Recent content by DerekP

It's a shell shocker deal, so looks like it's good until 1pm PST or until they run out. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889268001

I think the key to the airline industry is that more than one airline can run out of an airport. That gives you all of the benefits and workings of capitalism (competition, choice, etc..). Things like subways, there can by their nature be only one. But I see your point. The true...

Yeah I understand how it works, I suppose I should have been more specific, in that I was referring to the ticket price. It seems to me that private ownership would create a deadly spiral. Higher ticket price, less riders, less revenue, raise ticket prices again, continue until bankruptcy...

But a quite necessary one. I grew up just outside Washington, DC. You don't drive unless you absolutely have to. The traffic is terrible, there's nowhere to park, and I doubt there is much anything that could be done about it without knocking down a whole bunch of stuff. And that is with the...

Well in my view both sides are a little short on sources on this one. Then again, some people here realize this is more an exercise in principles and ideas than cold hard facts. Nothing wrong with stating your opinion,just recognize it as such. And realize you may not have all of the...

Well in a standard democracy, I'd say elect someone who thinks like you do, and for a while that's how I saw the Democrat/Republican balance working. Democrats would spend, raise taxes, enact programs in the public good. Then it gets out of hand, the Republicans get voted in, cut taxes, cut...

Addressing 3, I tend to think of taxing more like everyone putting money up to build a swimming pool everyone can use. My problem with the current structure, is the swimming pool costs 3 times as much as it should, because the guy in charge of all the money is buying beer and whiskey for his...

I think we need to first see where all of this money is going. And herein lies the problem. Figuring it out is a complete mess. 100 Billion more than a peace-time DoD. For some reason, the budget for the DoD doesn't include money for actually using the military, so we have to throw another...

This to me makes it rather obvious then where the money is flowing. Business is in the position to protect their profit no matter what, because they can just pass on the costs as they need to.

Why do they need all of this money for what amounts to getting in front of people and telling them "QUIT FORNICATING! IT'S GONNA FALL OFF!"

Well from my understanding of it (which isn't all that studied..), the Constitution doesn't outline what can or cannot be spent on, only who is to authorize the spending. The Constitution only says that congress has the power of the purse, not what to do with that power. If you take the...

And once again to sum up... Valerie? But.... ARMITAGEBERGERCLINTONKENNEDY!!!11!ONE! ::artery bursts::

I have a question. In the two days I've been reading these forums, I've seen all kinds of taxes bashed. So is it the belief of everyone here that they've never seen a tax they've liked? The good old less government is better, and less funding is less government? Or is it just dislike of...

Ok, first off the new wing would be the Department of Homeland Security. Maybe I should have been more specific on that part. Shadow government, I probably should have left out, it was more of a reference to something I read about how intelligence functions are quietly moving into Dick...

Point taken on the home/public difference, although I do have to add I live with chronic bronchitis due to my family smoking like chimneys as I was growing up. But someone living alone, truly does not affect anyone else, so you're right in that case. Also, it's notable that the same moral...