just imagine sitting around the house entertaining and the rotary cell phone rang. it would probably freak a few people out once they realize it has no cord as you carry it around. then it becomes a good conversation for the usual 7 minutes.
but... 1. can the environment support immortal humans? 2. who gets to be immortal? 3. what would th non-immortals who want to be immortal do to the immortals? 4. what would immortlity do for science?
a. immortals would be able to amass more knowledge
b. but, the next generation might look at things in a new way.
i never said nor implied ss is designed as a sole source of retirement income. but if it is forced upon us, it should be a better system.
simply create a disbursement schedule that is longer than your expected life span. if you expect to live another 30( to what 97? not too likely), disburse over 35 or 40. the feds could always skim a percentage off all accounts to cover this. the majority of plans i have read about have a mechanism so there are always gauranteed benefits by doing just that. the minority who outlive the money isnt very large.
you dad probably still saw far greater return as a percentage on his investements when compared to ss. unless he was fully vested in tech stocks, which took the biggest hit. start out risky and convert to something more secure as you age. a few bad years don't eliminate 30 years of investments. also, my dad retired in '01. he's just fine. or your dad could have been unlucky. life does not come with a gaurantee.
the fact that the feds will be forcing me to invest 5%. the fact that the feds take 12.4%+ of my earnings and forces me to 'invest' poorly. i simply want a better return the money for everyone involved.
everything i have read admits that social security cant exist in its current form indefinately. we can go with the status quo and increase the retirement age, raise taxes and reduce benefits. or, we could try to develop a system that is self perpetuating. sorta like all those scholarships funds that give out money every year but never need additional principal.
you sacrifice income now to save for the future right? so if we have to sacrifice the debt now to save for the future sounds good. eventually it will be paid off. it may be a hard road to change the system but i think it needs to be done...
the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
what (if anything) would you do about social security?
"The net effect of Bush's plan would be for us all to borrow lots of money and put it in the stock market, not so coincidentally making lots of money for the people who already own the market."
so, in order to stop someone who you perceive as wealthy getting more wealth, you are going to prevent me from increasing my wealth?
if the interest on my personal account outpaces the interest on the borrowed money, then i will take the difference. if the current lending rate from the feds is 1.75% i lock that in on the borrowed money, invest and get 5-10% conservatively in the market. that does equal or better than social security now, plus i own the money and can pass it on.
alternativley the feds could learn restraint, set priorities and figure out a way to make the budget actually work - much like i have to at home.
wouldn't it be good to give the poor the balance of the money they would have collected to their children? this could be lump sum or simply converted into the younger generations account that is 'hands off' until they retire.
its ridiculous that the way to 'fix' the system is to raise taxes both on wages and social security payouts, reduce bebefits and increase retirement age. that is what we have been doing since 1937 when the total tax was 1% - now 12.4% + medicare.
i really dont follow your logic... i think i have a legit question for you...
do you provide your consulting services for free?
afterall, after you give me the information from your head, or write me an app, you still have that knowledge or software. you have been deprived of nothing. you might say that you need to be compensated for your time. well so does the recording industry or microsoft.
record companies, software companies, hollywood etc. are offering you something for a price. the premise is that we made 'x', please pay us to use it. that is the 'contract'.
the books i use at the library say within the first few pages that you *can't* copy them with out special written permission.
if someone wants to make something and offer it for free. that is great. until we reach a star trek world where all i have to do is ask a machine for a cup of joe, people need to earn money.
please forgive my ignorance, but what does icann do? is it a business or a government entity? if it is business and is the only one that does this and can it be held to the monoploy laws of thi u.s.?
i bet most/.ers don't apply this same logic to taxes. it all comes down to what you are getting for the money. is anything being provided with this extra fee? i didn't RTFA.
well, real estate does have an 8-12% growth rate, so who is going to be laughing in 15 years when he pays off his loan and sells the island to retire in another 15? yeah thats right...
i remember seeing nova from the late 70s narrated by spock that talked about the next ice age coming soon to a city near you. does this mean i should trade in my parka for some shorts w/ palm trees on them?
so, by that article and the word 'yom' the earth could be billions of years old while man has only been around for the last 6-15k.
what is the length of time during which the bible was written? the word 'yom' could have evolved to mean something else more specific as time passed.
right, dating methods have always been 'iffy' (to use the 'technical' term) but this is a discussion about generally accepted science and religeous points of view. at least to me it is.
i am wondering becuase after noah had his three boys by the age of 500, 2,333 years had past since adam. if the world is 6,000 years old that puts us past the minoans and near the rise of the myceneans. this also implies that stonehenge was built and the pyramids of egypt under way.
yes, there is a choice. it just depends on how paranoid you are.
i could steal a bunch of paper/pencil ballots, hire some people to fill them out in my parties favor. then substitute the forged ballots for the real deal. there where 3 workers at my polling station, two blue hairs and a dude w/ the vote recorder. wouldnt be too hard to bribe someone, or register as a poll worker as party 'a' while actually suporting party 'b'.
just because bush won, people in his party cheated? perhaps the people supporting kerry didnt cheat hard enough? perhaps both parties cheated equally well?
i want to see paper trails too. i want a receipt for me to take home and one to turn in. after i voted into the black box, i felt really disatisfied, like i didnt even vote.
...this may be a little of topic, but i saw an add from the MPAA in the local college newspaper that listed a bunch of usernames and partial IP's ala star wars opening back story. in bold it said 'is this you?' then at the bottom it was rated 'I' for illegal copyright infringment. the most disturbing part was the tag line at the very bottom. 'lawsuits begin in one week'.
all i could say was WTF?
...the earth being round, gravity, flying, going to the moon, going to mars (hopefully soon) and other things where considered 'crackpot' ideas. while psychic teleportation appears extremely unlikley, it could happen. in my humble opinion science has barely scratched the surface. why rule anything out?
when all it takes is setting up a few junk emails for my points to get free unrestricted movie passes.
my dog, cat, plants, rugs etc all have accounts. and if you live in denver, buy beer at kingsoopers and get coupons for elvis. ill pay a $3 for two people to see a flick, cheaper than renting.
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just imagine sitting around the house entertaining and the rotary cell phone rang. it would probably freak a few people out once they realize it has no cord as you carry it around. then it becomes a good conversation for the usual 7 minutes.
"i like your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter" ~homer
i am down with all of that, like stepping on a butterfly while on a time travel dinosaur hunting trip...
anyway, wouldnt all the parallel universes be the same age and thus have reached the same amount of entropy?
... wouldnt a parallel universe be frozen too?
but...
1. can the environment support immortal humans?
2. who gets to be immortal?
3. what would th non-immortals who want to be immortal do to the immortals?
4. what would immortlity do for science?
a. immortals would be able to amass more knowledge
b. but, the next generation might look at things in a new way.
simply create a disbursement schedule that is longer than your expected life span. if you expect to live another 30( to what 97? not too likely), disburse over 35 or 40. the feds could always skim a percentage off all accounts to cover this. the majority of plans i have read about have a mechanism so there are always gauranteed benefits by doing just that. the minority who outlive the money isnt very large.
you dad probably still saw far greater return as a percentage on his investements when compared to ss. unless he was fully vested in tech stocks, which took the biggest hit. start out risky and convert to something more secure as you age. a few bad years don't eliminate 30 years of investments. also, my dad retired in '01. he's just fine. or your dad could have been unlucky. life does not come with a gaurantee.
everything i have read admits that social security cant exist in its current form indefinately. we can go with the status quo and increase the retirement age, raise taxes and reduce benefits. or, we could try to develop a system that is self perpetuating. sorta like all those scholarships funds that give out money every year but never need additional principal.
you sacrifice income now to save for the future right? so if we have to sacrifice the debt now to save for the future sounds good. eventually it will be paid off. it may be a hard road to change the system but i think it needs to be done...
the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
what (if anything) would you do about social security?
so, in order to stop someone who you perceive as wealthy getting more wealth, you are going to prevent me from increasing my wealth?
if the interest on my personal account outpaces the interest on the borrowed money, then i will take the difference. if the current lending rate from the feds is 1.75% i lock that in on the borrowed money, invest and get 5-10% conservatively in the market. that does equal or better than social security now, plus i own the money and can pass it on.
alternativley the feds could learn restraint, set priorities and figure out a way to make the budget actually work - much like i have to at home.
currently, the lowest 20% of wage earners earn 4-5% on social security:http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wk lyltr99/el99-34.html#subhead1
at least with personal accounts the money left over when you die can be given to your children instead of staying with the government 'trust fund'
with the life expectancy between the rich and poor widening: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/315/71 22/1559/i
wouldn't it be good to give the poor the balance of the money they would have collected to their children? this could be lump sum or simply converted into the younger generations account that is 'hands off' until they retire.
its ridiculous that the way to 'fix' the system is to raise taxes both on wages and social security payouts, reduce bebefits and increase retirement age. that is what we have been doing since 1937 when the total tax was 1% - now 12.4% + medicare.
i really dont follow your logic...
i think i have a legit question for you...
do you provide your consulting services for free?
afterall, after you give me the information from your head, or write me an app, you still have that knowledge or software. you have been deprived of nothing. you might say that you need to be compensated for your time. well so does the recording industry or microsoft.
record companies, software companies, hollywood etc. are offering you something for a price. the premise is that we made 'x', please pay us to use it. that is the 'contract'.
the books i use at the library say within the first few pages that you *can't* copy them with out special written permission.
if someone wants to make something and offer it for free. that is great. until we reach a star trek world where all i have to do is ask a machine for a cup of joe, people need to earn money.
please forgive my ignorance, but what does icann do? is it a business or a government entity? if it is business and is the only one that does this and can it be held to the monoploy laws of thi u.s.?
i bet most /.ers don't apply this same logic to taxes. it all comes down to what you are getting for the money. is anything being provided with this extra fee? i didn't RTFA.
well, real estate does have an 8-12% growth rate, so who is going to be laughing in 15 years when he pays off his loan and sells the island to retire in another 15? yeah thats right...
i remember seeing nova from the late 70s narrated by spock that talked about the next ice age coming soon to a city near you. does this mean i should trade in my parka for some shorts w/ palm trees on them?
so, by that article and the word 'yom' the earth could be billions of years old while man has only been around for the last 6-15k. what is the length of time during which the bible was written? the word 'yom' could have evolved to mean something else more specific as time passed.
right, dating methods have always been 'iffy' (to use the 'technical' term) but this is a discussion about generally accepted science and religeous points of view. at least to me it is.
are there any other ages / dates in the bible?
i am wondering becuase after noah had his three boys by the age of 500, 2,333 years had past since adam. if the world is 6,000 years old that puts us past the minoans and near the rise of the myceneans. this also implies that stonehenge was built and the pyramids of egypt under way.
clinton
bush
by your logic, there was big devil behind clinton.
yes, there is a choice. it just depends on how paranoid you are.
i could steal a bunch of paper/pencil ballots, hire some people to fill them out in my parties favor. then substitute the forged ballots for the real deal. there where 3 workers at my polling station, two blue hairs and a dude w/ the vote recorder. wouldnt be too hard to bribe someone, or register as a poll worker as party 'a' while actually suporting party 'b'.
just because bush won, people in his party cheated? perhaps the people supporting kerry didnt cheat hard enough? perhaps both parties cheated equally well?
i want to see paper trails too. i want a receipt for me to take home and one to turn in. after i voted into the black box, i felt really disatisfied, like i didnt even vote.
found the a link to the add. http://www.mpaa.org/CurrentReleases/ november 4, print add scheduled for week nov 15th.
...this may be a little of topic, but i saw an add from the MPAA in the local college newspaper that listed a bunch of usernames and partial IP's ala star wars opening back story. in bold it said 'is this you?' then at the bottom it was rated 'I' for illegal copyright infringment. the most disturbing part was the tag line at the very bottom. 'lawsuits begin in one week'. all i could say was WTF?
they model all kinds of accidents, from a skier hitting a lift pole to a construction worker putting a nail through his knee cap w/ a nail gun.
the episode may have implied that this happened on the fly, but simulations like this happen. i guess these reconstrucitons are used in court.
do a google search on it. no one in the senate wanted this. it isnt just bush.
...the earth being round, gravity, flying, going to the moon, going to mars (hopefully soon) and other things where considered 'crackpot' ideas. while psychic teleportation appears extremely unlikley, it could happen. in my humble opinion science has barely scratched the surface. why rule anything out?
there are all sorts of ways to beat the system.