If one has to criticize American society, too little hysteria over risk seems like an odd choice.
For a country that is busy becoming scared of every boogeyman that the political and special interest groups can come up with, too little hysteria over risks does seem like on odd choice of wording.
As to society tolerating tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, you might want to research that some more. Try this place http://dammdrinkers.com/ MADD is becoming more of a problem than drunk drivers ever were.
Wow, I'm really hoping you aren't an Economics teacher. No wonder things are getting bad here with this kind of thinking.
Repeat after me, ALL taxes come from the consumer. There is no such thing as a "corporate" tax. They just apply whatever taxes they have to pay to the cost of their goods.
All corporate taxes do is increase the costs of the goods these corporations produce. Well, that and has them leaving the USA to avoid the punitive taxes applied to them. Anyone want a Miller High Life(Corporation now based in South Africa).
In respect to "and do you think the Bush tax cuts would somehow never come home to roost?", this is a false argument. Tax revenues have gone UP every time a tax cut has been implemented. The problem isn't with the amount of taxes the government takes in, they're taking more in now than ever before, it's in how much it spends.
If you want to see some real pain here in the US, just keep pushing those taxes up and watch the money slowly leave this country. The more taxes go up, the more people and businesses look for ways to hide their money or otherwise make it inaccessible to the IRS.
I had come across the 146% through some reading else where, so it might be over stated, but as for the increase in violent crimes by gun since further controls were started, they are on an up according to any search I've done.
The first three listing when searching google for 'australian gun ban':
Just about any study I've ever seen about the subject has seen an increase in gun related crimes right after further gun controls were enacted. There are some few places where such laws work, Iceland maybe?, but not most.
I really don't get people that are into 'gun control', as in taking all guns away from law abiding citizens. Then the only people left with guns, other than government types, is the criminals that no longer have to fear their victims being able to fight back. Look into how well this has worked out in Australia. They banned guns a year ago, and since then, armed robbery is up something like 146% with all other gun related crimes up at a similar rate. Yeah, taking guns away from the law abiding works really well. NOT!
Um, hate to break this to you, but Lincoln was a Republican. During the time of the Civil war, the North was comprised of Republicans and "conservative" Democrats, those that were against slavery. The South was primarily Democrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)#History This is why blacks predominately voted Republican until the days of Roosevelt and the New Deal brought them over to the Democratic side. One of the things that has been amazing me lately is the amount of rewriting people want to do with history. For a another good one, look into the true cause of the Crusades. How dare those evil Christians try to stop the invasion of Muslims coming from the South and taking all their land. Most people don't realize the Crusades didn't start until the Muslim horde was on the doorsteps of Constantinople and the Christian Church asked for help. Not trying to absolve all the bad things that happened during the Crusades mind you. Bad people will flourish in bad circumstances unfortunately, and they exists in all cultural and religious forms. But the Crusades where actual started as a defensive response, not as conquering invasion.
No, I don't think that the sun is the only cause of our warming up. I just think it might be contributing to it. I also think that CO2 levels are contributing to this warming effect. Then there is all the direct excess heat from, well, everything, cars, people, fireplaces, air conditioners (they put out a lot more excess heat than most people realize), black-top streets...
There are lot of things that are contributing to the overall warming up of our planet. We do need to quit putting so much CO2 in the air. Over time, I'm sure we will reduce these amounts. I just don't believe that just reducing CO2 (KYOTO) is the "answer" to the problem, if there really is one. Are we going to start killing all the plants that produce CO2? Limit populations so we're not breathing so much out? Start wars with all the countries that don't abide?
Eh, not sure what the answer is really. Maybe we'll just have to create monster air purifiers to clean the CO2 out of the air:)
something tells me that increased solar activity has more to do with global warming.
Something may well tell you that. But it isn't science.
Not science eh, then please exlplain the reason that the ice caps on Mars are melting. It's been a pretty steady decline in ice according to the rover that we have had over there for the last 8 years. I'm sure Global Warming is a problem over there with all the gas guzzling martians pumping out CO2, eh?
The problem with your progressive tax is expressed fairly well by Reteo Varala. It's exactly what the powers that be want in order for them to be more dependent on the government.
A better tax idea would be the Fair Tax plan. The idea is to abolish all forms of taxes except one, the retail sales tax. And by all taxes, I do mean all. No income taxes, no business to business taxes, none. Just a sales tax on items you purchase.
This allows our businesses to thrive and removes the "rich vs. poor" in taxation that the political hacks use to promote class discriminations.
You can find out more about this here. www.fairtax.org Good reading:)
...and voting for Bush so that the rich get more tax cuts and I get further in debt
You know, most people research things, but few ever want to research this tax thing. More rich people get tax cuts and you get further in debt, huh? You do realize that the "rich" pay about 90% of all the taxes in this country, right? It's that graduating scale our government likes to use. As you make more money, the government starts taking larger and larger chunks away making it harder and harder to get enough money together for retirement, college funds, savings in general or any kind of investments. And this is just so the money taken from them can "help out those less fortunate". You know, all those people out there that know how to milk our welfare system for all its worth.
It seems more and more people here in the USA seem to want to turn us into a socialist state. This isn't what our forefathers had in mind when they set up the Constitution. No where in that peice of paper they wrote up did say that the government would take it's citizens money away for the good of commonwealth. But they tax you for just about everything now just for that purpose.
It is because of all these taxes that we are struggling so much in this new globalized market. Our Companies are taxed on imports, exports and on just about everything dealing with their business. So these companies, in order to compete in the global market, often find themselves having to move their base of operations overseas, where they won't be taxed into a condition that makes it hard to compete with foreign companies.
It's our taxes that are killing us. Individuals are taxed on this graduating scale that makes it hard to build up any capital or make many worthwhile investments (I think the rich liberals just don't want anyone else getting rich any more personally) and companies are taxed both traditionally or through fines and fees on just about anything you can imagine, making it harder for them to expand and create new jobs.
If we really want to work on fixing things here in the USA, we need to see about replacing our broken tax system. That and work on preventing our politicians from pork barreling our money (taxes) away on stupid crap.
Email has to be 'opened' in order to read it similar to enveloped mail has to be 'opened' to be read (at least in most cases). The postcard similarity does not hold true. I don't think it should be legal for them to 'open' your email, much less read it.
Encryption is an answer to preventing unauthorized reading of your email, but ecrypted email is more like security postage, not regular postage. It comes at an extra expense. Maybe not directly in a monetary form, but as already posted, not everyone can use encrypted email. Some don't have the ability, some have different types of systems that aren't compatible. The reasons vary. But these cost in terms of frustration and loss of time. Do we really have to pay extra just to make sure people aren't trolling our email?
Your kidding right. Yeah he lists his sources and uses parts of them. The trick is to the "parts of them" that he uses. He is at good at editing the truth and getting people to believe his innuendos and half-truths as the Nazi propagandist were.
For example: Moore rushes a Senator unexpectedly and starts asking him questions about his family contributing its kids for the war. The Senator replies that he has two nephews in the military and one is about to be deployed to the Middle East. Him asking the question is in the movie. The Senators response is not though, leading those people watching the movie to beleive in a LIE.
This is what Moore is good at. Distorting the truth so much and so well, that his followers eventually think that it is the truth. Moore is so full of BS he could fertilize the world into farming land.
Moore lists (just about) every single source he uses up front. Newspaper articles, dates, firsthand accounts from relevant experts... you can't say Moore is distorting what so-and-so says when so-and-so is saying it right into the camera.
Your kidding right. Yeah he lists his sources and uses parts of them. The trick is to the "parts of them" that he uses. He is at good at editing the truth and getting people to believe his innuendos and half-truths as the Nazi propagandist were.
For example: Moore rushes a Senator unexpectedly and starts asking him questions about his family contributing its kids for the war. The Senator replies that he has two nephews in the military and one is about to be deployed to the Middle East. Him asking the question is in the movie. The Senators response is not though, leading those people watching the movie to beleive in a LIE.
This is what Moore is good at. Distorting the truth so much and so well, that his followers eventually think that it is the truth. Moore is so full of BS he could fertilize the world into farming land.
I'd like to know where this survey was taken as well. I'm a Web Developer making less than half their claim of $60,869 a year. I work in Austin Texas, one of the more tech savvy citys with a large IT sector. I know those aren't the rates going here in our "little silicon valley."
Um, Kalak, as a teacher I hope you have done some research on Bowling for Columbine and show it in the right context in the classroom. I personally find the movie distasteful as it is primarily concocted of lies. Read here a little about it or do some research yourself: www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
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If one has to criticize American society, too little hysteria over risk seems like an odd choice.
For a country that is busy becoming scared of every boogeyman that the political and special interest groups can come up with, too little hysteria over risks does seem like on odd choice of wording.
As to society tolerating tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, you might want to research that some more. Try this place http://dammdrinkers.com/ MADD is becoming more of a problem than drunk drivers ever were.
Wow, I'm really hoping you aren't an Economics teacher. No wonder things are getting bad here with this kind of thinking.
Repeat after me, ALL taxes come from the consumer. There is no such thing as a "corporate" tax. They just apply whatever taxes they have to pay to the cost of their goods.
All corporate taxes do is increase the costs of the goods these corporations produce. Well, that and has them leaving the USA to avoid the punitive taxes applied to them. Anyone want a Miller High Life(Corporation now based in South Africa).
In respect to "and do you think the Bush tax cuts would somehow never come home to roost?", this is a false argument. Tax revenues have gone UP every time a tax cut has been implemented. The problem isn't with the amount of taxes the government takes in, they're taking more in now than ever before, it's in how much it spends.
If you want to see some real pain here in the US, just keep pushing those taxes up and watch the money slowly leave this country. The more taxes go up, the more people and businesses look for ways to hide their money or otherwise make it inaccessible to the IRS.
I had come across the 146% through some reading else where, so it might be over stated, but as for the increase in violent crimes by gun since further controls were started, they are on an up according to any search I've done.
The first three listing when searching google for 'australian gun ban':
http://www.gunowners.org/hlr-au.htm
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/aus.html
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15304
Just about any study I've ever seen about the subject has seen an increase in gun related crimes right after further gun controls were enacted. There are some few places where such laws work, Iceland maybe?, but not most.
I really don't get people that are into 'gun control', as in taking all guns away from law abiding citizens. Then the only people left with guns, other than government types, is the criminals that no longer have to fear their victims being able to fight back. Look into how well this has worked out in Australia. They banned guns a year ago, and since then, armed robbery is up something like 146% with all other gun related crimes up at a similar rate. Yeah, taking guns away from the law abiding works really well. NOT!
Um, hate to break this to you, but Lincoln was a Republican. During the time of the Civil war, the North was comprised of Republicans and "conservative" Democrats, those that were against slavery. The South was primarily Democrats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)#History This is why blacks predominately voted Republican until the days of Roosevelt and the New Deal brought them over to the Democratic side. One of the things that has been amazing me lately is the amount of rewriting people want to do with history. For a another good one, look into the true cause of the Crusades. How dare those evil Christians try to stop the invasion of Muslims coming from the South and taking all their land. Most people don't realize the Crusades didn't start until the Muslim horde was on the doorsteps of Constantinople and the Christian Church asked for help. Not trying to absolve all the bad things that happened during the Crusades mind you. Bad people will flourish in bad circumstances unfortunately, and they exists in all cultural and religious forms. But the Crusades where actual started as a defensive response, not as conquering invasion.
No, I don't think that the sun is the only cause of our warming up. I just think it might be contributing to it. I also think that CO2 levels are contributing to this warming effect. Then there is all the direct excess heat from, well, everything, cars, people, fireplaces, air conditioners (they put out a lot more excess heat than most people realize), black-top streets...
:)
There are lot of things that are contributing to the overall warming up of our planet. We do need to quit putting so much CO2 in the air. Over time, I'm sure we will reduce these amounts. I just don't believe that just reducing CO2 (KYOTO) is the "answer" to the problem, if there really is one. Are we going to start killing all the plants that produce CO2? Limit populations so we're not breathing so much out? Start wars with all the countries that don't abide?
Eh, not sure what the answer is really. Maybe we'll just have to create monster air purifiers to clean the CO2 out of the air
something tells me that increased solar activity has more to do with global warming.
Something may well tell you that. But it isn't science.
Not science eh, then please exlplain the reason that the ice caps on Mars are melting. It's been a pretty steady decline in ice according to the rover that we have had over there for the last 8 years. I'm sure Global Warming is a problem over there with all the gas guzzling martians pumping out CO2, eh?
The problem with your progressive tax is expressed fairly well by Reteo Varala. It's exactly what the powers that be want in order for them to be more dependent on the government.
:)
A better tax idea would be the Fair Tax plan. The idea is to abolish all forms of taxes except one, the retail sales tax. And by all taxes, I do mean all. No income taxes, no business to business taxes, none. Just a sales tax on items you purchase.
This allows our businesses to thrive and removes the "rich vs. poor" in taxation that the political hacks use to promote class discriminations.
You can find out more about this here. www.fairtax.org Good reading
...and voting for Bush so that the rich get more tax cuts and I get further in debt
You know, most people research things, but few ever want to research this tax thing. More rich people get tax cuts and you get further in debt, huh? You do realize that the "rich" pay about 90% of all the taxes in this country, right? It's that graduating scale our government likes to use. As you make more money, the government starts taking larger and larger chunks away making it harder and harder to get enough money together for retirement, college funds, savings in general or any kind of investments. And this is just so the money taken from them can "help out those less fortunate". You know, all those people out there that know how to milk our welfare system for all its worth.
It seems more and more people here in the USA seem to want to turn us into a socialist state. This isn't what our forefathers had in mind when they set up the Constitution. No where in that peice of paper they wrote up did say that the government would take it's citizens money away for the good of commonwealth. But they tax you for just about everything now just for that purpose.
It is because of all these taxes that we are struggling so much in this new globalized market. Our Companies are taxed on imports, exports and on just about everything dealing with their business. So these companies, in order to compete in the global market, often find themselves having to move their base of operations overseas, where they won't be taxed into a condition that makes it hard to compete with foreign companies.
It's our taxes that are killing us. Individuals are taxed on this graduating scale that makes it hard to build up any capital or make many worthwhile investments (I think the rich liberals just don't want anyone else getting rich any more personally) and companies are taxed both traditionally or through fines and fees on just about anything you can imagine, making it harder for them to expand and create new jobs.
If we really want to work on fixing things here in the USA, we need to see about replacing our broken tax system. That and work on preventing our politicians from pork barreling our money (taxes) away on stupid crap.
He forgot Homophobia in that list of root passwords to the constitution.
Email has to be 'opened' in order to read it similar to enveloped mail has to be 'opened' to be read (at least in most cases). The postcard similarity does not hold true. I don't think it should be legal for them to 'open' your email, much less read it.
Encryption is an answer to preventing unauthorized reading of your email, but ecrypted email is more like security postage, not regular postage. It comes at an extra expense. Maybe not directly in a monetary form, but as already posted, not everyone can use encrypted email. Some don't have the ability, some have different types of systems that aren't compatible. The reasons vary. But these cost in terms of frustration and loss of time. Do we really have to pay extra just to make sure people aren't trolling our email?
Your kidding right. Yeah he lists his sources and uses parts of them. The trick is to the "parts of them" that he uses. He is at good at editing the truth and getting people to believe his innuendos and half-truths as the Nazi propagandist were. For example: Moore rushes a Senator unexpectedly and starts asking him questions about his family contributing its kids for the war. The Senator replies that he has two nephews in the military and one is about to be deployed to the Middle East. Him asking the question is in the movie. The Senators response is not though, leading those people watching the movie to beleive in a LIE. This is what Moore is good at. Distorting the truth so much and so well, that his followers eventually think that it is the truth. Moore is so full of BS he could fertilize the world into farming land.
Moore lists (just about) every single source he uses up front. Newspaper articles, dates, firsthand accounts from relevant experts... you can't say Moore is distorting what so-and-so says when so-and-so is saying it right into the camera.
Your kidding right. Yeah he lists his sources and uses parts of them. The trick is to the "parts of them" that he uses. He is at good at editing the truth and getting people to believe his innuendos and half-truths as the Nazi propagandist were.
For example: Moore rushes a Senator unexpectedly and starts asking him questions about his family contributing its kids for the war. The Senator replies that he has two nephews in the military and one is about to be deployed to the Middle East. Him asking the question is in the movie. The Senators response is not though, leading those people watching the movie to beleive in a LIE.
This is what Moore is good at. Distorting the truth so much and so well, that his followers eventually think that it is the truth. Moore is so full of BS he could fertilize the world into farming land.
I'd like to know where this survey was taken as well. I'm a Web Developer making less than half their claim of $60,869 a year. I work in Austin Texas, one of the more tech savvy citys with a large IT sector. I know those aren't the rates going here in our "little silicon valley."
Um, Kalak, as a teacher I hope you have done some research on Bowling for Columbine and show it in the right context in the classroom. I personally find the movie distasteful as it is primarily concocted of lies. Read here a little about it or do some research yourself: www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html