Why is this not surprising? Anyone with any sort of brain knows that Obama has no idea about anything; the only people voting for him are the ones too stupid to realize he is just saying whatever he needs to, to get elected.
the problem with this reasoning is of course : the rich get to evade taxes, and the working middle class gets to pay the taxes(which are higher for them because someone needs to pay for roads, education, police, military,...).
Given that they're the biggest beneficiaries of those services, I have no problem with the middle class getting stuck with the bill. You're telling me Bill Gates can't afford his own security or his children's education? He needs to collect Social Security or use Medicare?
I love it! Any parasite attempting to vote themselves bennies out of someone else's pocket deserves all the shafting they get. Looks like the joke is on voters who were expecting a free ride at someone else's expense. If it were up to me, I'd give everyone worth over a billion dollars lifetime tax amnesty, just out of spite! Any rich man dodging the tax man and forcing the blood-suckers to pay their own bills is a hero in my book!
As long as there is an underclass, the role of a library will remain important. Given trends in society, the underclass is growing and the divide between those with access to information will only further it. Granted most people with access to resources don't use it, but every now and then it will make a huge difference.
Given that there will always be an "underclass", in that there will always be some people who will be better/worse off than others, you're saying public libraries will be relevant in perpetuity. "Underclass" is relative. Do you see starving people with swollen bellies dying in the streets in this country? I didn't think so - in this country, the poor are more likely to be overweight! How well off do the poorest among us have to be in order not to be an "underclass"?
A coffee shop. I think that Barnes n' Noble have done more to "hurt" libraries than any other place. They're open longer and I can drink some coffee.... Its a huge improvement.
So a private, for profit company is superseding public, taxpayer funded libraries by delivering a superior experience, and you think this is a bad thing? Why?
That said, whether the researchers' results can support their wild speculation at the end of TFA (connecting their research to global warming, religious fundamentalism, and what have you) is another thing. Such speculation is silly.
Unelected FCC commissioners making decisions that will have a huge impact on the future of communications in this country... I'm sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution.
Something tells me the founders didn't have an FCC in mind when they drafted the Constitution, either.
I know a man who has started a charity dedicated to a single town somewhere in Africa. Money & volunteers head down there twice a year. This year they have drilled a well and built a school. These were projects undertaken WITH the people of the village, so they can become self-supporting, and understand how they were done.
They understand, ok....
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Then I suggest the United States tells Those Who Don't Like to go fuck themselves with a cream-cheese dildo.
Look, the damn thing was designed and built largely at the expense of the US taxpayer. If others want to make use of it, fine. But the fact that other countries find it a valuable resource doesn't mean the United States owes them the time of day.
They knew what our policies were when they started using it. If they've decided they no longer wish to abide by those policies, fine. Then get the fuck off of it, and don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord splits ya!
WTF? This to me says one of two things: either they don't care about the artistic integrity of their music at all, or they don't understand or don't have any respect for digital distribution, digital music players. I'm going with the former, as the latter has big $$$ attached now, apparently.
So, WTF is wrong with giving people what they want, in the format they want it, at a price they're willing to pay? That a few pretentious clowns lose their status as arbiters of "art"? And what makes them authorities?
Canadians have decided long ago that it is not right for a rich man to have better service when it means that everyone else will have worse.
So help me out here - is it also not right that a rich man have a better house or a better car if he can afford them? And how does a rich man's paying for superior health care mean everyone else will have worse? If a rich man buys a Porsche, does that force me to buy a Kia?
This is called "social justice", something sorely lacking in the US.
I agree it's sorely lacking in the US, particularly the kind I have in mind. We could use lots more of it. See my sig....
Nothing wrong with what you're doing, that's what H1-B was intended for. What's at issue is that it's being exploited by companies to hire foreign workers, for whatever reasons, in preference to qualified American workers. That's not what it was intended to be used for.
You're looking at a boondoggle that's ripping off actual science programs
In that case there's no point in having a space program at all, because there's absolutely no space science that has any practical application on earth whatsoever, and there's no reason the taxpayers should be stuck with the bill for scientists to have a jerk-fest on the public nickel.
I have no idea where the idea that science should have first claim on space program resources came from. If the government is going to spending public dollars on a space program, that program should have a practical value, or at least a practical goal, to the public that's paying for it. There's no excuse for making the public subsidize scientists merely indulging their curiosity.
If, as you apparently believe, there's no possibility of exploiting space travel for practical use to the public, then cancel the damn public space program altogether. Let the scientists pay for their own feel-good research.
Your share of the nebulous "money" that you can't eat or wear or take shelter under, that only has existence and value in that it gives you power over me and others around you?
No, dimwit, the object of money isn't that I can wear it or take shelter under it. Money is a voucher I can exchange for things I can wear or take shelter under. It beats having lug around things I've produced to trade directly for things other people have produced.
Burn your money, invest your money, makes no fucking difference. Money doesn't do anything except keep count of these predatory arrangements that give men power over each other.
What it keeps track of is how many things I've produced that other people find valuable. That's why other people give me money. Because I've given them something they value.
You cordoned off resources that were floating around out there and put them in your pocket. My house. My factory. My land. My good idea.
Sure thing - there have been iPods and HD-TV's and factories and houses floating around since the Pleistocene Era. And I've done gone and cordoned them off! Good deal, that!
They're only yours to administer because of the cops and guns.
In other words, they're mine because a civilized society will recognize and defend property rights.
I have difficulty in accepting test results where normal potatoes harm a mice's internal organs and they're using that study to draw any conclusions on GM-potatoes.
Actually, you really didn't need to read any farther than this to know you were about to get an eye-full of hysterical bullshit:
Horseshit. I've been using products from the likes of IBM, HP, Sun, Novell and Microsoft in commercial environments for the last 30 years without having any of those kinds of problems. And as an I/T professional I could give a shit about what the "community" happens to take into it's head about what's good for it, from my perspective avoiding legal problems is a Good Thing. I've never had to contend with the threat of a lawsuit invalidating my license for implementing a solution on Solaris or Windows.
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Why is this not surprising? Anyone with any sort of brain knows that Obama has no idea about anything; the only people voting for him are the ones too stupid to realize he is just saying whatever he needs to, to get elected.
Shhhh! It's not like they're actually paying attention, anyway....
the problem with this reasoning is of course : the rich get to evade taxes, and the working middle class gets to pay the taxes(which are higher for them because someone needs to pay for roads, education, police, military, ...).
Given that they're the biggest beneficiaries of those services, I have no problem with the middle class getting stuck with the bill. You're telling me Bill Gates can't afford his own security or his children's education? He needs to collect Social Security or use Medicare?
I love it! Any parasite attempting to vote themselves bennies out of someone else's pocket deserves all the shafting they get. Looks like the joke is on voters who were expecting a free ride at someone else's expense. If it were up to me, I'd give everyone worth over a billion dollars lifetime tax amnesty, just out of spite! Any rich man dodging the tax man and forcing the blood-suckers to pay their own bills is a hero in my book!
As long as there is an underclass, the role of a library will remain important. Given trends in society, the underclass is growing and the divide between those with access to information will only further it. Granted most people with access to resources don't use it, but every now and then it will make a huge difference.
Given that there will always be an "underclass", in that there will always be some people who will be better/worse off than others, you're saying public libraries will be relevant in perpetuity. "Underclass" is relative. Do you see starving people with swollen bellies dying in the streets in this country? I didn't think so - in this country, the poor are more likely to be overweight! How well off do the poorest among us have to be in order not to be an "underclass"?
A coffee shop. I think that Barnes n' Noble have done more to "hurt" libraries than any other place. They're open longer and I can drink some coffee.... Its a huge improvement.
So a private, for profit company is superseding public, taxpayer funded libraries by delivering a superior experience, and you think this is a bad thing? Why?
What are ya? Some kind of communist?
That said, whether the researchers' results can support their wild speculation at the end of TFA (connecting their research to global warming, religious fundamentalism, and what have you) is another thing. Such speculation is silly.
Oh, maybe not entirely silly - but so far the data seem to show that cultural evolution isn't favoring the population the researchers think it should...
Maybe because Techies and Trekies tend to be pretty smart people?
anuary 04, @03:34PM (#21914024) Homepage :)
Someone promote this guy to VP of Marketing right now!
Either that, or Ron Paul's campaign manager...
install solar panels on your roof of your garage and use that juice to charge the car overnight
Not bloody likely you're ever going to be shot for your brains, is it?
Reason wrote a piece on it too, which I think is a lot more apt than anything Moyers had to say about it.
Unelected FCC commissioners making decisions that will have a huge impact on the future of communications in this country... I'm sure this is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Constitution.
Something tells me the founders didn't have an FCC in mind when they drafted the Constitution, either.
Too bad Moonbats aren't migratory birds.
They understand, ok....
Maybe one can find a majority that does not like it ( http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm ).
Then I suggest the United States tells Those Who Don't Like to go fuck themselves with a cream-cheese dildo.
Look, the damn thing was designed and built largely at the expense of the US taxpayer. If others want to make use of it, fine. But the fact that other countries find it a valuable resource doesn't mean the United States owes them the time of day.
They knew what our policies were when they started using it. If they've decided they no longer wish to abide by those policies, fine. Then get the fuck off of it, and don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord splits ya!
Can we for once agree to discuss an environmental group without resorting to mean-spirited playground humor?
No.
WTF? This to me says one of two things: either they don't care about the artistic integrity of their music at all, or they don't understand or don't have any respect for digital distribution, digital music players. I'm going with the former, as the latter has big $$$ attached now, apparently.
So, WTF is wrong with giving people what they want, in the format they want it, at a price they're willing to pay? That a few pretentious clowns lose their status as arbiters of "art"? And what makes them authorities?
...and here we have a rebuttal.
Well we are one step closer to having robot overlords, we are now equipping autonomous robots with flame throwers!
Well, I initially misread the caption as Man Finally Makes Weed-Smoking Robot...
Maybe I was closer to the truth than I thought...
Hey, Tin Man - got a light?
Canadians have decided long ago that it is not right for a rich man to have better service when it means that everyone else will have worse.
So help me out here - is it also not right that a rich man have a better house or a better car if he can afford them? And how does a rich man's paying for superior health care mean everyone else will have worse? If a rich man buys a Porsche, does that force me to buy a Kia?
This is called "social justice", something sorely lacking in the US.
I agree it's sorely lacking in the US, particularly the kind I have in mind. We could use lots more of it. See my sig....
....and the direct phone number for Larry M. Lebowitz is 412-297-4979. Tell him he has some 'splaining to do....
Nothing wrong with what you're doing, that's what H1-B was intended for. What's at issue is that it's being exploited by companies to hire foreign workers, for whatever reasons, in preference to qualified American workers. That's not what it was intended to be used for.
You're looking at a boondoggle that's ripping off actual science programs
In that case there's no point in having a space program at all, because there's absolutely no space science that has any practical application on earth whatsoever, and there's no reason the taxpayers should be stuck with the bill for scientists to have a jerk-fest on the public nickel.
I have no idea where the idea that science should have first claim on space program resources came from. If the government is going to spending public dollars on a space program, that program should have a practical value, or at least a practical goal, to the public that's paying for it. There's no excuse for making the public subsidize scientists merely indulging their curiosity.
If, as you apparently believe, there's no possibility of exploiting space travel for practical use to the public, then cancel the damn public space program altogether. Let the scientists pay for their own feel-good research.
Your share of the nebulous "money" that you can't eat or wear or take shelter under, that only has existence and value in that it gives you power over me and others around you?
No, dimwit, the object of money isn't that I can wear it or take shelter under it. Money is a voucher I can exchange for things I can wear or take shelter under. It beats having lug around things I've produced to trade directly for things other people have produced.
Burn your money, invest your money, makes no fucking difference. Money doesn't do anything except keep count of these predatory arrangements that give men power over each other.
What it keeps track of is how many things I've produced that other people find valuable. That's why other people give me money. Because I've given them something they value.
You cordoned off resources that were floating around out there and put them in your pocket. My house. My factory. My land. My good idea.
Sure thing - there have been iPods and HD-TV's and factories and houses floating around since the Pleistocene Era. And I've done gone and cordoned them off! Good deal, that!
They're only yours to administer because of the cops and guns.
In other words, they're mine because a civilized society will recognize and defend property rights.
I have difficulty in accepting test results where normal potatoes harm a mice's internal organs and they're using that study to draw any conclusions on GM-potatoes.
Actually, you really didn't need to read any farther than this to know you were about to get an eye-full of hysterical bullshit:
Doc Ruby writes
You failed to mention that the telecom monopoly was broken up by government intervention, not the free market.
And you failed to mention the telecom monopoly was also created by government intervention.
Horseshit. I've been using products from the likes of IBM, HP, Sun, Novell and Microsoft in commercial environments for the last 30 years without having any of those kinds of problems. And as an I/T professional I could give a shit about what the "community" happens to take into it's head about what's good for it, from my perspective avoiding legal problems is a Good Thing. I've never had to contend with the threat of a lawsuit invalidating my license for implementing a solution on Solaris or Windows.