In a way it might have been better if it were placed at the same price point as windows. A better profit margin on the Linux PC's might inspire dell to give them a very visible face..
What will be the most important marker of Dells little Linux venture is product placement. If these linux systems end up on a back page people may not hunt for them.
The offshore solution works and would not be taxed by the US IRS. Note that the email in that case need not enter a US server (as an email) as you pointed out.
So we set up this wonderful system to tax email and all you will see is companies open up gmail like entities in other nations. A pointless reduction of freedom and expansion of Government power for little gain.
The Chinese spammer would have hard time getting its spam accepted at a US server
You have to be kidding! These are the same people that regularly hack systems, set up spam bots on your desktop, and all other kinds of nonsense. Can you imagine some grandmother getting a tax bill for 5000$ because someone put a bot on her vista box? wow that would be fnu in an audit.
My mother raise seven kids and has watched 13 grandkids grow up. Her observation is this (and it hold true for IT)
When two brothers get in a fight they punch each other and are playing nice in half an hour. When two Sisters get into a fight they never really have it out and just pick at each other for days! And as with anything there will be exceptions but on the macro I have watched my nieces and nephews and it is, by and large, true.
I have worked in environments that are 90% female and some that are 90% male and the amount of back stabbing that goes on in a female environment is, in my completely unscientific experience, far greater. Would I hire a woman in IT? In a second because I am all about the person not the class but I wont tolerate for a second games, I have a deeper tolerance for two people yelling at each other during a meeting than quietly stewing so they can talk about it with other later.
Political Correctness is a joke its not about thin skin its about manipulation to accomplish social ends..
You could cover all the responses at one by simply publishing the patent numbers being infringed upon. IBM should file a suit similar to the one RedHat brought against SCO.. Im sure it wont happen but it would be nice to see what MS has..
When was this? back in the day I went through HS (early 90's) We had two weeks talking about the fact the evil white man came and killed the native Americans who knew not disease hunger or war.
It sounds like you had a very bd teacher and that is not indicative of what gets covered in American HS history. We spent a whole quarter of American History split between slavery and native Americans.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, busy week.
Until it's actually a human life which can exist independently of it's host body it's a parasite. Your irrational belief that the rights of a nonentity trump the rights of a human being demonstrates you lack of even the maost basic common human decency.
Your only claim to it being a non-entity is the fact its not aware, neither is a coma patient yet they still have rights. They are both human beings, and yes one does need the other but this is *no less true* of an infant who if not fed and cared for will die very quickly.
Great, hold a gun to a poor woman's head and demand that she go through massive trauma to satisfy your desire for revenge.
Why in the world would you say something like that? Revenge!? Disagree with me fine but there is no vengeance in me saying a life should not be taken. Such inflammatory language only shows how weak your point is, you need a screaming match to look like you have a leg to stand on.
Here's an idea. Pay for it yourself you fucking thief. I do not support your demand that I cough up to pay for more welfare leeches.
We don't get to pick who we help in society, I don't want to pay for healthy adult males who could work but alas its part of supporting people and I don't consider those who want to help someone I think not worthy an fing thief.
You are in no position to judge whether or not somebody you don't even know should be forced to go through so much trauma and end up in a situation where both the mother and the child who *you* forced into existence yet expect *me* to pay for are worse off. It's sickeningly immoral and downright evil.
Are you serious? we as a society do that all the time! its why we have laws against infanticide. If you think giving Birth is trauma try potty training. It might sound silly but talk to a mother and see which causes more emotional stress!
Funny how you change the subject to something completely irrelevant.You want the government inside every woman's vagina. That demands a huge oppressive government your delusional faith notwithstanding.
How, exactly, would making abortion illegal be more difficult to enforce than say manslaughter laws?
I don't "beleive" anything. I know for a fact that neither I nor you are in any position to make decisions for people who we don't even know with no consideration at all of the reality.
Yet we live in a society with laws against killing infants, abuse, theft, speeding and many others. We dont live in some cave where the strong prevail. We live in a society which says *no you cant do this*
You believe that a woman is a murderer if she has an abortion.
Umm where did I say the woman is a murderer? She is as much a victim as the baby in an abortion.
Like for regular mail, they would probably levy the tax when the email is first handled by a US based server
Which would require a major restructuring of the internet. Mail gets thrown all over the place and taxing someone just because they are the first server touched and not the source or destination will not fly.
Or they will tax the recipient for email received.
And exactly how will this be accomplish for something like gmail or hotmail? What about email hosting services that are off shore (e.g. for example the hanmail my inlaws used that is hosted in Korea) and are accessed via http?
US bills similarly for cell phone use (the called party also pays).
this is way different...
I would not mind at all a 1c tax on outgoing email.
Ahh but you yourself just said its more likely to bill *incoming* emails.
Let the spammers pay, and let the IRS get rid of the spammers when they evade paying.
The IRS has *zero* jurisdiction over spammers hosting in China. it will only hurt Individuates and Legit Business that need email.
The thing is, the constitution is clear on this. The states don't have a right to charge taxes on stuff shipped across state lines. Why are we even having this discussion?
Because if there is one thing our government will work hard to to its lighten your wallet.
entire source of orthodoxy states in no uncertain terms that since I'm a heretic according to them that I must be stoned to death... There is nothing in the bible that takes that back.
Huh? Let he without sin cast the first stone..
I assume you're excluding Salem, MA and all the various religious based colonies and their atrocities from the pre-constitutional days?
We are also aware of secular humanist in the soviet union and china doing as much and more in the name of the state and their disdain for religion... People by nature are evil cruel creatures and its does not matter what religion one claims to serve you will find people in that group who are evil and cruel. BTW the abuses in the Sviet union and China are far more recent than Salem.
How about they sue the DMV in NY which give far worse service than dell? This is a frivolous law suit aimed to get some quick cash for the government and help little Andy Cuomo not get killed by a Republican in NY the next time he runs for office.
I Lived a quarter century in NY, I know that of which I speak. NY has serious problems suing dell will not solve any of them.
Despite the rather inflammatory nature of your post Ill try not to respond in kind.
being able to make something out of herself and then in the future being able to properly raise a kid you in your great "morality" think that the proper course of action is to hold a gun to a woman's head and force her being able to make something out of herself and then in the future being able to properly raise a kid you in your great "morality" think that the proper course of action is to hold a gun to a woman's head and force her
Firstly seldom is it the case a woman is forced to be pregnant, she usually has something to say about that happening. secondly we dont rate the value of a human life by the ability or desire of another human to support that life. Thirdly giving birth odes not mean raising a kid, there is this thing called adoption. My father was adopted and my wife and I are planing on adopting either our next kid or the one after that. Lastly I would tel you that I am all for programs like welfare, food stamps, section 8, money for day care and others to help women in this position.
I'm just so glad that there are "reasonable" people like you who understand that there is no part of another person's life that you shouldn't stick nanny state government into.
Refusing to hear my argument does not mean it does not exist. What you call my nanny state tenancies is really the want to provide protection for human life and apply equal rights. Slave owners just wanted the government to stay out of their business as well. You may disagree with it being life or not and *that* is where our discussion should be it would prevent insults and vitriol.
It's great that you love big government so much that you support policies that can not exist without a huge and oppressive federal power.
Funny I did not think laws against manslaughter required a *huge* federal government.
Oh yeah, an unwanted child will be born into poverty and preventing the mother from crawling out of it.
OK, this is where I have to return in kind. You're an arrogant ass if you believe an unwanted kid is worth less than a wanted kid its freaking Nazi like. Seeing as Planed Parenthood was founded by a Nazi who wanted to limit the undesirable population from breeding it fits! I was unwanted and born into poverty I was the seventh kid born into a failing steel city to parents in their late thirties. My parents not only got out of poverty but six of their kids got eduction post high school and one served 20 years in the armed forces and my mothers inside joke with us is that only one kid was planned and wanted (she wont tell us who). Who the hell are you to judge the worth of a kid based on the means of the parents the idea is despicable!
She was a fucking whore and deserved that life sentence because she did a stupid thing. How very forgiving of you. That's the problem with "absolute" morals. They don't work and they fuck lives up badly.
I feel awful for the woman and I think society should be there in every way to help her but murdering an unborn kid is not the answer. And Burring off your skin or cutting you into pieces does a fair shre more to *f* up your life than having to give birth and put a kid up for adoption.
Lets have politicians make all of our decisions for us.
Murder is murder, Its not a decision to murder its a f'ing crime.
You demand a bigger government that anybody with that immoral asshattery.
False conclusion, unless you think the government should get rid of laws against murder as well, after all we need police, courts, public defenders, in fact all the same people you would need were abortion illegal.
This is hardly bait and switch, nowhere have I ever seen anything to make me think I would get an operator on the phone quickly.. Sheesh the Chinese are putting melamine in animal feed and we are worried about being on hold with Dell?
Evidence of what? dell has bad service? thats not hard to come by... The question is why the hell is it the AG's job to sue somebody for poor service? Does not NY have some real problems to deal with?
A state should not be in the business of suing companies for bad customer service! People should go and by Apple, or HP, or lenovo. But leave it to NY or MA or CA to go and get the state involved where it has no place.
I notice that Andrew Cuomo is failing upwards..
You do realise that, for weeks after conception (actually, several months), an embryo is nowhere near close to human life, right?
By what standard? what is the magical moment when its 'close enough' that we should start the conversation as to if it is or if it is not human. Hell there were slave owners who thought Africans were less evolved humans and thus not accorded human rights.
It has no sentience?
There are those who argue until a kid is able to grasp some really basic concepts (well past birth) it is nothing but a bundle of reflexes. When we start to have a conversation about what is and is not life I tend to err on the side of caution. Please point me at you sentience meter so we can measure this.
An ant is a more complicated organism?
Several means three, are you really saying an ant is more complex than this?
* Thyroid gland has matured and your baby begins producing hormones which will be used throughout his or her life.
* In boys, the prostate gland develops
* In girls, the ovaries move from the abdomen to the pelvis
* Your little one may have learned to suck his thumb by this point!
* Your child's bones are getting harder and stronger by the day!
* Your baby's skin is very transparent still
* Lanugo (very fine hair) covers the baby's body and will continue to grow until 26 weeks gestational age - Generally this will be shed prior to birth. Its purpose is to help protect baby's skin while in all that water!
* Your baby is 3.42 inches (8.7cm) long and weighs about 1.52 ounces (43 grams) - approximately the weight of a letter!
You might as well pick up a handful of dirt and say it has the 'potential for human life' because its particles could be transformed into an embryo with the right technology.
If I take a handful of dirt and put it alone it a perfect environment what will it become? Nothing but dirt. If you have the technology to make life from dirt please share it with the group. By that logic a full grown person is nothing but a mass of chemicals and has no intrinsic rights either.
This is, perhaps, the best post I have ever seen on slashdot regarding politics, thank you.
What there's a real need for right now is a 3rd party. A party that will better represent the people of America.
This has been the case for years, NAFTA was one huge issue that almost created one (though Perot was a little crazy man). Unfortunately Clinton campaigned against it but voted for it so fast I'm amazed he did not break his wrist. 2008 could be a great year for third parties but nobody seems to be stepping up. Seems the Libertarians are as without leadership as ever, the Constitution party goes a tad too far for my taste, the Greens are not (IMHO) a valid political party in the US because they are more concerned about global issues than the constitution.
All I know is I long for a split government after 2008. The Republicans would not let Hillary get away with half the crap they have let Bush get away with and the reverse would be true. Ideal to have a third party but I just dot see it forming with less than 18 months to the election.
If people want an abortion, let them have one. If they cannot make up their mind fast enough, then they should finish what they started and put it up for adoption (I'm against partial birth abortion).
This would be where I part ways its all well and good to say "if you don't want one don't have one" but that is the same half @55 logic used by slave owners. Abortion is about human life and when it comes to protecting that is an absolute. I do, however, not think the Government should be telling school districts how to run their sex-ed programs or other moral issues. Hell I wish they would can the secular institution of Marriage just to end the conversation.
Who cares if there's not enough evidence about our impact on the environment? Does global warming HAVE to be true to be concerned about it?
Yes and No, in terms of global warming specifically a little knowledge would be nice (please I don't want to start a debate on that). But in general terms waste is never good and there are a ton of reasons including the world we give to our kids, and establishing energy independence to get us more out of world affairs. Though I would bump our nations Nuclear capacity while we build a renewable infrastructure.
Also, I hate taxes but I love reasonable social programs.
Thats why my view is to let the sates take care of it. If California wants universal health care let them foot the bill for it. If another state finds a better way, or just a better way for them, let the other state do it differently. I used to live in NY and it was a mess, I now live in MN and it I don't mind at all my state taxes because they are a touch less and I fell state services are better run why would I want to let the people of NY screw that up for me?
I'm also upset to hear that woman are still paid less than men for comparable jobs. That's where the real fight should be.
That data is skewed and both sides claim its this or that. The truth is when adjustments are made for hours, time off for family leave, and the like its really not at all very significant. Preferences bad, hate crime laws bad, punishing all crime good.
However, bias based on wealth? I'm for that. Equal taxation. No, I do not feel that those who make $100,000 should be taxed 50% while those who make $10,000 are taxed 1% (yes, that's hyperbole).
I'm not, I prefer a sales tax if Joe Millionaire wants a yacht its going to supply someone with enough food stamps for a year! Why tax production when taxing consumption could also help discourage the wastefulness you mentioned above.
Though, I'm not for building new public schools for the sake of building schools. Residents don't need that tax burden. That's waste, and remember what I said about waste? We need less of it!
This is why you let the states do it. Different states have different needs and sorting that out at the federal level does nothing but create federal pork. I am not saying the sates wont make their own pork but at least I dont have to deal with the nanny state proclivity of MA.
I have lived in poor neighborhoods and I find a standard groceries store is no more than a bus ride away. Price fixing would not encourage competition in these neighborhoods it would do the opposite. But lets look at a very poor ares (Zip Code 38126) There are more than a dozen food markets in that zipcode and a first rate transit system to go outside of it if you really wanted. Now to your point these markets are over charging. My wifes uncle runs a market in a poor area of Baltimore he has been robbed twice, at gun point, in the past year! operating expenses are a little higher than if he were running it in a more affluent neighborhood.
a general deficiency of means or knowledge on the part of consumers to shop elsewhere
People need to educate themselves, the government should not get into price fixing to cover up for people not educating themselves. If a particular shop is price gouging I am all for laws to correct that.
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In a way it might have been better if it were placed at the same price point as windows. A better profit margin on the Linux PC's might inspire dell to give them a very visible face..
What will be the most important marker of Dells little Linux venture is product placement. If these linux systems end up on a back page people may not hunt for them.
So we set up this wonderful system to tax email and all you will see is companies open up gmail like entities in other nations. A pointless reduction of freedom and expansion of Government power for little gain.
The Chinese spammer would have hard time getting its spam accepted at a US server
You have to be kidding! These are the same people that regularly hack systems, set up spam bots on your desktop, and all other kinds of nonsense. Can you imagine some grandmother getting a tax bill for 5000$ because someone put a bot on her vista box? wow that would be fnu in an audit.
My mother raise seven kids and has watched 13 grandkids grow up. Her observation is this (and it hold true for IT) When two brothers get in a fight they punch each other and are playing nice in half an hour. When two Sisters get into a fight they never really have it out and just pick at each other for days! And as with anything there will be exceptions but on the macro I have watched my nieces and nephews and it is, by and large, true. I have worked in environments that are 90% female and some that are 90% male and the amount of back stabbing that goes on in a female environment is, in my completely unscientific experience, far greater. Would I hire a woman in IT? In a second because I am all about the person not the class but I wont tolerate for a second games, I have a deeper tolerance for two people yelling at each other during a meeting than quietly stewing so they can talk about it with other later. Political Correctness is a joke its not about thin skin its about manipulation to accomplish social ends..
You could cover all the responses at one by simply publishing the patent numbers being infringed upon. IBM should file a suit similar to the one RedHat brought against SCO.. Im sure it wont happen but it would be nice to see what MS has..
It sounds like you had a very bd teacher and that is not indicative of what gets covered in American HS history. We spent a whole quarter of American History split between slavery and native Americans.
Until it's actually a human life which can exist independently of it's host body it's a parasite. Your irrational belief that the rights of a nonentity trump the rights of a human being demonstrates you lack of even the maost basic common human decency.
Your only claim to it being a non-entity is the fact its not aware, neither is a coma patient yet they still have rights. They are both human beings, and yes one does need the other but this is *no less true* of an infant who if not fed and cared for will die very quickly.
Great, hold a gun to a poor woman's head and demand that she go through massive trauma to satisfy your desire for revenge.
Why in the world would you say something like that? Revenge!? Disagree with me fine but there is no vengeance in me saying a life should not be taken. Such inflammatory language only shows how weak your point is, you need a screaming match to look like you have a leg to stand on.
Here's an idea. Pay for it yourself you fucking thief. I do not support your demand that I cough up to pay for more welfare leeches.
We don't get to pick who we help in society, I don't want to pay for healthy adult males who could work but alas its part of supporting people and I don't consider those who want to help someone I think not worthy an fing thief.
You are in no position to judge whether or not somebody you don't even know should be forced to go through so much trauma and end up in a situation where both the mother and the child who *you* forced into existence yet expect *me* to pay for are worse off. It's sickeningly immoral and downright evil.
Are you serious? we as a society do that all the time! its why we have laws against infanticide. If you think giving Birth is trauma try potty training. It might sound silly but talk to a mother and see which causes more emotional stress!
Funny how you change the subject to something completely irrelevant.You want the government inside every woman's vagina. That demands a huge oppressive government your delusional faith notwithstanding.
How, exactly, would making abortion illegal be more difficult to enforce than say manslaughter laws?
I don't "beleive" anything. I know for a fact that neither I nor you are in any position to make decisions for people who we don't even know with no consideration at all of the reality.
Yet we live in a society with laws against killing infants, abuse, theft, speeding and many others. We dont live in some cave where the strong prevail. We live in a society which says *no you cant do this*
You believe that a woman is a murderer if she has an abortion.
Umm where did I say the woman is a murderer? She is as much a victim as the baby in an abortion.
Which would require a major restructuring of the internet. Mail gets thrown all over the place and taxing someone just because they are the first server touched and not the source or destination will not fly.
Or they will tax the recipient for email received.
And exactly how will this be accomplish for something like gmail or hotmail? What about email hosting services that are off shore (e.g. for example the hanmail my inlaws used that is hosted in Korea) and are accessed via http?
US bills similarly for cell phone use (the called party also pays).
this is way different...
I would not mind at all a 1c tax on outgoing email.
Ahh but you yourself just said its more likely to bill *incoming* emails.
Let the spammers pay, and let the IRS get rid of the spammers when they evade paying.
The IRS has *zero* jurisdiction over spammers hosting in China. it will only hurt Individuates and Legit Business that need email.
Cause most spammers are in the US?
Because if there is one thing our government will work hard to to its lighten your wallet.
Really how do I install ie7 on a windows 98 box? what I have to upgrade!
Huh? Let he without sin cast the first stone..
I assume you're excluding Salem, MA and all the various religious based colonies and their atrocities from the pre-constitutional days?
We are also aware of secular humanist in the soviet union and china doing as much and more in the name of the state and their disdain for religion... People by nature are evil cruel creatures and its does not matter what religion one claims to serve you will find people in that group who are evil and cruel. BTW the abuses in the Sviet union and China are far more recent than Salem.
How about they sue the DMV in NY which give far worse service than dell? This is a frivolous law suit aimed to get some quick cash for the government and help little Andy Cuomo not get killed by a Republican in NY the next time he runs for office. I Lived a quarter century in NY, I know that of which I speak. NY has serious problems suing dell will not solve any of them.
being able to make something out of herself and then in the future being able to properly raise a kid you in your great "morality" think that the proper course of action is to hold a gun to a woman's head and force her being able to make something out of herself and then in the future being able to properly raise a kid you in your great "morality" think that the proper course of action is to hold a gun to a woman's head and force her
Firstly seldom is it the case a woman is forced to be pregnant, she usually has something to say about that happening. secondly we dont rate the value of a human life by the ability or desire of another human to support that life. Thirdly giving birth odes not mean raising a kid, there is this thing called adoption. My father was adopted and my wife and I are planing on adopting either our next kid or the one after that. Lastly I would tel you that I am all for programs like welfare, food stamps, section 8, money for day care and others to help women in this position.
I'm just so glad that there are "reasonable" people like you who understand that there is no part of another person's life that you shouldn't stick nanny state government into.
Refusing to hear my argument does not mean it does not exist. What you call my nanny state tenancies is really the want to provide protection for human life and apply equal rights. Slave owners just wanted the government to stay out of their business as well. You may disagree with it being life or not and *that* is where our discussion should be it would prevent insults and vitriol.
It's great that you love big government so much that you support policies that can not exist without a huge and oppressive federal power.
Funny I did not think laws against manslaughter required a *huge* federal government.
Oh yeah, an unwanted child will be born into poverty and preventing the mother from crawling out of it.
OK, this is where I have to return in kind. You're an arrogant ass if you believe an unwanted kid is worth less than a wanted kid its freaking Nazi like. Seeing as Planed Parenthood was founded by a Nazi who wanted to limit the undesirable population from breeding it fits! I was unwanted and born into poverty I was the seventh kid born into a failing steel city to parents in their late thirties. My parents not only got out of poverty but six of their kids got eduction post high school and one served 20 years in the armed forces and my mothers inside joke with us is that only one kid was planned and wanted (she wont tell us who). Who the hell are you to judge the worth of a kid based on the means of the parents the idea is despicable!
She was a fucking whore and deserved that life sentence because she did a stupid thing. How very forgiving of you. That's the problem with "absolute" morals. They don't work and they fuck lives up badly.
I feel awful for the woman and I think society should be there in every way to help her but murdering an unborn kid is not the answer. And Burring off your skin or cutting you into pieces does a fair shre more to *f* up your life than having to give birth and put a kid up for adoption.
Lets have politicians make all of our decisions for us.
Murder is murder, Its not a decision to murder its a f'ing crime.
You demand a bigger government that anybody with that immoral asshattery.
False conclusion, unless you think the government should get rid of laws against murder as well, after all we need police, courts, public defenders, in fact all the same people you would need were abortion illegal.
This is hardly bait and switch, nowhere have I ever seen anything to make me think I would get an operator on the phone quickly.. Sheesh the Chinese are putting melamine in animal feed and we are worried about being on hold with Dell?
Who the hell are they to sue anyone for bad service. Get me through the DMV is less than an hour and maybe then you can talk!
Evidence of what? dell has bad service? thats not hard to come by... The question is why the hell is it the AG's job to sue somebody for poor service? Does not NY have some real problems to deal with?
A state should not be in the business of suing companies for bad customer service! People should go and by Apple, or HP, or lenovo. But leave it to NY or MA or CA to go and get the state involved where it has no place. I notice that Andrew Cuomo is failing upwards..
By what standard? what is the magical moment when its 'close enough' that we should start the conversation as to if it is or if it is not human. Hell there were slave owners who thought Africans were less evolved humans and thus not accorded human rights.
It has no sentience?
There are those who argue until a kid is able to grasp some really basic concepts (well past birth) it is nothing but a bundle of reflexes. When we start to have a conversation about what is and is not life I tend to err on the side of caution. Please point me at you sentience meter so we can measure this.
An ant is a more complicated organism?
Several means three, are you really saying an ant is more complex than this?
* Thyroid gland has matured and your baby begins producing hormones which will be used throughout his or her life.
* In boys, the prostate gland develops
* In girls, the ovaries move from the abdomen to the pelvis
* Your little one may have learned to suck his thumb by this point!
* Your child's bones are getting harder and stronger by the day!
* Your baby's skin is very transparent still
* Lanugo (very fine hair) covers the baby's body and will continue to grow until 26 weeks gestational age - Generally this will be shed prior to birth. Its purpose is to help protect baby's skin while in all that water!
* Your baby is 3.42 inches (8.7cm) long and weighs about 1.52 ounces (43 grams) - approximately the weight of a letter!
You might as well pick up a handful of dirt and say it has the 'potential for human life' because its particles could be transformed into an embryo with the right technology.
If I take a handful of dirt and put it alone it a perfect environment what will it become? Nothing but dirt. If you have the technology to make life from dirt please share it with the group. By that logic a full grown person is nothing but a mass of chemicals and has no intrinsic rights either.
What there's a real need for right now is a 3rd party. A party that will better represent the people of America.
This has been the case for years, NAFTA was one huge issue that almost created one (though Perot was a little crazy man). Unfortunately Clinton campaigned against it but voted for it so fast I'm amazed he did not break his wrist. 2008 could be a great year for third parties but nobody seems to be stepping up. Seems the Libertarians are as without leadership as ever, the Constitution party goes a tad too far for my taste, the Greens are not (IMHO) a valid political party in the US because they are more concerned about global issues than the constitution.
All I know is I long for a split government after 2008. The Republicans would not let Hillary get away with half the crap they have let Bush get away with and the reverse would be true. Ideal to have a third party but I just dot see it forming with less than 18 months to the election.
If people want an abortion, let them have one. If they cannot make up their mind fast enough, then they should finish what they started and put it up for adoption (I'm against partial birth abortion).
This would be where I part ways its all well and good to say "if you don't want one don't have one" but that is the same half @55 logic used by slave owners. Abortion is about human life and when it comes to protecting that is an absolute. I do, however, not think the Government should be telling school districts how to run their sex-ed programs or other moral issues. Hell I wish they would can the secular institution of Marriage just to end the conversation.
Who cares if there's not enough evidence about our impact on the environment? Does global warming HAVE to be true to be concerned about it?
Yes and No, in terms of global warming specifically a little knowledge would be nice (please I don't want to start a debate on that). But in general terms waste is never good and there are a ton of reasons including the world we give to our kids, and establishing energy independence to get us more out of world affairs. Though I would bump our nations Nuclear capacity while we build a renewable infrastructure.
Also, I hate taxes but I love reasonable social programs.
Thats why my view is to let the sates take care of it. If California wants universal health care let them foot the bill for it. If another state finds a better way, or just a better way for them, let the other state do it differently. I used to live in NY and it was a mess, I now live in MN and it I don't mind at all my state taxes because they are a touch less and I fell state services are better run why would I want to let the people of NY screw that up for me?
I'm also upset to hear that woman are still paid less than men for comparable jobs. That's where the real fight should be.
That data is skewed and both sides claim its this or that. The truth is when adjustments are made for hours, time off for family leave, and the like its really not at all very significant. Preferences bad, hate crime laws bad, punishing all crime good.
However, bias based on wealth? I'm for that. Equal taxation. No, I do not feel that those who make $100,000 should be taxed 50% while those who make $10,000 are taxed 1% (yes, that's hyperbole).
I'm not, I prefer a sales tax if Joe Millionaire wants a yacht its going to supply someone with enough food stamps for a year! Why tax production when taxing consumption could also help discourage the wastefulness you mentioned above.
Though, I'm not for building new public schools for the sake of building schools. Residents don't need that tax burden. That's waste, and remember what I said about waste? We need less of it!
This is why you let the states do it. Different states have different needs and sorting that out at the federal level does nothing but create federal pork. I am not saying the sates wont make their own pork but at least I dont have to deal with the nanny state proclivity of MA.
I have lived in poor neighborhoods and I find a standard groceries store is no more than a bus ride away. Price fixing would not encourage competition in these neighborhoods it would do the opposite. But lets look at a very poor ares (Zip Code 38126) There are more than a dozen food markets in that zipcode and a first rate transit system to go outside of it if you really wanted. Now to your point these markets are over charging. My wifes uncle runs a market in a poor area of Baltimore he has been robbed twice, at gun point, in the past year! operating expenses are a little higher than if he were running it in a more affluent neighborhood.
a general deficiency of means or knowledge on the part of consumers to shop elsewhere
People need to educate themselves, the government should not get into price fixing to cover up for people not educating themselves. If a particular shop is price gouging I am all for laws to correct that.
Please explain how this is so?
Actually Capital gains is Dependant up on your income tax level.
Bracket Short-term rate Long-term rate
BR....ST...LT
10%...10%...5%
15%...15%...5%
25%...25%...15%
28%...28%...15%
33%...33%...15%
35%...35%...15%
So while in general yes, it is a bit lower (only on long term investments) it is still progressive.