No. He doesn't. Not even close. Implying that opposing H1-B == racism is as stupidly dishonest as accusing someone of racism because they oppose Obama's wars and bailouts.
Contrary to popular belief, the president has no power at all to deal with the national debt.
The Executive:
1) Writes the budget. The budget defines how money is spent. How much money is spent has just a little bit to do with the national debt 2) Signs or vetoes legislation. Presidents say "I will veto this bill if it does/does not do X" all the time. 3) Is the leader of his party, and largely dictates his party's agenda. Even as a lame duck, Obama can cut off campaign money for Dems running for reelection next year if they aren't "team players" on the budget.
The president has more power and influence over the budget than entire committees or leaders of the respective chambers. That's not quite the polar opposite of "no power", but it's pretty close.
Within 400 yards of my front door is a hydro power plant owned by a paper mill.
Power that probably is 1) regulated as a public utility or 2) has to compete with another provider, and cannot raise rates as they see fit.
Complete non sequitur and contrary to fact.
Quite the Randian gag reflex there. Post office! Municipal water! Boo!
Most people want cars, do you want to have to buy a Trabant? Everyone needs shelter, do you want to live in a "project"? Everyone needs clothes, do you want to be limited to what the government supplies? (Good luck if you need orthopedic shoes.)
Now there's a complete non sequitur. You're moving the goalpost from a natural monopoly to other markets that don't have monopolies. Because Randians have no honest answer on how to deal with natural monopolies or market consolidation.
Government control allows the appointment of political hacks to jobs that they're not competent to perform.
Grab yourself a time machine and find the laziest bureaucrat from the most run down Soviet plant you can imagine. He's not going to have a direct incentive to cut corners that get people killed the way corporate hacks do for your beloved capitalists.
Was that the debate where Bush took credit for passing a patients bill of rights he vetoed as governor of Texas? The "liberal" media was too busy inventing Gore exaggerations to notice.
re LOST in every carefully examined recount conducted in exhaustive after-the-fact tests run by a panel of journalism outlets (including some that actively opposed Bush and worked to get Gore in office).
You mean the press study showing Gore winning a statewide recount under any scenario? If only all wingers were as considerate when debunking their own revisionist history.
No, the Supreme Court stopped a corrupt recount process, aided by a partisan state court, from continuing under unreasonable and unfair conditions. They didn't "appoint" Bush the winner, they called out Gore's cherry-picking, standards-shifting strategy for being the craven election-grab it was trying to be.
Deranged projection, noted. Florida was using one standard: determine the intent of the voter. Pretending that is "corrupt" because Florida had half a dozen different voting systems is being willfully obtuse. Ignoring the fact that all the corruption was coming from the GOP - voter purge lists, counting illegally cast overseas ballots, letting workers take home incomplete ballots to fill them out from Republican counties - is just sophistry.
....as Manning was when the cables were handed over to Wikileaks.
standing next to the political fugitive mister Assange
FTFY. If it had anything at all to do with rape, the Swedish government would have taken Assange up on his offer to return to the country if they promised not to hand him over to the U.S. they way they did to Mohammed al-Zari. They never have.
Even i, a right-wing Greek, couldn't plan it better!
You don't have to get an iWatch anymore than you need a FitBit. Asking why anyone would want to use either, though, is "so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.".
That ship already sailed with MEK. Carry a Hezbollah tv channel - the feds will send you to a Federal Pound Me In the Ass Penitentiary. Take money from MEK to lobby, aka propagandize on their behalf? We'll just take them off the terror watch list.
Sensitive Compartmented Information, actually, which is far beyond the Top Secret information revealed by the whistleblower Manning. Guess which one is getting probation and the other is getting to spend 3+ decades in prison?
I will repeat, nothing in this "study" can logically be attributed to age discrimination.
There's a term for that....Willful Blindness.
Normally i would just end it there but I'm bored.
Not bored. Trolling. The sole purpose of H1B is to lower prevailing wages. Combine that with Google's preference for 20 somethings and you're out of excuses.
Friday night, go out to bars and talk up a bunch of girls. Tell them you work at McDonalds and that your goal for the next ten years is to pay off your car. Your used car that you bought with 100,000 miles on it.
Then, on Saturday night, go out to a different set of bars and talk up an equal number of girls. Tell them you work at Google and your ten year goal is to have your five bedroom house paid in full.
In the US, vaccinations are available to everybody and general health and supportive care is so good that your risk of dying from measles is negligible even if you don't get vaccinated.
Because being rendered deaf or blind is no big deal as long as you don't die? How about the anti-vax trolls piss up a rope instead.
The point is that rushed first-gen devices with a long list of crippling "features" is Apple SOP.
Hateboi tautology. Maybe they should just do what Google does, and call their product "beta" for the better part of a decade, and all "sins" are forgiven.
yes, he's a nonviolent person, but we don't know that
Of course we knew that. If he had nefarious intentions, he wouldn't have warned your beloved authorities in advance or flown a 200 lbs capacity gyrocopter.
It's time to put away the plastic sheets and stop wetting the bed on command for the national insecurity state, the greatest pork project in the history of the world. Your couch is more likely to kill you than a terrorist, so stop hiding under the bed and throwing your rights away anytime someone knocks on the door.
he could have chosen a better way to make his point. but he'll be prosecuted, and the corruption will continue
Like drop those same letters in a mailbox? Those were 100 to 1 against telecom immunity....D's and R's DGAF. This was a harmless stunt that got him worldwide press - doubt you could come up with something that would have got him more attention, as one man, peacefully.
Like I said the first time: if you had examples of the FCC trying to censor boob shots online, you'd post them. If you had something more than concern trolling and FUD.
You haven't because you can't. Because that's all you have.
I have never seen a "Netflix charge" on my Comcast bill. They have not been charging their users extra for Netflix.
As if you don't know who Comcast is charging here.
They HAVE asked Netflix to pay for the capacity upgrade at the border gateways -- capacity that is being used in large part by Netflix and is making Netflix money. Netflix is profiting from a peering agreement that Comcast has to pay for. Seems fair to me that Netflix pays part of the costs of upgrade.
Any more Comcast propaganda you want to regurgitate? You also know perfectly well that Netflix has offered to place storage services within ISP networks. But even if they weren't, it's none of Comcast's concern as Netflix is already paying for their access and Comcast's customer's are paying for theirs.
The internet is not a broadcast medium. If you had examples of the FCC trying to censor boob shots online, you'd post them. If you had something more than concern trolling and FUD.
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No. He doesn't. Not even close. Implying that opposing H1-B == racism is as stupidly dishonest as accusing someone of racism because they oppose Obama's wars and bailouts.
The Executive:
1) Writes the budget. The budget defines how money is spent. How much money is spent has just a little bit to do with the national debt
2) Signs or vetoes legislation. Presidents say "I will veto this bill if it does/does not do X" all the time.
3) Is the leader of his party, and largely dictates his party's agenda. Even as a lame duck, Obama can cut off campaign money for Dems running for reelection next year if they aren't "team players" on the budget.
The president has more power and influence over the budget than entire committees or leaders of the respective chambers. That's not quite the polar opposite of "no power", but it's pretty close.
Power that probably is 1) regulated as a public utility or 2) has to compete with another provider, and cannot raise rates as they see fit.
Quite the Randian gag reflex there. Post office! Municipal water! Boo!
Now there's a complete non sequitur. You're moving the goalpost from a natural monopoly to other markets that don't have monopolies. Because Randians have no honest answer on how to deal with natural monopolies or market consolidation.
Grab yourself a time machine and find the laziest bureaucrat from the most run down Soviet plant you can imagine. He's not going to have a direct incentive to cut corners that get people killed the way corporate hacks do for your beloved capitalists.
You can cast a vote for president, but you can't cast a vote for who's going to be the CEO of Wal-Mart or Exxon.
Was that the debate where Bush took credit for passing a patients bill of rights he vetoed as governor of Texas? The "liberal" media was too busy inventing Gore exaggerations to notice.
You mean the press study showing Gore winning a statewide recount under any scenario? If only all wingers were as considerate when debunking their own revisionist history.
Deranged projection, noted. Florida was using one standard: determine the intent of the voter. Pretending that is "corrupt" because Florida had half a dozen different voting systems is being willfully obtuse. Ignoring the fact that all the corruption was coming from the GOP - voter purge lists, counting illegally cast overseas ballots, letting workers take home incomplete ballots to fill them out from Republican counties - is just sophistry.
FTFY. If it had anything at all to do with rape, the Swedish government would have taken Assange up on his offer to return to the country if they promised not to hand him over to the U.S. they way they did to Mohammed al-Zari. They never have.
Are you a recent national socialist, or does it run in your family?
Let us know how well that "can't blame me, I saw it in a movie" defense works out for you.
Did he also tell you to charge your phone in the microwave? Maybe invest in some oceanfront property in Kansas?
You don't have to get an iWatch anymore than you need a FitBit. Asking why anyone would want to use either, though, is "so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.".
That ship already sailed with MEK. Carry a Hezbollah tv channel - the feds will send you to a Federal Pound Me In the Ass Penitentiary. Take money from MEK to lobby, aka propagandize on their behalf? We'll just take them off the terror watch list.
Sensitive Compartmented Information, actually, which is far beyond the Top Secret information revealed by the whistleblower Manning. Guess which one is getting probation and the other is getting to spend 3+ decades in prison?
There's a term for that....Willful Blindness.
Not bored. Trolling. The sole purpose of H1B is to lower prevailing wages. Combine that with Google's preference for 20 somethings and you're out of excuses.
If you're the only person going on about quotas - and you are - then it's your straw man that is garbage.
Friday night, go out to bars and talk up a bunch of girls. Tell them you work at McDonalds and that your goal for the next ten years is to pay off your car. Your used car that you bought with 100,000 miles on it.
Then, on Saturday night, go out to a different set of bars and talk up an equal number of girls. Tell them you work at Google and your ten year goal is to have your five bedroom house paid in full.
Then let us know what the response rate is.
Because being rendered deaf or blind is no big deal as long as you don't die? How about the anti-vax trolls piss up a rope instead.
Michael is a Randian, so (d) all of the above. By choice.
Moving the goalpost from announcement to release in less than ten words, impressive.
A mere evolution that merely drove the largest players in the phone market, Nokia and Blackberry, into single digits within just a few years.
No, he understood the Hatorade just fine.
Hateboi tautology. Maybe they should just do what Google does, and call their product "beta" for the better part of a decade, and all "sins" are forgiven.
Of course we knew that. If he had nefarious intentions, he wouldn't have warned your beloved authorities in advance or flown a 200 lbs capacity gyrocopter.
It's time to put away the plastic sheets and stop wetting the bed on command for the national insecurity state, the greatest pork project in the history of the world. Your couch is more likely to kill you than a terrorist, so stop hiding under the bed and throwing your rights away anytime someone knocks on the door.
Like drop those same letters in a mailbox? Those were 100 to 1 against telecom immunity....D's and R's DGAF. This was a harmless stunt that got him worldwide press - doubt you could come up with something that would have got him more attention, as one man, peacefully.
Like I said the first time: if you had examples of the FCC trying to censor boob shots online, you'd post them. If you had something more than concern trolling and FUD.
You haven't because you can't. Because that's all you have.
As if you don't know who Comcast is charging here.
Any more Comcast propaganda you want to regurgitate? You also know perfectly well that Netflix has offered to place storage services within ISP networks. But even if they weren't, it's none of Comcast's concern as Netflix is already paying for their access and Comcast's customer's are paying for theirs.
Two more words: batshit irrelevant.
The internet is not a broadcast medium. If you had examples of the FCC trying to censor boob shots online, you'd post them. If you had something more than concern trolling and FUD.
You wont because you can't.
Netflix. Comcast. Double-charging. That happened.
Randians, like all religious fanatics, just ignore facts that interfere with their storyline....or the entire 19th Century.