I'm thinking I probably will sooner or later. I've currently got an i7 860, so getting something like a 4770 will be a decent CPU upgrade. My ATI 5950 would definitely benefit the most from an upgrade though, so it just depends on whether I want to replace the whole system or see how long just...
Because the next time and the last time, the Americans likely to be helped by this money helped out other Americans facing a disaster or other dire need with their tax dollars. Plus since that area of the country is a pretty significant contributor to our economy, so it's probably in our best...
Which is a big reason progressive tax rates make sense, since discretionary spending as a portion of income is also progressive. And it has nothing to do with overall tax revenue, the same logic applies no matter what the tax rates are.
I'll never understand the attitude that because ONE thing in an incredibly complex federal budget equation won't solve the problem all by itself, we should just throw up our hands and give up. There is no single perfect answer, a balanced budget should be reached with a combination of things.
Let's settle down a little bit. Republicans aren't "economic terrorists", not even if they're the Tea Party variety.
I don't think the problem is really with the Republican POLITICIANS at all, to be honest. Sure, some of them are pretty extreme in their views and oddly unwilling to work with...
If gun rights are about freedom, shouldn't freedom be about more than gun rights? Every time I heard someone talk in very broad general terms about how much they respect and value freedom as a reason they believe in the right to bear arms, I wonder if that person values freedom in other...
All the shootings? Really?
Looking at gun deaths by state suggests there is basically no connection between red vs blue or liberal vs conservative gun laws and gun deaths. Connecticut has slightly over 1/3 the gun homicide rate per capita of gun happy Texas, for instance (all 4 states you...
Roughly speaking, there are about the same time of cars as guns in the US and about the same number of gun deaths as automobile deaths. So both cars and guns are reasonably fatal to Americans, except cars are intensely regulated for safety reasons. Likely as a result, car related deaths are at...
I had definitely heard that the language is more clear at the state level.
One way to think about it that makes somewhat more sense to me is that even if the amendment was intended for militia reasons ONLY, it would be hard to meet that goal while placing significant limitations on the right...
That's actually kind of the source of my issue here...no interpretation really makes a lot of sense to me. You bring up some good points about the issues with the other common interpretation, although that's not the only one out there. But the argument that we should read the first half of the...
The 1st amendment doesn't explicitly refer to a motivation behind the freedom of speech, it just gives it. The "motivation" clause is really the point I'm not sure about, not the usual individual vs group right argument.
That's what I was thinking of with the comment on "necessary to the security of a free State". No sane nation would try to invade the US because our incredibly massive military spending at both the federal and state level. Potential enemies are incredibly unlikely to even step foot on our...
I don't think anyone should be "despised", as Moonbeam suggests, but I do think that attitude is a serious problem...and not just for the climate debate. Science can only be rejected or fixed by better science. Once we start deciding to ignore science for other reasons, we're basically...
Disclaimer: I created yet another gun debate thread for this hoping to stick to a legal discussion of the 2nd amendment without the rest of the gun debate baggage on either side. Value judgements, emotional appeals, theoretical arguments etc, are found in great abundance in enough threads...
I heard that argument in the conservative press (Breitbart, I think), and it's not getting to be a better argument with repetition (although kudos for thinking through the issue for yourself...). Obama is the President of the United States, and like every President before him for quite some...
Can you support that claim with any data? Because most of the data I've seen (mainly comparing crime rates across states) suggests easily available conceal carry laws combined with a population likely to carry a concealed weapon has little to no impact on violent crime rates.
I could be wrong...
In this particular case, you're right. Westboro may be composed of a bunch of assholes who better hope God isn't real, because they're not doing much to get on his good side, but their douche-nozzle behavior is almost certainly legal. But in general, I think you're absolutely wrong. There are...
The difference is that nobody protested ALL increased security after 9/11, and they certainly didn't start protesting security measures that hadn't happened yet 5 minutes after the attacks. And they definitely didn't start by protesting imaginary controls on key things that helped the attackers...
I'd buy that, except there doesn't seem to be any laws supporting the idea that the EMPLOYER has to provide value to both the employee and the employer/investors.
Unions are organized labor in the exact same way that corporations are organized capital. Each has a specific goal and...
Even without RTW laws, there is NOTHING enabling a "3rd party to get between a worker and their employer" without the consent of either the worker or the employer. Mandatory union membership/dues, as I understand it, is negotiated between the employer and the union and required by the employer...
The accuracy of the cartoon comes from the fact that you are in the minority in thinking it's Obama throwing us off the cliff. Politically it will likely be worse for Republicans than Obama/Democrats in general, yet the Republicans continue to push the issue.
As the last 4 election cycles have proved, 2 years can definitely be a long time in politics. But it's not a guarantee that people won't care about what you did 2 years ago. If we end up with another recession due to the fiscal cliff BS, and people blame Republicans (as polls suggest they're...
As far as I can see, unions have basically the same morals and work ethic as corporations, yet the overlap of people who are anti-one or the other is minimal. The job of the union is to get the best possible deal for the workers, and everyone else can go pound sand. The job of the corporation...
Isn't the problem that it's an incredibly specific "freedom to choose"? I mean aside from union dues, in what other respect do you have the right to conditionally agree to certain requirements of your employment? You'd be laughed out of the room if you said to your employer "I'll work for you...
Reagan was definitely a Republican, in the best possible sense of the word. It's the modern party with the RINO problem. It's hard to imagine Reagan being a member of the Ayn Rand fan club, for example.
Except it's not "win win". Right to work is a big win for employers and a big loss for employees. Instead of it being some big selfish conspiracy, maybe these teachers are just protesting a law that they think is screwing them over while they do an important job that few of us would want for...
I believe that's already a requirement.
In any case, I'm not saying it would be hard to require it...I'm saying significant motivation to learn English ALREADY exists. Making in official, no matter how you enforce it, doesn't seem to be addressing a significant issue.
Except if not knowing English limits your earning potential, and I'd agree that it does, the incentive to learn it already exists. Making it "official" isn't going to provide much extra motivation.
Obama SHOULD be able to bypass Congress and have no debt limit because although it's the Treasury Department's responsibility to borrow the money that pays for the deficit, it's Congress that authorizes the deficit spending in the first place. Having the executive branch go the Congress to ask...
I like how your two categories of women are "married women" and "complete ho-bags". It's almost hard to believe conservatives have some trouble with the female vote...
I've read through 3 pages of this thread so far, and countless others on this same topic, and I STILL have no idea what problem making English the official language is supposed to solve. The unofficial rule is that getting ahead requires speaking English because that's what pretty much everyone...
Unfortunately that's not how the debt ceiling or spending work. The debt ceiling effectively covers borrowing for spending we've already authorized. In other words, any time someone suggests not raising the debt ceiling, they're basically saying we should refuse to pay for our spending. Not...
Republicans would have a lot better time with their argument for "earners and achievers" if they didn't constantly suggest ONLY those at the very tip top of society belong in that category.
In any case, if employment was directly tied to after-tax income of rich people, the last few decades...
Instead of blaming people for being too dumb to understand conservative brilliance or blaming the media for tricking everyone, MAYBE it's worth considering the possibility that conservative ideas are either poorly argued or crap to begin with. At some point it has to be at least a bit your...
I have to agree. In fact I wish more people would reject religion in general when it conflicts with their moral views instead of playing along, ignoring or fighting the issue. I suspect we'd see a lot less religion in the world if people were forced to be honest about how truly religious they...
Why are the only two options catering exclusively to people who need/use government assistance or exclusively to financially well off people? The whole point of having a democracy is to get a government that "caters" to everyone and we get a system that works for everyone, not just your...
Guaranteeing we have a government tailored to a non-representative group of people sounds like something we should actively try to avoid. If everyone was a middle class white guy, your plan might work (although it would be unnecessary). But if we restrict the vote that way, the inconvenient...
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