Ty Warner, the inventor of beanie babies, is worth $2.6 billion.

Yeah, but he didn't buy any.

I see a lot of that attitude today and it's always by leftists who are utterly frustrated that opposition is allowed to exist.

We have state after state where Republicans are trying to keep old people, minorities and students from voting.

Tell me where Democrats are trying to keep anyone from voting. It's always projection with you guys, isn't it.

My assumption is anyone that would mistake a quote from some 1950's John Birch guy for a statement from a Founder is probably more worried about black people or Mexicans voting than preserving government by, of and for the People.

Still doesn't say anything about Civics. It just lists the brands, not the models. I'm guessing Accords at least. So, Prius and Camry over Varis and Mustangs and larger Fords over Fiestas.

Some of us look and see that the words of our founders "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.

Except, no "founder" ever said that.

Unless you consider Ronald Reagan one of the founders, which considering your sentiment, is quite possible. Either people have the right to consent to their government or they don't. Whether or not there are social programs does not change that. What that quote (from the 1950's) is really saying is, "We'd be better off if people who disagree with me weren't allowed to vote".

Some rich people drive crappy old Honda Civics.

Citation?

and bitcoin does poke north of 100k each

*teehee*

I can get you a good deal on some beanie babies.

Boy there must be a lot of drug addicts that shop at Dell, TigerDirect, and Overstock.

Not to mention the ones working there.

Hey, I have a question about FPGA. I know almost nothing about them.

Can they be re-configured once the blocks are programmed? I don't know anything about processor design, but I'm curious if FPGAs are the kind of thing you configure once for a particular application and then that's it or if they can be reconfigured again later for another application.

See, I told you I don't know anything about these things. If it's a really stupid question, I'm apologize. I read a blurb about FPGA and was wondering.

They very much do. Some 60% of the workforce works for corporations, most of them large. What do you think happens to their job if that corporation isn't profitable?

That's not exactly what I said.

Workers don't necessarily do better because a company's profits went from 30% to 60%. Not any more, at least.

We now have data on NAFTA, CAFTA and other "free trade" agreements. They all resulted in an upward redistribution of wealth.

A German wouldn't have made this mistake!

...and lived.

Wait, there are updates for Windows?

Uh-oh.

And now, 25 years later, we've got nerdy hipsters with bad tattoos and goatees clogging up coffee shops with their Macbooks, using up bandwidth downloading Apple updates, nursing small lattes for six hours while they tweet about their miserable lives.

At least now we know who to blame.

That weird ass passive aggressive ad hominem above is your usual response.

"Passive aggressive"? If the aggression in my post is coming across as passive, then I'm not communicating well.

I pay attention to posters' names too, and I've been following your posts, and I'm starting to think that you may have multiple personality disorder.

In 1987, the average time-served for 2nd degree murder in Florida was 6.8 years [state.fl.us]. That is more than five, but that is the average, so many murders served less time.

Do you know how to read a graph?

If you look at the page you link to, you will see that the 6,8 year average for second degree murder was twenty years ago. The average by 2003 climbed to 21,6 years and the average murderer close to 27 years.

Now, since your original statement was in the present tense I'm still going to have to go ahead and call bullshit. The average SECOND DEGREE murder convictee will spend 21.6 years in the joint as of 2003, and the sentences were on the rise at that time. With all the mandatory sentencing laws going around, I will bet you that the average is higher today, ten years later.

Also, remember we're talking about Florida. If you're white and you kill a black guy in Florida, and you pay a $25 fine and get two tickets to a Marlins game and a coupon for more ammo.

So, there's still no indication that "many murderer spend less than 5 years in jail". You wanna hit up the Google and take another shot at it? I've got nothing to do tonight.