What is so terrible with the idea that the people charged with coming up with laws, and are at least nominally beholden to the electorate (i.e. Congress), defining what the law is, rather than some arbitrary committee (FCC) that is entirely unaccountable to anyone? Shouldn't we WANT it to be open to a public debate, rather than a decree?
So, your premise is that if we just played nice, and didn't threaten the poor downtrodden russians, they would not develop their own capabilities, and we could maybe sit around a campfire singing kumbaya? Have you suffered a recent blow to the head?
Time and again, this sort of utterly idiotic reasoning has been used to try to bring "peace", and all that has happened is that the aggressors like the USSR, Russians, islamic terrorists, etc, have taken that as a signal of weakness to be taken advantage of. There is a right and wrong in the world, we are the good guys, and the world is a better place if we win.
That's how all conspiracy theorists work. The more you prove reality, the more "proof" there is that the conspiracy is working overtime to "suppress the truth" . Complete lack of any evidence to support the existence of a conspiracy merely indicated how vast and effective the conspiracy has gotten. Fail to respond, and you can say "see, no one is even attempting to say we are wrong, because they know we are right.
Psychologically, the entire system is self-reinforcing, which is why it is so difficult for these people to stop, and usually, they believe in multiple unrelated conspiracies because the same set of conclusions and behaviors can apply to literally any circumstance.
Hard to say what this particular nutjob is up to here, whether he believes the earth is flat, or that he is doing it for publicity (wanting publicity for proving yourself and idiot in public is a different disorder...), or he is working some scam, can't tell.
Patriotic leaker? There is no such thing, they are weasels and traitors who can't conduct themselves within the law - which, despite 8 years of leftist royal decrees, is supposed to be something that we care about.
A fair bit of the pro-pseudo-currency investors are too young or have too short a memory to recall the previous bubbles. How is pets.com stock doing these days?
Duck and cover, mocked endlessly, is a good way to react. If you are close enough either the radiation or the blast will kill you outright, but that's a pretty small area (particularly when its a maybe 20kt fission weapon from Korea, probably with an impact trigger). Otherwise, your biggest danger is from the flying debris. Ducking out of the way of flying glass and getting under some substantial cover to avoid falling roofs and ceilings will certainly raise your odds of getting through it.
This is *exactly* what you should expect when you attempt to socially engineer a solution that violates the rules of business, in this case, artificially raising the cost of labor beyond the market value. One hundred percent entirely predictable, and predicted.
Actually, my point is that lawmakers shouldn't ever in any circumstance be permitted to create regulatory bodies in the first place. Every single law should be voted on by Congress. It would then be *impossible* to have a spew of regulations emitted at the whim of the participants, but that the representatives would be personally responsible for the effects at the polls.
So, they are actually making a law about it, as they should have in the first place, rather than a proclamation from an unelected regulatory body? Seems like that is exactly what *should* happen.
And, to be honest, the larger world has no idea who the guy is nor to they pay any attention to what he has to say no matter how much attention he seeks. He has found/created a small pond, and careens around like a shark in a goldfish bowl. That's not particularly bad or at all unique, but certainly no one at Intel gives a crap what he thinks, and to expect any different shows a lack of perspective.
They also grew up having to worry that every airplane flying over might have already dropped an H-bomb on their heads, or that that flash might be lightning or it might be Uncle Joe letting fly. That is, an immediate and very realistic possibility that each second, they and everyone they knew would be dead.
Once you don't have that (due largely to the "reagan era" you disparage), yes, you look at things somewhat differently, and don't whine about you trivial inconveniences as you do. You're safe, well-fed, live in incomprehensible luxury compared to almost all generations before you, and you still whine about it and think you are somehow downtrodden and put upon.
A shorter summary of the OP, and from the "older generation", start acting like a grownup and appreciate what you have.
How would that help? Drive up their costs, which raises the cost to the consumer (you don't think they are going to raise wages and keep the prices the same, do you?) - the same people who shop there.
All that taxing the evil corporations does is take even MORE money out of the economy and raise prices. Sounds like you learned economics from Paul Krugman.
Greatest economic boon in history *while simultaneously driving the biggest threat to humanity's existence into the ground*.
Assisting the poor? Are you really that ignorant? How have the poor ever been assisted by government spending? You know when the US povertry rate went from a steady decline to a flat spot, then a rise? 1965 or so - coincident with The Great Society of social programs. Social spending is a net negative to poor people because of the obscene waste/overhead that takes money out of the economy and wastes it on administration.
Liberals care so much about poor people, they create as many as possible.
The Reagan-era tax cuts took the economy from completely moribund 'stagflation' to the greatest peacetime economic boon in history in the space of a few years.
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What is so terrible with the idea that the people charged with coming up with laws, and are at least nominally beholden to the electorate (i.e. Congress), defining what the law is, rather than some arbitrary committee (FCC) that is entirely unaccountable to anyone? Shouldn't we WANT it to be open to a public debate, rather than a decree?
So he's going to stop cashing the checks?
Those government subsidies won't lobby for themselves.
This - it's not truly fixable.
So, your premise is that if we just played nice, and didn't threaten the poor downtrodden russians, they would not develop their own capabilities, and we could maybe sit around a campfire singing kumbaya? Have you suffered a recent blow to the head?
Time and again, this sort of utterly idiotic reasoning has been used to try to bring "peace", and all that has happened is that the aggressors like the USSR, Russians, islamic terrorists, etc, have taken that as a signal of weakness to be taken advantage of. There is a right and wrong in the world, we are the good guys, and the world is a better place if we win.
What the hell do you expect from the former head of the KGB? They were monsters from day one, and that hasn't changed.
That's how all conspiracy theorists work. The more you prove reality, the more "proof" there is that the conspiracy is working overtime to "suppress the truth" . Complete lack of any evidence to support the existence of a conspiracy merely indicated how vast and effective the conspiracy has gotten. Fail to respond, and you can say "see, no one is even attempting to say we are wrong, because they know we are right.
Psychologically, the entire system is self-reinforcing, which is why it is so difficult for these people to stop, and usually, they believe in multiple unrelated conspiracies because the same set of conclusions and behaviors can apply to literally any circumstance.
Hard to say what this particular nutjob is up to here, whether he believes the earth is flat, or that he is doing it for publicity (wanting publicity for proving yourself and idiot in public is a different disorder...), or he is working some scam, can't tell.
Patriotic leaker? There is no such thing, they are weasels and traitors who can't conduct themselves within the law - which, despite 8 years of leftist royal decrees, is supposed to be something that we care about.
Have you ever heard of what we used to call a "test pilot"? IOW, the guys that were all the early astronauts?
A fair bit of the pro-pseudo-currency investors are too young or have too short a memory to recall the previous bubbles. How is pets.com stock doing these days?
Duck and cover, mocked endlessly, is a good way to react. If you are close enough either the radiation or the blast will kill you outright, but that's a pretty small area (particularly when its a maybe 20kt fission weapon from Korea, probably with an impact trigger). Otherwise, your biggest danger is from the flying debris. Ducking out of the way of flying glass and getting under some substantial cover to avoid falling roofs and ceilings will certainly raise your odds of getting through it.
Are we now actually attempting to post evidence for the fact that the earth is not flat? Oy Gevalt!
It's an affectation, quasi-Europhile.
This is *exactly* what you should expect when you attempt to socially engineer a solution that violates the rules of business, in this case, artificially raising the cost of labor beyond the market value. One hundred percent entirely predictable, and predicted.
Actually, my point is that lawmakers shouldn't ever in any circumstance be permitted to create regulatory bodies in the first place. Every single law should be voted on by Congress. It would then be *impossible* to have a spew of regulations emitted at the whim of the participants, but that the representatives would be personally responsible for the effects at the polls.
So, they are actually making a law about it, as they should have in the first place, rather than a proclamation from an unelected regulatory body? Seems like that is exactly what *should* happen.
And, to be honest, the larger world has no idea who the guy is nor to they pay any attention to what he has to say no matter how much attention he seeks. He has found/created a small pond, and careens around like a shark in a goldfish bowl. That's not particularly bad or at all unique, but certainly no one at Intel gives a crap what he thinks, and to expect any different shows a lack of perspective.
The myth of the noble savage dies hard.
They also grew up having to worry that every airplane flying over might have already dropped an H-bomb on their heads, or that that flash might be lightning or it might be Uncle Joe letting fly. That is, an immediate and very realistic possibility that each second, they and everyone they knew would be dead.
Once you don't have that (due largely to the "reagan era" you disparage), yes, you look at things somewhat differently, and don't whine about you trivial inconveniences as you do. You're safe, well-fed, live in incomprehensible luxury compared to almost all generations before you, and you still whine about it and think you are somehow downtrodden and put upon.
A shorter summary of the OP, and from the "older generation", start acting like a grownup and appreciate what you have.
It's not Batman!
Taxi Drivers would like to have a word with you.
Because that observation doesn't support the hourly righteous indignation//"Trump is a buffoon" requirements for Slashdot posts.
How would that help? Drive up their costs, which raises the cost to the consumer (you don't think they are going to raise wages and keep the prices the same, do you?) - the same people who shop there.
All that taxing the evil corporations does is take even MORE money out of the economy and raise prices. Sounds like you learned economics from Paul Krugman.
Greatest economic boon in history *while simultaneously driving the biggest threat to humanity's existence into the ground*.
Assisting the poor? Are you really that ignorant? How have the poor ever been assisted by government spending? You know when the US povertry rate went from a steady decline to a flat spot, then a rise? 1965 or so - coincident with The Great Society of social programs. Social spending is a net negative to poor people because of the obscene waste/overhead that takes money out of the economy and wastes it on administration.
Liberals care so much about poor people, they create as many as possible.
The Reagan-era tax cuts took the economy from completely moribund 'stagflation' to the greatest peacetime economic boon in history in the space of a few years.