Lotsa stuff gets used for things that it wasn't invented for, such as dynamite... I understand Alfred Nobel was a bit upset at the not-so-good applications his invention had been put to.
The context is... IED detection. Sweeping a road for IEDs could be more successful and that would be a good thing if AQ can pull itself back together after we leave Afghanistan and the middle east. They will be sending people here to put IED's on the road that you take to work. Not hard, just park a car full of explosives with a detector that will set it off when there are 3 or more cars within 50 feet. That'd be you, in traffic. But if the cops have such a detector, they can shut down the road, and call EOD.
What makes you think its up to us? We don't own it. If the Chinese want to commercialize it, they will, and won't ask us. Our best course of action is to commercialize it first.
I've seen the factcheck stuff before, and it is garbage. They don't understand the Fair Tax.
The wikipedia entry, OTOH, sums it up nicely in this sentence: "The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University concluded in a 2007 study that "replacing income and payroll taxes with the FairTax would make the United States federal tax system more progressive than it is now".[23]" That's what I'm saying. Additionally, the included bar graph in that article also shows the Fair Tax to be more progressive than all the rest of the listed taxes except the gift & estate taxes, which are lumped together for reasons that I don't understand, and suspect that reason to be that doing so would result in a desired "better-than-fair-tax" progressivity. And I'm pretty sure that even this graph is not taking into account the new estate tax that goes into effect next years, and will herald the death of the family farm, which, when 25 million dollars worth of prime soil is taxed, will result in the heirs of the farmer that has been working it owing $11,250,000 in tax. Nobody gets that rich farming, even a 25 million dollar farm.
BTW, the rich that spend outside the country STILL OWE the Fair Tax on their purchase, and a customs agent will be happy to collect it when they bring their bauble back so they can enjoy it at home.
Is your problem that the rich don't _have_ to spend their money? Why are you worried about that? We have data that show that the rich _do_ spend their money quite profusely, and will power the economy better than they do now. Addiionally, the idle rich, living on saved money and not earning any - IOW, they don't have incomes, are taxed by the Fair Tax, but not by the income tax. I'd suspect you'd be happy about that.
And why all this concern with the rich? What if the rich were taxed $0, and the rest of us, due to the broader net that the Fair Tax casts and snares criminals, shadow economy participants, and even foreign tourists that the income tax doesn't even touch - what if our taxes were lower because these people's taxes were higher now? Would you be happy, or simply jealous that the rich got off with $0. I only care that my taxes go down, and all the other working people's taxes go down, and those that are cheating - the criminals, the shadow economy tax evaders, are finally getting whacked with some well deserved taxes. And, BTW, the illegal aliens don't get the prebate, only people here legally get the prebate. (Of course, after we achieve full employment, we can make 'em citizens without raping the economy trying to support 'em 'cuz they can't pay healthcare expenses and consuming public assistance like food stamps, etc. - they'll have good jobs too, like everyone else. Hey, make 'em citizens then...)
If you want to go on worrying about what the rich get away with or don't get away with, be my ghost. All I care about is that with the Fair Tax, _my_ taxes will decrease, and everyone I know will have their taxes decrease (since I don't know any criminals or shadow economy participants, which are just different criminals whose crime is tax evasion). If the rich get socked with much more taxes than they do now, as is predicted by the Fair Tax researchers, I don't care. If the rich get off with $0 taxes, I don't care. But trust me, the rich are going to get socked via the Fair Tax...
In testimony before Congress, Fair Tax experts testify that the rich are going to experience a very large increase in what they pay simply because of their level of spending. For example, remember that $70,000,000 yacht that John Kerry and his wife own? The tax on that would have been $21,000,000. In contrast, if you look up John Kerry's and Teresa Heinz Kerry's income taxes on line, you find that they only pay something like $1,800,000 a year, so they would pay, on that one purchase, as much tax as they pay in about 12 years of income taxes.
That's how the Fair Tax gets the major portion of its revenue from the rich.
With the Fair Tax, if the poverty level is a wage of $11,000 per year, and a person spends $11,000 per year, then their tax is $0. If the person makes $22,000 / yr and spends it all, their tax is $2,530, which is 11.5%. If the person makes $33,000 / yr, and spends it all, the tax is $5,060 which is 15.3333%. If the person is Nick Cage, and make and spends $8,000,000 / yr, then the tax is $12,837,470 and the tax rate is $22.968%. And remember, with the Fair Tax, only NEW items for sale are taxed, and tuition is not taxed at all.
The Fair Tax is described in detail at www.fairtax.org, and I support that. The tax rate, effectively, is 30% as most people calculate taxes, although the Fair Tax info describes it as 23%, which is the amount of tax on the total price+tax amount.
The Fair Tax is designed to replace the amount of revenue raised by the current income tax, although the happy situation is that the income tax revenues have fallen lately, so the Fair Tax would actually generate more revenue than the income taxes do now.
The Fair Tax gets its strength from growing the economy. We would be so knee-deep in industrial activity that, eventually, we would be able to fund everything without cutting anything. That sort of projection isn't at the website, but just something that seems logical from the highly unusual situation in having an industrialized country with no income tax. We'd be the only place on the planet like that, and, with that being such a good deal for industry, we'd be a gigantic industrial magnet. I believe the projections for the success of the Fair Tax are greatly understated, and that the Fair Tax is _the_ answer for our economic problems.
We just kicked the president of Egypt in the teeth by threatening his pipeline of money via "Foreign Aid" into doing the right thing in this war between Israel and the Palestinians, resulting in the continued existence of our only really friendly country in the middle east, and in our not having to get involved militarily ourselves to achieve that. Without "foreign aid", we'd either have to abandon Israel to annihilation by the Muslim Hordes, or come to their aid with troops.
IOW, we're getting a lot of bang for our "foreign aid" buck, or more properly renamed, our "bribe to behave" which is what foreign aid really is.
What we have to do is to reindustrialize America. That is, get the jobs back from overseas. How do we do that? First, we have to recognize that jobs did NOT go overseas because of work-for-peanuts foreign labor rates. No, no, no. They went overseas because of... taxes! Specifically, income taxes are toxic to industry in any amount. We should get rid of them.
_The_ answer is the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax calls for the complete repeal of all income taxes, every last one of them: individual, corporate, alternative minimum, self employment, estate, gift, social security / medicare, capital gains, etc. etc. Income taxes are essentially a tax on prosperity, and like RR said, "If you want less of something, tax it." Boy does that work great with income tax. We have waaaaaaay less prosperity than we could have.
The Fair Tax taxes consumption. That is, it is a sales tax. Stop with the knee-jerk "regressive" reaction, already, the income taxes are already incredibly regressive, with the Social Security / Medicare tax taking the first 15.3% of _every_ person's wages from the 1st dollar they make, it not mattering a whit that such person is only making $11,000 / yr. And if that isn't regressive enough, the Social Security / Medicare tax is capped in the $100K range, meaning the really rich people pay far LESS percentage than the poor person.
The Fair Tax taxes consumption, and "prebates" the amount of tax you pay on the amount of money you spend up to the poverty level. That is, if the poverty level is $11K per year for you if you are single, then the government sends you the amount of tax on $11K, in 12 equal monthly payments, so if you're poor you don't pay a penny of Fair Tax, it is paid for you.
What this does is make the USA the worlds newest, bestest tax shelter for industry to produce goods and services tax free. That is huge, since, according to Fair Tax researchers, approximately 22% of the selling price of everything produced in the USA is composed of industry expenses caused by income taxes. That is, a $40,000 SUV built in this country has about $8,800 of income tax expense in it. By contrast, it only takes about 30 - 33 labor hours to build the $40K SUV, and at the industry-stated rate of $78 / hr expense of labor to the the car companies, that is only $2,500 labor expenses to build the SUV.
Want to fix the economy permanently? Pass the Fair Tax, get unemployment down to 3% in about 2 years, killing about $100,000,000 of unemployment expenses and $70,000,000 of food stamp expenses to the gov't, and increase gov't revenues due to the huge expansion in the economy. Then, when full employment is achieved, wages start going up because of a labor shortage. That is when we can decide to let anyone that wants to immigrate to come here without restriction other than criminals and people with dread diseases, who we can also provide with good jobs and high wages, which.... generates more revenue from their spending. That, plus the fact that the Fair Tax broadens the tax base by including, for the 1st time, criminals that use the money stolen from the public via illegal means to buy their luxuries which will be taxed, as well as the idle rich that have no income but will be taxed heavily when they buy that $70M yacht, and, BTW, the rich contribute far more to the tax base than they do now simply because of their spending on luxury items.
We can do this, or continue with the income taxes sucking the lifeblood out of our economy, and be forced into austerity, and eventual 3rd-world existence because we'll be forced to lower wages to the work-for-peanuts foreign worker equivalent, while the gov't takes taxes from the wrong places, and forces jobs to continue to flee the USA and end up in places like India and Bangladesh.
Just don't submit to manufacturers who sell you computers and then "ban" things like programming them. I don't buy ANYTHING that starts with "i" because of that nonsense.
I wasn't talking about the PV panels falling on you, I was talking about the trees falling on you. Trees should not be located where they can fall on people, not near the sides of the roads (where they can ALSO be run into by a car that is forced off the road and the people die) and not near their houses where the trees can fall on those houses and kill the people inside. Everyone thinks the Druid religion is essentially dead, but its not - mention chopping down trees for any reason and people have kittens. I am not so in love with trees - they have their place - but that place is NOT where they can easily result in deaths of people.
And this is the sort of nonsense that makes mass transit of any sort the largest PITA on the planet. I've given up flying completely because of the TSA nonsense, which incidentally is 100% unconstitutional, and drive everywhere I go. The irritants to flying are endless: Paying to park in a lot that is still a 10 minute bus ride from the terminal, overpriced everything in the terminal, having to do a mini-marathon to get between planes on a connecting flight, lost bags, bags pilfered by TSA, never being 100% sure you can take this or that on the plane because the TSA doesn't really follow the website, having the things you pack in bubble wrap 'cuz they're fragile unwrapped by TSA so maybe they break and maybe they don't, tiny airline seats, no legroom, having to arrive 2 hours before the plane, "gotcha" pricing for everthing such as bags, overweight bags, oversize bags, and the 50 lb limit on the bags that used to be 70 - I have trouble with that 'cuz some of my equipment uses heavy batteries. 45 minute waits to get bags at the carousel, and then maybe 45 minutes to rent a car including another 10 minute ride to the rental car off-site office. Expensive airline tickets that I can often beat in terms of gasoline and motels, even without having a passenger sharing expenses.
Get the D TSA out of the formula and I _might_ get back on airplanes, but nonsense like this doesn't help.
Aw, they should just make the planes without windows, so we can all have claustrophobia attacks all the way from DC to Sydney, Austrailia. No need to look out the window when someone wants to sleep in the daytime, anyway.
There is only one law needed when it comes to modern day inereactions with society. "Don't do anything unusual." This covers the guy that had a perfectly legal chemistry lab, that there was no law against but they took all his chemicals anyway, to just about anything at all. If you're neighbor, or someone nearby hasn't done it before, or done it recently, "they" will find that it is somehow illegal, one way or the other. Go with the flow... be like everyone else... sheeple...
than a year or 5 years. The economy is going to collapse from the excessive borrowing and ballooning of the interest rate on the debt, and we won't be launching ANY satellites for several decades, if ever again. If we get a debt up to 30, 40, 50 trillion, we'll likely never, ever be able to pay it off, and it will consume our entire economic output just to pay the interest. At that point, we become a 3rd world country. The only way out might be to simply cease to exist as the United States of America, and form a new country or several new countries that don't owe anything... I don't think there is any national equivalent to bankruptcy other than to cease to exist.
This may be true, but it is a case of supply and demand. By granting 1000's of H1B visas, the supply of people that can do this job is artificially increased within the USA. That, combined with the other labor evil, outsourcing, combines to dramatically lower wages for those that choose to do software in the USA.
Eventually, if this works out right, there will be NO US citizens graduating with programming degrees. If they're smart, they'll go into lawyering or doctoring, rather than get abused by the government and business. Let the average wage of software people plummet to $60K or somesuch, and US citizens will instead choose to do something that pays decent money, and never darken a computer science degree program threshold again.
And then US industry REALLY WILL be unable to find US citizens to abuse. Poetic justice.
Yeah, that's a valid question to which I want a confirmation. Does this OS prohibit all games that aren't downloaded from the "approved" site? I don't think so, but don't know for sure. I've got several games (not a big gamer) and, what, do they not then run if I upgrade to 8? I have to rebuy them at this approved site in order to keep playing them? Makes no sense, but then neither does worrying about what the official game store from usoft may or may not approve when games bought anywhere can run on the OS.
including the inability to get non-stop flights for most routes, having to pay to park in a lot that is still a 10 minute ride to the terminal, having to arrive 2 hours early to ensure getting thru security on time to board, having small innocuous items in my pockets stolen by TSA, risking having large innocuous items in my bags stolen by TSA, getting severely overcharged for food at airport terminals, getting X-rayed by someone who is not my doctor or dentist, having to do mini-marathons thru airports to make connecting flights, getting my bags lost, etc. etc. have all combined to cause me to decide to drive everywhere I go. Eventually, the Alcan Highway is going to get photographed up the wazoo, by me, 'cuz I'll drive up and ferry back. But the X-rays were the last straw, that shall not stand. I quit. You can find me on I-10 to Tucson next year, I-74 from Indy to La Crosse, I-64 to St. Louis, etc. etc. Until the unconstitutional TSA activity is removed, I will not choose to fly anywhere I can drive, or boat, or travel by train.
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Lotsa stuff gets used for things that it wasn't invented for, such as dynamite... I understand Alfred Nobel was a bit upset at the not-so-good applications his invention had been put to.
The context is... IED detection. Sweeping a road for IEDs could be more successful and that would be a good thing if AQ can pull itself back together after we leave Afghanistan and the middle east. They will be sending people here to put IED's on the road that you take to work. Not hard, just park a car full of explosives with a detector that will set it off when there are 3 or more cars within 50 feet. That'd be you, in traffic. But if the cops have such a detector, they can shut down the road, and call EOD.
What makes you think its up to us? We don't own it. If the Chinese want to commercialize it, they will, and won't ask us. Our best course of action is to commercialize it first.
I've seen the factcheck stuff before, and it is garbage. They don't understand the Fair Tax.
The wikipedia entry, OTOH, sums it up nicely in this sentence: "The Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University concluded in a 2007 study that "replacing income and payroll taxes with the FairTax would make the United States federal tax system more progressive than it is now".[23]" That's what I'm saying. Additionally, the included bar graph in that article also shows the Fair Tax to be more progressive than all the rest of the listed taxes except the gift & estate taxes, which are lumped together for reasons that I don't understand, and suspect that reason to be that doing so would result in a desired "better-than-fair-tax" progressivity. And I'm pretty sure that even this graph is not taking into account the new estate tax that goes into effect next years, and will herald the death of the family farm, which, when 25 million dollars worth of prime soil is taxed, will result in the heirs of the farmer that has been working it owing $11,250,000 in tax. Nobody gets that rich farming, even a 25 million dollar farm.
BTW, the rich that spend outside the country STILL OWE the Fair Tax on their purchase, and a customs agent will be happy to collect it when they bring their bauble back so they can enjoy it at home.
Is your problem that the rich don't _have_ to spend their money? Why are you worried about that? We have data that show that the rich _do_ spend their money quite profusely, and will power the economy better than they do now. Addiionally, the idle rich, living on saved money and not earning any - IOW, they don't have incomes, are taxed by the Fair Tax, but not by the income tax. I'd suspect you'd be happy about that.
And why all this concern with the rich? What if the rich were taxed $0, and the rest of us, due to the broader net that the Fair Tax casts and snares criminals, shadow economy participants, and even foreign tourists that the income tax doesn't even touch - what if our taxes were lower because these people's taxes were higher now? Would you be happy, or simply jealous that the rich got off with $0. I only care that my taxes go down, and all the other working people's taxes go down, and those that are cheating - the criminals, the shadow economy tax evaders, are finally getting whacked with some well deserved taxes. And, BTW, the illegal aliens don't get the prebate, only people here legally get the prebate. (Of course, after we achieve full employment, we can make 'em citizens without raping the economy trying to support 'em 'cuz they can't pay healthcare expenses and consuming public assistance like food stamps, etc. - they'll have good jobs too, like everyone else. Hey, make 'em citizens then...)
If you want to go on worrying about what the rich get away with or don't get away with, be my ghost. All I care about is that with the Fair Tax, _my_ taxes will decrease, and everyone I know will have their taxes decrease (since I don't know any criminals or shadow economy participants, which are just different criminals whose crime is tax evasion). If the rich get socked with much more taxes than they do now, as is predicted by the Fair Tax researchers, I don't care. If the rich get off with $0 taxes, I don't care. But trust me, the rich are going to get socked via the Fair Tax...
Aw, nuts, Nick Cage's tax would be $1,837,470, and 22.968%.
This _is_ the silver bullet...
The Fair Tax dramatically raises the tax that the rich pay due to their much higher level of spending.
In testimony before Congress, Fair Tax experts testify that the rich are going to experience a very large increase in what they pay simply because of their level of spending. For example, remember that $70,000,000 yacht that John Kerry and his wife own? The tax on that would have been $21,000,000. In contrast, if you look up John Kerry's and Teresa Heinz Kerry's income taxes on line, you find that they only pay something like $1,800,000 a year, so they would pay, on that one purchase, as much tax as they pay in about 12 years of income taxes.
That's how the Fair Tax gets the major portion of its revenue from the rich.
So, what's your definition of a progressive tax?
With the Fair Tax, if the poverty level is a wage of $11,000 per year, and a person spends $11,000 per year, then their tax is $0. If the person makes $22,000 / yr and spends it all, their tax is $2,530, which is 11.5%. If the person makes $33,000 / yr, and spends it all, the tax is $5,060 which is 15.3333%. If the person is Nick Cage, and make and spends $8,000,000 / yr, then the tax is $12,837,470 and the tax rate is $22.968%. And remember, with the Fair Tax, only NEW items for sale are taxed, and tuition is not taxed at all.
The Fair Tax is described in detail at www.fairtax.org, and I support that. The tax rate, effectively, is 30% as most people calculate taxes, although the Fair Tax info describes it as 23%, which is the amount of tax on the total price+tax amount.
The Fair Tax is designed to replace the amount of revenue raised by the current income tax, although the happy situation is that the income tax revenues have fallen lately, so the Fair Tax would actually generate more revenue than the income taxes do now.
The Fair Tax gets its strength from growing the economy. We would be so knee-deep in industrial activity that, eventually, we would be able to fund everything without cutting anything. That sort of projection isn't at the website, but just something that seems logical from the highly unusual situation in having an industrialized country with no income tax. We'd be the only place on the planet like that, and, with that being such a good deal for industry, we'd be a gigantic industrial magnet. I believe the projections for the success of the Fair Tax are greatly understated, and that the Fair Tax is _the_ answer for our economic problems.
So you want to kill them all? That's what'll happen if Israel is defeated militarily.
We just kicked the president of Egypt in the teeth by threatening his pipeline of money via "Foreign Aid" into doing the right thing in this war between Israel and the Palestinians, resulting in the continued existence of our only really friendly country in the middle east, and in our not having to get involved militarily ourselves to achieve that. Without "foreign aid", we'd either have to abandon Israel to annihilation by the Muslim Hordes, or come to their aid with troops.
IOW, we're getting a lot of bang for our "foreign aid" buck, or more properly renamed, our "bribe to behave" which is what foreign aid really is.
a D thing!
What we have to do is to reindustrialize America. That is, get the jobs back from overseas. How do we do that? First, we have to recognize that jobs did NOT go overseas because of work-for-peanuts foreign labor rates. No, no, no. They went overseas because of... taxes! Specifically, income taxes are toxic to industry in any amount. We should get rid of them.
_The_ answer is the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax calls for the complete repeal of all income taxes, every last one of them: individual, corporate, alternative minimum, self employment, estate, gift, social security / medicare, capital gains, etc. etc. Income taxes are essentially a tax on prosperity, and like RR said, "If you want less of something, tax it." Boy does that work great with income tax. We have waaaaaaay less prosperity than we could have.
The Fair Tax taxes consumption. That is, it is a sales tax. Stop with the knee-jerk "regressive" reaction, already, the income taxes are already incredibly regressive, with the Social Security / Medicare tax taking the first 15.3% of _every_ person's wages from the 1st dollar they make, it not mattering a whit that such person is only making $11,000 / yr. And if that isn't regressive enough, the Social Security / Medicare tax is capped in the $100K range, meaning the really rich people pay far LESS percentage than the poor person.
The Fair Tax taxes consumption, and "prebates" the amount of tax you pay on the amount of money you spend up to the poverty level. That is, if the poverty level is $11K per year for you if you are single, then the government sends you the amount of tax on $11K, in 12 equal monthly payments, so if you're poor you don't pay a penny of Fair Tax, it is paid for you.
What this does is make the USA the worlds newest, bestest tax shelter for industry to produce goods and services tax free. That is huge, since, according to Fair Tax researchers, approximately 22% of the selling price of everything produced in the USA is composed of industry expenses caused by income taxes. That is, a $40,000 SUV built in this country has about $8,800 of income tax expense in it. By contrast, it only takes about 30 - 33 labor hours to build the $40K SUV, and at the industry-stated rate of $78 / hr expense of labor to the the car companies, that is only $2,500 labor expenses to build the SUV.
Want to fix the economy permanently? Pass the Fair Tax, get unemployment down to 3% in about 2 years, killing about $100,000,000 of unemployment expenses and $70,000,000 of food stamp expenses to the gov't, and increase gov't revenues due to the huge expansion in the economy. Then, when full employment is achieved, wages start going up because of a labor shortage. That is when we can decide to let anyone that wants to immigrate to come here without restriction other than criminals and people with dread diseases, who we can also provide with good jobs and high wages, which.... generates more revenue from their spending. That, plus the fact that the Fair Tax broadens the tax base by including, for the 1st time, criminals that use the money stolen from the public via illegal means to buy their luxuries which will be taxed, as well as the idle rich that have no income but will be taxed heavily when they buy that $70M yacht, and, BTW, the rich contribute far more to the tax base than they do now simply because of their spending on luxury items.
We can do this, or continue with the income taxes sucking the lifeblood out of our economy, and be forced into austerity, and eventual 3rd-world existence because we'll be forced to lower wages to the work-for-peanuts foreign worker equivalent, while the gov't takes taxes from the wrong places, and forces jobs to continue to flee the USA and end up in places like India and Bangladesh.
Just don't submit to manufacturers who sell you computers and then "ban" things like programming them. I don't buy ANYTHING that starts with "i" because of that nonsense.
Annie Oakley used a rifle for this.
I wasn't talking about the PV panels falling on you, I was talking about the trees falling on you. Trees should not be located where they can fall on people, not near the sides of the roads (where they can ALSO be run into by a car that is forced off the road and the people die) and not near their houses where the trees can fall on those houses and kill the people inside. Everyone thinks the Druid religion is essentially dead, but its not - mention chopping down trees for any reason and people have kittens. I am not so in love with trees - they have their place - but that place is NOT where they can easily result in deaths of people.
And this is the sort of nonsense that makes mass transit of any sort the largest PITA on the planet. I've given up flying completely because of the TSA nonsense, which incidentally is 100% unconstitutional, and drive everywhere I go. The irritants to flying are endless: Paying to park in a lot that is still a 10 minute bus ride from the terminal, overpriced everything in the terminal, having to do a mini-marathon to get between planes on a connecting flight, lost bags, bags pilfered by TSA, never being 100% sure you can take this or that on the plane because the TSA doesn't really follow the website, having the things you pack in bubble wrap 'cuz they're fragile unwrapped by TSA so maybe they break and maybe they don't, tiny airline seats, no legroom, having to arrive 2 hours before the plane, "gotcha" pricing for everthing such as bags, overweight bags, oversize bags, and the 50 lb limit on the bags that used to be 70 - I have trouble with that 'cuz some of my equipment uses heavy batteries. 45 minute waits to get bags at the carousel, and then maybe 45 minutes to rent a car including another 10 minute ride to the rental car off-site office. Expensive airline tickets that I can often beat in terms of gasoline and motels, even without having a passenger sharing expenses.
Get the D TSA out of the formula and I _might_ get back on airplanes, but nonsense like this doesn't help.
Aw, they should just make the planes without windows, so we can all have claustrophobia attacks all the way from DC to Sydney, Austrailia. No need to look out the window when someone wants to sleep in the daytime, anyway.
There is only one law needed when it comes to modern day inereactions with society. "Don't do anything unusual." This covers the guy that had a perfectly legal chemistry lab, that there was no law against but they took all his chemicals anyway, to just about anything at all. If you're neighbor, or someone nearby hasn't done it before, or done it recently, "they" will find that it is somehow illegal, one way or the other. Go with the flow... be like everyone else... sheeple...
What electrical entity will produce the thrust of a jet engine and at the same velocity?
And in a storm, they fall on you and come thru the roof of your bedroom and kill you...
than a year or 5 years. The economy is going to collapse from the excessive borrowing and ballooning of the interest rate on the debt, and we won't be launching ANY satellites for several decades, if ever again. If we get a debt up to 30, 40, 50 trillion, we'll likely never, ever be able to pay it off, and it will consume our entire economic output just to pay the interest. At that point, we become a 3rd world country. The only way out might be to simply cease to exist as the United States of America, and form a new country or several new countries that don't owe anything... I don't think there is any national equivalent to bankruptcy other than to cease to exist.
This may be true, but it is a case of supply and demand. By granting 1000's of H1B visas, the supply of people that can do this job is artificially increased within the USA. That, combined with the other labor evil, outsourcing, combines to dramatically lower wages for those that choose to do software in the USA.
Eventually, if this works out right, there will be NO US citizens graduating with programming degrees. If they're smart, they'll go into lawyering or doctoring, rather than get abused by the government and business. Let the average wage of software people plummet to $60K or somesuch, and US citizens will instead choose to do something that pays decent money, and never darken a computer science degree program threshold again.
And then US industry REALLY WILL be unable to find US citizens to abuse. Poetic justice.
Yeah, that's a valid question to which I want a confirmation. Does this OS prohibit all games that aren't downloaded from the "approved" site? I don't think so, but don't know for sure. I've got several games (not a big gamer) and, what, do they not then run if I upgrade to 8? I have to rebuy them at this approved site in order to keep playing them? Makes no sense, but then neither does worrying about what the official game store from usoft may or may not approve when games bought anywhere can run on the OS.
including the inability to get non-stop flights for most routes, having to pay to park in a lot that is still a 10 minute ride to the terminal, having to arrive 2 hours early to ensure getting thru security on time to board, having small innocuous items in my pockets stolen by TSA, risking having large innocuous items in my bags stolen by TSA, getting severely overcharged for food at airport terminals, getting X-rayed by someone who is not my doctor or dentist, having to do mini-marathons thru airports to make connecting flights, getting my bags lost, etc. etc. have all combined to cause me to decide to drive everywhere I go. Eventually, the Alcan Highway is going to get photographed up the wazoo, by me, 'cuz I'll drive up and ferry back. But the X-rays were the last straw, that shall not stand. I quit. You can find me on I-10 to Tucson next year, I-74 from Indy to La Crosse, I-64 to St. Louis, etc. etc. Until the unconstitutional TSA activity is removed, I will not choose to fly anywhere I can drive, or boat, or travel by train.