When you said Win7 would have an "XP mode" feature, I thought you meant that I could install Win 7 and then choose to use an XP UI. The UI is my big gripe about Vista/7. Everything has been moved for no good reason, and it sucks! If I could get an XP interface from Win7, I would buy it!
BTW, XP SP3 running as a virtual machine under 7 *will* be dog, doggy, dog dog dog SLOW. MS pooches it again!
You hit the nail on the head. There is not reason we couldn't, with existing technology, build mag lev coaches that travel in a near vacuum. Then you don't need a "train" and eliminate all the inconvenience of that outmoded paradigm. How fast would they be? Depends on the length of the journey, but let's just say SF to NY in 3 hours as an example. How energy efficient? Well, considering you would get back most of the energy you put in when you slow it down, very efficient! But that will never happen with business as usualBAMA.
Because rich people don't buy loaves of bread at Safeway. They buy bread at much more expensive emporiums. There is every reason to replace income tax with sales tax. The lie is that poor people pay less income tax. I contend that if you stop looking at what size check they write to the IRS every year, and instead consider the portion of their purchases that eventually end up at the IRS via the mechanism of the part of the money going to payroll, and part of that going to Uncle Sugar, you would discover that poor people are taxed at a much higher rate than rich people despite the supposed progressive nature of Income tax.
The sale of a house is does not trigger sales tax, but it could. The sale of a car, even a used car, does.
The idea that sales taxes are less progressive than income tax is one of the greatest swindles ever perpetrated. Income tax is a tax on labor paid by the purchaser of the product. Poor people buy things with a much higher labor content. Every time a poor person buys a loaf of bread at Safeway, part of the cost of that loaf of bread is the payroll of the employees of Safeway and Safeway's suppliers, some of which is paid to the government as income taxes. Add it all up, and the amount of income taxes paid by poor people as a percentage of the goods and services they purchase is astonishing.
ONTOH a universal sales tax, on every newly manufactured good, including houses, would be much fairer, and save billions by shutting down the parasitic income tax industry. By not having sales taxes on used items such as cars and houses, a demand for skilled repair persons would be created, and resources would be used more efficiently. Note: for large ticket items whose sales are a matter of public record, it would make sense to charge sales tax on any increase in resale price.
The "complication" is phony FUD. Just charge the flat state rate on the delivery address. No exceptions.
The article is bullshit. Microsoft is in bed with Seagate. Why I don't know, but for one thing the cost per gb that they quote is retarded. 256GB SSDs are now available for what they quoted as the price of 32s. And speeds are up substantially also.
Service pack 3 was nothing but a cheap ploy to load down XP with a bunch of overhead so that Vista wouldn't seem so slow. I install SP2 and that is that. Run behind a router with NAT and you are safe from any XP "Security" flaws.
And another thing: beware the "XP SP3 Gambit" SP3 is a deliberate mish-mash of slow downs put out by MS to make Vista not seem so bad. I have been running SP2 for years now and have no issue
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s. What was that? Oh, just XP "pausing" again. It does that every once in a while. No biggy.
No, it is not the same polite distinction. Nice try, but the understanding with the penny jar is that you may round out your penny change, i.e. take up to $0.04. Thus taking the whole tray of coins is a clear violation of the unwritten agreement that governs use of the penny jar.
OTOH there is no unwritten agreement in the case of photographs of taken while on public grounds - there is a written one! And we both know what it says.
Nice try though. I actually had to think for about 22 seconds to see the flaw in your logic.
The easy intro is to read Heinlein. Especially his worst novel: For Us the Living. Worst novel, best description extant of a society adhering to the principles of Social Credit - a practial utopia!
You are out of touch with your own emotions or you would not build this house of cards.
>>... greed... jealousy
Err, what emotion precipitates those two? Fear, you think?
Look I am not a neurobiologist or whatever they're called, but look at the hardware. The "reptile" brain had two states: pain and pleasure. These were operational way before everything else, and that mechanism is still primary. Fear is simply remembered pain. Most of the rest operate on higher levels.
Why do you think religions play so adroitly on our most unresolvable fear, fear of death? It's the best way to hobble rationality, and then slip in programs of insane activities.
Incorrect. Fear is primary. Hate is secondary. Hatred stems from fear, not vice versa. Religion preaches fear - it is the most prevalent form of fear porn, playing upon people's fear of death. Once engendered, the fear is manipulated to produce hatred and other "useful" responses.
I don't hate religious people, I feel sorry for them. In most cases their parents destroyed their minds, because that is what was done to them. That said, I would not employ them either. (Well, unless I had a role for developmentally challenged types, and even then I would just hire genuine retards.) I also would put people in jail for forcing their children to listen to the fear porn (religion). Adults are free to practice whatever tomfoolery they choose, but leave the kids alone with that crap!
What does being Dutch have to do with buying something and returning it? Fry's is more like a free rental w/ deposit store than a retail store as much stuff as I buy and then return there. Now if you had talked about your new Spyker, THEN I would have been impressed. But buying, trying, and returning? Go put your finger in a Dyke.
Egg-fucking-zactly It's like everyone has some bleeding fucking DUTY to be purposeful. It's none of anyone's god damned business what the purpose of my actions are, or even if I have one, as long as I do not interfere with their purposeful little pea brained lives.
But, you are a voice in the wilderness. Alas.
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When you said Win7 would have an "XP mode" feature, I thought you meant that I could install Win 7 and then choose to use an XP UI. The UI is my big gripe about Vista/7. Everything has been moved for no good reason, and it sucks! If I could get an XP interface from Win7, I would buy it!
BTW, XP SP3 running as a virtual machine under 7 *will* be dog, doggy, dog dog dog SLOW. MS pooches it again!
- MS Fanboy.
Well duh! They called the victims back later and paid them to sign a release.
WTF does espionage and state secrets have to do with warrantless searches of you and me, douchebag? Thick as a motherfucking brick, you are.
You hit the nail on the head. There is not reason we couldn't, with existing technology, build mag lev coaches that travel in a near vacuum. Then you don't need a "train" and eliminate all the inconvenience of that outmoded paradigm. How fast would they be? Depends on the length of the journey, but let's just say SF to NY in 3 hours as an example. How energy efficient? Well, considering you would get back most of the energy you put in when you slow it down, very efficient! But that will never happen with business as usualBAMA.
Because rich people don't buy loaves of bread at Safeway. They buy bread at much more expensive emporiums. There is every reason to replace income tax with sales tax. The lie is that poor people pay less income tax. I contend that if you stop looking at what size check they write to the IRS every year, and instead consider the portion of their purchases that eventually end up at the IRS via the mechanism of the part of the money going to payroll, and part of that going to Uncle Sugar, you would discover that poor people are taxed at a much higher rate than rich people despite the supposed progressive nature of Income tax.
The sale of a house is does not trigger sales tax, but it could. The sale of a car, even a used car, does.
The idea that sales taxes are less progressive than income tax is one of the greatest swindles ever perpetrated. Income tax is a tax on labor paid by the purchaser of the product. Poor people buy things with a much higher labor content. Every time a poor person buys a loaf of bread at Safeway, part of the cost of that loaf of bread is the payroll of the employees of Safeway and Safeway's suppliers, some of which is paid to the government as income taxes. Add it all up, and the amount of income taxes paid by poor people as a percentage of the goods and services they purchase is astonishing.
ONTOH a universal sales tax, on every newly manufactured good, including houses, would be much fairer, and save billions by shutting down the parasitic income tax industry. By not having sales taxes on used items such as cars and houses, a demand for skilled repair persons would be created, and resources would be used more efficiently. Note: for large ticket items whose sales are a matter of public record, it would make sense to charge sales tax on any increase in resale price.
The "complication" is phony FUD. Just charge the flat state rate on the delivery address. No exceptions.
Those who allow this to happen should be hung by the neck until almost dead, then cut down and shot.
FTFY.
The article is bullshit. Microsoft is in bed with Seagate. Why I don't know, but for one thing the cost per gb that they quote is retarded. 256GB SSDs are now available for what they quoted as the price of 32s. And speeds are up substantially also.
Service pack 3 was nothing but a cheap ploy to load down XP with a bunch of overhead so that Vista wouldn't seem so slow. I install SP2 and that is that. Run behind a router with NAT and you are safe from any XP "Security" flaws.
Why bother with revolution. Let's just secede. The Formerly United States. Hey, I like the sound of that!
No it doesn't.
And another thing: beware the "XP SP3 Gambit" SP3 is a deliberate mish-mash of slow downs put out by MS to make Vista not seem so bad. I have been running SP2 for years now and have no issue
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s. What was that? Oh, just XP "pausing" again. It does that every once in a while. No biggy.
No, it is not the same polite distinction. Nice try, but the understanding with the penny jar is that you may round out your penny change, i.e. take up to $0.04. Thus taking the whole tray of coins is a clear violation of the unwritten agreement that governs use of the penny jar.
OTOH there is no unwritten agreement in the case of photographs of taken while on public grounds - there is a written one! And we both know what it says.
Nice try though. I actually had to think for about 22 seconds to see the flaw in your logic.
Yeah, I tried to put a link in there but some obfuscation rendered my attempt unsuccessful.
Here: http://198.66.229.35/resources/resources/social_credit_by_ch_douglas.pdf
The easy intro is to read Heinlein. Especially his worst novel: For Us the Living. Worst novel, best description extant of a society adhering to the principles of Social Credit - a practial utopia!
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You are out of touch with your own emotions or you would not build this house of cards.
... greed ... jealousy
>>
Err, what emotion precipitates those two? Fear, you think?
Look I am not a neurobiologist or whatever they're called, but look at the hardware. The "reptile" brain had two states: pain and pleasure. These were operational way before everything else, and that mechanism is still primary. Fear is simply remembered pain. Most of the rest operate on higher levels.
Why do you think religions play so adroitly on our most unresolvable fear, fear of death? It's the best way to hobble rationality, and then slip in programs of insane activities.
Incorrect. Fear is primary. Hate is secondary. Hatred stems from fear, not vice versa. Religion preaches fear - it is the most prevalent form of fear porn, playing upon people's fear of death. Once engendered, the fear is manipulated to produce hatred and other "useful" responses.
>> lunatic monuments to fear called "religions".
Fixed that for you.
I don't hate religious people, I feel sorry for them. In most cases their parents destroyed their minds, because that is what was done to them. That said, I would not employ them either. (Well, unless I had a role for developmentally challenged types, and even then I would just hire genuine retards.) I also would put people in jail for forcing their children to listen to the fear porn (religion). Adults are free to practice whatever tomfoolery they choose, but leave the kids alone with that crap!
...most non-sensible people would probably agree with that...
Fixed that for you.
What does being Dutch have to do with buying something and returning it? Fry's is more like a free rental w/ deposit store than a retail store as much stuff as I buy and then return there. Now if you had talked about your new Spyker, THEN I would have been impressed. But buying, trying, and returning? Go put your finger in a Dyke.
read my sig.
Egg-fucking-zactly It's like everyone has some bleeding fucking DUTY to be purposeful. It's none of anyone's god damned business what the purpose of my actions are, or even if I have one, as long as I do not interfere with their purposeful little pea brained lives. But, you are a voice in the wilderness. Alas.
I hear opportunity knocking:
1. Write software that generates apparently valid, and nicely random, logs on demand.
2. Sell it as "Log Archiving Test Suite"
3. Profit!
testing My Cowboy Bug. Slow down my ass.
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