as soon as you show that you don't have a grasp of tenth-grade language skills.
1. Nobody has tenth-grade language skills.
2. Talking like Niles Crane will get your arse kicked.
3. Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with I will not put.
OK, then how is it wrong to say that two machines connected only by a modem are part of the Internet? You could argue that they are not necessarily part of the Internet, but it's hardly wrong to say so.
you can actually dial a number and talk to the other person!!!
I've spent a lot of time, money, and effort to build and acquire devices that make it so I don't have to talk to other people. Actually talking is for sales people and MBAs.
I don't think that wanting to retire someday equates to a "problem". Seriously, you need some schooling. You have some really misguided ideas about investing, the amount of time it takes, and the resources necessary to start. Read the link I gave you. Within two hours (and that just once, not every day) you can be up and running if you choose to.
I'm investing in companies that are green/eco-friendly and politically left? Really? Care to point me to some?
Here is a list. Now I've figured out your problem. You think that taking care of your personal and familial money responsibilities is a mental disorder, and you are too lazy to google "ethical investing" and click the first god damned result.
It has nothing to do with how hard you work. It has everything to do with either, how lucky you are, or how ethically dodgy you can comfortably live.
Garbage.
Being ethical about how you live and getting into investing is VERY difficult and expensive.
Also garbage.
Live below your means and invest in companies that you ethically agree with if you want. Or you could invest in companies that are close to what you ethically want, and use your newfound power as a voting shareholder to tell them what you think.
What makes wealth so different
That's right. So, to use your house analogy, you need to get an inspection when the foundation is poured, when it's framed, when the electricity is run, when the plumbing is run, when it's insulated, when it's sheetrocked, when the shingles go on, when the windows go in, every time you change the carpet or re-paint, every time you open or shut the garage door, every time you lock or unlock the front door, open a window, or flush the toilet. Then after it's been inspected 8 billion times, you go to sell it, and they want to inspect it again? I'm sorry. This far, and no farther.
There are several key arguments for an estate tax.
* Continued concentrate of power in the elite. In any democracy, wealth can be translated into political power.
Well, then you're fixing the wrong problem aren't you?
* Limit Innovation. A society full of undeserving rich kids travelling around collecting art work for their private collections does not induce innovation.
First off, it would induce innovation in the field of art that appeals to undeserving rich kids. Second, I think you are greatly overestimating the number of undeserving rich kids that would result from the permanent abolition of the estate tax.
* Govt research and investments
Good.
Surprisingly very wealthy people such as Bill Gates Sr. and Warren Buffett support the death tax.
Surprisingly, middle class people such as EatHam could give a fuck what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet support in the way of taxation.
Middle class people such as EatHam also realize that the problem isn't the tax rate, the problem is with the method of collection. If people paid their tax bill in full and didn't evade, we would still have a surplus. Don't blame Bush for that, blame your criminal tax evading neighbors.
Why should wealth be inheritable . ..?
Why should the government be involved with deciding what I do with my property, be it my body, my house, or my wallet?
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as soon as you show that you don't have a grasp of tenth-grade language skills.
1. Nobody has tenth-grade language skills.
2. Talking like Niles Crane will get your arse kicked.
3. Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with I will not put.
I would personally kill every animal on the planet if it would prevent me from catching a cold.
OK, then how is it wrong to say that two machines connected only by a modem are part of the Internet? You could argue that they are not necessarily part of the Internet, but it's hardly wrong to say so.
No, you wouldn't. If you use a dial up connection to access the Internet, you are indeed on the Internet. Broadband snob.
you can actually dial a number and talk to the other person!!!
I've spent a lot of time, money, and effort to build and acquire devices that make it so I don't have to talk to other people. Actually talking is for sales people and MBAs.
... until I can get paid $500k per year for writing HTML.
I have not yet gotten to the point where I find it necessary to outsource my wanking.
Our poor people can go to the library to use computers.
there's obviously a problem.
I don't think that wanting to retire someday equates to a "problem". Seriously, you need some schooling. You have some really misguided ideas about investing, the amount of time it takes, and the resources necessary to start. Read the link I gave you. Within two hours (and that just once, not every day) you can be up and running if you choose to.
I'm investing in companies that are green/eco-friendly and politically left? Really? Care to point me to some?
Here is a list. Now I've figured out your problem. You think that taking care of your personal and familial money responsibilities is a mental disorder, and you are too lazy to google "ethical investing" and click the first god damned result.
It has nothing to do with how hard you work. It has everything to do with either, how lucky you are, or how ethically dodgy you can comfortably live.
Garbage.
Being ethical about how you live and getting into investing is VERY difficult and expensive.
Also garbage.
Live below your means and invest in companies that you ethically agree with if you want. Or you could invest in companies that are close to what you ethically want, and use your newfound power as a voting shareholder to tell them what you think.
Holy Tinfoil Hat, Batman! George Bush killed Superman!
Inheritance is a government service.
I'm pretty sure inheritance existed before governments did.
What makes wealth so different That's right. So, to use your house analogy, you need to get an inspection when the foundation is poured, when it's framed, when the electricity is run, when the plumbing is run, when it's insulated, when it's sheetrocked, when the shingles go on, when the windows go in, every time you change the carpet or re-paint, every time you open or shut the garage door, every time you lock or unlock the front door, open a window, or flush the toilet. Then after it's been inspected 8 billion times, you go to sell it, and they want to inspect it again? I'm sorry. This far, and no farther.
Once you're dead, it's not your property anymore.
Right, it's my family's property. Not yours, keep your grubby dickbeaters off of it.
Your house is your property only because of a government deed
OR because I paid for it, tomayto, tomahto.
There are several key arguments for an estate tax. * Continued concentrate of power in the elite. In any democracy, wealth can be translated into political power. Well, then you're fixing the wrong problem aren't you? * Limit Innovation. A society full of undeserving rich kids travelling around collecting art work for their private collections does not induce innovation. First off, it would induce innovation in the field of art that appeals to undeserving rich kids. Second, I think you are greatly overestimating the number of undeserving rich kids that would result from the permanent abolition of the estate tax. * Govt research and investments Good. Surprisingly very wealthy people such as Bill Gates Sr. and Warren Buffett support the death tax. Surprisingly, middle class people such as EatHam could give a fuck what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet support in the way of taxation. Middle class people such as EatHam also realize that the problem isn't the tax rate, the problem is with the method of collection. If people paid their tax bill in full and didn't evade, we would still have a surplus. Don't blame Bush for that, blame your criminal tax evading neighbors.
Why should wealth be inheritable . . .?
Why should the government be involved with deciding what I do with my property, be it my body, my house, or my wallet?
Can we not, as a species, keep at least one place free of war and hostility? No. That's why we keep fighting over Antarctica. God damn penguins.
I bet the registration/activation scheme will be even more secure now.
High barrier to entry? You think it's cheaper to buy a computer and internet access than it is to buy some paper?
It is *far* easier to teach an engineer business than it is to teach a business person engineering. I'd rather try to teach my dog diff eq.
Now I'll finally be able to find that Do What I Mean function I've been searching for.
Hardcore engineers have a webcam - stand up for "1", lay down for "0".
HR = window-licking mouth breathers. Completely worthless even to pre-screen IT applicants.
No kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! I vote to name this the Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator.