- So tell me what's wrong with something being socialistic or liberalsocialistic? The socialist government gets a blank check to do whatever is Good of the society (pretty much by definition).
They usually give everybody "free" health insurance because it reduces costs to the society. They also usually round up, imprison, or even execute the disabled people, the Jews, the Blacks, the Whites, the Immigrants (since it can reduce the health expenditures (getting rid of the jews with their genetic diseases, blacks with their heart attacks and ischemias, whites with their allergies and skin cancers, immigrants with their thirst for welfare and handouts and the stolen jobs...)). It happens in some form to every socialist govt known to date, just try to name three that do/did none of the above at some level.
Socialist govts also do things that punish aptitude, achievement, hard work, and innovation (because those discriminate against the stupid, the lazy, and the otherwise incapable people which is "not good for the society."
Sounds fine until you look at how much voluntary money that would require. NIH alone spends about $30 billion a year, that's $100 taxed per each man, woman, or child in the US, each year...
Pentagon budget (NOT including the funds for Iraq/Afganistan): 800 billion per year, or $2700 per US person per year...
The point I am trying to make is that none of the people I know would chose to personally pay to the government and the companies the kind of money that is currently beaten out of them to keep our country great.
Why do you expect somebody to provide you with a house and a family. If you can afford the house, buy it, if you cannot, there is nothing wrong with renting. If you cannot afford to feed a family maybe you shouldn't have one. Nevertheless, if you already have a family that is starving, talk to your local church or charity, they will help you.
How much money do you think 'the people' would voluntarily pay to somebody studying COX-2 gene promoter haplotypes, or Helicobacter species, or giant magnetoresistance?
If you want to estimate the manufacturing/energy costs, multiply the wholesale price by x2 Then compare that to the estimated reduction of your energy bill over the lifetime of the item.
If that LCD costs $100 but saves you $90 a year, then you will break even after about 2 years and start saving energy (and the Planet).
Providing easy and universal access to education is not just a lofty socialist ideal. Society, as a whole benefits from such an approach. Society as a whole benefitting, Sir, is the very definition of a lofty socialist ideal.
As to the rest of your comment, nobody is forcing Americans to take out those loans. You do need a PhD if you want to become a brain researcher, but McDonnalds does not require college education for most positions there.
Really, most poor but smart kids have no trouble getting money to attend even the best colleges. Most of the top schools have need-blind admission policies (i.e. if you can get in, they give you whatever money is needed for you to attend).
Consider how much money some Chinese/Indian MIT students had, then ask yourself if you really are at disadvantage as an American.
Apparently the age thing is handled differently over there. Old people get lots of respect and admiration, so much so in fact, that many will exaggerate their age.
Also, telling a middle-aged person that they look young is like calling them a 'nO0b' -- not a good thing (or so I am told).
In light of this, these smokes machines might be little more than a clever marketing ploy to appeal to the younger smokers.
Good. I'd rather spend my money myself than be taxed to death to support your wargasms. And I'd rather see those smart navy boys go do something useful with their lives.
In this day and age, 70 subs is quite enough, thank you very much.
Well, most of that traffic is highly redundant: yeah, half a billion people visit www.drudgereport.com webpage per month, but it's basically the same few kilobytes being pushed out to everybody.
The same probably goes for all the pirated stuff out there: there is a finite number of pirated songs and movies that could very easily be managed. You store a single centrally managed copy, then replace each individual intercept with the reference number to the collection.
I mean, if the iTunes music store can "store" every single file a user downloaded off them (and that's billions of individual songs), then why couldn't the NSA?
I have heard somewhere that about 50% of the 12 million "illegal" aliens are visa overstays, which means that just searching for "expired visa" will return over 6 million records.
Going after all of those 6 million is hardly the most efficient way to find terrorists. I would rather the Govt go after the child molesters, drug dealers, rapists and other violent felons (but that's just me).
You don't understand how datamining works. Records of you shopping for Islamic food by and in itself is irrelevant. Nobody is going to throw you in jail because you love a falaffel now and then However, once FBI computers have access to hundreds of unrelated databases, they can do things like
RETURN PERSON ID where gender is a male AND between 17-35 AND shops at Islamic stores AND has expired visa AND received large cash transfers from an Islamic country AND bought a one-way ticket on an airplane AND is on the same flight as others of that class.
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They usually give everybody "free" health insurance because it reduces costs to the society.
They also usually round up, imprison, or even execute the disabled people, the Jews, the Blacks, the Whites, the Immigrants (since it can reduce the health expenditures (getting rid of the jews with their genetic diseases, blacks with their heart attacks and ischemias, whites with their allergies and skin cancers, immigrants with their thirst for welfare and handouts and the stolen jobs...)). It happens in some form to every socialist govt known to date, just try to name three that do/did none of the above at some level.
Socialist govts also do things that punish aptitude, achievement, hard work, and innovation (because those discriminate against the stupid, the lazy, and the otherwise incapable people which is "not good for the society."
Are you being sarcastic?
Sounds fine until you look at how much voluntary money that would require. NIH alone spends about $30 billion a year, that's $100 taxed per each man, woman, or child in the US, each year...
Pentagon budget (NOT including the funds for Iraq/Afganistan): 800 billion per year, or $2700 per US person per year...
The point I am trying to make is that none of the people I know would chose to personally pay to the government and the companies the kind of money that is currently beaten out of them to keep our country great.
And where does the grant money come from? If you think a lot of people would chose to pay high taxes and premiums if they had the choice...
Why do you expect somebody to provide you with a house and a family. If you can afford the house, buy it, if you cannot, there is nothing wrong with renting.
If you cannot afford to feed a family maybe you shouldn't have one. Nevertheless, if you already have a family that is starving, talk to your local church or charity, they will help you.
How much money do you think 'the people' would voluntarily pay to somebody studying COX-2 gene promoter haplotypes, or Helicobacter species, or giant magnetoresistance?
If you want to estimate the manufacturing/energy costs, multiply the wholesale price by x2
Then compare that to the estimated reduction of your energy bill over the lifetime of the item.
If that LCD costs $100 but saves you $90 a year, then you will break even after about 2 years and start saving energy (and the Planet).
As to the rest of your comment, nobody is forcing Americans to take out those loans. You do need a PhD if you want to become a brain researcher, but McDonnalds does not require college education for most positions there.
Really, most poor but smart kids have no trouble getting money to attend even the best colleges. Most of the top schools have need-blind admission policies (i.e. if you can get in, they give you whatever money is needed for you to attend).
Consider how much money some Chinese/Indian MIT students had, then ask yourself if you really are at disadvantage as an American.
Well hung.
Not yet. But your kids will be trying to sneak to Canada, I can guarantee you that.
Buy yours here: www.vishay.com/diodes/protection-tvs-esd/
Don't forget the metal-oxide varistors!
Apparently the age thing is handled differently over there. Old people get lots of respect and admiration, so much so in fact, that many will exaggerate their age.
Also, telling a middle-aged person that they look young is like calling them a 'nO0b' -- not a good thing (or so I am told).
In light of this, these smokes machines might be little more than a clever marketing ploy to appeal to the younger smokers.
Not just for hats anymore.
Maybe he didn't know the US ships were around? How good is the Chinese passive sonar tech, anyways?
Good. I'd rather spend my money myself than be taxed to death to support your wargasms.
And I'd rather see those smart navy boys go do something useful with their lives.
In this day and age, 70 subs is quite enough, thank you very much.
So, jump your frequency. They can't jam the entire spectrum at once, you know.
If you are dumb enough to pay $600/share, you should keep on expecting it.
Well, most of that traffic is highly redundant: yeah, half a billion people visit www.drudgereport.com webpage per month, but it's basically the same few kilobytes being pushed out to everybody.
The same probably goes for all the pirated stuff out there: there is a finite number of pirated songs and movies that could very easily be managed. You store a single centrally managed copy, then replace each individual intercept with the reference number to the collection.
I mean, if the iTunes music store can "store" every single file a user downloaded off them (and that's billions of individual songs), then why couldn't the NSA?
I have heard somewhere that about 50% of the 12 million "illegal" aliens are visa overstays, which means that just searching for "expired visa" will return over 6 million records.
Going after all of those 6 million is hardly the most efficient way to find terrorists. I would rather the Govt go after the child molesters, drug dealers, rapists and other violent felons (but that's just me).
Well, to be fair to the Senators, most digital copyright infringers do not make large campaign contributions.
Because the Big Bad Gubermint can't access slashdot traffic log files?
You don't understand how datamining works. Records of you shopping for Islamic food by and in itself is irrelevant. Nobody is going to throw you in jail because you love a falaffel now and then
However, once FBI computers have access to hundreds of unrelated databases, they can do things like
RETURN PERSON ID where gender is a male AND between 17-35 AND shops at Islamic stores AND has expired visa AND received large cash transfers from an Islamic country AND bought a one-way ticket on an airplane AND is on the same flight as others of that class.
Sure beats the hell out of working, spending those 4 hours every few months washing your keyboard.
And yet you can still plausibly tell your PHB that you do it to save your company money!
Should be easy to snag one with these shiny beads at your local playground.
(I am going to hell for that one, ain't I?)