Last month when I was building my new computer I was able to get a GeForce 4 (4xAGP, 64MB DDR) for $20 after rebate from Tiger Direct. Granted, it's not the greatest card in the world, and I've never been much of a gamer, but it should be enough for all but the most hardcore of gamers.
Even if this bill only rejects funding of the recent FCC decision, having such a lopsided vote will have to sway some lawmakers. Even if the Senate is a more deliberative body than the house, with this much opposition in the House, I'm fairly certain that the Senate would pass this with at least 67 affirmative votes, overriding the threat of a presidential veto.
The only way I could see this getting messed up is if the language gets neutered in a compromise bill, though, so we're still going to have to speak out to our local Representatives and Senators to let them know what we think. And with any luck, they might even listen.
Hello, I'm Special Agent Shannon from the FBI. Under the PATRIOT Act, your recent post to slashdot.org threatening to "kill someone" is a First Degree Felony. Agents should be arriving at your place of residence at any moment to take you into custody. Have a nice day.
Next week. That's when I start working at a local electronics store. Then you can come in and buy one off of me and I'll get a huge commission! Er, I mean, I'll give you all the advice you need! Yeah, that's the ticket...
Don't have a clue what to do with a woman, but they sure know what to do with penguins...
Mind you, if you're snowed in on the East Coast right now and you're all alone, and a penguin just happens to fall down your chimney or something, I suppose there's nothin' wrong with a little sweet penguin love...
Unfortunately, carcinogens aren't something inherent in tobacco -- they're inherent in burning altogether. That's why grilling and the like is falling out of favour right now, because all that charcoal smoke going into the meat (or vegetables, or whatever) can give you as much cancer as smoking a carton of cigarettes.
Some tobacco company researchers are actally trying to build devices that remove carcinogens from smoke. You stick the cigarette in this little box, about the size of a hard pack, light it, and there's a tube at the other end where the "safer" smoke comes out of. They look pretty unwieldy, but of course if these things work out, they'll devise ways to get the size of them lower and lower.
The economy grew at 4% last quarter. You do realize the '01 recesion [sic] was the shortest in 20 years right?
And that covers a whopping TWO recessions in that time frame. Some accomplishment. The first was due to be long as economic spin doctors tried to make Reagan's insane economic plan work (remember, most conservatives didn't even believe in trickle-down when it was first proposed), and the second was, oh gee, protracted by a moronic "war" in the Middle East. Let's wait and see how well the economy is doing a few months after Dubya colonizes Iraq.
So? The absolute size of the defecit [sic] isn't important, it's the size of the defecit [sic] relative to the size of the economy. The current estimates are much smaller than the defecits [sic] of the past.
But a couple of years ago we weren't talking deficits, we were talking surpluses, and the predictions back then called for continued surpluses as well. As Dubya and company re-militarize the economy, both through the FUD of the "War on Terror" and through the grand circle-jerk that is United States foreign aid to Israel, federal spending will go through the roof, and combined with ludicrous tax breaks for the wealthy, we will be looking at ballooning deficits, possibly of Reagan-esque proportions.
Actually they are letting them (the rich) keep more of their own money.
You say potato, I say potato. The national economy always grows faster when you tax the hell out of the upper classes. Just look at GDP growth in the 1950s, when the top tiers were giving up nearly three-quarters of their income to taxes. I'm not saying we should jack rates back up to those levels, but if you're going to give incentives to anyone, it should be to the people who are stuck in the lower income tiers, who will reintroduce the money into the economy at a quicker pace by buying necessity and near-necessity items.
Deplete it (the economy) of what?
Um, deplete it of consumers? I know three reservists who have been called into active duty already, and more will likely follow. And this doesn't even get into the possibility of the draft being reinstated and what havoc that could cause.
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Last month when I was building my new computer I was able to get a GeForce 4 (4xAGP, 64MB DDR) for $20 after rebate from Tiger Direct. Granted, it's not the greatest card in the world, and I've never been much of a gamer, but it should be enough for all but the most hardcore of gamers.
Even if this bill only rejects funding of the recent FCC decision, having such a lopsided vote will have to sway some lawmakers. Even if the Senate is a more deliberative body than the house, with this much opposition in the House, I'm fairly certain that the Senate would pass this with at least 67 affirmative votes, overriding the threat of a presidential veto.
The only way I could see this getting messed up is if the language gets neutered in a compromise bill, though, so we're still going to have to speak out to our local Representatives and Senators to let them know what we think. And with any luck, they might even listen.
Hello, I'm Special Agent Shannon from the FBI. Under the PATRIOT Act, your recent post to slashdot.org threatening to "kill someone" is a First Degree Felony. Agents should be arriving at your place of residence at any moment to take you into custody. Have a nice day.
Next week. That's when I start working at a local electronics store. Then you can come in and buy one off of me and I'll get a huge commission! Er, I mean, I'll give you all the advice you need! Yeah, that's the ticket ...
Don't have a clue what to do with a woman, but they sure know what to do with penguins ...
Mind you, if you're snowed in on the East Coast right now and you're all alone, and a penguin just happens to fall down your chimney or something, I suppose there's nothin' wrong with a little sweet penguin love ...
The carcinogens are what I'd like to see removed.
Unfortunately, carcinogens aren't something inherent in tobacco -- they're inherent in burning altogether. That's why grilling and the like is falling out of favour right now, because all that charcoal smoke going into the meat (or vegetables, or whatever) can give you as much cancer as smoking a carton of cigarettes.
Some tobacco company researchers are actally trying to build devices that remove carcinogens from smoke. You stick the cigarette in this little box, about the size of a hard pack, light it, and there's a tube at the other end where the "safer" smoke comes out of. They look pretty unwieldy, but of course if these things work out, they'll devise ways to get the size of them lower and lower.
The economy grew at 4% last quarter. You do realize the '01 recesion [sic] was the shortest in 20 years right?
And that covers a whopping TWO recessions in that time frame. Some accomplishment. The first was due to be long as economic spin doctors tried to make Reagan's insane economic plan work (remember, most conservatives didn't even believe in trickle-down when it was first proposed), and the second was, oh gee, protracted by a moronic "war" in the Middle East. Let's wait and see how well the economy is doing a few months after Dubya colonizes Iraq.
So? The absolute size of the defecit [sic] isn't important, it's the size of the defecit [sic] relative to the size of the economy. The current estimates are much smaller than the defecits [sic] of the past.
But a couple of years ago we weren't talking deficits, we were talking surpluses, and the predictions back then called for continued surpluses as well. As Dubya and company re-militarize the economy, both through the FUD of the "War on Terror" and through the grand circle-jerk that is United States foreign aid to Israel, federal spending will go through the roof, and combined with ludicrous tax breaks for the wealthy, we will be looking at ballooning deficits, possibly of Reagan-esque proportions.
Actually they are letting them (the rich) keep more of their own money.
You say potato, I say potato. The national economy always grows faster when you tax the hell out of the upper classes. Just look at GDP growth in the 1950s, when the top tiers were giving up nearly three-quarters of their income to taxes. I'm not saying we should jack rates back up to those levels, but if you're going to give incentives to anyone, it should be to the people who are stuck in the lower income tiers, who will reintroduce the money into the economy at a quicker pace by buying necessity and near-necessity items.
Deplete it (the economy) of what?
Um, deplete it of consumers? I know three reservists who have been called into active duty already, and more will likely follow. And this doesn't even get into the possibility of the draft being reinstated and what havoc that could cause.