if you make a threat, people aren't going to ignore that
this is not an overreaction or a big brother issue
you can never expect to make a statement which is clearly a threat and people are just going to ignore it
But if you want to be scientific about it, there are lots of statistics that show that black people are more likely to be stopped by the cops
Yeah, and if you want to be scientific about that, and be honest, you'll see that cops stop a lot more people in high crime areas, and that poor urban areas tend to have lots of crime. And that some of those poor areas have a larger black population. If those areas weren't marinated in serious crime, there wouldn't be so many warrants out, stolen cars, cars full of contraband, and the rest.
In Baltimore, New York, and most other urban areas, the cops and DA are under a lot of pressure to get "results," i.e., mess up somebody's life.
What? The people whose lives are messed up are those who have to live in areas like west Baltimore where local thugs make daily life miserable for everyone else who lives there or tries to run a business there. So yes, the cops are asked to "get results," because the absence of any results would make those areas completely lost to civilization, rather than just sucking generally. Would you rather that the cops were told NOT to arrest known violent gang members, serial assault and battery specialists, and the like? What would you have them do?
yup, well said
many of us also remember our youth fondly. when the teenage years are the most psychologically painful periods of a human life
we all have it. we forget the bad, and remember the good. it's also why people think things should be "like the good old days," to mythologize the past and always think things are getting worse. the truth of course that the past was more violent, poorer, and unhappier
it's a fundamental human conceit. historical myopia
you want to take away the government?
you want to magically remove corruptibility from the human race?
you don't want to go after the slimy assholes doing the corrupting?
you're a moron, really. not a baseless insult, an objective evaluation of your thinking. you want to ignore corruptors and focus only on the corrupted. fucking stupid
yes, absolutely, political corruption is a crime with a corruptor and a corrupted
why do you want to focus all blame on only one side of a deal that is the fault of two sides?
why do you focus zero blame on the guy who is paying for and often initiating the corruption? you think it's only innocent corporations being reached out to by sleazy politicians? seriously?
how much do they pay you to write this shit for them?
That's a very insightful way to address the substance of the matter. Obviously you're not willing to say the actual numbers or description of the situation is incorrect
SS and Medicare do not transfer wealth.
What? Each year, people's wages are taxed into those programs, and funds are transferred, that year, to the people who receive it. There is no "savings account." There is no "I paid into Social Security, so I'll get X when I retire." The amount that retired/disabled people get from that entitlement program is determined legislatively each year, and if you bother to read the fine print in your SS statement, you'll see that they explicitly remind you that there is no guarantee you'll get any future benefits.
Each year, funds are transferred from the people who pay to the people who collect.
if i have a modified version of a standard codebase that i use as a template on many jobs, if someone used then modified that template for a client, by your logic that template itself would be the company's copyright, because it was used
If someone used then modified the template then either their changes become your property, or they contravene the licence terms, or they get to keep their changes but not the template or the template is already the company's property.
There's no single answer, until or unless we know the terms of the licence or commercial agreement under which the company are using the code in your template.
Furthermore, engines come at a huge efficiency cost. Instead of knowing your own products, you've got to master someone elses. It takes substantial time to learn a tool chain and become efficient with it. It also takes time to adapt the tool chain to do what you actually want. Not to mention time spent dealing with bugs in the engine itself. All time that for many devs could have been spent making their own tool chain exactly how they want it.
Yeah, that's why everybody writes their own engine instead of using Unity, or one of the Unreal engine incarnations, or Source, or Crytek.
Oh wait. No. They've done the careful cost analysis and the productivity benefits of an engine and being able to get big swathes of the solution domain out of the box works out a fuck of a lot cheaper than hand crafting everything.
You're right, time is money. Learning an engine takes time. Writing your own engine takes time. Hiring someone that already knows an engine is quick, easy and comes with the advantage that the technology is already proven.
You're fucking insane.
10 cents for a pen sure. Saving 10-20% on a $800k stationary bill however..
Changing the thermostat, again, tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars across a multinational.
1% of your budget? That's fucking massive. Where I work that's several tens of millions of dollars.
A good businessman focusses on everything, because you can, and it works out better for you, and your stakeholders.
"someone bribed the bank guard and robbed the bank"
"so fire the guard, problem solved"
"what about the robbers?"
"uhhh...."
Comms Section. He's conjuring up a co-ordinated crapflood of said ASCII art and press releases in an article defined in the encrypted message you see.
i see it as a similar conceit to anti-vaxxers
anyone who grew up when it was common for children to die at a young age due to common diseases would vaccinate wholeheartedly. but, distant those horrors, the effort necessary to maintain the status quo of healthy children becomes all you see: vaccinations, sticking needles in children, strange concotions i don't understand...
likewise, you have these similar fools who see the benefits of a regulated marketplace, but only see the onerous regulations, and not the horrors of what an unregulated marketplace is really like. so they react to the regulations as if they are the actual evil, just like anti-vaxxers
anyone who survived (broke) one of the many banking panics of the 1800s would claim the FDIC the greatest godsend. but, now that we don't have runs on banks, we just have this "evil" "world domination" "freedom destroying" scheme called the FDIC: morons think the FDIC is the actual evil
it's a conceit of lack of experience, lack of education, no awareness of history, prideful ignorance
so the rich and corporations do not use their money to change the laws to get even more money, for no extra effort?
you're ignorant and delusional
it's a distraction by statistic
Nonsense. It's not a distraction, it's different topic than the ebb and flow of entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare (which are transfer welfare taxes). Income taxes are what pay for all discretionary spending (the military, federal agencies like the EPA, the FAA, the FCC and a jillion other activities). There's a good reason we look at all of those differently than we do the entitlement programs.
And
If Warren Buffet loses money in an investment? He doesn't get to write that off against his income taxes - he just loses it, plain and simple. But he's smart, and usually makes good investments. If he's making money, the money he risked is being put to very good use in an active economy. That's the entire reason why we reward that risk taking with a lower tax rate - because we want more of that risk taking to happen.
All of which has nothing to do with transfer entitlement taxes.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
