Ideed. I think that the closer we get to micromanaged nations the closure we come to loosing humanity and independence.
Funny thing is I think you unintentionally hit the nail on the head. Even the most terrible regime, empowered by powerful technology can only last so long... the human spirit will only bear so much.
The end result is that the "100 times" financial transfer multiplier from the article can be reduced by a clever populace. The tax becomes a tax on big financial businesses, which may have positive effects at very small (0.05%) tax rates. However, it would never replace income tax as a revenue generator. The tax is too easy to avoid.
(Emphasis mine)
I have no opinion either way about the APT tax in particular, but if you really think that a significant enough portion of the population would actually A) realize the ease of evading this tax and B) actually bother to do it, then I want to live in the world you live in. Because my world is full of lazy, stupid gits who collect empty buckets of chicken with race car drivers on them.
No doubt a goodly number of folks would actively work to evade paying taxes, but those same people are probably already doing that as it is.
If nothing else the research Tevatron results can provide some direction for further testing by the LHC whenever they finally get that beastie up and running at full tilt.
I doubt it. APK has a long history of posting this kind of crazy shit. Frankly I'm surprised he wasn't going on about HOSTS files like he normally does.
The control panel was broken into 3 separate control panels for some unknown reason and you would have to search all 3 to find the settings you were looking for. If that weren't bad enough, some seemingly-related settings were split between 2 of the control panels.
It still is. Check out these screenshots of WM6 (Settings view is in the lower right corner) http://2tee-livad.voi.sch.gr/skinny_2.6.jpg (No goatse or anything sick like that, I promise)
Anyways, back to my tangent - shit was actually an acronym for Store High In Transport. S.H.I.T, words will always change, from the proper to the colloquial.
There's nothing preventing them from stating that only Python 2.5.x or 2.6.x is permissible. Any new features are going to appear in 2.7 or 3.x anyway. And if it was really that big of a deal they could fork it. Call it BigMoneyPython and let that languish. I can't see any reason why the SEC choosing Python as a platform for this would in any way affect the Python project as a whole.
YHBT. If you look closely at the username you will find it's very similar to a frequent Slashdot poster Sopssa (http://slashdot.org/~sopssa). This kind of crap goes on all the time. Some silly asshole got all butthurt about something Sopssa said and made an account with a similar name in order to trick people into thinking it's him. For shame. DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!!
When the OP referred to the Civil War he was using what we call an analogy. That is, he was comparing the turnover at the Dell plants in Tennessee to the rate at which soldiers died during the Civil War.
I don't know where you got the idea that he was somehow referring to Tennessee's involvement in the Civil War itself.
The universal existence of (man made) laws designed largely to protect people from each other supports the teaching of universal sinfulness.
Or the conception of universal sinfulness is a by-product of the fact that humans -- being animals -- frequently treat each other in a way which is perfectly acceptable in animals but is unacceptable in civilized societies. In point of fact your argument demonstrates the findings of the study! By ignoring the some facts (such as humans-as-animals) which don't happen to fit with your cultural identity (Christian) you are happy to attribute a concept such as Universal Sinfulness to an otherwise naturalistic behavior.
The A level executives are the Illuminati controllers who give the C levels their marching orders. I'm not really surprised you hadn't heard of them, they like to hide in the shadows being Vampires and all.
Slashdot Mirror
Ideed. I think that the closer we get to micromanaged nations the closure we come to loosing humanity and independence.
Funny thing is I think you unintentionally hit the nail on the head. Even the most terrible regime, empowered by powerful technology can only last so long... the human spirit will only bear so much.
By Jove I think you've cracked it! It's Whining and Bitching all the way down!
The end result is that the "100 times" financial transfer multiplier from the article can be reduced by a clever populace. The tax becomes a tax on big financial businesses, which may have positive effects at very small (0.05%) tax rates. However, it would never replace income tax as a revenue generator. The tax is too easy to avoid.
(Emphasis mine)
I have no opinion either way about the APT tax in particular, but if you really think that a significant enough portion of the population would actually A) realize the ease of evading this tax and B) actually bother to do it, then I want to live in the world you live in. Because my world is full of lazy, stupid gits who collect empty buckets of chicken with race car drivers on them.
No doubt a goodly number of folks would actively work to evade paying taxes, but those same people are probably already doing that as it is.
If nothing else the research Tevatron results can provide some direction for further testing by the LHC whenever they finally get that beastie up and running at full tilt.
Well thanks for proving my point anyways. I call you a lunatic, you respond with yet another tangled mess of rambling nonsense.
Oh, and I wasn't trying to argue your point or anything like that, I was just informing a neophyte about one of the famous Slashdot crackpots.
I doubt it. APK has a long history of posting this kind of crazy shit. Frankly I'm surprised he wasn't going on about HOSTS files like he normally does.
The control panel was broken into 3 separate control panels for some unknown reason and you would have to search all 3 to find the settings you were looking for. If that weren't bad enough, some seemingly-related settings were split between 2 of the control panels.
It still is. Check out these screenshots of WM6 (Settings view is in the lower right corner)
http://2tee-livad.voi.sch.gr/skinny_2.6.jpg (No goatse or anything sick like that, I promise)
Anyways, back to my tangent - shit was actually an acronym for Store High In Transport. S.H.I.T, words will always change, from the proper to the colloquial.
No, sorry it wasn't
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/shit.asp
But they could store a hash of your CC number and it would work just as well
Actually it's Weird Al from "White and Nerdy"
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/weirdalyankovic/whitenerdy.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
Great song.
No kidding. You must be fun at parties.
And perl fanatics wonder why folks are always down on perl... Perl... what a goddamned shame.
There's nothing preventing them from stating that only Python 2.5.x or 2.6.x is permissible. Any new features are going to appear in 2.7 or 3.x anyway. And if it was really that big of a deal they could fork it. Call it BigMoneyPython and let that languish. I can't see any reason why the SEC choosing Python as a platform for this would in any way affect the Python project as a whole.
YHBT. If you look closely at the username you will find it's very similar to a frequent Slashdot poster Sopssa (http://slashdot.org/~sopssa). This kind of crap goes on all the time. Some silly asshole got all butthurt about something Sopssa said and made an account with a similar name in order to trick people into thinking it's him. For shame. DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS!!
Yeah, it's almost like he's doing it on purpose or something. Weird.
that's the first thing that pops into my mind whenever I hear his name.
Classic.
The unthinkable alternative is loosing your identity...
I loosed my identity once and ended up on Guys Gone Wild. I'll never live that one down.
You're the one spewing nonsense, bub.
When the OP referred to the Civil War he was using what we call an analogy. That is, he was comparing the turnover at the Dell plants in Tennessee to the rate at which soldiers died during the Civil War.
I don't know where you got the idea that he was somehow referring to Tennessee's involvement in the Civil War itself.
Yeah but it's just a hunk of plastic and lead in an official looking box.
How DARE you bring such a reasonable opinion to an otherwise irrational debate. You must be new here.
Ah hahahaha hahaha aHhaa**cough**ahahhahaa
And you know what else we need? A pony. Lots of ponies.
The universal existence of (man made) laws designed largely to protect people from each other supports the teaching of universal sinfulness.
Or the conception of universal sinfulness is a by-product of the fact that humans -- being animals -- frequently treat each other in a way which is perfectly acceptable in animals but is unacceptable in civilized societies. In point of fact your argument demonstrates the findings of the study! By ignoring the some facts (such as humans-as-animals) which don't happen to fit with your cultural identity (Christian) you are happy to attribute a concept such as Universal Sinfulness to an otherwise naturalistic behavior.
meanwhile, I see a grey rectangle in firefox, and I still don't get what that signifies.
It means the scaling algorithm in your web browser and other commercial softwares is disastrously broken. Duh, didn't you RTFA?
Well bully then. Here's to hoping it's not the utter tripe Halo was then.
The A level executives are the Illuminati controllers who give the C levels their marching orders.
I'm not really surprised you hadn't heard of them, they like to hide in the shadows being Vampires and all.