Apple pulls a Google and says their new product is a "beta". Then, leave that label in place - for five years if necessary - while they get the bugs worked out.
Phew, and I thought you were smarter than pond scum. Yes, they come out of your taxes - you payroll taxes. Now, try to keep up, but that would be the "dedicated revenue stream" that I was referring to.
Maybe a few decades down the road, when mandatory spending is 150% of GDP, you'll get your head out of your ass.
Pull your head out of your ass. Do your best Bart Simpson impression and write this over and over again until it sinks in:
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Except it's not earned benefits because he has no ownership over them at all. The government could end the program, change the rules, go insolvent, or do any manner of things to fuck over the retiree because it isn't his money -- it's a check from the government.
Nonsense. How many times have Social Security recipients been screwed out of their retirement by the government? Zero. How many times have Social Security checks bounced because there wasn't money to pay for them? Zero.
Compare that to how many times investors, pensioners and retirees have been ripped off by brokers and investment banks.
This is why many are pushing for mandatory retirement accounts instead, because then at least the money would be YOURS and the government couldn't raid it to pay for their own petty personal crusades.
You realize you're contradicting yourself, right? Once you force the worker to hand over a portion of his income to an investment bank - which is textbook fascism, btw - then the bank is free to piss away your money. And what happens if the bank goes bankrupt, as all the major banks would have done by 2009 if they hadn't been bailed out by the feds?
I'm not aware of any case where Google has used their patents offensively. Can you name one?
How does four weeks ago work for you? Yes, on patents they acquired from Motorola - but if Apple bought Nokia for their patent portfolio and started asking for backdated royalties, people would be pissed at them...
Let us know when you find one, cuz you would be the first to do so. Because it invariably goes like this:
Slashdotter: "Look at all the Apple fanboys running around this story!" Me: "Name one." Slashdotter: "They're everywhere! Just look around and you'll see one!" Me: "Great, you'll have no problems linking to one then" Slashdotter: crickets..........
Powerful people have been abusing their powers to help their friends or dispense favors with expectation of repayment since the dawn of recorded history. This is nothing that's either unique to capitalism or new. Were some more equal than others in Mao's China or the Soviet Union or in Cuba? You'd better believe it. Did Louis XIV of France play favorites among his nobles? Absolutely. So, this cannot be a valid critique of capitalism because it's no less prevalent, and may even be more prevalent, in any of the alternative systems.
Apples to oranges. You're comparing "the old boys network" to an economic system that encourages corruption on the part of both elected officials and corporate operatives. The two are not one and the same.
The only thing different with Obamacare is that instead of insurance companies determining what will be treated, the government will.
There's a thousand and one ways to slam Obamacare based on the facts...but rather than do that, you guys make up stupid shit instead. Why is that? Will your teabagger merit badge be revoked if your complaint is based in reality rather than BS?
I completely agree, the pendulum swings both ways.
But only one put your undies in a knot. Huh, interesting....and nevermind the fact that we're still waiting for that pendulum to swing back, as we're now entering the fourth Bush term on everything from economics to regulatory policy to climate change to taxation to shredding the Constitution.
With what? The Republican health care plan he passed, the Republican stimulus (larded down with business tax cuts) he signed, or going to the right of the previous Republican treasury secretary on modifying mortgages? Or are you stocking up on your guns and ammo because Obama not lifting a finger on gun control definitely means he's coming for your guns in his second term?
The Fandroid hypocrisy gets more than a little deep here at times. Apple are the new evil Microsoft when they swing their dicks around on patents, but it's just fine and dandy when it's Google or Samsung doing the same damn thing.
And before one of them whines that Google is different because they bought hardware and software patents from Motorola, as if you guys wouldn't be even more poutraged if Apple bought Nokia for their hardware patents and returned fire.
The point is that a video recording (any video recording, for that matter, not just of police) can and almost inevitably will, given the generally sensationalist bent of the media, be taken out of context.
Good thing sentences are handed out by courts and not the media, then.
In the case of his example, that doesn't mean the beating would be justified, not by a long shot. But it would certainly make a lot more sense, and be far less grievous, than a beating for no reason whatsoever.
Ah, the "he was a bad guy so he partly had it coming" defense, which should be blocked on sight by any judge. Case in point, this video of cops kicking a suspect in the head - after he dove face-first into the ground in surrender. Lots of comments saying it was either less-evil or outright okay because the suspect was in a high speed chase, but that's all bullshit. Nothing justifies such excessive force.
You nutbaggers and your alternate realities you live in. The purchasing power of the average Venezuelan has doubled under Chavez. Nutbaggers hate him because his policies have made things better for the poor and the working class as opposed to the plutocrats.
Maybe it would help if you looked at the budget. Of about $3.5 trillion for 2012, approximately 2/3 is for social programs and entitlements.
Maybe you could follow your own advice, as Social Security has nothing to do with the Federal Budget, as it has it's own dedicated revenue stream. Hell, SS has been propping up the budget for decades as politicians borrow from the trust fund to keep taxes low for the rich.
Oh, and only about $700 billion is military, and much of that is spent in the U.S., so cutting it means less industry, less employed people, etc.
Oh, but the real figure is double the advertized sum. The real war budget is at least $1.2 trillion. They arrive at the smaller number by pretending things like the VA, interest on past war spending, and the Department of Energy managing our nuclear weapons don't count as war spending when they obviously do.
But any time you bring up the fact that we're paying for Warren Buffet's health care and have been writing him a monthly Social Security check for a few decades, the progressives are "lalalalalal I can't hear you!". Instead they insist on raising capital gains taxes on everyone because because Buffet.
Means testing solves this problem, right now. It also hits the "evil rich" too. But progressives don't want to stop handouts to the rich, they just want more taxes.
It's not "la la la", it's "pull your head out and stop being such a dumbass."
You wouldn't go and tell a rich person who got in a car accident that he's not entitled to the insurance coverage he paid for just because he's rich, would you? Of course not, that would be asinine. Then why are you telling the same rich guy that he's not entitled to the Social Security benefits that he paid for?
"Means testing" turns earned benefits into social welfare, and then people like yourself will be demanding that we eliminate welfare. Or was that your idea all along?
You people worry too much. When the kid turns 18 he can live wherever the fuck he wants.
You need to fix your sense of perspective as it's pretty fucking broken. As if meeting your adult child is the same planet as raising them from infant to high school graduate.
Microsoft can afford to release a incontestably best-specced console, and it would be the end of PlayStation if they did.
That's not true at all. Did you completely miss the part where the Wii raped both the Xbox and PS3 last generation? Duh.
No, he's saying Sony can't take another round of massive losses on the Playstation platform. Microsoft can shrug off a five billion dollar loss on a high-spec console with spare change in their couch.
What comes around, goes around. Or perhaps "as you sow, so shall you reap."
...to when Korean cell phone companies - like, saaaay, Samsung - had the iPhone banned for a couple years in Korea. But, as with Google's use of the patents they acquired from Mototrola, it's just fine to swing your patent dick around....as long as your name isn't Apple.
That's not a counter-argument, that's you being too lazy to make an actual response. Since you skipped it the first time, Stein (or Anderson, or Johnson) would or would not be able to do the following:
Halt DADT via stop loss order. Break up and prosecute the banks. Prosecute the telecoms and the Bush Administration for warrantless wiretapping. Order complete withdrawals from all our semi-declared and undeclared wars. Prosecute Bushco for war crimes including torture. Use the EPA to regulate carbon emissions. Move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, and reign in the DEA.
With that statement it is clear you don't know wtf you are talking about
That's exactly your problem, because I do know what I'm talking about. And of course smearing Muslims based on the Korean is a farce since Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God with the same Old Testament, only under different names. As if you'd go around calling Christians a bunch of rapists because the Bible commands them to marry their brother's widow in the event of his death because had yet to have offspring.
And since you skipped it the first time:
They're pissed because their land has been stolen, their people have been bombed, and they have been humiliated and starved.
As if your charter would be any different if it was your family and people ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homelands by a bunch of immigrants. And if that wasn't enough, then spend the next four and half decades living under an apartheid regime that kills who it wants, bomb who it wants, whenever it wants.
Another problem for the people running around bleating "The Hamas Charter!" "The Hamas Chaaaarter!" is....the Likud Charter. Which lays claim to all of the West Bank, which Israel has zero right to as they seized it in a war they started in 1967. And it doesn't stop there. Israeli officials have openly talked of starving the population of Gaza, I'm sorry, "putting them on a diet". And now "leveling" the Gaza strip and returning the area back to the "middle ages". Again. And that's not even touching the outright racist garbage thrown around by the likes of Avigdor Lieberman.
And unlike Hamas, Israel not only has the power to make good on their threats to bomb, level, and starve the population of Gaza - they're actively doing it right now.
Yes, poor innocent defenceless little Egypt was attacked by the evil Israelis for no reason whatsoever.
Okay, sure. Israel launched a sneak attack on Egypt in response to the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran. But that means that under Israeli rules, Palestinians are totally justified in making attacks on Israel in response to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, only far more so. Because while Egypt closed a single shipping route, Israel blocks all it's borders with Gaza as well as the sea and the air.
If you were an idiot or a sophist, I suppose you could see it that way. First Republicans stole the national election, then they let the worst terrorist attacks in American history happen due to their grotesque incompetence and negligence, then they lied us into a war, and all the while shredding basic Constitutional rights that would have had the teabaggers and militias losing their shit if it was Clinton doing it.
And the part you are leaving out is that they asked for recounts in the counties with the highest percentage of errors. Which happened to be Democratic counties. Republican counties tended to have the much more reliable op-scan ballots.
They also went to court and successfully blocked the the Republicans from doing the same thing in Republican leaning districts and also blocked a large number of overseas ballots cast by US military members serving abroad due to the fact that the D.O.D. did not get the ballots in on time. This from the group that was adamant that "every vote must count".
That's a lie. They didn't want illegally cast ballots to count, but Lieberman took care of that when he went on TV and said otherwise. The ones trying to have it both ways were Republicans, by wanting absentee ballots cast after the deadline to count, but not to count "hanging chads" where the intent of the voter was obvious.
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I find your lack of self-awareness disturbing....
Apple pulls a Google and says their new product is a "beta". Then, leave that label in place - for five years if necessary - while they get the bugs worked out.
Right, which is why they are routinely at or near the top of hardware reliability and customer satisfaction ratings for OEM's.
Phew, and I thought you were smarter than pond scum. Yes, they come out of your taxes - you payroll taxes. Now, try to keep up, but that would be the "dedicated revenue stream" that I was referring to.
Pull your head out of your ass. Do your best Bart Simpson impression and write this over and over again until it sinks in:
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Social Security costs have nothing to do with the Federal Budget.
Nonsense. How many times have Social Security recipients been screwed out of their retirement by the government? Zero. How many times have Social Security checks bounced because there wasn't money to pay for them? Zero.
Compare that to how many times investors, pensioners and retirees have been ripped off by brokers and investment banks.
You realize you're contradicting yourself, right? Once you force the worker to hand over a portion of his income to an investment bank - which is textbook fascism, btw - then the bank is free to piss away your money. And what happens if the bank goes bankrupt, as all the major banks would have done by 2009 if they hadn't been bailed out by the feds?
How does four weeks ago work for you? Yes, on patents they acquired from Motorola - but if Apple bought Nokia for their patent portfolio and started asking for backdated royalties, people would be pissed at them...
Let us know when you find one, cuz you would be the first to do so. Because it invariably goes like this:
Slashdotter: "Look at all the Apple fanboys running around this story!"
Me: "Name one."
Slashdotter: "They're everywhere! Just look around and you'll see one!"
Me: "Great, you'll have no problems linking to one then"
Slashdotter: crickets..........
Apples to oranges. You're comparing "the old boys network" to an economic system that encourages corruption on the part of both elected officials and corporate operatives. The two are not one and the same.
There's a thousand and one ways to slam Obamacare based on the facts...but rather than do that, you guys make up stupid shit instead. Why is that? Will your teabagger merit badge be revoked if your complaint is based in reality rather than BS?
But only one put your undies in a knot. Huh, interesting....and nevermind the fact that we're still waiting for that pendulum to swing back, as we're now entering the fourth Bush term on everything from economics to regulatory policy to climate change to taxation to shredding the Constitution.
With what? The Republican health care plan he passed, the Republican stimulus (larded down with business tax cuts) he signed, or going to the right of the previous Republican treasury secretary on modifying mortgages? Or are you stocking up on your guns and ammo because Obama not lifting a finger on gun control definitely means he's coming for your guns in his second term?
The Fandroid hypocrisy gets more than a little deep here at times. Apple are the new evil Microsoft when they swing their dicks around on patents, but it's just fine and dandy when it's Google or Samsung doing the same damn thing.
And before one of them whines that Google is different because they bought hardware and software patents from Motorola, as if you guys wouldn't be even more poutraged if Apple bought Nokia for their hardware patents and returned fire.
Nope.
Good thing sentences are handed out by courts and not the media, then.
Ah, the "he was a bad guy so he partly had it coming" defense, which should be blocked on sight by any judge. Case in point, this video of cops kicking a suspect in the head - after he dove face-first into the ground in surrender. Lots of comments saying it was either less-evil or outright okay because the suspect was in a high speed chase, but that's all bullshit. Nothing justifies such excessive force.
You nutbaggers and your alternate realities you live in. The purchasing power of the average Venezuelan has doubled under Chavez. Nutbaggers hate him because his policies have made things better for the poor and the working class as opposed to the plutocrats.
Maybe you could follow your own advice, as Social Security has nothing to do with the Federal Budget, as it has it's own dedicated revenue stream. Hell, SS has been propping up the budget for decades as politicians borrow from the trust fund to keep taxes low for the rich.
Oh, but the real figure is double the advertized sum. The real war budget is at least $1.2 trillion. They arrive at the smaller number by pretending things like the VA, interest on past war spending, and the Department of Energy managing our nuclear weapons don't count as war spending when they obviously do.
So how many times a week do you sleep with your mother? That's what happens when you put words in people's mouths, i.e. straw men.
It's not "la la la", it's "pull your head out and stop being such a dumbass."
You wouldn't go and tell a rich person who got in a car accident that he's not entitled to the insurance coverage he paid for just because he's rich, would you? Of course not, that would be asinine. Then why are you telling the same rich guy that he's not entitled to the Social Security benefits that he paid for?
"Means testing" turns earned benefits into social welfare, and then people like yourself will be demanding that we eliminate welfare. Or was that your idea all along?
You need to fix your sense of perspective as it's pretty fucking broken. As if meeting your adult child is the same planet as raising them from infant to high school graduate.
No, he's saying Sony can't take another round of massive losses on the Playstation platform. Microsoft can shrug off a five billion dollar loss on a high-spec console with spare change in their couch.
Sony, can't.
That's not a counter-argument, that's you being too lazy to make an actual response. Since you skipped it the first time, Stein (or Anderson, or Johnson) would or would not be able to do the following:
Halt DADT via stop loss order.
Break up and prosecute the banks.
Prosecute the telecoms and the Bush Administration for warrantless wiretapping.
Order complete withdrawals from all our semi-declared and undeclared wars.
Prosecute Bushco for war crimes including torture.
Use the EPA to regulate carbon emissions.
Move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, and reign in the DEA.
That's exactly your problem, because I do know what I'm talking about. And of course smearing Muslims based on the Korean is a farce since Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God with the same Old Testament, only under different names. As if you'd go around calling Christians a bunch of rapists because the Bible commands them to marry their brother's widow in the event of his death because had yet to have offspring.
And since you skipped it the first time:
They're pissed because their land has been stolen, their people have been bombed, and they have been humiliated and starved.
As if your charter would be any different if it was your family and people ethnically cleansed from their ancestral homelands by a bunch of immigrants. And if that wasn't enough, then spend the next four and half decades living under an apartheid regime that kills who it wants, bomb who it wants, whenever it wants.
Another problem for the people running around bleating "The Hamas Charter!" "The Hamas Chaaaarter!" is....the Likud Charter. Which lays claim to all of the West Bank, which Israel has zero right to as they seized it in a war they started in 1967. And it doesn't stop there. Israeli officials have openly talked of starving the population of Gaza, I'm sorry, "putting them on a diet". And now "leveling" the Gaza strip and returning the area back to the "middle ages". Again. And that's not even touching the outright racist garbage thrown around by the likes of Avigdor Lieberman.
And unlike Hamas, Israel not only has the power to make good on their threats to bomb, level, and starve the population of Gaza - they're actively doing it right now.
Okay, sure. Israel launched a sneak attack on Egypt in response to the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran. But that means that under Israeli rules, Palestinians are totally justified in making attacks on Israel in response to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, only far more so. Because while Egypt closed a single shipping route, Israel blocks all it's borders with Gaza as well as the sea and the air.
If you were an idiot or a sophist, I suppose you could see it that way. First Republicans stole the national election, then they let the worst terrorist attacks in American history happen due to their grotesque incompetence and negligence, then they lied us into a war, and all the while shredding basic Constitutional rights that would have had the teabaggers and militias losing their shit if it was Clinton doing it.
And the part you are leaving out is that they asked for recounts in the counties with the highest percentage of errors. Which happened to be Democratic counties. Republican counties tended to have the much more reliable op-scan ballots.
That's a lie. They didn't want illegally cast ballots to count, but Lieberman took care of that when he went on TV and said otherwise. The ones trying to have it both ways were Republicans, by wanting absentee ballots cast after the deadline to count, but not to count "hanging chads" where the intent of the voter was obvious.