I think we are all missing the blame. The voters are the ones who keep voting in politicians who are controlled by the wealthy. Washington was mostly not in favor of the bank bailout, but felt forced to pass it. If they didn't bail out the banks, our retirement funds would shrivel and they would get voted out.....or at least that is what they were being told by the corruption behind the system. So after initially being against a bank bailout, many politicians hung their head and voted for it. This is exactly why the corruption behind the republican party keeps pushing to privatize every fund possible, such as social security and pension funds. That helps them take control of the 1 item they still don't control.....our vote.
Besides, the government grew under Bush by more than any president in history while the debt grew under Obama more than any other.
If you are one of the people blaming one party over another, then you are part of the problem. The republicans are crooks, and the democrats idiots for not being smart enough to expose it, and not being able to find actual solutions. Your choice, corrupt or stupid....most politicians seem to fit into one of those 2 categories.
So are they no longer trolls then, just regular users? You then probably need to send the most trollish trolls into the uber-troll maximum-security bubble.....or else they will offend the regular trolls!
What happens when the troll version of the site has more traffic, viewers, comments, and ad generating revenue than the non troll version? Which one is the true site then? Do the trolls then rule?
"No, evolution's 'aim' was the propagation of its own dna. Our aims are different"
Excellent point. And to bring it back around....we are doing this so that we can propagate our own DNA. Evolution at work! The fungi-raising ants have surely went through this already; maybe it would be easier for us to evolve and meet the corn halfway.
"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000."
You should have said....
"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000 + $10,000 in assets". This assumes you were smart enough to invest in areas that added value to your company. Most small businesses would anyway.
Even at the paltry 10% tax rate, the watering system is looking pretty good......then consider the benefit to the watering-system company, and all of the related industries. Without that encouragement, the owner sits on the cash and tries to pocket as much as he can. This sure seems to be happening as the tax rates on the wealthy have dropped since the 70s. What else is causing the growing gap between the classes?
How about we set the tax rate at 50%. You sold $100k, expenses were $50k, profits are $50k. Then your profits are $25,000 after taxes. OR, you could invest that $50k in another employee, and some equipment. You pay no taxes now, and you own a business with a value which has increased by more than $50k (assuming you spent money on company growth/talent/assets), and you are only out $25k.
So tell me, which number is better, $25,000 or $0+$50k in growth. Which one breeds a growing business, and which one breeds a climate of trying to milk your company for all it is worth so you can buy a small island?
I am not an economist; just a voter trying to understand. The republican soapbox lecture on economics seems completely backwards to me.
Lets just drop that old saw right now. Taxing the top 10% does NOT discourage job creation..... taxes can encourage growth.
Taxes are based upon PROFIT. Give a wealthy man a choice between paying taxes or investing in his assets/employees/business, they will choose to create jobs.
By having low taxes on the top 10%, you encourage them to pocket as much money as they can....and use that money to buy up competition. You are then encouraging larger monopolistic businesses...which I feel are less efficient, worse for the economy, worse for the country, less rewarding to their staff, and then are "too big to fail".
On the contrary, tax the heck out record profits, and you encourage the top 10% to invest in their people/business/assets.....thereby helping the economy.
Am I missing something. Seems like common sense to me. I don't think the democrats understand economics either though....
Wow, I don't know anyone that uses hotmail or live messenger anymore. I don't even see any youth using either. They all use gmail or yahoo. Yahoo seems to be preferred for chat, and google for email. i am not sure why.
Distant 3rd? Any sources? I see it clearly as first in our small town mid-western USA schools and businesses. Maybe it is just popular in this area.
I don't understand? I can useIE or FF and just scroll to the bottom of the page.
I don't understand the Experts Exchange hate in other posts on here. Experts Exchange does try to organize solutions to problems.........unlike the plethora of websites that just scrape data from sites like Experts Exchange. It is the others tech sites I plan to block.
Experts Exchange works pretty good for a small IT department as a cheap source for help on occasion.
For once, I agree with someone on slashdot entirely. Wow.
"I don't think teacher's pay is really that bad. "
I agree. It isn't that bad. The teachers that got in 15+ years ago actually make a really good wage now. Also, living in a larger city helps. In rural areas, it is still pretty low though. The average teacher in Wisconsin is making something like 45K per year, plus another $5k contributed to their retirement/pension for them. So, $50k average. Not bad at all. The problem is, the big cities are pulling that average up. The teachers with 5 years of experience or less, in the rural areas, are making under $30k. Why go through all the trouble of teaching when you can go get a job fresh out of high-school and make just as much?
Yeah, you can make a decent wage teaching if you stick with it for 20 years...........but is it really worth it?
You may have heard about the political turmoil here in Wisconsin lately. The teachers are going to lose half of that pension contribution......we already have trouble attracting talent to the public sector. The tax payers are stuck on the idea that private sector workers don't have a pension and this apparently means that public sector workers shouldn't either (even though most private employers offer a retirement plan, with the majority not contributing to it). Anyway, it is just a political smoke screen. The bill is about other issues, but uses the pension issue to con the voters who won't even read the bill themselves.
Times seem to be changing. This was true a few years ago, but colleges now collect/grade homework, and the tests are quickly becoming a smaller portion of your grade. Yeah, I dislike it. I always did well on tests (did not do the homework). My tests indicate that I learned more than my classmates, and had the time to involve myself in other school and community activities while my peers studied and did homework. Now, returning to college, I struggle. Classes are heavily graded based upon homework and jumping through hoops. Years ago, I am not sure I went an entire day without sleeping through at least one class, but still Aced the courses. Now your grade would be docked for sleeping in class. Times are changing. Colleges are now run like high schools. Highschools are run like middle schools, and elementary schools are just sad. Disclaimer: There are still great teachers, but I see less of them than I used to. I mostly see teachers doing the same thing as everyone else.....and it doesn't work.
Also, teachers (at all levels) are forced to pass kids. They are told that they MUST pass their kids. No child left behind! So, the result is that teachers grade the homework and attendance as a higher percentage of their grade, and the tests become less important. This seems to be spreading. This does help the struggling kids pass, but it also turns the creative and insightful students into dull worker-bees.
Specifically, I would like to see science education revert back to what it was when I was in school. We were given critical thinking challenges and exercises; now I see mostly worksheets and temporary memorization of terms. Very disappointing. Maybe I was just lucky....but somebody needs to step up and demonstrate to the education system that there is a better way. The crappy pay of teachers doesn't help.... and we act surprised when our kids teacher isn't the cream of the crop.
No problem. I thought you might be an herbivore from your post; I just didn't want it to scare away any potential converts.
I am actually pretty much meat free, but I started out by dropping myself to a few servings per week....so I like to point people in that direction. It is easier than quitting cold "turkey".
I gave up meat quickly and easily, but I still enjoy dairy. I just wish I could buy it locally.
Everyone in my family (inlaws and outlaws) has either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or the variety pack. My wife and I are the only herbivores in the group, and also the only ones without these problems. Coincidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCAAS
Soybeans are complete, although not perfect. There are other fairly simple ways to get complete proteins from plants.....nobody is going to live off of a single plant product anyway.
A few ounces of meat per week is my diet as well..... any shortcomings can be made up with eggs or dairy. I eat more, weigh less, and am healthier by any measures taken thus far.
Everyone likes to point out that those eating less meat are probably missing some things in in their diet and are harming themselves; they have to justify their 64 ounce steak and 30 extra lbs somehow.
Very true, but I didn't want to name any faiths, as I really don't care to discuss them. In general, most Christians currently seem to associate the middle east as the current enemy to their faith.
Thanks for the reminder though..... that chapter in the bible didn't cite it's sources, so I breezed over it.
I stand corrected. The theory will see changes, and it does have holes. I do expect changes, albeit minor compared to what we have learned thus far.
"It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt"
I guess I was only interested in challenging reasonable arguments. I don't care to converse with those in the intelligent design crowd (or those with PhD in Medicinal/Organic Chemistry from UCSD). I still say "denying" evolution is ignorant. Challenging it scientifically is encouraged.
This is exactly correct! It seems like every 3rd department has some access database that they use.....IT doesn't find out about it until someone broke it or deleted it. In the end, we ends up supporting it. Here is how it works.
1. A single user creats a simple access database for their own use.
2. That user shares this with their most trusted sidekick.
3. The sidekick takes over when the original user dies from intestinal parasites.
4. The entire department now uses this tool, and is fully reliant on it.
5. Requests now come into IT from other departments asking for access to the tool.
6. IT says "oh man, this sucks".
"If people want to push their religion of evolution (it's a religion... it has not been and cannot be absolutely PROVEN)"
Sorry, but this is just plain wrong. Evolution has been 100% proven. Yup, it is still a "theory", because theory has a different definition to a scientist than the general public.
Everything we currently know about genetics, biology, anatomy, geology,...... coincides with the theory of evolution. It is fact. Denying evolution at this stage simply shows that one is not educated in any of the sciences.
If you don't believe in evolution, then you throw out everything we know about genetics and inheritance. I expect you will then decline any medical treatments that have been discovered through our knowledge of evolution and genetics.
Would you feel differently if this theme park was promoting another faith? One from the middle east perhaps? What about those tax dollars now? How about when those tax dollars fund cancer research, which is founded upon what we know about genetics and evolution.
Simply put, evolution and genetics are now the same subject.
I agree, except one can still go to Walmart and buy Ps2 and xbox games that advertise online support right on the package. I try to buy PS2 games with LAN support, but it is hard to tell which ones actually support LAN without the online server.
It should be more like 10-15 years, but your 6 year lifespan is probably correct for many games.
My little brothers favorite game is Sam-n-Max Hit the road. The game is now 15+ years old, 4 years older than he is. It ran on a 386. I use DosBox to run it although some versions work okay in Windows if you can switch to 256 colors.
Age of Empires II is my favorite game (something like 12 years old). It plays fine under Windows 7 which means it will survive past the 15-year mark.
On the contrary, my copy of RISK has worked on every coffee table I have owned!
"Do you grow your own food, or cede control of that to others?"
Makes sense. It is annoying when I can't eat my food because they took down the server and now I can't activate it. It is even worse that I can't give my food to someone else or resell it; I should have purchased it on DVD or downloaded the installer. Perfect analogy.
You can't keep track of your stuff, thus those who prefer having a local installer that doesn't need activation or an internet connection must leave society. Makes sense.
I agree with Bengal. I buy a game and play it for years. I still have a PS2 which works great for LAN parties.......sadly only a few dozen games support LAN without going through an online server.
Bengal and I are in the minority I believe, which means my days of buying video games are over. Almost everything I play is now FOSS.
There are too many great open source projects out there to be willing to buy games.
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a crash "only once every 100,000"
That seems to be an improvement over our human drivers. Will the car be allowed to text message while driving however?
I think we are all missing the blame. The voters are the ones who keep voting in politicians who are controlled by the wealthy. Washington was mostly not in favor of the bank bailout, but felt forced to pass it. If they didn't bail out the banks, our retirement funds would shrivel and they would get voted out.....or at least that is what they were being told by the corruption behind the system. So after initially being against a bank bailout, many politicians hung their head and voted for it. This is exactly why the corruption behind the republican party keeps pushing to privatize every fund possible, such as social security and pension funds. That helps them take control of the 1 item they still don't control.....our vote.
Besides, the government grew under Bush by more than any president in history while the debt grew under Obama more than any other.
If you are one of the people blaming one party over another, then you are part of the problem. The republicans are crooks, and the democrats idiots for not being smart enough to expose it, and not being able to find actual solutions. Your choice, corrupt or stupid....most politicians seem to fit into one of those 2 categories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt http://www.aier.org/research/briefs/750-big-government-under-the-bush-administration
So are they no longer trolls then, just regular users? You then probably need to send the most trollish trolls into the uber-troll maximum-security bubble.....or else they will offend the regular trolls!
What happens when the troll version of the site has more traffic, viewers, comments, and ad generating revenue than the non troll version? Which one is the true site then? Do the trolls then rule?
The story of the single cat was probably this one. It is based on truth anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_Wren
"No, evolution's 'aim' was the propagation of its own dna. Our aims are different"
Excellent point. And to bring it back around....we are doing this so that we can propagate our own DNA. Evolution at work! The fungi-raising ants have surely went through this already; maybe it would be easier for us to evolve and meet the corn halfway.
You seem to prove my point.
"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000."
You should have said....
"So tell me, which number is better, $45,000 or $36,000 + $10,000 in assets". This assumes you were smart enough to invest in areas that added value to your company. Most small businesses would anyway.
Even at the paltry 10% tax rate, the watering system is looking pretty good......then consider the benefit to the watering-system company, and all of the related industries. Without that encouragement, the owner sits on the cash and tries to pocket as much as he can. This sure seems to be happening as the tax rates on the wealthy have dropped since the 70s. What else is causing the growing gap between the classes?
How about we set the tax rate at 50%. You sold $100k, expenses were $50k, profits are $50k. Then your profits are $25,000 after taxes. OR, you could invest that $50k in another employee, and some equipment. You pay no taxes now, and you own a business with a value which has increased by more than $50k (assuming you spent money on company growth/talent/assets), and you are only out $25k.
So tell me, which number is better, $25,000 or $0+$50k in growth. Which one breeds a growing business, and which one breeds a climate of trying to milk your company for all it is worth so you can buy a small island?
I am not an economist; just a voter trying to understand. The republican soapbox lecture on economics seems completely backwards to me.
Lets just drop that old saw right now. Taxing the top 10% does NOT discourage job creation..... taxes can encourage growth.
Taxes are based upon PROFIT. Give a wealthy man a choice between paying taxes or investing in his assets/employees/business, they will choose to create jobs.
By having low taxes on the top 10%, you encourage them to pocket as much money as they can....and use that money to buy up competition. You are then encouraging larger monopolistic businesses...which I feel are less efficient, worse for the economy, worse for the country, less rewarding to their staff, and then are "too big to fail".
On the contrary, tax the heck out record profits, and you encourage the top 10% to invest in their people/business/assets.....thereby helping the economy.
Am I missing something. Seems like common sense to me. I don't think the democrats understand economics either though....
Asking about the whooshing noise. Classic.
We have those already. Soda machines.
Wow, I don't know anyone that uses hotmail or live messenger anymore. I don't even see any youth using either. They all use gmail or yahoo. Yahoo seems to be preferred for chat, and google for email. i am not sure why.
Distant 3rd? Any sources? I see it clearly as first in our small town mid-western USA schools and businesses. Maybe it is just popular in this area.
I don't understand? I can useIE or FF and just scroll to the bottom of the page.
I don't understand the Experts Exchange hate in other posts on here. Experts Exchange does try to organize solutions to problems.........unlike the plethora of websites that just scrape data from sites like Experts Exchange. It is the others tech sites I plan to block.
Experts Exchange works pretty good for a small IT department as a cheap source for help on occasion.
For once, I agree with someone on slashdot entirely. Wow.
"I don't think teacher's pay is really that bad. "
I agree. It isn't that bad. The teachers that got in 15+ years ago actually make a really good wage now. Also, living in a larger city helps. In rural areas, it is still pretty low though. The average teacher in Wisconsin is making something like 45K per year, plus another $5k contributed to their retirement/pension for them. So, $50k average. Not bad at all. The problem is, the big cities are pulling that average up. The teachers with 5 years of experience or less, in the rural areas, are making under $30k. Why go through all the trouble of teaching when you can go get a job fresh out of high-school and make just as much?
Yeah, you can make a decent wage teaching if you stick with it for 20 years...........but is it really worth it?
You may have heard about the political turmoil here in Wisconsin lately. The teachers are going to lose half of that pension contribution......we already have trouble attracting talent to the public sector. The tax payers are stuck on the idea that private sector workers don't have a pension and this apparently means that public sector workers shouldn't either (even though most private employers offer a retirement plan, with the majority not contributing to it). Anyway, it is just a political smoke screen. The bill is about other issues, but uses the pension issue to con the voters who won't even read the bill themselves.
"I just described is how colleges work".
Times seem to be changing. This was true a few years ago, but colleges now collect/grade homework, and the tests are quickly becoming a smaller portion of your grade. Yeah, I dislike it. I always did well on tests (did not do the homework). My tests indicate that I learned more than my classmates, and had the time to involve myself in other school and community activities while my peers studied and did homework. Now, returning to college, I struggle. Classes are heavily graded based upon homework and jumping through hoops. Years ago, I am not sure I went an entire day without sleeping through at least one class, but still Aced the courses. Now your grade would be docked for sleeping in class. Times are changing. Colleges are now run like high schools. Highschools are run like middle schools, and elementary schools are just sad. Disclaimer: There are still great teachers, but I see less of them than I used to. I mostly see teachers doing the same thing as everyone else.....and it doesn't work.
Also, teachers (at all levels) are forced to pass kids. They are told that they MUST pass their kids. No child left behind! So, the result is that teachers grade the homework and attendance as a higher percentage of their grade, and the tests become less important. This seems to be spreading. This does help the struggling kids pass, but it also turns the creative and insightful students into dull worker-bees.
Specifically, I would like to see science education revert back to what it was when I was in school. We were given critical thinking challenges and exercises; now I see mostly worksheets and temporary memorization of terms. Very disappointing. Maybe I was just lucky....but somebody needs to step up and demonstrate to the education system that there is a better way. The crappy pay of teachers doesn't help.... and we act surprised when our kids teacher isn't the cream of the crop.
No problem. I thought you might be an herbivore from your post; I just didn't want it to scare away any potential converts.
I am actually pretty much meat free, but I started out by dropping myself to a few servings per week....so I like to point people in that direction. It is easier than quitting cold "turkey".
I gave up meat quickly and easily, but I still enjoy dairy. I just wish I could buy it locally.
Everyone in my family (inlaws and outlaws) has either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or the variety pack. My wife and I are the only herbivores in the group, and also the only ones without these problems. Coincidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCAAS
Soybeans are complete, although not perfect. There are other fairly simple ways to get complete proteins from plants.....nobody is going to live off of a single plant product anyway.
A few ounces of meat per week is my diet as well..... any shortcomings can be made up with eggs or dairy. I eat more, weigh less, and am healthier by any measures taken thus far.
Everyone likes to point out that those eating less meat are probably missing some things in in their diet and are harming themselves; they have to justify their 64 ounce steak and 30 extra lbs somehow.
Very true, but I didn't want to name any faiths, as I really don't care to discuss them. In general, most Christians currently seem to associate the middle east as the current enemy to their faith.
Thanks for the reminder though..... that chapter in the bible didn't cite it's sources, so I breezed over it.
I stand corrected. The theory will see changes, and it does have holes. I do expect changes, albeit minor compared to what we have learned thus far.
"It has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt"
I guess I was only interested in challenging reasonable arguments. I don't care to converse with those in the intelligent design crowd (or those with PhD in Medicinal/Organic Chemistry from UCSD). I still say "denying" evolution is ignorant. Challenging it scientifically is encouraged.
Yahoo had an early lead and blew it, but has made a comeback!
Google Vs Yahoo
"the" vs "of" is also exciting......I will be following this contest for the rest of my life.
The vs Of
Is another worth more common than "the"?
This is exactly correct! It seems like every 3rd department has some access database that they use.....IT doesn't find out about it until someone broke it or deleted it. In the end, we ends up supporting it. Here is how it works.
1. A single user creats a simple access database for their own use.
2. That user shares this with their most trusted sidekick.
3. The sidekick takes over when the original user dies from intestinal parasites.
4. The entire department now uses this tool, and is fully reliant on it.
5. Requests now come into IT from other departments asking for access to the tool.
6. IT says "oh man, this sucks".
"If people want to push their religion of evolution (it's a religion... it has not been and cannot be absolutely PROVEN)"
...... coincides with the theory of evolution. It is fact. Denying evolution at this stage simply shows that one is not educated in any of the sciences.
Sorry, but this is just plain wrong. Evolution has been 100% proven. Yup, it is still a "theory", because theory has a different definition to a scientist than the general public.
Everything we currently know about genetics, biology, anatomy, geology,
If you don't believe in evolution, then you throw out everything we know about genetics and inheritance. I expect you will then decline any medical treatments that have been discovered through our knowledge of evolution and genetics.
Would you feel differently if this theme park was promoting another faith? One from the middle east perhaps? What about those tax dollars now? How about when those tax dollars fund cancer research, which is founded upon what we know about genetics and evolution.
Simply put, evolution and genetics are now the same subject.
I agree, except one can still go to Walmart and buy Ps2 and xbox games that advertise online support right on the package. I try to buy PS2 games with LAN support, but it is hard to tell which ones actually support LAN without the online server.
It should be more like 10-15 years, but your 6 year lifespan is probably correct for many games.
My little brothers favorite game is Sam-n-Max Hit the road. The game is now 15+ years old, 4 years older than he is. It ran on a 386. I use DosBox to run it although some versions work okay in Windows if you can switch to 256 colors.
Age of Empires II is my favorite game (something like 12 years old). It plays fine under Windows 7 which means it will survive past the 15-year mark.
On the contrary, my copy of RISK has worked on every coffee table I have owned!
"Do you grow your own food, or cede control of that to others?"
Makes sense. It is annoying when I can't eat my food because they took down the server and now I can't activate it. It is even worse that I can't give my food to someone else or resell it; I should have purchased it on DVD or downloaded the installer. Perfect analogy.
You can't keep track of your stuff, thus those who prefer having a local installer that doesn't need activation or an internet connection must leave society. Makes sense.
I agree with Bengal. I buy a game and play it for years. I still have a PS2 which works great for LAN parties.......sadly only a few dozen games support LAN without going through an online server.
Bengal and I are in the minority I believe, which means my days of buying video games are over. Almost everything I play is now FOSS.
There are too many great open source projects out there to be willing to buy games.
I am a grandpa you insensitive clod!
Try http://www.bricklink.com/ if you want to find some great sets of the past.
Sadly, Lego did recently discontinue some great product lines, like the 9v lego trains.