You have it wrong. If it increases sales, they'll claim it worked and copy-protect more disks. If sales decrease, they'll blame piracy and copy-protect more while working on better encryption.
Check the book "Future Noir" the original screenplay and all versions of the script in which the scene was written with the word "Fucker". If you watch the lips, he even mouths it. However, in the US version (even the directors cut, which is anything but), the redub has stuck.
And when Nexus gets to version 6, will it be physically and emotionally indistinguishable from a human being? Will we have to hire Blade Runners to keep Tyrell Corpo...I mean, Microsoft's crazed creations off earth?
Nexus v.6: I want more life, fucker.
Bill Gates: Sorry. Planned obsolescence is a bitch.
Thank you for responding to my.sig; it urges me to continue such pursuits.
Perhaps you should check my journal to see my opinions on AC's?
I am actually very familiar with Trotsky, and I like his works very much, as he is unlike the modern left-wing movement. Rather than appealing to touchy-feely emotion, he makes logical points for his positions. Sadly, I disagree with his conclusions about the results of practical communism/socialism.
I was using the name Emmanuel Goldstein in the context of him being the enemy of English Socialism (Ingsoc).
Yeah yeah yeah, if it's our guys we whine because they get shown on TV, if it's the enemy, let them die.
I didn't whine about our guys. I just said that if you don't hold one side to the Geneva Convention, then you don't hold the other side to it, either. It's that simple. It's like holding one side to a armistice treaty while allowing the other side to drive through the capital of their enemy.
I don't understand what the big deal is, the Iraqis seem to be treating the POWs just fine
Of course, you've seen the rooms they sleep in and what they are fed. That's how you can make a valid judgement.
but then again I don't know what sort of propaganda the US media is feeding you.
Propaganda. Ah, yes. We come from the continent of the "Guardian" or the various news sources that start contain the words "Socialist Worker" in there. Yeah. You guys have the most partisan news sources of any other continent of the world. Either extreme left, or extreme right. I used to live in Germany. It's hard to find a middle of the road publication.
"Oh my God we were so worried about you, did you feel humiliated being shown on TV like that?" would be a question they least expect when they get back.
About 50 years ago, there was a conflict known as the Korean war. In that conflict, US/UN soldiers were captured as POW's. They were then forced at gunpoint to "admit" to the usage of biological weapons on the Koreans. While there was no evidence of it, they forced soldiers through brainwashing or other torture to turn against their government on television. Can you imagine that shame? That you were broken by the enemy, you were so weak that you couldn't hold up like many of your fellow countrymen. And then you went on to do the work of your enemy, the same ones who killed your fellow countrymen. THAT'S the humiliation worried about by many. Most people aren't saying that being put on TV by itself is humiliating, but rather that the act of having to make statements, or being used as a tool of an enemy government (for, as you've mentioned before, propaganda. POWs are easy ways to say "Ha ha, look! We're kicking some ass, too!")
Concerning convincing them, I'm sure supporting Israel doesn't help us, and I'm honestly against supporing Israel, but like many of us out there, our governments listen to us only to a certain degree.
It's a name only. The potatoes still come from Idaho, having absolutely no economic effect on France.
and throwing away French cheese and wine
Difference being that it is rich resturanteurs doing that, while the German Government is doing the stuff with the games.
GFD, the people who've been there for one and a half years in Guantanamo are suffering a lot more than the "humiliation" of being taped on TV.
Oh, you mean the guys who were captured fighting for a islamic extremist and hyper-mysogynist terrorist-supporting regime? The same guys who threaten to rape the female soldiers guarding the facility? Oh, you mean the same guys who fought for a regime that forced a female UN envoy to wear a burqa and wouldn't allow eye contact during discussion?
Seriously, I think we should let them go. In Antarctica. I mean, if you wanna stick up for these guys, cool. It shows the quality person you are. These guys made a decision to fight. Honestly, I personally think that if one side refuses to act according to the Geneva Convention, that we should be allowed to without getting fingers waved at us. I don't hear anyone in Europe condemning Iraqi or Taliban violations. It's always complained about when it's anti-American.
I think we should be allowed to perform weltanshauungskrieg-style psychological warfare. I think we should capitalize on the billions spent on MK-ULTRA. Fuck up their heads. They want to play dress-up and kill our soldiers, we should be allowed to mess with their mind so they can't even find their asses with both hands.
Wahh wahh, some asshole bastards who oppress women, religious freedoms, and hundreds of other kinds of people aren't given luxury suites and 3-course meals! The world is ending. Bump that. Go grab an AK and fly to Afghanistan, if you feel more kinship with them than the American soldiers out there.
I haven't seen many Gateways or Dells with AMD chips. When I do see them, they aren't the top-of-the line ones, usually, they are there to provide an extreme low-end. INTEL makes its cash from OEMs. Fuck 'em.
I don't see why people don't read the subject. My subject mentions Intel nowhere. It's TWO WORDS. "AMD" and "Won't". RTFA? No, RTFS.
AMD is the brand of do-it-yourselfers. I'd say next to none of its serious business come from major OEMs, but rather small retailers and "overclocking monkeys" (I'm guessing you don't overclock. Enjoy your AMD Dell.)
Yeah, but I wasn't posting the subject "Intel won't..." I posted "AMD won't..." The percentage of the overall industry is irrelevant, if the percentage to a specific business is massive. I'd say a fairly large chunk of AMD business comes from do-it-yourself, not from corporations (which buy computers in massive quantities) like Intel.
Intel's core business is in the Business Sales and OEM markets. AMD's core business is in the do-it-yourself arena.
That's like saying that people who tune-up old Mustangs are hurting Ford's business. The "overclocking community" (if it exists) isn't just what I'm referencing, but more like people who, like myself, are willing to overclock if necessary, but aren't planning on it right now. The overclocking is a plus. An extra added bonus.
Intel may get a "fair amount", but the core of their business is the consumer who doesn't know what overclocking is. The consumer who may have never even heard of AMD or Linux, or anything other than Microsoft, Intel, Apple, IBM, and Dell. Their core sales aren't to the OEM-parts nerds. It's to the OEM businesses.
AMD gets a higher percentage of Do-It-Yourselfers who like the ability to buy more bang for the buck, and may or may not overclock, but like to know that AMD really just half-asses their overclock protection.
...it's not in their best interests. The people that they get much of their profits from are overclocking enthusiasts, or at least people who consider the ability to overclock to be a plus. AMD most likely won't follow Intel in this, just like it most likely won't hold back 64-bit.
Not to say anything of his totally unfair interview style, like grabbing a random person when they don't expect it and asking heavy-handed questions. Like pressing a K-Mart clerk because K-mart sold ammo. I'd hate it if someone started pressing me for the stupid policies of my company.
Michael Moore gets the attention he does, not because what he says is smart, or phrased intellegently, or surprisingly brave. But because he targets every controversial issue and takes the most controversial standing in order to ride the wave of controversy for his own personal benefit.
Ah, I see. It's nice of you to punish me for not wanting this war. Good job. That's very "intellegent". However, I'm sure if other countries would help deal with problems, rather than giving blank checks to countries run by men who actively starve their people, there'd be less of a rush to war.
Oh, by the way; thanks for your support of the US during the action in Kosovo...oh wait, you probably are against that too (Americans "causing strife"). Sorry we strengthened the resolve of a people to overthrow your hero, Slobodan Milosevic.
Illegal war? Wait, what? I don't remember voting on anyone to make laws that supercede the sovereignty of the U.S.
Need I remind you that governmental power stems from a mandate by the masses, not some farcical diplomatic cerimony.
what can/should the world do to punish America for this?
The world can blow me, if they want to use an organization built by the US to punish the US. I say that if you want to punish us, than the UN doesn't REALLY need the finances that the US provides. You guys can run UNICEF on the meager contributions of the dictatorships you guys fight so hard to protect.
They are flouting international law
I don't know anyone who voted on anyone who represented them when this "International Law" was passed, so if the people who passed it are diplomats and foreign ministers appointed by the executive branch, then that means that it's automatically invalid, given that its based on stealing away the rights of the people.
intentionally discrediting and destroying the UN
That's like saying that the person who notes that a mentally retarded person has "limited mental faculties" is "discrediting" the handicapable individual.
The UN needs no help in discrediting itself. If it takes 11 years to get some action done to enforce an agreement, then something is wrong. I can understand maybe a year. That's usually how long it takes to get laws passed here in the US. But 11 years isn't simply an "oops" situation, it's a sign of total incompetance.
Isn't the UN the organization headed by the man who was in charge of the Rwanda situation a while back? The same man who recieved intellegence pointing to the plans to carry out the Genocide? The same man who recieved this intellegence and went against the recommendations of his subordinates in deciding to NOT ACT to prevent genocide? That man is Kofi Annan. And one of the men in charge who recommended taking action to prevent the genocide was a Canadian who ended up homeless. That's the UN's operations. The man who tried to prevent genocide goes homeless while the man who allowed it becomes the head honcho. Yes, the UN is a shining organization, right?
and cease selling arms around the world.
I hope you demand that France does likewise, especially given it's record of selling weapons in violation of UN sanctions (they sold the materials to make ballistic missles to Iraq).
America is an ever growing threat to world peace.
Okay, cool. I'll pay less taxes and let France (a country that can't even afford to give their soldiers night-vision goggles) or Germany (a country that hates its own militaristic past to have a military of any form) or Russia (a country so poor that the Public Service Annoucements literally urge people to drink more beer, because it'll kill them slower than Vodka) be the primary upholders of UN resolutions.
I mean, seriously, it's not like those countries have done anything to prevent genocide. In fact, two of the countries hold records for the largest-scale genocides. I guess it's buddies slapping each other on the back, "Cool! You killed 1 million people for being [insert random group, be it Jews, Romani, Gays, Political dissidents, etc.]! Keep it up and you can join us!"
Your type of person whines about how oppressive the US is, because you haven't lived in times where countries were seriously oppressive. You didn't have to do "duck and cover" drills because the USSR could launch a nuke any minute. You didn't have to deal with men like Hitler or Stalin. You didn't feel true fear, just this whiney fear that reminds me of the 16-year old girl who thinks she's a victim of child abuse because her parents are making her drive a 2002 rather than a 2003 model car.
Compared to 20 years ago, you have it pretty fucking sweet. And you don't even know it, because you most likely were barely alive when the
Here's why: It's relatively new. Odds are, unless they do like the companies who bought into the Pokemon/Digimon phase, these companies aren't going to decimate their DVD sales unless they get a very lucrative licensing deal. Shows like.hack//SIGN rely on people not knowing what it is, or having seen one or two episodes and then buying it, later regretting it.
(Very Roundabout way of saying "They don't wanna chance their new stuff on failing before it's made it big and I don't like.hack//SIGN")
Well, they said that the entire line had failed battery, and that some of the replacement batteries failed, as well. "Apple Confidential" is the source. Excellent book with tons of detail on just about everything Apple did, up until the Return of Jobs (the newest thing it had was the G3 iMac)
You honestly think a sales tax will tax the wealthy?
You don't think that if a person has to pay money every time he buys something that he'll pay it? Wait...your logic states that a person can avoid a tax by not paying it? Or what? I'm not seeing it.
You can only spend so much, friend. That means the other 90% of what the very rich make is tax free
Are you pulling money out of your ass? The issue isn't what they "make", it's what they "have". In order to live the lives the wealthy spend, you have to spend tons of money. Imagine if every time Ted Kennedy or Bill Gates buys a new $10 Million House, the Government suddenly has $1 Million.
since they just bank it.
Why is encouraging savings bad? At our highest economic point, people were saving and investing! I mean, when you make the increase of money by stocks (which many non-rich Americans take part in) cost too much, or you make taxes too complex because of Capital Gains laws and other bullshit, you give no reason for people to try to put money into new fresh things. You end up with stagflation.
Now, on the other hand, a flat tax with no exemptions or deductions would be a much nicer system...
I thought of that, but then I remembered that many of the wealthy don't even have an income. Did you know that a man who owns a Mercedes and a $5 Million Dollar home with a wall-sized Plasma screen and servants could technically be eligable for welfare, because as long as you don't don't get a paycheck, you are considered under the "poverty line".
Re-adjusting the measure of poverty and taxation towards wealth and away from income would free people in the lower classes to become members of the middle and higher classes. Savings and hard work are key, and encouraging people to save (rather than punishing it through "capital gains") would give people the chance to better themselves financially.
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...work on getting us to light speed, rather than getting light to our speed?
The unworkability of copy-protection is not because of weak encryption. DRM does not work unless it's specified at a hardware-level. Period.
Of course, I'm not sure whether you misunderstand it or whether you expect the record companies to misunderstand it...
Greed is a powerful weapon. Never underestimate the creativity of extremely greedy people.
You have it wrong. If it increases sales, they'll claim it worked and copy-protect more disks. If sales decrease, they'll blame piracy and copy-protect more while working on better encryption.
...I got nothing.
More like:
Chew: "You Nexus, huh? I make your code."
Roy: "Chew...if only you could see what I've seen with your spyware."
Check the book "Future Noir" the original screenplay and all versions of the script in which the scene was written with the word "Fucker". If you watch the lips, he even mouths it. However, in the US version (even the directors cut, which is anything but), the redub has stuck.
Before correcting, do some checking.
And when Nexus gets to version 6, will it be physically and emotionally indistinguishable from a human being? Will we have to hire Blade Runners to keep Tyrell Corpo...I mean, Microsoft's crazed creations off earth?
Nexus v.6: I want more life, fucker.
Bill Gates: Sorry. Planned obsolescence is a bitch.
Thank you for responding to my .sig; it urges me to continue such pursuits.
Perhaps you should check my journal to see my opinions on AC's?
I am actually very familiar with Trotsky, and I like his works very much, as he is unlike the modern left-wing movement. Rather than appealing to touchy-feely emotion, he makes logical points for his positions. Sadly, I disagree with his conclusions about the results of practical communism/socialism.
I was using the name Emmanuel Goldstein in the context of him being the enemy of English Socialism (Ingsoc).
Yeah yeah yeah, if it's our guys we whine because they get shown on TV, if it's the enemy, let them die.
I didn't whine about our guys. I just said that if you don't hold one side to the Geneva Convention, then you don't hold the other side to it, either. It's that simple. It's like holding one side to a armistice treaty while allowing the other side to drive through the capital of their enemy.
I don't understand what the big deal is, the Iraqis seem to be treating the POWs just fine
Of course, you've seen the rooms they sleep in and what they are fed. That's how you can make a valid judgement.
but then again I don't know what sort of propaganda the US media is feeding you.
Propaganda. Ah, yes. We come from the continent of the "Guardian" or the various news sources that start contain the words "Socialist Worker" in there. Yeah. You guys have the most partisan news sources of any other continent of the world. Either extreme left, or extreme right. I used to live in Germany. It's hard to find a middle of the road publication.
"Oh my God we were so worried about you, did you feel humiliated being shown on TV like that?" would be a question they least expect when they get back.
About 50 years ago, there was a conflict known as the Korean war. In that conflict, US/UN soldiers were captured as POW's. They were then forced at gunpoint to "admit" to the usage of biological weapons on the Koreans. While there was no evidence of it, they forced soldiers through brainwashing or other torture to turn against their government on television. Can you imagine that shame? That you were broken by the enemy, you were so weak that you couldn't hold up like many of your fellow countrymen. And then you went on to do the work of your enemy, the same ones who killed your fellow countrymen. THAT'S the humiliation worried about by many. Most people aren't saying that being put on TV by itself is humiliating, but rather that the act of having to make statements, or being used as a tool of an enemy government (for, as you've mentioned before, propaganda. POWs are easy ways to say "Ha ha, look! We're kicking some ass, too!")
Concerning convincing them, I'm sure supporting Israel doesn't help us, and I'm honestly against supporing Israel, but like many of us out there, our governments listen to us only to a certain degree.
YASPM (childishness) with "freedom fries"
It's a name only. The potatoes still come from Idaho, having absolutely no economic effect on France.
and throwing away French cheese and wine
Difference being that it is rich resturanteurs doing that, while the German Government is doing the stuff with the games.
GFD, the people who've been there for one and a half years in Guantanamo are suffering a lot more than the "humiliation" of being taped on TV.
Oh, you mean the guys who were captured fighting for a islamic extremist and hyper-mysogynist terrorist-supporting regime? The same guys who threaten to rape the female soldiers guarding the facility? Oh, you mean the same guys who fought for a regime that forced a female UN envoy to wear a burqa and wouldn't allow eye contact during discussion?
Seriously, I think we should let them go. In Antarctica. I mean, if you wanna stick up for these guys, cool. It shows the quality person you are. These guys made a decision to fight. Honestly, I personally think that if one side refuses to act according to the Geneva Convention, that we should be allowed to without getting fingers waved at us. I don't hear anyone in Europe condemning Iraqi or Taliban violations. It's always complained about when it's anti-American.
I think we should be allowed to perform weltanshauungskrieg-style psychological warfare. I think we should capitalize on the billions spent on MK-ULTRA. Fuck up their heads. They want to play dress-up and kill our soldiers, we should be allowed to mess with their mind so they can't even find their asses with both hands.
Wahh wahh, some asshole bastards who oppress women, religious freedoms, and hundreds of other kinds of people aren't given luxury suites and 3-course meals! The world is ending. Bump that. Go grab an AK and fly to Afghanistan, if you feel more kinship with them than the American soldiers out there.
Name one major computer OEM that uses high-end AMD chips for their mainstream and non-server systems.
I haven't seen many Gateways or Dells with AMD chips. When I do see them, they aren't the top-of-the line ones, usually, they are there to provide an extreme low-end. INTEL makes its cash from OEMs. Fuck 'em.
I don't see why people don't read the subject. My subject mentions Intel nowhere. It's TWO WORDS. "AMD" and "Won't". RTFA? No, RTFS.
AMD is the brand of do-it-yourselfers. I'd say next to none of its serious business come from major OEMs, but rather small retailers and "overclocking monkeys" (I'm guessing you don't overclock. Enjoy your AMD Dell.)
Yeah, but I wasn't posting the subject "Intel won't..." I posted "AMD won't..." The percentage of the overall industry is irrelevant, if the percentage to a specific business is massive. I'd say a fairly large chunk of AMD business comes from do-it-yourself, not from corporations (which buy computers in massive quantities) like Intel.
Intel's core business is in the Business Sales and OEM markets. AMD's core business is in the do-it-yourself arena.
That's like saying that people who tune-up old Mustangs are hurting Ford's business. The "overclocking community" (if it exists) isn't just what I'm referencing, but more like people who, like myself, are willing to overclock if necessary, but aren't planning on it right now. The overclocking is a plus. An extra added bonus.
Intel may get a "fair amount", but the core of their business is the consumer who doesn't know what overclocking is. The consumer who may have never even heard of AMD or Linux, or anything other than Microsoft, Intel, Apple, IBM, and Dell. Their core sales aren't to the OEM-parts nerds. It's to the OEM businesses.
AMD gets a higher percentage of Do-It-Yourselfers who like the ability to buy more bang for the buck, and may or may not overclock, but like to know that AMD really just half-asses their overclock protection.
...someone started playing SimCity 2000 with the real world. I remember having to build those when you have a city on the coast.
...it's not in their best interests. The people that they get much of their profits from are overclocking enthusiasts, or at least people who consider the ability to overclock to be a plus. AMD most likely won't follow Intel in this, just like it most likely won't hold back 64-bit.
It's just another reminder that AMD+Linux=Good!
Someone must just hate the entire thread. I got modded down, and you did, too. Erg.
What about Silent Scope? That game has lines sometimes at the arcade I go to. It's technically a gun-game.
Not to say anything of his totally unfair interview style, like grabbing a random person when they don't expect it and asking heavy-handed questions. Like pressing a K-Mart clerk because K-mart sold ammo. I'd hate it if someone started pressing me for the stupid policies of my company.
Michael Moore gets the attention he does, not because what he says is smart, or phrased intellegently, or surprisingly brave. But because he targets every controversial issue and takes the most controversial standing in order to ride the wave of controversy for his own personal benefit.
Ah, I see. It's nice of you to punish me for not wanting this war. Good job. That's very "intellegent". However, I'm sure if other countries would help deal with problems, rather than giving blank checks to countries run by men who actively starve their people, there'd be less of a rush to war.
Oh, by the way; thanks for your support of the US during the action in Kosovo...oh wait, you probably are against that too (Americans "causing strife"). Sorry we strengthened the resolve of a people to overthrow your hero, Slobodan Milosevic.
spin being put on this illegal war?
Illegal war? Wait, what? I don't remember voting on anyone to make laws that supercede the sovereignty of the U.S.
Need I remind you that governmental power stems from a mandate by the masses, not some farcical diplomatic cerimony.
what can/should the world do to punish America for this?
The world can blow me, if they want to use an organization built by the US to punish the US. I say that if you want to punish us, than the UN doesn't REALLY need the finances that the US provides. You guys can run UNICEF on the meager contributions of the dictatorships you guys fight so hard to protect.
They are flouting international law
I don't know anyone who voted on anyone who represented them when this "International Law" was passed, so if the people who passed it are diplomats and foreign ministers appointed by the executive branch, then that means that it's automatically invalid, given that its based on stealing away the rights of the people.
intentionally discrediting and destroying the UN
That's like saying that the person who notes that a mentally retarded person has "limited mental faculties" is "discrediting" the handicapable individual.
The UN needs no help in discrediting itself. If it takes 11 years to get some action done to enforce an agreement, then something is wrong. I can understand maybe a year. That's usually how long it takes to get laws passed here in the US. But 11 years isn't simply an "oops" situation, it's a sign of total incompetance.
Isn't the UN the organization headed by the man who was in charge of the Rwanda situation a while back? The same man who recieved intellegence pointing to the plans to carry out the Genocide? The same man who recieved this intellegence and went against the recommendations of his subordinates in deciding to NOT ACT to prevent genocide? That man is Kofi Annan. And one of the men in charge who recommended taking action to prevent the genocide was a Canadian who ended up homeless. That's the UN's operations. The man who tried to prevent genocide goes homeless while the man who allowed it becomes the head honcho. Yes, the UN is a shining organization, right?
and cease selling arms around the world.
I hope you demand that France does likewise, especially given it's record of selling weapons in violation of UN sanctions (they sold the materials to make ballistic missles to Iraq).
America is an ever growing threat to world peace.
Okay, cool. I'll pay less taxes and let France (a country that can't even afford to give their soldiers night-vision goggles) or Germany (a country that hates its own militaristic past to have a military of any form) or Russia (a country so poor that the Public Service Annoucements literally urge people to drink more beer, because it'll kill them slower than Vodka) be the primary upholders of UN resolutions.
I mean, seriously, it's not like those countries have done anything to prevent genocide. In fact, two of the countries hold records for the largest-scale genocides. I guess it's buddies slapping each other on the back, "Cool! You killed 1 million people for being [insert random group, be it Jews, Romani, Gays, Political dissidents, etc.]! Keep it up and you can join us!"
Your type of person whines about how oppressive the US is, because you haven't lived in times where countries were seriously oppressive. You didn't have to do "duck and cover" drills because the USSR could launch a nuke any minute. You didn't have to deal with men like Hitler or Stalin. You didn't feel true fear, just this whiney fear that reminds me of the 16-year old girl who thinks she's a victim of child abuse because her parents are making her drive a 2002 rather than a 2003 model car.
Compared to 20 years ago, you have it pretty fucking sweet. And you don't even know it, because you most likely were barely alive when the
Here's why: It's relatively new. Odds are, unless they do like the companies who bought into the Pokemon/Digimon phase, these companies aren't going to decimate their DVD sales unless they get a very lucrative licensing deal. Shows like .hack//SIGN rely on people not knowing what it is, or having seen one or two episodes and then buying it, later regretting it.
.hack//SIGN")
(Very Roundabout way of saying "They don't wanna chance their new stuff on failing before it's made it big and I don't like
Well, they said that the entire line had failed battery, and that some of the replacement batteries failed, as well. "Apple Confidential" is the source. Excellent book with tons of detail on just about everything Apple did, up until the Return of Jobs (the newest thing it had was the G3 iMac)
You honestly think a sales tax will tax the wealthy?
You don't think that if a person has to pay money every time he buys something that he'll pay it? Wait...your logic states that a person can avoid a tax by not paying it? Or what? I'm not seeing it.
You can only spend so much, friend. That means the other 90% of what the very rich make is tax free
Are you pulling money out of your ass? The issue isn't what they "make", it's what they "have". In order to live the lives the wealthy spend, you have to spend tons of money. Imagine if every time Ted Kennedy or Bill Gates buys a new $10 Million House, the Government suddenly has $1 Million.
since they just bank it.
Why is encouraging savings bad? At our highest economic point, people were saving and investing! I mean, when you make the increase of money by stocks (which many non-rich Americans take part in) cost too much, or you make taxes too complex because of Capital Gains laws and other bullshit, you give no reason for people to try to put money into new fresh things. You end up with stagflation.
Now, on the other hand, a flat tax with no exemptions or deductions would be a much nicer system...
I thought of that, but then I remembered that many of the wealthy don't even have an income. Did you know that a man who owns a Mercedes and a $5 Million Dollar home with a wall-sized Plasma screen and servants could technically be eligable for welfare, because as long as you don't don't get a paycheck, you are considered under the "poverty line".
Re-adjusting the measure of poverty and taxation towards wealth and away from income would free people in the lower classes to become members of the middle and higher classes. Savings and hard work are key, and encouraging people to save (rather than punishing it through "capital gains") would give people the chance to better themselves financially.