I'm not denying that it's a tax, only that 100% of payroll taxes are earmarked to be spent...
This distinction between income tax and payroll tax is flawed. Income and payroll are the same thing, both taxes get taken out of my one paycheck. Not only is 100% of all my taxes payed earmarked to get spent in some fashion, but continuous deficit spending by an out-of-control Congress means 100+% of all my taxes are earmarked to be spent.
Conveniently splitting out the taxes and eliminating some as a justification for an argument about military spending just doesn't follow. What if we added a "payroll" tax for the military...suddenly no "income" tax goes towards the military. Is that situation really any different?
Actually, the most unfair tax of all is sales tax, which puts an unusually high burden of tax on the poor.
This is untrue, if sales tax were properly structured to exempt essential goods like staple foods and clothing. Housing costs hurt the poor more than taxes, anyway.
The reason the income tax is the most unfair tax ever conceived is that it is the government legally extorting excessive amounts of money from the citizens. What if I refuse to pay my income tax, because I believe it to be excessive and used for things that the government has little business doing? I go to jail. Income taxes are neither anonymous, optional, nor of any reasonable amount, and they violate Constitutional rights to privacy and freedom from unfair search and seizure. Why is it that people cry foul when a corporation collects and tracks personal and financial information about people, but everyone just cozys right up to big nice government who is doing the same thing? The USA was founded after similar transgressions by the British monarchy; why has everyone become so blind to history?
Yes, but a shift in mass alters the moment of inertia, so, for a given amount of rotational kinetic energy, the length of our day can change. The effect is probably small, but I'm sure there would be a handful of scientists out there who really care about such things (studying whether a 0.01% change in the day/night cycle affects plants or whatever).
Since the funding for these is taken by large part from payroll taxes and not income taxes, they don't really count...
This is the biggest load of BS I've read in a while. Fact: a tax is a tax is a tax. It doesn't matter what it's called. Social security withholdig is a TAX, Medicare withholding is a TAX. They all go to the Federal Government, who then goes on to abuse its new-found piggy bank for every feel-good and back-scratching political endeavor it can find. If I'd take the time to go around and add up all the taxes I have to pay in a year, I'd probably have a stroke from a blood pressure of 1000/990 after realizing just how much money I throw at crap like pork-barrel government contracts and polishing every turd of a social program they conjur up.
Except that it's a monster, jaw-dropping, astounding flaw.
The Java Language Specification explicity states that using longs as an array index is an error. There might be a good reason for this, as there were 64-bit CPUs around when Java was being developed.
Also, when an array gets to a point of literally being 4,000,000,000 elements long, perhaps the application really could use some re-work. What applications need such large one-dimensional structures, anyway? Now that I think about it, it would be pretty easy to create larger arrays, anyway, in the way UNIX inodes allow indirection to access terabytes of data. The performance penalty of the indirection isn't huge.
I thought "Java" was supposed to be write-once, run any-damned-where you please.
It is. However, when you move forward to 64-bit address spaces--and use them--it makes going back to 32-bit a little difficult.
And you guys think Redmond's marketing department lies out their [collective] ass...
Actually, Sun is pretty straight-forward about Java. Usually, the lies come out of the mouths of the people who want to believe them.
And THAT overbloated addons made Java to require GHz CPUs and GBs of RAM. How this can be a troll to anyone who really tried to squizeany performance from either SWING or EJB?
Because they really don't require GHz CPUs and GBs of RAM. They never did. Hundreds of MB for big Swing apps, perhaps, but not GBs. Performance issues with EJB stem from the developers misapplying EJBs and writing code on a pre-schooler level. EJBs simply are not appropriate for small projects, either, which burns many developers still foaming at the mouth with the hype. It was true when Java started and is still true today: bad programmers write bad programs, whether in C or Java or Python or Ruby or whatever. Java itself is hardly the cause of this problem.
The Java VM can run in full 64-bit mode on SPARCv9 CPUs. Perhaps this would useful to you? Granted, the array index is a limitation for one-dimensional arrays, but perhaps this is an area that could use byte-addressed data streams in a creative way? How about a native call to C-language routines? How about implementing an array-like data structure that overcomes the int limitation? You sound as if you are condemning a good platform for one percieved flaw. Try that strategy on a spouse or significant other and see how far it gets you.
By popularizing small CCD cameras this way, for example, the cost of CCDs goes down even further, thus changing the cost structure of full-blown digital cameras.
Also, it is cheaper and simpler for the company to offer a few phones with bundled features than more phones with a wider range of features. Think about warehousing, distribution, the risk of unsold inventory, and so forth.
The people behind all this stuff aren't stupid...at least I hope so.
Actually, I think HiThere was referring to the concept of "eternal torment in the lake of fire" kinda torture...
So was I. No human being can know for sure what will happen to them, even those who subscribe to predestination theories. Any human being who claims to hold such knowledge is either a liar, simply naive, or a prophet, and I'd bet my life savings that 99.99999999% of the "Jesus Saves" zealots out there ain't prophets. Rather, they are parrots spouting whatever they were told without really thinking about the basis of their beliefs (i.e., I seriously doubt they even know what real Theology is).
...and you believe that everyone who doesn't believe as you believe will be tortured forever...
I cannot accept that any denomination of Christianity that actually believes this as truly Christian. The arrogance of such a belief is a sin in itself. Man doesn't judge man, God does.
So do idiots with 2x4s with nails put through them. Let's make them illegal, too!
All the gun control nuts do is forget that in a civilized society, it is and always will be a matter of personal responsibility, which is not helped at all by draconian laws making everything illegal. Rather than pouring millions of dollars down the toilet on superfluous law enforcement, why not add gun training to school curriculums as an elective. Teach our kids gun safety, birth control, and finance, and they'll grow old knowing how to hunt and defend themselves, keep from reproducing like rabbits, and stay out of bankruptcy court.
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We all know their current P4 Extreme are real Power hogs and not all that efficient.
Reflecting on the recent SUV craze in the USA, this really isn't hard to understand. However, markets do change--just look at the newer generations of station wagons labeled "crossover" SUVs. People are realizing that they never really wanted a 10,000lb SUV all along, and we're moving back to the early 80's super-practical family mover.
One thing that hasn't penetrated in the computer markets is that 100W CPUs really can cost tens of dollars per year in extra power consumption relative to more efficient CPUs. Now that computers are getting well under $1000, those tens of dollars might not seem so trivial any longer. I predict we'll see the current no-holds-barred CPUs move aside for more reasonable ones by the end of the decade as the computer markets mature.
True, but a much larger proportion of that market are gamers. For example, I wonder what fraction of Linux users have heard of Doom 3 coming down the line versus the proportion of Windows-only and Mac-only users. UNIX and Free Software folk are an interesting demographic...perhaps it is now large enough to attract the fringes of the mainstream. BTW, isn't that what the this whole thread is about?
The actions of "gun-nuts" usually involve trying to decrease the possibility of dangerous weapons making it into the hands of those idiots and morons you mention.
And those actions simply don't work. All gun laws do is create a black market for guns in the same way that drug laws created the black market for drugs. Yes, the USA's very own drug laws fund dictators, warlords, and terrorists all over the world by creating markets with unusually very high prices. When the government says it is using all its tools against "terrorism", why don't they simply make more things legal, collapsing their prices, and consequently starving the people they are after? Oh, that would mean the government actually forfeits some of its power of the People.
Bear in mind the hefty tax breaks they get as well. Nice PR at US taxpayers expense.
And at their employees' expense, too, perhaps. Does Microsoft still push their income tax burden down on to their employees via stock options?
Also, it can be argued that Microsoft's charitible donations come from "blood money." This isn't directly about human life, but many good technologies and companies have been destroyed by Microsoft. They also make peoples lives miserable through terrible and/or deceitful decisions on their part, such as much of their history regarding security, the Registry, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, WMA, SMB, Kerberos, and so forth. They have extorted OEM companies like Dell into selling Windows-only product line-ups, essentially giving a big fat middle finger to companies like Apple and Sun and projects like Linux.
The thought of a company basing their technology infrastructure on Microsoft products sends chills down my spine.
Right below the article is a link to a Microsoft white paper about "third party" research regarding Linux. Note that the white paper link is not put under "sponsored links". Apparently, InfoWorld has been bought by Microsoft's "Get the Facts" double-speak campaign. Also, the author of the Linux article is a "contributing editor", so he is probably outside the inner core of InfoWorld Microsoft payees, unless his article is taken as a direct attack against Microsoft's competitors, Sun and IBM ("Linux meets Big Iron").
Unbiased journalism -- oxymoron of the 21st century.
I went with the one with the first-generation Bussard Collectors to save money, but it has been a complete disappointment. I'd definitely suggest getting the ones with the latest Phase-Adjusted Auditron Fluxors, based on last March's review in Consumer Reports and from what my barber has heard.
However, what you said is 100% true. Most people really do care more about TV shows than the people put in place to protect their inalienable rights. Keeping a country like the USA from not turning into the Inquisition II takes a lot of long hard arduous work. Imagine if Mr. GWB really did have his wishes to pass every "faith based" law he could conjur up, or imagine if one of the foaming-at-the-mouth Democrats running right now could have every one of their to-each-as-they-need nation-destroying socialist policies passed? This is why our government is constantly put against itself to prevent tyranny.
Who's up for a web site that catalogs this sort of behaviour, easy to search, for use during recruitment?
1) It's none of your business. 2) If the government were doing it, how would you feel? 3) The "second chance" is the key to our theories that people can be reformed. 4) Your proposed system would "convict" people outside of a court of law, possibly making their lives miserable with no justification other then hearsay. 5) Isn't this what references are supposed to be for?
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I'm not denying that it's a tax, only that 100% of payroll taxes are earmarked to be spent...
This distinction between income tax and payroll tax is flawed. Income and payroll are the same thing, both taxes get taken out of my one paycheck. Not only is 100% of all my taxes payed earmarked to get spent in some fashion, but continuous deficit spending by an out-of-control Congress means 100+% of all my taxes are earmarked to be spent.
Conveniently splitting out the taxes and eliminating some as a justification for an argument about military spending just doesn't follow. What if we added a "payroll" tax for the military...suddenly no "income" tax goes towards the military. Is that situation really any different?
Actually, the most unfair tax of all is sales tax, which puts an unusually high burden of tax on the poor.
This is untrue, if sales tax were properly structured to exempt essential goods like staple foods and clothing. Housing costs hurt the poor more than taxes, anyway.
The reason the income tax is the most unfair tax ever conceived is that it is the government legally extorting excessive amounts of money from the citizens. What if I refuse to pay my income tax, because I believe it to be excessive and used for things that the government has little business doing? I go to jail. Income taxes are neither anonymous, optional, nor of any reasonable amount, and they violate Constitutional rights to privacy and freedom from unfair search and seizure. Why is it that people cry foul when a corporation collects and tracks personal and financial information about people, but everyone just cozys right up to big nice government who is doing the same thing? The USA was founded after similar transgressions by the British monarchy; why has everyone become so blind to history?
Did you change your daily budget accordingly? From what you wrote, it sounds like you went from 20 clicks a day down to one.
there's a difference, ya know! :)
Yes, but a shift in mass alters the moment of inertia, so, for a given amount of rotational kinetic energy, the length of our day can change. The effect is probably small, but I'm sure there would be a handful of scientists out there who really care about such things (studying whether a 0.01% change in the day/night cycle affects plants or whatever).
Since the funding for these is taken by large part from payroll taxes and not income taxes, they don't really count...
This is the biggest load of BS I've read in a while. Fact: a tax is a tax is a tax. It doesn't matter what it's called. Social security withholdig is a TAX, Medicare withholding is a TAX. They all go to the Federal Government, who then goes on to abuse its new-found piggy bank for every feel-good and back-scratching political endeavor it can find. If I'd take the time to go around and add up all the taxes I have to pay in a year, I'd probably have a stroke from a blood pressure of 1000/990 after realizing just how much money I throw at crap like pork-barrel government contracts and polishing every turd of a social program they conjur up.
Sun are not experts in *BSD.
Well, they used to be...back in 1982. Solaris and the *BSDs are cousins, so they best not be courtin' now!
I'm more worried about all the fat people in the western hemisphere throwing the Earth off balance causing it to break up suddenly and violently.
Climate change is not a theory, it's a reality...
and we will know when it is a real unstoppable problem when insurance companies stop selling policies for coastal areas.
Except that it's a monster, jaw-dropping, astounding flaw.
The Java Language Specification explicity states that using longs as an array index is an error. There might be a good reason for this, as there were 64-bit CPUs around when Java was being developed.
Also, when an array gets to a point of literally being 4,000,000,000 elements long, perhaps the application really could use some re-work. What applications need such large one-dimensional structures, anyway? Now that I think about it, it would be pretty easy to create larger arrays, anyway, in the way UNIX inodes allow indirection to access terabytes of data. The performance penalty of the indirection isn't huge.
I thought "Java" was supposed to be write-once, run any-damned-where you please.
It is. However, when you move forward to 64-bit address spaces--and use them--it makes going back to 32-bit a little difficult.
And you guys think Redmond's marketing department lies out their [collective] ass...
Actually, Sun is pretty straight-forward about Java. Usually, the lies come out of the mouths of the people who want to believe them.
And THAT overbloated addons made Java to require GHz CPUs and GBs of RAM. How this can be a troll to anyone who really tried to squizeany performance from either SWING or EJB?
Because they really don't require GHz CPUs and GBs of RAM. They never did. Hundreds of MB for big Swing apps, perhaps, but not GBs. Performance issues with EJB stem from the developers misapplying EJBs and writing code on a pre-schooler level. EJBs simply are not appropriate for small projects, either, which burns many developers still foaming at the mouth with the hype. It was true when Java started and is still true today: bad programmers write bad programs, whether in C or Java or Python or Ruby or whatever. Java itself is hardly the cause of this problem.
The Java VM can run in full 64-bit mode on SPARCv9 CPUs. Perhaps this would useful to you? Granted, the array index is a limitation for one-dimensional arrays, but perhaps this is an area that could use byte-addressed data streams in a creative way? How about a native call to C-language routines? How about implementing an array-like data structure that overcomes the int limitation? You sound as if you are condemning a good platform for one percieved flaw. Try that strategy on a spouse or significant other and see how far it gets you.
Java was specially designed for embedded devices with several GHz CPUs and few GB of RAM.
The moderators must have slipped, accidentally selecting "Insightful" instead of "Troll."
By popularizing small CCD cameras this way, for example, the cost of CCDs goes down even further, thus changing the cost structure of full-blown digital cameras.
Also, it is cheaper and simpler for the company to offer a few phones with bundled features than more phones with a wider range of features. Think about warehousing, distribution, the risk of unsold inventory, and so forth.
The people behind all this stuff aren't stupid...at least I hope so.
Actually, I think HiThere was referring to the concept of "eternal torment in the lake of fire" kinda torture...
So was I. No human being can know for sure what will happen to them, even those who subscribe to predestination theories. Any human being who claims to hold such knowledge is either a liar, simply naive, or a prophet, and I'd bet my life savings that 99.99999999% of the "Jesus Saves" zealots out there ain't prophets. Rather, they are parrots spouting whatever they were told without really thinking about the basis of their beliefs (i.e., I seriously doubt they even know what real Theology is).
...and you believe that everyone who doesn't believe as you believe will be tortured forever...
I cannot accept that any denomination of Christianity that actually believes this as truly Christian. The arrogance of such a belief is a sin in itself. Man doesn't judge man, God does.
Idiots with guns kill others.
So do idiots with 2x4s with nails put through them. Let's make them illegal, too!
All the gun control nuts do is forget that in a civilized society, it is and always will be a matter of personal responsibility, which is not helped at all by draconian laws making everything illegal. Rather than pouring millions of dollars down the toilet on superfluous law enforcement, why not add gun training to school curriculums as an elective. Teach our kids gun safety, birth control, and finance, and they'll grow old knowing how to hunt and defend themselves, keep from reproducing like rabbits, and stay out of bankruptcy court.
We all know their current P4 Extreme are real Power hogs and not all that efficient.
Reflecting on the recent SUV craze in the USA, this really isn't hard to understand. However, markets do change--just look at the newer generations of station wagons labeled "crossover" SUVs. People are realizing that they never really wanted a 10,000lb SUV all along, and we're moving back to the early 80's super-practical family mover.
One thing that hasn't penetrated in the computer markets is that 100W CPUs really can cost tens of dollars per year in extra power consumption relative to more efficient CPUs. Now that computers are getting well under $1000, those tens of dollars might not seem so trivial any longer. I predict we'll see the current no-holds-barred CPUs move aside for more reasonable ones by the end of the decade as the computer markets mature.
...that market is so much smaller.
True, but a much larger proportion of that market are gamers. For example, I wonder what fraction of Linux users have heard of Doom 3 coming down the line versus the proportion of Windows-only and Mac-only users. UNIX and Free Software folk are an interesting demographic...perhaps it is now large enough to attract the fringes of the mainstream. BTW, isn't that what the this whole thread is about?
The actions of "gun-nuts" usually involve trying to decrease the possibility of dangerous weapons making it into the hands of those idiots and morons you mention.
And those actions simply don't work. All gun laws do is create a black market for guns in the same way that drug laws created the black market for drugs. Yes, the USA's very own drug laws fund dictators, warlords, and terrorists all over the world by creating markets with unusually very high prices. When the government says it is using all its tools against "terrorism", why don't they simply make more things legal, collapsing their prices, and consequently starving the people they are after? Oh, that would mean the government actually forfeits some of its power of the People.
Bear in mind the hefty tax breaks they get as well. Nice PR at US taxpayers expense.
And at their employees' expense, too, perhaps. Does Microsoft still push their income tax burden down on to their employees via stock options?
Also, it can be argued that Microsoft's charitible donations come from "blood money." This isn't directly about human life, but many good technologies and companies have been destroyed by Microsoft. They also make peoples lives miserable through terrible and/or deceitful decisions on their part, such as much of their history regarding security, the Registry, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, WMA, SMB, Kerberos, and so forth. They have extorted OEM companies like Dell into selling Windows-only product line-ups, essentially giving a big fat middle finger to companies like Apple and Sun and projects like Linux.
The thought of a company basing their technology infrastructure on Microsoft products sends chills down my spine.
Right below the article is a link to a Microsoft white paper about "third party" research regarding Linux. Note that the white paper link is not put under "sponsored links". Apparently, InfoWorld has been bought by Microsoft's "Get the Facts" double-speak campaign. Also, the author of the Linux article is a "contributing editor", so he is probably outside the inner core of InfoWorld Microsoft payees, unless his article is taken as a direct attack against Microsoft's competitors, Sun and IBM ("Linux meets Big Iron").
Unbiased journalism -- oxymoron of the 21st century.
Mormons are taught to support the Government. ... They tend to gravitate to authoritarianism as it is.
Sounds like 19th Century Germany. Are Mormons really such morons?!?
I went with the one with the first-generation Bussard Collectors to save money, but it has been a complete disappointment. I'd definitely suggest getting the ones with the latest Phase-Adjusted Auditron Fluxors, based on last March's review in Consumer Reports and from what my barber has heard.
(BTW, I am only 75% joking)
However, what you said is 100% true. Most people really do care more about TV shows than the people put in place to protect their inalienable rights. Keeping a country like the USA from not turning into the Inquisition II takes a lot of long hard arduous work. Imagine if Mr. GWB really did have his wishes to pass every "faith based" law he could conjur up, or imagine if one of the foaming-at-the-mouth Democrats running right now could have every one of their to-each-as-they-need nation-destroying socialist policies passed? This is why our government is constantly put against itself to prevent tyranny.
KIA = Killed in Action
That never occurred to me, but, given the size of some of their cars, perhaps it really isn't a coincidence!
Who's up for a web site that catalogs this sort of behaviour, easy to search, for use during recruitment?
1) It's none of your business.
2) If the government were doing it, how would you feel?
3) The "second chance" is the key to our theories that people can be reformed.
4) Your proposed system would "convict" people outside of a court of law, possibly making their lives miserable with no justification other then hearsay.
5) Isn't this what references are supposed to be for?