To be fair, the 99% over this last decade spent a lot of their money getting these overpriced snacks/drinks while filling the coffers of the 1%.
True, true. There will always be sheep and herders. The problem is that the herders often forget how much they actually need their sheep. Of course, their day of reckoning will come with the sheep-zombie apocalypse...:-)
These aholes should just compromise. Raise taxes and cut spending. Do both.
Your argument, sir, suffers only from logic. While the Democrats did offer up cuts and restructuring of Medicare, Social Security and other entitlements - used mostly by the poor and disenfranchised, the Republicans would not agree to even a 0.7% - yes zero point seven percent - increase on taxes for those earning over 1 million, because, I believe, (1) the rich don't use or care about those services and don't want to pay for them, (2) the Republicans signed a "will not raise taxes *ever* pledge" with Grover Norquist and his advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform - thereby putting their pledge to that group above their pledge to the country.
Sure, some will argue that raising taxes on the wealthy - the "job creators" - especially in a recession is the wrong idea, but I would counter that (1) most of the really rich in this country get their money from investments, not earned income, (2) any taxes saved goes into increasing their own wealth, not creating jobs, (3) if their argument was true, then were are all the jobs they should have been creating during the last 10 years of the Bush tax-cut years with historically low tax rates for the rich, (4) smart business people do NOT create jobs without a corresponding demand for products/services, (5) (slightly off topic) past instances of tax amnesty allowing corporations to in-shore off-shore profits have resulted in shareholder benefits and stock re-purchasing, and not any (or minimal US jobs creations - despite promises to the contrary.
You want to turn the economy around? Get people back to work. Buy US made products - mind you, not foreign made, sold by US companies; let the government fund infrastructure repair, etc... Yes, the deficit will go up, but when people start working, there will be more income tax revenue and things will get paid for. Wall Street doesn't really care about the deficit - according to several NYT articles - they care about the movement of the economy.
Also, just my 2 cents, but rich people and Republicans defending the Bush Tax Cuts is a bit disingenuous - it's 4 fucking percent. They can afford to have the top marginal tax rate be *restored* to 39.6% from 35% - geesh. Few (none) of the promised benefits have happened, except lining the pockets of the rich.
I've seen beers with calories,carbohydrates,protein,fat in the label fine print.
It's not currently required by law and probably included for marketing purposes for those counting calories/carbs etc... There *might* be some requirement for "lite" products as, I believe, they have to demonstrate/document their reduced calories, but that's just something I think I remember reading.
The requirement is that all foods and drinks have a nutrition label. Why is this hard to understand? Is water not a food or drink? Is bottled water not intended for human consumption? Oh, it is? Well then, it NEEDS A NUTRITION LABEL.
Oh sweet, bratty Snowgirl, why do you taunt me so?
I actually can't tell if you're serious or confirming my implied cynicism that stupid rules created and followed completely without thought are worse than a stupid populous... Critical thinking is dead; long live critical thinking!
To answer another post about labels on beer, there is a push to require nutritional labeling on beer, wine and spirits in the US (from an article I found dated Feb 2011) - calorie/carb counters rejoice (sigh). There is concern that those rules will place a strain on small vineyards and micro-breweries.
Now when can we expect nutritional labels on flavored lube?
If we can't survive on earth the last place we should go is into space.
Our future is in learning to fix the problems we create.
But your right, the idea that our future lies in space is pretty common, rather unfortunate really.
You're spot-on except for situations out of our control like asteroid/comet strike, gamma ray burst, or the eventual death of our Sun. Sure, we may be able to come up with a solution for the first and actually apply it given enough warning, but a GRB can't be detected until after the fact (and at least 1/2 the planet is dead) and the Sun going red-giant and toasting the planet is a certainty - granted in 5 billion years.
It's simply a matter of not keeping all your eggs in one basket.
Do water vendors feel the need to state the obvious... like water cures thirst?
Just as stupid as rules requiring nutritional labeling on bottled water (at least here in the US). I kid you not:
Calories: 0, Fat: 0 mg, Protein: 0 mg, Carbohydrates: 0 mg, Vitamin A: 0,... Calcium: *,...
(* Not a significant source of these nutrients.)
You want to help your country, buy the products that you make domestically.
What products? We're too busy drinking Fair-Trade Guatemalan Shade-Grown coffee with from Starbucks and talking on our Chinese-made iPhones while driving Fords build in Mexico... Who has time to make things - geesh. Now excuse me while I fire up the Sony and watch Survivor - the South Pacific looks really nice.
This spells potentially problems for a lot of people because most people do not read the TOS or EULA documents.
Yes, as demonstrated on the South Park episode, HUMANCENTiPAD:
On the show, Steve Jobs' latest project is to surgically connect three people into a "HUMANCENTiPAD" (the episode's title), with their waste fueling the device. Kyle unknowingly agrees to be part of the experiment when he agrees to Apple's Terms of Service without reading it first.
Still might fit in your pocket (or purse/backpack). Might make for nice bar chatter...
"Say... Is that a Beowulf Cluster in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"
These benchmarks [phoronix.com] say that Linux is usually faster than any BSD flavor.
From that site:
...the spin of Debian that replaces the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD kernel while retaining most of the same GNU user-land and it uses the GNU C library. With those original tests comparing Debian GNU/Linux to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Linux version ended up winning in 18 of the 27 tests.
I'm not convinced that running "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" is the same as native FreeBSD, especially for a performance benchmark.
Just guessing... Because Science is actually hard and many of today's students are lazy, self-entitled, undereducated and unmotivated to actually learn anything?
...does this fall under successful or failed digital rights management schemes?
Either way, being child (and probably spouse) abusing entitled prick in Texas - still priceless.
I'm of the opinion that the bible was written by people using the knowledge and belief of the time, and the problem is that knowledge has progressed, but the Bible has remained static (or only changed by those with a vested interest in what it says) and the belief on which it's based remains fundamentally unchanged. If people want to believe the Bible is the Word of God, fine, but, if so, God apparently doesn't know how the Universe works. Otherwise the Bible is obviously just a story written by people trying to understand the universe and their place and purpose in that universe using their (inherently) limited knowledge. Just my $.02.
So, while I'd like to believe in God and a life after this - especially since my wonderful wife of 20 years died of a brain tumor in 2006 - I'm pretty convinced that this is all there is and I'm fine with that. And if there *is* a God, I'm pretty upset with Him/Her... Besides, judging from what I've seen here on Earth, Heaven is probably full of self-righteous/serving pricks anyway -- or Mormons if you believe South Park.:-)
It should, perhaps, be pointed out that almost all the promises made by the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2008 could not have been fulfilled by the President either.
Yes, I know. As I said, I was simply using the current Republican candidates "(simply for example)".
What I am wishing is that our system would let the governed people demand and receive accountability from their representatives.
As my dad used to say, "If wishes were horses..." Seriously, it's called the voting booth - and not being a moron. For the latter I refer to the likes of the Tea Party and the stories of them demanding that the Government "keep its hand off their Medicare", from the comfort of their Medicare paid for electric scooters... Or the Tea Party demanding a return to the Constitution, then wanting to amend it... For example, see:
Or my mother who has become a rabid Republican now decrying the very social safety nets she supported when she was a younger and less affluent Democrat.
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True, true. There will always be sheep and herders. The problem is that the herders often forget how much they actually need their sheep. Of course, their day of reckoning will come with the sheep-zombie apocalypse ... :-)
Your argument, sir, suffers only from logic. While the Democrats did offer up cuts and restructuring of Medicare, Social Security and other entitlements - used mostly by the poor and disenfranchised, the Republicans would not agree to even a 0.7% - yes zero point seven percent - increase on taxes for those earning over 1 million, because, I believe, (1) the rich don't use or care about those services and don't want to pay for them, (2) the Republicans signed a "will not raise taxes *ever* pledge" with Grover Norquist and his advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform - thereby putting their pledge to that group above their pledge to the country.
Sure, some will argue that raising taxes on the wealthy - the "job creators" - especially in a recession is the wrong idea, but I would counter that (1) most of the really rich in this country get their money from investments, not earned income, (2) any taxes saved goes into increasing their own wealth, not creating jobs, (3) if their argument was true, then were are all the jobs they should have been creating during the last 10 years of the Bush tax-cut years with historically low tax rates for the rich, (4) smart business people do NOT create jobs without a corresponding demand for products/services, (5) (slightly off topic) past instances of tax amnesty allowing corporations to in-shore off-shore profits have resulted in shareholder benefits and stock re-purchasing, and not any (or minimal US jobs creations - despite promises to the contrary.
You want to turn the economy around? Get people back to work. Buy US made products - mind you, not foreign made, sold by US companies; let the government fund infrastructure repair, etc... Yes, the deficit will go up, but when people start working, there will be more income tax revenue and things will get paid for. Wall Street doesn't really care about the deficit - according to several NYT articles - they care about the movement of the economy.
Also, just my 2 cents, but rich people and Republicans defending the Bush Tax Cuts is a bit disingenuous - it's 4 fucking percent. They can afford to have the top marginal tax rate be *restored* to 39.6% from 35% - geesh. Few (none) of the promised benefits have happened, except lining the pockets of the rich.
Umm... The 1% ers do. I saw a promo for one of those pawn store shows where a guy bought a diamond dog collar - for his dog - for $4,500.
Insert Porn joke here...
Or pacemaker, insulin pump, etc...
It's not currently required by law and probably included for marketing purposes for those counting calories/carbs etc... There *might* be some requirement for "lite" products as, I believe, they have to demonstrate/document their reduced calories, but that's just something I think I remember reading.
Oh sweet, bratty Snowgirl, why do you taunt me so?
I actually can't tell if you're serious or confirming my implied cynicism that stupid rules created and followed completely without thought are worse than a stupid populous... Critical thinking is dead; long live critical thinking!
To answer another post about labels on beer, there is a push to require nutritional labeling on beer, wine and spirits in the US (from an article I found dated Feb 2011) - calorie/carb counters rejoice (sigh). There is concern that those rules will place a strain on small vineyards and micro-breweries.
Now when can we expect nutritional labels on flavored lube?
You're spot-on except for situations out of our control like asteroid/comet strike, gamma ray burst, or the eventual death of our Sun. Sure, we may be able to come up with a solution for the first and actually apply it given enough warning, but a GRB can't be detected until after the fact (and at least 1/2 the planet is dead) and the Sun going red-giant and toasting the planet is a certainty - granted in 5 billion years.
It's simply a matter of not keeping all your eggs in one basket.
Just as stupid as rules requiring nutritional labeling on bottled water (at least here in the US). I kid you not: ... Calcium: *, ...
Calories: 0, Fat: 0 mg, Protein: 0 mg, Carbohydrates: 0 mg, Vitamin A: 0,
(* Not a significant source of these nutrients.)
I think the word for which you're looking, especially given the subject "Fingertop!", is insertable.
Remember: Gloves and lube are your friends...
What products? We're too busy drinking Fair-Trade Guatemalan Shade-Grown coffee with from Starbucks and talking on our Chinese-made iPhones while driving Fords build in Mexico... Who has time to make things - geesh. Now excuse me while I fire up the Sony and watch Survivor - the South Pacific looks really nice.
Note to /. : Never say that to a girlfriend, no matter how true.
Yes, as demonstrated on the South Park episode, HUMANCENTiPAD:
So, one must get prior explicit consent from someone - to contact them - them w/o contacting them?
Nice.
Still might fit in your pocket (or purse/backpack). Might make for nice bar chatter...
"Say... Is that a Beowulf Cluster in your pants or are you just happy to see me?"
From that site:
I'm not convinced that running "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" is the same as native FreeBSD, especially for a performance benchmark.
Just guessing... Because Science is actually hard and many of today's students are lazy, self-entitled, undereducated and unmotivated to actually learn anything?
Especially if people are expending a lot of fracking time in Oklahoma...
...does this fall under successful or failed digital rights management schemes?
Either way, being child (and probably spouse) abusing entitled prick in Texas - still priceless.
I'm guessing...plaid and flannel.
My preference would be for RAM that lasts longer that a few years...
So, while I'd like to believe in God and a life after this - especially since my wonderful wife of 20 years died of a brain tumor in 2006 - I'm pretty convinced that this is all there is and I'm fine with that. And if there *is* a God, I'm pretty upset with Him/Her ... Besides, judging from what I've seen here on Earth, Heaven is probably full of self-righteous/serving pricks anyway -- or Mormons if you believe South Park. :-)
Um... just brainstorming here ... Jar, lid w/spring, tether, done.
Yes, I know. As I said, I was simply using the current Republican candidates "(simply for example)".
As my dad used to say, "If wishes were horses..." Seriously, it's called the voting booth - and not being a moron. For the latter I refer to the likes of the Tea Party and the stories of them demanding that the Government "keep its hand off their Medicare", from the comfort of their Medicare paid for electric scooters... Or the Tea Party demanding a return to the Constitution, then wanting to amend it... For example, see:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/top-5-constitutional-amendments-tea-partiers-would-repeal.php
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/tea-party-call-to-repeal-the-17th-amendment-causing-problems-for-gop-candidates.php
Or my mother who has become a rabid Republican now decrying the very social safety nets she supported when she was a younger and less affluent Democrat.
So sad.