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OccupySF IT Admins Using Pedal Power For Protest
99luftballon writes "The OccupySF team have been running an ad-hoc computer network on the streets of San Francisco without a steady power source, no Wi-Fi and even the occasional police raid. It turns out the best way to keep the lights on is car batteries and pedal power."
It's driving force is a desire for equality, where equality means that you get free money from the government.
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The top 10% of income earners pay 70% of the taxes. They don't make 70% of the income... about 45%. The US has the highest corporate tax of any industrialized country, with is a double tax: profits taxed once as a corporation and again on personal taxes as the profit is paid out to the people who ARE the corporation.
Nearly half of America pays NOTHNG in Federal Income tax. Many many many get more back than what they paid in. We used to call it Welfare when people got money from the government that they didn't pay in. Now it's Earned Income Tax Credit. Cute...
It's Mobocracy at it's best. Lets all vote to have 5% of the people pay 100% of the taxes.... People vote in their own self interest and it passes with a majority. Simple... and it's how Democracy commits suicide.
I thought 'bullying' was the worst thing ever these days. 99% of the people ganging up on 1% ... Humm....
Everything you said is a lie.
I walk past the group everyday, just today about noon in fact. They are camped right in front of the federal reserve building on main and market. They mostly try to bum cigarettes and money, and leave trash everywhere. Some protest.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'