I'm British, and I don't know how it works in your country, but I don't think your assumptions about percentages really works, because it ignores minimum market costs for the various expenditures.
If I earn 100 times more than my fellow man, is it really likely that I will spend 100 times more than him? Am I really likely to spend GBP 200.00 on each meal when my fellow man spends only GBP 2.00? I seriously doubt it.
In the UK, we have a real issue with the cost of housing at the moment (house prices increased by 18% over the past 12 months) and are escaping the budgets of those earning minimum wage. Say the minimum house price is GBP 80,000.00, this is the minimum value my fellow man can pay for a house. I, however, am unlikely to have a GBP 8,000,000.00 house, so how do I justify the scale.
Taxation should be about assuring a minimum quality of life. You may be earning a lot of money, and I'm sure you're not getting paid for no reason, so I expect you deserve to be able to spend a large amount of disposable income. However, someone earning a lot less than you is unlikely to be just sitting around on their arse doing nothing, so why should they struggle?
I do pretty well in terms of my salary, but I can afford to pay more taxes to enable other members of my society to have more happiness in their lives, and increase the quality of public services. Taxes aren't about you, they're about society.
So, people that earn less than $25,000 pay no taxes, and everyone else pays 20%? How high will taxes go the next fiscal year when your enormous budget defecit is revealed.
Stepped taxation is the probably the fairest method of taxation. Those who can afford to lose the most will pay the most taxes. If you charge a static rate, you'll have to match that rate to equal the cost of public services. What do you reckon the weighted average rate is for taxpayers in the US. I bet it's a shitload higher than 20%.
I seriously doubt Washington would risk such a blatant tactic, especially in the face of what is rapidly becoming the lowest point in the relationship between the United States and the EU.
Well, if you type in "index of" and the name of a file, you will occasionally turn up a web server's directory listing. For example, this link is a search for anything with MP3 in the page. I wouldn't call it a misuse however, because it's exactly what Google is for (finding pages that answer your query).
I absolutely agree. I read Cryptonomicon on a friend's recommendation and found it interesting, and thought I'd give Quicksilver a go too.
Since starting, I've put it down a number of times, and have actually read about 4 or 5 books whilst taking a break from it. There are some interesting bits in it, but for the most part I find it too dry.
"I think the Buffalo experiment is getting children ready for the
brave new world (emphasis mine)" --Gary Stillman, Director, Enterprise Charter School
There's a difference between understanding a joke and noticing when a joke is based upon a fallacy, and then pointing out the basis of said fallacy. Please don't feel hurt because I didn't fall off my chair laughing.
An altimeter measures the elevation of an object from a certain level (e.g. sea level), not its distance above a ground reference point, which is often referred to as an object's height.
You're using 0.71? It works fine for me on Win32 with version 0.70. Since MSN Protocol Version 9 was added in in 0.69, it should work fine in version after that, *including* 0.71.
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I'm British, and I don't know how it works in your country, but I don't think your assumptions about percentages really works, because it ignores minimum market costs for the various expenditures.
If I earn 100 times more than my fellow man, is it really likely that I will spend 100 times more than him? Am I really likely to spend GBP 200.00 on each meal when my fellow man spends only GBP 2.00? I seriously doubt it.
In the UK, we have a real issue with the cost of housing at the moment (house prices increased by 18% over the past 12 months) and are escaping the budgets of those earning minimum wage. Say the minimum house price is GBP 80,000.00, this is the minimum value my fellow man can pay for a house. I, however, am unlikely to have a GBP 8,000,000.00 house, so how do I justify the scale.
Taxation should be about assuring a minimum quality of life. You may be earning a lot of money, and I'm sure you're not getting paid for no reason, so I expect you deserve to be able to spend a large amount of disposable income. However, someone earning a lot less than you is unlikely to be just sitting around on their arse doing nothing, so why should they struggle?
I do pretty well in terms of my salary, but I can afford to pay more taxes to enable other members of my society to have more happiness in their lives, and increase the quality of public services. Taxes aren't about you, they're about society.
So, people that earn less than $25,000 pay no taxes, and everyone else pays 20%? How high will taxes go the next fiscal year when your enormous budget defecit is revealed.
Stepped taxation is the probably the fairest method of taxation. Those who can afford to lose the most will pay the most taxes. If you charge a static rate, you'll have to match that rate to equal the cost of public services. What do you reckon the weighted average rate is for taxpayers in the US. I bet it's a shitload higher than 20%.
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I seriously doubt Washington would risk such a blatant tactic, especially in the face of what is rapidly becoming the lowest point in the relationship between the United States and the EU.
Why stop there? Why not get a fscking laptop while you're at it?
Yes, I think you are.
Above one? What about just one? If that one was me, I'd be pretty pissed off.
My point was that it could be either Unix or Linux.
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.2.2
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Stop him! He's trying to make more songs available for Karaoke!
OK paranoid people, now you've got something to line the inside of your tinfoil beanies!
Well, if you type in "index of" and the name of a file, you will occasionally turn up a web server's directory listing. For example, this link is a search for anything with MP3 in the page. I wouldn't call it a misuse however, because it's exactly what Google is for (finding pages that answer your query).
I absolutely agree. I read Cryptonomicon on a friend's recommendation and found it interesting, and thought I'd give Quicksilver a go too. Since starting, I've put it down a number of times, and have actually read about 4 or 5 books whilst taking a break from it. There are some interesting bits in it, but for the most part I find it too dry.
What the hell is it named informally?
Here's the last MS service pack you'll ever need:
format c:
Sorry, misquote. That quote should be attributed to Richard Smith, in opposition to this scheme. Feel free to mod down. :(
Did anyone else spot this one?
Huxley, anyone?
When it comes to expensive toys, there is no "why?", only "why not?".
Hmm... Probably not enough..
There's a difference between understanding a joke and noticing when a joke is based upon a fallacy, and then pointing out the basis of said fallacy. Please don't feel hurt because I didn't fall off my chair laughing.
An altimeter measures the elevation of an object from a certain level (e.g. sea level), not its distance above a ground reference point, which is often referred to as an object's height.
The tzero has a top speed of 100MPH, not 60MPH, which is still fast enough to get your license confiscated in a lot of countries. :)
GIMP has supported CMYK (colour selector and RGB conversion) since 1.3.17.
You're using 0.71? It works fine for me on Win32 with version 0.70. Since MSN Protocol Version 9 was added in in 0.69, it should work fine in version after that, *including* 0.71.