I can click links, but I can't activate the "post anonymously" button. I can post anonymously with the old form, so it's not my karma. The preview yellow box is fucked up, too.
Mozilla's code has been tri-licensed as GPL, LGPL, or MPL for a while. "Mozilla Firefox" and the logo are trademarks. Debian doesn't have a problem distributing copies of the GPL text, which is not under a FREE license.
There is already a certain amount of means testing in that up to 85% of social security payments may be taxed for those with a combined income > $34,000.
Social Security expenditures are expected to exceed tax receipts this year for the first time since 1983. The projected deficit of $41 billion this year (excluding interest income) is attributable to the recession and to an expected $25 billion downward adjustment to 2010 income that corrects for excess payroll tax revenue credited to the trust funds in earlier years --Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees 2010 annual report
Historically, yes, but it ran a deficit last year, it's running a deficit this year, and even if we hit full unemployment, it will start permanently running at a deficit after 2016.
Social Security is running a deficit this year (part of the last minute tax changes included a 2% drop in rates). It ran a deficit last year (increased retirement + increased unemployment). Their own estimates say 2016 will be the last year with a surplus, so realistically it might never have a surplus again under current conditions.
The sad thing is, making it solvent again is a 4 stop fix:
1. Admit there's no surplus, no lockbox.
2. Raise taxable income limits (right now it caps at around $108,000) to be revenue neutral.
3. If you're retired now or retiring in the next 10 years, there will be no change (AARP can shut the fuck up).
4. Raise the retirement age, effective in 2020.
I'll tell you how it would look: You don't own a computer, you rent it from AT&T. Actually, just imagine the cell phone experience (before the iPhone/Android) on your desktop.
Other way around. At a vintage computer festival a couple months ago, I saw one of these (possibly a model from a couple years later) driven by a Nexus running android.
Phone makers have been happy to sell ancient versions of Android and never delivering on upgrades. The/. crowd might care which version they're running, but most people don't seem to. Maybe they'll just stick with 2.3 (or 2.2 or even 2.1) + extra crap.
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but you trust a link from a guy named "brown tulip"?
Maybe Apple is trying to avoid something like this
In the interest of fairness, we're also bombing the rebels.
re-al
adjective
1. actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed
2. informal complete; utter (used for emphasis)
Guess which definition he was using. Tip: it was #2.
What's long and green and smells like pig?
What's your "good reason" to support the blatant sociopaths at Microsoft?
I can click links, but I can't activate the "post anonymously" button. I can post anonymously with the old form, so it's not my karma. The preview yellow box is fucked up, too.
3. It also doubles as a hand warmer.
I prefer a shaved pussy over a trouser snake any day.
GIMP looks (and feels) like ass on OS X. And I don't mean Kim Kardashian's ass, I mean Cowboy Neil's ass.
Maybe that means the patents are valid but Apple isn't infringing on them.
GIF's are still relevant for animation.
Mozilla's code has been tri-licensed as GPL, LGPL, or MPL for a while. "Mozilla Firefox" and the logo are trademarks. Debian doesn't have a problem distributing copies of the GPL text, which is not under a FREE license.
Oral (as in blowjobs) is 100% effective.
They believed Paul Krugman when he told them that throwing away money would have a multiplier effect on revenue.
There is already a certain amount of means testing in that up to 85% of social security payments may be taxed for those with a combined income > $34,000.
Social Security expenditures are expected to exceed tax receipts this year for the first time since 1983. The projected deficit of $41 billion this year (excluding interest income) is attributable to the recession and to an expected $25 billion downward adjustment to 2010 income that corrects for excess payroll tax revenue credited to the trust funds in earlier years --Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees 2010 annual report
Historically, yes, but it ran a deficit last year, it's running a deficit this year, and even if we hit full unemployment, it will start permanently running at a deficit after 2016.
The sad thing is, making it solvent again is a 4 stop fix:
1. Admit there's no surplus, no lockbox.
2. Raise taxable income limits (right now it caps at around $108,000) to be revenue neutral.
3. If you're retired now or retiring in the next 10 years, there will be no change (AARP can shut the fuck up).
4. Raise the retirement age, effective in 2020.
I'll tell you how it would look: You don't own a computer, you rent it from AT&T. Actually, just imagine the cell phone experience (before the iPhone/Android) on your desktop.
Mozilla (not firefox) included an IRC client. One of the reasons for firefox was to eliminate excessive shit like that.
Other way around. At a vintage computer festival a couple months ago, I saw one of these (possibly a model from a couple years later) driven by a Nexus running android.
$20 profit/phone. Maybe for small values of insane.
Phone makers have been happy to sell ancient versions of Android and never delivering on upgrades. The /. crowd might care which version they're running, but most people don't seem to. Maybe they'll just stick with 2.3 (or 2.2 or even 2.1) + extra crap.
The iPod touch camera is significantly worse than the iPhone camera and will most likely remain so as the iPod touch is thinner than the iPhone.