...but legal. The community seems to have over-looked the license change from the 3.xx days. I should know. I had software that was permissible to be run on gratis-MySQL, but as of 4.0, the license changed. I now use PostgresSQL which I throughly advocate, not just because of the license, but because of the feature set and the anal developers.
There where 3 reasons why MySQL got popular: * Free * PHP * Windows support
Free has been removed because fo the license change. PHP is a non-issue, these days, and naitive Windows support is now in PostgreSQL 8.0.
Now, we have a much more level playing feild. On brief analisys we have: * Easy replication on MySQL/ Not so easy on PostgreSQL (when only soncidering the free varietyfree) * Experimental/new features on MySQL, but throughly tested features on PostgreSQL. * Limited license on Mysql, BSD license on Postgres.
Those three are, IMHO, the remainging differences pertinant to typical DBS selection.
Then there are the addional features. I like the sandards-compliance and no gothcas (MySQL Timestamp) of PostgreSQL.
Any great idea os only great if the implementation is great. For this implementation to be great, you must generate results valuable to the recipient, let it be set aside as trash.
So what I am saying is tha for every RSS subscribe you have to run a query, and seliver that as the RSS. As a matter of fact Monday I was finding myself wishing for this feature in careerbuilder and monster. But I fear just that they'll just tie it to an all-encompasing region which is NOT what I want . Career buioilder has an invaluable feature - the milage tabs. Such a RSS feed should respect my milage tab perference (10 miles) rather than sening me everything in the Balto/DC corridor.
So, yes, if you can and deliver a feed on MY specific criteria then it will work well.
I do use Craigslist's job RSS, but the postings are few so noise is minimal.
The laws are doing more than they are supposed to do, they are being used to enforce theft on people on whom they are not meant to be.
The south wanted every person to be counted as a person only in so much as each slaves vote was proxied by their master. Therefore, the slaves would be worth something, but only to give their master's more power. Also, a tax of up to $10 was enacted on importation of every slave up until 1808. Now you tell me that didn't do a lot to curb importation of slaves. $10 was a lot back then!!!
Sure he could have done all that. But hind-sight is 20/20 He still had a surviving wife, whom he wanted tobe looked after. We can speculate until the end, but the fact remains that he was for ever mans freedom, black or white. It is easy to ridicule the past. After all, here we have you advocating a Social Seciruty program that won't last the next 80 years. 100 years from now, it will be easy to say "it was a dumb idea to try and save it". But always, the urgency of now clouds our judgement.
Why should congress stop the IRS? The IRS is very effective at getting them money. I mean, of they money they are supposed to get, they get easily 1000 times more. The government does not want to stop people from making donations to the federal governement.
All of our founding fathers knew that slavery was wrong. But they also knew it could not change overnight without throwing the nation into great chaos. So what sis they do? They made every man whose life was worthless worth well over half of a life. This was a *huge* issue. But 3/5ths established slaves as having some value, where they had never been worth anything before. 3/5th is not insignificant. It was greater than zero, it was greater than 1/2 and it actually laid the foundation to increment up to 4/5 then finally to 5/5ths. The incrementing was cut short by the civil war and the industrial revolution. That is why Lincoln freed the slaves in their entirety. So they would bolt to the cities and fuel the industrial revolution. It is sort of the chicken and the egg problem - you need people to work on the machines to have the machines to do manual labor and reduce the need for slave labor. Lincoln gave it a kick-start.
I think it is short sighted of you that you accuse the brightest minds our government ever had of being hypocrites because they were constrained by a situation that they did not work to create. When all they did was al they could - setting the wheels in motion.
Furthermore, to grant millions of uneducated people, the majority of which could not read or write, much less speak english would have given rise to mass chaos in such a fragile time in our nacent country's history. Even of educated people that were availible were not as greatly schooled in the art of running a country.
And in fact we have evidence that Jefferson was a nice slave owner who loved his slaves.
A similar situation would be Social Security today. We know collapse eminent (only "when" is the question) yet we must fund those who have put an are anre relying on it now or will be shortly. We know the situation is wrong, and for a good number of us, we know we will see no benefits. It is wrong for the government to require us to contribute to a system in which we will never see a dime.
Do not belive those who use the term "Social Security Trust" because there is no trust. Had you read the statutes, you'd know that FICA is deposited into the rest of the treasury, along with all the other income tax. So how does it come out? Congress, every year, must appropriate and approve the SS benefits budget. If that fails, there is no social security benefits that year. Plain and simple. The SSA is only there to track how much money you put in and make sure you only get the benefits that they want yu to get.
If I had all the money that I put in to FICA, I'd be retiring 10 years before age 67 (which is how long I must be currently to take out, but that number can change at any time, along with the benefits that are given)
I really don't have to protest taxes. The statues are written 100% within the bounds of the constitution. The problem arises that the IRS is making people believe that the statutes are written one way, when they are actually written as another. I really don't need any court case to read the statues in my favor.
If you're not beliveing me, then I suggest that you start reading, starting from the constitution and then jump to title 26. Make sure you read it in its entirety, particularly section 3401. There are numerous "terms of art" like "employee, employer, "trade or business", "wages" in which the statues use a common word then define it specifically. The IRS capitalizes on this.
You will find that you actually have to construe words to be broader than they are defined in order for you to be liable for paying any tax.
I really challenge you to read with an open mind, the constitution and title 26. I am not wrong on this. You obviously have not read the statues or you'd be in agreement. It's ok though. No one read the statues, something that the IRS is counting on. Why do you think they got a "kinder gentler IRS"? If you piss off enough people, they look for new ways out. Voluntary compliance (Their term, not mine) was falling fast.
It is upsetting how many freedoms that people will give up for a promise of no worries.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom...Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you...and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, Philadelphia State House, August 1776
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill
The power to tax is the power to destroy. -John Marshall Order
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. --Alexander Tyler
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -G. Gordon Liddy
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. -Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights. -Abraham Lincoln
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -John Hay (1872)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C. S. Lewis
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. -John Adams
1) Consitutional scholars KNOW this to be true 2) Years of court rulings tell this to be true 3) Common sense has been perverted by the IRS. Why do you think they only send subsection (b) and not subsection (a) on the Notice of Levy form? Because subsection a says that ONLY Government employees may be levied. So most HR departments (completly ignorant of the law) comply.
Why do you seek to mod me down? Ibrought up a legitimate wuestion of Jusrisduction. Now you find that I'm a "tax protester" and seek to silence me. Are you the IRS?
There are two kids of taxpayers in this world. Those that don't want to be a tax payer, and those who are mad at the tax payer for not paying their fair share.
Did you know that before the income tax, the federal budget had an "embarassing surplus" where did it come from if we had no income tax?
Did you know that 85% of the federal budget is spent on socialst (welfare) programs? Only 15% of what is spent today is needed to run the country.
Or STANTON v. BALTIC MINING CO, 240 U.S.103(1916) I quote (emphasis mine): "But, aside from the obvious error of the proposition, intrinsically considered, it manifestly disregards the fact that by the previous ruling it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed [240 U.S. 103, 113] in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the income was derived,-that is, by testing the tax not by what it was, a tax on income, but by a mistaken theory deduced from the origin or source of the income taxed."
For more info see: This PDF will lay it out better than I can.
Thank you for listening! I hope you continue to investigate with an open mind. I think you'll be surprised. I started on this because I tried to disprove someone as you are doing now.
All true. However, congress has only ever once given Article 3 power to a court, and that court is in Hawaii.
Any federal court can indeed hear a matter of federal law, by definition, respecting the nature of the court as specified by congress [Here's your sign!:-)]
However the limited Article 1 courts cannot hear cases out of their jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of an Article 1 court is Federal territies.
That is to say, for my ass to be dragged into US District court, I need to commit the offense of federal law on federal land. I cannot be dragged into a federal district court for any law that is not positive law (Law of the land, law of the US of A)
There are several titles, like Title 26 that have not been enacted into positive law. Therefore, their application is limited to federal territories.
IANAL, but it was pretty obvious. In doing Constitutional research this past weekend, I came across the fact that US District courts (the one that RIAA sues in) are all (except one) Article 1 courts. It takes an Article 3 court to be effective throught the United States of America. What is the difference? Article 3 courts enforce the laws of the land throughout the USA. The Article 1 courts enforce laws of the Federal governement (federal territories), so therefore, they only pertain to federal lands. The one exeption that I mentioned is Hawaii who has been given an Article 3 court, though it is operated as an Article 1 court.
Therefore, if you find yourself the victim of a MPAA or RIAA lawsuit, you just should stay out of Federal parks, buildings, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa. Voluntarily appearing before the court is admission of jurisdiction. Furthermore, if you are asked to serve on a federal grand jury, in an article 1 court, make sure you are from a federal territory.
While your post is thorough and accurate, you glossed over the fact that MySQL is now dual licensed. This DOES have repercussions. The GPL version can only be used by GPL software OR as a special exception. The special exception is made for PHP (and maybe others). If you are a Bank and choose MySQL you have to BUY a license.
I wonder how much there is to the MySQL great for websites (many read, few write) and the PHP license exception.
MySQL 4+ is not the MySQL that we all came to know and love in the 3.x days. Previously, I used MySQL 3.x but when I needed to upgrade, I moved to PostgreSQL because of the new license alone.
Let me re iterate my take. PHP license allows you to make commercial websites with it. MySQL allows its GPL license to be used with PHP regardless of purpose of the PHP scripts by special exception. Had there been no special exception, we'd have seen the downfall of MySQL and the upshoot of PostgreSQL or SQLite.
As a user/admin of all 3, I find that you can either use PostgreSQL or get away with using SQLite. Incedentally, try using SQLite with SQLRelay if you need network access for SQLite.
Think of it this way. If we give out (or sell) nukes, then no countries will invest in a weapons program. They will not develop local knowlege or industry required to produce the nukes. We certainly have enough of them. We just have to make them exlode if they are tampered with.
Not to mention you could easily embed a radio kill switch so that no nukes can be used without US approval. But they won't know about the kill switch because they can't tamper.
So everyone has nukes to brag about, for "defense" only and we all stay safe because we can kill any aggression with a radio broadcast. If they really are for "defense" no one should object to that.
Forking creates a micro-market with micro competition. Software evolution is completely analygous (sp) to biological evolution. You have to have micro forking (microevolution) in order to evolve. Then the best traits are selected and carried on. Following the thoery of "punctuated equilibrium", those which have micro-evolved traits that are of significant advantage will be picked up by the others then the population of' those with the traits will explode. It is Natures way. No point in fighting it.
In IT though maintaining many microlines is viewed as a bad thing, unlike with biological life where things maintain themsleves. This is where the FUD really is. But one should realize that it need not be a big concern if the developers take that concern into account. An example of how to mitigate this is to use XML for settings. Any microline specific sub-tree of settings need not interfere and is only used by the microline.
HOWEVER this is an area where OSS has been deficient. Backwards-compatibility is not a highlight of OSS. OSS has gotten better, but even as recently as a year ago it was the policy of Mozilla to have the user manually do a uninstall before an upgrade. Such annoyances contribute to the magnitude of fear. What is more, backwards compatiblity policies vary from project to project. I do expect this to get better, and it has notten a lot better.
You have free speech with respect to anything you create. When you deal with copyright you deal with speech about what others have created. There is only a problem is you want to copy their work with no investment and undermine their work. That is why it says "for the progress of the sciences and useful arts" You are only supposed to be enjoined from undermining (by copying) other people's work. You have no right to other people's work. Infact, copyright give you more rights, not less, by allowing you to use literal portions of other people's work. Free Speech is not GPL.
Then you wrap up your argument about taxes in a blanket statement and never really contibute to the debate. Yes feds can collect fed income tax. Howeever that was never the question. The question is where (in law) are my wages made taxible? I'll further specify, because it does matter, that I do not live in any US gov't possession including DC, nor do I work for the gov't directly. I work in one of the 50 states for a private employer. So where is my pay made taxable? You must find the law because there must be a law in order for it to be the law. You can't be made liable for tax unless there is a law.
You confuse the issue. Your company pays you based on your skill. It takes no skill to get a mimimum wage job. Just show up and do waht you are told. Everything asked of you is pretty basic. There are a lot of people that can do that though, and you are incompetition with them.
Next, look at me. I went to school for 4 years, got an advanced degree. I just seperated myself from 98% of all other job seekers. Next, with some experience, I now have a skill that is desired, and people are willing to pay quality money for. I remain in competition with those with the same degree and expereince.
Your company pays you as little as they can to be cost competitive. If they paid yu the same as a CEO, they'd have to charge more for whatever service or product they sell. They would lose out to competition. You contribute directly to the bottom line! How? The more efficient you are the more work you do in less time, meaning less labor expense. If you can do the work of 2 people for the price of one, as long as you are cheaper than two people, the company is saving money. You can compete and get a higher salary in your own job market by proving you are worth the expense.
Lets take a look at a paralell job market. People who have clearences like Secret and TS get paid at least $15,000 more than those who do not. And that is on a skill-for-skill experience-for-experience level. These people do not contribute more tot he bottom line, but they are a limited resource.
One day (maybe today) you will learn that employees are subject to the exact same market conditions as the products they make.
So if you are a contruction worker and want to be paid more, you have to make yourself a limited resource. This is done by specializing in something. Expanding foam instuation, or radiant heating, etc. Usually you can just pick a new technology and adopt that.
This is the reason for a certifcation industry. If you have all the desired certs, you can ask for more money than the guy with no certs or only one.
The reason that your construction workers are not monetarily appreciated is because anyone with very little training can pick up a hammer and saw. Hell, you don't even need to measure to build a house (true it does make it a lot easier) but basic geometery is all that one needs.
So when I said "work hard, get ahead" it did not mean it literally - to only use muscles. It implied a level of working smart. You can work hard to move a mountain, but if you're not smart about it, it will never move.
It is like this: work hard: brute force sort numbers using an O(n^2) algorithm. Yeah it is really easy to code. But if you work smart you can code a O(N log2 N) algorithm that will outperform the easy to code n^2 algorithm. You can eaither work hard (smart) before you start working on the task, or you can work hard after going to task. Such is the difference between a $60k and a $90k programmer. It is about where you move the coefficients. For example. In SQL select queries, it is vastly mroe efficient to have the most restrictive selected set evaluated first. This elimates a lot of databrocessing that will be thrown away at a later stage.
So we have a situation where one must not just work hard, one must work smart as well. I thought that was obvious.
Yes, stocks beat bonds. Particularly when you have a declining dollar. Stocks readjust themsevles with every sale to a lower dollar. Or higher dollar.
You mention: "streets and parks and police and firefighters" To which I say LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL. There is nothing wrong with local taxes. In fact local taxes should be higher than federal taxes. But when I say that, I also mean federal taxes should be a lot lower.
There will be a day in the not too distant future when turning off the tap will not be suicide. That point is defined as when the Generation X and Y people turn out to the voting booths in more numbers than the baby boomers.
"I have to go to work every day. That makes me a slave to my company. "
You have the right (to which the government cannot interfere in) to contract at your discretion. You have contracted to provide your labor in return for some sum of federal reserve notes. The point is, you work completely by choice. That is why all those empolyment agreements say that your work is voluntary, not compulsary.
You also have the right, as you properly said, to work for yourself.
Your construction workers comment is just cheap. If these people had a better skill that they could and would like to offer, I am sure they would. If they want to be millionares, then they have to find a skill that is worth that.
Yes, I did knowinly oversimplify, but all things being equal, that is the only way to go. The economy, and the economies of the world are all unpredictible. Technology alone has huge effects. If everone putting in can put in so much more than ever needs to be taken out, then yes, we'll be fine.
We are dealing with integrals here, and as such the smallest changes can have big changes on the outcome.
The best way to deal with the situation is to get out of it. We don't need to continue this shennangans any longer. We know it is going to be harder and harder to sustain, and we'll probably break our backs doing so. Find a way to pay for those who paid in and stop making people pay into a system where there are no guarentees.
The huddled masses came here looking for the american dream. You work hard, you get a head. They did not come here looking for free handouts or to have their way payed by all the other taxpayers.
If what the huddled masses want is a welfare system where those who work hard pay their way, then yeah, they can bugger off. Socialist states like Canada and Europe are a much better place for such slackers.
The lure of America and the American Dream is self-determination. Not subserviant service to a government. If that is what you want, then what you want is Amerika.
It is simple math. When SS started, we had 30 people putting in for every 1 person taking out. Now we have 1.1 people putting in for ever 1 person taking out. What happens when we have 0.9 people putting in for every 1 taking out? You raise taxes. You pass the burden onto the people. You make it harder for them to buy houses and cars and education. Right now, people if they had no federal income tax could pay for a house in under 10 years! Not only would they save an ass-load in interest, but they would be out of debt, which is generally considered a good thing.
Now, lets stop putting money into social security. We only need to scrounge around for 20 years before we have economic freedom for the country. If every person put the money that the govt confiscates for SS into a private account like Chile does, our social security checks would be twice as big! Talk about a strong economy - old people would continue to be a driving force in the economy with all that extra cash.
Interstingly enough, as a result of having so much extra cash to spend, the government would get more tax money from the retirement accounts than they do now!
slavery Audio pronunciation of "slavery" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (slv-r, slvr) n. pl. slaveries
1. The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
2.
1. The practice of owning slaves.
2. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
3. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
4. A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.
Federal Taxes require that 50% of my time before lunch be done and awared to them. Part of that is the Social Security Contribution. Since there is no gaurentee that I will ever see that money, and I get no kind of benefit from it, at least one of those hours before lunch is done AS SLAVERY to the retired elite. I may not live on a plantation or call anyone "master" but I am forced to work to provide for the lives of others. That is slavery. Just because they were slaves once too does not make slavery right.
What would happen if Canada got bombed, or suffered huge enviromnental damage, or a plague that forced people to leave/die. You would have no base to pay to support your future self. That in itself in a very risky assumption.
In fact it WILL happen. the WPO is immensely concered that the word population will hold steady in 2030, and begin to decline by 2050. While location may be a big factor in when you feel the effects, they will be felt. We are more educated and more widely educated, than any other time in human history. And with this comes with a lower birth rate. People don't need kids to run the farm. Excelt birth control exists, and as such many couples are choosing replacement or less (1 kid or none) That is the major factor in the birth rate.
Anyway, you have "hope" as that your retirement will be paid by others. Thats all it is... hope. Well hope is not good enough for me. Maybe is our SSA was better legislated to protect the funds we pay in, but still... Chile now has a 100% private retirement system... the result? The same return with HALF the investment. Simple economics dictates that goverments are not the best way to get return.
You have this happy-go-lucky everyone group-hug mentality. We all share alike. I bet if you had kids, you'd let TV raise them too, because the TV is a community resource. You can't trust others to raise your kids, nor can you trust the government with your retirement.
What is so repulsive to you about taking reponsibility for yur actions? Why is planning your own retirement so appauling to you?
I meant to say "Socialism [started in the US because of] the great depression." Not that it was birthed in America. That is just the despression caused peice of it to be brought here.
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...but legal. The community seems to have over-looked the license change from the 3.xx days. I should know. I had software that was permissible to be run on gratis-MySQL, but as of 4.0, the license changed. I now use PostgresSQL which I throughly advocate, not just because of the license, but because of the feature set and the anal developers.
There where 3 reasons why MySQL got popular:
* Free
* PHP
* Windows support
Free has been removed because fo the license change. PHP is a non-issue, these days, and naitive Windows support is now in PostgreSQL 8.0.
Now, we have a much more level playing feild. On brief analisys we have:
* Easy replication on MySQL/ Not so easy on PostgreSQL (when only soncidering the free varietyfree)
* Experimental/new features on MySQL, but throughly tested features on PostgreSQL.
* Limited license on Mysql, BSD license on Postgres.
Those three are, IMHO, the remainging differences pertinant to typical DBS selection.
Then there are the addional features. I like the sandards-compliance and no gothcas (MySQL Timestamp) of PostgreSQL.
Just my $0.02
Any great idea os only great if the implementation is great. For this implementation to be great, you must generate results valuable to the recipient, let it be set aside as trash.
So what I am saying is tha for every RSS subscribe you have to run a query, and seliver that as the RSS. As a matter of fact Monday I was finding myself wishing for this feature in careerbuilder and monster. But I fear just that they'll just tie it to an all-encompasing region which is NOT what I want . Career buioilder has an invaluable feature - the milage tabs. Such a RSS feed should respect my milage tab perference (10 miles) rather than sening me everything in the Balto/DC corridor.
So, yes, if you can and deliver a feed on MY specific criteria then it will work well.
I do use Craigslist's job RSS, but the postings are few so noise is minimal.
The laws are doing more than they are supposed to do, they are being used to enforce theft on people on whom they are not meant to be.
The south wanted every person to be counted as a person only in so much as each slaves vote was proxied by their master. Therefore, the slaves would be worth something, but only to give their master's more power. Also, a tax of up to $10 was enacted on importation of every slave up until 1808. Now you tell me that didn't do a lot to curb importation of slaves. $10 was a lot back then!!!
Sure he could have done all that. But hind-sight is 20/20 He still had a surviving wife, whom he wanted tobe looked after. We can speculate until the end, but the fact remains that he was for ever mans freedom, black or white. It is easy to ridicule the past. After all, here we have you advocating a Social Seciruty program that won't last the next 80 years. 100 years from now, it will be easy to say "it was a dumb idea to try and save it". But always, the urgency of now clouds our judgement.
I have enjoyed our debate.
Why should congress stop the IRS? The IRS is very effective at getting them money. I mean, of they money they are supposed to get, they get easily 1000 times more. The government does not want to stop people from making donations to the federal governement.
All of our founding fathers knew that slavery was wrong. But they also knew it could not change overnight without throwing the nation into great chaos. So what sis they do? They made every man whose life was worthless worth well over half of a life. This was a *huge* issue. But 3/5ths established slaves as having some value, where they had never been worth anything before. 3/5th is not insignificant. It was greater than zero, it was greater than 1/2 and it actually laid the foundation to increment up to 4/5 then finally to 5/5ths. The incrementing was cut short by the civil war and the industrial revolution. That is why Lincoln freed the slaves in their entirety. So they would bolt to the cities and fuel the industrial revolution. It is sort of the chicken and the egg problem - you need people to work on the machines to have the machines to do manual labor and reduce the need for slave labor. Lincoln gave it a kick-start.
I think it is short sighted of you that you accuse the brightest minds our government ever had of being hypocrites because they were constrained by a situation that they did not work to create. When all they did was al they could - setting the wheels in motion.
Furthermore, to grant millions of uneducated people, the majority of which could not read or write, much less speak english would have given rise to mass chaos in such a fragile time in our nacent country's history. Even of educated people that were availible were not as greatly schooled in the art of running a country.
And in fact we have evidence that Jefferson was a nice slave owner who loved his slaves.
A similar situation would be Social Security today. We know collapse eminent (only "when" is the question) yet we must fund those who have put an are anre relying on it now or will be shortly. We know the situation is wrong, and for a good number of us, we know we will see no benefits. It is wrong for the government to require us to contribute to a system in which we will never see a dime.
Do not belive those who use the term "Social Security Trust" because there is no trust. Had you read the statutes, you'd know that FICA is deposited into the rest of the treasury, along with all the other income tax. So how does it come out? Congress, every year, must appropriate and approve the SS benefits budget. If that fails, there is no social security benefits that year. Plain and simple. The SSA is only there to track how much money you put in and make sure you only get the benefits that they want yu to get.
If I had all the money that I put in to FICA, I'd be retiring 10 years before age 67 (which is how long I must be currently to take out, but that number can change at any time, along with the benefits that are given)
I really don't have to protest taxes. The statues are written 100% within the bounds of the constitution. The problem arises that the IRS is making people believe that the statutes are written one way, when they are actually written as another. I really don't need any court case to read the statues in my favor.
If you're not beliveing me, then I suggest that you start reading, starting from the constitution and then jump to title 26. Make sure you read it in its entirety, particularly section 3401. There are numerous "terms of art" like "employee, employer, "trade or business", "wages" in which the statues use a common word then define it specifically. The IRS capitalizes on this.
You will find that you actually have to construe words to be broader than they are defined in order for you to be liable for paying any tax.
I really challenge you to read with an open mind, the constitution and title 26. I am not wrong on this. You obviously have not read the statues or you'd be in agreement. It's ok though. No one read the statues, something that the IRS is counting on. Why do you think they got a "kinder gentler IRS"? If you piss off enough people, they look for new ways out. Voluntary compliance (Their term, not mine) was falling fast.
It is upsetting how many freedoms that people will give up for a promise of no worries.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom...Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you...and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, Philadelphia State House, August 1776
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
-John Marshall Order
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury.
--Alexander Tyler
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G. Gordon Liddy
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
-Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
-Abraham Lincoln
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
-John Hay (1872)
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-C. S. Lewis
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
-John Adams
Do any of these stir anything inside of you?
1) Consitutional scholars KNOW this to be true
2) Years of court rulings tell this to be true
3) Common sense has been perverted by the IRS. Why do you think they only send subsection (b) and not subsection (a) on the Notice of Levy form? Because subsection a says that ONLY Government employees may be levied. So most HR departments (completly ignorant of the law) comply.
Why do you seek to mod me down? Ibrought up a legitimate wuestion of Jusrisduction. Now you find that I'm a "tax protester" and seek to silence me. Are you the IRS?
There are two kids of taxpayers in this world. Those that don't want to be a tax payer, and those who are mad at the tax payer for not paying their fair share.
Did you know that before the income tax, the federal budget had an "embarassing surplus" where did it come from if we had no income tax?
Did you know that 85% of the federal budget is spent on socialst (welfare) programs? Only 15% of what is spent today is needed to run the country.
You can thank FDR for all that.
Get a clue.
I am still looking into this Article I/III issue, but to response to my "other wacky Consitutional options saying income tax is illegal"
(Note: I don't say it is illegal, just not needed to be paid by regular folk. There are people who need to payit but not 98% of Americans)
I will refer you to (BOTH of these are Surpeme Court decisions.):
FRANK R. BRUSHABER, Appt., v,UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. (Too long and nothing worth quoting out of context)
Or STANTON v. BALTIC MINING CO, 240 U.S.103(1916)
I quote (emphasis mine):
"But, aside from the obvious error of the proposition, intrinsically considered, it manifestly disregards the fact that by the previous ruling it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed [240 U.S. 103, 113] in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the income was derived,-that is, by testing the tax not by what it was, a tax on income, but by a mistaken theory deduced from the origin or source of the income taxed."
For more info see:
This PDF will lay it out better than I can.
Thank you for listening! I hope you continue to investigate with an open mind. I think you'll be surprised. I started on this because I tried to disprove someone as you are doing now.
All true. However, congress has only ever once given Article 3 power to a court, and that court is in Hawaii.
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Any federal court can indeed hear a matter of federal law, by definition, respecting the nature of the court as specified by congress [Here's your sign!
However the limited Article 1 courts cannot hear cases out of their jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of an Article 1 court is Federal territies.
That is to say, for my ass to be dragged into US District court, I need to commit the offense of federal law on federal land. I cannot be dragged into a federal district court for any law that is not positive law (Law of the land, law of the US of A)
There are several titles, like Title 26 that have not been enacted into positive law. Therefore, their application is limited to federal territories.
IANAL, but it was pretty obvious. In doing Constitutional research this past weekend, I came across the fact that US District courts (the one that RIAA sues in) are all (except one) Article 1 courts. It takes an Article 3 court to be effective throught the United States of America. What is the difference? Article 3 courts enforce the laws of the land throughout the USA. The Article 1 courts enforce laws of the Federal governement (federal territories), so therefore, they only pertain to federal lands. The one exeption that I mentioned is Hawaii who has been given an Article 3 court, though it is operated as an Article 1 court.
Therefore, if you find yourself the victim of a MPAA or RIAA lawsuit, you just should stay out of Federal parks, buildings, Puerto Rico, Guam and American Samoa. Voluntarily appearing before the court is admission of jurisdiction. Furthermore, if you are asked to serve on a federal grand jury, in an article 1 court, make sure you are from a federal territory.
I have done both, and I love PyQt.
I only "liked" wxPython it was a fantastic VB replacement.
I do all my PyQt on Lin, then I run on win - no changes. It is beatiful!
While your post is thorough and accurate,
you glossed over the fact that MySQL is now dual licensed. This DOES have repercussions. The GPL version can only be used by GPL software OR as a special exception. The special exception is made for PHP (and maybe others). If you are a Bank and choose MySQL you have to BUY a license.
I wonder how much there is to the MySQL great for websites (many read, few write) and the PHP license exception.
MySQL 4+ is not the MySQL that we all came to know and love in the 3.x days. Previously, I used MySQL 3.x but when I needed to upgrade, I moved to PostgreSQL because of the new license alone.
Let me re iterate my take. PHP license allows you to make commercial websites with it. MySQL allows its GPL license to be used with PHP regardless of purpose of the PHP scripts by special exception. Had there been no special exception, we'd have seen the downfall of MySQL and the upshoot of PostgreSQL or SQLite.
As a user/admin of all 3, I find that you can either use PostgreSQL or get away with using SQLite. Incedentally, try using SQLite with SQLRelay if you need network access for SQLite.
Think of it this way. If we give out (or sell) nukes, then no countries will invest in a weapons program. They will not develop local knowlege or industry required to produce the nukes. We certainly have enough of them. We just have to make them exlode if they are tampered with.
Not to mention you could easily embed a radio kill switch so that no nukes can be used without US approval. But they won't know about the kill switch because they can't tamper.
So everyone has nukes to brag about, for "defense" only and we all stay safe because we can kill any aggression with a radio broadcast. If they really are for "defense" no one should object to that.
Instructions are
Here
for the GPL version of PyQt for Win32 Qt/3.3.
Riverbank computing - PyQt. I've aleady been there done that. It is every bit as good as you think it is.
a d. php
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/downlo
Enjoy!
Forking creates a micro-market with micro competition. Software evolution is completely analygous (sp) to biological evolution. You have to have micro forking (microevolution) in order to evolve. Then the best traits are selected and carried on. Following the thoery of "punctuated equilibrium", those which have micro-evolved traits that are of significant advantage will be picked up by the others then the population of' those with the traits will explode. It is Natures way. No point in fighting it.
In IT though maintaining many microlines is viewed as a bad thing, unlike with biological life where things maintain themsleves. This is where the FUD really is. But one should realize that it need not be a big concern if the developers take that concern into account. An example of how to mitigate this is to use XML for settings. Any microline specific sub-tree of settings need not interfere and is only used by the microline.
HOWEVER this is an area where OSS has been deficient. Backwards-compatibility is not a highlight of OSS. OSS has gotten better, but even as recently as a year ago it was the policy of Mozilla to have the user manually do a uninstall before an upgrade. Such annoyances contribute to the magnitude of fear. What is more, backwards compatiblity policies vary from project to project. I do expect this to get better, and it has notten a lot better.
You have free speech with respect to anything you create. When you deal with copyright you deal with speech about what others have created. There is only a problem is you want to copy their work with no investment and undermine their work. That is why it says "for the progress of the sciences and useful arts" You are only supposed to be enjoined from undermining (by copying) other people's work. You have no right to other people's work. Infact, copyright give you more rights, not less, by allowing you to use literal portions of other people's work. Free Speech is not GPL.
Then you wrap up your argument about taxes in a blanket statement and never really contibute to the debate. Yes feds can collect fed income tax. Howeever that was never the question. The question is where (in law) are my wages made taxible? I'll further specify, because it does matter, that I do not live in any US gov't possession including DC, nor do I work for the gov't directly. I work in one of the 50 states for a private employer. So where is my pay made taxable? You must find the law because there must be a law in order for it to be the law. You can't be made liable for tax unless there is a law.
You confuse the issue. Your company pays you based on your skill. It takes no skill to get a mimimum wage job. Just show up and do waht you are told. Everything asked of you is pretty basic. There are a lot of people that can do that though, and you are incompetition with them.
Next, look at me. I went to school for 4 years, got an advanced degree. I just seperated myself from 98% of all other job seekers. Next, with some experience, I now have a skill that is desired, and people are willing to pay quality money for. I remain in competition with those with the same degree and expereince.
Your company pays you as little as they can to be cost competitive. If they paid yu the same as a CEO, they'd have to charge more for whatever service or product they sell. They would lose out to competition. You contribute directly to the bottom line! How? The more efficient you are the more work you do in less time, meaning less labor expense. If you can do the work of 2 people for the price of one, as long as you are cheaper than two people, the company is saving money. You can compete and get a higher salary in your own job market by proving you are worth the expense.
Lets take a look at a paralell job market. People who have clearences like Secret and TS get paid at least $15,000 more than those who do not. And that is on a skill-for-skill experience-for-experience level. These people do not contribute more tot he bottom line, but they are a limited resource.
One day (maybe today) you will learn that employees are subject to the exact same market conditions as the products they make.
So if you are a contruction worker and want to be paid more, you have to make yourself a limited resource. This is done by specializing in something. Expanding foam instuation, or radiant heating, etc. Usually you can just pick a new technology and adopt that.
This is the reason for a certifcation industry. If you have all the desired certs, you can ask for more money than the guy with no certs or only one.
The reason that your construction workers are not monetarily appreciated is because anyone with very little training can pick up a hammer and saw. Hell, you don't even need to measure to build a house (true it does make it a lot easier) but basic geometery is all that one needs.
So when I said "work hard, get ahead" it did not mean it literally - to only use muscles. It implied a level of working smart. You can work hard to move a mountain, but if you're not smart about it, it will never move.
It is like this: work hard: brute force sort numbers using an O(n^2) algorithm. Yeah it is really easy to code. But if you work smart you can code a O(N log2 N) algorithm that will outperform the easy to code n^2 algorithm. You can eaither work hard (smart) before you start working on the task, or you can work hard after going to task. Such is the difference between a $60k and a $90k programmer. It is about where you move the coefficients. For example. In SQL select queries, it is vastly mroe efficient to have the most restrictive selected set evaluated first. This elimates a lot of databrocessing that will be thrown away at a later stage.
So we have a situation where one must not just work hard, one must work smart as well. I thought that was obvious.
Yes, stocks beat bonds. Particularly when you have a declining dollar. Stocks readjust themsevles with every sale to a lower dollar. Or higher dollar.
You mention:
"streets and parks and police and firefighters" To which I say LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL. There is nothing wrong with local taxes. In fact local taxes should be higher than federal taxes. But when I say that, I also mean federal taxes should be a lot lower.
There will be a day in the not too distant future when turning off the tap will not be suicide. That point is defined as when the Generation X and Y people turn out to the voting booths in more numbers than the baby boomers.
"I have to go to work every day. That makes me a slave to my company. "
You have the right (to which the government cannot interfere in) to contract at your discretion. You have contracted to provide your labor in return for some sum of federal reserve notes. The point is, you work completely by choice. That is why all those empolyment agreements say that your work is voluntary, not compulsary.
You also have the right, as you properly said, to work for yourself.
Your construction workers comment is just cheap. If these people had a better skill that they could and would like to offer, I am sure they would. If they want to be millionares, then they have to find a skill that is worth that.
And don't get me started about orgainzed labor...
Yes, I did knowinly oversimplify, but all things being equal, that is the only way to go. The economy, and the economies of the world are all unpredictible. Technology alone has huge effects. If everone putting in can put in so much more than ever needs to be taken out, then yes, we'll be fine.
We are dealing with integrals here, and as such the smallest changes can have big changes on the outcome.
The best way to deal with the situation is to get out of it. We don't need to continue this shennangans any longer. We know it is going to be harder and harder to sustain, and we'll probably break our backs doing so. Find a way to pay for those who paid in and stop making people pay into a system where there are no guarentees.
The huddled masses came here looking for the american dream. You work hard, you get a head. They did not come here looking for free handouts or to have their way payed by all the other taxpayers.
If what the huddled masses want is a welfare system where those who work hard pay their way, then yeah, they can bugger off. Socialist states like Canada and Europe are a much better place for such slackers.
The lure of America and the American Dream is self-determination. Not subserviant service to a government. If that is what you want, then what you want is Amerika.
It is simple math. When SS started, we had 30 people putting in for every 1 person taking out. Now we have 1.1 people putting in for ever 1 person taking out. What happens when we have 0.9 people putting in for every 1 taking out? You raise taxes. You pass the burden onto the people. You make it harder for them to buy houses and cars and education. Right now, people if they had no federal income tax could pay for a house in under 10 years! Not only would they save an ass-load in interest, but they would be out of debt, which is generally considered a good thing.
Now, lets stop putting money into social security. We only need to scrounge around for 20 years before we have economic freedom for the country. If every person put the money that the govt confiscates for SS into a private account like Chile does, our social security checks would be twice as big! Talk about a strong economy - old people would continue to be a driving force in the economy with all that extra cash.
Interstingly enough, as a result of having so much extra cash to spend, the government would get more tax money from the retirement accounts than they do now!
We are eating ourself.
I dilute nothing:
slavery Audio pronunciation of "slavery" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (slv-r, slvr)
n. pl. slaveries
1. The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
2.
1. The practice of owning slaves.
2. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
3. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
4. A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.
Federal Taxes require that 50% of my time before lunch be done and awared to them. Part of that is the Social Security Contribution. Since there is no gaurentee that I will ever see that money, and I get no kind of benefit from it, at least one of those hours before lunch is done AS SLAVERY to the retired elite. I may not live on a plantation or call anyone "master" but I am forced to work to provide for the lives of others. That is slavery. Just because they were slaves once too does not make slavery right.
What would happen if Canada got bombed, or suffered huge enviromnental damage, or a plague that forced people to leave/die. You would have no base to pay to support your future self. That in itself in a very risky assumption.
In fact it WILL happen. the WPO is immensely concered that the word population will hold steady in 2030, and begin to decline by 2050. While location may be a big factor in when you feel the effects, they will be felt. We are more educated and more widely educated, than any other time in human history. And with this comes with a lower birth rate. People don't need kids to run the farm. Excelt birth control exists, and as such many couples are choosing replacement or less (1 kid or none) That is the major factor in the birth rate.
Anyway, you have "hope" as that your retirement will be paid by others. Thats all it is... hope. Well hope is not good enough for me. Maybe is our SSA was better legislated to protect the funds we pay in, but still... Chile now has a 100% private retirement system... the result? The same return with HALF the investment. Simple economics dictates that goverments are not the best way to get return.
You have this happy-go-lucky everyone group-hug mentality. We all share alike. I bet if you had kids, you'd let TV raise them too, because the TV is a community resource. You can't trust others to raise your kids, nor can you trust the government with your retirement.
What is so repulsive to you about taking reponsibility for yur actions? Why is planning your own retirement so appauling to you?
I meant to say "Socialism [started in the US because of] the great depression." Not that it was birthed in America. That is just the despression caused peice of it to be brought here.
Sorry for the confusion.