When the next generation of 64bit PCs come out, will they switch back to the PC?
Price is one issue, Power is another, the G5 is good right now, perhaps the best right now, but in a year? in two years? On the hardware side I just don't think Apple can keep up.
They were hiring Americans? Since when ? Haha saying they might stop hiring when they already stopped hiring after being rewarded with a trillion dollar tax cut has to be a joke.
Who cares about the future economy? The point is the present economy was great and we werent in a deficit, I could care less if we have a million bubbles one after the other, we'd all be living better living in the bubble than living in reality.
Anna Coulter says I hate America, plenty of Slashdotters would love to see me locked in a prison camp, and prisons do have internet access, well some of them anyhow.
Actually, Dean wants to spend that tax money giving people free healthcare.
Alot of families will benefit when they get higher pay, the economy will benefit when companies no longer have to give you healthcare. Think about it alittle more before coming to conclusions, this would be great for the middle class, I think it could be a bit of a problem for the drug and medicine industry but for the individual universal healthcare is great.
Millionaire is not rich, 1 million dollars is enough to buy maybe a nice house, alot of working families do have 1 million in assets, now if you have 5 or 10 million cash in the bank then maybe you are rich.
How do you figure we are wealthy when your hero George Bush just passed trillions in tax cuts? In response I had to vote for a Republican Mitt Romney and now we are downsizing, my tuition is higher because theres less financial aid, the schools are firing teachers by the thousands because theres no money to pay them, the police were fired by the thousands, so yeah thousands of workers are now out of a job here.
Are we wealthy? We were under Clinton, now we actually owe 20 billion dollars or so because we wasted money on the big dig, and our taxes are being lowed to attract people to our biotechnology/service based economy which is taking off.
We are the silicon valley of biotech, so we do have the best hospitals and colleges, our government is broke however.
Why are we going to use Open Source? Because Mitt Romney is a genius, he knows how to cut spending, and while I dont agree with all of his stances, hes exactly what we need at this time.
Who was President when it happened? Who was responsible for our security? OF course its George Bush's fault, his prime responsibility as President is to defend our country's national security.
Bush had his guard down and we were attacked, and the trillion dollar tax cut really was a stupid idea because we didnt even have the money to fall back on thanks to his stupidity.
Come on man be realistic, you know thats not going to happen and even if it did, It wont happen overnight, what? You expect it all to happen in a matter of months?
The trillion dollar tax cut left us with no money to fund all these wars and all this spending. This is why theres no money going to states to fight the war on terror.
Its all about what Bush does. Name one thing hes done right so far, just one.
From a conservative viewpoint he has not done anything conservative, he didnt outlaw abortion, instead hes busy trying to prevent stem cell research and stop gays from getting married. He did not accomplish a damn thing but his tax cuts.
Tell me what hes done, government is bigger, taxes are higher, 3 million jobs were lost, this isnt political,Reagan didnt do this bad, George Bush is just a miserable failure who cant do anything right and it has nothing to do with his party or politics, It has everything to do with his stupidity.
Where will the money come from to fund these new tougher standards for public schools? Who is going to fund it? Oh thats right States will cut spending and pull the money out of their magicians hat in the same way George Bush pulls money out of the magicians hat to pay for rebuilding Iraq.
Hows 87 billion sound? Its not really alot of money but I bet its more than all our states have. Iraq is the size of California right? Why arent we giving California 87 billion? Open your eyes.
You could see that Mr. Bush is trying to stop the $pending $pree that states are on. Don't blame him for 'forcing' states to do anything. States have been relying on the federal tit for way too long.
So who pays for homeland security? All these new security features, all these new police, patrols, and technologies.
Where is the money for the war on terrorism supposed to come from? Oh right, the tree of money in the backyard? wait no, maybe from the air, we just think of $$ and money appears to fight terror!
Why do I want higher Federal taxes? State taxes don't have to hit the poor, states can adopt a progressive system. Nothing is stopping them.
No states cant, Some states dont have rich people living in them. Sure New York could adopt a progressive tax, so could California, and Boston, but what about all the other states in the country? Also if we do that people will move out of New York and the whole economy will shift and change.
Also who are the "liberals" I'm assuming you mean the Democrats. Guess what, I'm not a liberal.
How is my post trolling? Its the truth, anyone who reads it knows its the truth.
We were in a frigging surplus until Bush came around and just threw trillions of dollars in tax cuts out the window. Maybe if he had waited before rushing to cut taxes we would have had the money to fund all these wars and homeland security.
Personally, I'd like to see the states look less for new taxes and new revenue and more for ways to cut their bloated budgets. Enumerate all the programs that were added since 1995, cut them all out of the budget, and then see how far into the hole you are!
Oh please, you actually think a state thats been democratic for 10 or 20 years is going to instantly become republican and conservative over night? These things take years, you have to pay for the current bills before you can downsize. Look, unless you want states to lay off millions of employees all at once and make the unemployement numbers skyrocket, you as President would be better off just giving states money to fund their essential services while they cut slowly over the course of your 4 years in office.
The problem with Bush, he just cut taxes and then actually increased spending burdens on the state by starting the homeland security. Why didnt George W Bush bailout states after 911? He bailed out the airline industry over and over again, why not give a trillion dollars to help states and cancel the tax cut? He could have done this after 911 and we wouldnt even be talking about taxing the internet right now.
Why do I want higher state taxes? Unlike federal taxes, state taxes tax the poor, federal taxes usually come back to me so we poor and middle class usually dont have to pay much federal tax. We get tax benefits.
So what is the result of Bush's tax cuts? Well now the poor pay more taxes than ever due to the rising SALES taxes and state taxes, property taxes and income taxes.
I'd rather just have a higher federal taxes since I dont pay federal taxes anyway.
George Bush is not conservative. A conservative believes in smaller government. Bush has his own agenda, I repeat George Bush is not a conservative.
Will conservatives please stop voting for him, vote libertarian for all I care, but if you want smaller government and lower state taxes you know damn well Bush is not the guy.
How did the tax cut hurt the economy? Federal tax cut == state tax increases == damaged local economy.
You cannot just cut taxes by a trillion dollars over night, you have to slowly let states downsize their government, Bush did not fund states to give them time to resize government and that is why they are forced to hike taxes to pay for expenses which they have been paying for over the last 5-10 years.
First he needs to stop spending so much money on OTHER countries. If he is going to spend I'd rather he spend it on our states so we can pay less taxes.
Second I'd say that states dont have the money to spend while the federal government does, so telling states to stop spending so much is moot, states are already forced to cut spending, how about we start a petition to get Bush to reduce the size of government and stop spending so much.
This is no accident, who do you think fucked up the budget with over spending and trillions of dollars in tax cuts? Maybe if our government werent running in a deficit we wouldnt have a problem saying "Dont tax the internet"
To all the people who say cutting federal taxes creates jobs, you are wrong, cutting state AND federal taxes will create jobs.
If you just cut federal taxes all it does is cause state taxes to rise, if you cut state taxes and raise federal taxes on everyone same situation.
So what is Bush going to do to make states lower taxes?
This is all George Bush's fault. By cutting federal taxes and forcing states to spend more money by implementing the homeland security without properly funding it with federal dollars, what he has forced states to do is raise taxes to fix the deficit.
Thank you Mr. George W. Bush for ruining the 8 years of Clintons tax free internet, causing us to lose 3 million jobs and counting, ruining our relations with the UN, and causing my state and sales taxes to raise just so you can give a tax cut to the rich who werent even asking for it.
Oh and also thanks for hiking my tuition, causing my property taxes to go out, raising the crime rates, and last but not least thanks for wasting billions of dollars on Iraq which could be given to states.
So what will Mr. George Bush's response be? His response will be "TAX CUTS!"
Slashdot Mirror
Forget about the speed of light, how long exactly in nano seconds does it take for a site to get Slashdotted?
How about an experiment?
When the next generation of 64bit PCs come out, will they switch back to the PC?
Price is one issue, Power is another, the G5 is good right now, perhaps the best right now, but in a year? in two years? On the hardware side I just don't think Apple can keep up.
They were hiring Americans? Since when ? Haha saying they might stop hiring when they already stopped hiring after being rewarded with a trillion dollar tax cut has to be a joke.
I'd buy the music if they have anything good.
Who cares about the future economy? The point is the present economy was great and we werent in a deficit, I could care less if we have a million bubbles one after the other, we'd all be living better living in the bubble than living in reality.
Anna Coulter says I hate America, plenty of Slashdotters would love to see me locked in a prison camp, and prisons do have internet access, well some of them anyhow.
You get my point.
Actually, Dean wants to spend that tax money giving people free healthcare.
Alot of families will benefit when they get higher pay, the economy will benefit when companies no longer have to give you healthcare. Think about it alittle more before coming to conclusions, this would be great for the middle class, I think it could be a bit of a problem for the drug and medicine industry but for the individual universal healthcare is great.
Millionaire is not rich, 1 million dollars is enough to buy maybe a nice house, alot of working families do have 1 million in assets, now if you have 5 or 10 million cash in the bank then maybe you are rich.
How do you figure we are wealthy when your hero George Bush just passed trillions in tax cuts? In response I had to vote for a Republican Mitt Romney and now we are downsizing, my tuition is higher because theres less financial aid, the schools are firing teachers by the thousands because theres no money to pay them, the police were fired by the thousands, so yeah thousands of workers are now out of a job here.
Are we wealthy? We were under Clinton, now we actually owe 20 billion dollars or so because we wasted money on the big dig, and our taxes are being lowed to attract people to our biotechnology/service based economy which is taking off.
We are the silicon valley of biotech, so we do have the best hospitals and colleges, our government is broke however.
Why are we going to use Open Source? Because Mitt Romney is a genius, he knows how to cut spending, and while I dont agree with all of his stances, hes exactly what we need at this time.
I voted for Mitt Romney.
But hey all of us who dont agree with George Bush are liberal communists who hate American and support terrorism.
So please lock me up in a camp where I belong, maybe Hitler was right.
Exactly, which is why we pay state taxes and city taxes. What will be next? Town taxes?
Who was President when it happened? Who was responsible for our security? OF course its George Bush's fault, his prime responsibility as President is to defend our country's national security.
Bush had his guard down and we were attacked, and the trillion dollar tax cut really was a stupid idea because we didnt even have the money to fall back on thanks to his stupidity.
Come on man be realistic, you know thats not going to happen and even if it did, It wont happen overnight, what? You expect it all to happen in a matter of months?
The trillion dollar tax cut left us with no money to fund all these wars and all this spending. This is why theres no money going to states to fight the war on terror.
Its all about what Bush does. Name one thing hes done right so far, just one.
From a conservative viewpoint he has not done anything conservative, he didnt outlaw abortion, instead hes busy trying to prevent stem cell research and stop gays from getting married. He did not accomplish a damn thing but his tax cuts.
Tell me what hes done, government is bigger, taxes are higher, 3 million jobs were lost, this isnt political
Where will the money come from to fund these new tougher standards for public schools? Who is going to fund it? Oh thats right States will cut spending and pull the money out of their magicians hat in the same way George Bush pulls money out of the magicians hat to pay for rebuilding Iraq.
Hows 87 billion sound? Its not really alot of money but I bet its more than all our states have. Iraq is the size of California right? Why arent we giving California 87 billion? Open your eyes.
You could see that Mr. Bush is trying to stop the $pending $pree that states are on. Don't blame him for 'forcing' states to do anything. States have been relying on the federal tit for way too long.
So who pays for homeland security? All these new security features, all these new police, patrols, and technologies.
Where is the money for the war on terrorism supposed to come from? Oh right, the tree of money in the backyard? wait no, maybe from the air, we just think of $$ and money appears to fight terror!
Why do I want higher Federal taxes? State taxes don't have to hit the poor, states can adopt a progressive system. Nothing is stopping them.
No states cant, Some states dont have rich people living in them. Sure New York could adopt a progressive tax, so could California, and Boston, but what about all the other states in the country? Also if we do that people will move out of New York and the whole economy will shift and change.
Also who are the "liberals" I'm assuming you mean the Democrats. Guess what, I'm not a liberal.
How is my post trolling? Its the truth, anyone who reads it knows its the truth.
We were in a frigging surplus until Bush came around and just threw trillions of dollars in tax cuts out the window. Maybe if he had waited before rushing to cut taxes we would have had the money to fund all these wars and homeland security.
Personally, I'd like to see the states look less for new taxes and new revenue and more for ways to cut their bloated budgets. Enumerate all the programs that were added since 1995, cut them all out of the budget, and then see how far into the hole you are!
Oh please, you actually think a state thats been democratic for 10 or 20 years is going to instantly become republican and conservative over night? These things take years, you have to pay for the current bills before you can downsize. Look, unless you want states to lay off millions of employees all at once and make the unemployement numbers skyrocket, you as President would be better off just giving states money to fund their essential services while they cut slowly over the course of your 4 years in office.
The problem with Bush, he just cut taxes and then actually increased spending burdens on the state by starting the homeland security. Why didnt George W Bush bailout states after 911? He bailed out the airline industry over and over again, why not give a trillion dollars to help states and cancel the tax cut? He could have done this after 911 and we wouldnt even be talking about taxing the internet right now.
Why do I want higher state taxes? Unlike federal taxes, state taxes tax the poor, federal taxes usually come back to me so we poor and middle class usually dont have to pay much federal tax. We get tax benefits.
So what is the result of Bush's tax cuts? Well now the poor pay more taxes than ever due to the rising SALES taxes and state taxes, property taxes and income taxes.
I'd rather just have a higher federal taxes since I dont pay federal taxes anyway.
George Bush is not conservative. A conservative believes in smaller government. Bush has his own agenda, I repeat George Bush is not a conservative.
Will conservatives please stop voting for him, vote libertarian for all I care, but if you want smaller government and lower state taxes you know damn well Bush is not the guy.
How did the tax cut hurt the economy? Federal tax cut == state tax increases == damaged local economy.
You cannot just cut taxes by a trillion dollars over night, you have to slowly let states downsize their government, Bush did not fund states to give them time to resize government and that is why they are forced to hike taxes to pay for expenses which they have been paying for over the last 5-10 years.
First he needs to stop spending so much money on OTHER countries. If he is going to spend I'd rather he spend it on our states so we can pay less taxes.
Second I'd say that states dont have the money to spend while the federal government does, so telling states to stop spending so much is moot, states are already forced to cut spending, how about we start a petition to get Bush to reduce the size of government and stop spending so much.
Who is with me?
This is no accident, who do you think fucked up the budget with over spending and trillions of dollars in tax cuts? Maybe if our government werent running in a deficit we wouldnt have a problem saying "Dont tax the internet"
To all the people who say cutting federal taxes creates jobs, you are wrong, cutting state AND federal taxes will create jobs.
If you just cut federal taxes all it does is cause state taxes to rise, if you cut state taxes and raise federal taxes on everyone same situation.
So what is Bush going to do to make states lower taxes?
This is all George Bush's fault. By cutting federal taxes and forcing states to spend more money by implementing the homeland security without properly funding it with federal dollars, what he has forced states to do is raise taxes to fix the deficit.
Thank you Mr. George W. Bush for ruining the 8 years of Clintons tax free internet, causing us to lose 3 million jobs and counting, ruining our relations with the UN, and causing my state and sales taxes to raise just so you can give a tax cut to the rich who werent even asking for it.
Oh and also thanks for hiking my tuition, causing my property taxes to go out, raising the crime rates, and last but not least thanks for wasting billions of dollars on Iraq which could be given to states.
So what will Mr. George Bush's response be? His response will be "TAX CUTS!"
We know federal tax cuts just solve everything.
The only thing Windows does on the Desktop thats so great is games and niche software.