He didn't say they had 400 customers; they had 400 dial-up lines. Every ISP is oversubscribed, especially with RAS which is not an always-on connection. They probably had at least 4000 customers.
Meanwhile Richey Rich spends 5% of his income and banks the rest. Only 5% of his income is taxes on sales. And he's probably getting his income on capital gains, interest, and other investments, sitting back watching football and eating caviar while his income isn't taxed as income like the poor working man's is, but at a far lower rate.
Suggesting that "the rich" are just a bunch of lazy slobs who got it all handed to them is not a valid argument for socialism. Besides that, you seem to think that unearned income isn't taxed. I hope you haven't been forgetting to include your 1099-INT on your returns!
Let's call "regressive taxes" what they really are: fair. Unfair would be changing everyone a set amount. That's what fees like auto registration and permits are. I don't see how charging a successful person who earned $100,000 a $20,000 tax is less fair than charging a low-wage worker who earned $24,000 a $4,800 tax. The same applies for sales taxes. They're not really regressive because most states (strangely enough, not the most liberal such as NY and CA) do not charge for most clothing and food purchases. If you're poor, most of your money goes towards food and clothing (and rent, which is never taxed) so that's very progressive.
I don't see any actual data to back up any of your points. RDP and Citrix don't send uncompressed video snapshots down the wire 30 times a second; they send graphics calls to the virtual desktop. Any bitmaps, of course, would have to be sent down the wire, but there shouldn't be too much of this in an administrative function. Just saying something is slow and stupid doesn't make it so.
Fascist Warning Sign #8: Religion and ruling elite tied together.
In God We Trust.
Apparently, we've been fascists ever since 1864 (when this motto was placed on coins).
Fascist Warning Sign #12: Obsession with crime and punishment.
Bush governed Texas, the state with a record for most executions.
This is like saying that because you lived in San Francisco, you must be gay. He was governor for a limited time, and Texas has exercised its death penalty before and after he was in office. Besides, we're talking about the Fed and not texas.
You are really reaching right now...
I would rebut the rest of your "points", but I am already terminally bored by your weak rant.
Since there is no way for a visitor to know that your webserver is running on something other than port 80, you have to put your domain on another webserver with cloaking, META refresh, or a permanent redirect. This makes it difficult to get your site indexed by search engines.
Property taxes do not pay for any of the services you mention. Even if they did, what are the sales taxes for? Why do we have "occupation privilege" taxes? It's a privilege to work? If our tangible assets and livelihoods are both taxed, do we have or own anything? Everything we have is at the grace of the state.
I'd like to know if forcing your beliefs on other people is worth twice as much crime?
Pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder, and therefore a crime, so the answer in this case would be yes. There are alternatives to abortion, so your premise may be a false dilemma. How many offenders come from single parent homes? Foster homes? Adoptive two-parent homes?
So suicide bombing is no longer considered a terrorist act? How about having a manifesto that reads, "From the inception of Hezbollah to the present the elimination of the State of Israel has been one of Hezbollah's primary goals," and "our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated."?
This guy was foolish enough to believe what law enforcement was telling him, and this is torture? I thought I was going to read about hot irons or at least waterboarding. I was sadly disappointed.
You must hate kids. Seriously-- they do come with accessories. No, infants cannot hold their excrement for two hours. Naturally, you were modded up because few Slashdotters have any chance of procreating.
I'd assume that the airline business has a number of analysts who can research it and find a workable equilibrium.
You mean the equilibrium that allows them to oversell seats, yet always perfectly anticipate the number of no-shows so that they never have to bump anyone? Whoops!
Real has posted a video press release on this. I would like to tell you more, but it's still buffering. Maybe they should use Media Player for their press releases.
That's a straw man, if I ever heard it. I read my email in a 2400 bps connection to a VAX in 1991. There is no resource-intensive data manipulation going on. The most demanding part of email is uploading and downloading attachments, which are pretty much limited to bandwidth regardless of the location of the client software.
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Obviously that was a mistake. Babies are not routinely being given carry permits, you jerk.
He didn't say they had 400 customers; they had 400 dial-up lines. Every ISP is oversubscribed, especially with RAS which is not an always-on connection. They probably had at least 4000 customers.
Let's call "regressive taxes" what they really are: fair. Unfair would be changing everyone a set amount. That's what fees like auto registration and permits are. I don't see how charging a successful person who earned $100,000 a $20,000 tax is less fair than charging a low-wage worker who earned $24,000 a $4,800 tax. The same applies for sales taxes. They're not really regressive because most states (strangely enough, not the most liberal such as NY and CA) do not charge for most clothing and food purchases. If you're poor, most of your money goes towards food and clothing (and rent, which is never taxed) so that's very progressive.
He didn't say anything about oxen or buffalo. Anyone who played Oregon Trail knows that oxen are the best for pulling heavy loads!
I don't see any actual data to back up any of your points. RDP and Citrix don't send uncompressed video snapshots down the wire 30 times a second; they send graphics calls to the virtual desktop. Any bitmaps, of course, would have to be sent down the wire, but there shouldn't be too much of this in an administrative function. Just saying something is slow and stupid doesn't make it so.
You are really reaching right now...
I would rebut the rest of your "points", but I am already terminally bored by your weak rant.
If only we could make readers of Slashdot safe from your "thinking".
Too late. The liberals would already be blaming the comet on global warming.
Since there is no way for a visitor to know that your webserver is running on something other than port 80, you have to put your domain on another webserver with cloaking, META refresh, or a permanent redirect. This makes it difficult to get your site indexed by search engines.
Property taxes do not pay for any of the services you mention. Even if they did, what are the sales taxes for? Why do we have "occupation privilege" taxes? It's a privilege to work? If our tangible assets and livelihoods are both taxed, do we have or own anything? Everything we have is at the grace of the state.
So suicide bombing is no longer considered a terrorist act? How about having a manifesto that reads, "From the inception of Hezbollah to the present the elimination of the State of Israel has been one of Hezbollah's primary goals," and "our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated."?
So, does she have crabs?
This guy was foolish enough to believe what law enforcement was telling him, and this is torture? I thought I was going to read about hot irons or at least waterboarding. I was sadly disappointed.
The drives you're satirizing were fixed with a firmware update and haven't been manufactured in years. I'll bet you still make exploding Pinto jokes.
I've never heard of this. What is this "kid"'s name?
You must hate kids. Seriously-- they do come with accessories. No, infants cannot hold their excrement for two hours. Naturally, you were modded up because few Slashdotters have any chance of procreating.
I can assure you that Catholicism does exist.
Real has posted a video press release on this. I would like to tell you more, but it's still buffering. Maybe they should use Media Player for their press releases.
That's a straw man, if I ever heard it. I read my email in a 2400 bps connection to a VAX in 1991. There is no resource-intensive data manipulation going on. The most demanding part of email is uploading and downloading attachments, which are pretty much limited to bandwidth regardless of the location of the client software.