Neville Chamberlain's hands were tied by the unwillingness of his people to go to war for Czechoslovakia.
Actually, his hands were tied by the failure of the British government in the years since the first world war to maintain their armed forces at a strength equal to the needs of enforcing the Versailles treaty. Churchill's history of the second world war identifies many different occasions (not the least of which was the Nazi re-occupation of the Rhineland) when the whole disaster could have been nipped in the bud.
The US government can legally restrict goods coming in from Cuba, but the American people are not theirs to command. There is no constitutional authority for the federal government to prohibit us from visiting Cuba and spending money there.
I'm trying to come up with a good argument that taxing production is more easily made progressive than taxing consumption, but now I'm not sure that's right.
That's because it isn't right. If someone's spending a million bucks a year, they get taxed on a million bucks a year. If they're earning a million bucks a year and living like a monk, then the funds they've earned aren't out there competing with yours for goods and services. A miser is an ideal neighbor.
As it happens, back in the '80s I worked at a company (Commonwealth Scientific) that built ion-beam guns based on the Kaufman duoplasmatron, which was the basis of the mercury-vapor thrusters that NASA had developed in the 1960s. The company was trying to make the aperture of the guns as wide as possible, and the difficulties included neutralizing the ion beam on the way out, keeping the plasma inside the gun stable, and keeping the beam density even. Basically, the bigger the gun, the harder it was to make it run steadily. When I was there, they had 8" apertures and were working on scaling them up to 12" apertures.
This is a woman who fucked a married colleague, has a history of being abrasive, and thinks she's entitled to get paid more than Tim Cook earns in a year.
The PATRIOT act is not a law at all, it is an act of usurpation. Statutes passed by the congress can't trump the constitution, and the PATRIOT act obviously violates the fourth and fifth amendments.
While I'm happy that Rep. Massie is trying to do the things he promised when I supported his campaign, the only solution to the FBI/CIA/NSA fiasco is to abolish all three agencies, prosecute every person involved with the crimes that Snowden made us aware of, and prohibit all the rest of them from ever being employed by the taxpayers again, since they failed to turn in the criminals around them.
Whenever anyone asks me if they should buy a computer now or wait for a new model, I tell them to wait until 2025, because those machines are going to be INCREDIBLE!
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Neville Chamberlain's hands were tied by the unwillingness of his people to go to war for Czechoslovakia.
Actually, his hands were tied by the failure of the British government in the years since the first world war to maintain their armed forces at a strength equal to the needs of enforcing the Versailles treaty. Churchill's history of the second world war identifies many different occasions (not the least of which was the Nazi re-occupation of the Rhineland) when the whole disaster could have been nipped in the bud.
-jcr
Open plan is bullshit. Headphones and earbuds aren't an adequate substitute for walls.
-jcr
But it can be "close"
Wishing doesn't make it so, boot-licker.
it is not "usurpation" for the government to seek to limit it.
Whenever government assumes a power not delegated to it by the constitution, it is usurpation.
-jcr
Not even close. The constitution defines treason as making war against the United States. Going and spending your money in Cuba isn't an act of war.
-jcr
On issues that the constitution is silent, the feds can do what they want.
Not legally. Go read the tenth amendment.
-jcr
The US government can legally restrict goods coming in from Cuba, but the American people are not theirs to command. There is no constitutional authority for the federal government to prohibit us from visiting Cuba and spending money there.
-jcr
Why must you liberals
You really don't know me, kid.
-jcr
Such a thing is completely unheard of!
-jcr
I'm trying to come up with a good argument that taxing production is more easily made progressive than taxing consumption, but now I'm not sure that's right.
That's because it isn't right. If someone's spending a million bucks a year, they get taxed on a million bucks a year. If they're earning a million bucks a year and living like a monk, then the funds they've earned aren't out there competing with yours for goods and services. A miser is an ideal neighbor.
-jcr
Saving and investing is precisely the behavior that we should encourage.
-jcr
Taxing people for what they earn has always been a brain-dead policy. Taxes should be based on consumption, not production.
-jcr
Wow, what a stupid analogy.
-jcr
As it happens, back in the '80s I worked at a company (Commonwealth Scientific) that built ion-beam guns based on the Kaufman duoplasmatron, which was the basis of the mercury-vapor thrusters that NASA had developed in the 1960s. The company was trying to make the aperture of the guns as wide as possible, and the difficulties included neutralizing the ion beam on the way out, keeping the plasma inside the gun stable, and keeping the beam density even. Basically, the bigger the gun, the harder it was to make it run steadily. When I was there, they had 8" apertures and were working on scaling them up to 12" apertures.
-jcr
Isn't the combustion chaotic?
-jcr
This is a woman who fucked a married colleague, has a history of being abrasive, and thinks she's entitled to get paid more than Tim Cook earns in a year.
-jcr
For every one of these conferences that's knuckling under to the neopuritains, there's an opening for a new show that will tell the SJWs to get bent.
-jcr
All you get is overweight, butch lesbians in flannel shirts, sweatpants and Birkenstocks!
But that triggers me.
-jcr
BRG feels it can show in court that it can prove
More like, BRG thinks FB will pay them to fuck off.
-jcr
The last ten years having been good for Apple is no indicator of the next ten years (or even the next ten months).
I remain confident in my former colleagues.
-jcr
I just told them "no" when they asked for my name or phone number. I never used a credit card at a Radio Shack.
-jcr
Nearly everyone in the world that can afford a iPhone, already has one
I've heard that for years, and Apple keeps breaking year-over-year volume records.
-jcr
The PATRIOT act is not a law at all, it is an act of usurpation. Statutes passed by the congress can't trump the constitution, and the PATRIOT act obviously violates the fourth and fifth amendments.
While I'm happy that Rep. Massie is trying to do the things he promised when I supported his campaign, the only solution to the FBI/CIA/NSA fiasco is to abolish all three agencies, prosecute every person involved with the crimes that Snowden made us aware of, and prohibit all the rest of them from ever being employed by the taxpayers again, since they failed to turn in the criminals around them.
-jcr
Apple are way over priced
Apple's price/earnings ratio is under 17. They're still tremendously undervalued.
-jcr
Actually, when it comes to transcoding, the GPU is the limiter. Apple's codecs use it heavily.
-jcr
Whenever anyone asks me if they should buy a computer now or wait for a new model, I tell them to wait until 2025, because those machines are going to be INCREDIBLE!
-jcr