I find it hard to believe that anyone still believes that corporations pay taxes. Corporations are non-beings. Corporations have no ability to create their own income beyond what human beings provide.
In my small business I don't even pay my own taxes, my clients do, and their clients pay theirs, until it finds a human being at the end of the chain. If government raises taxes, I raise my prices and so do my clients; its a vicious cycle of never-ending inflation. Vote for who you want to, it won't change the fact that the people pay the taxes, so stop whining about the "big bad corporations" and vote for a tax system that works.
No, closed source does not mean you're going to get screwed, but in my experience you're more likely to be. Over the years I've watched countless applications fall by the wayside because he company went out of business or dropped the product with no replacement. I have two clients right now I'm trying to find software for because there old software won't work with Vista or XP. If you think I'm lying try to find software for an automotive accessory store, it doesn't exists (and no Quickbooks won't work).
This is another reason I won't buy games from Valve/Steam or OSes from Microsoft. The day has come when your software is controlled by you or someone else (not necessarily the publisher). Who do you want in control of yours?
I don't think I've gone to the extreme in this case. My email server has all the features I listed above and no, it doesn't take a huge chunk out of my budget. OTOH, I am not extremely paranoid about a "foreign (or not so foreign) agency" being able to steal my email. I would think the FBI would have to spend a great deal more to reasonably ensure (which is relative) such a thing doesn't happen.
Yes, email with personnel turn-over and security features is hard work. In my last job I was responsible for securing upto 200 accounts. The corp had determined that everyone would use encryption for inter-office email. We didn't even need it and in most cases it was completely useless (outside email). Do you have any idea how many passphrases I replaced on a weekly basis? I can't even imagine the problems 2000 users would present.
I'm happy they haven't implemented it. It either means they don't have the funds to do it to their standards OR they aren't confident it can be secured; either way, it means one less thing to be attacked.
You are not seriously naive enough to believe that technology is free are you?
Behind every tech, whether free or not, is a cost. In the case of the FBI, I personally can see an email service necessitating many additional costs, such as: IT personnel to manage the service, hardware to run the service, AND (a biggie) securing the service from inside and outside. That's not even taking into account encryption setup and maintenence that you can bet they are going demand before even considering such a service.
If you think you can just setup an Exim server, you're dead wrong.
Statements like this drive me nuts. I'm sure it's a "glass half empty" type thing.
The fairtax encourages SAVING money. Money, is not static, it does not just sit there (unless you keep all yours in your sock drawer). Money in circulation (banks, investment houses, etc.) is always working.
People will still buy things, I personally guarantee it. If everyone in the US suddenly stops buying everything the day the Fairtax passes, send me the bill.
Lastly, to everyone out there commenting on the Fairtax that has not read HR25 (or at least Boortz and Linder's book), I'm sick of hearing uneducated FUD, keep it to yourself.
HP, Epson, Canon and other inkjet printer manfacturers reported record profits on 5.5 picoliter inkjet replacement cartridges. Several spokesmen said their companies have plans to make even smaller cartridges, that will sell for the same price. One company VP was overheard stating, "it's already worth more than cocaine, now if we can make it worth more than gold..."
not the fact that browsing to a particular website would infect a single user. I would think that most people don't go to those websites.
However, if a malicous person were to couple an exploit like this with a website infecting worm, the potential is enormous. You're no longer concerned with the individual site or user being taken offline or corrupted, you have the potential vistors to a site possibly helping spread the infection. Imagine a large e-commerce site infected with exploit code. I can foresee large infection rates from anyone who figures out how to automate this type of "two-pronged" attack.
I own a Handera 330. I love it; jog-wheel, hi-res screen, switchable backlight, CF & SD card slots. It really was best of breed when I got it. I've been hoping for sometime that they would release an updated version (possibly color, OS5). But I just discovered that they are exiting the Palm handheld arena.
I don't want a phone/PDA. I would extremely miss my jog-wheel. Sony seems to be the only choice for a full featured PalmOS handheld now.
The last company I worked for used Prime. OF course, they're gone (absorbed into another division), but from what I understand the Prime is still running in case they need any data from it. They're afraid to shut it off, because it might not come back up. So I guess that OS will live forever, or at least until a hardware failure.
I read your document. Has it occured to you that several corporate sponsors to your program could pretty much wipe it out the way you seem to have it structured?
Slashdotters all agreed on this on the previous article.
Excuse me? I read the article, the message list, etc. and I felt the overall tone was one of "How can a company be allowed to trademark a single word?" I agree whole-heartedly with this point.
KIllustrator is a clone product of Illustrator
KIllustrator, if anything, is closer to CorelDraw than anything else. Evidently, you've never used the program.
I think we should applaud Adobe on this.
Applaud a company for using strong arm tactics to protect an obvious travesty of trademark law. I suppose you agree with Microsoft's business tactics as well. What is to say Microsoft won't go after KWord, Kwrite, Abiword, etc. How long before Adobe turns it legal team on XPDF (violating a possible tradmark on the letters P, D, & F)? I'm sick of watching the English laguage being turned into a commodity.
Nobody ever got fired for using Microsoft, AIN"T quite true.
The company I work for is a Microsoft shop currently because of a certain person who is no longer employed here.
Now for the reasons NOT to go with Exchange:
Security - Besides the cliche' 'number and type of security issues', Exchange is no fun when XYZ patch stops Exchange from running at all.
Cost - Client licensing for Exchange ate over half of our IT budget two years ago. Adding to the those licenses costs us more per year than implementing another solution (or two, or three,...)
Dependant on WINS - If you've never worked with it, thank your lucky stars. We all know how M$ designs protocals, and this one (designed to suppliment DNS, noless), fails miserably and repeatedly.
This is to say nothing of the pains of going back to a *nix based system when your management realizes their mistake.
It has always been my opinion that management should not make IT decisions, based on the facts that; they (typically) have no IT experience, will not ultimately carry the burden of failure on an IT project, and are impressed by buzzwords. Anyone who is impressed by a word, should be taken out back and beaten/shot/hanged.
Given the choice between migrating to Exchange or damnation, I really can't see much difference. However, I would probably pick damnation cause I assume the reboots would be shorter.
Whether you are aware of it or not, there are new users on the Internet everyday, whom may not know that Web polls are useless and that M$ spreads FUD. Give it a rest.
My question to you however is, if you don't give a shit, why are you responding to this?
Corporations don't have that same ability to give people that kind of comfort.
/putting on flame armor/
I don't agree. Corporations have been telling us how to be comfortable with ourselves for years. They tell us what to buy, what to wear, how to act. Even if the/. community doesn't follow it, the fact remains that corporations determine the status-quo.
It shouldn't matter whether an entity (person or corporation) uses a domain name solely for email, ftp or whatever. Domain names, especially.COM should be served on a first-come, "do-with-as-you-will" basis. The entire idea of the "free-enterprise" system the.COM domain is based on, requires this. Trademark infringement law has no business in a worldwide community as no two contries handle trademarks the same way, and there is absolutely no way that every entity has a distinctly different name. Who gets tyler.com, Jon Tyler the individual, Tyler,TX the city, or Tyler Corp the business? Don't say Tyler Corp, because we all know the COM, NET, and ORG domains have been deemed "miscellaneous". Therefore, no true resolution can be given without some entity's "rights" being trampled.
Personally, I agree that there are too many TLDs now. I agree with the use of country codes, with each country controlling the structure of it's domain system, or some OTHER system than the current corrupt policies.
Having been "out-of-the-business" for several years, I'm not sure just how dated this would be.
When I was editing, I used a dual P-Pro, 128MB RAM, quad Seagate 9.1GB Ultra Wide SCSI drives running on parallel Adaptec 2940UW. Video came through a Targa 2000RT with the breakout box. In short, the machine screamed.
Probably the most impressive part of all was the editing software though. I had used Avid's stuff on a Mac previously and hated it. Unfortuantely, my employeer thought the we should stick with Avid for the PC based stuff as well, so we started with Xpress. Thankfully, it didn't work worth crap.
Reluctantly, my boss bought the software I originally asked for (It's amazing what you can get when you're three weeks behind!), In-Sync's Speed Razor 3.5.
All I can say is that it rocked! Unlimited number of audio and video tracks. Real-time audio mixing for up to 8 tracks accross the 5 channels. Effects that would literally blow you away. Edit control like I had never had before. If it wasn't for NT, I don't think it would have ever crashed either.;)
In-Sync is still in business and from what I can see the Razor is sharper than ever. Hmmmm, maybe I need a new box... I could finally edit out those wedding videos, kids at Christmas, dog's first birthday.....
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I find it hard to believe that anyone still believes that corporations pay taxes. Corporations are non-beings. Corporations have no ability to create their own income beyond what human beings provide.
In my small business I don't even pay my own taxes, my clients do, and their clients pay theirs, until it finds a human being at the end of the chain. If government raises taxes, I raise my prices and so do my clients; its a vicious cycle of never-ending inflation. Vote for who you want to, it won't change the fact that the people pay the taxes, so stop whining about the "big bad corporations" and vote for a tax system that works.
No, closed source does not mean you're going to get screwed, but in my experience you're more likely to be. Over the years I've watched countless applications fall by the wayside because he company went out of business or dropped the product with no replacement. I have two clients right now I'm trying to find software for because there old software won't work with Vista or XP. If you think I'm lying try to find software for an automotive accessory store, it doesn't exists (and no Quickbooks won't work).
This is another reason I won't buy games from Valve/Steam or OSes from Microsoft. The day has come when your software is controlled by you or someone else (not necessarily the publisher). Who do you want in control of yours?
should read:
"... has no plans on rushing Duke Nukem, Forever."
I don't think I've gone to the extreme in this case. My email server has all the features I listed above and no, it doesn't take a huge chunk out of my budget. OTOH, I am not extremely paranoid about a "foreign (or not so foreign) agency" being able to steal my email. I would think the FBI would have to spend a great deal more to reasonably ensure (which is relative) such a thing doesn't happen.
Yes, email with personnel turn-over and security features is hard work. In my last job I was responsible for securing upto 200 accounts. The corp had determined that everyone would use encryption for inter-office email. We didn't even need it and in most cases it was completely useless (outside email). Do you have any idea how many passphrases I replaced on a weekly basis? I can't even imagine the problems 2000 users would present.
I'm happy they haven't implemented it. It either means they don't have the funds to do it to their standards OR they aren't confident it can be secured; either way, it means one less thing to be attacked.
You are not seriously naive enough to believe that technology is free are you?
Behind every tech, whether free or not, is a cost. In the case of the FBI, I personally can see an email service necessitating many additional costs, such as: IT personnel to manage the service, hardware to run the service, AND (a biggie) securing the service from inside and outside. That's not even taking into account encryption setup and maintenence that you can bet they are going demand before even considering such a service.
If you think you can just setup an Exim server, you're dead wrong.
Please dear God, NO Prequels. I realize Joss isn't Braga, but that still smells like ST.
Statements like this drive me nuts. I'm sure it's a "glass half empty" type thing.
The fairtax encourages SAVING money. Money, is not static, it does not just sit there (unless you keep all yours in your sock drawer). Money in circulation (banks, investment houses, etc.) is always working.
People will still buy things, I personally guarantee it. If everyone in the US suddenly stops buying everything the day the Fairtax passes, send me the bill.
Lastly, to everyone out there commenting on the Fairtax that has not read HR25 (or at least Boortz and Linder's book), I'm sick of hearing uneducated FUD, keep it to yourself.
HP, Epson, Canon and other inkjet printer manfacturers reported record profits on 5.5 picoliter inkjet replacement cartridges. Several spokesmen said their companies have plans to make even smaller cartridges, that will sell for the same price. One company VP was overheard stating, "it's already worth more than cocaine, now if we can make it worth more than gold ..."
not the fact that browsing to a particular website would infect a single user. I would think that most people don't go to those websites.
However, if a malicous person were to couple an exploit like this with a website infecting worm, the potential is enormous. You're no longer concerned with the individual site or user being taken offline or corrupted, you have the potential vistors to a site possibly helping spread the infection. Imagine a large e-commerce site infected with exploit code. I can foresee large infection rates from anyone who figures out how to automate this type of "two-pronged" attack.
I'm surely not the first person to think of this.
I was under the impression all Microsoft interfaces were designed with maximum pain in mind.
I own a Handera 330. I love it; jog-wheel, hi-res screen, switchable backlight, CF & SD card slots. It really was best of breed when I got it. I've been hoping for sometime that they would release an updated version (possibly color, OS5). But I just discovered that they are exiting the Palm handheld arena.
I don't want a phone/PDA. I would extremely miss my jog-wheel. Sony seems to be the only choice for a full featured PalmOS handheld now.
Is the Zaurus a real alternative?
The last company I worked for used Prime. OF course, they're gone (absorbed into another division), but from what I understand the Prime is still running in case they need any data from it. They're afraid to shut it off, because it might not come back up. So I guess that OS will live forever, or at least until a hardware failure.
To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows...
This redneck uses Debian and has done so for a long time. Thank you very much!
99 cents a song is a steal. Let's figure there are 3 good songs on a CD nowadays (generous assumption). That's 3 bucks for a CD's worth of good songs.
Although I agree most albums have between 1 and 3 three songs worth having, how do I know which ones until I download them all?
I read your document. Has it occured to you that several corporate sponsors to your program could pretty much wipe it out the way you seem to have it structured?
Excuse me? I read the article, the message list, etc. and I felt the overall tone was one of "How can a company be allowed to trademark a single word?" I agree whole-heartedly with this point.
KIllustrator is a clone product of IllustratorKIllustrator, if anything, is closer to CorelDraw than anything else. Evidently, you've never used the program.
I think we should applaud Adobe on this.Applaud a company for using strong arm tactics to protect an obvious travesty of trademark law. I suppose you agree with Microsoft's business tactics as well. What is to say Microsoft won't go after KWord, Kwrite, Abiword, etc. How long before Adobe turns it legal team on XPDF (violating a possible tradmark on the letters P, D, & F)? I'm sick of watching the English laguage being turned into a commodity.
Nobody ever got fired for using Microsoft, AIN"T quite true.
The company I work for is a Microsoft shop currently because of a certain person who is no longer employed here.
Now for the reasons NOT to go with Exchange:
This is to say nothing of the pains of going back to a *nix based system when your management realizes their mistake.
It has always been my opinion that management should not make IT decisions, based on the facts that; they (typically) have no IT experience, will not ultimately carry the burden of failure on an IT project, and are impressed by buzzwords. Anyone who is impressed by a word, should be taken out back and beaten/shot/hanged.
Given the choice between migrating to Exchange or damnation, I really can't see much difference. However, I would probably pick damnation cause I assume the reboots would be shorter.
between .health and .insurance?
Wow, now I can find out how fast my insurance is going to screw me in TWO places!
Actually, you have that right.
Whether you are aware of it or not, there are new users on the Internet everyday, whom may not know that Web polls are useless and that M$ spreads FUD. Give it a rest.
My question to you however is, if you don't give a shit, why are you responding to this?
Corporations don't have that same ability to give people that kind of comfort.
/putting on flame armor/
I don't agree. Corporations have been telling us how to be comfortable with ourselves for years. They tell us what to buy, what to wear, how to act. Even if the /. community doesn't follow it, the fact remains that corporations determine the status-quo.
I disagree, whole-heartedly!
.COM should be served on a first-come, "do-with-as-you-will" basis. The entire idea of the "free-enterprise" system the .COM domain is based on, requires this. Trademark infringement law has no business in a worldwide community as no two contries handle trademarks the same way, and there is absolutely no way that every entity has a distinctly different name. Who gets tyler.com, Jon Tyler the individual, Tyler,TX the city, or Tyler Corp the business? Don't say Tyler Corp, because we all know the COM, NET, and ORG domains have been deemed "miscellaneous". Therefore, no true resolution can be given without some entity's "rights" being trampled.
It shouldn't matter whether an entity (person or corporation) uses a domain name solely for email, ftp or whatever. Domain names, especially
Personally, I agree that there are too many TLDs now. I agree with the use of country codes, with each country controlling the structure of it's domain system, or some OTHER system than the current corrupt policies.
Having been "out-of-the-business" for several years, I'm not sure just how dated this would be.
When I was editing, I used a dual P-Pro, 128MB RAM, quad Seagate 9.1GB Ultra Wide SCSI drives running on parallel Adaptec 2940UW. Video came through a Targa 2000RT with the breakout box. In short, the machine screamed.
Probably the most impressive part of all was the editing software though. I had used Avid's stuff on a Mac previously and hated it. Unfortuantely, my employeer thought the we should stick with Avid for the PC based stuff as well, so we started with Xpress. Thankfully, it didn't work worth crap.
Reluctantly, my boss bought the software I originally asked for (It's amazing what you can get when you're three weeks behind!), In-Sync's Speed Razor 3.5.
All I can say is that it rocked! Unlimited number of audio and video tracks. Real-time audio mixing for up to 8 tracks accross the 5 channels. Effects that would literally blow you away. Edit control like I had never had before. If it wasn't for NT, I don't think it would have ever crashed either. ;)
In-Sync is still in business and from what I can see the Razor is sharper than ever. Hmmmm, maybe I need a new box... I could finally edit out those wedding videos, kids at Christmas, dog's first birthday .....