Remove tax deduction for non profit.
Charge non profit taxes.
I assume you are referring to "for profit" businesses who claim to not be making a profit. I would hate to think that your solution to the mess with large corporations avoiding taxes can be fixed by taxing non profit businesses.
We should have a system based on what you spend not what you earn. Combine that with proper trade tariffs and the corps will be paying their taxes or they wont be doing business in America.
I have a prepay net10 phone that I bought two years ago. I might pay $20 a month putting minutes on it (admittedly I don't use it a whole lot). It is a phone and almost nothing more. It is rock solid as a phone, and it gets great reception. The battery still holds a charge that last for about two days between charges. The thing that I really like about it is the lack of a contract (no money, no problem -- buy more minutes when you have money).
Having written web sites I am irritated by these small screen browsers that "interpret" what the site should look like. I prefer to load a style sheet for narrow screens that make the site usable for smaller screens and still gives me some control over how the site looks. For example my churches web site (a work in progress) that tries to collapse gracefully for the small screen device.
You know I have had great success in the past with bacula. I think it still uses rsync for the actual transfer of files across the network. It maximizes disk space on the backup server by only storing one copy of any file. I am not entirly sure how it does it, but you can provide network backup for 50+ clients (this was my use case) with disk space of only about twice that of a single client assuming all your clients are running the same os.
You mean like dogs can mate with wolves and foxes and create perfectly normal offspring? Or the way lions can mate with tigers? I thought at this point the notion that speciesization involved an inability to crossbreed with nearby branches and produced "normal", often fertile, offspring was passe'.
Or, perhaps, our understanding of what constitutes speciation is wrong.
That is why there are always new versions of standards: HMTL, HTML2, HTML3, xhtml, HTML4, HTML5
What a great example of how a standard that has 0 royalty fees and is not patented can truly benefit the whole human race. It would be hard to imagine what the web would be like today if you had to pay a fee to create HTML code. It would basically block the poor from making a web site. Should the barrier of entry to just view the web have to include the cost of a windows licence or worse a mac?
I know you are not the one to mention this, but there have been several who have commented along these lines of thought. This only affects the Linux users who do not want to pay for their software. I thought that companies like Microsoft and such complain about piracy. Linux and other free OSs are the ONLY alternative that the poor have to remain legal on their pieced together computers. I speak from personal experience after building my first computer from parts given to me I wouldn't have been able to use it legally with out the copy of turbo linux to put on it.
Software patents are nothing more than a tool used by large corporations to stifle competition. Building a standard like HTML5 around patented software only serves those who own the patents.
On a side note, I sometimes miss the days when Linux didn't just work. I enjoyed spending time learning about my computer by having to add device nodes and such. I also miss the days when xfce actually resembled cde.
... that they finally found a place were they can live their lives in peace. It may be an invented illness but it is obviously affecting their lives. Living in this place may just be a 'locational placebo', but if they are happy and can live their lives then so be it.
I am confused by this. How does the reduction of mass effect an orbit of an object? I used to think that greater mass meant that you had to have a larger speed to maintain orbit. By that logic a smaller object would fly off into space. But, I no-longer think it is that simple.
coming back two months later for an anti-virus removal that would run them 130$.
Wow, I mean, just WOW!
Either you pay to have the anti-virus put on, or you pay later to have the anti-virus removed. Wait, I may just be a red neck, but I see something wrong here.
Oil and gas? Did you read any articles on it? The biological material did not fall on the ground, it fell into deep water where it accumulated in cold anaerobic conditions that inhibit normal decay.
I mean no offence by this, but I can not believe that you take this seriously. Have you never read up on, studied, or even watched a stupid documentary on ocean life. Where exactly is this magical place that is immune to the cycles of life? As I recall my original point was where on earth today plants or animals are being buried rapidly enough to preserve the organic materials for the production of oil and gas. Your answer to this is "deep water", like, out in the ocean. The last time I checked the oceans were part of the earth. I have news for you LIFE EXIST THERE TO, and it is "thriving". Perhaps you should go educate National Geographic because it seams fairly obvious that they are, like me, really uneducated.
In all seriousness, I only except money from the church that hires me. I am not some TV evangelist who is selling blessed hankies for a living. I live below the poverty level (still not very bad-off) and never ask for money. I learned early in life that you really can trust God to provide. I personally believe that it is hypocrisy to tell others to trust God and then turn around and beg for money. I have never asked for money for my services, and with the good Lord providing, will never have to.
If you like sci-fi then I could recommend reading some books by author Karl Schroeder. He wrote the four book virga series that I really enjoyed. It was neat to find some truly original sci fi that wasn't all this mystical junk.
It is sad, what has been done in the name of Christ. It is truly sickening how that the Roman empire can take something as beautiful as Christianity and through forced conversion (something Christ never taught) twist and pervert the true church into an unholy conglomeration of Roman imperialism (papal rule, and bishop hierarchy), Roman paganism (Praying to Mary and the other saints/idols), and Christian vocabulary (there is almost nothing truly Christian about it). What's really bad is that people want to pass off the crimes of Catholicism as if they were Christian in nature.
The word Christian means Christ like. Christ said to love your enemies. Any organization, no matter what they call themselves that does not follow the teachings of Christ is not Christian.
Actually, it indicates that God supernaturally induced naturalistic processes to produce the flood.
All supernatural events must work on the natural world or we would not know of them. I was referring to the specifics of how the flood happened. For example "Where did the water come from?" the answer is God. You may not like that answer, but as I said it is a matter of faith.
Why use water? Because he chose to.
Why save Noah? "Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Gen. 6:8)"
He's God, right? Yes, He is.
He could have just made all the bad people disappear or reversed time or something.
I don't know the mind of God. However, I will attempt an answer. Making the bad people "disappear" as in never existed, would be undoing a part of creation, and reversing time would be the same as removing free will.
The obvious explanation is that He wanted to make it look like an accident.
What could God have done to convince you that it was on purpose? He left the evidence for you to see and you still deny it. I would really like to get an answer to this.
"things not seen" Faith is not science nor can it be. If we proved everything in the bible through science there would be no faith. The miraculous should be miraculous. For instance, if the crossing of the red sea can be explained by naturalistic processes then all you have done is removed the need for God. Many people who claim to be of faith want science to explain the miracles of the bible so that it would strengthen their faith. Many people who post on this forum want the same thing but only because they think it would disprove, or at least make it less likely, that God exist. The simple truth is that people of faith need to come to realize that science is not bad, but science can not and never will prove God's existence. To prove "God" scientist would have to test and experiment on God. You would have to, in a manner of speaking, put God in a test tube.
I am here quoting myself from a previous post. It is true that naturalistic processes can not explain the biblical account of the flood. However if you look in the book of Genesis you will find this:
the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.(Gen. 8:21b KJV)
emphasis added
The bible does not indicate that the flood happened by naturalistic processes but rather by the divine work of God. It was God's judgement. I can not explain the actual workings of the event but I can see the outworking of it. I believe the evidence supports that the event happened, but I would never expect to be able to reproduce the event as it was the work of God.
Yes, but we find these evidences all over the earth. It is all in your world view. If you do not believe in the flood of Noah's day then you will naturally find other explanations for what we see in geology.
Your paragraph regarding evolution shows such a complete ignorance of how evolution works
You are absolutely correct! It is obvious that you are so much smarter than me. Given your heightened intelligence I am sure you will not mind educating this poor stupid Christian. How is it ok to say that you can go from a single celled organism (I won't mention actual life origins) to a human, but not ok to say you can go from two humans to a human. And on the polystrate fossils did you not see that I did read the wikipedia article, and find it ironic that geologist use a different interpretation of how the layers are formed than they would otherwise interpret the layers without the fossils. I did not see an answer to the issue of oil and gas production today. Everything I have ever observed decays ie. no buried oil or gas. Wouldn't organic material need to be buried rapidly to stop the decay process?
How do you explain your God's callous disregard for the well being of innocents?
Short answer -- God gave us free will. Not every person who suffers has done something to deserve their suffering, but as a race we have certainly brought much suffering upon ourselves. I do believe that God could eliiminate suffering in the world, but to do so he would have to over ride our choices. Effectively eliminating free will. It is very important that we not blame God for our actions ie. Abortions.
You don't mind worshipping a god of the gaps? You don't mind god's domain shrinking as science explains more?
I believe God made everything, not just the things we do not understand. There are no "gaps" with God. We are the ones with gaps. I do not believe God's domain is "shrinking" we are just learning more about it.
The Great Flood for instance is nothing more than a fairy tail.
I know that you have a different view of this world than I do, but I find it interesting that our entire economy is fuelled from the remains of literally billions of dead thing buried in sedimentary rock. I do not know of anywhere on earth today where plants or animals are being buried rapidly enough to preserve the organic materials for the production of oil and gas. I am sure that you have an explanation for this, but I see it as a pretty good sign that there has been a flood.
Without a flood how do you explain these polystrate fossils. If each layer of rock took millions of years to lay down then why is the fossil present in more than one layer. I particularly like the explanations that are given on wikipedia. It would seem that wherever these fossils are found geologist have concluded that there had to be relatively fast layering of sediments. Of course were you don't find these it took millions of years to build up the same layers.
Then there's the fairy tail of Adam and Eve, Who did their children fuck to continue the human race?
That's rather crude. I see why you posted anonymously.
You are starting your argument with the assumption that the bible is false. With that starting point you are correct. Modern science assumes that we are evolving, and therefore negates the possibility of a person with superior genetics. I, on the other hand start with the idea that God created us perfect and we have been going downhill from there. I find it fascinating that people who believe in evolution think that Adam and Eve could not have been, after all the evolutionist believes we come from a less complex state (rocks, dirt, mud, primordial ooz, or even crystals) and through chance we got to a much more complex state (us). After all if inbreeding in the first few generations can make a race of "stupids" then the first male and female things to evolve have doomed us all to retartedness. It is amazing that you think a little inbreeding makes the bible false when you believe you are a birth defect of pond scum. On a side though I bet it was terrible when that first creature to develop a gender found out that its mate was not going to evolve for a few more thousands of years if at all.
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I assume you are referring to "for profit" businesses who claim to not be making a profit. I would hate to think that your solution to the mess with large corporations avoiding taxes can be fixed by taxing non profit businesses.
We should have a system based on what you spend not what you earn. Combine that with proper trade tariffs and the corps will be paying their taxes or they wont be doing business in America.
I have a prepay net10 phone that I bought two years ago. I might pay $20 a month putting minutes on it (admittedly I don't use it a whole lot). It is a phone and almost nothing more. It is rock solid as a phone, and it gets great reception. The battery still holds a charge that last for about two days between charges. The thing that I really like about it is the lack of a contract (no money, no problem -- buy more minutes when you have money).
This thread is entirely off topic, but slashdot needs a "+1 more interesting than the current subject" moderation. Thank you for the link.
Having written web sites I am irritated by these small screen browsers that "interpret" what the site should look like. I prefer to load a style sheet for narrow screens that make the site usable for smaller screens and still gives me some control over how the site looks. For example my churches web site (a work in progress) that tries to collapse gracefully for the small screen device.
You know I have had great success in the past with bacula. I think it still uses rsync for the actual transfer of files across the network. It maximizes disk space on the backup server by only storing one copy of any file. I am not entirly sure how it does it, but you can provide network backup for 50+ clients (this was my use case) with disk space of only about twice that of a single client assuming all your clients are running the same os.
This is a great way to demonstrate to the rest of the world that our old munitions are still capable.
Or, perhaps, our understanding of what constitutes speciation is wrong.
What a great example of how a standard that has 0 royalty fees and is not patented can truly benefit the whole human race. It would be hard to imagine what the web would be like today if you had to pay a fee to create HTML code. It would basically block the poor from making a web site. Should the barrier of entry to just view the web have to include the cost of a windows licence or worse a mac?
I know you are not the one to mention this, but there have been several who have commented along these lines of thought. This only affects the Linux users who do not want to pay for their software. I thought that companies like Microsoft and such complain about piracy. Linux and other free OSs are the ONLY alternative that the poor have to remain legal on their pieced together computers. I speak from personal experience after building my first computer from parts given to me I wouldn't have been able to use it legally with out the copy of turbo linux to put on it.
Software patents are nothing more than a tool used by large corporations to stifle competition. Building a standard like HTML5 around patented software only serves those who own the patents.
On a side note, I sometimes miss the days when Linux didn't just work. I enjoyed spending time learning about my computer by having to add device nodes and such. I also miss the days when xfce actually resembled cde.
Trisolian Guard: "You just drank our emperor. What is your name?"
Anonymous Coward: "Anonymous Coward."
Trisolian Guard: "All hail emperor ... uh ... Anonymous Coward."
The other day there was a story about the fines associated with file sharing. Like many here on slashdot I feel that a $675,000 fine is way over the top.
So here is my question.
Is there any legal definition to the limits that the eighth amendment would seem to imply as it applies to an individual?
So classify the things that are sold based on necessity.
bread - no tax luxury yacht - tax a lotSee that was not so hard.
... that they finally found a place were they can live their lives in peace. It may be an invented illness but it is obviously affecting their lives. Living in this place may just be a 'locational placebo', but if they are happy and can live their lives then so be it.
I am confused by this. How does the reduction of mass effect an orbit of an object? I used to think that greater mass meant that you had to have a larger speed to maintain orbit. By that logic a smaller object would fly off into space. But, I no-longer think it is that simple.
Wow, I mean, just WOW!
Either you pay to have the anti-virus put on, or you pay later to have the anti-virus removed. Wait, I may just be a red neck, but I see something wrong here.
I mean no offence by this, but I can not believe that you take this seriously. Have you never read up on, studied, or even watched a stupid documentary on ocean life. Where exactly is this magical place that is immune to the cycles of life? As I recall my original point was where on earth today plants or animals are being buried rapidly enough to preserve the organic materials for the production of oil and gas. Your answer to this is "deep water", like, out in the ocean. The last time I checked the oceans were part of the earth. I have news for you LIFE EXIST THERE TO, and it is "thriving". Perhaps you should go educate National Geographic because it seams fairly obvious that they are, like me, really uneducated.
You're funny.
In all seriousness, I only except money from the church that hires me. I am not some TV evangelist who is selling blessed hankies for a living. I live below the poverty level (still not very bad-off) and never ask for money. I learned early in life that you really can trust God to provide. I personally believe that it is hypocrisy to tell others to trust God and then turn around and beg for money. I have never asked for money for my services, and with the good Lord providing, will never have to.
If you like sci-fi then I could recommend reading some books by author Karl Schroeder. He wrote the four book virga series that I really enjoyed. It was neat to find some truly original sci fi that wasn't all this mystical junk.
It is sad, what has been done in the name of Christ. It is truly sickening how that the Roman empire can take something as beautiful as Christianity and through forced conversion (something Christ never taught) twist and pervert the true church into an unholy conglomeration of Roman imperialism (papal rule, and bishop hierarchy), Roman paganism (Praying to Mary and the other saints/idols), and Christian vocabulary (there is almost nothing truly Christian about it). What's really bad is that people want to pass off the crimes of Catholicism as if they were Christian in nature.
The word Christian means Christ like. Christ said to love your enemies. Any organization, no matter what they call themselves that does not follow the teachings of Christ is not Christian.
All supernatural events must work on the natural world or we would not know of them. I was referring to the specifics of how the flood happened. For example "Where did the water come from?" the answer is God. You may not like that answer, but as I said it is a matter of faith.
Why use water? Because he chose to.
Why save Noah? "Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Gen. 6:8)"
He's God, right? Yes, He is.
I don't know the mind of God. However, I will attempt an answer. Making the bad people "disappear" as in never existed, would be undoing a part of creation, and reversing time would be the same as removing free will.
What could God have done to convince you that it was on purpose? He left the evidence for you to see and you still deny it. I would really like to get an answer to this.
I am here quoting myself from a previous post. It is true that naturalistic processes can not explain the biblical account of the flood. However if you look in the book of Genesis you will find this:
emphasis added
The bible does not indicate that the flood happened by naturalistic processes but rather by the divine work of God. It was God's judgement. I can not explain the actual workings of the event but I can see the outworking of it. I believe the evidence supports that the event happened, but I would never expect to be able to reproduce the event as it was the work of God.
Yes, but we find these evidences all over the earth. It is all in your world view. If you do not believe in the flood of Noah's day then you will naturally find other explanations for what we see in geology.
You are absolutely correct! It is obvious that you are so much smarter than me. Given your heightened intelligence I am sure you will not mind educating this poor stupid Christian. How is it ok to say that you can go from a single celled organism (I won't mention actual life origins) to a human, but not ok to say you can go from two humans to a human. And on the polystrate fossils did you not see that I did read the wikipedia article, and find it ironic that geologist use a different interpretation of how the layers are formed than they would otherwise interpret the layers without the fossils. I did not see an answer to the issue of oil and gas production today. Everything I have ever observed decays ie. no buried oil or gas. Wouldn't organic material need to be buried rapidly to stop the decay process?
Short answer -- God gave us free will. Not every person who suffers has done something to deserve their suffering, but as a race we have certainly brought much suffering upon ourselves. I do believe that God could eliiminate suffering in the world, but to do so he would have to over ride our choices. Effectively eliminating free will. It is very important that we not blame God for our actions ie. Abortions.
I believe God made everything, not just the things we do not understand. There are no "gaps" with God. We are the ones with gaps. I do not believe God's domain is "shrinking" we are just learning more about it.
I know that you have a different view of this world than I do, but I find it interesting that our entire economy is fuelled from the remains of literally billions of dead thing buried in sedimentary rock. I do not know of anywhere on earth today where plants or animals are being buried rapidly enough to preserve the organic materials for the production of oil and gas. I am sure that you have an explanation for this, but I see it as a pretty good sign that there has been a flood.
Without a flood how do you explain these polystrate fossils. If each layer of rock took millions of years to lay down then why is the fossil present in more than one layer. I particularly like the explanations that are given on wikipedia. It would seem that wherever these fossils are found geologist have concluded that there had to be relatively fast layering of sediments. Of course were you don't find these it took millions of years to build up the same layers.
That's rather crude. I see why you posted anonymously.
You are starting your argument with the assumption that the bible is false. With that starting point you are correct. Modern science assumes that we are evolving, and therefore negates the possibility of a person with superior genetics. I, on the other hand start with the idea that God created us perfect and we have been going downhill from there. I find it fascinating that people who believe in evolution think that Adam and Eve could not have been, after all the evolutionist believes we come from a less complex state (rocks, dirt, mud, primordial ooz, or even crystals) and through chance we got to a much more complex state (us). After all if inbreeding in the first few generations can make a race of "stupids" then the first male and female things to evolve have doomed us all to retartedness. It is amazing that you think a little inbreeding makes the bible false when you believe you are a birth defect of pond scum. On a side though I bet it was terrible when that first creature to develop a gender found out that its mate was not going to evolve for a few more thousands of years if at all.