I like to think of progressive taxes as easing up on the lower tax brackets rather than punishing the rich. Rather than considering the baseline to be the lowest bracket, with increase added at higher levels, consider the highest tax level (what is that in the US anyhow? I seem to recall it being 47% here in Canada) with discounts for lower brackets...
I suspect it was meant merely as an example. Poorly chosen, perhaps, autoworkers have unions after all. Still, one plant closure, and that's a whole lot of people who must have made "poor decisions" at some point or other I guess.
Not everyone can get there. It's like musical chairs, there aren't enough 'good lives' to go around.
How is the single mom who's working two or three jobs after her husband left her for another woman making bad decisions?
The worker or middle-management type who gets screwed by corporate mergers or downsizing?
Oh, and you US 'safety net' is a joke. If not the smallest, then close to it, in the western world.
Why do I have the distinct impression of an early-30's white guy in a lexus (or maybe german?) driving past the poor part of town on his way to work, yelling at the homeless people to "get a fucking job" while remembering how nice the city was back when he was a kid living in some suburban wasteland?
So, everyone making less than $40K chose to get a crappy job? Gee, that's nice to know... You'd think that with enough good jobs floating around for every single poor person, the classifieds section would be a lot bigger...
So, we want elections to be like championship sports series so that the winners won't jail the losers and the losers won't riot?
Besides the arguement that the districting increases voter power is only true for votes for the underdog - it would be inversly reducing the power of votes for the favorite.
Besides, I don't trust mathematical 'theorums' that require the actual calculation of individual cases manually over 20 years to determine the tendancies. The guy sounds like a crackpot to me. The article even pointed out the purpose of the college - to remove actual control from 'the mob'
And for those women of your Grandmother's age who don't have anyone who could support them?
Anyhow, your Grandmother would just be dependant upon you instead of the state, the only difference for her would be concern that she's being a burden and occupying all of your free time.
Who cares who wins? When one wants to see both sides fall, you root for whichever is behind, hoping that they beat the crap out of each other to the greatest degree possible before one finally wins. (Think play it to the bone, except you want both to lose rather than both win)
yeah, your right, it was redscale... my memory's not very good, but I knew it wasn't colour. I never played one long enough to get a headache, cause I wasn't willing to get crunched up to look at it.
The games thing may have been a chicken/egg thing, since no developer's going to make games (other than initial release ones) if no one buys the system...
No one liked it cause it was low-res greyscale, and the damned thing wasn't portable! You had to stick your face to it and sit still. With the short little stand, you had to crouch way down and give yourself a neckache from hell to see it.
Yeah, well Vancouver doesn't count, there's a _rain forest_ on the lower mainland for god's sake. Toronto doesn't count either, they're parallel to Northern California iirc. Calgary gets cold, but not as bad as Edmonton or Winnipeg. (although they get snow earlier, later, and more often than Edmonton)
-25F isn't that impressive. The original poster's just got some questionable temperature reading and converting skills. Winnipeg is one of the coldest parts of this country south of 60, and has gone below -50 (C or F, there's not much difference in that region, since -40 on both scales is equal). Almost any part of Canada _will_ go below -30 every year, and there is often a week or so in the first part of January (at least around here) that sees -40 or lower every day, although we've had three or four 'warm' winters in a row (meaning we never reached -40 all winter)
Oh, and the original posters statement that 'seeing your breath means its cold'? That's not an indication of cold, that's just something that tells the Americans to get the hell back on their own side of the border. (with low enough humidity, you can 'see your breath' - the water vapor condenses - at 10 or more degrees Celsius) Without wind, anything above the freezing point isn't cold. -10 C means you put on a jacket. And no _real_ canadian talks about it being cold until at least (most?) -20 C.
Nasa, Nasa, terra-formers: mars had air but couldn't keep 'er;
So we put it in an air-tight dome, and in there we kept the air.
Sorry I just happened to give your sentence a bit too much cadence, and weird connections happened...
The reason that Canadians sound like tv news anchors is because tv news anchors are a) canadian, or b) trying to sound canadian to avoid displaying a regional american accent.
Well, I think you may be right about gaming being a product of marketoids, I really don't remember what we called it when I was twelve (back in the 80's, technically). But I do know that my friends and I talked about the verbing of nouns years ago, when I was maybe 15. We noticed it going on around us and realised that we were doing it too. That's probably the main reason it doesn't bother me. (Not that marketoid and other empty suits don't bug me with their speech, I just dislike it because they never say anyhting. Rather like politicians that way, I suppose.)
You dislike the process of verbing nouns?
I don't think its really a marketing creation, its a natural function of the english language. Many people do it. Pretty much any time that a group does certain actions involving a particular object (or anything else that a noun describes) the noun often becomes a verb for that group. Think 'dicing' or 'gaming' as two easy non-marketing examples.
Well, I suppose you're right that there is a lot of science from various areas that a budding nanotechnologist needs to know, but it still seems strange to me to be giving out degrees for something that can't actually be built yet...
So what's the going tuition rate for teaching yourself?
This analagy is becoming messy... Time for some napkins. Corporations buying up the results to patent?
Oh, I've got no problem with PR. I just can't see these degrees getting much respect until such time as there's actually something to teach to the students.
sammich?
Lots of people are researching nanotech without being able to get degrees in it. Any researcher who researches only to get a degree probably isn't the sort to make the breakthroughs anyhow. Its the people who are doing it for the simple satisfaction of gaining knowledge that will advance the world. When there's actual nanotech available to study, I can see have a nanotech program at a university, otherwise its just PR.
There's a difference between Theoretical Physics, or even Economics and Nanotechnology. Nanotech is about actual physical objects. Going back to my previous post, this isn't like Physics degrees, this is like aeronautical engineering degrees before there were planes... a lot of people believed it was theoretically possible to create a heavier than air flying machine, but no one had yet.
Why are degrees being given out in fields that don't truly exist yet? This seems akin to the Wright Brother's having had degrees in aeronautical engineering.
I thought prescription drugs were insanely expensive... Isn't that why American seniors in northern states take bus trips up here to Canada? I was reading some of the comparisons in today's paper... some people are saving >90% by crossing the border...
The Cuecat doesn't have capital value to increase; DC's revenue model involved advertising and sneaky user profiling. Companies whose revenue model involves actually selling useful products are helped by having their product become the de facto standard that other companies want to imitate.
what I'm paying in taxes scares the SHIT out of me, but then again, after all that, I'm still stinkin' filthy rich beyond my wildest dreams ever I wish _all_ people with money felt this way...
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Now see, _that_ is a poll that needs an all of the above option...
I like to think of progressive taxes as easing up on the lower tax brackets rather than punishing the rich. Rather than considering the baseline to be the lowest bracket, with increase added at higher levels, consider the highest tax level (what is that in the US anyhow? I seem to recall it being 47% here in Canada) with discounts for lower brackets...
I suspect it was meant merely as an example. Poorly chosen, perhaps, autoworkers have unions after all. Still, one plant closure, and that's a whole lot of people who must have made "poor decisions" at some point or other I guess.
Not everyone can get there. It's like musical chairs, there aren't enough 'good lives' to go around. How is the single mom who's working two or three jobs after her husband left her for another woman making bad decisions? The worker or middle-management type who gets screwed by corporate mergers or downsizing? Oh, and you US 'safety net' is a joke. If not the smallest, then close to it, in the western world. Why do I have the distinct impression of an early-30's white guy in a lexus (or maybe german?) driving past the poor part of town on his way to work, yelling at the homeless people to "get a fucking job" while remembering how nice the city was back when he was a kid living in some suburban wasteland?
So, everyone making less than $40K chose to get a crappy job? Gee, that's nice to know... You'd think that with enough good jobs floating around for every single poor person, the classifieds section would be a lot bigger...
So, we want elections to be like championship sports series so that the winners won't jail the losers and the losers won't riot?
Besides the arguement that the districting increases voter power is only true for votes for the underdog - it would be inversly reducing the power of votes for the favorite.
Besides, I don't trust mathematical 'theorums' that require the actual calculation of individual cases manually over 20 years to determine the tendancies. The guy sounds like a crackpot to me.
The article even pointed out the purpose of the college - to remove actual control from 'the mob'
And for those women of your Grandmother's age who don't have anyone who could support them? Anyhow, your Grandmother would just be dependant upon you instead of the state, the only difference for her would be concern that she's being a burden and occupying all of your free time.
Who cares who wins? When one wants to see both sides fall, you root for whichever is behind, hoping that they beat the crap out of each other to the greatest degree possible before one finally wins. (Think play it to the bone, except you want both to lose rather than both win)
yeah, your right, it was redscale... my memory's not very good, but I knew it wasn't colour. I never played one long enough to get a headache, cause I wasn't willing to get crunched up to look at it. The games thing may have been a chicken/egg thing, since no developer's going to make games (other than initial release ones) if no one buys the system...
No one liked it cause it was low-res greyscale, and the damned thing wasn't portable! You had to stick your face to it and sit still. With the short little stand, you had to crouch way down and give yourself a neckache from hell to see it.
Yeah, well Vancouver doesn't count, there's a _rain forest_ on the lower mainland for god's sake. Toronto doesn't count either, they're parallel to Northern California iirc. Calgary gets cold, but not as bad as Edmonton or Winnipeg. (although they get snow earlier, later, and more often than Edmonton)
-25F isn't that impressive. The original poster's just got some questionable temperature reading and converting skills. Winnipeg is one of the coldest parts of this country south of 60, and has gone below -50 (C or F, there's not much difference in that region, since -40 on both scales is equal). Almost any part of Canada _will_ go below -30 every year, and there is often a week or so in the first part of January (at least around here) that sees -40 or lower every day, although we've had three or four 'warm' winters in a row (meaning we never reached -40 all winter) Oh, and the original posters statement that 'seeing your breath means its cold'? That's not an indication of cold, that's just something that tells the Americans to get the hell back on their own side of the border. (with low enough humidity, you can 'see your breath' - the water vapor condenses - at 10 or more degrees Celsius) Without wind, anything above the freezing point isn't cold. -10 C means you put on a jacket. And no _real_ canadian talks about it being cold until at least (most?) -20 C.
Nasa, Nasa, terra-formers: mars had air but couldn't keep 'er; So we put it in an air-tight dome, and in there we kept the air. Sorry I just happened to give your sentence a bit too much cadence, and weird connections happened...
The reason that Canadians sound like tv news anchors is because tv news anchors are a) canadian, or b) trying to sound canadian to avoid displaying a regional american accent.
Well, I think you may be right about gaming being a product of marketoids, I really don't remember what we called it when I was twelve (back in the 80's, technically). But I do know that my friends and I talked about the verbing of nouns years ago, when I was maybe 15. We noticed it going on around us and realised that we were doing it too. That's probably the main reason it doesn't bother me. (Not that marketoid and other empty suits don't bug me with their speech, I just dislike it because they never say anyhting. Rather like politicians that way, I suppose.)
You dislike the process of verbing nouns? I don't think its really a marketing creation, its a natural function of the english language. Many people do it. Pretty much any time that a group does certain actions involving a particular object (or anything else that a noun describes) the noun often becomes a verb for that group. Think 'dicing' or 'gaming' as two easy non-marketing examples.
Well, I suppose you're right that there is a lot of science from various areas that a budding nanotechnologist needs to know, but it still seems strange to me to be giving out degrees for something that can't actually be built yet...
So what's the going tuition rate for teaching yourself? This analagy is becoming messy... Time for some napkins. Corporations buying up the results to patent?
Oh, I've got no problem with PR. I just can't see these degrees getting much respect until such time as there's actually something to teach to the students. sammich?
Lots of people are researching nanotech without being able to get degrees in it. Any researcher who researches only to get a degree probably isn't the sort to make the breakthroughs anyhow. Its the people who are doing it for the simple satisfaction of gaining knowledge that will advance the world. When there's actual nanotech available to study, I can see have a nanotech program at a university, otherwise its just PR.
There's a difference between Theoretical Physics, or even Economics and Nanotechnology. Nanotech is about actual physical objects. Going back to my previous post, this isn't like Physics degrees, this is like aeronautical engineering degrees before there were planes... a lot of people believed it was theoretically possible to create a heavier than air flying machine, but no one had yet.
Why are degrees being given out in fields that don't truly exist yet? This seems akin to the Wright Brother's having had degrees in aeronautical engineering.
I thought prescription drugs were insanely expensive... Isn't that why American seniors in northern states take bus trips up here to Canada? I was reading some of the comparisons in today's paper... some people are saving >90% by crossing the border...
The Cuecat doesn't have capital value to increase; DC's revenue model involved advertising and sneaky user profiling. Companies whose revenue model involves actually selling useful products are helped by having their product become the de facto standard that other companies want to imitate.
what I'm paying in taxes scares the SHIT out of me, but then again, after all that, I'm still stinkin' filthy rich beyond my wildest dreams ever
I wish _all_ people with money felt this way...