Well, the U.S. economy has a GDP of a little north of $14 trillion. The current defense bill is about $720 billion. And somehow this $720 is supporting a GDP of $14 trillion?
Incidentally, the U.S. deficit is about $1.4 trillion for FY2010 which ended Sept. 30. The total debt is about $14 trillion (no relation to the GDP number, the latter is per year, the former spans decades of financial mismanagement).
The rich, say the top 1% of the pop. pay approx 37 % of all the income tax in the country. The top 20% pay about 85% of the income taxes. The bottom 50% of the pop. pay no income tax.
It is important to have a sense of proportion, it can keep you from making unwarranted assumptions.
His logic isn't impecable (sic) nor impeccable. His unfounded assumption is that the wealthy are not using money to create jobs. Very few of the wealthy are patent trolls as the gp seems to think. He's arguing that the few examples he thinks he sees allow him to damn a whole class.
Many of the wealthy got there by investing in companies that produce jobs. Some greedy have destroyed jobs, but one doesn't need to be wealthy to be greedy as legions of Business School Product will attest.
Hardware stores, Sears, auto dealerships, pawn shops, grocery stores, shoe stores, firework stores, doctor practices, etc. That's real property.
Most of capitalism is not about imaginary property. And if you had a large company that scaled up by employing hundreds or thousands of people only to have (cough) Chinese companies come in an steal your special sauce, you'd suddenly find imaginary property is your hundreds or thousands of employees being laid off. Them are imaginary property.
So they are a double troll. They don't actually make anything, that would leave them open to patent trolls. Instead, they come up with *new* ideas and wrap patents around them only to use them as sueballs.
The U.S. has long admitted the "concentration" camps if by that you mean concentration camps light rather than what the Nazies were engaged in.
The U.S. also fought a bloody civil war over slavery, a million people lost their lives in it. You may have heard of it. At the Constitutional Convention, there were anti-slavery folks. Eventually, they compromised and produced a constitution that America eventually grew into.
Now, let's take a list of Muslim countries where respect for minority rights is built into their system. I can only think of one, Indonesia, and that's if you forget when the majority periodically goes on a Christian hunting bender.
Incidentally, the rich in the U.S., which we'll consider the top 5th of the population, pay 86% of the income tax (2006 figures). And this is after the Bush tax breaks. It gets even more lopsided if you consider the top 1% of population, would would be considered rich by anyone's imagination, pay 39% of all income taxes. So we see that the rich are more or less funding the 50% of the pop. that pays no income tax. They do, however, pay sales taxes, but the rich pay them too.
Maybe, but the NYT has an update. Apparently, the Amazon system is so good that they never even noticed the DDoS and the wikileaker sympathizers have called it off. Amazon built their system to withstand the XMas rush and built it out so big it could host other organizations like the NYT itself. Also, they are having little impact on PayPal according to the article.
In a totally unrelated development, N. Korea announce several new brigades of the shortest soldiers the world has ever seen standing only 2 foot high. In the military communique, N. Korea General A Tom Nuke said "These brave short comrades will be able to walk into S. Korea under any radar and defend N. Korea's sanity with their revolutionary presence." Adm. Mike Mullen, Joint Chiefs Headship for the U.S. , reacted angrily saying that China needs to talk some sense into N. Korea or the U.S. will be forced into drastic measures which might, in the worst case, come to sending Jimmy Carter to talk to Kimmy II.
N. Korea fired back, "You no dare send Carter here again, running American dog-pig. Criminal acts will be met with all-out war!"
1. was it the Iranians, pissed off because the leaks show Iran is about as popular as nipple piercing in a convent?
2. was it the Russians who somehow took umbrage that their Head Honcho was a mere appendage of Putin?
3. was it the Chinese who somehow feel the leaks are a threat to their total mind control necessary to keep their illegitimate regime sucking up up power?
4. was it the Pakistanis who were shown to the the two-bit backstabbing weenies the U.S. always thought they were?
5 was it the Saudis who were shown not to actually have the control over the proles they'd like to think they have?
A lot of times I've seen that phenomenon; it appears to stem from the standard version not being quite optimal for the particular situation the programmer finds him/her self. Unless it is for something where every last clock cycle counts, it is a wasted effort because now the new code has to be debugged and maintained. Maintenance cost matters. That includes the cost of someone else now needing to learn the widget which is just like the old except for a few odd quirks.
Bullshit. If the U.S. goes down, it will take China's manufacturing markets with it. China needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs them. Millions of Chinese out of work will make the illegitimate rulers of China hide from the pitchforks that will be coming for them.
Yes, well, an elected politician can say anything they like in the U.S. You might have heard of free speech. Which nation prevents their Nobel Prize winner from receiving his prize think it constitutes intervention in their internal affairs?
The U.S. is not stopping you from reading Wikileaks. If you mean Amazon weenying out to a Senator, please take that up with the Senator or Amazon. Last I heard, he wasn't the government. If you are referring to PayPal, they gave a decent reason. Your don't like it because you believe there is a conspiracy behind it. So put up or shut up.
Your third question is a variant of the second. You clearly have no idea how the U.S. government works, but feel free to insinuate conspiracy theories to your hearts content. You have that freedom in the U.S.
Your third question is mere belief, nothing more. As if the Chinese, Russian, Pakistan, or Saudi govenments have no reason to put a stopper on Wikileaks. Near as I can make out, all Wikileaks is doing is making the U.S. look good and other governments not so good.
So, why would the U.S. want to stop Wikileaks when it is only underscoring what State and Defense have been saying for years?
If it weren't for the mainline press reporting on Wikileaks and applying some perspective, few would even know about Wikileaks and even fewer would give flying rat's ass about yet another organization out to stick it to the U.S.
Most of the "information" is just a bunch of our diplomats wanking off about the conditions in host countries. Big deal, you could get as much by reading widely. I'm sure you'll "discover" hiding in these documents that conspiracy you desperately need to confirm your view of the U.S. Personally, I think it has to do with Quaddafi's blond nurse, surely she's a CIA plant...errr....or something...
It is a bit worse than that. Science is web, when lies like the theme park get institutionalized (and that is what the organizers are doing), it hurts the country. Johnny and Sally, instead of studying hard for their biology PhDs, will be busy praying for miracles.
Says up there that the "proposed specification would also offer up cards with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2TM". That's one gonzo-whopper of a specification being able to offer up physical cards. I wonder how that's done. Maybe they have a machine that accepts specifications and spits out cards. That must be it.
yep, then explain how the CIA and the Northern Alliance wiped the Taliban's ass in a 2 months. The U.S.'s problem was that once the Afghans let the weasel escape into Pakistan, it didn't just declare its work mostly done and gone back to simply supporting the Northern Alliance. The Taliban would still have come back, it is all they know, i.e., hatred of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmans, and Tajiks...oh, and women. Why the latter is a mystery but then Islam isn't particular about whom to hate.
bin Laden was not extensively trained by the CIA. Hell, they barely knew the guy existed because he was careful never to risk his own ass. He may have gotten a few arms, probably second-handed to him by others. Ever see that idiot use an AK-47, he's lucky he still has feet.
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Well, the U.S. economy has a GDP of a little north of $14 trillion. The current defense bill is about $720 billion. And somehow this $720 is supporting a GDP of $14 trillion?
Incidentally, the U.S. deficit is about $1.4 trillion for FY2010 which ended Sept. 30. The total debt is about $14 trillion (no relation to the GDP number, the latter is per year, the former spans decades of financial mismanagement).
The rich, say the top 1% of the pop. pay approx 37 % of all the income tax in the country. The top 20% pay about 85% of the income taxes. The bottom 50% of the pop. pay no income tax.
It is important to have a sense of proportion, it can keep you from making unwarranted assumptions.
His logic isn't impecable (sic) nor impeccable. His unfounded assumption is that the wealthy are not using money to create jobs. Very few of the wealthy are patent trolls as the gp seems to think. He's arguing that the few examples he thinks he sees allow him to damn a whole class.
Many of the wealthy got there by investing in companies that produce jobs. Some greedy have destroyed jobs, but one doesn't need to be wealthy to be greedy as legions of Business School Product will attest.
Hardware stores, Sears, auto dealerships, pawn shops, grocery stores, shoe stores, firework stores, doctor practices, etc. That's real property.
Most of capitalism is not about imaginary property. And if you had a large company that scaled up by employing hundreds or thousands of people only to have (cough) Chinese companies come in an steal your special sauce, you'd suddenly find imaginary property is your hundreds or thousands of employees being laid off. Them are imaginary property.
So they are a double troll. They don't actually make anything, that would leave them open to patent trolls. Instead, they come up with *new* ideas and wrap patents around them only to use them as sueballs.
The U.S. has long admitted the "concentration" camps if by that you mean concentration camps light rather than what the Nazies were engaged in.
The U.S. also fought a bloody civil war over slavery, a million people lost their lives in it. You may have heard of it. At the Constitutional Convention, there were anti-slavery folks. Eventually, they compromised and produced a constitution that America eventually grew into.
Now, let's take a list of Muslim countries where respect for minority rights is built into their system. I can only think of one, Indonesia, and that's if you forget when the majority periodically goes on a Christian hunting bender.
Incidentally, the rich in the U.S., which we'll consider the top 5th of the population, pay 86% of the income tax (2006 figures). And this is after the Bush tax breaks. It gets even more lopsided if you consider the top 1% of population, would would be considered rich by anyone's imagination, pay 39% of all income taxes. So we see that the rich are more or less funding the 50% of the pop. that pays no income tax. They do, however, pay sales taxes, but the rich pay them too.
Maybe, but the NYT has an update. Apparently, the Amazon system is so good that they never even noticed the DDoS and the wikileaker sympathizers have called it off. Amazon built their system to withstand the XMas rush and built it out so big it could host other organizations like the NYT itself. Also, they are having little impact on PayPal according to the article.
In a totally unrelated development, N. Korea announce several new brigades of the shortest soldiers the world has ever seen standing only 2 foot high. In the military communique, N. Korea General A Tom Nuke said "These brave short comrades will be able to walk into S. Korea under any radar and defend N. Korea's sanity with their revolutionary presence." Adm. Mike Mullen, Joint Chiefs Headship for the U.S. , reacted angrily saying that China needs to talk some sense into N. Korea or the U.S. will be forced into drastic measures which might, in the worst case, come to sending Jimmy Carter to talk to Kimmy II.
N. Korea fired back, "You no dare send Carter here again, running American dog-pig. Criminal acts will be met with all-out war!"
So, you are relying on a CEO for moral guidance? Nope, no chance he has a dog in that fight, eh?
Yep, then the questions will be:
1. was it the Iranians, pissed off because the leaks show Iran is about as popular as nipple piercing in a convent?
2. was it the Russians who somehow took umbrage that their Head Honcho was a mere appendage of Putin?
3. was it the Chinese who somehow feel the leaks are a threat to their total mind control necessary to keep their illegitimate regime sucking up up power?
4. was it the Pakistanis who were shown to the the two-bit backstabbing weenies the U.S. always thought they were?
5 was it the Saudis who were shown not to actually have the control over the proles they'd like to think they have?
A lot of times I've seen that phenomenon; it appears to stem from the standard version not being quite optimal for the particular situation the programmer finds him/her self. Unless it is for something where every last clock cycle counts, it is a wasted effort because now the new code has to be debugged and maintained. Maintenance cost matters. That includes the cost of someone else now needing to learn the widget which is just like the old except for a few odd quirks.
I don't know. It sounds like men just fall for macho advertising by Business School Product. Men aren't inherently any smarter or dumber than women.
Bullshit. If the U.S. goes down, it will take China's manufacturing markets with it. China needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs them. Millions of Chinese out of work will make the illegitimate rulers of China hide from the pitchforks that will be coming for them.
Yes, well, an elected politician can say anything they like in the U.S. You might have heard of free speech. Which nation prevents their Nobel Prize winner from receiving his prize think it constitutes intervention in their internal affairs?
The U.S. is not stopping you from reading Wikileaks. If you mean Amazon weenying out to a Senator, please take that up with the Senator or Amazon. Last I heard, he wasn't the government. If you are referring to PayPal, they gave a decent reason. Your don't like it because you believe there is a conspiracy behind it. So put up or shut up.
Your third question is a variant of the second. You clearly have no idea how the U.S. government works, but feel free to insinuate conspiracy theories to your hearts content. You have that freedom in the U.S.
Your third question is mere belief, nothing more. As if the Chinese, Russian, Pakistan, or Saudi govenments have no reason to put a stopper on Wikileaks. Near as I can make out, all Wikileaks is doing is making the U.S. look good and other governments not so good.
So, why would the U.S. want to stop Wikileaks when it is only underscoring what State and Defense have been saying for years?
If it weren't for the mainline press reporting on Wikileaks and applying some perspective, few would even know about Wikileaks and even fewer would give flying rat's ass about yet another organization out to stick it to the U.S.
Most of the "information" is just a bunch of our diplomats wanking off about the conditions in host countries. Big deal, you could get as much by reading widely. I'm sure you'll "discover" hiding in these documents that conspiracy you desperately need to confirm your view of the U.S. Personally, I think it has to do with Quaddafi's blond nurse, surely she's a CIA plant...errr....or something...
It is a bit worse than that. Science is web, when lies like the theme park get institutionalized (and that is what the organizers are doing), it hurts the country. Johnny and Sally, instead of studying hard for their biology PhDs, will be busy praying for miracles.
No implementation of any programming language is complete as it would require an infinite tape (memory).
Says up there that the "proposed specification would also offer up cards with a theoretical maximum capacity of 2TM". That's one gonzo-whopper of a specification being able to offer up physical cards. I wonder how that's done. Maybe they have a machine that accepts specifications and spits out cards. That must be it.
Get your head out of the movies. And in any case, the U.S. would have to be daft to make a high profile person "disappear".
Well, that's due to their health care system which peculiarly enough cannot seem to deliver dental care in a way people opt for.
yep, then explain how the CIA and the Northern Alliance wiped the Taliban's ass in a 2 months. The U.S.'s problem was that once the Afghans let the weasel escape into Pakistan, it didn't just declare its work mostly done and gone back to simply supporting the Northern Alliance. The Taliban would still have come back, it is all they know, i.e., hatred of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmans, and Tajiks...oh, and women. Why the latter is a mystery but then Islam isn't particular about whom to hate.
bin Laden was not extensively trained by the CIA. Hell, they barely knew the guy existed because he was careful never to risk his own ass. He may have gotten a few arms, probably second-handed to him by others. Ever see that idiot use an AK-47, he's lucky he still has feet.
Nope, last I checked (just now) it was $12.77 for yer basic hammer.
One word: dentistry.
Nor the local do-it-yourself carwash. Hose the little bastards down before allowing them in the house.