The fact that you identify easily verifiable facts as 'things that simply couldn't be true' should give you some insight into the fact that you've been marketed into liking Obama. Please think about it. Then perhaps you can tell me which loopholes Romney could possibly close that would make his proposed tax cut revenue neutral. I don't think Romney said closing loopholes is the only method to achieve his goal. Though he does have a record of closing loopholes in MA, he closed 22 state tax loopholes while he's governor of MA, as a result MA has a rather balanced budget while most other states were doing quite poorly in terms of budget. Romney is a business genius, I'd rather believe he has a few tricks up his sleeves. |
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That might be true for fluorescents, but it's not true of all technologies. A standard incandescent is limited by the fact that no filament material is capable of the ~5800K temperature needed to give the same black body spectrum as the sun. There's a lot more promise of getting a close to white light spectrum with something light LED lights than there is with incandescents.
Actually, LEDs are quite tricky. A bog standard LED works by an electron moving from one well definied energy state to another, emitting light at a fixed frequency. LEDs are, by default, monochromatic. Producing one that fools the eye into thinking it is white is fairly non-trivial (though obviously accomplished). Getting one that would produce black-body type radiation (at least in the visible range) is more work still. With that said, I do believe LED or some as-yet-undiscovered technology is the future and that CFLs will be a historical curiosity in time. Most standard white LEDs use a blue light and a phosphor to simulate white light, though most have a large dip around 500nm and an overabundance of blue. That's just an engineering problem though, and there's no reason a proper color balance can't be implemented through the use of new phosphor or supplementing the gap with smaller targeted dies in an array. A warm white LED with reinforcement around 500nm would actually be pretty close, and much better than even the hottest incandescent. You know how difficult it was to even get a blue light? the guy won a Nobel prize for getting a blue light on LED. It was widely accepted as impossible, until the guy did it. |
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You cant possibly think that its random lol
Yes I do. Why not play the 97% chance to win constantly and become a millionaire then? It doesn't work that way. You have a 97% chance to win a single bet, but look at how low your percentage of payout is. This still gives the house an edge. You will ultimately lose doing this. Why is noone doing extremly large bets on that odd once then? a 07% chance to win is extremely high probability in any case. The anser is because they know when they do the big bet that the number 65000 will come out. Like usual. Some people do. And most people win that single bet. I guess im that unlucky guy that loses 25 times in a row on a 91% chance to win game the day after winning large sums in the same game. If you in deed lost 25 times in a roll on the 91% chance bet, then I agree, that's pretty improbable (though still possible). Please show me proof that it happened. |
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I won about 100 BTC on satoshidice so far. The house edge doesn't mean you won't win, it's just that out of 100 people, 50% will walk away losers, 48% will walk away winners, and
2% goes to the house. You just hope to be the 48%.
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myrkul, it's not worth the time and frustration to argue with a statist. It's no different than arguing religion. It's their own faith, and they would be lost without their savior (the state).
You're probably right, but it's just not in my constitution to give up without a fight, so I'm going to take at least a few token swings. I just gave you two areas, he propose to get rid of income tax and capital gains tax. He propose all prison be privatized.
Let's see, some other positions he has:
* ban student loans (he think student loans increase tuition)
* no tariffs (great news China!!!)
* he also supports legalizing the illegals (though he does redeem himself by also supporting green card for advanced degrees)
* open borders to Mexicans (this is just .... insane)
* 23% sales tax (this would be so much in favor of the rich, or does he think the rich buy 1000 beds or 1000 toilets so they could pay a fair share in tax?)
Open borders and no tariffs would greatly improve our economy by increasing international trade. Removing income tax and capital gains tax likewise would improve the economy by not punishing earning and saving. Student loans do indeed increase tuition, much the same way widespread medical insurance increases medical costs. I'm not well versed on his position on that, but I feel private loans would be acceptable, but government loans and grants would not. As for the sales tax not being "fair," how is 23% of all purchases, across the board, to everyone, not fair? Should the rich pay larger percentages in taxes, just because they have more money? They'd already be paying more in raw numbers. A poor person buying a pack of ramen would pay $1.23, while a rich person buying a tin of caviar would pay $123.00 That's $23.00 in tax instead of $0.23. Seems plenty "fair" to me. I, of course, am not in favor of any taxes, but if there must be tax, you can't get more fair than a sales tax. I'd like some clarification on one point, though... How, exactly is opening the borders "just... insane"? Sorry but if you are seriously thinking that "open borders" is not insane, you are seriously out of touch with reality. There's basically billions of people in the world that would kill to be living in America, once you open your borders, these people will rush in, now instead of tens of millions of unskilled illegals, you'll have hundreds of millions, or even billions. That's a quick path to disaster-ville. With a 23% sales tax, the rich are not really paying the same percentage. Because not all rich person spends a lot, many of them don't. For example Warren Buffet, his life style is very modest. He would be basically paying a 0.1% tax rate on his income, he simply does not spend that much money to buy things. Plus even if the rich person do spend a lot, like I said he still only buys 1 bed to sleep on, unless his bed is 1000 times more expensive than the average joe's, he's not paying his fair share. If I was Warren Buffet, I'd quickly run out of things to buy to achieve even a 5% tax rate, because even a rich person simply does not need 1000 beds or 1000 toilets. Basically, to implement a 23% sales tax, you'll have to look at who are the consumers of the majority of the product in this country? if you find the rich consume majority of products in this country, then 23% sales tax will work. Unfortunately, the truth is the poor/middle class consume the majority of products in this country, not the rich, you'll just be shifting the vast majority of revenue burden on the backs of poor/middle class, and would be giving the rich a huge tax cut, one they don't really need. This would further increase the wealth gap. This path usually leads to violent revolution and forced wealth re-distribution, again a quick path to disaster-ville. |
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AMD simply don't have the cash to compete with Intel in the long run. Intel's capex per year is far larger than AMD's entire company value.
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I think Romney represents a real chance to get the debt under control, he has shown that he is the turnaround expert, this is exactly what the country needs, someone that has business sense, good with money and demonstrated turnaround success. The fact that he agrees with me on several important issues (AA, green card for advanced degree etc...) are just icing on the cake.
And in four years, when the economy is still in the shitter, will you finally realize that democrats and republicans vary so little on their policies and politics that they effectively overlap? Will you then finally choose an option other than the two that are spoon-fed to you? What option are you speaking of? Gary Johnson? Mr. cut all income tax and capital gain tax? privatize all prisons? sorry I don't really prefer candidates that are batshit insane. How, exactly, is he batshit? I just gave you two areas, he propose to get rid of income tax and capital gains tax. He propose all prison be privatized. Let's see, some other positions he has: * ban student loans (he think student loans increase tuition) * no tariffs (great news China!!!) * he also supports legalizing the illegals (though he does redeem himself by also supporting green card for advanced degrees) * open borders to Mexicans (this is just .... insane) * 23% sales tax (this would be so much in favor of the rich, or does he think the rich buy 1000 beds or 1000 toilets so they could pay a fair share in tax?) |
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I think Romney represents a real chance to get the debt under control, he has shown that he is the turnaround expert, this is exactly what the country needs, someone that has business sense, good with money and demonstrated turnaround success. The fact that he agrees with me on several important issues (AA, green card for advanced degree etc...) are just icing on the cake.
And in four years, when the economy is still in the shitter, will you finally realize that democrats and republicans vary so little on their policies and politics that they effectively overlap? Will you then finally choose an option other than the two that are spoon-fed to you? What option are you speaking of? Gary Johnson? Mr. cut all income tax and capital gain tax? privatize all prisons? sorry I don't really prefer candidates that are batshit insane. |
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I'm glad Romney doesn't openly speak about AA, it would be too easy to paint him as a "Racist" if he's openly against AA in his campaign. But those of us who care deeply about AA, know what Romney's position really is regarding AA.
Now you can read minds. Wow. Well, green card for minors+military service is entirely different from what Obama's proposal of legalizing all illegals, isn't it?
All illegals? That's an another lie. No because his actions speak louder than his words: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/romneys-record-on-affirma_n_1564644.html |
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I see you share the same business logic with Obama. Hey if Obama gets another 4 years and increase the debt by another 6T, it'll still be "better", since percentage wise, it's just a 37% increase on 16T, wonderful!!!!
And you have nothing to contribute except lies. Romney lies, you lie - what a wonderful company. I don't vote at all, because I can't stand liars and retards. 99% of the elected officials belong in that category. There are several issues that makes Obama a deal breaker for me, not that I really like Romney, but right now, Romney looks a million times better than Obama:
* Obama supports AA, Romney is against
* Obama supports legalizing tens of millions of illegals, Romney is against
* Obama increased the national debt by 6T in 4 years, I don't think anyone else in the Republican party can top that. I mean even the supposedly bad president GWB only increased the debt by 4.4T in 8 years, and he fought 2 wars.
AA: Romney didn't pick the side yet about AA: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/09/romney-stays-away-from-affirmative-action-case/Immigration: He believes that unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the country as minors and have served in the military should be given permanent residency status. Debt: I proved already that you lied. So we got 2 lies out of 3 statements. I'm glad Romney doesn't openly speak about AA, it would be too easy to paint him as a "Racist" if he's openly against AA in his campaign. But those of us who care deeply about AA, know what Romney's position really is regarding AA. Well, green card for minors+military service is entirely different from what Obama's proposal of legalizing all illegals, isn't it? |
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As for the debt, Obama squanders money because he has zero business experience nor management experience (all he has ever been was lawyer or senator). Romney on the other hand has almost 30 years of business experience, several successful turnarounds (bain capital, winter olympics) and is known to be good with money. What's important is not what the "plan" is, but experience. When you go to job interviews, does the company care more about your "plan" or do they care more about your experience? As long as you have the necessary experience, you will have the plan and you will make it work. Without the necessary experience, any "plan" you speak of, I would be highly skeptical of it.
Bush increased the national debt by 85%, from 5.73 trillion to $10.63 trillion. Obama increased from 10.63T to 16.1T or 51%.. Also if you adjust for USD inflation, Bush increased the national debt by A LOT more. But I don't expect a republican to be well versed in economics or mathematics. You just lie. I see you share the same business logic with Obama. Hey if Obama gets another 4 years and increase the debt by another 6T, it'll still be "better", since percentage wise, it's just a 37% increase on 16T, wonderful!!!! Just crazy libertarian talk, here, but maybe the fact that both parties have continually increased the debt is an indicator that neither one has a fucking clue about what to do with the economy? Well, GWB wasn't exactly the perfect Republican President, but still he spent far less than Obama. Obama is increasing the debt at a rate that is more than double of GWB. I think Romney represents a real chance to get the debt under control, he has shown that he is the turnaround expert, this is exactly what the country needs, someone that has business sense, good with money and demonstrated turnaround success. The fact that he agrees with me on several important issues (AA, green card for advanced degree etc...) are just icing on the cake. |
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As for the debt, Obama squanders money because he has zero business experience nor management experience (all he has ever been was lawyer or senator). Romney on the other hand has almost 30 years of business experience, several successful turnarounds (bain capital, winter olympics) and is known to be good with money. What's important is not what the "plan" is, but experience. When you go to job interviews, does the company care more about your "plan" or do they care more about your experience? As long as you have the necessary experience, you will have the plan and you will make it work. Without the necessary experience, any "plan" you speak of, I would be highly skeptical of it.
Bush increased the national debt by 85%, from 5.73 trillion to $10.63 trillion. Obama increased from 10.63T to 16.1T or 51%.. Also if you adjust for USD inflation, Bush increased the national debt by A LOT more. But I don't expect a republican to be well versed in economics or mathematics. You just lie. I see you share the same business logic with Obama. Hey if Obama gets another 4 years and increase the debt by another 6T, it'll still be "better", since percentage wise, it's just a 37% increase on 16T, wonderful!!!! |
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There are several issues that makes Obama a deal breaker for me, not that I really like Romney, but right now, Romney looks a million times better than Obama:
* Obama supports AA, Romney is against
* Obama supports legalizing tens of millions of illegals, Romney is against
* Obama increased the national debt by 6T in 4 years, I don't think anyone else in the Republican party can top that. I mean even the supposedly bad president GWB only increased the debt by 4.4T in 8 years, and he fought 2 wars.
What the heck is AA? Alcoholics Anonymous? The level of Illegals we have are good for the economy (we may not have enough right now) and contrary to media reports commit fewer crimes then average. The debt should be cut. Neither has a realistic plan for dealing with it. AA is Affirmative Action, this issue has a pretty big supreme court case going on right now, I thought everyone would know it. Google "affirmative action supreme court case" The vast majority of the illegals are low skill/manual labor population, they can only do manual labor. It's unfair that a Ph.D/Master student can not easily obtain green card (which Romney has proposed to allow these people obtain Green card, google 'advanced degree green card romney'), while Obama propose to legalize these manual laborers. The United States did not become great due to manual labor, it became great due to all the advanced science/technology it has. Why are barbers in China paid $1 for haircut, while barbers in the US are paid $10? because the barber in the US serve a population that has created science/technology that China can not match, NOT because some illegal Mexican can mow lawns for cheap (which is still expensive compared to Chinese labor). As for the debt, Obama squanders money because he has zero business experience nor management experience (all he has ever been was lawyer or senator). Romney on the other hand has almost 30 years of business experience, several successful turnarounds (bain capital, winter olympics) and is known to be good with money. What's important is not what the "plan" is, but experience. When you go to job interviews, does the company care more about your "plan" or do they care more about your experience? As long as you have the necessary experience, you will have the plan and you will make it work. Without the necessary experience, any "plan" you speak of, I would be highly skeptical of it. |
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There are several issues that makes Obama a deal breaker for me, not that I really like Romney, but right now, Romney looks a million times better than Obama:
* Obama supports AA, Romney is against
* Obama supports legalizing tens of millions of illegals, Romney is against
* Obama increased the national debt by 6T in 4 years, I don't think anyone else in the Republican party can top that. I mean even the supposedly bad president GWB only increased the debt by 4.4T in 8 years, and he fought 2 wars.
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This thread is pointless and dangerous. The fact is you CAN NOT trust an anonymous person on the internet, the chances of being ripped off is very high. You have only encouraged the newbies to be ripped off.
Anyone that hopes to gain my business would have to disclose and verified their:
* full legal name
* full legal address
* social network identity
This is the bare minimum. an exception can be made for C2C market places that use escrow such as silkroad, bitmit etc....
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I'm naturally skeptical of any investment/speculation subscription service. I mean if you were really that good, you'd be making millions off investing/speculating, not selling your strategy for pennies.
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reward halving to 25@ block 210,000. going to be a lot less coins available. I can see us hitting $20 soon.
so we will produce 3600 less coins per day, which is like 10% of the daily volume just on mtgox, not to mention all the volume combined elsewhere, so it's not going to have any major effect on the price. At most we will go up 10% from whatever stable price the market will settle at. |
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Let's not break out the champagne yet, 4 out of 100,000 is still laughable adoption stats. |
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I pity those running the official client.
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