Why is that modded down? The medical device tax is widely seen as a bad thing. Or are we only allowed to cheer ever for bad ideas contained in the "ACA"?
A 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices that took effect at the beginning of 2013 should be undone, they say. House Republicans included a provision to do that in a funding bill passed over the weekend that also sought a one-year delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said in a statement last week that "there is strong bipartisan support for repealing the medical device tax, with Democrats and Republicans uniting behind our effort. I will continue to work to get rid of this harmful tax so Minnesota's medical device businesses can continue to create good jobs in our state and improve patients' lives."
You seem to almost be suggesting that people don't do things that violate their conscience, try to rationalize their behavior, or regret their "choice." I'm not buying that one.
If they wanted to be honest about it they wouldn't use euphemism and double talk, and claim that it isn't what it is. They are lying to distract and to try to ease the conscience.
Since like forever, the old men who are afraid of their womens getting loose have used the Korans, Bibles, Talmuds, etc to control their womens. Fear and Freedom don't mix well. Let's all be a little more brave and learn to tell all the batshit religious crazies to fuck off. I don't care if they do raise hell and blow stuff up - eventually there won't be enough left of them to matter.
I seem to recall various atheist countries that were afraid of their people getting loose used Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Il, and others to control their people. One of the pioneers in suicide bombing were the Tamil Tigers, an essentially secular movement. Batshit crazy is crazy no matter the source. If Europeans don't get their birthrate up, eventually there won't be enough of them to matter. Guess who has the higher birth rate? Native European are on the self-chosen path to extinction, and they will take their values with them. The immigrants don't share them even though they share the land which may eventually be theirs.
In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists focused the data and gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder. The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the “replacement rate” — the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country’s current population level. At various times in modern history — during war or famine — birthrates have fallen below the replacement rate, to “low” or “very low” levels. But Hans-Peter Kohler, José Antonio Ortega and Francesco Billari — the authors of the 2002 report — saw something new in the data. For the first time on record, birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. For the demographers, this number had a special mathematical portent. At that rate, a country’s population would be cut in half in 45 years, creating a falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover.
When asked by KDSK-TV if he would take back his much-derided comments, the former congressman said, "Oh, of course I would. I've relived them too many times. But that is not reality."...
Major players in the GOP distanced themselves from Akin, who was in a winnable race against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, and cut off funding for his campaign. He apologized, but McCaskill capitalized on the comment and she won a second term by more than 15 percentage points. -- USA TODAY April 26, 2013
The phenomenon known as Eternal September was new and little understood back in those days.
Though the ruin of Eternal September blotted out the sun in the memory of those who endured it, it is a relic of the Second Age of the internet.
The First Age of the internet also saw its battles and flames, though they are now but a distant memory and few speak of them. A record of one of the notable battles follows:
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The most significant flame war of Usenet history was over the "Great Renaming" when the seven main hierarchies {comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,talk} were created and the old groups {net,fa,mod} were all moved around. There was great gnashing of teeth as groups were sorted and tossed around and relegated to their polities. -- [Woodbury, 1992]
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That horse made it out the door long ago. Entire websites and careers are built on that now.
I won't argue that many of the arguments were suboptimal since I agree. And yes, it was painful, but that is the joy of trolls. I think it comes down to the point that the fine folks at Bell Labs were scratching their personal itch which resulted from an incomplete project (Multics). That incomplete project resulted in the personal desire for a project that management considered tangential to the Bell Labs mission, denied the project request, but which the technical staff then proceeded to do anyway by scrounging resources and non-project time. It certainly wasn't a planned and phased design effort aimed at producing a product, which was his claim. Well, thank you for your comments, and for reading.
You overlook "mod bombing", and politically unpopular views. People often substitute down mods when they have no good argument or facts, and the truth on some subjects is unpopular. That's before we get to Sturgeon's law, and the ability of the internet to create "local" concentrations of crank or extreme views on various topics. As has been pointed out many times before by many people, Slashdot has many European and non-US posters that by their own declaration are far to the left of the US in their politics and views. So no, it hasn't been "clearly decided." But feel free to read the thread, you might get something out of it.
I suppose you think I should be flattered that you have fantasies about my "dick," but I'm not interested. You should find someone your type, which isn't me.
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Why is that modded down? The medical device tax is widely seen as a bad thing. Or are we only allowed to cheer ever for bad ideas contained in the "ACA"?
How A Tax On Medical Devices United Political Rivals
A 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices that took effect at the beginning of 2013 should be undone, they say. House Republicans included a provision to do that in a funding bill passed over the weekend that also sought a one-year delay in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said in a statement last week that "there is strong bipartisan support for repealing the medical device tax, with Democrats and Republicans uniting behind our effort. I will continue to work to get rid of this harmful tax so Minnesota's medical device businesses can continue to create good jobs in our state and improve patients' lives."
Perhaps you could expand a bit on your thinking there? Because of a procurement scandal, Britain has no enemies?
If it works for one party, why shouldn't the other party have a go at it?
They aren't making a moral choice about the deceased, are they?
You seem to almost be suggesting that people don't do things that violate their conscience, try to rationalize their behavior, or regret their "choice." I'm not buying that one.
If they wanted to be honest about it they wouldn't use euphemism and double talk, and claim that it isn't what it is. They are lying to distract and to try to ease the conscience.
Just wait, some day the long knives will come out.
The long knives are already out, and they have friends.
By "some" you apparently mean a few standard deviations out.
Far more pernicious is the fact that many Americans are baffled about where babies come from and regularly excise "just a mass of tissue."
So you're basically saying, "They didn't build that"?
Like Marxism.
Since like forever, the old men who are afraid of their womens getting loose have used the Korans, Bibles, Talmuds, etc to control their womens. Fear and Freedom don't mix well. Let's all be a little more brave and learn to tell all the batshit religious crazies to fuck off. I don't care if they do raise hell and blow stuff up - eventually there won't be enough left of them to matter.
I seem to recall various atheist countries that were afraid of their people getting loose used Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Il, and others to control their people. One of the pioneers in suicide bombing were the Tamil Tigers, an essentially secular movement. Batshit crazy is crazy no matter the source. If Europeans don't get their birthrate up, eventually there won't be enough of them to matter. Guess who has the higher birth rate? Native European are on the self-chosen path to extinction, and they will take their values with them. The immigrants don't share them even though they share the land which may eventually be theirs.
No Babies?
In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists focused the data and gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder. The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the “replacement rate” — the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country’s current population level. At various times in modern history — during war or famine — birthrates have fallen below the replacement rate, to “low” or “very low” levels. But Hans-Peter Kohler, José Antonio Ortega and Francesco Billari — the authors of the 2002 report — saw something new in the data. For the first time on record, birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. For the demographers, this number had a special mathematical portent. At that rate, a country’s population would be cut in half in 45 years, creating a falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover.
Fertility statistics
When asked by KDSK-TV if he would take back his much-derided comments, the former congressman said, "Oh, of course I would. I've relived them too many times. But that is not reality."...
Major players in the GOP distanced themselves from Akin, who was in a winnable race against Democratic incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, and cut off funding for his campaign. He apologized, but McCaskill capitalized on the comment and she won a second term by more than 15 percentage points. -- USA TODAY April 26, 2013
Google is about to get rapporteured. C'est la vie.
QED
The War Between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
Right movie, wrong story. ;)
The phenomenon known as Eternal September was new and little understood back in those days.
Though the ruin of Eternal September blotted out the sun in the memory of those who endured it, it is a relic of the Second Age of the internet.
The First Age of the internet also saw its battles and flames, though they are now but a distant memory and few speak of them. A record of one of the notable battles follows:
THE "GREAT RENAMING"
In 1986-87, Usenet underwent a thoroughgoing shakeup and reorganization which has come to be known as the "Great Renaming." At its inception, Usenet had only top-level hierarchies, mod and net. This was later expanded by the addition of the "fa" groups as well as some domains with only local distribution. When a complete reorganization of Usenet was proposed, a massive and now-legendary "flame war" (online discussion/argument) commenced.
The most significant flame war of Usenet history was over the "Great Renaming" when the seven main hierarchies {comp,misc,news,rec,sci,soc,talk} were created and the old groups {net,fa,mod} were all moved around. There was great gnashing of teeth as groups were sorted and tossed around and relegated to their polities. -- [Woodbury, 1992]
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FTA:
Online etiquette: “Flaming is generally frowned upon because it generates lots of articles that very few people want to read and wastes Usenet resources.”
That horse made it out the door long ago. Entire websites and careers are built on that now.
I won't argue that many of the arguments were suboptimal since I agree. And yes, it was painful, but that is the joy of trolls. I think it comes down to the point that the fine folks at Bell Labs were scratching their personal itch which resulted from an incomplete project (Multics). That incomplete project resulted in the personal desire for a project that management considered tangential to the Bell Labs mission, denied the project request, but which the technical staff then proceeded to do anyway by scrounging resources and non-project time. It certainly wasn't a planned and phased design effort aimed at producing a product, which was his claim. Well, thank you for your comments, and for reading.
Another possibility for some uses might be electric ATVs with some rechargers (solar?).
If you're prepped for zombies your friends consider you a fool.
If you're not prepped for zombies your "friends" consider you food.
Good grief, you could just keep reading in the same thread! Shooting fish in a barrel.
You overlook "mod bombing", and politically unpopular views. People often substitute down mods when they have no good argument or facts, and the truth on some subjects is unpopular. That's before we get to Sturgeon's law, and the ability of the internet to create "local" concentrations of crank or extreme views on various topics. As has been pointed out many times before by many people, Slashdot has many European and non-US posters that by their own declaration are far to the left of the US in their politics and views. So no, it hasn't been "clearly decided." But feel free to read the thread, you might get something out of it.
I suppose you think I should be flattered that you have fantasies about my "dick," but I'm not interested. You should find someone your type, which isn't me.
Is Zero__Kelvin perpetually uninformed, or a troll? Decide for yourself.