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Comment Re:Free? (Score 1) 703

You don't need to worry. This proposal has ZERO chance of becoming law. There is no way that a Republican congress is going to run up the debt to fund Obama's pet project. The only reason that Obama is even proposing it is so the Republicans can reject it, and then the Dems can use it against them in 2016.

Trouble is...Obama doesn't seem to know or care about what the constitutional limitations on Presidential powers are supposed to be. I pretty much will count on him doing and Executive Action (Decree) for this and try to bypass congress.

Comment Re:Rake: a 4 percent tax on pot (Score 1) 340

Blackjack is the other casino game that can be "beaten". It's played against the house, but the house plays like a robot, and its only advantage is that it takes double busts (hands where both the the player's cards and the dealer's cards total more than 21). The player has plenty of advantages, including double payout for player A-10, the "insurance" side bet on dealer A-10, split A and 8, double down on 10 or 11, and standing on less than 17. There's a basic strategy that by itself makes the house advantage negligible, and if you can mentally estimate when A-10 is more likely, you can know when to bet higher and when to insure. This was enough for the MIT Blackjack Team to turn a modest profit.

I gotta go look that one up again. I could swear everything I've ever read on Blackjack, basic strategy, etc....says never take insurance, that is is a loser for the player.

Comment Re:Free? (Score 1) 703

I'd rather have an educated society than not. Wouldn't you?

That's what the public school system is supposed to be for, to give a basic education that can be used going forward in life. Let's get that better, eh?

But why should I have to pay even MORE in taxes to send someone to college. I may need that money to send my OWN kids to school. That money could have been used to save since my kids were born in order to have money put aside for their college when they got old enough. Why should I pay for others that didn't plan and save like I did?

I'm sorry, I am not my brothers keeper.

If people can afford college, there are trade schools that are MUCH more affordable and give students skills that frankly are more directly applicable to getting a good job than many college courses do to prepare them for a job.

Hell, most of the people I know, self included, have careers that have NOTHING to do with the degrees they achieved.

College isn't for everyone. It isn't a right.

Comment Re:Waste of money (Score 1) 341

I suspect they were put off by the constant one-upmanship and trying to make other people look stupid that goes on.

Err, I think that is called competition, it is what drives the workforce and helps drive people to exceed expectations, and innovate. This is the type of things that produces those folks that come out on top and drive invention and the economy.

If you can't hack it...try something else, you know?

No..everyone should NOT get a trophy just for trying.

Comment Re:Waste of money (Score 1) 341

Equality in education is needed before people can get those qualifications.

There IS equality in education...or, are you seriously saying that women are turned away from IT related classes because of their sex??

They don't register because for some reason, it just doesn't fucking interest them...could that possibly be the reason?

I think if this could have been shown to be true in only ONE case we'd have had a firestorm about this on the news, the college system there would have sunk and we'd have the idiots in congress holding hearings.

Sorry, I don't buy it. And you can't and should force people to study or work for things in life that just plain don't interest them.

Opportunity is there equal for all....but not everyone wants the same opportunities and results. Why can't people be different?

Comment Re:islam (Score 1) 1350

You know, if these asshole muslims quit cutting people fucking heads off and just yelled at them and video taped them letting their woman drive, or whatever bat shit crazy muslim law was being broken, I'd not be concerned about them.

Comparing people yelling outside a clinic to asshat zealots that strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up in a crowd of people in a hotel, or shooting up folks that draw harmless cartoons is just beyond stupid. There is NO comparison.

Seriously...lets tally up over the past say 2-5 years the number of atrocities that the peace loving muslims have enacted upon folks around the world vs the anti-abortionists and see how that scorecard looks at the end.

Comment Re:islam (Score 4, Insightful) 1350

you cannot kill as a Christian That certainly doesn't seem to stop them from doing it anyway [wikipedia.org]

Yeah...but right now in this day in age, I'm not terribly concerned about all the Baptists running around beheading people, running around as suicide bombers, and shooting up news offices and killing innocent people.

And PLEASEdon't give me shit about the anti-abortionists, they are fringe and rarely happen. Every group has a few fringe elements, but with the muslims, this is happening so often and so pervasive around the world, I don't think anyone can consider this type of action a fringe element.

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