You seem to be justifying having the highest corporate tax rates in the world because some corporations do not pay that much, and go so far as to make a long post that not once considers those corporations that do actually pay that much.

The reality is that these tax breaks and incentives are essential precisely because otherwise American corporations are completely fucked

The real downside of the high base with an incentive system is that it allows the government to pick winners and losers. Microsoft gets the incentive but that startup that wants to compete with Microsoft does not. That startup thus never happens in a country with the highest corporate tax rate. Thats the system we have and the solution is not to make Microsoft pay the highest corporate tax rate in the world. The solution is to have tax rates that are competitive with the rest of the world.

Having the highest rate in the world is such a bad thing that we sometimes give entire industries massive breaks, because its obvious that forcing (for example) our automotive or airplane industries to go under is a bad fucking idea. In many cases the breaks they get aren't even enough, so they also need to get highly lucrative government contracts just to stay afloat.

By defending the highest rate, as you just did, while simultaneously wishing the incentives to end.. what you are asking for is the complete destruction of America. What you should want is a much lower tax rates to begin with, but that wont get past your shallowly-justified dislike for corporate incentives.

it appears that you think that if something is profitable at time T, then it must also have been profitable at time T - X.

What a simplistic idiot you are.

There is no chance in hell that when the technology was first developed to do it that it could have been profitable product. Just like when the technology for smart phones was developed it wasnt profitable. It took *decades* for all the technologies involved to mature enough to make multi-touch pocket computers profitable. Nobody was going to buy a damned $50000 answering machine.

The reality is that most of them weren't. There is just no way that 60,000 is a reasonable number.

Not any more.. Mojang purchased Bukkit. Its no longer "3rd party" its "1st party"

Jealousy trumps the concept of right and wrong.

Wrong. This is why your opinion doesnt matter. Its based on nothing and because its based on nothing, you are more likely to be wrong than right. In this case, you are wrong. 100% wrong.

Changing the data that you observed decades after you observed it is not "systematic observation."

It is "doing stuff so that the systematic observations arent used"

I dont know about the satellite data, but in the case of the surface record, there can be no scientific reason to adjust temperature measurements. Such measurements are the core of the science .. things are measured and the values are what they are. It is never scientific to process past measurements and then call them "corrected" (which is what the climate folks are doing with the surface record.)

I also dont know if all of these "corrections" are biased one way or the other, but surely if these "corrections" do not follow a normal distribution then that sheds a very ugly light on the whole process of "correction."

Insurance companies should keep spare houses on hand for when my house burns down. I dont want to wait.

A child is dangling precariously on a 10th story ledge of a hi-rise building. A man is at the window where the child is dangling but decides not to do anything to help because he figures a giant eagle will catch the child when they fall.

You can't fault a guy for being an optimist.

Well then come to America before you rise up. Its not like our borders are secure.

Let me translate this for everyone:

"Yes, the government really did outlaw private space flight, and when the ban was lifted it still used its influence in order to raise barriers to entry to prevent competition with the oligarchy, but I think that it had a good reason to."

..and this true statement without the fucking spin is a far cry from negating any argument about how government held us all back yet again. The government did in fact hold us back.

The facts are that a private company can come along and get things done better and cheaper. If we were to believe the argument that the government does it better, then the government would have already done what SpaceX is doing. It didn't, therefore the government did not do it better. It had MANY decades to do so. Instead it prevented better from happening.

Well they tried to get the records but they ran into a little snag.

I nominate the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as the independent review boards.

Article 2, Section 1 of the watergate articles of impeachment:

1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.

Now STFU you ignorant fuck. Stop acting like an informed person when you arent fucking informed. It took me all of 5 seconds to get this information verbatim so that I could quote it. All of 5 fucking seconds. Thats how fucking uninformed you are. Not even 5 seconds informed.