Comment Re:Alternate Headline: North Korea is in the UN (Score 0) 182
But on the other hand, there does eventually come a point where failure has dragged on long enough that one must consider changing their approach.
Sounds like my first wife!
But on the other hand, there does eventually come a point where failure has dragged on long enough that one must consider changing their approach.
Sounds like my first wife!
Booming middle class? How exactly does the middle class boom when everything they buy costs 20, 30, 40% more (or worse) because of all the taxes being passed down to them by the corporations?
Any time you want to figure out answers on corporate taxes, ask yourself a very simple question: who pays for any and all costs incurred by any given company?
(hint: its customers)
So, what you are saying then, is that the whole Capitalist notion of price competition is a lie???
The only people who dont seem to understand this are the tea-baggers, but I don't find that particularly surprising, since their total understanding of economics is, "Taxes Bad."
WTF have tea-baggers got to do with economics or politics? Is it really true the USA now has a political movement devoted to tea-bagging?
It's related to the "Invisible Hand".
If you tax the hell out of the biggest corporations and wealthiest individuals, what do you think happens?
We wind up with the kind of booming middle class and first-world infrastructure we had during the 50's to 70's?
It's not the goal of Tea Party Republicans to get re-elected. The majority of them are operatives for the Tea Party, which is controlled by militia operatives. They want to overthrow the US government itself even if it means launching a civil war.
They are deliberately trying to create an economic crisis because that is the best way to trigger a civil war. They already have the guns, they have the organization(militias) built up, they are ready. The sad thing is most American citizens aren't ready for it or don't want it. But when enough American citizens lose their careers, their jobs, and have no government benefits whatsoever to count on, no unemployment, no welfare, no food stamps, no anything, then the militias can give them one last job.
It's a recruitment tactic. The US government uses the same tactic of sanctions when it wants to overthrow a dictator. It's also because the Tea Party militias are tired of funding the government which is trying to investigate and crush them despite the fact that they've infiltrated the US government and control many politicians, there are still FBI agents who want to crush the Tea Part movement or any extremist movement that seeks to violently overthrow the government or cause a civil war.
Well, I have an idea. The Tea Party supporters who don't already live in the Southeastern United States (aka The Confederacy) can all move there and let the people who don't want to be a part of it emigrate to another part of the country. Then, the Southeast can secede from the Union again. I swear, we won't stop you this time!
True - until the companies figure out it's much less hassle to "outsource" the whole stuff to Russia or Japan, both having the capability, program and funding to continue their launches. American astronaut in sovjet rocket stepping on the moon in his made-in-china boots? I dunno...
Of course, while they are on the moon, the astronauts will find out the Chinese executive in charge of the boot factory decided to cut corners in production, so the sealant in the boots comes loose while they are on the moon. The air bleeds out of the suits, killing all the astronauts. A week later, the executive is found guilty and shot by a firing squad.
Giant steps are what you take,
Walking on the moon.
I hope my boots don't break,
Walking on the moon.
Yeah! The US should start sending aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and help get them on back their feet so they can take care of themselves! Why has no-one thought of this before?!
Try talking to people who have actually been to Afghanistan to
And we're also *this close* to winning the war on drugs...
Unless you want to try and make a case for terrorist groups having strength from drug sales, that's an irrelevant conclusion.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Logical_fallacy
I can't believe you and I are the only 2 people in this entire thread who can see this for what it is -- legal pictures of people in public used for art. This guy should get a pro bono constitutional lawyer and sue his way into enough money for his next exhibition.
So, if I follow you around, take pictures of your every move, and upload it to the internet, that would be okay??? Just because you are in public doesn't mean it's okay to have your every move tracked. Perhaps at this point in time it is technically legal, but that is not how it should be in a civilized society.
I wonder if their is any "expectation of privacy" when you walk in to a shop and use device laid out for the public?
The problem is that "reasonable expectation of privacy" goes back to the old film camera days where it is hard to perform mass surveillance. Shouldn't there be a reasonable expectation to not have my every movement logged and uploaded for the whole world to see? For those of us who have had to deal with psychos in our lifetime, it would be nice not to have to worry about it made easy for them to hunt me down. And that doesn't even get into idea of overzealous police officers who disapprove of "those" people and want to find some excuse to have them arrested.
No, they should be disbanded and we should go back to the old security methods. They are clearly just security theater.
Yes, just like the East German government thought "You know, this whole STASI thing is getting out of hand. Maybe we should replace it with an organization that is at least mildly sane, instead of one that frigging suspects *everyone* and even takes smell samples in case the hounds need them!" I wonder how that worked out...
She's also David Cameron's neighbour and horse riding buddy
So, that's what they're calling it these days.
You mean there's a single source of news without a political agenda ? Which one ?
Too bad for them they didn't just hack a republican's email address, that would have brought them heaps of praise.
There is a world of difference between having a political agenda and deliberately lying and distorting the news. In the first, you describe things from your own biased point of view. In the latter, you actually make shit up. It's like the difference between a witness in court that tells a story from his/her own particular viewpoint and a witness that actually commits perjury. Most news sources are like the witnesses telling their accounts from their own viewpoints. Fox "News", on the other hand, is the perjurer.
I agree. Don't fuck around with situations like this. Losing a loved one can be very painful for some people and to have shit like this going on only makes it worse. Unfortunately, the way the justice system works, nothing will probably happen besides a couple of news articles.
Yeah, it would be a real shame if the parents were so distraught this happened that they took a chainsaw to the reporters responsible. I'm just saying...
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
