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1 day ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

@ScanIAm: and you are placing the rich outside society, creating an environment of is against them.

I can't follow your grammar well enough to know what you are trying to say.

While they have probeply contributed more to society then you ever will!

Based on what information?  You know very little about me or what I do for a living nor do you know what I've contributed.  You also have no idea what they've contributed.  You've also left little evidence for what criteria you've used to compare. 

If I had feelings, you might have even hurt them.

Secretly you wish you had the balls to make it big, but you are stuck in this blame the other guy for the lack of my success.

Toughen up and take the bull by the horns!

No one is going to make it easy for you, not the rich, not the poor and certainly not the government.

Um, hey. I won the vaginal lottery and happened to come out white, male, middle class, and in a wealthy western country, so don't worry about me.  I'm doing just fine.

I do quite well for myself financially, too.  Most of what I argue for will result in me paying more in taxes and I'm fine with that.  I know that I can afford it.

But you know what makes me much better than 'just fine', and arguably better than the people who espouse your same opinions on how to deal with our fellow man? 

I'm just not interested in winning if it involves forcing others to lose so terribly that they never recover.  I recognize that there are rules for business, government, and life, and while some people will always cheat, other people are looking for help so that they, too, can be 'just fine'.  I wish to give them that chance.

So you can sit there as a white, middle class, male living in a wealthy country and having never really had to wonder where your next meal will come from.  And you can complain that 'your view on your drive to work is spoiled by windmills'. Or whine about spending less for healthcare than some people make all year.  Or whatever other moronic drivel you want to rail on and on about, but hear me when I say this. 

You are not a good person.  You are selfish and nasty and I don't like you.

1 day ago, spivonious wrote

If you raise taxes on the rich, they'll just use accountants to find more loopholes to avoid the tax.

You are effectively admitting that the wealthy are greedy selfish bastards that will always find a way to leach off of society.  And then, you are giving up any responsibility to hold them accountable purely because "that's just how they are". 

Following it up with "giving money to poor people just makes them lazy" is icing on the cake, though. 

Cognative Dissonance is awesome!

1 day ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

@ScanIAm: I've pointed you to studies before, looks like you didnt read them back then. Can you promise me you will read them this time?

Here you go;

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2PHwqAs7BS0

http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf

Only if you promise to read the part where the Government of spain calls the entire study bullshit:

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/media/Rodriguez%20letter.pdf

At least we now know what constitutes 'facts' in your worldview.

A large number of household appliances depend on a standard Hz to function.  Until we're able to make cheap solid-state washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners, AC has some other advantages.

I could see adding a 3rd type of line to the house (i.e. 120v/240v/DC ???V) that would provide DC power for electronics and have a limited range of voltages, but perhaps it would be better to do this when solar/wind/home-fusion becomes more ubiquious. 

@JohnAskew:

I've broken it up even more:

View <==> ViewModel (inherits from EditModel) <==> DTO <==> Model

Edit Model contains any user selections while the rest of the ViewModel contains lookup data and dropdown contents and such that doesn't need to be passed back and forth.

DTOs are just better organized versions of the model that makes it easier to abstract the datamodel away from the database.

Just so you know, this:

5 minutes ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

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Here goes again;

It's like that movie Herbie posted. More consumers, more demand, more economy, more jobs.

More tax, more regulation, less consumers, less demand, less economy, less jobs.

is not an explanation for this:

Government cannot create jobs, merely destroy them. For each government created job, it takes more then two jobs from the market.

It would be super-duper if you'd either explain these radically unproven statements or quit making them.

@cbae: give a man a fish and he can feed himself for a day, give him the means to fish and he will feed himself for a lifetime.

Stop giving away f*cking fish and start handing out f*cking rods!

How do you propose to pay for the rods....

33 minutes ago, magicalclick wrote

I don't understand why you need such thick wire. It really doesn't make sense when you compare to macbook. And X360 is not using that much power, especially the slim.

Get a pair of scissors or a knife and cut open the cable.  You can yank out about 90% of the wires, but make sure that it's plugged in when you do it so you can see if you've pulled out too many.

2 hours ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

It's been clearly shown, that taxing takes a large chunk out of the circulation. So that statement is untrue.

Wait.  So you clearly stated that billionaires spend all of their money, and even if they don't (?!?) that money goes into a bank to be invested elsewhere, BUT taxes are taken out of circulation?

What do you think is done with the tax money?  When a country has 'debt', who do you think the debtors are? 

If there were huge swaths of the population clamoring for new products, then maybe businesses would invest in new jobs and it might be possible for all that excess cash to get back into circulation, but what is currently going on is that there is no demand.  None.  People aren't spending because they don't have enough belief in their short term prospects, so they, too, are holding on to what they have in an effort to wait it out.

And businesses know this, so they won't spend and the cycle continues.

The only entity that can forcibly break this stalemate is government and more specifically, spending by government to get people working.  And without taxes, the only option is to deficit spend which, while unpopular, does have the advantage of giving the wealthy something to invest in.

So, frankly, the idea that lower taxes will result in more jobs has the potential to be true.  But only in the roundabout way that it'll happen if and only if the wealthy get to take a cut.

I choose, however, to skip the middleman as you so eloquently put it and get that money out of 'investments' and into the hands of people who will actually spend it and keep it moving in the economy.

49 minutes ago, spivonious wrote

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Without patents, what motivation do people have to invent things?

How did patents get invented before there were patents...

We do need some patent reform though. 5 years instead of 20 would be a good start.

How about patents give the actual inventor of an original, novel idea a reasonable percentage of the sales of any product that uses the patented idea.  This is non-transferable, only obtainable by living people, and expires upon the death of the patent holders.

Same for copyrights.

awesome.