School lunches and SSI Disability... so you want kids who's parents are too poor to get food for lunch to suffer more in school than they are due to their social problems, increasing the number of poor in teh country due to lack of education and you want people that are disabled to not be able to survive?
Unemployment should be modified some... people just need to get more Entrepreneurial IMHO, as for food stamps... I think they are necessary but welfare in general needs to be redesigned to transition people off of it rather than keep them on. At the moment, they are kept at about 50K per year in benefits if someone takes full assistance. If they get a job that pays half that, they lose it all.... Not much of an incentive to get off welfare.
And if you take them through a thought experiment such as a dog that goes in the water a lot, develops webbed feet over generations, then it starts spending all its time in the water, etc etc... they still call it a dog even though a macro change has occurred.
They simply don't want to admit they are wrong.
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I wonder what happened to those kooks who sold their homes, and bought farms or that stocked up with 2 years worth of spegheti-Os, etc.
It is absolutely practical. We had plenty of opportunity to give enough to support the poor. It worked well when we all lived in tribes of about 100 people or less. When the state was born, societal altruism died with it because of the desire for personal power.
In a society that values power and wealth, you will never be able to support those who are unable to support themselves on voluntary support.
It is a tech preview. They integrate that with multi-party video chat, desktop sharing and a few other services and you have a free web based meeting area.
It really can replace E-mail for most people, I think it would take a while and an open spec to really replace it though.
Societal methods do not produce enough resources for the need because they are held up in stupid silos of overlapping charities with impossible to navigate requirements for application and people do not give enough to said charities (as a whole) to meet the needs of society.
how well do traffic fines prevent speeding or dick head drivers?
The fact is, the traffic laws provide guidance for those who care, and those who think they can bend and break teh rules are willing to play that game of risk. Laws and penalties do not deter those who do not care.
Yeah... I love the loan policy on the air cards for the PC and then when you go to get them from the person who is suppose to loan them, her list is full of people who have had them for months.
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I agree... the one thing we do need free trade on is sugar. We can't produce enough of it in the US for our demand so we should be importing it.
School lunches and SSI Disability... so you want kids who's parents are too poor to get food for lunch to suffer more in school than they are due to their social problems, increasing the number of poor in teh country due to lack of education and you want people that are disabled to not be able to survive?
Unemployment should be modified some... people just need to get more Entrepreneurial IMHO, as for food stamps... I think they are necessary but welfare in general needs to be redesigned to transition people off of it rather than keep them on. At the moment, they are kept at about 50K per year in benefits if someone takes full assistance. If they get a job that pays half that, they lose it all.... Not much of an incentive to get off welfare.
And if you take them through a thought experiment such as a dog that goes in the water a lot, develops webbed feet over generations, then it starts spending all its time in the water, etc etc... they still call it a dog even though a macro change has occurred.
They simply don't want to admit they are wrong.
I wonder what happened to those kooks who sold their homes, and bought farms or that stocked up with 2 years worth of spegheti-Os, etc.
It took me about a month but I can type with my thumb at about 40 WPM with the intelisense on android.
No... but if you read the fucking page I linked it links to a very good article about why this is crap.
Why didn't I link directly to the article? Because I am lazy and the wiki page was in my history.
your point eludes me.
read the linked article in the first paragraph.
perhaps people should start using units that do not rely on pixels to display their app? how about em?
keyboards are too inflexible. I can't imagine using a hardware KB on a smartphone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskop_Man
The Discover article is a bunch of garbage. the idea that this was some sort of homonid species has been debuniked over 50 years ago.
hmmm
maybe you are using it wrong!!
It is absolutely practical.
We had plenty of opportunity to give enough to support the poor. It worked well when we all lived in tribes of about 100 people or less. When the state was born, societal altruism died with it because of the desire for personal power.
In a society that values power and wealth, you will never be able to support those who are unable to support themselves on voluntary support.
what is your problem with Wave?
It is a tech preview. They integrate that with multi-party video chat, desktop sharing and a few other services and you have a free web based meeting area.
It really can replace E-mail for most people, I think it would take a while and an open spec to really replace it though.
Whatever RMS.
I know the difference.
Societal methods do not produce enough resources for the need because they are held up in stupid silos of overlapping charities with impossible to navigate requirements for application and people do not give enough to said charities (as a whole) to meet the needs of society.
Fusion bitch!!
why not use LaTeX?
The problem with your ideas is that you think there is no such thing as social responsibility. That hasn't been much of a factor since Reagan.
how well do traffic fines prevent speeding or dick head drivers?
The fact is, the traffic laws provide guidance for those who care, and those who think they can bend and break teh rules are willing to play that game of risk. Laws and penalties do not deter those who do not care.
because over the top penalties are deterrences to behavior of those disposed to behaving in such manors... oh... wait... they're not.
Yeah... I love the loan policy on the air cards for the PC and then when you go to get them from the person who is suppose to loan them, her list is full of people who have had them for months.
radios weren't replaceable when they were first added to cars either.
douch bags who think American cars suck are about as intelligent as the douchbags who think BJs from hookers is a sex life.
Fuck you. Current Fords are rock solid.