As most of the Reagan and all of the Bush tax cuts have benefited the rich,
You know, it's that asinine class-warfare rhetoric that makes it possible to keep people like you docile as your tax burden grows, year after year, under democrats and republicans both.
I find it totaly reasonable for ATT to want to protect itself from something it is forbiden by law to discuss.
So, they decline to discuss it until the court orders them to do so. Once that happens though, they've got to comply with the order, so prosecuting them for talking about it wouldn't fly.
when's the last time Congress did anything positive for us citizens?
Let's see... There was the Voting Rights Act in 1964. I would like to give them credit for various tax cuts that happened during and since the Reagan administration, but since the congress also enacted those taxes in the first place, it's a wash.
Don't forget that the court is part of the government, too.
AT&T is basically asking the court to rule itself incapable of doing its job. There aren't a lot of judges who'll go along with that, and this is precisely why the constitution separates the judiciary from the legislature and the executive.
The UI on my phone sucks but they all equally suck.
I all but ignore the UI on my phone. I sync the numbers with my Mac, and make calls from the address book or the history list, for the most part. The phone does a lot more than that, but I really can't be bothered to find out what.
And when the total votes amounts to less than 1% of their sales volume, Dell does the math and decides that offering Linux isn't worth it. The few people who want it will just figure out how to get it and install it themselves, just like they do today.
Well, as it happens a lot of Eastern Europe is actually looking pretty good these days. Something about recently throwing off the communist yoke has made the Baltics in particular quite open to liberty as a political system.
Actually, it would appear from Pennsylvania crash on 9/11 that people are indeed capable of overcoming all of the "just do what the perp says to do" conditioning we've had for the last several decades. Now that we know that the plane going down isn't the worst thing that can happen, I don't think a hijacker will ever succeed in taking control of an airplane again.
The threat to commercial air transport now is bombs in luggage or shoulder-launched missiles (as the perps tried in Kenya a month or so after 9/11).
Secondly, the "Fair" tax is anything but fair. The current largest US population group is the baby boomers who have lived their working years under a tax system that concentrates taxation on their income.
It does not follow that because one generation has been subjected to a bad policy, that fairness demands that it be continued. Was the end of slavery more or less fair to the freed slaves, depending how long they'd been slaves?
In Teresa Heinz' case, her income is based on tax free municipal bonds
A financial device which allows local governments to spend more than they collect in taxes. Isn't that sweet?
Of course, this is just one of the many tax breaks available to rich people. Thanks for helping me make my point. If we were to move to the Fair Tax, she'd pay out 17% of whatever she spends, and have no way to avoid it.
There are several energy sources that account for the heat in the interior of a planet. The biggest ones are the residual heat left over from the planet coalescing, and nuclear reactions of matter in the core. The biggest factor after those would most likely be tidal forces causing deformation. (IE, the energy in the momentum of orbiting bodies ends up as heat in those bodies as they slow down.)
Why do you say that? Does he hurl vitriolic condemnations at people who disagree with him? Does he try to shout them down, or demand that their funding be cut off?
BTW, you fulfilled my expectation that there would be an ad-hominem directed at the researcher in question within the first ten replies.
It seems to me the problem with John Kerry's wife and her taxes isn't the income tax, it's the numerous loopholes that the rich politicians have put in the income tax for the benefit of themselves and their rich buddies.
And that is why the income tax doesn't even suceed in soaking the rich, which is the premise on which it was sold to the public. Punitive taxation as the marxists demanded and got in the twentieth century has a nasty habit of soaking the middle class (which is where the money is: enough to be worth looting, but not so much that the looted parties can afford to take heroic measures to retain it.)
Isn't it ominous that people like Steve Forbes support replacing the income tax with a flat or sales tax?
Forbes, like most businessmen, wants to see the economy actually grow. He stands to gain (as do we all), if that happens. What I find ominous is how many people argue in favor a tax system that is so easy to manipulate that it forms the major means for politicians to pay off their backers.
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As most of the Reagan and all of the Bush tax cuts have benefited the rich,
You know, it's that asinine class-warfare rhetoric that makes it possible to keep people like you docile as your tax burden grows, year after year, under democrats and republicans both.
-jcr
Not quite. The debt is due to spending more than revenues. The tax cuts have had the effect of increasing revenues by promoting economic growth.
-jcr
I find it totaly reasonable for ATT to want to protect itself from something it is forbiden by law to discuss.
So, they decline to discuss it until the court orders them to do so. Once that happens though, they've got to comply with the order, so prosecuting them for talking about it wouldn't fly.
-jcr
Not a Global Positioning System?
Nope, it's an Oceanic Positioning System, which makes only about 2/3 of global at best.
-jcr
when's the last time Congress did anything positive for us citizens?
Let's see... There was the Voting Rights Act in 1964. I would like to give them credit for various tax cuts that happened during and since the Reagan administration, but since the congress also enacted those taxes in the first place, it's a wash.
-jcr
Don't forget that the court is part of the government, too.
AT&T is basically asking the court to rule itself incapable of doing its job. There aren't a lot of judges who'll go along with that, and this is precisely why the constitution separates the judiciary from the legislature and the executive.
-jcr
You must have a RAZR
Nope. SE K750i. It's what a lot of my former colleagues at Apple are using until the iPhone is available.
-jcr
This is sonar navigation, using GPS to calibrate the locations of the sonar transponders.
-jcr
The UI on my phone sucks but they all equally suck.
I all but ignore the UI on my phone. I sync the numbers with my Mac, and make calls from the address book or the history list, for the most part. The phone does a lot more than that, but I really can't be bothered to find out what.
-jcr
And when the total votes amounts to less than 1% of their sales volume, Dell does the math and decides that offering Linux isn't worth it. The few people who want it will just figure out how to get it and install it themselves, just like they do today.
-jcr
So, where to next?
Well, as it happens a lot of Eastern Europe is actually looking pretty good these days. Something about recently throwing off the communist yoke has made the Baltics in particular quite open to liberty as a political system.
-jcr
FWIW, Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time, he just made it illegal to say otherwise in the Italian press.
-jcr
Emigrate.
-jcr
I'm curious... Two failures out of a sample of how many MacBooks?
-jcr
Actually (and I know you know this, jcr), this service is available from Apple as well, albeit for the server grade products:
Sure, but the question at hand was about Macs, not Xserves.
-jcr
You don't get 4-hour on-site service with Macs
That kind of service is available if you want it, although not directly from Apple.
-jcr
Let's not go there... It's a silly place.
-jcr
Actually, it would appear from Pennsylvania crash on 9/11 that people are indeed capable of overcoming all of the "just do what the perp says to do" conditioning we've had for the last several decades. Now that we know that the plane going down isn't the worst thing that can happen, I don't think a hijacker will ever succeed in taking control of an airplane again.
The threat to commercial air transport now is bombs in luggage or shoulder-launched missiles (as the perps tried in Kenya a month or so after 9/11).
-jcr
Secondly, the "Fair" tax is anything but fair. The current largest US population group is the baby boomers who have lived their working years under a tax system that concentrates taxation on their income.
It does not follow that because one generation has been subjected to a bad policy, that fairness demands that it be continued. Was the end of slavery more or less fair to the freed slaves, depending how long they'd been slaves?
-jcr
In Teresa Heinz' case, her income is based on tax free municipal bonds
A financial device which allows local governments to spend more than they collect in taxes. Isn't that sweet?
Of course, this is just one of the many tax breaks available to rich people. Thanks for helping me make my point. If we were to move to the Fair Tax, she'd pay out 17% of whatever she spends, and have no way to avoid it.
-jcr
Squash any matter and it gets hot.
See above where I mentioned "residual heat"?
-jcr
Thats it, not "He" or "She", you insensitive sexist clod!
-jcr
Gravity's not a power source.
There are several energy sources that account for the heat in the interior of a planet. The biggest ones are the residual heat left over from the planet coalescing, and nuclear reactions of matter in the core. The biggest factor after those would most likely be tidal forces causing deformation. (IE, the energy in the momentum of orbiting bodies ends up as heat in those bodies as they slow down.)
-jcr
Abdussamatov is a nutcase,
Why do you say that? Does he hurl vitriolic condemnations at people who disagree with him? Does he try to shout them down, or demand that their funding be cut off?
BTW, you fulfilled my expectation that there would be an ad-hominem directed at the researcher in question within the first ten replies.
-jcr
It seems to me the problem with John Kerry's wife and her taxes isn't the income tax, it's the numerous loopholes that the rich politicians have put in the income tax for the benefit of themselves and their rich buddies.
And that is why the income tax doesn't even suceed in soaking the rich, which is the premise on which it was sold to the public. Punitive taxation as the marxists demanded and got in the twentieth century has a nasty habit of soaking the middle class (which is where the money is: enough to be worth looting, but not so much that the looted parties can afford to take heroic measures to retain it.)
Isn't it ominous that people like Steve Forbes support replacing the income tax with a flat or sales tax?
Forbes, like most businessmen, wants to see the economy actually grow. He stands to gain (as do we all), if that happens. What I find ominous is how many people argue in favor a tax system that is so easy to manipulate that it forms the major means for politicians to pay off their backers.
-jcr