It sounds like you're referencing a specific religion's deity. I don't believe I was being specific to a religion at all. I didn't say "you can't prove Christianity to be right or wrong".
Furthermore, WTF is with the earth is the center thing? Are you being serious or just trollin'? Because I honestly can't tell a difference with an ignorant comment like that.
As for the prayer thing, you're confusing religion and religious practices with the idea that a god (or some form of it) might exist.
We're not bashing Apple or their products. We're bashing the culture of Apple-Fandom. Yes, other OS's have their fanboys, too. However, my impression of Microsoft product users is most use it simply because they have to. I know of very few MS Windows users who cream their jeans and sing high praise of Microsoft. Apple has shortcomings too, mainly that Apple products are expensive and customers are forced to use Apple hardware. I'm mainly a Linux user...and yes, Linux has its fanboys too and each distro has its own cult following.
Yes, but Apple does that whole "go eat shit if you don't use our stuff" arrogant attitude in it's marketing. It's successful, that's for sure, but their advertisements in particular try to make non-Apple people feel like the weird kid in class that nobody wants to hang out with because he's lacking something important, and at the same time they try to reconfirm to Apple people they made an awesome choice and "they're in" like it's an exclusive club.
I've noticed some Microsoft commercials starting to do something similar, but I've never seen arrogance like that before from anybody in their marketing efforts. That in itself will create a large number of so-called "fanbois". It's creating fake social pressure. It's simple psychology to get you to buy iStuff. I'm not saying they don't make products worth buying, but you can't ignore the elitist attitude the company likes to instill in their customers via their marketing department.
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless. You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof, that god does exist, and neither of you have really defined who or what God is.
So yeah, keep pretending you're different from theists...
Not even the same ballpark in leaps of "faith".
- One prediction has a long standing history of being proven wrong on all the small details so why would I believe the biggest lie of all.
- The other prediction is a logical extension of everything I've learned up until now regarding how the physical universe works.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
On your second point: how so? For all we know all the rules of physics in our universe were created by some kind of supernatural entity. But that doesn't make sense? You know what doesn't make sense? Infinity. Yet, it exists. We just can't possibly comprehend it. We can comprehend multiple dimensional "membranes" smashing into each other and literally exploding into our existence as we know it, but we can't comprehend how those dimensions came to be, or that they might have always been. Maybe I'm making a bad analogy here, but I'm just saying it's arrogant to think that anything at all has been proven on whether or not a god exists. It probably won't ever be proven.
Anyway, what does it really matter? It's purely an argument of philosophy. Nobody's convincing anybody else once it comes down to that level.
There are tons of GUI 'Development' tools that clutter your screen with scroll bars and buttons and lists that take forever to re-draw themselves that probably require a hugeass monitor to use much. Ech.
But for real coding, one monitor is fine. Your code should be 80 columns wide, and if you're using multiple desktops on *nix or VirtuaWin for windows, then when someone calls, you can switch quickly to a new desktop, and then switch back to what you were doing easily enough using only one monitor.
Probably much of the whining is from people not using multiple desktops.
I develop with Vim on a Linux box with two monitors, and I will argue your point. Virtual desktops aren't anything the same as another physical monitor. You don't increase desktop space with virtual desktops, you only add organization power. I notice a huge difference when I come home from work and start some other development project on my laptop on the couch (where I don't have a second monitor). It's absolutely painful, and it slows me down considerably.
Either way, they actually did studies on this (like TFA points out) and it's been proven to increase productivity by a very significant degree.
OK, at first glance I thought "Sweet! Less chance of a nudie scan!". Not that I'm so much personally impacted by it, but it's the principle as well as recognizing other peoples' wants of privacy. However, all this means is that there'll be more invasive groping since there'll be a lack of invasive body scanners. I'm not sure this is a great thing. I'd be all for it if nixing the scanners also meant nixing the invasive groping, but until that happens.... I would still like the option to choose how to be personally invaded to be available for people.
Does coding require watching two or three screens of information at one time? Not really.
I don't think that's the question that should be asked. Sure, anybody can do their job with 1 monitor. The argument is whether or not they are as productive.
Holy crap, AMEN to that! Vertical resolution was fine until HDTVs became popular. At which point everybody regressed and went to max 1080 high displays just so they could coin that they were "true HD" in marketing. All my pre-HDTV monitors are 1200px high. I consider that to be absolutely necessary. All my post-HDTV monitors are at most 1080 high, if even that (1050 is common). It's near impossible to find anything with 1200px high display with a reasonable price tag anymore.
I've only received scam calls like this twice ever in my life. I didn't fall for either, but for the second one I stayed on the line acting like I was willing to do what they told me to, but was getting all confused ("Hold on, I think I need a new AOL CD...", "Oh crap, I think I lost the Internet", etc). I figured I'd scam them back by wasting their time. It only took 5 minutes before they got all frustrated and hung up.
Then maybe we should stop treating corporate entities like they have the exact same rights as citizens. They represent something totally different, so totally different rules should apply to them and govern them. Individuals don't stand a chance against mega billions, and thus have no voice by comparison. I'm pretty sure that's not how things were supposed to be.
So I suppose there's something wrong with wanting a convenient discoverable (keyword) button to do all that in one shot, huh? Then let's just get rid of all GUI elements on the desktop screen and resort to nothing besides keyboard shortcuts. The mouse is really just a superficial input device that has no point.
OK, I agree with you. I just fail to see why political parties have a single damn thing to do with this and why you assume Parent was an "arrogant and self-centered right winger". Can't we keep this civilized and party free?
Exactly. Welcome to the new age of creating dummy corporations just to trademark them and seize a certain domain, just because they can or because it'd be vastly cheaper than buying the domain from the owner.
Thanks guys. Now I can't register shit on.net without running the risk of being taken over by someone claiming a trademark. Makes for solid reliability.
Speaking of stupid developers - what is it with blogs including hundreds of KB of Javascript for a mostly static page now?!
Just check out the page size there - it's 1.5MB in size uncompressed (532KB compressed) for a pretty short article in a plain-looking page. Not only that but it pulls in scripts and documents from all over the web, slowing page loads even more..
Besides the uncompressed JS (which is probably more a system administrator's fault), the content on the page is very rarely the developer's fault. Some manager is probably telling the developers, "Oh! I like that! Oooh! Facebook widget! And I want Flickr widgets! Wait, I want to use these 2 different analytics services. Also, Twitter feeds!!! I want it all!", at which point, developers have very little to say about how that gets done.
Do you blame the laborer at a potato chips plant if the chips taste like shit?
ROFL. The only way we'd have service at all is with these monopolies.
One of the major problems we have is free market weenies trying to free monopolies of any restraints. And in the name of 'competition', too! Bwahahaha!
Only if they're extreme. Just like in any group there are extremists. Legalized monopolies and antitrust policies are two completely different things.
It's only for fools if it's not a "free market" to begin with. Legalized monopolies and federal dollars given to giants who don't use it as intended don't count.
Gotta love teh intarnets. Always amuses me how absolutely fickle and whiny people are around these parts.
Jaunty: Yay! This is great! Happies!
Karmic: Yay! This is better than Jaunty! Happies!
Maverick: Yay! This is better than Karmic! Happies!
Natty: DEATH AND THE DEFILEMENT OF SHUTTLEWORTH'S IMMORTAL SOUL MUST NOW COMMENCE BECAUSE HE HAS CHANGED SOMETHING THAT I CAN EASILY UNDO AND I AM TOO LAZY TO GIVE IT A CHANCE. All who do not hate it as much as I very clearly are drinking teh koolaid and are rabid cultists. So sayeth I, such is law, as I am talking ON TEH INTARNETS, and am thus right and just.
And the most hilarious part of all is how we can't figure out why nobody takes us seriously any more! It's great! It's almost like we actually ARE a bunch of introverted basement dwellers who instantly and predictably overreact the second our tiny, tiny worlds change in the slightest way! Keep up the amusing work, Colin!
Oh I get it, you want us all to give up having independent opinions and let someone like Steve Jobs make all our opinions for us. Great! I always hated opinions anyway... I think? *asks Steve Jobs if I always hated opinions* Yep! I always hated those damn opinions!
Well, with Ubuntu becoming more and more mainstream, I wonder how this will affect other Linux distributions.
The other distros will probably be happy to get all those new users. By the time Ubuntu 14.x rolls out they should have alienated almost all of their userbase. Their half baked releases combined with the 6 month release cycle give everyone just enough time to get things stable right before they break it all again. From swapping audio subsystems to experimental unconfigurable GUIs, they make sure to cover all their bases.
1.5 to 2 years ago I would have mostly defended Canonical, even though they rolled out things like PulseAudio and CIFS far too early (had a very bad experience with an early build of CIFS trashing everything), but as I see them continue to go bleeding edge constantly with annoyances like that, and then add to that this Unity BS, I'm going to have to wholeheartedly agree with you. It's ridiculous beyond no end to change things up for change's sake and have no other really good reason. I understand them having to roll out their own Gnome-based desktop environment with Gnome boarding the insanity train as well with Gnome 3, but Unity? Ugh. Puke. Save it for the netbooks and touch-only tablets.
Ubuntu, what the hell happened? I use to love you... now you remind me too much like my mother trying to keep me her little 10yr old boy.
Your "hidden taxes" are, as I've said before, completely covered by the personal exemption or other tax breaks, federal help, etc. Until you show me the actual math, or any actual evidence whatsoever beyond a few rumors, I (and apparently the tea partiers?) remain completely unconvinced. The difference between me and the tea partiers? Given legitimate evidence, I can admit I'm wrong. But I've done the math in many different scenarios (one scenario of which I've demonstrated here, another linked to from here), and for the large majority of the population your arguments just don't hold any water.
And your opinion is worthless and dishonest. Your just voicing a vacuous opinion to back up your belief that Apple is aways in the wrong. Your very use of the phrase "Apple Fanbois" marks you out as one of these people.
Recognizing fanboys on any platform merely points out that I recognize they exist. Nice try to discredit my views though.
Duh! Some PCs have phone functionality. There's a difference between designing hardware and software for a smartphone, and tacking on phone functionality to a PDA.
*sigh* If you want to compare, once again, according to your OWN set of rules that you seem to make up on the fly to support your bullshit argument, the samsung phones have vastly different hardware than the iPhone. Example: trackpad and various other physical buttons. It'd be one thing if Samsung programmed a single button that controlled the UI in the exactly same way as Apple, but that isn't the case. Quick making shit up as you go along.
No, the standard deduction is available for everybody. My only correction is how much depending on the filing status. The amount is half that per individual, or roughly $11k if married and filing jointly. No need for kids, and you take this if you don't itemize. But otherwise, yes, between $5.8k and $11.6k right off the bat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deduction
You do get that giant credit though for kids and if you're in the lower tax brackets. 1 kid in 2011 gave you a credit of over $3k. That's money in the bank. 2 kids earned you over $5k. That means that in the lower brackets, especially if you have any kids at all, you're more than earning your share back with credits. Let's take a family of 4 where Dad works and earns $40k/year. Not bad at all. They take the standard $11.6k deduction... which leaves them with $28.4k left that is actually taxed. Oh wait, we forgot about the personal excemtion (to account for that sales tax you complain so much about) and that was at roughly $3,650. That leaves $24,750 to be taxed. Their tax rate for that level and tax status is 15%. Add in another 7.65% or whatever it is for FICA which is applied to the adjust gross income ($40k). So that's $3,712 + $3,060 = $6,772. Throw in those handy dandy credits of roughly $5k (and under estimate) and you have left $1,772 that you owe the government. That's an effective tax rate of 4.43%. Even removing the personal excemption leaves you with what, 5% effective tax rate? That's nothing to complain about AT ALL! So, that's why I never noticed my taxes at that level, because I effectively had none. Earn a little less and you actually MAKE money.
NOTE: The example above is over simplified as the tax rates aren't completely straight up in that tax bracket. I just assumed the highest bracket any income was taxed at. This is also strictly the Federal income tax calculations. And yes, they do account for cost of living, sales tax (aka personal excemption), and other things. It's not perfect, but you can't say it doesn't favor lower brackets.
Quit complaining. You only really get screwed at the lowest portion of a median to high tax bracket, are single (or married, both working, and filing jointly), and have no kids. Those damn kids really boost everything.
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It sounds like you're referencing a specific religion's deity. I don't believe I was being specific to a religion at all. I didn't say "you can't prove Christianity to be right or wrong".
Furthermore, WTF is with the earth is the center thing? Are you being serious or just trollin'? Because I honestly can't tell a difference with an ignorant comment like that.
As for the prayer thing, you're confusing religion and religious practices with the idea that a god (or some form of it) might exist.
Your reactionary post just proves the article. You know, since you're arguing against something that nobody said in the first place.
We're not bashing Apple or their products. We're bashing the culture of Apple-Fandom. Yes, other OS's have their fanboys, too. However, my impression of Microsoft product users is most use it simply because they have to. I know of very few MS Windows users who cream their jeans and sing high praise of Microsoft. Apple has shortcomings too, mainly that Apple products are expensive and customers are forced to use Apple hardware. I'm mainly a Linux user...and yes, Linux has its fanboys too and each distro has its own cult following.
Yes, but Apple does that whole "go eat shit if you don't use our stuff" arrogant attitude in it's marketing. It's successful, that's for sure, but their advertisements in particular try to make non-Apple people feel like the weird kid in class that nobody wants to hang out with because he's lacking something important, and at the same time they try to reconfirm to Apple people they made an awesome choice and "they're in" like it's an exclusive club.
I've noticed some Microsoft commercials starting to do something similar, but I've never seen arrogance like that before from anybody in their marketing efforts. That in itself will create a large number of so-called "fanbois". It's creating fake social pressure. It's simple psychology to get you to buy iStuff. I'm not saying they don't make products worth buying, but you can't ignore the elitist attitude the company likes to instill in their customers via their marketing department.
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless. You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof, that god does exist, and neither of you have really defined who or what God is.
So yeah, keep pretending you're different from theists...
Not even the same ballpark in leaps of "faith".
- One prediction has a long standing history of being proven wrong on all the small details so why would I believe the biggest lie of all.
- The other prediction is a logical extension of everything I've learned up until now regarding how the physical universe works.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
On your second point: how so? For all we know all the rules of physics in our universe were created by some kind of supernatural entity. But that doesn't make sense? You know what doesn't make sense? Infinity. Yet, it exists. We just can't possibly comprehend it. We can comprehend multiple dimensional "membranes" smashing into each other and literally exploding into our existence as we know it, but we can't comprehend how those dimensions came to be, or that they might have always been. Maybe I'm making a bad analogy here, but I'm just saying it's arrogant to think that anything at all has been proven on whether or not a god exists. It probably won't ever be proven.
Anyway, what does it really matter? It's purely an argument of philosophy. Nobody's convincing anybody else once it comes down to that level.
Nope. Cthulu farted when he arose from his slumber.
I would imagine this is why we aren't powering space stations on the dark side of earth with giant laser beams? Because that idea tickles me.
Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) are indeed doctors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_education
But not medical doctors. Considering the subject at hand was medical, all reputation is out the window.
There are tons of GUI 'Development' tools that clutter your screen with scroll bars and buttons and lists that take forever to re-draw themselves that probably require a hugeass monitor to use much. Ech.
But for real coding, one monitor is fine. Your code should be 80 columns wide, and if you're using multiple desktops on *nix or VirtuaWin for windows, then when someone calls, you can switch quickly to a new desktop, and then switch back to what you were doing easily enough using only one monitor.
Probably much of the whining is from people not using multiple desktops.
I develop with Vim on a Linux box with two monitors, and I will argue your point. Virtual desktops aren't anything the same as another physical monitor. You don't increase desktop space with virtual desktops, you only add organization power. I notice a huge difference when I come home from work and start some other development project on my laptop on the couch (where I don't have a second monitor). It's absolutely painful, and it slows me down considerably.
Either way, they actually did studies on this (like TFA points out) and it's been proven to increase productivity by a very significant degree.
OK, at first glance I thought "Sweet! Less chance of a nudie scan!". Not that I'm so much personally impacted by it, but it's the principle as well as recognizing other peoples' wants of privacy. However, all this means is that there'll be more invasive groping since there'll be a lack of invasive body scanners. I'm not sure this is a great thing. I'd be all for it if nixing the scanners also meant nixing the invasive groping, but until that happens.... I would still like the option to choose how to be personally invaded to be available for people.
Does coding require watching two or three screens of information at one time? Not really.
I don't think that's the question that should be asked. Sure, anybody can do their job with 1 monitor. The argument is whether or not they are as productive.
Holy crap, AMEN to that! Vertical resolution was fine until HDTVs became popular. At which point everybody regressed and went to max 1080 high displays just so they could coin that they were "true HD" in marketing. All my pre-HDTV monitors are 1200px high. I consider that to be absolutely necessary. All my post-HDTV monitors are at most 1080 high, if even that (1050 is common). It's near impossible to find anything with 1200px high display with a reasonable price tag anymore.
I've only received scam calls like this twice ever in my life. I didn't fall for either, but for the second one I stayed on the line acting like I was willing to do what they told me to, but was getting all confused ("Hold on, I think I need a new AOL CD...", "Oh crap, I think I lost the Internet", etc). I figured I'd scam them back by wasting their time. It only took 5 minutes before they got all frustrated and hung up.
Then maybe we should stop treating corporate entities like they have the exact same rights as citizens. They represent something totally different, so totally different rules should apply to them and govern them. Individuals don't stand a chance against mega billions, and thus have no voice by comparison. I'm pretty sure that's not how things were supposed to be.
Just hold down the Alt key or log out first.
So I suppose there's something wrong with wanting a convenient discoverable (keyword) button to do all that in one shot, huh? Then let's just get rid of all GUI elements on the desktop screen and resort to nothing besides keyboard shortcuts. The mouse is really just a superficial input device that has no point.
OK, I agree with you. I just fail to see why political parties have a single damn thing to do with this and why you assume Parent was an "arrogant and self-centered right winger". Can't we keep this civilized and party free?
Yep, and it's getting ridiculous. This deserves prison time - I don't see how this kind of a move could even possibly be legal!?
Exactly. Welcome to the new age of creating dummy corporations just to trademark them and seize a certain domain, just because they can or because it'd be vastly cheaper than buying the domain from the owner.
.net without running the risk of being taken over by someone claiming a trademark. Makes for solid reliability.
Thanks guys. Now I can't register shit on
Speaking of stupid developers - what is it with blogs including hundreds of KB of Javascript for a mostly static page now?!
Just check out the page size there - it's 1.5MB in size uncompressed (532KB compressed) for a pretty short article in a plain-looking page. Not only that but it pulls in scripts and documents from all over the web, slowing page loads even more..
Besides the uncompressed JS (which is probably more a system administrator's fault), the content on the page is very rarely the developer's fault. Some manager is probably telling the developers, "Oh! I like that! Oooh! Facebook widget! And I want Flickr widgets! Wait, I want to use these 2 different analytics services. Also, Twitter feeds!!! I want it all!", at which point, developers have very little to say about how that gets done.
Do you blame the laborer at a potato chips plant if the chips taste like shit?
ROFL. The only way we'd have service at all is with these monopolies.
One of the major problems we have is free market weenies trying to free monopolies of any restraints. And in the name of 'competition', too! Bwahahaha!
Only if they're extreme. Just like in any group there are extremists. Legalized monopolies and antitrust policies are two completely different things.
It's only for fools if it's not a "free market" to begin with. Legalized monopolies and federal dollars given to giants who don't use it as intended don't count.
aint gonna be drinking that koolaid.
gonna look for an alternative.
Gotta love teh intarnets. Always amuses me how absolutely fickle and whiny people are around these parts.
Jaunty: Yay! This is great! Happies! Karmic: Yay! This is better than Jaunty! Happies! Maverick: Yay! This is better than Karmic! Happies! Natty: DEATH AND THE DEFILEMENT OF SHUTTLEWORTH'S IMMORTAL SOUL MUST NOW COMMENCE BECAUSE HE HAS CHANGED SOMETHING THAT I CAN EASILY UNDO AND I AM TOO LAZY TO GIVE IT A CHANCE. All who do not hate it as much as I very clearly are drinking teh koolaid and are rabid cultists. So sayeth I, such is law, as I am talking ON TEH INTARNETS, and am thus right and just.
And the most hilarious part of all is how we can't figure out why nobody takes us seriously any more! It's great! It's almost like we actually ARE a bunch of introverted basement dwellers who instantly and predictably overreact the second our tiny, tiny worlds change in the slightest way! Keep up the amusing work, Colin!
Oh I get it, you want us all to give up having independent opinions and let someone like Steve Jobs make all our opinions for us. Great! I always hated opinions anyway... I think? *asks Steve Jobs if I always hated opinions* Yep! I always hated those damn opinions!
The other distros will probably be happy to get all those new users. By the time Ubuntu 14.x rolls out they should have alienated almost all of their userbase. Their half baked releases combined with the 6 month release cycle give everyone just enough time to get things stable right before they break it all again. From swapping audio subsystems to experimental unconfigurable GUIs, they make sure to cover all their bases.
1.5 to 2 years ago I would have mostly defended Canonical, even though they rolled out things like PulseAudio and CIFS far too early (had a very bad experience with an early build of CIFS trashing everything), but as I see them continue to go bleeding edge constantly with annoyances like that, and then add to that this Unity BS, I'm going to have to wholeheartedly agree with you. It's ridiculous beyond no end to change things up for change's sake and have no other really good reason. I understand them having to roll out their own Gnome-based desktop environment with Gnome boarding the insanity train as well with Gnome 3, but Unity? Ugh. Puke. Save it for the netbooks and touch-only tablets.
Ubuntu, what the hell happened? I use to love you... now you remind me too much like my mother trying to keep me her little 10yr old boy.
Your "hidden taxes" are, as I've said before, completely covered by the personal exemption or other tax breaks, federal help, etc. Until you show me the actual math, or any actual evidence whatsoever beyond a few rumors, I (and apparently the tea partiers?) remain completely unconvinced. The difference between me and the tea partiers? Given legitimate evidence, I can admit I'm wrong. But I've done the math in many different scenarios (one scenario of which I've demonstrated here, another linked to from here), and for the large majority of the population your arguments just don't hold any water.
And your opinion is worthless and dishonest. Your just voicing a vacuous opinion to back up your belief that Apple is aways in the wrong. Your very use of the phrase "Apple Fanbois" marks you out as one of these people.
Recognizing fanboys on any platform merely points out that I recognize they exist. Nice try to discredit my views though.
Duh! Some PCs have phone functionality. There's a difference between designing hardware and software for a smartphone, and tacking on phone functionality to a PDA.
*sigh* If you want to compare, once again, according to your OWN set of rules that you seem to make up on the fly to support your bullshit argument, the samsung phones have vastly different hardware than the iPhone. Example: trackpad and various other physical buttons. It'd be one thing if Samsung programmed a single button that controlled the UI in the exactly same way as Apple, but that isn't the case. Quick making shit up as you go along.
No, the standard deduction is available for everybody. My only correction is how much depending on the filing status. The amount is half that per individual, or roughly $11k if married and filing jointly. No need for kids, and you take this if you don't itemize. But otherwise, yes, between $5.8k and $11.6k right off the bat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deduction
You do get that giant credit though for kids and if you're in the lower tax brackets. 1 kid in 2011 gave you a credit of over $3k. That's money in the bank. 2 kids earned you over $5k. That means that in the lower brackets, especially if you have any kids at all, you're more than earning your share back with credits. Let's take a family of 4 where Dad works and earns $40k/year. Not bad at all. They take the standard $11.6k deduction... which leaves them with $28.4k left that is actually taxed. Oh wait, we forgot about the personal excemtion (to account for that sales tax you complain so much about) and that was at roughly $3,650. That leaves $24,750 to be taxed. Their tax rate for that level and tax status is 15%. Add in another 7.65% or whatever it is for FICA which is applied to the adjust gross income ($40k). So that's $3,712 + $3,060 = $6,772. Throw in those handy dandy credits of roughly $5k (and under estimate) and you have left $1,772 that you owe the government. That's an effective tax rate of 4.43%. Even removing the personal excemption leaves you with what, 5% effective tax rate? That's nothing to complain about AT ALL! So, that's why I never noticed my taxes at that level, because I effectively had none. Earn a little less and you actually MAKE money.
NOTE: The example above is over simplified as the tax rates aren't completely straight up in that tax bracket. I just assumed the highest bracket any income was taxed at. This is also strictly the Federal income tax calculations. And yes, they do account for cost of living, sales tax (aka personal excemption), and other things. It's not perfect, but you can't say it doesn't favor lower brackets.
Wikipedia has a nice example for single individuals as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Example_of_a_tax_computation
Quit complaining. You only really get screwed at the lowest portion of a median to high tax bracket, are single (or married, both working, and filing jointly), and have no kids. Those damn kids really boost everything.