Taxing things we should be promoting, is counter productive, as it moves people from the things we ought to be promoting, to things that we should be avoiding. Taxing Income looks good on paper, but leads to income avoidance, or worse, reporting avoidance (grey and black markets).
You want to raise ALL the money you need? Tax "sin" (lack of better term): alcohol, cigarettes, prositution, porn etc. Hell, don't make guns illegal, just tax them and their projectiles.
All taxes are regressive, because the "rich" can avoid them where the poor and middle class cannot. But making taxes "voluntary" (taxing items, services not needed to survive) we could change our government funding process while decreasing activites and products we don't like (as a society), reducing the need for certain government programs.
The problem is, this reduces the "need" of government involvement and thus reduces the power given to politicians and bureaucrats.
What, in your opinion, is a crutch? Don't mention windows in your reply, use general terms. If you mention "windows" or subsititute any word for "Windows" I'll assume you can't define it apart from "windows", making your whole "Windows" usage as a crutch itself. I have a point IF you can define "Crutch" in generic terms.
Translation: "I am a VMWare jockey who juggles snapshot images as a replacement of package manager, backup, configuration management, intrusion detection, disaster recovery, ongoing maintenance, deployment, and everything else, because I don't know anything but Windows".
Translation: "I'm a snobby know-it-all jerk who thinks he can pinpoint exactly who someone is from a quick snippit/summary statement"
I manage or help manage 100+ servers across 20+ Campuses, including a full DR replecated site, and have proper backups, do proper configurations etc etc etc. They are a wide mix of Windows, Linux (my favorite) and BSD variants. I also do my share of desktop support. I didn't include those points in my original statement, because it wasn't needed. It still isn't needed to make my original point, I only make them now to show you how much of an ass you are. Not that you'll care or anything, most asses don't care, which is why they are asses in the first place.
The only Windows Tablets I've seen in the wild were used by Dell Geeks at a Dell Conference. That being said, I saw more Galaxy Notes and Nexus 7" (saw a number of Windows 8 Tablets). I can also report more issues seen with Win 8 Tablets than I saw with the other Tablets. Granted, this is all anecdotal evidence, but I am not going to get a Windows 8 Tablet anytime soon. I'd rather have an overpriced iPad... and that is saying something.
Actually, most of the Enterprise stuff is going towards Blades and VMWare (or XEN or...) as the Host OS. The Big Iron doesn't count towards Windows Licensing at all, and those are measured in Volume Licensing/CALs anyways.
Even if I'm installing only ONE server, I'm putting VMWARE between the OS and the hardware. Too many advantages to list here, but the top two are, Abstraction away from specific hardware, Backup (Snapshot). Makes recovery a breeze and as painless as your last snapshot.
1) Socialism, reporting compliance to the authorities. The moment it becomes "beneficial" to have DNA on record by the government, it will be required. Already, we are required to provide government agencies proof that we have certain things like Vaccinations and TB tests. When it becomes clear that certain gene traits lead to pedophelia then DNA scanning will take place... "for the children". Because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. The question is, how much "privacy" do you have when "saftey" is on the line (hint, Naked Scanners in the airports).
2) Socialism fails because it is based on "Rose tinted glasses". DNA has nothing to do with why socialism fails. DNA however, will be the goal of any totalitarian regime, as a means to control population via fear, i.e. "These people have the gene for _________ (any unwanted/subversive quality) and we need to control them... for their own good!" It doesn't even have to be accurate, as the current Obama rants on guns prove, just "scare the populace". Again just because it hasn't happened, doeesn't mean it won't.
Yes, the soap box has failed, ballot box has failed. Hell even leftwingers think the 2000 election was "stolen" by GWB. Keep in mind, I'm a Libertarian, so I am a bit jaded with current (R) vs (D) lame debates. As for Guns, name a totalitarian regime that hasn't banned guns, and I'll show you a regime quickly toppled. GUNS are the last resort, and when you remove the guns from the people, the government has all the guns, all those "Jack Booted Thugs" the OWS people are protesting against, will have all the power. Lastly, the reason why Democracy has worked here for the last 200 years is because our governemnt feared the populace. Germany 80 years ago, was swept up by a guy who banned guns on his way to totalitariansm, how well did that work out for Europe? And remember, it was us YANKS that had to rescue Europe from its own short sightedness.
If you give someone "private" information, it isn't private anymore. That is the nature of privacy and information. Once you tell somebody something you are at their mercy to keep it to themselves. If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone
Socialism requires government have this information. It is, IMHO, a violation of the Fourth Ammendment. But without a viable second ammendment, good luck protecting the rights enumerated under any of the others.
It isn't the fault of anyone. Identification is exactly that, itendification. To identify someone or something, we have to have identifiable information. That information HAS TO BE FREE in order for identification to work. Given enough information, it will always be easy to identify specific individuals with relative certanty. That is kind of the point of identification, isn't it?
There is no PRIVACY violation here. Also, privacy is an illusion. If you want privacy, go live off the grid in some cave all by yourself.
If you want to create a "crime" for this, how about creating a general statute that basically says, "any inappropriate use of identification of individuals, without their express concent, is illegal" and then define what constitutes "Inappropriate" separately in such a way that it creates clear guidelines that spans all forms of technology used to identify people.
In your stupid example, you forget or neglect to mention the Billionare is protected by the ruling class, via bribes and payouts and election contributions. It is just that you like that kind of billionare and not the other kind, the ones not supportive of Socialism. You can't over simplify a complex system and have it be representative.
Problem is, a petition with a signiture of 1 may be a completely valid petition, requiring a completely valid response, should it not be heard by those in power?
Likewise, a petition that garners the 300 million signitures may not be valid, and may not require a valid response (ie "nonsense"). Should this be heard by those in power?
There is no "right balance" that will not hide valid requests and yet not let nonsense through. The real question is, how to we decide what is valid and not valid in a petition of our government?
AND from what I've seen, this whole "petition" thing is only slightly more than a combination Joke machine and a way to let people voice their concerns while not ever addressing them. It isn't accomplishing anything other than noise. My Best example....
A pro-gun control petition submitted on Friday through the White House's "We the People" platform has quickly emerged as the most popular cause ever championed on the website.
And yet, they are still attempting to circumvent the 2nd Amendment on a daily basis.
IF you want to do gun control, REPEAL the 2nd Amendment properly. Problem is, the left wing loons know they can't so they ignore it.
I am more afraid of my fellow citizens driving than I am of them shooting me. Too many idiots txting, watching YouTube (yes I've seen it) on their phones while driving. Why don't we ban cars?
How about instead of having a database of lawful gun owners, we have a Free, Open and Searchable database of all people with mentally unstable, or have violent tendancies. It makes much more sense.
That was semi sarcastic, in that nobody is suggesting that anyone that has had a mental breakdown or violent episode be put in a national database. However I want to know why. All you liberal pantywaists can list your reason why THIS is not a good idea, but feel okay to register people who have no issues while not being hypocritical.
The states mentioned did things to religious people, often on trumped up charges or actual violation of state laws against certain religious activities. IT doesn't mean it wasn't sanctioned or didn't happen. Point of fact, Falun Gong of China are highly persecuted today, just because the nature of the religion is anti totalitarian state. Persecuted for religion... not exactly, but actual in practice.. yes .
what is the actual solution to the problem? the "I'm all out of sick days because I used them up fraudulently" problem? Because there is no solution because enough people with that problem start whining about how "unfair" and "racist" and "homophobic" or whatever is the hot button term for taking a rational discussion and turning into a debate about code words for "I'm a whiner and losing on the merits of my argument".
It is really bad and the left wing WAY over uses these "hot button terms" to the point where they are meaningless for normal people. Take for instance the ESPN commentator who blamed the "Tea Party" for the fact that nobody go elected to the hall of fame this year. WTF???. And worse, nobody called him on it.
17,000 deaths due to H1N1 (all time) is a lot of deaths. However more people die of Diabetes than Flu every year, yet we don't FORCE people to lose weight, while we DO force them to get injected with Mercury and other toxic chemicals.
Cough... "I"m not feeling well" happens to fall on first day of Duck Season (or big game day, or round of golf)
I get sick days, paid. But I know people that take all of their sick days for whatever reason and then when they DO get sick, don't have any and end up whining about not having enough sick days. Dude you went duck hunting (sick day) and got sick now that you're out of sick days... I have no sympathy.
On the other hand, don't get the flu, it sucks. And all those flu vaccines aren't helping.
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Taxing things we should be promoting, is counter productive, as it moves people from the things we ought to be promoting, to things that we should be avoiding. Taxing Income looks good on paper, but leads to income avoidance, or worse, reporting avoidance (grey and black markets).
You want to raise ALL the money you need? Tax "sin" (lack of better term): alcohol, cigarettes, prositution, porn etc. Hell, don't make guns illegal, just tax them and their projectiles.
All taxes are regressive, because the "rich" can avoid them where the poor and middle class cannot. But making taxes "voluntary" (taxing items, services not needed to survive) we could change our government funding process while decreasing activites and products we don't like (as a society), reducing the need for certain government programs.
The problem is, this reduces the "need" of government involvement and thus reduces the power given to politicians and bureaucrats.
What, in your opinion, is a crutch? Don't mention windows in your reply, use general terms. If you mention "windows" or subsititute any word for "Windows" I'll assume you can't define it apart from "windows", making your whole "Windows" usage as a crutch itself. I have a point IF you can define "Crutch" in generic terms.
Translation: "I am a VMWare jockey who juggles snapshot images as a replacement of package manager, backup, configuration management, intrusion detection, disaster recovery, ongoing maintenance, deployment, and everything else, because I don't know anything but Windows".
Translation: "I'm a snobby know-it-all jerk who thinks he can pinpoint exactly who someone is from a quick snippit/summary statement"
I manage or help manage 100+ servers across 20+ Campuses, including a full DR replecated site, and have proper backups, do proper configurations etc etc etc. They are a wide mix of Windows, Linux (my favorite) and BSD variants. I also do my share of desktop support. I didn't include those points in my original statement, because it wasn't needed. It still isn't needed to make my original point, I only make them now to show you how much of an ass you are. Not that you'll care or anything, most asses don't care, which is why they are asses in the first place.
The only Windows Tablets I've seen in the wild were used by Dell Geeks at a Dell Conference. That being said, I saw more Galaxy Notes and Nexus 7" (saw a number of Windows 8 Tablets). I can also report more issues seen with Win 8 Tablets than I saw with the other Tablets. Granted, this is all anecdotal evidence, but I am not going to get a Windows 8 Tablet anytime soon. I'd rather have an overpriced iPad ... and that is saying something.
Actually, most of the Enterprise stuff is going towards Blades and VMWare (or XEN or ...) as the Host OS. The Big Iron doesn't count towards Windows Licensing at all, and those are measured in Volume Licensing/CALs anyways.
Even if I'm installing only ONE server, I'm putting VMWARE between the OS and the hardware. Too many advantages to list here, but the top two are, Abstraction away from specific hardware, Backup (Snapshot). Makes recovery a breeze and as painless as your last snapshot.
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1) Socialism, reporting compliance to the authorities. The moment it becomes "beneficial" to have DNA on record by the government, it will be required. Already, we are required to provide government agencies proof that we have certain things like Vaccinations and TB tests. When it becomes clear that certain gene traits lead to pedophelia then DNA scanning will take place ... "for the children". Because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. The question is, how much "privacy" do you have when "saftey" is on the line (hint, Naked Scanners in the airports).
2) Socialism fails because it is based on "Rose tinted glasses". DNA has nothing to do with why socialism fails. DNA however, will be the goal of any totalitarian regime, as a means to control population via fear, i.e. "These people have the gene for _________ (any unwanted/subversive quality) and we need to control them ... for their own good!" It doesn't even have to be accurate, as the current Obama rants on guns prove, just "scare the populace". Again just because it hasn't happened, doeesn't mean it won't.
Yes, the soap box has failed, ballot box has failed. Hell even leftwingers think the 2000 election was "stolen" by GWB. Keep in mind, I'm a Libertarian, so I am a bit jaded with current (R) vs (D) lame debates. As for Guns, name a totalitarian regime that hasn't banned guns, and I'll show you a regime quickly toppled. GUNS are the last resort, and when you remove the guns from the people, the government has all the guns, all those "Jack Booted Thugs" the OWS people are protesting against, will have all the power. Lastly, the reason why Democracy has worked here for the last 200 years is because our governemnt feared the populace. Germany 80 years ago, was swept up by a guy who banned guns on his way to totalitariansm, how well did that work out for Europe? And remember, it was us YANKS that had to rescue Europe from its own short sightedness.
If you give someone "private" information, it isn't private anymore. That is the nature of privacy and information. Once you tell somebody something you are at their mercy to keep it to themselves. If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone
Socialism requires government have this information. It is, IMHO, a violation of the Fourth Ammendment. But without a viable second ammendment, good luck protecting the rights enumerated under any of the others.
Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Seatle ......
It isn't the fault of anyone. Identification is exactly that, itendification. To identify someone or something, we have to have identifiable information. That information HAS TO BE FREE in order for identification to work. Given enough information, it will always be easy to identify specific individuals with relative certanty. That is kind of the point of identification, isn't it?
There is no PRIVACY violation here. Also, privacy is an illusion. If you want privacy, go live off the grid in some cave all by yourself.
If you want to create a "crime" for this, how about creating a general statute that basically says, "any inappropriate use of identification of individuals, without their express concent, is illegal" and then define what constitutes "Inappropriate" separately in such a way that it creates clear guidelines that spans all forms of technology used to identify people.
Well, the RULING class will never ever be poor. Everyone else though ... (See Mexico, Venezuala, most other Third world socialist dictatrships)
In your stupid example, you forget or neglect to mention the Billionare is protected by the ruling class, via bribes and payouts and election contributions. It is just that you like that kind of billionare and not the other kind, the ones not supportive of Socialism. You can't over simplify a complex system and have it be representative.
No, he's right. Some people love Classless societies where everyone is poor. Part of the whole Nobility of Poverty naivete
Problem is, a petition with a signiture of 1 may be a completely valid petition, requiring a completely valid response, should it not be heard by those in power?
Likewise, a petition that garners the 300 million signitures may not be valid, and may not require a valid response (ie "nonsense"). Should this be heard by those in power?
There is no "right balance" that will not hide valid requests and yet not let nonsense through. The real question is, how to we decide what is valid and not valid in a petition of our government?
AND from what I've seen, this whole "petition" thing is only slightly more than a combination Joke machine and a way to let people voice their concerns while not ever addressing them. It isn't accomplishing anything other than noise. My Best example ....
A pro-gun control petition submitted on Friday through the White House's "We the People" platform has quickly emerged as the most popular cause ever championed on the website.
And yet, they are still attempting to circumvent the 2nd Amendment on a daily basis.
IF you want to do gun control, REPEAL the 2nd Amendment properly. Problem is, the left wing loons know they can't so they ignore it.
I am more afraid of my fellow citizens driving than I am of them shooting me. Too many idiots txting, watching YouTube (yes I've seen it) on their phones while driving. Why don't we ban cars?
How about instead of having a database of lawful gun owners, we have a Free, Open and Searchable database of all people with mentally unstable, or have violent tendancies. It makes much more sense.
That was semi sarcastic, in that nobody is suggesting that anyone that has had a mental breakdown or violent episode be put in a national database. However I want to know why. All you liberal pantywaists can list your reason why THIS is not a good idea, but feel okay to register people who have no issues while not being hypocritical.
The states mentioned did things to religious people, often on trumped up charges or actual violation of state laws against certain religious activities. IT doesn't mean it wasn't sanctioned or didn't happen. Point of fact, Falun Gong of China are highly persecuted today, just because the nature of the religion is anti totalitarian state. Persecuted for religion ... not exactly, but actual in practice .. yes .
A = B
B= C
You can't be for A and against C.
It is the left that is a softy to a good sob story.
what is the actual solution to the problem? the "I'm all out of sick days because I used them up fraudulently" problem? Because there is no solution because enough people with that problem start whining about how "unfair" and "racist" and "homophobic" or whatever is the hot button term for taking a rational discussion and turning into a debate about code words for "I'm a whiner and losing on the merits of my argument".
It is really bad and the left wing WAY over uses these "hot button terms" to the point where they are meaningless for normal people. Take for instance the ESPN commentator who blamed the "Tea Party" for the fact that nobody go elected to the hall of fame this year. WTF???. And worse, nobody called him on it.
So, if that were the case, the Atheism would be guilty of all the crimes committed by atheists in the name of atheism ... right?
Because no true atheist would kill is the reply I usually get, which is the same response you'll get from BenJaminus, right?
The question is, are the millions killed by atheists (USSR, PRoC, etc) outliers as much as Raping priests and the WBC are to Xians.
And for the record, I am not Xian.
17,000 deaths due to H1N1 (all time) is a lot of deaths. However more people die of Diabetes than Flu every year, yet we don't FORCE people to lose weight, while we DO force them to get injected with Mercury and other toxic chemicals.
Cough ... "I"m not feeling well" happens to fall on first day of Duck Season (or big game day, or round of golf)
I get sick days, paid. But I know people that take all of their sick days for whatever reason and then when they DO get sick, don't have any and end up whining about not having enough sick days. Dude you went duck hunting (sick day) and got sick now that you're out of sick days ... I have no sympathy.
On the other hand, don't get the flu, it sucks. And all those flu vaccines aren't helping.
http://prn.fm/2013/01/08/gary-null-flu-vaccine/#axzz2HWMRMGv4
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