At which point, rather than lying, he could have asked for a closed session (which has been done hundreds of times in the past) on the grounds that his answer was classified. Rather, Clapper chose to simply lie.
So running cash-flow negative, and cashing in IOUs that the Government wrote to itself by borrowing money to cover them, doesn't add to our deficit. Interesting. I wish to learn more of your theories, perhaps I may subscribe to your journal?
Perhaps they are different from the bus stops I've used in Seattle, Brussels, Shanghai, and now Ventura (the places I've lived). Perhaps they are different than a road, a curb, and a sign, and that somehow the presence of an extra bus or two a day - and the attendant 50-100 passengers - will dramatically decrease the life of the bus stop.
Or perhaps this is just some folks envying the perk of a private bus (no doubt equipped with WIFI so the riders can work during their commute) from their employer... And lashing out - as, for example, you just did at me.
So you'll believe Mann's site. How about famed pro-AGW NASA scientist James Hansen who is on record as confirming the stall in temperatures? When the data doesn't fit the models nor the claim - it's the models and claims that fail, not the data. Perhaps Mann and Hansen need to have a little "chat"...
Yet we are still in a global temperature stall - and not a single model comes close to predicting it. The best worldwide dataset we have (the satellite data that Dr. Spencer uses) doesn't show the heating (where modern climate theory says it should happen the strongest - mid-troposphere). No data confirms the models. So which do you believe? Data or models?
Your points don't really address the central point I was trying to make - there was a big jump in GINI in 1993 - at the start of the tech boom. It's a new era (the industrial age is ending, the information age is starting) and that is part of why the GINI index took a leap. Money is being moved around to new captains of industry (Gates, Jobs, Brin, etc). Since that time, it has been remarkably stable, with a tenth of a percent change, on average, over the ensuing 20 years. Well within the standard error of +/- 0.1 (0.2 total). Objectively, the GINI has been flat for the last 20 years - it is who composes the various income quintiles that has moved around, and predictably many are not happy about that.
The "hockey stick" agrees closely with the average of IPCC models. Yet none of the models comes close to matching real measurements. Perhapsthe hockey stick only stands the test of time when compared against other models, not real data...
Actually, by opposing tenure I am expressly FOR the right to bargain, contracts, due process and property rights. Tenure essentially prohibits one side from even negotiating those things. It prohibits bargaining wholesale, it violates the concept of a contract and due process (immunity via tenure) and guarantees a transfer of property independent of one side continuing to provide that which they agreed to.
Tenure is exactly the opposite of what you claim...
I'm curious - what is a public bus stop? Everywhere I've seen them, it's a sidewalk and curb. Oh, and a solitary post with a sign. Is somehow having a private vehicle stop at that sign causing damage or economic mischief? Is it possible the concern is that the curb will be worn down in 200 years rather than the expected 210? Or is it simply envy and greed from the non-Google employees who see some people get on a private vehicle that is a lot nicer than the public one?
Breaking my usual anti-AC rule since you're pretty insistent on your stance and your post is pretty much a hate-based post probably because you just lost your job...
Your data from MotherJones is rather misleading; take a look at the actual data from the Census, the GINI coefficient (you can learn about the GINI ratio here). You'll see that the slope of the GINI ratio is very shallow, around 0.0022 from 1967 to present. Meaning about a 0.2% change annually. And more importantly, if you look at the data, you'll see a big bump in 1993 - right around the start of the tech boom. Since that time the slope is around 0.0011 - around a tenth of a percent.
Understanding that, the whole reason you probably had decent income to start with is because of the tech boom in the 90s creating a new upper-middle class based on technology, not manufacturing. There has been precious little change in the actual distribution of income over the last 20 years - it's been WHO has that income. It's no longer tradesmen or manufacturing/heavy industries, but technology.
More importantly, they assumed they were NOT in the 1% whilst talking about global poverty, when the chances are they are firmly ensconced in the 1% on a global level (about $34,000 per year puts you in the top 1% worldwide). Some people don't realize their own station and gains in life...
There is a process for bills. The House creates a spending bill. The Senate amends and revises and sends back to the House. Then there is a conference where representatives of both chambers hammer out an agreement that both Chambers should agree with - and pass that. It's been done for centuries, but apparently now the bar is set at "100% of everything we want, 0% of what we don't or we don't vote on it".
The sequester lowers spending by a total of approximately $1.1 trillion versus pre-sequester levels over the approximately 8 year period from 2013 to 2021. It lowers non-defense discretionary spending (i.e., certain domestic programs) by a range of 7.8% (in 2013) to 5.5% (in 2021) versus pre-sequester amounts, a total of $294 billion. Defense spending would likewise be lowered by 10% (in 2013) to 8.5% (in 2021), a total of $454 billion.
Non-discretionary dropped by $294 billion, ranging from 7.8% to 5.5% in cuts. Defense dropped by $454 billion, ranging from 10% to 8.5% in cuts. So about $160 billion more in absolute dollars, and 2.2% to 3% more in relative terms, for cuts to defense spending.
The House made a real budget, and passed it several times. The Senate refused to even take one of them up, debate, amend, and refine the bill and send back to the House. There was a real budget - but one Chamber was politically motivated to see sequestration implemented.
So your position is that Apple never broke a tethered jailbreak? Really? It's all about "fixing exploits", rather than repairing holes in the fence to keep you on the reservation?
The religious right's only real interest seems to be using force and threat of force (police power of gov't) to demand that others live only in ways they approve of.
The progressive left's only real interest seems to be using force and the threat of force (police power of gov't) to demand that others live only in ways they approve of. Oh, and they also demand that you pay for others to live that way, too
Social Security is running cash-flow negative, meaning it is spending reserves rather than living on current cash flow. And whilst, on paper, that looks like it doesn't add to the overall Federal deficit, those reserves are simply bonds from the Federal Government which must be redeemed out of current Federal revenues. And those Federal revenues are from a deficit plan.
Saying SS isn't adding to the deficit is like saying your department in a company that is losing money isn't adding to the loss because you're still under budget - even if the products your department builds don't cover your budgeted costs.
Over 75% of the people I spoke with out of over 3000 said the number one thing they want is to cut spending, cut taxes, and reduce the reach of the federal government.
Unless it involves cutting our absurdly bloated defense department and DHS. Anything to keep us safe.
The GOP went along with the sequester and new budget, both of which cut the DOD and DHS more than any other cabinet-level department.
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Cool, so Apple won't actively seek to stop jailbreaking phones, reaching root? It won't actively rework the locks you so diligently picked?
I use the stylus on my Galaxy Note 2 all the time - quick sketches, hand-written notes, equations, etc. Fast and simple, like a notepad. A digitizer pen and touch screen would be very handy for such, rather than firing up my 3D CAD package, start defining parts, etc.
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At which point, rather than lying, he could have asked for a closed session (which has been done hundreds of times in the past) on the grounds that his answer was classified. Rather, Clapper chose to simply lie.
It is. It's what sent Scooter Libby to prison. Interesting that Clapper will get to walk for doing the exact same thing...
Actually, I prefer my Heckler & Koch Brothers MP7, which can penetrate the body armor of Big Oil enemies and also be used for fracking.
It was used by James Earl Ray Jones, who shot MLK and starred in "Conan, the Barbarian" with Lou Ferrigno.
Good lord, are you serious? You got it all wrong - I cannot believe what some people post here on Slashdot...
It was Lou FERRAGAMO, the guy who designs leather shoes. Sheesh, n00bs...
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Then it's been adding to our deficit since 1940, when the investment portion of the trust fund was set up. A lot longer than the last 20 years.
What data series do you use to make such claims? Because HadCRUT, GIS, WTI, UAH, and RSS all show completely flat (or negative) trends over the last 14+ years.
So running cash-flow negative, and cashing in IOUs that the Government wrote to itself by borrowing money to cover them, doesn't add to our deficit. Interesting. I wish to learn more of your theories, perhaps I may subscribe to your journal?
Perhaps they are different from the bus stops I've used in Seattle, Brussels, Shanghai, and now Ventura (the places I've lived). Perhaps they are different than a road, a curb, and a sign, and that somehow the presence of an extra bus or two a day - and the attendant 50-100 passengers - will dramatically decrease the life of the bus stop.
Or perhaps this is just some folks envying the perk of a private bus (no doubt equipped with WIFI so the riders can work during their commute) from their employer... And lashing out - as, for example, you just did at me.
So you'll believe Mann's site. How about famed pro-AGW NASA scientist James Hansen who is on record as confirming the stall in temperatures? When the data doesn't fit the models nor the claim - it's the models and claims that fail, not the data. Perhaps Mann and Hansen need to have a little "chat"...
Yet we are still in a global temperature stall - and not a single model comes close to predicting it. The best worldwide dataset we have (the satellite data that Dr. Spencer uses) doesn't show the heating (where modern climate theory says it should happen the strongest - mid-troposphere). No data confirms the models. So which do you believe? Data or models?
Your points don't really address the central point I was trying to make - there was a big jump in GINI in 1993 - at the start of the tech boom. It's a new era (the industrial age is ending, the information age is starting) and that is part of why the GINI index took a leap. Money is being moved around to new captains of industry (Gates, Jobs, Brin, etc). Since that time, it has been remarkably stable, with a tenth of a percent change, on average, over the ensuing 20 years. Well within the standard error of +/- 0.1 (0.2 total). Objectively, the GINI has been flat for the last 20 years - it is who composes the various income quintiles that has moved around, and predictably many are not happy about that.
The "hockey stick" agrees closely with the average of IPCC models. Yet none of the models comes close to matching real measurements. Perhapsthe hockey stick only stands the test of time when compared against other models, not real data...
Actually, by opposing tenure I am expressly FOR the right to bargain, contracts, due process and property rights. Tenure essentially prohibits one side from even negotiating those things. It prohibits bargaining wholesale, it violates the concept of a contract and due process (immunity via tenure) and guarantees a transfer of property independent of one side continuing to provide that which they agreed to.
Tenure is exactly the opposite of what you claim...
I'm curious - what is a public bus stop? Everywhere I've seen them, it's a sidewalk and curb. Oh, and a solitary post with a sign. Is somehow having a private vehicle stop at that sign causing damage or economic mischief? Is it possible the concern is that the curb will be worn down in 200 years rather than the expected 210? Or is it simply envy and greed from the non-Google employees who see some people get on a private vehicle that is a lot nicer than the public one?
Breaking my usual anti-AC rule since you're pretty insistent on your stance and your post is pretty much a hate-based post probably because you just lost your job...
Your data from MotherJones is rather misleading; take a look at the actual data from the Census, the GINI coefficient (you can learn about the GINI ratio here). You'll see that the slope of the GINI ratio is very shallow, around 0.0022 from 1967 to present. Meaning about a 0.2% change annually. And more importantly, if you look at the data, you'll see a big bump in 1993 - right around the start of the tech boom. Since that time the slope is around 0.0011 - around a tenth of a percent.
Understanding that, the whole reason you probably had decent income to start with is because of the tech boom in the 90s creating a new upper-middle class based on technology, not manufacturing. There has been precious little change in the actual distribution of income over the last 20 years - it's been WHO has that income. It's no longer tradesmen or manufacturing/heavy industries, but technology.
More importantly, they assumed they were NOT in the 1% whilst talking about global poverty, when the chances are they are firmly ensconced in the 1% on a global level (about $34,000 per year puts you in the top 1% worldwide). Some people don't realize their own station and gains in life...
There is a process for bills. The House creates a spending bill. The Senate amends and revises and sends back to the House. Then there is a conference where representatives of both chambers hammer out an agreement that both Chambers should agree with - and pass that. It's been done for centuries, but apparently now the bar is set at "100% of everything we want, 0% of what we don't or we don't vote on it".
From the Wiki link:
The sequester lowers spending by a total of approximately $1.1 trillion versus pre-sequester levels over the approximately 8 year period from 2013 to 2021. It lowers non-defense discretionary spending (i.e., certain domestic programs) by a range of 7.8% (in 2013) to 5.5% (in 2021) versus pre-sequester amounts, a total of $294 billion. Defense spending would likewise be lowered by 10% (in 2013) to 8.5% (in 2021), a total of $454 billion.
Non-discretionary dropped by $294 billion, ranging from 7.8% to 5.5% in cuts. Defense dropped by $454 billion, ranging from 10% to 8.5% in cuts. So about $160 billion more in absolute dollars, and 2.2% to 3% more in relative terms, for cuts to defense spending.
The sequester cut the DOD considerably more than non-defense spending. Adding back equally to both results in a larger net gain for non-defense spending.
The House made a real budget, and passed it several times. The Senate refused to even take one of them up, debate, amend, and refine the bill and send back to the House. There was a real budget - but one Chamber was politically motivated to see sequestration implemented.
As far as the size of the cut to the DOD, defense was cut larger by percentage and in absolute terms.
So your position is that Apple never broke a tethered jailbreak? Really? It's all about "fixing exploits", rather than repairing holes in the fence to keep you on the reservation?
The religious right's only real interest seems to be using force and threat of force (police power of gov't) to demand that others live only in ways they approve of.
The progressive left's only real interest seems to be using force and the threat of force (police power of gov't) to demand that others live only in ways they approve of. Oh, and they also demand that you pay for others to live that way, too
Social Security is running cash-flow negative, meaning it is spending reserves rather than living on current cash flow. And whilst, on paper, that looks like it doesn't add to the overall Federal deficit, those reserves are simply bonds from the Federal Government which must be redeemed out of current Federal revenues. And those Federal revenues are from a deficit plan.
Saying SS isn't adding to the deficit is like saying your department in a company that is losing money isn't adding to the loss because you're still under budget - even if the products your department builds don't cover your budgeted costs.
Over 75% of the people I spoke with out of over 3000 said the number one thing they want is to cut spending, cut taxes, and reduce the reach of the federal government.
Unless it involves cutting our absurdly bloated defense department and DHS. Anything to keep us safe.
The GOP went along with the sequester and new budget, both of which cut the DOD and DHS more than any other cabinet-level department.
Cool, so Apple won't actively seek to stop jailbreaking phones, reaching root? It won't actively rework the locks you so diligently picked?
I use the stylus on my Galaxy Note 2 all the time - quick sketches, hand-written notes, equations, etc. Fast and simple, like a notepad. A digitizer pen and touch screen would be very handy for such, rather than firing up my 3D CAD package, start defining parts, etc.