Try voting for a third party, or how about YOU run? If you distrust them so much, you go do it. Hell, if you'll lower taxes and let freedom abound, I'll vote for you. Come to Georgia and run for Zell Miller's seat.
*You* don't. Most people use one though because most people have no idea how to set up their own SMTP server. You doing that would be like someone using a private courier rather than the US Postal Service. Make sense?
Of course they would. It's called power. If you control someone's finances you have power over them. That's why your employer can tell you what to do and that's why the founding fathers tried to limit taxation by banning direct taxes.
My point was unrelated to the VoIP thing. I just thought his comment about bullets was a little ridiculous. You can tax VoIP without placing said tax over all internet connections.
Is it so ridiculous? Attach it like a sales tax. Your SMTP server provider would be the tax collector. They track how many e-mails you send and you get the bill at the end of the month. Every time a spammer sends you an e-mail, they pay for one of your e-mails and that e-mail.
VoIP (as in the serve ices that are like using telephones) taxation wouldn't be that much different. I don't know much about VoIP but IIRC you need a service provider (I'm not talking about the kind of VoIP you have in games) so just charge a 25 cent a month user-fee.
I'm not saying I think they should do it. I'm just saying it's not all that ridiculous of a thing to do.
I'm not a republican or a redneck and I own several guns. Bullets are taxed: sales tax.
The majority of bullets sold through normal channels (about 90% anyhow) are not used for anything but target practice, match shooting and hunting. 99% of bullets sold on the blackmarket (which are not taxed) are used for crime. If you create a heavy tax on bullets you'll end upw ith the same situation they have in NY with cigarettes: HUGE black market.
I'm not saying what I think they should do. But I'm going to play devil's advocate and say they might have a point. VoIP isn't the internet. It is a service. VoIP isn't necesarilly an international domain thing. It's really not all that different from any other telephone service. It would be like them placing a 1 dollar a month user-fee on ISP's services. Not the same as putting a sales tax on internet goods, or taxing it based on usage, or charging for e-mails. I beleive the term politicians use is "luxury tax." Would no doubt bring in huge revenues.
Big deal! Sounds like a rather idiotic way to protest. I mean he advocates something and then gets upset because some people he doesn't like starts using it? Screw him I say. I say that because A) I like when anyone start's using linux and B) I'm a Marine.
I have some fairly wealthy friends (meaning a net worth over over 1,000,000), and all of them got that way by starting out at the bottom of the rung, and then getting a second part time job doing things like, waiting tables, or this one guy even mowed lawns and cleaned gutters! The pattern went like this with almost all of them: sorry entry level job with horrible pay + a second part time job - eventually ditch the part time job inf avor of better pay and more hours at the first job, this sometimes occurred after job change on the main job - through hard work and sacrifice they moved up the ladder in their respective fields some were promoted through the chain, some went off and started their own businesses.
Lesson? If you can't find something better, be thankful for what you CAN get. If the money is not enough and it is the field you want to be in, then get a job waiting tables to supplement it (BTW, how low is this pay that waiting tables will pay more?! Geez that's sad cause I've waited tables and I made more money fixing computers and setting up networks in my spare time.) If it is what you want to do, then you do what you have to do to do what you want and make ends meet.
Other than some of the more boutique features of some sound cards being missing and the sound mixer interfaces SUCKING, I've never had an issue of any soundcard failing to work, or even having difficulty with them. My issue is the glibc updates breaking things.
My friend and I had a bet on who could pick the most oscar winners. Let's just say I sunk his battle ship. But anyways, the loser had to buyt he winner a movie and concessions. I thought Phil was gonna cry when he saw the concessions total.
That's reactionist BS. The message is clear though: Don't commit a crime and you won't get arrested.
While I agree it is the theater's responsibility, not the gvt's, to ensure people aren't taping movies, but to say if you go to a movie you'll be a arrested is way out of line.
If parents want to censor their kids, fine. If this type of thing were mandated, then I'd be pissed.
It's a product with a market: parents who don't want their kids to see nudity and hear filthy mouths, such as my own (my parents didn't use such devices haha.)
Why would police officers get training on dealing with privacy issues? Their job is to capture criminals, not ensure their privacy.
'Sides, it should be a matter of good taste to not post the tape of someone killing themself on the internet. Afterall, how concerned is he with his privacy now that he is dead.
People having guns isn't likely to lead to more victim death but it is likely to lead to more assailant deaths. And that is a good thing: remove the mother f---er from the gene pool I say!
Cocaine hasn't really gotten harder to smuggle in. It's gotten harder to grow though.
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Try voting for a third party, or how about YOU run? If you distrust them so much, you go do it. Hell, if you'll lower taxes and let freedom abound, I'll vote for you. Come to Georgia and run for Zell Miller's seat.
Try voting for a third party. You're not throwing your vote away if you do. You're speaking YOUR voice.
*You* don't. Most people use one though because most people have no idea how to set up their own SMTP server. You doing that would be like someone using a private courier rather than the US Postal Service. Make sense?
Of course they would. It's called power. If you control someone's finances you have power over them. That's why your employer can tell you what to do and that's why the founding fathers tried to limit taxation by banning direct taxes.
Sucks to be me. But then are you going to screw all of your friends like that?
My point was unrelated to the VoIP thing. I just thought his comment about bullets was a little ridiculous. You can tax VoIP without placing said tax over all internet connections.
Free speech means you can say whatever you want. The constitution does not guarantee a vehicle to use for that speech.
I agree about taxing spam. I say tax spam at a rate 2 times the current snail mail postage rate.
Stop voting for the people you don't trust and elect people you do trust then.
Is it so ridiculous? Attach it like a sales tax. Your SMTP server provider would be the tax collector. They track how many e-mails you send and you get the bill at the end of the month. Every time a spammer sends you an e-mail, they pay for one of your e-mails and that e-mail.
VoIP (as in the serve ices that are like using telephones) taxation wouldn't be that much different. I don't know much about VoIP but IIRC you need a service provider (I'm not talking about the kind of VoIP you have in games) so just charge a 25 cent a month user-fee.
I'm not saying I think they should do it. I'm just saying it's not all that ridiculous of a thing to do.
I'm not a republican or a redneck and I own several guns. Bullets are taxed: sales tax.
The majority of bullets sold through normal channels (about 90% anyhow) are not used for anything but target practice, match shooting and hunting. 99% of bullets sold on the blackmarket (which are not taxed) are used for crime. If you create a heavy tax on bullets you'll end upw ith the same situation they have in NY with cigarettes: HUGE black market.
I'm not saying what I think they should do. But I'm going to play devil's advocate and say they might have a point. VoIP isn't the internet. It is a service. VoIP isn't necesarilly an international domain thing. It's really not all that different from any other telephone service. It would be like them placing a 1 dollar a month user-fee on ISP's services. Not the same as putting a sales tax on internet goods, or taxing it based on usage, or charging for e-mails. I beleive the term politicians use is "luxury tax." Would no doubt bring in huge revenues.
Like I said, I'm just playing devil's advocate.
This is assumes that we don't have virtually instantaneous massive data compression by then. By the time we reach that level I bet we will.
No actually, I put that in as a disclaimer because I know I'm biased. I'm pretty sure I'm right but...still had to let people know.
Trust me when I say this: give that cheap rugged camping equipment to a group of marine recruits and it will not be rugged very long. :-)
Big deal! Sounds like a rather idiotic way to protest. I mean he advocates something and then gets upset because some people he doesn't like starts using it? Screw him I say. I say that because A) I like when anyone start's using linux and B) I'm a Marine.
I have some fairly wealthy friends (meaning a net worth over over 1,000,000), and all of them got that way by starting out at the bottom of the rung, and then getting a second part time job doing things like, waiting tables, or this one guy even mowed lawns and cleaned gutters! The pattern went like this with almost all of them: sorry entry level job with horrible pay + a second part time job - eventually ditch the part time job inf avor of better pay and more hours at the first job, this sometimes occurred after job change on the main job - through hard work and sacrifice they moved up the ladder in their respective fields some were promoted through the chain, some went off and started their own businesses.
Lesson? If you can't find something better, be thankful for what you CAN get. If the money is not enough and it is the field you want to be in, then get a job waiting tables to supplement it (BTW, how low is this pay that waiting tables will pay more?! Geez that's sad cause I've waited tables and I made more money fixing computers and setting up networks in my spare time.) If it is what you want to do, then you do what you have to do to do what you want and make ends meet.
Yeah right! AT LEAST 80% of my email is spam.
These people obviously haven't used broadband before.
Other than some of the more boutique features of some sound cards being missing and the sound mixer interfaces SUCKING, I've never had an issue of any soundcard failing to work, or even having difficulty with them. My issue is the glibc updates breaking things.
Sooooo true!
My friend and I had a bet on who could pick the most oscar winners. Let's just say I sunk his battle ship. But anyways, the loser had to buyt he winner a movie and concessions. I thought Phil was gonna cry when he saw the concessions total.
That's reactionist BS. The message is clear though: Don't commit a crime and you won't get arrested.
While I agree it is the theater's responsibility, not the gvt's, to ensure people aren't taping movies, but to say if you go to a movie you'll be a arrested is way out of line.
No, it's a function of the courts. The police in most states are not the ones who keep the records, the courts are.
If parents want to censor their kids, fine. If this type of thing were mandated, then I'd be pissed.
It's a product with a market: parents who don't want their kids to see nudity and hear filthy mouths, such as my own (my parents didn't use such devices haha.)
Why would police officers get training on dealing with privacy issues? Their job is to capture criminals, not ensure their privacy.
'Sides, it should be a matter of good taste to not post the tape of someone killing themself on the internet. Afterall, how concerned is he with his privacy now that he is dead.
People having guns isn't likely to lead to more victim death but it is likely to lead to more assailant deaths. And that is a good thing: remove the mother f---er from the gene pool I say!
Cocaine hasn't really gotten harder to smuggle in. It's gotten harder to grow though.