Dude - they didn't ask you to hold the fucking door. They asked you to speak up when someone was acting like a dick to someone else. If you can't see the difference, I don't know what else to say. Here's a clue - the last one takes balls.
Limit First Amendment rights specifically in the area of campaign finance.
Remove "virtual personhood" from corporations.
Replace FPTP voting with IRV or a form of proportional representation so that minor parties have a chance.
Require true declaration of war by two-thirds majority of Congress for any military deployment requiring carrying of armaments (i.e., you probably don't need to carry sidearms or heavy weaponry in an actual humanitarian mission).
Laws:
Require re-authorization of foreign military bases by four-fifths of Congress on a five-year basis.
Require audits of all military contracts on a bi-yearly basis with a clawback and/or "three strikes" rule for contractors found to be in violation.
Categorical disclosure of budgets for intelligence services.
Legalization of soft drugs (i.e., marijuana, psychedelics) and mandatory treatment rather than criminalization for hard drugs.
Return to ca. 1955 tax rates with possible modification of capital gains rate for securities held longer than two years (i.e., investments rather than speculative trades).
Implementation of financial trade tax at 0.0001% rate.
Nationalize the following industries (or re-regulate heavily):
So I, as an employer, can pile on results I expect to take eighty hours a week of work and my employees will be grateful for having the flexibility in their time where they can sleep and, maybe, take a weekend? Sounds great! Where do i sign up?
You mean many modern artists who have used previous record company contracts to build a substantial nation-/worldwide fan base. Although there are a few counterexamples (the exceptions that prove the rule), they are fairly few in number.
Does this mean that artists get screwed? Yes and no. The artists may not make a lot (if any) money, but their expenses can be covered and it's a good opportunity, due to the nationwide promotion and touring, even if the recording doesn't pan out. If you are in the right place at the right time with the right amount of business savvy and right mindset, you can parlay this promotion into a successful music career, even if you don't make a lot of money on the record company deal itself.
Even better, the record company may drop you after the first couple albums, freeing you with your (now) national contacts to make decent money afterward (at least more money faster than if you played struggling regional artist for years).
The main issue is to go into the process with your eyes wide open - they will try to screw you. But you can screw back and take any advantages you get. Chances are you won't make money on the record contract, but you can use the contacts and fan base gained in the process to promote your career long afterward and, if you're smart enough, "fail successfully".
He's too busy trying to get "Lord of the Rings: The Musical" produced in London. After its successful move to Broadway, he has to finish "Lord of the Rings: On Ice!". But I think he could farm that latter one out to George Lucas.
And before you all say that such an auteur as PJ would not do that... give 'im time.
Just because some guy is "THE authority" on how engines work doesn't mean I want him to design the car. Just as the engine is only one part of a car, the language used is only one part of a story. Frankly the guy writes as awfully as any pedantic English teacher could. Just because you have some sort of elf fetish doesn't mean the guy deserves a Nobel.
Let's say a giant bird had indigestion and threw up a planet-sized rock from it's gizzard! It then took a crap on the planet, making it ready for life. The bird took a seed from a neighboring planet and dropped it in its own dung and then flapped it's wings causing a tachyon inversion that sped up time 1,000,000,000-fold and caused the plant to evolve into the plants, creatures, and people we know today.
Wow! Anyone can play this game and this "theory" sounds just as likely!
Calc hasn't changed much in a couple hundred years, at least at the undergrad level.
Same with basic physics. I was helping my daughter with her HS physics and it was amazing how easily things like simple statics and dynamics were recalled. The book, on the other hand was abysmal - very convoluted and indirect. I would assume that the same is true with inorganic chem and intro writing classes, as well.
Nothing attracts amoral sociopaths more than centralized, concentrated power.
FTFY.
It goes for economic power, as well. Unfortunately, destroying the government will also destroy the only structure with the ability to check the corporation (not that they actually do it now). Kill the corporation and the government will stop being so bad. Kill the government and business will simply build another, worse than you can imagine.
All you're saying is that changes in tax policy are usually dwarfed by other changes in the system. As such, it is probably a good idea to raise the tax rate to a level where we can actually pay for what we spend or lower spending to a level we can live with the taxes to fund it or some combination of those two. Oddly enough, one party is espousing a combination of those items, while another is staunchly refusing one of the options. I know which party seems more reasonable to me.
Wealthy people are too stupid to keep their assets as productive real things.
Actually, no - they're too smart. All of the things you mention (aside from, perhaps, unimproved land) are risky. Once you get past some point, it's best to put the rest into non-risky assets that appreciate at a lower rate, but have little or no risk (usually, this means sovereign debt - which is why everyone's always "so concerned" about the possibility of default - but AAA-rated corporate bonds are pretty good, too). After you're far enough ahead, the way to win the game is to not lose.
Obama pulled a Caesar on this one and dared the Congress to do anything about it.
Yup. And I, for one, am glad he did. If the Republicans want to obstruct, I'm glad this President kicks them in the balls. It's not like the Republicans don't have options...
If the Republicans aren't complete pussies, they'll try to impeach him (I'd actually like to see this happen - I remember the last time they tried to impeach a sitting President). If they're a bunch of candy-assed pussies, they'll just whine to the Supreme Court and get the appointment overturned. If they're stupid and a bunch of candy-assed pussies (which is my assumption), they'll just whine about it to the press.
Amen about Rondo. It's a great little outfit. I occasionally go back to the Midwest for reunions with my old college band. Shipping guitars and my gear back and forth got old really fast. I bought a Rondo LP copy and had it shipped there and now it lives there with our bass player. It plays and sounds good enough for the gigs we play every other year or so.
In the meantime, I play bass here in Portland with my west coast band. As well as raffles, we also bring along random crap to hand out to the crowd - Mardi Gras beads, cheap plastic necklaces, toy airplanes, stickers, etc. - that I pick up at the local Dollar Tree. $15 worth of random crap handed out between songs can make the fans love you.
... they will click on shit like this just because it pops up and they've never bothered to educate themselves...
We have decades of observed behavior showing that users will not "educate themselves". As such, any consumer-facing system that requires users to "educate themselves" is de facto broken and, frankly, poorly designed.
Uh, the phrase is "jump the shark", not "jump the shark tank". And your knowledge of politics seems as shallow as your knowledge of internet memes. Frankly, we've seen things like this come and go many times in our day. In a couple months, after SOPA and PIPA have passed, been reconciled, and the reconciled bill passed, this will be forgotten. And no one in Congress will suffer an iota from it, because the majority of citizens really don't give a damn as long as they can get to their Facebook accounts and cute cat videos on YouTube, your bravado and posturing notwithstanding.
Yes, but it doesn't keep the hospital for being sued for a buttload of money for not having procedures in place to an extent that DNR orders are ignored.
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Dude - they didn't ask you to hold the fucking door. They asked you to speak up when someone was acting like a dick to someone else. If you can't see the difference, I don't know what else to say. Here's a clue - the last one takes balls.
The only thing this says is that Politico is stupid. Something most of us know already.
What to do? What to do?
Constitutional amendments:
Laws:
Nationalize the following industries (or re-regulate heavily):
That's my plan. Once these things are in place, other issues will probably fall into line fairly quickly.
So I, as an employer, can pile on results I expect to take eighty hours a week of work and my employees will be grateful for having the flexibility in their time where they can sleep and, maybe, take a weekend? Sounds great! Where do i sign up?
Then you don't have the right job.
Besides, TV's don't run windows, I wonder why that is?
Because hardware manufacturers are cheap bastards and don't want to pay for Windows?
...with my 2 year old running around making noise, it's difficult for the TV to pickup my voice.
C'mon! Really! What's more important? The 2 year old or the TV? The solution is obvious!
So donating 5 million to a campaign is no longer a nice 5 million tax write off for a corporation.
No, it's what it's always been to the corporation - a $5M investment in its own future.
Well, they're making up words like polaritions, so linguistics it is! Bythe way, is a polarition a polariton that's just apparitional, or what?
You mean many modern artists who have used previous record company contracts to build a substantial nation-/worldwide fan base. Although there are a few counterexamples (the exceptions that prove the rule), they are fairly few in number.
Does this mean that artists get screwed? Yes and no. The artists may not make a lot (if any) money, but their expenses can be covered and it's a good opportunity, due to the nationwide promotion and touring, even if the recording doesn't pan out. If you are in the right place at the right time with the right amount of business savvy and right mindset, you can parlay this promotion into a successful music career, even if you don't make a lot of money on the record company deal itself.
Even better, the record company may drop you after the first couple albums, freeing you with your (now) national contacts to make decent money afterward (at least more money faster than if you played struggling regional artist for years).
The main issue is to go into the process with your eyes wide open - they will try to screw you. But you can screw back and take any advantages you get. Chances are you won't make money on the record contract, but you can use the contacts and fan base gained in the process to promote your career long afterward and, if you're smart enough, "fail successfully".
Peter Jackson?
He's too busy trying to get "Lord of the Rings: The Musical" produced in London. After its successful move to Broadway, he has to finish "Lord of the Rings: On Ice!". But I think he could farm that latter one out to George Lucas.
And before you all say that such an auteur as PJ would not do that... give 'im time.
THE authority on how the language worked
Just because some guy is "THE authority" on how engines work doesn't mean I want him to design the car. Just as the engine is only one part of a car, the language used is only one part of a story. Frankly the guy writes as awfully as any pedantic English teacher could. Just because you have some sort of elf fetish doesn't mean the guy deserves a Nobel.
... gets rid of metal filings which are left over from the boring process.
Well, why don't they use an exciting process instead?
Let's say...
Let's say a giant bird had indigestion and threw up a planet-sized rock from it's gizzard! It then took a crap on the planet, making it ready for life. The bird took a seed from a neighboring planet and dropped it in its own dung and then flapped it's wings causing a tachyon inversion that sped up time 1,000,000,000-fold and caused the plant to evolve into the plants, creatures, and people we know today.
Wow! Anyone can play this game and this "theory" sounds just as likely!
Calc hasn't changed much in a couple hundred years, at least at the undergrad level.
Same with basic physics. I was helping my daughter with her HS physics and it was amazing how easily things like simple statics and dynamics were recalled. The book, on the other hand was abysmal - very convoluted and indirect. I would assume that the same is true with inorganic chem and intro writing classes, as well.
Nothing attracts amoral sociopaths more than centralized, concentrated power.
FTFY.
It goes for economic power, as well. Unfortunately, destroying the government will also destroy the only structure with the ability to check the corporation (not that they actually do it now). Kill the corporation and the government will stop being so bad. Kill the government and business will simply build another, worse than you can imagine.
All you're saying is that changes in tax policy are usually dwarfed by other changes in the system. As such, it is probably a good idea to raise the tax rate to a level where we can actually pay for what we spend or lower spending to a level we can live with the taxes to fund it or some combination of those two. Oddly enough, one party is espousing a combination of those items, while another is staunchly refusing one of the options. I know which party seems more reasonable to me.
Wealthy people are too stupid to keep their assets as productive real things.
Actually, no - they're too smart. All of the things you mention (aside from, perhaps, unimproved land) are risky. Once you get past some point, it's best to put the rest into non-risky assets that appreciate at a lower rate, but have little or no risk (usually, this means sovereign debt - which is why everyone's always "so concerned" about the possibility of default - but AAA-rated corporate bonds are pretty good, too). After you're far enough ahead, the way to win the game is to not lose.
Obama pulled a Caesar on this one and dared the Congress to do anything about it.
Yup. And I, for one, am glad he did. If the Republicans want to obstruct, I'm glad this President kicks them in the balls. It's not like the Republicans don't have options...
If the Republicans aren't complete pussies, they'll try to impeach him (I'd actually like to see this happen - I remember the last time they tried to impeach a sitting President). If they're a bunch of candy-assed pussies, they'll just whine to the Supreme Court and get the appointment overturned. If they're stupid and a bunch of candy-assed pussies (which is my assumption), they'll just whine about it to the press.
Amen about Rondo. It's a great little outfit. I occasionally go back to the Midwest for reunions with my old college band. Shipping guitars and my gear back and forth got old really fast. I bought a Rondo LP copy and had it shipped there and now it lives there with our bass player. It plays and sounds good enough for the gigs we play every other year or so.
In the meantime, I play bass here in Portland with my west coast band. As well as raffles, we also bring along random crap to hand out to the crowd - Mardi Gras beads, cheap plastic necklaces, toy airplanes, stickers, etc. - that I pick up at the local Dollar Tree. $15 worth of random crap handed out between songs can make the fans love you.
... they will click on shit like this just because it pops up and they've never bothered to educate themselves...
We have decades of observed behavior showing that users will not "educate themselves". As such, any consumer-facing system that requires users to "educate themselves" is de facto broken and, frankly, poorly designed.
Uh, the phrase is "jump the shark", not "jump the shark tank". And your knowledge of politics seems as shallow as your knowledge of internet memes. Frankly, we've seen things like this come and go many times in our day. In a couple months, after SOPA and PIPA have passed, been reconciled, and the reconciled bill passed, this will be forgotten. And no one in Congress will suffer an iota from it, because the majority of citizens really don't give a damn as long as they can get to their Facebook accounts and cute cat videos on YouTube, your bravado and posturing notwithstanding.
My wife and I have had "that talk" and neither of us want to be kept alive by machines.
You say that now, Lord Vader, but we'll see!
Yes, but it doesn't keep the hospital for being sued for a buttload of money for not having procedures in place to an extent that DNR orders are ignored.
Ok, and how do you propose we fix it?
Nationalize it.