If I have a car that sits in my driveway for a full year, I've bought no gas, and paid no gas tax on it. That's fair, because I haven't used the roads those taxes support.
If I have a standard car, I buy gas regularly, and the gas tax pays for the "wear and tear" that my vehicle causes the road.
If I have a hybrid car, I buy much less gas, but am still causing the same wear and tear on the roads.
A regressive tax would be one that increased gas taxes to offset the tax lost on the gas I don't buy; making the people with standard cars pay for my road use.
Pay per use is _not_ regressive.
It's also why the toll roads in California are some of the best kept up in the state; people pay to use them, to avoid other traffic. The fees pay for road repair, the toll collecters, and turn a profit, or did, until the one in OC was taken over by the County.
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When I went shopping for a new phone recently, it took 2 worker bees and a manager to figure out that when I said I didn't want a camera phone, that I really meant I didn't want a camera phone.
One of those damn things would get me fired. And, if I were lucky, I wouldn't have federal charges filed against me.
Yes, but in Word Perfect, it took maybe 2 clicks. Not the 6 or so it takes in Word, if you remember what it is you need to do.
Word Perfect also handles balanced columns, multiple column sections on the same page, and any number of other features much smoother than Office.
And yeah, reveal codes, rocks.
For those who don't know, it's a little box which shows all the escape codes, inserted symbols, formatting codes, etc. To change something, say column settings, all you had to do was click on the right thing, and it opened that up.
No worries about messing up the formatting in some subtle way, which has happened all too often in Word.
In one case, it said that 2000 wasn't a leap year, because, according to the original programmer, years ending in 00 were _never_ leap years.
I showed him both on his computer, and with a calendar that he was wrong, and he still wouldn't believe me.
I then went to the boss. He didn't believe me either. I showed him on his bankbook, and it was still "no go"...
So then I went to the VP. She was uncertain, but one of the Business Analysts was there, she believed me (especially with all my proof), and because she was literally never wrong, the code fix got in for the three customer accounts I worked on.
It didn't get in at least two others that I know of, and this cause wonderful issues with multiple state insurance oversight boards. The rest of the customers were not pleased.
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My father was an engineer, my mother was a nurse.
My _three_ brothers and I (also male) are doing fine, thanks.
Is that the winners get X-Boxes....
I, for one, welcome our non-offensive overlords.
How is this regressive?
If I have a car that sits in my driveway for a full year, I've bought no gas, and paid no gas tax on it. That's fair, because I haven't used the roads those taxes support.
If I have a standard car, I buy gas regularly, and the gas tax pays for the "wear and tear" that my vehicle causes the road.
If I have a hybrid car, I buy much less gas, but am still causing the same wear and tear on the roads.
A regressive tax would be one that increased gas taxes to offset the tax lost on the gas I don't buy; making the people with standard cars pay for my road use.
Pay per use is _not_ regressive.
It's also why the toll roads in California are some of the best kept up in the state; people pay to use them, to avoid other traffic. The fees pay for road repair, the toll collecters, and turn a profit, or did, until the one in OC was taken over by the County.
The tried and true French method of "stick your head in the sand, and hope it will go away on it's own."
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It was actually released to video, but then the video was pulled.
You can still find copies at gaming conventions.
All likely to be illegal, mind you, but that doesn't stop copies from being sold.
Dunno about your keyboard, but I can pry up the letters on mine and remap it.
Or, what I did at work, just remap and touchtype.
It drives my coworkers nuts, but it also keeps them from using my computer.
Yeah, to make room for more of that John Edwards crap.
As my brother might say...
*BLAM* John Edwards, you've crossed over. Is there anything you'd like to say?
users are the admins of their machines.
So even Microsoft has realized you can't do crap under a limited login in XP.
Did you read the article?
The draft isn't due until next year.
Wait, what am I thinking... This is Slashdot, of course you didn't read the article....
But isn't the Stanford Folding project already doing part of this?
Tell me about it.
To this day, it takes me 20 minutes per attempt to get Word to do columns the way I want, not the way it wants.
I can do the same thing in WordPerfect in 30 seconds.
Only the Arkansas slashdot readers....
I'm part of a set of identical triplets.
What do you suggest they do if one of my brothers does something?
Hey, at least in yours, Han spoke first....
AT&T or BSD? What evil lurks in that sealed agreement?
Only the Shadow knows!
Exactly.
When I went shopping for a new phone recently, it took 2 worker bees and a manager to figure out that when I said I didn't want a camera phone, that I really meant I didn't want a camera phone.
One of those damn things would get me fired. And, if I were lucky, I wouldn't have federal charges filed against me.
Where are they getting the human skin to test this on? Interns?
Sure.
Cause you don't build social attachement to MS Interns like you do to rats...
Only if there's an arguement about the nature of the flight sim to put in the new version of IE.
Yes, but in Word Perfect, it took maybe 2 clicks. Not the 6 or so it takes in Word, if you remember what it is you need to do.
Word Perfect also handles balanced columns, multiple column sections on the same page, and any number of other features much smoother than Office.
And yeah, reveal codes, rocks.
For those who don't know, it's a little box which shows all the escape codes, inserted symbols, formatting codes, etc. To change something, say column settings, all you had to do was click on the right thing, and it opened that up.
No worries about messing up the formatting in some subtle way, which has happened all too often in Word.
I wonder if each inflatable station module won't come with complimentary bibles.
But will the bibles be inflatable as well?
I read that as:
"Darl with it, losers."
And the driver is still open for a civil suit from the victim's family.
I worked on code just as bad.
In one case, it said that 2000 wasn't a leap year, because, according to the original programmer, years ending in 00 were _never_ leap years.
I showed him both on his computer, and with a calendar that he was wrong, and he still wouldn't believe me.
I then went to the boss. He didn't believe me either. I showed him on his bankbook, and it was still "no go"...
So then I went to the VP. She was uncertain, but one of the Business Analysts was there, she believed me (especially with all my proof), and because she was literally never wrong, the code fix got in for the three customer accounts I worked on.
It didn't get in at least two others that I know of, and this cause wonderful issues with multiple state insurance oversight boards. The rest of the customers were not pleased.