Wow, really? That is what you got from him saying he wants certain federal departments absolved? Not sure how doing away with departments that were all state departments as little as 15 years ago is "do away with the federal government". Maybe you could enlighten me haw that is?
You are a idiot and a sheep that has been programed by your federal government in to thinking states should get back the right that were always theirs.
Tell me, how was the budget deficit doing when the states held most of these rights? Now we have layer upon layer upon layer of bureaucracy at the federal level spending to their hearts content. There is no balances anymore.
Not sure what fantasy land you are living in, but laws are laws, and a federal department isn't needed to enforce those laws. And BTW, only a idiot would think that is a department of federal government went away that we would all revert to racism in a matter of days. You think that because you have not a clue what to think other then what people tell you to think.
Actually Michigan's state park system has weathered the storm quite well considering the economic climate of the state. Things need repair, but it's a wonder thing are even open considering their funding.
Yeah and what about our agencies blind eye for the fact in front of them that could have stopped 9/11 from happening? You want to place the short coming of our intelligences agencies playing politics and not doing their jobs on what a privatized security responsibility is? We spent billion on a system that couldn't detect a misspelling of a threats name, something you could google and it would return "did you mean?"
The Federal Department of Education didn't come around until 1979. We still had public education before that. The cost for it, even adjusted for inflation, has gone up widely, while test score have fallen.
You seem to be reading the short clip from above, then making a judgement based on your own conclusion as to what his plan would mean. Just because a department is gone doesn't mean the agencies under it would be gone also. To suggest such is being obtuse to the fact that something has to change in this country for it to be sustainable going forward.
My very first computer was a apple IIe and it opened my world to computing like never before. That was my last apple computer, but I do have a ipod touch and felt the same way about it when I got it 3 years ago as I did about my IIe. Thanks for the excitement and amazement of using break through devices over the year.
RIP Steve Jobs. Though your business model wasn't always like, you brought cool stuff in to my formative year.
Because I was sure it was the shitty job our crooked politicians are doing that is the reason citizens are becoming increasingly unhappy with the US government, when all along it was just "climate change".
I'm sorry, but I don't recall being able to call tech support because I "have no idea how to use it". You can't even call Microsoft and ask that. If you have hardware issues or a corrupt OS, then that is one thing, but to call and say "I don't know how to use it" they will tell you tough luck or go pay for some classes on how to use it.
That is VERY common. Even when traveling to the more rural areas of my state, I am always surprised to see PC repair stores in small towns and less then town areas everywhere. Most all I have seen also sell PC and I am sure would be more then happy to sell you a OS-less system. They are there to make money, not sign crippling contracts with one OS maker.
How is it "insightful" if the poster clearly didn't RTFA? It's in there, go read it! He never explained why in a short snip-it from the much bigger article? GO FIGURE!
Are you saying his mother has a penis? (see I can play the stupid question game too)
Are you going to take that AC, this guy is saying your mother has a penis! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. Figured you were headed down that road, so I gave you a head start.
Are you talking about Disk Doctor or Spinrite? Spinrite is the least destructive recovery software I have ever seen. Used on Tivo drives that were certain to fail, it recovered the data and made the drives useable for a few more years. Not getting where you would think Spinrite has the issues you speak of. Heck I think Steve even has a 30 day money back guarantee if it does what you say it does to any media. If it did what you say it does, spinrite wouldn't still be around since people would be returning it left and right!
I don't have that idea about him, but it is certain that others do. The media sure likes to paint him that way also. So it's not really odd for people to feel he has some sort of standard. Heck one person reply that seem to infer that anything he does is ok because he donates so much to charity.
Well then why doesn't he point out how he has benefited from insider trading over the years? Pretty dumb that he got away with that. Or maybe he should point out how he was pushing for a provision that would exempt previously written derivatives contracts from proposed rules on collateral that were in a senate bill? Berkshire owns derivatives tied to about $63 billion in assets. Think that has anything to do with it? If he is so holy in his quests then why is he saying one thing and doing another. I personally think it is because he stands to gain something from being a "champion" of the "cause".
Yeah but I am thinking he shoulders quite a bit more burden of the $3 billion Berkshire paid in 2008 corporate taxes then you do. He is the majority owner thus corporate taxes affect his bottom line a little more then it does you and your "stock".
Corporate taxes are just that but it's not like just the corporation is a entity taking the burden of such taxes. There are people that are responsible for the tax and if they can't pay the tax then they and the corporation is not going to fend well.
I read a story about 2 month ago about Buffett and his statement and it was broken down like this: "Mr. Buffett owns about one-quarter of his investment company Berkshire Hathaway, and his shares are worth about $38 billion. This wealth is mostly stored in what are technically called "unrealized capital gains." Eventually when those gains are converted into income, he will pay a capital gains tax. Even so, in 2008 Berkshire paid $3 billion in corporate taxes. And since Mr. Buffett is the principal owner, he shoulders a big share of that tax."
Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal story about Buffett's comment. Call it bullshit if you want.
Warren Buffet is very successful but that statement it stupid. If he feels so bad, then why does he have his income structured in such a way that his statement is mildly true? Truth is when you add all the taxes he really pays through corporate taxes on his investment firm that he is the majority holder in, he pays a massive amount more then his secretary could even think of paying, percentage wise and of course money wise. His statement is only true because he is paid a income on unrealized capital gains, which he ends up paying a capital gains tax on, which also is MUCH lower then if it were a straight up federal income tax.
So true. Here we have a school district that "updated" most all their classrooms in the district with HD projectors, interactive white boards, Blue Ray DVD and sound systems. This same district asked teachers for concessions last year. Meanwhile the police department there has a average salary of $114k a year and refuses to make concessions. Politicians don't want to spend anything on educating our children, but will spend all sorts of cash on arresting the uneducated that break the law. They can't make money off the schools anymore, so police and fire are now the focus of wasting tax payers dollars.
Dumbing down has been a political agenda for years. If you can see that, then you are a product of this system. You may not be dumb in a sense, but you are sure blind to the facts that our education systems turn out less and less competent people in to the world. A person less likely to seek the truth through education is less likely to question political corruption.
Proof is easy to find. Look at what public districts spend per child each year, then compare the cost to what a private school would cost. 9 times out of 10 the public school spends more, yet they turn out less educated children then their private counterparts.
I can see the point you are trying to make. There are flaws though. Your price to operate is a little off considering that fridges now a days have more issues and break down much more frequently then they ever used to. My mothers fridge had issues after 3 years and required a new control board at a cost of $300 to replace. That right there would wipe out any potential saving in the form of less energy used. The repair man even told her that most companies make them to fail so they can make money on parts replacement. Then you have a fridge that I have in my garage that is a 1972 model that is still kicking or a 1970 model freezer that I gave to a buddy that is still kicking strong. The fridge I just replaced was one from 1998 and the repair man said it was too expensive to fix compared to what I could get a new one for. That doesn't sound like the fridge companies are out to become green or use less energy, they are out to make money period.
Like I said the money that they will give you as a "trade in" for a running fridge is way less then what could be obtained from either reselling it or scraping it for metal and gas reclamation. They are doing this just to make money, otherwise they would be giving a reasonable amount since they require the fridge to be working. That is why the gas reclamation is the key. That must be where the real value is to them since I guarantee they reuse it.
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Wow, really? That is what you got from him saying he wants certain federal departments absolved? Not sure how doing away with departments that were all state departments as little as 15 years ago is "do away with the federal government". Maybe you could enlighten me haw that is?
You are a idiot and a sheep that has been programed by your federal government in to thinking states should get back the right that were always theirs.
Tell me, how was the budget deficit doing when the states held most of these rights? Now we have layer upon layer upon layer of bureaucracy at the federal level spending to their hearts content. There is no balances anymore.
Not sure what fantasy land you are living in, but laws are laws, and a federal department isn't needed to enforce those laws. And BTW, only a idiot would think that is a department of federal government went away that we would all revert to racism in a matter of days. You think that because you have not a clue what to think other then what people tell you to think.
Actually Michigan's state park system has weathered the storm quite well considering the economic climate of the state. Things need repair, but it's a wonder thing are even open considering their funding.
Yeah and what about our agencies blind eye for the fact in front of them that could have stopped 9/11 from happening? You want to place the short coming of our intelligences agencies playing politics and not doing their jobs on what a privatized security responsibility is? We spent billion on a system that couldn't detect a misspelling of a threats name, something you could google and it would return "did you mean?"
The Federal Department of Education didn't come around until 1979. We still had public education before that. The cost for it, even adjusted for inflation, has gone up widely, while test score have fallen.
You seem to be reading the short clip from above, then making a judgement based on your own conclusion as to what his plan would mean. Just because a department is gone doesn't mean the agencies under it would be gone also. To suggest such is being obtuse to the fact that something has to change in this country for it to be sustainable going forward.
My very first computer was a apple IIe and it opened my world to computing like never before. That was my last apple computer, but I do have a ipod touch and felt the same way about it when I got it 3 years ago as I did about my IIe. Thanks for the excitement and amazement of using break through devices over the year.
RIP Steve Jobs. Though your business model wasn't always like, you brought cool stuff in to my formative year.
Because I was sure it was the shitty job our crooked politicians are doing that is the reason citizens are becoming increasingly unhappy with the US government, when all along it was just "climate change".
Right next to the icon for "I am disgusted that the FBI has this many agents and still accomplishes very little in keeping the general public safe".
I'm sorry, but I don't recall being able to call tech support because I "have no idea how to use it". You can't even call Microsoft and ask that. If you have hardware issues or a corrupt OS, then that is one thing, but to call and say "I don't know how to use it" they will tell you tough luck or go pay for some classes on how to use it.
That is VERY common. Even when traveling to the more rural areas of my state, I am always surprised to see PC repair stores in small towns and less then town areas everywhere. Most all I have seen also sell PC and I am sure would be more then happy to sell you a OS-less system. They are there to make money, not sign crippling contracts with one OS maker.
How is it "insightful" if the poster clearly didn't RTFA? It's in there, go read it! He never explained why in a short snip-it from the much bigger article? GO FIGURE!
Are you saying his mother has a penis? (see I can play the stupid question game too)
Are you going to take that AC, this guy is saying your mother has a penis! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. Figured you were headed down that road, so I gave you a head start.
No that's your mother's job
Are you talking about Disk Doctor or Spinrite? Spinrite is the least destructive recovery software I have ever seen. Used on Tivo drives that were certain to fail, it recovered the data and made the drives useable for a few more years. Not getting where you would think Spinrite has the issues you speak of. Heck I think Steve even has a 30 day money back guarantee if it does what you say it does to any media. If it did what you say it does, spinrite wouldn't still be around since people would be returning it left and right!
Some air rifles have higher power then .22 rifles, so the damage even at distance could be effective.
I don't have that idea about him, but it is certain that others do. The media sure likes to paint him that way also. So it's not really odd for people to feel he has some sort of standard. Heck one person reply that seem to infer that anything he does is ok because he donates so much to charity.
So it's kinda like 4chan then?
Well then why doesn't he point out how he has benefited from insider trading over the years? Pretty dumb that he got away with that. Or maybe he should point out how he was pushing for a provision that would exempt previously written derivatives contracts from proposed rules on collateral that were in a senate bill? Berkshire owns derivatives tied to about $63 billion in assets. Think that has anything to do with it? If he is so holy in his quests then why is he saying one thing and doing another. I personally think it is because he stands to gain something from being a "champion" of the "cause".
Yeah but I am thinking he shoulders quite a bit more burden of the $3 billion Berkshire paid in 2008 corporate taxes then you do. He is the majority owner thus corporate taxes affect his bottom line a little more then it does you and your "stock".
Corporate taxes are just that but it's not like just the corporation is a entity taking the burden of such taxes. There are people that are responsible for the tax and if they can't pay the tax then they and the corporation is not going to fend well.
I read a story about 2 month ago about Buffett and his statement and it was broken down like this: "Mr. Buffett owns about one-quarter of his investment company Berkshire Hathaway, and his shares are worth about $38 billion. This wealth is mostly stored in what are technically called "unrealized capital gains." Eventually when those gains are converted into income, he will pay a capital gains tax. Even so, in 2008 Berkshire paid $3 billion in corporate taxes. And since Mr. Buffett is the principal owner, he shoulders a big share of that tax."
Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal story about Buffett's comment. Call it bullshit if you want.
Or at least the ones that have the PR for doing so.
Warren Buffet is very successful but that statement it stupid. If he feels so bad, then why does he have his income structured in such a way that his statement is mildly true? Truth is when you add all the taxes he really pays through corporate taxes on his investment firm that he is the majority holder in, he pays a massive amount more then his secretary could even think of paying, percentage wise and of course money wise. His statement is only true because he is paid a income on unrealized capital gains, which he ends up paying a capital gains tax on, which also is MUCH lower then if it were a straight up federal income tax.
So true. Here we have a school district that "updated" most all their classrooms in the district with HD projectors, interactive white boards, Blue Ray DVD and sound systems. This same district asked teachers for concessions last year. Meanwhile the police department there has a average salary of $114k a year and refuses to make concessions. Politicians don't want to spend anything on educating our children, but will spend all sorts of cash on arresting the uneducated that break the law. They can't make money off the schools anymore, so police and fire are now the focus of wasting tax payers dollars.
Dumbing down has been a political agenda for years. If you can see that, then you are a product of this system. You may not be dumb in a sense, but you are sure blind to the facts that our education systems turn out less and less competent people in to the world. A person less likely to seek the truth through education is less likely to question political corruption.
Proof is easy to find. Look at what public districts spend per child each year, then compare the cost to what a private school would cost. 9 times out of 10 the public school spends more, yet they turn out less educated children then their private counterparts.
I can see the point you are trying to make. There are flaws though. Your price to operate is a little off considering that fridges now a days have more issues and break down much more frequently then they ever used to. My mothers fridge had issues after 3 years and required a new control board at a cost of $300 to replace. That right there would wipe out any potential saving in the form of less energy used. The repair man even told her that most companies make them to fail so they can make money on parts replacement. Then you have a fridge that I have in my garage that is a 1972 model that is still kicking or a 1970 model freezer that I gave to a buddy that is still kicking strong. The fridge I just replaced was one from 1998 and the repair man said it was too expensive to fix compared to what I could get a new one for. That doesn't sound like the fridge companies are out to become green or use less energy, they are out to make money period.
Like I said the money that they will give you as a "trade in" for a running fridge is way less then what could be obtained from either reselling it or scraping it for metal and gas reclamation. They are doing this just to make money, otherwise they would be giving a reasonable amount since they require the fridge to be working. That is why the gas reclamation is the key. That must be where the real value is to them since I guarantee they reuse it.