In reality there are other things to worry about (government regulation (especially with utilities and the new health care bill), people holding grudges against companies that profiteer, what products compete with yours e.g. DVDs versus live entertainment) but there are limits on how much companies can just pass costs and taxes on without it affecting sales volumes.
True enough, if one only considers customers; there are others from whom the taxes can be withheld. First up, stockholders. Now, I know that the general population here will immediately think of fat-cat Wall Streeters, but most stock is held by institutional investors. Think retirement plans, both private and pensions. Raising corporate tax rates hurts those who are trying to retire.
Second, the taxes can be passed on to employees, specifically by trimming the workforce.
All taxes are eventually paid by individuals. Anyone who says otherwise is uninformed, or trying to hide something.
...in a US presidential election. US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
The legislature of each state can use a dart board to choose the electors, for all the Constitution cares.
I would say that the kid is entitled to "sell" his vote, and the election officials are entitled to ignore it.
Inside the 4.6 MB are 3 files, the ROM @ 983K, and RTF file for the install docs @ 1.9MB and a PDF for the OS manual at 1 MB.
Pretty silly to have 3MB of docs for a 983K ROM. It smacks of Windows Bloated thinking.
I once read the following quote:
Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's great; and when it's bad, it's still better than
nothing.
One of the aspects of the hobby that has not yet been mentioned is public service -- hams often provide emergency comms during "problems": hurricanes, severe storms, or, in my case, the Hi Meadow fire.
When I arrived on scene for the fire on Monday night, the ARES groups (district 6 and 23) were relegated to the flag pole outside. We were using a mobile running off a car battery and a simple quarter-wave ground plane antenna.
Well, many of the responding fire crews use different bands for their radios, so the individual crews could not communicate with each other, nor with Command. They tried handing out cell phones, but good luck trying to get coverage into the canyons with cell phones; Bailey is rural, we're lucky to have dial tone.
Long story short, we were the only means of communication the fire crews had; even after the Feds arrived, their stuff took far too long to set up, so we were active much longer than we ought to have been.
Want to make yourself relevant to your community using ham radio? Get with your local ARES group and get trained. Get with your local fire department and get red-card certified; that will allow you to go out to the fire crews themselves to provide comms as needed. Get a GPS and a TNC and get set up to do APRS out in the field.
The internet might be the current bane of ham radio's existence, but it's a darn good thing we still have hams who can provide a public service. On Monday night, a fire crew called in and said that they were trapped, and needed an escape route. My wife, KC0EFM, was part of the effort to get them out of there; apparently, the news reported the next day that a bunch of ham radio operators saved the lives of a fire crew.
Irrelevant? Ask the fire crew. -- Matt Meola KC0DXW Bailey, CO
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Oh, I *love* "The IT Crowd"...
True enough, if one only considers customers; there are others from whom the taxes can be withheld. First up, stockholders. Now, I know that the general population here will immediately think of fat-cat Wall Streeters, but most stock is held by institutional investors. Think retirement plans, both private and pensions. Raising corporate tax rates hurts those who are trying to retire.
Second, the taxes can be passed on to employees, specifically by trimming the workforce.
All taxes are eventually paid by individuals. Anyone who says otherwise is uninformed, or trying to hide something.
...in a US presidential election. US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
The legislature of each state can use a dart board to choose the electors, for all the Constitution cares.
I would say that the kid is entitled to "sell" his vote, and the election officials are entitled to ignore it.
I am using (and like) maradns -- http://www.maradns.org/. The format of the zone file is *much* simpler.
...And FreeBSD! No vulnerabilities.
Microsoft would immediately take advantage of this by delegating the decision to blue-screen into hardware.
That's right, hams are permitted to use the spectrum licensed to them.
It is about the rule of law, not purported social convention
That statement is the definition of Democracy -- the majority rules.
Bullpucky. You are equating results with effort -- it is the effort which is an inalienable right, not the results of that effort.
Inside the 4.6 MB are 3 files, the ROM @ 983K, and RTF file for the install docs @ 1.9MB and a PDF for the OS manual at 1 MB. Pretty silly to have 3MB of docs for a 983K ROM. It smacks of Windows Bloated thinking.
I once read the following quote:
--
Matt Meola AFØD
Bailey, CO
One of the aspects of the hobby that has not yet been mentioned is public service -- hams often provide emergency comms during "problems": hurricanes, severe storms, or, in my case, the Hi Meadow fire.
When I arrived on scene for the fire on Monday night, the ARES groups (district 6 and 23) were relegated to the flag pole outside. We were using a mobile running off a car battery and a simple quarter-wave ground plane antenna.
Well, many of the responding fire crews use different bands for their radios, so the individual crews could not communicate with each other, nor with Command. They tried handing out cell phones, but good luck trying to get coverage into the canyons with cell phones; Bailey is rural, we're lucky to have dial tone.
Long story short, we were the only means of communication the fire crews had; even after the Feds arrived, their stuff took far too long to set up, so we were active much longer than we ought to have been.
Want to make yourself relevant to your community using ham radio? Get with your local ARES group and get trained. Get with your local fire department and get red-card certified; that will allow you to go out to the fire crews themselves to provide comms as needed. Get a GPS and a TNC and get set up to do APRS out in the field.
The internet might be the current bane of ham radio's existence, but it's a darn good thing we still have hams who can provide a public service. On Monday night, a fire crew called in and said that they were trapped, and needed an escape route. My wife, KC0EFM, was part of the effort to get them out of there; apparently, the news reported the next day that a bunch of ham radio operators saved the lives of a fire crew.
Irrelevant? Ask the fire crew.
--
Matt Meola KC0DXW
Bailey, CO