Easy - because the reasons for current schools of thought and behavior were formed 200 years ago. It’s still relevant today.

I understand the argument completely, I just think it’s bullshit.

I don’t know how you figure it out. I’m not an educator. But like most other jobs it’s surely a mixture of quantitative and qualitative measures.

Even in a world where the PPACA wasn’t going to be repealed or severely modified, I think even one year is too soon to tell. I mean in past years we heard Obama and other Dems proclaim it a major success based on the info they had. I don’t really have a problem with guys like Paul Ryan criticizing it based on this…

I see one guy posting that sort of thing there, who in all honesty is probably Randy Edsall or maybe Randy Edsall’s wife.

I didn’t read the book but I think SMW gave Sega some ammo in how they painted Nintendo as an old fuddy-duddy company while they were the cool ones.

I didn’t read the book but I think SMW gave Sega some ammo in how they painted Nintendo as an old fuddy-duddy…

Well, no, not exactly. If more people are signing up yet they continue to be sicker and older than predicted, then that means adverse selection is still a problem and the “death spiral” might be accelerating. Too soon to tell, though.

Do you know there is a difference between local municipalities and the Feds? Property taxes are paid because of a piece of land and they are paid to a local government around that piece of land to administer services around it. Not shoveling money into the gaping maw of D.C. for them to do whatever the fuck with it.

Yea, it’d be great if taxes were used to pay for the stuff I want them to pay, in an efficient and effective manner. Unfortunately that’s not the way it goes.

It seems like the reward for your work is always just more work

Nice strawman.

Yea. I would love to play a proper adventure game on that island. I think one reason why Myst was such a big hit 20 years ago was because it nailed that balance between obtuseness, storytelling, and encouragement. The Witness leans far too much on the first.

I have no interest in debating taxes and confiscation with a guy who has a hammer and sickle for an avatar.

I remember reading that article. And my natural reaction was an outgrowth of what I said before - “that guy’s an idiot! Why didn’t he save? After all, I did.” And that really goes into what I was saying about personal decisions and choice. No solidarity. It’s a natural reaction to living in this culture.

Well, I have a problem with property taxes as well, but it’s a fair price to pay because the property taxes I pay go to paying for the teachers that teach local kids, cops that patrol my streets, etc. Sending it off to DC to go pay for a bunch of diamond-encrusted toilet seats and shitty airport x-ray machines that…

It’s a stupid game.

Seriously? Not the same thing. Look at how French and English society were ordered at the time of this nation’s founding.

Actually it’s very different. Taxes are normally assessed at the time a dollar is transferred. When money goes from my company to me, it is taxed. When I sell stock for money, it gets taxed. When I give United money for an airplane ticket, it is taxed.

Davos is basically a giant machine all the rich people fart into and then use solid gold air masks to smell it.

It’s an American phenomenon. This has always been a nation free of the suffocating class divisions of Europe, where the station one was born into determined the station one would die in. This is a great thing for so many reasons, but it also means that there is a lack of class solidarity. It means that, to some…