Often times, I think Google is way too engineering-driven and quite simply doesn't get humans.
That sounds like a +1 to me. Humans are fickle meat bags. I want my services provided by a no nonsense automaton. One with a sexy voice, though. It makes my impending destruction at the hands of GoogleBots that much easier to bare.
The answer is quite straight forward...don't vote Republican or Democrat. Or, nominate Democrats or Republicans you actually have, you know, sound ideas to solve our problems. This of course requires the will of the governed.
Actually, since our politicians have power only by consent of the the governed, we really only have ourselves to blame. Decades of apathy, ignorance, and greed (among other factors) have created the abomination that is now the government in the United States. If we really wanted to we could replace every elected official in the federal government within 18 years, but we won't.
I was born in Plantation, FL. I've lived in Sarasota, Tampa, Tallahassee, and Melbourne. I have relatives in Ft.Lauderdale and Miami. I've pretty much been everywhere in the state of Florida. Of course many people don't consider Florida "southern", especially south of I-4, but my point still stands. The state government of Florida is worse than the federal government, however hard that may be to fathom. But what should one expect from a state that chooses to elect a governor, Rick Scott, who was at the center of the largest Medicare fraud case of all time? The South continues to lag behind in most quality
of life standards. This is not due primarily to the incompetence of the Federal government, but rather the incompetence of the people and governments of the South.
So the tax payer is on the hook regardless. Why not cut the bullshit and just implement single-payer healthcare? At worst it's as expensive and ineffective as what we have. At best it is cheaper and more efficient.
Your post is nearly pure idiocy. Juding by the complete lack of any
supporting linkage, bullet point ready adages, and general
misunderstanding of how our federal book keeping actually works I'm
going to go out on a limb here and say you're one of those fair tax
rally going big-C conservative types. About the only thing worth
salvaging from is that, indeed, we have a spending problem as well a
taxation problem.
This means setting PERMANENT
rates that are not subject to a vote to maintain.
No law or statute in this country is permanent, including those
codified in the Constitution. Furthermore, a session of
Congress cannot be bound by any previous session of Congress.
The best one could hope for would be an amendment to the
Constitution, but again, this is reversable.
Bring down our business tax
rate, ours is one of highest in the world and one of the few that
taxes income made outside of the country.
Our corporate tax rate is one of the highest but is one of
the lowest in revenue. This rate could be lowered if
all/most deductions are removed. Some charts to mull over.
CAP income tax rates. Set
them in stone. None of this "we will renew it next year crap"
See my previous response.
Flatten tax rates.
Having a flatter tax rate does nothing but give the wealthiest
Americans more money. If giving more money to wealthy people was
such a fantastic driver of economic prosperity I suspect we wouldn't
be having this convesation. There a any number of ways we could
reduce spending and increase revenues. None of the things you
posit will balance our books.
I've always wondered why we have so few marginal tax brackets. I'd like to see a progressive income tax function created and everyone would pay the integral of that function. Perhaps it could be asymptotic at some maximum income. Of course this would mostly rule out filing by paper. I wish.
As a member of this Congressional District I can assure you that Bill Posey is probably genuinely interested in technological research as he and his father used to work for NASA. That being said not supporting NASA in this district is political suicide. That being said, this area is very conservative and is almost entirely run by (R) from local up to federal. Bill Posey is another party-line douche bag, but I suppose most House members are. I've sent numerous emails to him and I regularly fill out his constituent surveys (which are multiple choice (R) talking points).
Ah....the old Java sucks, no it doesn't, C is better, no C++ is, garbage collection is for newbies, I can write some trivial program in that beats your program written in , blah blah blah blah blah. I've seen enough of these threads on/. to know that nothing useful will come of them. Including, especially, this comment. Pro-tip. Does your code meet required specifications? If yes, whodafuckcares.
I respectfully disagree. Just the opposite has happened since my daughter was born six months ago. I get pooped on and laugh it off. I get vomited on and laugh it off. You have to have an uber sense of humor to make it through the rough days. Just my opinion, of course.
Meh. Why don't we just study with cosmos with proven telescope technology and don't try anything else. Why don't we just stop trying new things all together. It's a couple of fucking cells. They would thrown in the garbage otherwise.
Samsung has an official firmware fix for the GPS problem on the Galaxy line of phones. The firmware is scheduled for release in September. The forthcoming Epic 4G from Sprint will be released with this updated firmware.
Engadget Story
As someone who holds a DoD security clearance I can assure you that nothing juicy will be released. This isn't because it would be harmful, but because 99.9% of classified material is spectacularly devoid of anything interesting.
but not too big to fail. If Google decides it isn't making enough profit from advertising to give away services such as Gmail, Maps, etc. they can always start charging for it. I suspect there would be quite an uproar, but most would end up paying. I know I would.
Slashdot Mirror
Often times, I think Google is way too engineering-driven and quite simply doesn't get humans.
That sounds like a +1 to me. Humans are fickle meat bags. I want my services provided by a no nonsense automaton. One with a sexy voice, though. It makes my impending destruction at the hands of GoogleBots that much easier to bare.
The answer is quite straight forward...don't vote Republican or Democrat. Or, nominate Democrats or Republicans you actually have, you know, sound ideas to solve our problems. This of course requires the will of the governed.
Actually, since our politicians have power only by consent of the the governed, we really only have ourselves to blame. Decades of apathy, ignorance, and greed (among other factors) have created the abomination that is now the government in the United States. If we really wanted to we could replace every elected official in the federal government within 18 years, but we won't.
Northrop Grumman is only the third largest defense contractor. Lockheed Martin and Boeing are even bigger spenders.
For Chrome users there is an extension that adds a 'Share to Google+' button at the bottom of each post in Reader.
I was born in Plantation, FL. I've lived in Sarasota, Tampa, Tallahassee, and Melbourne. I have relatives in Ft.Lauderdale and Miami. I've pretty much been everywhere in the state of Florida. Of course many people don't consider Florida "southern", especially south of I-4, but my point still stands. The state government of Florida is worse than the federal government, however hard that may be to fathom. But what should one expect from a state that chooses to elect a governor, Rick Scott, who was at the center of the largest Medicare fraud case of all time? The South continues to lag behind in most quality of life standards. This is not due primarily to the incompetence of the Federal government, but rather the incompetence of the people and governments of the South.
You must not live in the South.
The pedant in me wants to change that 100% to 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999%.
So the tax payer is on the hook regardless. Why not cut the bullshit and just implement single-payer healthcare? At worst it's as expensive and ineffective as what we have. At best it is cheaper and more efficient.
Of course not. They check the bovines, too.
No law or statute in this country is permanent, including those codified in the Constitution. Furthermore, a session of Congress cannot be bound by any previous session of Congress. The best one could hope for would be an amendment to the Constitution, but again, this is reversable.
Our corporate tax rate is one of the highest but is one of the lowest in revenue. This rate could be lowered if all/most deductions are removed. Some charts to mull over.
See my previous response.
Having a flatter tax rate does nothing but give the wealthiest Americans more money. If giving more money to wealthy people was such a fantastic driver of economic prosperity I suspect we wouldn't be having this convesation. There a any number of ways we could reduce spending and increase revenues. None of the things you posit will balance our books.
I've always wondered why we have so few marginal tax brackets. I'd like to see a progressive income tax function created and everyone would pay the integral of that function. Perhaps it could be asymptotic at some maximum income. Of course this would mostly rule out filing by paper. I wish.
As a member of this Congressional District I can assure you that Bill Posey is probably genuinely interested in technological research as he and his father used to work for NASA. That being said not supporting NASA in this district is political suicide. That being said, this area is very conservative and is almost entirely run by (R) from local up to federal. Bill Posey is another party-line douche bag, but I suppose most House members are. I've sent numerous emails to him and I regularly fill out his constituent surveys (which are multiple choice (R) talking points).
Ah....the old Java sucks, no it doesn't, C is better, no C++ is, garbage collection is for newbies, I can write some trivial program in that beats your program written in , blah blah blah blah blah. I've seen enough of these threads on /. to know that nothing useful will come of them. Including, especially, this comment. Pro-tip. Does your code meet required specifications? If yes, whodafuckcares.
+1
Apparently the OP hasn't seen My Cousin Vinny.
I'd like to clone him about 435 times and let them run the Congress.
The mere fact that you'd have to do it 435 times is statement enough about our government.
I respectfully disagree. Just the opposite has happened since my daughter was born six months ago. I get pooped on and laugh it off. I get vomited on and laugh it off. You have to have an uber sense of humor to make it through the rough days. Just my opinion, of course.
Meh. Why don't we just study with cosmos with proven telescope technology and don't try anything else. Why don't we just stop trying new things all together. It's a couple of fucking cells. They would thrown in the garbage otherwise.
Samsung has an official firmware fix for the GPS problem on the Galaxy line of phones. The firmware is scheduled for release in September. The forthcoming Epic 4G from Sprint will be released with this updated firmware. Engadget Story
in the form of a classic Seinfeld episode, The Abstinence.
Does your service come with free NSA eavesdropping too?
Holy guacamole! You can get 20Mbps for $17 USD? Shit, I pay $50 USD for 15Mbps. The US of A really sucks when it comes to telecommunications.
As someone who holds a DoD security clearance I can assure you that nothing juicy will be released. This isn't because it would be harmful, but because 99.9% of classified material is spectacularly devoid of anything interesting.
but not too big to fail. If Google decides it isn't making enough profit from advertising to give away services such as Gmail, Maps, etc. they can always start charging for it. I suspect there would be quite an uproar, but most would end up paying. I know I would.