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.
So, you don't mind paying higher taxes to cover genetically forecastable diseases (such as some forms of cancer or even some forms of alcoholism) but you do mind paying more for insurance?
Its a sound position, an Insurance company is a private company and private property is at the bedrock of our society. The government must be very careful about telling people what to do with their property it is, at times, necessary but it is seldom desirable. It would be like forcing a supermarket to charge those of lesser means less for groceries the concept is absurd, instead society helps people via welfare, food stamps, or WIC.
Insurance should be the same way
We already ban discrimination based on other genetic factors such as race, why not prevent people from discriminating against people on the basis of what they might do or what they might cost based on genetics tests?
Were not talking about employment we are talking about mandating what a company which deals in risk must subject itself to. The OP's point of make Medicare better for such people is the better way to approach the problem.
The reason you are charged higher rates is that men typically cause more (and more costly on payout) accidents, the statistics back it up.
You just described a disposition. A Male (person with a XY) is predisposed to get into an accident. It is discrimination (mind you I don't think its wrong).
The problem is when a company becomes publically traded they begine to ignore everything the founders and management set up to create that success. They start to become ran by the accountants and only serve the shareholders.
Such companies go under or are supplanted in the OSS community by other projects. If, for example, MySQL went this way they would be replaced in the 'lamp' by postgres 'lapp'. Its the nature of opensource and someone profiting from it is *good* for the OSS community. For all the complaining about RedHat they have given back to the OSS community time and time again (no they are not perfect). I suspect were MySQL to take that leap we would see the same.
Ditto, Change the constitution for DC can have house seats *or* allow residents to vote in senate and house races in for the nearest congressional district (those in MD or VA).
1) They get to vote in presidential elections
2) DC was set up like that *for a reason
3) I think they should get representation but end arounds the constitution are not the way to do it! If they persued the more difficult but *legal* route I would be with them on this one.
Of course its ok for the Dims to play 'ends justifies the means'
Decided that even though it should take a constitutional amendment to make DC a state (and thus get congressional representation) they are going to push it through the legsilative process. Which is both veto fodder and would get slammed in the courts as well.
Obviously Women are capable of being good programmers so to chage CS programs by not focusing on the task 90% of CS majors will be doing in the workplace does a disservice to all of them and their male counterparts.
Im all for guns for defence, its the offensive guns that we have to worry about.
Every time something like this happens people start screaming about the need for more gun laws when, in fact, more often than not existing gun laws were borken to obtain the firearms in the first place. After all VT is a 'gun free zone' and a law allowing students and teachers to carry arms to defend themselves was defeated last year to much fanfair.
Canada is also a happening place. And they take in almost anybody.
Given what my grandparents had to go through to get to Canada that statement is not true. That and the fact when my granfather got cancer he was deemed to old to waste money for excessive chemo its not all that happening for everyone.
I myself am in Minnesota which is about as Canada as you can get in the US..
Lower class size. If class size wasn't important than the elite in this country wouldn't be sending their kids to prep schools where classes are four or five students sitting around a table with a teacher.
How do you explain Catholic schools which have classes about the same size, and significantly outperform public schools? How do you explain that some of these elite acadamies cost parent 6K per year (Half of what is spent per student in Minneapolis, and Nearly a thrid of what is spent in DC). The fact is the public schools are so busy making diversity, the environment, and political correctness part of their core that they are leaving out providing a quality education.
Its a difficult question... I really dont know what I would do are the babies lsated to be destroyed or researched on? or are they due for implantation?
But I can tell you that my decision would not be based on what makes more comfortable and I would not attempt to strip someone of their humanity just to makeself feel and appear better.
When you start to degrade some human life on the basis of mental capacity or ability to live without infringing on the well being of another it becaomse easy to do it for other human life as well.
Powerpoint is great for presentations where learning is not the key. Powerpoint should be used to inform people in meetings, or even for classroom review before a test but not a lecture. When I used to teach I first tried with powerpoint and found it a totally ineffective tool for communicating complex ideas to people who dont already understand them. A notepad outline of the lecture topics and the whiteboard work far better.
My wife and I know more about difficult pregnancies than 99.9% of the people in this nation. Yet our comfort is not placed infront of the life of another...
Now, you might say "abortion is OK in cases of rape, because she didn't 'get herself there'", but then you have to ask yourself: if you value the fetus's rights so much, why are you willing to throw them away based on a rapist's actions?
My view is that life superceedes all other rights. So a baby concieved in rape is no less human than a baby conceived in love. And an accidental conception is as human as an intentional one. Your view that murder is preferable to spending 36 weeks pregnant is disgusting.
All you really need to know is that it's inside your body and you don't want it there.
Damn I am getting sucked into another Abortion 'debate' on slashdot... Unfortunatly its your actions that put that 'thing' into your body so it brings us back to the pivitol question what is 'it'?
If its just a lump of cells who cares what you do, there is no point in discussing it.
If its life than we have to start asking difficult questions like what right superceededs the other? you being pregnant for nine months or your the unborn babies (were assuming its a human life) right to not be executed? If people would focus more on the 'what is it' and less on pathetic postuing and demonization of people who disagree we could get much farther along in discussions about abortion.
because even people don't have the right to set up camp inside other people
Nor do people have the right to kill other people, see the problem again its all about what is inside of the woman. You dont have the right to steal my car, however I dont have the right to shoot you in the back because you stole my car. Sometimes when two rights conflict you have to ask which is more fundimental? life (e.g. not to be executed at the whim of another), or not to be pregnant even though you got yourself there.
If you woke up one morning and found Steve Ballmer living inside your body, throwing your organs around and sucking nutrients out of your blood, would you be morally obligated to let him keep living there until he decided to come out on his own?
Do you mean if I did something I knew created the possability Steve Ballmer would live inside of me for nine months do I have the right to kill him? no. His right to live trumps my right to comfort.
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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.
Its a sound position, an Insurance company is a private company and private property is at the bedrock of our society. The government must be very careful about telling people what to do with their property it is, at times, necessary but it is seldom desirable. It would be like forcing a supermarket to charge those of lesser means less for groceries the concept is absurd, instead society helps people via welfare, food stamps, or WIC.
Insurance should be the same way
We already ban discrimination based on other genetic factors such as race, why not prevent people from discriminating against people on the basis of what they might do or what they might cost based on genetics tests?
Were not talking about employment we are talking about mandating what a company which deals in risk must subject itself to. The OP's point of make Medicare better for such people is the better way to approach the problem.
You just described a disposition. A Male (person with a XY) is predisposed to get into an accident. It is discrimination (mind you I don't think its wrong).
What I cant find on the site is how, in terms of space and speed, this is better than version files on a regular old ext3 filesystem.
Redhat is a high beta stock (read relly good for shorter term investors). That is not to say its a very bad stock..
Such companies go under or are supplanted in the OSS community by other projects. If, for example, MySQL went this way they would be replaced in the 'lamp' by postgres 'lapp'. Its the nature of opensource and someone profiting from it is *good* for the OSS community. For all the complaining about RedHat they have given back to the OSS community time and time again (no they are not perfect). I suspect were MySQL to take that leap we would see the same.
So, IOW, people who dont read licenses and conditions before starting a huge project will get screwed... When did that start /sarc.
Ditto, Change the constitution for DC can have house seats *or* allow residents to vote in senate and house races in for the nearest congressional district (those in MD or VA).
1) They get to vote in presidential elections 2) DC was set up like that *for a reason 3) I think they should get representation but end arounds the constitution are not the way to do it! If they persued the more difficult but *legal* route I would be with them on this one. Of course its ok for the Dims to play 'ends justifies the means'
Decided that even though it should take a constitutional amendment to make DC a state (and thus get congressional representation) they are going to push it through the legsilative process. Which is both veto fodder and would get slammed in the courts as well.
Or San-Fran Nan and the Democrats who spat on Constitutional process today so they could get one more vote in the house.
Democratically elected (in a sham) or not once one tries to declair themselves president for life they have gone off the deep end.
Obviously Women are capable of being good programmers so to chage CS programs by not focusing on the task 90% of CS majors will be doing in the workplace does a disservice to all of them and their male counterparts.
Hmm VT is a technical school, and they shot up the engineering building..
Im all for guns for defence, its the offensive guns that we have to worry about. Every time something like this happens people start screaming about the need for more gun laws when, in fact, more often than not existing gun laws were borken to obtain the firearms in the first place. After all VT is a 'gun free zone' and a law allowing students and teachers to carry arms to defend themselves was defeated last year to much fanfair.
Where the hell did he say Global warming is not happening? what he said was he believed the Sun was the leading factor not CO2
Given what my grandparents had to go through to get to Canada that statement is not true. That and the fact when my granfather got cancer he was deemed to old to waste money for excessive chemo its not all that happening for everyone.
I myself am in Minnesota which is about as Canada as you can get in the US..
How do you explain Catholic schools which have classes about the same size, and significantly outperform public schools? How do you explain that some of these elite acadamies cost parent 6K per year (Half of what is spent per student in Minneapolis, and Nearly a thrid of what is spent in DC). The fact is the public schools are so busy making diversity, the environment, and political correctness part of their core that they are leaving out providing a quality education.
Its a difficult question... I really dont know what I would do are the babies lsated to be destroyed or researched on? or are they due for implantation? But I can tell you that my decision would not be based on what makes more comfortable and I would not attempt to strip someone of their humanity just to makeself feel and appear better.
When you start to degrade some human life on the basis of mental capacity or ability to live without infringing on the well being of another it becaomse easy to do it for other human life as well.
Powerpoint is great for presentations where learning is not the key. Powerpoint should be used to inform people in meetings, or even for classroom review before a test but not a lecture. When I used to teach I first tried with powerpoint and found it a totally ineffective tool for communicating complex ideas to people who dont already understand them. A notepad outline of the lecture topics and the whiteboard work far better.
My wife and I know more about difficult pregnancies than 99.9% of the people in this nation. Yet our comfort is not placed infront of the life of another...
My view is that life superceedes all other rights. So a baby concieved in rape is no less human than a baby conceived in love. And an accidental conception is as human as an intentional one. Your view that murder is preferable to spending 36 weeks pregnant is disgusting.
Its called a c-section and it can be done at 36 weeks
Damn I am getting sucked into another Abortion 'debate' on slashdot... Unfortunatly its your actions that put that 'thing' into your body so it brings us back to the pivitol question what is 'it'?
If its just a lump of cells who cares what you do, there is no point in discussing it.
If its life than we have to start asking difficult questions like what right superceededs the other? you being pregnant for nine months or your the unborn babies (were assuming its a human life) right to not be executed? If people would focus more on the 'what is it' and less on pathetic postuing and demonization of people who disagree we could get much farther along in discussions about abortion.
because even people don't have the right to set up camp inside other people
Nor do people have the right to kill other people, see the problem again its all about what is inside of the woman. You dont have the right to steal my car, however I dont have the right to shoot you in the back because you stole my car. Sometimes when two rights conflict you have to ask which is more fundimental? life (e.g. not to be executed at the whim of another), or not to be pregnant even though you got yourself there.
If you woke up one morning and found Steve Ballmer living inside your body, throwing your organs around and sucking nutrients out of your blood, would you be morally obligated to let him keep living there until he decided to come out on his own?
Do you mean if I did something I knew created the possability Steve Ballmer would live inside of me for nine months do I have the right to kill him? no. His right to live trumps my right to comfort.