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You were lucky. I always got at least chewed out for a boo-boo, if not worse.
At least your parents didn't cover it with Mecurochrome. Putting organic mercury compounds on a child's open wound is probably not the best idea (though I don't think any studies definitely proved that mercury was absorbed into the body from Mercurochrome). Plus it left your skin indelibly dyed a bright orange color.
you were lucky. At last your parents didn't just cut off the damaged limb.
They said they were at 10KV four years ago. Now they are looking for 1MW. That's kilovolts vs MegaWatts. The article said they were at 500KV. There is no indication how many watts they are at. The article didn't have enough information to understand how close they are to the goals.
Volts and Watts are related by Amps. P=IE Watts = Amps * Volts.
The United States has made it illegal to create low paying jobs in the United States. How else do you create a low paying job but to take it to a country where the country allows the creation of jobs in that pay category? Or am I reading this wrong?
Ethical b:being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct or practice, especially the standards of a profession: It was not considered ethical for physicians to advertise.
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So was it IBM who made the date on the IBM-PC have 2 digits?
Actually I was being paid for my coding for 3 years before IBM-DOS was shipped.
The biggest computer mistake of all time has to be Microsoft's using 2 digits for the year! How quickly we forget!
So where terrorism once required smuggling a bomb or gun on-board, now terrorists could aim a radio at the airplane to crash it?
This does beg the question, why are they doing motor vehicle inspections at all of they pass a car that can't safely (for everybody else - occupants of the car are at least responsible for their own safety?) go 90mph? And having done so, why would a gvt want to put a lower speed limit on a road where inspected cars can do 90mph?
Oh, my own answer is that they have some arbitrary goal that has nothing to do with safety. Like trimming our ranks of capable people who have low tolerance for boredom, or saving energy so the Afghanis can have when they take over.
in fact, the economy cratered. There's a sucker born every minute - or should I say, an idiot.
I'm pretty sure the House of Representatives, FHLMC and FNMA are the biggest culprits here.
I didn't call you an idiot. I called the idea of spending money despite having cut taxes idiocy. I think I'm actually agreeing with you there.
My grief is with the Fed Gvt for trying to do social engineering with tax money. FHLMC and FNMA were involved in criminal activity with huge amounts of money, at the behest of many elected federal politicians. This is where our attention should go. But this is not even surprising. Big governments always do this. The solution is to bring all of the expensive projects to a more local forum. The whole idea of having 50 states, each having their own rules and projects, is a great thing. The citizenry could move to the state which best met their own notions of goodness and we'd all be able to see what solutions were great and which were mistakes.
As it is, we really don't have a choice. The whole thing is a disaster. I have many issues with Bush's presidency, especially his interest in spending taxpayer money on projects which are of clearly debatable merit, i.e. nationbuilding, pharmaceutical programs, etc...
Blech.
I have even more issues with the current crop of representatives. And they've mostly been in office since Jan 2008.
You either need to raise taxes or reduce spending
I completely agree with this! Reducing spending seems like a great way for the fed gvt to go!
We did spend that money - we spent it on Second homes in the Hamptons, Ivy league tuition, yachts, etc. It did not result in more job creation - in fact, the economy cratered.
May I point out that homes and yachts are built by people who have jobs?
Fuck the economic Ayn Randists and their fixation with shaving off every cent from every thing and keeping it for themselves.
LET'S JUST DO THIS: IT'S ALREADY PAST TIME!
That would be lovely except that every time the fed spends a dollar, that's a huge amount of money that the private sector can't spend. The Fed has a horrible record of picking the right projects to back and is hugely inefficient at doing projects.
Consider convincing a more local government to back for infrastructure projects. Local governments are much much better at making good use of taxpayer money. This is self evident for many reasons. Get the Fed off our back so our states and counties can do the work that we think is important.
If only we had spent that 2 trillion or so that we spent on tax cuts and wars on research.
You can't spend money on a tax cut. The sentence doesn't make sense. How about spending the money DESPITE the Tax cut? That's just typical leftist idiocy.
I completely agree about not spending money on wars. However I think Fed spending taxpayer money on research is just as dumb as the rest of the pork crap the Fed has been doing all of my life.
the national highway system
Um... when did we stop spending on that? The Fed has also been using highway funding as a way to do unconstitutional things to the states for 50 years
the space program
Oh yes. That immediately led to all sorts of space activities by us citizens,
etc
keep listing! I'm loving this.
Once the government can create a network effect through jumpstarting an infrastructure
when does the Fed Gvt move back out? Please?
, private companies can move in and create huge economic ripple effects - again, I will use The Internet as a good example.
Um.. The fed didn't spend all that much "creating" the internet. But I'll give you that DARPA is a good example for you to use.
I agree wholeheartedly that we need to get back to a balanced budget,
Really? At what cost? EPA? HUD? DepEnergy? DepAgri? DeptEdu? DepDefence? FHLMC? FNMA? Health and Human Services? DepInterior? Medicare? Welfare? Social Security?
unfortunately, the last president actually was a drunken sailor ( or at least a dry drunk Vietnam evader ) who ran the country into the ground and amassed huge debts by giving tax breaks to the wealthy and engaging in two wars of choice.
Don't forget almost all of the presidents, with very few exceptions. Especially FDR and Obama.
I really think the problem isn't the presidents, it's the House of Representatives. Let's get that back under control, really. Cut costs down to the level where even the IRS is not needed. If the states what such and such a service, let them pick up the tab. The Fed has for too long been using Income Tax generated cash to control the states. Cut that out!
I suggest the next move should be winding back all the laws back to 1890 and then add back the things which are truly important. Divest each of the above agencies except those MANDATED by the Constitution.
BTW, taxing the wealthy is no way to balance the budget. A wealthy is paying my paycheck, and I'm paying taxes. Much better to induce the wealthy to create jobs. It's a multiplicative effect. Besides, I WANT to be wealthy. I spend too much time bellyaching on Slashdot to ever make it though. =8^)
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