People who want to pull the ladder up after themselves are scum.
He isn't pulling the ladder up after anyone unless you are one of those people that believes it's impossible to do anything unless Uncle Sam holds your hand every step of the way. I had to delay entering college for two years and work while I was in school to afford the tuition -- but I managed to do it without burying myself under a mountain of student loan debt. It's entirely possible to go to college without help from Uncle Sam. Of course, this guy hasn't suggested taking that help away, all he's suggested is applying some common sense to way we dole out that help.
Are you referring to the scumbag identity thieves or the scumbags in the financial sector that decided that someone entering a DOB and SSN on a website would be enough "verification" of identity to allow someone to open credit accounts?
I know someone who applied for and received a $25,000 line of credit from Citi online with no actual verification of who he was. His credit card arrived in the mail a few days later. He had recently moved and his new address wasn't even on his credit report yet. You'd think the fact that the card was going to a previously unknown address would be enough to set off a red flag but it didn't. All he did was apply online using information that any idiot who was willing to dumpster diving could have retrieved.
And with limits on education, you get limits on job opportunities. Fine, as long as it it the person who chooses such.
He didn't say there should be limits on education. He said that there should be limits on how much education the Government will subsidize.
I have a friend who is a professional student. She has two masters degrees and is now entering law school. She's entered the "real world" a few times but can't decide what she wants to be when she grows up (she's 34....) and keeps going back for more degrees. When she finally does figure out what she wants to do she'll be buried so deeply in student loans that she'll probably never be in the black. Meanwhile her indecisiveness is being subsidized by our tax dollars.
A few economists have also made the argument that too much cheap government money leaves next to no incentive to colleges to lower their rates. In fact tuition has been climbing pretty consistently for years now. This does nobody any good -- not the student who is absorbing more debt and will have less freedom of action when he/she finally finishes school, nor the taxpayer that is subsidizing the inflated tuition bill.
Yes, actually I do believe that. He's already raised taxes on the middle class. He's conveniently set up his deficit reduction commission so it reports after the election and so denies the electorate an opportunity to weigh in. Members of his administration are openly musing about VATs. If you think he isn't going to continue to raise taxes then you haven't been paying a lot of attention.
Oh, and go fuck yourself for the race card play you just made. Dissent != racism.
Which has exactly zero to do with the deficit. The spending on the war may have been keep out of the annual spending bill but it was still tallied against the annual deficit. You can't deny that the deficit has gone up a lot under President Obama. Nor can you use bailouts as an excuse. How did then Senator Obama vote on the bailout packages?
That's a fairly pessimistic attitude. It assumes that humanity will not continue to advance. The current population would not have been sustainable with the technology from 100 years ago. Ditto 1,000 years before that. Our main problem for scaling society is energy and we already have the technology for that.
Regardless, the best way bring down the birth rate is to bring the developing world up to our standards. Do you know a better way to do it that doesn't trample on human rights?
Yes, because the US Attorney has nothing better to do than charge you for copying a Microsoft CD when Microsoft itself tells it's customers to do this. I can completely understand why you are worried.
Nevertheless, if he keeps his pledge with respect to income tax, payroll tax, and capital gains taxes, most Democrats will consider his pledge to be fulfilled.
"I will cut taxes--cut taxes--for 95% of all working families. In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raising taxes on the middle-class." From here "I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." From here
Just admit that he lied to us and all will be forgiven.
I'd do that, but my XP disc is stamped "DO NOT MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF THIS DISC" and I haven't yet finished reading USC Title 17 to determine whether your recommendation would be illegal.
I know you are going for sarcasm, but Microsoft actually tells you how to do this. Also, it says "illegal copies", Microsoft has never much cared if you make copies for your own personal use. Hell, they don't even distribute media by default for their bulk licensed products. You have to download them or pay extra for the media.
Finally, I'm really lazy I admit, but can someone tell me if theres a way to ignore timothy and kdawson stories?
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I mean, first of all, no one knows what they are going to do to solve the problem.
Says who? They are going to solve the problem by drilling a relief well. Unfortunately that takes time. In the interim we need to figure out a way to reduce and/or contain the existing flow.
True that, but modern knowledge wouldn't go away just because modern technology did. As a random example, consider infection control. We know how bugs spread and what steps to take to reduce that spread. Many (most?) of those steps aren't dependent on advanced technology -- hand washing for instance. How many lives would have been saved in the past with the benefit of this knowledge?
except for tasty losers like panda bears that are large enough to shoot and barely capable of reproducing without assistance.
FTFY;)
Even nukes would require some real doing.
I don't think you could kill off humanity with nukes. Humanity managed to survive a volcanic winter without the benefit of modern knowledge or technology. What's the energy release of an super volcanic eruption compared to nuclear weapons?
Ronald Reagan - you mean that guy who raised the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion? [wikipedia.org]
I'm pretty sure he had some help from Congress. As I recall the Democrats controlled the House for all of his Presidency and the Senate for the last two years of it.
Assigning all the blame for the national deficit to the President shows a fundamental lack of understanding of our political system.
I live in the People's Republic of New York, so there you go. Not a very gun friendly state at all.
Even without criminal charges, he will certainly lose his pistol license, which in this state means he can't legally possess a handgun at all. Note that I didn't say "own", or even "carry", I said "possess". In New York State it's a crime to so much as touch a handgun if you aren't licensed. I can't legally show my live-in girlfriend how to clear my handguns, nor can I take her to the pistol range and let her shoot them. If she touches one of them and it's unloaded she has committed a misdemeanor. If it's loaded she has committed a felony. How asinine is that?
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FTFY
So why did you spend 2 years avoiding the money being doled out?
Because I hate debt and would rather pay for things up front than be buried under a mountain of non-dischargeable-in-bankruptcy debt?
That's not being "doled out".
Sure it is. The cost of education would come down if it wasn't for all this money being thrown into the system.
People who want to pull the ladder up after themselves are scum.
He isn't pulling the ladder up after anyone unless you are one of those people that believes it's impossible to do anything unless Uncle Sam holds your hand every step of the way. I had to delay entering college for two years and work while I was in school to afford the tuition -- but I managed to do it without burying myself under a mountain of student loan debt. It's entirely possible to go to college without help from Uncle Sam. Of course, this guy hasn't suggested taking that help away, all he's suggested is applying some common sense to way we dole out that help.
Shit rolls downhill.....
These scum bags belong in prison for life.
Are you referring to the scumbag identity thieves or the scumbags in the financial sector that decided that someone entering a DOB and SSN on a website would be enough "verification" of identity to allow someone to open credit accounts?
I know someone who applied for and received a $25,000 line of credit from Citi online with no actual verification of who he was. His credit card arrived in the mail a few days later. He had recently moved and his new address wasn't even on his credit report yet. You'd think the fact that the card was going to a previously unknown address would be enough to set off a red flag but it didn't. All he did was apply online using information that any idiot who was willing to dumpster diving could have retrieved.
And with limits on education, you get limits on job opportunities. Fine, as long as it it the person who chooses such.
He didn't say there should be limits on education. He said that there should be limits on how much education the Government will subsidize.
I have a friend who is a professional student. She has two masters degrees and is now entering law school. She's entered the "real world" a few times but can't decide what she wants to be when she grows up (she's 34....) and keeps going back for more degrees. When she finally does figure out what she wants to do she'll be buried so deeply in student loans that she'll probably never be in the black. Meanwhile her indecisiveness is being subsidized by our tax dollars.
A few economists have also made the argument that too much cheap government money leaves next to no incentive to colleges to lower their rates. In fact tuition has been climbing pretty consistently for years now. This does nobody any good -- not the student who is absorbing more debt and will have less freedom of action when he/she finally finishes school, nor the taxpayer that is subsidizing the inflated tuition bill.
Yes, actually I do believe that. He's already raised taxes on the middle class. He's conveniently set up his deficit reduction commission so it reports after the election and so denies the electorate an opportunity to weigh in. Members of his administration are openly musing about VATs. If you think he isn't going to continue to raise taxes then you haven't been paying a lot of attention.
Oh, and go fuck yourself for the race card play you just made. Dissent != racism.
Do you really think that the US can support a domestic population of over a billion in 2089?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
Too bad this administration doesn't have anything planned for the future but tax hikes.
Water can be boiled with all matter of modern (electric stove) or ancient (wood fire) technology.
Which has exactly zero to do with the deficit. The spending on the war may have been keep out of the annual spending bill but it was still tallied against the annual deficit. You can't deny that the deficit has gone up a lot under President Obama. Nor can you use bailouts as an excuse. How did then Senator Obama vote on the bailout packages?
That's a fairly pessimistic attitude. It assumes that humanity will not continue to advance. The current population would not have been sustainable with the technology from 100 years ago. Ditto 1,000 years before that. Our main problem for scaling society is energy and we already have the technology for that.
Regardless, the best way bring down the birth rate is to bring the developing world up to our standards. Do you know a better way to do it that doesn't trample on human rights?
Yes, because the US Attorney has nothing better to do than charge you for copying a Microsoft CD when Microsoft itself tells it's customers to do this. I can completely understand why you are worried.
Nevertheless, if he keeps his pledge with respect to income tax, payroll tax, and capital gains taxes, most Democrats will consider his pledge to be fulfilled.
Fixed that for you.
"I will cut taxes--cut taxes--for 95% of all working families. In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raising taxes on the middle-class." From here
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." From here
Just admit that he lied to us and all will be forgiven.
I'd do that, but my XP disc is stamped "DO NOT MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF THIS DISC" and I haven't yet finished reading USC Title 17 to determine whether your recommendation would be illegal.
I know you are going for sarcasm, but Microsoft actually tells you how to do this. Also, it says "illegal copies", Microsoft has never much cared if you make copies for your own personal use. Hell, they don't even distribute media by default for their bulk licensed products. You have to download them or pay extra for the media.
Finally, I'm really lazy I admit, but can someone tell me if theres a way to ignore timothy and kdawson stories?
Go to help & preferences. If you use the classic index, click on "authors" and un-check them. If you use the dynamic index, click on "exclusions" and check them.
Freaking the hell out never improves situations.
No, but it does get people to watch your TV show and buy your newspapers.
I mean, first of all, no one knows what they are going to do to solve the problem.
Says who? They are going to solve the problem by drilling a relief well. Unfortunately that takes time. In the interim we need to figure out a way to reduce and/or contain the existing flow.
True that, but modern knowledge wouldn't go away just because modern technology did. As a random example, consider infection control. We know how bugs spread and what steps to take to reduce that spread. Many (most?) of those steps aren't dependent on advanced technology -- hand washing for instance. How many lives would have been saved in the past with the benefit of this knowledge?
What, you mean to imply that software engineers aren't qualified to predict geologically driven doomsday events?
except for tasty losers like panda bears that are large enough to shoot and barely capable of reproducing without assistance.
FTFY ;)
Even nukes would require some real doing.
I don't think you could kill off humanity with nukes. Humanity managed to survive a volcanic winter without the benefit of modern knowledge or technology. What's the energy release of an super volcanic eruption compared to nuclear weapons?
because this administration has not once called anyone who disagrees with it a racist
So what? Their supporters in the Congress and the pundit-sphere have. That was enough for people to condemn GWB when he was in office, why not BHO?
Ronald Reagan - you mean that guy who raised the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion? [wikipedia.org]
I'm pretty sure he had some help from Congress. As I recall the Democrats controlled the House for all of his Presidency and the Senate for the last two years of it.
Assigning all the blame for the national deficit to the President shows a fundamental lack of understanding of our political system.
I live in the People's Republic of New York, so there you go. Not a very gun friendly state at all.
Even without criminal charges, he will certainly lose his pistol license, which in this state means he can't legally possess a handgun at all. Note that I didn't say "own", or even "carry", I said "possess". In New York State it's a crime to so much as touch a handgun if you aren't licensed. I can't legally show my live-in girlfriend how to clear my handguns, nor can I take her to the pistol range and let her shoot them. If she touches one of them and it's unloaded she has committed a misdemeanor. If it's loaded she has committed a felony. How asinine is that?