I didn't say "the government was making money" I said "we were making money." As for "pillaging the people", most of the tax increase was on corporations, and despite what people collecting dividends will tell you, corporations do not have the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, people do.
And don't for one second bet that Steve Forbes and his ilk are going for a pure flat tax. They'll keep their loopholes and eliminate yours.
A flat tax is likewise regressive in valuation of service rendered. The rich, having had the opportunity to get rich, and the protections and assistance of the government in getting rich (the patent system alone is worth trillions to people who are no longer poor because they stumbled on a way to combine a hammer and a ketchup bottle), owe the government far more than someone who sweeps the offices of the rich.
The net taxation on the poor is about 50%, and on the rich is about 20%, and the effective value flow when the value of government is included is about -20% on the poor and 20% on the rich. The Bush tax cuts gave the rich even more, in cash, because they weren't making it on the stock market any more.
They saw gold in the treasury, and they looted it. Pure and simple.
We were making money during the previous administration, and we had balanced the budget. The new administration saw a treasury full of loot, and raided it for its own gain. It threw you a couple hundred dollars so you could say they helped you, too, but it threw Bill Gates half a billion on this transaction alone.
Taxes in this country, despite the progressive income tax, are overall regressive, because of shelters and the effects of consumption taxes and fees. These same guys are seriously looking at trying the Flat Tax, next. At which point they may end up being paid a subsidy by the government to be richer than God.
BTW, this adds up to fully 1% of the $350 billion alloted to the recent tax cut.
1% of the tax cut for the whole nation will go into this one dividend payment.
Those of you who understand finance will realize that if every corporation takes Microsoft's lead, the eventual tax cut will be *much* bigger than $350 billion.
We were robbed, and half of you voted for it, even though you were told you were being screwed.
"cannot open this title on a Terminal Services session"
What bollocks. Free software and free books but you can't read them over a network link to your own compute server? Microsoft, as usual, screws the pooch.
Now. How do I uninstall this without removing my adenoids?
If there is a first principle of aviation safety, it's never take control of the aircraft out of the hands of the pilot.
Even when the auto-pilot is on, the pilot is in control of its operation.
If this system is active and an airplane develops a mechanical problem that demands an expeditious flight-path, you'll turn a low-severity condition into a catastrophic one.
"Scientific conclusions are subject to perpetual revision. Law, on the other hand, must resolve disputes finally and quickly."
Incredible.
The real problem is it's apples and oranges. When they say "law" they mean "court cases". Legislation and common law (i.e., precedent) are infinitely and capriciously mutable. When they say "scientific conclusions" they don't mean "experimental results" but "theory", as the data gained from experiment is immutable, though its interpretation may be mutable, and the point of science is that theory is mutable but provably true within the known scope and margin of error. Whereas, as I said, the law is simply whatever a majority in a body (or an executive alone) accepts as agreeable, if not true. The law does not seek the truth, it seeks decisions consistent with its past decisions.
The law courts are therefore the last place that the validity of scientific theory should be tested.
Slashdot Mirror
Referrer authorization?
Learn to use the Internet. It's cheaper than learning to use the Courts.
Subtract result from Microsoft assets.
The new regs will induce someone to produce a cell phone system that handles these calls adequately.
And then they'll sell it.
Pop-up ads for everyone!
Okay. Who's been handing out the nitrous oxide at the LAN parties again?
Phil would have liked that plot.
with the big claw on it to position his head exactly where it needs to be to align the images on the goggles with the hands-on media.
Howard got lucky with The WELL, and now he thinks he's a "visionary".
Anyone else remember Electric Minds? The most over-hyped, under-valued message board system in the history of the Internet?
That was Howard's still-born baby.
I wonder if Softbank ever got their money back for "investing" in that disaster.
nerds R us.
Holy crap.
At what point does being a geek cease to be human interest and just become what dust does when the wind stops blowing?
People are stupid.
They're filesharing right into the copyright holders' hands.
This is going to be the first class-action criminal defense in history.
Invest in prison uniforms.
Ugh.
You really don't think very hard, or comprehend too well.
The taxes were on corporate profits. The tax cut was on dividends to rich individuals from corporate assets.
Cutting dividend taxes to 0% is precisely the opposite of investment stimulus. You're being lied to, and you're defending it.
I didn't say "the government was making money" I said "we were making money." As for "pillaging the people", most of the tax increase was on corporations, and despite what people collecting dividends will tell you, corporations do not have the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, people do.
And don't for one second bet that Steve Forbes and his ilk are going for a pure flat tax. They'll keep their loopholes and eliminate yours.
A flat tax is likewise regressive in valuation of service rendered. The rich, having had the opportunity to get rich, and the protections and assistance of the government in getting rich (the patent system alone is worth trillions to people who are no longer poor because they stumbled on a way to combine a hammer and a ketchup bottle), owe the government far more than someone who sweeps the offices of the rich.
The net taxation on the poor is about 50%, and on the rich is about 20%, and the effective value flow when the value of government is included is about -20% on the poor and 20% on the rich. The Bush tax cuts gave the rich even more, in cash, because they weren't making it on the stock market any more.
They saw gold in the treasury, and they looted it. Pure and simple.
You call that encryption?
We were making money during the previous administration, and we had balanced the budget. The new administration saw a treasury full of loot, and raided it for its own gain. It threw you a couple hundred dollars so you could say they helped you, too, but it threw Bill Gates half a billion on this transaction alone.
Taxes in this country, despite the progressive income tax, are overall regressive, because of shelters and the effects of consumption taxes and fees. These same guys are seriously looking at trying the Flat Tax, next. At which point they may end up being paid a subsidy by the government to be richer than God.
We were robbed.
Hell-loooooooooo!
Anyone out there in America with a fucking CLUE!?
What did you expect?
BTW, this adds up to fully 1% of the $350 billion alloted to the recent tax cut.
1% of the tax cut for the whole nation will go into this one dividend payment.
Those of you who understand finance will realize that if every corporation takes Microsoft's lead, the eventual tax cut will be *much* bigger than $350 billion.
We were robbed, and half of you voted for it, even though you were told you were being screwed.
"cannot open this title on a Terminal Services session"
What bollocks. Free software and free books but you can't read them over a network link to your own compute server? Microsoft, as usual, screws the pooch.
Now. How do I uninstall this without removing my adenoids?
Free-X made a threat, and requested valuable consideration to forestall the threat.
bing-bing-bing-bing-bing-bing!
extortion
Hope you like green baloney, chillun.
If there is a first principle of aviation safety, it's never take control of the aircraft out of the hands of the pilot.
Even when the auto-pilot is on, the pilot is in control of its operation.
If this system is active and an airplane develops a mechanical problem that demands an expeditious flight-path, you'll turn a low-severity condition into a catastrophic one.
It's impossible to find a zero-keyclick, zero-tactile-feedback keyboard any more.
Is Gateway still making the AnyKey line?
I know it's impossible to get a DEC LK40X any more, much less interface it to a PS2 or USB connector...
From the ruling:
"Scientific conclusions are subject to perpetual revision. Law, on the other hand, must resolve disputes finally and quickly."
Incredible.
The real problem is it's apples and oranges. When they say "law" they mean "court cases". Legislation and common law (i.e., precedent) are infinitely and capriciously mutable. When they say "scientific conclusions" they don't mean "experimental results" but "theory", as the data gained from experiment is immutable, though its interpretation may be mutable, and the point of science is that theory is mutable but provably true within the known scope and margin of error. Whereas, as I said, the law is simply whatever a majority in a body (or an executive alone) accepts as agreeable, if not true. The law does not seek the truth, it seeks decisions consistent with its past decisions.
The law courts are therefore the last place that the validity of scientific theory should be tested.
Make anyone leaving the atmosphere sign an NDA ceding the IP of all discoveries to the world, or else keep them on the ground.
Someone should give dictionaries to college students.
Not to say that Harry Ford is getting a little long in the machete' or anything, but geez, Spielberg, leave us with some respect for our heroes*.
* - those of us who don't just worship box-office grosses, that is.
Something is wrong, here.
Cripes. I can fart olives higher than 5500 feet.
Never post while hanging from a root on the side of an earthen dam in a snowstorm.
I blame the weather.