Oh, I agree with this, too. I do not argue for high taxes anywhere; they have their downside of massive discouragement no matter what realm they are applied to.
Not in California, where the in-state utilities are almost out of business thanks to continued regulation of price controls.
Hands off phones now means I can have a cell phone that calls long-distance anywhere in the country for only a few cents a minute.
Heavy regulation means the company bleats to the government about problems, things are fixed slowly, no incentive to make things efficient (if you start earning more profits, the government will not approve any rate hikes, so why bother? You have your gun-guaranteed monopoly, so you don't have to try.)
> Do you think Monsanto is going to select a
> project demonstrating the dangers of genetically
> engineered crops?
No, there are plenty of charlatans screaming into the media mike about that already, trying to get their names in print to eventually become paid talking heads (free appearances, but boy do they help your book deal). Like the FDA and drugs, stopping or vastly slowing progress will cause, by vast delay or complete omission of implementation, many more continued problems than new problems might introduce. Remember, millions of people starving somewhere else is politically preferrable and not directly traceable to actions preventing what might have been whereas a few heart attacks or cancers out of millions here in this country is a massive tragedy that demands action now! Now!
> Do you thing Pfizer is going to finance a study
> to prove that Americans are over-medicated?
I would argue we're undermedicated. I can't get any speed-like weight loss drugs, safe and effective, not because I might get addicted, but because existing addicts might illegally get ahold of them.
> Corporations don't pay as much of a percentage
> of the US government's total revenue as they
> used to. It's mostly individual taxes now.
> (wonder why your taxes are so high?)
Hiding the tax taking from "the people" by having corporations pay most of it is an accounting gimmick to get high tax rates passed. Ultimately it gets pulled out the ass of every person in this country anyway, so taxing the hell out of corporate profits just makes corporations cut costs elsewhere and actually try to not have profits and not try to be quite as efficient. Why try hard when, the better you do improving your products, leading to more profits, they're taken by a government lead by politicians riding to power blathering nonsense to "the people" about how evil you are?
IBM: Can you build us a GUI we can slap on our new OS/2 PreCochrane? MS: Sure. Mind if we release it ourselves slapped on top of DOS as our own product? IBM: Nah, g'head. DOS is on its way out. MS: Tell me about it.
There's this Pac guy who goes around eating food from somebody else's maze orchard, he runs away when the guards come by. If he stumbles across a weapon, he kills the guards, then gets back to eating the fruit and other food.
From: An Interview With Billy Mitchell, the
world's first perfect Pac-Man player
On July 1, 1999, Billy Mitchell of Florida
scored the world's first (and only) perfect
game of Pac-Man. This means he
cleared all 256 boards, ate all the bonus
fruit and four ghosts with each power
pellet, and didn't die.
GS: Any other thoughts or comments you'd like to
share with us?
Billy: All my life I wanted to do something
unequivocal... and I haven't done it yet.
> How many of us could survive without our
> cellphones, our pda's, our beepers, our internet
> access, and email ?
Ehh, I only break a sweat when I'm without online games or pr0n, like I am now because of just moving.
Anyway, it's amazing, when TV became omnipresent people decried wasting time that would better be spent reading or listening to the radio all night long.
This is just a brief stop on the way to borgification, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Besides, it's FAR MORE acceptable on the international stage to slaughter 100,000 enslaved soldiers who don't wanna be there in the first place than it is to simply assassinate the thug at the top.
It's long since demonstrated that highway accidents are much more due to differences in speed than speeding itself. By setting ridiculously low speed limits of 55, you create more death and mayhem than you do with a 70 MPH speed limit because most won't obey, but the few who do become the dangers out there, not the speeders.
These are the same guys, though, who give you the "option" of paying for a whole tank of gas ahead of time, whether you use it or not, or paying $3.50 or more per gallon if you bring it back half-full.
These are the same guys (well, different company anyway, I won't mention names, but it's for people on a tight budget) that will tell you you have a fixed rate to rent the car for five days, with a fixed rate for each day over that, then when you bring it back after six days, they try to charge you an extra $200.00 beyond all that because going beyond the 5-day special extended-weekend rate voids that rate and you retroactively go on the Pay Thru The Nose Rate, so you tell them that they can either charge what they said they would or you will be happy to see them in court over it and they say I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do because the computer won't let me charge any other rate and you say see ya and they say wait let me see, well, I can give you an AAA discount, and, miracle of miracles, it actually turns up a little bit less than the 5-day weekend special rate plus one day by about five or ten dollars and you leave paying less but are still pissed off because it's been over an hour standing around while they fussed at stuff.
>..if GPS becomes accurate enough, will the
> government begin to make auto manufacturers
> integrate these in to every vehicle, making it
> so they can just mail you a ticket any time you
> exceed the speed limit?
Yeah, hell, they probably would. Why not just have us give them 40% or more of our salary directly while they're at
> then the cars we buy would already be
> mechanically stunted to prevent them from going
> any faster than 65 mph.
It's called a governor, as on a minibike.
As an old-timer who actually remembers the Carter Administration (even tho a child at the time) I do remember government officials suggesting governors to limit cars to 55 MPH, which was soundly rejected because you might have to flee an erupting volcano as the Mt. St. Helen's people did (not counting brave, wizend, old timer Harry Truman, who sits in his home still beneath 70 feet of mud and ash.)
Actually, at 90,000 mph, they'd consume a lot more gas than that pushing the air out of the way, not to mention the metal of various vehicles at hundreds of intersections along the way as they blew through red lights and stop signs.
Of course, since they used 16-bit signed value for speed, that will wrap all the way around and back to a mere 24,000 mph, roughly, so the ticket won't be quite as bad as it otherwise might have.
You better get on a 3-year recopy cycle, then. You don't wanna lose all that good old pr0n. Reviewing it every 3 years will make it seem almost like new again, so you are probably doing this anyway.
> However, the right to anonymous payment is NOT a right you have
Actually, people do have this inalienable right. However, in the US, we have granted the government the power (over rights) to inspect these transactions for the purpose of taxation and other reasons ("we," of course, meaning "you dumb, no holds barred democracy lovers out there")
Re:Andromeda disappoints me.
on
Andromeda
·
· Score: 1
> LEXX was, perhaps, the WORST "sci-fi" show I'd
> ever seen (which is saying a lot) I'd take 5
> EFC/Andromeda-type series over that tripe...
Silly little boy. Some day you'll grow pubic hairs, your voice will deepen, and you'll realize there is another reason to watch Lexx, much like there is reason to watch Cleopatra 2525, or the last few seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, or Xena and Gabrielle, or La Femme Nikita.
Are they saying that I have to give up ownership of BritainnySpeersHavingOralSexxWithChristinaAgalara. com to the rightful legitimate owner of BritneySpearsHavingOralSexWithChristinaAguilara.co m?
> Y: Democratically endorsed theft at implied gunpoint.
By the way, let's not confuse hyperbole with reality. Hyperbole is "implied."
"Implied" gunpoint would be better (more realistically) described as "at the threat of gunpoint", or, better yet, "at the threat of physical harm, or, resisting sufficiently, death."
So, taxation is democratically endorsed theft, which is to say, taking something that doesn't belong to you by action or threat of action, and "democratically endorsed" means "lots of people". And, of course, it isn't any old theft, it is "larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat", or robbery.
So, taxation boils down to "lots of people robbing you of your money."
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Where's Terry Gilliam as the snivelling lackey?
Oh, I agree with this, too. I do not argue for high taxes anywhere; they have their downside of massive discouragement no matter what realm they are applied to.
> 2. Aren't regulated electric utilities
> (regulations = profit ceilings) nevertheless
> healthy & profitable,
Not in California, where the in-state utilities are almost out of business thanks to continued regulation of price controls.
Hands off phones now means I can have a cell phone that calls long-distance anywhere in the country for only a few cents a minute.
Heavy regulation means the company bleats to the government about problems, things are fixed slowly, no incentive to make things efficient (if you start earning more profits, the government will not approve any rate hikes, so why bother? You have your gun-guaranteed monopoly, so you don't have to try.)
> Do you think Monsanto is going to select a
> project demonstrating the dangers of genetically
> engineered crops?
No, there are plenty of charlatans screaming into the media mike about that already, trying to get their names in print to eventually become paid talking heads (free appearances, but boy do they help your book deal). Like the FDA and drugs, stopping or vastly slowing progress will cause, by vast delay or complete omission of implementation, many more continued problems than new problems might introduce. Remember, millions of people starving somewhere else is politically preferrable and not directly traceable to actions preventing what might have been whereas a few heart attacks or cancers out of millions here in this country is a massive tragedy that demands action now! Now!
> Do you thing Pfizer is going to finance a study
> to prove that Americans are over-medicated?
I would argue we're undermedicated. I can't get any speed-like weight loss drugs, safe and effective, not because I might get addicted, but because existing addicts might illegally get ahold of them.
> Corporations don't pay as much of a percentage
> of the US government's total revenue as they
> used to. It's mostly individual taxes now.
> (wonder why your taxes are so high?)
Hiding the tax taking from "the people" by having corporations pay most of it is an accounting gimmick to get high tax rates passed. Ultimately it gets pulled out the ass of every person in this country anyway, so taxing the hell out of corporate profits just makes corporations cut costs elsewhere and actually try to not have profits and not try to be quite as efficient. Why try hard when, the better you do improving your products, leading to more profits, they're taken by a government lead by politicians riding to power blathering nonsense to "the people" about how evil you are?
It went like this:
IBM: Can you build us a GUI we can slap on our new OS/2 PreCochrane?
MS: Sure. Mind if we release it ourselves slapped on top of DOS as our own product?
IBM: Nah, g'head. DOS is on its way out.
MS: Tell me about it.
Good guys and bad guys in Pacman?
Let's see here.
There's this Pac guy who goes around eating food from somebody else's maze orchard, he runs away when the guards come by. If he stumbles across a weapon, he kills the guards, then gets back to eating the fruit and other food.
Hmmmm...I wonder who the evil one is.
world's first perfect Pac-Man player
scored the world's first (and only) perfect
game of Pac-Man. This means he
cleared all 256 boards, ate all the bonus
fruit and four ghosts with each power
pellet, and didn't die.
GS: Any other thoughts or comments you'd like to
share with us?
Billy: All my life I wanted to do something
unequivocal... and I haven't done it yet.
I knew it didn't get him laid!
> fun to play with, gets attacked by evil
> entities, but can sometimes fight back and win?
...and most importantly, Pacman ultimately always loses.
> How many of us could survive without our
> cellphones, our pda's, our beepers, our internet
> access, and email ?
Ehh, I only break a sweat when I'm without online games or pr0n, like I am now because of just moving.
Anyway, it's amazing, when TV became omnipresent people decried wasting time that would better be spent reading or listening to the radio all night long.
This is just a brief stop on the way to borgification, so enjoy it while it lasts.
Besides, it's FAR MORE acceptable on the international stage to slaughter 100,000 enslaved soldiers who don't wanna be there in the first place than it is to simply assassinate the thug at the top.
Well, let's hope there is a screen saver. Talk about long-term burn-in problems for the clock in the corner of your eye.
It's long since demonstrated that highway accidents are much more due to differences in speed than speeding itself. By setting ridiculously low speed limits of 55, you create more death and mayhem than you do with a 70 MPH speed limit because most won't obey, but the few who do become the dangers out there, not the speeders.
These are the same guys, though, who give you the "option" of paying for a whole tank of gas ahead of time, whether you use it or not, or paying $3.50 or more per gallon if you bring it back half-full.
These are the same guys (well, different company anyway, I won't mention names, but it's for people on a tight budget) that will tell you you have a fixed rate to rent the car for five days, with a fixed rate for each day over that, then when you bring it back after six days, they try to charge you an extra $200.00 beyond all that because going beyond the 5-day special extended-weekend rate voids that rate and you retroactively go on the Pay Thru The Nose Rate, so you tell them that they can either charge what they said they would or you will be happy to see them in court over it and they say I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do because the computer won't let me charge any other rate and you say see ya and they say wait let me see, well, I can give you an AAA discount, and, miracle of miracles, it actually turns up a little bit less than the 5-day weekend special rate plus one day by about five or ten dollars and you leave paying less but are still pissed off because it's been over an hour standing around while they fussed at stuff.
Ok, Sandy, now grab the gearshift and pull up on the knob...
> ..if GPS becomes accurate enough, will the
> government begin to make auto manufacturers
> integrate these in to every vehicle, making it
> so they can just mail you a ticket any time you
> exceed the speed limit?
Yeah, hell, they probably would. Why not just have us give them 40% or more of our salary directly while they're at
ummm
nevermind.
> then the cars we buy would already be
> mechanically stunted to prevent them from going
> any faster than 65 mph.
It's called a governor, as on a minibike.
As an old-timer who actually remembers the Carter Administration (even tho a child at the time) I do remember government officials suggesting governors to limit cars to 55 MPH, which was soundly rejected because you might have to flee an erupting volcano as the Mt. St. Helen's people did (not counting brave, wizend, old timer Harry Truman, who sits in his home still beneath 70 feet of mud and ash.)
Actually, at 90,000 mph, they'd consume a lot more gas than that pushing the air out of the way, not to mention the metal of various vehicles at hundreds of intersections along the way as they blew through red lights and stop signs.
Of course, since they used 16-bit signed value for speed, that will wrap all the way around and back to a mere 24,000 mph, roughly, so the ticket won't be quite as bad as it otherwise might have.
Tell it, bro. Wait till that luser sees the deductions from his first real paycheck. Socialism sounds so awesome...when it's other peoples' money.
Also, I want to know why he doesn't use free condoms, too, on his girlfriends...oh, wait, geeks don't need condoms to polish to FHM or Maxim.
Fool! It's a LISP predicate.
(if (Communication-UnionP (car *person*)) (print (cdr *person*) + "is a dope!"))
You better get on a 3-year recopy cycle, then. You don't wanna lose all that good old pr0n. Reviewing it every 3 years will make it seem almost like new again, so you are probably doing this anyway.
> However, the right to anonymous payment is NOT a right you have
Actually, people do have this inalienable right. However, in the US, we have granted the government the power (over rights) to inspect these transactions for the purpose of taxation and other reasons ("we," of course, meaning "you dumb, no holds barred democracy lovers out there")
> LEXX was, perhaps, the WORST "sci-fi" show I'd
> ever seen (which is saying a lot) I'd take 5
> EFC/Andromeda-type series over that tripe...
Silly little boy. Some day you'll grow pubic hairs, your voice will deepen, and you'll realize there is another reason to watch Lexx, much like there is reason to watch Cleopatra 2525, or the last few seasons of Star Trek: Voyager, or Xena and Gabrielle, or La Femme Nikita.
Are they saying that I have to give up ownership of BritainnySpeersHavingOralSexxWithChristinaAgalara. com to the rightful legitimate owner of BritneySpearsHavingOralSexWithChristinaAguilara.co m?
> Y: Democratically endorsed theft at implied gunpoint.
By the way, let's not confuse hyperbole with reality. Hyperbole is "implied."
"Implied" gunpoint would be better (more realistically) described as "at the threat of gunpoint", or, better yet, "at the threat of physical harm, or, resisting sufficiently, death."
So, taxation is democratically endorsed theft, which is to say, taking something that doesn't belong to you by action or threat of action, and "democratically endorsed" means "lots of people". And, of course, it isn't any old theft, it is "larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat", or robbery.
So, taxation boils down to "lots of people robbing you of your money."
(You wish you could reverse engineer stuff, too, don't you? I'll bet you really do, don't you?)"