They are not coding against a moving target but a known entity i.e. XP. So I don't see why this project shouldn't eventually grow out of Beta. Attract more developers and that'll happen all the sooner.
I have two old educational Windows programs for my kids that no longer work on Win 7. I have an old XP machine for them but it bugs me that XP is no longer supported and vulnerabilities won't be fixed. React OS would make for a good alternative.
You are aware that China has a history of enforcing a one child per family policy?
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No, I didn't mean "4Chan" in my subject line but "Change"
(Slashdot: Why do you let me enter the last characters in the subject line if they are then truncated!)
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Despite the media blackout on this issue the Internet publicity mobilized massive reactions to this awful bill.It of course didn't hurt to have some powerful corporate allies like Google and Microsoft.
Just as the later know how to cooperate when their shared interests are threatened, SOPA was fought as much by Progressives as Ron Paul style Libertarians.
If this was a sign to come, and these two grass root powers were to learn to join ranks on other issues that they agree on (i.e. civil liberties, military interventionism, legalizing pot) I'd feel much more optimistic about America's future.
Past a certain point, why would I continue to work if I can't do the best by my children?
Man, your life must suck if your hate your line of work that much. Some people actually enjoy what they are doing. My parents are way past their seventies but they still practice medicine because that's what they love to do.
The 1% do the most important work by the standards of our society; even those that don't do any work.
I am really trying hard to parse this sentence. So even those 1%ers who don't work do the most important work? Sorry, you lost me.
It's called "insurance" for a reason. Again you display a very strange view on reality. The German unemployment rate just hit a record low of 6.6% (and our rate is real - we don't have people drop from the list like the US when the benefits run out).
On the other hand our welfare state goes back half a century. Obviously its parameters have to be tweaked constantly but it in the long run it has not hurt us a bit (despite us having to absorb East Germany in between). Nor has it hurt the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, etc.
It always amuses me how "Socialist" Europe is talked down in the US. Frankly it delivered quite nicely.
The current Euro woes are inherently uncorrelated, and very much predicted, as a currency without a common budget can not really work. In a sense this was by design, to create economic facts that'll force tighter integration.
If you wait to have history prove you right you are in for a very long wait. But at least you can die without ever having to reconsider your preconceived notions.
Sorry, you may not realize it but you are a "No government man".
Having been born and raised in Germany I have the reasonable expectation that the government will help in case of personal emergency. That's what social insurance programs are for.
For instance my kids don't need excessive amounts of dollars so that they could financially survive a medical crisis because the public health insurance will cover that.
In a reasonably designed welfare state $5 millions will keep you perfectly safe and sound and you can work on your cello or book writing career. Although I'd still suggest you won't be happy if nobody wants to listen to your music or read your books.
I have absolutely no problem with wealthy philanthropists deciding themselves what's the best way to give back to society - all the more power to them.
The point is not the estate tax but prevention of dynasty building, because contrary to you assertion it has been pretty conclusively shown that trickle down economics is not accomplishing this (once an estate is large enough that a small share of the interest allows for a lavish life style the wealth accumulation persists).
I should probably also mention that both Gates and Buffet have been arguing for a fairer i.e. higher taxes on the super rich.
BTW it is the government that institutes an guarantees contractual laws and property rights, without which a market economy and merit based wealth accumulation cannot happen.
As a father I really expect my kids to earn their own way. Frankly, if you think you need to give your kids more than $5 millions so that they'll be a success in life, than you really failed parenting school big time.
"Tocqueville explicitly cites inequality as being incentive for poor to become rich, and notes that it is not often two generations within a family maintain success, and that it is inheritance laws that split and eventually break apart someone's estate that cause a constant cycle of churn between the poor and rich, thereby over generations making the poor rich and rich poor. He cites protective laws in France at the time that protected an estate from being split apart amongst heirs, thereby preserving wealth and preventing a churn of wealth such as was perceived by him in 1835 within the United States of America."
He correctly describes the purpose of estate taxes to keep a society dynamic and to reinforce economic mobility.
BTW Tocqueville was an aristocrat and perfectly OK with the accumulation of wealth over generations.
As for the fairness argument: You do business in a society that protects your freedom, business interests and allows you to acquire wealth. After your death I find it perfectly acceptable that this society reclaims a large portion of the accumulated wealth to be used for the common good.
To get back to the existing caps: If $5 millions are not sufficient for your offspring to get a good start in life that you've been one lousy parent.
Look, I was born and raised in what you probably consider "Socialist" Germany, even there large inheritances are not completely taxed -and neither are they in the states.
Your death tax rant is very much a straw man argument, I am sorry but you are not entitled to your own facts:
The disenchantment at the blogs I linked to very much extends to the entire Democratic establishment.
Although I certainly would fall into that political spectrum if I were American I think I should point out that you are misaddressing me somewhat.
I live in Canada and have been born and raised in Germany. I lived in the US and are married to an American. I peruse these liberal blogs to keep abreast of US politics.
The Obama critical sentiments expressed at my favourite blogs pretty much conforms to what I hear from my liberal friends and extended family that I have in the states.
I think if Ron Paul ran as an independent he might be able to garner some votes from these disenfranchised liberals.
Large software "solutions" provider, Oracle, SAP, Information Builders etc. need pre-sales consultants, that code up demos and tailored business cases on top of their software stack. Going for this kind of job ties your resume together and seniority can be spun as an advantage when addressing C-level customers.
Fast paced, continuous learning and some travel required but typically very well paid.
If a car's driver doesn't stop after being blinded you have far more reason to engage with lethal force.
A husband driving his pregnant wife to hospital will presumably stop (at least twice pregnant women have been shot up at these check points).
As to why they did not neatly set them up with gates and traffic cones I can only speculate. At any rate being temporarily blinded by a laser beats being shot up any day.
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Up here in Ontario Canada, teachers earn a good salary with excellent benefits and are required to be highly qualified.
The results speak for themselves.
Well, according to the screenshot you can actually run quite some useful programs (Firefox, Abiword etc.).
They are not coding against a moving target but a known entity i.e. XP. So I don't see why this project shouldn't eventually grow out of Beta. Attract more developers and that'll happen all the sooner.
I have two old educational Windows programs for my kids that no longer work on Win 7. I have an old XP machine for them but it bugs me that XP is no longer supported and vulnerabilities won't be fixed. React OS would make for a good alternative.
There is lots of legacy software out there that has never been ported to newer versions of Windows.
It is very myopic to declare this project has no value simply because you cannot think of a good reason.
Seriously? Internet Cafe? That's so quaint how Homeland Security is stuck in the lingo of 1999.
... time to submit all my exciting Nostradamus prediction stories and how it ties in with the world ending in 2012.
C'mon editors! This is what is now considered front page material?
You are aware that China has a history of enforcing a one child per family policy?
No, I didn't mean "4Chan" in my subject line but "Change"
(Slashdot: Why do you let me enter the last characters in the subject line if they are then truncated!)
Despite the media blackout on this issue the Internet publicity mobilized massive reactions to this awful bill.It of course didn't hurt to have some powerful corporate allies like Google and Microsoft.
Just as the later know how to cooperate when their shared interests are threatened, SOPA was fought as much by Progressives as Ron Paul style Libertarians.
If this was a sign to come, and these two grass root powers were to learn to join ranks on other issues that they agree on (i.e. civil liberties, military interventionism, legalizing pot) I'd feel much more optimistic about America's future.
Past a certain point, why would I continue to work if I can't do the best by my children?
Man, your life must suck if your hate your line of work that much. Some people actually enjoy what they are doing. My parents are way past their seventies but they still practice medicine because that's what they love to do.
The 1% do the most important work by the standards of our society; even those that don't do any work.
I am really trying hard to parse this sentence. So even those 1%ers who don't work do the most important work? Sorry, you lost me.
It's called "insurance" for a reason. Again you display a very strange view on reality. The German unemployment rate just hit a record low of 6.6% (and our rate is real - we don't have people drop from the list like the US when the benefits run out).
Also productivity increase in Germany was the best of all G7 countries in the last decade.
On the other hand our welfare state goes back half a century. Obviously its parameters have to be tweaked constantly but it in the long run it has not hurt us a bit (despite us having to absorb East Germany in between). Nor has it hurt the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, etc.
It always amuses me how "Socialist" Europe is talked down in the US. Frankly it delivered quite nicely.
The current Euro woes are inherently uncorrelated, and very much predicted, as a currency without a common budget can not really work. In a sense this was by design, to create economic facts that'll force tighter integration.
If you wait to have history prove you right you are in for a very long wait. But at least you can die without ever having to reconsider your preconceived notions.
Sorry, you may not realize it but you are a "No government man".
Having been born and raised in Germany I have the reasonable expectation that the government will help in case of personal emergency. That's what social insurance programs are for.
For instance my kids don't need excessive amounts of dollars so that they could financially survive a medical crisis because the public health insurance will cover that.
In a reasonably designed welfare state $5 millions will keep you perfectly safe and sound and you can work on your cello or book writing career. Although I'd still suggest you won't be happy if nobody wants to listen to your music or read your books.
I have absolutely no problem with wealthy philanthropists deciding themselves what's the best way to give back to society - all the more power to them.
The point is not the estate tax but prevention of dynasty building, because contrary to you assertion it has been pretty conclusively shown that trickle down economics is not accomplishing this (once an estate is large enough that a small share of the interest allows for a lavish life style the wealth accumulation persists).
I should probably also mention that both Gates and Buffet have been arguing for a fairer i.e. higher taxes on the super rich.
So government is all about giving money to "lowlife shitbags"? You have a curious grasp of what the US budget is made of.
http://www.federalbudget.com/
BTW it is the government that institutes an guarantees contractual laws and property rights, without which a market economy and merit based wealth accumulation cannot happen.
As a father I really expect my kids to earn their own way. Frankly, if you think you need to give your kids more than $5 millions so that they'll be a success in life, than you really failed parenting school big time.
What's wrong with inherited wealth?
Inherited Wealth.
If you don't understand that this leads to feudalism you should do some classic sociological reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America
To quote:
"Tocqueville explicitly cites inequality as being incentive for poor to become rich, and notes that it is not often two generations within a family maintain success, and that it is inheritance laws that split and eventually break apart someone's estate that cause a constant cycle of churn between the poor and rich, thereby over generations making the poor rich and rich poor. He cites protective laws in France at the time that protected an estate from being split apart amongst heirs, thereby preserving wealth and preventing a churn of wealth such as was perceived by him in 1835 within the United States of America."
He correctly describes the purpose of estate taxes to keep a society dynamic and to reinforce economic mobility.
BTW Tocqueville was an aristocrat and perfectly OK with the accumulation of wealth over generations.
As for the fairness argument: You do business in a society that protects your freedom, business interests and allows you to acquire wealth. After your death I find it perfectly acceptable that this society reclaims a large portion of the accumulated wealth to be used for the common good.
To get back to the existing caps: If $5 millions are not sufficient for your offspring to get a good start in life that you've been one lousy parent.
Look, I was born and raised in what you probably consider "Socialist" Germany, even there large inheritances are not completely taxed -and neither are they in the states.
Your death tax rant is very much a straw man argument, I am sorry but you are not entitled to your own facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States
Tax free up to $5 millions and then the tax rate doesn't go above 55%.
Cry me a river.
I might add especially the 1%ers who inherited their wealth.
If everybody started from a level playing field the wealth disparity would be much easier to tolerate.
The way it is, the US turns into a neo-feudal society.
... their video didn't sound and look like a cheap infomercial straight out of the eighties.
The disenchantment at the blogs I linked to very much extends to the entire Democratic establishment.
Although I certainly would fall into that political spectrum if I were American I think I should point out that you are misaddressing me somewhat.
I live in Canada and have been born and raised in Germany. I lived in the US and are married to an American. I peruse these liberal blogs to keep abreast of US politics.
The Obama critical sentiments expressed at my favourite blogs pretty much conforms to what I hear from my liberal friends and extended family that I have in the states.
I think if Ron Paul ran as an independent he might be able to garner some votes from these disenfranchised liberals.
These liberal blogs that I am following have been very critical of Obama:
http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/
http://www.americablog.com/
http://agonist.org/
http://crooksandliars.com/
http://www.juancole.com/
Dailykos mission is too elect Democrats. They are more partisan than the progressive blogoshpere at large.
Large software "solutions" provider, Oracle, SAP, Information Builders etc. need pre-sales consultants, that code up demos and tailored business cases on top of their software stack. Going for this kind of job ties your resume together and seniority can be spun as an advantage when addressing C-level customers.
Fast paced, continuous learning and some travel required but typically very well paid.
Burning books is sooo last century.
If a car's driver doesn't stop after being blinded you have far more reason to engage with lethal force.
A husband driving his pregnant wife to hospital will presumably stop (at least twice pregnant women have been shot up at these check points).
As to why they did not neatly set them up with gates and traffic cones I can only speculate. At any rate being temporarily blinded by a laser beats being shot up any day.
One of the most depressing aspects of the Iraq war was the large number of civilian drivers that were fatally shot at check-points.
Nope, not a native speaker. Shocking, isn't.