Ah, but if you include social protection in your base tax, then you have to include SocSec and MediCare/MedicAid in the US tax rate, in which case military spending is third. That's right, the US spends over double what it does on the military on basic social welfare.
Well, let's see, how about politicians who have actually done things while they've been in office? I mean, seriously, what has Obama DONE with his political power so far? He speaks of his famous Hope/Change, yet his actual political record shows none of this. Instead it shows the standard Illinois slimeball suck-up.
No, the practice would have been illegal had they not NOTIFIED YOU IN ADVANCE before you activated the feature. Just because you played the click-through zombie does not in any way/shape/or form point to any illegality on Valve's part.
As to your first point, SocSec alone costs more than the war, and it's only going to get worse. Moreover, if you were to calculate the deficit the way every other corporation has to, SocSec costs several multiples of what the war is costing each year. That's not even including MediCare.
As to your second point, isn't it interesting that DARPA sponsers more energy research than the DoE?
Wow, not 12 paragraphs in it says why.
''In the U.S. it is possible to enlist at 17, with parental consent,'' said David Balton, of the State Department's Office of the Legal Advisers. ''We are not involved in an armed conflict, but we may be one day, and it would be very hard for the armed forces to guarantee that the 17-year-olds would be separated out from combat.''
Be pretty fecking stupid to go along with a treaty which we would instantly be in violation of.
Not to mention the fact that this treaty would do exactly NOTHING to stop the child soldier crap anyway, since many of the children are under 15 in the first place. It, like most of the UN bullshit is a feel-good measure that accomplishes exactly nothing.
Fiat currency is currency backed only by the agreed upon value. Non-fiat currency is backed by a physical substance. Generally a substance worth something. The problem in using non-fiat currency in a modern society is twofold.
1.Given that you have to have the equivalent material on hand in order to distribute money, and given that the material must have value to the majority of the world, it invariably forces the price of industrial materials to rise because in the modern world almost everything valuable is used someplace in industry.
2.Unless you actually issue the material as the currency itself, you are left with easily counterfeited money, which defeats the entire supposed purpose of the non-fiat currency in the first place.
Unless someone is magically able to solve these two problems, there is little point in even attempting to issue non-fiat currency. A much better tactic would be to force complete transparency on the Fed.
Technically speaking, much of the English language can be considered to be used only in improper form. That's another thing, it's not not a word, but an improper usage of the term irregardless. Or it would be, if there weren't commonly accepted improper usages all over the map of the English language in everyday use. There really is no such thing as proper English.
Except Apple's monopoly in terms of revenue is pretty much strictly iPod and accessories based. The amount of revenue from iTunes music sales is a trifle. And nothing stops anyone from buying the full songs and still using iTunes as their media player by pointing it at the folder. Any break in the iTunes monopoly would be temporary at best, and almost immediately reverse again when the labels tried to raise prices. And none of it would affect iPod sales.
Addictions fundamentally aren't diseases. Even when they are physiological-based. The AMA is calling it a disease because it's the easiest way for people to think about the problem seriously. If addiction is a disease, than much greater than 99% of the population is diseased, even if they're perfectly healthy.
From a technical standpoint, if the hypervisor allows linux access to 3d accel capabilities, the possibility that one could find a crack to run pirated PS3 iso's off the HDD becomes much greater. By completely locking it out, using linux to do so becomes much, much harder.
Actually, the point of the 2nd was to ensure that a totalitarian regime never came about in the first place. Reason being is that as long as the 2nd was intact no one would dare to bring about said regime. But thanks to the bullshit interstate commerce clause along with the progressives lovely anti-gun train, you get where we are today.
Of course, the problem is that the interstate commerce clause has been stretched more than Nina Hartley's vagina. And it still doesn't explain ANY of the gun regulations.
Grammar in the late 18th century was very... fluid. Thus the pervasiveness of the two different second amendments, even though they mean the same damned fucking thing unless you will yourself to believe otherwise.
It's not surprising, I predicted that this would probably happen in every/. thread on the issue that I posted in. Besides GoW, Halo, and now GTAIV, the 360 doesn't really have any well known titles. Moreover, even though from a statistics standpoint it doesn't matter, I know two people who sold their core 360s and picked a PS3 strictly for GTA. Wii will dominate for a long time. The PS3 might eventually outsell it, but that won't be until the next generation(not counting MS releases) of consoles come out.
Actually, in a lot of ways they got what would happened if you would attempt objectivism with normal people in a originally resource rich but ultimately low-quantity environment, with no ability to expand or improve on the way they use resources. If a philosophy like objectivism is to work, it requires that upwards of 75% of the population be willing to take responsibility for their own actions. Good luck getting anywhere near that percentage.
Considering that the only two choices I saw was, okay, who should I listen to that will get me out of this fucking hellhole the fastest, the sane sounding guy looking for his wife, or the ultra paranoiac who has already demonstrated a willingness to kill me; as well as the choice on whether to kill little sisters or not(not, because being nice to people is generally a good way to go unless they purposefully harm you first) I fail to see any supposed control. The whole bit about being an automaton was just the people at bioware wanking off, IMO. The character pretty much did(barring the whole photo taking bit) exactly what I would have done to get out of there.
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Ah, but if you include social protection in your base tax, then you have to include SocSec and MediCare/MedicAid in the US tax rate, in which case military spending is third. That's right, the US spends over double what it does on the military on basic social welfare.
You do for mechanical combat disadvantages, in the form of feats at least, but only as an alternate ruleset.
That baby looks ready to pimp slap somebody.
Um, how about no. SocSec is NOT A TRUST FUND. The government cannot legally operate a trust fund.
Well, let's see, how about politicians who have actually done things while they've been in office? I mean, seriously, what has Obama DONE with his political power so far? He speaks of his famous Hope/Change, yet his actual political record shows none of this. Instead it shows the standard Illinois slimeball suck-up.
No, the practice would have been illegal had they not NOTIFIED YOU IN ADVANCE before you activated the feature. Just because you played the click-through zombie does not in any way/shape/or form point to any illegality on Valve's part.
As to your first point, SocSec alone costs more than the war, and it's only going to get worse. Moreover, if you were to calculate the deficit the way every other corporation has to, SocSec costs several multiples of what the war is costing each year. That's not even including MediCare.
As to your second point, isn't it interesting that DARPA sponsers more energy research than the DoE?
Wow, not 12 paragraphs in it says why. ''In the U.S. it is possible to enlist at 17, with parental consent,'' said David Balton, of the State Department's Office of the Legal Advisers. ''We are not involved in an armed conflict, but we may be one day, and it would be very hard for the armed forces to guarantee that the 17-year-olds would be separated out from combat.'' Be pretty fecking stupid to go along with a treaty which we would instantly be in violation of. Not to mention the fact that this treaty would do exactly NOTHING to stop the child soldier crap anyway, since many of the children are under 15 in the first place. It, like most of the UN bullshit is a feel-good measure that accomplishes exactly nothing.
Fiat currency is currency backed only by the agreed upon value. Non-fiat currency is backed by a physical substance. Generally a substance worth something. The problem in using non-fiat currency in a modern society is twofold.
1.Given that you have to have the equivalent material on hand in order to distribute money, and given that the material must have value to the majority of the world, it invariably forces the price of industrial materials to rise because in the modern world almost everything valuable is used someplace in industry.
2.Unless you actually issue the material as the currency itself, you are left with easily counterfeited money, which defeats the entire supposed purpose of the non-fiat currency in the first place.
Unless someone is magically able to solve these two problems, there is little point in even attempting to issue non-fiat currency. A much better tactic would be to force complete transparency on the Fed.
Technically speaking, much of the English language can be considered to be used only in improper form. That's another thing, it's not not a word, but an improper usage of the term irregardless. Or it would be, if there weren't commonly accepted improper usages all over the map of the English language in everyday use. There really is no such thing as proper English.
Except Apple's monopoly in terms of revenue is pretty much strictly iPod and accessories based. The amount of revenue from iTunes music sales is a trifle. And nothing stops anyone from buying the full songs and still using iTunes as their media player by pointing it at the folder. Any break in the iTunes monopoly would be temporary at best, and almost immediately reverse again when the labels tried to raise prices. And none of it would affect iPod sales.
Addictions fundamentally aren't diseases. Even when they are physiological-based. The AMA is calling it a disease because it's the easiest way for people to think about the problem seriously. If addiction is a disease, than much greater than 99% of the population is diseased, even if they're perfectly healthy.
From a technical standpoint, if the hypervisor allows linux access to 3d accel capabilities, the possibility that one could find a crack to run pirated PS3 iso's off the HDD becomes much greater. By completely locking it out, using linux to do so becomes much, much harder.
Actually, the point of the 2nd was to ensure that a totalitarian regime never came about in the first place. Reason being is that as long as the 2nd was intact no one would dare to bring about said regime. But thanks to the bullshit interstate commerce clause along with the progressives lovely anti-gun train, you get where we are today.
? Um, RPGs suck ass at hitting a moving target. Even one directly in front coming at the firer. Now, a Stinger missile system maybe.
Of course, the problem is that the interstate commerce clause has been stretched more than Nina Hartley's vagina. And it still doesn't explain ANY of the gun regulations.
Grammar in the late 18th century was very... fluid. Thus the pervasiveness of the two different second amendments, even though they mean the same damned fucking thing unless you will yourself to believe otherwise.
I have to pay for my bandwidth don't I? Also the power and the computer itself.
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It's not surprising, I predicted that this would probably happen in every /. thread on the issue that I posted in. Besides GoW, Halo, and now GTAIV, the 360 doesn't really have any well known titles. Moreover, even though from a statistics standpoint it doesn't matter, I know two people who sold their core 360s and picked a PS3 strictly for GTA. Wii will dominate for a long time. The PS3 might eventually outsell it, but that won't be until the next generation(not counting MS releases) of consoles come out.
To Godwin or not to Godwin, that is the question.
Because leaving ActiveX running while setting up a firewall to deal with a separate problem is a smart move.
Actually, in a lot of ways they got what would happened if you would attempt objectivism with normal people in a originally resource rich but ultimately low-quantity environment, with no ability to expand or improve on the way they use resources. If a philosophy like objectivism is to work, it requires that upwards of 75% of the population be willing to take responsibility for their own actions. Good luck getting anywhere near that percentage.
Considering that the only two choices I saw was, okay, who should I listen to that will get me out of this fucking hellhole the fastest, the sane sounding guy looking for his wife, or the ultra paranoiac who has already demonstrated a willingness to kill me; as well as the choice on whether to kill little sisters or not(not, because being nice to people is generally a good way to go unless they purposefully harm you first) I fail to see any supposed control. The whole bit about being an automaton was just the people at bioware wanking off, IMO. The character pretty much did(barring the whole photo taking bit) exactly what I would have done to get out of there.
You're gonna need CGI for the plasmids though. Unless you're planning on taking them out entirely.