The government intervened to help the economy, much to the consternation of Republicans everywhere.
That intervention stemmed the job losses, as it was designed to. It gave money from the states that were hemmoraging teachers and other government funded jobs. Those teachers and other workers still paid their bills.
The stimulus plan which was passed over Republican objections also created jobs in the private sector. These people also paid their bills and continued to support the rest of the economy.
The President also propped up the banking system, allowing credit to continue flowing, even if at a slower pace.
Over time, things got better until the private sector was able to start hiring again.
Without government intervention, job losses would have continued unabated.
Unemployment is at it's lowest rate since March of 2009. The chart only gets better from where it left off.
Until April, when the Republican party is going to once again totally ruin the economy.
If I seem angry, it's because I voted for a guy to clean up the mess Republican policies created. And he did clean up that mess. And now that Obama's policies are incontrovertibly working, taking us out of this mess, Republicans are back to mess everything up.
In the real world, Barack Obama is very different from George W Bush, which is why Republicans are shutting down the government. Only a fool would believe that Republicans and Democrats are the same as they fight over a fundamentally different view of government.
That's an awful long way of saying that you approve of uninsured freeloaders who get care when they get hurt, even if they can't pay. So much for personal responsibility...
If my hospital has to care for an uninsured person who gets into a car accident, then everyone has a responsibility to carry health insurance. It's the only fair way to deal with the unexpected illnesses that people can't afford.
Even people like you who value insurance company profits over human life should be able to see that.
Do you have any information contradicting those numbers?
I didn't think so.
Liberals don't spend all day lying, unlike Fox "News". A liberal newspaper isn't automatically false, and the Peace Corps is very honorable institution.
The linked numbers are accurate, so provide information to the contrary or kindly stfu.
That chart shows that Barack Obama saved the economy from the Republican engineered disaster.
A decade of Republican policies brought us an economic disaster. Barack Obama brought us back to growth and put us on the path for prosparity.
We may wish it was faster, but every competent software developer already has a job, and the economy is only getting better. Err.. it was until the Republican party decided to shut down the government for the second time in as many decades.
The people who complain that our recovery isn't fast enough advocate the policies (of insane deregulation) that brought us the economic disaster in the first place. And now of course they are doing their best to kill the recovery before it reaches the rest of the country.
Just like they want to kill health care reform before it saves to many lives.
The invasion of Iraq was very expensive, and at it's root it was fought to secure oil for a few "well connected" oil companies.
That oil flows into gas guzzlers at a higher rate than more fuel efficient car. Since the gas tax doesn't even cover road maintenance anymore its kind of a moot point, but at some point we'll have to pay the piper.
There should be a large war and global military presence tax on every gallon of gasoline.
It's pathetic that we borrow money from the Chinese to pay for our wars instead of taxing the commodity that the war was fought for.
The "Interstate Commerce Clause" is an easy way to declare everything unconstitutional without really thinking about it, but the logic falls apart pretty quickly.
The gasoline that you pump into your car is distilled from oil supplies, most of which come from out of state.
If those oil supplies dried up, you and every other American would be totally screwed.
That's why the United States of America maintains a global military presence, keeping shipping lanes open, and ensuring oil supplies are "stable". Every once in a while an especially corrupt President invades a country like Iraq for oil, but that's not really the subject here.
The point is that the gasoline you pump into your car, upon which the infrastructure of the entire country is founded, doesn't come from Arkansas. And I guarantee a good portion of the roads you drive on were built with federal money.
It makes alot more sense to me to tax the Oil than vehicle miles traveled, but I'm not a Republican... I don't like to continually victimize the people who least deserve it.
1) Wrong - When speaking to a police officer your freedom is always on the line. Since you aren't free to leave, there is no better description of the situation than a forced interrogation.
2) The Checkpoint Evasion App only marks sobriety checkpoints, the ultimate desecration of "probably cause". the issue you raised is irrelivent.
3) During a no refusal weeken your blood will be forcibly drawn if you don't consent to the illegal search of your bodily fluids. How long do you think it will be until every day is a "no refusal weekend"?
This application just allows users to enforce their constitutional rights.
Americans once had a right under the constitution to protection from illegal search and seizure. Now even someone who is driving in total compliance with the law is subject to being interrogated by the police and having their blood forcibly taken from them.
Personally, I'd rather not have the police stick me with a needle in violation of my constitutional rights.
This app will be very useful until unconstitutional police checkpoints can be banned.
I was actually working on a social media application similar to LinkedIn back when facebook wasn't even available in my college.
I got alot more experience than money out of that bubble.. I got to see paychecks bounce and a company crash and burn, in a pretty spectacular fashion.
It was sad to see, but most of the employees ended up landing on their feet.
These people seem like simple leeches to me. You just want an internet connection. Your probably connecting to your own router doing your own networking.
That's one connection
So you give me the internet and I'll give you the cash. Nobody needs to get screwed.
Wait... Your company bribed a politician, didn't it.
If you had bothered to read the fucking article instead of jumping to some half assed conclusion you would see that the article has nothing to do with lying.
It's not "the oil companies have paid scientists to lie about science"
It's "I'm fascinated that trends I detected early in my research seem to fall apart as I continue to investigate"
Anyway.. thanks for lowering the level of discussion on/. even further, douche.
The system you describe is exactly what we have in Texas. The only thing we got out of deregulation is a bunch of sleazy 'energy companies' that don't do anything more than tack on sleazy and underhanded fees to our electric bill.
Thanks to this scheme Texans pay higher prices for our electricity than surrounding states. Fortunately for our corrupt politicians like Rick Perry, most Texans are too dumb to notice that we've been taken advantage of.
When you consider that Governor Perry still managed to get re-elected after skipping the only debate against Democrat Bill White, its clear that Texas is the perfect state to let the 'free market' raise costs for everyone while the ignorant masses cheer them on.
That defense may actually work if your computer is actually part of a botnet. Otherwise, you will likely find yourself learning more about computer forensics and perjury laws. No, your not going to just be able to lie to the FBI about your computer and get away with it.
The police / FBI may have a little trouble with 'the botnet defense' when they discover that your computer is not actually controlled by a botnet. Or is your computer under botnet control?
For those naive enough to take 'the botnet defense' seriously: If the police are talking to you, you have already lost The kind of lawyers that can actually get you off cost alot of money Lying to the police is easier in theory than in practice Your best defense against the police is silence. Just shut your mouth and get a lawyer.
"They can't arrest us all" No, but they can log all of our IP addresses and arrest whoever they want. They can't arrest every drug user, but that doesn't stop them from filling the prisons with them. If you want to stay out of trouble, you should do your best to make yourself a small target.
I love how all these "Anonymous" noobs are basically reporting themselves to the authorities by running Denial of Service attacks from their home computer.
"Sorry, the FBI took all our computers dad. I was doing some 1337 hacking for 'Anonymous'"
In order to blast your ears with advertisements TV stations turn down their programming so much that the only way to hear it is to amplify it with a surround system. It's more than a minor annoyance to people who don't have the extra cash for a proper setup.
The only channel I have found that doesn't play the evil "quite tv, LOUD COMMERCIALS" game is Current. Incidentally, Current is the best channel to appear on the cable lineup in the last 10 years.
I would favor a more market based solution where channels like Current are rewarded while Viacom's Comedy Central is punished, but since just about every TV channel lowers their programs to blast their commercials, I don't think there is really choice in the marketplace.
If you ask me, this is what government is for. The corporations do a fine job of banding together to look out for themselves. It's time the people banded together to look out for our own interests.
Since our government officials are financed by bribes in the form of "campaign contributions", I wouldn't expect this bill to become law, so here is an easy way to fight the commercials that have been atacking your ears:
If you have a DVR, pause live TV, grab a beer and take a leak etc, and when you come back youll find that you can skip the commercials to your heart's content. If you don't have a DVR just keep your finger near the mute button.
Now, you don't only have to worry about what your neighbors are doing on their wifi. A traffic jam full of taxis in front of your apartment will totally screw your wifi.
Over-wifi. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
You's seen it at Apple and Android announcements. They wifi is to crowded and somebody has to find an ethernet cable.
I remember looking at the permissions required required for this background image application thinking, why could a wallpaper application really need my contacts, location, browsing history etc..
If you live and breathe technology like we do, it was obvious that this application was spyware.
I've got the "Lookout" application on my phone, both for the location based phone recover, backup, and antivirus. I wonder if the company will one day use my backups for profit, sleaze, or stupidity.
At the end of the day, life is insecure. I fret over every application I install to my computer. The same is true of my phone. I also assume that the government already reads all my text messages.
I don't begrudge Apple for keeping a close eye on application store. I just insist on the kind of flexibility and power that android applications have.
You won't find a text message reading background application on the iPhone app store. You also won't find a replacement for the home screen, because Apple doesn't approve of that.
Microsoft's development tools are worth the price.
$2000? That's a bargain. I made myself a ton of money this year with that software. Sure, I pirated my home copy but I can think of several companies whose legally purchased copies of Visual Studio write whatever software they needed.
If I start a business, I'll ask M$ for the $300 copy of all their super expensive and incredibly useful sofware. A guy I know in real life actually managed to get that deal. Took a few phone calls, turning in to a real company with a real website etc.. but he did it without much trouble at all.
Microsoft software development tools are worth the money.
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The government intervened to help the economy, much to the consternation of Republicans everywhere.
That intervention stemmed the job losses, as it was designed to. It gave money from the states that were hemmoraging teachers and other government funded jobs. Those teachers and other workers still paid their bills.
The stimulus plan which was passed over Republican objections also created jobs in the private sector. These people also paid their bills and continued to support the rest of the economy.
The President also propped up the banking system, allowing credit to continue flowing, even if at a slower pace.
Over time, things got better until the private sector was able to start hiring again.
Without government intervention, job losses would have continued unabated.
Unemployment is at it's lowest rate since March of 2009. The chart only gets better from where it left off.
Until April, when the Republican party is going to once again totally ruin the economy.
If I seem angry, it's because I voted for a guy to clean up the mess Republican policies created. And he did clean up that mess. And now that Obama's policies are incontrovertibly working, taking us out of this mess, Republicans are back to mess everything up.
In the real world, Barack Obama is very different from George W Bush, which is why Republicans are shutting down the government. Only a fool would believe that Republicans and Democrats are the same as they fight over a fundamentally different view of government.
Deregulation suddenly stopped when George W Bush and the 'deregulate everything' Republicans got full control of the government?
That doesn't sound right. Didn't Republicans take their policies of deregulation to absurd levels while they controlled the government?
Financial deregulation was taken to extreme levels by Republicans when they controlled all branches of government.
Financial deregulation is still advocated by the Republican party.
No, I'm talking about an insane level of deregulation of the financial industry, which Republicans pushed for and got.
The affordable housing act couldn't have taken down the whole economy if not for deregulation of the entire financial industry.
The President matters. George W Bush was the worst President in recent history.
Are you suggesting that democrats should have changed every single law in the country before George W Bush finally left the Presidency in disgrace?
It takes time to fix disastrous Republican policies.
That's an awful long way of saying that you approve of uninsured freeloaders who get care when they get hurt, even if they can't pay. So much for personal responsibility...
If my hospital has to care for an uninsured person who gets into a car accident, then everyone has a responsibility to carry health insurance. It's the only fair way to deal with the unexpected illnesses that people can't afford.
Even people like you who value insurance company profits over human life should be able to see that.
Do you have any information contradicting those numbers?
I didn't think so.
Liberals don't spend all day lying, unlike Fox "News". A liberal newspaper isn't automatically false, and the Peace Corps is very honorable institution.
The linked numbers are accurate, so provide information to the contrary or kindly stfu.
Look at this chart.
That chart shows that Barack Obama saved the economy from the Republican engineered disaster.
A decade of Republican policies brought us an economic disaster. Barack Obama brought us back to growth and put us on the path for prosparity.
We may wish it was faster, but every competent software developer already has a job, and the economy is only getting better. Err.. it was until the Republican party decided to shut down the government for the second time in as many decades.
The people who complain that our recovery isn't fast enough advocate the policies (of insane deregulation) that brought us the economic disaster in the first place. And now of course they are doing their best to kill the recovery before it reaches the rest of the country.
Just like they want to kill health care reform before it saves to many lives.
The invasion of Iraq was very expensive, and at it's root it was fought to secure oil for a few "well connected" oil companies.
That oil flows into gas guzzlers at a higher rate than more fuel efficient car. Since the gas tax doesn't even cover road maintenance anymore its kind of a moot point, but at some point we'll have to pay the piper.
There should be a large war and global military presence tax on every gallon of gasoline.
It's pathetic that we borrow money from the Chinese to pay for our wars instead of taxing the commodity that the war was fought for.
The "Interstate Commerce Clause" is an easy way to declare everything unconstitutional without really thinking about it, but the logic falls apart pretty quickly.
The gasoline that you pump into your car is distilled from oil supplies, most of which come from out of state.
If those oil supplies dried up, you and every other American would be totally screwed.
That's why the United States of America maintains a global military presence, keeping shipping lanes open, and ensuring oil supplies are "stable". Every once in a while an especially corrupt President invades a country like Iraq for oil, but that's not really the subject here.
The point is that the gasoline you pump into your car, upon which the infrastructure of the entire country is founded, doesn't come from Arkansas. And I guarantee a good portion of the roads you drive on were built with federal money.
It makes alot more sense to me to tax the Oil than vehicle miles traveled, but I'm not a Republican... I don't like to continually victimize the people who least deserve it.
1) Wrong - When speaking to a police officer your freedom is always on the line. Since you aren't free to leave, there is no better description of the situation than a forced interrogation.
2) The Checkpoint Evasion App only marks sobriety checkpoints, the ultimate desecration of "probably cause". the issue you raised is irrelivent.
3) During a no refusal weeken your blood will be forcibly drawn if you don't consent to the illegal search of your bodily fluids. How long do you think it will be until every day is a "no refusal weekend"?
This application just allows users to enforce their constitutional rights.
Americans once had a right under the constitution to protection from illegal search and seizure. Now even someone who is driving in total compliance with the law is subject to being interrogated by the police and having their blood forcibly taken from them.
Personally, I'd rather not have the police stick me with a needle in violation of my constitutional rights.
This app will be very useful until unconstitutional police checkpoints can be banned.
I was actually working on a social media application similar to LinkedIn back when facebook wasn't even available in my college.
I got alot more experience than money out of that bubble.. I got to see paychecks bounce and a company crash and burn, in a pretty spectacular fashion.
It was sad to see, but most of the employees ended up landing on their feet.
Now matter how much the people on this mailing list spend, there is no way that it's worth $25 billion. It's just a spamish mailing list...
I guess the tech bubble is back. Good news for programmers, bad news for dumb investors.
These people seem like simple leeches to me. You just want an internet connection. Your probably connecting to your own router doing your own networking.
That's one connection
So you give me the internet and I'll give you the cash. Nobody needs to get screwed.
Wait... Your company bribed a politician, didn't it.
Bravo!
If you had bothered to read the fucking article instead of jumping to some half assed conclusion you would see that the article has nothing to do with lying.
It's not "the oil companies have paid scientists to lie about science"
It's "I'm fascinated that trends I detected early in my research seem to fall apart as I continue to investigate"
Anyway.. thanks for lowering the level of discussion on /. even further, douche.
The system you describe is exactly what we have in Texas. The only thing we got out of deregulation is a bunch of sleazy 'energy companies' that don't do anything more than tack on sleazy and underhanded fees to our electric bill.
Thanks to this scheme Texans pay higher prices for our electricity than surrounding states. Fortunately for our corrupt politicians like Rick Perry, most Texans are too dumb to notice that we've been taken advantage of.
When you consider that Governor Perry still managed to get re-elected after skipping the only debate against Democrat Bill White, its clear that Texas is the perfect state to let the 'free market' raise costs for everyone while the ignorant masses cheer them on.
That defense may actually work if your computer is actually part of a botnet. Otherwise, you will likely find yourself learning more about computer forensics and perjury laws. No, your not going to just be able to lie to the FBI about your computer and get away with it.
The police / FBI may have a little trouble with 'the botnet defense' when they discover that your computer is not actually controlled by a botnet. Or is your computer under botnet control?
For those naive enough to take 'the botnet defense' seriously:
If the police are talking to you, you have already lost
The kind of lawyers that can actually get you off cost alot of money
Lying to the police is easier in theory than in practice
Your best defense against the police is silence. Just shut your mouth and get a lawyer.
"They can't arrest us all"
No, but they can log all of our IP addresses and arrest whoever they want. They can't arrest every drug user, but that doesn't stop them from filling the prisons with them. If you want to stay out of trouble, you should do your best to make yourself a small target.
I love how all these "Anonymous" noobs are basically reporting themselves to the authorities by running Denial of Service attacks from their home computer.
"Sorry, the FBI took all our computers dad. I was doing some 1337 hacking for 'Anonymous'"
Isn't the PSP2 going to be an Android Playstation Phone?
The only thing dead on arrival is this speculative article.
In order to blast your ears with advertisements TV stations turn down their programming so much that the only way to hear it is to amplify it with a surround system. It's more than a minor annoyance to people who don't have the extra cash for a proper setup.
The only channel I have found that doesn't play the evil "quite tv, LOUD COMMERCIALS" game is Current. Incidentally, Current is the best channel to appear on the cable lineup in the last 10 years.
I would favor a more market based solution where channels like Current are rewarded while Viacom's Comedy Central is punished, but since just about every TV channel lowers their programs to blast their commercials, I don't think there is really choice in the marketplace.
If you ask me, this is what government is for. The corporations do a fine job of banding together to look out for themselves. It's time the people banded together to look out for our own interests.
Since our government officials are financed by bribes in the form of "campaign contributions", I wouldn't expect this bill to become law, so here is an easy way to fight the commercials that have been atacking your ears:
If you have a DVR, pause live TV, grab a beer and take a leak etc, and when you come back youll find that you can skip the commercials to your heart's content. If you don't have a DVR just keep your finger near the mute button.
Now, you don't only have to worry about what your neighbors are doing on their wifi. A traffic jam full of taxis in front of your apartment will totally screw your wifi.
Over-wifi. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
You's seen it at Apple and Android announcements. They wifi is to crowded and somebody has to find an ethernet cable.
I remember looking at the permissions required required for this background image application thinking, why could a wallpaper application really need my contacts, location, browsing history etc..
If you live and breathe technology like we do, it was obvious that this application was spyware.
I've got the "Lookout" application on my phone, both for the location based phone recover, backup, and antivirus. I wonder if the company will one day use my backups for profit, sleaze, or stupidity.
At the end of the day, life is insecure. I fret over every application I install to my computer. The same is true of my phone. I also assume that the government already reads all my text messages.
I don't begrudge Apple for keeping a close eye on application store. I just insist on the kind of flexibility and power that android applications have.
You won't find a text message reading background application on the iPhone app store. You also won't find a replacement for the home screen, because Apple doesn't approve of that.
You win some, you lose some.
Microsoft's development tools are worth the price.
$2000? That's a bargain. I made myself a ton of money this year with that software. Sure, I pirated my home copy but I can think of several companies whose legally purchased copies of Visual Studio write whatever software they needed.
If I start a business, I'll ask M$ for the $300 copy of all their super expensive and incredibly useful sofware. A guy I know in real life actually managed to get that deal. Took a few phone calls, turning in to a real company with a real website etc.. but he did it without much trouble at all.
Microsoft software development tools are worth the money.