I think that I speak for a large amount of the libertarian bent Texans when I say that most of us don't like abortion, but if someone wants to do it themselves we aren't going to get in the middle of it in any fashion other than to make sure that the patient can become fully informed of the development of their unborn child to that point, and be informed of any medical procedure and it's positive and negative effects upon them. Heck getting orthognatic surgery is something that gets more councelling and support than an abortion in many ways. One thing a lot of pro abortion people put on their blinders about is that many women are forced or "strongly coerced" to have abortions by parents, boyfriends, bosses that knocked them up, etc. These women can be led through the process without ever really knowing what is going to happen to them physically and psychologially until it's irreversable. I know a woman that had to have the aboriton process on a fetus that died inside her. She was devestated emotionally for years, and this was something completely out of her control. Not only that she still suffered the post partem but had no baby to bring her happiness. I've also known women that have had abortions pushed by scared and angry boyfriends that regreted it to the point of depression, so there is noone that can convince me that abortion is an emotionally void process that should just be mechanically performed with no councelling at all.
However, if you want us to pay for it, then we will fight it tooth and nail. The govenrment has no place funding chopping up babies any more than it has perusing cell phone records without a warrant. It simply just shouldn't be in the business at all unless there is cause for dire public injury. Also a lot of us are pretty pissed about the conservative overreach of government just as much as the liberal overreach. Personally for example I think the government banning gay marriage is stupid as the day is long. They deserve to be just as miserable as us married folks.
I personally like how ps2 does this. Weapons can be purchased or cert points can be used. Most default guns are great with some certs put into them, but the other guns are more situational sidegrades. I played a month before spending a dime and didnt feel abused, now I subscribe because I decided I enjoy the game and decided I want to support it. The developers are highly accessible yet firm on decisions. I have seen a few plqyer ideas directly impact the development course of action.
Now, microtransactions in a full retail game? Fuck that. I wont buy it even to give it a chance.
Slashdot hates anyone that builds airplanes, sailboats, custom cars, restores very expensive old cars, designs custom jewelry, owns a tuxedo rental store, etc. Didn't you get the memo?
I'm about to build a couple 4000 (my cost) pc's for some wealthy clients, so I'm sure they hate me too. I wouldn't be able to feed my family without rich people.
I would bet that postal workers endure the elements more than just about any job on a nonstop basis other than maybe crab fishing. It makes sense that if they can develop specific clothing to help their line of work, and keep their people warm then they could do their job better. Also if it's really good stuff they could market it to the public, and have a great sample of how it performs in the real world that people see every day.
I haven't used an iPhone since my 3gs, but I switched to Android because I felt attacked constantly for being a jail breaker. With android manufacturers they may not support rooting a device, but once it is done updates generally don't remove it and try and keep me from doing it again. With my iPhone I couldn't use anything like wifi analyzer, or titanium backup. I mean there was a good wifi tracking app, then apple banned it for some stupid reason.
Also turn by turn navigation is great, Google maps is great, groove IP is great (unsure if apple has that) , and with the newest updates the transcription and voice commands under android is amazing.
In your experience how well would a modern tank handle being set on fire by a molotov type improvised device? I'm just remembering something like that from an old MechWarrior book I read:).
You are absolutely correct. I made this call a couple years ago when I got the 6750 video card. It's a fine card, but my cpu was an older model dual core AMD. Lately I picked up Planetside 2 and started playing it like mad. What I found was the game looked great, but was laggy as all get out because the developers of that game rely heavily on the CPU, probably heavier than they should. After biting the bullet and building a new system with a i5-3570K overclocked to 4300, with an SSD 200gb main drive, and 16gb memory I can safely say that a video card really can't do it all on the newer games coming out. It looks like we are beginning to see a few developers actually begin to push the PC again past what current consoles are capable of.
For example I am heavily vested in the new Chris Roberts game coming out (Star Citizen), and I'm sure that the GPU will be heavily used in this game, but also the CPU for keeping track of massive amounts of data surrounding the player.
If I had it to do again I would have done the same, at least the newer GPU allowed me to enjoy games like Skyrim (even though I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of people because I thought it was way too easy, and dragons were wusses).
So link 1 and 3 are federal only from what I can tell. 2 is interesting to me, and I thank you for that link. I have been looking for someone who actually includes state, and local taxation as well as just federal.
That second link to the Peter G. Peterson foundation is actually pretty bad ass thanks for ruining my weekend by looking at stats and graphs.
With that being said the tax rate of some states IS pretty high if you contribute taxes rather than a receive entitlements. States such as Texas drop the average taxation a lot.
What would be your solution? Ban states from setting taxes, and set a straight tax rate from the Fed?
The United States does not have low taxation, I'm not sure where you get that from. Federal taxation, maybe, but when you add up the mulitple layers of taxation that we have that most countries do not our taxes are in line with most other first world countries.
I mean you get really high taxes in some parts of this country. There are some places you pay an income tax to the city, county, state, and the Fed.
What exact tax rate would balance the budget smart guy?
Why is it everyone who says taxes are too low can't give a percentage that would make everything rosy?
Is it because they know if you crank up taxes to where it "needs" to be it would crash the economy plunging us into a depression, and the government would just spend more if they got that money anyways.
Really? Any family can borrow to purchase a rental property which will produce dividends going forward. Most families DON'T budget like a business or a government(should), but most families have miserable finances.
I lived there, then I decided to leave college and start earning money. Best decision I ever made.
You CHOOSE to live the way you are living, there are plenty of alternatives, and if you don't think there are you didn't pay very good attention in your classes.
So if 2 percent have 98 percent of the wealth, does it make the 98 percent of the population poorer because of this? Do you believe that if I go earn a dollar that it makes you a dollar poorer? Does it make society a dollar poorer?
If Mark Zuckerburg earns a billion dollars, does it make society a trillion dollars poorer? Does Mark actually act as a vacuum cleaner sucking wealth out of the country?
What exactly does Mark do with his money? My guess is he sticks it in investments, those investments are used to pay wages in the hope that the people having the wages paid to them will return more money than was invested in their wages. Also his money will go to banks, who one would hope would lend money to people trying to build businesses, and hire people to work and manage those businesses.
If we take a billion dollars away from Mark Zuckerburg and send it to the government does it make the civilization a trillion dollars richer? Maybe it does if the government spends that money wisely in things that push the civilization forward. However money spent by the government tends to produce smaller returns than the private sector because the government has no competition to increase its efficiency.
You have hit the nail on the head with our tax code. Taxes A_R_E punishment. Really, they are. The government in fact knows that taxes are punitive, and approaches them with a carrot and stick mentality. Not all taxes may be intended to be punitive, but they all have a depressing effect on what they are levied upon.
Cigarette tax - punishment for smoking Sales tax - punishment for consuming alcohol tax - punishment for drinking exise tax - penalty for moving money in a way the government doesn't like, or creating a product the government wants to discourage.
etc etc, and yes taxes do work as a punitive function. When the cost of anything is increased demand decreases, that's very elementary.
Don't be surprised then when people actually start seeing taxes as a punishment. Especially when they know no matter how much they pay in taxes the government will pay more than is collected. At the same time they see people with things they can't afford that abuse the system they pay into honestly. It's very easy to get frustrated.
Nah I jail broke my iPhone day one. In a couple years I switched to android and got the jailbreak functionality stock. Of course then I rooted that so I could get even more functionality. Life is too short not to void warranties anyways.
That is true. I said nothing contrary to that:) weak dollars are actually good in a lot of ways, and but they don't inspire confidence in other countries to keep them.
However high gas prices are more a result of a weak dollar than any other reason including the war on fossil fuels. Also see the cost of bacon, gold, copper, etc. Even if demand falls if the oilfield production costs go up and the dollar falls in value on a globally traded commodity it really isn't rocket science.
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I think that I speak for a large amount of the libertarian bent Texans when I say that most of us don't like abortion, but if someone wants to do it themselves we aren't going to get in the middle of it in any fashion other than to make sure that the patient can become fully informed of the development of their unborn child to that point, and be informed of any medical procedure and it's positive and negative effects upon them. Heck getting orthognatic surgery is something that gets more councelling and support than an abortion in many ways. One thing a lot of pro abortion people put on their blinders about is that many women are forced or "strongly coerced" to have abortions by parents, boyfriends, bosses that knocked them up, etc. These women can be led through the process without ever really knowing what is going to happen to them physically and psychologially until it's irreversable. I know a woman that had to have the aboriton process on a fetus that died inside her. She was devestated emotionally for years, and this was something completely out of her control. Not only that she still suffered the post partem but had no baby to bring her happiness. I've also known women that have had abortions pushed by scared and angry boyfriends that regreted it to the point of depression, so there is noone that can convince me that abortion is an emotionally void process that should just be mechanically performed with no councelling at all.
However, if you want us to pay for it, then we will fight it tooth and nail. The govenrment has no place funding chopping up babies any more than it has perusing cell phone records without a warrant. It simply just shouldn't be in the business at all unless there is cause for dire public injury. Also a lot of us are pretty pissed about the conservative overreach of government just as much as the liberal overreach. Personally for example I think the government banning gay marriage is stupid as the day is long. They deserve to be just as miserable as us married folks.
I personally like how ps2 does this. Weapons can be purchased or cert points can be used. Most default guns are great with some certs put into them, but the other guns are more situational sidegrades. I played a month before spending a dime and didnt feel abused, now I subscribe because I decided I enjoy the game and decided I want to support it. The developers are highly accessible yet firm on decisions. I have seen a few plqyer ideas directly impact the development course of action.
Now, microtransactions in a full retail game? Fuck that. I wont buy it even to give it a chance.
Wow, your blaming this on Romney.. What a blind sheep you are.
Slashdot hates anyone that builds airplanes, sailboats, custom cars, restores very expensive old cars, designs custom jewelry, owns a tuxedo rental store, etc. Didn't you get the memo?
I'm about to build a couple 4000 (my cost) pc's for some wealthy clients, so I'm sure they hate me too. I wouldn't be able to feed my family without rich people.
I would bet that postal workers endure the elements more than just about any job on a nonstop basis other than maybe crab fishing. It makes sense that if they can develop specific clothing to help their line of work, and keep their people warm then they could do their job better. Also if it's really good stuff they could market it to the public, and have a great sample of how it performs in the real world that people see every day.
I haven't used an iPhone since my 3gs, but I switched to Android because I felt attacked constantly for being a jail breaker. With android manufacturers they may not support rooting a device, but once it is done updates generally don't remove it and try and keep me from doing it again. With my iPhone I couldn't use anything like wifi analyzer, or titanium backup. I mean there was a good wifi tracking app, then apple banned it for some stupid reason.
Also turn by turn navigation is great, Google maps is great, groove IP is great (unsure if apple has that) , and with the newest updates the transcription and voice commands under android is amazing.
Dang, Symantec has really been improving their products lately. That's much better than I've gotten out of them.
In your experience how well would a modern tank handle being set on fire by a molotov type improvised device? I'm just remembering something like that from an old MechWarrior book I read :).
You are absolutely correct. I made this call a couple years ago when I got the 6750 video card. It's a fine card, but my cpu was an older model dual core AMD. Lately I picked up Planetside 2 and started playing it like mad. What I found was the game looked great, but was laggy as all get out because the developers of that game rely heavily on the CPU, probably heavier than they should. After biting the bullet and building a new system with a i5-3570K overclocked to 4300, with an SSD 200gb main drive, and 16gb memory I can safely say that a video card really can't do it all on the newer games coming out. It looks like we are beginning to see a few developers actually begin to push the PC again past what current consoles are capable of.
For example I am heavily vested in the new Chris Roberts game coming out (Star Citizen), and I'm sure that the GPU will be heavily used in this game, but also the CPU for keeping track of massive amounts of data surrounding the player.
If I had it to do again I would have done the same, at least the newer GPU allowed me to enjoy games like Skyrim (even though I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of people because I thought it was way too easy, and dragons were wusses).
So link 1 and 3 are federal only from what I can tell. 2 is interesting to me, and I thank you for that link. I have been looking for someone who actually includes state, and local taxation as well as just federal.
That second link to the Peter G. Peterson foundation is actually pretty bad ass thanks for ruining my weekend by looking at stats and graphs.
With that being said the tax rate of some states IS pretty high if you contribute taxes rather than a receive entitlements. States such as Texas drop the average taxation a lot.
What would be your solution? Ban states from setting taxes, and set a straight tax rate from the Fed?
The United States does not have low taxation, I'm not sure where you get that from. Federal taxation, maybe, but when you add up the mulitple layers of taxation that we have that most countries do not our taxes are in line with most other first world countries.
I mean you get really high taxes in some parts of this country. There are some places you pay an income tax to the city, county, state, and the Fed.
What exact tax rate would balance the budget smart guy?
Why is it everyone who says taxes are too low can't give a percentage that would make everything rosy?
Is it because they know if you crank up taxes to where it "needs" to be it would crash the economy plunging us into a depression, and the government would just spend more if they got that money anyways.
However, until things either get shut down, or collapse nobody will get serious about doing just what you are proposing.
Really? Any family can borrow to purchase a rental property which will produce dividends going forward. Most families DON'T budget like a business or a government(should), but most families have miserable finances.
Because he gave so much to charity. Want to fix that, it's easy just take away charitable deductions.
I lived there, then I decided to leave college and start earning money. Best decision I ever made.
You CHOOSE to live the way you are living, there are plenty of alternatives, and if you don't think there are you didn't pay very good attention in your classes.
So if 2 percent have 98 percent of the wealth, does it make the 98 percent of the population poorer because of this? Do you believe that if I go earn a dollar that it makes you a dollar poorer? Does it make society a dollar poorer?
If Mark Zuckerburg earns a billion dollars, does it make society a trillion dollars poorer? Does Mark actually act as a vacuum cleaner sucking wealth out of the country?
What exactly does Mark do with his money? My guess is he sticks it in investments, those investments are used to pay wages in the hope that the people having the wages paid to them will return more money than was invested in their wages. Also his money will go to banks, who one would hope would lend money to people trying to build businesses, and hire people to work and manage those businesses.
If we take a billion dollars away from Mark Zuckerburg and send it to the government does it make the civilization a trillion dollars richer? Maybe it does if the government spends that money wisely in things that push the civilization forward. However money spent by the government tends to produce smaller returns than the private sector because the government has no competition to increase its efficiency.
You have hit the nail on the head with our tax code. Taxes A_R_E punishment. Really, they are. The government in fact knows that taxes are punitive, and approaches them with a carrot and stick mentality. Not all taxes may be intended to be punitive, but they all have a depressing effect on what they are levied upon.
Cigarette tax - punishment for smoking
Sales tax - punishment for consuming
alcohol tax - punishment for drinking
exise tax - penalty for moving money in a way the government doesn't like, or creating a product the government wants to discourage.
etc etc, and yes taxes do work as a punitive function. When the cost of anything is increased demand decreases, that's very elementary.
Don't be surprised then when people actually start seeing taxes as a punishment. Especially when they know no matter how much they pay in taxes the government will pay more than is collected. At the same time they see people with things they can't afford that abuse the system they pay into honestly. It's very easy to get frustrated.
Fun for 7 minutes then back to the controller.
I hope your boss holds your next paycheck and tells you the same about your time invested.
Nah I jail broke my iPhone day one. In a couple years I switched to android and got the jailbreak functionality stock. Of course then I rooted that so I could get even more functionality. Life is too short not to void warranties anyways.
RIP WebOS
(Typed on a touchpad running android marvelously)
That is true. I said nothing contrary to that :) weak dollars are actually good in a lot of ways, and but they don't inspire confidence in other countries to keep them.
Inflation causes tax windfalls. One of the first things covered in macro econ.
However high gas prices are more a result of a weak dollar than any other reason including the war on fossil fuels. Also see the cost of bacon, gold, copper, etc. Even if demand falls if the oilfield production costs go up and the dollar falls in value on a globally traded commodity it really isn't rocket science.