Lets cut federally mandated services, while both increasing and decreasing taxes.
I'd love for some politician somewhere to run on this:
20% federal flat tax, no deductions/reductions
The problem with that is non-profits and such would no longer get funded through tax deductions.
Solution:
10% of said tax goes to fed gov't.
remaining 10% goes into a pool for the citizen/household to allocate percentages or dollar amounts to State registered non-profits
Most government services and social programs get privatized into heavily regulated non-profits and registered as "officially sanctioned" services. (open to competition by other startup "officially sanctioned" service providers)
Citizens use the 10% pool to donate to registered non-profit organizations. Churches, schools, healthcare, social security, roads, bridges etc. People can choose to allocate, or not. If they choose not to, the other 10% goes to the fed. gov't as well. The federal gov't would be restricted from funding these services itself. (no bailouts)
Advantages: Non-profits and social programs that should die won't have funding, and will die. Popular programs useful to the people would flourish. In the end, the people would choose. The non-profits would be forced to compete for your allocation.
What is interesting is that there is a great example of this type of industry in my hometown in South Alabama.
A few years ago an outsourcing company, now known as Client Logic came in and setup what is described here as a "Rural Outsourcing" center. It has infused the local economy with good quality jobs. Several members of my family and friends work there.
As for the lower wages, in that part of the world, you can make $10 an hour and live like a person making $30 an hour elsewhere. Average price of a 2500-3000 square foot house on one to two acres is under $100,000.
There's another aspect to this. Rural folk, no matter what part of the country you're from, if treated fairly will be extremely loyal and will do whatever it takes to help out.
Yes, I'm replying to myself.. and playing devil's advocate.
OnStar, like Google, has done nothing so far to shake my trust in them to do what's right. As soon as they do something 'evil', I'll change my views and rip the system out. Until then, it's a service that has value to *me* that I pay for and actively use.
This diagnostic stuff that GM is doing might be useful if they do it right... Detailed information that's not available via dash controls would be useful to me, as well as GM.
GM is trying to pull themselves out a slump. They have a *realtime* way to check systems of vehicles in production. It may be providing customers detailed info, but it also could be providing GM with quality control data that would help in raising the quality of their vehicles. Is that not a good thing? (if used properly!)
I own a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. An oil sensor keeps a check on viscosity of the oil and gives a percentage of "oil life" remaining on the display in the dash. This feature is on all new truck framed GM vehicles if I'm not mistaken. I bought the vehicle new, it's got well over 45000 miles on it now and I've changed the oil 6 times I think... When the vehicle told me to.... There's also a *wealth* of information available via the dash panel. Avg mpg (21 for me), Oil life remaining (about 40% for me), etc.
The OnStar stuff is extremely useful. I've got traffic reports, hands free cell service, and when my wife is driving on long trips I don't have to worry as much. That last point overrules any feelings I have toward privacy concerns...
This describes my experience today, except for the long line (ie: no line at all). I'm Calera about 30 miles south of Birmingham on I-65. I think the entire state votes that way now. Very simple and not much room for any error. No punch cards, no diebolds, no hanging chads. Just a simple ballot that you feed into a machine. Wonder how much those machines cost?
I have the PV-DV953 Panasonic 3CCD miniDV camcorder. It's shoots great video. Good lense on it too. (Leica Dicomar) 10x optical Zoom, (but I don't use it)
Cheaper than the Canon GL-2 and has approximately the same featureset.
HOWEVER: be forewarned about buying cameras off the Internet. The "low cost" sites off pricewatch and such sites list the grey-market cameras as the low price, then these sites try to sucker you in to getting the real camera (with manual, non-japanese menus, and retail/extended warranty). Be warned that the gray market stuff usually carries NO warranty. If it breaks, well tough.
I almost got suckered. Got too comfy buying computer equipment from sites that are honorable.
The video from the camera looks great on my standalone dvd player as well. (kino can capture and export to dvd compatible mpeg2)
However, in my opinion, if these coporporations want to really start working on making 2004 the year corporations start adopting open desktops, they need to consider heavily sponsoring and help develop the freedesktop.org projects.
After all, KDE and Gnome need a base. That base is an X server. Improvements have to be made there as well.
If you are speaking of resizing the areas that contain the layers, history, etc; then yes, they can be resized. I just found out about it myself.
At the bottom right of the 'toolbar', is a resize corner. Since you can't just drag the edges, you have to use this. The trick is to resize to the right before trying to go down (to increase size lengthways)... I like my Layer toolbar to be about half the length of the screen.:-)
Speed is not an issue with my setup at all. I have installed Photoshop 7.0 with no windows dlls at all in wine's fake_windows setup. The install ran perfectly for me. Pop in the cd, mount it, and run "wine setup.exe"
The actual execution of Photoshop has been perfect so far. I have used various builtin filters (but not all) with no problems. Saving files is quicker on Linux than it is on Windows, but then again, I have my drive hdparm'd to the max:-)...
Oh, btw, I'm running this on a PIII 500mhz w/ 128 meg of ram... not really a high end machine. Again, I have had no real performance issues with running Photoshop under Wine.
Same fer me, but by a different method... The cable installer guy insisted he setup the machine, so I let him...
However, I had installed win98 in a VMWare virtual machine and had that running full screen when he did the setup... I patiently watched him setup the virtual windows and when he was through, signed off on it. Then I took my seat back, dropped the windows virtual machine back to a window and closed it. He had this strange look on his face when he realized what happened.
nextel aren't the only people that offer service on iDEN radio/phones... If you are in the southeastern US, Southern Company provides SouthernLinc Service
You can also try to renice the X and kdeinit processes to a negative value (more priority).
I tried this last night while doing some pretty heavy processing (emerge galeon) and it seemed to help..
I used top to renice the processes... X to -20 and kdeinit master process to -19.
Seemed to help. Especially with the mouse.. Not as sluggish.
Not sure of that... I found that RedHat's statement of:
"Despite its rapid growth, however, until last year Red Hat Linux was not considered an effective competitor with either Sun Microsystems or Microsoft in the server market. With increasing success, Red Hat has now penetrated that market, demonstrating that it can be an effective competitor where no illegal monopoly exists. The same cannot be said for the desktop operating system market, the subject of many of the claims and findings against Microsoft in this matter. Because of Microsoft's stranglehold on that market, with over a 94% marketshare -- a stranglehold unlawfully maintained -- Red Hat has elected not to attempt to compete until a level playing field can be established. Any efforts by Red Hat toward competing would be utterly fruitless and an unjustified use of corporate resources. "
on the DOJ Comments website in the 'Background' section of Redhat's comment was pretty much indicitive of the feelings of the company.
Furthermore, this statement explains why RedHat is not concentrating on the desktop market as SuSe and Mandrake are doing.
If the Washington post article is slow for you, Fox News has a writeup as well
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Don't know about the SSL side (haven't done it yet), but grab the sources for:
Apache, Mod-Perl, PHP, (for PHP, make sure you have the proper graphics librarys installed also so that Acid can display graphs. What you need is in the Install file in the Acid Source.
Here's what I used.. (Subsitute what ever version is current below)
#add to Httpd.conf
#AddType application/x-httpd-php.php
Note, please decend into the top level of each source tree before executing command to configure, make and install.
I know this is off-Topic, but there are several folks out there that can't figure out how to compile these together to get Acid to work correctly.
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Good luck Taco! You'll be missed.
I'd appreciate one too please
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I'd like one too please...
shanebush at gmail dot com
Lets cut federally mandated services, while both increasing and decreasing taxes.
I'd love for some politician somewhere to run on this:
20% federal flat tax, no deductions/reductions
The problem with that is non-profits and such would no longer get funded through tax deductions.
Solution:
10% of said tax goes to fed gov't.
remaining 10% goes into a pool for the citizen/household to allocate percentages or dollar amounts to State registered non-profits
Most government services and social programs get privatized into heavily regulated non-profits and registered as "officially sanctioned" services. (open to competition by other startup "officially sanctioned" service providers) Citizens use the 10% pool to donate to registered non-profit organizations. Churches, schools, healthcare, social security, roads, bridges etc. People can choose to allocate, or not. If they choose not to, the other 10% goes to the fed. gov't as well. The federal gov't would be restricted from funding these services itself. (no bailouts)
Advantages: Non-profits and social programs that should die won't have funding, and will die. Popular programs useful to the people would flourish. In the end, the people would choose. The non-profits would be forced to compete for your allocation.
Disadvantages?
Hmm... I'll bite to this one.
What is interesting is that there is a great example of this type of industry in my hometown in South Alabama.
A few years ago an outsourcing company, now known as Client Logic came in and setup what is described here as a "Rural Outsourcing" center. It has infused the local economy with good quality jobs. Several members of my family and friends work there.
As for the lower wages, in that part of the world, you can make $10 an hour and live like a person making $30 an hour elsewhere. Average price of a 2500-3000 square foot house on one to two acres is under $100,000.
There's another aspect to this. Rural folk, no matter what part of the country you're from, if treated fairly will be extremely loyal and will do whatever it takes to help out.
Yes, I'm replying to myself.. and playing devil's advocate.
... Detailed information that's not available via dash controls would be useful to me, as well as GM.
OnStar, like Google, has done nothing so far to shake my trust in them to do what's right. As soon as they do something 'evil', I'll change my views and rip the system out. Until then, it's a service that has value to *me* that I pay for and actively use.
This diagnostic stuff that GM is doing might be useful if they do it right
GM is trying to pull themselves out a slump. They have a *realtime* way to check systems of vehicles in production. It may be providing customers detailed info, but it also could be providing GM with quality control data that would help in raising the quality of their vehicles. Is that not a good thing? (if used properly!)
I own a 2003 Chevy Tahoe. An oil sensor keeps a check on viscosity of the oil and gives a percentage of "oil life" remaining on the display in the dash. This feature is on all new truck framed GM vehicles if I'm not mistaken. I bought the vehicle new, it's got well over 45000 miles on it now and I've changed the oil 6 times I think... When the vehicle told me to.... There's also a *wealth* of information available via the dash panel. Avg mpg (21 for me), Oil life remaining (about 40% for me), etc.
The OnStar stuff is extremely useful. I've got traffic reports, hands free cell service, and when my wife is driving on long trips I don't have to worry as much. That last point overrules any feelings I have toward privacy concerns...
Advice to Ballmer: If you fight linux with patents, be prepared for Novell.
http://www.novell.com/company/policies/patent/
This describes my experience today, except for the long line (ie: no line at all). I'm Calera about 30 miles south of Birmingham on I-65. I think the entire state votes that way now. Very simple and not much room for any error. No punch cards, no diebolds, no hanging chads. Just a simple ballot that you feed into a machine. Wonder how much those machines cost?
You're right in regard to the gun ownership, but lets look at the car argument for a sec. There is a similarity.
Nearly every car in the US at sometime as had something illegal done in it. Not robbing a bank, not a hit and run, but SPEEDING.
Speeding is breaking the law. Most of us all do it. The majority of cars are used for an illegal purpose, so lets use the same logic and outlaw cars.
I have the PV-DV953 Panasonic 3CCD miniDV camcorder. It's shoots great video. Good lense on it too. (Leica Dicomar) 10x optical Zoom, (but I don't use it)
Cheaper than the Canon GL-2 and has approximately the same featureset.
HOWEVER: be forewarned about buying cameras off the Internet. The "low cost" sites off pricewatch and such sites list the grey-market cameras as the low price, then these sites try to sucker you in to getting the real camera (with manual, non-japanese menus, and retail/extended warranty). Be warned that the gray market stuff usually carries NO warranty. If it breaks, well tough.
I almost got suckered. Got too comfy buying computer equipment from sites that are honorable.
The video from the camera looks great on my standalone dvd player as well. (kino can capture and export to dvd compatible mpeg2)
This is indeed good news.
:-)
However, in my opinion, if these coporporations want to really start working on making 2004 the year corporations start adopting open desktops, they need to consider heavily sponsoring and help develop the freedesktop.org projects.
After all, KDE and Gnome need a base. That base is an X server. Improvements have to be made there as well.
Again, this is only my opinion
If you are speaking of resizing the areas that contain the layers, history, etc; then yes, they can be resized. I just found out about it myself.
:-)
At the bottom right of the 'toolbar', is a resize corner. Since you can't just drag the edges, you have to use this. The trick is to resize to the right before trying to go down (to increase size lengthways)...
I like my Layer toolbar to be about half the length of the screen.
Speed is not an issue with my setup at all. I have installed Photoshop 7.0 with no windows dlls at all in wine's fake_windows setup. The install ran perfectly for me. Pop in the cd, mount it, and run "wine setup.exe"
:-)...
The actual execution of Photoshop has been perfect so far. I have used various builtin filters (but not all) with no problems. Saving files is quicker on Linux than it is on Windows, but then again, I have my drive hdparm'd to the max
Oh, btw, I'm running this on a PIII 500mhz w/ 128 meg of ram... not really a high end machine. Again, I have had no real performance issues with running Photoshop under Wine.
BTW, I am using wine-20030618
On first view of the headline I thought that my hometown local gov't in Andalusia, Alabama had adopted open source.
...
I was about to get very happy...
Oh well
Filings link
Same fer me, but by a different method... The cable installer guy insisted he setup the machine, so I let him...
However, I had installed win98 in a VMWare virtual machine and had that running full screen when he did the setup... I patiently watched him setup the virtual windows and when he was through, signed off on it. Then I took my seat back, dropped the windows virtual machine back to a window and closed it. He had this strange look on his face when he realized what happened.
Oh well, he did his job.
oops... didn't give link...
Southern Linc website
nextel aren't the only people that offer service on iDEN radio/phones ... If you are in the southeastern US, Southern Company provides SouthernLinc Service
Great service for rural areas...
My 2 cents worth.
You can also try to renice the X and kdeinit processes to a negative value (more priority). I tried this last night while doing some pretty heavy processing (emerge galeon) and it seemed to help..
I used top to renice the processes... X to -20 and kdeinit master process to -19.
Seemed to help. Especially with the mouse.. Not as sluggish.
Not sure of that... I found that RedHat's statement of:
:)
"Despite its rapid growth, however, until last year Red Hat Linux was not considered an effective competitor with either Sun Microsystems or Microsoft in the server market. With increasing success, Red Hat has now penetrated that market, demonstrating that it can be an effective competitor where no illegal monopoly exists. The same cannot be said for the desktop operating system market, the subject of many of the claims and findings against Microsoft in this matter. Because of Microsoft's stranglehold on that market, with over a 94% marketshare -- a stranglehold unlawfully maintained -- Red Hat has elected not to attempt to compete until a level playing field can be established. Any efforts by Red Hat toward competing would be utterly fruitless and an unjustified use of corporate resources. "
on the DOJ Comments website in the 'Background' section of Redhat's comment was pretty much indicitive of the feelings of the company.
Furthermore, this statement explains why RedHat is not concentrating on the desktop market as SuSe and Mandrake are doing.
Just my 2cents!
I wish you both a lifetime of happiness!
tip: just make sure the toilet seat gets put down and everything will be just great.
If the Washington post article is slow for you, Fox News has a writeup as well
Don't know about the SSL side (haven't done it yet), but grab the sources for:
.php
Apache, Mod-Perl, PHP, (for PHP, make sure you have the proper graphics librarys installed also so that Acid can display graphs. What you need is in the Install file in the Acid Source.
Here's what I used.. (Subsitute what ever version is current below)
#Mod-Perl Install
perl Makefile.PL \
APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.20/src \
DO_HTTPD=1 \
USE_APACI=1 \
PREP_HTTPD=1 \
EVERYTHING=1 \
[...]
make
make test
make install
#PHP 4 Install
./configure \
--with-mysql \
--with-apache=../apache_1.3.20 \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-sockets \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/include \
--with-png-dir=/usr/lib \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib
make
make install
#Apache Install
./configure \
--enable-module=most \
--enable-shared=max \
--activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a \
--activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a
make
make install
#add to Httpd.conf
#AddType application/x-httpd-php
Note, please decend into the top level of each source tree before executing command to configure, make and install.
I know this is off-Topic, but there are several folks out there that can't figure out how to compile these together to get Acid to work correctly.