His point was mostly A) CAPTCHA is easy to get through - just have a friend read it to you B) He doesn't expect everyone to go out of their way to accomodate him.
CAPTCHA is a security measure and I know a blind guy going into computer science who thinks any blind person who doesn't have a friend who will get em past a CAPTCHA doesn't belong on said website.
no that's not what he means by it or how it's used these days
These days it boils down to believing the president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and without congress or the courts being able to do anything about it.
Excuse me - but your post is not Insightful - infact it's not even FACTUAL. Furthermore the "republicans have controlled" the supreme court for a long time - 7 to 2 Republican vs Democratic appointees.
If you think the Republicans are about small government, states rights, fiscal responibility and personal responsibility then you are SORELY mistaken and haven't been paying the slightest bit of attention to the current Republican President and his republican congress - nor have you paid attention to the last two republican presidents before him.
Nice sentiment, little reality. Private entities own all the "pipes" that transfer data over the net, they only play nice still because the government hasn't whored out to them enough yet. With the current crop of criminals in washington i fully expect them to sell out the internet if they can.
It's useless to debate with someone who doesn't wish to debate fairly so i tip my hat to you and surrender. Your Inpenetrable Wall of Refusing to Consider has defeated me.
Keep telling yourself that tax fairness is based upon unadjusted dollars, maybe if you say it enough it'll become true.
PS: the rich get more back from the government in protection/services per dollar they're taxed than anyone else even with them being taxed at a higher percentage.
That's because you're not applying the mathematics of how much that money is actually worth to said person. If you have a problem with this you can take it up with Adam Smith, you know the father of capitalism.
The problem with the fabrication process would result in a higher rate of burnups - as far as i can tell it was probably current leakage
Oh I'm sorry, have I caught you trolling about something you don't even understand? How embarassing.
Oh I'm sorry, have i caught you accusing other people of not knowing what they're talking about when you're just being an ass because they do? How embarassing.
I bet they're devastated about that. Who were you talking about anyway? ATI or Nvidia? I can't be bothered to try and read your original post. Trying to parse the one above gave me a headache.
I'm sorry you have the reading comprehension of a five year old, but it does match your maturity level
if their fab processes have improved recently it doesn't change my mind and it isn't FUD - it's honest first hand expirience with thei craptacular hardware.
As for incorrect implementations - some lighting things jump right into my head, actually MANY lighting issues.
Actually the drivers DID OC the cards on some of their early 21st century models (2000-2003).
Bottom line is i don't trust them and they have done nothing to regain my trust.
Someone Moderated me troll - how cowardly, immature and innappropriate. My post wasn't trolling- my post was a simple statement, and was true. As far as I can recall those games it [nvidia card] performed better on were designed to use it more efficiently than it would the ATI card. And my expirience with driver issues from nvidia and it's burn up rate aren't trolling either they're the truth.
So the nVidia card wins because they used 3 games that are designed to work better with nVidia boards than ATI boards?
Good job(TM)
I'll still never buy an nvidia board. Their fab process and Q&A suck, they cannot be bothered to properly follow the farking API specs for dx9 or openGL causing those of us that write code to have to work around their bugs, and I've see far too many of their cards TOAST from being OC'ed by their own drivers.
you can build yourself a time machine and go live in the 1800s then. I'll continue to move into the future where the reality is the government has to provide services. You can be naive on your own time, don't waste mine.
PS: progressive taxes don't equalize bank accounts - you failed to read the entirety of my OP, go sit in the corner.
no head taxes are not fair no matter how you try and hash it - $X tax weighs more heavily on a person with a small income then a person with a large income. Their BURDEON is more both objectively and subjectively. That's known as a regressive tax and I gaurantee that wouldn't work. ever.
A "Flat tax" is a regressive tax, you're just hiding behind the fact that it looks equal to all people on a chart of actual physical dollars. However economics are not that simple.
And those of you proposing poll taxes are really unfamiliar with american history. Poll taxes are used to deny poor peolpe a vote.
you presume a objective calculation is impossible, i do not. It is a given that the value declines. You can derive an objective calculation based upon the real worth of those dollars in the economy.
A poll tax isn't fair either - infact it's extremely unfair, i don't know where you pulled the idea that it's fair out of but it wasn't your brain.
You clearly failed economics. Only a fool or an ideaologue things the "Fair Tax" is actually fair. Any taxing schema that doesn't account for the Law of Dimishing Returns as applied to income is unfair. The only tax system that accounts for the LoDR applied to Income is the progressive tax system. Even the MOST "LIBERAL" VERSION of the progressive tax still greatly favors the rich.
The only fair tax is a flat tax on UTILITY of income - which translates into a growing % of income as income grows. (Math at bottom of post) This way each persons buying power is affected in the same ammount. Infact using a PURE Utility-Flattax marginal tax rate becomes unbounded after a certain point because they gain no additional utility for each additional dollar they make. However this unbounded behavior is undesirable because it becomes disincentive. So we strike a balance between this, the need to foster investment, and that results in the tiered taxation system.
This balance of fairness, investment and suplicity is delicate. Right now, thanks to Bush and the republicans, it's been tweaked to be too far in favor of the rich and is creating a larger imbalance in the economy in its entiry.
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Here comes the math
Mu$(i) is the marginal utility of a each i-th dollar of income - all we need to know about this is lim[Mu$(i), i->infinity] = 0
Net utility of income would be the integral of Mu$(i) 0 to i income.
by now if you don't already see the rest of the solution I am wasting my time talking to you because you haven't the math knowledge to understand the argument.
Yes regulating the 527s to allow them to voice their opinion without allowing them to become the dumping ground of money would be a difficult task to balance speech and election integrity.
You should possibly make it an absolute requirement that anything they say about a specific candidate must be the truth, provable from a public record such as the congressional record, etc. No speculation, no gray area. If you want to say "so and so is weak on terror" nope - speculative, "So and so voted agaisnt the Patriot Act" - ok.
People see this as a 1st ammendment issue, and so do I. What most people don't realize is you can abuse your rights in a manner to infringe upon the rights of others. Libel/slander? Political speech is the same thing - money=voice in politics so those with no money had no voice and those with less money have less voice. Political speech that _CAN_ affect the outcome of an election should be required to be 100% above the board. No dishonesty, no slander, the public record and nothing more.
People are using their "money=speech" to trample other peoples voice and other peoples right to representative government, this is violating their rights so this is not a protected exercise of any right.
hold on lemme see what i can dig up - i remember the incidents on memory
Inappropriate tampering with the machines: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml Inproper voting machine allocation - i used to have a source for this but i cannot find it now and i don't haev time to [i'm at work]
here is one i confirmed with my own eyes from the PDF "2. Stryguy on the DemocraticUnderground.com found a huge anomaly in Franklin County Ohio. One polling location registered a Bush victory 4258-260. Wow- impressive Bush support eh? Funny how the vote (in this precinct) on all the other races was like 350-250. It seems like 4,000 Bush lovers came to the polls to vote for Bush and nothing else." http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=41 75 (VERY information heavy link - go here!)
some simple googling will get you a wealth of information. There were more clear instances of irregularities in the US election than in the Ukranian election that Bush called fraudulent. Also the "descrepency with the exist polls" Bush, and everyone, cited as evidence of fraud in the Ukranian election also took place happened more severely in the US election (see bellacio org link for charts). One statistican from an ivy league school (yale i believe) said the likelyhood that the exits polls, that showed kerry winning, were wrong was 250 million:1 AGAINST them being incorrect or some smiliar number
That "wait it out" would work in a perfect world. However we deal in reality. the Reality is it is WORSE to let people like the republicans stay in office than to let the third parties remain obscure. Based upon the evidence produced in both elections of problems in florida, then fraud in ohio I must conclude that Bush was never legally elected under non-fraudulent circumstances.
Yeah go ahead right wingers, start spewing the "you're a tinfoil hat wearing.... LIBRUHL!". I'll start citing incidences of election irregularities from Ohio 04 and linking source citations, like say the Government Accountability Office.
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His point was mostly
A) CAPTCHA is easy to get through - just have a friend read it to you
B) He doesn't expect everyone to go out of their way to accomodate him.
CAPTCHA is a security measure and I know a blind guy going into computer science who thinks any blind person who doesn't have a friend who will get em past a CAPTCHA doesn't belong on said website.
no that's not what he means by it or how it's used these days
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These days it boils down to believing the president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and without congress or the courts being able to do anything about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_Executive_th
The last appointee talked a lot about how he believes in the unitary executive.
I wasn't familiar with those interesting tidbits - I respected him for his warnings about the power of the military industrial complex
Bush's appointees are not classic republicans. They are neoliberals or worse - ever heard of "unitary executive"?
Please become informed.
Excuse me - but your post is not Insightful - infact it's not even FACTUAL. Furthermore the "republicans have controlled" the supreme court for a long time - 7 to 2 Republican vs Democratic appointees.
If you think the Republicans are about small government, states rights, fiscal responibility and personal responsibility then you are SORELY mistaken and haven't been paying the slightest bit of attention to the current Republican President and his republican congress - nor have you paid attention to the last two republican presidents before him.
The last real Republican was Eisenhower.
Nice sentiment, little reality. Private entities own all the "pipes" that transfer data over the net, they only play nice still because the government hasn't whored out to them enough yet. With the current crop of criminals in washington i fully expect them to sell out the internet if they can.
1st i have the math to show that a progressive tax is fair
Second check your number on "nearly half" because that's FALSE.
So you simply to look at effective worth.
It's useless to debate with someone who doesn't wish to debate fairly so i tip my hat to you and surrender. Your Inpenetrable Wall of Refusing to Consider has defeated me.
Keep telling yourself that tax fairness is based upon unadjusted dollars, maybe if you say it enough it'll become true.
PS: the rich get more back from the government in protection/services per dollar they're taxed than anyone else even with them being taxed at a higher percentage.
That's because you're not applying the mathematics of how much that money is actually worth to said person. If you have a problem with this you can take it up with Adam Smith, you know the father of capitalism.
The problem with the fabrication process would result in a higher rate of burnups - as far as i can tell it was probably current leakage
Oh I'm sorry, have I caught you trolling about something you don't even understand? How embarassing.
Oh I'm sorry, have i caught you accusing other people of not knowing what they're talking about when you're just being an ass because they do? How embarassing.
I bet they're devastated about that. Who were you talking about anyway? ATI or Nvidia? I can't be bothered to try and read your original post. Trying to parse the one above gave me a headache.
I'm sorry you have the reading comprehension of a five year old, but it does match your maturity level
if their fab processes have improved recently it doesn't change my mind and it isn't FUD - it's honest first hand expirience with thei craptacular hardware.
As for incorrect implementations - some lighting things jump right into my head, actually MANY lighting issues.
Actually the drivers DID OC the cards on some of their early 21st century models (2000-2003).
Bottom line is i don't trust them and they have done nothing to regain my trust.
Someone Moderated me troll - how cowardly, immature and innappropriate. My post wasn't trolling- my post was a simple statement, and was true. As far as I can recall those games it [nvidia card] performed better on were designed to use it more efficiently than it would the ATI card. And my expirience with driver issues from nvidia and it's burn up rate aren't trolling either they're the truth.
the only better linux support i've seen from nVidia is XVMC which is useful for mythTV
So the nVidia card wins because they used 3 games that are designed to work better with nVidia boards than ATI boards?
Good job(TM)
I'll still never buy an nvidia board. Their fab process and Q&A suck, they cannot be bothered to properly follow the farking API specs for dx9 or openGL causing those of us that write code to have to work around their bugs, and I've see far too many of their cards TOAST from being OC'ed by their own drivers.
you can build yourself a time machine and go live in the 1800s then. I'll continue to move into the future where the reality is the government has to provide services. You can be naive on your own time, don't waste mine.
PS: progressive taxes don't equalize bank accounts - you failed to read the entirety of my OP, go sit in the corner.
no head taxes are not fair no matter how you try and hash it - $X tax weighs more heavily on a person with a small income then a person with a large income. Their BURDEON is more both objectively and subjectively. That's known as a regressive tax and I gaurantee that wouldn't work. ever.
A "Flat tax" is a regressive tax, you're just hiding behind the fact that it looks equal to all people on a chart of actual physical dollars. However economics are not that simple.
And those of you proposing poll taxes are really unfamiliar with american history. Poll taxes are used to deny poor peolpe a vote.
you presume a objective calculation is impossible, i do not. It is a given that the value declines. You can derive an objective calculation based upon the real worth of those dollars in the economy.
A poll tax isn't fair either - infact it's extremely unfair, i don't know where you pulled the idea that it's fair out of but it wasn't your brain.
You clearly failed economics. Only a fool or an ideaologue things the "Fair Tax" is actually fair. Any taxing schema that doesn't account for the Law of Dimishing Returns as applied to income is unfair. The only tax system that accounts for the LoDR applied to Income is the progressive tax system. Even the MOST "LIBERAL" VERSION of the progressive tax still greatly favors the rich.
The only fair tax is a flat tax on UTILITY of income - which translates into a growing % of income as income grows. (Math at bottom of post) This way each persons buying power is affected in the same ammount. Infact using a PURE Utility-Flattax marginal tax rate becomes unbounded after a certain point because they gain no additional utility for each additional dollar they make. However this unbounded behavior is undesirable because it becomes disincentive. So we strike a balance between this, the need to foster investment, and that results in the tiered taxation system.
This balance of fairness, investment and suplicity is delicate. Right now, thanks to Bush and the republicans, it's been tweaked to be too far in favor of the rich and is creating a larger imbalance in the economy in its entiry.
----------------
Here comes the math
Mu$(i) is the marginal utility of a each i-th dollar of income - all we need to know about this is lim[Mu$(i), i->infinity] = 0
Net utility of income would be the integral of Mu$(i) 0 to i income.
by now if you don't already see the rest of the solution I am wasting my time talking to you because you haven't the math knowledge to understand the argument.
Well that's not what i'm talking about, nor is it fair
Yes regulating the 527s to allow them to voice their opinion without allowing them to become the dumping ground of money would be a difficult task to balance speech and election integrity.
You should possibly make it an absolute requirement that anything they say about a specific candidate must be the truth, provable from a public record such as the congressional record, etc. No speculation, no gray area. If you want to say "so and so is weak on terror" nope - speculative, "So and so voted agaisnt the Patriot Act" - ok.
People see this as a 1st ammendment issue, and so do I. What most people don't realize is you can abuse your rights in a manner to infringe upon the rights of others. Libel/slander? Political speech is the same thing - money=voice in politics so those with no money had no voice and those with less money have less voice. Political speech that _CAN_ affect the outcome of an election should be required to be 100% above the board. No dishonesty, no slander, the public record and nothing more.
People are using their "money=speech" to trample other peoples voice and other peoples right to representative government, this is violating their rights so this is not a protected exercise of any right.
The incidents in Ohio?
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1 75 (VERY information heavy link - go here!)
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too bad i blanked my political forums
hold on lemme see what i can dig up - i remember the incidents on memory
Inappropriate tampering with the machines: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121604Z.shtml
Inproper voting machine allocation - i used to have a source for this but i cannot find it now and i don't haev time to [i'm at work]
here is one i confirmed with my own eyes from the PDF
"2. Stryguy on the DemocraticUnderground.com found a huge anomaly in Franklin County Ohio. One polling location registered a Bush victory 4258-260. Wow- impressive Bush support eh? Funny how the vote (in this precinct) on all the other races was like 350-250. It seems like 4,000 Bush lovers came to the polls to vote for Bush and nothing else."
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1114-02.h
some simple googling will get you a wealth of information. There were more clear instances of irregularities in the US election than in the Ukranian election that Bush called fraudulent. Also the "descrepency with the exist polls" Bush, and everyone, cited as evidence of fraud in the Ukranian election also took place happened more severely in the US election (see bellacio org link for charts). One statistican from an ivy league school (yale i believe) said the likelyhood that the exits polls, that showed kerry winning, were wrong was 250 million:1 AGAINST them being incorrect or some smiliar number
grr where i should have made backups
Wrong
Tank/Slower/Healer
That "wait it out" would work in a perfect world. However we deal in reality. the Reality is it is WORSE to let people like the republicans stay in office than to let the third parties remain obscure. Based upon the evidence produced in both elections of problems in florida, then fraud in ohio I must conclude that Bush was never legally elected under non-fraudulent circumstances.
Yeah go ahead right wingers, start spewing the "you're a tinfoil hat wearing.... LIBRUHL!". I'll start citing incidences of election irregularities from Ohio 04 and linking source citations, like say the Government Accountability Office.