Yeah, right. Tell me another. Do you know how far the tax rate of the wealthiest has fallen since 1950? Not to mention offshore tax shelters, loopholes and associated bullshit.
Actually, no I don't know how much the tax rate on the rich has fallen since 1950. But I can tell you how much it's RISEN since 1979. Get your facts straight dude. I 1979 the richest.1% paid just over 5% of the tax revenue collected. Now they pay almost 10%.
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Before you say "corporations pay taxes too", let me remind you that corporate tax share has gone from about 50% in the 1950's, to about 2% today.
But the people who end up with the money the corporation makes, shareholders and employees, all pay taxes on the money they receive. The corp itself may only pay a small amount but the money gets taxed eventually when someone receives it as personal income.
Besides, the rich pay a higher share of taxes now than they did in 1979. It's misleading to say corporations don't pay tax, corporations are made up of individuals, and individuals pay tax. Does it really make a difference to anyone who isn't a tax lawyer that the money goes through a step in between?
Sure, I wouldn't diss someone's computer science knowledge just because they were 15. CompSci is something a 15 year old can know quite a bit about.
Politics on the other hand.. I could give a shit what a 15 year old thinks about politics. Of course you're a leftist when you're 15, you get all your spending money from mommy and daddy.. Handouts are your way of life.
Whether they like being called schoolboys or not, it's what they are. Just because they have a political opinion that equates to "OMG W4R 15 B4D n0 Bl00d 4 01L LOL WTF" doesn't make me think of them as mature.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Everytime that I do something that the Bible says not to do.. then I am also wrong. Just as wrong as a homosexual.
But you don't see religious people picketing Red Lobster with signs that say "God Hates Shellfish Eaters" passing out tracts and trying to pass laws against eating shellfish, and saying anyone who eats shellfish is going to hell. Why not? According to Leviticus, it's just as wrong as being gay.
Hell, Christians seem to get more bent out of shape about gays than they do about people breaking any of the actual Ten Commandments. Compared to the Commandments, the gay thing seems pretty minor to the Big Guy in the sky. I mean if it's SUCH a big deal who people choose to fall in love with how come it's not at least the Eleventh Commandment or something?
Heh.. I bet myself when I clicked on this story to read the comments that the top post would contain some kind of attack on Bush, even though this story has nothing at all to do with him, and that it would be rated +5 insightful.
I guess I win.:) The Bush bashers are currently more in fashion on/. than the MS bashers are, so it was an easy call.
Duke Nukem Forever will make Half Life 2 look like a piece of crap. Someday.
It's the same story Microsoft has told for years.. "Yeah, those other guys might have some cool shit, but the stuff we're working on is WAY better. Don't buy their stuff, wait for our new thing to come out. It'll be available Real Soon Now."
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market.
Haven't seen anyone on this thread mention the minibosses yet.
They get heavy rotation on my iPod, especially their covers of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! and Contra. It's great when it comes on during my weekly poker game and everyone at the table feels like they've heard it before but they have no idea what it is..:)
I'd settle for a dual G4 Powerbook. My old Powerbook went off lease a few months ago and now I'm waiting to buy a new one until either a G5 or a dual G4 comes out.
I think you're missing the point. I'm not saying it will or won't work, I'm just pointing out that accomplished scientists saying some specific future scientific accomplishment is impossible have been proved wrong in the past time after time.
I think an effective anti-ballistic-missile defense is a lot more likely than teleportation of human beings, after all it's just basic physics. But I still wouldn't say either of them was flat-out impossible.
I actually think the topic of missile defense is far too suffused with politics to make any kind of rational slashdot discussion impossible. Wait, did I just use the words "rational slashdot discussion" in a sentence together? Never mind, I think I'll just go lie down.
I agree with you. People need to realize that a lot of enterprise type companies will simply not standardize on any application that lacks real enterprise level support.
Not to say that I agree with that attitude, but it is reality. There has to be someone standing behind the software, so that if some disaster happens, the suit who recommended the app has some CYA ammunition for himself.
Unless he's easily suckered. Which this guy was. We'd softened him up by repeatedly pranking his Windows box in the usual ways : the desktop screenshot, the invisible mouse pointers, etc.
He was reduced to password protecting everything and locking it down hard to stop us, even to the point of swapping out his machine for one with a locking case so we couldn't just reset his BIOS password. The tiny piece of tape on his cable had him tearing things apart looking for a software trick since that's what he was used to us pulling on him.
In short, yeah it was sort of a weak trick that he should have figured out sooner. But the first rule of pranking is to know your enemy. Sure, you would have figured it out. But for this particular mark, it worked beautifully.
A tiny bit of clear adhesive tape can also do wonders when cut to fit and applied to the contacts of a network cable. Your victim will never notice it unless they look VERY closely, and you get the joy of seeing them frantically troubleshooting their net connection, reinstalling drivers, unplugging the cable and looking at it (but not seeing the clear tape), trying another jack..
I hate to say it but anyone who is willing to have his tax money spent on a missile shield defence, of which it has been demonstrated that it will NEVER work, has to be considered low on intelligence...hence the term "idiot".
Never? It will *NEVER* work? My, that's a bold statement.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Don't count on it working. I bought a dual G5 a few months before iLife '05 came out, but I held off buying it since my employer was buying some Mac Minis, and I thought I'd just "borrow" an iLife installer disk from one of them.
The installer knew that I wasn't installing on a Mini though, so it refused to install.
What right does Wordpress have to be listed in Google's results at all? Google is in the business of providing accurate search results, if someone's playing tricks to direct results to something less accurate, Google has the right to "fix" things.
After all, if every google search just led to a bunch of spam pages, Google itself would cease to be very useful.
Can you imagine how much Microsoft will lose on each unit? The Final Solution to the Microsoft problem should now be obvious. If each and every one of us buys an Xbox Next and no games, we will bankrupt Microsoft.
Yeah, even if they lose $300 per console, we'll only have to buy two hundred million of them to burn through Microsoft's famous $60 billion cash stockpile.
And then XBox Next becomes the best selling game console in gaming history, gets super hyped in the gaming press ("TWO HUNDRED MILLION SOLD!!"), and the PHBs of one game dev house after another drop development on every other platform to focus on the "epic best selling XBox Next", and MS gets a brand new monopoly to tuck into bed at night thanks to your Final Solution.
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Hmm.. good point. I changed it slightly..
Actually, no I don't know how much the tax rate on the rich has fallen since 1950. But I can tell you how much it's RISEN since 1979. Get your facts straight dude. I 1979 the richest .1% paid just over 5% of the tax revenue collected. Now they pay almost 10%.
But the people who end up with the money the corporation makes, shareholders and employees, all pay taxes on the money they receive. The corp itself may only pay a small amount but the money gets taxed eventually when someone receives it as personal income.
Besides, the rich pay a higher share of taxes now than they did in 1979. It's misleading to say corporations don't pay tax, corporations are made up of individuals, and individuals pay tax. Does it really make a difference to anyone who isn't a tax lawyer that the money goes through a step in between?
Sure, I wouldn't diss someone's computer science knowledge just because they were 15. CompSci is something a 15 year old can know quite a bit about.
Politics on the other hand.. I could give a shit what a 15 year old thinks about politics. Of course you're a leftist when you're 15, you get all your spending money from mommy and daddy.. Handouts are your way of life.
Whether they like being called schoolboys or not, it's what they are. Just because they have a political opinion that equates to "OMG W4R 15 B4D n0 Bl00d 4 01L LOL WTF" doesn't make me think of them as mature.
The reason for this attitude is that modern environmentalism has much more in common with religion than it does science.
The Maserati Quattro Porte is just a bling bling version of a Ford Escort, which has existed for YEARS. I mean, what's the big deal?
Welcome to Microsoft, where nothing can possiblaye go wrong.
But you don't see religious people picketing Red Lobster with signs that say "God Hates Shellfish Eaters" passing out tracts and trying to pass laws against eating shellfish, and saying anyone who eats shellfish is going to hell. Why not? According to Leviticus, it's just as wrong as being gay.
Hell, Christians seem to get more bent out of shape about gays than they do about people breaking any of the actual Ten Commandments. Compared to the Commandments, the gay thing seems pretty minor to the Big Guy in the sky. I mean if it's SUCH a big deal who people choose to fall in love with how come it's not at least the Eleventh Commandment or something?
I guess I win. :) The Bush bashers are currently more in fashion on /. than the MS bashers are, so it was an easy call.
It's the same story Microsoft has told for years.. "Yeah, those other guys might have some cool shit, but the stuff we're working on is WAY better. Don't buy their stuff, wait for our new thing to come out. It'll be available Real Soon Now."
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market.
What's this "IRS" stock anyway? I buy a ton of it every April 15th and it's never done anything for me. :)
They get heavy rotation on my iPod, especially their covers of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! and Contra. It's great when it comes on during my weekly poker game and everyone at the table feels like they've heard it before but they have no idea what it is.. :)
And waiting..
And waiting..
I think an effective anti-ballistic-missile defense is a lot more likely than teleportation of human beings, after all it's just basic physics. But I still wouldn't say either of them was flat-out impossible.
I actually think the topic of missile defense is far too suffused with politics to make any kind of rational slashdot discussion impossible. Wait, did I just use the words "rational slashdot discussion" in a sentence together? Never mind, I think I'll just go lie down.
Not to say that I agree with that attitude, but it is reality. There has to be someone standing behind the software, so that if some disaster happens, the suit who recommended the app has some CYA ammunition for himself.
He was reduced to password protecting everything and locking it down hard to stop us, even to the point of swapping out his machine for one with a locking case so we couldn't just reset his BIOS password. The tiny piece of tape on his cable had him tearing things apart looking for a software trick since that's what he was used to us pulling on him.
In short, yeah it was sort of a weak trick that he should have figured out sooner. But the first rule of pranking is to know your enemy. Sure, you would have figured it out. But for this particular mark, it worked beautifully.
A tiny bit of clear adhesive tape can also do wonders when cut to fit and applied to the contacts of a network cable. Your victim will never notice it unless they look VERY closely, and you get the joy of seeing them frantically troubleshooting their net connection, reinstalling drivers, unplugging the cable and looking at it (but not seeing the clear tape), trying another jack..
"Be there AND be square!"
Never? It will *NEVER* work? My, that's a bold statement.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Tig-wire?
Ah memories..
The installer knew that I wasn't installing on a Mini though, so it refused to install.
After all, if every google search just led to a bunch of spam pages, Google itself would cease to be very useful.
Yeah, even if they lose $300 per console, we'll only have to buy two hundred million of them to burn through Microsoft's famous $60 billion cash stockpile.
And then XBox Next becomes the best selling game console in gaming history, gets super hyped in the gaming press ("TWO HUNDRED MILLION SOLD!!"), and the PHBs of one game dev house after another drop development on every other platform to focus on the "epic best selling XBox Next", and MS gets a brand new monopoly to tuck into bed at night thanks to your Final Solution.
Holy unintended consequences Batman! :)