The rich in this nation have CPAs that figure out how they can pay the minimum amount of taxes. They find loopholes so billionaires can claim losses on their taxes and thus not pay their "fair" share.
If they are obeying the law, then they are paying their fair share.
5 billion brown people in foreign countries know that Obama represents a tectonic shift in American politics, in American foreign-relations, and in American global leadership - economic, political, cultural, environmental, and more.
Yes, because "brown people" have inherently different economics, politics, cultures, and environments than their paleface counterparts.
Did that make sense to you when you wrote it, or did you just toss it out there to see what would stick?
There was not one thing I liked about either of them - literally, not one - and quite a bit I disliked. Forgetting all about the "Swift boat" nonsense, Kerry just sounded for the world like he was hopelessly out of touch with the day-to-day workings of American life (not that GWB was much better, mind you).
As far as Edwards? I am of the firmly held conviction that personal injury attorneys are one of the driving forces making this country a crappier place to live. I particularly hate the fact that he made his initial riches from malpractice lawsuits, then tried to come across like a good ol' boy who gets made at those mean doctors raising their rates.
I guess, in summary, that they both came across as wholly fake and manufactured. Again, I'm not saying that Bush had none of those properties. It's just that I couldn't stand the idea of pulling the lever for either of the Johns.
The theory is based on the Laffer curve. At a 0% tax rate, revenue will obviously be zero. At some arbitrarily high tax rate (100%? 1000%? 100,000%?), there's such a strong disincentive to earn money that revenue will also be zero. Given two zero crossings, you have an optimizable function of tax rate vs. revenue.
In short, some groups of intelligent people think that the tax rate is higher than the optimal value, and other intelligent people think it's lower than it should be. It's not inherently idiotic to imagine how tax cuts could in fact increase revenue.
That must explain why the national deficit has skyrocketed under GWB.
It's my understanding that tax cuts really do increase revenue, but I'm not insistent on either position. The big problem with GWB is that he never met a government program he didn't like. Say the tax cuts raised revenue 5% for sake of illustration. You can't then increase spending by 25% and then wonder why you're losing ground.
I voted for Bush. Twice. The first time because I actually liked him better than Gore, and the second time because I cannot stand John Kerry or John Edwards and thought (and still think) that they would've been even worse. I've been a lifelong Republican because they used to be a conservative party, but this year I'm completely undecided.
robots.txt is idiotic in this context, except to steer spiders away from forms that shouldn't be submitted or triggering infinite loops. Suppose you find something like:
User-agent: * Disallow:/campaignfinancesecrets/
Don't you think that's going to be the first place to look? Again, robots.txt is to avoiding causing site meltdowns or stupid behavior. It's not to hide information.
What these "PC jerks" believe is that women and men are socially conditioned to have different interests -- in other words, it just ain't natural.
Bullshit. No one with kids every said something so innately, observably wrong. I have two daughters, and I don't care what they play with as long as they're having fun, nor do I care what they want to do for a living as long as it brings them long-term happiness. Every woman in my family, from my mom to my sisters to my wife, has (or had) a strong career in a leadership position of a technical field.
One of my daughters is currently heading down the same path, and shows every sign of going into the sciences. The other, growing up in the same house with the same physician mother and the same geeky kid books, told me that when she grows up she wants to be a princess. Her favorite colors are pink, pink, and pink, she loves dolls, and wears dresses almost every time she gets to pick.
I guarantee you that we never, ever gave the first daughter a microscope instead of a doll, or told the second that she should be a princess. That's just the way things worked out on their own. Again, we don't care what our kids do with their lives as long as they truly enjoy it, and wouldn't for a second dream of pushing "girliness" on our daughters. That didn't stop the youngest from wanting a pony.
No, only non-parents would chalk up gender differences to socialization alone. Anyone who's ever spent much time around small kids knows better.
I like the comments idea, especially as an explanation to the metamods. Quite often I'll see that a comment is modded down but don't really have an obvious reason why, and don't want to spend 10 minutes trying to guess. I'd like reading that "this comment is a dupe of three other comments" so I can at least verify that their reason checks out.
I don't know what my cowboy time is these days because the pink error message just says "you have to press submit!" until a few minutes pass, and then it starts the countdown. I'm not sure I understand the point of punishing frequent posters, especially those who are regularly modded up. After all, we don't come here for the articles, but keep reloading the comments like a lab rat on crack. Why cut off your content providers?
Third, the moderation system, for all its fun and warts, would be rendered moot.
Having been spoiled by Gnus and its adaptive scoring, which uses weighted values for the author, subject, thread, etc. to highlight threads it thinks you might like, I for one welcome our unmoderated overlords. Seriously, moderation is a distant second to a good local scoring system.
This image works for them because it appeals to people who think that computing is somehow not "fun" if it's not done on an Apple.
You need to get out of the basement more. In the real world, Apple has lots of fans because their stuff works better than the alternatives for a lot of people. For example, my wife has no love for computers in general, but a whole lot of love for her 6 year old iMac. When it dies, nothing but another Mac will even be considered.
She's seen my KDE desktop and thought it was pretty but too geeky. She hates Vista that came on a laptop we bought. Her Mac is just about perfect for her, though.
Apparently Apple understands something about making people like their products that you do not.
I always thought that delay was on purpose so that people would take a second to reread their comments before clicking the final submit...
If it is, that's a hopelessly broken "solution". I type more than 5 words per minute, and in regular conversation have been known to reply to someone immediately after they ask me something. But on Slashdot? Nope. You're limited to 15 comments per hour (because that "two minute" delay is hardly ever two minutes), even if you only have two things to say.
With internet ad income the producers would need to finance everything in advance and then just hope the money trickles in over time.
Product placement. Ford and Coca-Cola sponsor "American Idol" and their products are worked into the show all over the place. I don't particularly care for blatant placements 20 times a minute, but that's the only form of advertising that can't be easily skipped.
Does an advertiser prefer to air his ads on certain timeslots on tv OR god knows when on a user screen?
Magazines seem to have figured out how to handle that dealbreaker.
The bigger point is that Viacom and their ilk have to start getting creative. Even if they wipe YouTube clean, there's always TPB. Close it down and there'll be an AllOfTv.ro (there's already a.ru today). Square things up with eastern Europe and Asia and some guy in Venezuela will pick up the slack. The cat is out of the bag. It's decided. People will watch TV over the Internet, and it's impossible at this point to go back. The only question is whether media will figure out a way to profit or keep fighting until their doors close for the last time.
So you've made it more convenient to read Slashdot. Sincerely, thanks! I was skeptical at first but I've come to appreciate D2 - with one exception. You've made reading Slashdot more efficient, so it's easier to read multiple stories at once, so there are more things I want to comment on. Too bad! I'm still subject to the same broken comment delay that ranges from two-minutes-too-long to we'll-get-back-to-you at random.
Want to make karma actually mean something? Drop the delay from users with an arbitrarily good karma so that they can actually contribute to the site without wanting to choke the programmers.
Vista Home on 1MB RAM 2mgHTZ processor laptop is running just fine thank you.
Vista Home Premium with 2GB RAM and a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo is running like crap, thank you. There's much more to the equation than just which of the highly-fragmented shards you've been stuck with.
When Apple shipped a working version, they called it Spotlight. It has the disadvantage of not being as comprehensive and ambitious as WinFS, but makes up for it by being less comprehensive and ambitious. Oh, and actually existing.
Actually I believe it only runs like crap because adobe, java, apple, microsoft, antivirus etc all have autoupdate services installed which for some unknown reason slow the machine to a crawl.
I also use Ubuntu and OS X, and both of those have autoupdate services (both per-app - think Firefox and Adium - and per-system) that don't bog down the system. Are all Windows programmers that incompetent, or could it be that there's more to it than that?
Yah, it would be great if they had a minikernal and ran everything under virtualization, but we might as well expect a free blowjob while they're at it.
I can see the advertising now: "MS BJ 7 SP 3 - now with fewer fangs!"
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The rich in this nation have CPAs that figure out how they can pay the minimum amount of taxes. They find loopholes so billionaires can claim losses on their taxes and thus not pay their "fair" share.
If they are obeying the law, then they are paying their fair share.
5 billion brown people in foreign countries know that Obama represents a tectonic shift in American politics, in American foreign-relations, and in American global leadership - economic, political, cultural, environmental, and more.
Yes, because "brown people" have inherently different economics, politics, cultures, and environments than their paleface counterparts.
Did that make sense to you when you wrote it, or did you just toss it out there to see what would stick?
There was not one thing I liked about either of them - literally, not one - and quite a bit I disliked. Forgetting all about the "Swift boat" nonsense, Kerry just sounded for the world like he was hopelessly out of touch with the day-to-day workings of American life (not that GWB was much better, mind you).
As far as Edwards? I am of the firmly held conviction that personal injury attorneys are one of the driving forces making this country a crappier place to live. I particularly hate the fact that he made his initial riches from malpractice lawsuits, then tried to come across like a good ol' boy who gets made at those mean doctors raising their rates.
I guess, in summary, that they both came across as wholly fake and manufactured. Again, I'm not saying that Bush had none of those properties. It's just that I couldn't stand the idea of pulling the lever for either of the Johns.
It won't keep people out, but it will make it easier to win in court if someone doesn't obey it.
How? Good luck proving that someone didn't download robots.txt manually and decide to explore it in a browser.
The theory is based on the Laffer curve. At a 0% tax rate, revenue will obviously be zero. At some arbitrarily high tax rate (100%? 1000%? 100,000%?), there's such a strong disincentive to earn money that revenue will also be zero. Given two zero crossings, you have an optimizable function of tax rate vs. revenue.
In short, some groups of intelligent people think that the tax rate is higher than the optimal value, and other intelligent people think it's lower than it should be. It's not inherently idiotic to imagine how tax cuts could in fact increase revenue.
That must explain why the national deficit has skyrocketed under GWB.
It's my understanding that tax cuts really do increase revenue, but I'm not insistent on either position. The big problem with GWB is that he never met a government program he didn't like. Say the tax cuts raised revenue 5% for sake of illustration. You can't then increase spending by 25% and then wonder why you're losing ground.
I voted for Bush. Twice. The first time because I actually liked him better than Gore, and the second time because I cannot stand John Kerry or John Edwards and thought (and still think) that they would've been even worse. I've been a lifelong Republican because they used to be a conservative party, but this year I'm completely undecided.
robots.txt is idiotic in this context, except to steer spiders away from forms that shouldn't be submitted or triggering infinite loops. Suppose you find something like:
Don't you think that's going to be the first place to look? Again, robots.txt is to avoiding causing site meltdowns or stupid behavior. It's not to hide information.
And also a repeat of what was already said.
And it was also covered by the parent.
What these "PC jerks" believe is that women and men are socially conditioned to have different interests -- in other words, it just ain't natural.
Bullshit. No one with kids every said something so innately, observably wrong. I have two daughters, and I don't care what they play with as long as they're having fun, nor do I care what they want to do for a living as long as it brings them long-term happiness. Every woman in my family, from my mom to my sisters to my wife, has (or had) a strong career in a leadership position of a technical field.
One of my daughters is currently heading down the same path, and shows every sign of going into the sciences. The other, growing up in the same house with the same physician mother and the same geeky kid books, told me that when she grows up she wants to be a princess. Her favorite colors are pink, pink, and pink, she loves dolls, and wears dresses almost every time she gets to pick.
I guarantee you that we never, ever gave the first daughter a microscope instead of a doll, or told the second that she should be a princess. That's just the way things worked out on their own. Again, we don't care what our kids do with their lives as long as they truly enjoy it, and wouldn't for a second dream of pushing "girliness" on our daughters. That didn't stop the youngest from wanting a pony.
No, only non-parents would chalk up gender differences to socialization alone. Anyone who's ever spent much time around small kids knows better.
I like the comments idea, especially as an explanation to the metamods. Quite often I'll see that a comment is modded down but don't really have an obvious reason why, and don't want to spend 10 minutes trying to guess. I'd like reading that "this comment is a dupe of three other comments" so I can at least verify that their reason checks out.
I don't know what my cowboy time is these days because the pink error message just says "you have to press submit!" until a few minutes pass, and then it starts the countdown. I'm not sure I understand the point of punishing frequent posters, especially those who are regularly modded up. After all, we don't come here for the articles, but keep reloading the comments like a lab rat on crack. Why cut off your content providers?
Third, the moderation system, for all its fun and warts, would be rendered moot.
Having been spoiled by Gnus and its adaptive scoring, which uses weighted values for the author, subject, thread, etc. to highlight threads it thinks you might like, I for one welcome our unmoderated overlords. Seriously, moderation is a distant second to a good local scoring system.
This image works for them because it appeals to people who think that computing is somehow not "fun" if it's not done on an Apple.
You need to get out of the basement more. In the real world, Apple has lots of fans because their stuff works better than the alternatives for a lot of people. For example, my wife has no love for computers in general, but a whole lot of love for her 6 year old iMac. When it dies, nothing but another Mac will even be considered.
She's seen my KDE desktop and thought it was pretty but too geeky. She hates Vista that came on a laptop we bought. Her Mac is just about perfect for her, though.
Apparently Apple understands something about making people like their products that you do not.
I always thought that delay was on purpose so that people would take a second to reread their comments before clicking the final submit ...
If it is, that's a hopelessly broken "solution". I type more than 5 words per minute, and in regular conversation have been known to reply to someone immediately after they ask me something. But on Slashdot? Nope. You're limited to 15 comments per hour (because that "two minute" delay is hardly ever two minutes), even if you only have two things to say.
With internet ad income the producers would need to finance everything in advance and then just hope the money trickles in over time.
Product placement. Ford and Coca-Cola sponsor "American Idol" and their products are worked into the show all over the place. I don't particularly care for blatant placements 20 times a minute, but that's the only form of advertising that can't be easily skipped.
Does an advertiser prefer to air his ads on certain timeslots on tv OR god knows when on a user screen?
Magazines seem to have figured out how to handle that dealbreaker.
The bigger point is that Viacom and their ilk have to start getting creative. Even if they wipe YouTube clean, there's always TPB. Close it down and there'll be an AllOfTv.ro (there's already a .ru today). Square things up with eastern Europe and Asia and some guy in Venezuela will pick up the slack. The cat is out of the bag. It's decided. People will watch TV over the Internet, and it's impossible at this point to go back. The only question is whether media will figure out a way to profit or keep fighting until their doors close for the last time.
So you've made it more convenient to read Slashdot. Sincerely, thanks! I was skeptical at first but I've come to appreciate D2 - with one exception. You've made reading Slashdot more efficient, so it's easier to read multiple stories at once, so there are more things I want to comment on. Too bad! I'm still subject to the same broken comment delay that ranges from two-minutes-too-long to we'll-get-back-to-you at random.
Want to make karma actually mean something? Drop the delay from users with an arbitrarily good karma so that they can actually contribute to the site without wanting to choke the programmers.
you will have to buy a shelf at $obscene_amount, seriously why does IBM put such few I/O slots in the lower end P series boxes?
Asked and answered.
Aw crud. You're right, of course. I didn't think MPH was that bad, although the jumps could be a little nauseating.
And the problem with these things is what exactly....??
Never worked tech support and answered "is that a forward slash or backward slash?" (with the meanings reversed) every time you give out a URL, huh?
Vista Home on 1MB RAM 2mgHTZ processor laptop is running just fine thank you.
Vista Home Premium with 2GB RAM and a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo is running like crap, thank you. There's much more to the equation than just which of the highly-fragmented shards you've been stuck with.
I was really looking forward to Winfs.
When Apple shipped a working version, they called it Spotlight. It has the disadvantage of not being as comprehensive and ambitious as WinFS, but makes up for it by being less comprehensive and ambitious. Oh, and actually existing.
To workout --> change out of office clothes (no need to change undies or socks at this stage) into gym clothes
How do you miss this the "oops! I seem to be naked!" step between here and actually starting the workout?
Actually I believe it only runs like crap because adobe, java, apple, microsoft, antivirus etc all have autoupdate services installed which for some unknown reason slow the machine to a crawl.
I also use Ubuntu and OS X, and both of those have autoupdate services (both per-app - think Firefox and Adium - and per-system) that don't bog down the system. Are all Windows programmers that incompetent, or could it be that there's more to it than that?
Yah, it would be great if they had a minikernal and ran everything under virtualization, but we might as well expect a free blowjob while they're at it.
I can see the advertising now: "MS BJ 7 SP 3 - now with fewer fangs!"