That article is kind of a bad link, since it doesn't actually talk about the content at all, and assumes a background knowledge. You've got to click a few links deep into its references or do a google to find the bits that are causing trouble. Like the part where his newsletters claimed that 95% of black men in DC are criminals, or that statistics has proven that only 5% of black people have "sensible" political views. Or other longer more complicated bits, like the part where they talk about black youth carjacking as a trend and reprints advice about how to shoot them and get away with it, or laments the victimisation of whites time and time again, or brings up random bizarre individual crime stories in a way that suggests that, say, black girls running around randomly sticking whites with used hypodermic needles, is a thing that is happening all the time and the fact that we don't hear about it more is because they don't want us to know cue spooky music.

And yeah, meanwhile Paul was using these newsletters to build his support base and also make a whole ton of money at the same time because they cost. Either he's a racist or the most slippery manipulative politician you've ever seen who's happy to use this material for his own purposes.

Oh yeah: and when he's challenged about it, he doesn't always bring up the "I didn't write it" angle, sometimes he says something along the lines of: "but no actually probably 95% of them are criminals with no sensible beliefs, that's not an unreasonable thing to say at all, because I'm an old privileged white man and I think 95% of everyone is criminal (but especially black people)".

Whereas, if you are using debit for all your purchases, the moment you make a similar mistake you have actually no money and are getting hit by overdraft fees and the like anyway. Where's the upside?

That's just the issue: the reason that he took the test in the first place was because he was seeing many students who did well in their earlier grades fail the 10th-grade test.

Well, they're not. Not only is the test he took set by a different organisation with a tougher reputation, but it's a 10th-grade test, where as the questions on the site are grade 4 and 8.

So don't panic, you just need to do some prep for the reading comprehension portion.

Well, exactly: the tax rates and ratios to income are comparable, but they are paying more money, which means that they are making more money. What a great time to be rich!

If this was actually an argument—if what you were saying wasn't exactly the basis of my statement—I would point out the silliness of comparing to 1980 which means comparing to right after a decade marked by economic difficulties and reactionary neoconservative policies that drastically cut the rates enjoyed by these folks from their much higher rates during the sustained growth of the 50s and 60s. But I mean, it's not really worth getting into since it seems like you're mostly interested in misreading my posts to get angry.

Perhaps they pay a near-record share of income taxes because they enjoy a near-record share of income?

You know, math?

This sounds familiar. My home city already diverts 60% of its waste in between the bin and the landfill and is aiming, through biofuels and power generation from methane, to get that to 90% by 2013—and maybe past that soon after. Once you've built the infrastructure (which, to be fair, is huge, including the largest composting facility in North America) the costs aren't unreasonable, since the byproducts—compost, biofuels, electricity—are all worth good money to industry afterwards. Plus it gets value added through research in collaboration with the local uni.

But man, socialism sucks hey?

It's worth noting that Flash's predecessor, Shockwave (well, it still exists, but...), owed a lot to hypercard in a really direct way—its scripting language basically started as a hypertalk clone.

Your dream is reality: html5 web storage already works in up-to-date browsers, and can be used with SQL. Not quite as effortless as hypercard, but it's there and it's beginning to see use.

Or perhaps the state of North Dakota could voluntarily enter into a kind of contract that spells out some ways in which the two states will aid one another as well as mechanisms to appoint representatives to modify the contract over time to account for changes of circumstances.

Oh wait, that's the Federal Government.

Well, except that they didn't. Not only did these two inciters not show up, but nobody else did either except for the police. Because it was meant as a joke, arguably in poor taste.

Well, about 30% of commuters in the Netherlands primarily travel by bicycle. So they've got a ways to go yet if tracking is the real goal.

Then the wear on the roads and the environmental damage will be considerably less and so maintenance costs will be lower, as will revenues. As a bonus, congestion will be lower and so workers will benefit from either increased productivity or increased leisure time. Where's the problem?

Because of the recession, the numbers would still look somewhat big compared to a GDP that hasn't been growing significantly for a couple of years and spending has had to increase to pick up the slack in the job market. That doesn't mean that raising the limit is a bad idea though, on the contrary.

The great deflation was caused by increased productivity as the US industrialised. It was harmful to already established industrial economies like Great Britain.

Right now, the US and other western countries are suffering from high unemployment which suggests that their productivity is very low, and low incomes, lack of credit, and uncertainty are keeping demand down. At the same time, some commodity prices are rising (which is why people are so scared of inflation, because it's easy to assume that when food prices respond to rising oil that that's what we're seeing). This is basically the opposite of the great deflation, where demand and productivity skyrocketed and prices fell as commodities like steel dropped in price and transportation became cheaper.

Furthermore, deflation would make these issues worse as lenders would have less incentive to invest, making credit harder to get and further reducing demand. Even if deflation was beneficial to developing economies (as it was during the Great Deflation), the US would be in Great Britain's position this time around, along with Europe.

So yeah, deflation wouldn't be too great right now.