and innuendo level of this discussion.

  21. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Fascinating that it is actually used now in Russia.

  22. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 2

    Then get some brass doorknobs too... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect

  23. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    Hell, even bandaids have neosporin and the gauze pad today.

    Yeah, if you buy the ones that say that they do, otherwise they do not. Neosporin does very little, and is not one of the drugs that anyone is worried about losing at all.

  24. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 0

    Fear mongering does not work. People get very scared, and think something must be done. Facts and reality eliminate the acute fear, now nothing else needs to be done.... According to Al Gore, NY should be under water by now, it isn't, and lately people largely do not give a shit about that cause.

  25. Re:terrorism! ha! on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    There is a fair pile of research suggesting that Neosporin does nothing more than its petroleum jelly base would alone.