I don't care what you think I am. One of us is right, and one of us is wrong. Socialized medicine is what we need. Single payer, fully socialized, completely free medicine in the USA. Government owned hospitals, government employed doctors.
I don't support anything less than that. What the current crop of "pollitions" as you so amusingly spelled it have proposed is basically the same system as our car insurance system.
If you're not out there ranting in the streets about car insurance or house insurance, you're a fucking hypocrite for ranting about socialized medicine.
Hate speech? Absolutely protected. The Klan can talk all they want.
Calling fire in a crowded room? Legal. I did it at work today. Nobody laughed, but it's not illegal to use that word around a lot of people.
Slander? Slander is not speech, slander is a verbal attack. We're at a boundary case here, where speech comes up against other rights, and saying true things about people is always protected. Saying false things simply to corrupt their reputation is not protected speech. It's also not illegal. I can talk about how Britney Spears rides my cock with her stink hole all day long and nobody will arrest me. I might get into trouble if she brings a civil case for defamation against me though. Defamation is not the same as speech.
Inciting commission of offense? (eg. hey let's kill that guy) I said that in a meeting today too! That time everybody laughed, but nobody was arrested.
Providing vocal support for terrorist groups? VIVA AL QUAIDA. OK, I'm waiting for the cops to arrive. I don't think they will though.
None of the examples you gave are actually instances of illegal speech. All those things are legal today.
It's so blurry. Under communism, business is owned by the state. Under capitalism, business is owned by individuals. I can hardly tell the difference between them! It's like they're almost the same, except for that one huge difference! It's blurry!
Right, because the national health care plans proposed are just as socialist as the automobile insurance system we have today. Nothing more socialist than purchasing your insurance from a private insurance company.
SEND MORE NOODLES. I can't get enough of those noodles.
And how about that Falun Gong? They sure are enjoying their freedom of speech, the problem is that they were dumb enough to actually try it.
You can't have just a little freedom of speech. If it's restricted even a little bit, it isn't free.
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Ironically, mises.org is a bunch of Austrian school economists. Those guys failed to recognize fascism in the 1930's, and they're still failing to recognize fascism today.
You fail. Utterly. See? That was a filter. It saves me the time of starting a conversation with someone who later turns out to be a moron. I got you to announce that fact right up front, so I'm done with you now. Bye, moron.
It's such a shame. The Internet and all the information on it, and some people like yourself will not use it to learn something.
1) You're an idiot. 2) Obviously something like libertarian socialism would be a good start. But you would never arrive at that conclusion, because of #1.
I have a question for you: what are the moral values of conservatism? I've never met a conservative who even knew what a moral value is. Surprise me.
Let me characterize the person who modded me down:
1) He has a fancy computer that he bought at a department store, but has never cracked the box open. Check! 2) He went to the local IT Professional Outfitters store and dropped $1500 on shoes, special pants, a shirt with weird zippers and pockets everywhere, harnesses, backpacks, laptop carts, mouse pads, and USB coffee warmers. All are colored hot fluorescent pink and glow under UV light. Check! 3) He went to the bookstore and has the Java for Idiots, Java for Dummies, Learn Java in 21 Days, and 3D game programming in Java books. Check! 4) He downloaded Safari and installed it onto his spanking new Vista machine. Check! 5) He's got a JVM. Installed it from a CD from one of his books. Check! 6) He has a 2 year degree from De Vry. Certificate on the wall. Check! 7) He subscribed to all the Ziff Davis publications he could find. Check! Check! Check!
Great, Now make your nice lightweight fragile weathervane survive 9g's of reentry and almost that amount on launch, plus numerous bumps at various times in the mission.
Touchdown on the Mars Surface was 5 miles an hour. How hard could it be. Now, crash your Toyota into a wall at 5 MPH and you might find that the 5 MPH bumpers really only work at 4.95 MPH. Oops.
It's easy to make a lightweight weathervane. It's hard to make a lightweight weathervane, get it to Mars, and still have it in working order.
Like all costs of production, that cost get distributed over the units manufactured. Also, one measure of the cost of production is indicated by the marginal cost, that is, the cost incurred by producing one more unit. That particular measure would not be affected by a development cost.
How much does a good design cost over a bad design? Are bad designers available for $20 an hour, and good designers available for $100 an hour? A large production run would dilute even a big difference in costs there.
The floppy drive on this machine is like the main character in Beckett's famous novel "Waiting for Godot" in which Godot never shows up, probably because Beckett was so drunk he forgot to write that part.
Two problems - we don't know how likely this is to work; the probability might just be a flat 0%. And the second is that ITER might be hugely underfunded, making the percentage cost threshhold relative to ITER meaningless and arbitrary. I don't have confidence that ITER itself has been funded a percentage of some larger budget based on the probability that ITER itself will work.
Not stupid, ignorant. Both ignorance and HIV are preventable, and the US government is chartered with the task of protecting their citizens. Instead of allowing equally ignorant religious right backers to make a lot of hay about the gay disease, Reagan should have done his job and used the resources of the US government to protect citizens through education.
You moral values are fucked up. You fail to recognize that ignorance is deadly. You fail to recognize that education is a moral value that should be held in reverence. You fail to recognize that human beings should not be treated like political footballs.
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I don't care what you think I am. One of us is right, and one of us is wrong. Socialized medicine is what we need. Single payer, fully socialized, completely free medicine in the USA. Government owned hospitals, government employed doctors.
I don't support anything less than that. What the current crop of "pollitions" as you so amusingly spelled it have proposed is basically the same system as our car insurance system.
If you're not out there ranting in the streets about car insurance or house insurance, you're a fucking hypocrite for ranting about socialized medicine.
Let's go down your examples:
Hate speech? Absolutely protected. The Klan can talk all they want.
Calling fire in a crowded room? Legal. I did it at work today. Nobody laughed, but it's not illegal to use that word around a lot of people.
Slander? Slander is not speech, slander is a verbal attack. We're at a boundary case here, where speech comes up against other rights, and saying true things about people is always protected. Saying false things simply to corrupt their reputation is not protected speech. It's also not illegal. I can talk about how Britney Spears rides my cock with her stink hole all day long and nobody will arrest me. I might get into trouble if she brings a civil case for defamation against me though. Defamation is not the same as speech.
Inciting commission of offense? (eg. hey let's kill that guy) I said that in a meeting today too! That time everybody laughed, but nobody was arrested.
Providing vocal support for terrorist groups? VIVA AL QUAIDA. OK, I'm waiting for the cops to arrive. I don't think they will though.
None of the examples you gave are actually instances of illegal speech. All those things are legal today.
Moron, fascism is the opposite of communism. Read some wikipedia and get the bullet points.
Communism owns all the businesses. Fascism owns all the government. The business in fascism is owned by individuals and corporations.
One and the same? That describes YOU and MORON.
It's so blurry. Under communism, business is owned by the state. Under capitalism, business is owned by individuals. I can hardly tell the difference between them! It's like they're almost the same, except for that one huge difference! It's blurry!
Moron.
Right, because the national health care plans proposed are just as socialist as the automobile insurance system we have today. Nothing more socialist than purchasing your insurance from a private insurance company.
Moron.
Anyone who mods you up clearly doesn't understand that goose steppers are conservatives. Can I get a +1 obvious?
SEND MORE NOODLES. I can't get enough of those noodles.
And how about that Falun Gong? They sure are enjoying their freedom of speech, the problem is that they were dumb enough to actually try it.
You can't have just a little freedom of speech. If it's restricted even a little bit, it isn't free.
Ironically, mises.org is a bunch of Austrian school economists. Those guys failed to recognize fascism in the 1930's, and they're still failing to recognize fascism today.
Sometimes the jokes just bury themselves.
You fail. Utterly. See? That was a filter. It saves me the time of starting a conversation with someone who later turns out to be a moron. I got you to announce that fact right up front, so I'm done with you now. Bye, moron.
It's such a shame. The Internet and all the information on it, and some people like yourself will not use it to learn something.
My answers to each of your points.
1) You're an idiot.
2) Obviously something like libertarian socialism would be a good start. But you would never arrive at that conclusion, because of #1.
I have a question for you: what are the moral values of conservatism? I've never met a conservative who even knew what a moral value is. Surprise me.
Let me characterize the person who modded me down:
1) He has a fancy computer that he bought at a department store, but has never cracked the box open. Check!
2) He went to the local IT Professional Outfitters store and dropped $1500 on shoes, special pants, a shirt with weird zippers and pockets everywhere, harnesses, backpacks, laptop carts, mouse pads, and USB coffee warmers. All are colored hot fluorescent pink and glow under UV light. Check!
3) He went to the bookstore and has the Java for Idiots, Java for Dummies, Learn Java in 21 Days, and 3D game programming in Java books. Check!
4) He downloaded Safari and installed it onto his spanking new Vista machine. Check!
5) He's got a JVM. Installed it from a CD from one of his books. Check!
6) He has a 2 year degree from De Vry. Certificate on the wall. Check!
7) He subscribed to all the Ziff Davis publications he could find. Check! Check! Check!
Yessir! That motherfucker's a PROGRAMMER!
And are soooo delicious.
And still, after that beautiful rant, Java is still slow.
Great, Now make your nice lightweight fragile weathervane survive 9g's of reentry and almost that amount on launch, plus numerous bumps at various times in the mission.
Touchdown on the Mars Surface was 5 miles an hour. How hard could it be. Now, crash your Toyota into a wall at 5 MPH and you might find that the 5 MPH bumpers really only work at 4.95 MPH. Oops.
It's easy to make a lightweight weathervane. It's hard to make a lightweight weathervane, get it to Mars, and still have it in working order.
Disappointing. "Clown" as a pejorative doesn't really get me riled up at all.
Like all costs of production, that cost get distributed over the units manufactured. Also, one measure of the cost of production is indicated by the marginal cost, that is, the cost incurred by producing one more unit. That particular measure would not be affected by a development cost.
How much does a good design cost over a bad design? Are bad designers available for $20 an hour, and good designers available for $100 an hour? A large production run would dilute even a big difference in costs there.
Pretty is just as cheap to mass produce as ugly. GM should take a lesson.
Actually, I'm not so sure it was a novel. It's been 25 years since I read it, but I think it was a play. It's a bad analogy.
Come on, BadAnalogyGuy!
The floppy drive on this machine is like the main character in Beckett's famous novel "Waiting for Godot" in which Godot never shows up, probably because Beckett was so drunk he forgot to write that part.
Two problems - we don't know how likely this is to work; the probability might just be a flat 0%. And the second is that ITER might be hugely underfunded, making the percentage cost threshhold relative to ITER meaningless and arbitrary. I don't have confidence that ITER itself has been funded a percentage of some larger budget based on the probability that ITER itself will work.
But they could erase your pR0n. For me, that's a major PANIC.
The BIOS lets you run anything! Even a whole new operating system! Unrestricted access OMG!
You're amusing.
Not stupid, ignorant. Both ignorance and HIV are preventable, and the US government is chartered with the task of protecting their citizens. Instead of allowing equally ignorant religious right backers to make a lot of hay about the gay disease, Reagan should have done his job and used the resources of the US government to protect citizens through education.
You moral values are fucked up. You fail to recognize that ignorance is deadly. You fail to recognize that education is a moral value that should be held in reverence. You fail to recognize that human beings should not be treated like political footballs.