The median salary in the US for a family practice doctor is $200K, and it only goes up from there. Not sure I would call a profession where the mean salary is between a quarter and a third of a million dollars "middle class".
Better to say that once in office, you are no longer allowed to earn money, nor are you allowed to earn money after office. Give them a pension, let them put their affairs in order before they become the people's slave.
You use the word "Republican" as if it were an ideology rather than a club.
More accurate would be "You assume that Tea Partiers are something other than moderately extreme conservatives, a wide range of libertarian leaning individuals, and neo-conservatives pretending to be something, anything else."
It doesn't work like that. Your money buys you face time. Face time allows you to convince poorly educated idiots with poly sci or law degrees of practically anything. Just "getting money from everyone" isn't enough. They have to MEET with everyone, and everyone has to know what is in their rational self interest, and be able to articulate it as such. It is easy to use face time to argue for a certain regulation to be passed, or a certain exception to be made, but rare indeed is the lobbyist able to get the politician to completely change their fundamental view on the role of government. You can't get them to "not govern". Despite the rhetoric, both parties are like this (though neither is like that when they are in the minority--they always talk up the libertarian side of their philosophy then, with Dems, its civil rights, no to war, no to torture, etc, while with Reps, its taxes, states rights, fundamental freedoms, etc).
No, unfortunately we have reached that sad point in Democracy where the electorate has realized that it can simply vote to apportion the property of 49% (or even 99%, in the case of the banker bailouts) of the population to itself. Either we purge these politicians AND the bureaucrats they have built up, or the whole system will come crashing down one day. "No one could have predicted it would happen." Yeah right.
You get hiccups? I tried something just like that, and now, even though I have no trouble with my mouth, I get terrible hiccups if I eat something that is too hot, or if I eat a hot pepper on an empty stomach. Sucks. I used to like to eat habaneros for fun and profit (dares and such). No more, alas.
You think we have something resembling "capitalism" in the United States?
Why can no-one see that the US has a fascist economic system? Government and corporate power are 100% merged to create a set of conditions that makes it difficult or impossible for new companies to compete with established ones. Want to start a new bank? Sorry, you pay the same FDIC rate as the risk junkies and multiple bankrupt TBTFs. Want to open a consumer goods store? Hope you can afford health insurance, as well as compliance and liability departments, etc. Want to open a new company that makes things? Hope you've got enough cash to pay off the unions. Want to build a flying car? The FAA says no, sorry, you are out of business.
Hell, even our money is fascist, as the Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank that carries more weight than the government itself in the economy, and worse, has the power to unilaterally control the entire economy through the arbitrary issuance of debt to the point that they could print a quadrillion dollars tomorrow and buy up the entire country, and there would be nothing anyone could/would do to stop it.
So don't pretend like these problems were caused by "out of control capitalism". This is out of control fascism. Failure to recognize and understand the difference only allows the fascists to increase their own wealth and power through confiscation of purchasing power, both by suppression of competition, and by simply printing money and spending it as if they had contributed something to the economy.
Prove it. I have never heard anyone say that. The point is that Macs are immune to code that comes from the internet that executes on its own, something that has plagued PCs forever. "Viruses" infect a computer ON THEIR OWN, without users doing things like typing in their passwords to give the code permission to execute.
You can browse all the shady websites you want for as long as you want on a Mac. Do so on a PC, and you are likely to be part of a botnet before the end of the day. Sorry, end of story. It's not about Macs being so good, it's about PCs being utter shit when it comes to security. In OSX, everything is sandboxed. On PCs, everything interacts with everything else, meaning that malicious code can get on to the machine in weird ways, and execute itself. This is due to piss poor programing, and PC users are going to have to get over it, and stop projecting onto superior platforms.
You should learn about things before you naysay them. At least read the wiki article. Even a monolayer of graphene is not easy to tear, and the process we are talking about produce much thicker films (stacks of them). I mean, the stuff is made out of aromaticity, for Christ's sake. I don't think you can even theorize a stronger material than that. It is extremely difficult to break even a small aromatic system (ie extremely high energy), imagine how hard it is to break a line of 10^12 atoms of it in a line such that the bulk material tears apart.
Yeah, it has, and it is incredibly cheap and easy. Graphene can be formed in a controllable manner on a metal foil by sprinkling carbonaceous material on said foil, then heating the foil and flowing gas across it. Forms very nicely, and can be done in multiple layers. That is likely the manner that is being employed in this manufacturing process.
lolwat? Graphene has the highest tensile strength of any bulk material known to man. It basically can't be torn except by truly unheard of stresses, or by catalysts plus a lot of heat. Kevlar is wet toilet paper compared to graphene.
It sure would be nice if they would allow some more competition. Too bad the little guys can't afford e911, cost of compliance with FCC regulations, etc. If they didn't have to pay that, we might have a situation more like the rest of the developed world.
Uhhh, I would hardly call posting a story about something totally unrelated (the only relation is the fact that the factory in question is in the nation of China) a "smack down". I would also call you immature for personalizing intellectual arguments.
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salary.com does force a bell curve.
The median salary in the US for a family practice doctor is $200K, and it only goes up from there. Not sure I would call a profession where the mean salary is between a quarter and a third of a million dollars "middle class".
Telecomm companies stand to gain from the wasted minutes, and are the number one and number two contributors to their campaign/PACs.
Better to say that once in office, you are no longer allowed to earn money, nor are you allowed to earn money after office. Give them a pension, let them put their affairs in order before they become the people's slave.
*implying that the current system is not corrupt and is kept accountable.
You use the word "Republican" as if it were an ideology rather than a club.
More accurate would be "You assume that Tea Partiers are something other than moderately extreme conservatives, a wide range of libertarian leaning individuals, and neo-conservatives pretending to be something, anything else."
It doesn't work like that. Your money buys you face time. Face time allows you to convince poorly educated idiots with poly sci or law degrees of practically anything. Just "getting money from everyone" isn't enough. They have to MEET with everyone, and everyone has to know what is in their rational self interest, and be able to articulate it as such. It is easy to use face time to argue for a certain regulation to be passed, or a certain exception to be made, but rare indeed is the lobbyist able to get the politician to completely change their fundamental view on the role of government. You can't get them to "not govern". Despite the rhetoric, both parties are like this (though neither is like that when they are in the minority--they always talk up the libertarian side of their philosophy then, with Dems, its civil rights, no to war, no to torture, etc, while with Reps, its taxes, states rights, fundamental freedoms, etc).
No, unfortunately we have reached that sad point in Democracy where the electorate has realized that it can simply vote to apportion the property of 49% (or even 99%, in the case of the banker bailouts) of the population to itself. Either we purge these politicians AND the bureaucrats they have built up, or the whole system will come crashing down one day. "No one could have predicted it would happen." Yeah right.
If he didn't stop it, then he implicitly accepted it, being an all powerful God with total control over the afterlife.
You get hiccups? I tried something just like that, and now, even though I have no trouble with my mouth, I get terrible hiccups if I eat something that is too hot, or if I eat a hot pepper on an empty stomach. Sucks. I used to like to eat habaneros for fun and profit (dares and such). No more, alas.
80 years ago doctors were members of the middle class. Doesn't that strike you as odd?
Isn't it amazing what a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions will do?
So killing a child is ok, so long as it was a rash decision? God accepts such sacrifices?
Kind of a weak, immoral douchebag, if you ask me.
Let's stop calling this guy "God", and refer to him as Mr. Deity.
What if your child was Gandhi (_2)?
You think we have something resembling "capitalism" in the United States?
Why can no-one see that the US has a fascist economic system? Government and corporate power are 100% merged to create a set of conditions that makes it difficult or impossible for new companies to compete with established ones. Want to start a new bank? Sorry, you pay the same FDIC rate as the risk junkies and multiple bankrupt TBTFs. Want to open a consumer goods store? Hope you can afford health insurance, as well as compliance and liability departments, etc. Want to open a new company that makes things? Hope you've got enough cash to pay off the unions. Want to build a flying car? The FAA says no, sorry, you are out of business.
Hell, even our money is fascist, as the Federal Reserve is a PRIVATE bank that carries more weight than the government itself in the economy, and worse, has the power to unilaterally control the entire economy through the arbitrary issuance of debt to the point that they could print a quadrillion dollars tomorrow and buy up the entire country, and there would be nothing anyone could/would do to stop it.
So don't pretend like these problems were caused by "out of control capitalism". This is out of control fascism. Failure to recognize and understand the difference only allows the fascists to increase their own wealth and power through confiscation of purchasing power, both by suppression of competition, and by simply printing money and spending it as if they had contributed something to the economy.
Prove it. I have never heard anyone say that. The point is that Macs are immune to code that comes from the internet that executes on its own, something that has plagued PCs forever. "Viruses" infect a computer ON THEIR OWN, without users doing things like typing in their passwords to give the code permission to execute.
You can browse all the shady websites you want for as long as you want on a Mac. Do so on a PC, and you are likely to be part of a botnet before the end of the day. Sorry, end of story. It's not about Macs being so good, it's about PCs being utter shit when it comes to security. In OSX, everything is sandboxed. On PCs, everything interacts with everything else, meaning that malicious code can get on to the machine in weird ways, and execute itself. This is due to piss poor programing, and PC users are going to have to get over it, and stop projecting onto superior platforms.
You should learn about things before you naysay them. At least read the wiki article. Even a monolayer of graphene is not easy to tear, and the process we are talking about produce much thicker films (stacks of them). I mean, the stuff is made out of aromaticity, for Christ's sake. I don't think you can even theorize a stronger material than that. It is extremely difficult to break even a small aromatic system (ie extremely high energy), imagine how hard it is to break a line of 10^12 atoms of it in a line such that the bulk material tears apart.
I am a chemist, BTW.
Yeah, it has, and it is incredibly cheap and easy. Graphene can be formed in a controllable manner on a metal foil by sprinkling carbonaceous material on said foil, then heating the foil and flowing gas across it. Forms very nicely, and can be done in multiple layers. That is likely the manner that is being employed in this manufacturing process.
Never said they didn't have trojans.
Might want to learn the difference.
lolwat? Graphene has the highest tensile strength of any bulk material known to man. It basically can't be torn except by truly unheard of stresses, or by catalysts plus a lot of heat. Kevlar is wet toilet paper compared to graphene.
Why is everyone fixated on using nanotubes for space elevators? You do know that bulk graphene is stronger, right?
I try to hammer this into everyone's head every time there is a space elevator thread, but they all keep yapping about nanotubes. It's a conundrum.
Probably the French.
Damn Frenchies. I need some Freedom Fries!
Not worldwide. This is only in America, baby!
It sure would be nice if they would allow some more competition. Too bad the little guys can't afford e911, cost of compliance with FCC regulations, etc. If they didn't have to pay that, we might have a situation more like the rest of the developed world.
Uhhh, I would hardly call posting a story about something totally unrelated (the only relation is the fact that the factory in question is in the nation of China) a "smack down". I would also call you immature for personalizing intellectual arguments.
Sorry, what does a factory shutdown by Chinese officials have to do with the above wild assertion of solar panel dumping by the Chinese?
Anti-Chinese sentiment is hitting disturbing levels. War is coming, and the comments I see around here are contributing. Thanks, guys.