First, people who make a tenth what you do have to spend a vastly larger percentage of their income on things like food, transportation, rent, etc.... So they have much less disposable income than you do. A flat tax on disposable income would be fair. But the only way to implement this is a higher tax percentage for higher incomes.
Second, you think your family should get aid just because they happen to have a rich uncle? What about the people that don't have a rich uncle? I guess they get to live below the poverty line too bad for them?
Third, the point of government isn't to push the economy as far as possible as fast as possible. There's the whole life, liberty, property, happiness, etc... thing too! That all people deserve, not just those that make more than 60, 70, 80 grand a year.
It's even worse than voting for the default!
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By not voting, we're reinforcing the notion that our generation doesn't care. If the politicians know that our age group isn't gonna vote anyway, they won't think twice about saying things like "The internet is evil" "censorship is good", etc... that appeal to other demographics.
Other demographics that vote.
If we want the issues that are important to us to be important to the candidates, we have to vote.
It doesn't matter who you vote for. Vote for yourself if you want. Just vote. And increase the percentage of people that care in our demographic.
Then, and only then, will the issues that matter to us appear on the national stage.
Why don't you get off your high horse! What kind of aristocrat are you? Sure, there are flaws to any kind of society, and capitalism's happens to be a separation of haves and have-nots.
But that doesn't mean we have to try to increase that flaw! No system is perfect, "pure" capitalism just leads to greed!
One of the major tenants of western democracy is equality. Don't try to tell me that you're more equal than others.
The downside of this is that pointers now require 64 bits themselves. For linked lists and other simple datastructures, this can be a lot of space taken up by pointers.
And that's what makes a really good, intuative UI the most important thing for OSS developers to work on. This applies both to software and the information channels used to promote ideas. There's nothing more frustrating than a bad HCI, especially for the non-programmer types.
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No no no ... we need all the lawyers to decide who gets to be the next US president. Then they can go off to do all these piddly things! ;-)
First, people who make a tenth what you do have to spend a vastly larger percentage of their income on things like food, transportation, rent, etc.... So they have much less disposable income than you do. A flat tax on disposable income would be fair. But the only way to implement this is a higher tax percentage for higher incomes.
Second, you think your family should get aid just because they happen to have a rich uncle? What about the people that don't have a rich uncle? I guess they get to live below the poverty line too bad for them?
Third, the point of government isn't to push the economy as far as possible as fast as possible. There's the whole life, liberty, property, happiness, etc... thing too! That all people deserve, not just those that make more than 60, 70, 80 grand a year.
Other demographics that vote.
If we want the issues that are important to us to be important to the candidates, we have to vote.
It doesn't matter who you vote for. Vote for yourself if you want. Just vote. And increase the percentage of people that care in our demographic.
Then, and only then, will the issues that matter to us appear on the national stage.
And what's to stop Napster from doing this once they (eventually) lose their court battle?
Why don't you get off your high horse! What kind of aristocrat are you? Sure, there are flaws to any kind of society, and capitalism's happens to be a separation of haves and have-nots.
But that doesn't mean we have to try to increase that flaw! No system is perfect, "pure" capitalism just leads to greed!
One of the major tenants of western democracy is equality. Don't try to tell me that you're more equal than others.
The downside of this is that pointers now require 64 bits themselves. For linked lists and other simple datastructures, this can be a lot of space taken up by pointers.
Not if you've got a laptop that you bring between home and another place with dhcp. Then you don't have to change settings each time you move.
And that's what makes a really good, intuative UI the most important thing for OSS developers to work on. This applies both to software and the information channels used to promote ideas. There's nothing more frustrating than a bad HCI, especially for the non-programmer types.