Agilent will definitely do loaners. I'm not sure about LeCroy.
There are essentially three models of scopes. The lowest tier gets you the scopes you remember - analog, limited digital capability, probably little capture memory - those are about $5k USD or less. The middle tier gets you digital scope, shallow memory, some math functions, typically data rates to about 500Mhz. Those can cost up to about $20k depending on your individual wishes. The top tier can cost $50k or more for some features. They have math modules that you buy and install, deep memories, USB ports, sampling rates up to Ghz, measurement, logic analysis, just about anything you could ever want.
Personally I've been using LeCroy WavePros for years - they're windows-based platforms for what that's worth. The interface was highly non-intuitive but really came to grow on me. They use context-reactive controls that can be very confusing at first but become very powerful as you get used to them. Then recently borrowed a high end Tektronix. Didn't like it at first, couldn't get used to the sort of "classic" control scheme they use, but then got used to those as well. Found the high-end scopes from LeCroy and Tektronix overall very comparable.
I'm in complete agreement. Did Yoko Ono write Imagine? No. She gets rich because she married John Lennon. Let me correct that slightly by saying that she got rich marrying John Lennon because he was quite rich at the time anyway, but is there any sense in the copyright for Imagine ending up in her hands? Here's an idea, let's bring an end to the idea of corporate ownership of copyright. The guy who creates something gets the copyright, and he may assign it to anyone he chooses at that time. On the death of that person, be it old age or tragic accident that claims them ten minutes after the copyright is assigned, it falls to the public domain. The creator (or their proxy) derives benefit for their entire lifetime, and then the public gets it.
OK, you made me curious so I looked it up. It does exist. 01234 is somewhere called Eustace, TX. And if I ever decide to go with 12345 instead, that's Schenectady, NY.
Yeah, what he said. I have a facebook account which thinks I'm a 108 year old man in the zip code 01234, where ever that is. If I go to read some article online and they want to know more about me before I can, that 108 year old man foots the bill once again. What this does to their demographics, I couldn't care less. I have an email address setup through breakthru.com that I use for literally nothing else except to give it to sites that want one. I'm not sure I'd call what I have anonymity, but it's pretty vague about the real me whatever it is.
My parents made is quite clear what was appropriate television viewing with a teaching mechanism known as a spanking if I were caught watching something I wasn't supposed to. It was so highly effective that I'm patenting it, and now parents who continue to spank their children will not only be in trouble with child abuse laws, but will have to pay my licensing fees as well.
This is exactly it. Modern politics has nothing to do with who has a better handle on the issues or who is better qualified to lead. It's all about connections, gerrymandering, trying to keep the other guy's constituents from voting at all, and smearing your opponent. Gore didn't lose the election because he got fewer votes, but because he couldn't get those votes counted. The Bush cronies and machinations were all positioned perfectly to give him that election, and Gore was ourmaneuvered at every turn. Bush didn't steal the election - he won it. It was just an election with different rules than the one we thought (and perhaps hoped) that we were voting in.
From the buyer's POV I'll say that the money order was perfect for me. I get the money order and drop it in the mail in one easy motion at the post office, and I never have to worry that my credit card number is out there. My total exposure is limited to the amount of the money order. I'll also add that I never even once was ripped off on Ebay. I also never bought an item over $40. Anyway, with this move, I'm done with Ebay, not that I was ever a big part of it I'm sure, but there are probably millions of casual buyers like myself, picking up maybe a dozen schotskis a year, and I think that portion of the business is going to all but die now.
I own an NEC 61" 1080p plasma, and no HD DVD player and an old Toshiba series 2 Tivo (not HD). Not only do I not plan to obtain either an HD DVD or HD Tivo, but as the economy gets tighter I plan to call my cable company and drop my HD service. It will save me about $12 a month, and where this economy is headed every penny will count. For me to adopt HD DVD, it would literally have to be cost neutral, or damned close to it.
Good comment, but I wasn't saying it was racism, but could result in it. Daily newscasts of Muslim extremism has, without question, led to some portion of the population in general disliking, distrusting, and mistreating all Muslims. That's not just the extra scrutiny of profiling, which I think is just about the only sane way to approach, say, airport security. What I'm saying is that my desire to support tall, bald, white guys has less to do with a thousand years of trusting people like myself and more to do with who the media portrays as a threat. I think it was Jesse Jackson who said something about walking down the street at night and hearing footsteps behind him, and feeling less threatened if he looks back and the person behind him isn't young and black, i.e. the mass media protrayal (and somewhat the reality) that young black guys commit boatloads of crimes.
I'd argue that beyond a thousand years of racial history, we have a great deal of more recent history that generates racial bias far more effectively. Case in point, pre-9/11 a group of guys in an airport wearing Muslim headgear were at most a curiousity, or perhaps even ignored in the white noise background of all the others around me. Today they definitely register on me in a more visceral level. The news programs bombard me with stories of gang shootings, and guys in gang colors are going to get a wider berth on the subway platforms. A group of teenagers wanted for vandalizing cars - Hey, what's that group of kids doing hanging around at the end of my block? It's maybe no exactly racism, but it quickly can lead there.
Lawyers have ruined being polite - no question about it. My wife and I just bought a house. It came with a number of complications with regards to rights of way and easements and whatnot. We were essentially buying the main house of an estate, and the previous owner was keeping the gatehouse. We got a lawyer to draft some agreements, the original homeowner got a lawyer to read them over, and the whole thing became really acrimonious. $10000 later and about 200 pieces of paper, and we're just about to throw the whole deal away as we're fighting over individual cobblestones in the driveway. We decided instead to meet the owner face-to-face, no lawyers. We had a nice day as she walked us through the house, talking about her memories of the place, her children, and her deceased husband. We ended up buying it and are developing a very close relationship with this woman, and it never would have happened because it's impossible to be civilized when holding discussions through lawyers.
I still think murder and rape are the worst crimes, and am in fact willing to put a murderer in a cell (no TV, no AC, I could perhaps be pursuaded to allow them books) for a length of time equal to the time that the person they killed spends dead. That said, I recall a statistic somewhere, wish I could find some type of link, that said that something like 0.2% of the population commits almost all the violent crimes (armed robbery, murder, muggings, rapes, etc), and I think as a society we should be willing to write those people off, be it with lengthy prison terms or soylent green. This of course strays far afield of the present topic, so I'll bring it home by saying that camping a tragedy for some personal gain is a pretty horrendous crime, and should get a long prison sentence, but cleary not as long as a murderer.
During primary season I was absolutely deluged by Hillary and Obama recorded messages, on my voice mail, while I'm cooking dinner, 11:30 at night, and I'm not even a registered Democrat! I fully expect to simply shut off my phone as we approach November. Here's a deal for all our beloved candidates: Don't call me, I'll call you.
I saw a comic strip a couple of years ago (I wish I could find a link to give credit) that seems very apt. It was just one panel, and in it an Uncle Sam character is at the gift wrapping counter at a store and there's a box on the counter labelled "New Law" and the guy behind the counter is asking how he wants that wrapped. He's got two types of paper "Protect the Children" and "War on Terror." How the fsck did we end up here?
Had to reply to this because you touched on firefighters, and I happen to be one, at least as a volunteer in my town. Do I do it because I care about people? Meh, maybe. I really do it because it needs to be done - it's a way to contribute to my community without joining the PTA. But on the whole I have to agree with the assertion that people don't care much about each other. Sure, there are exceptions, the Red Cross being an excellent one, but the number of people who actually donate their time to the Red Cross is a vanishly small percentage of the population. I'll also add that caring is somewhat a matter of distance. A car accident outside my front door involving my neighbors is bad, one across town involving people I don't know is less so. An earthquake in China? Awful, but not really on a visceral level.
I've heard this point of view roughly a thousand times, and every time I hear it, it seems more insane to me. I'm entering an auction with an amount that I'm willing to pay fixed in my head. If someone else wants to outbid me 3 seconds, 3 minutes, 3 hours, or 3 days before the auction is over that is their win - they were willing to pay more than I was. The stupidity is people who get involved in bidding wars far exceeding what they were willing to pay. Ebay works in a marketplace where everyone puts in what they're willing to pay, and the guy who bid the highest price first wins. Any other approach is purely nonsensical. That said, I haven't used Ebay in years -- something about verifying my Paypal account with my bank information. You've already got my credit card. Good luck with that.
I'm not even sure that study is really required. Pedophiles, much like any other type of "phile" go where their desires lead. Plants grow where the sun shines. Pedophiles go where the kids are - daycare workers, priests, scout leaders, positions in orphanages. Why don't we hear about longshoreman pedophiles? There aren't any kids down on the docks. Duh.
After years of passing up tickets to see him, my wife and I saw him last year in Lowell, MA. He did almost two hours of pulling-no-punches comedy. One note, though: when he came out on stage he had a big folder of papers. He said they were notes for some of his new material, and that he might from time to time consult them to keep himself on track as he learned the new stuff. It started out that way, with the occasional glance, but by the end of the show he was more or less just reading to us. Still very funny, but sad to as it was clear that it was all too much to keep in his head. A young guy he was not.
I've been writing game reviews for about seven years now (shameless plug: game-over.net), and as a writer and a reader I think that game reviews do have merit. If you want someone to tell you if a game is fun or not, you're using reviews the wrong way. What a game review can tell you, especially if you read a lot of them, it what a game is like to play, drawing useful comparisons to other games that you may have played and may or may not have liked. It is also possible to find a reviewer who in general likes the same kind of games you do, and becomes sort of a litmus test for you in the future.
Fair points, but you know what? I think it's important to have a student learn to do trig calculations by hand - understand where the numbers come from before letting a little box with buttons give the answers to them on a silicon platter. Back when I was TAing physics in grad school I'd get kids who would get a question correct all the way down to the "plug in the numbers" step, and then write it all out: 2*12/3 = 72. A simple calculator error, but a deeper understanding of numbers and their magnitudes would hopefully reduce such errors and is entirely lacking in modern education precisely because everyone reaches for a calculator without thinking.
I agree with you 100% and would mod you up to 6 if it were possible. In college I had a roommate who's identity was stolen. Someone got a hold of his social, probably lifted from paperwork in some college office which were notoriously fast and loose with papers containing personal information, and got a drivers license and from there ran up about $2500 worth of bad checks around the state. He called the credit agencies - they didn't care. He called the police - they didn't care. Collection agencies hounded him, hefty legal documents threatening lawsuits showed up on our doorstep. He went to the stores and found one that had xeroxed the driver's license used by the thief - his name, his address, but the picture clearly an old black woman when my roommate was a young white guy. Now listen, I'm not asking for DNA checks at every store, but an old black woman named Dave claiming to be 20 years old? And couldn't the DMV at least realize that they've alreay issued a driver's license to that social, and maybe they shouldn't issue another one? One more point - up here stores have taken to accepting credit card purchases under $25 without a signature required for "my convenience." Here's the deal - if you're not going to get some proof that I'm the one who made the purchase, at least a crappy electronic copy of my signature, then I shouldn't have to pay it.
As a guy who cuts people out of cars every so often, at least at the volunteer level, I'll take a puddle of flammable liquid (which at least I can see being all puddly on the ground or is more or less completely contained to an identifiable tank somewhere in the car) to a couple of hundred amps running through a cable god knows where. I took a whole day class on just the Prius - where the high current cables run and where not to cut. My understanding is that the cable chase for hybrid cars is going to more or less run the same route as the old drive shaft - right up the middle of the floor and unlikely to be a place that I'll need to cut. Still, on the whole, no, I'm not worried about the battery packs so much as the wiring. A bigger problem IMO is airbags and the risk of deploying them during extricating, injuring rescue workers and/or patients.
My wife had Lasix recently, about six months ago, and I got a seat in the doctors office watching the procedure on a computer screen. The screen showed the software interface controlling the laser for the procedure - the correction matrix, the number of shots taken, the number of shots still to go, the laser power per shot and the material ablated per shot, right down to a progress bar at the bottom - all in Windows XP. Networked? I have no idea. But would you want to see a BSOD come up during the procedure?
I'm far from suggesting any solutions here, but your comment seems to sort of line up with one of my pet peeves about the US tax system (of which I'm a functioning contributing member). While on the aggregate the middle class pays a bigger piece than any given super rich person, individually there's no getting around the fact that some single super rich person pays literally millions of dollars in taxes. The taxes represent a social contract in which we all contribute. I, for example, without children, pay several thousand dollars every year in school costs because we all benefit from an educated citizenry whether they are specifically my children or not. We all contribute, we all derive benefit. My question is, how in any way does a person who pays millions get even a tiny fraction of the benefit they pay for? I think it could be effectively argued that no one should pay more than, say, ten million in taxes because regardless of how much money they have because that's just the maximum that can resonably be asked of them in support of their common man and their bit of society. Anything else just seems like leeching. Care to rebutt?
I have a well-paying job, while my friend who majored in philosophy is shelving books at a library at age 40. If anyone finds an employer impressed by "can get beer and crepe paper stains out of pajamas" on a resume, let me know. the sacrifice you make while an engineering student while all those party around you pays serious dividends later on in life.
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Agilent will definitely do loaners. I'm not sure about LeCroy. There are essentially three models of scopes. The lowest tier gets you the scopes you remember - analog, limited digital capability, probably little capture memory - those are about $5k USD or less. The middle tier gets you digital scope, shallow memory, some math functions, typically data rates to about 500Mhz. Those can cost up to about $20k depending on your individual wishes. The top tier can cost $50k or more for some features. They have math modules that you buy and install, deep memories, USB ports, sampling rates up to Ghz, measurement, logic analysis, just about anything you could ever want. Personally I've been using LeCroy WavePros for years - they're windows-based platforms for what that's worth. The interface was highly non-intuitive but really came to grow on me. They use context-reactive controls that can be very confusing at first but become very powerful as you get used to them. Then recently borrowed a high end Tektronix. Didn't like it at first, couldn't get used to the sort of "classic" control scheme they use, but then got used to those as well. Found the high-end scopes from LeCroy and Tektronix overall very comparable.
I'm in complete agreement. Did Yoko Ono write Imagine? No. She gets rich because she married John Lennon. Let me correct that slightly by saying that she got rich marrying John Lennon because he was quite rich at the time anyway, but is there any sense in the copyright for Imagine ending up in her hands? Here's an idea, let's bring an end to the idea of corporate ownership of copyright. The guy who creates something gets the copyright, and he may assign it to anyone he chooses at that time. On the death of that person, be it old age or tragic accident that claims them ten minutes after the copyright is assigned, it falls to the public domain. The creator (or their proxy) derives benefit for their entire lifetime, and then the public gets it.
OK, you made me curious so I looked it up. It does exist. 01234 is somewhere called Eustace, TX. And if I ever decide to go with 12345 instead, that's Schenectady, NY.
Yeah, what he said. I have a facebook account which thinks I'm a 108 year old man in the zip code 01234, where ever that is. If I go to read some article online and they want to know more about me before I can, that 108 year old man foots the bill once again. What this does to their demographics, I couldn't care less. I have an email address setup through breakthru.com that I use for literally nothing else except to give it to sites that want one. I'm not sure I'd call what I have anonymity, but it's pretty vague about the real me whatever it is.
My parents made is quite clear what was appropriate television viewing with a teaching mechanism known as a spanking if I were caught watching something I wasn't supposed to. It was so highly effective that I'm patenting it, and now parents who continue to spank their children will not only be in trouble with child abuse laws, but will have to pay my licensing fees as well.
This is exactly it. Modern politics has nothing to do with who has a better handle on the issues or who is better qualified to lead. It's all about connections, gerrymandering, trying to keep the other guy's constituents from voting at all, and smearing your opponent. Gore didn't lose the election because he got fewer votes, but because he couldn't get those votes counted. The Bush cronies and machinations were all positioned perfectly to give him that election, and Gore was ourmaneuvered at every turn. Bush didn't steal the election - he won it. It was just an election with different rules than the one we thought (and perhaps hoped) that we were voting in.
From the buyer's POV I'll say that the money order was perfect for me. I get the money order and drop it in the mail in one easy motion at the post office, and I never have to worry that my credit card number is out there. My total exposure is limited to the amount of the money order. I'll also add that I never even once was ripped off on Ebay. I also never bought an item over $40. Anyway, with this move, I'm done with Ebay, not that I was ever a big part of it I'm sure, but there are probably millions of casual buyers like myself, picking up maybe a dozen schotskis a year, and I think that portion of the business is going to all but die now.
I own an NEC 61" 1080p plasma, and no HD DVD player and an old Toshiba series 2 Tivo (not HD). Not only do I not plan to obtain either an HD DVD or HD Tivo, but as the economy gets tighter I plan to call my cable company and drop my HD service. It will save me about $12 a month, and where this economy is headed every penny will count. For me to adopt HD DVD, it would literally have to be cost neutral, or damned close to it.
Good comment, but I wasn't saying it was racism, but could result in it. Daily newscasts of Muslim extremism has, without question, led to some portion of the population in general disliking, distrusting, and mistreating all Muslims. That's not just the extra scrutiny of profiling, which I think is just about the only sane way to approach, say, airport security. What I'm saying is that my desire to support tall, bald, white guys has less to do with a thousand years of trusting people like myself and more to do with who the media portrays as a threat. I think it was Jesse Jackson who said something about walking down the street at night and hearing footsteps behind him, and feeling less threatened if he looks back and the person behind him isn't young and black, i.e. the mass media protrayal (and somewhat the reality) that young black guys commit boatloads of crimes.
I'd argue that beyond a thousand years of racial history, we have a great deal of more recent history that generates racial bias far more effectively. Case in point, pre-9/11 a group of guys in an airport wearing Muslim headgear were at most a curiousity, or perhaps even ignored in the white noise background of all the others around me. Today they definitely register on me in a more visceral level. The news programs bombard me with stories of gang shootings, and guys in gang colors are going to get a wider berth on the subway platforms. A group of teenagers wanted for vandalizing cars - Hey, what's that group of kids doing hanging around at the end of my block? It's maybe no exactly racism, but it quickly can lead there.
Lawyers have ruined being polite - no question about it. My wife and I just bought a house. It came with a number of complications with regards to rights of way and easements and whatnot. We were essentially buying the main house of an estate, and the previous owner was keeping the gatehouse. We got a lawyer to draft some agreements, the original homeowner got a lawyer to read them over, and the whole thing became really acrimonious. $10000 later and about 200 pieces of paper, and we're just about to throw the whole deal away as we're fighting over individual cobblestones in the driveway. We decided instead to meet the owner face-to-face, no lawyers. We had a nice day as she walked us through the house, talking about her memories of the place, her children, and her deceased husband. We ended up buying it and are developing a very close relationship with this woman, and it never would have happened because it's impossible to be civilized when holding discussions through lawyers.
I still think murder and rape are the worst crimes, and am in fact willing to put a murderer in a cell (no TV, no AC, I could perhaps be pursuaded to allow them books) for a length of time equal to the time that the person they killed spends dead. That said, I recall a statistic somewhere, wish I could find some type of link, that said that something like 0.2% of the population commits almost all the violent crimes (armed robbery, murder, muggings, rapes, etc), and I think as a society we should be willing to write those people off, be it with lengthy prison terms or soylent green. This of course strays far afield of the present topic, so I'll bring it home by saying that camping a tragedy for some personal gain is a pretty horrendous crime, and should get a long prison sentence, but cleary not as long as a murderer.
During primary season I was absolutely deluged by Hillary and Obama recorded messages, on my voice mail, while I'm cooking dinner, 11:30 at night, and I'm not even a registered Democrat! I fully expect to simply shut off my phone as we approach November. Here's a deal for all our beloved candidates: Don't call me, I'll call you.
I saw a comic strip a couple of years ago (I wish I could find a link to give credit) that seems very apt. It was just one panel, and in it an Uncle Sam character is at the gift wrapping counter at a store and there's a box on the counter labelled "New Law" and the guy behind the counter is asking how he wants that wrapped. He's got two types of paper "Protect the Children" and "War on Terror." How the fsck did we end up here?
Had to reply to this because you touched on firefighters, and I happen to be one, at least as a volunteer in my town. Do I do it because I care about people? Meh, maybe. I really do it because it needs to be done - it's a way to contribute to my community without joining the PTA. But on the whole I have to agree with the assertion that people don't care much about each other. Sure, there are exceptions, the Red Cross being an excellent one, but the number of people who actually donate their time to the Red Cross is a vanishly small percentage of the population. I'll also add that caring is somewhat a matter of distance. A car accident outside my front door involving my neighbors is bad, one across town involving people I don't know is less so. An earthquake in China? Awful, but not really on a visceral level.
I've heard this point of view roughly a thousand times, and every time I hear it, it seems more insane to me. I'm entering an auction with an amount that I'm willing to pay fixed in my head. If someone else wants to outbid me 3 seconds, 3 minutes, 3 hours, or 3 days before the auction is over that is their win - they were willing to pay more than I was. The stupidity is people who get involved in bidding wars far exceeding what they were willing to pay. Ebay works in a marketplace where everyone puts in what they're willing to pay, and the guy who bid the highest price first wins. Any other approach is purely nonsensical. That said, I haven't used Ebay in years -- something about verifying my Paypal account with my bank information. You've already got my credit card. Good luck with that.
I'm not even sure that study is really required. Pedophiles, much like any other type of "phile" go where their desires lead. Plants grow where the sun shines. Pedophiles go where the kids are - daycare workers, priests, scout leaders, positions in orphanages. Why don't we hear about longshoreman pedophiles? There aren't any kids down on the docks. Duh.
After years of passing up tickets to see him, my wife and I saw him last year in Lowell, MA. He did almost two hours of pulling-no-punches comedy. One note, though: when he came out on stage he had a big folder of papers. He said they were notes for some of his new material, and that he might from time to time consult them to keep himself on track as he learned the new stuff. It started out that way, with the occasional glance, but by the end of the show he was more or less just reading to us. Still very funny, but sad to as it was clear that it was all too much to keep in his head. A young guy he was not.
I've been writing game reviews for about seven years now (shameless plug: game-over.net), and as a writer and a reader I think that game reviews do have merit. If you want someone to tell you if a game is fun or not, you're using reviews the wrong way. What a game review can tell you, especially if you read a lot of them, it what a game is like to play, drawing useful comparisons to other games that you may have played and may or may not have liked. It is also possible to find a reviewer who in general likes the same kind of games you do, and becomes sort of a litmus test for you in the future.
Fair points, but you know what? I think it's important to have a student learn to do trig calculations by hand - understand where the numbers come from before letting a little box with buttons give the answers to them on a silicon platter. Back when I was TAing physics in grad school I'd get kids who would get a question correct all the way down to the "plug in the numbers" step, and then write it all out: 2*12/3 = 72. A simple calculator error, but a deeper understanding of numbers and their magnitudes would hopefully reduce such errors and is entirely lacking in modern education precisely because everyone reaches for a calculator without thinking.
I agree with you 100% and would mod you up to 6 if it were possible. In college I had a roommate who's identity was stolen. Someone got a hold of his social, probably lifted from paperwork in some college office which were notoriously fast and loose with papers containing personal information, and got a drivers license and from there ran up about $2500 worth of bad checks around the state. He called the credit agencies - they didn't care. He called the police - they didn't care. Collection agencies hounded him, hefty legal documents threatening lawsuits showed up on our doorstep. He went to the stores and found one that had xeroxed the driver's license used by the thief - his name, his address, but the picture clearly an old black woman when my roommate was a young white guy. Now listen, I'm not asking for DNA checks at every store, but an old black woman named Dave claiming to be 20 years old? And couldn't the DMV at least realize that they've alreay issued a driver's license to that social, and maybe they shouldn't issue another one? One more point - up here stores have taken to accepting credit card purchases under $25 without a signature required for "my convenience." Here's the deal - if you're not going to get some proof that I'm the one who made the purchase, at least a crappy electronic copy of my signature, then I shouldn't have to pay it.
As a guy who cuts people out of cars every so often, at least at the volunteer level, I'll take a puddle of flammable liquid (which at least I can see being all puddly on the ground or is more or less completely contained to an identifiable tank somewhere in the car) to a couple of hundred amps running through a cable god knows where. I took a whole day class on just the Prius - where the high current cables run and where not to cut. My understanding is that the cable chase for hybrid cars is going to more or less run the same route as the old drive shaft - right up the middle of the floor and unlikely to be a place that I'll need to cut. Still, on the whole, no, I'm not worried about the battery packs so much as the wiring. A bigger problem IMO is airbags and the risk of deploying them during extricating, injuring rescue workers and/or patients.
My wife had Lasix recently, about six months ago, and I got a seat in the doctors office watching the procedure on a computer screen. The screen showed the software interface controlling the laser for the procedure - the correction matrix, the number of shots taken, the number of shots still to go, the laser power per shot and the material ablated per shot, right down to a progress bar at the bottom - all in Windows XP. Networked? I have no idea. But would you want to see a BSOD come up during the procedure?
I'm far from suggesting any solutions here, but your comment seems to sort of line up with one of my pet peeves about the US tax system (of which I'm a functioning contributing member). While on the aggregate the middle class pays a bigger piece than any given super rich person, individually there's no getting around the fact that some single super rich person pays literally millions of dollars in taxes. The taxes represent a social contract in which we all contribute. I, for example, without children, pay several thousand dollars every year in school costs because we all benefit from an educated citizenry whether they are specifically my children or not. We all contribute, we all derive benefit. My question is, how in any way does a person who pays millions get even a tiny fraction of the benefit they pay for? I think it could be effectively argued that no one should pay more than, say, ten million in taxes because regardless of how much money they have because that's just the maximum that can resonably be asked of them in support of their common man and their bit of society. Anything else just seems like leeching. Care to rebutt?
I have a well-paying job, while my friend who majored in philosophy is shelving books at a library at age 40. If anyone finds an employer impressed by "can get beer and crepe paper stains out of pajamas" on a resume, let me know. the sacrifice you make while an engineering student while all those party around you pays serious dividends later on in life.