And in the meantime you're missing out on a lot. Fortunately I did have leisure in my 20s, and I think that it gave me a better sense of perspective on a lot of things.
I still put in 12-14 hour days working to build my future.
That doesn't sound like a success. And I'm not trying to be mean, I work those same kinds of hours, and my main life goal now is to achieve as much leisure as practical.
I remember this popping up back in the 90s as well, though I thought it was actually a good, if not especially novel, idea. The main issue isn't technological, it's just marketshare; in order for this to work right just about everyone has to be using the same service.
how is this anything new? A completely unprotected system can be infected and then do whatever any other computer can.
Next thing you'll know the news will be warning people about strings of armed robberies in their neighborhood, when anyone should know that someone with a gun can rob people. I mean what's the point? Oh, and forget about weather reports, why bother when it's perfectly logical and foreseeable that the temperature reached the level it did today, considering the long-term climatological trends, the time of year, the latitude, and the altitutde?
I wonder if, given the shrinking US consumer market and growth of the East, there will come a point where the corporations apply 'A * B * C = X' and simply stop selling goods in America because it is cheaper to do that than to pay for the frivolous lawsuits and patent licensing.
Never? The companies tend to make massive profits in the US, and the "frivolous lawsuit" bogeyman just isn't as bad as everyone here claims it to be.
Most legal and political discourse is more nuanced than it usually gets credit for; it's just by the time it reaches slashdot it's been distilled into a misleading, emotionally-charged headline that people can get outraged over.
"Seems to me" was a nice way of saying "Hey moron, you're fucking wrong, the fact of the matter is...".
Oh, what was "However, I know you are just an idiot" a nice way of saying?
You're the one who's ignoring every single tax on every fucking thing that isn't included on your annual return.
See, this is what I mean by being analytical. Or at least read more closely. You made the claim that you are paying more and more in taxes. I point out that the federal income tax rate has gone down. Your response is "but look at those other taxes."
The argument is over whether the overall tax burden has gone up or down. For your rant to make any sense, you would have to claim those other taxes have gone up in such a way to counteract the reduction in the federal income tax. Cigarette taxes have gone up, which is a good thing. The federal fuel tax has dropped dramatically, though. I'm not sure how state sales taxes have trended, but I do know the idea of sales tax holidays has become more popular.
So why don't you offer some concrete proof that you are paying more in taxes this year than last, adjusting for any pay increases you've had. In other words, show me that you pay more now than you would have a year, 5 years, 10 years ago with the same income.
At the state level more
Now logically, what you said is a non sequitur. It would only make sense if you said these other taxes were also increasing. Do you understand? I think you can learn something very valuable from this exchange, seriously.
The $2 million dollar fines that RIAA has imposed upon several college students == a life sentence.
The RIAA!="[t]he copyright lawyers" And those students will be inconvenienced but not more than that. Their salaries might get garnished a bit, and if they don't pay it the statute of limitations for collecting on a debt will likely run out.
Oh stop whining. It "seems" that you pay more in taxes every year? Why on earth should anyone trust your subjective feeling as compared to previous years? Look at the tax brackets with the IRS by year. Look at your state income tax history. Be analytical.
The copyright lawyers are laughing at this guy's defense, but these are the same lawyers who think that file sharing is immoral and that record companies should have the right to sue people into poverty because of a few kilobytes of uploads.
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I would like to believe you are from the future - a future full of tax cuts and reduced government.
Funny, I know the income tax has been lowered in the past few years; why do you think the I also know that since the 1990s the government has privatized several formerly public institutions, with mixed results. The anti-tax/small-government fanatics haven't gotten everything they wanted, all they've done is change the discourse so large-scale, necessary but non-emergency projects can't get built because the second any government state, city, or federal, is not in a state of financial crisis that crowd starts screeching for tax cuts.
I believe one ought be free to do what one wishes with one's money, and it follows that paying someone (some people call it bribery) to persuade them to a position is fine. The problem is i haven't studied this and, not being an expert, it's difficult for me to see negative externalities that may ensue should this be brought into practice. Any advice?
The idea of a monopoly strikes at the heart of many libertarian's ideology. Their usual response is to simply claim (then angrily insist) that monopolies are the result of government. In a full free market, there wouldn't be any.
I'd be more a fan of him/her not having kids if they can't afford to feed/cloth/educate them.
I think everyone feels like that (except the people doing it). But once they have the kids, what are we supposed to do? Punish the kids for their parents' irresponsibility?
Are you kidding? About the only people I've found who LIKE to drive are teenagers for 3 weeks after they get their license and motorheads who make up 0.5% of the population. Everyone else likes to go places, but not to DRIVE.
Really? I enjoy driving. Not all the time, but sometimes.
Hell, there should be a moratorium on having children, period. The asshole yuppie offspring of baby boomers (who are causing all of the world's problems and should just die anyway) are the ones creating fat, spoiled, apathetic little piggies raised in sterile environments. Those offspring should be stuffed in cattle cars and railroaded off to the maquiladoras regardless of the parents' ability to afford school, actually...
Yuppies, huh? Never been to Wal-Mart? I work in a yuppie neighborhood, and as obnoxious as the yuppie parents are, they at least try to educate their kids and keep them healthy, it's the poor white southern and midwestern suburbs who are creating the vacant-eyed class.
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And in the meantime you're missing out on a lot. Fortunately I did have leisure in my 20s, and I think that it gave me a better sense of perspective on a lot of things.
I still put in 12-14 hour days working to build my future.
That doesn't sound like a success. And I'm not trying to be mean, I work those same kinds of hours, and my main life goal now is to achieve as much leisure as practical.
I remember this popping up back in the 90s as well, though I thought it was actually a good, if not especially novel, idea. The main issue isn't technological, it's just marketshare; in order for this to work right just about everyone has to be using the same service.
how is this anything new? A completely unprotected system can be infected and then do whatever any other computer can.
Next thing you'll know the news will be warning people about strings of armed robberies in their neighborhood, when anyone should know that someone with a gun can rob people. I mean what's the point? Oh, and forget about weather reports, why bother when it's perfectly logical and foreseeable that the temperature reached the level it did today, considering the long-term climatological trends, the time of year, the latitude, and the altitutde?
I wonder if, given the shrinking US consumer market and growth of the East, there will come a point where the corporations apply 'A * B * C = X' and simply stop selling goods in America because it is cheaper to do that than to pay for the frivolous lawsuits and patent licensing.
Never? The companies tend to make massive profits in the US, and the "frivolous lawsuit" bogeyman just isn't as bad as everyone here claims it to be.
Most legal and political discourse is more nuanced than it usually gets credit for; it's just by the time it reaches slashdot it's been distilled into a misleading, emotionally-charged headline that people can get outraged over.
Overall taxes have gone up.
Prove it.
Non sequitur? What the fuck? Logically, what I said makes perfect fucking sense. Overall, taxes have gone up. It's provable, You do the math.
Pay increases? Son, we're all on paycuts and furloughs over here.
Maybe you should have gotten a better education and job.
"Seems to me" was a nice way of saying "Hey moron, you're fucking wrong, the fact of the matter is...".
Oh, what was "However, I know you are just an idiot" a nice way of saying?
You're the one who's ignoring every single tax on every fucking thing that isn't included on your annual return.
See, this is what I mean by being analytical. Or at least read more closely. You made the claim that you are paying more and more in taxes. I point out that the federal income tax rate has gone down. Your response is "but look at those other taxes."
The argument is over whether the overall tax burden has gone up or down. For your rant to make any sense, you would have to claim those other taxes have gone up in such a way to counteract the reduction in the federal income tax. Cigarette taxes have gone up, which is a good thing. The federal fuel tax has dropped dramatically, though. I'm not sure how state sales taxes have trended, but I do know the idea of sales tax holidays has become more popular.
So why don't you offer some concrete proof that you are paying more in taxes this year than last, adjusting for any pay increases you've had. In other words, show me that you pay more now than you would have a year, 5 years, 10 years ago with the same income. At the state level more
Now logically, what you said is a non sequitur. It would only make sense if you said these other taxes were also increasing. Do you understand? I think you can learn something very valuable from this exchange, seriously.
Hmmm, maybe, I'm no alienist.
The $2 million dollar fines that RIAA has imposed upon several college students == a life sentence.
The RIAA!="[t]he copyright lawyers" And those students will be inconvenienced but not more than that. Their salaries might get garnished a bit, and if they don't pay it the statute of limitations for collecting on a debt will likely run out.
Oh stop whining. It "seems" that you pay more in taxes every year? Why on earth should anyone trust your subjective feeling as compared to previous years? Look at the tax brackets with the IRS by year. Look at your state income tax history. Be analytical.
The copyright lawyers are laughing at this guy's defense, but these are the same lawyers who think that file sharing is immoral and that record companies should have the right to sue people into poverty because of a few kilobytes of uploads.
Generalize much?
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I got your contact from the Venusian Chambers of Commerce and interplanetary family directory and it is with business trust that made me to contact you on this matter.
I write to solicit for the transfer of this money into your account. This Money was generated from an unused Account in my Bank (FBV).I am contacting you for your help and partnership for the following reason:
My present financial resources will not be sufficient for me to handle the transfer alone successfully without financial assistance from a reliable foreign partner on another planet. 40% of this sum would be for you as compensation for using your Bank account in transferring this money, 10% would be used to reimburse the expenses made by both parties during the processing of the transferring which include,DTN bills, travelling expenses and fees, and starship fuel. While 50% is for me. Please note that I will arrange to meet with you immediately after the successful conclusion of the transfer, the 50% share of mine will be used for investment on Earth. Your assistance and co-operation is highly needed. I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you are interested I will require your banking information as mentioned below: 1. Name to be used as beneficiary and beneficiary's address. 2. Your private and confidential telephone/ fax number(s) 3. Your banking details and address, your bank Telephone and fax number(s).
Furthermore, sociopaths and psychopaths will have little trouble passing these checkpoints.
I don't know about that, I don't sociopaths and psychopaths don't have fear; they just don't have empathy or morality.
UE3 is a current, highly popular game engine. Why would they give out the secret sauce?
They could open source it and make money from selling services. Isn't that the party line around here?
I would like to believe you are from the future - a future full of tax cuts and reduced government.
Funny, I know the income tax has been lowered in the past few years; why do you think the I also know that since the 1990s the government has privatized several formerly public institutions, with mixed results. The anti-tax/small-government fanatics haven't gotten everything they wanted, all they've done is change the discourse so large-scale, necessary but non-emergency projects can't get built because the second any government state, city, or federal, is not in a state of financial crisis that crowd starts screeching for tax cuts.
No one fixes infrastructure until it's broken. That's pretty standard everywhere.
Well, not since the tax-cut/reduce-government fanatics came into power.
Still behind id software and their GPL releases of the game engines.
But ahead in game quality.
I believe one ought be free to do what one wishes with one's money, and it follows that paying someone (some people call it bribery) to persuade them to a position is fine. The problem is i haven't studied this and, not being an expert, it's difficult for me to see negative externalities that may ensue should this be brought into practice. Any advice?
The idea of a monopoly strikes at the heart of many libertarian's ideology. Their usual response is to simply claim (then angrily insist) that monopolies are the result of government. In a full free market, there wouldn't be any.
I'd be more a fan of him/her not having kids if they can't afford to feed/cloth/educate them.
I think everyone feels like that (except the people doing it). But once they have the kids, what are we supposed to do? Punish the kids for their parents' irresponsibility?
Are you kidding? About the only people I've found who LIKE to drive are teenagers for 3 weeks after they get their license and motorheads who make up 0.5% of the population. Everyone else likes to go places, but not to DRIVE.
Really? I enjoy driving. Not all the time, but sometimes.
Hell, there should be a moratorium on having children, period. The asshole yuppie offspring of baby boomers (who are causing all of the world's problems and should just die anyway) are the ones creating fat, spoiled, apathetic little piggies raised in sterile environments. Those offspring should be stuffed in cattle cars and railroaded off to the maquiladoras regardless of the parents' ability to afford school, actually...
Yuppies, huh? Never been to Wal-Mart? I work in a yuppie neighborhood, and as obnoxious as the yuppie parents are, they at least try to educate their kids and keep them healthy, it's the poor white southern and midwestern suburbs who are creating the vacant-eyed class.
They sell 2-prong to 3-prong adapters because you typically attach the ground to the cover screw via a small prong or wire.
You're supposed to, but typically people don't. In fact, they overwhelmingly don't.
And Ballmer only got through his personal connection to Bill Gates. BTW Bill Gates comes from a very wealthy background, even before MS.
well, WIS and INT are both generally lower for non AD&D people, but the difference is the same.
Though strength, dexterity, and charisma tend to be a lot higher...