Near the bottom see: Total Tax Liability $40.4M Just above see: Excess earned income credit (refundable): $34.2M
See footnotes 2c and 2d:... includes both the refundable and non-refundable portions. The non-refundable portion could reduce income tax and certain related taxes to zero; credit amounts in excess of tax, or amounts when there was no tax liability at all, were refundable.
Do realize that there is no EIC refund unless tax liability has been reduced to zero.
So, 68.5M returns filed in 2003 with AGI less than $30K They paid, assuming 100%, $40.4M, on average a tax rate of $590 per return. However, out of that 68.5M returns filed, there were 18.5M that got EIC refunds amounting to $34.2M
If you really think that the "safety net" is going to expand and stay that way.
Unless you are planning to retire in the next 10-15 years, you can count on diddly from SS. Medi* programs as well. These gov programs are already nearly bankrupt. The situation will worsen in the future. Everyone with a bit of financial and/or demographic sense knows it. Only after the majority of the voters in the US know it will anything be done and by then it will be too late.
Since you left your parents' house, when has your health been anyone's responsibility but yours? 60 years ago there was no health coverage supplied by employers, nor any provided by the gov. In no way has any business foisted any such load on individuals, rather a generation has had a relatively easy ride based on the hard work of their ancestors.
Expect all you want, but you can count on being hungry in the future if that is all you do.
The "poorest" as defined by the gov, get back all that was witheld, except SS and Medi* which of course should not be considered taxes, rather they are the gov. pension plan and health plan, and some do get back SS checks and "free" health care.
In addition to the actual refund of all witheld funds, they can get more. Then throw in food stamps and other subsidies...
Face it, income redistribution is alive and well in the USA.
Ever bother to ask why they have to hold down two jobs to feed their family? Why can't they get one good job? Even if they have a "good" job, why are they still living check-to-check?
In this country(USA), all of these boil down to personal choices. Yes, they chose to drop out of school. Yes, they chose to have sex when they couldn't afford it. Yes, they chose to buy fancy wheels for their otherwise beat up car rather than save for the future(any future, their own, their kids', any).
The list goes on and except for a very special few who were born with personal disadvantages that really do prevent them from competing with the average Joe, these are the reasons why the poor are poor. THE base reason why the poor are poor is because they have made poor choices.
I have seen those that were not poor become poor because of poor choices. The most common choice of these I have seen is choosing to consume cocaine. What a waste.
Yes, there are those that start poor because their parents are poor, but that is no excuse for staying poor. I have seen poor become not poor, myself and others, by doing nothing more than basically wising up.
I'm not marginalizing anyone's life. I'm just minding my own business. If more would do just that, there would be fewer poor. If you didn't get it, think about it for a moment.
There are a few simple rules to guide your choices in your life, listed in my particular order:
1) In all choices, consider your future.
The rest stem from the first.
2) Be literate, basic reading and arithmetic/algebraic skills are required.
3) Don't have kids until you can afford them.
That's about it. Yes, it is personal responsibility 101.
AKA Gun Tests magazine. It is simple plain white paper with BW photos, no ads. It is the only publication I know where the reviewers will actually say something like "This gun sucks. Not only does it not shoot straight, sometimes it won't shoot at all. Don't buy it".
I wish I knew of an equivalent subscriber supported rag for cars, audio-video, etc...
Only other thing I can think of that approached this level of gall was S&E with their now legendary thumbs up or down movie reviews.
As far as the rep of the editors at/. goes, we all know where they stand. While suffering the same lack of any mystical "journalistic integrity' as most other news pubs, at least they are transparent and they do publish ALL the "letters to the editor" AKA the junk we write.
On the same topic, I've seen no mention of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" either. I think that a 15yo should be able to handle either. They'd at least spark some thought and discussion.
I *run* Linux because I want to run Linux. I *use* Linux because I want to use Linux. I don't advocate Linux unless someone asks me. I don't bash WinXX unless someone asks me.
I *bash* WinXX because people are always calling me asking: "Can you fix this?" "I've got a problem with my computer..." "My PC crashed..." "I opened this email and now my PC is so slow..." "My Internet is..." "I can't..."
So, while fixing, or more frequently of late telling them to get someone else to fix it, I bash. If they ask for advice, then I advocate.
So far, I have seen two 100% converts thanks to live/demo CDs and application maturity. Both are happy and don't *ever* call to tell me their PCs are broken anymore.
Even the various organic compounds from which we derive gasoline, heating oil, etc. are just stored solar energy. In this respect, they are the same as H, just a transmission medium.
So...to convert sea water to H2 + O you still have to capture the solar, or go nuclear for the energy source. You could just capture the solar and charge the batteries of your electric car. Save excesses to H2 for night time or cloudy days.
...an unsigned group makes a smash hit and a few million bucks on tour after releasing their stuff online. No promo required except word of mouth, blog, etc. It will happen.
Then no one will sign up with the record corps anymore.
When will the first i-only true hit song or album happen?
FM will die unless the music biz is *really* transformed to a point where bands license to corps that license groups of tunes to radio stations. Otherwise, FM stations will never get to play any new tunes anymore. This is no biggie since everyone will have their x-pod plugged into their ears anyway...
The GPL is more than a license. It is a method, a process. It also imposes discipline. The people that write GPLed code do so very carefully. If not, their code ends up in the great bit bucket in the sky; discarded by everyone else because it is sloppy, buggy, slow, whatever.
If there was no GPL, Linux would be chock full of bugs, security holes, memory leaks, module and library incompatibilities, and who knows what else. Sure there would be more device drivers, commercial games, innovations(?) and so forth, but would that make Linux better?
I say no, it would only make Linux different. More importantly, it would not make Linux better than its current competitors. To put it bluntly, unless I am paid to do so, I don't use M$ products anymore. They are just too much trouble. The last time I had a dual boot box was with a copy of 2K. It's gone. I don't even know where the CD is. Already I have told friends and family members that have come to me for help because their win98/2K/XP box is hosed to seek help elsewhere as I am no longer up to date on M$ products and their troubles.
Linux IS better than its competitors today. The marketdroids can argue all they want about TCO and other trivia. The fact is that Linux is gaining because more and more people are finding out that not only is it better, it is also better by enough of a margin to be worth the trouble(cost) of changing over.
Since it appears we can speak the same language, I'll admit that I had just finished reading about high energy cosmic rays. I still had the thoughts, but failed to bring enough of the context over.
A fairly large part of physics and cosmology is mind blowing. That is why it is so interesting, at least to me. Forget quantum oddness, just consider some of the numbers. Try to get a real grip on things like 10^19 eV. The universe is truly, literally, awe inspiring.
With radio we already have much more sophisticated modulation methods. Most "light band" modulation today is basically an automated, binary version of Morse Code, still effectively in the Stone Age. We are currently just barely able to "tune" a light transmitter and receiver. DWDM is nowhere near the spectral density of current radio technology. We cannot do anything with light approaching phase shift modulation, spread spectrum techniques, code division muxing, hell even plain old FM in the "light band" is currently out of reach. While lasers could be compared to classic PLLs, currently they are not even close to being as useful in frequency modulation and demodulation applications.
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I don't mind the grammar police. Education and diligence are both good things. I have been a volunteer GP myself. I thought it funny that you were surprised by 'redundant' since you certainly are not the first to point out poor sentence structure on/.!
Onward!
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I use a mnemonic , usually a shape. As in, my yahoo mail password is shaped like a "Y", Amazon is an "A", etc. That is usually enough to trigger the rest from memory. Work is a "W". Since they do have a password expiration policy, I just walk the "W" around the keyboard since there are dozens of variations possible.
There are two extremes, absolutes if you will, "everyone" and "no one". Very, very rarely does either apply in reality. Only by repeated application of hyperbole does this kind of expression come to be tolerated when it is almost always simply not true.
With very little effort a wide range of other possibilities come to mind. Try "many", "some", "most", "a majority of". All of these not only relieve a few of us from "preaching" but are actually closer to the facts of the situation. There is simply no reason to choose the wrong and in this case simply inflammatory words unless you are flamebaiting/trolling.
As you noted previously, ignorance and racism walk together. Bigotry will keep the ignorant ignorant. If he doesn't want to learn, it doesn't matter who or how many try to teach.
He quotes statistics as if they are supreme in support of his position without regard for the statistical fact that there are more poor white people in America than poor blacks. Liberals do like statistics, they group people into easily labeled groups, *races*, and *classes* where they can be stereotyped. They would much rather incite a mob into action rather than offer individuals true opportunity and personal responsibility.
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But they're not crimes. Perhaps they should be.
IT security shops make billions each year.
So do body shops.
So do insurance companies.
Get over it.
You posted a broken link. See this:
... includes both the refundable and non-refundable portions. The non-refundable portion could reduce income tax and certain related taxes to zero; credit amounts in excess of tax, or amounts when there was no tax liability at all, were refundable.
Individual Income and Tax Data 2003
and look into column C, under 30,000.
Near the bottom see: Total Tax Liability $40.4M
Just above see: Excess earned income credit (refundable): $34.2M
See footnotes 2c and 2d:
Do realize that there is no EIC refund unless tax liability has been reduced to zero.
So, 68.5M returns filed in 2003 with AGI less than $30K
They paid, assuming 100%, $40.4M, on average a tax rate of $590 per return.
However, out of that 68.5M returns filed, there were 18.5M that got EIC refunds amounting to $34.2M
Go ahead, revise your position.
If you really think that the "safety net" is going to expand and stay that way.
Unless you are planning to retire in the next 10-15 years, you can count on diddly from SS. Medi* programs as well. These gov programs are already nearly bankrupt. The situation will worsen in the future. Everyone with a bit of financial and/or demographic sense knows it. Only after the majority of the voters in the US know it will anything be done and by then it will be too late.
Since you left your parents' house, when has your health been anyone's responsibility but yours? 60 years ago there was no health coverage supplied by employers, nor any provided by the gov. In no way has any business foisted any such load on individuals, rather a generation has had a relatively easy ride based on the hard work of their ancestors.
Expect all you want, but you can count on being hungry in the future if that is all you do.
Lookup "Earned Income Credit".
The "poorest" as defined by the gov, get back all that was witheld, except SS and Medi* which of course should not be considered taxes, rather they are the gov. pension plan and health plan, and some do get back SS checks and "free" health care.
In addition to the actual refund of all witheld funds, they can get more. Then throw in food stamps and other subsidies...
Face it, income redistribution is alive and well in the USA.
Ever bother to ask why they have to hold down two jobs to feed their family?
Why can't they get one good job?
Even if they have a "good" job, why are they still living check-to-check?
In this country(USA), all of these boil down to personal choices.
Yes, they chose to drop out of school.
Yes, they chose to have sex when they couldn't afford it.
Yes, they chose to buy fancy wheels for their otherwise beat up car rather than save for the future(any future, their own, their kids', any).
The list goes on and except for a very special few who were born with personal disadvantages that really do prevent them from competing with the average Joe, these are the reasons why the poor are poor. THE base reason why the poor are poor is because they have made poor choices.
I have seen those that were not poor become poor because of poor choices. The most common choice of these I have seen is choosing to consume cocaine. What a waste.
Yes, there are those that start poor because their parents are poor, but that is no excuse for staying poor. I have seen poor become not poor, myself and others, by doing nothing more than basically wising up.
I'm not marginalizing anyone's life. I'm just minding my own business. If more would do just that, there would be fewer poor. If you didn't get it, think about it for a moment.
There are a few simple rules to guide your choices in your life, listed in my particular order:
1) In all choices, consider your future.
The rest stem from the first.
2) Be literate, basic reading and arithmetic/algebraic skills are required.
3) Don't have kids until you can afford them.
That's about it. Yes, it is personal responsibility 101.
And am currently enjoying Ruby.
AKA Gun Tests magazine. It is simple plain white paper with BW photos, no ads. It is the only publication I know where the reviewers will actually say something like "This gun sucks. Not only does it not shoot straight, sometimes it won't shoot at all. Don't buy it".
/. goes, we all know where they stand. While suffering the same lack of any mystical "journalistic integrity' as most other news pubs, at least they are transparent and they do publish ALL the "letters to the editor" AKA the junk we write.
I wish I knew of an equivalent subscriber supported rag for cars, audio-video, etc...
Only other thing I can think of that approached this level of gall was S&E with their now legendary thumbs up or down movie reviews.
As far as the rep of the editors at
And making it law is what they are trying to do.
On the same topic, I've seen no mention of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" either. I think that a 15yo should be able to handle either. They'd at least spark some thought and discussion.
If you are looking for female protagonists, why hasn't anyone mentioned "Friday"?
I *run* Linux because I want to run Linux.
..."
I *use* Linux because I want to use Linux.
I don't advocate Linux unless someone asks me.
I don't bash WinXX unless someone asks me.
I *bash* WinXX because people are always calling me asking: "Can you fix this?" "I've got a problem with my computer..." "My PC crashed..." "I opened this email and now my PC is so slow..." "My Internet is..." "I can't
So, while fixing, or more frequently of late telling them to get someone else to fix it, I bash. If they ask for advice, then I advocate.
So far, I have seen two 100% converts thanks to live/demo CDs and application maturity. Both are happy and don't *ever* call to tell me their PCs are broken anymore.
'Nuff said, just do it!
... sources, either fission or fusion.
Even the various organic compounds from which we derive gasoline, heating oil, etc. are just stored solar energy. In this respect, they are the same as H, just a transmission medium.
So...to convert sea water to H2 + O you still have to capture the solar, or go nuclear for the energy source. You could just capture the solar and charge the batteries of your electric car. Save excesses to H2 for night time or cloudy days.
What about my sunglasses? Do I have to take my shades off to make a call?
Or...Do I have to put them on, even in the dark?
Can I make a call using just the screen backlight?
...an unsigned group makes a smash hit and a few million bucks on tour after releasing their stuff online. No promo required except word of mouth, blog, etc. It will happen.
Then no one will sign up with the record corps anymore.
When will the first i-only true hit song or album happen?
FM will die unless the music biz is *really* transformed to a point where bands license to corps that license groups of tunes to radio stations. Otherwise, FM stations will never get to play any new tunes anymore. This is no biggie since everyone will have their x-pod plugged into their ears anyway...
The GPL is more than a license. It is a method, a process. It also imposes discipline. The people that write GPLed code do so very carefully. If not, their code ends up in the great bit bucket in the sky; discarded by everyone else because it is sloppy, buggy, slow, whatever.
If there was no GPL, Linux would be chock full of bugs, security holes, memory leaks, module and library incompatibilities, and who knows what else. Sure there would be more device drivers, commercial games, innovations(?) and so forth, but would that make Linux better?
I say no, it would only make Linux different. More importantly, it would not make Linux better than its current competitors. To put it bluntly, unless I am paid to do so, I don't use M$ products anymore. They are just too much trouble. The last time I had a dual boot box was with a copy of 2K. It's gone. I don't even know where the CD is. Already I have told friends and family members that have come to me for help because their win98/2K/XP box is hosed to seek help elsewhere as I am no longer up to date on M$ products and their troubles.
Linux IS better than its competitors today. The marketdroids can argue all they want about TCO and other trivia. The fact is that Linux is gaining because more and more people are finding out that not only is it better, it is also better by enough of a margin to be worth the trouble(cost) of changing over.
You pulled the thoughts right out of my head.
Busy keeping things hot and cold?
Since it appears we can speak the same language, I'll admit that I had just finished reading about high energy cosmic rays. I still had the thoughts, but failed to bring enough of the context over.
For more, see this pair of books.
Mind boggling.
A fairly large part of physics and cosmology is mind blowing. That is why it is so interesting, at least to me. Forget quantum oddness, just consider some of the numbers. Try to get a real grip on things like 10^19 eV. The universe is truly, literally, awe inspiring.
With radio we already have much more sophisticated modulation methods. Most "light band" modulation today is basically an automated, binary version of Morse Code, still effectively in the Stone Age. We are currently just barely able to "tune" a light transmitter and receiver. DWDM is nowhere near the spectral density of current radio technology. We cannot do anything with light approaching phase shift modulation, spread spectrum techniques, code division muxing, hell even plain old FM in the "light band" is currently out of reach. While lasers could be compared to classic PLLs, currently they are not even close to being as useful in frequency modulation and demodulation applications.
I don't mind the grammar police. Education and diligence are both good things. I have been a volunteer GP myself. I thought it funny that you were surprised by 'redundant' since you certainly are not the first to point out poor sentence structure on /.!
Onward!
Think a moment....
Rechargeable or not, folks will have exhausted whatever flashlight batteries they still have.
I use a mnemonic , usually a shape. As in, my yahoo mail password is shaped like a "Y", Amazon is an "A", etc. That is usually enough to trigger the rest from memory. Work is a "W". Since they do have a password expiration policy, I just walk the "W" around the keyboard since there are dozens of variations possible.
Or in this case write.
There are two extremes, absolutes if you will, "everyone" and "no one". Very, very rarely does either apply in reality. Only by repeated application of hyperbole does this kind of expression come to be tolerated when it is almost always simply not true.
With very little effort a wide range of other possibilities come to mind. Try "many", "some", "most", "a majority of". All of these not only relieve a few of us from "preaching" but are actually closer to the facts of the situation. There is simply no reason to choose the wrong and in this case simply inflammatory words unless you are flamebaiting/trolling.
That is all...
As you noted previously, ignorance and racism walk together. Bigotry will keep the ignorant ignorant. If he doesn't want to learn, it doesn't matter who or how many try to teach.
He quotes statistics as if they are supreme in support of his position without regard for the statistical fact that there are more poor white people in America than poor blacks. Liberals do like statistics, they group people into easily labeled groups, *races*, and *classes* where they can be stereotyped. They would much rather incite a mob into action rather than offer individuals true opportunity and personal responsibility.