Doesn't each XBox 360 and PS3 controller have *TWO* joysticks on them?? that's what I was thinking- there are a lot of things that use analog controllers that are basically small joysicks- as well you find them on psp's and also on umpc's like the samsung q1- the evolution of the joystick was in a big way in response to the fact that a joypad basically sucks as a controller for a number of games- as an example try playing something like lego star wars on a DS vs. a PSP- the analog controller makes all the difference in the world to gameplay.
What good is the damn document if in 20 or 50 years it will mean something entirely different? What good is the amendment process if we can subvert it by just saying "...well, I think it means THIS now"? this statement totally disregards our entire legislative system- the congress has it's powers of legislation laid out in article I and among those is "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof."
This means that the legislature has the powers to make laws in accordance with the constitution. there is nowhere in the constitution (and I argued about someone with this before) that says "no topics not specifically written in this document may be ruled upon", nor does it say anywhere that "local laws must be written and ratified as an amendment to this document to be legal". Face facts, if every single law was written as an amendment to the constitution it would not be a document, it would be a library and it would take a million people to sort it out.
do I think that it is perfect? hell no.
but I think that the problem in the end is that there is little to no understanding by the legislative branch about the laws that they are passing and/or writing. I completely agree with what "Bennett Haselton" has to say about vagueness, but conflicting laws are just as bad.
when it comes down to it the constitution is and always will be a framework, and it was intended as such.
Before anyone figures out how to renew it, it's in the hands of a pr0n site what if it is a pr0n site? does it end up in the hands of disney or something?
Condoms from Amazon? Are they like, really really BIG condoms for warrior women? no, the are from the amazon, made of leapordskin and torched rainforest
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After all, piracy is much closer to stealing, than the selling of pornography is to petitioning the government. no, piracy is much closer to thinking about stealing as you do not actually deprive the manufacturer of the software of their product, and if it something you couldn't afford or would not have paid for then even more so it is a zero loss. It is the copyright holder that is actually in poor ethics as they are the ones who are granting privilege to only those that can afford it
here is what he bible says about it:
"There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores."
"The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'"
"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'" I am not religious, I am in fact an atheist, but I just wanted to get the facts right on this, "thou shalt not steal" is far more vague than the parables of those who disregard the poor
Solar technology is about as good as it gets at this point and there are some really exciting developments coming out of it. Wind and sea-based power sources are all promising as well. I am all for solar, but I think that we would be better served using an intermediary- that is using solar to produce either the biofuels (though that may not be the most effecient way) or funneling the power to hydrogen producing technology- the sea power I am against until they can find an environmentally solvent way to do it- as it stands we are beating the crap out of the ocean and usually when people talk about sea power it involves gating and damming areas that tend to kill local reefs and screw up local ecosystems since you are diverting the waves that bring in plankton for local species and both decreasing oxygen levels and increasing salinity in these areas (imagine an aquarium where you suddenly put a cap on the pump- and dumped the sump into it instead of circulating the water). If some sort of rig or floating device that could translate the energy wiith piston power outside of local mouths could be constructed I would be in favor of it though. Wind has to be very carefully placed as well...migratory birds. Granted these all are good technologies, but if it comes to global warming or global warming and screwing up the ocean and reducing our oxygen levels- I would rather just have global warming.
oh, I absolutely agree with you- there are some pretty major flukes- I have worked on a number of cases where I was like- WTF was the judge thinking (but I guess that is what appeals are for, right?), but I find that more often than not, as you mentioned, a lot of this goes to state and federal legislatures passing laws that either conflict with standing laws that need to be untangled or creating laws that are over vague or over defining which leaves far too much room for judges to rule how they want- or in some cases rule a way because they themselves don't understand the case or the laws surrounding it.
Also when it comes to discovery, that has been getting locked down as of late- as you probably know, last year there were some major changes regarding electronic discovery specifically that finally started to define what must and must not be retained and how this discovery is delivered to both sides (we had representatives from our company in washington for that one), which is good, not just because it lays out a more strict definition of what can be admitted into court, but also keeps lawyers from pulling dirty tricks (as I have had to deal with so many times) of excluding things like indexes for admitted data or pushing data to paper to inflate the case for opposing counsel or even in one case I had a lawyer ask me to include virus infected files that they had found in their discovery to sabotage the opposing counsel (I didn't do it I came up with a bullshit tech speech to make his head spin until he dropped it).
he keeps contributing massively and acts as a bridge between us and that strange foreign legal world where logic will get you killed Hey, I work in that world and the fact is that there is a strict logic to law- you just need to know the rules to play by. though I am not saying that you have a crooked view, a lot of people do from watching movies and tv shows and such- they tend to think that some flashy actor type shows up in a courtroom and puts on a show and a bunch of jury people laugh or cry and find in favor of their side- actually the truth is quite the opposite from where I sit. I work for a corporate litigation review company doing intake and data extraction/database integration (I mine and decrypt documents for metadata and any usable text and load and reconcile it in a database, basically) and I have to tell you- we are based here on true logic incorporating lawyers, linguists and techies like myself to setup algorithms and linguistic probability to match relevancies with case properties and language patterns in order to set up situations where lawyers can proceed based on fact rather than speculation and match documentary evidence with standing cases rather than speculation.
I don't know what it is about measuring things in nanometers and terabytes that gives me such a hardon. maybe it's because when you measure in nanometers the numbers are bigger than in inches.....just remember to start from the pubic bone....
now that the competing "workers paradise" is out of the way, our unelected hegemony of massive corporate concerns can look beyond the business of marketing and spinning the wonders of unfettered capitalism and get back to the business of maximizing profit. I agree with what you are saying, but I really do think that if we can take the language and respin it so that it doesn't sound like a manifesto, but more like something that an average guy would talk about we would get more people to listen- not a trolling here but more of a concern that there are a lot of good ideas and intelligent thought that get thrown by the wayside because language like I bolded in the quote scares the average joe and tends to give less credence to an otherwise correct opinion in their eyes.
if they built DRM into CPU microcode we're fucked. if they do that, people like me are really fucked- I do electronic music so if it has to filter every wav file and mp3 the lagtime on my machines will be insane and I would not be able to work on anything offline- unless they store the database locally which would take a ridiculous amount of space and I would still lag on every access to my own material which would kill any semblance of live material as it would be impossible to sync h/w and s/w if it didn't crash from the get go.
I agree on the eeepc- I personally use a wibrain b1h for portability and function, but if you are looking for more rugged you are prolly better off with the eeepc (since the clamshell is better for durability)and some sort of removable media. If you are looking at a timeframe further out you can always hit one of the hong kong sites like dealextreme.com to get cheap sd/memory sticks to have spares around (unless part of your trip lands you in china or hong kong- then you can just get it there for cheap) - and I do wonder- why dvd? why not upload the files somewhere for retrieval- you can always burn them as a backup when you get home later
very true on the ssd's, though right now they still aren't too affordable, but on the solutions for 3d- there are a lot of solutions for split, farm and batch rendering but the actual frame memory buffers are still a bit of an issue when calculating physics and mesh deforms- you can very easily crash on the calc time for your renders if you are doing real time nurbs and mesh deformations with formulas(I usually use both maya and c4d)- most of the time if you are not setup with a buff server to perform the actions you have to use a bit of trickery to get full functionality out of your application, and a lot of time that involves doing remasking and compositing of your scenes as a post function, even if you bake and precalc your objects.
As such a law would deny some people of their rights, yes it would be unconstitutional. And that's disregarding habeas corpus. I am sorry, but there is no place in the constitution where you have a right "not to be deported". therefore by your own logic of "if it is not directly in the constitution then you cannot do it" then the government may in fact do it. Habeas corpus only grants you a trial if you are accused of a crime- it does not address a direct or executive order, nor does it apply to directives created by the congress-
Fact is is unless you're trolling I have no idea where you came up with that. I am not trolling, just pointing out an example where your idea of how the constitution applies to government makes no sense- the constitution is a framework by which laws may be created- not laws by themselves- every point within the constitution still needs to be drawn in a logical method to match with laws and directives. Providing $ to states is far within the rights of congress as it is one of the main jobs of congress to give a portion of federal tax dollars to the states- the direct quote from the consitution: Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
the key word here is "general welfare" healthcare provides for the general welfare of a US citizen.
actually it could be really nice if you could slot additional virtual memory on a video card- not for realtime stuff, but 3d rendering (for things like maya, c4d, 3dstudio) and video editing/rendering where you could effectively parse the frame renders, currently a large amount of that gets dumped into the machine's virtual memory which gets slow- I have to keep a 8-10gig swap file for when I do renders a lot of time to keep from crashing even though I have 4 gigs of RAM in my machine- if I could slot 64 gigs in the video card, or machine as a permanent virtual memory that had a better throughput than the swap file it would actually help a lot.
Fact is is one role of Supreme Court is to make sure the executive and judicial branches do not break the Constitution no, the job of the supreme court is not to see that the constitution is followed, but to align current issues with the fabric that the constitution laid out. SCHIP in effect does not break the constitution in any way- it provides $ to STATES so that STATES can provide health coverage for children in their state- this is no more breaking the constitution that would be providing federal funding for any public works project. I personally oppose SCHIP because of the way that it gets the money, but it is not unconstitutional.
You like so many others make the mistake of what the USA Constitution is. It does not say what the federal government must do, it instead limits what it can do. that statement alone paints way too broad a brush on what the constitution is- you cannot take every single thing that the government does and look for a verbatim word in the constitution to match it in order to see if government can or cannot do it. For example, if the government made a law to deport everyone in the country named "john" to an unincorporated island would that be unconstitutional? by your logic, no because the only reference to prejudicial treatment in the amendments are to race and deportation is not covered under the constitution for US citizens.
I like the idea of two giant touchpads, but I really think that it could have been implemented better, say with 2 oled or sturdy lcd touchscreens so that you could customize interface- as it is you have to rely on "virtual mapped hotkeys" which makes you have to remember- oh yeah this is mapped to this and this is mapped to that, if you had say, a selector that would be able to have multiple stored interfaces when you change the mapping of the pads you would physically see the mapping change which would make it easier- also with two seperate pads you could build 2 separate custom interface functions which would be awesome for gaming, audio work, film work, 3d, etc since you could not only be using an interface similar to a multitouch screen, but also be able to hot swap half of that screen without losing the interface of the other half eg: controlling volume faders on the left side and moving while switching the right half of the screen to post effect faders or switches.
it is actually an incredible way to target ads and spam- instead of just sending spam and ads to a huge unrelated audience you would be able to get targeted interests by targeted individuals to related targeted individuals- this could easily increase the likelihood that your "p3n1S_b1gg3R_n0W!" e-mail get's opened by making it into a more targeted title like: "rumors about celebrityX"or would allow you to customize advertisements based on their spider of related interests.
yeah, as an enduser that really sucks, but if you are a skeevy spammer it rules.
Seeing as how AT&T and Yahoo! are so in bed together already, is this a way for Microsoft to get into the Telco/Wireless market? Ballmer may be looking to use the Yahoo! brand name to sell the MSN product, but not scrap MSN in the least. that's what I wonder about- since I had sbc and sbc became sbc/yahoo and sbc was bought by at&t - at&t/yahoo is my provider, now after at&t has become a public utility and the sole line provider if my broadband becomes at&t/microsoft does that make microsoft beholden to the public trust? Also if at&t in the wireless market bleeds to at&t/microsoft do you get- "the iphone presented by microsoft"?
On the other side dish services are provided bundled with at&t/yahoo, so does that put microsoft in that mix? will we end up with microsoft satellite tv services? That could be really cool or really scary.
I find it ironic you say Bush didn't protect and defend the Constitution of the USA and at the same tyme you say he vetoed child health care bills. Can you show me anywhere in the Constitution where it says it gives the government that authority? there are a few things wrong with what you said
#1 when the constitution was written there was no large monetary system, so any references to controlling of the general fund are addendums and judgements.
#2 there was no health insurance when the constitution was written so there would be no way for "child health care" to be written into the constitution
#3 there is a big difference between passing a congressional bill and performing constitutional duties- I don't know how much you know about politics, but the ratification of a bill is far less stringent than the passing of an amendment and was made so for good reason as laws are able to be reversed easily and repealed and amendments become a part of the judicial system which governs the land. Also, congressional laws are not part of the judicial branch they remain in the arm of the legislative branch with reaching powers over the other branches. when you have an amendment in order to challenge an action it needs to go to the court (judicial) branch in order to be challanged- not so with a bill/law.
personally I find it laughable that we have a system where it takes all of congress to pass a bill, it takes a panel of justices to rule on constitutional law- but there is just one guy that can make the decision to veto any of these things- it is a seriously flawed part of the US government system. Personally I also have a problem with the president being able to not only pick the cabinet and nominate justices that serve for life, but also pick his VP as well as commit "executive orders" as it really puts too much power in the hands of the executive branch
basic ethics and economics say that the rich have to pay more and not an equal part (though equal would be a start), large money pools for individuals slows an economy. Think for a second on this- if you have an individual with an income that could support over 15,000 people (that is a 500 million dollar income) where is more money going to go into the economy? and where is more money going to go into investment? the 1 individual will not have the ability to spend that 500 million so a large portion will end up invested- that money is not only removed from the economy, but as invested capitol will be mainly used as lending dollars. In turn this $ is lent to the very people that now have a smaller pool of $ to be paid from for services and in turn reduces their spending power as interest is now charged on every purchase made with creditors. where does this "poor tax" (credit) go to?- it pays the lending house that not only pools those dollars themselves, but also gives a portion to the other pool that they borrowed from. This leaves even less money in the general pool to be redistributed. the lending house then has a dillema. In order to keep up with inflation (which is the interest of the federal reserve vs. the printing of the dollar) it needs to have more people invest in order to be able to lend more. what does it do? gets people who don't make much to begin with to pool their $ so that they have more to lend and in turn generate a larger pool of interest. So now you have an average guy with a credit card and a home loan who is paying into a 401k- well guess what- the pool has shrunk- what do you do? raise the mortgage rate (paying more interest) re-assess the credit and lower slow growth lending interest (mutual funds etc.) and you now have the ability to keep above water with the common man as you are now absorbing more in interest than you are paying in investments while at the same time being able to pay the high interest on the short term loans made by the first guy with the 500 million. In the end with the loss of the money from the economy the lowered payout to slow growth and the raising of interest you have pulled ALL of this money from the middle class and given it to the rich.
the poor on the other hand feel the brunt of this shrinking pool as their jobs are paying even less than they did before since most of those jobs are in service driven fields which experiences slowing in sales due to a lack of money in the general pool.
the rich don't need a break and wealth needs to be redistributed
oh and BTW: I used to work for an investment house managing slow growth portfolios and rate adjustments - now I work in legal... that is whole other ball of wax
yet more money which the US could afford if they stopped wasting it on playing war games. yep we have spent nearly a trillion in iraq- and last I heard 100 billion is a lot less than 1 trillion
no, that is a private business and not based in canada- just because a store pays property/sales/operating tax you can't go into it and take whatever you want for free, what this is saying is that non-comercial sharing would be non-punishable
not really- that $5 is buying you the right to download music just as other taxes buy the rights to other services, just because you don't go to a park or use the library it doesn't meant that you shouldn't be taxed for it.
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This means that the legislature has the powers to make laws in accordance with the constitution. there is nowhere in the constitution (and I argued about someone with this before) that says "no topics not specifically written in this document may be ruled upon", nor does it say anywhere that "local laws must be written and ratified as an amendment to this document to be legal". Face facts, if every single law was written as an amendment to the constitution it would not be a document, it would be a library and it would take a million people to sort it out.
do I think that it is perfect? hell no.
but I think that the problem in the end is that there is little to no understanding by the legislative branch about the laws that they are passing and/or writing. I completely agree with what "Bennett Haselton" has to say about vagueness, but conflicting laws are just as bad.
when it comes down to it the constitution is and always will be a framework, and it was intended as such.
here is what he bible says about it: "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores." "The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'" "But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'" I am not religious, I am in fact an atheist, but I just wanted to get the facts right on this, "thou shalt not steal" is far more vague than the parables of those who disregard the poor
oh, I absolutely agree with you- there are some pretty major flukes- I have worked on a number of cases where I was like- WTF was the judge thinking (but I guess that is what appeals are for, right?), but I find that more often than not, as you mentioned, a lot of this goes to state and federal legislatures passing laws that either conflict with standing laws that need to be untangled or creating laws that are over vague or over defining which leaves far too much room for judges to rule how they want- or in some cases rule a way because they themselves don't understand the case or the laws surrounding it.
Also when it comes to discovery, that has been getting locked down as of late- as you probably know, last year there were some major changes regarding electronic discovery specifically that finally started to define what must and must not be retained and how this discovery is delivered to both sides (we had representatives from our company in washington for that one), which is good, not just because it lays out a more strict definition of what can be admitted into court, but also keeps lawyers from pulling dirty tricks (as I have had to deal with so many times) of excluding things like indexes for admitted data or pushing data to paper to inflate the case for opposing counsel or even in one case I had a lawyer ask me to include virus infected files that they had found in their discovery to sabotage the opposing counsel (I didn't do it I came up with a bullshit tech speech to make his head spin until he dropped it).
I agree on the eeepc- I personally use a wibrain b1h for portability and function, but if you are looking for more rugged you are prolly better off with the eeepc (since the clamshell is better for durability)and some sort of removable media. If you are looking at a timeframe further out you can always hit one of the hong kong sites like dealextreme.com to get cheap sd/memory sticks to have spares around (unless part of your trip lands you in china or hong kong- then you can just get it there for cheap) - and I do wonder- why dvd? why not upload the files somewhere for retrieval- you can always burn them as a backup when you get home later
very true on the ssd's, though right now they still aren't too affordable, but on the solutions for 3d- there are a lot of solutions for split, farm and batch rendering but the actual frame memory buffers are still a bit of an issue when calculating physics and mesh deforms- you can very easily crash on the calc time for your renders if you are doing real time nurbs and mesh deformations with formulas(I usually use both maya and c4d)- most of the time if you are not setup with a buff server to perform the actions you have to use a bit of trickery to get full functionality out of your application, and a lot of time that involves doing remasking and compositing of your scenes as a post function, even if you bake and precalc your objects.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
the key word here is "general welfare" healthcare provides for the general welfare of a US citizen.
actually it could be really nice if you could slot additional virtual memory on a video card- not for realtime stuff, but 3d rendering (for things like maya, c4d, 3dstudio) and video editing/rendering where you could effectively parse the frame renders, currently a large amount of that gets dumped into the machine's virtual memory which gets slow- I have to keep a 8-10gig swap file for when I do renders a lot of time to keep from crashing even though I have 4 gigs of RAM in my machine- if I could slot 64 gigs in the video card, or machine as a permanent virtual memory that had a better throughput than the swap file it would actually help a lot.
You like so many others make the mistake of what the USA Constitution is. It does not say what the federal government must do, it instead limits what it can do. that statement alone paints way too broad a brush on what the constitution is- you cannot take every single thing that the government does and look for a verbatim word in the constitution to match it in order to see if government can or cannot do it. For example, if the government made a law to deport everyone in the country named "john" to an unincorporated island would that be unconstitutional? by your logic, no because the only reference to prejudicial treatment in the amendments are to race and deportation is not covered under the constitution for US citizens.
I like the idea of two giant touchpads, but I really think that it could have been implemented better, say with 2 oled or sturdy lcd touchscreens so that you could customize interface- as it is you have to rely on "virtual mapped hotkeys" which makes you have to remember- oh yeah this is mapped to this and this is mapped to that, if you had say, a selector that would be able to have multiple stored interfaces when you change the mapping of the pads you would physically see the mapping change which would make it easier- also with two seperate pads you could build 2 separate custom interface functions which would be awesome for gaming, audio work, film work, 3d, etc since you could not only be using an interface similar to a multitouch screen, but also be able to hot swap half of that screen without losing the interface of the other half eg: controlling volume faders on the left side and moving while switching the right half of the screen to post effect faders or switches.
it is actually an incredible way to target ads and spam- instead of just sending spam and ads to a huge unrelated audience you would be able to get targeted interests by targeted individuals to related targeted individuals- this could easily increase the likelihood that your "p3n1S_b1gg3R_n0W!" e-mail get's opened by making it into a more targeted title like: "rumors about celebrityX"or would allow you to customize advertisements based on their spider of related interests.
yeah, as an enduser that really sucks, but if you are a skeevy spammer it rules.
Also if at&t in the wireless market bleeds to at&t/microsoft do you get- "the iphone presented by microsoft"?
On the other side dish services are provided bundled with at&t/yahoo, so does that put microsoft in that mix? will we end up with microsoft satellite tv services? That could be really cool or really scary.
#1 when the constitution was written there was no large monetary system, so any references to controlling of the general fund are addendums and judgements.
#2 there was no health insurance when the constitution was written so there would be no way for "child health care" to be written into the constitution
#3 there is a big difference between passing a congressional bill and performing constitutional duties- I don't know how much you know about politics, but the ratification of a bill is far less stringent than the passing of an amendment and was made so for good reason as laws are able to be reversed easily and repealed and amendments become a part of the judicial system which governs the land. Also, congressional laws are not part of the judicial branch they remain in the arm of the legislative branch with reaching powers over the other branches. when you have an amendment in order to challenge an action it needs to go to the court (judicial) branch in order to be challanged- not so with a bill/law.
personally I find it laughable that we have a system where it takes all of congress to pass a bill, it takes a panel of justices to rule on constitutional law- but there is just one guy that can make the decision to veto any of these things- it is a seriously flawed part of the US government system. Personally I also have a problem with the president being able to not only pick the cabinet and nominate justices that serve for life, but also pick his VP as well as commit "executive orders" as it really puts too much power in the hands of the executive branch
basic ethics and economics say that the rich have to pay more and not an equal part (though equal would be a start), large money pools for individuals slows an economy. Think for a second on this- if you have an individual with an income that could support over 15,000 people (that is a 500 million dollar income) where is more money going to go into the economy? and where is more money going to go into investment? the 1 individual will not have the ability to spend that 500 million so a large portion will end up invested- that money is not only removed from the economy, but as invested capitol will be mainly used as lending dollars. In turn this $ is lent to the very people that now have a smaller pool of $ to be paid from for services and in turn reduces their spending power as interest is now charged on every purchase made with creditors. where does this "poor tax" (credit) go to?- it pays the lending house that not only pools those dollars themselves, but also gives a portion to the other pool that they borrowed from. This leaves even less money in the general pool to be redistributed. the lending house then has a dillema. In order to keep up with inflation (which is the interest of the federal reserve vs. the printing of the dollar) it needs to have more people invest in order to be able to lend more. what does it do? gets people who don't make much to begin with to pool their $ so that they have more to lend and in turn generate a larger pool of interest. So now you have an average guy with a credit card and a home loan who is paying into a 401k- well guess what- the pool has shrunk- what do you do? raise the mortgage rate (paying more interest) re-assess the credit and lower slow growth lending interest (mutual funds etc.) and you now have the ability to keep above water with the common man as you are now absorbing more in interest than you are paying in investments while at the same time being able to pay the high interest on the short term loans made by the first guy with the 500 million. In the end with the loss of the money from the economy the lowered payout to slow growth and the raising of interest you have pulled ALL of this money from the middle class and given it to the rich.
the poor on the other hand feel the brunt of this shrinking pool as their jobs are paying even less than they did before since most of those jobs are in service driven fields which experiences slowing in sales due to a lack of money in the general pool.
the rich don't need a break and wealth needs to be redistributed
oh and BTW: I used to work for an investment house managing slow growth portfolios and rate adjustments - now I work in legal... that is whole other ball of wax
no, that is a private business and not based in canada- just because a store pays property/sales/operating tax you can't go into it and take whatever you want for free, what this is saying is that non-comercial sharing would be non-punishable
not really- that $5 is buying you the right to download music just as other taxes buy the rights to other services, just because you don't go to a park or use the library it doesn't meant that you shouldn't be taxed for it.
but dx10 still has dx9 backwards compatibility issues last I heard