The government shouldn't be practicing race or sex discrimination in awarding contracts. Can the bidder do the job? Do they have the lowest bid? That's what matters, and that's what the taxpayers deserve to get for their money.
The IT industry is no more "hurting" for women than the coal mining industry or the forestry industry or the alaskan crab fishing industry. There are more men than women in the IT business. There are more women than men other lines of work. So what?
I know you think you'e being clever, but the fact is that NASA worked very hard to prevent any private development of space flight capabilities for several decades.
He's already done a fine job of fighting government waste at the local level. Rand Paul's endorsement is why I looked him up, and I like what I heard. Check him out here.
The Paul campaign is concentrating on the delegate races, not the primaries. The campaign continues, and there will be plenty of Ron Paul supporters at the convention in Tampa, just as we've been seeing in the state caucuses and conventions to date.
Company (just like the state) exists first and foremost in order to provide a service. That is their REASON for existence.
Nope. A company exists to make a profit and distribute that profit to its shareholders. Providing a service is a means to that end. Your confusion on this basic point makes the rest of your rant rather ridiculous.
One of the totally legitimate functions of society is to limit - through whatever means are effective- the harm and damage the mentally deranged anti-social psychopaths can inflict on society.
I agree, people like you belong in mental health care facilities.
I hope this guy dies in the most degrading abasing manner imaginable,
I hope you're getting the help you need. Tell me, do they let all the inmates in your facility access the internet?
There was strong resistance to the Alien and Sedition acts, including the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, so I would say that while freedom was attacked in '98, it wasn't lost.
we did fairly well during the 1920s. Now _that_ was a period of libertarian, lasse-faire government.
Not really. In the 1920s, the country was in the boom phase of the third unconstitutional bank's first major inflationary binge. It made the crash of 1929 inevitable.
I consider the "downfall" to be the loss of our freedom, and that was long before the 1980s. My grandfather was thrown in Jail for protesting World War One.
the social welfare system has been abused by too many of those who do not want to work,
That's true, but welfare isn't the majority of the problem today. It's taxed and inflated money being given to very rich and politically connected people.
He made his money by providing a service that people chose to use, not by putting a gun to anyone's head. Any money he manages to keep out of the government's hands, is money that won't be used to intrude on the freedom we have left.
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The government shouldn't be practicing race or sex discrimination in awarding contracts. Can the bidder do the job? Do they have the lowest bid? That's what matters, and that's what the taxpayers deserve to get for their money.
-jcr
"The IT industry is hurting for women.
The IT industry is no more "hurting" for women than the coal mining industry or the forestry industry or the alaskan crab fishing industry. There are more men than women in the IT business. There are more women than men other lines of work. So what?
-jcr
they slice it to molecular thickness and fry it in cheap crappy oil
Shows how much you know. Bacon doesn't need oil, it's got its own fat.
-jcr
If you don't boil bacon, how can you make bacon soup?
-jcr
I know you think you'e being clever, but the fact is that NASA worked very hard to prevent any private development of space flight capabilities for several decades.
-jcr
Lysander Spooner throughly debunked your position well over a century ago.
-jcr
He's already done a fine job of fighting government waste at the local level. Rand Paul's endorsement is why I looked him up, and I like what I heard. Check him out here.
-jcr
The Paul campaign is concentrating on the delegate races, not the primaries. The campaign continues, and there will be plenty of Ron Paul supporters at the convention in Tampa, just as we've been seeing in the state caucuses and conventions to date.
-jcr
There is no market pressure to hold down costs.
I want to sell paperclips for $300 each. What prevents me from doing so?
-jcr
Company (just like the state) exists first and foremost in order to provide a service. That is their REASON for existence.
Nope. A company exists to make a profit and distribute that profit to its shareholders. Providing a service is a means to that end. Your confusion on this basic point makes the rest of your rant rather ridiculous.
-jcr
If Facebook decides to put a notice, hundreds of millions of people will have to read it.
How so? My browser doesn't navigate to their site by itself. Does yours?
-jcr
One of the totally legitimate functions of society is to limit - through whatever means are effective- the harm and damage the mentally deranged anti-social psychopaths can inflict on society.
I agree, people like you belong in mental health care facilities.
I hope this guy dies in the most degrading abasing manner imaginable,
I hope you're getting the help you need. Tell me, do they let all the inmates in your facility access the internet?
-jcr
There was strong resistance to the Alien and Sedition acts, including the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, so I would say that while freedom was attacked in '98, it wasn't lost.
-jcr
The post above raises an interesting question: should spammers die in a fire, or is that too good for them?
Discuss.
-jcr
we did fairly well during the 1920s. Now _that_ was a period of libertarian, lasse-faire government.
Not really. In the 1920s, the country was in the boom phase of the third unconstitutional bank's first major inflationary binge. It made the crash of 1929 inevitable.
-jcr
The downfall didn't start until the 80s
I consider the "downfall" to be the loss of our freedom, and that was long before the 1980s. My grandfather was thrown in Jail for protesting World War One.
-jcr
As we're progressive, a bullet in the back of the head will show these people who has the power.
You've perfectly described what "progressivism" is all about: violence towards people who won't give you wealth that they earned and you didn't.
-jcr
When you learn the difference between sending messages and calling functions, you'll know why we use Obj-C.
-jcr
the social welfare system has been abused by too many of those who do not want to work,
That's true, but welfare isn't the majority of the problem today. It's taxed and inflated money being given to very rich and politically connected people.
-jcr
Jealousy is an ugly, ugly emotion.
He made his money by providing a service that people chose to use, not by putting a gun to anyone's head. Any money he manages to keep out of the government's hands, is money that won't be used to intrude on the freedom we have left.
Typical rich asshole, privatize profits, socialize losses
What losses? This isn't one of the banksters we're talking about here.
-jcr
C# is the fisher price of programming languages
No, that's Visual BASIC you're thinking of. C# is a needlessly complex Java clone.
-jcr
Maury! Where have you been lately?
Yeah, the new literal syntax is handy. I've wanted something like it for years.
-jcr
No, you're sending messages. The Obj-C runtime invokes the methods. That's the key to the power of languages like Obj-C and Smalltalk.
-jcr
I'd thank him for the warning, and go somewhere else. Smalltalk is one of the very few languages I would accept as an alternative to Obj-C.
-jcr
Note that neither Kaczinski nor McVeigh attempted to board an aircraft with a weapon of any kind.
-jcr