The "willing government" would fund this by taking money off unwilling taxpayers. There's *everything* wrong with that, and it doesn't take a libertarian to see it.
That would be my first instinct too. Why would you continue to work for them for 6 months without being paid? That's bonkers.
I had a client that would always pay late, so I told them that if the payment was one day overdue, I would not come in to their offices and do the work they had contracted me to do. They didn't like it at all, but it ensured I got paid. They were so slack at paying that I changed the terms of my invoices from "20th of the following month" to "pay on invoice". Their CFO sees it as standard practice to withhold payment for as long as possible. I saw it as standard practice to withhold my services if I wasn't paid. They were the ones who needed me to work for them - I had other clients who paid as well and on time.
P.S. I don't see what refusing to work unless you are paid has anything to do with being pro or anti unionist.
Sure the government can indirectly alter inflation. So can any private individual with sufficient purchasing power. It's still an indirect result though. Taxation on the other hand is the direct confiscation of wealth.
The post I was responding to said "...your government...". My government doesn't have a thing called "the Federal Reserve". You're not making the mistake that I live in *your* country are you?
Consider the fact that your government confiscates ever greater amounts of your pay and savings via inflation.
The government doesn't confiscate your money via inflation. Inflation is a natural consequence of supply and demand. The government confiscate your money via *taxation*.
Dig deep into everyone's pockets, and launch them to the L4 and L5 LaGrangian points (Earth-Solar), and make a whopping big interferometer out of them.
Is "digging deep into everyone's pockets" a euphemism for "take more tax off people"? If so then I want no part of it. It's a major scam that the state can tax people to pay for these telescopes, then when they're no longer needed then simply give them away. Surely they should be sold and the proceeds be given *back* to the taxpayers that paid for them (in proportion to how they were taxed).
Having powerful receivers at L4 and L5 is a great idea though.
I don't live in the USA and I find using the terms "white" and "black" to describe someone's ethnicity as extremely backwards and a sign of ingrained prejudice.
To favour a person in tests because of their ancestry is abhorrent. It's like saying that because your ancestors come from latin America then you are effectively handicapped and are given special favour with tests. Am I not the only one that has an issue with that?
It's akin to the extremist left New Zealand political party "Labour" who want the retirement age for Maori to be lower than non Maori. It's nothing short of racist.
The "attitiude" I was referring to was not the fact hat the father found something out about their child on Facebook. The attitude I see as a problem is that the father has an issue with their child being homosexual, and would threaten to kick them out unless they recent. Seriously, that's pretty primitive prejudiced thinking.
What's truly horrible is how this girls father acted. Threatening your own child because they have a preference you don't agree with? What a barbarian. What's the bet he believes in invisible friends?
Indeed. It's hard to believe it's illegal to pay someone for sex. What kind of arse-backwards country is that anyway? Time they were dragged into the 21st century. <dons my flame retardant suit>
If you want NASA to be funded, why don't you whip out your check book and fund them? Why would you intead want the state to force other people (who may not wnat to or many not be able to afford to) to fund them instead?
It makes no sense to me. So much for the land of the free.
Yes. Now try getting that to work with 3 monitors. TwinView is only for spanning two monitors, even if your graphics card has 4 outputs. You cannot get KDE to provide a single desktop experience across 3 monitors with TwinView, and Xinerama is going the way of the Dodo and is very slow. I have a triple head setup working with KDE but the only way is to have TwinView on the left two as a single X screen, and the right monitor is another X screen running an independant instance of KDE. Works for my workflow, but a single unified desktop it is not.
As long as they don't do what they did with the PIM suite and the monstrosity that is akonadi. That is some very badly developed, badly tested software. I stopped using Kmail in favour of Thunderbird because of it and I wish I had done it sooner. Hint to KDE devs: Linux is a multiuser desktop. People want to log in remotely from home as the same user that is logged in from work. akonadi does not handle this. I've had mail with subject, sender and body stuffed up. Seriously guys, who is responsible for that massive disaster? It was just plain unnecessary to pollute what is otherwise a decent email client with that crap.
The foundation of civilised society is voluntary action and compassion. Capitalism and charity are two sides of that coin. One cannot succeed without the other.
Though they weren't given permission to actuall dock in Pearl Harbour. Possibly because we (New Zealanders) don't allow nuclear powered vesseles in our waters.
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From what I can tell from the traceroute, the actual server is located in Italy.
The "willing government" would fund this by taking money off unwilling taxpayers. There's *everything* wrong with that, and it doesn't take a libertarian to see it.
That would be my first instinct too. Why would you continue to work for them for 6 months without being paid? That's bonkers.
I had a client that would always pay late, so I told them that if the payment was one day overdue, I would not come in to their offices and do the work they had contracted me to do. They didn't like it at all, but it ensured I got paid. They were so slack at paying that I changed the terms of my invoices from "20th of the following month" to "pay on invoice". Their CFO sees it as standard practice to withhold payment for as long as possible. I saw it as standard practice to withhold my services if I wasn't paid. They were the ones who needed me to work for them - I had other clients who paid as well and on time.
P.S. I don't see what refusing to work unless you are paid has anything to do with being pro or anti unionist.
Sure the government can indirectly alter inflation. So can any private individual with sufficient purchasing power. It's still an indirect result though. Taxation on the other hand is the direct confiscation of wealth.
The post I was responding to said "...your government...". My government doesn't have a thing called "the Federal Reserve". You're not making the mistake that I live in *your* country are you?
Consider the fact that your government confiscates ever greater amounts of your pay and savings via inflation.
The government doesn't confiscate your money via inflation. Inflation is a natural consequence of supply and demand. The government confiscate your money via *taxation*.
No, the number one "made up" religion is Christianity.
Are you kidding, -two- Hubble class telescopes.
Dig deep into everyone's pockets, and launch them to the L4 and L5 LaGrangian points (Earth-Solar), and make a whopping big interferometer out of them.
Is "digging deep into everyone's pockets" a euphemism for "take more tax off people"? If so then I want no part of it. It's a major scam that the state can tax people to pay for these telescopes, then when they're no longer needed then simply give them away. Surely they should be sold and the proceeds be given *back* to the taxpayers that paid for them (in proportion to how they were taxed).
Having powerful receivers at L4 and L5 is a great idea though.
I don't live in the USA and I find using the terms "white" and "black" to describe someone's ethnicity as extremely backwards and a sign of ingrained prejudice.
To favour a person in tests because of their ancestry is abhorrent. It's like saying that because your ancestors come from latin America then you are effectively handicapped and are given special favour with tests. Am I not the only one that has an issue with that?
It's akin to the extremist left New Zealand political party "Labour" who want the retirement age for Maori to be lower than non Maori. It's nothing short of racist.
Try asking that if you live in an Islamic country.
Hence my initial comment "what's the bet he believe in invisible friends".
Atheism is a 'religion' - the only ones who are not are the agnostics.
Athiesm is about a *lack* of belief. Agnosticism is about knowledge, not belief.
Atheism is as much a religion as "bald" is a hair colour.
The "attitiude" I was referring to was not the fact hat the father found something out about their child on Facebook. The attitude I see as a problem is that the father has an issue with their child being homosexual, and would threaten to kick them out unless they recent. Seriously, that's pretty primitive prejudiced thinking.
How is a sexual preference at all comparable to a felony crime? Or any crime for that matter?
What's truly horrible is how this girls father acted. Threatening your own child because they have a preference you don't agree with? What a barbarian. What's the bet he believes in invisible friends?
Indeed. It's hard to believe it's illegal to pay someone for sex. What kind of arse-backwards country is that anyway? Time they were dragged into the 21st century. <dons my flame retardant suit>
If you want NASA to be funded, why don't you whip out your check book and fund them? Why would you intead want the state to force other people (who may not wnat to or many not be able to afford to) to fund them instead?
It makes no sense to me. So much for the land of the free.
Yes. Now try getting that to work with 3 monitors. TwinView is only for spanning two monitors, even if your graphics card has 4 outputs. You cannot get KDE to provide a single desktop experience across 3 monitors with TwinView, and Xinerama is going the way of the Dodo and is very slow. I have a triple head setup working with KDE but the only way is to have TwinView on the left two as a single X screen, and the right monitor is another X screen running an independant instance of KDE. Works for my workflow, but a single unified desktop it is not.
As long as they don't do what they did with the PIM suite and the monstrosity that is akonadi. That is some very badly developed, badly tested software. I stopped using Kmail in favour of Thunderbird because of it and I wish I had done it sooner. Hint to KDE devs: Linux is a multiuser desktop. People want to log in remotely from home as the same user that is logged in from work. akonadi does not handle this. I've had mail with subject, sender and body stuffed up. Seriously guys, who is responsible for that massive disaster? It was just plain unnecessary to pollute what is otherwise a decent email client with that crap.
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Thats like saying, the people should donate their money to wars they believe in.
It's not like that at all - but I agree that people should not be forced to pay for defense research or wars.
People who think like you should donate your own money. Don't expect the state to force other people to hand over theirs.
The foundation of civilised society is voluntary action and compassion. Capitalism and charity are two sides of that coin. One cannot succeed without the other.
It's not a VPN but what about a good old SSH connection toa server you trust (i.e. a server you own)?
I find religion contrary to my morality.
Though they weren't given permission to actuall dock in Pearl Harbour. Possibly because we (New Zealanders) don't allow nuclear powered vesseles in our waters.
The solution to "tragedy of the commons" is not to force people to hand over their own property.