"Many alternative energy companies that Obama invested in are busto."
Well 'one' anyway. Besides, investment doesn't mean 'return'. You need to try things out and some won't work. Obviously Solyndra was as much political problem as anything.
Though you can argue it was a lack of investment by the US, and massive subsidy by the Chinese that crashed the price of solar panels and as such made Solyndra unprofitable.
Except consumption is what drives the economy isn't it? If you're driving 'down' consumption, that's less economic activity. That doesn't seem particularly good...
"Expecting the government to provide for you because you've gone and spent every penny you could put your name too is just dumb."
I expect the government to provide for services I have paid for - With my taxes.
"you instead settle for something less."
Welcome to America, you must be new here. We don't 'ever' choose to settle. It's what makes us the best place to live.
It's why we decided that allowing seniors to live in poverty was worth paying taxes to fund national healthcare for them. And for you as well by the way, once you get there. Or Medicaid should you be disabled, etc.
"Eliminate the corporate income tax. Completely. If companies reinvest the money into their businesses, that's good. Don't tax companies in an effort to tax rich people. "
What 'second half' implies a new tax source in this statement?
Incorrect, if you use their computer to access your personal account anything you do is fair game. You're using their device to do personal stuff and it's either against policy on that front, or they denote up front that they are allowed to monitor what you do with their device.
However, if the FDA logged the passwords and then *later* logged in to their email, that is not. But I don't see any mention of that in the NYT article.
Can someone show me that they monitored anything other than 'employer issued' laptops?
I read the NYTimes article and I don't see any mention of actually monitoring Congressional Aides, only that they monitored the emails the scientists sent *to* Congress. That's a far far different thing and since these laptops are issued by the gov't, the gov't has every right to monitor anything done with them.
It is evidence of a crime. That he ordered her to stop filming. THAT is the crime here.
And taking the phone, presumably without a charger, also means said 'evidence' may be erased when the phone loses it's charge. Not likely, but do we know it's stored on flash memory or just in the running memory of the phone?
I don't remember 'consulting the government' being a requirement to the First Ammendment.
I think the idea isn't ask permission, but ask the Gov't if they maybe have a comment on what we're going to release.
Prior to 9/11 I believe there were extremely rare cases where the gov't did request stuff not be published, but they really couldn't stop it due to the constitution.
Since 9/11, the constitution has substituted for toilet paper and isn't as effective unfortunately.
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Look at Woot.com's upgrade. 'Nobody' likes the new 'improved' interface. Sometimes simple is much much better than 'new'.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
thanks I needed the laugh :)
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Well 'one' anyway. Besides, investment doesn't mean 'return'. You need to try things out and some won't work. Obviously Solyndra was as much political problem as anything.
Though you can argue it was a lack of investment by the US, and massive subsidy by the Chinese that crashed the price of solar panels and as such made Solyndra unprofitable.
So no, we didn't do *enough* subsidy.
If you want a 'sure' thing, you dreaming.
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Except consumption is what drives the economy isn't it? If you're driving 'down' consumption, that's less economic activity. That doesn't seem particularly good...
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Hence they get to (or should) pay higher rates since they are getting a benefit the rest of us aren't.
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That said, a consumption tax is among the most regressive forms of tax. It hits the poor much much harder than the wealthy and is hardly 'fair'.
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I expect the government to provide for services I have paid for - With my taxes.
"you instead settle for something less."
Welcome to America, you must be new here. We don't 'ever' choose to settle. It's what makes us the best place to live.
It's why we decided that allowing seniors to live in poverty was worth paying taxes to fund national healthcare for them. And for you as well by the way, once you get there. Or Medicaid should you be disabled, etc.
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What 'second half' implies a new tax source in this statement?
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However, if the FDA logged the passwords and then *later* logged in to their email, that is not. But I don't see any mention of that in the NYT article.
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I read the NYTimes article and I don't see any mention of actually monitoring Congressional Aides, only that they monitored the emails the scientists sent *to* Congress. That's a far far different thing and since these laptops are issued by the gov't, the gov't has every right to monitor anything done with them.
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They are trying to equate linking to their site with 'using' their site.
It's like saying taking a picture of a bus is somehow riding on the bus. A short bus at that.
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And taking the phone, presumably without a charger, also means said 'evidence' may be erased when the phone loses it's charge. Not likely, but do we know it's stored on flash memory or just in the running memory of the phone?
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Unless you're saying that Giant/Safeway/Publix should somehow have control over Keebler's copyrights and trademarks...
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I think the idea isn't ask permission, but ask the Gov't if they maybe have a comment on what we're going to release.
Prior to 9/11 I believe there were extremely rare cases where the gov't did request stuff not be published, but they really couldn't stop it due to the constitution.
Since 9/11, the constitution has substituted for toilet paper and isn't as effective unfortunately.
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