That rate was paid by almost nobody, except maybe someone who won the lottery. There used to be a lot more deductions - like interest payments of all kinds, not just home mortgage interest.
Mitt didn't have the 1%. Mitt had the 10%-2%, which is more or less the stereotypical suburban Republicans - married with kids, upper middle class. Wall Street was a lot more on the side of Obama.
What you say is true to a degree. Electronic music in particular has become so incredibly inexpensive to make that almost anyone who has a desire to make it can easily afford to do so. However, there is a place for big art too, and nobody is going to make The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars in their basement.
As a formerly fat person, my trick was getting rid of the carbs. I can behave almost any way I like if I don't eat carbohydrates. Is that willpower? Not really. I found what works for me. I reach satiety with these foods in a way that a standard eat-less diet doesn't. And once the hunger signals go away - that terrible, gnawing pain that every overweight person knows - then the old saw about "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" actually starts to be true.
I have told a lot of people about how I lost weight, and quite a few of them have told me that they just couldn't imagine eating like this. Fair enough; we each have to live in our own bodies. I hacked my body to get to a goal. It's not willpower, it's finding something that worked for me. I personally think it would work for just about anyone, but I understand that some people just can't do it mentally. That's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of needing to do something else.
Oh yes, of course. If they come up with gut flora that neutralize the negative effects of carbohydrates, I'll be first in line. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I love peanut butter and jelly sandwicheas.
Stop eating carbs. Cut them out completely. You won't get hungry. You'll probably lose more weight. I've lost 35kg in nine months without any exercise at all.
It was a pretty good deal when they had a student rate - like $15/year or something. Then they wanted a lot more - like $120/year - and I figured I had better things to do with my time. I never did anything more than read the newsletters anyway. Reading between the lines there were a lot of byzantine political battles. It sounded like the sort of organization I had no interest in supporting.
It's a niche product. It's niche marketed. Since e-Ink devices are under $100 these days, we can safely assume that nearly everyone who really wants one has had at least one of them. However, the core market for a Kindle is - as I said - the kind of person who spends well over a thousand dollars a year on books, already has an iPad, and wants something to read books on while at the beach. Such people do not care if it's $200 instead of $100. What's the cost of being bored out of your mind for a week on vacation?
There are a lot of constraints on what the President can actually get accomplished, but the scandal over the firings of US Attorneys occurred because people claimed that he was firing them for investigating Republicans or not investigating Democrats, not because the President doesn't have the authority to order a US Attorney not to prosecute an entire class of cases. And any US Attorney who disobeyed a direct legal order from the President should lose his job - even if it's because he resigned out of principle rather than follow a prosecutorial directive from on high with which he disagreed.
You are, you know, promoting a second Civil War. I can assure you that the redder parts of these United States would indeed go to war over an attempt to take away their weapons. And given that the military is composed primarily of people who come from those areas, I wouldn't count on them backing the Union this time.
I'll give up my guns when the President's bodyguards do. Yeah, he's a lot more likely to need them, but four years from now he's just another former government employee, and last I checked they weren't a special class of citizens under law. I get to defend myself, too.
Of course he can: he's the fucking President, and he can order the Attorney General to stop all prosecution of people who are working entirely within one state and following its laws to the letter while still prosecuting people who are attempting to use the legal status of drugs in one state to allow them to sell in others. If the AG refuses he can be fired summarily. So can every US Attorney, they're all political appointees who serve at the will of the President.
This is just a copout, utter bullshit. The man could use the existing powers of prosecutorial discretion to do just what I suggested, and he could be quite clear about it: "Barbara, I think the important thing here is not whether marijuana is legalized or not. It's about respecting the priorities of individual states - about federalism. That's an issue that many people in my party have been accused of ignoring in the past. And I know that some people are going to accuse us of all being a bunch of dope-smoking hippies that are only fair-weather federalists, but I want to tell you that I mean this both ways - the federal government is going to respect the people who have chosen to make the consumption of cannabis legal, but it's going to respect the people who continue to believe that a ban is the best policy, too. We're not closing down the DEA. "
Joe Blow isn't going to buy it because he isn't the target market. Apple has made an enormous amount of money by targeting the top 5% of consumers, and Amazon or B&N can do the same. The Kindle, after all, is just a vehicle for book sales, and Amazon wants people who like to read to have a perfect device for each situation. Someone like my wife is the target market - she buys a book almost every other day (fastest reader I've ever met, reads basic fiction at about 200-250 pages an hour). When you drop thousands a year on your reading habit, what's an extra $200 for the right device?
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I've got a bad feeling about this...
That rate was paid by almost nobody, except maybe someone who won the lottery. There used to be a lot more deductions - like interest payments of all kinds, not just home mortgage interest.
Something big and distinct enough to be threatened with a nuke.
I'm only half joking...
Mitt didn't have the 1%. Mitt had the 10%-2%, which is more or less the stereotypical suburban Republicans - married with kids, upper middle class. Wall Street was a lot more on the side of Obama.
What you say is true to a degree. Electronic music in particular has become so incredibly inexpensive to make that almost anyone who has a desire to make it can easily afford to do so. However, there is a place for big art too, and nobody is going to make The Lord of the Rings or Star Wars in their basement.
Bizarre, you people are just bizarre. So much hate.
Have a merry Christmas.
You're definitely trolling something strange. Have a merry Christmas.
We liberals know the power structure of society. I would encourage libertarians to understand this as well
Libertarians do understand this, they just don't think that might-makes-right is a good organizing principle. Are you just trolling with this stuff?
It's not the states, it's the municipalities. Otherwise correct.
As a formerly fat person, my trick was getting rid of the carbs. I can behave almost any way I like if I don't eat carbohydrates. Is that willpower? Not really. I found what works for me. I reach satiety with these foods in a way that a standard eat-less diet doesn't. And once the hunger signals go away - that terrible, gnawing pain that every overweight person knows - then the old saw about "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" actually starts to be true.
I have told a lot of people about how I lost weight, and quite a few of them have told me that they just couldn't imagine eating like this. Fair enough; we each have to live in our own bodies. I hacked my body to get to a goal. It's not willpower, it's finding something that worked for me. I personally think it would work for just about anyone, but I understand that some people just can't do it mentally. That's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of needing to do something else.
Oh yes, of course. If they come up with gut flora that neutralize the negative effects of carbohydrates, I'll be first in line. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but I love peanut butter and jelly sandwicheas.
Stop eating carbs. Cut them out completely. You won't get hungry. You'll probably lose more weight. I've lost 35kg in nine months without any exercise at all.
Obviously not. The fact that the joke in my last comment went past you means it's true.
Res ipsa loquitur.
It was a pretty good deal when they had a student rate - like $15/year or something. Then they wanted a lot more - like $120/year - and I figured I had better things to do with my time. I never did anything more than read the newsletters anyway. Reading between the lines there were a lot of byzantine political battles. It sounded like the sort of organization I had no interest in supporting.
Oh, I didn't mean your spellings were wrong. Just different.
Of course you speak American English, you just use British spellings.
Freedom of speech does not have to include permitting people to physically interrupt funerals.
You'd think the searches for things like "gel nails" might tip them off
Nah, just makes it think you're emo.
It's a niche product. It's niche marketed. Since e-Ink devices are under $100 these days, we can safely assume that nearly everyone who really wants one has had at least one of them. However, the core market for a Kindle is - as I said - the kind of person who spends well over a thousand dollars a year on books, already has an iPad, and wants something to read books on while at the beach. Such people do not care if it's $200 instead of $100. What's the cost of being bored out of your mind for a week on vacation?
There are a lot of constraints on what the President can actually get accomplished, but the scandal over the firings of US Attorneys occurred because people claimed that he was firing them for investigating Republicans or not investigating Democrats, not because the President doesn't have the authority to order a US Attorney not to prosecute an entire class of cases. And any US Attorney who disobeyed a direct legal order from the President should lose his job - even if it's because he resigned out of principle rather than follow a prosecutorial directive from on high with which he disagreed.
You are, you know, promoting a second Civil War. I can assure you that the redder parts of these United States would indeed go to war over an attempt to take away their weapons. And given that the military is composed primarily of people who come from those areas, I wouldn't count on them backing the Union this time.
It is one hell of an antidepressant. Really.
I'll give up my guns when the President's bodyguards do. Yeah, he's a lot more likely to need them, but four years from now he's just another former government employee, and last I checked they weren't a special class of citizens under law. I get to defend myself, too.
Of course he can: he's the fucking President, and he can order the Attorney General to stop all prosecution of people who are working entirely within one state and following its laws to the letter while still prosecuting people who are attempting to use the legal status of drugs in one state to allow them to sell in others. If the AG refuses he can be fired summarily. So can every US Attorney, they're all political appointees who serve at the will of the President.
This is just a copout, utter bullshit. The man could use the existing powers of prosecutorial discretion to do just what I suggested, and he could be quite clear about it: "Barbara, I think the important thing here is not whether marijuana is legalized or not. It's about respecting the priorities of individual states - about federalism. That's an issue that many people in my party have been accused of ignoring in the past. And I know that some people are going to accuse us of all being a bunch of dope-smoking hippies that are only fair-weather federalists, but I want to tell you that I mean this both ways - the federal government is going to respect the people who have chosen to make the consumption of cannabis legal, but it's going to respect the people who continue to believe that a ban is the best policy, too. We're not closing down the DEA. "
Joe Blow isn't going to buy it because he isn't the target market. Apple has made an enormous amount of money by targeting the top 5% of consumers, and Amazon or B&N can do the same. The Kindle, after all, is just a vehicle for book sales, and Amazon wants people who like to read to have a perfect device for each situation. Someone like my wife is the target market - she buys a book almost every other day (fastest reader I've ever met, reads basic fiction at about 200-250 pages an hour). When you drop thousands a year on your reading habit, what's an extra $200 for the right device?