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by webXL 14y ago
"And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring." When a consumer chooses not to buy something, i.e. commerce does not take place, saving occurs. Savings means there will be money available in the f
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by webXL 14y ago
Mail carriers? garbage men?? I actually do think my success has little to do with them. People are paid what the market says they are worth, at least in the private sector. There's only one LeBron James and only one Bill Gates. They may sta
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by webXL 14y ago
I never implied the rich didn't disproportionately benefit or you couldn't end the Bush tax cuts and help the poor at the same time. However, the net effect of that new tax structure wouldn't help the economy much, and therefore wouldn't he
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by webXL 14y ago
Can you solve this fairness issue: "the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10%" The rich are getting richer not because they pay too little in taxes, they're getting richer because they rig capitalism with the help of their b
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by webXL 14y ago
Why should the government "invest" then?
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by webXL 14y ago
It's easy to pay TARP back in full when you can borrow at the Fed at 0% and lend at 5%. Favor. Education performance has stagnated ever since the DoEducation was created. Who benefited? Not me or my kids! And the fact that we have third-ra
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by webXL 14y ago
The tax cuts weren't just for the wealthy though. You're basically just doing the Buffet-rule by only removing Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. Not going to help much.
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by webXL 14y ago
Another rich guy trying to persuade average folk that all our problems would be solved if people like him were taxed more. Never mind that the Buffet-rule (minimum 35%) would net $31 Billion over the next 11 years versus $7 Trillion in esti
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by webXL 14y ago
Only a coup if you say it is: "Still, many people in Honduras, including most of the country's official institutions, claim that there was a constitutional succession of power. In a statement to a subcomittee of the U.S. House Committee on
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by webXL 14y ago
I was so psyched when I first played this because Castle Wolfenstein* was the first computer game I was addicted to. Something about sneaking up on Nazis and filling them up with lead. It never gets old! * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast
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by webXL 14y ago
Really? Maybe that's because you've never asked in the form of a URL: http://cssarrowplease.com/
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by webXL 15y ago
My first computer (or my family's, at least). Thanks for helping me find a career.
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by webXL 15y ago
True, but would there be any less crazy poured on if that weren't the case? The rest of the world currently gets American Crazy as opposed to what? Their own " Objective Rationality "?
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by webXL 15y ago
the more crazy the Americans pour on Pray tell, which sane politicians are you blessed to have reign over you? I'd like to live in your glorious nation!
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by webXL 15y ago
1) I would enjoy doing this kind of work for 30 minutes, in a big factory, with cool heavy machinery. I'm sure I can find a lot of other people who would enjoy it, too. But you really think there are people who would want to "spend the re
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by webXL 15y ago
Fact-checking FactCheck.org: Let's assume that a union worker won't get an extra $15 per hour worked that current retirees are receiving. So take $15 off of their labor costs of $70 per hour (complexity through obfuscation). So that's $
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by webXL 15y ago
It's probably cheaper ... It certainly results in better quality of life. Why don't we use that rationale to justify complete regulation of food consumption? Let's have the government force all citizens to eat a vegan diet. The economies
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by webXL 15y ago
There's also an error in the CSS that prevents the view icons from displaying in that case. "background: url(img/state-icons.png) no-repeat;" needs to be "background: url(/img/state-icons.png) no-repeat;" Actually, it's once you're looking
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by webXL 15y ago
Well, that's a fair point and I'll ask for clarification when I see something in quotes next time. When a disqualifying statement (not "the enemy") is flipped like that and directly applied to something, it carries more weight, especially w
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by webXL 15y ago
Did I imply in any way that such political misconduct was ethical? No. Did I suggest "the electorate" qualified as a "government official"? No. I was simply impugning an absolute statement that blanketed a great number of honorable intellig
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by webXL 15y ago
What about those who bribe the electorate for personal profit ? What about politicians who blackmail each other for personal profit? Is it not possible to profit by bribing/blackmailing a government official and benefit the public at the sa
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by webXL 15y ago
If you're looking for a new IDE, JetBrains WebStorm does this. In the chained assignment, as well.
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by webXL 15y ago
I see this hideous convention used a lot when assigning nodejs modules, so you can easily comment out modules for debugging purposes (I think). Other than that, why is "[NL], b = 1" safer or better than "b = 1,[NL]"?
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by webXL 15y ago
sweet, that's pretty close to where I grew up. What other places can I "walk" into? I dragged the little guy around, and all it shows are streets that I can view (even a parking lot, which seems pretty retarded).
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by webXL 15y ago
+replace?
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by webXL 15y ago
Big multi-billion $ businesses can only exist in a society where a big government can enable them using bailouts, quid pro quo campaigning and cost-prohibitive compliance for frivolous regulation. From a societal POV, big anything is bad.
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by webXL 15y ago
You forgot fur, whaling, and the Judean People's Front.
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by webXL 15y ago
The tea party has much in common with that protest. I think both sides need to focus less on the groups of people involved and just accept that big government and big corporations are not a healthy mix. Big corporations actually don't mind
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by webXL 15y ago
What's the "Occupy movement", exactly? Is it really a protest against the wealthiest 1 percent? That seems really counterproductive, since most of the wealth possessed by that group was created by that group, i.e. it didn't exist 50 years
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by webXL 15y ago
Jobs' politics are a bit of a conundrum, which I believe is how many politically minded people appreciated him. Academia - conservative in that he didn't see enough value in his education to have his parent expend their savings. Perhaps con

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