C'mon, the Heritage Foundation is not THAT sophisticated. Actually, the Heritage Foundation has been taken over by Libertards. They rather take offense at big business. I'm not sure they are all wrong to take offense, but I'm fairly sure it is for the wrong reasons.
Oxygen isn't a pollutant either, unless you breath too much of it. Similarly for nitrogen.
Here's a clue, have a sense of proportion. Pump enough CO2 into the atmosphere, big surprise, the atmosphere heats up. Don't want to believe it is problem? Please, don't. However, you cannot ignore the CO2 acidifying the oceans and taking out coral reefs and shell fish. Don't think that's a problem? The ocean is the base of the food chain. Surely, you care about that, eh? Nah? Okay, please go back to sleep.
Except that none of that would have happened with the money. The Iraq war was pretty much paid for by credit card, at least most of it was off the books.
Think back to the climate before 9-11, Congress and the Administration were waxing political about "surpluses as far as the eye can see". So they instituted the Bush tax cuts. You do recall those. They were brought up recently when Obama railed against them as tax cuts for the rich. Congress did too. Except when they had the chance to let them fade into past, they renewed them and made them permanent.
Meanwhile, government expenses spiraled out of control due to 2/3's of the budget that is non-discretionary. So what did Congress do? Whack discretionary spending including the IRS. The IRS would have been able to collect another $250 billion a year but for lax enforcement because of its budget cuts.
There is no way in hell that Congress or the President was going to stump for spending money on things like energy independence...except they made a half-hearted effort because "you shouldn't waste a crisis". So instead of having a real policy of steady investment, they threw about 800 billion at the economy. Except that didn't all go into "investment". Little known but true, a fair whack of that, about $350 billion, went to that Congressional favorite, tax cuts. So the economy got some transitory "investment" in infrastructure.
So, no, we couldn't have spent that money on infrastructure. Congress and the President do not believe in it. Want to take a guess how far the proposal by Bob Corker (R-TN) and Chris Murphy (D-CN) will go to raise the gas tax and pay for infrastructure? A bi-partisan effort. Obama seems to not care, the conservative Republicans claim this is a matter best left to the states, etc.
I don't think he's paranoid. Look at Google+, I was forced into signing up for technical correspondence some students demanded...they being somewhat clueless. Google would love it if I told them my occupation, my high school, etc. MS is just trying out-Google everyone else here. They will package the information and either use it themselves and/or sell it to the highest and not so highest bidder.
Many companies want to turn you into an annuity. Now it is becoming clear that many companies want to turn you into an information annuity. They use that information stream in constructing another annuity stream. If they could put a chip in your head to send them your thoughts, they'd do it. The ph of your piss is interesting to them. Your preference in coffee creamer is of utmost importance. How well you can wiggle your hips is vital for hoola-hoop manufacturers. There's nothing about you that is not interesting to some corporate entity.
Best thing we could do in the U.S. is revoke person-hood status for corporate entities and start treating them like they do us. Let's have total informational awareness of how they conduct their business. Business secrets? Bah, humbug. Put their activities on web sites so we can all judge their behavior. Blow some fresh sunlight up their skirts to air out corporate governance. Track their corporate masters in real time like they wish to do to us. Let the Koch Brothers finally get the freedom they deserve, put every aspect of their lives on line so we can see what they are up to, where their money gets spent, what entities they control.
Angles, son, consider angles. At 30-40 feet down the road, the shield is no impediment. And if it is, then it is sticking out into the perpendicular roadway.
That reluctance to change probably has to do with if you intend to sell several million of something, and you produce several million of that something, you'd better be damn sure you will sell several million of said something. Try taking those gambles with the toy systems that Google produces.
More information will not change that. I've watched those people in Congress and their questioning of climate specialists. There's no amount of new information that will change their minds. I think it is an unholy influence of religion (Christ will save us), anti-Science (Science is some sort of dodge), economics (it will cost money to change), right-wingnut politics (if the left wants it, it must be bad), and finally, sheer ignorance (they never took a Science course they liked, and in most instances it appears they've never taken a Science course).
Congress is not a bunch of enlightened individuals. As individuals, they appear well-intentioned. However, put Klieg lights on them and their "questions" are really campaign points. And they usually have law backgrounds. That isn't bad in itself but they appear more intent on the form of an argument than on the basis for an argument. And then there is the lack of academic honesty: instead of admitting they do not know, they will accuse everyone else in the room of not knowing.
No, it won't. It will send a picture to your insurance company and ask the company if the person behind the wheel should be driving the car. It will start out as you suggested, but the first insurance company to wise up will make Ford a business proposal. We'll get treated to the usual suits saying the usual things about "the future" and what-not. And the result will be we get screwed...yet again.
The Dear Shrimp has ordered me to inform you that you will be killed with a thousand deaths for asking such a malicious and war-mongering statement. Several missiles will be sent to annoy the fish very, very soon. You've been warned!!!
I don't think the notion that Surface Pro and Surface RT were aimed at a different demographics. It isn't clear there are many people who would want a combined tablet/laptop. Rather, I think it is the usual MS notion that they won't feel happy owning a market segment if they do not get to destroy someone else's. They are so paranoid that to leave a market segment to someone else means they will let the camel's nose into the tent. So rather than compete in tablet-land, they are trying to convert tablet-land into laptop land. It appears to be the usual MS braindead take on Marketing 101.
I don't think the "love Apple products" have that much to do with it if you thinking like a Prada executive. In my case, I've always been appalled at MS interfaces. I presume there are others who are appalled at Apple interfaces. If you get started on one style of doing things, it becomes almost like a religion, and you don't change ingrained behaviors very often.
Really? How about the Israeli-Arab wars? What's the resource, sand? Korean War? Last we heard, the Korean peninsula wasn't rich in anything, the North even worse off than the South. Vietnam? Yep, the U.S. lusted after their jungle. The current Syrian Civil War? The fighting appears to be over sand again. The Afghan Civil War that brought in the Taliban? No one knew what minerals were there until recently, and the Taliban had no use for them anyhow, all they need is Allah and the obliteration of human hope.
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C'mon, the Heritage Foundation is not THAT sophisticated. Actually, the Heritage Foundation has been taken over by Libertards. They rather take offense at big business. I'm not sure they are all wrong to take offense, but I'm fairly sure it is for the wrong reasons.
Oxygen isn't a pollutant either, unless you breath too much of it. Similarly for nitrogen.
Here's a clue, have a sense of proportion. Pump enough CO2 into the atmosphere, big surprise, the atmosphere heats up. Don't want to believe it is problem? Please, don't. However, you cannot ignore the CO2 acidifying the oceans and taking out coral reefs and shell fish. Don't think that's a problem? The ocean is the base of the food chain. Surely, you care about that, eh? Nah? Okay, please go back to sleep.
The "soul" is not "consciousness". It is a much more abstract notion.
Like political ads, they come through the TV and devastate all within ear shot. Think of them as brain shots.
Stop watching TV, it's destroying your common sense.
That's nice, now how about we take a bit from the 2/3's of the budget you failed to mention. You know the 2/3, the non-discretionary.
Except that none of that would have happened with the money. The Iraq war was pretty much paid for by credit card, at least most of it was off the books.
Think back to the climate before 9-11, Congress and the Administration were waxing political about "surpluses as far as the eye can see". So they instituted the Bush tax cuts. You do recall those. They were brought up recently when Obama railed against them as tax cuts for the rich. Congress did too. Except when they had the chance to let them fade into past, they renewed them and made them permanent.
Meanwhile, government expenses spiraled out of control due to 2/3's of the budget that is non-discretionary. So what did Congress do? Whack discretionary spending including the IRS. The IRS would have been able to collect another $250 billion a year but for lax enforcement because of its budget cuts.
There is no way in hell that Congress or the President was going to stump for spending money on things like energy independence...except they made a half-hearted effort because "you shouldn't waste a crisis". So instead of having a real policy of steady investment, they threw about 800 billion at the economy. Except that didn't all go into "investment". Little known but true, a fair whack of that, about $350 billion, went to that Congressional favorite, tax cuts. So the economy got some transitory "investment" in infrastructure.
So, no, we couldn't have spent that money on infrastructure. Congress and the President do not believe in it. Want to take a guess how far the proposal by Bob Corker (R-TN) and Chris Murphy (D-CN) will go to raise the gas tax and pay for infrastructure? A bi-partisan effort. Obama seems to not care, the conservative Republicans claim this is a matter best left to the states, etc.
I don't think he's paranoid. Look at Google+, I was forced into signing up for technical correspondence some students demanded...they being somewhat clueless. Google would love it if I told them my occupation, my high school, etc. MS is just trying out-Google everyone else here. They will package the information and either use it themselves and/or sell it to the highest and not so highest bidder.
Many companies want to turn you into an annuity. Now it is becoming clear that many companies want to turn you into an information annuity. They use that information stream in constructing another annuity stream. If they could put a chip in your head to send them your thoughts, they'd do it. The ph of your piss is interesting to them. Your preference in coffee creamer is of utmost importance. How well you can wiggle your hips is vital for hoola-hoop manufacturers. There's nothing about you that is not interesting to some corporate entity.
Best thing we could do in the U.S. is revoke person-hood status for corporate entities and start treating them like they do us. Let's have total informational awareness of how they conduct their business. Business secrets? Bah, humbug. Put their activities on web sites so we can all judge their behavior. Blow some fresh sunlight up their skirts to air out corporate governance. Track their corporate masters in real time like they wish to do to us. Let the Koch Brothers finally get the freedom they deserve, put every aspect of their lives on line so we can see what they are up to, where their money gets spent, what entities they control.
Angles, son, consider angles. At 30-40 feet down the road, the shield is no impediment. And if it is, then it is sticking out into the perpendicular roadway.
prepackaged fish sticks?
That reluctance to change probably has to do with if you intend to sell several million of something, and you produce several million of that something, you'd better be damn sure you will sell several million of said something. Try taking those gambles with the toy systems that Google produces.
And the use of GM's touchscreen controls brings out the homosexual slurs in you? Why?
Scale, son. Science critically involves scale and a sense of it, something you lack.
Okay, I give up. What alleged point are you attempting to make?
More information will not change that. I've watched those people in Congress and their questioning of climate specialists. There's no amount of new information that will change their minds. I think it is an unholy influence of religion (Christ will save us), anti-Science (Science is some sort of dodge), economics (it will cost money to change), right-wingnut politics (if the left wants it, it must be bad), and finally, sheer ignorance (they never took a Science course they liked, and in most instances it appears they've never taken a Science course).
Congress is not a bunch of enlightened individuals. As individuals, they appear well-intentioned. However, put Klieg lights on them and their "questions" are really campaign points. And they usually have law backgrounds. That isn't bad in itself but they appear more intent on the form of an argument than on the basis for an argument. And then there is the lack of academic honesty: instead of admitting they do not know, they will accuse everyone else in the room of not knowing.
No, it won't. It will send a picture to your insurance company and ask the company if the person behind the wheel should be driving the car. It will start out as you suggested, but the first insurance company to wise up will make Ford a business proposal. We'll get treated to the usual suits saying the usual things about "the future" and what-not. And the result will be we get screwed...yet again.
Yep, Park Geun-hye. I'll bet she can arm-wrestle the Dear Dumpling from N. Korea to a win.
The Dear Shrimp has ordered me to inform you that you will be killed with a thousand deaths for asking such a malicious and war-mongering statement. Several missiles will be sent to annoy the fish very, very soon. You've been warned!!!
Looks more like a Twinkie King to me.
Unless they had a lot of stock that wouldn't run winphone. So they have a choice, slap Android on it and cut their losses, or write off the whole lot.
But they would have needed a lot of stock to slap Android on and sell for this idea to be sensible.
I don't think the notion that Surface Pro and Surface RT were aimed at a different demographics. It isn't clear there are many people who would want a combined tablet/laptop. Rather, I think it is the usual MS notion that they won't feel happy owning a market segment if they do not get to destroy someone else's. They are so paranoid that to leave a market segment to someone else means they will let the camel's nose into the tent. So rather than compete in tablet-land, they are trying to convert tablet-land into laptop land. It appears to be the usual MS braindead take on Marketing 101.
I don't think the "love Apple products" have that much to do with it if you thinking like a Prada executive. In my case, I've always been appalled at MS interfaces. I presume there are others who are appalled at Apple interfaces. If you get started on one style of doing things, it becomes almost like a religion, and you don't change ingrained behaviors very often.
How much is the PRC paying you to write this crap?
Really? How about the Israeli-Arab wars? What's the resource, sand? Korean War? Last we heard, the Korean peninsula wasn't rich in anything, the North even worse off than the South. Vietnam? Yep, the U.S. lusted after their jungle. The current Syrian Civil War? The fighting appears to be over sand again. The Afghan Civil War that brought in the Taliban? No one knew what minerals were there until recently, and the Taliban had no use for them anyhow, all they need is Allah and the obliteration of human hope.
So, your snark detector is broken, yes?