Maybe we should have an AI in charge of the nukes?
Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message "Something's out there" / Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here From somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky
When people ask me why I'm a theological noncognitivist, I ask them if their God needs to be omniscient and omnipotent in every universe in an infinite multiverse or if it'd be OK if thier God is a pimply-faced youth in another.
Typically, they have no idea what I'm talking about, and probably just assume I'm nuts.
That sentence makes no sense to me. Progressive tax rates are not regressive, and I don't see what "live in economy" means, nor how it applies here.
There's a really good Harvard economics study on this - I'll find the link if you really want to follow it, but the net is that the price of "progressive" taxes just become buried in the cost of goods. In the US, the income tax increases the price of goods about 22%. If a single mother working for minimum wage is buying a loaf of bread for her kids' sandwiches and paying $3.50, she's paying about half a dollar of that cost to pay for the income taxes of all the producers upstream. She pays a 22% tax at the register, but it's 'embedded' in the cost of goods.
Since she's participating in the economy, she can't escape the "progressive" taxes - they're all regressive.
That equates to a little over $10k/year per person, including children.
Yeah, many governments get by pretty well with far less than that.
Every tax is regressive because we live in economy. The exception might be the poll tax, where every person is assessed the same amount of money and it's set at a level that everybody can afford.
It would probably have to be a federal system, with a unified tax rate, but that's not all bad.
Not bad except unconstitutional (unless they're going to claim that the roads' primary purpose is the delivery of paper mail).
It's not worth centralizing power to worry about the edge cases of people driving out of state. Yeah, it'll happen, and some people will register their cars elsewhere to avoid it. But any kind of Federal program is going to have more cost, fraud, and corruption than those edge cases represent.
I do think Oregon will get a challenge unless they write the tax as not a mileage tax but a tax on owning a car with n miles more than it had last year.
if Mavericks is free then what's Apple getting out of this? Are they slipping in some iOSification of the desktop
Yeah, they've got the whole app store thing in the desktop OS now, and they take a cut of each purchase, so to *not* give a free upgrade to a user of an earlier system, they have to bet that the $30 they'd get for the download (or was it $20 last time?) is more than the commission on all the apps that that user might buy over the life of his computer.
Plus the cache' of having free OS upgrades as a selling point for its users. Just keep buying new hardware and MacDaddy will take care of you.
I know I wasn't alone in saying here that Apple should give away the OS 5 years ago (back when they were quibbling about some driver update they couldn't send out because of accounting recognition or some other such BS) but I have to admit, they've monetized the process successfully.
Sorry, you can only see the Disney movie at the Disney theater, at Disney prices.
Awesome, I could just boycott the whole theatre while enjoying movies at the other theatre without having to read the poster to see who the distributor is.
Photographs that depict actual violent murders are OK, though?
Are you trying to train a population to sit around all day and boink or send their children off to die in skirmishes to satisfy some politicians' power lust?
And yet, the brainwashed scientist dutifully reports:
Professor Heikki HyÃty says that money is the biggest obstacle in moving to testing in humans
As if there wasn't a group of people standing before him threatening violent action if he were to somehow get the vaccine to market without spending a billion dollars by doing it their way.
All those configs get compiled down to sequential operations eventually. Some vendors have added configuration layers above linux. I've got an all-linux network core at home (Netgear, OpenWRT, Mikrotik) with each flavor having its own layer on top of the kernel.
I must admit that my edge router/firewall is BSD, but with NFTables that might be up for a change.
Granted, these aren't yet available on big iron, but the universal truth in tech is that the low end always eats the high end, so that's a matter of time.
You might not want to - there was a news story the other day about "no privacy expected" being the <standard_disclaimer> on the site. This might get straightened out sooner or later, but for now beware of disclosing medical or financial information to such a site.
Answer this... if we knew everything about Obamacare at the time of voting that we know now... would it have passed?
Absolutely - it was passed on a purely partisan vote in a budget reconciliation bill, with its lead sponsor being 100% up front with the fact that the bill's contents were secret from the Congress. The votes were from people who wanted a "more European" system in America and the details didn't matter - this was their big chance.
That's why there's going to be continual showdowns on this issue, whatever form they might take. The big social programs and reforms that have survived have all been bipartisan efforts (yeah, yeah, the Republicans aren't socialists, the Democrats aren't conservatives - whatever). Every purely partisan program eventually gets killed.
Then bin the horrible excuse of an income tax and replace it with a national sales tax so everyone pays tax.
Even the FairTax people (who advocate a National Income Tax) recognize that everybody pays the income tax, at a rate of 22-23% on top of their base rate, as being embedded in the cost of goods. It's horribly regressive, for that reason.
The best way to deal with the Income Tax is to repeal the 16th Amendment and not replace it with anything. Let the States do what they will.
And the alternative - corporate funded research - is immune from financial instability and PBHs deciding what is and isn't studied?
*The* alternative? Nobody could think up something better? We have lots of smart people on this planet - I'm hopeful that somebody can think up a way to fund science that involves neither one nor 435 PHB's making such decisions.
Science is too important to be dependent on a funding source that is 17 trillion dollars in debt. It's *all* going to dry up at some point, and probably rather suddenly when it does. Talk to the history department if this is unclear.
With all the great thinkers in science, perhaps research into better funding models would be worth the effort.
Don't worry, the parents of the dangerous ones are seeing other kids spending untold hours descended into Minecraft and ignoring the real world, and are keeping their own kids from using it.
The Minecraft operators of today will make good lab techs for the kids who are out talking about quantum nature with their dads while building treehouses.
Only changed to PF (with very similar syntax) after IPF's license was changed, and all the BSD still use it... there's still less churn than with Linux.
The BSD's are definitely more stable. Linux makes more progress, sometimes by adopting other projects' work when it's better. There's no way to have both rapid progress and stability, so it's good that the community has a choice (I avoided saying 'communities' on purpose).
I've been using BSD for routing and firewalling for about a decade, first by m0n0wall, then naked to do more, now by way of pfSense which does most everything I need in most cases.
pf is pretty essential to doing some of that stuff, but, man, do I get sores with some of the BSD drivers. I'm looking forward to trying out an experimental build of pfSense on NFTables on linux (perhaps as a spin of another distro) as soon as it comes out.
Like systemd or not, equating systemd and upstart as equivalent is either ignorant or dishonest.
I guess saying such a thing will get me labelled an extremist in Ubuntu circles. It's no surprise to me that the gentoo guys do the best job comparing the available choices.
There was a Snowden brief a short while ago that showed that one of the major switch vendors had given NSA a direct backdoor into their products. One of the people covering that story said something like, "I can't tell you that it's Cisco, but it's Cisco". The real problem with this situation is that we really don't know which of these things is true.
Back when the USG banned the use of Huawei products, most people assumed that it meant that there was spying functionality in it that had been discovered. However, in light of Bull Run, it's definitely worth asking if what might have happened is that they refused to install spying technology and the USG report was meant as a way to discredit the company and prevent its market penetration.
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Maybe we should have an AI in charge of the nukes?
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
/
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here
From somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
if(false)
Signed-off-by: me
until such a time as you are instructed to commit the greatest mass slaughter in human history
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
Any questions?
"So you pay for college?"
Law enforcement logic.
"These guys have it coming".
To even be in law enforcement, you have to drink vigorously from the cup of ends-justify-the-means.
what exactly is the difference?
When people ask me why I'm a theological noncognitivist, I ask them if their God needs to be omniscient and omnipotent in every universe in an infinite multiverse or if it'd be OK if thier God is a pimply-faced youth in another.
Typically, they have no idea what I'm talking about, and probably just assume I'm nuts.
The aliens had to make us believe in gods so we'd eventually figure out how time works. "It was worth the price." - Darth Albright
That sentence makes no sense to me. Progressive tax rates are not regressive, and I don't see what "live in economy" means, nor how it applies here.
There's a really good Harvard economics study on this - I'll find the link if you really want to follow it, but the net is that the price of "progressive" taxes just become buried in the cost of goods. In the US, the income tax increases the price of goods about 22%. If a single mother working for minimum wage is buying a loaf of bread for her kids' sandwiches and paying $3.50, she's paying about half a dollar of that cost to pay for the income taxes of all the producers upstream. She pays a 22% tax at the register, but it's 'embedded' in the cost of goods.
Since she's participating in the economy, she can't escape the "progressive" taxes - they're all regressive.
That equates to a little over $10k/year per person, including children.
Yeah, many governments get by pretty well with far less than that.
Every tax is regressive because we live in economy. The exception might be the poll tax, where every person is assessed the same amount of money and it's set at a level that everybody can afford.
It would probably have to be a federal system, with a unified tax rate, but that's not all bad.
Not bad except unconstitutional (unless they're going to claim that the roads' primary purpose is the delivery of paper mail).
It's not worth centralizing power to worry about the edge cases of people driving out of state. Yeah, it'll happen, and some people will register their cars elsewhere to avoid it. But any kind of Federal program is going to have more cost, fraud, and corruption than those edge cases represent.
I do think Oregon will get a challenge unless they write the tax as not a mileage tax but a tax on owning a car with n miles more than it had last year.
When is Apple going to join the 21st century on memory pricing.
Why would they? People pay it.
if Mavericks is free then what's Apple getting out of this? Are they slipping in some iOSification of the desktop
Yeah, they've got the whole app store thing in the desktop OS now, and they take a cut of each purchase, so to *not* give a free upgrade to a user of an earlier system, they have to bet that the $30 they'd get for the download (or was it $20 last time?) is more than the commission on all the apps that that user might buy over the life of his computer.
Plus the cache' of having free OS upgrades as a selling point for its users. Just keep buying new hardware and MacDaddy will take care of you.
I know I wasn't alone in saying here that Apple should give away the OS 5 years ago (back when they were quibbling about some driver update they couldn't send out because of accounting recognition or some other such BS) but I have to admit, they've monetized the process successfully.
Sorry, you can only see the Disney movie at the Disney theater, at Disney prices.
Awesome, I could just boycott the whole theatre while enjoying movies at the other theatre without having to read the poster to see who the distributor is.
Photographs that depict actual violent murders are OK, though?
Are you trying to train a population to sit around all day and boink or send their children off to die in skirmishes to satisfy some politicians' power lust?
And yet, the brainwashed scientist dutifully reports:
As if there wasn't a group of people standing before him threatening violent action if he were to somehow get the vaccine to market without spending a billion dollars by doing it their way.
A single core ATOM cpu could handle full duplex routing of a 10gb interface while running in user mode, outside of the kernel.
Whoa. </Neo>
All those configs get compiled down to sequential operations eventually. Some vendors have added configuration layers above linux. I've got an all-linux network core at home (Netgear, OpenWRT, Mikrotik) with each flavor having its own layer on top of the kernel.
I must admit that my edge router/firewall is BSD, but with NFTables that might be up for a change.
Granted, these aren't yet available on big iron, but the universal truth in tech is that the low end always eats the high end, so that's a matter of time.
You might not want to - there was a news story the other day about "no privacy expected" being the <standard_disclaimer> on the site. This might get straightened out sooner or later, but for now beware of disclosing medical or financial information to such a site.
Answer this... if we knew everything about Obamacare at the time of voting that we know now... would it have passed?
Absolutely - it was passed on a purely partisan vote in a budget reconciliation bill, with its lead sponsor being 100% up front with the fact that the bill's contents were secret from the Congress. The votes were from people who wanted a "more European" system in America and the details didn't matter - this was their big chance.
That's why there's going to be continual showdowns on this issue, whatever form they might take. The big social programs and reforms that have survived have all been bipartisan efforts (yeah, yeah, the Republicans aren't socialists, the Democrats aren't conservatives - whatever). Every purely partisan program eventually gets killed.
Then bin the horrible excuse of an income tax and replace it with a national sales tax so everyone pays tax.
Even the FairTax people (who advocate a National Income Tax) recognize that everybody pays the income tax, at a rate of 22-23% on top of their base rate, as being embedded in the cost of goods. It's horribly regressive, for that reason.
The best way to deal with the Income Tax is to repeal the 16th Amendment and not replace it with anything. Let the States do what they will.
And the alternative - corporate funded research - is immune from financial instability and PBHs deciding what is and isn't studied?
*The* alternative? Nobody could think up something better? We have lots of smart people on this planet - I'm hopeful that somebody can think up a way to fund science that involves neither one nor 435 PHB's making such decisions.
Science is too important to be dependent on a funding source that is 17 trillion dollars in debt. It's *all* going to dry up at some point, and probably rather suddenly when it does. Talk to the history department if this is unclear.
With all the great thinkers in science, perhaps research into better funding models would be worth the effort.
Don't worry, the parents of the dangerous ones are seeing other kids spending untold hours descended into Minecraft and ignoring the real world, and are keeping their own kids from using it.
The Minecraft operators of today will make good lab techs for the kids who are out talking about quantum nature with their dads while building treehouses.
Only changed to PF (with very similar syntax) after IPF's license was changed, and all the BSD still use it ... there's still less churn than with Linux.
The BSD's are definitely more stable. Linux makes more progress, sometimes by adopting other projects' work when it's better. There's no way to have both rapid progress and stability, so it's good that the community has a choice (I avoided saying 'communities' on purpose).
I've been using BSD for routing and firewalling for about a decade, first by m0n0wall, then naked to do more, now by way of pfSense which does most everything I need in most cases.
pf is pretty essential to doing some of that stuff, but, man, do I get sores with some of the BSD drivers. I'm looking forward to trying out an experimental build of pfSense on NFTables on linux (perhaps as a spin of another distro) as soon as it comes out.
Like systemd or not, equating systemd and upstart as equivalent is either ignorant or dishonest.
I guess saying such a thing will get me labelled an extremist in Ubuntu circles. It's no surprise to me that the gentoo guys do the best job comparing the available choices.
It's Dick Cheney - that person paying for a pack of gum with pennies is a terrorist.
There was a Snowden brief a short while ago that showed that one of the major switch vendors had given NSA a direct backdoor into their products. One of the people covering that story said something like, "I can't tell you that it's Cisco, but it's Cisco". The real problem with this situation is that we really don't know which of these things is true.
Back when the USG banned the use of Huawei products, most people assumed that it meant that there was spying functionality in it that had been discovered. However, in light of Bull Run, it's definitely worth asking if what might have happened is that they refused to install spying technology and the USG report was meant as a way to discredit the company and prevent its market penetration.