* More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006 were issued by private lending institutions.
* Private firms made nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers that year.
* Only one of the top 25 subprime lenders in 2006 was directly subject to the housing law that's being lambasted by conservative critics.
Regardless, Obama DID say he wanted to spread the wealth around. Which means he TAKES it by force from those who worked for it and gives it to others.
If the minimum wage had increase at the same rate as CEO pay over the last few decades, it would be over $50 an hour today. American productivity has risen dramatically, yet wages have stagnated. If you are in the top 1%, it's at least in your self-interest to keep the status quo. If you aren't, and don't want a more equitable sharing of our GDP, you need to see a nice doctor about your anal obstruction. Your head's probably getting sick of it too.
You want meaning? Then look up the meaning of "plumber" where Joe lives, fucktard - you have to be certified to call yourself a plumber. Deal with it. He can call himself a plumbing apprentice if he wants to, but he's lying when he calls himself a plumber.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you like throwing money away. When you higher a professional - lawyer, accountant, doctor, etc - do you like having some degree of assurance that they are a professional in the industry, or some Joe Shmoe who claims to be one?
Unless the developer did something dumb like use unpublished API's, a six year old app will run just fine.
Follow Apple's programming guidelines and you wont have any problems. And most of your list is "some dude somewhere on the Internet said he had a problem with xyz". Because as we all know, if someone says it on the internet, it must be true.
You could try, but mostly you'd just be stupid. That system uses shitty RAMBUS memory, and you'd use up 3/4 of the hard drive on Vista. It's like running BSD on a 386 with 2 MB of RAM - it's technically possible, but why would you want to?
Nobody wants to run Leopard (slowly with lots of eye candy disabled) on a 7-year-old PowerMac G4 that's slower than a 4-year-old Mac mini.
You can use Expose on an iMac from 1997. You wont have to disable jack or shit on that 2001 Quicksilver, and Jack just left town. But with Leopard, you'll have Time Machine on a perfectly usable system - with that old Dell you'd have a performance downgrade from XP, as you wont even have ReadyBoost (no USB 2.0).
Ahem, what? The maximum amount of memory supported by that machine is 512 MB - just awesome for Vista. Vista will also take up 75% of that computer's hard drive.
I imagine your 6 year old Mac has some type of deal breaking issue as well.
Oh, and Snow Leopard? It won't even work with PowerPC Macs, which includes EVERY Mac made before 2006. Bought a Mac in November 2005? Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X you'll ever be able to run with your current hardware.
According an internet rumor based off a single screenshot. Yawn.
Oh, by the way. I typed this on an EEE PC 900HA. It has 1GB of DDR2 and a 1.6GHz Atom. And it runs Vista fine. Even Aero glass.
Less government for the sake of less government as is asinine as more government for the sake of more government - see: Katrina, health care, Wall Street implosion, etc. The real issue isn't "more" or "less", but what is the right amount of government.
Are you serious? The vast majority of the world is beset with "governments" that are little more than corruption factories for thugs and organized crime. Unless you're just talking about the first-world here, your statement is so ignorant as to be laughable.
Can you read? He said "a lot of other" governments, not "all" governments.
You can't get out of a depression by cutting taxes and spending, because it doesn't stimulate demand. And since there is no private demand in a depression, you have to make up for it with public demand.
This is the time to INCREASE, not decrease, federal spending. You want to see a short recession, bring back the 91% marginal tax rate, pass universal health care, 2 years free community college, and spend a trillion dollars on national infrastructure.
There are only so many people who are qualified to do a particular job...
Yeah, that's the CEO's argument as to why they should get paid tens of millions of dollars each year, even if their stock declines or even if they get a bailout to prevent bankruptcy. You know, bullshit.
Uh the weatherman can not predict the weather tomorrow with any sort of real accuracy.
Weather != climate.
Did we cause it? You can NOT say.
Actually, yes we can.
In the 70s it was going the other way.
No, actually it wasn't.
I remember global cooling and another ice age is coming.
...along with other right wing fantasies, like how it was Bill Clinton's fault for the government's handling of Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Also there NEEDS to be a replacement for the shuttle. It does not go high enough. Costs way too much to maintain. Is built using things that no one even makes anymore. Has to be tore apart and put back together every flight. Explain to the class what you suggest to replace it, or get funding to keep it going.
The problem with getting the shuttle replaced is that it is a pork machine. They are highly complex machines with suppliers from around the nation, so you have no shortage of politicians keeping it alive.
That term doesn't mean what you think it means. Actually, we have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. You can run Leopard, fully featured, on a 7 year old Mac - that's pretty damned good backwards compatibility.
Six months from now Snow leopard comes out, and it allegedly won't run on the G5's they sold until mid 2006. See I can site online rumors based off a single screen shot.
Fixed that for you.
XP is no longer current. Yes, its still 'available', but the writing is on the wall. And if your IT strategy is to just keep running XP, you're going to run into that wall.
Until Redmond comes out with a new OS that isn't a shit sandwich, it'll be Microsoft that will be running into a wall as corporations flat-out refuse to "upgrade" to a shit sandwich.
The point wasn't that Windows is the only system with unique apps, the point was that I like to blather on random tangents that don't make any sense
Right because Apple's so good about offering support for anything legacy? Give me a break.
Uh...yeah. They are. You can run Leopard just fine on a 6 year old Mac just fine...why don't you try doing the same with Vista and a 6 year old PC, and get back to us.
Vista is FAR FAR FAR more compatible with legacy windows than anything else on the market.
Except XP, of course.
Try to find mac/linux software designed to run an optometrists office.
Macs and Linux also have applications that only run on those operating systems. Yawn.
Yup, that's the idea. I have seen one idiot wingnut (Pudge, specifically) claim that Social Security is unconstitutional based on the 10th Amendment turn around and rationalize that the USAF, CIA etc are covered under the expansive Forgoing Powers doctrine. Sorry Pudge, but you can't be an expansive strict constitutionalist.
That's why there needs to be an IT union. And before someone starts up with the tired old anti-union BS, all your arguments are disproved by unions for athletes, writers, directors, and actors. They are rewarded for creativity and hard work and a breakout performer can make many many times as much as a union member with more seniority but less success.
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Could you give some that aren't incredibly lame? Your first two in particular - "shuffling around" != "improvement".
Turning FannieMae and FreddyMac into affirmative action lending institutions is what tanked the economy
Liar:
Regardless, Obama DID say he wanted to spread the wealth around. Which means he TAKES it by force from those who worked for it and gives it to others.
If the minimum wage had increase at the same rate as CEO pay over the last few decades, it would be over $50 an hour today. American productivity has risen dramatically, yet wages have stagnated. If you are in the top 1%, it's at least in your self-interest to keep the status quo. If you aren't, and don't want a more equitable sharing of our GDP, you need to see a nice doctor about your anal obstruction. Your head's probably getting sick of it too.
You want meaning? Then look up the meaning of "plumber" where Joe lives, fucktard - you have to be certified to call yourself a plumber. Deal with it. He can call himself a plumbing apprentice if he wants to, but he's lying when he calls himself a plumber.
Yes, because having all the wealth to go the top 1% has worked out so well for the economy and the middle class.
For starters, he didn't need a license to be a plumber where he lives,
Actually, yes, he does. You might be able to use Excel and apply a band-aid to a cut, but that doesn't make you an accountant or a doctor.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you like throwing money away. When you higher a professional - lawyer, accountant, doctor, etc - do you like having some degree of assurance that they are a professional in the industry, or some Joe Shmoe who claims to be one?
Your post shows you are a dumbass. I can put a band-aid on a cut and use Excel, but that doesn't make me a doctor or an accountant, now does it?
Of course the same goes for corporations and storing personal information - or was this just an excuse to rant about government entities?
I already covered that:
Unless the developer did something dumb like use unpublished API's, a six year old app will run just fine.
Follow Apple's programming guidelines and you wont have any problems. And most of your list is "some dude somewhere on the Internet said he had a problem with xyz". Because as we all know, if someone says it on the internet, it must be true.
Try the other way around. Take a 6 year-old Mac application and try to run it on a new Mac. It may run, it may not.
Uh, no. Unless the developer did something dumb like use unpublished API's, a six year old app will run just fine.
Big deal, I can also play your stupid game.
You could try, but mostly you'd just be stupid. That system uses shitty RAMBUS memory, and you'd use up 3/4 of the hard drive on Vista. It's like running BSD on a 386 with 2 MB of RAM - it's technically possible, but why would you want to?
Nobody wants to run Leopard (slowly with lots of eye candy disabled) on a 7-year-old PowerMac G4 that's slower than a 4-year-old Mac mini.
You can use Expose on an iMac from 1997. You wont have to disable jack or shit on that 2001 Quicksilver, and Jack just left town. But with Leopard, you'll have Time Machine on a perfectly usable system - with that old Dell you'd have a performance downgrade from XP, as you wont even have ReadyBoost (no USB 2.0).
If your think your "analogy" is "good", you need to see a doctor about your broken sense of "proportion".
Oh, and what the fuck does your brand new (released in October 2008) have to do with old machines? Damn are anti-Apple fanboys stupid.
Ahem, what? The maximum amount of memory supported by that machine is 512 MB - just awesome for Vista. Vista will also take up 75% of that computer's hard drive.
I imagine your 6 year old Mac has some type of deal breaking issue as well.
Nope, sorry.
Apple fanboys piss me off because they make shit up.
Kook Aid drinking anti-Apple fanboys are idiots because they don't know what the fuck they are talking about. That's 7 years old, dipshit.
Oh, and Snow Leopard? It won't even work with PowerPC Macs, which includes EVERY Mac made before 2006. Bought a Mac in November 2005? Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X you'll ever be able to run with your current hardware.
According an internet rumor based off a single screenshot. Yawn.
Oh, by the way. I typed this on an EEE PC 900HA. It has 1GB of DDR2 and a 1.6GHz Atom. And it runs Vista fine. Even Aero glass.
Great, now try to run some applications on it.
Moron.
Don't forgot the health insurance industry.
Less government for the sake of less government as is asinine as more government for the sake of more government - see: Katrina, health care, Wall Street implosion, etc. The real issue isn't "more" or "less", but what is the right amount of government.
Are you serious? The vast majority of the world is beset with "governments" that are little more than corruption factories for thugs and organized crime. Unless you're just talking about the first-world here, your statement is so ignorant as to be laughable.
Can you read? He said "a lot of other" governments, not "all" governments.
You can't get out of a depression by cutting taxes and spending, because it doesn't stimulate demand. And since there is no private demand in a depression, you have to make up for it with public demand.
This is the time to INCREASE, not decrease, federal spending. You want to see a short recession, bring back the 91% marginal tax rate, pass universal health care, 2 years free community college, and spend a trillion dollars on national infrastructure.
There are only so many people who are qualified to do a particular job...
Yeah, that's the CEO's argument as to why they should get paid tens of millions of dollars each year, even if their stock declines or even if they get a bailout to prevent bankruptcy. You know, bullshit.
Uh the weatherman can not predict the weather tomorrow with any sort of real accuracy.
Weather != climate.
Did we cause it? You can NOT say.
Actually, yes we can.
In the 70s it was going the other way.
No, actually it wasn't.
I remember global cooling and another ice age is coming.
...along with other right wing fantasies, like how it was Bill Clinton's fault for the government's handling of Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Also there NEEDS to be a replacement for the shuttle. It does not go high enough. Costs way too much to maintain. Is built using things that no one even makes anymore. Has to be tore apart and put back together every flight. Explain to the class what you suggest to replace it, or get funding to keep it going.
The problem with getting the shuttle replaced is that it is a pork machine. They are highly complex machines with suppliers from around the nation, so you have no shortage of politicians keeping it alive.
"Yawn." Cherry picking at its finest.
That term doesn't mean what you think it means. Actually, we have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. You can run Leopard, fully featured, on a 7 year old Mac - that's pretty damned good backwards compatibility.
Six months from now Snow leopard comes out, and it allegedly won't run on the G5's they sold until mid 2006. See I can site online rumors based off a single screen shot.
Fixed that for you.
XP is no longer current. Yes, its still 'available', but the writing is on the wall. And if your IT strategy is to just keep running XP, you're going to run into that wall.
Until Redmond comes out with a new OS that isn't a shit sandwich, it'll be Microsoft that will be running into a wall as corporations flat-out refuse to "upgrade" to a shit sandwich.
The point wasn't that Windows is the only system with unique apps, the point was that I like to blather on random tangents that don't make any sense
Fixed that, too.
But if you'd said five years then you would have been right.
You're right, I was off. You can actually run Leopard on a 7 year old Mac.
Right because Apple's so good about offering support for anything legacy? Give me a break.
Uh...yeah. They are. You can run Leopard just fine on a 6 year old Mac just fine...why don't you try doing the same with Vista and a 6 year old PC, and get back to us.
Vista is FAR FAR FAR more compatible with legacy windows than anything else on the market.
Except XP, of course.
Try to find mac/linux software designed to run an optometrists office.
Macs and Linux also have applications that only run on those operating systems. Yawn.
Yup, that's the idea. I have seen one idiot wingnut (Pudge, specifically) claim that Social Security is unconstitutional based on the 10th Amendment turn around and rationalize that the USAF, CIA etc are covered under the expansive Forgoing Powers doctrine. Sorry Pudge, but you can't be an expansive strict constitutionalist.
That's why there needs to be an IT union. And before someone starts up with the tired old anti-union BS, all your arguments are disproved by unions for athletes, writers, directors, and actors. They are rewarded for creativity and hard work and a breakout performer can make many many times as much as a union member with more seniority but less success.