Oh no, I understand the design just fine. But unlike you, I also understand what it is, and am not confused by the difference between the two. So when it comes to action today, I talk about what the government is -- not what it was designed to be. Because, sadly, the latter ship has sailed, capsized, sunk, and rotted at the bottom of the ocean of congressional, judicial, and executive dishonor. It's dead, Jim. Welcome to reality. Deal with it.
As for unemployment figures, the government has a particular way to compute them. I don't mind your way; however, if you want to point the finger at Obama as having presided over a failure characterized as increasing unemployment, you need to compare those figures with the Bush years. I'd be very interested to see you do so, btw.
See article 5. Authority to effectively do that resides there.
and all of congress fired.
See the voting ballot. Authority to do that resides there.
Consequently, if you actually want to accomplish anything, you should always couch your assertions along with (a) supporting reasoning and (b) quality exhortation to utilize the above. Without (a) and (b), you're just hand-waving and can (and should) be ignored.
Relax. The poor guy is just trying to leave something positive after 8 years of suck.
And just like the past eight years, it's very difficult to do that with a do-nothing, obstructionist congress doing everything it can to collect its pay while accomplishing as little as possible that's worth a damn.
Obama's been one of the best presidents we've had in my 45 years or so of paying attention (I give him 7/10, which is decent, room for improvement. Bush II The Moron, as a low-rated for-instance, gets a 2/10 — if Trump were elected, there's every sign he'd be the first 1/10 in my lifetime); congress... congress has been the very epitome of what congress should not be. 1/1, period. Idiots and incompetents. I'm voting against the incumbent congress-critter on my ballot. That's the only sane thing to do. Because:
Last election, congress had a 14% approval ratio, and a 94% re-election ratio. So we all pretty much agree congress is useless, or worse. But clearly, people always think it's the other congress member's fault, or vote for some local interest over the nation's interest. Clearly, that's a very bad group behavior. We should stop that. Until congress as a whole starts behaving, I am voting against the incumbent, period. I wish others would too. But. Sigh.
The President could call for an army of super-intelligent killbots and a thousand rockets to launch them across the world, but everything would be just plans on paper if Congress didn't approve the funding.
If the president (any president) did call for such a windfall to the military-industrial complex, based on almost all of its past behavior, congress would very likely fall all over itself to approve the funding, and increase our taxes, in that order, but probably separated by only a few minutes.
IAU reasoning: The earth has its moon; ergo its neighborhood is not clear; ergo the earth is not a planet.
That whole "has cleared its neighborhood" is ridiculous on its face.
Also, you try sitting 100,000 km over the planet Pluto without a nice orbit helping you out and you'll find out just how good it is at clearing its neighborhood, all right.
The nice thing about the IAU is when they shit themselves and fall in it, we are free to ignore them.
Only children would think that. Grownups picture the equations on a chalkboard.
Real grownups picture them filling out forms that testify that they're using the glassware for non-illicit purposes, in order to get a permit so they don't get dragged off to the drug war gulags by the minions of the oligarchy.
But hey, this is the Texas legislature. One of the collections of idiots that thought it was a good idea to make sex toys illegal. And did so.
His hill is high, the air is thin, the stars are bright and do not waver, but burn steadily into his unblinking eyes as if they were hard, bright points of righteousness. He cannot sense Yggdrasil from there; yet he soldiers on.
When he shouts Ásgarðr, the surface dwellers... they hear nothing. Muspelheim awaits those who step away from the true path of pronunciation.
To the submitter / editor - -whoever was responsible for that idiot headline:
It's not a "travesty." It was done in good faith. They certainly didn't plan to have to recall and dispose of these things. It's a tragedy, if you want a word you can use without looking like an illiterate, hysterical fool.
Taxes, all of them, are regressive. The rich can avoid them, the poor don't pay them, the middle class gets stuck with them.
The poor aren't completely immune. The burden of taxes is incorporated into the price of every good and service they have to buy. When income taxes go up, those costs filter through to the cost of goods and services.
The poor just don't pay income taxes directly.
The middle class and the rich are much less affected by the tax-caused incremental accommodations in prices. But for people who are living on very small incomes, those pennies add up to a significant burden.
That's another problem with income taxes; they raise the cost of doing everything, and that inevitably reflects back and forth among the general population.
You do realize that if marijuana was legal the pharmaceutical and tobacco industries would be all over it.
You do realize that even being "all over it" wouldn't get them the same margins as the drug and alcohol sales they would lose, as pot doesn't just add to all sales, it replaces some sales?
You do realize that pot is an easily-grown weed, and a lot easier and less complicated to grow on your sun-porch than making something like beer or wine is?
You do realize that anyone having a few plants in the house or garden would be a lot less likely to buy "professionally produced" pot?
if he hasn't paid takes since, that means he hasn't made that money back yet.
Another possibility is that his tax reporting says he hasn't made the money back yet. But he has. Because that's the mode most wealthy people and corporations use the tax system when making money -- bury and de-emphasize profits, emphasize and exaggerate losses. Make X$? purchase something "for the company" that is $X, viola, "no profit." Nice jet, though. Move the money out of the country. Etc.
I don't know -- nobody knows, because you'd need both his operating details and his taxes to know -- but he's been clear that taking advantage of the tax code is something he considers a good business practice. He thinks it's smart, just as you said.
Unfortunately, when the rich utilize these tools to avoid paying taxes, absent a corresponding decrease in government operating costs, either the debt grows, or the amount of taxes the rest of us pay increase -- or both.
Trump is right in that loopholes in the tax code enable this kind of behavior; Clinton is right in that this kind of behavior is antisocial. Trump is right that congress enables this, but he is wrong in saying that the president, or any one senator, has enough clout to change that. Only we can change that, and we can only do it by changing congress in a very significant way.
The president has a 90-day carte blanche with use of the military; after that, congress gets involved. The president can toss off executive orders, but those are easily blocked by legal means, and then stalled until the courts percolate them though (and then, they may evaporate entirely.) The president has the veto power, which can stall or block congress -- but not the opposite kind of power, the kind of power that would allow implementing the kinds of domestic changes both candidates are throwing around as "what they will do." The only way those things can happen is with the cooperation of congress; and that's not a given under any circumstances.
So IMHO, the thing of most concern is who might do what with the military. That's what drives my choice.
...trying to explain why you need 100 lines code, a transpiler and knowledge of css+js+typescript+node+whatever they can pile up to write an angular js hello world "application" where the programmer spent 6 months agonizing about "UX", the post-build footprint is a five GB executable (not counting dragging in a few more GB of frameworks it needs to run), which in turn requires a 4 GHz multicore CPU to run it without dragging the computer to its knees, which would fall immediate prey to the first hacker who decides it's a target, will only run on the very, very latest bleeding-edge OS's, and turns out to be infected with the GPL so Corporation X's nest of lawyers forbids its use before it even gets to market anyway.
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Oh no, I understand the design just fine. But unlike you, I also understand what it is, and am not confused by the difference between the two. So when it comes to action today, I talk about what the government is -- not what it was designed to be. Because, sadly, the latter ship has sailed, capsized, sunk, and rotted at the bottom of the ocean of congressional, judicial, and executive dishonor. It's dead, Jim. Welcome to reality. Deal with it.
As for unemployment figures, the government has a particular way to compute them. I don't mind your way; however, if you want to point the finger at Obama as having presided over a failure characterized as increasing unemployment, you need to compare those figures with the Bush years. I'd be very interested to see you do so, btw.
See article 5. Authority to effectively do that resides there.
See the voting ballot. Authority to do that resides there.
Consequently, if you actually want to accomplish anything, you should always couch your assertions along with (a) supporting reasoning and (b) quality exhortation to utilize the above. Without (a) and (b), you're just hand-waving and can (and should) be ignored.
And just like the past eight years, it's very difficult to do that with a do-nothing, obstructionist congress doing everything it can to collect its pay while accomplishing as little as possible that's worth a damn.
Obama's been one of the best presidents we've had in my 45 years or so of paying attention (I give him 7/10, which is decent, room for improvement. Bush II The Moron, as a low-rated for-instance, gets a 2/10 — if Trump were elected, there's every sign he'd be the first 1/10 in my lifetime); congress... congress has been the very epitome of what congress should not be. 1/1, period. Idiots and incompetents. I'm voting against the incumbent congress-critter on my ballot. That's the only sane thing to do. Because:
Last election, congress had a 14% approval ratio, and a 94% re-election ratio. So we all pretty much agree congress is useless, or worse. But clearly, people always think it's the other congress member's fault, or vote for some local interest over the nation's interest. Clearly, that's a very bad group behavior. We should stop that. Until congress as a whole starts behaving, I am voting against the incumbent, period. I wish others would too. But. Sigh.
If the president (any president) did call for such a windfall to the military-industrial complex, based on almost all of its past behavior, congress would very likely fall all over itself to approve the funding, and increase our taxes, in that order, but probably separated by only a few minutes.
The music business is the same. It's heartbreaking, if you are a performance arts person, or even a fan with your head not in a hole in the ground.
IAU reasoning: The earth has its moon; ergo its neighborhood is not clear; ergo the earth is not a planet.
That whole "has cleared its neighborhood" is ridiculous on its face.
Also, you try sitting 100,000 km over the planet Pluto without a nice orbit helping you out and you'll find out just how good it is at clearing its neighborhood, all right.
The nice thing about the IAU is when they shit themselves and fall in it, we are free to ignore them.
That's not a drum. That's a garbage can lid.
Real grownups picture them filling out forms that testify that they're using the glassware for non-illicit purposes, in order to get a permit so they don't get dragged off to the drug war gulags by the minions of the oligarchy.
But hey, this is the Texas legislature. One of the collections of idiots that thought it was a good idea to make sex toys illegal. And did so.
That would depend entirely on just how one chooses to guard their ass, now wouldn't it?
You're being pretty cheeky there, AC.
Freedom and libertines for all!
Er, liberty. Yeah.
Show some respect to this lonely warrior.
His hill is high, the air is thin, the stars are bright and do not waver, but burn steadily into his unblinking eyes as if they were hard, bright points of righteousness. He cannot sense Yggdrasil from there; yet he soldiers on.
When he shouts Ásgarðr, the surface dwellers... they hear nothing. Muspelheim awaits those who step away from the true path of pronunciation.
You have been warned. You insensitive clod.
No, here's another question.
To the submitter / editor - -whoever was responsible for that idiot headline:
It's not a "travesty." It was done in good faith. They certainly didn't plan to have to recall and dispose of these things. It's a tragedy, if you want a word you can use without looking like an illiterate, hysterical fool.
See, [glances around, drops voice to whisper] it's not... not the aliens... it's the... the... RADIASHUN! Cuz NUKYULAR!
But Thor... I... um... MY god carries a hammer! YOUR god died nailed to a cross? Any solar panels NOW?
My hat is leadfoil, you insensitive clod!
Yes, that was my entire point. :)
The poor aren't completely immune. The burden of taxes is incorporated into the price of every good and service they have to buy. When income taxes go up, those costs filter through to the cost of goods and services.
The poor just don't pay income taxes directly.
The middle class and the rich are much less affected by the tax-caused incremental accommodations in prices. But for people who are living on very small incomes, those pennies add up to a significant burden.
That's another problem with income taxes; they raise the cost of doing everything, and that inevitably reflects back and forth among the general population.
You do realize that even being "all over it" wouldn't get them the same margins as the drug and alcohol sales they would lose, as pot doesn't just add to all sales, it replaces some sales?
You do realize that pot is an easily-grown weed, and a lot easier and less complicated to grow on your sun-porch than making something like beer or wine is?
You do realize that anyone having a few plants in the house or garden would be a lot less likely to buy "professionally produced" pot?
I complete agree: a turd error changes the meating. [send] (goddammit)
Another possibility is that his tax reporting says he hasn't made the money back yet. But he has. Because that's the mode most wealthy people and corporations use the tax system when making money -- bury and de-emphasize profits, emphasize and exaggerate losses. Make X$? purchase something "for the company" that is $X, viola, "no profit." Nice jet, though. Move the money out of the country. Etc.
I don't know -- nobody knows, because you'd need both his operating details and his taxes to know -- but he's been clear that taking advantage of the tax code is something he considers a good business practice. He thinks it's smart, just as you said.
Unfortunately, when the rich utilize these tools to avoid paying taxes, absent a corresponding decrease in government operating costs, either the debt grows, or the amount of taxes the rest of us pay increase -- or both.
Trump is right in that loopholes in the tax code enable this kind of behavior; Clinton is right in that this kind of behavior is antisocial. Trump is right that congress enables this, but he is wrong in saying that the president, or any one senator, has enough clout to change that. Only we can change that, and we can only do it by changing congress in a very significant way.
The president has a 90-day carte blanche with use of the military; after that, congress gets involved. The president can toss off executive orders, but those are easily blocked by legal means, and then stalled until the courts percolate them though (and then, they may evaporate entirely.) The president has the veto power, which can stall or block congress -- but not the opposite kind of power, the kind of power that would allow implementing the kinds of domestic changes both candidates are throwing around as "what they will do." The only way those things can happen is with the cooperation of congress; and that's not a given under any circumstances.
So IMHO, the thing of most concern is who might do what with the military. That's what drives my choice.
"it was a Russian" -- Chekov
Exactly. OS X ships with Python, which is a far better and more appropriate modern-enough learning platform.
"...by also shipping their macs with BASIC", lol.
And you would think that alone would cue recruiters that younger people typically think in much smaller chunks.
But then again, that would require the recruiter to think in larger chunks, and that... lol.
...trying to explain why you need 100 lines code, a transpiler and knowledge of css+js+typescript+node+whatever they can pile up to write an angular js hello world "application" where the programmer spent 6 months agonizing about "UX", the post-build footprint is a five GB executable (not counting dragging in a few more GB of frameworks it needs to run), which in turn requires a 4 GHz multicore CPU to run it without dragging the computer to its knees, which would fall immediate prey to the first hacker who decides it's a target, will only run on the very, very latest bleeding-edge OS's, and turns out to be infected with the GPL so Corporation X's nest of lawyers forbids its use before it even gets to market anyway.
FTFY. :)
Here, have some Trumpy crotch grabbing humor.