"Rich and poor people need to buy a lot of the same basic things that are taxed - that tax eats up a larger percent of a poor persons income. that is the definition of a regressive tax."
Simple, exempt the basics of life from sales tax...food, shelter, medicine...and there you go, anything other than basics is luxury and open season for taxation.
I suppose they could consider implementing a modest property tax like most states do? I mean, don't property owners gain the most from public services?
"Have you seen the WA budget over the past two years? They've made DRASTIC cuts in spending. The question is if they can find another $300 MM to cut, or if they're better off find additional $300 MM in revenue. In a poor economic situation, cutting spending is a hell of a anti-stimulus for economic activity... the better course of action is to wait for economic recovery to make additional budget cuts (whether or not that would actually happen is a different story)."
Hmm, and just wait for the unfunded Medicare mandates and other tax goodies come in when the Obamacare comes into play. Yep, they'll need more revenues then too.
I'm gonna just get a USB thinline external DVD player to hook to mine.
I'll likely be streaming 99.9999% of my content from my MythTV server in the office upstairs...but on those occasions when someone brings over a DVD to watch, I'll just use this solution for playing them....
Kinda funny my setup...mixture of computer/digital...and my tube amplifier for the stereo to go with it...a nice mixture of analog and digital.
"My setup is a Mac mini, DVI-HDMI cable, and optical digital audio, with a wireless keyboard and mouse. It works just like a computer, because it's a computer.
The content lives on an Xserve in another room, hardwired gigabit ethernet to the TV computer. The mini has a 1.66 Core Duo, is about 4 years old, and it doesn't have any problem playing 1080p content."
Interesting...I'd been looking into using a Mac mini..but had heard it had trouble with HD content at the 1080p level. Maybe this was on older models.
I agree with the computer just dedicated for TV. I use MythTV for all sorts of things (DVR, media jukebox, weather, etc.)
I'm about to expand it from all on one system..to breaking it into its client server components and have one big machine in my office out of the way with tons of drive space, and use it to feed smaller boxes by each tv/stereo in the house. I'm looking to maybe get the little Acer Revo for each front end box. It looks nice and small and quiet, and I think I'm reading if you use VDPAU on it...you can use it to view HD.
I don't have wireless keyboard/mouse yet, but will add those on...wired isn't bothering me right now since I'm running off a HD projector so projector, computer and controls are all near me on the couch so, no wires running around with this setup.
When I set up the front end boxes with flat panel tvs, I'll do wireless then. But that is what I watch tv through...and just alt-tab to do real computer stuff. If I'm in the middle of a live show, I hit pause, do computer...then back, but most of the time with a DVR, I RARELY watch live tv anymore...I just don't like fscking with the commercials.
"When you link to WND you flag yourself as a nutjob."
Actually I was just googling for the story I'd heard from radio/tv sources originally...I just clicked the first link that had the story out of many that came up, not familiar with any of their other stories.
Possibly because there is a predominance of crime within one races culture than others? I mean, orientals are a minority in the US, but you don't see them in the jail system as much as whites even...their culture teaches them to appreciate education and strive to excel.
"When these people fail, it shouldn't surprise anyone. But when a young man watches his parents wither under drug addiction, because if they try to get help they are often arrested, then watches a few of his friends die, watches some of them get used up by the same drugs, tries to get job after job but is denied constantly because of his skin color, spends hours a day on the bus because he can't afford a car, it leads to a certain atmosphere of desperation that can happen to anyone, regardless of how well they were brought up."
Well, you can't legislate people out of bad behavior and poor life choices. That is something that is up to the community. If they would ditch the victimhood mindset and look how other others are succeeding in this country..they too can get out of the vicious cycle.
Trouble is......you often see blacks that deride those that do succeed accusing them of being 'white', and the ones that do succeed, leave and get as far away from that negative element as any other person of any race does. Who do you blame for that?
"I think nerds need to be aware that there is such a thing as a service monkey. Further, once we gain this knowledge, the natural question is since you people want to search my notebook, how does this apply to my newly discovered awareness of service monkeys? Do they check for flingable poo? Do they check to see if it can urinate on command? Can they touch my monkey?"
Can you attach friggin' laser beams to their heads? They'd be much more mobile on land than sharks?!?!
"that went out the window a long time ago. Look at obamacare. that's now a law and the senate had no say in the matter. It's supposed to require a 2/3 majority in the senate according to the constitution. Right or wrong, it's wasn't passed by constitutionally mandated process."
I'm hoping against hope, but still have my fingers crossed that this obamacare passage might be a blessing in disguise. Maybe it will open up a REAL debate in the SCOTUS over the 10th amendment and other issues, and could reset some of the Federal powers to where it should be.
I'm not holding my breath, mind you..but trying to think optimistically. I mean, pretty much only something like this could cause a serious challenge and definition by SCOTUS, right?
Hmm...I've avoided Facebook like the plague so far, mostly due to privacy concerns, and frankly, there's some people from the past that I do NOT want finding me. I've already heard some horror stories from some guys I know that had chicks from decades in the past catching up with them...etc.
However....this does seem an interesting trend to helping to get laid a bit more often, can't ever get too much of that.
"Step 5: Change phonenumber a few times after being bothered too much by crazy cat-owning psycho's who want your babies."
Hmm..would setting up a google phone thing help with this?
I was also considering trying to set up an NYM email account again, to join with...that would help keep things more untraceable too.
"They would claim they apply equally, you just choose to subject yourselves to the more invasive treatment by choosing to fly Commercial instead of picking a private charter."
It isn't just that.
For example, there is language in the recently passed health care bill, that exempts those from congress having to participate in the programs themselves. Sure, it's good enough for the rest of the country, but not for us....
"Black unemployment is roughly double that of white unemployment. If you're a black male between 18 and 25, there's a 1 in 9 chance you are currently in jail. The rate for whites is much lower. "
I hardly think that the reason behind this is due to "the man" keeping them down.
I think this largely has to do with the culture black are generally raised in vs those of whites. You don't see as many whites glorifying the hip hop gangsta culture, that makes being a thug, wearing bling, dealing drugs and violence as much as you do with young blacks.
I was sad to hear awhile back, an anecdote about a young black male in school, who was trying to work and study and get a good education...and his black peers made fun of him and actually accused him of trying to 'act white'?!?! WTF?
I've heard some speeches by the likes of Bill Cosby, who I hold in pretty high accord...and I think often his message to the black community that they need to deal with their problems, and quit holding onto the "I am a victim" idiom.
Sure, there are still a number of people out there that will discriminate based on color, sex..etc. That's never going to go away 100%. However, from what I've observed over the years, most people out there that are trying to succeed, don't actually have time to go out of their way to keep another race down...they're too busy trying to get educated, work hard to get good jobs and provide for themselves and their family.
"I'm now a believer that HFCS should be avoided whenever possible. "
Trouble is...HFCS is in fucking everything..
Just try to find something as simple as a loaf of bread, or salad dressing without HFCS in it.
When I started reading labels, trying to cut carbs on the few processed foodstuff I do buy...I was amazed to find how pervasive that shit is in everything out there...
"That is because HFC is absorbed by the body in the same way that beer and alcohol is. In the liver. HFC also suppresses the satiety (hunger) signal so people tend to eat more."
And yet you don't get the same pleasant after effects with soda that you do with beer and alcohol...hmm.
I think as long as I get some fat, I might as well get a buzz to go along with it!! Screw the cokes....
"We use it in urban planning (architects do too). Google Earth can be linked to Sketchup. You can import terrain from Google Earth, model a structure on it, and then export it back into Earth. You can also use it for some GIS-esque analysis by defining polygons and such on it."
Interesting, but how up to date is it?
I remember (mostly google maps mind you) that it showed my former house in New Orleans as it was before the flood for quite awhile after the flood. Then...after the flood pics go updated....well, it wasn't updated very often apparently.
Hell, the street view stuff from Google Maps is almost useless in some areas it is soooooo out of date.
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From what I see it is: big tax/big spend (D) and little tax/big spend (R).
They both spend like drunken sailors on leave on whore island...
Simple, exempt the basics of life from sales tax...food, shelter, medicine...and there you go, anything other than basics is luxury and open season for taxation.
I suppose they could consider implementing a modest property tax like most states do? I mean, don't property owners gain the most from public services?
Hmm, and just wait for the unfunded Medicare mandates and other tax goodies come in when the Obamacare comes into play. Yep, they'll need more revenues then too.
I've been looking for a solution like this. Can you post links to the models of the harmony and USB ir device?
Any links or info on what steps you need to do to get the running with MythTV?
I'll likely be streaming 99.9999% of my content from my MythTV server in the office upstairs...but on those occasions when someone brings over a DVD to watch, I'll just use this solution for playing them....
Kinda funny my setup...mixture of computer/digital...and my tube amplifier for the stereo to go with it...a nice mixture of analog and digital.
The content lives on an Xserve in another room, hardwired gigabit ethernet to the TV computer. The mini has a 1.66 Core Duo, is about 4 years old, and it doesn't have any problem playing 1080p content."
Interesting...I'd been looking into using a Mac mini..but had heard it had trouble with HD content at the 1080p level. Maybe this was on older models.
If you're using Linux...why not just do Xforwarding? ssh into the box and run what you need over Xwindows...
I'm about to expand it from all on one system..to breaking it into its client server components and have one big machine in my office out of the way with tons of drive space, and use it to feed smaller boxes by each tv/stereo in the house. I'm looking to maybe get the little Acer Revo for each front end box. It looks nice and small and quiet, and I think I'm reading if you use VDPAU on it...you can use it to view HD.
I don't have wireless keyboard/mouse yet, but will add those on...wired isn't bothering me right now since I'm running off a HD projector so projector, computer and controls are all near me on the couch so, no wires running around with this setup.
When I set up the front end boxes with flat panel tvs, I'll do wireless then. But that is what I watch tv through...and just alt-tab to do real computer stuff. If I'm in the middle of a live show, I hit pause, do computer...then back, but most of the time with a DVR, I RARELY watch live tv anymore...I just don't like fscking with the commercials.
LOL...didn't know all that...well, maybe they got something right in spite of themselves...
The same store is told out there in other places...I stand by my assertations
Actually I was just googling for the story I'd heard from radio/tv sources originally...I just clicked the first link that had the story out of many that came up, not familiar with any of their other stories.
Maybe not as directly or forcefully..but in a more subliminal way to silent opposition in the US. Efforts are on to try to put a lid on talk radio.
I'm still trying to figure out the position that Mark Lloyd holds.."Chief Diversity Officer"? Is this analagous to the Ministry of Truth?
Hell, Mark seems to actually appreciate what Hugo Chavez has done . And this guy is high up at the FCC??
I hear black leaders saying the very same things about their culture as I was saying.
So, if a black person says it , it is insight but if an white person says it, it smacks of racism??
Possibly because there is a predominance of crime within one races culture than others? I mean, orientals are a minority in the US, but you don't see them in the jail system as much as whites even...their culture teaches them to appreciate education and strive to excel.
"When these people fail, it shouldn't surprise anyone. But when a young man watches his parents wither under drug addiction, because if they try to get help they are often arrested, then watches a few of his friends die, watches some of them get used up by the same drugs, tries to get job after job but is denied constantly because of his skin color, spends hours a day on the bus because he can't afford a car, it leads to a certain atmosphere of desperation that can happen to anyone, regardless of how well they were brought up."
Well, you can't legislate people out of bad behavior and poor life choices. That is something that is up to the community. If they would ditch the victimhood mindset and look how other others are succeeding in this country..they too can get out of the vicious cycle.
Trouble is......you often see blacks that deride those that do succeed accusing them of being 'white', and the ones that do succeed, leave and get as far away from that negative element as any other person of any race does. Who do you blame for that?
Can you attach friggin' laser beams to their heads? They'd be much more mobile on land than sharks?!?!
Hell, I was double checking my calendar to see if it was April Fool's day or not....
I'm hoping against hope, but still have my fingers crossed that this obamacare passage might be a blessing in disguise. Maybe it will open up a REAL debate in the SCOTUS over the 10th amendment and other issues, and could reset some of the Federal powers to where it should be.
I'm not holding my breath, mind you..but trying to think optimistically. I mean, pretty much only something like this could cause a serious challenge and definition by SCOTUS, right?
Well, in defense of not liking them...having sex with one on, is about as much fun as eating a nice steak with one on your tongue.
Sure, you know it is supposed to be juicy, fun and pleasurable...but you can't can't feel anything.
However....this does seem an interesting trend to helping to get laid a bit more often, can't ever get too much of that.
"Step 5: Change phonenumber a few times after being bothered too much by crazy cat-owning psycho's who want your babies."
Hmm..would setting up a google phone thing help with this?
I was also considering trying to set up an NYM email account again, to join with...that would help keep things more untraceable too.
It isn't just that.
For example, there is language in the recently passed health care bill, that exempts those from congress having to participate in the programs themselves. Sure, it's good enough for the rest of the country, but not for us....
I hardly think that the reason behind this is due to "the man" keeping them down.
I think this largely has to do with the culture black are generally raised in vs those of whites. You don't see as many whites glorifying the hip hop gangsta culture, that makes being a thug, wearing bling, dealing drugs and violence as much as you do with young blacks.
I was sad to hear awhile back, an anecdote about a young black male in school, who was trying to work and study and get a good education...and his black peers made fun of him and actually accused him of trying to 'act white'?!?! WTF?
I've heard some speeches by the likes of Bill Cosby, who I hold in pretty high accord...and I think often his message to the black community that they need to deal with their problems, and quit holding onto the "I am a victim" idiom.
Sure, there are still a number of people out there that will discriminate based on color, sex..etc. That's never going to go away 100%. However, from what I've observed over the years, most people out there that are trying to succeed, don't actually have time to go out of their way to keep another race down...they're too busy trying to get educated, work hard to get good jobs and provide for themselves and their family.
Even my gas dryer?
Trouble is...HFCS is in fucking everything..
Just try to find something as simple as a loaf of bread, or salad dressing without HFCS in it.
When I started reading labels, trying to cut carbs on the few processed foodstuff I do buy...I was amazed to find how pervasive that shit is in everything out there...
And yet you don't get the same pleasant after effects with soda that you do with beer and alcohol...hmm.
I think as long as I get some fat, I might as well get a buzz to go along with it!! Screw the cokes....
Interesting, but how up to date is it?
I remember (mostly google maps mind you) that it showed my former house in New Orleans as it was before the flood for quite awhile after the flood. Then...after the flood pics go updated....well, it wasn't updated very often apparently.
Hell, the street view stuff from Google Maps is almost useless in some areas it is soooooo out of date.
Is Google Earth any more up to date than that?