Sorry Skippy, we have plenty of rich people here in Texas.
You see, not everyone's life revolves around New York City. A hurricane could hit New York and it wouldn't, well, didn't affect us economically at all.
I am saying that the tax law is created by Congress. It is huge, complicated and is a back door attempt to implement social policies.
NO ONE likes paying taxes and EVERYONE tries to find a way to pay less.
Every time someone finds a way around a tax, Congress tries to plug the hole and invariable opens a new one. The more complicated they make to try to maximize receipts and at the same time try to implement social policies, the more fragile it becomes.
Taxes will be avoided because Congress inadvertently enables it.
"If I hack into a bank, and steal information, then tell the bank I have this, but won't release it if they fix their security problem = CD" Blackmail.
If I DoS the machine by throwing a few GB's of garbage data at it... I bet that could be construed as Theft of Service.
A Crime should only exist where there is no possibility of reversing the damage... So I can throw a brick through your window because you can replace it?
As MLK put it, Civil Disobediance is when someone "...breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment ..."
So go ahead and conduct your DDOS, then go to prison to show people how unjust the law is.
You mean like that idiot reporter waving around a 30 round magazine on TV without facing charges vs. some poor schmuck driving through DC with one in his trunk.
I would expect that it could also be made plain to the "thousands" in line that if they don't end up ordering something, they'll be immediately arrested for trespassing.
It's one thing to make an obnoxious fool of yourself on line, quite another to do it in person.
Go ahead and do it. Video it and put it on youtube for us all to watch.
In addition, I highly doubt that any DDOS is the result of thousands of people protesting by going to a site and crashing it. Rather, it's people using a DDOS tool to illegally bring down the site.
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Sorry Skippy, we have plenty of rich people here in Texas.
You see, not everyone's life revolves around New York City. A hurricane could hit New York and it wouldn't, well, didn't affect us economically at all.
I am saying that the tax law is created by Congress. It is huge, complicated and is a back door attempt to implement social policies.
NO ONE likes paying taxes and EVERYONE tries to find a way to pay less.
Every time someone finds a way around a tax, Congress tries to plug the hole and invariable opens a new one. The more complicated they make to try to maximize receipts and at the same time try to implement social policies, the more fragile it becomes.
Taxes will be avoided because Congress inadvertently enables it.
And you once again completely make up a Strawman so you can post your extremist tax beliefs.
I live in a suburban area of a moderate and sane urban center. I pay county taxes and various state taxes such as sales, etc.
We have a vibrant business and cultural environment and moderate taxes. I'll stay where I'm at. YOU can move to New York if you want though.
And of course you completely made up what you believe to be the point of my post.
That's OK, it's /. and that's what happens. I'm good with it.
Who is "our"?
I have no desire to benefit from the Civilization of any of the major urban centers.
And those who do are called wing-nuts of some kind.
Did it not occur to you that perhaps the majority of people are actually in favour of gun control and it's not some "libreal" conspiracy?
Constitutional Rights are not subject to Public Opinion.
MSNBC, CNN and all the other fringe news channels are not "riling up supporters"?
Ever heard of "fake, but accurate"?
Raise taxes and those taxed will find legals ways to avoid them. Ways that the morons in Congress never anticipated.
To paraphrase Princess Leia, "The more you tighten your grip, Harry, the more tax dollars will slip through your fingers."
Damn! (FacePalm)
And I've seen others make that mistake too.
Principals...nice to have, but can be jettisoned when inconvenient.
http://cyc.com/cyc/company/about
It does suck giant, nasty sweaty balls.
But not as much as all the other systems.
You know you are getting old when records from 1938 are "Historical".
Historical, that's from the 1800s...not a mere lifetime ago.
"If I hack into a bank, and steal information, then tell the bank I have this, but won't release it if they fix their security problem = CD"
Blackmail.
If I DoS the machine by throwing a few GB's of garbage data at it...
I bet that could be construed as Theft of Service.
A Crime should only exist where there is no possibility of reversing the damage...
So I can throw a brick through your window because you can replace it?
As MLK put it, Civil Disobediance is when someone "...breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment ..."
So go ahead and conduct your DDOS, then go to prison to show people how unjust the law is.
You mean like that idiot reporter waving around a 30 round magazine on TV without facing charges vs. some poor schmuck driving through DC with one in his trunk.
I would expect that it could also be made plain to the "thousands" in line that if they don't end up ordering something, they'll be immediately arrested for trespassing.
It's one thing to make an obnoxious fool of yourself on line, quite another to do it in person.
Go ahead and do it. Video it and put it on youtube for us all to watch.
In addition, I highly doubt that any DDOS is the result of thousands of people protesting by going to a site and crashing it. Rather, it's people using a DDOS tool to illegally bring down the site.
Well, it still hasn't crashed into a Forrest while landing...or not landing...or something.
Someone building an accounting program won't think about encrypting their data, because they're trained in accounting, not security.
Actually, they would probably reject it out of hand because it's terrible slow and a maintenance nightmare.
I don't know..I always thought "Homeland" was too reminiscent of "Fatherland". So their name is already fairly Orwellian sounding.
And from I've been through at the airport, those stupid blue uniforms are equally as Storm Trooper looking.
Al Qaeda is going to kill us all...one by one, with an X-ray machine...by appointment.
I had an x-ray just the other day and some creepy dude in a Blue uniform tried to feel me up.
You forgot the "~".