You have no idea how deep the conditioning goes. In Palestine children's programming is (no joke) broadcasting cartoons showing that jews should be killed and you get a nice reward in heaven for killing yourself in the pursuit of killing said jews.

The kids are also building the tunnels used to eventually kill jews.

With enough brainwashing, how are they to rebel? And if one child does break free, they will simply be executed.

You are applying your own western way of thinking to the problem where children have any value at all. In the middle east for religious fanatics they are just tools of war and treated as such.

If you're launching a rocket, exactly how do you "hide behind a civilian'? Seriously, how do you do that?

Not launch missiles from (or store them in) a school or hospital? No other countries military does that.

Or, not launch missiles right next to the hotel where journalists are staying? I don't recall reporters electing Hamas.

You are obviously a propaganda stooge for Hamas. How anyone could live with themselves otherwise backing a group that kills children to build tunnels and fires random rockets at peaceful populations is beyond me. What's an 11-year old going to do with all those virgins anyway?

In other words, the IS should really be re-labeled as the Honey Badgers of Religion, or HoBeR.

Amazon's "monopoly/market power" doesn't hurt consumers

He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it.

Hey retard, are you making a career of utterly missing a point or what? Yes the kindle is on multiple platforms, DUH DUH DUH.

What that does not help you with at all is that time ten years hence when no competition remains even on niche platforms, and Amazon decides the price should really be 10 what you are paying now...

Good luck with your plan of reenforcing a dangerous monopoly!

When I can read my Apple eBooks on anything other than an IOS device

You can also read it on any Apple computer.

The point is there was competition, without competition consumers eventually suffer. it doesn't matter if that competition is on devices from a particular company.

It's a shame you are too short sighted to understand this simple fact. You are the very definition of the phrase "those who do not understand history are condemned to repeat it".

Time to sue Apple again and make sure there is zero viable competition remaining for eBooks. Make that rubble bounce.

Looks like you solved how to keep the manual labor busy....

"I'm not sure it's really appropriate to refer to everyone in the bottom 50% as "the poor", that seems overly broad, but the rest of your point has some merit."

Not what I said, nor does it violate the logic:
Not everyone making less than $50000 is poor.
All the poor make less than $50000

Nor did I say they lower 50% did not pay their fair share, that was your assertion, and does not match with my stated Republican leanings that want to reduce taxes.

I go back to my original post that we want to lower taxes, but are accused of only reducing taxes on the rich.

To which I say that is technically true, as they are the only ones paying significant taxes, therefore any tax reduction that passes will impact the rich the most by definition.

Yes, Yes he is....

Wow, if you did't like that list, you must REALLY despise Obama. He's given arms all over the map, and under Obama unions have faced massive reductions all over.

You are kitchen sinking and mixing taxes.

The discussion on Federal Income tax (federal tax burden in my OP) is not based on wealth but on income.
State taxes tend to be less progressive, even here in California.

AS for the calculation, you are not taking into account benefits such as SSI, Food Stamps, etc, that the poor receive as part of the redistribution of taxes.

You are taxed on income, not wealth.

Just because you don't get into a war of words with people who buy ink by the barrel, not because reporters are special.

It is a little more grey than you think:
"If you are recording someone without their knowledge in a public or semi-public place like a street or restaurant, the person whom you're recording may or may not have "an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation," and the reasonableness of the expectation would depend on the particular factual circumstances. Therefore, you cannot necessarily assume that you are in the clear simply because you are in a public place. "

Methinks an officer would object on principle... he does not want to be recorded.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guid...

and this is very interesting read too:

http://www.videomaker.com/arti...

and this:
http://www.rcfp.org/reporters-...

Although a credentialed reporter is going to get more leeway than an average citizen.

When the DEC Alpha was killed, many of the engineers were picked up by AMD.