* For those of you who are libertarians, see the next issue of LIBERTY magazine for an article about ideas like these. Ideas about freedom and "reduced government" that are worth campaigning for and that aren't about helping foster an old-fashioned inherited aristocracy in America. When you think about how many interesting things Cheney & co. could be talking about - like ending the Drug War - you'll wind up holding your nose and voting for Gore.
If this man is claiming to be a libertarian he is seriously wrong my friends. A flat tax is a the heart of the libertarian message. Libertarianism dicatates "I don't want the government doing ANYTHING unless there is no other way". Basicly this means a selective tax code is out of the question.
In my opinion a selective tax code is moraly reprehensible. Say I earn $100,000 a year. $40,000 of that goes to the government. Say $10,000 of that $40,000 goes to save for my retierment (SS what ever). Maybe I don't want contribute to a retirement plan. If you do well more power to you. Go open an account. Maybe I plan to retire to Iraq or somewhere. I really don't think the US govenrment will send my SS checks to my new address in Iraq (Just a guess). Now currently, in theroy at least, US govenment dirives it's athority not from devine right, not by a totalitarian leader, no the govenments power is dirived from the people. Who are the people? I am the PEOPLE.
For instance, the US postal service. It exist because Ben Franklin (I think) thought it would be a good idea for everyone to send a mail box. I happen to think everyone should have a e-mail box. Do I want this subsidised by the government? NO. Maybe you don't want an e-mail box. So why make you pay for something (via taxes) that you do not want? This is exactly my problem with Social Security, Medicare, the NEA, PBS, and about a billion other govenrment programs.
Now I am not advocating anarcy. There is some need for government. Protecting the borders from forgien invasion (military), issueing currency, and insuring the protection of our rights (police).
On a whole nother subject is the what our rights are. Freedom of Speech is up there. But the right to LIFE, liberty and the presute of happyness is the most important of all our rights. I can not understand any argument for abortion. It is killing a babby. Who wants to killy babbies? Even if you arguee that a fetus is not a babby (which I can not comprehend), why kill it. There are couples who wait upwards of 10 years to addopt babbies.
Actualy your are both wrong. Great Britian is several islands. All of the English Isles, including Scotland and Ireland. The United Kingdom is what the first post should have said assuming he is speeking of the U.S.
Maybe I missed something. Sure the K5 sucked. That mas more a 486 then a Pentium level CPU. But what was wrong with the original K6. I was very happy with my K6-200 that I used until about a year ago. 2 and a half years of flawless operation on pretty much every MS-OS.
In my opinion it is neither. "Slut" is all in how you define things. Maybe I think if you kiss someone other then your partner you qualify as a "slut". Maybe in my opinion if you have a glass of wine with your Thanksgiving turkey once a year you are a "drunk". Just as the meaning of the work "sucks" has taken a whole new definition the last 20 years. While it origionaly was understud to mean a sexual act, now it has a more general conotation of just being bad. Slashdot has recently ran stories about the courts afferming this by protecting www.XYZincsucks.com type domains. Now if I said you slept with 5 guys in the past week and did not, that would qualify under slander or libel. ^IMHO^
Yes it is to scary! And that is exactly why we should never forget what happened. Memorablia (sp?)we should actualy start calling them artifacts, are a wonderful example of how not to EVER forget what happened. Do we not value Roman artifacts? Did they not have the grizzly practice of killing Christians and conquering most of Europe and surounding areas? What is more appaling? I know everyone has heard it before but if we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.
ummmm The preview pane does not run any scripts or attachments. I looked at ILOVEYOU in Outlook 97, 98 and 2000's preview panes personaly the last few days many a times.
I am in too. I attempted to make one of these things my self at one point. I got as far as the MP3's playing in my car except I had a keyboard in the back seat. Not exactly the safest thing while driving. Once I "got it working" I gave up and lost interest. Oh well. So feel free to spam me about this puppy man.:-)
I hope this opens people eys to the crap that our "world-wide-comglomerants" (sp? ok I think I killed that word, but it is 2:30 am) are starting to hand down to the masses. I would say your average Joe doesn't know anything about all this regional encoding shi.. shtuff. Maybe a letter from Sony in their mail box asking them to bring in their new Playsation so that some "features" can be disabled, will get a few people riled up about this. If we want this to become an issue where something is going to change we need to have some non "2600 people" on our side. BTW - I feel good. First time poster, long time reader:-p
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If this man is claiming to be a libertarian he is seriously wrong my friends. A flat tax is a the heart of the libertarian message. Libertarianism dicatates "I don't want the government doing ANYTHING unless there is no other way". Basicly this means a selective tax code is out of the question. In my opinion a selective tax code is moraly reprehensible. Say I earn $100,000 a year. $40,000 of that goes to the government. Say $10,000 of that $40,000 goes to save for my retierment (SS what ever). Maybe I don't want contribute to a retirement plan. If you do well more power to you. Go open an account. Maybe I plan to retire to Iraq or somewhere. I really don't think the US govenrment will send my SS checks to my new address in Iraq (Just a guess). Now currently, in theroy at least, US govenment dirives it's athority not from devine right, not by a totalitarian leader, no the govenments power is dirived from the people. Who are the people? I am the PEOPLE. For instance, the US postal service. It exist because Ben Franklin (I think) thought it would be a good idea for everyone to send a mail box. I happen to think everyone should have a e-mail box. Do I want this subsidised by the government? NO. Maybe you don't want an e-mail box. So why make you pay for something (via taxes) that you do not want? This is exactly my problem with Social Security, Medicare, the NEA, PBS, and about a billion other govenrment programs. Now I am not advocating anarcy. There is some need for government. Protecting the borders from forgien invasion (military), issueing currency, and insuring the protection of our rights (police). On a whole nother subject is the what our rights are. Freedom of Speech is up there. But the right to LIFE, liberty and the presute of happyness is the most important of all our rights. I can not understand any argument for abortion. It is killing a babby. Who wants to killy babbies? Even if you arguee that a fetus is not a babby (which I can not comprehend), why kill it. There are couples who wait upwards of 10 years to addopt babbies.
Actualy your are both wrong. Great Britian is several islands. All of the English Isles, including Scotland and Ireland. The United Kingdom is what the first post should have said assuming he is speeking of the U.S.
Maybe I missed something. Sure the K5 sucked. That mas more a 486 then a Pentium level CPU. But what was wrong with the original K6. I was very happy with my K6-200 that I used until about a year ago. 2 and a half years of flawless operation on pretty much every MS-OS.
AOHell was a fun little program. While it is the definition of script kiddie, it is what got me into computers
In my opinion it is neither. "Slut" is all in how you define things. Maybe I think if you kiss someone other then your partner you qualify as a "slut". Maybe in my opinion if you have a glass of wine with your Thanksgiving turkey once a year you are a "drunk". Just as the meaning of the work "sucks" has taken a whole new definition the last 20 years. While it origionaly was understud to mean a sexual act, now it has a more general conotation of just being bad. Slashdot has recently ran stories about the courts afferming this by protecting www.XYZincsucks.com type domains. Now if I said you slept with 5 guys in the past week and did not, that would qualify under slander or libel. ^IMHO^
Yes it is to scary! And that is exactly why we should never forget what happened. Memorablia (sp?)we should actualy start calling them artifacts, are a wonderful example of how not to EVER forget what happened. Do we not value Roman artifacts? Did they not have the grizzly practice of killing Christians and conquering most of Europe and surounding areas? What is more appaling? I know everyone has heard it before but if we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.
ummmm The preview pane does not run any scripts or attachments. I looked at ILOVEYOU in Outlook 97, 98 and 2000's preview panes personaly the last few days many a times.
I am in too. I attempted to make one of these things my self at one point. I got as far as the MP3's playing in my car except I had a keyboard in the back seat. Not exactly the safest thing while driving. Once I "got it working" I gave up and lost interest. Oh well. So feel free to spam me about this puppy man. :-)
I hope this opens people eys to the crap that our "world-wide-comglomerants" (sp? ok I think I killed that word, but it is 2:30 am) are starting to hand down to the masses. I would say your average Joe doesn't know anything about all this regional encoding shi.. shtuff. Maybe a letter from Sony in their mail box asking them to bring in their new Playsation so that some "features" can be disabled, will get a few people riled up about this. If we want this to become an issue where something is going to change we need to have some non "2600 people" on our side. :-p
BTW - I feel good. First time poster, long time reader