"there are times when the only way to sort out a problem is government intervention". such as space exploration, medical and basic science research, the efforts of the CDC to contain epidemics, pollution control, traffic safety, airline safety, Wall Street and Banking rules, Social Security and Medicare, etc.
Libertarianism is a euphemism for a Dog-Eat-Dog world where everything has an individual price and woe betide the poor sucker who cannot afford the price.
The U.S. government budget for 2016 was $3.999 Trillion. The U.S. Defense Dept. budget for 2016 was $597 Billion. So, that's, 14% of the budget. Of that, approx. 1/2 is due to personnel costs. Another $100 Billion goes into physical plant, leaving about $200 Billion for everything else. A chunk of that goes into R&D and not fielded weapons.
Now, about the War Industrial Complex. Most companies do not rely on U.S. Defense dollars because the money isn't big enough. The U.S. has approx. at $19 Trillion economy. To think you are going to swing that in any direction with $200 is silly. You might argue that the entire approx. $600 Billion should be included. However, if you remove that from salaries, health benefits, etc., you lose that chunk of the economic savings you think you are going to get.
this is. The traditional American value of getting ahead by hard work and grit is completely opposed to this sort of genetic pre-disposition. The nature-nurture conflict doesn't go away simply because HR can now test for nature and is completely incapable of testing for nurture.
Yeah, because the OS should be free. Linux is a great example of that, its fine when it works...and you have the time to make it work. When it doesn't, you get to troll the newgroups and be abused. Winders has an interface that could knock a dead buzzard off a shit wagon at 20 paces.
The Poland of WWII doesn't exist, and they fought valiantly against a superior foe only to be fucked by the Russians.
Poland today is a top-notch NATO ally, one of the few who will accept American missiles because they know the Russians won't be truly happy until they get a crack at fucking up Eastern Europe for another 50 years.
The right group to back in Syria? Are we talking about the same country with Alawites allied with Christians against Sunnis allied with Allah and backed by some spoiled twat from Turkey with Iran hovering behind the scenes willing to keep Syria to the last Arab and funding Hezbollah to spice up the mixture a bit? That Syria?
A nuke on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama would fix nothing. The entire MidEast would erupt, it might even bring the Shi'ites and Sunnis to start male-on-male kissing each other in public. And broaching the nuclear threshold isn't such a bright idea if we'd like to keep Pakistan and India from allowing their crazies to have at it. And there's nothing stopping the Norks from slipping one to the many Arab "charities" who will feel it their duty to carry it to NYC and let it off.
The EPA did a good job of cleaning up the air after the 60s and 70s showed just how bad it could get. The NTSB does a good job of forcing transportation failures to get fixed so they do not re-occur. The NiH does a good job of fixing diseases so you don't die from them, sure the job remains unfinished but they've had many successes. SS as fixed Grandma coming to live with you because she has no other means of support. The FDA does a good job keeping Joe's Bait and Wholistic Drug Emporium from selling you rat poison disguises as children's gummy bears. Need I continue?
But Bam-Bam does have a chance of being elected. There's a fair majority of Republicans who think he's the bees knees. Personally, I think they are ignorant gits, just like their hero. How they got to their current dyspeptic view of the world is the real problem. Republican leaders have spent the last 20 years saying one thing to the faithful and another to industry and politicians. Now that they have so convinced their rank and file that they are disenfranchised, they are somehow amazed they feel disenfranchised, no matter how removed from actual fact that is.
Democrats are similarly culpable in promising their rank and file that if the U.S. is all multi-culti and disengages from the world, its and the world's people will somehow all stick together in some sort of goopy social mass. Their fellow travelers in Hollywood spent the last 20 years producing the dumbest, lamest infotainment and are now aghast the American people have no brains. You can see it in Sander's supporters who got all excited about "free" college. Oh, free for whom? Like the unis wouldn't do precisely what they did the last time the U.S. pissed off a lot of money on unis. They spent it on bureaucracy and hiring each others "stars".
He'd only complain that his election to president of the Universe has been stolen by Hillary prancing around in devils' horns and a tail, Paul Ryan (as if he had the wit or the balls), and the New York Times. He's a monument to his own ego, sort of a geometrically expanding pile of reflexive referencing bullshit.
In one of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, viewers of a Senso-o-Tape reel are instructed to bow their heads in payment. Fortunately, Slartibartfast warns them in time not to do so.
I don't think he'll ask the world to choose between Assad and Daesh. Rather, he thinks the U.S. and the Kurds and the Iraqis will nail Daesh...with that spoiled twat Erdogan running around with his bloomers on fire claiming it was all due to Turkey. Erdogan figures he'll be leader of the Sunnis in that area after Daesh goes away. Putin is cuddling up to Erdogan because he realizes he's pissed off the Sunnis by siding with Iran and their Shi'ite lapdogs in Syria and Lebanon. Putin figures he'll muddy the opposition to his Syria and Lebanon positions. All of this is directed towards reducing American influence in the region because as you mentioned, he's a fascist who really has no claim to fame except his military adventures. The Baltics are next.
Putin thinks he'll have the piece of Syria he cares about, the one with ports on the Med. and a few airbases. This puts him in a position to protect Hezbollah when they start the next war with Israel. Well, he thinks he can. Israel probably sees right through this and they won't have a foreign policy wimp like Obama running their country. If Israel decided to remove Putin's bases from the Mideast during a war with Hezbollah, there's not squat Putin could do about it short of declaring all out war....which sucks for him since he has little airlift capability, his nukes are useless, with any luck his blood pressure would rise until he had a heart attack and the cleaning lady does his office in the morning carefully working around the corpse...just like his hero, Stalin.
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I think it is more that everything they do they call Windows...except for Office, but then they tie a lot of Office into Windows.
"there are times when the only way to sort out a problem is government intervention". such as space exploration, medical and basic science research, the efforts of the CDC to contain epidemics, pollution control, traffic safety, airline safety, Wall Street and Banking rules, Social Security and Medicare, etc.
Libertarianism is a euphemism for a Dog-Eat-Dog world where everything has an individual price and woe betide the poor sucker who cannot afford the price.
Wikileaks might have started that way, now it is just Putin's bitch.
Or maybe Assange is just another Trump, the more noise he makes, the happier he is.
The U.S. government budget for 2016 was $3.999 Trillion. The U.S. Defense Dept. budget for 2016 was $597 Billion. So, that's, 14% of the budget. Of that, approx. 1/2 is due to personnel costs. Another $100 Billion goes into physical plant, leaving about $200 Billion for everything else. A chunk of that goes into R&D and not fielded weapons.
Now, about the War Industrial Complex. Most companies do not rely on U.S. Defense dollars because the money isn't big enough. The U.S. has approx. at $19 Trillion economy. To think you are going to swing that in any direction with $200 is silly. You might argue that the entire approx. $600 Billion should be included. However, if you remove that from salaries, health benefits, etc., you lose that chunk of the economic savings you think you are going to get.
Fortunately with his attention span of a gnat, he can recall little of it.
this is. The traditional American value of getting ahead by hard work and grit is completely opposed to this sort of genetic pre-disposition. The nature-nurture conflict doesn't go away simply because HR can now test for nature and is completely incapable of testing for nurture.
A company only likes organizations that likes to buy its stuff. Wow! And you figured this out all by yourself?
Yeah, because the OS should be free. Linux is a great example of that, its fine when it works...and you have the time to make it work. When it doesn't, you get to troll the newgroups and be abused. Winders has an interface that could knock a dead buzzard off a shit wagon at 20 paces.
I'll second that. That trash can must go, I want the nice solid tower macs back again.
The Poland of WWII doesn't exist, and they fought valiantly against a superior foe only to be fucked by the Russians.
Poland today is a top-notch NATO ally, one of the few who will accept American missiles because they know the Russians won't be truly happy until they get a crack at fucking up Eastern Europe for another 50 years.
The right group to back in Syria? Are we talking about the same country with Alawites allied with Christians against Sunnis allied with Allah and backed by some spoiled twat from Turkey with Iran hovering behind the scenes willing to keep Syria to the last Arab and funding Hezbollah to spice up the mixture a bit? That Syria?
A nuke on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama would fix nothing. The entire MidEast would erupt, it might even bring the Shi'ites and Sunnis to start male-on-male kissing each other in public. And broaching the nuclear threshold isn't such a bright idea if we'd like to keep Pakistan and India from allowing their crazies to have at it. And there's nothing stopping the Norks from slipping one to the many Arab "charities" who will feel it their duty to carry it to NYC and let it off.
The EPA did a good job of cleaning up the air after the 60s and 70s showed just how bad it could get. The NTSB does a good job of forcing transportation failures to get fixed so they do not re-occur. The NiH does a good job of fixing diseases so you don't die from them, sure the job remains unfinished but they've had many successes. SS as fixed Grandma coming to live with you because she has no other means of support. The FDA does a good job keeping Joe's Bait and Wholistic Drug Emporium from selling you rat poison disguises as children's gummy bears. Need I continue?
You haven't been listening to Trump.
"The idea that this came out of nowhere, is not funded, or is not part of the legally directed activities of the executive branch is just insane."
Oh, then the alt-right then.
But Bam-Bam does have a chance of being elected. There's a fair majority of Republicans who think he's the bees knees. Personally, I think they are ignorant gits, just like their hero. How they got to their current dyspeptic view of the world is the real problem. Republican leaders have spent the last 20 years saying one thing to the faithful and another to industry and politicians. Now that they have so convinced their rank and file that they are disenfranchised, they are somehow amazed they feel disenfranchised, no matter how removed from actual fact that is.
Democrats are similarly culpable in promising their rank and file that if the U.S. is all multi-culti and disengages from the world, its and the world's people will somehow all stick together in some sort of goopy social mass. Their fellow travelers in Hollywood spent the last 20 years producing the dumbest, lamest infotainment and are now aghast the American people have no brains. You can see it in Sander's supporters who got all excited about "free" college. Oh, free for whom? Like the unis wouldn't do precisely what they did the last time the U.S. pissed off a lot of money on unis. They spent it on bureaucracy and hiring each others "stars".
it wasn't the language Bam-Bam used on the tape. It was what he said about his own actions that is the problem.
He'd only complain that his election to president of the Universe has been stolen by Hillary prancing around in devils' horns and a tail, Paul Ryan (as if he had the wit or the balls), and the New York Times. He's a monument to his own ego, sort of a geometrically expanding pile of reflexive referencing bullshit.
No, it means there are 20x as many Space Women as before. I cannot wait for interstellar travel.
No, we still need dark matter or a lot of our physics theory is bunk. The bunk bit needs to be avoided.
I like point 1, it gets people with waaaay too much money all excited and they start spending it on proving that 1 is true.
I happen to have a method for proving 1. It only requires a few morons to fund me.
Yeah, people have said cold fusion is impossible. If we wait long enough, anything is possible.
The Drake equation is still bullshit, this doesn't change it.
In one of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, viewers of a Senso-o-Tape reel are instructed to bow their heads in payment. Fortunately, Slartibartfast warns them in time not to do so.
I don't think he'll ask the world to choose between Assad and Daesh. Rather, he thinks the U.S. and the Kurds and the Iraqis will nail Daesh...with that spoiled twat Erdogan running around with his bloomers on fire claiming it was all due to Turkey. Erdogan figures he'll be leader of the Sunnis in that area after Daesh goes away. Putin is cuddling up to Erdogan because he realizes he's pissed off the Sunnis by siding with Iran and their Shi'ite lapdogs in Syria and Lebanon. Putin figures he'll muddy the opposition to his Syria and Lebanon positions. All of this is directed towards reducing American influence in the region because as you mentioned, he's a fascist who really has no claim to fame except his military adventures. The Baltics are next.
Putin thinks he'll have the piece of Syria he cares about, the one with ports on the Med. and a few airbases. This puts him in a position to protect Hezbollah when they start the next war with Israel. Well, he thinks he can. Israel probably sees right through this and they won't have a foreign policy wimp like Obama running their country. If Israel decided to remove Putin's bases from the Mideast during a war with Hezbollah, there's not squat Putin could do about it short of declaring all out war....which sucks for him since he has little airlift capability, his nukes are useless, with any luck his blood pressure would rise until he had a heart attack and the cleaning lady does his office in the morning carefully working around the corpse...just like his hero, Stalin.