"Finally, this notion of 'don't tax us, tax {blank} instead!' makes me want to throw up. What weak-minded fools would throw their neighbors under the bus if it saves them a few nickels? "
Glad I made you puke with reality, as this IS reality, not your impossible Libertarian utopia that will never exist. the ONLY way to control this is to turn the wolves upon themselves. This is the reality of how governments work. The way to get things done is to play the game that they are playing. And this one is playing their game. It opens up a giant pile of magical cash to governments that are starving for money.
IP is over valued, and the only way to regulate it back to a realistic number is to tax it.
If the REcord companies claim that song is worth trillions in a law suit, ASK them where the Back taxes are on those Trillions. Software,Music,Movies,Books. Tax the stated "value" of them.
This fixes two things. 1 - Added revenue for the EU. 2 - stops ridiculousness in claims for Copyright Infringement. The company cant dare to claim $6500.00 per share of a song if they will be taxed at the new rate for it. Suddenly it fixes a legal and a financial problem overnight. They can stop paying Taxes on a piece of I.P. as soon as they release it as public domain. So old abandonware games, Old music music and old movies, will get released and not horded for no reason.
Rainbow tables and Brute force could not do it in a reasonable amount of time. But this was a couple of years ago on a old decomissioned server with only 8 Xeon processors. 1 week later and still nothing.
"Yes. The quality of the trackpad and keyboard matters. "
That's simple. Dont buy Dell, or HP. Get a lenovo, toshiba, Sony, or Apple if those matter to you. the 1 hour you wasted driving to the store, screwing around and driving home would have told you what you wanted to know by using google for 15 minutes.
Walked into store and find the iriver I wanted on website is priced higher in store. store manager refused to match the price. I stood there and ordered it on my phone and told the moron sales manager that I'll get it for that price anyways from his store and walked over to the pick up counter to get the iriver for $25.00 less.
They would have had me buying other items with it, but they lost that sale. I waved at him and said, " you lost an additional $100 accessory sale because you were a jerk! have a nice day!"
Best Buy is now run by the same morons, so they are soon to hit the "everything must go" sale soon.
"Maybe in another year they'll have a Circuitshitty-type selloff"
The number of people screwed at that was astounding. The "deals" did not exist, and there were several in my town they bought TV's only to find them broken and sold "AS-IS" because the minimum wage morons the company hired knocked over a stack of TV's and then just stood them all back up. If you are not willing to pay them more than minimum wage, why do you trust them with stock that is more than 6 months of their wages? Their selloff was a complete joke around here trying to get full price for almost everything.
"This is an obvious failure of home "schooling". Send the kid to school."
Oh holy crap, Nice Bias there kid. Maybe if you understood homeschooling you might have a educated discussion and comment about it. But instead you respond like all other Under-educated Moron examples as to the failures of Public school.
how do you like it when it's turned on you? As a lot more people experience a failed Public school system than any failing home school kids.
My step daughter had to be home-schooled for her last 3 years of high school because of the cancer treatments and hospital stays. When she took her ACT tests for college she pulled a 30 on her ACT and above 2100 on her SAT. She tested HIGHER than all kids in private and public schools in the county. And this is not uncommon, most home schooled kids test better than public school kids. This is a recorded and measured fact, that home-schooled kids that receive 2 or more years of home schooling scored between 86th and 92nd percentile.
The only Obvious failure here is you throwing in your opinion when you lack any education at all on the subject. The support system for home schooling is huge, there are plenty of resources and communities for them. The "social" red herring you bring up is not a problem outside of Mormon internment camps.
He holds 3 certifications in Word, Minesweeper, and Internet Explorer. Dont try and pull a fast one over him.
This is elegant proof that DHS is a waste of taxpayer money. 30 seconds on google would have given him more detail than any interrogation would have revealed.
Hey DHS, I'll take Director of IT position for only $290,000 a year. I cracked the secret of CryptoCat for you....
Dismantle the "homeland security" department. Wipe them out as they are useless waste of money.
Step 2 - give the funds to the FBI and CIA, the people that actually have been doing this stuff for far longer and are far better at it.
Step 3 - allow the FBI to shoot any senator that tries to make yet another department for "Security" so he can help his donors businesses.
No the CIA cant shot senators, they are not supposed to work inside the USA.
This is the problem. We used to have a clean division. FBI Inside, CIA outside. that way we don't get Traitorous acts of spying on US citizens by the CIA happening in secret, like we get with the Homeland Security.
But then checks and balances get's in the way of profits and power, and we cant have that.
Ballmer has been a train wreck for the company, and even the financial rags are saying it. They have not innovated in anything sucessful for years now. They lost the tablet market and are only now trying to break in, they lost the smart phone market that they were king of for a few years when RIM was ramping up and Palm hit their iceberg. They are losing the OS market in the server room and in the workstations to themselves and companies are looking at other options due to the recession going on far longer than anyone hoped.
Any any of their real innovations are still only beta products that are not out yet, and they are about to put all their eggs in their latest windows ME fiasco called windows 8. (Yes I beta tested, we ran a in house test and the users hate it. most corporations also feel this way and will be sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 9 comes out.)
All of the above created a ball of failure that is directly the fault of Their CEO Mutton Head. he has no vision, no leadership skills, and is simply the ships steward watching the autohelm steer the ship hoping he does not have to do anything.
Ballmer was never A level. Even Gates admitted that.
"It all comes down to mutton-headed managers making bad decisions"
This is actually the problem with all companies...
RIM is suffering that one. Nokia is about to slide down that slope with it's Mutton-Headed CEO. Microsoft is survived it's current Mutton Head simply because it has giant trucks full of money.
Today, the Gove will just put you on the "google Glass" beta test list, as a ubergeenerd you will wear them everywher in hopes of people oogling at you. yet you are feeding a steady feed back to CIA headquarters....
"Anything new on subject 47?"
"no sir, he made it to Moscow, but is spending all his time in the hotel room looking at Russian porn and it seems that he is shaking a lot."
Loser pays let's rich people run a steam roller over poor people.
If I have a $20,000,000 legal fund and I sue you, Me paying your bottom feeder $150 an hour lawyer is not a big deal, and the possibility of me winning is huge as I can fabricate all kinds of credible evidence... Look at the RIAA and how they fabricate all kinds of stuff.
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I never have that problem.. I installed Adblock Plus. How in the world have you not discovered adblocking plugins for your browser?
Where ever they film "Jersey shore" certainly seems to be a complete nightmare to most people...
Because he would not have gotten the Government help he received to start the company.
Finland has social programs to start companies. And he used them to start his.
He should get together with other billionaires and build an under sea Utopia for the rich!
They can call it Rapture! and all the rich people can move there and get away from the parasites!
The USA has it's third world areas..... Detroit, New Jersey, South Central LA, Mississippi......
X has had multi touch for YEARS. It was a patch. it's only now that it's a part of the official.
"Finally, this notion of 'don't tax us, tax {blank} instead!' makes me want to throw up. What weak-minded fools would throw their neighbors under the bus if it saves them a few nickels? "
Glad I made you puke with reality, as this IS reality, not your impossible Libertarian utopia that will never exist. the ONLY way to control this is to turn the wolves upon themselves. This is the reality of how governments work. The way to get things done is to play the game that they are playing. And this one is playing their game. It opens up a giant pile of magical cash to governments that are starving for money.
IP is over valued, and the only way to regulate it back to a realistic number is to tax it.
I had a Tandy 1400 laptop WAY before 1991.
I had one way before that. IT ran Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for Pen computing.
http://www.computercloset.org/DauphinDTR1.htm is what it ran on in 1996 when they were end of life for the FBI and they were selling them off cheap.
IP and in Intellectual Property.
If the REcord companies claim that song is worth trillions in a law suit, ASK them where the Back taxes are on those Trillions. Software,Music,Movies,Books. Tax the stated "value" of them.
This fixes two things. 1 - Added revenue for the EU. 2 - stops ridiculousness in claims for Copyright Infringement. The company cant dare to claim $6500.00 per share of a song if they will be taxed at the new rate for it. Suddenly it fixes a legal and a financial problem overnight. They can stop paying Taxes on a piece of I.P. as soon as they release it as public domain. So old abandonware games, Old music music and old movies, will get released and not horded for no reason.
Rainbow tables and Brute force could not do it in a reasonable amount of time. But this was a couple of years ago on a old decomissioned server with only 8 Xeon processors. 1 week later and still nothing.
"Yes. The quality of the trackpad and keyboard matters. "
That's simple. Dont buy Dell, or HP. Get a lenovo, toshiba, Sony, or Apple if those matter to you. the 1 hour you wasted driving to the store, screwing around and driving home would have told you what you wanted to know by using google for 15 minutes.
Circuit city was ran by morons.
Walked into store and find the iriver I wanted on website is priced higher in store. store manager refused to match the price. I stood there and ordered it on my phone and told the moron sales manager that I'll get it for that price anyways from his store and walked over to the pick up counter to get the iriver for $25.00 less.
They would have had me buying other items with it, but they lost that sale. I waved at him and said, " you lost an additional $100 accessory sale because you were a jerk! have a nice day!"
Best Buy is now run by the same morons, so they are soon to hit the "everything must go" sale soon.
"Maybe in another year they'll have a Circuitshitty-type selloff"
The number of people screwed at that was astounding. The "deals" did not exist, and there were several in my town they bought TV's only to find them broken and sold "AS-IS" because the minimum wage morons the company hired knocked over a stack of TV's and then just stood them all back up. If you are not willing to pay them more than minimum wage, why do you trust them with stock that is more than 6 months of their wages? Their selloff was a complete joke around here trying to get full price for almost everything.
"This is an obvious failure of home "schooling". Send the kid to school."
Oh holy crap, Nice Bias there kid. Maybe if you understood homeschooling you might have a educated discussion and comment about it. But instead you respond like all other Under-educated Moron examples as to the failures of Public school.
how do you like it when it's turned on you? As a lot more people experience a failed Public school system than any failing home school kids.
My step daughter had to be home-schooled for her last 3 years of high school because of the cancer treatments and hospital stays. When she took her ACT tests for college she pulled a 30 on her ACT and above 2100 on her SAT. She tested HIGHER than all kids in private and public schools in the county. And this is not uncommon, most home schooled kids test better than public school kids. This is a recorded and measured fact, that home-schooled kids that receive 2 or more years of home schooling scored between 86th and 92nd percentile.
The only Obvious failure here is you throwing in your opinion when you lack any education at all on the subject. The support system for home schooling is huge, there are plenty of resources and communities for them. The "social" red herring you bring up is not a problem outside of Mormon internment camps.
if you think your ISP is going to give you 20,000 IP addresses, then you are a nutter.
Comcast will give you ONE, and you will still NAT.
"What a terrible metaphor. Everyone knows that IPv6 is closer to a Brussels Sprout."
Which is better with bacon instead of Cheese sauce.
I prefer Harlan Ellison's Ideas instead.
He holds 3 certifications in Word, Minesweeper, and Internet Explorer. Dont try and pull a fast one over him.
This is elegant proof that DHS is a waste of taxpayer money. 30 seconds on google would have given him more detail than any interrogation would have revealed.
Hey DHS, I'll take Director of IT position for only $290,000 a year. I cracked the secret of CryptoCat for you....
https://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat
Everything is right there, and I did not have to waterboard anyone.
Dismantle the "homeland security" department. Wipe them out as they are useless waste of money.
Step 2 - give the funds to the FBI and CIA, the people that actually have been doing this stuff for far longer and are far better at it.
Step 3 - allow the FBI to shoot any senator that tries to make yet another department for "Security" so he can help his donors businesses.
No the CIA cant shot senators, they are not supposed to work inside the USA.
This is the problem. We used to have a clean division. FBI Inside, CIA outside. that way we don't get Traitorous acts of spying on US citizens by the CIA happening in secret, like we get with the Homeland Security.
But then checks and balances get's in the way of profits and power, and we cant have that.
Ballmer has been a train wreck for the company, and even the financial rags are saying it. They have not innovated in anything sucessful for years now. They lost the tablet market and are only now trying to break in, they lost the smart phone market that they were king of for a few years when RIM was ramping up and Palm hit their iceberg. They are losing the OS market in the server room and in the workstations to themselves and companies are looking at other options due to the recession going on far longer than anyone hoped.
Any any of their real innovations are still only beta products that are not out yet, and they are about to put all their eggs in their latest windows ME fiasco called windows 8. (Yes I beta tested, we ran a in house test and the users hate it. most corporations also feel this way and will be sticking with Windows 7 until Windows 9 comes out.)
All of the above created a ball of failure that is directly the fault of Their CEO Mutton Head. he has no vision, no leadership skills, and is simply the ships steward watching the autohelm steer the ship hoping he does not have to do anything.
Ballmer was never A level. Even Gates admitted that.
"It all comes down to mutton-headed managers making bad decisions"
This is actually the problem with all companies...
RIM is suffering that one. Nokia is about to slide down that slope with it's Mutton-Headed CEO.
Microsoft is survived it's current Mutton Head simply because it has giant trucks full of money.
Today, the Gove will just put you on the "google Glass" beta test list, as a ubergeenerd you will wear them everywher in hopes of people oogling at you. yet you are feeding a steady feed back to CIA headquarters....
"Anything new on subject 47?"
"no sir, he made it to Moscow, but is spending all his time in the hotel room looking at Russian porn and it seems that he is shaking a lot."
"The problem is network security devices in many cases don't scan IPv6. So if you turn IPv6 on, you're screwed."
Funny, The ones here do. In fact the last firebox update said it covered ipV6.
What out of date garbage are people running out there that will not scan ipV6?
Loser pays let's rich people run a steam roller over poor people.
If I have a $20,000,000 legal fund and I sue you, Me paying your bottom feeder $150 an hour lawyer is not a big deal, and the possibility of me winning is huge as I can fabricate all kinds of credible evidence... Look at the RIAA and how they fabricate all kinds of stuff.