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Karnegal posted:Independent vs undecided are two different things. I'm registered as a democrat so I can vote in primaries (not that this presidential one will matter), but I wouldn't identify as a democrat because I think the party is poo poo. They just get by on the republicans being more poo poo. Registering as an independent (at least in the states I've lived in) just means you're saying, "hey, I'd like to be allowed to vote on fewer things!" Is this like the mirror of the Freepers who constantly complain about RINO's but vote straight ticket Republican every election? There will never be a party that has all your beliefs included, the best you can ever hope for in a 2 party system is a close match.
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The Tennessee State House named the Bible the official state book yesterday, but it might run into trouble in the State Senate today. State Senate Republican leader Mark Norris has a novel opposition to the idea:quote:“All I know is that I hear Satan snickering, he loves this kind of mischief,” Norris said. “You just dumb the good book down far enough to make it whatever it takes to make it a state symbol, and you’re on your way to where he wants you.” 
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JehovahsWetness posted:Hopefully DoJ just drops the hammer on them. The DoJ needs a bigass expansion where they hire a few thousand people whose sole job is to go full blown  on police departments when they gently caress around like this.Also even more reason for this lovely pay-to-be-a-cop guy needs to be taken for everything by the victim's family. Fried Chicken posted:The Western Conservative Summit is one of the bigger gatherings of the right, with a bunch of influential people gathering there. Among those scheduled to speak at the upcoming one are Walker, Carson, Santorum, Fiorina, Huckabee, and Perry. And the LCR will still all pull the giant R lever when the election rolls around. zoux posted:Yes. Stop it. Stop using the extremely good counterpoint that if we're talking about deserving money, that no one in the whole world has ever done anything that would entitle them to the kinds of salaries that CEOs make. That is a good argument and therefore I don't want to hear it. The dirty secret is that those ultra rich CEOs do gently caress all because pretty much everything has been delegated to other people. Are you so dense as to think a CEO sits there hashing out the details of large deals or mergers? No, the legal team and others do that. Those teams might make as much as the CEO if you combine their salaries, even though they do shitloads more work. "Work hard and be reward" isn't a good argument because it's factually untrue and the people at the top actively have the rungs cut off the ladder when possible. g0del posted:He attempts to raise rent, only to see all his renters leave for other landlords who are willing to undercut him, forcing him to lower his rents in response, until finally an equilibrium is reached which leaves rent at roughly the same price as it was before? Or is Mr. Walsh admitting that the all-powerful free market doesn't actually apply perfectly in all situations? Or maybe he's just implying that all landlords are colluding with each other to keep rents as high as possible. Landlords and rental companies absolutely collude to some degree and rent always goes up. Even in the meltdown of 2008 the apartment I was renting was going to go up about 7% because ~market demand~ because you know just how well the market was doing when Obama was sworn in ans poo poo was on fire.
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To be fair, the CEO of a smaller company (50 or fewer employees) does do a lot of strategizing, but for big companies they are basically a feudal lord but with fewer obligations.
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No one in the history of mankind has ever done anything that would justify the kinds of money that Fortune 500 CEOs make.
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zoux posted:No one in the history of mankind has ever done anything that would justify the kinds of money that Fortune 500 CEOs make. Jonas Salk.
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QwertyAsher posted:Jonas Salk. Negative money for enabling there to be so many more white people.
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"I've always thought," said Rainsford, "that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game." For a moment the general did not reply; he was smiling his curious red-lipped smile. Then he said slowly, "No. You are wrong, sir. The Cape buffalo is not the most dangerous big game." He sipped his wine. "Here in my preserve on this island," he said in the same slow tone, "I hunt more dangerous game." Rainsford expressed his surprise. "Is there big game on this island?" The general nodded. "The biggest." "Really?" "Oh, it isn't here naturally, of course. I have to stock the island." 
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zoux posted:No one in the history of mankind has ever done anything that would justify the kinds of money that Fortune 500 CEOs make. Norman Borlaug, Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing. 
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A Winner is Jew posted:Norman Borlaug, Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing. Giving unlimited money to Tesla might not be the greatest idea.
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DeadmansReach posted:Why do so many people seem to take for granted the idea that raising minimum wage will have the same effect as inflation, or cause inflation? More money isn't being printed, simply distributed differently. To be fair, the distribution is what matters. We've "printed" trillions over the past few years and it hasn't lead to inflation because it's not getting spent. Shifting that money into the actual economy could cause a bit of inflation, but we're so far away from that point that raising the minimum wage to at least the purchasing power it had in the 60s is a no brainer.
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Joementum posted:"I've always thought," said Rainsford, "that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game."  You are a treasure Joementum.
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Venom Snake posted:Giving unlimited money to Tesla might be the greatest idea.  Death Rays for everybody
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Nonsense posted:Cede Alaska to Putin. gently caress you, Alaska is a treasure. Forcibly remove every Republican and Libertarian from Alaska and return it to the Alaska Natives
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Venom Snake posted:Giving unlimited money to Tesla might not be the greatest idea. Edison might have been a dick, but his dickishness in screwing over Tesla may have saved us all from a dark C&C future.
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Venom Snake posted:Is this like the mirror of the Freepers who constantly complain about RINO's but vote straight ticket Republican every election? There will never be a party that has all your beliefs included, the best you can ever hope for in a 2 party system is a close match. In a two party system you can't even really hope for a close match unless you're a moderate or a crazed conservative. You can just pick which is the least bad. The democrats aren't particularly liberal economically and not wildly so socially either, it's just that the republicans are cartoonishly draconian in the opposite direction and have been headed farther right for the past few decades. In any large election I just pull the D lever and frown. At least in some local elections you can reasonably vote 3rd party.
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Karnegal posted:In a two party system you can't even really hope for a close match unless you're a moderate or a crazed conservative. You can just pick which is the least bad. The democrats aren't particularly liberal economically and not wildly so socially either, it's just that the republicans are cartoonishly draconian in the opposite direction and have been headed farther right for the past few decades. In any large election I just pull the D lever and frown. At least in some local elections you can reasonably vote 3rd party. So the answer is yes, then.
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Joementum posted:"I've always thought," said Rainsford, "that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game." But lmao at this post Also please don't cede us away kthx site fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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Amergin posted:If you cut people's salaries there will be pain, but if you simply resist the temptation to throw money at the problem and instead focus on getting people trained for actual work and discourage useless majors for massive debt, you're working to solve the problem in the long run without imposing short term pain. Are you implying that a minimum wage is necessary? How awfully... liberal of you, Amergin.
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Joementum posted:"I've always thought," said Rainsford, "that the Cape buffalo is the most dangerous of all big game."
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WikiLeaks republishes all documents from Sony hacking scandal:quote:WikiLeaks has republished the Sony data from last year’s hacking scandal, making all the documents and emails “fully searchable” with a Google-style search engine.
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He made it all by himself with no help from mommy.  
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A Winner is Jew posted:Norman Borlaug This is a pro opinion, Winner is Jew.
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SECRECY SHROUDS DECADE-OLD OIL SPILL IN GULF OF MEXICOquote:He began tracking the Taylor spill, eventually estimating its size at between 300,000 and 1.4 million gallons. quote:A year ago, federal officials convened a workshop on the leak. Months later, the company presented regulators its proposal for a final resolution at the site. That plan remains confidential, but Taylor Energy President William Pecue has said experts and government officials agree that the "best course of action ... is to not take any affirmative action" due to the possible risks of additional drilling. 11 loving years. The company responsible has already sold all their oil wells and decided the safest course of action is inaction. A lawsuit over secrecy leads to less information being publicly available. Is there anything that can be done by a regular person to stop the oil that's going into the Gulf of Mexico?
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The wage system is completely broken in America. You need a mandated reporting system for jobs that accounts for salaried / full-time / part-time which also simplifies the tax code. IE a CEO would be a AAA job where they are salaried (may or may not be there 40+ hrs a week) with a max wage of 2 million (taxed at Z%) A part time janitor would be a C job where you get say 15 hrs a week but the internet facilitates getting 3 of these jobs and working out the schedule. A person doing this work (Three C jobs) is guaranteed a living wage.
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Venom Snake posted:Is this like the mirror of the Freepers who constantly complain about RINO's but vote straight ticket Republican every election? There will never be a party that has all your beliefs included, the best you can ever hope for in a 2 party system is a close match. Even in a parliamentary system you end up with a couple big parties dominating and the "ideal" party ends up having to compromise their ideals anyway.
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McDowell posted:A part time janitor would be a C job where you get say 15 hrs a week but the internet facilitates getting 3 of these jobs and working out the schedule. A person doing this work (Three C jobs) is guaranteed a living wage. I would rather blow my brains out than work 45 hour weeks at three different places. You must have a better idea, surely.
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Transferrins posted:SECRECY SHROUDS DECADE-OLD OIL SPILL IN GULF OF MEXICO The safest course of action probably is inaction; anything else risks making things even worse. This isn't like a ship thats leaking oil.
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A Man With A Plan posted:I saw this and thought of you all. You know the mention of cats and trains make me suddenly think Ayn Rand would have worked out really well as a goon. Amergin posted:If you cut people's salaries there will be pain, but if you simply resist the temptation to throw money at the problem and instead focus on getting people trained for actual work and discourage useless majors for massive debt, you're working to solve the problem in the long run without imposing short term pain. So then you want us to raise taxes to pay for the training, I like your ideas. Crowsbeak fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 17, 2015 |
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Crowsbeak posted:You know the mention of cats and trains make me suddenly think Ayn Rand would have worked out really well as a goon. She didn't shower often either.
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How are u posted:gently caress you, Alaska is a treasure.   A lot of people don't seem to realize that public spending is a huge boon to private business. But I suppose people don't actually give a poo poo about business as a whole, they just say that so they don't look selfish for wanting their taxes personally to go down.
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Grapplejack posted:I would rather blow my brains out than work 45 hour weeks at three different places. You must have a better idea, surely. Do you mean 45 hours each at 3 different jobs or 3 different jobs for a total of 45 hours? Because the former is likely physically impossible but the latter is something many people do.
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Skwirl posted:Do you mean 45 hours each at 3 different jobs or 3 different jobs for a total of 45 hours? Because the former is likely physically impossible but the latter is something many people do. With what McDowell said it would be the latter; I can't imagine anyone having to put up with that, let alone trying to make that "the new normal".
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Grapplejack posted:With what McDowell said it would be the latter; I can't imagine anyone having to put up with that, let alone trying to make that "the new normal". A lot of people (especially immigrants) have to do that in the service industry.
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a shameful boehner posted:
From forever ago, but I literally have thousands of lives under my control at any given moment when I'm working. My job is generally on every single "Top 5 Most Stressful Jobs" list, it's often complicated, and has pretty bad consequences if I gently caress up. I get paid pretty drat well, but where's my loving CEO money? Give it to me now.
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fknlo posted:From forever ago, but I literally have thousands of lives under my control at any given moment when I'm working. My job is generally on every single "Top 5 Most Stressful Jobs" list, it's often complicated, and has pretty bad consequences if I gently caress up. I get paid pretty drat well, but where's my loving CEO money? Give it to me now. Firefighter, military personnel or airline pilot?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I'm guessing air traffic controller Hey why don't they organize and demand higher pay. Oh right
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Amergin posted:If you cut people's salaries there will be pain, but if you simply resist the temptation to throw money at the problem and instead focus on getting people trained for actual work and discourage useless majors for massive debt, you're working to solve the problem in the long run without imposing short term pain. What happens when a useless major becomes something crucially important because of changing world circumstances?
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