Christ himself said to pay taxes that the government demands. Tax shelters would go against this statement, making them "immoral" from a Christian standpoint.
politicalcompass.org is a biased test, since there's no "i don't give a crap" answer for any of the questions.
and I don't think "libertarian == stupid" -- libertarians just want people to man up and take responsibility for themselves, without relying on a government entity to take care of them.
I think the libs have a lot of good ideas, it's just sad that so many of them are crackpots who take the ideas too far.
I consider myself a "recovering libertarian" who votes on the issues, not on the party.
Maybe because the cost of living in california is exceedingly high, and even making $65,000/year there is barely enough to live alone without any assistance?
I don't know how verizon's vznavigator service works (actual GPS or tower triangulation), but it can get my current location within 10-20 feet when I allow it to locate me.
going to a site, seeing it's virtually empty of content, then opening up the "blockable items list" and seeing everything listed in red is a good indication...
You can't really do that for all cell providers though, only T-mobile and AT&T are GSM providers, and thus can be used with unlocked phones. CDMA providers are still stuck usings phones without sim cards.
I have detailed billing from Verizon wireless, and it doesn't give me my data usage ad nauseam, it simply lists the details I care about, like..you know...phone calls?
You're apparently unfamiliar with Cingular's genesis. Cingular started as a merger between AT&T wireless and BellSouth Mobility (and other companies too)
I believe that bellsouth took hold of the company for a while, and thus, Cingular is no better than AT&T
Some of my company's bigger customers have their own private backend network for internal data (db queries, backups, etc) and only pass necessary data over their public internet pipe. Not a virtual private network, but a truly private network.
Given that the majority of private medium stakes games are invite only, and quite hush hush, it's hard to find a place to play poker without any legal fear.
I typically go to a casino's poker room looking for side action, where we find 5-6 amenable players and go up to a room to play where we can get away from the rake. Even if we can't do that, it's easy enough to make your blinds back every hour and not lose that much to the rake.
Typically what we'd do is if one of us raised, the other two folded, regardless of what they had. Only one of us at a time were involved in any pot.
The only exception to this is when we were all seated at the same table, and immediately realized during a smoke break that we were up against a three person team who were doing the exact opposite of what we were, so we played back at them the same way.
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You missed the point completely.
Christ himself said to pay taxes that the government demands. Tax shelters would go against this statement, making them "immoral" from a Christian standpoint.
"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" -- Matthew 22:21
People are still operating under the delusion that the US is a democracy?
That amuses me.
politicalcompass.org is a biased test, since there's no "i don't give a crap" answer for any of the questions.
and I don't think "libertarian == stupid" -- libertarians just want people to man up and take responsibility for themselves, without relying on a government entity to take care of them.
I think the libs have a lot of good ideas, it's just sad that so many of them are crackpots who take the ideas too far.
I consider myself a "recovering libertarian" who votes on the issues, not on the party.
That's funny, I know more than my fair share of wal-mart employees, and they all work full time. And they're not managers either.
Anecdotal, yes. But it's a fact.
Watch the Penn & Teller "Bullshit!" episode about "Wal-Mart Hate" before you take every word from that site as gospel.
Maybe because the cost of living in california is exceedingly high, and even making $65,000/year there is barely enough to live alone without any assistance?
two seconds on wikipedia yields this link, sir :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_card
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I don't know how verizon's vznavigator service works (actual GPS or tower triangulation), but it can get my current location within 10-20 feet when I allow it to locate me.
going to a site, seeing it's virtually empty of content, then opening up the "blockable items list" and seeing everything listed in red is a good indication...
filterset.g uses a horrible set of regexp's to block ads, blocking a lot of legitimate content.
the easylist subscriptions have never blocked any content I've wanted to view.
You can't really do that for all cell providers though, only T-mobile and AT&T are GSM providers, and thus can be used with unlocked phones. CDMA providers are still stuck usings phones without sim cards.
You don't get the "rebate" unless you sign up for the contract.
Buy a phone without a contract, you pay the MSRP.
They also aren't all that great, and they tend to bite you in the ass if you use it a lot.
Actually, the vast majority of cell phones at retail cost $400-500
Most providers just subsidize the phone cost into your contract, if you take the sale price.
"Fair" would be not having to have a contract.
iPhone gives unlimited data, eh?
I have detailed billing from Verizon wireless, and it doesn't give me my data usage ad nauseam, it simply lists the details I care about, like..you know...phone calls?
You're apparently unfamiliar with Cingular's genesis. Cingular started as a merger between AT&T wireless and BellSouth Mobility (and other companies too)
I believe that bellsouth took hold of the company for a while, and thus, Cingular is no better than AT&T
I thought I was the only one who had a file server just for porn!
It fits with the story, really.
Arthas is nearly a god in the Warcraft mythos at this point, considering he wields Frostmourne, which has all the power of the Lich King in it.
God, I'm a huge nerd.
Commonly known as a backnet, yes.
Some of my company's bigger customers have their own private backend network for internal data (db queries, backups, etc) and only pass necessary data over their public internet pipe. Not a virtual private network, but a truly private network.
heh, like technorati or blogsearch.google.com ?
Agreed, however...
Given that the majority of private medium stakes games are invite only, and quite hush hush, it's hard to find a place to play poker without any legal fear.
I typically go to a casino's poker room looking for side action, where we find 5-6 amenable players and go up to a room to play where we can get away from the rake. Even if we can't do that, it's easy enough to make your blinds back every hour and not lose that much to the rake.
Typically what we'd do is if one of us raised, the other two folded, regardless of what they had. Only one of us at a time were involved in any pot.
The only exception to this is when we were all seated at the same table, and immediately realized during a smoke break that we were up against a three person team who were doing the exact opposite of what we were, so we played back at them the same way.
Bloogle would probably be...blue?