I paid for part of my education by serving in the USMC.

I'm educated. Like many educated people, I'm pretty fucking liberal (by American political standards).

Tax the wealthy at a reasonable level, tax corporations at a reasonable level, pull out of foreign engagements, and actually pay for Americans to be healthy and educated. Increased safety and happiness will likely follow. I don't give a shit what you do in your bedroom, so long as it's consensual - keep your religion out of my politics. Close the loopholes and actually make them pay their share.

You know, that sorta shit...

By the American-right standards, that makes me a 'commie pinko fag'.

I actually don't mind paying taxes. My tax burden is pretty high, but I could easily stand higher rates. (I don't even write off most charitable donations, as my way of doing a bit more. Nor do I keep track and write off all sorts of things that I could easily, and legally, claim as expenses.) I do mind how my taxes are spent.

So, while the OP is a troll, I dare say not all Marines are going to want to harm liberals. If anything, many of us would defend them from the morons who'd inflict harm based on political ideology.

There too. They've also got an abundance of wild boars in the DMZ which are actually a bit of a problem.

There have been dozens of documentaries and shows about this very subject.

If the company didn't provide a work phone, in modernity, I'd buy my own cheap device and use it for work. I'd consider it a work-related expense, like appropriate clothing for work and my lunch expenses. I'd budget accordingly and probably try to write it off on my taxes.

I'd do that, rather than give my personal phone number to my employer or before installing employer-related applications on my phone.

I had a laptop that drank almost as much beer as I did. (That's a bit of an exaggeration.)

The thing was magical, however. Every time it drank a beer, it only killed the keyboard. I replaced the keyboard in it so many times (it went through four or five) that I had the process down to under 15 minutes to replace it - on a laptop that went together like a 3D puzzle. I have no idea why it only killed the keyboard and nothing else, as it sure consumed a lot of beer.

I use a few browsers - at the same time. I have different tasks that I do in different browsers.

It helps me keep things isolated and organized. I've been doing it this way for years.

That's fucking retarded.

Not yet. Just too old to have enough patience for the stupidity - which is odd, 'cause I've found even dumber people and have set about seeing if I can motivate them to at least learn something new every day.

It's pretty futile, but it amuses me.

"Anyone here" ... ?

Some of us still stop by and lurk.

You'd be more legible if you just wrote in your native language and let us use Google Translate.

Seriously, that gibberish does nobody any good. If your browser shows red squiggly lines, it's probably not lying to you.

On my list... Major issues... To deal with it... I'm considering...

Dude, you're a powerless peon posting on Slashdot. You have no power, you never will. Nobody is ever going to take you seriously, probably because you're insane.

No, I'm not better than you. I'm a powerless peon who will also never be taken seriously or in a position of power.

You are going through one of your cycles again. You're starting to present as though you're a serious economist that is respected and considered. Your posts are starting to border on, of not crossing, the point where you're delusional.

I don't know if you're off your meds or not. If you've been isolating, maybe you should try to get some time in with people, besides at work.

Seriously, you're starting to worry me. The problem with delusions is things come crashing down when you come to your senses and realize you're just a lonely working stiff who lives alone and you've been typing insanities as your magnum opus. You're one small breakdown from no longer writing it on your computer but, instead, write it in fecal matter and stray cat blood.

Seriously, I worry about you sometimes. I've read your posts for like a decade. You go through cycles and you're in the middle of one. If you can really read this, go find someone to be your friend - even if just for a few hours. Get out of your house and stop isolating. Do something besides work, stay in your house, and actively avoiding people when you walk to the grocery store.

Go to the bar. Go to the park. Go talk to people in the park - but not unattended children, not that I worry about you, I just worry about the perception. Seriously, you're isolating again, aren't you?

Fuck, email me if you need to. I'm seriously concerned.

I'd wager you're a poor developer. Why? You'd know nothing on your computer is random, other than by name, if you were a good developer. At best, you have pseudo random and unpredictability. Neither is really random, however. Very few things, if any - depending on your school of thought, are random. The breakage of systemd is, by no means, random.

A good developer would know this. Maybe you'll find Windows to be a bit easier? Then again, judging by your comment, I doubt that you're a developer or that you use Linux. If you are a developer, pleae keep your code proprietary and locked up for in-house use only. We have enough bad code already.

Cramming stuff in a man's ass will massage his prostate, which is pleasurable. Females don't actually have a prostate. So, men are more able to enjoy stuff rammed in their ass than females. It's just basic biology.

I know you're now going to be curious about this. I recommend you try first with a zucchini.

That's pretty horrible, right? I agree, we should do something about that.

Now, there's about 52,000,000 people on welfare. The cost to maintain them is 1,700,000,000,000.

52MM is about 17% of the population, or just about 1/6 people get means tested assistance.

Here's the thing, it would cost ~3,000,000,000,000 to give every man, woman, and child (regardless of their means) $1000 USD per month.

We're already spending 1.7 trillion which is 56% of what it would cost to give everyone a basic income that is greater than they already get with welfare benefits. On top of that, 48% of that 1.7 trillion is currently spent on overhead and administration, including pension payments for the government employees, building upkeep, enforcement, and more.

So, we can eliminate all those expenses and just cut a check for $1,000 and only need 1.3 trillion more dollars - which we can come up with by eliminating social security, removing benefits for non-citizens (you like that idea, don't you), and throwing the F-35 into the dustbin of history. Even better, if we scrap the who,e F-35 budget, we'd have money left over to pay down or debts.

Long term? Sure, raise the rates on long-term capital gains tax from 15 to 20% and remove government funded pensions. That shoud just about cover it, though we can do even better by removing our military from foreign soil, passing the torch on the wars we're involved in, and scaling our military back to the size needed for a defense force. If we do that, we can fund a full eight years of college, medical care, and increase the Section 8 budget more than twentyfold.

And, we can pay off our debts inside of 20 years. Slightly less, about 18.8 years - with interest included.

What do you think? It sure solves that welfare problem, now doesn't it?

You're an electro-chemical gelatinous blob, mostly water and air, configured as an egotistical ambulatory meat bag with delusions of grandeur and a propensity for violence.

I don't actually have a point, I just really wanted to write that sentence. Your post made my brain come up with that. Thanks?