The other side of this is Big Corp infringes your patent. When you file against them their $1000 an hour lawyer says "Bring it on". Could you afford to do that? The Golden Rule, he who has the gold, rules.
Patent trolls are EXTORTIONIST. They threaten you with a patent that you probably are NOT infringing on but the court fight to prove it will cost twice what they are asking to settle.
Everyone wants to cut defense spending but don't close the defense plant in their town. Close all the military bases, except the one their wife works at.
How many people here actually notice what other people wear? I'm lucky if my socks match. I do remember noticing if a kids cloths were dirty and worn but uniforms get that way if the parents don't care.
My grandfather, third grade drop out, couldn't read a newspaper. My mom and dad, 10th grade drop outs. Me, high school diploma, my kids, PhD and law degree. Hard work and intelligent decisions.
While highly educated people design the products and services we use, the world you experience was built and is maintained by people who dropped out of high school or skimmed through not learning much. The guy who fixes your cars brakes, your houses plumbing, those who built your house, no degrees. We trust that our cars will stop, pipes and roofs not leak. We depend on those good, obedient employees.
I am one of those non decreed workers that make sure the stores are stocked with fresh food, your internet cable works, your garbage is taken away, the nations warships are on station. Your welcome.
Some people "coast" through college as well. My son told me the first time he studied for a test was in law school. His mediocre grades meant he couldn't get into the best school but he has a great position at a large corporation.
Oil, the life blood of the world. Saddam had invaded Kuwait. If he had been allowed to keep Kuwait and then expanded to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East oil countries the World would have had to dance to his tune. $200 a barrel oil and the oil companies make $trillions. Free flow of oil at market prices, it was worth it.
You never worked on a production line have you. My machines pounded out fifty packs a minute. After 14 hours they were still at fifty per minute. That was my job, make sure they didn't slow down, even robots get lazy you know. Every hour meant three thousand more packs. The fork lifts just had to keep moving the pallets away.
In the US what we are doing is unsustainable. Trillion dollar annual deficits? The crash is coming but no one is trying to engineer a soft landing. I live in a rural area, have a supply of food and plenty of ammunition. You can't stop the inevitable, just prepare for it.
As a true capitalist you understand supply and demand. With one extra worker no one makes more than that guy is willing to work for. The world has billions of extra workers. For them "will work for food" means just that, they live in a hut and don't even have shoes. The employer doesn't have to pay you what you are worth. If you are competing with someone who will work for lunch, that's all you are going to be able to make.
We also have to thank our corporate controlled government for allowing imports of foreign produced goods that allowed the jobs to be shipped offshore. Who do we thank for NAFTA? Our open borders?
An "African-American" is anyone who ancestors where slaves in America. The term has now become generic for any person of Black African ancestry even if they are Canadian or Jamaican. Neither of Barack Obama's parents had any American slaves in their family. He had the experience of being "Black in America" so he is an African American. The children of Nigerian oil princes qualify for affirmative action admissions in colleges. A White person who's parents are from Johannesburg is NOT an African American.
I do believe people "sale" their copyrighted material. Without copyright they wouldn't be able to get any payment. Terms for transferred copyrights should be much shorter than time allowed for creators.
A local private high school has provided all it's students with iPads. All the course materials are provided by Apple. The students saved money on tuition. Apple lock-in, what do you think?
It would seem that most Americans have a (poor) public education and fail to realize that they should vote for representatives who will insure that maximum taxes from all sources are collected. The few with good public (and private) educations make enough money (that they wish to keep) that they help elect (and buy) representatives who keep taxes low. What to do?
The US has 1.2 sq miles per person. At 3 cf of trash per week it will take one million years to get to eyeball level.
If you live in a high rise or city suburb you really can't appreciate how desolate most of the US is. There are parts of the West where we could pile all our trash for the next one hundred years and hardly anyone would be able to see the pile much less have to move.
Billions of people are alive because we use a lot of fossil fuel growing and transporting their food. The people have to die somehow. We can either kill them by starvation and exposure now by cutting off fuel supplies or somehow convince them not to have anymore children and after they die of old age the Earth will be able support a few hundred million environmentalist. Of course the climate will be totally screwed by then so I guess they have to go now. Sucks to be them.
Two words, INCOME TAX, The American government gets much of it's income from the income tax that is withheld from workers paychecks. Europeans use fuel taxes to fund government functions (and for social engineering, little cars and high cost of gas keep people close to home and public transportation takes them where the government wants them to go.) Which you seem to approve of.
As an Australian you should understand, big country, big cars, big ideas, freedom of travel, freedom of thought. Little country, little cars=little ideas, little thoughts. Restricted travel options with predetermined destinations=restricted lives.
Only if you define subsidy as "not paying maximum tax". Oil companies pay hundreds of billions in taxes, they get a few deductions that lower their total tax bill. By the way, $4 billion is about 3 cents per gal on total gasoline sales. Prices around here can jump 10 cents a day.
When I was working I often worked four weeks without a day off. I worked weekends at side jobs for extra money. Should someone have stopped me? Why yes, I am on disability, how did you know?
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The other side of this is Big Corp infringes your patent. When you file against them their $1000 an hour lawyer says "Bring it on". Could you afford to do that? The Golden Rule, he who has the gold, rules.
Patent trolls are EXTORTIONIST. They threaten you with a patent that you probably are NOT infringing on but the court fight to prove it will cost twice what they are asking to settle.
Everyone wants to cut defense spending but don't close the defense plant in their town. Close all the military bases, except the one their wife works at.
How many people here actually notice what other people wear? I'm lucky if my socks match. I do remember noticing if a kids cloths were dirty and worn but uniforms get that way if the parents don't care.
How can someone who believes in gay marriage use the use the first sex act that happy couple will do on their wedding night as a pejorative?
My grandfather, third grade drop out, couldn't read a newspaper. My mom and dad, 10th grade drop outs. Me, high school diploma, my kids, PhD and law degree. Hard work and intelligent decisions.
While highly educated people design the products and services we use, the world you experience was built and is maintained by people who dropped out of high school or skimmed through not learning much. The guy who fixes your cars brakes, your houses plumbing, those who built your house, no degrees. We trust that our cars will stop, pipes and roofs not leak. We depend on those good, obedient employees.
I am one of those non decreed workers that make sure the stores are stocked with fresh food, your internet cable works, your garbage is taken away, the nations warships are on station. Your welcome.
Some people "coast" through college as well. My son told me the first time he studied for a test was in law school. His mediocre grades meant he couldn't get into the best school but he has a great position at a large corporation.
Oil, the life blood of the world. Saddam had invaded Kuwait. If he had been allowed to keep Kuwait and then expanded to Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East oil countries the World would have had to dance to his tune. $200 a barrel oil and the oil companies make $trillions. Free flow of oil at market prices, it was worth it.
You never worked on a production line have you. My machines pounded out fifty packs a minute. After 14 hours they were still at fifty per minute. That was my job, make sure they didn't slow down, even robots get lazy you know. Every hour meant three thousand more packs. The fork lifts just had to keep moving the pallets away.
In the US what we are doing is unsustainable. Trillion dollar annual deficits? The crash is coming but no one is trying to engineer a soft landing. I live in a rural area, have a supply of food and plenty of ammunition. You can't stop the inevitable, just prepare for it.
As a true capitalist you understand supply and demand. With one extra worker no one makes more than that guy is willing to work for. The world has billions of extra workers. For them "will work for food" means just that, they live in a hut and don't even have shoes. The employer doesn't have to pay you what you are worth. If you are competing with someone who will work for lunch, that's all you are going to be able to make.
We also have to thank our corporate controlled government for allowing imports of foreign produced goods that allowed the jobs to be shipped offshore. Who do we thank for NAFTA? Our open borders?
An "African-American" is anyone who ancestors where slaves in America. The term has now become generic for any person of Black African ancestry even if they are Canadian or Jamaican. Neither of Barack Obama's parents had any American slaves in their family. He had the experience of being "Black in America" so he is an African American. The children of Nigerian oil princes qualify for affirmative action admissions in colleges. A White person who's parents are from Johannesburg is NOT an African American.
I did mean people sale the "rights" to their work, not just the work, I just phrased it wrong.
I do believe people "sale" their copyrighted material. Without copyright they wouldn't be able to get any payment. Terms for transferred copyrights should be much shorter than time allowed for creators.
A local private high school has provided all it's students with iPads. All the course materials are provided by Apple. The students saved money on tuition. Apple lock-in, what do you think?
It would seem that most Americans have a (poor) public education and fail to realize that they should vote for representatives who will insure that maximum taxes from all sources are collected. The few with good public (and private) educations make enough money (that they wish to keep) that they help elect (and buy) representatives who keep taxes low. What to do?
The US has 1.2 sq miles per person. At 3 cf of trash per week it will take one million years to get to eyeball level.
If you live in a high rise or city suburb you really can't appreciate how desolate most of the US is. There are parts of the West where we could pile all our trash for the next one hundred years and hardly anyone would be able to see the pile much less have to move.
Billions of people are alive because we use a lot of fossil fuel growing and transporting their food. The people have to die somehow. We can either kill them by starvation and exposure now by cutting off fuel supplies or somehow convince them not to have anymore children and after they die of old age the Earth will be able support a few hundred million environmentalist. Of course the climate will be totally screwed by then so I guess they have to go now. Sucks to be them.
Two words, INCOME TAX, The American government gets much of it's income from the income tax that is withheld from workers paychecks. Europeans use fuel taxes to fund government functions (and for social engineering, little cars and high cost of gas keep people close to home and public transportation takes them where the government wants them to go.) Which you seem to approve of.
As an Australian you should understand, big country, big cars, big ideas, freedom of travel, freedom of thought. Little country, little cars=little ideas, little thoughts. Restricted travel options with predetermined destinations=restricted lives.
I don't quite understand. You use oil, you eat corn. Most taxes are paid by the rich. The rich are subsidizing you and me. Sounds like win to me
Only if you define subsidy as "not paying maximum tax". Oil companies pay hundreds of billions in taxes, they get a few deductions that lower their total tax bill. By the way, $4 billion is about 3 cents per gal on total gasoline sales. Prices around here can jump 10 cents a day.
When I was working I often worked four weeks without a day off. I worked weekends at side jobs for extra money. Should someone have stopped me? Why yes, I am on disability, how did you know?
Grandma's on Medicare, you don't have to spend a dime.