tsotha

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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, the minute someone, anyone, tells me I don't have a right to a lawyer is the minute I tell them "My lawyer will be in contact regarding that assertion."
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by tsotha 11y ago
>You are actually paying for the pensions of current retirees. Yes, everyone understands that. But it incurs a debt I will expect to be repaid. >By definition retirees are people who could still be working but choose not to. Absolute
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by tsotha 11y ago
Not completely, no, but I think that's a big part of it. You can't have respect for yourself if you're mooching off other people.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's not the same. People drawing pensions are simply collecting on a benefit they earned earlier in life. In the US, anyway, if you don't pay in to the pension system when you're working you don't get a pension. Also
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Why do you hate people who choose to spend time as they wish instead of being coerced into unwanted employment? Why should money be taken from my paycheck to support idle people who could be working? In general it's none of my bus
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not convinced we really want the Star Trek utopia. A great many people have a need to feel useful. Some fulfill it with family, others with work. You don't have to look very far to find neighborhoods where people have enoug
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by tsotha 11y ago
Nobody cares what they think, really. They get quoted because the media has to have something to write about. I suspect property values would drop if they removed the exemption, which would make a whole lot of people very unhappy.
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by tsotha 11y ago
We don't have group like that in the US. I'm not sure it would matter even if we did.
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by tsotha 11y ago
So he's blackmailing them, essentially?
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by tsotha 11y ago
I wouldn't rent to someone that sue-happy either. The reason these databases exist is it's impossible to get rid of a problem tenant in places where they have too many rights. It also implies if he had a snowball's chance in
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by tsotha 11y ago
Personally I don't see any reason to provide a mortgage interest deduction for homes, but any US politician who suggested removing it would be roundly ejected from office immediately, both because home buyers are used to the benefit an
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by tsotha 11y ago
Why is printing money "not rare or bad by itself" when borrowing from the central bank is a problem? They're literally the same thing.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Heh heh. Well, I guess retirement planning is all about the assumptions you make.
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by tsotha 11y ago
In a fractional reserve system borrowing from the central bank is creating money.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The "basket" they use for CPI calculation is a genuinely difficult problem, since what people buy changes over time. Electronics is a great illustration - if I included 40" televisions last year, should I compare the price o
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, I understand that. I only included the DNI because he did.
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by tsotha 11y ago
This is why Amazon gave in on state sales taxes. In order to pull this off they needed to expand their distribution network, which meant having a "presence" which would have put them on the hook for taxes anyway. I'm curious
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by tsotha 11y ago
Sure, but you have to subtract out the expected value of your cardiac care.
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by tsotha 11y ago
For me your #2 is the deal breaker. If I have to box a bunch of stuff back up and drop it off somewhere it's more hassle than shopping at a brick & mortar shoe store. There would have to be a huge price advantage to make it worth
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's a question of supply reliability. You don't want to depend on a system which may or may not be available depending on things beyond your control. That's true of any supplier, foreign or domestic.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I think our current military is built more along the lines of "kill the enemy and break his things". That's what militaries are for. Once you deviate from that core idea you end up with an expensive boondoggle that can&#
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by tsotha 11y ago
Flattops aren't as vulnerable as most people think. It really depends on the scenario - it's actually quite difficult to land a hit on a US carrier in blue water. It gets easier the closer you get to land, which is why the Navy
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's also possible the red team was deviating from the rules of the scenario. These things are never free-for-alls, where you make up your tactics as you go. When you're moving that many ships and people unless it's somewha
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The hubris of the “battleship Navy” was such that just nine days before Pearl Harbor, the official program for the 1941 Army-Navy game displayed a full page photograph of the battleship USS Arizona with language virtually extolling its
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's not an issue unless she wanted to be president. She taught in the US, and that's good enough for me.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Both Congress and the Judiciary make law. No. Judges do not make law. I see what you're trying to say, but making law is not their function. To the extent they engage in legislating from the bench they ought to be punished with
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by tsotha 11y ago
When these periodic "let's put a woman on a bill" come up Noether is my choice for the subject. Her work had a huge influence on the shape of the world today and few people outside physics and mathematics have heard of her.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Einstein himself admitted his work would not have been possible without hers.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Congress has whatever oversight it wants. They can simply defund any agency that irritates them.
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by tsotha 11y ago
So I looked it up, and the NSA is indeed part of DoD. But the DNI is under Homeland Security, even if he's a former military man. And I think both you and veonomsnake are grossly underestimating the culpability of Congress in all of t

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