Hardly "unbiased" it's and ISP, how can they sell their high speed if you have the choice of 1) paying the same price as the store for you download
or
2)go to prison for "illegal" downloading?
for 1) you pay your ISP on top of the "content" and you will not get 10 movies or what ever a month, too expensive.
and 2) not many people want to go in prison
so without "illegal" downloading and cheaper price for download than physical goods you do not need high bandwidth. You go to a ISP that offer 256k "basic DSL" and pay less than the super high speed adn it cost them about the same to provide it.
The point is that nobody works hard and become a millionaire, for one person to be a millionaire it takes the work of a lot of people.
"If you have worked hard and earned millions, why should anyone else be entitled to your money?"
If I was a millionaire, I would think nobody is entitled to my money, including myself. But that would probably not prevent me from spending it. So i have nothing against millionaires per se. I have something against a system that allows so mush wealth and power into so few hands.
But 99.99999% of all human societies have been like that, so I accept it, but i does not mean i have to agree with it.
the owner of the wood and nails pays someone by the hour to build the house and then sells it to him for 1000 times what he was paid to built it. But since he does have 1000 times that money he has to borrow it from a friend of the guy who had the nails and wood with compounded interest. so to pay is debt and not lose the home to the money lending guy he has to keep on building houses for the first guy for the rest of his life paying .
the wealth was created by the house builder but ends up in the pockets of the nails and wood guy and his friend the money lender.
Public investment, private profit, read up on it. It cost a lot to all of us to make them rich, the money comes from somewhere. And when the money does not come from somewhere but is "created" by the rich, we pay when it suddenly disappear, with our real money (see financial crisis).
The point, if you ignore the Monaco part, it's that if the wealth is mostly controlled by a few they have the power influence legislation to accommodate them by threatening to leave (people or corp.). By using this power they grab even more of the wealth and more of the power. Better ditribution of wealth prevents this from happening.
If the wealth is more spread you do not see billionaires moving out of a state to go to a less taxed state. They have to much money and to much power. If it keeps up like it's going now this 1% will pay more than they pay now, but they will have 99% of the wealth. This is not sustainable. Let them all move to Monaco.
"You can complain all you want, but if you look at the numbers you'll find the top 1% of earners pay 40% (or more) of income taxes."
I have no more source than you but my guess is that they end up paying less of a percentage of their total income in taxes than the average anyway. They just have so much of it it's not even funny.
"There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery is considered standard business practice"
but:
There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery illegal, even if you rename it lobbying.
You can find this too, here for hockey i use cbc.ca (free) and rds.ca (pay per view and subscription). For F1 races I use torrents, they are available a few hours after the event.
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Hardly "unbiased" it's and ISP, how can they sell their high speed if you have the choice of
1) paying the same price as the store for you download
or
2)go to prison for "illegal" downloading?
for 1) you pay your ISP on top of the "content" and you will not get 10 movies or what ever a month, too expensive.
and 2) not many people want to go in prison
so without "illegal" downloading and cheaper price for download than physical goods you do not need high bandwidth. You go to a ISP that offer 256k "basic DSL" and pay less than the super high speed adn it cost them about the same to provide it.
yeah unbiased.
Maybe they just have more respect for the place they and other lives.
DSL run on copper pairs, you just need a few DLS modems and 1 DSLAM.
hum ...
After years of /.ers complaints, the editor edited, finnaly.
What did he get for it?
Accusations of censorship, YELLED at him.
You blew it.
"and don't try to convert anyone or make people believe what we believe."
hum, maybe less than before ...
The point is that nobody works hard and become a millionaire, for one person to be a millionaire it takes the work of a lot of people.
"If you have worked hard and earned millions, why should anyone else be entitled to your money?"
If I was a millionaire, I would think nobody is entitled to my money, including myself. But that would probably not prevent me from spending it. So i have nothing against millionaires per se. I have something against a system that allows so mush wealth and power into so few hands.
But 99.99999% of all human societies have been like that, so I accept it, but i does not mean i have to agree with it.
You can believe whatever you want and you do not have to agree with me.
But me I believe that you are ever a millionaire it will be when half the population is too and million is nothing.
It impossible to have more than 1% of the people in the top 1%. And when that top 1% control 50% of the wealth the rest of us are peons.
that's now how a house is built.
the owner of the wood and nails pays someone by the hour to build the house and then sells it to him for 1000 times what he was paid to built it. But since he does have 1000 times that money he has to borrow it from a friend of the guy who had the nails and wood with compounded interest. so to pay is debt and not lose the home to the money lending guy he has to keep on building houses for the first guy for the rest of his life paying .
the wealth was created by the house builder but ends up in the pockets of the nails and wood guy and his friend the money lender.
You sir, are a happy peon.
They make the laws.
"but consume relatively little"
hum ... that what they want you to believe.
Public investment, private profit, read up on it. It cost a lot to all of us to make them rich, the money comes from somewhere. And when the money does not come from somewhere but is "created" by the rich, we pay when it suddenly disappear, with our real money (see financial crisis).
The point, if you ignore the Monaco part, it's that if the wealth is mostly controlled by a few they have the power influence legislation to accommodate them by threatening to leave (people or corp.). By using this power they grab even more of the wealth and more of the power. Better ditribution of wealth prevents this from happening.
If the wealth is more spread you do not see billionaires moving out of a state to go to a less taxed state. They have to much money and to much power. If it keeps up like it's going now this 1% will pay more than they pay now, but they will have 99% of the wealth. This is not sustainable. Let them all move to Monaco.
"You can complain all you want, but if you look at the numbers you'll find the top 1% of earners pay 40% (or more) of income taxes."
I have no more source than you but my guess is that they end up paying less of a percentage of their total income in taxes than the average anyway. They just have so much of it it's not even funny.
Hey mod, overrated != I do not agree.
If you do not agree say so, if you have no arguments just fuck off.
Using you mod points like this is just censorship.
NAFTA isn't that a free trade agreement?
Free trade isn't that free movement of funds, goods and workers?
Why this much control at the border then?
Oh, you mean it;s free trade for corporations not people?
hum ... think we got shafted again.
"There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery is considered standard business practice"
but:
There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery illegal, even if you rename it lobbying.
"for example, you can't enter into a contract to be a slave."
There are exceptions to that rule.
hell, even doritos make their own chips
One can always hope.
But maybe it's time to replace "duke nukem forever" with "slasdot unicode support" in our posts.
The value in these channel is not for you, it's for the advertisers.
Disabling autorun is not enough for me to trust windows, I'm waiting until they disable run.
You can find this too, here for hockey i use cbc.ca (free) and rds.ca (pay per view and subscription). For F1 races I use torrents, they are available a few hours after the event.
Red Flag Linux ? ;)
And what do you put in the label? everything that as a least one molecule, one atom of it? There is no space for that.