So, some good, some not so good about the XBox.
First, I am having a little trouble adjusting to the controls. They're a bit sensitive to me. So it's going to take time to adjust. I'm more accustomed to playing on PC, which means mixture of keyboard and tighter controls using a trackball. I'm also used to being much closer to the screen, which is more immersive. Oh, well. Sure I can adjust. It performs really well. Great graphics!
What I actually had heard a little of but not much was the other functions available on the XBox. Had not really thought much about it. Like Netflix, etc. Did not know you could video chat on it. (Not doing that until I get the living room in better organization.)
So, I've downloaded a few apps for History Channel, Hulu, Netflix and A&E.
I'm dragging a bit this morning. Get started doing some stuff shortly. Today is vehicle maintenance day. Have to get that done and check how the car performs. And make sure I can get the bike running. Wish I had a garage.
11 AM-
Yeah, I haven't gotten anything done yet. At least part of my first day off, I am typically in a thinking mood.
These are copies of posts I made to FaceBook this morning alone.
You cannot restrict choices and protections for the people of this country and still claim you are in favor of freedom.
Okay, for those actually getting nervous about Jade Helm, I'll explain this.
1. If the government was going to take over, they would move quickly and as quietly as possible. This would result in decreased resistance. They would not announce things months in advance.
2. The reason for the silence on details is simple. This is a massive war game. Also known as "OpFor", which means opposing force. They are split into something like blue team and red team. Or back and white, team 1 and team 2..
3. In war games (which are training for the real thing), plans and tactics are NOT announced widespread and in advance. This would give the opposing team the chance to plan their tactics to defeat you.
4. Many plans are not made in advance. They change and evolve. Any military that cannot adapt to changing conditions is useless. You would not get into a street fight and tell your opponent every place you were going to hit them and in what order. It's common sense.
5. In a maneuver this size, there is friendly territory and enemy territory. Most likely chosen at random by computer or drawn from a hat. Other choice? The f'ing crazy governors in Texas for the last 20 years and over 100k Texans signing a petition to secede! Think that makes it friendly territory?!!
6. We are 3 days into this thing. How many cities and towns are under martial law so far?
7. When it is all over and no martial law has been declared, understand this. You did NOT avert something which was never going to happen. You just showed your paranoia to the whole world.
It still amazes me that some people believe in the trickle down theory.
Here are some facts to consider.
1- 1 percent of the US population possesses 90 percent of the wealth.
2- That 1 percent is constantly trying to gain even more.
3- Are you hearing anything in that which says they are trying to share any of it? No. They did not get there by paying money out.
4- If they succeed, their increase comes from the other 99 percent, leaving us with less. The result is economic depression and stagnation.
5- Economies function on money being spent, not hoarded.
6- If you believe you will ever have a chance of being part of that 1 percent, forget it. You have a greater chance of winning the lottery, being hit by lightning..both within one minute.
7- To become part of that 1 percent at this point in time, it would require getting some of the money from the existing 1 percent, which is not going to happen. Why? See number 3, above.
8- The 1 percent mentioned are continually moving jobs (especially well paying jobs) and money to other countries to avoid taxes and regulations here. Which damages the US economy and devalues the US dollar.
Conservatives are the most likely to endorse the trickle down theory.
Conservatives, by nature, idealize an anarchistic past, like the 1950's. Yet the tax rate on the richest American's in the 50's and early 60's was over 90 percent.
Historically, the lowest tax rates on the rich have resulted in economic downturns. While increased tax rates for the rich have economic upturns for extended periods.
This is a very good article on the last thing I wrote. The article is NOT a left wing article. It is from a business website.
Look at the chart for tax rates. Notice the 1920's (stock market crash, beginning of Great Depression). Note the late 1930's, when we were climbing out of the Depression.
Then look at the 1980's (Reaganomics).
1990's saw an economic improvement due to the tech bubble. Not related to taxes very much.
Then go to the early 2000's up to 2008 (economic crash initiated by the housing crash).
And in general, compare all of this to the worst poverty in history. The French Revolution. The Middle Ages. In each case the vast majority of wealth was monopolized by a small percentage of people.
Simply put, ALL historical and rational economic arguments demonstrate that the trickle down theory has absolutely NO merit and is completely counterproductive to the general economy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates-2012-5?op=1
First, I am having a little trouble adjusting to the controls. They're a bit sensitive to me. So it's going to take time to adjust. I'm more accustomed to playing on PC, which means mixture of keyboard and tighter controls using a trackball. I'm also used to being much closer to the screen, which is more immersive. Oh, well. Sure I can adjust. It performs really well. Great graphics!
What I actually had heard a little of but not much was the other functions available on the XBox. Had not really thought much about it. Like Netflix, etc. Did not know you could video chat on it. (Not doing that until I get the living room in better organization.)
So, I've downloaded a few apps for History Channel, Hulu, Netflix and A&E.
I'm dragging a bit this morning. Get started doing some stuff shortly. Today is vehicle maintenance day. Have to get that done and check how the car performs. And make sure I can get the bike running. Wish I had a garage.
11 AM-
Yeah, I haven't gotten anything done yet. At least part of my first day off, I am typically in a thinking mood.
These are copies of posts I made to FaceBook this morning alone.
You cannot restrict choices and protections for the people of this country and still claim you are in favor of freedom.
Okay, for those actually getting nervous about Jade Helm, I'll explain this.
1. If the government was going to take over, they would move quickly and as quietly as possible. This would result in decreased resistance. They would not announce things months in advance.
2. The reason for the silence on details is simple. This is a massive war game. Also known as "OpFor", which means opposing force. They are split into something like blue team and red team. Or back and white, team 1 and team 2..
3. In war games (which are training for the real thing), plans and tactics are NOT announced widespread and in advance. This would give the opposing team the chance to plan their tactics to defeat you.
4. Many plans are not made in advance. They change and evolve. Any military that cannot adapt to changing conditions is useless. You would not get into a street fight and tell your opponent every place you were going to hit them and in what order. It's common sense.
5. In a maneuver this size, there is friendly territory and enemy territory. Most likely chosen at random by computer or drawn from a hat. Other choice? The f'ing crazy governors in Texas for the last 20 years and over 100k Texans signing a petition to secede! Think that makes it friendly territory?!!
6. We are 3 days into this thing. How many cities and towns are under martial law so far?
7. When it is all over and no martial law has been declared, understand this. You did NOT avert something which was never going to happen. You just showed your paranoia to the whole world.
It still amazes me that some people believe in the trickle down theory.
Here are some facts to consider.
1- 1 percent of the US population possesses 90 percent of the wealth.
2- That 1 percent is constantly trying to gain even more.
3- Are you hearing anything in that which says they are trying to share any of it? No. They did not get there by paying money out.
4- If they succeed, their increase comes from the other 99 percent, leaving us with less. The result is economic depression and stagnation.
5- Economies function on money being spent, not hoarded.
6- If you believe you will ever have a chance of being part of that 1 percent, forget it. You have a greater chance of winning the lottery, being hit by lightning..both within one minute.
7- To become part of that 1 percent at this point in time, it would require getting some of the money from the existing 1 percent, which is not going to happen. Why? See number 3, above.
8- The 1 percent mentioned are continually moving jobs (especially well paying jobs) and money to other countries to avoid taxes and regulations here. Which damages the US economy and devalues the US dollar.
Conservatives are the most likely to endorse the trickle down theory.
Conservatives, by nature, idealize an anarchistic past, like the 1950's. Yet the tax rate on the richest American's in the 50's and early 60's was over 90 percent.
Historically, the lowest tax rates on the rich have resulted in economic downturns. While increased tax rates for the rich have economic upturns for extended periods.
This is a very good article on the last thing I wrote. The article is NOT a left wing article. It is from a business website.
Look at the chart for tax rates. Notice the 1920's (stock market crash, beginning of Great Depression). Note the late 1930's, when we were climbing out of the Depression.
Then look at the 1980's (Reaganomics).
1990's saw an economic improvement due to the tech bubble. Not related to taxes very much.
Then go to the early 2000's up to 2008 (economic crash initiated by the housing crash).
And in general, compare all of this to the worst poverty in history. The French Revolution. The Middle Ages. In each case the vast majority of wealth was monopolized by a small percentage of people.
Simply put, ALL historical and rational economic arguments demonstrate that the trickle down theory has absolutely NO merit and is completely counterproductive to the general economy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates-2012-5?op=1
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