Twenty years from now about two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security and Medicare. Retirees will outnumber workers, reducing the amount of taxes going into the system. Who will make up the difference in benefits and pay for everything else? The few taxpayers who are still working.
A classic example is a Harvard law student liquidating his savings to buy a BMW to qualify for financial aid. A luxury car doesn't count against receiving financial aid. If you didn't own a luxury car, you must be really poor.
Combine that with food stamps and other perks (like cable and cell phones) and dope is the only thing you have to pay for out of pocket.
My disabled friend gets disability. He doesn't get food stamps or anything else from the government because he doesn't qualify. The cable and dope bills comes out of his disability money.
Don't believe everything that you hear out of the right-wing echo chamber.
People who cry out socialism at the drop of the hat don't want their tax dollars being used to help those OTHER people. That don't mind if the government pays for the programs that they care about, say, Social Security benefits.
Where are they getting that money from ? Oh, right. Taxes.
And borrowing money from China to cover the difference between the taxes coming in and what Congress has approved to spend. Don't forget that the budget limit has to go up to cover the spending that Congress already approved.
I realize you're being intentionally obtuse, I think defenders of this are pretty much left with nothing more than that.
I'm not being "intentionally obtuse," I just think classification without context is stupid. If the intelligence agencies had their way, all information would be classified and any discussion of the government would be a felony.
Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture.
A marketing intern could do that job better. After all, the source information is not classified.
We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
In Hillary's case, the State Department staffers sent emails discussing the situation in Afghanistan based on published news articles. The CIA saw the words "Afghanistan" and "drone" in the emails, and retroactively classified them as classified. That's a knee-jerk reaction to non-classified information. Nothing new for the CIA.
If I create a grocery list from the weekly flyer, and the CIA comes along to classify my grocery list, does my grocery list contain classified information?
This was what the CIA did when they classified several Hillary emails about the not-so-secret drone program in Afghanistan that was based on public information in the media.
No compelling reason to upgrade from my $75 monochrome Kindle that I bought last year. In fact, it might be another three years or so before I consider a replacement. I'm in my fourth year with the iPad 2 and considering an iPad Pro (smaller one) as a replacement. It took eight years to replace a first-gen iPod Touch with a cheaper iPhone.
Why would anyone want a general purpose datacenter in SV?
I'm aware of four or five clusters of data centers in Silicon Valley from job interviews over the years. Most are located there because headquarters is around the corner or belong to the telecoms. The MAE-West Internet node is several miles away in downtown San Jose.
They don't build data centers tall because land is cheaper than tall buildings.
Depends on the land. Silicon Valley has very little open space. If you want a bigger building, you need to tear down the shorter building and build a taller building.
When I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), the recruiters looked at my resume, saw that I did help desk support for my last three positions, and concluded that I wanted to continue doing help desk support in the future. Never mind that wasn't the job applied for. Things didn't turn around until 2011 when recruiters and employers stopped playing games and needed bodies to fill their open positions.
My six-month internship as a software tester was for the WorldsAway virtual world at Fujitsu in 1997-98. I came across a graphic bug that I wrote up with the word "suck" to describe the problem. The artist/programmer made a fix and marked the bug as fixed. I reported back that the graphic "sucked less" than before and re-opened the bug. The artist/programmer immediately came over to ream me out for using the word "suck" in a bug report. After he left, my boss looked at me and said, "Damn, you're good! He usually ignores QA."
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Uh, I'm the one paying for Social Security.
Twenty years from now about two-thirds of the federal budget will go to Social Security and Medicare. Retirees will outnumber workers, reducing the amount of taxes going into the system. Who will make up the difference in benefits and pay for everything else? The few taxpayers who are still working.
Besides, the rich are going to get subsidies.
A classic example is a Harvard law student liquidating his savings to buy a BMW to qualify for financial aid. A luxury car doesn't count against receiving financial aid. If you didn't own a luxury car, you must be really poor.
Combine that with food stamps and other perks (like cable and cell phones) and dope is the only thing you have to pay for out of pocket.
My disabled friend gets disability. He doesn't get food stamps or anything else from the government because he doesn't qualify. The cable and dope bills comes out of his disability money.
Don't believe everything that you hear out of the right-wing echo chamber.
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Someone has to pay for it.
People who cry out socialism at the drop of the hat don't want their tax dollars being used to help those OTHER people. That don't mind if the government pays for the programs that they care about, say, Social Security benefits.
Where are they getting that money from ? Oh, right. Taxes.
And borrowing money from China to cover the difference between the taxes coming in and what Congress has approved to spend. Don't forget that the budget limit has to go up to cover the spending that Congress already approved.
[...] just getting compensated for their loyalty.
I'm still waiting for my Obama iPhone that everyone claims that the government is handing out like candy.
Having a student loan does not qualify as news for nerds.
Sure it does if you properly frame the problem:
Government help IS socialism!
3... 2... 1... FIGHT!
Yes, so the native Americans had nothing to worry about.
Never mind that Native Americans came over the Bering Straits back who knows when to settle this side of the world.
I realize you're being intentionally obtuse, I think defenders of this are pretty much left with nothing more than that.
I'm not being "intentionally obtuse," I just think classification without context is stupid. If the intelligence agencies had their way, all information would be classified and any discussion of the government would be a felony.
Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture.
A marketing intern could do that job better. After all, the source information is not classified.
We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
In Hillary's case, the State Department staffers sent emails discussing the situation in Afghanistan based on published news articles. The CIA saw the words "Afghanistan" and "drone" in the emails, and retroactively classified them as classified. That's a knee-jerk reaction to non-classified information. Nothing new for the CIA.
It will be something more embarrassing than that: cat videos.
If I create a grocery list from the weekly flyer, and the CIA comes along to classify my grocery list, does my grocery list contain classified information?
This was what the CIA did when they classified several Hillary emails about the not-so-secret drone program in Afghanistan that was based on public information in the media.
No compelling reason to upgrade from my $75 monochrome Kindle that I bought last year. In fact, it might be another three years or so before I consider a replacement. I'm in my fourth year with the iPad 2 and considering an iPad Pro (smaller one) as a replacement. It took eight years to replace a first-gen iPod Touch with a cheaper iPhone.
Why would anyone want a general purpose datacenter in SV?
I'm aware of four or five clusters of data centers in Silicon Valley from job interviews over the years. Most are located there because headquarters is around the corner or belong to the telecoms. The MAE-West Internet node is several miles away in downtown San Jose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West
They don't build data centers tall because land is cheaper than tall buildings.
Depends on the land. Silicon Valley has very little open space. If you want a bigger building, you need to tear down the shorter building and build a taller building.
This being in a remote part of Iceland. What property taxes are you talking about?
President Trump will annex Iceland and impose property taxes to pay for the Mexico wall.
The local property taxes are based on the footprint of the building. Stacking the data center upward would reduce the overall property taxes.
no conservative could in their right mind vote for hillary.
Obama practically enacted the Republican agenda over their strident objections. I expect Hillary to continue those policies.
she was my senator, she is a liar, and the most sociopathic of the bunch
That makes her better qualified than Trump et al.
nobody cares who you cast your impotent vote for or whatever label you like to slap on your back
If that was the case, you wouldn't have responded to my comment. You obviously do care about my vote and my label.
At least you had recruiters asking you for positions.
Not at that time. I was applying for non-help desk jobs and being told that no help desk jobs were available.
Today I'm getting 20+ calls and emails per day from recruiters even though I'm not looking for a job.
Thanks for missing the point with your grand desire to shoehorn in your political nonsense that totally lacks substance.
As a moderate conservative, I'm voting for Hillary Clinton. The only sane choice out of the lesser evil category.
I guess you fit the junk food culture just fine.
I don't watch Fox News.
You might want to stop repeating this same post every week or two.
Just contributing my two bits. If you don't like it, read someone else's comment.
Most people are incredibly stupid. They DO want junk food, both figuratively and literally.
We are talking about the media and not Donald Trump. :P
When I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), the recruiters looked at my resume, saw that I did help desk support for my last three positions, and concluded that I wanted to continue doing help desk support in the future. Never mind that wasn't the job applied for. Things didn't turn around until 2011 when recruiters and employers stopped playing games and needed bodies to fill their open positions.
My six-month internship as a software tester was for the WorldsAway virtual world at Fujitsu in 1997-98. I came across a graphic bug that I wrote up with the word "suck" to describe the problem. The artist/programmer made a fix and marked the bug as fixed. I reported back that the graphic "sucked less" than before and re-opened the bug. The artist/programmer immediately came over to ream me out for using the word "suck" in a bug report. After he left, my boss looked at me and said, "Damn, you're good! He usually ignores QA."