I agree with you on the stock thing. It is criminal that we tax investement and savings the way we do. As for when rich people spend they spend significantly more. No as a perecentage of income they do *spend* more and taxes are all about percentages. You are right about some states not having a tax on food. I don't think they should have a tax on anything. The governement should have a set amount of money they can spend and get that not by taking it out of paychecks but by having everybody figure out the amount and paying it at the end of the year. For anything else they should be forced to ask for every dollar . We could get the tax rate down pretty low by doing that.
"And I happen to think that sales taxes are the most fair methods of taxation because they let the individual choose how much taxes they are going to pay."
No no they do not. Sales taxes are very unfair and quite regressive. The simple reason is that at lower incomes most people *have* to spend a big chunk of their paychecks on food, clothes, other things that they need and can not really choose not to spend on and as a result they end up paying sales tax on a much larger percentage of their income than a rich person who spends a much lower percantage of their income on things they can not choose to be without. So no sales taxes and a really unfair and bad thing.
But of course putting the code under GPL would be transparent to your clients in this case. Think about it what are the odds that they are going to start giving away the code they paid you to write.:) As long as they don't give it away no problem. If they do give it away what are the odds that they care if that person can give it away? Assuming that they are not a software company what diffrence does it make?
I was just having this conversation with someone here. A better way to do it would be to contribute to the legal defense fund. This clearly sends the message that you want them to fight this and support that. So that is what I'm going to do.
I agree with you that the airlines are/were stupid that is not the point of my question.
The point of my question is Dr. Mann is a *very* smart person. At some point before he was damaged and his gear damaged, the Airline should be left a smoking crater by Dr. Mann's lawyers for that alone. It must have become clear that the whole deal was going to a bad place and that he should back out and do something diffrent. I was just wondering if there was some reason he did not do so.
I agree with you. But the one thing about this that I have never heard stated and I'm asking because I'm sure there must be a good reason but why did not travel some way other than air. Seems to be it would have been quicker, easier, and cheaper to drive. There must be something I'm missing please fill me in.
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I think you misunderstand.
If I understand the parent post correctly he is saying that because almost anyone can learn VB almost anyone can claim to be a programmer and since unlike serious programmers they are willing to work for much less they are more likely to get hired. What this leads to is people who can create something in VB but not understand how they should created it or why they should create it certain ways. This shows up in say networking code.
So the point that I'm making, badly, is that tools like VB while useful sometimes tend to lead to people becomeing coders instead of programmers and IMHO this is a bad thing.
OK replace everybody with the vast majority of people who have ever used it. And yes it is very unhelpful to direct the person towards a *much* better tool when they don't like the one that they have used and to help people with the install process. Yup I'm certainly a troll.:)
I don't know what version you last installed but the current stable install disks will drop you into tasksel let you choose tasks from there and then ask you if you want to run dselect I think it wants it to run it by default but you can choose no and tasksel lets you get a working system after that apt-get install aptitude and bob is your uncle. I'm thinking if you get dragged into dselect before tasksel you are doing a potato install and choosing a method besides simple which is what you should be choosing but you really should be installing sarge anyway. So yes it very well could have changed since the last time you tried in particular since Sarge in not much older than 6 months.
Much better front end also what I do a lot is search the package archive on the web site and use apt. dselect sucks and just about everybody thinks so that is why there are better tools out there now.
Yes but do you go to the nursery and say "May I see your tulip?" no of course you don't but you would say "I need a new version of the tulip drivers." Try searching on words in the way they are used. For example tulips.
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The click of death settlement was that they would replace one even if it was out of warranty. I should know I had 3 die on me. :) Finally got a burner.
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I agree with you on the stock thing. It is criminal that we tax investement and savings the way we do. As for when rich people spend they spend significantly more. No as a perecentage of income they do *spend* more and taxes are all about percentages. You are right about some states not having a tax on food. I don't think they should have a tax on anything. The governement should have a set amount of money they can spend and get that not by taking it out of paychecks but by having everybody figure out the amount and paying it at the end of the year. For anything else they should be forced to ask for every dollar . We could get the tax rate down pretty low by doing that.
"And I happen to think that sales taxes are the most fair methods of taxation because they let the individual choose how much taxes they are going to pay."
No no they do not. Sales taxes are very unfair and quite regressive. The simple reason is that at lower incomes most people *have* to spend a big chunk of their paychecks on food, clothes, other things that they need and can not really choose not to spend on and as a result they end up paying sales tax on a much larger percentage of their income than a rich person who spends a much lower percantage of their income on things they can not choose to be without. So no sales taxes and a really unfair and bad thing.
But of course putting the code under GPL would be transparent to your clients in this case. Think about it what are the odds that they are going to start giving away the code they paid you to write. :) As long as they don't give it away no problem. If they do give it away what are the odds that they care if that person can give it away? Assuming that they are not a software company what diffrence does it make?
I was just having this conversation with someone here. A better way to do it would be to contribute to the legal defense fund. This clearly sends the message that you want them to fight this and support that. So that is what I'm going to do.
your favorite Gibson joke here. :)
Yes I meant look on cdbaby dor new bands that are nor RIAA and are *really* good. They have a bit of everything all of it really quite nice.
No I don't work for them although I did interview with them once. But they do just plain rock.
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Cygwin goes on every PC I touch. I can't do my job without it. Also the native Unix tools from the GNU Win people.
I agree with you that the airlines are/were stupid that is not the point of my question.
The point of my question is Dr. Mann is a *very* smart person. At some point before he was damaged and his gear damaged, the Airline should be left a smoking crater by Dr. Mann's lawyers for that alone. It must have become clear that the whole deal was going to a bad place and that he should back out and do something diffrent. I was just wondering if there was some reason he did not do so.
but rather a network guy but I have 3 Linux boxen that MIS does not know about and the dept laptop is booted with a Knoppix CD about %90 of the time.
This is way OT but I've just got to ask what did you not like about the betting on catastrophe idea. Personally I thought it was a great idea.
You clearly don't read the cryptogram and should. Stupid crypto tricks are very much alive and well.
I agree with you. But the one thing about this that I have never heard stated and I'm asking because I'm sure there must be a good reason but why did not travel some way other than air. Seems to be it would have been quicker, easier, and cheaper to drive. There must be something I'm missing please fill me in.
I think you misunderstand.
If I understand the parent post correctly he is saying that because almost anyone can learn VB almost anyone can claim to be a programmer and since unlike serious programmers they are willing to work for much less they are more likely to get hired. What this leads to is people who can create something in VB but not understand how they should created it or why they should create it certain ways. This shows up in say networking code.
So the point that I'm making, badly, is that tools like VB while useful sometimes tend to lead to people becomeing coders instead of programmers and IMHO this is a bad thing.
OK replace everybody with the vast majority of people who have ever used it. And yes it is very unhelpful to direct the person towards a *much* better tool when they don't like the one that they have used and to help people with the install process. Yup I'm certainly a troll. :)
eff of and die.
I don't know what version you last installed but the current stable install disks will drop you into tasksel let you choose tasks from there and then ask you if you want to run dselect I think it wants it to run it by default but you can choose no and tasksel lets you get a working system after that apt-get install aptitude and bob is your uncle. I'm thinking if you get dragged into dselect before tasksel you are doing a potato install and choosing a method besides simple which is what you should be choosing but you really should be installing sarge anyway. So yes it very well could have changed since the last time you tried in particular since Sarge in not much older than 6 months.
apt-get install aptitude
Much better front end also what I do a lot is search the package archive on the web site and use apt. dselect sucks and just about everybody thinks so that is why there are better tools out there now.
apt-get update
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
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Yes but do you go to the nursery and say "May I see your tulip?" no of course you don't but you would say "I need a new version of the tulip drivers." Try searching on words in the way they are used. For example tulips.
http://labs.google.com has some stuff on it that looks like they are moving in a direction to try and do just that automagically.