In the US, you worry about the government spying on you or infringing on your rights, while giving the corporations free pass to fuck you in the butthole all day and night.
Do we seriously have to continue to hear this rubbish from the socialism apologists? Why don't you look into history and see how many people have been killed and abused by corporations compared to governments. If you want to start a pissing match, I'm sure we'll find lots of fine points for Norway but they'll be quickly outnumbered by the great number of things our government CAN'T do to us. And not having to constantly report our whereabouts on pain of imprisonment or loss of property is one of them. That's one reason why I oppose income taxes and the new health care law: they confiscate your property and require you to "check in" with an impersonal federal government on pain of imprisonment or loss of property.
Man, you'd have it easy. I remember when I had to pack up everything and put my poor pregnant wife on a donkey so I could head to my HOMETOWN for a G_d-forsaken census. Oy, vey, those crazy Romans!
In fact, the pairing is counter-intuitive and occurred only relatively recently in history.
Capitalism flourishes in a republican government because it is based on the idea of the rights to property and liberty. I can't think of an example of a form of government more conducive to capitalism.
Well, if you did compete directly with the federal government, it would be your own fault because raising an army is one of Congress' specific rights enumerated in the Constitution. Thanks for the straw man, though.
So is mine. I use ROT-13. I rotate the paper 13 degrees clockwise, then start writing. Sometimes I rotate it COUNTER-clockwise to really keep them guessing.
People who earn $250,000 a year are not rich, and the current administration has already raised taxes on people who make far less than that: tobacco, tanning, and anyone who doesn't want health insurance. It's almost certain that taxes will be raised on nearly EVERYONE next year, as the W tax cuts will expire and Congress has not moved much on extending them. Even if the Republicans got out of the way as Obama wishes (I'm not sure how a minority gets IN the way), the Democrat plan does not extend the cuts for the top two brackets. This means that people making as little as $171,000 a year-- again, NOT RICH-- get a tax hike.
We'd all be a lot better off if we realized two things: one, that wealth comes from building assets, not earning wages-- thus "rich" people aren't people who just make more than you; and two, that money isn't a zero-sum game. We can ALL benefit from a capitalist, but lawful and ethical society.
Your own profit-over-human-life approach to healthcare has created the ideal conditions for them - in fact, better conditions. In Nigeria they had to compete with charity organisations and drugs priced for a very poor country.
Which country do you think donates the greatest amount of supplies and personnel for those poor countries? Yeah, that's right. Are we really greedy here? No, but we have government regulation and out of control litigation that pushes up the cost of health care.
He mentioned the PS/2 ports. Weren't you paying attention? And those were designed in the 1980s and are obsolete.
interesting how that rj-11 phone plug goes right into the ethernet jack. I wonder what happens when the phone rings?
Nothing, because it's not making good contact. And if it's the dual-purpose jack that does, again, nothing.
please make a list of all the USB connectors and their purpose
To make USB connections. There are different ones because some are for hosts, some for devices, and some for space considerations (or would you rather have a huge type B connector on your phone).
go on find a new power supply for your external drive enclosure
That's not an everyday situation, is it? It's quite simple to read the numbers and illustration next to the power jack or on the label and build a power supply-- if you know what you're doing. What does anything you've listed have to do with having incompatible connectors for safety reasons, anyway?
Having a high income doesn't mean you're wealthy. You definition is simply flawed.
If anything we need to lower the threshold at which a higher income tax kicks in. Income is severely undertaxed in the U.S. Back in the 1950's (one of the most prosperous times in our history) the highest income tax rate was at 92%.
In the 1920s, the top tax rate was 25%. I could use that statistic to claim that LOW income taxes result in prosperity. Heck, I could show the prosperity of parts of the 19th century when there was NO income tax. What you fail to realize is that over the decades, more and more loopholes were added to the tax code so almost NO ONE paid that 92%. This was mostly corrected under Reagan, which allowed tax receipts to increase while a more reasonable and less "progressive" scale (max: 28%). Of course, there is one big loophole that has existed since the income tax was implemented: the mortgage interest
deduction. Funny how few people clamor to abolish that.
Clearly, everyone on Slashdot confuses "rich" with "high income". Would you consider someone rich who earned $250,000 a year, but had nothing in the bank? What if they had $1,000,000 in the bank, but earned nothing this year? Just face the fact that you are jealous of whoever has more than you, whether income or assets. And you can't have it both ways: if someone opposes redistribution of wealth and is poor, you can't call them stupid, while also calling a wealthy person who feels the same way greedy. I can just as easily call the former unselfish and the latter financially competent.
Filibusters in the Senate were impossible until Scott Brown was elected (and he is merely moderate), yet Obama continued campaigning a year after winning the presidency on the claim that the Republicans had run the country into a ditch and needed to get out of the way. In other words, SHUT UP.
Or, you could stop trying to attach labels to successful people and dragging them down, and instead try to figure out how to improve your own situation.
The tax cuts republican's give out primarily benefit people who make more than them.
W's tax cuts lowered every tax bracket. If these cuts are allowed to expire, EVERYONE who pays taxes, pays more taxes.
And they are against the social programs that would actually benefit them.
Sounds selfless.
They are the ultimate dupes when it comes to fiscal policy. Maybe they think one day they'll be wealthy enough to not need the social programs and benefit from the tax cuts but most won't ever get that far.
Maybe we should all be serious about building wealth instead of hoping the government will take care of us.
The key word is "fundamental". Fundamentally, this is a republic. The fundamental rights of the people are life, liberty, and property. Anyone of any party who talks about bringing "more democracy" or "spreading the wealth" or "social justice" is trying to fundamentally change the USA. I'm not saying whether this is "correct"; it just is. If you're trying to change us into something else, you have to be honest about it or you're just another crook.
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Do we seriously have to continue to hear this rubbish from the socialism apologists? Why don't you look into history and see how many people have been killed and abused by corporations compared to governments. If you want to start a pissing match, I'm sure we'll find lots of fine points for Norway but they'll be quickly outnumbered by the great number of things our government CAN'T do to us. And not having to constantly report our whereabouts on pain of imprisonment or loss of property is one of them. That's one reason why I oppose income taxes and the new health care law: they confiscate your property and require you to "check in" with an impersonal federal government on pain of imprisonment or loss of property.
Man, you'd have it easy. I remember when I had to pack up everything and put my poor pregnant wife on a donkey so I could head to my HOMETOWN for a G_d-forsaken census. Oy, vey, those crazy Romans!
Regards,
Yosef
No, it kinda sounds like he believes IT outsourcing is a bad idea for any organization. But thanks for nothing.
Capitalism flourishes in a republican government because it is based on the idea of the rights to property and liberty. I can't think of an example of a form of government more conducive to capitalism.
Well, if you did compete directly with the federal government, it would be your own fault because raising an army is one of Congress' specific rights enumerated in the Constitution. Thanks for the straw man, though.
Prohibition did a pretty good job of putting breweries out of business. It also killed ethanol as a practical fuel for automobiles.
So is mine. I use ROT-13. I rotate the paper 13 degrees clockwise, then start writing. Sometimes I rotate it COUNTER-clockwise to really keep them guessing.
No wireless. Less speed than LightPeak. Lame.
I don't understand why that guy didn't just use the FEEDHORN MOUNT. It's already at the focal point!
Alcohol is both the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems.
Re your sig: what if she has hard wood floors? *shudder*
None that I know of, but today's USB drive is yesterday's floppy.
The server applications have to run in JVMs.
I don't know about computers, but you can get a lot of productivity out of humans with the power produced from three coffeemakers.
Which country do you think donates the greatest amount of supplies and personnel for those poor countries? Yeah, that's right. Are we really greedy here? No, but we have government regulation and out of control litigation that pushes up the cost of health care.
Nothing, because it's not making good contact. And if it's the dual-purpose jack that does, again, nothing.
To make USB connections. There are different ones because some are for hosts, some for devices, and some for space considerations (or would you rather have a huge type B connector on your phone).
That's not an everyday situation, is it? It's quite simple to read the numbers and illustration next to the power jack or on the label and build a power supply-- if you know what you're doing. What does anything you've listed have to do with having incompatible connectors for safety reasons, anyway?
Guess what: I make much less than $171,000/year. So, have I gone from "greedy" to "stupid" now? Or am I just unselfish and logical?
In the 1920s, the top tax rate was 25%. I could use that statistic to claim that LOW income taxes result in prosperity. Heck, I could show the prosperity of parts of the 19th century when there was NO income tax. What you fail to realize is that over the decades, more and more loopholes were added to the tax code so almost NO ONE paid that 92%. This was mostly corrected under Reagan, which allowed tax receipts to increase while a more reasonable and less "progressive" scale (max: 28%). Of course, there is one big loophole that has existed since the income tax was implemented: the mortgage interest deduction. Funny how few people clamor to abolish that.
But it will raise unemployment.
Clearly, everyone on Slashdot confuses "rich" with "high income". Would you consider someone rich who earned $250,000 a year, but had nothing in the bank? What if they had $1,000,000 in the bank, but earned nothing this year? Just face the fact that you are jealous of whoever has more than you, whether income or assets. And you can't have it both ways: if someone opposes redistribution of wealth and is poor, you can't call them stupid, while also calling a wealthy person who feels the same way greedy. I can just as easily call the former unselfish and the latter financially competent.
Filibusters in the Senate were impossible until Scott Brown was elected (and he is merely moderate), yet Obama continued campaigning a year after winning the presidency on the claim that the Republicans had run the country into a ditch and needed to get out of the way. In other words, SHUT UP.
Or, you could stop trying to attach labels to successful people and dragging them down, and instead try to figure out how to improve your own situation.
W's tax cuts lowered every tax bracket. If these cuts are allowed to expire, EVERYONE who pays taxes, pays more taxes.
Sounds selfless.
Maybe we should all be serious about building wealth instead of hoping the government will take care of us.
The key word is "fundamental". Fundamentally, this is a republic. The fundamental rights of the people are life, liberty, and property. Anyone of any party who talks about bringing "more democracy" or "spreading the wealth" or "social justice" is trying to fundamentally change the USA. I'm not saying whether this is "correct"; it just is. If you're trying to change us into something else, you have to be honest about it or you're just another crook.