Yeah, except we've got thousands of pages of complex tax laws, breaks for this, credits for that. It's a joke. Just pay your goddam taxes and if you don't like it, stop voting for politicians that waste your money.
With a smaller, more manageable government and the simpler tax code that would result, there would be need for Intuit to be in the tax software business at all.
Embedded income taxes refers to the fact that even those who don't pay income tax directly still have to help pay the taxes of society. Everyone in the supply chain to produce that bread pays taxes even if she doesn't, and it's built in to the price of that bread.
The Volt has already solved this problem for a lot of people. Battery operated for daily driving up to 40 miles, and a gas powered generator that can go a couple hundred more. There are probably tens of millions of people in the US alone who could use this car as their only vehicle, price aside.
Good luck convincing anybody in this brain dead country that the free market actually does work. American idiots are so used to being spoonfed by the federal government that they don't even know they could hold the fucking spoon with their own hands, and not end up with pureed food dribbling down their chin.
So if these cars are for the rich, why are we subsidizing them on the purchase end? Let the rich pay for them, rather than give them money from the public coffers. Liberals complain about the transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, and then smile for the photo-op as they do it themselves right in front of us.
Speakers produce vibrations, just like instruments. Replace each musician with a speaker dedicated to just the instrument that musician would have played, so you don't have to worry about mixing or any other issues related to playing numerous voices through a single speaker. Voila. Sounds just like a real orchestra.
But colleges don't want a bunch of students who didn't play in high school. The pros recruit from colleges, colleges recruit from high school. As far as I'm concerned Americans have an unhealthy obsession with sports, but it's the ecosystem that's in place and it's not going to change.
Exactly. High Frequency Trading is essentially a middle man standing between a real transaction, and skimming a portion of the profit. The stock market is a scam designed to provide some scraps for those suckers and their cute little 401k while reaping massive profit for those with the means and the connections to plug a computer directly into the system.
This will never happen because politics in the US is not about finding practical solutions that everyone can live with. It's about mercilessly beating one another into submission and then declaring your ideology victorious and proceeding to make all the same mistakes that your opponent would have made had he won instead.
Christ, don't even get me started on the CPSIA. If ever there was a piece of corporate welfare with "Think of the children!" stamped on it, that's the one. Give those fuckers in Washington an inch and they'll take a mile.
Yes, it's the libertarians who have been duped. *rolls eyes*
Not you. You're smart. You're pretty sure that the government which happily spends trillions of dollars on a contrived war and overwhelmingly passed the PATRIOT Act and will soon probably overwhelmingly pass the ACTA Treaty, is such a good steward of the rights of Americans that we should give them even more power and money. Like health care. I'm sure the federal government won't do anything wrong there. Because they care about you as an individual. Really. They do.
I disagree. Federal ISP would mean everybody gets shitty broadband with terrible service.
I'd prefer to see cities own the copper/fiber and let private companies lease those from the city on a per customer basis. The city does all installation and maintenance and the ISPs can compete on price and features over those lines.
I thought courts have already ruled that a program residing in memory is a copy, and therefore making that copy without the dongle (which implies limited consent to making said copy in memory) is a violation of copyright. I wouldn't be surprised to see this reversed.
Now when that kid gets out of college, he's going to be pissed off that he can't find work because everyone found out that some kid in college will do it on the cheap, and he'll never make more than he did in college making college a waste of time and money. Race to the bottom.
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Size dictates that the most wealthy and corrupt will buy the "quality" of government they want, voters be damned.
Yeah, except we've got thousands of pages of complex tax laws, breaks for this, credits for that. It's a joke. Just pay your goddam taxes and if you don't like it, stop voting for politicians that waste your money.
With a smaller, more manageable government and the simpler tax code that would result, there would be need for Intuit to be in the tax software business at all.
Or did I lose you?
Embedded income taxes refers to the fact that even those who don't pay income tax directly still have to help pay the taxes of society. Everyone in the supply chain to produce that bread pays taxes even if she doesn't, and it's built in to the price of that bread.
The Volt has already solved this problem for a lot of people. Battery operated for daily driving up to 40 miles, and a gas powered generator that can go a couple hundred more. There are probably tens of millions of people in the US alone who could use this car as their only vehicle, price aside.
Good luck convincing anybody in this brain dead country that the free market actually does work. American idiots are so used to being spoonfed by the federal government that they don't even know they could hold the fucking spoon with their own hands, and not end up with pureed food dribbling down their chin.
So if these cars are for the rich, why are we subsidizing them on the purchase end? Let the rich pay for them, rather than give them money from the public coffers. Liberals complain about the transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, and then smile for the photo-op as they do it themselves right in front of us.
Keep telling yourself that musicians can't be replaced if it makes you feel better.
And I played violin in an amateur orchestra for several years, you presumptuous asshole.
Speakers produce vibrations, just like instruments. Replace each musician with a speaker dedicated to just the instrument that musician would have played, so you don't have to worry about mixing or any other issues related to playing numerous voices through a single speaker. Voila. Sounds just like a real orchestra.
But colleges don't want a bunch of students who didn't play in high school. The pros recruit from colleges, colleges recruit from high school. As far as I'm concerned Americans have an unhealthy obsession with sports, but it's the ecosystem that's in place and it's not going to change.
High Frequency Trading Is A Scam
http://market-ticker.org/archives/1259-High-Frequency-Trading-Is-A-Scam.html
http://www.investingblog.org/archives/520/goldman-sachs-high-frequency-trading-scam/
Exactly. High Frequency Trading is essentially a middle man standing between a real transaction, and skimming a portion of the profit. The stock market is a scam designed to provide some scraps for those suckers and their cute little 401k while reaping massive profit for those with the means and the connections to plug a computer directly into the system.
This will never happen because politics in the US is not about finding practical solutions that everyone can live with. It's about mercilessly beating one another into submission and then declaring your ideology victorious and proceeding to make all the same mistakes that your opponent would have made had he won instead.
This is California: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917596
Christ, don't even get me started on the CPSIA. If ever there was a piece of corporate welfare with "Think of the children!" stamped on it, that's the one. Give those fuckers in Washington an inch and they'll take a mile.
Yes, it's the libertarians who have been duped. *rolls eyes*
Not you. You're smart. You're pretty sure that the government which happily spends trillions of dollars on a contrived war and overwhelmingly passed the PATRIOT Act and will soon probably overwhelmingly pass the ACTA Treaty, is such a good steward of the rights of Americans that we should give them even more power and money. Like health care. I'm sure the federal government won't do anything wrong there. Because they care about you as an individual. Really. They do.
Now who's the dupe?
I disagree. Federal ISP would mean everybody gets shitty broadband with terrible service.
I'd prefer to see cities own the copper/fiber and let private companies lease those from the city on a per customer basis. The city does all installation and maintenance and the ISPs can compete on price and features over those lines.
ISP free market?
Is that the market where city and state governments across the US have made deals with carriers to give them monopolies?
The situation is what it is, but let's not pretend the free market is to blame.
Wouldn't that apply to hacking this program so that it would run without the dongle?
I don't think the appeals for this case are done yet.
Thanks, those appear to cover what I thought I had read regarding RAM "copies."
I thought courts have already ruled that a program residing in memory is a copy, and therefore making that copy without the dongle (which implies limited consent to making said copy in memory) is a violation of copyright. I wouldn't be surprised to see this reversed.
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/stopstressadayoffury
You don't think there are thousands of doctors in India who would love a chance to increase their income?
Excellent post.
Now when that kid gets out of college, he's going to be pissed off that he can't find work because everyone found out that some kid in college will do it on the cheap, and he'll never make more than he did in college making college a waste of time and money. Race to the bottom.