Much like Windows 3.11 the GUI in GUN/Linux isn't a core part of the OS - but a graphics server with window managers on top and all the real work being done by the OS under the manager.
On that note - has anyone ported Progman.exe to X? Would running Wine as the Window manager and Progman as the program count?
Gas and other vehicle tax goes to maintaining roads. Not schools, not reproductive habits of Bolivian underwear weasel, not buy the president another vacation - roads. There's other ways to do it that are closer to fair, but never mind that.
Once you cut out victimless crimes and stop making stupid shit criminal, such as buying socks on Sunday in parts of New Jersey or rolling up a wild weed in a piece of paper, setting it on fire and inhaling the smoke, and make only things that have real victims crimes then you can have criminals support their own prosecution and incarceration.
The "every fucking transaction you can conceive of" method of taxation just isn't right.
Yelling Somalia at a Libertarian is like yelling birth certificate at a Democrat. There are ways to get things done with less corruption than either extreme offers.
The same one was among them - some of us just have our eyes open wider than others.
BTW - I'm not against all forms of taxes.
Usage taxes are fine, though I have dreamed up a few ways around those they seem like a good thing. Tax the gas, tires, cars, bus tickets, etc.. To pay for roads. Every dime of that tax (and) toll money should go to maintaining, building, and upgrading our vehicle infrastructure. Since the historical pre-car users of roads were pedestrians, equestrians, and cyclist and those historical roads didn't require 100th the maintenance they can pay for bike lanes and sidewalks for the people and animals they displaced, though a tax on bicycles and parts for them, maybe shoes- not allowed to exceed the percentage placed on gas or cars - I would find acceptable if the same reasoning was used. Don't bike drive or walk? No road tax!
The people of your city want a stadium? Tax the event tickets. I'm not on-board with taxing hotel rooms to pay for stadiums. Your team sucks and so does Justin Bieber so you don't watch sporting/music events at your stadium? Don't pay for it.
I should not however have to pay taxes on my gasoline where the funds get diverted to studying the mating habits of feral Chihuahua's, nor should should taxes on my phone bill go to pay for a war with Mexico that was over more than 100 years ago.
you can't piss on somebody's leg by making your own money system
Why not? This isn't the first time, it's happened many times before, arguably trading gold for the first time was doing exactly that. Then making notes backed by gold was doing it again, then making currency backed by nothing was doing it one more time. I would argue Nintendo Points are their own form of currency - granted a highly regulated one - that Nintendo created. I would totally do a small amount of work for some Nintendo points to buy new games with - that would be trading my labor for their currency. The fact that currency can only then be used for purchasing games is the only reason I would limit my amount of work for the points. Were I able to pay rent, buy a car, and buy groceries with Nintendo points I might just work full, but not likely as I can only surrender those points to Nintendo. If however I could trade those points with someone else - what do you know - a new form of currency meant to piss on the leg of the government and Sony.
People do bargain directly with each other now. The government isn't involved in that. See above.
Yes, we get that Bitcoin is potentially useful for tax evasion. Can you spell out why that is socially desirable?
Can you spell out why every transaction a person is involved in should be taxed? Instead of answering your question about why it is socially desirable I'm going to ask my own question. Is it socially desirable for me stand around in Kentucky Fried chicken, seizing a single piece of chicken from every order to feed some random individual outside on the street? What if I told you that random individual picked up trash on the highway - it doesn't matter if you litter or not.
If you can tell me why that is socially desirable, then you will have answered your own question.
Why is this statement modded down? It's a perfectly legitimate assessment of the flow of money and labor. If people were allowed to trade their own labor or goods without having to invoke the mandatory use of Federal Reserve notes/bits it would be much more difficult for the USA's Federal Government to put a toll on that transaction. Indeed Bitcoin is a competing currency that allows people to bargain directly with one another which the Federal Government would interpret as competition - in much the same way Taxi unions in Houston declared bicycle rickshaws as "stealing" from them and had the rickshaws regulated out of existence. The US Government - unlike the Taxi Union - sees ALL business transactions done without them as competition and since they have direct law making power will address such things directly.
south of NASA Parkway in the nice, suburban area with lots of subscribers, or North of the Woodlands where there's lots of subscribers. Or across the street from their own corporate stores in Louisiana that sell 4G phones. They have one horse population 1,000 towns in way out nowhere East Texas covered, but dammit, those not quite white collar urban and suburban areas just aren't worth paying attention to.
It seems that the service has the taxi community in an uproar, who believe that Lyft ride-share drivers should be required to obtain the permits similar to those required of taxi drivers." It seems that the service has the taxi community in an uproar, who believe that Lyft ride-share drivers should be required to obtain the permits similar to those required of taxi drivers."
We have freedom! Taxi drivers have the permits to prove it! If you don't have a permit you can't drive a car with someone else in it! That's freedom! Fourth of July Fuck yeah!
The elite Feinstein, McCain and other top of the of parties people are going to keep pushing their own personal agenda on the people regardless of what the people want, and they're proving it time and time again with their statements which would bite them in the ass hard were they not state media darlings.
I think we actually need an NID now. Not the plot device, but a real civilian oversight agency. The real question is how do we staff it without getting people just as corrupt as the rest of the government?
Good point - I always had in my mind how proudly, publicly, and notoriously left wing the people at the top of Google were. I didn't really stopped to consider they may have paid to have those seemingly written by an individual posts promoted on the "what's hot" feed, but it would fit the AstroTurfing model quite well.
This is one of the best replies I've ever seen to address the "only those with approved opinions bear consideration" phenomenon I so frequently see from the less free thinking members of the left.
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There are some uncomfortable comparisons here -
Much like Windows 3.11 the GUI in GUN/Linux isn't a core part of the OS - but a graphics server with window managers on top and all the real work being done by the OS under the manager.
On that note - has anyone ported Progman.exe to X? Would running Wine as the Window manager and Progman as the program count?
Came here to say this. Can't mod you any higher than 5 though.
I use an LG - no big red button, works as well as the Sony with a bonus of not being Sony.
If they have good coordination may I suggest a Wii? It's got a point and click interface that work rather well and isn't all that hard to operate.
By having a shitty network it could be argued Sprint is looking out for their customers privacy.
Because they're sure not using it to make their network worth a crap.
What's wrong with usage taxes?
Gas and other vehicle tax goes to maintaining roads. Not schools, not reproductive habits of Bolivian underwear weasel, not buy the president another vacation - roads. There's other ways to do it that are closer to fair, but never mind that.
Once you cut out victimless crimes and stop making stupid shit criminal, such as buying socks on Sunday in parts of New Jersey or rolling up a wild weed in a piece of paper, setting it on fire and inhaling the smoke, and make only things that have real victims crimes then you can have criminals support their own prosecution and incarceration.
The "every fucking transaction you can conceive of" method of taxation just isn't right.
Hint:
Yelling Somalia at a Libertarian is like yelling birth certificate at a Democrat. There are ways to get things done with less corruption than either extreme offers.
The same one was among them - some of us just have our eyes open wider than others.
BTW - I'm not against all forms of taxes.
Usage taxes are fine, though I have dreamed up a few ways around those they seem like a good thing. Tax the gas, tires, cars, bus tickets, etc.. To pay for roads. Every dime of that tax (and) toll money should go to maintaining, building, and upgrading our vehicle infrastructure. Since the historical pre-car users of roads were pedestrians, equestrians, and cyclist and those historical roads didn't require 100th the maintenance they can pay for bike lanes and sidewalks for the people and animals they displaced, though a tax on bicycles and parts for them, maybe shoes- not allowed to exceed the percentage placed on gas or cars - I would find acceptable if the same reasoning was used. Don't bike drive or walk? No road tax!
The people of your city want a stadium? Tax the event tickets. I'm not on-board with taxing hotel rooms to pay for stadiums. Your team sucks and so does Justin Bieber so you don't watch sporting/music events at your stadium? Don't pay for it.
I should not however have to pay taxes on my gasoline where the funds get diverted to studying the mating habits of feral Chihuahua's, nor should should taxes on my phone bill go to pay for a war with Mexico that was over more than 100 years ago.
As I comment this is at a -1.
I would say not wanting to pay someone to violate your rights while monitoring and punishing your activities is a perfectly reasonable answer.
and it will only have been there once.....
Lots of big state mods today.
How can I troll them? I know! Marxism sucks because eventually you run out of other peoples money and/or labor!
you can't piss on somebody's leg by making your own money system
Why not? This isn't the first time, it's happened many times before, arguably trading gold for the first time was doing exactly that. Then making notes backed by gold was doing it again, then making currency backed by nothing was doing it one more time. I would argue Nintendo Points are their own form of currency - granted a highly regulated one - that Nintendo created. I would totally do a small amount of work for some Nintendo points to buy new games with - that would be trading my labor for their currency. The fact that currency can only then be used for purchasing games is the only reason I would limit my amount of work for the points. Were I able to pay rent, buy a car, and buy groceries with Nintendo points I might just work full, but not likely as I can only surrender those points to Nintendo. If however I could trade those points with someone else - what do you know - a new form of currency meant to piss on the leg of the government and Sony.
Buyer beware - the only difference between US money and Bitcoin is who's in charge of it's quantity. I don't trust either.
People do bargain directly with each other now. The government isn't involved in that.
See above.
Yes, we get that Bitcoin is potentially useful for tax evasion. Can you spell out why that is socially desirable?
Can you spell out why every transaction a person is involved in should be taxed? Instead of answering your question about why it is socially desirable I'm going to ask my own question. Is it socially desirable for me stand around in Kentucky Fried chicken, seizing a single piece of chicken from every order to feed some random individual outside on the street? What if I told you that random individual picked up trash on the highway - it doesn't matter if you litter or not.
If you can tell me why that is socially desirable, then you will have answered your own question.
As with everything else there's a form for that! We should charge the feds for doing paperwork for them all the damned time.
Also, they're serious about it even ignoring the face value of legal US tender to prosecute.
Why is this statement modded down? It's a perfectly legitimate assessment of the flow of money and labor. If people were allowed to trade their own labor or goods without having to invoke the mandatory use of Federal Reserve notes/bits it would be much more difficult for the USA's Federal Government to put a toll on that transaction. Indeed Bitcoin is a competing currency that allows people to bargain directly with one another which the Federal Government would interpret as competition - in much the same way Taxi unions in Houston declared bicycle rickshaws as "stealing" from them and had the rickshaws regulated out of existence. The US Government - unlike the Taxi Union - sees ALL business transactions done without them as competition and since they have direct law making power will address such things directly.
south of NASA Parkway in the nice, suburban area with lots of subscribers, or North of the Woodlands where there's lots of subscribers. Or across the street from their own corporate stores in Louisiana that sell 4G phones. They have one horse population 1,000 towns in way out nowhere East Texas covered, but dammit, those not quite white collar urban and suburban areas just aren't worth paying attention to.
Great - now go there and stay.
It seems that the service has the taxi community in an uproar, who believe that Lyft ride-share drivers should be required to obtain the permits similar to those required of taxi drivers." It seems that the service has the taxi community in an uproar, who believe that Lyft ride-share drivers should be required to obtain the permits similar to those required of taxi drivers."
We have freedom! Taxi drivers have the permits to prove it! If you don't have a permit you can't drive a car with someone else in it! That's freedom! Fourth of July Fuck yeah!
That's because they need inspiration for Windows 9.
That works for actual good politicians.
The elite Feinstein, McCain and other top of the of parties people are going to keep pushing their own personal agenda on the people regardless of what the people want, and they're proving it time and time again with their statements which would bite them in the ass hard were they not state media darlings.
Who keeps re-electing the fucktards?
I think we actually need an NID now. Not the plot device, but a real civilian oversight agency. The real question is how do we staff it without getting people just as corrupt as the rest of the government?
now I know liberty.
I know it's liberty, I have all the licenses and permits to prove it and the government told me so.
Good point - I always had in my mind how proudly, publicly, and notoriously left wing the people at the top of Google were. I didn't really stopped to consider they may have paid to have those seemingly written by an individual posts promoted on the "what's hot" feed, but it would fit the AstroTurfing model quite well.
This is one of the best replies I've ever seen to address the "only those with approved opinions bear consideration" phenomenon I so frequently see from the less free thinking members of the left.