"IMO capital gains shouldn't be taxed if the initial investment was through income that's already been taxed."
So true. And when I go out an buy a car, why should I pay tax on any purchase? After all, the money that I'm using to buy the car was ALREADY TAXED... So, technically, there shouldn't be tax on ANYTHING after that money was taxed, right?
Why is there tax on my phone bill? Or when I go to the grocery store? Or fly to some destination for vacation? Or buy gas?
Right, because living on the dole is sooooooo much better than becoming wealthy. I should stop working right now, give up my car, live in a crime ridden neighborhood, have no access to healthcare, eat crap food, and barely survive, just to NOT be taxed. You've convinced me!
Look, idiot, first of all, the wealthy currently pay LESS taxes than the middle class. I'm really, really, really FREAKING tired of hearing rich bastards complain that that their taxes are going to go up and that somehow raising your taxes by 3% is the end of the world as we know it, and you're now paying more than people who earn below the poverty level. Boo freaking hoo. If most of your income is from investments, you're paying 15% federal income tax while I'm probably paying close to 35%.
Secondly the entire tax code is geared to benefit the wealthy. There's a zillion Tax Shelters, loopholes, and other flotsam that makes your taxes lower than most if you're in the $million+ club. And if you have a good accountant (and if you're rich you surely do), he can work a little magic that makes your taxes even lower!
Back during the Eishenhower administration, the wealthy were taxed at 90% -- and he was a Republican! So, get your panties out of a knot, man up, and pay your damn taxes. It's not just the right thing to do, it's the price you pay for civilization. I mean, unless you're looking forward to a French Revolution kind of future.
All posts to all forums should from here on in, come from Sen. Ira Silverstein. Should be easy enough to get his address, IP, and even a few other juicy details. Make all anon. posts come from this turkey and sooner or later, he'll get the point.
And that's when we're burning down D.C. with pitchforks and torches. Unfortunately, we're sheep and will never do that. We're afraid of our government, when our government should be afraid of us -- which is why this country is finished, done, kaput. The only people that matter are the 1%, and they are running the show. We do not matter at all, the USA is simply a giant Ponzi Scheme.
So, lemme get this straight... If you live in a tropical paradise, you're happier than if you live in a state with a depressed economy and terrible weather.
Actually, a better question is why BLOOM energy's fuel cells, which are supposedly revolutionary, isn't a backup power source for an electric car? And whatever happened to those ultracapacitors? And Solar Cells? It's surprising to me that NO ONE has combined all the available technologies into one usable vehicle -- as the guys who go 'off grid' are able to glean from many energy sources to power their trailer homes.
Ran that sucker on a MacII with 8bit color at SVA's computer lab when it was on the East side 21st street... Bruce Wands and Burt Monroy were both very excited about this product as it was much more powerful than "Digital Darkroom".
It's Bye-Bye MS. And Apple haters complain about "vendor lock in" -- Why do I get the feeling that if I were to buy a copy of office, it would be from the Chinese Pirates?
I work for a large bank. When I mean large, I mean one of the top three. I have to regularly review code changes going into the Mainframe (yes, we have a mainframe). I see programs that not only have comments that go back into 1980, I see ports of programs that appear to come from times even earlier than that.
Management has spent the last 6 years feverishly attempting to get rid of the entire mainframe and everything that goes with it, and bring everything into "a distributed environment", but so far we are still here. And what's more, I see more new programs going in than I see old programs being retired. That tells me we're here for a few more years, and maybe a few more years after that. COBOL isn't going away, at least not until the last Russian programmer dies.
"Nobody has lost a job in the US because someone else could do the job in another country for less."
Hrmm. Obviously, you've never worked in IT.
I know hundreds of people who were removed from their positions because someone on the other side of the planet could do the same job (actually, they did the job much worse, but apparently that's irrelevant compared to cost) for less than half the price, plus, they aren't being employed as an "employee" so, no health care, matching 401k contributions, or any of that other nonsense that makes a regular employee so expensive.
I have a Sun 3/160 -- 68020 Motorola CPU, VME-based cards in a steel chassis. 16MB of RAM. Two (5.25inch full-height) 150Mb SCSI HDs for a total of 300MB. Runs SunOS 4.1 -- that's NOT Solaris, but SunOS -- which was BSD based. Probably cost a small fortune when it was first built in the early 80's... And now, it's not even worth the electricity used to run it.
The ads will load into your browser, but not the content you were trying to access. The Ads will play a video, but then the video you were trying to see will generate an error. While you're at work, an annoying sound will come from the ads, but you still won't be able to read the article you were hoping to read.
The web has already become useless. Every site is so loaded with crap ads, you can't even FIND the content you were googling for. So go ahead, add the DRM. It won't change anything. It won't work, it'll cost more money to implement, and you'll get less ad revenue as even more people give up as I have.
Take your smartphone, tablet, kindle, whatever... that device you don't consider to a be a "PC". Now stick it in a Time Machine and send it back to 1985. Show it to the editors of BYTE Magazine and ask them if it's a personal computer or not. They will tell you that it is.
Furthermore, your "device" in 1985 would be the most powerful PC there is, and actually qualify as a supercomputer, and be restricted from export from the USA because it would qualify as a threat to national security. Think about that.
Dude; Did you ever see Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo? This was a 16-bit PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATION. It turned a "game console" into a paint program and it was was even capable of doing animation. So, yes, a game console *is* a PC -- I mean, you do realize that in Japan, the Nintendo was sold as the Famicom, and even came with a keyboard, right?????
Then yes, it's a PC. If it's something smaller than a Mainframe, and you can do something DIGITAL with it, then it's generally a PC.
Smartphones certainly apply, since, well, let's see, you can do everything on it that qualifies as a PC; Type notes, play games, connect to a network, transfer files, etc. Hell, my phone has more capability in the computing field than my first computer did (a Sinclair ZX-81) - and with a bluetooth keyboard, the phone is a better word processor!
If it can load a program of your choice and run it, it's in the right area as a general purpose computing device, and if it's yours, it's PC. So, yes, Apple could qualify as largest PC vendor.
The very first Electronic Entertainment Expo, held in LA (at the Staples Center if I recall correctly), had the Sony and Microsoft booths next to one another. (MS, if I recall was squeezed between Sony and Sega) Sony's was HUGE, as they were at the time, pushing the Playstation (which wasn't even out in the USA yet, but had been released in Japan). Sega had already released the Sega Saturn and was pushing some 3-D dragon game (forgot the name).
MS's booth, was not so big, they were showing flight simulator and a few other entertainment packages for the PC. MS, used to being the biggest player at any PC/computer show, was not used to being dwarfed by the behemoths of Sony, Sega, and Nintendo.
When Sony ran an entire Marching Band through MS's booth (and around the entire show), I think MS had had enough and decided then and there to get into the Console Biz.
Wasn't there an old program (Nuke 'em on the Mac I think), that would send out-of-band data (whatever that was), and it would crash the TCP/IP stack on Windows NT 3.51? There was another program on Linux called Pam Slam or something like that, that would also bring down NT servers... Very popular in the early days of the web to bring down your competitor's website.
Seriously; what are they going to do? After six strikes they take away my internet access? And? I have Verizon FIOS. I live in an area where Comcast sends me junk mail every damn day to switch over to them instead.
So, I get six strikes from Verizon... Oopps. So I cancel my account and then Comcast gets my money. Then I get six strikes from Comcast, and I cancel my account and by this time Verizon will be happy to take me back, in fact, I'll probably get a lower rate than I originally had.
Or if not, there's other competing ISPs I can find. If you live in a big enough market, there's internet all over the place. "Six Strikes" isn't going to stop anyone unless you're talking about users in dial-up-ville Arkansas.
So, let me get this straight... This shmoe could face up to 105 years because of "XX" number of counts of the exact same crime.
By that way of thinking, each perpetrator of the LIBOR fixing scandal committed acts which affected millions or perhaps billions of people. Shouldn't THEIR sentence be something then on the order of millions of years of prison?
And yet, NOT ONE person is going to go to jail for LIBOR. Aaron committed suicide over his potential 50 years, for downloading some crap, but LIBOR guys are going to have their banks pay a small fine, they are still going to get their bonuses, corner offices, mansions, Ferraris, Yachts and hot babes in bikinis.
Dude, if your going to commit a crime, think big -- as in "too big to fail", "too big to prosecute" -- Frankly, if Lance Armstrong had just been Lance Armstrong Bank, he'd still have all his medals, and everyone would still be doing business with him, because they'd have no choice.
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Particularly the adult services... But I do tip well afterwards.
"IMO capital gains shouldn't be taxed if the initial investment was through income that's already been taxed."
So true. And when I go out an buy a car, why should I pay tax on any purchase? After all, the money that I'm using to buy the car was ALREADY TAXED... So, technically, there shouldn't be tax on ANYTHING after that money was taxed, right?
Why is there tax on my phone bill? Or when I go to the grocery store? Or fly to some destination for vacation? Or buy gas?
Right, because living on the dole is sooooooo much better than becoming wealthy. I should stop working right now, give up my car, live in a crime ridden neighborhood, have no access to healthcare, eat crap food, and barely survive, just to NOT be taxed. You've convinced me!
Look, idiot, first of all, the wealthy currently pay LESS taxes than the middle class. I'm really, really, really FREAKING tired of hearing rich bastards complain that that their taxes are going to go up and that somehow raising your taxes by 3% is the end of the world as we know it, and you're now paying more than people who earn below the poverty level. Boo freaking hoo. If most of your income is from investments, you're paying 15% federal income tax while I'm probably paying close to 35%.
Secondly the entire tax code is geared to benefit the wealthy. There's a zillion Tax Shelters, loopholes, and other flotsam that makes your taxes lower than most if you're in the $million+ club. And if you have a good accountant (and if you're rich you surely do), he can work a little magic that makes your taxes even lower!
Back during the Eishenhower administration, the wealthy were taxed at 90% -- and he was a Republican! So, get your panties out of a knot, man up, and pay your damn taxes. It's not just the right thing to do, it's the price you pay for civilization. I mean, unless you're looking forward to a French Revolution kind of future.
All posts to all forums should from here on in, come from Sen. Ira Silverstein. Should be easy enough to get his address, IP, and even a few other juicy details. Make all anon. posts come from this turkey and sooner or later, he'll get the point.
And that's when we're burning down D.C. with pitchforks and torches. Unfortunately, we're sheep and will never do that. We're afraid of our government, when our government should be afraid of us -- which is why this country is finished, done, kaput. The only people that matter are the 1%, and they are running the show. We do not matter at all, the USA is simply a giant Ponzi Scheme.
Just give me $350 Billion dollars --- said greedy defense contractor.
So, lemme get this straight... If you live in a tropical paradise, you're happier than if you live in a state with a depressed economy and terrible weather.
In other news, grass is green.
Actually, a better question is why BLOOM energy's fuel cells, which are supposedly revolutionary, isn't a backup power source for an electric car? And whatever happened to those ultracapacitors? And Solar Cells? It's surprising to me that NO ONE has combined all the available technologies into one usable vehicle -- as the guys who go 'off grid' are able to glean from many energy sources to power their trailer homes.
Ran that sucker on a MacII with 8bit color at SVA's computer lab when it was on the East side 21st street...
Bruce Wands and Burt Monroy were both very excited about this product as it was much more powerful than "Digital Darkroom".
This *will* be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
It's Bye-Bye MS. And Apple haters complain about "vendor lock in" -- Why do I get the feeling that if I were to buy a copy of office, it would be from the Chinese Pirates?
I work for a large bank. When I mean large, I mean one of the top three. I have to regularly review code changes going into the Mainframe (yes, we have a mainframe). I see programs that not only have comments that go back into 1980, I see ports of programs that appear to come from times even earlier than that.
Management has spent the last 6 years feverishly attempting to get rid of the entire mainframe and everything that goes with it, and bring everything into "a distributed environment", but so far we are still here. And what's more, I see more new programs going in than I see old programs being retired. That tells me we're here for a few more years, and maybe a few more years after that. COBOL isn't going away, at least not until the last Russian programmer dies.
"Nobody has lost a job in the US because someone else could do the job in another country for less."
Hrmm. Obviously, you've never worked in IT.
I know hundreds of people who were removed from their positions because someone on the other side of the planet could do the same job (actually, they did the job much worse, but apparently that's irrelevant compared to cost) for less than half the price, plus, they aren't being employed as an "employee" so, no health care, matching 401k contributions, or any of that other nonsense that makes a regular employee so expensive.
I have a Sun 3/160 -- 68020 Motorola CPU, VME-based cards in a steel chassis. 16MB of RAM. Two (5.25inch full-height) 150Mb SCSI HDs for a total of 300MB. Runs SunOS 4.1 -- that's NOT Solaris, but SunOS -- which was BSD based. Probably cost a small fortune when it was first built in the early 80's... And now, it's not even worth the electricity used to run it.
The ads will load into your browser, but not the content you were trying to access. The Ads will play a video, but then the video you were trying to see will generate an error. While you're at work, an annoying sound will come from the ads, but you still won't be able to read the article you were hoping to read.
The web has already become useless. Every site is so loaded with crap ads, you can't even FIND the content you were googling for. So go ahead, add the DRM. It won't change anything. It won't work, it'll cost more money to implement, and you'll get less ad revenue as even more people give up as I have.
Long live the web, death to the web.
Take your smartphone, tablet, kindle, whatever... that device you don't consider to a be a "PC". Now stick it in a Time Machine and send it back to 1985. Show it to the editors of BYTE Magazine and ask them if it's a personal computer or not. They will tell you that it is.
Furthermore, your "device" in 1985 would be the most powerful PC there is, and actually qualify as a supercomputer, and be restricted from export from the USA because it would qualify as a threat to national security. Think about that.
Dude; Did you ever see Mario Paint for the Super Nintendo? This was a 16-bit PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATION. It turned a "game console" into a paint program and it was was even capable of doing animation. So, yes, a game console *is* a PC -- I mean, you do realize that in Japan, the Nintendo was sold as the Famicom, and even came with a keyboard, right?????
Then yes, it's a PC. If it's something smaller than a Mainframe, and you can do something DIGITAL with it, then it's generally a PC.
Smartphones certainly apply, since, well, let's see, you can do everything on it that qualifies as a PC; Type notes, play games, connect to a network, transfer files, etc. Hell, my phone has more capability in the computing field than my first computer did (a Sinclair ZX-81) - and with a bluetooth keyboard, the phone is a better word processor!
If it can load a program of your choice and run it, it's in the right area as a general purpose computing device, and if it's yours, it's PC. So, yes, Apple could qualify as largest PC vendor.
The very first Electronic Entertainment Expo, held in LA (at the Staples Center if I recall correctly), had the Sony and Microsoft booths next to one another. (MS, if I recall was squeezed between Sony and Sega) Sony's was HUGE, as they were at the time, pushing the Playstation (which wasn't even out in the USA yet, but had been released in Japan). Sega had already released the Sega Saturn and was pushing some 3-D dragon game (forgot the name).
MS's booth, was not so big, they were showing flight simulator and a few other entertainment packages for the PC. MS, used to being the biggest player at any PC/computer show, was not used to being dwarfed by the behemoths of Sony, Sega, and Nintendo.
When Sony ran an entire Marching Band through MS's booth (and around the entire show), I think MS had had enough and decided then and there to get into the Console Biz.
Just found out what she looks like..... Never mind. Can we strip the German Chick from Top Gear instead? Sabine Schmitt?
Pics or it didn't happen... Ohh la la.
Come on, I can't be the first one to think of this joke....
Wasn't there an old program (Nuke 'em on the Mac I think), that would send out-of-band data (whatever that was), and it would crash the TCP/IP stack on Windows NT 3.51? There was another program on Linux called Pam Slam or something like that, that would also bring down NT servers... Very popular in the early days of the web to bring down your competitor's website.
Seriously; what are they going to do? After six strikes they take away my internet access? And? I have Verizon FIOS. I live in an area where Comcast sends me junk mail every damn day to switch over to them instead.
So, I get six strikes from Verizon... Oopps. So I cancel my account and then Comcast gets my money. Then I get six strikes from Comcast, and I cancel my account and by this time Verizon will be happy to take me back, in fact, I'll probably get a lower rate than I originally had.
Or if not, there's other competing ISPs I can find. If you live in a big enough market, there's internet all over the place. "Six Strikes" isn't going to stop anyone unless you're talking about users in dial-up-ville Arkansas.
Sung to well-known Limp Bizkit song....
"He did it all for the lookie!, The lookie, the lookie.
So you can take that cookie and stik it up your YEAH.
Stick it up your YEAH!
So, let me get this straight...
This shmoe could face up to 105 years because of "XX" number of counts of the exact same crime.
By that way of thinking, each perpetrator of the LIBOR fixing scandal committed acts which affected millions or perhaps billions of people. Shouldn't THEIR sentence be something then on the order of millions of years of prison?
And yet, NOT ONE person is going to go to jail for LIBOR. Aaron committed suicide over his potential 50 years, for downloading some crap, but LIBOR guys are going to have their banks pay a small fine, they are still going to get their bonuses, corner offices, mansions, Ferraris, Yachts and hot babes in bikinis.
Dude, if your going to commit a crime, think big -- as in "too big to fail", "too big to prosecute" -- Frankly, if Lance Armstrong had just been Lance Armstrong Bank, he'd still have all his medals, and everyone would still be doing business with him, because they'd have no choice.