I used to believe that the income tax was progressive and a sales tax was not, but, I've come to the sad realization that it is the other way around. The income tax has too many loop holes for well funded campaign contributors. The sales tax, on the other hand, is pretty hard to circumvent. It also allows you to give relief for basic necessities like food, clothing and housing. It is so much easier to administer and makes your income tax simpler.
My recommendation: Vote with your feet and your dollars.
The trick is to give the middle finger to the chain theaters that do this stuff.
My thoughts exactly. I stopped going to movies about five years ago. My girlfriend wanted to see a movie recently so I agreed to go. That was enough to satisfy me for the next 5 years. I don't miss it.
Î installed it but had some problems with it. I don't remember exactly what they were but it left a "not-quite-finished" impression. But that was before 33 more developers left OO.org, so it should be getting more complete now.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
We are heavily invested in java with 1.5 million lines of code and I have to agree with you that oracle is making me very nervous about java. I'm personally looking into alternatives for future development.
I've been writing business applications for a while (since 1981). The most producive language for that was certainly COBOL. I use java exclusively now and its platform independence is excellent, but it takes longer to write and maintain the same business functionality in Java than in COBOL.
Good point. That's why java (and other languages I'm sure) offer a decimal math object for exact math. It's not quick and it's a huge PIA to use, but it is completely accurate.
If you wrote it off, you can only count the tax savings. You still paid for it. If your business paid for it, then someone still paid.
I've been using OO for many years now and I've yet to run into a limitation at our company of 200. Some use MS Office because that's what they know. I haven't run into an Excel spreadsheet I couldn't read or change and send back. And they've had no problems with mine, so I think OO has done a pretty good job at compatibility.
But then again, we live in a time when municipalities claim they are working for "safety" and put up red-light cameras and then shorten the yellow timing to get more tickets
Sometimes I wonder how the people making these decisions can sleep at night. How can someone justify reducing the yellow light time, thereby increasing the likelyhood of an accident, all in the name of more revenue? It boggles the mind.
Thing is though that Android doesn't actually use Java, just a java syntax, so if anything the success of Android is hurting Java by further diluting it.
So what happens if Dalvik becomes the new Java? I, for one, have more trust in Google than Oracle.
As a long time Java developer, I had mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, IBM has been a pretty good steward of java and platform independence. On the other hand, it scares me that they are getting in bed with Oracle, since Oracle has shown they support Open Source only where they have a direct benefit (i.e they are first in line to use open source code, but they don't seem to want to contribute much back, IMO).
The interesting thing is, that, if you use another language, the language itself is probably written in C. Any language low-level enough to write an OS in is going to have low-level memory management that will require careful programming.
By the time they complete their OS, it will have more security holes than most OS's because they are human. The advantage they will have is that source code is not public. But, it's like a bank vault. Everyone knows how it's made but you still can't break into it. It's the same with OpenBSD or FreeBSD IMHO.
Launching the first multi-stage orbital body is a great scientific break-through and therefore a "win". We were trying to do the same thing, but the Russians were first.
The reason why we were the first to the moon "Our German scientists were better than the Russians' German scientists."
I have a right to do anything I damned well please with something I own.
I agree. Allowing the company to dictate what I do with a device that I buy is heading down a slippery slope. People who argue that it's for your own good would have been happier in the old Soviet Union.
Most of the "patents" issued would have failed on several counts already: most specifically because they've all been done before (forget the legal term, something like "previous use"). One recent example was MS getting a patent on a GUI window prompting for permission to execute something requiring admin permissions. It's been around for ever in the Unix world and in other operating systems as well.
If you look closely at virtually all software patents, they've been done before in exactly or very similarly ways. Every software engineer knows this.
The fact of the matter is that patenting software is like patenting math. You can't write a new software program today without a legal team. A very sad situation indeed.
They are right-wing, anti-union, anti-high-tax citizens. The left wing faction unfairly tacks on "pro-corporate" and "anti-tax freeloaders" to demonize them
Thanks. My thoughts exactly. Even though I've moved from the republican camp I'm discouraged by many left-wing or left-leaning folks who demonize those who believe in smaller government and financial responsibility.
And, oddly enough, that "evil" Democrat Bill Clinton's administration probably had the best economic policies out of the last four Presidents' (inclusive of the current one) administrations.
Yeah, but he had sex. Little things like a balanced budget, reducing the deficit, a strong relationship with our allies and the lowest unemployment in decades.... don't get fooled into believing those are good things.
Lawmakers have tried multiple times to get a State income tax set, once they get it in place they will be able to make changes to it with a simple majority vote.
You've hit the nail on the head. That's the real goal. I'd bet within 5 years that the drop the 200K minimum.
lets put a tracker on your car and watch when you go over the speed limit by a fraction
That's not what the poster said. A better analogy would be to put GPS on a company car you use for work. If you are doing company business why shouldn't they know what you are doing? If you have personal use of the car as well (as a benefit) then a GPS should not be allowed, IMHO.
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I used to believe that the income tax was progressive and a sales tax was not, but, I've come to the sad realization that it is the other way around. The income tax has too many loop holes for well funded campaign contributors. The sales tax, on the other hand, is pretty hard to circumvent. It also allows you to give relief for basic necessities like food, clothing and housing. It is so much easier to administer and makes your income tax simpler.
My recommendation: Vote with your feet and your dollars.
The trick is to give the middle finger to the chain theaters that do this stuff.
My thoughts exactly. I stopped going to movies about five years ago. My girlfriend wanted to see a movie recently so I agreed to go. That was enough to satisfy me for the next 5 years. I don't miss it.
Î installed it but had some problems with it. I don't remember exactly what they were but it left a "not-quite-finished" impression. But that was before 33 more developers left OO.org, so it should be getting more complete now.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
We are heavily invested in java with 1.5 million lines of code and I have to agree with you that oracle is making me very nervous about java. I'm personally looking into alternatives for future development.
We have 50+ ubuntu boxes most of which were installed from one CD.
what's wrong with COBOL
I've been writing business applications for a while (since 1981). The most producive language for that was certainly COBOL. I use java exclusively now and its platform independence is excellent, but it takes longer to write and maintain the same business functionality in Java than in COBOL.
Good point. That's why java (and other languages I'm sure) offer a decimal math object for exact math. It's not quick and it's a huge PIA to use, but it is completely accurate.
or if you write it off as a business expense
If you wrote it off, you can only count the tax savings. You still paid for it. If your business paid for it, then someone still paid.
I've been using OO for many years now and I've yet to run into a limitation at our company of 200. Some use MS Office because that's what they know. I haven't run into an Excel spreadsheet I couldn't read or change and send back. And they've had no problems with mine, so I think OO has done a pretty good job at compatibility.
But then again, we live in a time when municipalities claim they are working for "safety" and put up red-light cameras and then shorten the yellow timing to get more tickets
Sometimes I wonder how the people making these decisions can sleep at night. How can someone justify reducing the yellow light time, thereby increasing the likelyhood of an accident, all in the name of more revenue? It boggles the mind.
Thing is though that Android doesn't actually use Java, just a java syntax, so if anything the success of Android is hurting Java by further diluting it.
So what happens if Dalvik becomes the new Java? I, for one, have more trust in Google than Oracle.
As a long time Java developer, I had mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, IBM has been a pretty good steward of java and platform independence. On the other hand, it scares me that they are getting in bed with Oracle, since Oracle has shown they support Open Source only where they have a direct benefit (i.e they are first in line to use open source code, but they don't seem to want to contribute much back, IMO).
I don't think my Windows 7 computer has one of those any more.
If you are using Windows *, you don't care about your security anyway.
They are written in C. That's not fixable.
The interesting thing is, that, if you use another language, the language itself is probably written in C. Any language low-level enough to write an OS in is going to have low-level memory management that will require careful programming.
By the time they complete their OS, it will have more security holes than most OS's because they are human. The advantage they will have is that source code is not public. But, it's like a bank vault. Everyone knows how it's made but you still can't break into it. It's the same with OpenBSD or FreeBSD IMHO.
if you say the 3 code words "Patriotism" "National Security" "Terrorism", their idiot mode gets activated
Is that any different in the rest of the world?
Launching the first multi-stage orbital body is a great scientific break-through and therefore a "win". We were trying to do the same thing, but the Russians were first.
The reason why we were the first to the moon "Our German scientists were better than the Russians' German scientists."
I have a right to do anything I damned well please with something I own.
I agree. Allowing the company to dictate what I do with a device that I buy is heading down a slippery slope. People who argue that it's for your own good would have been happier in the old Soviet Union.
Having them show up but refuse to put water to flame is just plain mean
My understanding is that they didn't respond at all. Sounds cruel but if every knew they would come anyway, no one would pay the fee.
Most of the "patents" issued would have failed on several counts already: most specifically because they've all been done before (forget the legal term, something like "previous use"). One recent example was MS getting a patent on a GUI window prompting for permission to execute something requiring admin permissions. It's been around for ever in the Unix world and in other operating systems as well.
If you look closely at virtually all software patents, they've been done before in exactly or very similarly ways. Every software engineer knows this.
The fact of the matter is that patenting software is like patenting math. You can't write a new software program today without a legal team. A very sad situation indeed.
They are right-wing, anti-union, anti-high-tax citizens. The left wing faction unfairly tacks on "pro-corporate" and "anti-tax freeloaders" to demonize them
Thanks. My thoughts exactly. Even though I've moved from the republican camp I'm discouraged by many left-wing or left-leaning folks who demonize those who believe in smaller government and financial responsibility.
And, oddly enough, that "evil" Democrat Bill Clinton's administration probably had the best economic policies out of the last four Presidents' (inclusive of the current one) administrations.
Yeah, but he had sex. Little things like a balanced budget, reducing the deficit, a strong relationship with our allies and the lowest unemployment in decades .... don't get fooled into believing those are good things.
Yep, did that once. Then the company closed and the next job was once again not near where I lived and played.
Lawmakers have tried multiple times to get a State income tax set, once they get it in place they will be able to make changes to it with a simple majority vote.
You've hit the nail on the head. That's the real goal. I'd bet within 5 years that the drop the 200K minimum.
How 'bout bringing up the window I am currently looking at?
From the article:
In that post he also expresses dislike for the American style of politics
He wasn't alone in not liking the style of politics in from 2000 to 2008.
lets put a tracker on your car and watch when you go over the speed limit by a fraction
That's not what the poster said. A better analogy would be to put GPS on a company car you use for work. If you are doing company business why shouldn't they know what you are doing? If you have personal use of the car as well (as a benefit) then a GPS should not be allowed, IMHO.