I wouldn't infer that at all. More like, some of them thought it was worth a gamble that IBM might pay SCO to fuck off, or that MSFT would buy them out, or any other long-shot scenario.
I would think that at these high speeds, you should be able to duct a little bit of air over the battery and get all the cooling you could possibly need.
TFA doesn't say whether these are in fact MP3 files, and the critical question is: will these songs play on an iPod? If not, this business is doomed before it starts.
no matter how simple your initial proposal is, over the years, it is going to get more complicated.
The legislature will try to do so, of course. The difference is that their manipulations become far more difficult to conceal than they are today. Nevertheless, the fact that politicians will always try to gain more power is not a reason to give up on ever rolling that power back. If the Berlin wall can come down in my lifetime, then so can the IRS.
I could just as much argue that *you* want to start with a flat sales tax applied only to...well, whatever you want to make exempt
Does putting words in other people's mouths work in your usual social circles? I didn't say I wanted to exempt anything, and the FairTax bill is very clear on this. It applies to all retail sales and services of new goods. That's why any attempt to bring in exemptions will be very obvious and far easier to oppose than today's earmarks and special-interest tax breaks, which are buried in bills that are so thick that the congressmen and senators don't even read them.
If you had a serious economic analysis that a sales tax would move us closer to an optimal mix of spending and investment, I might take you seriously, but you're just sort of handwaving.
You're the one doing the handwaving. All the research commissioned by the FairTax organization is available at their web site, and I defy you to refute their conclusions.
A flat tax is an improvement, but we started with a flat income tax applied only to rich people, and look where we are now. Our legislature's stock in trade is selling manipulation of the tax code. As long as there's any kind of an income tax, it will be business as usual, as the politicians keep playing the game of bribing us by offering temporary relief to one group or another at everyone else's expense. Manipulating a sales tax is far more obvious, and harder for a politician to rationalize.
But if you're going to take your untarnished-by-political-reality sales tax
The reality is that income taxes are a stupid policy from an economic standpoint. If you tax people on what they spend, not what they earn, they will save and invest more, and that's something that our economy could use quite a bit more of.
My company has spent hundreds of hours this year dealing with taxes, before we've shipped our first product. Calculating sales taxes is trivial, anyone can do it with a pocket calculator. Dealing with income taxes for even a handful of employees as we have now, is a major distraction from the work we're trying to get done. Now, you may hate rich people enough to put up with all the work you have to do to deal with your personal income tax, but I'm telling you from direct personal experience, that the income tax system is a major impediment to a new business.
Have you ever taken the time to figure out how much time and money it costs for a small business to deal with tax paperwork? And you seriously are trying to tell me that income taxes aren't in the way?
Whatever your dealer is cutting your crack with, it's really skanky.
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This plan crashed and burned years ago. Why are we supposed to care about it now?
-jcr
Sounds like you could have made it a class-action. It's quite unlikely that a business operating like that would have screwed over only one customer.
-jcr
How many years does that material retain its flexibility?
-jcr
A federal suit? What did you sue them for, and why wasn't it a matter of state or local jurisdiction?
-jcr
If you bury the wood it will rot and the decay bacteria will release CO2 and methane.
-jcr
Oh, I'm sure there's a lot of heat capacity in the pine resin, which will be all too apparent when a brush fire comes through.
Building houses in California out of highly flammable materials doesn't seem like a good plan to me.
-jcr
Sorry, I'm not buying it. Buildings settle, and it only takes a hairline crack to let water in.
-jcr
Ignoring a judgement is a pretty dangerous game. A creditor who knows what they're doing can get liens on property, seize bank accounts, etc.
-jcr
Works for me. I hope the relevant parties pursue the criminal complaints.
-jcr
The crime was apparently filing a lawsuit that didn't pan out.
Nope. The crime is fraud.
-jcr
I wouldn't infer that at all. More like, some of them thought it was worth a gamble that IBM might pay SCO to fuck off, or that MSFT would buy them out, or any other long-shot scenario.
-jcr
I would think that at these high speeds, you should be able to duct a little bit of air over the battery and get all the cooling you could possibly need.
-jcr
Of course, he'll probably just invent a new fantasy where China collaborates with NASA to continue a hoax.
-jcr
TFA doesn't say whether these are in fact MP3 files, and the critical question is: will these songs play on an iPod? If not, this business is doomed before it starts.
-jcr
no matter how simple your initial proposal is, over the years, it is going to get more complicated.
The legislature will try to do so, of course. The difference is that their manipulations become far more difficult to conceal than they are today. Nevertheless, the fact that politicians will always try to gain more power is not a reason to give up on ever rolling that power back. If the Berlin wall can come down in my lifetime, then so can the IRS.
-jcr
I could just as much argue that *you* want to start with a flat sales tax applied only to...well, whatever you want to make exempt
Does putting words in other people's mouths work in your usual social circles? I didn't say I wanted to exempt anything, and the FairTax bill is very clear on this. It applies to all retail sales and services of new goods. That's why any attempt to bring in exemptions will be very obvious and far easier to oppose than today's earmarks and special-interest tax breaks, which are buried in bills that are so thick that the congressmen and senators don't even read them.
If you had a serious economic analysis that a sales tax would move us closer to an optimal mix of spending and investment, I might take you seriously, but you're just sort of handwaving.
You're the one doing the handwaving. All the research commissioned by the FairTax organization is available at their web site, and I defy you to refute their conclusions.
-jcr
Ah, right.. I forgot about the TV, and the iPod, too. At any rate, there are no more 32-bit or single-processor Macs in the lineup now.
-jcr
A flat tax is an improvement, but we started with a flat income tax applied only to rich people, and look where we are now. Our legislature's stock in trade is selling manipulation of the tax code. As long as there's any kind of an income tax, it will be business as usual, as the politicians keep playing the game of bribing us by offering temporary relief to one group or another at everyone else's expense. Manipulating a sales tax is far more obvious, and harder for a politician to rationalize.
But if you're going to take your untarnished-by-political-reality sales tax
The reality is that income taxes are a stupid policy from an economic standpoint. If you tax people on what they spend, not what they earn, they will save and invest more, and that's something that our economy could use quite a bit more of.
-jcr
My company has spent hundreds of hours this year dealing with taxes, before we've shipped our first product. Calculating sales taxes is trivial, anyone can do it with a pocket calculator. Dealing with income taxes for even a handful of employees as we have now, is a major distraction from the work we're trying to get done. Now, you may hate rich people enough to put up with all the work you have to do to deal with your personal income tax, but I'm telling you from direct personal experience, that the income tax system is a major impediment to a new business.
-jcr
Have you ever taken the time to figure out how much time and money it costs for a small business to deal with tax paperwork? And you seriously are trying to tell me that income taxes aren't in the way?
Whatever your dealer is cutting your crack with, it's really skanky.
-jcr
Income taxes, on the other hand, don't get in the way of stepping up.
Do you actually believe what you're spewing here?
-jcr
They did update the Mini. As of today, the only 32-bit computer that Apple's selling is the iPhone.
-jcr
Hell, you're probably one of them
I'm not rich yet, but I'm sure enough working on it. Why don't you try it yourself, instead of just hating the people who do?
-jcr
the so-called "fair tax" is actually highly regressive
That's what's known in rhetoric as a bald-faced lie. The fact is, the more you spend, the more tax you pay.
-jcr
they still pay more than they would with a national sales tax.
This appears to be an article of faith for you. What a pity.
-jcr