I use http://mytrashmail.com/ whenever I need to sign up for anything. Use it finish the e-mail validation that these sites make you do, and then forget about it.
I really wish that Google would build something like that into GMail -- something that would let you create a disposable address that is forwarded to your real address, but then can be easily blocked once you start getting spammed. (No, the "+" addresses doesn't cut it, since it reveals your real address to anyone who cares.)
According the TFA, they apparently do think that actual demand will also fall:
From 1980 to 2000, residential power demand grew by about 2.5 percent a year. From 2000 to 2010, the growth rate slowed to 2 percent. Over the next 10 years, demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit group funded by the utility industry.
Of course, this is trusting the AP article to have accurately reported the information, which is probably unrealistic, but the headline's in line with the article.
Brakes for my car all around costs a few hundred dollars. Brakes for a Porsche GT3 run about $10,000, and they need replacing more often.
On the other hand, brakes for a brand-new mid-size family sedan, such as a moderately well-to-do family would be likely to buy, will run a few hundred dollars. Brakes for the used low-end sedan that the family on the low end of the wage scale would be likely to buy is going to cost exactly the same. So obviously the "Fair Tax" doesn't scale quite like you're suggesting.
I'd call it most fair to impose the same financial burden on each person through taxes, which means that we're able to take a much, much larger percentage of a very rich person's income before they're seriously inconvenienced by it.
And this is why everyone who talks about making people pay their "fair share" of taxes -- which is just about everyone, they just have their own ideas of what is fair -- doesn't get anywhere. Your idea of "fair" is nothing like mine.
It seems to me that the only "fair" taxation would be for everyone to pay taxes in proportion to the benefit that they get from those taxes. (For those who think that philosophy is intended to screw over the poor -- consider that value of police protection or the military is much higher to those with more to protect, which would suggest high property taxes on the rich. On the other hand, it's much less clear to me that a high income is actually a good reason to charge someone more taxes.) Of course, whether a practical system of taxation could be based on that, I don't know -- I tend to think the answer is no. I would, however, be very happy if that philosophy was used as a starting point for tax policy... rather than the current mish-mash of tax laws that are essentially based on nothing more than a desire to squeeze as much money as possible out of the people while preserving the politicians' votes.
only problem with this assessment is that in Texas perry has been getting school funding slashed and firing teachers.
How does this contradict the GP's point? The increasing class size due to reduced numbers of teachers is one of the many factors that are preventing teachers from maintaining effective discipline.
What we really have here is a formalized system of school discipline, because leaving it to the teachers and school officials is insufficient. (For a variety of reasons). It may be kind of stupid -- and inefficient -- but it's exactly what we should expect when parents abrogate their responsibilities to raise kids that can behave, and at the same time our culture prevents the school officials from dealing with the results.
But it hasn't been that long since 3.0 was released and now they are already getting close to 3.1. At that rate they'll be up to 4.0 by the end of the year.
If the 3.x series follows the same pattern as the 2.6.x series, we could expect kernel 4.0 around the beginning of 2019.
I have to wonder why Taco even bothered posting this article. We've been seeing essentially the same argument -- any linked to many times on/. -- for over ten years now. I'd bet five bucks that this "Brian Proffitt" character hasn't even been using Linux on the desktop that long.
Joe Gutheinz, a former senior investigator for NASA's Office of Inspector General, has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by the US to governments around the world, and put them in a museum.
Seriously, what's the difference if the museum contains 229 or 230 moon rocks? It sounds like without this guy, the rock would have been lost forever. Really, who is going to be harmed by allowing him to keep the thing?
Because with base 10 you'd be up to your ears in fractions all day (thirds of an hour, quarter hours, etc.). In base-12 fractions aren't required for everyday use.
Um... don't you ever use the phases "half past ten" or "quarter to six"?
The fact that you referred to the imperial system as 'customary' in your comment. It is not for the great majority of the world, and there is nothing that makes it any better than metric for someone who doesn't know either system already.
Try re-reading my comment. I specifically chose the word "customary" because it doesn't matter what the commonly used system is; those who actually are doing frequent unit conversions ought to be using metric anyway.
The ease of conversion is more when converting compound units. A newton is a kg m/second^2. A Joule is a Newton applied over a meter = kg m^2/second^2. A Watt is a Joule used every second = kg m^2/second^3
Oh, I understand the principle. The thing is that I haven't had any reason to do those types of unit conversions since I got out of school, and I'm willing to bet that goes for almost everyone else. Those who do (scientists and engineers, mostly), ought to be using metric in their work, no argument there, but the customary units that are used in other contexts doesn't matter all that much.
I am aware that in some fields of engineering they still use traditional units. And yes, that's beyond stupid.
10 is an arbitrary base and works poorly for time. Earth time works very well in Base-12, which is what we have now.
Why would it work more poorly for time than for distance or anything else?
Although one thing I do find amusing about the whole metric vs. traditional units is that one of the primary arguments for moving to metric units is that it makes conversion between units easier. The only problem is that about the only units that I convert between on a regular basis is... time, which is not handled in base 10. (I do think that we'd be better off switching to metric, but ease of unit conversion is a pretty minor point).
A major version should always have compelling features or a shift in model such as drivers.
The Linux development model no longer makes that a useful way to designate version numbers. Why should we be so dead-set on the tradition of version numbers that we can't even break out of that mold when it's useful to do so?
Germany already has something similar in place, where people are forced to accept jobs that don't even pay minimum wage, with the unemployment money pushing their income to the margin of subsistence.
So, it sounds like what they've got is essentially a minimum-wage job that is partially subsidized by the government? That may not be ideal, but it's a heck of a lot better than having the government pay people to sit on their butts.
The requirements for carrying identification/immigration paperwork are exactly the same as the federal laws.
Even if true (which it isn't),...
I suggest you read the bill. Most of the commentators have not. The documentation requirement is part of the trespassing part of the law, which reads:
A. IN ADDITION TO ANY VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW, A PERSON IS GUILTY OF TRESPASSING IF THE PERSON IS BOTH: 1. PRESENT ON ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE LAND IN THIS STATE. 2. IN VIOLATION OF 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1304(e) OR 1306(a).
The actual requirements are in section 1304(e). They are specified by federal law.
No, it's not. It claims to be anti-illegal-immigrant, but it's really just white supremacy. Even native-born citizens have been picked up and imprisoned for months because somebody suspected they were illegal. No proof required. There was a case where a guy was imprisoned in...either Arizona or New Mexico. For months. He was forced to work for $1/day to earn the money to purchase a copy of his birth certificate from the federal government to prove he was a legal citizen. (So much for "Innocent until proven guilty") Another case up here in Pennsylvania, a man (again, a legal citizen, not sure if he was native-born) was arrested and held by ICE for 3 days despite having his valid driver's license and social security card in his wallet at the time of his arrest...strictly because of his last name. It sounded like he might be foreign, so ICE ordered he be detained.
I keep up with this stuff pretty closely, and never heard either one of these. Can't find anything that sounds even remotely similar on google. I suspect you're making things up.
SB1070 still effectively legalizes police harassment of anybody who's skin is darker than a certain shade of brown.
It doesn't do anything of the sort, of course.
And they require that you carry identification with you. This is not a legal requirement anywhere else in America.
The requirements for carrying identification/immigration paperwork are exactly the same as the federal laws.
And I'm pretty sure ESB was actually in someone else's hands (Different director or producer or something. Can't remember).
You know, in the time that it took you to type that you didn't know if it had a different director, you could have looked it up on Wikipedia. It's in the first sentence.
Sports bars are a more egregious contributor to obesity than computer gaming is ever likely to be.
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You don't need data when you're trashing a lifestyle that Slashdotters don't like. On the other hand, even the word of God himself wouldn't convince them that video games could possibly cause any problems.
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And the amusing thing is that this study was done by IBM, which inflicts Lotus Notes on their employees.
If you're in a wheelchair, do they let you jump to the front of the line?
I use http://mytrashmail.com/ whenever I need to sign up for anything. Use it finish the e-mail validation that these sites make you do, and then forget about it.
I really wish that Google would build something like that into GMail -- something that would let you create a disposable address that is forwarded to your real address, but then can be easily blocked once you start getting spammed. (No, the "+" addresses doesn't cut it, since it reveals your real address to anyone who cares.)
Fortunately, this is where your argument falls apart. Threatening someone with a fake gun is illegal. Putting up a fake camera is not.
Of course, this is trusting the AP article to have accurately reported the information, which is probably unrealistic, but the headline's in line with the article.
On the other hand, brakes for a brand-new mid-size family sedan, such as a moderately well-to-do family would be likely to buy, will run a few hundred dollars. Brakes for the used low-end sedan that the family on the low end of the wage scale would be likely to buy is going to cost exactly the same. So obviously the "Fair Tax" doesn't scale quite like you're suggesting.
And this is why everyone who talks about making people pay their "fair share" of taxes -- which is just about everyone, they just have their own ideas of what is fair -- doesn't get anywhere. Your idea of "fair" is nothing like mine.
It seems to me that the only "fair" taxation would be for everyone to pay taxes in proportion to the benefit that they get from those taxes. (For those who think that philosophy is intended to screw over the poor -- consider that value of police protection or the military is much higher to those with more to protect, which would suggest high property taxes on the rich. On the other hand, it's much less clear to me that a high income is actually a good reason to charge someone more taxes.) Of course, whether a practical system of taxation could be based on that, I don't know -- I tend to think the answer is no. I would, however, be very happy if that philosophy was used as a starting point for tax policy ... rather than the current mish-mash of tax laws that are essentially based on nothing more than a desire to squeeze as much money as possible out of the people while preserving the politicians' votes.
How does this contradict the GP's point? The increasing class size due to reduced numbers of teachers is one of the many factors that are preventing teachers from maintaining effective discipline.
What we really have here is a formalized system of school discipline, because leaving it to the teachers and school officials is insufficient. (For a variety of reasons). It may be kind of stupid -- and inefficient -- but it's exactly what we should expect when parents abrogate their responsibilities to raise kids that can behave, and at the same time our culture prevents the school officials from dealing with the results.
If the 3.x series follows the same pattern as the 2.6.x series, we could expect kernel 4.0 around the beginning of 2019.
I have to wonder why Taco even bothered posting this article. We've been seeing essentially the same argument -- any linked to many times on /. -- for over ten years now. I'd bet five bucks that this "Brian Proffitt" character hasn't even been using Linux on the desktop that long.
Seriously, what's the difference if the museum contains 229 or 230 moon rocks? It sounds like without this guy, the rock would have been lost forever. Really, who is going to be harmed by allowing him to keep the thing?
You could at least have the decency to read my entire 3-sentence post before responding.
If you're singling out Fox News for that, you're nuts. Every single news outlet was doing exactly the same thing. It was disgusting.
Um ... don't you ever use the phases "half past ten" or "quarter to six"?
Try re-reading my comment. I specifically chose the word "customary" because it doesn't matter what the commonly used system is; those who actually are doing frequent unit conversions ought to be using metric anyway.
What makes you think that I (and anyone who reads /.) don't know that?
Oh, I understand the principle. The thing is that I haven't had any reason to do those types of unit conversions since I got out of school, and I'm willing to bet that goes for almost everyone else. Those who do (scientists and engineers, mostly), ought to be using metric in their work, no argument there, but the customary units that are used in other contexts doesn't matter all that much.
I am aware that in some fields of engineering they still use traditional units. And yes, that's beyond stupid.
Why would it work more poorly for time than for distance or anything else?
Although one thing I do find amusing about the whole metric vs. traditional units is that one of the primary arguments for moving to metric units is that it makes conversion between units easier. The only problem is that about the only units that I convert between on a regular basis is ... time, which is not handled in base 10. (I do think that we'd be better off switching to metric, but ease of unit conversion is a pretty minor point).
The Linux development model no longer makes that a useful way to designate version numbers. Why should we be so dead-set on the tradition of version numbers that we can't even break out of that mold when it's useful to do so?
So, it sounds like what they've got is essentially a minimum-wage job that is partially subsidized by the government? That may not be ideal, but it's a heck of a lot better than having the government pay people to sit on their butts.
I suggest you read the bill. Most of the commentators have not. The documentation requirement is part of the trespassing part of the law, which reads:
The actual requirements are in section 1304(e). They are specified by federal law.
I keep up with this stuff pretty closely, and never heard either one of these. Can't find anything that sounds even remotely similar on google. I suspect you're making things up.
It doesn't do anything of the sort, of course.
The requirements for carrying identification/immigration paperwork are exactly the same as the federal laws.
Please read the bill and quote the "anti-brown people" portion of it.
You know, in the time that it took you to type that you didn't know if it had a different director, you could have looked it up on Wikipedia. It's in the first sentence.
You don't need data when you're trashing a lifestyle that Slashdotters don't like. On the other hand, even the word of God himself wouldn't convince them that video games could possibly cause any problems.