The problem that others are having with DevOps is that they seem to be defining it differently than you are. What you wrote makes sense but the scenarios people are complaining about don't sound at all like your definition.
Considering that 47% of Americans have a true tax liability of zero or less and that is caused mainly because of those "credits and stuff", then yes, the vast majority aren't straightforward but it is true that the IRS has all the necessary info once you enter all the required SSN.
This is a very common belief and was one of the debating points during the floor debate in the 1950s that added withholding which did not exist before then.
Ah yes, but our nice nannies solved that for us in the 1950s when the withholding was first introduced. The reason given openly was that it was hard for people to save and pay up. The reason discussed dur9ing the floor debates was about how a couple of generations down the road people will forget that they are asking for a refund because they overpaid but will begin thinking of the refund as money the nice government decided to hand out just because they are nice. It is amazing how few people actually understand the term "tax liability." Most will tell you they have no tax liability because they get money back. And then when people talk about being against something because it will cause tax liabilities to increase X%, they don't because because they understand that increasing zero by any percent still means zero.
Yes, I would love for my representatives to cater to the special interest known as me. They won't. They won't even if I am Warren Buffet. Really, they won't. They are probably more likely to listen to Warren Buffet than me because of his accomplishments but I doubt Warren Buffet has ever asked for something because it would benefit only him. Business men generally lobby for things on the basis that it will benefit everyone like him and all those he now employs or those he will be able employee after getting whatever he is after.
By the way, which special interests should Congress not listen to? NRA, Brady Campaign, Sierra Club, ranchers, Chamber of Congress, AFL-CIO, UAW, Chrysler, Ford, AMA, Trial Lawyers, NAACP, Humane Society, PETA, SPLC, Freedom From Religion, Southern Baptist Congress, insurance companies? The problem with special interests is that everyone generally wants the "bad" ones banned and the "good" ones to have more access and everyone has differing definitions of good and bad. I'm all for banning the access of the bad special interests as long as I get to define "bad"?
Well, the point is to have an ideal to strive for and measure ourselves against the ideal. You know, just like we do for volume and mass and length and time, etc.
Because the left absolutely disagrees with you on that. They absolutely believe that the main purpose of taxes is to drive a social agenda. Sadly, many on the right agree with them.
So, as long as I continue to write code against my current version of.Net, the automated update ecosystem will notice that and not ask me to update but the day I cease writing code against it, then I'll be inundated with updates on a daily basis?
I didn't take it as simple criticism because their is a general sentiment around here that companies should publish everything and cater to every single whim of every single person on the planet regardless of whether doing so allows the company to actually do what companies are supposed to do (turn a profit of some sort). This happens to the point of people suggesting that it is or should be illegal to not support a version of software from date of first release until the universe ceases to exist.
My point was suggesting that Mateo_LeFou was already free to form a company and offer that service to his users.
And yes, I do find that far more productive than demanding that others do so. Mainly because I believe that he was asking for something impossible and he would find that out for himself by going through the exercise.
Then build your own device as well. Again, nobody stopping you. Why do you feel so entitled to demand that a company cater to your every whim. Buy enough of their product and they will be happy to do so.
and then the unix world would say the only support for 8.1.0 is the update that causes it to be 8.1.1. Microsoft is doing the exact same thing with different names.
I agree with you on everything except the CommonCore math thing. Absolutely nothing in the standards documents nor any appendices mention specific teaching techniques or anything similar. I've read them many times. Have you? corestandards.org
I've seen some examples where textbook publishers seem to be pushing a hidden agenda with the wording of problems while marketing the new textbook to be "in alignment" with the CommonCore but textbook publishers have been doing that since textbook publishers came into existence.
What exactly is wrong with suggesting that students should be able to do something like this: "Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations." What is so damn new about that?
Never said that. Just pointing out that Bloomberg and other leftists are trying to destroy the coal industry and ShanghaiBill was off on a tangent about robotics. I'll admit that robotics does displace workers, but the article was talking about workers displaced because of leftists shutting down coal mining.
I know exactly what the word means. You, however, don't seem to as you consistently point out things that libertarians want that libertarians don't want, such as authoritarian government. You claim that some libertarians wanted one but what they are asking for is less government and when I point out that the liberal darling is pushing for an expanded, more authoritarian government, you call me stupid. Is it because you are so blind that you don't see it or is it simply because Obama wants the same authoritarian government you want that you are willing to claim it isn't authoritarian?
Nope. Dem congress passes and Rep pres signs it, Reps at fault. Dem congress passes with veto-proof majority and Rep pres does not sign, Reps at fault. Rep congress, Dem pres, Reps at fault. Dem congress, Dem pres, Reps at fault.
Libs go on and on about how a certain amendment only applies to things invented at the time of its writing then complain about other amendments not automatically applying to modern things. Reps at fault.
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The problem that others are having with DevOps is that they seem to be defining it differently than you are. What you wrote makes sense but the scenarios people are complaining about don't sound at all like your definition.
Considering that 47% of Americans have a true tax liability of zero or less and that is caused mainly because of those "credits and stuff", then yes, the vast majority aren't straightforward but it is true that the IRS has all the necessary info once you enter all the required SSN.
This is a very common belief and was one of the debating points during the floor debate in the 1950s that added withholding which did not exist before then.
It worked just fine up until the 1950s.
Ah yes, but our nice nannies solved that for us in the 1950s when the withholding was first introduced. The reason given openly was that it was hard for people to save and pay up. The reason discussed dur9ing the floor debates was about how a couple of generations down the road people will forget that they are asking for a refund because they overpaid but will begin thinking of the refund as money the nice government decided to hand out just because they are nice. It is amazing how few people actually understand the term "tax liability." Most will tell you they have no tax liability because they get money back. And then when people talk about being against something because it will cause tax liabilities to increase X%, they don't because because they understand that increasing zero by any percent still means zero.
Does that $3000 "refund" include all the EITC crap. If so, adjust your scenario way down.
And that isn't really 3.3%. It is closer to 0.275% (one-twelth of 3.3%). Monthly inflation numbers are always posted as annual rates.
No, not really. Compared to Reagan Bush Jr was progressive (more government control).
sadly true
And people just don't get that. The more power government has, the more government will be corrupted.
The only way to have less corruption in government is to have less power in government.
Yes, I would love for my representatives to cater to the special interest known as me. They won't. They won't even if I am Warren Buffet. Really, they won't. They are probably more likely to listen to Warren Buffet than me because of his accomplishments but I doubt Warren Buffet has ever asked for something because it would benefit only him. Business men generally lobby for things on the basis that it will benefit everyone like him and all those he now employs or those he will be able employee after getting whatever he is after.
By the way, which special interests should Congress not listen to? NRA, Brady Campaign, Sierra Club, ranchers, Chamber of Congress, AFL-CIO, UAW, Chrysler, Ford, AMA, Trial Lawyers, NAACP, Humane Society, PETA, SPLC, Freedom From Religion, Southern Baptist Congress, insurance companies? The problem with special interests is that everyone generally wants the "bad" ones banned and the "good" ones to have more access and everyone has differing definitions of good and bad. I'm all for banning the access of the bad special interests as long as I get to define "bad"?
Well, the point is to have an ideal to strive for and measure ourselves against the ideal. You know, just like we do for volume and mass and length and time, etc.
Because the left absolutely disagrees with you on that. They absolutely believe that the main purpose of taxes is to drive a social agenda. Sadly, many on the right agree with them.
So, as long as I continue to write code against my current version of .Net, the automated update ecosystem will notice that and not ask me to update but the day I cease writing code against it, then I'll be inundated with updates on a daily basis?
oobayly, do you live in Colorado?
I didn't take it as simple criticism because their is a general sentiment around here that companies should publish everything and cater to every single whim of every single person on the planet regardless of whether doing so allows the company to actually do what companies are supposed to do (turn a profit of some sort). This happens to the point of people suggesting that it is or should be illegal to not support a version of software from date of first release until the universe ceases to exist.
My point was suggesting that Mateo_LeFou was already free to form a company and offer that service to his users.
And yes, I do find that far more productive than demanding that others do so. Mainly because I believe that he was asking for something impossible and he would find that out for himself by going through the exercise.
Then build your own device as well. Again, nobody stopping you. Why do you feel so entitled to demand that a company cater to your every whim. Buy enough of their product and they will be happy to do so.
and then the unix world would say the only support for 8.1.0 is the update that causes it to be 8.1.1. Microsoft is doing the exact same thing with different names.
I agree with you on everything except the CommonCore math thing. Absolutely nothing in the standards documents nor any appendices mention specific teaching techniques or anything similar. I've read them many times. Have you? corestandards.org
I've seen some examples where textbook publishers seem to be pushing a hidden agenda with the wording of problems while marketing the new textbook to be "in alignment" with the CommonCore but textbook publishers have been doing that since textbook publishers came into existence.
What exactly is wrong with suggesting that students should be able to do something like this: "Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations." What is so damn new about that?
Never said that. Just pointing out that Bloomberg and other leftists are trying to destroy the coal industry and ShanghaiBill was off on a tangent about robotics. I'll admit that robotics does displace workers, but the article was talking about workers displaced because of leftists shutting down coal mining.
I know exactly what the word means. You, however, don't seem to as you consistently point out things that libertarians want that libertarians don't want, such as authoritarian government. You claim that some libertarians wanted one but what they are asking for is less government and when I point out that the liberal darling is pushing for an expanded, more authoritarian government, you call me stupid. Is it because you are so blind that you don't see it or is it simply because Obama wants the same authoritarian government you want that you are willing to claim it isn't authoritarian?
Seriously. I spend most days programming against .Net and haven't noticed all of these .Net updates you are complaining about.
slow down there Sheldon!
And when you write your own OS, feel free to support that model. Nobody is stopping you.
What are they not supporting? Are you really claiming that they aren't no longer releasing patches for Windows 8.1 unless you patch Windows 8.1?
Is it really valid to claim that an OS vendor cannot require chained updates? That sounds pretty much ridiculous to me.
Nope. Dem congress passes and Rep pres signs it, Reps at fault.
Dem congress passes with veto-proof majority and Rep pres does not sign, Reps at fault.
Rep congress, Dem pres, Reps at fault.
Dem congress, Dem pres, Reps at fault.
Libs go on and on about how a certain amendment only applies to things invented at the time of its writing then complain about other amendments not automatically applying to modern things. Reps at fault.
See the pattern there.