They are not actually cuts. It is a decrease in the rate of increase of the budget. The net budget is still increasing by a considerable amount.

Maybe we should listen to this Congresswoman who says we are going to lose 170 Million jobs, which is about 100% of the total workforce. Notice how she refers to Pelosi as leader. What is the word for 'leader' in German?

They base their finding on a climate model which like most climate models, are always inaccurate.

They also assume that at these temperatures people would be working the same hours. They could easily work at night and since there is a push with the smart grid to pay for the time of use, working at non-peak hours would save costs on energy.

This is nothing but pure speculation based on an unproven hypothetical situation to drive a political agenda. Welcome to modern science.

It was also a general consensus among economists that there was no housing bubble in 2006. A consensus means nothing when everyone drinks the same kool-aid and nobody thinks for themselves.

While a higher minimum wage may not always decrease employment it will force any company who relies on unskilled labor to either close or raise prices. The real effect will be to lower the standard of living for those on minimum wage and the middle class due to the increased prices.

You will always be paid depending on how in demand you are. That's why my hometown McDonald's paid minimum wage meanwhile the fast food restaurants in Minot, ND are paying ~$18/hour.

Believe me, I do not. With electricity costs taken into account I make around $4 per day (from 4 video cards) from Bitcoin or Litecoin on 2 gaming systems I rarely use. When I use my main gaming system it is slightly less.

Living in a colder climate these costs offset, however I have no hard numbers. The slightly higher electricity cost in the summer months are offset from a savings in natural gas cost in the winter months.

The goal is to maximize profits and not necessarily maximize the amount of bitcoins/litecoins I mine, so thanks to the power curve of most cards, it is more profitable to slightly underclock the core and/or memory clock which helps minimize wear and tear on the cards. The cards I've had since 2009 are still running and producing the same MH/s as they always have.

Many people who still mine bitcoins with GPU's are people who don't pay for electricity costs thanks to the difficulty rise from FPGA's and ASIC's. This pushed out any profitability for me, but I still have profitability from Litecoin, which is a similar cryptocurrency.

Even if there were no profits and I was just breaking even I would still do it because I would like a use for my gaming machines since I rarely game anymore but still want to sit down and play every couple of weeks.

Or simply ask everyone who types in a flu related search to cough into the microphone and show their tongue to the webcam.

You mean, he is transparently giving back his constituent their own money for something useful to them? Isn't that what a Congressman is supposed to do?

Otherwise, that money gets allocated by an unelected person from the executive branch. That's just what we need. More consolidation of power into the executive.

I would recommend Udacity's CS 101 course along with LPTHW .

The thing I liked about that Udacity course is it is study at your own pace. You can do as little or as much as you want. On top of that you are building a web crawler throughout all of the Units.

I'd also recommend code academy since they added a lot more python modules. It would be a good way to reinforce ideas he is learning whatever course he is going through.

The good thing about LPTHW over the others is you are also setting up a programming environment on your own computer rather than using someone elses interpreter.

And as it turns out, nobody paid it. The effective tax rate, i.e. the tax rate people actually paid was around 30-35% at that time.

You seem to think that just because a company fails that means every single person from that company would now be out of work. Most of these large companies would have profitable divisions that would be worthwhile for shareholders to sell to other companies or spin off into a separate entity and people working for those divisions perhaps may not be out of work. Those services, if profitable would still be in service and there'd be plenty of businesses trying to fill in the void as quickly as possible.

During the financial crisis, had these banks not been bailed out it would have been worse, but it wouldn't have lasted more than 1 or 2 years, instead of the half a decade of stagnation we have now which is destined to become a full decade since we aren't going to change course any time soon.

There is a reason why no one remembers the depression of 1920. They were recovering mid-1921 before the government could even come up with a plan to do anything.

Instead we'll have people on unemployment around 10% and people chronically underemployed around 25% for a decade.

It'll be more like, if you don't give the government insane controls over the internet there will be 100 Chernobyl's in the United States. The legislation is already written. They just need the right opportunity (real of manufactured) to invoke fear and pass it without any congressman being able to read said legislation.

Bush and Obama are actually far to the left, if you consider the far left to be total government and far right being no government.

They both believe that the government has a right to regulate in everything that you do. Obama has done nothing but expand everything that Bush started.

He was only recently for gay marriage but both believe that the state can decide who can or can't marry.
Both agree the government should be involved in healthcare
Both twiddled with the income tax but both believe that the government in principle owns everything you make and only allows you to keep a portion of it.
Both increased military spending and both believe in preventative war, policing the world and expanding the empire.
both have left the border wide open. Bush only paid lip service to any immigration issues.
Both believe in giving bailouts to corporations. Obama's so called regulation just gave the Federal Reserve more power, which is nothing but a cartel of private banks who have a monopoly on printing fiat currency.
Both spy on you.
Both have eroded habeus corpus.
Both have said that they can assassinate any American citizen without trial.

The only difference is in their rhetoric, but when it comes to basic, fundamental freedom, they are complete statists.

You mean the propaganda campaigns that always turn out to be untrue, such as the bogus claim that organic sprouts were killing people in Europe? When they tested all of the sprouts every test came back negative. That didn't deter the fear mongering propaganda. Why let evidence get in the way of a good conclusion?

I am not defending what the National Post did in any way but their libel nor does the findings by the House of Commons completely exonerate the scientists of the UAE.

While the House of Commons showed there was no proof of "tampering" of the data in the climategate sample it was because the UAE deleted all of the raw data in question.

There was no way to prove if the data had been tampered with because the data was deleted. The only thing that was left was their "value added" data.

I don't know if what the UAE did could be considered science because science is supposed to be an open and completely transparent process. When you throw out your raw data instead of releasing it when legally and morally obliged to you shouldn't be able to be called a scientist any more.

That's why the head of the CRU at UAE resigned his post.

They also engaged in trying to get skeptics from being published in scientific journals, among other things.

I absolutely wish we could debate the science and be 100% objective in its analysis when you put humans into the equation it simply isn't possible.

There is nothing wrong with being vigilant. It has often been said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

In many places around the country the police force is either being used to collect fines to make their budget and/or their force is being cut. In fact, an Ohio county Judge has urged its citizens to buy guns, be vigilant and set up community watches.

Sure, people can take being vigilant too far, but so can authorized police.

Even with a modern police force they need all the help they can get.

A few years ago I helped the police catch a person who stole a disc golf basket from a local park. A yahoo news group was alerted to an ebay posting of a disk golf basket without a pole, which means it was probably stolen. I knew a basket had recently been stolen from rarely played course. I googled the ebay user name, found his myspace page with pictures of him playing at that same course. The information I gathered was forwarded to the police and within a week the person was arrested.

If I had just filed a police report that the basket had been stolen the person would have never been caught. Using the newsgroup as a sort of open-source intelligence resource made a huge difference in catching the thief.

Wrong. It means less trees will be planted. Paper comes from trees planted specifically for that purpose in large farms. The higher the demand for paper, the more higher the need for tree farms to be planted.

Wood pulp is best from younger trees, which soak up more CO2 and pump out more O2 than mature trees.

The only green thing about Ubisoft's decision is the color of the money they'll be pocketing from this.