"isnt it time the europeans started another war with each other?" -> It appears that someone is trying to start a war, and bankrupting the whole of Europe is how they plan to do it. Economic wars being a variant of warfare, of course. The sad part being, its their own that are pissing away their money, but it's not them who will pay the price if / when a real war breaks out.
Indeed. The longer they prolong the medicine, the sicker the patient. The bailouts never should have happened. And austerity can't save your economy from a re-evaluation. Spending, of course, makes things worse.
Hmm. I thought the UN existed primarily to prevent wars. However, if it has put on conqueror boots, it may be time to review its financial arrangements.
Indeed. The internet should be neither taxed nor subsidized.
Of course, if they do try and implement this bullsh*t, I imagine the IT network guys will be back in demand. Private networks = no taxation (unless they're dumb enough to think they'll make it inside my house to install a meter on my LAN), and you can extend private networks fairly far...
Indeed. They'll come together under the common banner that the UN isn't doing enough. Some more mind trickery, in the form of the IRS's double-thinking on drug stamps (it's both taxed and illegal!).
"A lot of consumers now go to Best Buy etc brick'n'mortar to "window shop", find what they want, write it down, and go home and amazon it etc. " -> I've heard this repeated often, but haven't seen any evidence to support it. Have you got any?
Indeed. My 'generic device' has 32GB of RAM, an AMD 8150 processor, dual monitors, a real sound card, a 240GB SSD, and enough HD storage space to give a few dozen VMs their own 80GB virtual drive. And a liquid cooling system. Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (not one of the cheap ones).
In the near future, I am going to track down a SATA or SAS card with 8 connectors, and find out just how many drive bays I can fill in this full tower, Thermaltake Armor case, before the coolant system gives out.
So yeah, my 'generic device' is the very definition of custom, and it can run laps around any other truly generic machine.
"A lot of people who would commit an impulse crime would think twice if they new the police were aware of their research."
Fair enough. I'd wager a fair amount of money that having the police needlessly inspecting harmless queries would result in more crime. The hate people regularly feel, for any number of reasons, will become that much greater when Johnny Law is found leaning over their shoulders, not to help them with their life's trials, but to convict them in all but court over an innocent query. It'll hit its heights when the local dragnet, noticing a 'criminal' query, tries to step up its game, and catch the pre-suspect in the act by infiltrating and enticing someone to go through with the act ("Come on Bro, I left the rat poison in the garage, just like you wanted.").
Indeed. The US economy hasn't been mishandled enough, let's impose a few more nightmarish policies to see just what it will take to break the backbone of this country.
Indeed. However, with your typical client for websites, the work is being done for cut-rate prices. *shrugs* I consider it the airline model (where everything costs extra)-> you want the super-cheap website, the tech support is going to cost you.
Now, people might get us wrong; see, from their standpoint, they're paying someone good money to do magic. Right? Except the plumber who visited your house a few months ago earned more per hour than we are. As did your car mechanic, when you had that engine work done a few weeks ago. What more, if you've chosen not to go the cookie-cutter CMS route, you're getting a product developed just for you.
A simple, elegant website is quoted at $700, and that's for HTML with some JavaScript thrown in. But that's not what you want for $700; you want a Flash-enhanced PHP/JSP/ASP.NET monstrosity with a dozen hard to code features (i.e. features that require RESEARCH, just to see if it's feasible), that typically costs $15,000+ to code, and several months of back-and-forth before even laying the groundwork. On top of all of this, you will also ask for a discount, since you are putting work our way!
When my spellbooks (code books) cost more than I am going to make off of a job, I seriously question the field I've chosen in life. Which is why I am out of the web development circuit; at the very least, nothing below corporate-level clients, and even then, they're going to pay (but should be fairly happy).
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F*ck that noise. I do not intend to stand by, idly, while these prats destroy yet another good thing in life.
Tax life, as living leads to death.
Pity that a physical way of displaying our displeasure with the idea of internet taxation doesn't immediately come to mind.
If we throw electrons overboard, I don't think they'd care. It just doesn't have the same oomph.
Don't think Germany really wants that. It will probably happen, but again, probably wasn't on their todo list.
I mean, who wants half a continent with an enraged populace and millions of mouths to feed?
"isnt it time the europeans started another war with each other?" -> It appears that someone is trying to start a war, and bankrupting the whole of Europe is how they plan to do it. Economic wars being a variant of warfare, of course. The sad part being, its their own that are pissing away their money, but it's not them who will pay the price if / when a real war breaks out.
Indeed. The longer they prolong the medicine, the sicker the patient. The bailouts never should have happened. And austerity can't save your economy from a re-evaluation. Spending, of course, makes things worse.
They strengthen trade barriers, and their economies decline.
Hmm. I thought the UN existed primarily to prevent wars. However, if it has put on conqueror boots, it may be time to review its financial arrangements.
Indeed. The internet should be neither taxed nor subsidized.
Of course, if they do try and implement this bullsh*t, I imagine the IT network guys will be back in demand. Private networks = no taxation (unless they're dumb enough to think they'll make it inside my house to install a meter on my LAN), and you can extend private networks fairly far...
Indeed. They'll come together under the common banner that the UN isn't doing enough. Some more mind trickery, in the form of the IRS's double-thinking on drug stamps (it's both taxed and illegal!).
'Tis a nexus of darkness.
It's a cancer is what it is.
Yes, because these are the kinds of people whom logic and reasoning are words in a dictionary, and are well-known to never pass on a bad idea.
See, this the logical extreme of taxation: entire groups of people whose very lives are dedicated to researching and implementing new forms of pain.
Or the ability to recreate species from genetic material.
"A lot of consumers now go to Best Buy etc brick'n'mortar to "window shop", find what they want, write it down, and go home and amazon it etc. " -> I've heard this repeated often, but haven't seen any evidence to support it. Have you got any?
Indeed. My 'generic device' has 32GB of RAM, an AMD 8150 processor, dual monitors, a real sound card, a 240GB SSD, and enough HD storage space to give a few dozen VMs their own 80GB virtual drive. And a liquid cooling system. Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (not one of the cheap ones).
In the near future, I am going to track down a SATA or SAS card with 8 connectors, and find out just how many drive bays I can fill in this full tower, Thermaltake Armor case, before the coolant system gives out.
So yeah, my 'generic device' is the very definition of custom, and it can run laps around any other truly generic machine.
Hmm. On a slightly off-topic, has anyone installed the 12.4 drivers, and had it reported as 12.3?
I ask, because I just completely uninstalled my old 12.3s, and tried installing the 12.4s fresh from the AMD website.
"A lot of people who would commit an impulse crime would think twice if they new the police were aware of their research."
Fair enough. I'd wager a fair amount of money that having the police needlessly inspecting harmless queries would result in more crime. The hate people regularly feel, for any number of reasons, will become that much greater when Johnny Law is found leaning over their shoulders, not to help them with their life's trials, but to convict them in all but court over an innocent query. It'll hit its heights when the local dragnet, noticing a 'criminal' query, tries to step up its game, and catch the pre-suspect in the act by infiltrating and enticing someone to go through with the act ("Come on Bro, I left the rat poison in the garage, just like you wanted.").
Indeed. The US economy hasn't been mishandled enough, let's impose a few more nightmarish policies to see just what it will take to break the backbone of this country.
I find this irony particularly delicious.
Indeed. However, with your typical client for websites, the work is being done for cut-rate prices. *shrugs* I consider it the airline model (where everything costs extra)-> you want the super-cheap website, the tech support is going to cost you.
Now, people might get us wrong; see, from their standpoint, they're paying someone good money to do magic. Right? Except the plumber who visited your house a few months ago earned more per hour than we are. As did your car mechanic, when you had that engine work done a few weeks ago. What more, if you've chosen not to go the cookie-cutter CMS route, you're getting a product developed just for you.
A simple, elegant website is quoted at $700, and that's for HTML with some JavaScript thrown in. But that's not what you want for $700; you want a Flash-enhanced PHP/JSP/ASP.NET monstrosity with a dozen hard to code features (i.e. features that require RESEARCH, just to see if it's feasible), that typically costs $15,000+ to code, and several months of back-and-forth before even laying the groundwork. On top of all of this, you will also ask for a discount, since you are putting work our way!
When my spellbooks (code books) cost more than I am going to make off of a job, I seriously question the field I've chosen in life. Which is why I am out of the web development circuit; at the very least, nothing below corporate-level clients, and even then, they're going to pay (but should be fairly happy).
Because no piece of code, beyond that of 'Hello World,' is considered bug free?
Because clients like to slip in feature requests as bug requests? And their setup is going to be different from yours?
Interesting experiments are 'dangerous'.