The end user does not give a rats arse about the source code, it's availability or what license it is under.
The point of free software licenses is to ensure the end user has access to the source code. So that if the end user does give a rat's ass he can actually do something to examine and improve the code, if only for his own use and edification.
I.e., it's all about the end user.
It's when someone realized that there were users in the middle doing things to the code that they might not want to give to the end user, and that they had every right not to, that it all got weird.
I don't doubt it exists. Who'd make that up? I just doubt your interpretation. I don't think it's a statement about truckers in general, more like a way to trick people into buying from that truck stop.
It's pretty sleazy to post the tax-exempt price instead of the total, since anyone who's tax-exempt would know they get a different price and the majority of people want to know the normal price. Especially since fuel taxes aren't the same as sales taxes, so there isn't any built-in presumption about how much vig will be paid.
I wonder if they aren't really getting significantly more than other truck stops are, when the taxes are added back.
Carter didn't cut the outsourcing tax on payrolls.
W cut it from something like 30% to something like 6%.
That giant sucking sound you heard was the entire Internet economy being moved to China and India. A trillion dollars of investment in jobs for Americans, and we just handed it all over to the enemy.
I fill my car up at a truck stop about half the time, because there's one conveniently on the 3 miles of interstate I have to touch on my commute, and it's as cheap as Costco besides. I've never seen a tax-exempt disclaimer on the gigantic electric road sign with the giant flashing unleaded and diesel prices on it.
In fact, to tell the truth, I can't remember seeing such a disclaimer anywhere, despite a few decades of cross-country road tripping, so I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was a new development since I haven't been travelling much this decade. But really, if truck stops were now doing that as a rule, this truck stop I stop at would be, too. They operate in about 30 states. They might even lead on something like that.
It's maybe something that happens in your neighborhood, maybe only a state-tax exemption, probably not for all truckers, or one chain that's found a way to screw people who aren't paying attention.
Fuel taxes are absolutely charged to long-haul truckers. You have to be working for the government or a non-profit to get out of paying tax. Truckers aren't exempt just because they're truckers.
In essence, if the Chinese are actually communists and/or socialists, the entire country is a union.
But it appears it's one that's been corrupted by greed in its management ranks, and is using its central power to fuck the proletariat instead of protecting it from this sort of casual abuse of their human rights.
Location has to be recorded. It's how the government knows which filling stations are paying the proper tax on cash transactions. It doesn't have to record your identity, however. The fuel tax method where the tax is merely added to the price at the pump doesn't.
But, for reasons discussed above, making the mileage tax use the pump is stupid anyway. It adds a complexity the system doesn't need, and it utterly fails to account for cars that never go to the pumps.
Bill for mileage when the car is inspected for license-plate renewal. All the safety gear has to be checked anyway.
Back in the 50s-80s, "defense" spending was a much smaller fraction of the budget than it is now. That's where all our infrastructure money is going. Into shit that doesn't create one productive asset.
Close the corporate loopholes regardless of what has to be done with anything else.
Oh, and the deficit is a canard. Constant reinvestment is how companies get bigger, and continuous debt is how constant reinvestment gets done when your income is liable to fluctuate.
And while the taxpayers pay the interest on the debt, they also hold the bonds on which the tax is being paid (at least they do if they're smart).
So the bleating about the deficit is a smokescreen. It's a way to slack the jaws of dunces just before you offer a carrot for them to chase to drag you into power.
No. That "tax exempt only" means "this is the price if you are exempt from fuel taxes." Which means trucks doing government work.
The sign is basically a honey-pot trap. Trucker fails to see the disclaimer because of a big grasshopper he nailed back on the prairie, pulls in, fills his rig, goes to pay, finds out what the total price is, pulls out a gun, and shoots the proprietor between the eyes for being a sneaky fucker.
But the guy who sold him the sign is $500 richer. Life's like that on the open road where the air is clear and a man trapped between two painted lines and pinned to his seat by decades of greasy chow is free as a bird.
Roads are made of asphalt, and asphalt is made of tar, and tar is made of oil (well, it's a leftover from making all the other stuff from oil).
Cement is not a renewable resource, either.
Once you're driving an electric vehicle, you're still wearing out the roads, but you're not wearing out the atmospher as much. So the burden shifts from the polluters to the road-worriers. Same people, really, since it's heavy vehicles doing long hauls that chew up the road the most.
This is macroeconomics in action. I kind of like the idea. All you have to do is put a tamper-resistant odometer in each all-electric car (something essentially already required by the vehicle-sales laws in every state), and make fueled vehicles continue to pay gas taxes and not pay the mileage tax.
So you are accepting responsibility for the theft. And blaming Sony for leaving it exposed. Because that's what someone who can read what you wrote can parse from your two posts in this subthread.
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How do we know this is really from Anonymous?
Did they include all of the required information in their identification?
Is there even a check-box on the form for "We are Legion?"
The end user does not give a rats arse about the source code, it's availability or what license it is under.
The point of free software licenses is to ensure the end user has access to the source code. So that if the end user does give a rat's ass he can actually do something to examine and improve the code, if only for his own use and edification.
I.e., it's all about the end user.
It's when someone realized that there were users in the middle doing things to the code that they might not want to give to the end user, and that they had every right not to, that it all got weird.
At this point, it's about 80 major bugs down in the list.
At least until the company fires its CEO or its Consigliere.
Both of whom, in this case, probably deserve a long, hard look from the board.
Since when is math English?
Math isn't even "the universal language".
Even among mathematicians.
I don't doubt it exists. Who'd make that up? I just doubt your interpretation. I don't think it's a statement about truckers in general, more like a way to trick people into buying from that truck stop.
It's pretty sleazy to post the tax-exempt price instead of the total, since anyone who's tax-exempt would know they get a different price and the majority of people want to know the normal price. Especially since fuel taxes aren't the same as sales taxes, so there isn't any built-in presumption about how much vig will be paid.
I wonder if they aren't really getting significantly more than other truck stops are, when the taxes are added back.
Here's were Arizona defines an "exempt vehicle":
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/28/05432.htm
It's about charities. Seems they add the exemption from 6 cents of the 24-cent fuel taxes to the exemption from weight taxes.
Carter didn't cut the outsourcing tax on payrolls.
W cut it from something like 30% to something like 6%.
That giant sucking sound you heard was the entire Internet economy being moved to China and India. A trillion dollars of investment in jobs for Americans, and we just handed it all over to the enemy.
Here's a link where Georgia talks about taxing truckers.
http://www.gmta.org/GA_Trucking_Facts.asp
I fill my car up at a truck stop about half the time, because there's one conveniently on the 3 miles of interstate I have to touch on my commute, and it's as cheap as Costco besides. I've never seen a tax-exempt disclaimer on the gigantic electric road sign with the giant flashing unleaded and diesel prices on it.
In fact, to tell the truth, I can't remember seeing such a disclaimer anywhere, despite a few decades of cross-country road tripping, so I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that it was a new development since I haven't been travelling much this decade. But really, if truck stops were now doing that as a rule, this truck stop I stop at would be, too. They operate in about 30 states. They might even lead on something like that.
It's maybe something that happens in your neighborhood, maybe only a state-tax exemption, probably not for all truckers, or one chain that's found a way to screw people who aren't paying attention.
Fuel taxes are absolutely charged to long-haul truckers. You have to be working for the government or a non-profit to get out of paying tax. Truckers aren't exempt just because they're truckers.
In essence, if the Chinese are actually communists and/or socialists, the entire country is a union.
But it appears it's one that's been corrupted by greed in its management ranks, and is using its central power to fuck the proletariat instead of protecting it from this sort of casual abuse of their human rights.
Location has to be recorded. It's how the government knows which filling stations are paying the proper tax on cash transactions. It doesn't have to record your identity, however. The fuel tax method where the tax is merely added to the price at the pump doesn't.
But, for reasons discussed above, making the mileage tax use the pump is stupid anyway. It adds a complexity the system doesn't need, and it utterly fails to account for cars that never go to the pumps.
Bill for mileage when the car is inspected for license-plate renewal. All the safety gear has to be checked anyway.
Electric cars still need license plates. And repairs. And they get sold and the mileage is recorded at the sale.
No need to pay the tax at the pump at all. It's a design that retains the current model that works for fuel-consumption taxation. Poorly thought-out.
I'm going to give your address to Osama bin La---damn.
Back in the 50s-80s, "defense" spending was a much smaller fraction of the budget than it is now. That's where all our infrastructure money is going. Into shit that doesn't create one productive asset.
They don't need to be linked.
Close the corporate loopholes regardless of what has to be done with anything else.
Oh, and the deficit is a canard. Constant reinvestment is how companies get bigger, and continuous debt is how constant reinvestment gets done when your income is liable to fluctuate.
And while the taxpayers pay the interest on the debt, they also hold the bonds on which the tax is being paid (at least they do if they're smart).
So the bleating about the deficit is a smokescreen. It's a way to slack the jaws of dunces just before you offer a carrot for them to chase to drag you into power.
Haha.
No wait. You're serious?
No. That "tax exempt only" means "this is the price if you are exempt from fuel taxes." Which means trucks doing government work.
The sign is basically a honey-pot trap. Trucker fails to see the disclaimer because of a big grasshopper he nailed back on the prairie, pulls in, fills his rig, goes to pay, finds out what the total price is, pulls out a gun, and shoots the proprietor between the eyes for being a sneaky fucker.
But the guy who sold him the sign is $500 richer. Life's like that on the open road where the air is clear and a man trapped between two painted lines and pinned to his seat by decades of greasy chow is free as a bird.
Roads are made of asphalt, and asphalt is made of tar, and tar is made of oil (well, it's a leftover from making all the other stuff from oil).
Cement is not a renewable resource, either.
Once you're driving an electric vehicle, you're still wearing out the roads, but you're not wearing out the atmospher as much. So the burden shifts from the polluters to the road-worriers. Same people, really, since it's heavy vehicles doing long hauls that chew up the road the most.
This is macroeconomics in action. I kind of like the idea. All you have to do is put a tamper-resistant odometer in each all-electric car (something essentially already required by the vehicle-sales laws in every state), and make fueled vehicles continue to pay gas taxes and not pay the mileage tax.
The need to change it from $/mile to $/weight-mile.
And dump the old number-of-axles registration tax gack.
Republicans also know the deficit is a canard but the math is too complicated for their base to figure the ruse out.
>Unless you're walking on unpaved dirt road
What? you think grading and dust control are free?
We pave roads because it reduces cost, for sufficient traffic levels.
Why do I get mod points only on even-numbered days?
Are we rationing them now?
So you are accepting responsibility for the theft. And blaming Sony for leaving it exposed. Because that's what someone who can read what you wrote can parse from your two posts in this subthread.
Learn to write, dickhead.
You say that about everything.
So you're personally accepting responsibility for the theft?
Or are you really just saying you're a pissed-off victim of the theft, moreso than Sony is?
Anonymous ate my homework!