I understand that I am responsible for the sales tax on items I purchase from other states. The $2500 tax bill was not for the 6% sales tax, but the $2.00 per pack "sin tax" that was recently enacted.
Ignorance may be no excuse, but the state certainly never went out of its way to let people know they are assuming authority to collect an excise tax on out of state purchases. I would think it in their best interest to supply the cigarette shops with some information. It would be in their best interest to pass that information to their customer.
Before the dollar dropped, it was cheaper to buy cigarettes in Canada than Michigan. In Canada smokers take on a large burden of the nation's health care costs.
"This product is not going to be about performance," said a source close to Apple. "This is going to be the basics, but with just as much of a focus on software as any Mac could ever be."
Now, can they sell a $500 Mac without any software?
I would really like a chance to play with this hardware, but have no desire to learn another OS. Being a niche market to begin with, it would seem that Apple could profit by looking at very small markets. They could even select a *NIX oriented site to do all marketing and distribution to not risk confusing its core customers.
Microsoft dismissed Mozilla's pretensions to its Outlook throne, noting that the vast majority of enterprise Outlook users rely on Outlook's integration with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server.
What we need now is a shady lawyer to sue MS, prove a monopoly in corporate email servers, and force them to open up Exchange so competing apps can integrate in the same manner. There has to be a way for a lawyer to profit from this.
The number of exploits in IE make it nearly impossible to patch a system from a fresh install quickly enough to not be compromised.
Note: this is saying patched by Windows XP Service Pack 2. Even with a good connection that is not a quick process. You may recall several horror stories of broken apps caused by SP2; I do not know if they have patches for all of those quite yet.
Seriously, how many people, whether family or friends, wouldn't think of you as a fanatic or total nerd if you went around giving Linux as a christmas gift.
Seriously, if people don't already think I'm a fanatic or a total nerd I don't know them well enough for them to be on my Christmas list.
I doubt that the LP gains many converts from the Democrats.
There are many democrats that are worried about our eroding civil liberties that the democrats in power don't seem to care about. Think of the LP as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. If I had to choose between the two majors, I'd always go democrat. Fortunately we've a libertarian option.
As far as damages go -- what damages?
With the publicity generated from a televised debate, the LP would not have to spend nearly as much on ballot access. I would think that what was spent on access for the 2004 election and legal fees would be a reasonable judgement.
Republicans and democrats both tend to make the government grow. Increased spending buys lots of votes.
The big difference in recent history is that Democrats pay for it out of existing taxes, republicans pay with future taxes. That is how the term 'tax and spend democrat' care around.
Overall, I believe tax and spend is more conservative than cut taxes and spend. The cut and spend is one reason I can't expect social security when it's my turn.
Badnarik plans on crashing as well. Text of campaign email:
*"IT IS NOT TOO SOON FOR HONEST MEN TO REBEL..."
Badnarik: I will debate or be arrested*
October 8, 2004 For Immediate Release Contact:
Stephen P. Gordon
Office: (512) 637-6867 Cell: (256) 227-8360
communications@badnarik.org {mailto:communications@badnarik.org}
Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party's 2004 presidential nominee,
will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or
he'll go to jail instead.
"A majority of Americans say that I should be included in the events
sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates," says Badnarik,
50, of Austin, Texas. "And the CPD, as a non-profit, has received
special treatment from government on the requirement that they be
non-partisan in their activities. Bi-partisan is not non-partisan.
"Unless I am allowed to participate, the debates become a massive
campaign contribution to two of the candidates, illegal under the very
campaign finance laws those two candidates have passed and signed as
Senator and President."
At 8 p.m. on Friday evening, Badnarik, along with the demonstrators
expected to assemble in protest against his exclusion, will proceed to
the police line erected to keep himself and the other legitimate
candidates out during broadcast of the "bi-partisan campaign
commercial."
And then he will cross it.
"We'd have preferred to see John Kerry and George Bush stand up like
men to debate the issues facing America," says Badnarik's
communications director, Stephen Gordon. "However, they have
interposed the machinery of government between the American people and
the honest debate which must precede any honest election. Now it's up
to patriots like Michael Badnarik to force the issue." In Arizona, the
Libertarian Party is taking the state university to court to prevent
the expenditure of state money on a similar event.
Badnarik has previously debated David Cobb, the Green Party's
candidate; Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party; and Walt Brown
of the Socialist Party. Kerry and Bush, as well as Independent Ralph
Nader, declined to participate in those debates. Tomorrow morning, he
will proceed from a New York taping with Bill Moyers to St. Louis,
ready to take on the Republican and Democratic machines in defense of
American democracy.
Voters in 48 states and the District of Columbia will be able to vote
for Badnarik on November 2nd. More than 600 Libertarians currently
serve in public office across the United States.
-30-
Additional press information:
- The protest will proceed from Northmoor Park on Big Bend Ave., just
south of Washington University to the corner of Big Bend and Forsyth,
where the police line is expected to be arrayed. Badnarik's crossing
onto the Washington University campus will take place at that point,
some time between 8 and 8:15 p.m. Badnarik and Green Party
presidential candidate David Cobb plan to cross the police line
together.
- The headline quote is from Thoreau, and intended to apply to the US
occupation of Iraq:
"In other words, when... a whole country is unjustly overrun and
conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think
that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize.
What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so
overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army." -- Henry David
Thoreau,/On the Duty of Civil Disobedience/
...plan to compel Internet broadband and VoIP providers to open their networks up to easy surveillance by law enforcement agencies.
My understanding is that this will remove the option of changing ISPs to avoid the abuses, as all ISPs would have to allow the abuses.
This law made previously secure digital phone networks tappable. This is intended to make transcripts of secure communication available to law enforcement. As each new layer of encryption is added, more keys will be provided to the feds.
Slashdot Mirror
RISC Processors are cool.
http://print.google.com/
It would be more fun to have a contest.
Put an unpatched W95 and an unpatched WXPP on your network and see which is compromised first.
Does anyone still store data valued over $5.00 on a Windows system?
I understand that I am responsible for the sales tax on items I purchase from other states. The $2500 tax bill was not for the 6% sales tax, but the $2.00 per pack "sin tax" that was recently enacted. Ignorance may be no excuse, but the state certainly never went out of its way to let people know they are assuming authority to collect an excise tax on out of state purchases. I would think it in their best interest to supply the cigarette shops with some information. It would be in their best interest to pass that information to their customer. Before the dollar dropped, it was cheaper to buy cigarettes in Canada than Michigan. In Canada smokers take on a large burden of the nation's health care costs.
Or you could spend less time and do a quick search. Link
So, what OS does it look like now?
The conservative argument will be about eminant domain vs. private property rights.
It's not that they were written because they are now relevant; rather they are getting attention because sensational news does sell.
I would really like a chance to play with this hardware, but have no desire to learn another OS. Being a niche market to begin with, it would seem that Apple could profit by looking at very small markets. They could even select a *NIX oriented site to do all marketing and distribution to not risk confusing its core customers.
What we need now is a shady lawyer to sue MS, prove a monopoly in corporate email servers, and force them to open up Exchange so competing apps can integrate in the same manner. There has to be a way for a lawyer to profit from this.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host= skyos.org
It's called treason. Yes, it is a capital crime under federal statute.
I do not see this as a threat to bit torrent as it is not removing the arguement of having other, valid uses.
Note: this is saying patched by Windows XP Service Pack 2. Even with a good connection that is not a quick process. You may recall several horror stories of broken apps caused by SP2; I do not know if they have patches for all of those quite yet.
Seriously, if people don't already think I'm a fanatic or a total nerd I don't know them well enough for them to be on my Christmas list.
Which could be "patched" quite easily on the machines. No reason to put the tinfoil hats away.
The utopean scheme of the LP is to limit government to what was envisioned when the US Constitution was devised.
There are many democrats that are worried about our eroding civil liberties that the democrats in power don't seem to care about. Think of the LP as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative. If I had to choose between the two majors, I'd always go democrat. Fortunately we've a libertarian option.
With the publicity generated from a televised debate, the LP would not have to spend nearly as much on ballot access. I would think that what was spent on access for the 2004 election and legal fees would be a reasonable judgement.
The big difference in recent history is that Democrats pay for it out of existing taxes, republicans pay with future taxes. That is how the term 'tax and spend democrat' care around.
Overall, I believe tax and spend is more conservative than cut taxes and spend. The cut and spend is one reason I can't expect social security when it's my turn.
My understanding is that this will remove the option of changing ISPs to avoid the abuses, as all ISPs would have to allow the abuses.
This law made previously secure digital phone networks tappable. This is intended to make transcripts of secure communication available to law enforcement. As each new layer of encryption is added, more keys will be provided to the feds.
Remember, in an absolute democracy 51 people can vote to eat the other 49.