No, executives make all the money while doing nothing useful
We generally only hear about the crappy ones or the great ones. The good ones quietly make their company successful, then move to the next when that gets old. The really bad ones make the news when the embezzlement charges are filed, and the geeks hate the great ones because they're rich fat cats who aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes (unless they're involved in *nix and/or OSS).
Penny Arcade did a crossover satire between Strawberry Shortcake and the recently-released video game Alice. The holders of the Strawberry Shortcake trademark (American Greetings) filed a CaD order. The claim is that fair use doesn't apply either because Strawberry Shortcake is not a literary character (untrue) or because Strawberry Shortcake is not being parodied; Alice is. We never found out whether this would stick because they withdrew the strip.
If you have children, a wife, and a big family, $75,000 is a drop in the bucket and you'd probably need twice that much to provide for children and take care of parents or grand parents into old age
I pointed out here on Slashdot last week that the US House's current plan is to allow income tax rates to go up on households earning more than $117,000. I was told that those people are rich.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but just to clarify, there are more extant MS of the books of the Bible than any other text in antiquity. They also agree 99% of the time, and those errors are nearly all misspellings or repeated words which do not change the meaning. You can't say that for any other text.
He sets the rules and follows the rules. It goes against nature for willfully rebellious creatures to be with a perfect, lawful being. It's like drawing a circle and saying it's just a square with only one side.
China may be run by dictatorial fuckwads, but they have a point with their laws on having children. The entire society can't sustain it's population now, so adding another billion hungry mouths over 20 years is just going to fuck things up even more.
Birth rates are self-regulating when the government doesn't take responsibility for supporting families.
I'm guessing that your "evidence" for the origin of Judeo-Christianity is the same as that used by the holocaust deniers: blatant disregard for historical evidence. We believe that the holocaust existed because we have written and photographic evidence. Likewise, we believe Augustus Caesar existed because we have Josephus and Tacitus, and we believe in YHWH because we have scripture. The rest comes down to literary criticism.
Robert Pirsig once observed that very few people run around screaming that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. Things we are deeply certain about generate very little in the way of zealotry.
This is a very good argument against anthropogenic climate change, then. Actually, the problem with both modern science and religion is the same: their nature is not fully apparent. It's not that there is necessarily doubt. I'm sure that AGW has its own true believers, and some of them are scientists who have seen the data so they're the best informed-- yet they're zealous about it. Also, the rising is not only expected, but mundane. It's the extraordinary aspects of belief that promote zealotry.
It's a shame the modders chose to ignore the trolling interspersed throughout your post.
They take full responsibility for their actions (no "salvation" just for uttering some magic words)
Scripture says that you have to be truly sorry for your wrongs and denounce them (these are the concepts we traditionally call "sins" and "repentance") to be saved. Is there a prohibition against lying in your moral code?
and weigh those actions against a thoughtful and continuously evaluated personal code. In other words, they choose to do the "right" thing because it is right, not because someone else said it was right and threatened them with torture if they disobeyed.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
His M theory must relay on that: somehow, energy must be affected by gravity. This would allow disordered energy to coalesce into matter "by itself", then reach a critical point to force a "big bang".
TARP is socialist. The "Emergency Recovery and Reinvestment Act" is socialist. Unless something changes in the next four months, there will be a big tax hike. This gives government more money to redistribute. The House passed an unconstitutional bill of attainder trying to confiscate the bonuses earned by AIG execs. Fortunately, it did not pass the Senate.
Don't let the fact that that has never happened in any capitalist society in history get in your way. However, that has happened in communist countries.
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I'm very sorry I just used up my mod points. Thanks for an insightful post.
We generally only hear about the crappy ones or the great ones. The good ones quietly make their company successful, then move to the next when that gets old. The really bad ones make the news when the embezzlement charges are filed, and the geeks hate the great ones because they're rich fat cats who aren't paying their "fair share" in taxes (unless they're involved in *nix and/or OSS).
OK. Now explain NASCAR and baseball!
No, that's in Dork!
Penny Arcade did a crossover satire between Strawberry Shortcake and the recently-released video game Alice. The holders of the Strawberry Shortcake trademark (American Greetings) filed a CaD order. The claim is that fair use doesn't apply either because Strawberry Shortcake is not a literary character (untrue) or because Strawberry Shortcake is not being parodied; Alice is. We never found out whether this would stick because they withdrew the strip.
Huh? Common sense isn't supposed to be illogical.
It depends on whether your commoner uses Newtonian or quantum physics.
Right. Then, you just take the money from the people making $75K to pay for your treatment.
Please show me in the Constitution where it says that security and freedom are reserved to white landowners.
I pointed out here on Slashdot last week that the US House's current plan is to allow income tax rates to go up on households earning more than $117,000. I was told that those people are rich.
Literally a random act of kindness.
Should VA sue Northrop Grumman, then? Or simply hold them to their promise of improving their infrastructure and response (both of these cost money)?
That was my point-- I was refuting the idea that the greatest zealots actually have a seed of doubt that motivates them.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but just to clarify, there are more extant MS of the books of the Bible than any other text in antiquity. They also agree 99% of the time, and those errors are nearly all misspellings or repeated words which do not change the meaning. You can't say that for any other text.
He sets the rules and follows the rules. It goes against nature for willfully rebellious creatures to be with a perfect, lawful being. It's like drawing a circle and saying it's just a square with only one side.
Birth rates are self-regulating when the government doesn't take responsibility for supporting families.
I have 30 godfather points and I need new jeans. :-P
Well, the earliest episodes WERE in B&W.
I'm guessing that your "evidence" for the origin of Judeo-Christianity is the same as that used by the holocaust deniers: blatant disregard for historical evidence. We believe that the holocaust existed because we have written and photographic evidence. Likewise, we believe Augustus Caesar existed because we have Josephus and Tacitus, and we believe in YHWH because we have scripture. The rest comes down to literary criticism.
This is a very good argument against anthropogenic climate change, then. Actually, the problem with both modern science and religion is the same: their nature is not fully apparent. It's not that there is necessarily doubt. I'm sure that AGW has its own true believers, and some of them are scientists who have seen the data so they're the best informed-- yet they're zealous about it. Also, the rising is not only expected, but mundane. It's the extraordinary aspects of belief that promote zealotry.
Scripture says that you have to be truly sorry for your wrongs and denounce them (these are the concepts we traditionally call "sins" and "repentance") to be saved. Is there a prohibition against lying in your moral code?
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
His M theory must relay on that: somehow, energy must be affected by gravity. This would allow disordered energy to coalesce into matter "by itself", then reach a critical point to force a "big bang".
I'm not sure why they didn't show, but I'm guessing it had something to do with them being out of the court's jurisdiction.
I know about that system. Thanks for totally missing my point, and having a contemptuous air while you did it.
TARP is socialist.
The "Emergency Recovery and Reinvestment Act" is socialist.
Unless something changes in the next four months, there will be a big tax hike. This gives government more money to redistribute.
The House passed an unconstitutional bill of attainder trying to confiscate the bonuses earned by AIG execs. Fortunately, it did not pass the Senate.
Don't let the fact that that has never happened in any capitalist society in history get in your way. However, that has happened in communist countries.