Crusoe simply doesn't perform as well. In fact, it performs much more poorly. It does consume less power, but doesn't lower the power consumption of the hard drive, memory and display, resulting in less bang for the buck without a huge gain in battery life.
That's what the press is saying, and it's true. The Crusoe has an interesting design, and will clearly be a useful chip, but it is not competative against Intel and AMD. Perhaps when they get the speed up and let it run code frm several ISAs at the same time (say, PowerPC and x86 at once), it'll be cool.
I think Transmeta gets a lot of hype-factor from employing Linus.
With blaring examples like the Cue:Cat's base64+XOR "encryption method"
Actually, their "IP" is the connection of a barcode with a "network event" -- typically doing a 'net query or making a browser do something. Not the 'encryption.'
High inheritance taxes destroy any incentive to produce more wealth than you can consume.
No, they don't.
To take a simplified model, say you're a farmer in ancient times when about the only product available to farmers was food (and again, for simplicity, we'll assume that it really is the only product available). Now say that during the course of your life, you produce double the amount of food needed to sustain yourself. If you keep the food, it'll rot. If you sell it, what's the point? There's nothing you want to buy, because you're already well fed, and you can't pass it along to your kids.
Food isn't inheritable, in most cases. It rots nearly immediately; especially back when your example takes place.
Substitute "money" for food, and you've basically got modern society.
I don't see how that follows. Money doesn't perish (unless the nation does, or due to debasement).
Another simpler argument is that this is essentially a tax on people who die unexpectedly.
They're still dead. And if it is given to someone else, then they have unearned wealth. Now, insurance for familes to survide the breadwinner is one thing. Inheriting $80million is another.
Check out Europe's heriditary aristoracy: the rich. Most rich people in Europe inherit their wealth rather than earn it. In the USA, most rich people earn it. Look at the difference in freedom and productivity.
God: Lots of things are bad and you shouldn't do them. You have to do these 10(or 613 if you're Jewish) things that I think are good.
LOL!
* Satan: Lots of things are bad and you should do as many of them as possible! And whatever else you want. But especially the bad stuff! Extra points for murder and blaspheny!
un-earned wealth is the very basis of Capitalism: the appropriation of Product from the workers by the owners of the means of production, using the wage system, direct slavery, the global financial systems, etc.
That's pretty naive. Direct slavery is antithetical to capitalism. "Appropriation of Product from the workers by the owners of the means of production?" So you're saying that, if I set up a factory and give people good-paying jobs, I'm stealing from them? Haw. And in a lot of companies, the workers are owners, anyway. "The global financial systems" -- money by fiat -- I agree here. A commodity-based currency is honest; but fiat money is institutionalized theft.
He said he wants to, not that he can or will. The President doesn't have the power. However, liberatrians in the congress could reduce taxes, and Browne could propose small budgets, veto big ones, and propose the repeal the the income tax amendment.
I hate my tax rate. It is very high. But in an country that has built so much infrastructure (or cruft, whatever), you can't just eliminate it.
But you can phase it out. It may take as long as it took to get this big, but in 20 years, would could do without it.
The poor pay no taxes, but also get nothing back and no subsidies. The rich pay taxes on all income over $X, where X is something like $75,000, adjusted for inflation, or whatever.
The poeple who benefit the most from the system should pay for it. But the system shouldn't transfer wealth or be beholden to any party, lobby or other group.
Capitalism: an economic policy espousing competative production and private ownership.
"Welfare state" -- halfway point between capitalism and fascism and/or socialism. Private ownership is of varying degrees and uncertain assuredness; government controls some areas of economy, heavily regulates others, and leaves others alone for most part. Tends to engage in wealth "redistribution" (transfer).
Fascism: system which maintains the illusion of private ownership while mandating the ways in which 'privately owned' may and must be used. Akin to socialism without overt state control.
Socialism: system which favors collective ownership and control of 'capital' and property, usually expressed as overt state control. Small groups may decide to implement small-scale socialism on a voluntary basis; but large-scale socialism requires the use of force.
Communism: totalitarian, authoritarian version of socialism, which favors state ownership of the means of production as well as most other things.
Social policy
Freedom: a social policy believing that people are responsible for their own welfare, and that people should be neither forced to, nor forbidden from, helping their fellow man.
Collectivism/Socialism: a social policy which espouses that everyone is their brother's keeper, and either forces each person to help other people (in prescribed manners), or punishes people for not helping (in prescribed manners).
Politics
Democracy: a political policy where people vote for the laws which govern them either directly or indirectly through their representatives. Pure democracy is organized mob rule, where the majority is always correct. Constitutional democracy is the same, but with limitations on the power of the majority and protections for the minority.
Republic:A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. In practice, often the same as representative constitutional democracy (as opposed to direct democracy). The United States of America is a Republic.
Authoritarianism: a political policy in which those in power make all political decisions. "That which is not forbidden is mandatory". Essentially, citizens are chattels of the state; the state does not defend rights but grants privildges.
That way you could make the following kinds of statements:
The USSR was a communist, socialist, authoritarian state.
China today is an authoritarian state, moving towards fascism with some areas of capitalism, with a socialist social policy and a mostly authoritarian political structure.
Germany is a welfare state with some socialism and fascism, and is a constitutional democracy.
the United States is a mixed economy; a welfare state with fascist, socialist and capitalist areas. It is a Republic: a consitutional representative democracy
Although I disagree with the terms you put it in, here is my answer:
Americans have been trained to be suspicious of authority in all of its forms. We glorify the rebel and demonize the tyrant. Because socialism requires the government to invade our lives and tell us what we "deserve" and how we will live, we have a natural reaction against it as an authoritarian scheme that should not be trusted. Americans have also always valued merit, personal talent and individual hard work; they balk at teh idea of politics deciding allocations and deciding what a "fair share is." Most Americans think that a person's fair share is whatever they earn for themselves. That's why, in this country, people generally envy the rich instead of hate them; because they know that, by and large, the rich earned their way up. In Europe, they hate the rich because most of them inherited their wealth. Unearned wealth is bad on many levels. This is what's wrong with Bush's inheritance tax plan -- if anything, it should be raised. If people are worried about losing the family business, they can just make a c-class corporation out of it and not worry. It's only sole proprietorships (and perhaps s-corps) which are "personmal property" to be inherited.
McReynolds says: There are many projects - from expanding Amtrak
I'm guessing that he is advocating public transportation by train. If so, he won't be getting my vote.
Public transporation is fine; but it should not be run by the Federal government, but rather locally. It won't be such a boondoggle as Amtrack is, then. All the large cities and a great many smaller ones have public transportation -- designed and paid for locally to serve the local interests and people. Much better than doing it nationally. That's the whole idea behind Federalism -- a string common defense and guarantee of basic rights (such as the Bill of Rights), and everything else decided close to the people it affects.
So... bring back Federalism and the constitution by voting Libertarian, and theget your state or city to install public transporation. Not only will that be constitutional and legal, but it will be more efficient, cheaper and will result in a better and fairer system.
corporate feudalism... Personally, though I like some of his ideas, etc.
Actually, his plan to increase inheritance taxes is a good one, and pro-capitalist at that. Unearned wealth is massively non-capitalist, and tends to create a priviledged and self-sustaining aristocracy, as seen in Europe. The Libertarians would do well to adopt that plank of the Socialist party platform: unearned wealth bad!
I think the system of higher taxes for the rich and less for the poor would work in a capitalistic society where the wealthy take advantage of those under them to become even more wealthy. Such a tax system wou become an equalizing factor.
You know what? The people who benefit most from society should pay for most of it. Even Ayn Rand, the capitalist philosopher, said that the poor should pay no taxes.
A separate question is, what should the government pay for? In a capitalist society, it will not simply transfer wealth from the rich to the poor. Roads are a good example -- roads are used by everybody. They are paid for with excise taxes, so the more you use them, the more you pay. This hits large companies and especially shipping companies much harder than the guy who just drives to work and the store, and doesn't hit the guy on the bicycle at all.
Health care is another situation; it is forcing one group of people to pay for something that benefits only another group of people.
How about a one-time special-purpose assessment to be voted on by referrendum?
Or, since the miltary is a legitimate constitutional power, from all the other taxes the government collects?
How about this: because the income tax cannot immediately go away because of outstanding obligations, including paying off teh debt, and because it will take a constitutional amendment to do it, that the income tax pay for it.
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present
day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere
restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
-George Washington
"A free people ought... to be armed, To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving
peace. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."
-George Washington
Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms,"
-James Madison
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who
are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."
-Samuel Adams
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at
all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."
-Thomas Jefferson
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants,"
-Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyrrany in
government,"
Thomas Jefferson
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun,"
-Patrick Henry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms..."
-Richard Henry Lee
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed,"
-Alexander Hamilton
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may
drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined
to commit crime."
-Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson
"Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms."
-Aristotle
Amendment. II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
--The
Consitution of the United States of America
I would find it simply hilarious that you believe this stuff,
Until you posted, I had seen no dispute of it, in spite of looking. I don't belive in a FEMA conquering force, black helicopters, etc. Just that in reading about the formation and early history of the Federal Reserve System and previous US central banks, I came across that mess.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Could not start session.
//global.asa, line 115
.. MS Access as the database for their front page? Sheesh.
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Crusoe simply doesn't perform as well. In fact, it performs much more poorly. It does consume less power, but doesn't lower the power consumption of the hard drive, memory and display, resulting in less bang for the buck without a huge gain in battery life.
That's what the press is saying, and it's true. The Crusoe has an interesting design, and will clearly be a useful chip, but it is not competative against Intel and AMD. Perhaps when they get the speed up and let it run code frm several ISAs at the same time (say, PowerPC and x86 at once), it'll be cool.
I think Transmeta gets a lot of hype-factor from employing Linus.
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With blaring examples like the Cue:Cat's base64+XOR "encryption method"
Actually, their "IP" is the connection of a barcode with a "network event" -- typically doing a 'net query or making a browser do something. Not the 'encryption.'
-M
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High inheritance taxes destroy any incentive to produce more wealth than you can consume.
No, they don't.
To take a simplified model, say you're a farmer in ancient times when about the only product available to farmers was food (and again, for simplicity, we'll assume that it really is the only product available). Now say that during the course of your life, you produce double the amount of food needed to sustain yourself. If you keep the food, it'll rot. If you sell it, what's the point? There's nothing you want to buy, because you're already well fed, and you can't pass it along to your kids.
Food isn't inheritable, in most cases. It rots nearly immediately; especially back when your example takes place.
Substitute "money" for food, and you've basically got modern society.
I don't see how that follows. Money doesn't perish (unless the nation does, or due to debasement).
Another simpler argument is that this is essentially a tax on people who die unexpectedly.
They're still dead. And if it is given to someone else, then they have unearned wealth. Now, insurance for familes to survide the breadwinner is one thing. Inheriting $80million is another.
Check out Europe's heriditary aristoracy: the rich. Most rich people in Europe inherit their wealth rather than earn it. In the USA, most rich people earn it. Look at the difference in freedom and productivity.
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God: Lots of things are bad and you shouldn't do them. You have to do these 10(or 613 if you're Jewish) things that I think are good.
LOL!
* Satan: Lots of things are bad and you should do as many of them as possible! And whatever else you want. But especially the bad stuff! Extra points for murder and blaspheny!
grin!
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Perhaps if we prevented wealth from being unearned... rather than hating the rich...
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un-earned wealth is the very basis of Capitalism: the appropriation of Product from the workers by the owners of the means of production, using the wage system, direct slavery, the global financial systems, etc.
That's pretty naive. Direct slavery is antithetical to capitalism. "Appropriation of Product from the workers by the owners of the means of production?" So you're saying that, if I set up a factory and give people good-paying jobs, I'm stealing from them? Haw. And in a lot of companies, the workers are owners, anyway. "The global financial systems" -- money by fiat -- I agree here. A commodity-based currency is honest; but fiat money is institutionalized theft.
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Eliminate income tax.
He said he wants to, not that he can or will. The President doesn't have the power. However, liberatrians in the congress could reduce taxes, and Browne could propose small budgets, veto big ones, and propose the repeal the the income tax amendment.
I hate my tax rate. It is very high. But in an country that has built so much infrastructure (or cruft, whatever), you can't just eliminate it.
But you can phase it out. It may take as long as it took to get this big, but in 20 years, would could do without it.
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How about this:
The poor pay no taxes, but also get nothing back and no subsidies. The rich pay taxes on all income over $X, where X is something like $75,000, adjusted for inflation, or whatever.
The poeple who benefit the most from the system should pay for it. But the system shouldn't transfer wealth or be beholden to any party, lobby or other group.
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Economics
Social policy
Collectivism/Socialism: a social policy which espouses that everyone is their brother's keeper, and either forces each person to help other people (in prescribed manners), or punishes people for not helping (in prescribed manners).
Politics
That way you could make the following kinds of statements:
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we have been brainwashed to "fear" Socialism?
Although I disagree with the terms you put it in, here is my answer:
Americans have been trained to be suspicious of authority in all of its forms. We glorify the rebel and demonize the tyrant. Because socialism requires the government to invade our lives and tell us what we "deserve" and how we will live, we have a natural reaction against it as an authoritarian scheme that should not be trusted. Americans have also always valued merit, personal talent and individual hard work; they balk at teh idea of politics deciding allocations and deciding what a "fair share is." Most Americans think that a person's fair share is whatever they earn for themselves. That's why, in this country, people generally envy the rich instead of hate them; because they know that, by and large, the rich earned their way up. In Europe, they hate the rich because most of them inherited their wealth. Unearned wealth is bad on many levels. This is what's wrong with Bush's inheritance tax plan -- if anything, it should be raised. If people are worried about losing the family business, they can just make a c-class corporation out of it and not worry. It's only sole proprietorships (and perhaps s-corps) which are "personmal property" to be inherited.
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McReynolds says: There are many projects - from expanding Amtrak
I'm guessing that he is advocating public transportation by train. If so, he won't be getting my vote.
Public transporation is fine; but it should not be run by the Federal government, but rather locally. It won't be such a boondoggle as Amtrack is, then. All the large cities and a great many smaller ones have public transportation -- designed and paid for locally to serve the local interests and people. Much better than doing it nationally. That's the whole idea behind Federalism -- a string common defense and guarantee of basic rights (such as the Bill of Rights), and everything else decided close to the people it affects.
So... bring back Federalism and the constitution by voting Libertarian, and theget your state or city to install public transporation. Not only will that be constitutional and legal, but it will be more efficient, cheaper and will result in a better and fairer system.
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corporate feudalism ... Personally, though I like some of his ideas, etc.
Actually, his plan to increase inheritance taxes is a good one, and pro-capitalist at that. Unearned wealth is massively non-capitalist, and tends to create a priviledged and self-sustaining aristocracy, as seen in Europe. The Libertarians would do well to adopt that plank of the Socialist party platform: unearned wealth bad!
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I think the system of higher taxes for the rich and less for the poor would work in a capitalistic society where the wealthy take advantage of those under them to become even more wealthy. Such a tax system wou become an equalizing factor.
You know what? The people who benefit most from society should pay for most of it. Even Ayn Rand, the capitalist philosopher, said that the poor should pay no taxes.
A separate question is, what should the government pay for? In a capitalist society, it will not simply transfer wealth from the rich to the poor. Roads are a good example -- roads are used by everybody. They are paid for with excise taxes, so the more you use them, the more you pay. This hits large companies and especially shipping companies much harder than the guy who just drives to work and the store, and doesn't hit the guy on the bicycle at all.
Health care is another situation; it is forcing one group of people to pay for something that benefits only another group of people.
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The US was able to survive without income tax because they owned an extrememly large piece of real estate: all the land west of civilization.
I don't see how that's true. They were selling the stuff for $1/acre and still own 31% of it.
The government was able to survive without income tax because its powers were limited, and it did a lot less.
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How about a one-time special-purpose assessment to be voted on by referrendum?
Or, since the miltary is a legitimate constitutional power, from all the other taxes the government collects?
How about this: because the income tax cannot immediately go away because of outstanding obligations, including paying off teh debt, and because it will take a constitutional amendment to do it, that the income tax pay for it.
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I'm an atheist but I still say "God bless you".
I say "sneeze you" -- my two little girls think it's a riot.
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A few historical quotes...
... to be armed, To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving
peace. A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."
... The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants,"
..."
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
-George Washington
"A free people ought
-George Washington
Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust their people with arms,"
-James Madison
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms..."
-Samuel Adams
"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press."
-Thomas Jefferson
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms
-Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyrrany in government,"
Thomas Jefferson
"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun,"
-Patrick Henry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms
-Richard Henry Lee
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed,"
-Alexander Hamilton
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime."
-Cesare Beccaria, quoted by Thomas Jefferson
"Both the oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms."
-Aristotle
Amendment. II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
--The Consitution of the United States of America
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OK, obviously slashdot insists on putting a space into the URL. So here it is; copy and paste; remove the space manually:
2 4.co.za/News24/Wheels24/News/0,297 9,2-15-47_929116,00.html
http://www.flyingbuttmonkeys.com/mirrors/www.news
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Sigh.
Try this.
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Slow site... US mirror.
The text is there. The images are coming over very slowly. But at least you can read the article.
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he White House even has a searchable online listing of all executive orders.
Actually, it seems to go back to only 1993. Is there a more comprehensive list?
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I would find it simply hilarious that you believe this stuff,
Until you posted, I had seen no dispute of it, in spite of looking. I don't belive in a FEMA conquering force, black helicopters, etc. Just that in reading about the formation and early history of the Federal Reserve System and previous US central banks, I came across that mess.
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Thanks!
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