This is a standard strawman. People don't mind paying for the practical things like you listed. The problem is we're bombarded every day with news of idiotic waste, public employees endlessly gaming the system, sometimes millions of dollars just gone into vapor with government officials shrugging and pointing fingers all over the place, and other varied brands of bullshit. The list is endless, and nothing ever happens to anyone beyond the occasional resignation (right into some cushy lobbying or "consulting" position).
So is it really *THAT* hard to understand that many people get resistant to any talk of new taxation, no matter how good the apparent cause, especially in the absence of any sort of reforms or even the most basic talk of addressing the waste and fraud? Is really that hard to understand that people see an atrocious system full of corrupt giga-assholes, and maybe they don't want to feed it more money before someone at least hoses the thing down? Preferably with some sort of molecular acid?
If you think a new tax will solve anything in and of itself, without any other changes or reforms, you are either not paying attention or you are willfully ignoring the situation for whatever ideological reasons you may possess.
I'd like a career change, but at 46 I can't see it happening. I also have the whole "how could I possibly walk away from this high paying, full benefits job even if it makes me hate every particle in the universe" syndrome.
I thought there'd be more good JRPGs on the Wii. Well, there *are*, but Nintendo refuses to bring them to the US despite there already being English translations for the UK market and despite a vocal market who would like to see them.
Same here. My iPad follows me around the house. I use it *more* than I expected. I bought an Apple TV (I only just found out it supports Netflix streaming) to go with it, and just rip all Netflix DVDs to the iPad as they arrive. Then I can watch in bed or stream to the big TV in the living room.
Pollster: Hey, you! Guy: Huh? P: What do you do? G: I have a Master's degree in puppetry. P: Wow! That's... a thing! G: Thanks! P: So how do you think the Global Economic Steering Committee should plan for the next 5 years? Should they continue to implement the existing computable general equilibrium models or switch over to the new Klein-Mobius models that have arisen from the joint econometric project at MIT and Oxford? G: Um. Wait, what was that about a joint? P: Do you feel the current IS/LM techniques are effectively pushing both the local and global economic realities toward the general equilibrium point, or is the locus of points generated by the algorithms simply not reflecting actual market trends? G: Did you say lotus? I can do the lotus position. P: Is there someone else here we can talk to?
Absolutely LOL! Way to overreact considering there were snarkier comments. Seriously, are you the special friend of one of the Smokapalooza developers? You should get off the internet if snark gives you the vapors to such an extent, or make sure there's a fainting couch next to your computer at all times.
I was surprised Whitman was still around. I thought she disapparated back to the unreverberate blackness of the abyss after losing the governor's election.
US schools are buying iPads to help teaching, countries with no or poor education systems are being given OLPC to help teaching... see, not much a difference!
I see! So it will fail just as hard as introducing endless piles of computers to US schools has! Good show!
I tease (somewhat), but, hey, have at it. At the very least it might result in an influx of new and interesting talent to Deviant Art.
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Yeah, well, we live in interesting times. (A blessing in some cultures and a curse in others).
So are we drawing a line between economy vs. climate now?
Now?!
This is a standard strawman. People don't mind paying for the practical things like you listed. The problem is we're bombarded every day with news of idiotic waste, public employees endlessly gaming the system, sometimes millions of dollars just gone into vapor with government officials shrugging and pointing fingers all over the place, and other varied brands of bullshit. The list is endless, and nothing ever happens to anyone beyond the occasional resignation (right into some cushy lobbying or "consulting" position).
So is it really *THAT* hard to understand that many people get resistant to any talk of new taxation, no matter how good the apparent cause, especially in the absence of any sort of reforms or even the most basic talk of addressing the waste and fraud? Is really that hard to understand that people see an atrocious system full of corrupt giga-assholes, and maybe they don't want to feed it more money before someone at least hoses the thing down? Preferably with some sort of molecular acid?
If you think a new tax will solve anything in and of itself, without any other changes or reforms, you are either not paying attention or you are willfully ignoring the situation for whatever ideological reasons you may possess.
What age did you do it at?
I'd like a career change, but at 46 I can't see it happening. I also have the whole "how could I possibly walk away from this high paying, full benefits job even if it makes me hate every particle in the universe" syndrome.
Solitary? That some sort of prison game?
(sorry)
I thought there'd be more good JRPGs on the Wii. Well, there *are*, but Nintendo refuses to bring them to the US despite there already being English translations for the UK market and despite a vocal market who would like to see them.
[rarity]See if *I* buy a Wii U. Hmpfff![/rarity]
The iPad has revolutionized my poop time.
There's a sentence I didn't expect to type today. Or ever.
You definitely want to stir it a bit near the end of the cooking cycle.
I swear by Mahatma rice. Never had a bad batch.
OK, but how does the stirred (not shaken) rice get from me to... ah! You're thinking with portals!
(QD goes to play Portal 2 again)
So make one as a project. There's a voltmeter and oscilloscope attachments for the iPad. Make a microcontroller interface.
Same here. My iPad follows me around the house. I use it *more* than I expected. I bought an Apple TV (I only just found out it supports Netflix streaming) to go with it, and just rip all Netflix DVDs to the iPad as they arrive. Then I can watch in bed or stream to the big TV in the living room.
There was a video out a while back of all of Reagan's jokes edited together. It was actually pretty amusing.
Um... OK?
No you're not. You're a shark with a fricken laser! That is *never* stupid. :)
South Park had them split into all sorts of little divisions. :-)
Personally, I *like* being one in a million. Or 300 million. :-D
Because, you see, everyone *else* is stupid... except him and anyone who agrees with whatever his 31 ideological flavors are.
Welcome to Slashdot!
What? That's the best part, mod points. It's revenge time for all those times I got modded down! :-)
Trouble is, it's easy to criticize the physical occupiers for being unrepresentative of the general population
Yeah, well, that's going to happen when you claim to represent 99% of the population. It's easy because it's true.
Pollster: Hey, you!
Guy: Huh?
P: What do you do?
G: I have a Master's degree in puppetry.
P: Wow! That's... a thing!
G: Thanks!
P: So how do you think the Global Economic Steering Committee should plan for the next 5 years? Should they continue to implement the existing computable general equilibrium models or switch over to the new Klein-Mobius models that have arisen from the joint econometric project at MIT and Oxford?
G: Um. Wait, what was that about a joint?
P: Do you feel the current IS/LM techniques are effectively pushing both the local and global economic realities toward the general equilibrium point, or is the locus of points generated by the algorithms simply not reflecting actual market trends?
G: Did you say lotus? I can do the lotus position.
P: Is there someone else here we can talk to?
Absolutely LOL! Way to overreact considering there were snarkier comments. Seriously, are you the special friend of one of the Smokapalooza developers? You should get off the internet if snark gives you the vapors to such an extent, or make sure there's a fainting couch next to your computer at all times.
Wow. Where'd that load of butthurt come from?
Or no annoying, eye watering fog at all. Jusy sayin.
Well, I for one welcome our new smoke filled virtual future.
But seriously, that was the assiest demo I have ever seen. Are they kidding? Maybe it's a viral ad attempt.
I was surprised Whitman was still around. I thought she disapparated back to the unreverberate blackness of the abyss after losing the governor's election.
US schools are buying iPads to help teaching, countries with no or poor education systems are being given OLPC to help teaching... see, not much a difference!
I see! So it will fail just as hard as introducing endless piles of computers to US schools has! Good show!
I tease (somewhat), but, hey, have at it. At the very least it might result in an influx of new and interesting talent to Deviant Art.