Don't be a jackass. Not everyone has the bandwidth to download their TV shows, nor is it reasonable to expect everyone to have watched it 4 days later even if they have an OC3 at home.
I don't understand why textbook publishers would look to Texas as being the standard vs. going to california.
Because Texas, the 2nd largest state in the union, has a board that picks textbooks for their entire public school system. AFAIK, no other state does this. So when you get a few troglodyte idiots picking books, you can end up with science book that attack evolution and history books doused in Amerika-can-do-no-wrong Kool Aid.
Agreed we Catholics are persecuted by Christian Fundamentalists, and then some call us Catholics as Christian Fundamentalists when we really aren't because we aren't Protestant or Fundamentalists.
Too bad the press spent two months obsessing over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and taking his quotes out of context. Then maybe they could have paid some attention to Rev. John Hagee, who's endorsement was aggressively sought by McCain.
Hagee called the Catholic Church "the great whore", an "apostate church" that would be "devoured by the anti-Christ". Catholics can still be nuts on sex and abortion, but the real crazies are Protestants.
It's 30 for a reason (as the TV advert says). Hitting someone at 35 greatly increases the chance they will be killed vs. hitting them at 30.
If drivers are commonly hitting pedestrians in your area, or pedestrians are in the habit of stepping out in front of moving cars, a 5mph difference in the speed limit is kind of beside the point.
If your quote was "You are on a section of road with a 70mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 80mph. All of you are fined." then fine.
No, that's not fine. On crowded roads, you're creating a traffic hazard when you drive that much slower than surrounding traffic.
Red light cameras aren't about safety, they're an excuse for generating revenue. Otherwise they wouldn't be consistently placed at high traffic intersections with low yellow light times as opposed to intersections with a high rate of accidents.
If you want to be a good little ankle grabber, take a GPS device as a suppository. Sideways. But leave the rest of us out of it.
And yes, he is pushing a scam and not a bona-fide business.
No more so than Magellan. As is usually the case, take the opposite of the wingnut position and you have reality. Gore is right (back up by the overwhelming majority of climate scientists) and the wingnuts are wrong (opposition based on ideology and greed). Sad day for you.
No...but, I don't believe the govt. can SPEND our way out of this recession, and with what they've done so far....the inflation that will hit in a year or so...will be killer.
That's exactly how you get out of a severe recession quickly. When facing a collapse in demand, the only entity that can get it jump started again is the government. Which is why the Democrats shouldn't have fiddle farted around the way they did, and instead and started with a $2 trillion infrastructure package, called it the "Jobs Bill", and start putting money into people's pockets while rebuilding our roads and bridges.
If they would concentrate on loosening up the credit market and get the banks healthy, I think most of this mess would fix itself. Get credit flowing, and then investors and responsible potential home owners can buy up all these foreclosed properties at a more reasonable price.
The whole problem with their approach to the financial crisis is that they are focused on protecting banks and bankers when they should really just focus on depositors.
Heck, if they wanted to get money back to 'the people' quicker...why not just immediately stop the payroll taxes for a year. I guarantee I could buy more if I had more of my own hard earned money to begin with.
And what good is a tax cut going to do for the 600,000 people losing their jobs every month? How is a tax cut going to make up for 30% drop in your business over last year? Tax cuts are one of the least efficient, and one of the slowest, ways to stimulate an economy.
I actually agree that a payroll tax holiday would be a good thing, just that it's not remotely as good as making jobs.
What we should do: $2 trillion in infrastructure, universal health care, forgive student loans, payroll tax holiday, and end the H1-B visa program. Then bring back the 91% marginal tax rates and leave them there until our national debt is paid off.
It is nor private business, but politicians who have an incentive to focus on the short term at the expense of the long term - the recent 'stimulus' plan is one illustration of that; the $50 trillion or so of US govt debt is a sadder example.
Utter nonsense - have you been in a coma for the last year? As collapsing bank after collapsing firm have proven, if given a choice between long term health of a company and short term astronomical profits, executives have gone for the latter.
Uninformed opinions like yours are typically expressed by people who've never run a business in their lives - I'm curious about your business experience.
And what business do you run, so I can tell my family, friends, and random strangers on the street not to patronize it?
And unless We, The People run the lines all she and countless other Americans are going to get from the telecos is the finger. And I don't know about you, but I for one would like to have many choices for broadband instead of bending over and taking it like I have to do now. Most of us just can't give up our homes and livelihoods to escape the screwing.
The "government is bad & inefficient" mantra is nothing more than a means for shoveling money from the public into (a very few) private hands. We should start treating the Internet like other public utilities and interstate infrastructure. Then we might start getting 50 Mbps full duplex connections like the Asians and Europeans.
There's an article that sums up the point that we need to get back to public investment at Salon:
Barack Obama's bold, ambitious budget plan proves that he is the true heir of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Consider Obama's Rooseveltian energy plan. In 1939, President Roosevelt decided to mobilize Americans to create a new source of energy: atomic power. Although he was urged to focus on government-funded R&D, FDR chose a different route. He wisely encouraged private capital to invest in atomic energy research by a variety of tax incentives. To make atomic power investment more palatable to private capital, FDR boldly chose to make all other forms of energy in the U.S. uneconomical, by slapping high taxes on kerosene and coal. With the money from the new federal Kerosene Cap and Trade system, President Roosevelt and Congress funded a small-scale federal research program, in the hope of attracting much greater private investment...
Wait. What's that you say? FDR didn't do that? He poured federal money into the all-public Manhattan Project and created the first atomic bomb in a couple of years? He didn't tax kerosene to make it uneconomical and to encourage private investment in atomic power?
Oh. OK. Never mind.
But what about Social Security? In 1935, FDR signed the historic Social Security Act. It created a complex "retirement mandate" system, forcing all elderly Americans to buy expensive annuities from private insurance companies, without, however, imposing price controls on the insurance companies...
What? FDR didn't force the elderly to subsidize private annuity brokers? He imposed a single, simple, efficient tax to pay for a single, simple, efficient public system of retirement benefits?
All right, then, forget FDR. He was a socialist, anyway. Let Dwight Eisenhower serve as a model for the Obama administration. President Eisenhower authorized the biggest infrastructure program in American history, when he signed the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956. The interstate highway act created an elaborate system of private tax incentives and public-private partnerships (PPPs) to encourage private corporations to build national highways. To begin with, all U.S. highways were leased to domestic and foreign corporations for a period of decades. Second, all U.S. highways were set up with toll booths, so that American drivers would be forced to repay the corporate owners of the national highways every few dozen miles. Finally, a system of high-speed lanes with higher tolls was created, so that the rich could whiz down the road while middle-class and poor Americans were stuck in traffic jams...
That's the real problem with Gore. He's making a fortune off of inciting panic and then selling smoke and mirrors blah blah blather blather bullshit bullshit
Funny how we can't have government regulation because everything must be taken care of private enterprise. Unless the operator of said enterprise has the last name of Gore, in which case it's the spawn of the devil.
The issue wasn't whether volcano monitoring is a useful activity for the federal government to be involved in, but whether it belongs in a bill to stimulate the economy.
See RM above.
Now if a volcano monitoring program will somehow get the economy back on track better than, say, cutting capital gains taxes, I'd love to hear how.
Cutting the capital gains tax will do jack and shit to stimulate the economy, and Jack left town. For the obvious reason that when you're facing a depression, you wont have to worry about making any gains to pay taxes on. It's sort of like offering income tax cuts to people who lost their jobs - pointless.
And really, who still thinks that penny pinching on disaster preparedness is a good idea after Katrina? Save a few million on dikes, loose a few hundred billion and a thousand lives when the dikes fail. Hmm, let me think about that one....
Monitoring volcanoes does nothing to STIMULATE the economy.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of facts. Monitoring makes jobs and buys equipment (creating more jobs). That's stimulus, straight up. That it might not be your favored form of stimulus, but that does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that it is stimulus.
And seriously, what kind of moron is going to oppose disaster preparedness after Katrina? Pinching pennies on preparedness is a penny wise, pound asinine decision. Save a few million on dike repair, loose a few hundred billion when a hurricane wipes out a major city. Hmmm, that's a tough one.
I can't seem to find your posts of outrage when Hillary Clinton claimed she was shot at in Bosnia
Did you look? And even if he didn't, on what planet does that change the fact that Jindal was full of it?
Barack Obama's claims that he had no ties to William Ayers or Tony Rezko, or his ignorance of the blatant racism of his pastor for 20 years.
Wow, why didn't you mention how Bill Clinton was responsible for Waco and Ruby Ridge, how he killed Vince Foster, how Gary Condit killed Chandra Levy, how Obama is really a Muslim not born in the U.S., or how FEMA is starting concentration camps for conservatives. If you're going to blather pathetic Republican lies, why not go all out?
Seeing that you've become a hateful, partisan hack disappointments me.
Too damn bad for you. If you AREN'T opposing Republicans after they got over 10,000 Americans killed (911, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina), blew up the economy and the national debt, then I have to ask you where your head has been the last 8 years.
Ballmer wants the world to focus on the idea that the desktop fight is only between M$ and Apple. If he can do that then, perhaps (please -- hopefully), that people will not start using a Linux desktop....but not for that reason. Ballmer needs Apple to keep Microsoft from being broken up in another anti-trust lawsuit. Linux has made great inroads in server space and on devices - as a desktop OS, not so much.
No they don't. They did buy $150 million in stock circa 1997 (in part to settle the lawsuit over Quicktime), but Microsoft sold those shares a long time ago, making a tidy profit in the process.
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Pls check out how "well" used Apple crap sells on eBay, NOT!!
Wow, I suppose you're also a GM fanboy who complains about the resell value of Honda's and Toyota's?
Wow, I didn't know I was arguing with a kindergardener. My apologies.
Don't be a jackass. Not everyone has the bandwidth to download their TV shows, nor is it reasonable to expect everyone to have watched it 4 days later even if they have an OC3 at home.
I don't understand why textbook publishers would look to Texas as being the standard vs. going to california.
Because Texas, the 2nd largest state in the union, has a board that picks textbooks for their entire public school system. AFAIK, no other state does this. So when you get a few troglodyte idiots picking books, you can end up with science book that attack evolution and history books doused in Amerika-can-do-no-wrong Kool Aid.
Agreed we Catholics are persecuted by Christian Fundamentalists, and then some call us Catholics as Christian Fundamentalists when we really aren't because we aren't Protestant or Fundamentalists.
Too bad the press spent two months obsessing over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and taking his quotes out of context. Then maybe they could have paid some attention to Rev. John Hagee, who's endorsement was aggressively sought by McCain.
Hagee called the Catholic Church "the great whore", an "apostate church" that would be "devoured by the anti-Christ". Catholics can still be nuts on sex and abortion, but the real crazies are Protestants.
Burnt offerings, unclean animals (how many christians follow kosher?) .... Don't forget my personal favorite:
West Wing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWqgD7lGneU
The parent poster said "balls"; jcr was just quoting. Just correcting your correction. :)
It's 30 for a reason (as the TV advert says). Hitting someone at 35 greatly increases the chance they will be killed vs. hitting them at 30.
If drivers are commonly hitting pedestrians in your area, or pedestrians are in the habit of stepping out in front of moving cars, a 5mph difference in the speed limit is kind of beside the point.
If your quote was "You are on a section of road with a 70mph speed limit. Like everyone else, you are driving 80mph. All of you are fined." then fine.
No, that's not fine. On crowded roads, you're creating a traffic hazard when you drive that much slower than surrounding traffic.
I do not agree with your statement. I believe it is false.
Because your head is lodged firmly up your ass. That's okay, it's a free country.
Red light cameras aren't about safety, they're an excuse for generating revenue. Otherwise they wouldn't be consistently placed at high traffic intersections with low yellow light times as opposed to intersections with a high rate of accidents.
If you want to be a good little ankle grabber, take a GPS device as a suppository. Sideways. But leave the rest of us out of it.
And yes, he is pushing a scam and not a bona-fide business.
No more so than Magellan. As is usually the case, take the opposite of the wingnut position and you have reality. Gore is right (back up by the overwhelming majority of climate scientists) and the wingnuts are wrong (opposition based on ideology and greed). Sad day for you.
No...but, I don't believe the govt. can SPEND our way out of this recession, and with what they've done so far....the inflation that will hit in a year or so...will be killer.
That's exactly how you get out of a severe recession quickly. When facing a collapse in demand, the only entity that can get it jump started again is the government. Which is why the Democrats shouldn't have fiddle farted around the way they did, and instead and started with a $2 trillion infrastructure package, called it the "Jobs Bill", and start putting money into people's pockets while rebuilding our roads and bridges.
If they would concentrate on loosening up the credit market and get the banks healthy, I think most of this mess would fix itself. Get credit flowing, and then investors and responsible potential home owners can buy up all these foreclosed properties at a more reasonable price.
The whole problem with their approach to the financial crisis is that they are focused on protecting banks and bankers when they should really just focus on depositors.
Heck, if they wanted to get money back to 'the people' quicker...why not just immediately stop the payroll taxes for a year. I guarantee I could buy more if I had more of my own hard earned money to begin with.
And what good is a tax cut going to do for the 600,000 people losing their jobs every month? How is a tax cut going to make up for 30% drop in your business over last year? Tax cuts are one of the least efficient, and one of the slowest, ways to stimulate an economy.
I actually agree that a payroll tax holiday would be a good thing, just that it's not remotely as good as making jobs.
What we should do: $2 trillion in infrastructure, universal health care, forgive student loans, payroll tax holiday, and end the H1-B visa program. Then bring back the 91% marginal tax rates and leave them there until our national debt is paid off.
It is nor private business, but politicians who have an incentive to focus on the short term at the expense of the long term - the recent 'stimulus' plan is one illustration of that; the $50 trillion or so of US govt debt is a sadder example.
Utter nonsense - have you been in a coma for the last year? As collapsing bank after collapsing firm have proven, if given a choice between long term health of a company and short term astronomical profits, executives have gone for the latter.
Uninformed opinions like yours are typically expressed by people who've never run a business in their lives - I'm curious about your business experience.
And what business do you run, so I can tell my family, friends, and random strangers on the street not to patronize it?
And unless We, The People run the lines all she and countless other Americans are going to get from the telecos is the finger. And I don't know about you, but I for one would like to have many choices for broadband instead of bending over and taking it like I have to do now. Most of us just can't give up our homes and livelihoods to escape the screwing.
The "government is bad & inefficient" mantra is nothing more than a means for shoveling money from the public into (a very few) private hands. We should start treating the Internet like other public utilities and interstate infrastructure. Then we might start getting 50 Mbps full duplex connections like the Asians and Europeans.
There's an article that sums up the point that we need to get back to public investment at Salon:
That's the real problem with Gore. He's making a fortune off of inciting panic and then selling smoke and mirrors blah blah blather blather bullshit bullshit
Funny how we can't have government regulation because everything must be taken care of private enterprise. Unless the operator of said enterprise has the last name of Gore, in which case it's the spawn of the devil.
Yeah, except that thing about the unfunded debt obligation. NO he was right about that.
So naturally, you're taking it up with the appropriate people: Reagan, Bush, Bush, and the Republican Congress.
For anyone who hasn't seen this yet:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/07/get-your-war-on-new-world_n_142085.html
The issue wasn't whether volcano monitoring is a useful activity for the federal government to be involved in, but whether it belongs in a bill to stimulate the economy.
See RM above.
Now if a volcano monitoring program will somehow get the economy back on track better than, say, cutting capital gains taxes, I'd love to hear how.
Cutting the capital gains tax will do jack and shit to stimulate the economy, and Jack left town. For the obvious reason that when you're facing a depression, you wont have to worry about making any gains to pay taxes on. It's sort of like offering income tax cuts to people who lost their jobs - pointless.
And really, who still thinks that penny pinching on disaster preparedness is a good idea after Katrina? Save a few million on dikes, loose a few hundred billion and a thousand lives when the dikes fail. Hmm, let me think about that one....
Monitoring volcanoes does nothing to STIMULATE the economy.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of facts. Monitoring makes jobs and buys equipment (creating more jobs). That's stimulus, straight up. That it might not be your favored form of stimulus, but that does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that it is stimulus.
And seriously, what kind of moron is going to oppose disaster preparedness after Katrina? Pinching pennies on preparedness is a penny wise, pound asinine decision. Save a few million on dike repair, loose a few hundred billion when a hurricane wipes out a major city. Hmmm, that's a tough one.
I can't seem to find your posts of outrage when Hillary Clinton claimed she was shot at in Bosnia
Did you look? And even if he didn't, on what planet does that change the fact that Jindal was full of it?
Barack Obama's claims that he had no ties to William Ayers or Tony Rezko, or his ignorance of the blatant racism of his pastor for 20 years.
Wow, why didn't you mention how Bill Clinton was responsible for Waco and Ruby Ridge, how he killed Vince Foster, how Gary Condit killed Chandra Levy, how Obama is really a Muslim not born in the U.S., or how FEMA is starting concentration camps for conservatives. If you're going to blather pathetic Republican lies, why not go all out?
Seeing that you've become a hateful, partisan hack disappointments me.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Does politics have to pollute EVERY story here?
Too damn bad for you. If you AREN'T opposing Republicans after they got over 10,000 Americans killed (911, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina), blew up the economy and the national debt, then I have to ask you where your head has been the last 8 years.
Ballmer wants the world to focus on the idea that the desktop fight is only between M$ and Apple. If he can do that then, perhaps (please -- hopefully), that people will not start using a Linux desktop. ...but not for that reason. Ballmer needs Apple to keep Microsoft from being broken up in another anti-trust lawsuit. Linux has made great inroads in server space and on devices - as a desktop OS, not so much.
Microsoft owns a large portion of Apple.
No they don't. They did buy $150 million in stock circa 1997 (in part to settle the lawsuit over Quicktime), but Microsoft sold those shares a long time ago, making a tidy profit in the process.
Shorter version: here, take your bootstraps, and then piss off, cause I got mine.
Because you don't know how to ride in the correct position?
Yes, do try and ride a bike in a big city with crappy bike lanes, like Chicago or Houston. Just make sure your affairs are in order first....
And what is the ratio between those cripples and people who don't have money for insurance. Inquiring minds want to know.