Um, where does it state that the Sun revolves around the Earth or that the Earth is the center of the Universe? I must have been sleeping through Sunday School when they taught that one.
Jesus never said that wealth is a one-way ticket to Hell. Money is extremely seductive, and those with alot of it have a tendancy to make it their first priority in life, instead of God. That is why it is "...easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."(Matt. 19:24, NKJV) Have you never seen a figure of speech before?
So what ever happened with Harmony? He indicates in his article that TT shut them down, but fails to provide any more info on the matter. I'd love to work on Harmony if they even still exist. If not, I'd be interested in starting a similar project. I'd like to know what exactly happened between the Harmony and TT folks first though - I don't care to get myself involved in any sort of legal action.
I agree that the playing field is not level when one industry is taxed and the other isn't. The point I was trying to make, however, is that the lack of a tax is not the major factor, at least as far as I am concerned, in making an online purchase. Even if online sales were taxed, traditional retailers still couldn't compete due to the choices available online. The only thing that would change is I would have to pay even more for my purchases, since I can almost never find what I want anywhere but online. When I'm already paying 10+% in S&H, adding another 4 - 6% sales tax on that makes my stomach turn.
We're overtaxed as it is. We need to look at reducing taxes on traditional industry instead of adding taxes to ecommerce.
When I purchase something online, its usually more for the extra choices available to me. I wouldn't even consider buying computer hardware, for example, at a traditional retailer simply because you are often quite limited by the selections they carry. I don't think I've ever bought something online to avoid the tax. Normally the shipping costs are way higher than any tax would be anyway (often 10% of the item's price, if not more).
It's all about choice. Traditional retailers simply can't compete because there are a million and one places to buy from online.
Unlike the World Wide Web, where every available piece of information is stored on a particular machine (the owner of which can easily be determined), Freenet protects those who choose to donate some of their computer's resources to Freenet by making it extremely difficult to determine what information is being stored on a particular node (even by the owner of that node).
Sorry, but I prefer to know what's actually being stored on my system. I understand their reasons for this, but I don't like the idea of not knowing what is on my HD.
A Unix killer? Not exactly, but...
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check out http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/ (sorry, but Slashdot isn't liking my html tags for some reason)
It describes an Exokernel based system, which is a break from tradition monolithic and micro kernels. The basic idea is that the real operating system handles only what is absolutely necessary for security, and leaves the rest, such as memory management, up to "libOSes". These libOSes, however, are user level processes, allowing users to customize anything that isn't absolutely required to be handled by the kernel. Unix, under this system, basically becomes just a library running on top of the real OS. It allows for increased performance for many apps because it gives more control to the programmer, should he/she choose to make use of it.
The page is a couple years old, so I'm not sure what's come of this. Still, it makes for an interesting read.
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Um, where does it state that the Sun revolves around the Earth or that the Earth is the center of the Universe? I must have been sleeping through Sunday School when they taught that one.
Jesus never said that wealth is a one-way ticket to Hell. Money is extremely seductive, and those with alot of it have a tendancy to make it their first priority in life, instead of God. That is why it is "...easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."(Matt. 19:24, NKJV) Have you never seen a figure of speech before?
So what ever happened with Harmony? He indicates in his article that TT shut them down, but fails to provide any more info on the matter. I'd love to work on Harmony if they even still exist. If not, I'd be interested in starting a similar project. I'd like to know what exactly happened between the Harmony and TT folks first though - I don't care to get myself involved in any sort of legal action.
We're overtaxed as it is. We need to look at reducing taxes on traditional industry instead of adding taxes to ecommerce.
It's all about choice. Traditional retailers simply can't compete because there are a million and one places to buy from online.
Unlike the World Wide Web, where every available piece of information is stored on a particular machine (the owner of which can easily be determined), Freenet protects those who choose to donate some of their computer's resources to Freenet by making it extremely difficult to determine what information is being stored on a particular node (even by the owner of that node).
Sorry, but I prefer to know what's actually being stored on my system. I understand their reasons for this, but I don't like the idea of not knowing what is on my HD.
check out http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/ (sorry, but Slashdot isn't liking my html tags for some reason)
It describes an Exokernel based system, which is a break from tradition monolithic and micro kernels. The basic idea is that the real operating system handles only what is absolutely necessary for security, and leaves the rest, such as memory management, up to "libOSes". These libOSes, however, are user level processes, allowing users to customize anything that isn't absolutely required to be handled by the kernel. Unix, under this system, basically becomes just a library running on top of the real OS. It allows for increased performance for many apps because it gives more control to the programmer, should he/she choose to make use of it.
The page is a couple years old, so I'm not sure what's come of this. Still, it makes for an interesting read.