Who is this left-wing nutjob you speak of? I guess the mainstream media swept it under the rug so fast I didn't notice. I can't recall any body randomly shooting or blowing things up while proclaiming that education is underfunded and the rich should pay taxes. Not trying to take sides but I'm just saying.
I agree but, the problem is not necessarily with the media. We listen to them and believe that since someone said or did something 20 years ago they cannot have changed. We need to simply ignore this kind of crap until the media stop doing it. Everyone complains about how bad tv is but no one seems to do the one thing that will change it: stop watching TV. Everyone complains about how Walmart is killing the small towns but, no one will stop shopping at Walmart. Everyone complains about crappy politicians and how they are ruining America but we continue to register as Republican or Democrat and vote for the vermin we hate the least. The inaction of the American people is more to blame than the institutions that pander to us.
We still need transparency in government. If that means that we pay extra people to handle FOIA request so what. There are a lot of things the government needs to stop spending money on. IMHO these include wars, oil company tax breaks, running guns to Mexico and the drug war. It is possible your list is different. I happen to agree that I am sick and tired of the Republican / Democrat bickering. They have decided that government is a game they want to win instead of the activity of good governance. But, that does not mean that the answer is to hid the actions of and communication of public officials. That is the same as sticking you head in the ground when the bullets fly.
So, You could exist before this law without paying tax. You never generate income (income tax), never own property (property tax), never purchase anything (sales tax), never drive a car (gas tax + have to buy insurance). You can't exist and not pay taxes. Face it man. That is not a real argument.
I admire your pluck. But, you don't seem to live in the same country as the rest of us. The government federal, state and local taxes you to pay for everything from the legal system to roads to schools to defense to farm subsidies to disaster recovery to you name it. And the tell you what to do and buy with a ton of laws. So, it doesn't come as a surprise that they can "make" you buy insurance. Which by the way they are not. Your are free not to buy insurance. You won't go to jail or anything. You will simply by 2.5% more federal income tax up to $2,085.
Provide refundable and advanceable premium credits to eligible individuals and families with incomes
between 133-400% FPL to purchase insurance through the Exchanges. The premium credits will be tied
to the second lowest cost silver plan in the area and will be set on a sliding scale such that the premium
contributions are limited to the following percentages of income for specified income levels:
Up to 133% FPL: 2% of income
133-150% FPL: 3 – 4% of income
150-200% FPL: 4 – 6.3% of income
200-250% FPL: 6.3 – 8.05% of income
250-300% FPL: 8.05 – 9.5% of income
300-400% FPL: 9.5% of income
Increase the premium contributions for those receiving subsidies annually to reflect the excess of the
premium growth over the rate of income growth for 2014-2018. Beginning in 2019, further adjust the
premium contributions to reflect the excess of premium growth over CPI if aggregate premiums and
cost sharing subsidies exceed.54% of GDP.
Provisions related to the premium and cost-sharing subsidies are effective January 1, 2014.
Cost-sharing subsidies Provide cost-sharing subsidies to eligible individuals and families. The cost-sharing credits reduce the costsharing
amounts and annual cost-sharing limits and have the effect of increasing the actuarial value of the
basic benefit plan to the following percentages of the full value of the plan for the specified income level:
There are provision in the bill for that too. Low income (I assume that is what you mean by can't afford it) families can get government subsidies to help pay for it.
But, in the original bill the penalty was an additional amount added to your income tax. It was not a fine. So, for SCOTUS to consider it a tax is responsible. There are lots of things the government uses to add to or take away from you income tax bill. This is just another one of them. It isn't even that much. The Maximum additional tax is $2,085.
You don't have to buy health insurance either. You will simply pay 2.5% more in income tax up to an extra $2,085 per year. But nobody is forcing you to purchase health insurance.
BBC or Al Jazeera are both better news sources for American news than any American 24 hour news channel. American "news" is not news at all it is 100% news commentary. Instead of telling us what happened they tell us how to feel about what happened. I can decide on my own thank you very much.
I don't think anyone is saying that speech is limited to what comes out of your vocal chords, or that only individuals have the right to free speech. A political group (political party, PTA, group of concerned neighbors) have a right to speak with one voice. But, I don't believe that a "Corporate Entity" should have the same rights as these sorts of political groups. A corporation has as it's sole motivating factor profit. It's voice in the political system will only pursue governmental action that promotes its own interest ie profit. Profit motive can and does often lead to actions that are detrimental to the society as a whole. Examples of this are everywhere toxic dumps, lead paint in toys, slave labor in the east, promoting monopoly power and on and on. We cannot allow corporations political speech and expect that everything will work out. Government should be the instrument of the People. It should restrain the actions of corporate entities not be their tool.
Finding a live dinosaur does not in any way disprove evolution. It would simply mean that some very few dinosaurs lived through the extinction event. These Christians really need to take a class in evolution. That way they would know what they need to disprove.
What?
Try any industry that has internal development needs (Banking, Insurance, Health Care, Advertising...) they all or most use Java and SQL on UNIX or Windows.
If you are a good C, C++ coder look into device manufacturers. These languages are the basis of their industry. They always need good programmers.
If you really have that skill set and cannot find a job you are not looking. Just because the cool new thing is phone applications does not mean that corporations have thrown away their servers and existing code bases. Look around and stop complaining. I have recruiters call me every week looking for Java guys. Stop looking at headlines and start looking for a job.
Since the author will never have a girlfriend in the future it is no problem.
But, in response to his question. Why make a bed?
The room looks better with the bed made. The sheets and pillows are arranged so that when one lays down to go to bed one does not have to rearrange them to get them comfortably over ones body. If two share a bed (again never the authors problem) they can turn down each side individually. Each having comfort and convenience without disturbing the other. Finally, BECAUSE YOUR MOTHER TOLD YOU TO!!!
A sleeper agent who had the time and smarts to develop quantum electrodynamics. What government would put a physicist capable of winning a Noble prize in another country as a sleeper agent? Surely the Russians (who love physics) would rather have him as their noble prize winning physicist than working as a double agent in America. That is just crazy.
Are we sure the director of the FBI at the time wasn't some dress wearing conspiracy nut?
Feynman has always been my favorite Nobel prize winner. This just takes him up a notch.
Truckers is just what we need. In order for space exploration to be successful we need boring, easily repeated, safe access to LOE. If they can make LOE boring and trucker like then we have a much better chance of getting past LOE. Until then every flight into space beyond earth will have weight and power constraints placed on it be the launch vehicle. Once shipping to LOE is easy and cheap we can build ships that are no longer constrained by the need to be completely contained in the payload compartment of the launch vehicle.
I think you don't get it. Any company that relies on R&D to create it's product must recoup the cost of failed R&D. This includes drug companies but, it also in includes companies like Texas Instruments. They make a bunch of money off the DLP chip which they created. But, along with recouping the cost of that creation they have to recoup the cost of all the other promising research they did that did not turn into a marketable product. I don't really see where this has anything to do with the way a soviet style economy works.
This "solution" is trying to patch a broken system. The only real chance is to make fundamental change in patent law. We need to explicitly remove software as a patentable item or create a more complete definition of what a patentable bit of software is. Allowing "a method of starting and stopping a running program through the use of a button or command" kind of terminology in patent law is silly and should be explicitly addressed in the law. Contact you Senator or Congressman to change the law. That is the only real answer to what is clearly a real problem.
Really, So, if someone just softened you up with encouragement to be a terrorist and then offered to sell you a bomb you would have no choice, but to buy it and try to blow up something. Really? I would call the FBI and tell them that someone is trying to generate a terrorist action inside the U.S. If these guys had contacted the FBI and told them that they were being recruited to be terrorists then they would not now be in jail.
This is so obvious I must be missing something. Once a person begins to look at the world around himself critically, he realizes that there isn't an old Jewish man in the sky who will send him to eternal damnation for premarital sex? WOW, who would have thought that thinking would allow someone to see through the churches crazy rhetoric. I guess those of us who saw through the old man in the sky hoax a long time ago don't find this the big news that others do.
As long as America makes the rules. What do you think the US government would do if we started storing all of our data on Australian servers? We would tell Americans that it is safer and more productive to keep that data here. This country is so full of itself; It is amazing.
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Who is this left-wing nutjob you speak of? I guess the mainstream media swept it under the rug so fast I didn't notice. I can't recall any body randomly shooting or blowing things up while proclaiming that education is underfunded and the rich should pay taxes. Not trying to take sides but I'm just saying.
I agree but, the problem is not necessarily with the media. We listen to them and believe that since someone said or did something 20 years ago they cannot have changed. We need to simply ignore this kind of crap until the media stop doing it. Everyone complains about how bad tv is but no one seems to do the one thing that will change it: stop watching TV. Everyone complains about how Walmart is killing the small towns but, no one will stop shopping at Walmart. Everyone complains about crappy politicians and how they are ruining America but we continue to register as Republican or Democrat and vote for the vermin we hate the least. The inaction of the American people is more to blame than the institutions that pander to us.
We still need transparency in government. If that means that we pay extra people to handle FOIA request so what. There are a lot of things the government needs to stop spending money on. IMHO these include wars, oil company tax breaks, running guns to Mexico and the drug war. It is possible your list is different. I happen to agree that I am sick and tired of the Republican / Democrat bickering. They have decided that government is a game they want to win instead of the activity of good governance. But, that does not mean that the answer is to hid the actions of and communication of public officials. That is the same as sticking you head in the ground when the bullets fly.
So, You could exist before this law without paying tax. You never generate income (income tax), never own property (property tax), never purchase anything (sales tax), never drive a car (gas tax + have to buy insurance). You can't exist and not pay taxes. Face it man. That is not a real argument.
I don't know if you are serious or funny but I say mod this guy up. Funny +5
I admire your pluck. But, you don't seem to live in the same country as the rest of us. The government federal, state and local taxes you to pay for everything from the legal system to roads to schools to defense to farm subsidies to disaster recovery to you name it. And the tell you what to do and buy with a ton of laws. So, it doesn't come as a surprise that they can "make" you buy insurance. Which by the way they are not. Your are free not to buy insurance. You won't go to jail or anything. You will simply by 2.5% more federal income tax up to $2,085.
Provide refundable and advanceable premium credits to eligible individuals and families with incomes between 133-400% FPL to purchase insurance through the Exchanges. The premium credits will be tied to the second lowest cost silver plan in the area and will be set on a sliding scale such that the premium contributions are limited to the following percentages of income for specified income levels:
Up to 133% FPL: 2% of income
133-150% FPL: 3 – 4% of income
150-200% FPL: 4 – 6.3% of income
200-250% FPL: 6.3 – 8.05% of income
250-300% FPL: 8.05 – 9.5% of income
300-400% FPL: 9.5% of income
Increase the premium contributions for those receiving subsidies annually to reflect the excess of the premium growth over the rate of income growth for 2014-2018. Beginning in 2019, further adjust the premium contributions to reflect the excess of premium growth over CPI if aggregate premiums and cost sharing subsidies exceed .54% of GDP.
Provisions related to the premium and cost-sharing subsidies are effective January 1, 2014. Cost-sharing subsidies Provide cost-sharing subsidies to eligible individuals and families. The cost-sharing credits reduce the costsharing amounts and annual cost-sharing limits and have the effect of increasing the actuarial value of the basic benefit plan to the following percentages of the full value of the plan for the specified income level:
100-150% FPL: 94%
150-200% FPL: 87%
200-250% FPL: 73%
250-400% FPL: 70%
There are provision in the bill for that too. Low income (I assume that is what you mean by can't afford it) families can get government subsidies to help pay for it.
But, in the original bill the penalty was an additional amount added to your income tax. It was not a fine. So, for SCOTUS to consider it a tax is responsible. There are lots of things the government uses to add to or take away from you income tax bill. This is just another one of them. It isn't even that much. The Maximum additional tax is $2,085.
You don't have to buy health insurance either. You will simply pay 2.5% more in income tax up to an extra $2,085 per year. But nobody is forcing you to purchase health insurance.
BBC or Al Jazeera are both better news sources for American news than any American 24 hour news channel. American "news" is not news at all it is 100% news commentary. Instead of telling us what happened they tell us how to feel about what happened. I can decide on my own thank you very much.
I don't think anyone is saying that speech is limited to what comes out of your vocal chords, or that only individuals have the right to free speech. A political group (political party, PTA, group of concerned neighbors) have a right to speak with one voice. But, I don't believe that a "Corporate Entity" should have the same rights as these sorts of political groups. A corporation has as it's sole motivating factor profit. It's voice in the political system will only pursue governmental action that promotes its own interest ie profit. Profit motive can and does often lead to actions that are detrimental to the society as a whole. Examples of this are everywhere toxic dumps, lead paint in toys, slave labor in the east, promoting monopoly power and on and on. We cannot allow corporations political speech and expect that everything will work out. Government should be the instrument of the People. It should restrain the actions of corporate entities not be their tool.
Finding a live dinosaur does not in any way disprove evolution. It would simply mean that some very few dinosaurs lived through the extinction event. These Christians really need to take a class in evolution. That way they would know what they need to disprove.
What?
Try any industry that has internal development needs (Banking, Insurance, Health Care, Advertising...) they all or most use Java and SQL on UNIX or Windows.
If you are a good C, C++ coder look into device manufacturers. These languages are the basis of their industry. They always need good programmers.
If you really have that skill set and cannot find a job you are not looking. Just because the cool new thing is phone applications does not mean that corporations have thrown away their servers and existing code bases. Look around and stop complaining. I have recruiters call me every week looking for Java guys. Stop looking at headlines and start looking for a job.
Since the author will never have a girlfriend in the future it is no problem.
But, in response to his question. Why make a bed?
The room looks better with the bed made. The sheets and pillows are arranged so that when one lays down to go to bed one does not have to rearrange them to get them comfortably over ones body. If two share a bed (again never the authors problem) they can turn down each side individually. Each having comfort and convenience without disturbing the other. Finally, BECAUSE YOUR MOTHER TOLD YOU TO!!!
A sleeper agent who had the time and smarts to develop quantum electrodynamics. What government would put a physicist capable of winning a Noble prize in another country as a sleeper agent? Surely the Russians (who love physics) would rather have him as their noble prize winning physicist than working as a double agent in America. That is just crazy.
Are we sure the director of the FBI at the time wasn't some dress wearing conspiracy nut?
Feynman has always been my favorite Nobel prize winner. This just takes him up a notch.
Truckers is just what we need. In order for space exploration to be successful we need boring, easily repeated, safe access to LOE. If they can make LOE boring and trucker like then we have a much better chance of getting past LOE. Until then every flight into space beyond earth will have weight and power constraints placed on it be the launch vehicle. Once shipping to LOE is easy and cheap we can build ships that are no longer constrained by the need to be completely contained in the payload compartment of the launch vehicle.
Somebody give the above a +1 (on topic) for actually trying to answer the question!!!
I think you don't get it. Any company that relies on R&D to create it's product must recoup the cost of failed R&D. This includes drug companies but, it also in includes companies like Texas Instruments. They make a bunch of money off the DLP chip which they created. But, along with recouping the cost of that creation they have to recoup the cost of all the other promising research they did that did not turn into a marketable product. I don't really see where this has anything to do with the way a soviet style economy works.
This "solution" is trying to patch a broken system. The only real chance is to make fundamental change in patent law. We need to explicitly remove software as a patentable item or create a more complete definition of what a patentable bit of software is. Allowing "a method of starting and stopping a running program through the use of a button or command" kind of terminology in patent law is silly and should be explicitly addressed in the law. Contact you Senator or Congressman to change the law. That is the only real answer to what is clearly a real problem.
Really, So, if someone just softened you up with encouragement to be a terrorist and then offered to sell you a bomb you would have no choice, but to buy it and try to blow up something. Really? I would call the FBI and tell them that someone is trying to generate a terrorist action inside the U.S. If these guys had contacted the FBI and told them that they were being recruited to be terrorists then they would not now be in jail.
This is so obvious I must be missing something. Once a person begins to look at the world around himself critically, he realizes that there isn't an old Jewish man in the sky who will send him to eternal damnation for premarital sex? WOW, who would have thought that thinking would allow someone to see through the churches crazy rhetoric. I guess those of us who saw through the old man in the sky hoax a long time ago don't find this the big news that others do.
And you never drive more than 500 miles in a day. So np.
This is slashdot. We are not all tards and I will bet for the most part this forum agrees with the poster.
As long as America makes the rules. What do you think the US government would do if we started storing all of our data on Australian servers? We would tell Americans that it is safer and more productive to keep that data here. This country is so full of itself; It is amazing.