Even before prop 30, California had the fourth highest tax burden of the 50 states. The average _state_ tax burden was $4,934 per person. Their tax _revenue_ dropped like stone because businesses and other money moved to Nevada (second lowest taxes) and Texas (6th lowest taxes).
So, I'll FTFY:
A person may not be stupid, but people are. They'll vote higher taxes and more social services, then you end up with California.
Prenda and eleven other assholes file a lot of baseless claims, so yeah we're seeing it in those cases. Prenda isn't common, though. On the day Prenda filed their latest baseless suit, thousands of ordinary Americans sued the guy who ran into them, felled a tree onto their house etc.
I believe it's pretty rare. I'm not a lawyer, I just play one in court. I believe it's just when there's a decent chance you'll be ordered to pay the defendant's costs, and due to using a shell company or some other reason the costs may not be paid as ordered.
Consider this if a bond were required for all suits. If a bond costs 10% of the face amount, and General Motors can claim they spent $10 million defending a lawsuit related to faulty brakes, that would be an extra $1 million cost before you're allowed to sue if your brakes fail and you're horribly injured. I wouldn't want the victims to have to pay an extra million before they can sue. In every case, the plaintiff is claiming they're a victim of something the plaintiff did, and most often it's true.
That's one reason for the shell companies that patent trolls use. The company that filed suit probably has no money. A ruling that they have to pay the defendant's costs is worthless. That is unless the judge had them put up a bond for that possibility when the case began.
The Constitution clearly states that it's allow, deny. Starting in 1942, many politicians flout their oath to uphold the Constitution and pretend it's allow,deny.
This is true. Windows makes a fine desktop. Microsoft's IDE is quite nice. Windows is not a server operating system, and printing "server" on the box doesn't make it one.
Repeat after me "the federal government does not have general police power". "The federal government does not have general police power". See United States v. Dewitt, Employers' Liability Cases, Keller and the 10th amendment, which reads:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Find scam doctors" is not one of those delegated powers, which are listed in article 1, section 8.
This part of the filing on page was interesting: The DEA is not required to obtain a court order based on probable cause to issue a subpoena or to have it enforced.
What else do they do, you ask? They support Seamonkey, Firefox's older brother. Firefox began as a stripped down,lightweight, minimalist version of Seamonkey. Though Firefox is no longer lightweight, Seamonkey is still more capable in some respects. The suite includes an email client and WYSIWYG editor, but I just like the browser.
While Firefox is controlled by the Mozilla Foundation, Seamonkey is community driven now, with hosting and other support from the foundation.
It's sad that after NSA, IRS etc. we're all so jaded we can't just enjoy this as something cool. A remote control plane that's an F-16. That's pretty badass.
Now back to your regularly scheduled realism about the government.
Same here. Margaritas also played a key role. Had I been smarter, I would have made my own fertility app that said "its time" whenever _I_ wanted to have some romance .
That's exactly when the FDA should step in, and when they have, historically. It doesn't make any sense to try to cure diabetes with lizard tails. If you sell lizard tails as a diabetes cure, the FDA may come knocking. If you sell a magnet hat as brain cancer protection, the FDA may want to talk to you. If you sell a strobe light app as a cure for emphysema, same thing.
Really this is just another case of "on a computer doesn't change anything". If you sell a "cure" for a disease, the FDA may want to have a look.
The post you linked to said they aren't ONLY planning to remove middle-click paste. The design document on the Gnome wiki goes into further detail about what they are thinking of doing with middle-click instead.
Another developer in the same thread said this IS the right time to voice objections to removing middle-click yank. It's not out of thin air. Middle-click was already removed, then it was decided to wait on removing it until the new middle click replaces it. The new middle click menu is still being designed.
Exactly. The user-to-user interface, such as English, is so complex that no-one can ever learn 100% of a language, and the benefit of that is that it enormously powerful. If we wanted interfaces that were so simple you could learn the whole thing in two weeks, we'd all be speaking in baby talk. What people want is an interface where you can learn the BASICS quickly, then keep learning more forever.
When you dumb down the interface, you're choosing to make the first two months of use easier, at the expense of making the next 20 years of use more difficult. That's dumb X 120.
> [Companies pay their taxes] inEuropean countries which have lower corporate tax rates, such as Ireland whereGoogle has its European headquarters.... so let's make our taxes higher and more complex. They put their headquarters in Ireland so they can pay their taxes in Ireland because Ireland has low taxes. If you want them to locate (and pay taxes) in your country, you should... have high taxes?!?!
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Even before prop 30, California had the fourth highest tax burden of the 50 states. The average _state_ tax burden was
$4,934 per person. Their tax _revenue_ dropped like stone because businesses and other money moved to Nevada (second lowest taxes) and Texas (6th lowest taxes).
So, I'll FTFY:
A person may not be stupid, but people are. They'll vote higher taxes and more social services, then you end up with California.
That might eject it too, but Mac keyboards have an Eject key.
Prenda and eleven other assholes file a lot of baseless claims, so yeah we're seeing it in those cases. Prenda isn't common, though. On the day Prenda filed their latest baseless suit, thousands of ordinary Americans sued the guy who ran into them, felled a tree onto their house etc.
Would that be harder than arresting a guy for posting a YouTube video offensive to Mohammed?
I believe it's pretty rare. I'm not a lawyer, I just play one in court. I believe it's just when there's a decent chance you'll be ordered to pay the defendant's costs, and due to using a shell company or some other reason the costs may not be paid as ordered.
Consider this if a bond were required for all suits.
If a bond costs 10% of the face amount, and General Motors can claim they spent $10 million defending a lawsuit related to faulty brakes, that would be an extra $1 million cost before you're allowed to sue if your brakes fail and you're horribly injured. I wouldn't want the victims to have to pay an extra million before they can sue. In every case, the plaintiff is claiming they're a victim of something the plaintiff did, and most often it's true.
And yet, it seems even east Texas is getting tired of seeing these same patent trolls in their courts every week.
That's one reason for the shell companies that patent trolls use. The company that filed suit probably has no money. A ruling that they have to pay the defendant's costs is worthless. That is unless the judge had them put up a bond for that possibility when the case began.
I wouldn't admit to hacking anything in today's USA.
The Obama administration doesn't like people to be smarter than them.
The Constitution clearly states that it's allow, deny. Starting in 1942, many politicians flout their oath to uphold the Constitution and pretend it's allow,deny.
This is true. Windows makes a fine desktop. Microsoft's IDE is quite nice.
Windows is not a server operating system, and printing "server" on the box doesn't make it one.
Repeat after me "the federal government does not have general police power". "The federal government does not have general police power".
See United States v. Dewitt, Employers' Liability Cases, Keller and the 10th amendment, which reads:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Find scam doctors" is not one of those delegated powers, which are listed in article 1, section 8.
This part of the filing on page was interesting:
The DEA is not required to obtain a court order based on probable cause to issue a subpoena or to have it enforced.
Fourth amendment, anyone?
Having ANY second programmer look at the code may well find off-by-one or fence post errors and the like.
What else do they do, you ask? They support Seamonkey, Firefox's older brother. Firefox began as a stripped down,lightweight, minimalist version of Seamonkey. Though Firefox is no longer lightweight, Seamonkey is still more capable in some respects. The suite includes an email client and WYSIWYG editor, but I just like the browser.
While Firefox is controlled by the Mozilla Foundation, Seamonkey is community driven now, with hosting and other support from the foundation.
It's sad that after NSA, IRS etc. we're all so jaded we can't just enjoy this as something cool. A remote control plane that's an F-16. That's pretty badass.
Now back to your regularly scheduled realism about the government.
If you have $25 million to spare, you can probably buy one that was previously exported.
You think F-4 is old? What about B-52s! New in 1952, those haven't been used in combat since ... oh, never mind.
It sounds like you've chosen to completely ignore the design documents on the wiki I referred you to. Okay.
Same here. Margaritas also played a key role.
Had I been smarter, I would have made my own fertility app that said "its time" whenever _I_ wanted to have some romance .
That's exactly when the FDA should step in, and when they have, historically. It doesn't make any sense to try to cure diabetes with lizard tails. If you sell lizard tails as a diabetes cure, the FDA may come knocking. If you sell a magnet hat as brain cancer protection, the FDA may want to talk to you. If you sell a strobe light app as a cure for emphysema, same thing.
Really this is just another case of "on a computer doesn't change anything". If you sell a "cure" for a disease, the FDA may want to have a look.
The post you linked to said they aren't ONLY planning to remove middle-click paste.
The design document on the Gnome wiki goes into further detail about what they are thinking of doing with middle-click instead.
Another developer in the same thread said this IS the right time to voice objections to removing middle-click yank. It's not out of thin air. Middle-click was already removed, then it was decided to wait on removing it until the new middle click replaces it. The new middle click menu is still being designed.
Where might one find these tight ones?
Apologies to any sensitive women for encouraging this.
LOL. I figured he is fishy because his "12 Rules" is a list of 13 rules.
The decision is being made on the mailing list at desktop-devel-list@gnome.org .
You can read or subscribe at:
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Exactly. The user-to-user interface, such as English, is so complex that no-one can ever learn 100% of a language, and the benefit of that is that it enormously powerful.
If we wanted interfaces that were so simple you could learn the whole thing in two weeks, we'd all be speaking in baby talk. What people want is an interface where you can learn the BASICS quickly, then keep learning more forever.
When you dumb down the interface, you're choosing to make the first two months of use easier, at the expense of making the next 20 years of use more difficult.
That's dumb X 120.
TFA says:
> [Companies pay their taxes] inEuropean countries which have lower corporate tax rates, such as Ireland whereGoogle has its European headquarters. ... so let's make our taxes higher and more complex. ... have high taxes?!?!
They put their headquarters in Ireland so they can pay their taxes in Ireland because Ireland has low taxes.
If you want them to locate (and pay taxes) in your country, you should