I think you need to check your news sources, dude. The information is out there, but you're not going to get it from NBC, ABC, CNN or any of the other yahoos
lol! Did Obama double the deficit? Or the debt? It is not a matter of opinion, unless you descend into the alternate reality of conservative media. And of/course/ traditional media has to be biased. How else could conservatives coddle their feel-good universe?
The GOP have descended into an alternate reality -- and taken many with them. This will be lethal to them over time, as demographic changes clearly favour the dems.
The GP really did nail the issues, and the GOP will really need to remake themselves, and soon.
The only reason why Romney has a snowballs chance in hell is because the economy hasn't recovered so fast. It is utterly amazing the Obama is in the race at all given the economic figures. And the reason is that even the GOP faithful are starting to have doubts about their world of spin.
Can anyone identify an issue - not an opinion or a general feeling or a policy goal, but an actual issue - for which Obama and Romney are on opposite sides?
Firstly: pretty much any social conservative issue. Repeal DADT? GOP will do that. Stop women getting health insurance coverage for contraception through their employers? Yep the GOP want that too. Ban abortion -- if they could. They certainly will appoint the supreme court in such a way that Roe v Wade will eventually end.
Also, the Dems will almost certainly not promulgate the war on science that the GOP is involved in. You really want someone in charge of the EPA who is a paranoid anti-science conspiracy theorist (Inhofe). What about the guy on the house science committee who thinks that evolution and cosmology are lies from the pit of hell to make people think that they do not need Jesus as their saviour?
Also, the GOP will veto tax increases on the 1%. As for the dems, they caved once on this already. But this time, they may draw blood on the issue. So there's the whole trickle-down versus keynesian economics thing. I would argue that giving the rich more money will not spur the economy because there is already a glut of investment money. We have a deficit in demand.
So there are three *huge* and *stark* differences between the parties: gender equality, the place of science in society, and nigh on opposite views on economics. If the dems controlled the house and senate, Romney would veto this stuff, and vice versa.
It took me a long time to realise this, and it is both shocking and depressing. But politicians really do believe most of what they say. They even believe in their outright lies.
He had a friendly Congress for half his term and got nothing done.
How cynical can you get? The GOP plays non-stop obstructionism, and then blames the Dems for not getting anything done. The Dems only had 4 months with a filibuster proof majority. The rest of those two years was perpetual GOP filibustering.
When you say stuff like this -- just makes me think that the GOP faithful are ideological fools. The conservative party/used/ to have a fine tradition.
It is interesting that Obama asked the pentagon to come up with a plan that would actually protect the citizens in Libya and work. And now the dictator has gone. There was hardly any political upside to doing this. But I believe that it was the right thing to do. It is possible now that Libya will have a democratic tradition in 10 or 20 years, less prone to war, and a strong ally -- there is now that possibility.
Doubtless that someone always pays. The act changes who is going to be directly paying. That's significant.
It is not just who pays, but also changing incentive structures which will limit rent seeking behaviour from insurance companies. There is a reason why the USA pays more than twice as much per person on healthcare than anybody else in the world.
I think it just means our concept of time is wrong.
Black and white thinking meets the limits of conception. *every* concept is wrong. It is a trivial statement. Both the concept, and its black & white categorization as right/wrong, are artefacts of the human brain. And the GP is wrong. From a photons point of view, it has zero lifetime only if it travels through a perfect vacuum. Light travels more slowly otherwise, and then observes "time" and "distance".
Another way of saying is, if a photon was generated in a distance star, and it intersected with your eye (i.e., you saw it), then from the photons point of view, this would have been instantaneous if it only travelled through a perfect vacuum.
Stated this way, it does not violate quotidian conceptions of time.
Yeah, yeah, got it. Have spent so much time reading right-wing-nut blogs that I'm failing to see parody from sane people. (Authoritarians used to be split between dems and GOP, but that was the old days.)
A good beating will modify the behaviour of anyone dramatically.
Evidence shows that punishment like this only modifies behaviour whilst the threat continues. Remove the threat, and you'll find nothing changed. This has been very precisely studied.
Medieval crowd control methods as practised by the Catholic Church and Vlad the Impaler, still work just as efficiently today, as it did back then.
Gee... you must be an authoritarian personality. People are different. They are not all like you. Most are not like you. You cannot project your experience of life onto others. Perhaps medieval crowd control would be good for you -- but for the rest of us, it will just create a spiral of violence. Like the violence in medieval times.
The war on drugs (and terrorism) stems from the moral authoritarian personality. It is an attempt to control the animus through brute force, and is ongoing since the imaginary beginnings of the human race.
The Chinese establishment has a deep hatred of Russia over perceived injustices in the 19thC and during the cold war. (Mongolia and Siberia is *ours*.) Yeah, certain types of chinese nationalists think like that.
China and Russia fell out as cold-war allies precisely because of long standing enmity. Indeed, the chinese invaded vietnam precisely to limit russian influence in SE Asia -- daring russia to respond on the northern border. That was about the time that China realised that, communist or not, the USA was a better political partner than russia.
It is such a huge PITA to install google as the default search provide in the kiosk internet explorer computers at my university. Seriously, M$ should win awards for the number of clicks and scrolls it takes. It would not surprise me a bit if 90% of people who use bing use it for these reasons: they don't know much about what they are doing, or it is simply too hard to fix.
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I think you need to check your news sources, dude. The information is out there, but you're not going to get it from NBC, ABC, CNN or any of the other yahoos
lol! Did Obama double the deficit? Or the debt? It is not a matter of opinion, unless you descend into the alternate reality of conservative media. And of /course/ traditional media has to be biased. How else could conservatives coddle their feel-good universe?
Two words: epistemic closure.
The GOP have descended into an alternate reality -- and taken many with them. This will be lethal to them over time, as demographic changes clearly favour the dems.
The GP really did nail the issues, and the GOP will really need to remake themselves, and soon.
The only reason why Romney has a snowballs chance in hell is because the economy hasn't recovered so fast. It is utterly amazing the Obama is in the race at all given the economic figures. And the reason is that even the GOP faithful are starting to have doubts about their world of spin.
Can anyone identify an issue - not an opinion or a general feeling or a policy goal, but an actual issue - for which Obama and Romney are on opposite sides?
Firstly: pretty much any social conservative issue. Repeal DADT? GOP will do that. Stop women getting health insurance coverage for contraception through their employers? Yep the GOP want that too. Ban abortion -- if they could. They certainly will appoint the supreme court in such a way that Roe v Wade will eventually end.
Also, the Dems will almost certainly not promulgate the war on science that the GOP is involved in. You really want someone in charge of the EPA who is a paranoid anti-science conspiracy theorist (Inhofe). What about the guy on the house science committee who thinks that evolution and cosmology are lies from the pit of hell to make people think that they do not need Jesus as their saviour?
Also, the GOP will veto tax increases on the 1%. As for the dems, they caved once on this already. But this time, they may draw blood on the issue. So there's the whole trickle-down versus keynesian economics thing. I would argue that giving the rich more money will not spur the economy because there is already a glut of investment money. We have a deficit in demand.
So there are three *huge* and *stark* differences between the parties: gender equality, the place of science in society, and nigh on opposite views on economics. If the dems controlled the house and senate, Romney would veto this stuff, and vice versa.
It took me a long time to realise this, and it is both shocking and depressing. But politicians really do believe most of what they say. They even believe in their outright lies.
He had a friendly Congress for half his term and got nothing done.
How cynical can you get? The GOP plays non-stop obstructionism, and then blames the Dems for not getting anything done. The Dems only had 4 months with a filibuster proof majority. The rest of those two years was perpetual GOP filibustering.
/used/ to have a fine tradition.
When you say stuff like this -- just makes me think that the GOP faithful are ideological fools. The conservative party
It is interesting that Obama asked the pentagon to come up with a plan that would actually protect the citizens in Libya and work. And now the dictator has gone. There was hardly any political upside to doing this. But I believe that it was the right thing to do. It is possible now that Libya will have a democratic tradition in 10 or 20 years, less prone to war, and a strong ally -- there is now that possibility.
Doubtless that someone always pays. The act changes who is going to be directly paying. That's significant.
It is not just who pays, but also changing incentive structures which will limit rent seeking behaviour from insurance companies. There is a reason why the USA pays more than twice as much per person on healthcare than anybody else in the world.
Seeing people become so impassioned about which set of crooks are going stuff the shirts this time around is a devil's belly laugh.
I'm pretty sick of this whole "they're crooks" thing. That generally cover for the cognitive bubble. Most politicians really believe in things.
Science is not about being certain -- it is the opposite.
Hera (Zeus' wife) sprayed milk across the sky -- creating a luminous strip that we still call the "Milky Way"
I think it just means our concept of time is wrong.
Black and white thinking meets the limits of conception. *every* concept is wrong. It is a trivial statement. Both the concept, and its black & white categorization as right/wrong, are artefacts of the human brain. And the GP is wrong. From a photons point of view, it has zero lifetime only if it travels through a perfect vacuum. Light travels more slowly otherwise, and then observes "time" and "distance".
Another way of saying is, if a photon was generated in a distance star, and it intersected with your eye (i.e., you saw it), then from the photons point of view, this would have been instantaneous if it only travelled through a perfect vacuum.
Stated this way, it does not violate quotidian conceptions of time.
Yeah, yeah, got it. Have spent so much time reading right-wing-nut blogs that I'm failing to see parody from sane people. (Authoritarians used to be split between dems and GOP, but that was the old days.)
A good beating will modify the behaviour of anyone dramatically.
Evidence shows that punishment like this only modifies behaviour whilst the threat continues. Remove the threat, and you'll find nothing changed. This has been very precisely studied.
Medieval crowd control methods as practised by the Catholic Church and Vlad the Impaler, still work just as efficiently today, as it did back then.
Gee... you must be an authoritarian personality. People are different. They are not all like you. Most are not like you. You cannot project your experience of life onto others. Perhaps medieval crowd control would be good for you -- but for the rest of us, it will just create a spiral of violence. Like the violence in medieval times.
but they don't understand why that's a bad thing
Correction: the suffering of others does not naturally fit into their cost function.
The war on drugs (and terrorism) stems from the moral authoritarian personality. It is an attempt to control the animus through brute force, and is ongoing since the imaginary beginnings of the human race.
Assange is in serious danger.
You only watch conservative media, n'est-ce pas?
Information cannot hurt anyone, thus failing to fulfill the fundamental definition of terrorism
I'm going to terrorise you with photos of your parents doing the wild thing.
Russia and China have their own border disputes
The Chinese establishment has a deep hatred of Russia over perceived injustices in the 19thC and during the cold war. (Mongolia and Siberia is *ours*.) Yeah, certain types of chinese nationalists think like that.
China and Russia fell out as cold-war allies precisely because of long standing enmity. Indeed, the chinese invaded vietnam precisely to limit russian influence in SE Asia -- daring russia to respond on the northern border. That was about the time that China realised that, communist or not, the USA was a better political partner than russia.
China will not invade Japan, because the US will get involved.
The Japanese are no push-over -- have one of the largest militaries in the world, and a *huge* fighting age population to draw down on.
There is such a thing called world-opinion that determines what you can and cannot do.
the GOP is immune to world-opinion, and at the same time, they believe that they have all the foreign policy answers. It is batshit insane here.
No one cares about dedicated graphics cards.... unless they play games.
Or do cuda-enabled research.
That is highly theoretical.
It is such a huge PITA to install google as the default search provide in the kiosk internet explorer computers at my university. Seriously, M$ should win awards for the number of clicks and scrolls it takes. It would not surprise me a bit if 90% of people who use bing use it for these reasons: they don't know much about what they are doing, or it is simply too hard to fix.
The point is that with google there can be no lock-in,
I agree with that. Google could compromise on the issue a little, but fundamentally it's nothing like what microsoft was doing.
If you are arguing that a financial transaction tax would crash the economy, then that is a stupid way to do it.
Most of the smaller traders in the markets will disappear,
Most small traders already pay a premium that is greater than 0.5%