Okay, the MSM is definitely trying to appeal to disaffected Paul supporters with the Ryan nomination. Case in point: google “Paul Ryan Austrian Economics”
I was just told how much this guy sounds like me.
Don’t Confuse Paul Ryan with Ron Paul
Paul Ryan Supports the Gold Standard, and I’m Lady Gaga
Wayyy ahead of you bro. I bin had read those.
Glad you’re back!
This bank holds deposits in Ag
Send this to your socialist / anti-free market acquaintences to make them feel vindicated…
Baby Dies after Hospital Unwilling to Pay $3 for Incubator electricity
…Then laugh when they find out it was a government hospital…and that the parents of the child were subsequently awarded compensation for the baby’s death in the amount of $1,855…curiously enough to pay for the electricity of over 600 incubators.
For local news I guess some (or a lot) of people have been in uproar about setting up tolls to help fund the development of expanding (or building a new) tunnel connecting Portsmouth and Norfolk, which is used by almost everyone who wants to go to Virginia Beach and Norfolk if you’re in Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk. Few weeks ago I saw a bumper sticker that said “A toll is a tax” and then I wondered if a toll is a tax, then what’s a tax? Rhetorical, of course. Either way the blatant ignorance can be overwhelming when they can’t seperate the fee of paying for something directly in real time on a voluntary basis, and the opposite.
There’s this and this, now on one article it refers to a toll as a tax if the government sets up a toll:
“We consistently have held that when the primary purpose of an enactment is to raise revenue, the enactment will be considered a tax, regardless of the name attached to the act,” the high court noted. “In accordance with this authority, we conclude that each of the regional taxes and fees provided in Chapter 896 (of the 2007 Acts of the General Assembly) constitutes a tax, because they all are designed to produce revenue to be used for the purpose of financing bonds and supplying revenue for transportation purposes in Northern Virginia.”
The court continued: “If payment of the regional taxes and fees is to be required by a general law, it is the prerogative and the function of the General Assembly, as provided by Article 4, Section 1, of the Constitution, to make that decision… Accordingly, we hold that the provisions of Chapter 896 permitting [the Northern Virginia Taxing Authority] to impose the regional taxes and fees are invalid because they violate the Constitution.”
Those passages and others have inspired Del. Kenny Alexander, a Norfolk Democrat, and attorney Patrick McSweeney, a former state Republican Party chairman, to prepare a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to use tolls on the Downtown and Midtown tunnels to help pay for a $2.1 billion improvement project.
Those tolls, set to start within six months, will be $1.84 each way for cars during rush hour. McDonnell’s administration has signed a contract with Elizabeth River Crossings, a consortium of private companies, to renovate the Downtown and Midtown tunnels, build a new Midtown tube and extend the Martin Luther King Expressway.
But…
The owner of the new South Norfolk Jordan Bridge will likely pay close to $20,000 a year to Chesapeake, the host city, for what it collects from the crossing’s $2 tolls.
A similar tax on revenue from tolls at the busier Midtown and Downtown tunnels would bring in much more for Portsmouth - in excess of a quarter-million dollars annually.
One problem: Unlike the Jordan Bridge fee, the tunnel tolls between Norfolk and Portsmouth, while still contributing to a profit-making venture, can’t be taxed locally. And several other exemptions could apply to the project because of provisions in the state’s Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995.
You have taxes, you have tolls, and you have tolls that have taxes…
And there’s this, which I did not realize what site I was on til I got to the bottom of the page:
By raising taxes on the super rich and their corporations and closing corporate tax loopholes, we could maintain Interstate 95 and create jobs. However, under capitalism, regressive taxes are routinely imposed and services such as public transit cut back. Under socialism, workers will manage society’s resources in the interest of the majority and public transportation will be prioritized.
Thought these were kind of interesting:
5 Materials That Will Make the World as We Know it Obsolete
15 technologies of today we’ll still be using in 2030
The Business of Sports (really…look at those profit margins. I wouldn’t have guessed even close)
I disagree with quite a few of these.
QWERTY won’t completely disappear, but neither have typewriters. It is difficult to predict when they will have generally disappeared but I’m willing to bet they’ll be a minority by 2030. The primary resistance to elimination of the keyboard will be cheap-ass corporations that won’t want to furnish offices for their employees who will now be speaking to the computer instead of silently tapping away on a keyboard, something that can be done in a dirt-cheap cubicle.
My predictions: Touch-screens and voice-recognition will all but completely replace the mouse, keyboard and non-touch monitor within two decades.
PC is too fuzzy to refute.
USB? shrug What matters more than “USB” versus something else (what?) is wired versus wire-free. Bluetooth or something similar will completely obsolete wired standards within two decades. If you have to plug it in, people won’t even consider buying it, no matter what it is.
Local storage - he’s right on this one but for the wrong reason. Local storage will never go away because you can never trust everything (including your passwords) to a remote storage point. It just doesn’t make sense.
JPG is correct, it will never go away. Like ASCII.
Li+; Seriously? They already have a speed-charging Lithium technology that is set to completely obsolete traditional Li+ batteries. You can charge a cell laptop in a matter of minutes with this new technology.
HTML: Yes, but only for the same reasons as JPG… it’s just a universally readable/writable standard. However, passive content is going to basically go away and the Internet is going to become active content. I can’t predict a timeline on this but I would have difficulty seeing it taking more than two decades.
Cash: Not if TPTB have anything to say about it. They want cash gone ASAP.
Clamshell form-factor; Duh. It’s a form factor, it will never go away.
WiFi: I think this is correct. B/W demand has been vastly overestimated by tech investors. Consumers want to economize on B/W as much as possible. However, what could obsolete the WiFi is an opening up of IP law regarding television, forcing the major media producers to transition to an Internet-based delivery model over the current, dedicated cable/satellite model. If that happens, B/W demand will explode and expect to see WiFi eclipsed by much higher B/W wireless models.
Email: Yeah but. There’s nothing that really makes email mail. It’s just another form of electronic communication and that’s what’s not going away ever. Facebook messages, tweets, texting, etc. It all goes back to the telecom giants. If they allow phones to start communicating VoIP and Internet data as standard features, the dedicated “landline” model of telecom will disappear. It’s redundant and dinosauric. This would also make “email” increasingly irrelevant. It’s just another protocol out of dozens by which to get text from one individual to another.
Audio jacks: Yes but. Wireless will soon replace wired. Twenty years from now, there won’t be any wires on your desktop, not even to your headphones.
Laser printers; probably
TV: Nope. TV is in big, big trouble. Within twenty years, I expect a shift to Internet-based media delivery. The media monopolies are all fighting it tooth and nail but it’s inevitable.
Microsoft Office; Not as we know it today. Even Microsoft is preparing for the transition to the new “Web OS” model with Windows 8. The transformation will happen whether they want it or not.
Clayton -
EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016
US Army Tactical Manuals Describe How to Control Domestic Insurrection
- •If you have to plug it in, people won’t even consider buying it, no matter what it is.
I’m always skeptical of this. Wireless peripherals are convienent for some, and not so much for others. It really depends on the application. I specifically shy away from wireless devices for my desktop for a variety of reasons. Response time (important in gaming), worrying about batter life, higher cost, etc. Maybe I’m behind the curve, but I just don’t see wired peripherals simply dissapearing. Less widely used? Yes. Gone? Absolutely not.
http://news.yahoo.com/ideological-battle-voters-dont-want-100144850–abc-news-politics.html
But there are plenty of voters out there who are more concerned about function than ideology. They aren’t spending their evenings debating the benefits of Hayek or Keynesian economic models.
AE mention in the mainstream! Front page of Yahoo! Of course, it’s telling how they can’t even say “Hayekian” right while they can indeed say “Keynesian.”
Stranded Jet-Skier Walks Across JFK Runways, Into Terminal Undetected
Oh, by the way, after he told an official at the airport about what happened, they arrested him.
Wow someone’s optimistic
AVTM reaching younger audience
Wow.
To be honest, I don’t know what my parents would have done if they caught me watching Adam Kokesh at 10-11 years old. It would probably be the end of my time derping around on the internet unsupervised. It’s nice to know that kids that young are interested in learning about freedom. As a side thought, Adam’s take on girls(sex?) in middle school could be supplemented by a dose of Uncle Argyle’s thoughts on education.