Even before the details of the law and the abuses became public, it was obvious from the name that the "Department of Homeland Security" was going to be a bad thing. "Homeland" is something of a code word, popular among nationalistic (particularly fascistic) groups. That Bush was blind to the inferences of the name is very telling of his deficiencies.
Auto-update is a really bad idea. Updates are frequently broken or incompatible with other programs. In Windows, updates often try to happen when my battery is almost dead and I have to poweroff NOW, and am prevented from doing so. Best is to be notified of an update, and if it's a critical program wait a week or two to see if bug reports show up, before I risk my own computer. A manual yum update is simply not a significant burden compared to the advantage of control.
The one I get tripped up on the most is renaming a folder. I want to rename, so is it rn? No it's mv... but I'm not moving it so that's confusing.
Oh, the command for renaming is so terribly difficult to remember. It's rename.
Copying recursively to get a directory and all its subdirectories is -r; and many distributions already alias -i to check for conflicts, so the user doesn't even have to care. From-To is the natural order, this isn't CPM, after all. So for all but sophisticated use, only one option needs to be remembered. And if the user is truly hopeless, there's always a file browser like dolphin, which (to my mind) is usually more difficult than command line. Does drag and drop copy or move?
Although stock ownership is not a full form of ownership, it is ownership nonetheless. My money, while in the hands of a corporation, is taxed once while in the corporation and taxed again when some of the remainder is sent to me. It's always my money, and it's taxed twice.
No. It's because poor people have bad lobbyists. And a lack of understanding of how the tax system works.
The poor have no need to understand how (federal) tax works, they don't pay any. And the lobbyists of the poor are from among the poor, we've been seeing them on TV for a half year now: they're the drug-addled, disease-infested, rapists and murderers of the "occupy" movement.
The limited liability of a corporation is part of the known legal arrangement that they exist within. The creditors of a corporation deal with the corporation knowing the risk going in, and adjust their prices and contracts accordingly.
Most stock brokers will allow you to buy on margin by doing nothing more than signing a piece of paper, nothing more required. You can then buy more stocks up to a limit determined by how much cash and unmargined stocks you already own. Rates vary widely, but some beat the best mortgage or commercial loan you can get. Buying on margin is borrowing from the broker. No minimum required.
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It still isn't fair. The government can inflate the currency so that a $10 widget costs $20 without its actual value changing. And the government then claims the right to tax me on the dollar increase of my widget? BS.
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Your Ponzi-like scheme only works as long as there are new suckers to borrow money from or the newly purchased assets are productive enough to greatly exceed the interest charges. The recent property/mortgage bubble and our current recession are evidence that the technique fails quite often.
This is too easy. Instead, I'll defeat you with a liberal's arguments. The new owner of the $500,000 house is rich and should pay for the streets and all of the other public services the wonderful and benevolent government provides. He should pay for the schooling of all the poor people he's never seen. He should open his house to the homeless and go live in the gutter to atone for his guilt of being a property owner. And private companies should provide free water and free electricity and free heating fuel and free broadband internet and free condoms and free abortions and lifetime free medical care to the house's occupiers. Yup, that works.
The super wealthy use advertising and purchase duplicitous pressure groups to sway public opinion. We wouldn't have Obama without Soros.
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A tax on dividends or capital gains is a tax on success, and thus to some degree discourages success. A tax on wealth discourages private infrastructure. However, the incremental effect of tax on dividends and capital gains is worse. The tax on wealth makes it important to make the infrastructure efficient and cost-effective; for a given amount of investment (wealth) there is no further penalty for increased production and profit.
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The people the money is borrowed from pay tax on the interest they receive. That, in turn, makes the terms of the loan more expensive because the lender will charge more to make up for taxes. The effect is similar to paying a small tax on the borrowed money.
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Heavy sales taxes encourage people to make things for themselves, and to barter. Neither is efficient. Making things for yourself is also dangerous, there will be a lot more people missing fingers through foolish use of power tools, and a lot more people burned with dangerous chemicals, and a lot of houses burned down by people who installed their own wiring.
The biggest problem is not the particular nature of taxation, but its magnitude. High taxation always results in people acting to avoid taxation instead of being productive or enjoying themselves. High taxation encourages people to be on the receiving end of those taxes, either as power seeking government employees (or just cushy job seekers) or as recipients of "poverty industry" swag.
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Central to the concept of justice is that you pay for what you get, and get what you pay for. The only proper function of government is to protect life and property, everything else is a usurpation. To pay for protection of life and property, taxes should be levied on life and property, and nothing else. Any other tax is unjust.
Although the issue of justice is most important, as a side issue the idea of productivity should also be considered. Property taxes are a disincentive to owning unproductive property. Capitation is a disincentive to living an unproductive life.
You did not address his challenge. Paper requires an external light source, an ipad doesn't. The challenge is not that the problem can't be solved, the challenge is that paper has a dependency that the ipad doesn't.
Measure fuel use at 0 and 70,000 pound loads. Divide the difference by 1000, and you have the additional fuel use caused by 70 pounds. It's called interpolation, and its use is standard and accepted in a wide range of applications.
50 watt resistors and 10 watt zeners aren't free and may be a fire hazard. A more efficient converter will eventually save its tiny additional cost in fuel savings.
In every case DC-DC converters are simpler than AC-DC converters
Not true. A DC-DC upconverter (output voltage higher than input voltage) is always more complicated than an equivalent AC-DC converter. Except for the weird case of DC-DC by optoisolation, DC-DC upconversion is actually DC-AC-DC, and the DC-AC stage is added complexity.
Velocitas is the nominative or vocative form of the noun (not an adjective, adverb, or verb), and in this context it has to be nominative. Essentially, that means it's the subject of the sentence. Eradico is the first person singular indicative of eradicare. So "speed kills" looks like the best translation.
It's been 45 years since high school Latin, but I think the grammar of "Velocitas eradico" is wrong and cannot be a proper sentence or phrase. I believe it should be "Eradicat velocitas", third person singular, verb first. Anybody out there really know?
A warship at sea carries propellant and explosive enough for all its ammunition. If an incoming shell hits a magazine, a substantial fraction of all that goes boom. For a railgun, presumably powered by a nuclear generator, only a small portion of the energy is in the capacitors at any time. I'd guess there's a possibility that the ship could be designed so that an exploding capacitor could vent safely.
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Even before the details of the law and the abuses became public, it was obvious from the name that the "Department of Homeland Security" was going to be a bad thing. "Homeland" is something of a code word, popular among nationalistic (particularly fascistic) groups. That Bush was blind to the inferences of the name is very telling of his deficiencies.
People who make that claim are inherently liars.
Auto-update is a really bad idea. Updates are frequently broken or incompatible with other programs. In Windows, updates often try to happen when my battery is almost dead and I have to poweroff NOW, and am prevented from doing so. Best is to be notified of an update, and if it's a critical program wait a week or two to see if bug reports show up, before I risk my own computer. A manual yum update is simply not a significant burden compared to the advantage of control.
Oh, the command for renaming is so terribly difficult to remember. It's rename .
Copying recursively to get a directory and all its subdirectories is -r; and many distributions already alias -i to check for conflicts, so the user doesn't even have to care. From-To is the natural order, this isn't CPM, after all. So for all but sophisticated use, only one option needs to be remembered. And if the user is truly hopeless, there's always a file browser like dolphin, which (to my mind) is usually more difficult than command line. Does drag and drop copy or move?
Linux and Unix systems keep track of last access time. If you read the file, it shows unless you've taken steps to prevent it from showing.
The poor have no need to understand how (federal) tax works, they don't pay any. And the lobbyists of the poor are from among the poor, we've been seeing them on TV for a half year now: they're the drug-addled, disease-infested, rapists and murderers of the "occupy" movement.
The limited liability of a corporation is part of the known legal arrangement that they exist within. The creditors of a corporation deal with the corporation knowing the risk going in, and adjust their prices and contracts accordingly.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha - oil pipeline blocked - hahahahahahahaha.
Most stock brokers will allow you to buy on margin by doing nothing more than signing a piece of paper, nothing more required. You can then buy more stocks up to a limit determined by how much cash and unmargined stocks you already own. Rates vary widely, but some beat the best mortgage or commercial loan you can get. Buying on margin is borrowing from the broker. No minimum required.
It still isn't fair. The government can inflate the currency so that a $10 widget costs $20 without its actual value changing. And the government then claims the right to tax me on the dollar increase of my widget? BS.
Your Ponzi-like scheme only works as long as there are new suckers to borrow money from or the newly purchased assets are productive enough to greatly exceed the interest charges. The recent property/mortgage bubble and our current recession are evidence that the technique fails quite often.
This is too easy. Instead, I'll defeat you with a liberal's arguments. The new owner of the $500,000 house is rich and should pay for the streets and all of the other public services the wonderful and benevolent government provides. He should pay for the schooling of all the poor people he's never seen. He should open his house to the homeless and go live in the gutter to atone for his guilt of being a property owner. And private companies should provide free water and free electricity and free heating fuel and free broadband internet and free condoms and free abortions and lifetime free medical care to the house's occupiers. Yup, that works.
I take it you are one of the retarded orphans living in the street.
The super wealthy use advertising and purchase duplicitous pressure groups to sway public opinion. We wouldn't have Obama without Soros.
A tax on dividends or capital gains is a tax on success, and thus to some degree discourages success. A tax on wealth discourages private infrastructure. However, the incremental effect of tax on dividends and capital gains is worse. The tax on wealth makes it important to make the infrastructure efficient and cost-effective; for a given amount of investment (wealth) there is no further penalty for increased production and profit.
The people the money is borrowed from pay tax on the interest they receive. That, in turn, makes the terms of the loan more expensive because the lender will charge more to make up for taxes. The effect is similar to paying a small tax on the borrowed money.
Heavy sales taxes encourage people to make things for themselves, and to barter. Neither is efficient. Making things for yourself is also dangerous, there will be a lot more people missing fingers through foolish use of power tools, and a lot more people burned with dangerous chemicals, and a lot of houses burned down by people who installed their own wiring.
The biggest problem is not the particular nature of taxation, but its magnitude. High taxation always results in people acting to avoid taxation instead of being productive or enjoying themselves. High taxation encourages people to be on the receiving end of those taxes, either as power seeking government employees (or just cushy job seekers) or as recipients of "poverty industry" swag.
Central to the concept of justice is that you pay for what you get, and get what you pay for. The only proper function of government is to protect life and property, everything else is a usurpation. To pay for protection of life and property, taxes should be levied on life and property, and nothing else. Any other tax is unjust.
Although the issue of justice is most important, as a side issue the idea of productivity should also be considered. Property taxes are a disincentive to owning unproductive property. Capitation is a disincentive to living an unproductive life.
You did not address his challenge. Paper requires an external light source, an ipad doesn't. The challenge is not that the problem can't be solved, the challenge is that paper has a dependency that the ipad doesn't.
Measure fuel use at 0 and 70,000 pound loads. Divide the difference by 1000, and you have the additional fuel use caused by 70 pounds. It's called interpolation, and its use is standard and accepted in a wide range of applications.
50 watt resistors and 10 watt zeners aren't free and may be a fire hazard. A more efficient converter will eventually save its tiny additional cost in fuel savings.
Not true. A DC-DC upconverter (output voltage higher than input voltage) is always more complicated than an equivalent AC-DC converter. Except for the weird case of DC-DC by optoisolation, DC-DC upconversion is actually DC-AC-DC, and the DC-AC stage is added complexity.
Velocitas is the nominative or vocative form of the noun (not an adjective, adverb, or verb), and in this context it has to be nominative. Essentially, that means it's the subject of the sentence. Eradico is the first person singular indicative of eradicare. So "speed kills" looks like the best translation.
It's been 45 years since high school Latin, but I think the grammar of "Velocitas eradico" is wrong and cannot be a proper sentence or phrase. I believe it should be "Eradicat velocitas", third person singular, verb first. Anybody out there really know?
A warship at sea carries propellant and explosive enough for all its ammunition. If an incoming shell hits a magazine, a substantial fraction of all that goes boom. For a railgun, presumably powered by a nuclear generator, only a small portion of the energy is in the capacitors at any time. I'd guess there's a possibility that the ship could be designed so that an exploding capacitor could vent safely.
You need to read up on failure mechanisms in electronic systems. Pay particular attention to "infant mortality", "wearout", and "bathtub".