As we Americans all know, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. So come now, you know you don't have to worry about your "elected officials" and they're appointees doing bad things. I mean after all why would you want to impede them in anyway at all?
Though on second though, you know what? I'm just going to keep on encrypting my phones, hard drives, anything I can. Partly because of this, and partly because you know... I might somehow lose them, and not want anyone to access _my_ data.
Actually just today I did get hit with sales tax on a gift card in Will County. I suppose it could be a Will and Kane county thing as I generally purchase things there. Though I seem to recall getting nailed a few times in Cook county for that... I'll have to dig out my receipts now that you have me wondering.
Here's just a thought to get people talking. If you purchase an iTunes card with a value of say $50, you will pay sales tax on that as well. Being from the Midwest, I know that everyone already here wants to tax anything plastic as well under a guise of "green" since it lasts forever in a landfill. So you may end up paying a tax on that as well.
Now the average rate for sales tax in the Midwest is about 7.25 depending on where you are. So let's start doing a little math.
$50 for the card, plus 3.63 for sales tax. Plus if there's a green tax they tend to cost about 1% so that's an extra 50 cents. Out the door roughly $54.13 for that card. Now when I use it, or if I give it to someone else as a gift and they use it in Wisconsin they'll pay the 5% per download. Let's just assume $1 for each download, and we have each song costing $1.05. You get about 47 and a half songs with that gift card I just gave you there. Wisconsin did nothing for the upkeep of any of the infrastructure to get me that download. Probably did nothing to help the artist in anyway, and odds are have done nothing in general to said person to listen to the music (other then telling them to turn it down while in the car!)
I guess IMO states, nations, etc that tax the transaction to purchase something more then once annoy the crap out of me and really are just saying "WE NEED YOU TO FUND US IN EVERY WAY. YOU'LL PAY OR ELSE!"
Any major company/group/party/etc starts it out with propaganda. While yes stealing is wrong, so is out right lies. It's to bad that no one at the top of any of the previously mentioned bodies remembers that two wrongs don't make a right.
Though I do agree that Socialism is _not_ a good thing. The thought of "America...love it or leave it" is very un-American. I'm a second generation American, and very proud of it. I would live no where else in the world. I am a true dyed in the wool American. That said there are _loads_ of problems here. Health Care sucks, a campain system that needs serious work, no real choice in campains, a voting system that assumes you have loads of time to register and have no clue, etc etc. This is the land of the free, so if someone thinks that the US is best as a Socialist country then let them think and say that. It's the same though process that says that Dr. Laura should go because of her views. Yet the groups that push most for that claim that promote free speech. For them it's free speech as long as you agree with what they want. Hmmm, come to think of it that's another problem with the US too.
You're right, if you don't buy the theory that there is no such thing as perfect pitch. If you have it you can tell the (very very) small difference between sharps and flats. I don't have so I can't tell the difference. Damn those that are more gifted in music then us regular people.;)
MoPar is how it looked in the 50s and 60s. It stood for Motor Parts Division and today is used to refer to all that is (still) Chrysler Corp. Sometomes you'll still hear people refer to them as Mopes too.
So you want a lawless society? One where somenone can come and rape your wife/daughter? One where someone can take what you work hard to get, and there is nothing you can do about it? Hmmm, with all that's wrong with the current government, nothing is that bad. If you think things are so bad, then why do you do something about them, you can start by voting in _every_ election. Get involed in your area, make the world better not worse with your degenerate AC posts.
You're right Pedo pics themselves hurt no one, except that someone was hurt in the making. If you're a a person that thinks that "just looking" at pedo pics is ok, tell me how you would feel if it was you, or worse your child that was in that pic? Just the thought of someone touching one of my kids sends me in to a rage. I'd kill the f--k, quicker then you can blink! Drugs are fine, if you can keep yourself off the raod, street, sidewalk, etc. Someplace that you can't be hurt or hust someone else, and agree that when you little brain is gone you won't talk any taxpayer dollars to "help" you mend. In fact just because it's next to impossible to control drugs or anything else that is harmful, doesn't mean you don't try. In fact look at what 13 colonies had to fight against, hmm seems to me the odds were not stacked in the favor of them.
So what was that again about not hurting people? Start to think a little bit, _before_ you spout off about stupid shit.
The biggest reason is that most people have x86 processors. It's hard to port something to another platform without know how it works, and if your ported app will even work. But take heart, I think that someday soon the x86 will no longer have the 90 some percent of the developers as the Alpha, ARM, and PPC are becoming more and more common.
ps god i hope so, i'm really sick of the x86 and really want an alpha or ultra sparc!!
I remember high school, do you? Like many of you, I'm sure I was a bit of an outsider. I didn't do sports (not for school anyway), I didn't go to the debate club, or the drama club, or any of that. I did my own thing with cars ans music and computers and what not. I remember being harassed for not conforming with the "norm". I spent a lot of time in the deans office because I belive in free speech, freedom of expression, and just about everything else in the United States Constitution. I'm now 7 years out of high school and a father of 2, and I'm already getting ready for how I'll respond to teachers that don't teach, deans and consulers that don't help kids and security guards that live for busting kids. I find it a grave misjudice to our kids and ourselves that we allow the people that work for us to do things like this without questioning it. I pay the salary of all of them, so do you. Our children need to know that they do have the right to think, the right to have an opinion, and to wear the cloths that they want (with in reason), and they don't have to put up with being judged because they look like they might cause trouble. I own a trench coat, and nice motorcycle jacket, does that mean that I'm going to kill someone, or that I'm in a biker gang? Does it mean that I'm a "rebel", that I refuse to conform to the "man" because I want anarchy. Hell no! I beg anyone with children, babies to college students, please, please, please don't let schools and government officals tell your kids what to think. Teach them to think for themselves, teach them right from wrong, teach them that even when the world is against them that they have you, and family, and friends to help make things better. And for the kids that wrote to Rob with your story, if your parents wont help and you need something let me know. I know that I wont allow the treatment that you have had to happen to my kids. Not now, not ever, and I hope that some day you'll do the same.
That's a great idea really, layering in a way similer to Posix might not be a bad idea at all. One might ask "if we have Posix what do we need LSB for?" Answer Posix is pretty much general UN*X, LSB would cover Linux thus giving us a standard to throw at ISV's and say "you want to port your apps to Linux, here's what you need to read to work on these distros." Really, I'm seeing mainly Slackware users say how bad it is, but I have to ask you then, what makes you think that anyone is going to make you follow the standard? No one's going to kick in your door and force you to comply to the LSB.
Don't mistake me, I use both KDE and GNOME. Personally, I think both have a place but to say to me that I must have this interface, and thus it's supporting libraries, is not what it should be about. Like I said basic utilites and libraries is what it should be. Or if they do what to go with a standard GUI, then it should be something like FVWM, MWM, something very common and basic. Slackware will probably settle on KDE (last I read about it anyway), and that's fine, but that's something that should be left up to the maintainer(s) of the dist. Support libraries (glibc, X libraries, etc) and the like should probably be a standard, no one says that you cann't add to it, or even follow it for that matter. It's just easier for new users, and developers (not just ISV's).
is a good one. I personally think that it can become something really good, if and only if LSB doesn't try things like..."each dist will have glibc 2.1, and GNOME 1.0, and kernel 2.2.1, and blah, blah, blah." Something along the lines of the basic tools, libraries, and maybe kernel version that should be included.
Really, if he knows this is fact (right and I'm Bill Gates long lost son), it's very cool in idea. I'd love to have RISC chip like this, and with Linux installed on a 100GB drive (though I don't know if I'd completely trust a 100GB drive, maybe just a little paranoid after to many "big" drive failures).
Funny that now that most of the really hard work is done for them companies are saying "Oh we think Linux is great". I know this sounds like a rant but, in a way it bugs me that most of these companies wouldn't have said Linux and serious in the same sentence 12 months ago. Oh well, I suppose better late then never, I didn't even "discover" Linux until about 19 months or so ago.
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As we Americans all know, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. So come now, you know you don't have to worry about your "elected officials" and they're appointees doing bad things. I mean after all why would you want to impede them in anyway at all?
Though on second though, you know what? I'm just going to keep on encrypting my phones, hard drives, anything I can. Partly because of this, and partly because you know... I might somehow lose them, and not want anyone to access _my_ data.
Actually just today I did get hit with sales tax on a gift card in Will County. I suppose it could be a Will and Kane county thing as I generally purchase things there. Though I seem to recall getting nailed a few times in Cook county for that ... I'll have to dig out my receipts now that you have me wondering.
Ok it's not technically a double tax but...
Here's just a thought to get people talking. If you purchase an iTunes card with a value of say $50, you will pay sales tax on that as well. Being from the Midwest, I know that everyone already here wants to tax anything plastic as well under a guise of "green" since it lasts forever in a landfill. So you may end up paying a tax on that as well.
Now the average rate for sales tax in the Midwest is about 7.25 depending on where you are. So let's start doing a little math.
$50 for the card, plus 3.63 for sales tax. Plus if there's a green tax they tend to cost about 1% so that's an extra 50 cents. Out the door roughly $54.13 for that card. Now when I use it, or if I give it to someone else as a gift and they use it in Wisconsin they'll pay the 5% per download. Let's just assume $1 for each download, and we have each song costing $1.05. You get about 47 and a half songs with that gift card I just gave you there. Wisconsin did nothing for the upkeep of any of the infrastructure to get me that download. Probably did nothing to help the artist in anyway, and odds are have done nothing in general to said person to listen to the music (other then telling them to turn it down while in the car!)
I guess IMO states, nations, etc that tax the transaction to purchase something more then once annoy the crap out of me and really are just saying "WE NEED YOU TO FUND US IN EVERY WAY. YOU'LL PAY OR ELSE!"
Any major company/group/party/etc starts it out with propaganda. While yes stealing is wrong, so is out right lies. It's to bad that no one at the top of any of the previously mentioned bodies remembers that two wrongs don't make a right.
did it actually tell us anything?
Though I do agree that Socialism is _not_ a good thing. The thought of "America...love it or leave it" is very un-American. I'm a second generation American, and very proud of it. I would live no where else in the world. I am a true dyed in the wool American. That said there are _loads_ of problems here. Health Care sucks, a campain system that needs serious work, no real choice in campains, a voting system that assumes you have loads of time to register and have no clue, etc etc. This is the land of the free, so if someone thinks that the US is best as a Socialist country then let them think and say that. It's the same though process that says that Dr. Laura should go because of her views. Yet the groups that push most for that claim that promote free speech. For them it's free speech as long as you agree with what they want. Hmmm, come to think of it that's another problem with the US too.
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You're right, if you don't buy the theory that there is no such thing as perfect pitch. If you have it you can tell the (very very) small difference between sharps and flats. I don't have so I can't tell the difference. Damn those that are more gifted in music then us regular people. ;)
MoPar is how it looked in the 50s and 60s. It stood for Motor Parts Division and today is used to refer to all that is (still) Chrysler Corp. Sometomes you'll still hear people refer to them as Mopes too.
That about says it all for me, I think.
So you want a lawless society? One where somenone can come and rape your wife/daughter? One where someone can take what you work hard to get, and there is nothing you can do about it? Hmmm, with all that's wrong with the current government, nothing is that bad. If you think things are so bad, then why do you do something about them, you can start by voting in _every_ election. Get involed in your area, make the world better not worse with your degenerate AC posts.
You're right Pedo pics themselves hurt no one, except that someone was hurt in the making. If you're a a person that thinks that "just looking" at pedo pics is ok, tell me how you would feel if it was you, or worse your child that was in that pic? Just the thought of someone touching one of my kids sends me in to a rage. I'd kill the f--k, quicker then you can blink! Drugs are fine, if you can keep yourself off the raod, street, sidewalk, etc. Someplace that you can't be hurt or hust someone else, and agree that when you little brain is gone you won't talk any taxpayer dollars to "help" you mend. In fact just because it's next to impossible to control drugs or anything else that is harmful, doesn't mean you don't try. In fact look at what 13 colonies had to fight against, hmm seems to me the odds were not stacked in the favor of them.
So what was that again about not hurting people? Start to think a little bit, _before_ you spout off about stupid shit.
The biggest reason is that most people have x86 processors. It's hard to port something to another platform without know how it works, and if your ported app will even work. But take heart, I think that someday soon the x86 will no longer have the 90 some percent of the developers as the Alpha, ARM, and PPC are becoming more and more common.
ps
god i hope so, i'm really sick of the x86 and really want an alpha or ultra sparc!!
I remember high school, do you? Like many of you, I'm sure I was a bit of an outsider. I didn't do sports (not for school anyway), I didn't go to the debate club, or the drama club, or any of that. I did my own thing with cars ans music and computers and what not. I remember being harassed for not conforming with the "norm". I spent a lot of time in the deans office because I belive in free speech, freedom of expression, and just about everything else in the United States Constitution. I'm now 7 years out of high school and a father of 2, and I'm already getting ready for how I'll respond to teachers that don't teach, deans and consulers that don't help kids and security guards that live for busting kids. I find it a grave misjudice to our kids and ourselves that we allow the people that work for us to do things like this without questioning it. I pay the salary of all of them, so do you. Our children need to know that they do have the right to think, the right to have an opinion, and to wear the cloths that they want (with in reason), and they don't have to put up with being judged because they look like they might cause trouble. I own a trench coat, and nice motorcycle jacket, does that mean that I'm going to kill someone, or that I'm in a biker gang? Does it mean that I'm a "rebel", that I refuse to conform to the "man" because I want anarchy. Hell no! I beg anyone with children, babies to college students, please, please, please don't let schools and government officals tell your kids what to think. Teach them to think for themselves, teach them right from wrong, teach them that even when the world is against them that they have you, and family, and friends to help make things better. And for the kids that wrote to Rob with your story, if your parents wont help and you need something let me know. I know that I wont allow the treatment that you have had to happen to my kids. Not now, not ever, and I hope that some day you'll do the same.
That's a great idea really, layering in a way similer to Posix might not be a bad idea at all. One might ask "if we have Posix what do we need LSB for?" Answer Posix is pretty much general UN*X, LSB would cover Linux thus giving us a standard to throw at ISV's and say "you want to port your apps to Linux, here's what you need to read to work on these distros." Really, I'm seeing mainly Slackware users say how bad it is, but I have to ask you then, what makes you think that anyone is going to make you follow the standard? No one's going to kick in your door and force you to comply to the LSB.
Don't mistake me, I use both KDE and GNOME. Personally, I think both have a place but to say to me that I must have this interface, and thus it's supporting libraries, is not what it should be about. Like I said basic utilites and libraries is what it should be. Or if they do what to go with a standard GUI, then it should be something like FVWM, MWM, something very common and basic. Slackware will probably settle on KDE (last I read about it anyway), and that's fine, but that's something that should be left up to the maintainer(s) of the dist. Support libraries (glibc, X libraries, etc) and the like should probably be a standard, no one says that you cann't add to it, or even follow it for that matter. It's just easier for new users, and developers (not just ISV's).
is a good one. I personally think that it can become something really good, if and only if LSB doesn't try things like..."each dist will have glibc 2.1, and GNOME 1.0, and kernel 2.2.1, and blah, blah, blah." Something along the lines of the basic tools, libraries, and maybe kernel version that should be included.
Really, if he knows this is fact (right and I'm Bill Gates long lost son), it's very cool in idea. I'd love to have RISC chip like this, and with Linux installed on a 100GB drive (though I don't know if I'd completely trust a 100GB drive, maybe just a little paranoid after to many "big" drive failures).
/.'d already. I'm thinking this site has really limited bandwith and server ablities and choked. But that's just my opinion.
Funny that now that most of the really hard work is done for them companies are saying "Oh we think Linux is great". I know this sounds like a rant but, in a way it bugs me that most of these companies wouldn't have said Linux and serious in the same sentence 12 months ago. Oh well, I suppose better late then never, I didn't even "discover" Linux until about 19 months or so ago.