Obama: broadband internet access for all!

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

It is a promise to give you something you don't currently have in hopes that you will be more likely to vote for that person. Same thing. And try not to go crazy on Hillary even in threads where Hillary isn't part of the discussion.

Cutting taxes is buying votes by promising not to take as much as the bastard government is otherwise taking. Damn Hillary for taking so much. Damn Obama for the same reason.

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Tex

Why wouldn't they want the market to determine where wi-fi is available, and who pays for it?

There are positive externalities to wi-fi. Just like a telephone. If you're the only with it it, it's useless. The more others use it, the more it is profitable for you to have one. So people won't get wi-fi until more people have it, so we need the government to get it jump-started.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

First of all, it is a straw man. Rather than deal with this issue directly, you present other silly issues and then knock them down as if they were this issue; basically the definition of a straw man argument.

Yesterday, Tex posts a thread calling it "another gay mormon outs himself" or something similar. He links to an op-ed piece by an LDS person who had some sort of local leadership position in the Church in AZ. He says that he will withhold his take until the rest of the board has a chance to chime in.

The thread responses covered a myriad of issues, including SSA statistics amongst Church membership, suicide, biases in our LDS culture, and others.

After all of that, Tex's observation was unvelied to be that the writer has poor persuasive writing skills.

A straw man, indeed.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

There are positive externalities to wi-fi. Just like a telephone. If you're the only with it it, it's useless. The more others use it, the more it is profitable for you to have one. So people won't get wi-fi until more people have it, so we need the government to get it jump-started.

I don't think wi-fi is as critical as the telephone, and I've made my living the last 10 years in Internet-related businesses and technology.

I noticed your chart, by the way. I already said earlier that I don't think a per capita comparison is fair, given the sizeable difference in population. But as long as we're doing comparisons, we ought to compare those countries tax rates with our own.

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

A straw man, indeed.

It may be we have finally found someone who has a worse understanding of the concept of a straw man than even Cali Coug. I didn't think it possible.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

You will find that he does that a lot. Says something, only to say 8 pages later that he never actually took any position at all. You may find this link helpful:

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...9&postcount=72

Let's hope Lebowski is reading this thread: I'm not the one turning it into a referendum on Tex-hate.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

It may be we have finally found someone who has a worse understanding of the concept of a straw man than even Cali Coug. I didn't think it possible.

You have poor persuasive writing skills.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

You have poor persuasive writing skills.

I'm starting to learn your sole debate tactic is to just cut and paste from my posts, whether it fits the point or not.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

I'm starting to learn your sole debate tactic is to just cut and paste from my posts, whether it fits the point or not.

Wrong.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Wrong.

Heh, right. With apologies to The Office:

Jim (Tex): So where are you shipping your foot?
Michael (TripletDaddy): Ha ha ha. So where are you shipping...
Dwight (Cali Coug): Your foot.

http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/theoff...office-212.htm

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

Heh, right. With apologies to The Office:

Jim (Tex): So where are you shipping your foot?
Michael (TripletDaddy): Ha ha ha. So where are you shipping...
Dwight (Cali Coug): Your foot.

http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/theoff...office-212.htm

I love The Office. Too bad tonight is the last episode for awhile.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

You should apologize to the office. Because what you just attempted was a disservice to that fine television program.

Ok, Dwight.