"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776. Papers 1:353
Re:What the government really needs to do.
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I was thinking the Government needs to:
1) Give insane tax breaks to the uber wealthy, causing a huge gap between the rich and poor. Make it were the poor are desperate, willing to do anything just to survive.
2) Undermine true capitalism world wide and introduce corporatism. This helps to accomplish the goal found in number 1.
3) Strongly restrict the worlds energy supplies so prices go up, further accomplishing the goal in number 1, and also create strife between nations at the same time.
4) Start a world war, utilizing all the poor people created in 1,2, and 3. This will help the wealthy because it means new weapon systems have to be built, and foreign countries will have to rebuild.
5) Results, less population means less energy being used. Less energy being used means less CO2 in the atmosphere, reducing global warming. In addition, it means more resources for the wealthy. Less populalation means less impoverished to annoy the uber rich. Don't worry about Social Security, we will fix it by reducing your population load.
One thing that you must remember is that the US is a very large country. As a result, everything is spread out much more than in Europe. To impose such high taxes on our oil, would not only be detrimental to our economy, but yours as well. I addition, because of the increased amount of travel that is necessary, it probably stings a little more to have the gas prices increase.
I agree with you about the SUV's, however. I think it is funny that the SUV drivers are having to pay so much. It seems alot of drivers of SUV's are arrogant Pr__ks... A fool and his money are soon departed.
Personally, I wish Al Gore won the Presidental election in the past. He had a plan on how to maintain the US's technological base with green auto technology. Unfortunately, it seems the current president of the US wants to, not only run the US into the ground, but also the whole world as well.
I think I understand the currents administrations thought processes, let me paraphrase: "Leave no billionaire behind", and "If Mother Nature and the less fortunate cannot fend for themselves, then they are not worth saving..."
I really do not think that Windows Vista will effect the uptake of Linux one way or another. The reason for this is that Microsoft is like McDonalds. Almost anybody, and any chimp can make a better hamburger than McDonalds; but it is very hard to compete with McDonald's distribution system.
It is over obvious, that because of current political pressures and corporate suck-heads, that techies are made to feel inferior. Remember, you are special, you see the world in unique ways that the general population does not. Evidence of this is the current state of television. Who do you think they are marketing that mind numbing, zombification crap too?
For Linux to be adopted into main stream it will take two things: one, dumbification, Joe Six-pack doesn't care about the details of installing packages and drivers, he just wants his hardware to work right, and to surf his p--n...; and two, advertisement and education to the "problem-solving challenged".
For many "problem-solving challenged" persons, they only reason they wants a certain product is that their friends have it. They may not know what it does, or how it works, but they have to have it... Create the illusion that everybody is getting Linux, and the illusion will come true!
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"No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776. Papers 1:353
I was thinking the Government needs to:
1) Give insane tax breaks to the uber wealthy, causing a huge gap between the rich and poor. Make it were the poor are desperate, willing to do anything just to survive.
2) Undermine true capitalism world wide and introduce corporatism. This helps to accomplish the goal found in number 1.
3) Strongly restrict the worlds energy supplies so prices go up, further accomplishing the goal in number 1, and also create strife between nations at the same time.
4) Start a world war, utilizing all the poor people created in 1,2, and 3. This will help the wealthy because it means new weapon systems have to be built, and foreign countries will have to rebuild.
5) Results, less population means less energy being used. Less energy being used means less CO2 in the atmosphere, reducing global warming. In addition, it means more resources for the wealthy. Less populalation means less impoverished to annoy the uber rich. Don't worry about Social Security, we will fix it by reducing your population load.
Of course, I am joking!
One thing that you must remember is that the US is a very large country. As a result, everything is spread out much more than in Europe. To impose such high taxes on our oil, would not only be detrimental to our economy, but yours as well. I addition, because of the increased amount of travel that is necessary, it probably stings a little more to have the gas prices increase.
I agree with you about the SUV's, however. I think it is funny that the SUV drivers are having to pay so much. It seems alot of drivers of SUV's are arrogant Pr__ks... A fool and his money are soon departed.
Personally, I wish Al Gore won the Presidental election in the past. He had a plan on how to maintain the US's technological base with green auto technology. Unfortunately, it seems the current president of the US wants to, not only run the US into the ground, but also the whole world as well.
I think I understand the currents administrations thought processes, let me paraphrase: "Leave no billionaire behind", and "If Mother Nature and the less fortunate cannot fend for themselves, then they are not worth saving..."
I really do not think that Windows Vista will effect the uptake of Linux one way or another. The reason for this is that Microsoft is like McDonalds. Almost anybody, and any chimp can make a better hamburger than McDonalds; but it is very hard to compete with McDonald's distribution system. It is over obvious, that because of current political pressures and corporate suck-heads, that techies are made to feel inferior. Remember, you are special, you see the world in unique ways that the general population does not. Evidence of this is the current state of television. Who do you think they are marketing that mind numbing, zombification crap too? For Linux to be adopted into main stream it will take two things: one, dumbification, Joe Six-pack doesn't care about the details of installing packages and drivers, he just wants his hardware to work right, and to surf his p--n...; and two, advertisement and education to the "problem-solving challenged". For many "problem-solving challenged" persons, they only reason they wants a certain product is that their friends have it. They may not know what it does, or how it works, but they have to have it... Create the illusion that everybody is getting Linux, and the illusion will come true!