It still really bugs me that people refer to U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.A. (Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act ) as 'the Patriot Act." If you want a nickname, call it the "spying and torturing American citizens act", otherwise refer to it by it's name: U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.A.
option 1: the entire universe has expanded in the last couple decades, including the distance between every particle, but not the size of protons. option 2: protons have shrunk in the last couple decades option 3: one of our measuring methods is wrong for a reason we don't yet understand. Hint: those are sorted in reverse order by ridiculous over-complication. If you hadn't misplaced your razor, Mr. Occam, you'd have already eliminated the first one on your own.
HOPE you didn't vote for the guy who pretty much guaranteed he'd take more of your money in taxes. Taxes that only help PAY for this kind of crap.
I'm with you on this, man. Bush's warrantless wiretapping combined with running up a huge deficit, thereby increasing taxes long term pissed me off as well.
Ah yes, because "adult" always means pornography. And copyright infringement is murder. Also, politics is applied philosophy, and philosophy is applied thinking, and thinking is life. So while life is not politics, politics is life. You deprecate it to your own detriment.
Unless you are the richest person in the world, there will always be someone with more than you, that you can state that about, to try to justify taking it from them.
True enough - but there should be a reasonable bright line where you are making, say, 100 times more than the average wage for a worker in %COUNTRY_YOU_LIVE_IN% where we can argue that paying a lower percentage in taxes than said workers is not contributing back enough.
I bring in approximately 5% of what Romney makes, yet I pay slightly more than double the percentage in taxes. That's because his horse and car elevators etc. are business expenses, while my car and clothing purchases are not (also that nifty rule about money you earn is taxed at 35% while money your money earns is only 15%).
And tax rebates are a misnomer - some companies actually receive "rebates," larger than their total tax payments. I will continue to call those subsidies, since they in no way earned that money.
Are you seriously claiming that the wars in Iraq and Iran have decreased the number of terrorists & terrorist attacks in the world? Now, I'll admit that killing Osama bin Ladin probably had a positive effect on making people think twice about joining Al Qaeda, but since that was a separate event in Pakistan, I'm gonna venture a guess that the money spent in Iraq & Afganistan was a complete and total waste.
Terrorism is a fairytale used to scare children, and it looks like it's working.
I'm fairly sure that by calling a method "logical" the OP did not preclude the possibility that other methods are logical. If you can present a case for a specific alternate model that is currently in use being logical, that would be meaningful. Meantime, since the USA has completely incoherent and inconsistent attitudes and methods for dealing with renewable energy, the fact that Germany uses any type of logic in their methods is welcome news.
If you think that human beings evolved from monkeys, it's obvious that you did not understand high-school biology. Perhaps you should rely on someone smarter than yourself to dole out those pain meds for you.
Going to the moon again will cost billions. Running a few isotopic scans on rocks, involves a grant of several thousand dollars. Do you grasp the difference between a thousand dollars and a billion dollars?
Now, the war in Iraq probably cost more than ten trips to the moon, and was a far less productive use of our resources - but that's a very different argument.
Muslim countries, political groups and terrorist organizations have killed thousands of westerners in the last couple decades. In the same time period, the US government has killed millions of Muslims. But yes, all the problems in the middle east are caused by some video that requires high-speed internet to watch.
I see Harley's that meet all but one of those requirements all the time! All they need to do is quintuple the price and throw an american flag on it and these things will sell like crazy.
That dim glow when you turn off fluorescent lamps is just what phosphor does for a while after you hit it with UV - it's not proof of continued electrical usage.
You don't have to put the dimmers back in - you just can't build a new house without them. It was a decent idea when incandescent bulbs were all you could buy since it prevented the power-on spike that kills those. Now it's a law that should go away, but it's maybe $100 expense on a house costing $200,000+, so no-one cares.
You could read all federal legislation in your spare time? You are one fucktastically fast reader!
Absolutely! I can read a page of reasonable text in about a minute, and my spare time consists of 120 minutes per week. everything over that limit gets a "no." Why is congress trying to pass 6000 pages a week when no-one there has read more than 10?
Your first paragraph and your third paragraphs are completely contradictory. Is the problem that teachers unions protect bad teachers, or is the problem that teachers are so underpaid that if your fire a bad teacher, there will be literally no-one to take their place? Hint: you got it right the second time. I quit teaching because the pay, hours & facilities in IT are so much better. In IT.
I taught for 3 years. Unfortunately the low pay and long hours and lack of facilities sucked, so I left. I find IT is much better by all relevant metrics.
School districts in California are so broke they are literally moving the kids into the least badly neglected buildings and letting the other half rot to the ground, while paying the teachers less than before to try to reach 40 students in one room all day.
You spend less on schools now than in the last half a century: less per child per year than you would sending them to 2 months of university classes.
Anti-intellectuals are being honest about their beliefs, even if they are misguided. Pseudo-intellectuals are generally anti-intellectuals who are lying to you.
What do you think is the currently a bigger threat to legitimate science: - The growing wave of anti-intellectualism and anti-science that seemingly rejects science outright on certain issues - Or the growing wave of pseudo-science that undercuts science by adopting the trappings of science but none of its procedures?
What makes you think the two are unrelated?
Different mindset.
False. I hate all the conclusions that science has provided about our universe. Options: 1. Reject all of science as a conspiracy against my beliefs. 2. Co-opt science with pseudoscientific jargon and handwaving to prove my beliefs are true.
You'll have to explain to me how consumers moving their data to the cloud will mean an increase of hard disc sales.
No, you'll need to explain how consumers moving their data to The Cloud will mean an decrease of hard disc sales, since that was your previous claim. The Cloud is remote servers storing data on spinning disks. So consumers storing data at home as well as data in The Cloud means more hard drives in use, not less.
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It still really bugs me that people refer to U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.A. (Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act ) as 'the Patriot Act."
If you want a nickname, call it the "spying and torturing American citizens act", otherwise refer to it by it's name: U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T.A.
KthxBi.
option 1: the entire universe has expanded in the last couple decades, including the distance between every particle, but not the size of protons.
option 2: protons have shrunk in the last couple decades
option 3: one of our measuring methods is wrong for a reason we don't yet understand.
Hint: those are sorted in reverse order by ridiculous over-complication.
If you hadn't misplaced your razor, Mr. Occam, you'd have already eliminated the first one on your own.
HOPE you didn't vote for the guy who pretty much guaranteed he'd take more of your money in taxes. Taxes that only help PAY for this kind of crap.
I'm with you on this, man.
Bush's warrantless wiretapping combined with running up a huge deficit, thereby increasing taxes long term pissed me off as well.
Ah yes, because "adult" always means pornography. And copyright infringement is murder.
Also, politics is applied philosophy, and philosophy is applied thinking, and thinking is life.
So while life is not politics, politics is life. You deprecate it to your own detriment.
"They don't need it"
Unless you are the richest person in the world, there will always be someone with more than you, that you can state that about, to try to justify taking it from them.
True enough - but there should be a reasonable bright line where you are making, say, 100 times more than the average wage for a worker in %COUNTRY_YOU_LIVE_IN% where we can argue that paying a lower percentage in taxes than said workers is not contributing back enough.
I bring in approximately 5% of what Romney makes, yet I pay slightly more than double the percentage in taxes. That's because his horse and car elevators etc. are business expenses, while my car and clothing purchases are not (also that nifty rule about money you earn is taxed at 35% while money your money earns is only 15%).
And tax rebates are a misnomer - some companies actually receive "rebates," larger than their total tax payments. I will continue to call those subsidies, since they in no way earned that money.
Are you seriously claiming that the wars in Iraq and Iran have decreased the number of terrorists & terrorist attacks in the world?
Now, I'll admit that killing Osama bin Ladin probably had a positive effect on making people think twice about joining Al Qaeda, but since that was a separate event in Pakistan, I'm gonna venture a guess that the money spent in Iraq & Afganistan was a complete and total waste.
Terrorism is a fairytale used to scare children, and it looks like it's working.
that's not necessarily the logical way to do it.
I'm fairly sure that by calling a method "logical" the OP did not preclude the possibility that other methods are logical.
If you can present a case for a specific alternate model that is currently in use being logical, that would be meaningful. Meantime, since the USA has completely incoherent and inconsistent attitudes and methods for dealing with renewable energy, the fact that Germany uses any type of logic in their methods is welcome news.
If you think that human beings evolved from monkeys, it's obvious that you did not understand high-school biology.
Perhaps you should rely on someone smarter than yourself to dole out those pain meds for you.
Going to the moon again will cost billions. Running a few isotopic scans on rocks, involves a grant of several thousand dollars.
Do you grasp the difference between a thousand dollars and a billion dollars?
Now, the war in Iraq probably cost more than ten trips to the moon, and was a far less productive use of our resources - but that's a very different argument.
The fact is muslims have their own countries, that is where they belong and should stay.
We need a "-1 Racist Asshole" mod. You'd have to search hard to find a Muslim-American who hates freedom more than you.
Muslim countries, political groups and terrorist organizations have killed thousands of westerners in the last couple decades.
In the same time period, the US government has killed millions of Muslims.
But yes, all the problems in the middle east are caused by some video that requires high-speed internet to watch.
I see Harley's that meet all but one of those requirements all the time! All they need to do is quintuple the price and throw an american flag on it and these things will sell like crazy.
That dim glow when you turn off fluorescent lamps is just what phosphor does for a while after you hit it with UV - it's not proof of continued electrical usage.
You don't have to put the dimmers back in - you just can't build a new house without them. It was a decent idea when incandescent bulbs were all you could buy since it prevented the power-on spike that kills those. Now it's a law that should go away, but it's maybe $100 expense on a house costing $200,000+, so no-one cares.
You could read all federal legislation in your spare time? You are one fucktastically fast reader!
Absolutely! I can read a page of reasonable text in about a minute, and my spare time consists of 120 minutes per week. everything over that limit gets a "no." Why is congress trying to pass 6000 pages a week when no-one there has read more than 10?
Bigfeet are not yetis. Conflating the two just to shoe-horn the word 'abominable' into the text is lame.
My experience with your mom last night would indicate otherwise.
Your first paragraph and your third paragraphs are completely contradictory. Is the problem that teachers unions protect bad teachers, or is the problem that teachers are so underpaid that if your fire a bad teacher, there will be literally no-one to take their place? Hint: you got it right the second time. I quit teaching because the pay, hours & facilities in IT are so much better. In IT.
I taught for 3 years. Unfortunately the low pay and long hours and lack of facilities sucked, so I left. I find IT is much better by all relevant metrics.
School districts in California are so broke they are literally moving the kids into the least badly neglected buildings and letting the other half rot to the ground, while paying the teachers less than before to try to reach 40 students in one room all day.
You spend less on schools now than in the last half a century: less per child per year than you would sending them to 2 months of university classes.
You get what you pay for.
Actually, we have, but we all decided that it would be best not to let you in on it.
Anti-intellectuals are being honest about their beliefs, even if they are misguided. Pseudo-intellectuals are generally anti-intellectuals who are lying to you.
What do you think is the currently a bigger threat to legitimate science:
- The growing wave of anti-intellectualism and anti-science that seemingly rejects science outright on certain issues
- Or the growing wave of pseudo-science that undercuts science by adopting the trappings of science but none of its procedures?
What makes you think the two are unrelated?
Different mindset.
False. I hate all the conclusions that science has provided about our universe. Options:
1. Reject all of science as a conspiracy against my beliefs.
2. Co-opt science with pseudoscientific jargon and handwaving to prove my beliefs are true.
Same mindset, different asshole.
You'll have to explain to me how consumers moving their data to the cloud will mean an increase of hard disc sales.
No, you'll need to explain how consumers moving their data to The Cloud will mean an decrease of hard disc sales, since that was your previous claim. The Cloud is remote servers storing data on spinning disks. So consumers storing data at home as well as data in The Cloud means more hard drives in use, not less.
At my work, there's Verizon and AT&T coverage. At home, there's AT&T coverage. No one else has one tower near me.
Guess who I pay each month.
It did. T-Moble in the US went out of business because they couldn't attract senators or steal enough tax dollars.
FTFY.
Ah yes, because it's impossible to lock down an iphone/ipad via exchange policy + webfiltering.