The question was how many low-income people are rich and just paying themselves token wages, thus being a misleading statistic. The poster implied that these people, who avoid most taxes by being low-income, are common enough to leave professionals (Doctors, etc) with high wages to pay the brunt of the taxes, not CEOs and business owners as you might expect.
Sure, you *can* try to use complex and questionable methods of analysis to show that the damning files are not yours. You know trials cost money, right? Especially if you need expert witnesses and forensic analysis.
Realistically, all it needs is one cop with a modified U3 flash drive that stores illegal porn on your computer. Any of the circumstantial low-level disk formatting clues could be faked by the same installer.
In simply brushing past your PC someone could plug in and unplug a modified flash drive - the program could take a leisurely few hundred milliseconds to totally disguise its payload. Worse, it could then make it look like you took hurried actions to delete the incriminating files.
Oh no, spying on someone by reading their email. That's a terrible crime and should definitely be punished.
What, you mean the government routinely sniffs all telephone/internet traffic already and reads EVERYTHING you write, in email, Slashdot, or otherwise?
So you're going to punish the government? Until then it's actually better if government employees' email is leaked too, that way we'll know what they're up to.
She didn't lose any real privacy - if there was anything juicy there the watchers would already have known, so all that she lost was the appearance of privacy. Lucky her. You, for instance, obviously still labor under that delusion.
No, the problem is that people are role-playing (which, if you think about it, should encourage a magician to act like a munchkin) in a tabletop fighting system that tries to balance the game and reward people by elevating their ranking. That's totally incompatible with achieving success through your character's actions.
Why on earth should "classes" be expected to balance? Magic just IS better than swords, 99% of the time.
Balance needs to considered by the designer before starting the world - if magic is possible why is it not used, etc. Why train for years as a fighter when a magic-missile scroll (crossbow, in spell form) is cheap and anyone can kill you? What must the balance in the world be, for the world to be?
Once the game starts when someone says balance they really mean equal plot-power. Someone to weak to fight cannot change a fighting dominated game and feels useless - ditto a fighter in a diplomatic setting. This means the story needs to be tailored (balanced, to use another word) with respect to the party.
How could you be Christian and not bomb an abortion clinic. If there is a god and life starts at conception, etc, then abortion doctors are murderers and you must attempt to stop the murder of innocents and use any means necessary.
How could you do less if you believed? The double-thinkers are the "regular" christians who theoretically believe it's just as bad but that it should be tolerated.
They'll search for it, they're pretty much guaranteed to turn up something questionable, and it's pretty much guaranteed than the police/company have already seen it, flagged it as illegal, and hashed it.
If questionable content really was impossible to find, why would they bother hashing it to look for duplicate copies? That they see any potential benefit says they plan to hinder the use significantly by stopping just well-known files.
It can't even work against encrypted bittorrent, which is pretty standard thanks to ISPs mucking with p2p users.
I imagine you'd still just vote in your own district, making elections almost indistinguishable.
I don't really see the problem. With video-conferencing things should actually get nicer - when two people talk over each other you just turn them down and get on with the rest of the discussion. The idea that they must meet in a single room and yell loudly enough to be heard... seems a bit quaint.
Forgive me, but how is this different from the police manufacturing any other sort of evidence?
Other than being easier, nearly instantaneous, and essentially untraceable? Not much.
Oh, yeah. If they fake evidence you get tried on that evidence and MAY go to jail. If they fake an encrypted file you WILL go to jail until you can prove you didn't create the file, regardless of the charges against you.
It's far easier to fake a file and imply that there's kiddy porn in it than to actually fake the kiddy porn.
The great thing about encrypted partitions/files is that they appear totally random. TrueCrypt/etc can run from USB drives, leaving no evidence on the host. No evidence is needed except "what other use is there for an 8gb file of random noise?"
He's right, there are limits. Try buying a car in cash, or flying with $10,000, or making any purchases that look like what criminals in your city buy.
I haven't heard a dollar amount, except for traveling outside the country, but certainly carrying a large stack of cash makes police/etc think you're a criminal. Even if it isn't illegal, it will be used to harass you as they look for anything to pin on you.
Oh yeah, because it'd be so unethical to use a product you bought for your own purposes.
If it doesn't say "MacOS X - now for viewing fractals" you really shouldn't, after all, you're stealing from Steve Jobs - taking away his right to sell you a less crippled product next week. You bastard!
By my definition of small government there wouldn't be a mechanism to force you to do anything. By shrinking the big government we're in we're both free to choose a big government (even recreating aspects of the one we had for yourself and those who choose it) or a small one, or try non-governmental solutions for the same things.
What we're doing in Iraq isn't forcing small government on them, we're forcing a government on them. I suggest removing much of the power of a government and letting the people choose. Exactly the opposite.
I am a consultant, and in a fairly broad area of "restructuring IT", so yes, I guess I probably do more one-off jobs.
But you're trying to argue the position that bloat is good - that it's good your company takes a year to buy something. That's only not visibly wrong because your job is well defined, and no random changes have been thrown at you.
When I do discover something new, or a new need for it, I appreciate being able to obtain it quickly and start using it.
Heh, yeah, well... On the off chance that the xbox 360 ever becomes lucrative you still shouldn't be giving them money. It'd have been more of a loss if it stayed on the shelves.
I don't think you can force small-government on anyone, as all you're doing is refusing to have large-government forced upon you. They are still free to rehire those politicians and give them power over themselves. A rule saying otherwise would be contradictory.
Way to lump a few ignorant god-botherers ranting about racial impurity and anti-furriner idiots rating about welfare money into a group and label it "everyone in America".
I wouldn't mind a guest who spoke little to no English, as long as they realized the delay in finding a bathroom was their fault... But a neighbor, who then started to demand that I spend money translating street signs, no.
If their culture stands between them and learning the language, then yes, ditch it.
Their culture is of zero worth (as mine is), and that much importance. Culture is just tradition, which is stuff we do for no good reason. (Or it wouldn't be traditional, just reasonable. Canadians shovel sidewalks, but not for fun or culture, but because they get covered in snow.)
Of course, they can follow whatever cute little traditions their people traditionally have, no matter how stupid, like cutting down a perfectly good tree to celebrate the birth of a space ghost. But these things are worthless, and we shouldn't cater to the traditionalist's demands for "respect" for their culture or we'll still be chopping down trees for this in another two-thousand years. Nutty old crap is nutty old crap.
You continue to see reality, and yet grasp uselessly for it.
Yes, it's the same environment, but it's a big one. When oil falls in the ocean birds closest to it are fucked while ones a world away don't notice. Of course areas near drilling and refineries, or between the two, get more polluted.
I certainly did not argue to drill now, you're more delusional by the minute. If oil is scarce now, it'll be scarcer in ten years. But it certainly won't "help" to have a drop more oil, no matter when we drill.
As for survival, I don't suppose you considered taking the bus to work?
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The question was how many low-income people are rich and just paying themselves token wages, thus being a misleading statistic. The poster implied that these people, who avoid most taxes by being low-income, are common enough to leave professionals (Doctors, etc) with high wages to pay the brunt of the taxes, not CEOs and business owners as you might expect.
No, not religion, just believing in it. Big difference.
Sure, you *can* try to use complex and questionable methods of analysis to show that the damning files are not yours. You know trials cost money, right? Especially if you need expert witnesses and forensic analysis.
Realistically, all it needs is one cop with a modified U3 flash drive that stores illegal porn on your computer. Any of the circumstantial low-level disk formatting clues could be faked by the same installer.
In simply brushing past your PC someone could plug in and unplug a modified flash drive - the program could take a leisurely few hundred milliseconds to totally disguise its payload. Worse, it could then make it look like you took hurried actions to delete the incriminating files.
Wow, you must buy dumb at Costco, for that was an industrial quantity.
Oh no, spying on someone by reading their email. That's a terrible crime and should definitely be punished.
What, you mean the government routinely sniffs all telephone/internet traffic already and reads EVERYTHING you write, in email, Slashdot, or otherwise?
So you're going to punish the government? Until then it's actually better if government employees' email is leaked too, that way we'll know what they're up to.
She didn't lose any real privacy - if there was anything juicy there the watchers would already have known, so all that she lost was the appearance of privacy. Lucky her. You, for instance, obviously still labor under that delusion.
No, the problem is that people are role-playing (which, if you think about it, should encourage a magician to act like a munchkin) in a tabletop fighting system that tries to balance the game and reward people by elevating their ranking. That's totally incompatible with achieving success through your character's actions.
Why on earth should "classes" be expected to balance? Magic just IS better than swords, 99% of the time.
Balance needs to considered by the designer before starting the world - if magic is possible why is it not used, etc. Why train for years as a fighter when a magic-missile scroll (crossbow, in spell form) is cheap and anyone can kill you? What must the balance in the world be, for the world to be?
Once the game starts when someone says balance they really mean equal plot-power. Someone to weak to fight cannot change a fighting dominated game and feels useless - ditto a fighter in a diplomatic setting. This means the story needs to be tailored (balanced, to use another word) with respect to the party.
How could you be Christian and not bomb an abortion clinic. If there is a god and life starts at conception, etc, then abortion doctors are murderers and you must attempt to stop the murder of innocents and use any means necessary.
How could you do less if you believed? The double-thinkers are the "regular" christians who theoretically believe it's just as bad but that it should be tolerated.
They'll search for it, they're pretty much guaranteed to turn up something questionable, and it's pretty much guaranteed than the police/company have already seen it, flagged it as illegal, and hashed it.
If questionable content really was impossible to find, why would they bother hashing it to look for duplicate copies? That they see any potential benefit says they plan to hinder the use significantly by stopping just well-known files.
It can't even work against encrypted bittorrent, which is pretty standard thanks to ISPs mucking with p2p users.
I imagine you'd still just vote in your own district, making elections almost indistinguishable.
I don't really see the problem. With video-conferencing things should actually get nicer - when two people talk over each other you just turn them down and get on with the rest of the discussion. The idea that they must meet in a single room and yell loudly enough to be heard ... seems a bit quaint.
Forgive me, but how is this different from the police manufacturing any other sort of evidence?
Other than being easier, nearly instantaneous, and essentially untraceable? Not much.
Oh, yeah. If they fake evidence you get tried on that evidence and MAY go to jail. If they fake an encrypted file you WILL go to jail until you can prove you didn't create the file, regardless of the charges against you.
It's far easier to fake a file and imply that there's kiddy porn in it than to actually fake the kiddy porn.
The great thing about encrypted partitions/files is that they appear totally random. TrueCrypt/etc can run from USB drives, leaving no evidence on the host. No evidence is needed except "what other use is there for an 8gb file of random noise?"
He's right, there are limits. Try buying a car in cash, or flying with $10,000, or making any purchases that look like what criminals in your city buy.
I haven't heard a dollar amount, except for traveling outside the country, but certainly carrying a large stack of cash makes police/etc think you're a criminal. Even if it isn't illegal, it will be used to harass you as they look for anything to pin on you.
Oh yeah, because it'd be so unethical to use a product you bought for your own purposes.
If it doesn't say "MacOS X - now for viewing fractals" you really shouldn't, after all, you're stealing from Steve Jobs - taking away his right to sell you a less crippled product next week. You bastard!
I think you can pretty safely lump someone with the nuts if they believe in a space ghost. The only question is if they're the violent group-W type.
Only if you value your time at $5 an hour or less.
By my definition of small government there wouldn't be a mechanism to force you to do anything. By shrinking the big government we're in we're both free to choose a big government (even recreating aspects of the one we had for yourself and those who choose it) or a small one, or try non-governmental solutions for the same things.
What we're doing in Iraq isn't forcing small government on them, we're forcing a government on them. I suggest removing much of the power of a government and letting the people choose. Exactly the opposite.
I am a consultant, and in a fairly broad area of "restructuring IT", so yes, I guess I probably do more one-off jobs.
But you're trying to argue the position that bloat is good - that it's good your company takes a year to buy something. That's only not visibly wrong because your job is well defined, and no random changes have been thrown at you.
When I do discover something new, or a new need for it, I appreciate being able to obtain it quickly and start using it.
Heh, yeah, well... On the off chance that the xbox 360 ever becomes lucrative you still shouldn't be giving them money. It'd have been more of a loss if it stayed on the shelves.
Wah, move. Or get a new job. Or carpool. Or start a transit company. Try taking some meager amount of responsibility for your own life.
I see that you understand and agree with my point on pollution and oil pricing. Good that you finally accept some sensible ideas.
I don't think you can force small-government on anyone, as all you're doing is refusing to have large-government forced upon you. They are still free to rehire those politicians and give them power over themselves. A rule saying otherwise would be contradictory.
That money they paid SCO to threaten everyone came from somewhere... Ever think about where?
DX10 is just a transparent sham to force people to upgrade to Vista. It's been ported to XP successfully, something Microsoft claimed was impossible.
You spent thirty posts arguing for us to drill, SO THE PRICE WOULD COME DOWN!
Are you a fucking retard? That is the price fixing! YOU ARGUED FOR IT!
"Healthy oil supply." You truly are a bottom-feeder. Which FOX news pundit did you grab that phrase from?
Racist.
Well, countryist. "Us asshole Americans"...
Way to lump a few ignorant god-botherers ranting about racial impurity and anti-furriner idiots rating about welfare money into a group and label it "everyone in America".
I wouldn't mind a guest who spoke little to no English, as long as they realized the delay in finding a bathroom was their fault... But a neighbor, who then started to demand that I spend money translating street signs, no.
Depends on the context.
If their culture stands between them and learning the language, then yes, ditch it.
Their culture is of zero worth (as mine is), and that much importance. Culture is just tradition, which is stuff we do for no good reason. (Or it wouldn't be traditional, just reasonable. Canadians shovel sidewalks, but not for fun or culture, but because they get covered in snow.)
Of course, they can follow whatever cute little traditions their people traditionally have, no matter how stupid, like cutting down a perfectly good tree to celebrate the birth of a space ghost. But these things are worthless, and we shouldn't cater to the traditionalist's demands for "respect" for their culture or we'll still be chopping down trees for this in another two-thousand years. Nutty old crap is nutty old crap.
You continue to see reality, and yet grasp uselessly for it.
Yes, it's the same environment, but it's a big one. When oil falls in the ocean birds closest to it are fucked while ones a world away don't notice. Of course areas near drilling and refineries, or between the two, get more polluted.
I certainly did not argue to drill now, you're more delusional by the minute. If oil is scarce now, it'll be scarcer in ten years. But it certainly won't "help" to have a drop more oil, no matter when we drill.
As for survival, I don't suppose you considered taking the bus to work?