when did you ever know anybody who got back more income tax refunded than they paid in
It's called the Earned Income Credit. Poor people with ten kids can go to H&R Block, pay $100 to have their return professionally prepared, and, then, get $3,000 back from ol' Uncle Sam.
It is a welfare program via the IRS, which goes on top of food stamps, housing subsidies, all the other tax credits and breaks, school lunch discounts, heating fuel subsidies, etc. The government already does a lot for the poor, yet they keep on wanting more. They all could be given suites at a Carribian resort and still complain that their drinks are too expensive.
Not to mention that the pretext for this illegal non war was the Tonkin Gulf incident.
??? I thought it was the century and a half of French occupation and the incompetence of the British and Americans to manage Vietnam in the critical years after Japan's surrender in WWII.
There are no simple answers about Vietnam. Who's at fault? Let's see: France, Japan, China, the USA, Britain, Russia, and who knows who else. Vietnam was one big fucked up mess.
As far as I understand, the fight to be the president now revolves around same sex marriages.
No, this is a superficial take on it. The real fight is about Freedom, where Bush thinks it is perfectly okay for the federal government to take it all away. The federal government simply has NO business regulating marriage. There is no debating this, because the debate was over with the ratification of the Constitution over 200 years ago.
I was willing, out of compassion for a weak man, to give GWB the benefit of the doubt. However, with his support of the marriage amendment, his true colors are not debatable. Not only is he a bigot, his bigotry is founded in religion making him totally unfit to be the President. It is truly essential that in November he is given only the option of clearing his stuff out of the White House. He doesn't even deserve a going-away party.
If the income tax were constitutional, then please explain the purpose of the sixteenth amendment. Also, the federal income tax has been around less than a century. Also, it has been demonstrated that the income tax exceeds the amount that citizens are willing to pay. Too much money goes to the federal government, who has too many programs and responsibilities that it stole from the states. The states should know better.
Computer graphics will always be cutting-edge. As CPU/Ram/Disk increases in capability, it'll be fully utilized by content creators immediately. So, I entirely agree that a 400MHz CPU is a absolutely great home/office desktop, but it makes a mediocre game/movie development workstation by modern standards.
While graphics could be called a niche market, be aware that it includes MCAD/CAM, too, which isn't trivial by any measure. Basically, if it runs OpenGL, then there is always room for faster and bigger hardware.
I enjoyed Ratchet & Clank (though parts were a bit difficult), and, then, bought one of the Spyro games. One possible reason they can be quick with the sequals is that they are really all the same game with new characters and story. Spyro and R&C had most of the same gameplay and basic plot (collect gems/bolts, visit several worlds, beat a few bosses, do some skateboarding).
It really isn't hard at all. All the pilot does is say "Stealth mode, on!" and the helicopter both becomes completely silent and emits nor reflects any EM radiation. Not only that, the pilot can completely see through all walls via high-power high-resolution IR scopes. The main, although top secret, reason the military builds these helicopters is to spy on sorority houses during rush week.
In spirit, not in implementation. War followed by a restructuring of government is in the story line of Star Trek, for example. In other words, his story is imaginative and thought-provoking but not terribly original.
The tendency towards oligarchy should be seen as a failing of humans rather than one of the Constitution. The Constitution provided an extension mechanism, and We the People used it to do ourselves in (e.g., the federal income tax).
The civil war will happen when the WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) population gets closer to being a minority. Then a revolution will happen and the current political system will be out on its ass like a French Monarch. At the current rate, I say 30 years.
So, who fights? The bigots against everyone else? I hope the bigots lose, then.
The USA has always been very diverse. Many people who think they are WASPs are not. A huge number of Americans are from Eastern Europe, for example, and are clearly not Anglo-saxon (dozens of ethnicities and languages but all white). Basing ethnicity based on skin-color alone is very narrow-minded and reflects on the tremendous ignorance and stubornness of those who make such distinctions.
I'm under the impression that Mr. Titor is actually a very talented science fiction writer. Given the enormous complexity of the USA (many many shades of grey), it is much more likely for the next few years to pan out much like the Great Depression. If personal debt levels really are reaching critical mass (big "if", because I have no idea), then there will eventually be a big bankruptcy shake down of people not unlike what happened with companies over the last several years. The FTC will probably write new rules about the relationships between banks and citizens, and fifty years from now everything will be much better for the experience.
The other problems we can cite today, such as television-addiction and obesity, etc., can be handled by very large social education campaigns. For example, the extremism of the Atkins diets and of the traditional low-fat diets are being mediated by better awareness about saturated fat and refined carbohydrates. Moderation, moderation, moderations, blah, blah, blah.
The real challenge will be how the balances of power in government work. If Congress and the States really care about what is good for them (all 500+ Congresspeole and all 50 states) they can draft a new amendment limiting the Federal executive and judicial branches in favor the states. State governments can ally and take back--peacefully--what they need even out of completely selfish motivations (state empowerment).
Another key problem is that the federal government is too wealthy, but it would require genuine income tax reform to solve. Repealing the federal income tax would do tremendous good for the USA.
Yes, but there is a big difference between local government and national government. The fact that people like your father are willing to serve their communities regardless of compensation is an example of why the USA was originally a very highly decentralized nation.
Businesses have customers upon which the businesses depend. Businesses have no inherent right to people's money, they have to earn it.
The word "consumer" makes it appear that the customer is actually dependent on the business, which is absolutely not the case. Car engines consume gasoline because they have to, a person buys a Toyota because they want to.
Another thing: Java AWT provides interoperability in the same spirit as wxWindows...it's too bad that Sun mopped the floor with Microsoft a while ago in court over other Java matters.
Sun and the wxWindows project. Why is it that Microsoft goes after the little guy? Not only that, attacking wxWindows won't affect their PR to their drooling masses of Windows customers. If they had gone up against Sun's lawyers, I'd bet real money that this whole Windows trademark scam would end almost overnight.
Microsoft seems to be picking their battles poorly, lately. wxWindows, Xt (X Windows Toolkit), AWT (Java Abstract Window Toolkit), Sun's OpenWindows (still around to some extent), et. al. The only reason why they would single out wxWindows is that it is an interoperability toolkit, and we know just how much Microsoft loves interoperability.
Here's an open letter to Microsoft:
Dear Microsoft,
Fuck you.
Regards, The Free Market, Life, Liberty, and Happiness.
Sadly, it is actually true that most male slashdotters can program using only their large breasts leaving their arms free to eat sandwiches pre-warmed in their six-keg.
The advantage to sites like Monster.com is exactly what you mentioned. Just by putting out a resume on one of these websites, recruiters can search them with keywords, and, then, they come to you.
It's called a "passive" job search. And it is huge bang for the buck, considering the relatively small amount of effort involved.
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you just might think Sci-fi sucks. However, if you read the authors who are sci-fi, such as Asimov, A.C. Clark, and Orson Scott Card, you find that the sucky authors are just along for the sci-fi ride (i.e., they'd suck no matter the genre).
For reasons I'm not entirely aware of, X will consume memory relative to how much virtual memory is available on the machine. Xsun will do this, where on machines with little RAM, the server is little, but on machines with tons or RAM, the server is quite a bit larger. Most of the X server gets paged out anyway (on my machine Xsun is 492MB, but only 90MB is resident). I don't care a whole lot because I have over 1.5GB of virtual memory.
Firstly, how can a graphics system depend on a DE framework...
It wouldn't suprise me at all if they figured out a way. I think a circular dependency would fit very well in the kernel/Yserver/GNOME hierarchy, as GNOME is already so complex that a little icing here and there seems pretty harmless, right?
And i take it that by not being GNU you mean the license isn't compatible with the GNU GPL.
For better and worse, it is freer than the GPL. All the UNIX vendors and cross-platform people like Hummingbird all use the X codebase for their products.
And it does use autoconf.
XFree86 uses the same imake system that genuine X11R6 does. It's actually quite a bit easier to debug X's build system than it is to figure out where 'configure' went awry.
And hopefully we may see a snowball effect where XFree falls on it's arse and all the developers join Y Windows:p
Only if the Y Windows people study history really really hard will they improve on X Windows. X Windows is two decades in the making by dozens if not hundreds of people, so I predict a very long very hard uphill effort for any X replacent. Not to mention that GTK and Qt are each the efforts of many people over the last decade. To say that X is entrenched would be quite an understatement.
X Windows was not created by morons. It has a decent architecture. It is portable.
The real reason people want to replace X Windows is that it isn't GNU, it doesn't use autoconf, and it can actually compile on something other than GCC 3.3.5.6.1.8.3.2.4! Not only that, it doesn't rely on 1,300,215 GNOME libraries! God, X must suck!
Fuckin everyone who hasn't grown up in a PeeCee microuniverse of ignorance. I'm serious. I use remote X every single damn day. Remote X is essential to UNIX networking. Do you really and truly want a KVM network to sit in parallel to your Ethernet? Do you really??????
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when did you ever know anybody who got back more income tax refunded than they paid in
It's called the Earned Income Credit. Poor people with ten kids can go to H&R Block, pay $100 to have their return professionally prepared, and, then, get $3,000 back from ol' Uncle Sam.
It is a welfare program via the IRS, which goes on top of food stamps, housing subsidies, all the other tax credits and breaks, school lunch discounts, heating fuel subsidies, etc. The government already does a lot for the poor, yet they keep on wanting more. They all could be given suites at a Carribian resort and still complain that their drinks are too expensive.
You could always try the EE route.
Sure, drop the intro to Java in favor of four more semesters of differential equations and circuit simulation. This kid had trouble with CS 101!
Not to mention that the pretext for this illegal non war was the Tonkin Gulf incident.
??? I thought it was the century and a half of French occupation and the incompetence of the British and Americans to manage Vietnam in the critical years after Japan's surrender in WWII.
There are no simple answers about Vietnam. Who's at fault? Let's see: France, Japan, China, the USA, Britain, Russia, and who knows who else. Vietnam was one big fucked up mess.
As far as I understand, the fight to be the president now revolves around same sex marriages.
No, this is a superficial take on it. The real fight is about Freedom, where Bush thinks it is perfectly okay for the federal government to take it all away. The federal government simply has NO business regulating marriage. There is no debating this, because the debate was over with the ratification of the Constitution over 200 years ago.
I was willing, out of compassion for a weak man, to give GWB the benefit of the doubt. However, with his support of the marriage amendment, his true colors are not debatable. Not only is he a bigot, his bigotry is founded in religion making him totally unfit to be the President. It is truly essential that in November he is given only the option of clearing his stuff out of the White House. He doesn't even deserve a going-away party.
If the income tax were constitutional, then please explain the purpose of the sixteenth amendment. Also, the federal income tax has been around less than a century. Also, it has been demonstrated that the income tax exceeds the amount that citizens are willing to pay. Too much money goes to the federal government, who has too many programs and responsibilities that it stole from the states. The states should know better.
Computer graphics will always be cutting-edge. As CPU/Ram/Disk increases in capability, it'll be fully utilized by content creators immediately. So, I entirely agree that a 400MHz CPU is a absolutely great home/office desktop, but it makes a mediocre game/movie development workstation by modern standards.
While graphics could be called a niche market, be aware that it includes MCAD/CAM, too, which isn't trivial by any measure. Basically, if it runs OpenGL, then there is always room for faster and bigger hardware.
I enjoyed Ratchet & Clank (though parts were a bit difficult), and, then, bought one of the Spyro games. One possible reason they can be quick with the sequals is that they are really all the same game with new characters and story. Spyro and R&C had most of the same gameplay and basic plot (collect gems/bolts, visit several worlds, beat a few bosses, do some skateboarding).
It really isn't hard at all. All the pilot does is say "Stealth mode, on!" and the helicopter both becomes completely silent and emits nor reflects any EM radiation. Not only that, the pilot can completely see through all walls via high-power high-resolution IR scopes. The main, although top secret, reason the military builds these helicopters is to spy on sorority houses during rush week.
In spirit, not in implementation. War followed by a restructuring of government is in the story line of Star Trek, for example. In other words, his story is imaginative and thought-provoking but not terribly original.
The tendency towards oligarchy should be seen as a failing of humans rather than one of the Constitution. The Constitution provided an extension mechanism, and We the People used it to do ourselves in (e.g., the federal income tax).
The civil war will happen when the WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) population gets closer to being a minority. Then a revolution will happen and the current political system will be out on its ass like a French Monarch. At the current rate, I say 30 years.
So, who fights? The bigots against everyone else? I hope the bigots lose, then.
The USA has always been very diverse. Many people who think they are WASPs are not. A huge number of Americans are from Eastern Europe, for example, and are clearly not Anglo-saxon (dozens of ethnicities and languages but all white). Basing ethnicity based on skin-color alone is very narrow-minded and reflects on the tremendous ignorance and stubornness of those who make such distinctions.
I'm under the impression that Mr. Titor is actually a very talented science fiction writer. Given the enormous complexity of the USA (many many shades of grey), it is much more likely for the next few years to pan out much like the Great Depression. If personal debt levels really are reaching critical mass (big "if", because I have no idea), then there will eventually be a big bankruptcy shake down of people not unlike what happened with companies over the last several years. The FTC will probably write new rules about the relationships between banks and citizens, and fifty years from now everything will be much better for the experience.
The other problems we can cite today, such as television-addiction and obesity, etc., can be handled by very large social education campaigns. For example, the extremism of the Atkins diets and of the traditional low-fat diets are being mediated by better awareness about saturated fat and refined carbohydrates. Moderation, moderation, moderations, blah, blah, blah.
The real challenge will be how the balances of power in government work. If Congress and the States really care about what is good for them (all 500+ Congresspeole and all 50 states) they can draft a new amendment limiting the Federal executive and judicial branches in favor the states. State governments can ally and take back--peacefully--what they need even out of completely selfish motivations (state empowerment).
Another key problem is that the federal government is too wealthy, but it would require genuine income tax reform to solve. Repealing the federal income tax would do tremendous good for the USA.
Sadly it is called "Capitalism"...
No, it is corruption, and even Libertarians would see it as evil in a free society.
So, please, quit your mis-information, because all it does is fuel enthusiasm for socialism among people too ignorant to understand its fallacies.
Yes, but there is a big difference between local government and national government. The fact that people like your father are willing to serve their communities regardless of compensation is an example of why the USA was originally a very highly decentralized nation.
Businesses have customers upon which the businesses depend. Businesses have no inherent right to people's money, they have to earn it.
The word "consumer" makes it appear that the customer is actually dependent on the business, which is absolutely not the case. Car engines consume gasoline because they have to, a person buys a Toyota because they want to.
It's the principle of free will in a free market.
Another thing: Java AWT provides interoperability in the same spirit as wxWindows...it's too bad that Sun mopped the floor with Microsoft a while ago in court over other Java matters.
Sun and the wxWindows project. Why is it that Microsoft goes after the little guy? Not only that, attacking wxWindows won't affect their PR to their drooling masses of Windows customers. If they had gone up against Sun's lawyers, I'd bet real money that this whole Windows trademark scam would end almost overnight.
Microsoft seems to be picking their battles poorly, lately. wxWindows, Xt (X Windows Toolkit), AWT (Java Abstract Window Toolkit), Sun's OpenWindows (still around to some extent), et. al. The only reason why they would single out wxWindows is that it is an interoperability toolkit, and we know just how much Microsoft loves interoperability.
Here's an open letter to Microsoft:
Dear Microsoft,
Fuck you.
Regards,
The Free Market, Life, Liberty, and Happiness.
Sadly, it is actually true that most male slashdotters can program using only their large breasts leaving their arms free to eat sandwiches pre-warmed in their six-keg.
The advantage to sites like Monster.com is exactly what you mentioned. Just by putting out a resume on one of these websites, recruiters can search them with keywords, and, then, they come to you.
It's called a "passive" job search. And it is huge bang for the buck, considering the relatively small amount of effort involved.
you just might think Sci-fi sucks. However, if you read the authors who are sci-fi, such as Asimov, A.C. Clark, and Orson Scott Card, you find that the sucky authors are just along for the sci-fi ride (i.e., they'd suck no matter the genre).
For reasons I'm not entirely aware of, X will consume memory relative to how much virtual memory is available on the machine. Xsun will do this, where on machines with little RAM, the server is little, but on machines with tons or RAM, the server is quite a bit larger. Most of the X server gets paged out anyway (on my machine Xsun is 492MB, but only 90MB is resident). I don't care a whole lot because I have over 1.5GB of virtual memory.
Firstly, how can a graphics system depend on a DE framework...
:p
It wouldn't suprise me at all if they figured out a way. I think a circular dependency would fit very well in the kernel/Yserver/GNOME hierarchy, as GNOME is already so complex that a little icing here and there seems pretty harmless, right?
And i take it that by not being GNU you mean the license isn't compatible with the GNU GPL.
For better and worse, it is freer than the GPL. All the UNIX vendors and cross-platform people like Hummingbird all use the X codebase for their products.
And it does use autoconf.
XFree86 uses the same imake system that genuine X11R6 does. It's actually quite a bit easier to debug X's build system than it is to figure out where 'configure' went awry.
And hopefully we may see a snowball effect where XFree falls on it's arse and all the developers join Y Windows
Only if the Y Windows people study history really really hard will they improve on X Windows. X Windows is two decades in the making by dozens if not hundreds of people, so I predict a very long very hard uphill effort for any X replacent. Not to mention that GTK and Qt are each the efforts of many people over the last decade. To say that X is entrenched would be quite an understatement.
X Windows was not created by morons. It has a decent architecture. It is portable.
The real reason people want to replace X Windows is that it isn't GNU, it doesn't use autoconf, and it can actually compile on something other than GCC 3.3.5.6.1.8.3.2.4! Not only that, it doesn't rely on 1,300,215 GNOME libraries! God, X must suck!
This isn't flamebait but the damn truth.
Who does that anymore
Fuckin everyone who hasn't grown up in a PeeCee microuniverse of ignorance. I'm serious. I use remote X every single damn day. Remote X is essential to UNIX networking. Do you really and truly want a KVM network to sit in parallel to your Ethernet? Do you really??????