True, Obama will make concessions and make bipartisan decisions until everything the Republicans don't like is gone, just as he has done with everything else. Heck by the time they're done with it there will be cuts to social services and an extension on the Bush tax cuts in place of this tax.
Instead of making bipartisanship one of the cornerstones of his administration he should have said "FUCK bipartisanSHIT, it's our turn now and we'll do what we want, bitches! Go home and cry to your mamas if you don't like it!"
Making compromises hasn't won him any fans. The republicans still hate him despite the fact that he's further right than Clinton and looks a lot like GWB on paper, and he's left everyone who voted for him feeling abandoned.
True, my dad's an accountant and the people who start to show interest in this stuff are in the upper-middle class - not rich by first world standards, just working joes who make a decent bit more than average. That's where the incentive kicks in for people to start with this "tax planning" business. So when you're up in the 6+ digit range the incentive is VERY much already there, no sense tiptoeing around it, you're already knee-deep in it.
I know that people don't like the idea of everyone having to pay taxes and they balk at the idea that rich people will get to spend all of the money they receive, but a sales tax is the only fair tax. Rich people spend more money, thus pay more in taxes. Poor people spend less money, thus less in taxes.
The problem is that the poor person might spend 40% of his monthly income on just what he needs to survive (let's just say food etc, assume each person has a paid-up crapshack/mansion), while the rich person, even if he buys the most expensive of basic necessities, will spend, say 10%. Maybe he'll blow the rest on cocaine, hookers and yacht/jet/supercar fuel, maybe he'll save it, but he won't pay anywhere near the percentage of his total income that the poor person did on sales taxes for his basic necessities.
So you see that sales taxes are inherently regressive, and this is why I'm almost categorically against them.
If I was one of those gamers and I got patent royalties I'd feel awful about myself.
Solving this problem was a one-time effort. Would I accept a nice one-time reward for it? Yes. Would I want sick people around the world to have to pay me a little money every time they use the drug? No.
It was only a couple of years ago that the anime fans lost their last stand, and the "crucifixion in anime" section was removed from the "crucifixion" article. I did a whole long post detailing the event but I can't find it now:-(
(actually searching back in my emails, I found myself saying I can't find it again, around March this year. D'oh! )
Yeah I'd generally recommend steering clear of D-link, at least with the stock firmware, their products are generally shit. However, if you want a dirt-cheap N router (non-gigabit), look at putting DD-WRT on a DIR-615 variant. Those things are dirt cheap and once they're running DD-WRT, they're rock-solid stable.
+1 for this router. I have a couple of these running plain DD-WRT and they're great. I have the dropout-correction script on both but it's never run as far as I can see. Certainly no users have ever noticed and I haven't seen any errors caused by it.
It's also on the 19th! The first Talk Like a Politician Day was held in 1956 and it's been celebrated every year since by giving politicians campaign contributions, cocaine and sexual favors.
Also my penis is 12" long and I drive a Lamborghini.
Ah they've come up with a name for it now. Just earlier today I was thinking how funny it is that some people think that the renewable energy industry is anywhere near as big or influential as the fossil fuel industry. Some even see the renewable energy industry as a government-backed Goliath to the fossil energy industry's David, the underdog just trying to make an honest buck. Hilarious.
In one case, I found a 15 Million dollar year expenditure that had been going on for 10 years,and no one knew where the money went. At it s very well known company. Something everyone who wheres shoes has heard of.
Hey, sometimes you have to pay assassins as part of a marketing campaign, and then you have to pay mercenary organizations to help cover it up...it all adds up, and they don't take unicorn farts.
He probably attached his personal Blackberry to their BBES server (big mistake, this gives the BBES admin total power over your phonre) and then they pushed a GPS tracker app to his Blackberry.
GSM works in most places outside the US, unlike CDMA, and allows you to switch carriers (unless you were dumb enough to buy a carrier-locked phone) simply by changing SIM cards. And therefore, for obvious reasons, most phones are GSM phones.
Interesting. I know where "whom" is meant to be used but intentionally avoided using since it's now considered archaic language.
But I'll keep that in mind in case I ever want to impress a literature nerd, steampunk enthusiast, or other vintage language fan, rather than simply converse with people who don't see the imperfect or modern use of language as the mark of a dimwit.
Android is hardly Linux. Only the kernel was based on the Linux kernel and it's so different it's incompatible. I'll never understand the guys cheering "Linux victory!" at Android's popularity.
You're thinking small. Call it the Star-Spangled Freedom Eagle Dominator Patriot Telescope, and then duct-tape a handgun to the side of it. It goes under the defense budget, and BOOM, infinite funding.
The term "patent reform" clearly wasn't specific enough, in the same way that "body panel reform" to a clearly damaged car could mean whacking it with a crow bar in some random places. Hey, it's reformed, right?
We have to come up with an unmistakeable description. Patent lightening? Patent un-fucking? I dunno. Make some suggestions.
I wonder what they'll be teaching them on. There must be some lightweight youngster friendly languages out there that teach you all the logic basics, and then extend out further.
Probably.NET or whatever the corporate favorite of the day is:-(
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True, Obama will make concessions and make bipartisan decisions until everything the Republicans don't like is gone, just as he has done with everything else. Heck by the time they're done with it there will be cuts to social services and an extension on the Bush tax cuts in place of this tax.
Instead of making bipartisanship one of the cornerstones of his administration he should have said "FUCK bipartisanSHIT, it's our turn now and we'll do what we want, bitches! Go home and cry to your mamas if you don't like it!"
Making compromises hasn't won him any fans. The republicans still hate him despite the fact that he's further right than Clinton and looks a lot like GWB on paper, and he's left everyone who voted for him feeling abandoned.
True, my dad's an accountant and the people who start to show interest in this stuff are in the upper-middle class - not rich by first world standards, just working joes who make a decent bit more than average. That's where the incentive kicks in for people to start with this "tax planning" business. So when you're up in the 6+ digit range the incentive is VERY much already there, no sense tiptoeing around it, you're already knee-deep in it.
True, "tax planning" is exploiting legal gray areas. Make them black areas, problem solved.
I know that people don't like the idea of everyone having to pay taxes and they balk at the idea that rich people will get to spend all of the money they receive, but a sales tax is the only fair tax. Rich people spend more money, thus pay more in taxes. Poor people spend less money, thus less in taxes.
The problem is that the poor person might spend 40% of his monthly income on just what he needs to survive (let's just say food etc, assume each person has a paid-up crapshack/mansion), while the rich person, even if he buys the most expensive of basic necessities, will spend, say 10%. Maybe he'll blow the rest on cocaine, hookers and yacht/jet/supercar fuel, maybe he'll save it, but he won't pay anywhere near the percentage of his total income that the poor person did on sales taxes for his basic necessities.
So you see that sales taxes are inherently regressive, and this is why I'm almost categorically against them.
If I was one of those gamers and I got patent royalties I'd feel awful about myself.
Solving this problem was a one-time effort. Would I accept a nice one-time reward for it? Yes. Would I want sick people around the world to have to pay me a little money every time they use the drug? No.
It was only a couple of years ago that the anime fans lost their last stand, and the "crucifixion in anime" section was removed from the "crucifixion" article. I did a whole long post detailing the event but I can't find it now :-(
(actually searching back in my emails, I found myself saying I can't find it again, around March this year. D'oh! )
Yeah I'd generally recommend steering clear of D-link, at least with the stock firmware, their products are generally shit. However, if you want a dirt-cheap N router (non-gigabit), look at putting DD-WRT on a DIR-615 variant. Those things are dirt cheap and once they're running DD-WRT, they're rock-solid stable.
+1 for this router. I have a couple of these running plain DD-WRT and they're great. I have the dropout-correction script on both but it's never run as far as I can see. Certainly no users have ever noticed and I haven't seen any errors caused by it.
It's also on the 19th! The first Talk Like a Politician Day was held in 1956 and it's been celebrated every year since by giving politicians campaign contributions, cocaine and sexual favors.
Also my penis is 12" long and I drive a Lamborghini.
The thing is, there are Environmentalists and then there are "Environmentalists"...
Problem is that it takes more energy to produce a solar panel than the panel takes in over its lifetime.
BULLSHIT
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/794/
Ah they've come up with a name for it now. Just earlier today I was thinking how funny it is that some people think that the renewable energy industry is anywhere near as big or influential as the fossil fuel industry. Some even see the renewable energy industry as a government-backed Goliath to the fossil energy industry's David, the underdog just trying to make an honest buck. Hilarious.
In one case, I found a 15 Million dollar year expenditure that had been going on for 10 years,and no one knew where the money went. At it s very well known company. Something everyone who wheres shoes has heard of.
Hey, sometimes you have to pay assassins as part of a marketing campaign, and then you have to pay mercenary organizations to help cover it up...it all adds up, and they don't take unicorn farts.
He probably attached his personal Blackberry to their BBES server (big mistake, this gives the BBES admin total power over your phonre) and then they pushed a GPS tracker app to his Blackberry.
I don't know if it was worth putting yourself at risk to let us know that Cisco is a bunch of scummy shitsacks, I mean, we already knew that...
Dude you broke Slashdot, double-posts should be impossible.
GSM works in most places outside the US, unlike CDMA, and allows you to switch carriers (unless you were dumb enough to buy a carrier-locked phone) simply by changing SIM cards. And therefore, for obvious reasons, most phones are GSM phones.
So yeah, it's a big deal.
I hope you're not implying that Sprint or Virgin are "major carriers."
Interesting. I know where "whom" is meant to be used but intentionally avoided using since it's now considered archaic language.
But I'll keep that in mind in case I ever want to impress a literature nerd, steampunk enthusiast, or other vintage language fan, rather than simply converse with people who don't see the imperfect or modern use of language as the mark of a dimwit.
Android is hardly Linux. Only the kernel was based on the Linux kernel and it's so different it's incompatible. I'll never understand the guys cheering "Linux victory!" at Android's popularity.
Oh, and I think this goes without saying, but if it isn't obvious, it would have a bitchin' America-tastic paint job, like this.
You're thinking small. Call it the Star-Spangled Freedom Eagle Dominator Patriot Telescope, and then duct-tape a handgun to the side of it. It goes under the defense budget, and BOOM, infinite funding.
The term "patent reform" clearly wasn't specific enough, in the same way that "body panel reform" to a clearly damaged car could mean whacking it with a crow bar in some random places. Hey, it's reformed, right?
We have to come up with an unmistakeable description. Patent lightening? Patent un-fucking? I dunno. Make some suggestions.
Like the PATRIOT act. The title is an ironic opposite of what the act actually does.
I wonder what they'll be teaching them on. There must be some lightweight youngster friendly languages out there that teach you all the logic basics, and then extend out further.
Probably .NET or whatever the corporate favorite of the day is :-(