The fact that you believe that federal government spending comes from tax revenue makes you uninformed..
The fact that I didn't go into the details of how the federal government uses the federal reserve to conjure fiat money out of thin air to commandeer resources doesn't mean I'm uninformed, you pedantic twat. The government spending is the problem, whether they "finance" it through taxes, debt, or conscripting labor.
The national debt is a misnomer unlike climate change. Climate change involves real consequences. The national debt is a financial residual value that has no economic meaning in real terms. It's not the national debt that is important, it's inflation that we should be monitoring. ...with you so far.
As it stands we actually need more inflation today as well as more government spending....and here you go full retard.
You can not improve an economy by sucking even more resources out of the productive sector for the politicians to lavish on their cronies.
If you can't attract enough customers to stay in business without getting the government to ban your competition, then fuck you: you should be out of business.
Uber is a great service that fills a need, and here comes government to fuck over their customers for the benefit of the taxi cartels. Fuck the rent-seekers, and fuck the politicians who do their bidding.
There is no federal authority to ban any drug whatsoever. It took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, and that amendment has been repealed, leaving no legal power in federal hands to do anything of the kind. Any act of congress purporting to ban a drug is not a law at all, but a usurpation.
I would have thought the "Look and Feel" --type patent suits were dead and buried after Microsoft won vs. Apple back in the Win3.1 days.
Nope. Microsoft skated on that because of a poorly-worded license contract that was intended to permit them to use Apple's UI ideas in their Mac products.
iPad sales are down because it's been quite a while since the last revision, and people tend to hold off their purchases if they think a new model's on the way.
I've never had the desire to own a gun, nor do I see the appeal.
I sincerely hope that if you ever have occasion to regret your irresponsibility, that there is someone smarter than you at hand who is prepared to defend your life.
There is nothing in the world more useless than an unreliable firearm. When you need a gun, you need it very badly, and you need it right away. What you do NOT need is something that won't fire if its battery is dead.
Given the work China and India are doing on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone would spend another dime on a pressurized water reactor again.
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The fact that you believe that federal government spending comes from tax revenue makes you uninformed..
The fact that I didn't go into the details of how the federal government uses the federal reserve to conjure fiat money out of thin air to commandeer resources doesn't mean I'm uninformed, you pedantic twat. The government spending is the problem, whether they "finance" it through taxes, debt, or conscripting labor.
-jcr
It took off on Apple hardware, with almost no pickup on normal PCs.
It's not for PCs, it's for high-end video equipment. Thunderbolt will supplant SDI.
-jcr
The national debt is a misnomer unlike climate change. Climate change involves real consequences. The national debt is a financial residual value that has no economic meaning in real terms. It's not the national debt that is important, it's inflation that we should be monitoring. ...with you so far.
As it stands we actually need more inflation today as well as more government spending. ...and here you go full retard.
You can not improve an economy by sucking even more resources out of the productive sector for the politicians to lavish on their cronies.
-jcr
If you can't attract enough customers to stay in business without getting the government to ban your competition, then fuck you: you should be out of business.
-jcr
"Shill"? He sounds like a typical Uber customer to me. The shills are the assholes spreading FUD for the taxi companies.
-jcr
Uber is a great service that fills a need, and here comes government to fuck over their customers for the benefit of the taxi cartels. Fuck the rent-seekers, and fuck the politicians who do their bidding.
-jcr
I take it you've never done much parking in Chicago. It's routine to ticket cars that are legally parked.
Not just ticketed. Legally parked cars are frequently towed. There's a well-known song about the Lincoln Park Pirates.
-jcr
one vision that respects freedom and another that denies it. ... and we all know which side the Ketchup Gigolo is on.
-jcr
The police could do their jobs and get the phone and even take a crook of the streets at the same time.
They could do that, sure, but they haven't been law enforcement officers in decades. What they do now is tax collection and obedience enforcement.
-jcr
Those dispensaries are violating Federal law,
No, they are not.
There is no federal authority to ban any drug whatsoever. It took a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, and that amendment has been repealed, leaving no legal power in federal hands to do anything of the kind. Any act of congress purporting to ban a drug is not a law at all, but a usurpation.
-jcr
I would have thought the "Look and Feel" --type patent suits were dead and buried after Microsoft won vs. Apple back in the Win3.1 days.
Nope. Microsoft skated on that because of a poorly-worded license contract that was intended to permit them to use Apple's UI ideas in their Mac products.
-jcr
The idea that a liberal administration would be for shutting down porn sites when not even conservative ones go there is absurd.
As absurd as the DEA shutting down perfectly legal marijuana dispensaries?
Deny it all you want, but it's happening, and you're a blithering idiot.
-jcr
iPad sales are down because it's been quite a while since the last revision, and people tend to hold off their purchases if they think a new model's on the way.
-jcr
I've never had the desire to own a gun, nor do I see the appeal.
I sincerely hope that if you ever have occasion to regret your irresponsibility, that there is someone smarter than you at hand who is prepared to defend your life.
-jcr
There is nothing in the world more useless than an unreliable firearm. When you need a gun, you need it very badly, and you need it right away. What you do NOT need is something that won't fire if its battery is dead.
-jcr
Hey, here's an idea: why don't you go fuck yourself?
My right to self defense doesn't require your approval.
-jcr
Heh... I can just imagine Myhrvold trying to enforce a patent against the Chinese government in China.
-jcr
Given the work China and India are doing on molten-salt Thorium cycle reactors, I can't see why anyone would spend another dime on a pressurized water reactor again.
-jcr
More like, the first guy in a long line that Bill Gates ripped off.
-jcr
Nice try at the misdirection there, but the matter at hand is racial discrimination in university admissions. She supports it.
-jcr
willfully ignorant
He's obviously far better informed than you are.
-jcr
I'm sure all the perps were sternly admonished to avoid cameras before beating people up in the future.
-jcr
Anyone who thinks Sotomayor is a "racist" is a total idiot
Anone who claims she's NOT a racist is fucking liar.
-jcr
Exactly. Racial discrimination is wrong, no matter whose ox is getting gored.
-jcr
Sotomayor is as much a "racist"
She's doing all she can to try to preserve racial discrimination as a sacrosanct public policy. That makes her a racist, QED.
-jcr