It is time to fight against the elite who would tax us for our basic goods. We must fight back - it is time for the Seattle Tea Party - tossing copy-protected CDs back in the faces of the stores that sell them, and demanding credit reversals on our credit cards for their purchase.
If one person does this, nothing will change.
If ten people do this, it is just a side note.
If ten thousand people do this, they get worried.
If ten hundred thousand people do this, they will lose.
Mass transit sucks for commuting unless you live RIGHT on the line, though. If you have to take two things (like bus+monorail) it's so much faster to drive... I lived in SF and I had to take a bus, a train, and another bus to get to my office, or walk at least a mile for each bus I didn't take. This will have even less coverage, so be even worse... I can't imagine how it would be all that useful.
This is a city. The city is Seattle. It's not the Dark Lord's Land Across The Water (aka Redmond or Bellevue or whatever).
It has density, people, and we are the nation's Number One user of bicycles and walking to get to work.
Wake up and smell the monorail. It's for walkers, it's for bicyclists, it's for Segway users.
And if you want, you can hop on a bus to the nearest station.
It's not for you suburbanites with cars. In fact, we don't want you and your polluting cars - why don't you stop whining about taxes and realize that we in Seattle and other high-density cities subsidize your fascination with SUVs and roads that we pay for.
[source - stats on who pays for Washington State's roads - King County pays out $900 million per year and gets $600 million; Seattle pays for most of King County's roads]
The problem with expanding the Seattle monorail is that it was designed more as a novelty than anything: it took people from downtown to Seattle Center (the site of the World's Fair). As such, it was never designed to be expanded; the planners never really thought beyond the end of the fair
Is that why it's run at a profit since then?
Heck, I work in a building next door to the line. A lot quieter than Vancouver BC's Skytrain and very very much quieter than Chicago's El.
Actually, the Seattle Monorail Project that is in the EIS phase for the build vote in November is looking at having Segway rentals at the monorail stations.
But most people want to carry bicycles on board with them, from current feedback.
Your last sentence is the flaw in your argument. Engineers dont decide on the rail count, the politicans do. That's why Seattle's regional transit agency, Sound Transit, decided on a light rail system. The only problem with that is that is that Seattle A) Has lots of hills and B) Has no unused railroad lines to commandeer
Actually, it's not Seattle's regional transit agency - Sound Transit is a three-county state appointed agency, and Seattle has very little say in what it does or what taxes the state imposed on us for it.
Seattle's transit system is the ETC, part of the City of Seattle, not the multi-county Sound Transit regional transportation agency.
What may be confusing you is the busses in Seattle are run by King County, which includes the dark land where bill g resides, across Lake Washington in Bellevue, Redmond, and Issaquah, all places that are definitely not Seattle. You have to cross the world's largest floating bridges to get there.
n seattle's case, people who live in town are unlikely to use the transit system for the reasons you describe. People who live OUT of town can simply park and ride, which will reduce the traffic PLENTY.
No, you can't. The monorail being built is not the regional light rail system built for the suburbs. The monorail is designed not to have parking garages and is for local transportation, going from Ballard (15th and 85th) to West Seattle (middle) thru downtown.
It won't be very useful for non-Seattlites. But since all the taxes to build it are Seattle taxes only, it shouldn't matter to those in the suburbs.
You can always build your own.
The only use I can see is you can park at the stadium parking lots to go to Seattle Center on the monorail or park at Seattle Center to go to the football and baseball stadiums on the monorail.
Other than that, it's really not designed to be useful for non-Seattlites.
Of course, this assumes that seattle is going to do things right and run nice long spur lines out to parking lots which are stationed along the freeway. They'll probably screw it up. Oh well, at least it can reduce the lunchtime traffic.
No spur lines. Check out Seattle's ETC for more maps and details of the current environmental impact statement (now in draft comment phase).
Actually, Sound Transit, the multi-county organization with a board appointed by the state are the ones that are building the light rail.
Seattle has a separate project, the Elevated Transportation Company, which was created by city initiatives and a couple of lawsuits, and which last night held the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) hearings for it's Phase I.
I understand the confusion. Sound Transit is building a 14 mile long light rail system for regional needs, while the City of Seattle's ETC is building a separate (but connected) 14 mile long monorail system for local needs paid by local Seattle taxes. And the mayor of Seattle is on the board of Sound Transit and supports both projects, while most Seattle citizens love the monorail but hate light rail.
That new fleet is a huge piece of the puzzle and I hope the people who are buying up their stock are not in it for the long haul.
Well, I got some shares in the IPO of Jet Blue, and I bought it for the long haul, if by that you mean, more than 1 year. Which is long term stock holding. And I was aware of this, so obviously it never stopped me from doing that.
Due to their small size and the fact that they have brand new aircraft- their maintenance costs are incredibly low compared to others. As the fleet ages and grows - this is going to go away. You wont be hiring jet mechanics for $9.00 an hour and they can't telecommute. The more hours you put on an air frame- the more expensive it gets to keep it in the air.
Unless they limit their fleet to specific models. So long as they don't try to do any mergers and acquisitions, but just grow with planes that stick to the model and parts selection they planned on, it's not an issue.
This is akin to why Dell can ship prefab computers cheaply - they don't have an extensive selection of options. Same goes for Apple.
More choices is not always better when trying to compete. That's why MSFT tries to limit your choices - to just their OS. If you don't use their OS, they try to make your life impossible in as many ways as possible.
If every distro audited every division of Microsoft... after all, after what they pulled with CP/M, how do we know they're legit?
They could be bundling in LGPL or GPL or other licensed software in their ship code and we have to get in there and seize those computers and make them prove they have licenses to use them.
This would be a perfect time for some large linux distribution company, or a consulting company to step in and donate time to help them migrate entirely to Linux. It would have to be a disruptive migration because of the audit in 60 days threat but they could do it.
Why not form The Linux Marines? We could get nifty bomber jackets, patches for our units, medals for each school we saved, and make a big fuss out of it.
All we need are a few distro disks and some good techs willing to fight the good fight.
I think there was a misprint - it's Microsoft Licensing Scam, not Microsoft Licensing Scheme.
And, as someone active in Seattle's PTSA who knows a lot of the School Board, I think I'd characterize this as a Linux Adoption Scheme, because if you push too hard, we'll just jump ship. -
then not only would our government propose we use the Microsoft Passport as our National ID, but we would have used the CIA and other 'black budget' agencies to assist in a coup attempt in a South American country this week.
Oh. Wait. We did.
Darn, I knew I should have voted on that MSFT shareholder resolution... since it's obviously only those of us with money who get to make the decisions for this country...
I regret that I have but one FTE to give for my country... company... heiritsu... -
Based on Ellison's attitude in a privacy article in last weeks NYT Sunday magazine, I wouldn't doubt that the guy would do anything to boost sales and get Oracle's share price back up to 50-60 bucks a share.
Since his options and bonus packages kick in big time if he can get the stock up in that range for 90 days, even if he does it with fake accounting numbers, this is more of a probability than you realize.
Then he can sell them off or donate them to a trust which sells them off or gift them to a university or foundation which sells them off.
And get a deduction for it. Since he's got insider options, they're treated better taxwise.
It's not like this is the worst example. The total compensation of CEOs and top execs at most firms like Oracle and Cisco actually went up during last year while the stock value and book value cratered, even while they were shedding employees.
So indirectly all the taxpayers of California subsidized Larry Ellison's personal fortune and those who received massive options payouts, even though none of this created any real wealth for the people of California.
Of course, should Larry die, California gets a nice chunk of change from the estate taxes (I've actually had to pay California estate taxes, though most of the estate was properly using trusts to avoid it).
Did a little deeper and ask how much the State of California paid out for Cisco routers...
One - if someone can ban something, it should only be for residents in and citizens in their country. E.g. Germany bans Deutsche Bahn related post - then servers located in Germany, and those in the.de domain, and those with.eu or.org or.edu or.com registered as being in Germany should be the only ones affected.
Two - One is not currently practical. Therefore we must resist the attempt to ban access for those of us in the Rest Of The World, the Majority, from the actions of the Minority (Germany).
It depends on how fast your computer is and how much memory it has. Older computers with less than 300MHz processors and less than 64MB or RAM won't run Mozilla/NS6.x well. If you have an older computer that's low on RAM get Opera [operasoftware.com].
Thanks, useful info. It's a 233MHz with 64MB, so that explains it.
But what I'm interpreting from your statements is that you are anti-Amazon for other reasons -- patent abuse, etc. -- and are perhaps jumping on the (rather small) bandwagon that's condemning Amazon for doing something that is actually a really good and useful idea.
No, I'm serious that there's an author-led boycott. Try looking it up in google, but it's true.
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Well, that cheeses it. First they carjacked us, now they'll be thumbjacking us for cases of bheer at the local Thriftway.
Brings a new meaning to the term "hitching a ride".
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It is time to fight against the elite who would tax us for our basic goods. We must fight back - it is time for the Seattle Tea Party - tossing copy-protected CDs back in the faces of the stores that sell them, and demanding credit reversals on our credit cards for their purchase.
If one person does this, nothing will change.
If ten people do this, it is just a side note.
If ten thousand people do this, they get worried.
If ten hundred thousand people do this, they will lose.
You must Fight - For your Right - To Party!!!
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I've been receiving a lot of test spam from them recently, which I've been bouncing to the FTC and the Secret Service as appropriate ...
Good thing I never downloaded the Chinese Fonts, or I'd be able to read the messages they write on my screen:
"All your food is belong to us"
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Mass transit sucks for commuting unless you live RIGHT on the line, though. If you have to take two things (like bus+monorail) it's so much faster to drive... I lived in SF and I had to take a bus, a train, and another bus to get to my office, or walk at least a mile for each bus I didn't take. This will have even less coverage, so be even worse... I can't imagine how it would be all that useful.
This is a city. The city is Seattle. It's not the Dark Lord's Land Across The Water (aka Redmond or Bellevue or whatever).
It has density, people, and we are the nation's Number One user of bicycles and walking to get to work.
Wake up and smell the monorail. It's for walkers, it's for bicyclists, it's for Segway users.
And if you want, you can hop on a bus to the nearest station.
It's not for you suburbanites with cars. In fact, we don't want you and your polluting cars - why don't you stop whining about taxes and realize that we in Seattle and other high-density cities subsidize your fascination with SUVs and roads that we pay for.
[source - stats on who pays for Washington State's roads - King County pays out $900 million per year and gets $600 million; Seattle pays for most of King County's roads]
Give me monorail or give me bungee cords!
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The problem with expanding the Seattle monorail is that it was designed more as a novelty than anything: it took people from downtown to Seattle Center (the site of the World's Fair). As such, it was never designed to be expanded; the planners never really thought beyond the end of the fair
Is that why it's run at a profit since then?
Heck, I work in a building next door to the line. A lot quieter than Vancouver BC's Skytrain and very very much quieter than Chicago's El.
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Actually, the Seattle Monorail Project that is in the EIS phase for the build vote in November is looking at having Segway rentals at the monorail stations.
But most people want to carry bicycles on board with them, from current feedback.
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Your last sentence is the flaw in your argument. Engineers dont decide on the rail count, the politicans do. That's why Seattle's regional transit agency, Sound Transit, decided on a light rail system. The only problem with that is that is that Seattle A) Has lots of hills and B) Has no unused railroad lines to commandeer
Actually, it's not Seattle's regional transit agency - Sound Transit is a three-county state appointed agency, and Seattle has very little say in what it does or what taxes the state imposed on us for it.
Seattle's transit system is the ETC, part of the City of Seattle, not the multi-county Sound Transit regional transportation agency.
What may be confusing you is the busses in Seattle are run by King County, which includes the dark land where bill g resides, across Lake Washington in Bellevue, Redmond, and Issaquah, all places that are definitely not Seattle. You have to cross the world's largest floating bridges to get there.
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n seattle's case, people who live in town are unlikely to use the transit system for the reasons you describe. People who live OUT of town can simply park and ride, which will reduce the traffic PLENTY.
No, you can't. The monorail being built is not the regional light rail system built for the suburbs. The monorail is designed not to have parking garages and is for local transportation, going from Ballard (15th and 85th) to West Seattle (middle) thru downtown.
It won't be very useful for non-Seattlites. But since all the taxes to build it are Seattle taxes only, it shouldn't matter to those in the suburbs.
You can always build your own.
The only use I can see is you can park at the stadium parking lots to go to Seattle Center on the monorail or park at Seattle Center to go to the football and baseball stadiums on the monorail.
Other than that, it's really not designed to be useful for non-Seattlites.
Of course, this assumes that seattle is going to do things right and run nice long spur lines out to parking lots which are stationed along the freeway. They'll probably screw it up. Oh well, at least it can reduce the lunchtime traffic.
No spur lines. Check out Seattle's ETC for more maps and details of the current environmental impact statement (now in draft comment phase).
Actually, Sound Transit, the multi-county organization with a board appointed by the state are the ones that are building the light rail.
Seattle has a separate project, the Elevated Transportation Company, which was created by city initiatives and a couple of lawsuits, and which last night held the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) hearings for it's Phase I.
I understand the confusion. Sound Transit is building a 14 mile long light rail system for regional needs, while the City of Seattle's ETC is building a separate (but connected) 14 mile long monorail system for local needs paid by local Seattle taxes. And the mayor of Seattle is on the board of Sound Transit and supports both projects, while most Seattle citizens love the monorail but hate light rail.
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That new fleet is a huge piece of the puzzle and I hope the people who are buying up their stock are not in it for the long haul.
Well, I got some shares in the IPO of Jet Blue, and I bought it for the long haul, if by that you mean, more than 1 year. Which is long term stock holding. And I was aware of this, so obviously it never stopped me from doing that.
Due to their small size and the fact that they have brand new aircraft- their maintenance costs are incredibly low compared to others. As the fleet ages and grows - this is going to go away. You wont be hiring jet mechanics for $9.00 an hour and they can't telecommute. The more hours you put on an air frame- the more expensive it gets to keep it in the air.
Unless they limit their fleet to specific models. So long as they don't try to do any mergers and acquisitions, but just grow with planes that stick to the model and parts selection they planned on, it's not an issue.
This is akin to why Dell can ship prefab computers cheaply - they don't have an extensive selection of options. Same goes for Apple.
More choices is not always better when trying to compete. That's why MSFT tries to limit your choices - to just their OS. If you don't use their OS, they try to make your life impossible in as many ways as possible.
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who were rumrunners on the Great Lakes - arguing against repealing prohibition.
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after all, it hurt the business
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Think about it.
... after all, after what they pulled with CP/M, how do we know they're legit?
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If every distro audited every division of Microsoft
They could be bundling in LGPL or GPL or other licensed software in their ship code and we have to get in there and seize those computers and make them prove they have licenses to use them.
It's only fair
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This would be a perfect time for some large linux distribution company, or a consulting company to step in and donate time to help them migrate entirely to Linux. It would have to be a disruptive migration because of the audit in 60 days threat but they could do it.
Why not form The Linux Marines? We could get nifty bomber jackets, patches for our units, medals for each school we saved, and make a big fuss out of it.
All we need are a few distro disks and some good techs willing to fight the good fight.
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I think there was a misprint - it's Microsoft Licensing Scam, not Microsoft Licensing Scheme.
And, as someone active in Seattle's PTSA who knows a lot of the School Board, I think I'd characterize this as a Linux Adoption Scheme, because if you push too hard, we'll just jump ship.
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I said total compensation. Most CEOs and top execs make more in:
bonus
options
loans - interest free
loan forgival
expenses (e.g. jets, cell phone bill, etc)
I invest - I read ALL the annual report and the 10 form. The fact is most CEOs are overpaid leeches, not worth their salt.
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then not only would our government propose we use the Microsoft Passport as our National ID, but we would have used the CIA and other 'black budget' agencies to assist in a coup attempt in a South American country this week.
... since it's obviously only those of us with money who get to make the decisions for this country ...
... company ... heiritsu ...
Oh. Wait. We did.
Darn, I knew I should have voted on that MSFT shareholder resolution
I regret that I have but one FTE to give for my country
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One TLD to rule them all
One TLD to bind them
One TLD to store the images
And in the darkness blind them
In the shadows where the X-cam lies
There the dark lord Bill G ever spies
Based on Ellison's attitude in a privacy article in last weeks NYT Sunday magazine, I wouldn't doubt that the guy would do anything to boost sales and get Oracle's share price back up to 50-60 bucks a share.
Since his options and bonus packages kick in big time if he can get the stock up in that range for 90 days, even if he does it with fake accounting numbers, this is more of a probability than you realize.
Then he can sell them off or donate them to a trust which sells them off or gift them to a university or foundation which sells them off.
And get a deduction for it. Since he's got insider options, they're treated better taxwise.
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It's not like this is the worst example. The total compensation of CEOs and top execs at most firms like Oracle and Cisco actually went up during last year while the stock value and book value cratered, even while they were shedding employees.
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So indirectly all the taxpayers of California subsidized Larry Ellison's personal fortune and those who received massive options payouts, even though none of this created any real wealth for the people of California.
Of course, should Larry die, California gets a nice chunk of change from the estate taxes (I've actually had to pay California estate taxes, though most of the estate was properly using trusts to avoid it).
Did a little deeper and ask how much the State of California paid out for Cisco routers
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In that sites without a privacy "rating" are automatically rated as failing your listed privacy rating.
.org sites fail - unless they have full-time professional webmasters.
.com and government sites .gov gain from this implementation.
So most homepages fail. And many
Only the commercial sites
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One - if someone can ban something, it should only be for residents in and citizens in their country. E.g. Germany bans Deutsche Bahn related post - then servers located in Germany, and those in the .de domain, and those with .eu or .org or .edu or .com registered as being in Germany should be the only ones affected.
Two - One is not currently practical. Therefore we must resist the attempt to ban access for those of us in the Rest Of The World, the Majority, from the actions of the Minority (Germany).
All the rest is legal fluff.
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then The Sims would keep coming out with new "upgrades" or "add ons" every few months ...
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then Pokemon would keep having new "versions" every few months so you would keep getting new ones
then AD&D would have kept coming out with new Books and Campaigns every few months since the dawn of gaming time
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It depends on how fast your computer is and how much memory it has. Older computers with less than 300MHz processors and less than 64MB or RAM won't run Mozilla/NS6.x well. If you have an older computer that's low on RAM get Opera [operasoftware.com].
Thanks, useful info. It's a 233MHz with 64MB, so that explains it.
But what I'm interpreting from your statements is that you are anti-Amazon for other reasons -- patent abuse, etc. -- and are perhaps jumping on the (rather small) bandwagon that's condemning Amazon for doing something that is actually a really good and useful idea.
No, I'm serious that there's an author-led boycott. Try looking it up in google, but it's true.
Microsoft would be on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.