"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
10/27/2014 at 20:39 • Filed to: None
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"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
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but first, this
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thebigbossyboss
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 20:45 |
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The IRS and the 10K rule is really insane.
whoarder is tellurium
> thebigbossyboss
10/27/2014 at 20:50 |
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The IRS in general is insane.
nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 20:54 |
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So given that I work by myself on the road I listen to a LOT of radio. There's no aux port on the Uplander's radio and I haven't purchased a CD since 2007. Local radio is unfuckingbearable with their play 20 songs every day repeatedly with the so-and-so called in and wants to hear one of those 20 songs we only play . That being said I switched over to the AM and started flipping through talk radio stations.
HOLY CHRIST I understand why our government is so jacked up. The democrats could literally figure out a way to turn crap into car fuel with a skittles byproduct and the republicans would flip out and claim the democrats are using the skittles to help fund terrorists. The republicans could figure out how to turn crap into fuel and the democrats would claim the republicans are using the skittles to spread religion and oppress the gays. Its amazing how much party bickering and bantering the shows are actually about and how little is about resolving any problems. Because they are the problem. They're a problem making a problem more problematic.
"So-and-so came up with this great idea." "Fuck them" "what, why?" "because they're a democrat" "no they're not, they're republican." "oh, really?.... this is the best idea ever! they're a genius!" "Nah I was just kidding they're not actually a republican" "Fuck them" (feel free to swap out democrat with republican, liberal, etc).
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dogisbadob
> nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/27/2014 at 20:57 |
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:(
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thebigbossyboss
> whoarder is tellurium
10/27/2014 at 20:58 |
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I am an american whom lives abroad. I know.
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dogisbadob
> thebigbossyboss
10/27/2014 at 20:59 |
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Yup. 10k in 1970 when the BSA was written is about 60k today. They should raise the threshold to 60k.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 21:03 |
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I saw this summation of US politics on Slashdot a while ago and thought it was just perfect.
Both parties are against what the other is for, even when they agree.
ttyymmnn
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 21:04 |
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The NYTimes had an article about this just the other day. This story is not about any particular party or president. This is about a government agency that is out of control. This is nothing more than a complete lack of due process that amounts to theft by the government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/…
DrJohannVegas
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 21:30 |
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On the first point: Not inflation adjusting things is the single surest sign that some lawmakers have no sense of reality. (See also: Alternative Minimum Tax.)
On the second point:
Warning: Political Scientist
So, rather than dump the original paper into this post, I'll just pass along an op-ed which comes from some of the best recent work on Gerrymandering. Basically, electoral geography is complicated, but a few points appear to come from the data.
1) Gerrymandering is "worst" in states which are already strongly Republican or Democratic.
2) Gerrymandering probably helps Republicans less than one might expect.
3) The natural rural/urban split in partisan support has a lot to do with #2, but it also means that making Gerrymandering "work" is harder for the Democrats.
4) Everybody does it anyway.
The Op-ed is here. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/opi…
TL;DR: Everyone Gerrymanders.
NLE; WTRM (Not long enough; want to read more.): If you want to see the original paper, it's here: http://web.stanford.edu/~jrodden/wp/fl… (Rodden and Chen are both good researchers with very interesting sets of skills.)
Dusty Ventures
> dogisbadob
10/27/2014 at 23:11 |
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Related: great bit on gerrymandering:
And the rest of the series, which is brilliant
The Compromiser
> DrJohannVegas
10/28/2014 at 00:04 |
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Thanks for the abbreviation explanations! My boss draaws things and puts plo, nts, ndw, after them. I asked one day what the ladst one meant. I understood please leave on and not to scale, but the last one baffled me. He laughed and said "not drawn well"
LappingLuke
> dogisbadob
10/28/2014 at 22:19 |
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Vote Libertarian and fuck all this shit once and for all. The truth is D's and R's are all for this kind of thing. The problem runs deeper than this one issue and runs across the broad spectrum of stories that affect the daily lives of every American and it all stems from out of control big government. Regular people who truly believe they have extraordinary power over other regular people just because they were voted in by a certain portion of those regular people...