Absolutely it is. If anything this shows HOW FUCKING WASTEFUL to our world the "information" economy is. Did apple spend X amount to deliver goods to X people? Hell no, they wrote something once and copied it over and over. That copying will be the end of us fundamentally - if you can claim money for a good to which that money you claim was not associated with a creative act, eventually money itself won't have value. I don't care what your theories are - if we all pay money for something that is in effect free, we devalue our currency. This has been rampant with the music and movie industries (the sad sad waste - if we invested what we've paid on shiny discs and explosions on infrastructure, we'd have been set. Instead we give BILLIONS to people that sell... ringtones. Really fucking smart.
eh, i admit the situation also has nuance - perhaps it's all too visible nowadays, and that the raw back room dealing of the era is no longer possible, giving a disadvantage to the art of politics? Really...
yes 50% sounds about right. When we have the greatest skewed wealth distribution the history of HUMANITY why are our taxes almost the lowest they've ever been? I say again - no bullet in the head comrade - but 50% sounds just fine. Of course it will never BE 50% because we should have tax write offs for creating jobs, right? Not just saving wealth or shipping it over seas - not trickle down madness - but actually making a US of A job. here. How can you oppose that (or any of this post, given the nuance I am implying by saying "tax the hell out of the rich that do not invest it in their country"?)
George Soros gets no pass. Tax him too. That's your bias, clear and simple. I never named names - but you did. Telling. NONE of us would have what we have if we didn't support laws and decency - the magna carta for christ sake - and that NONE of it is free. Their "talent" alone did NOT make them money - a peaceful and lawful society ALLOWED them to make money. Period. Courts (one of THE biggest "freebies" the rich and the corporate have, who then get their own free army aka police and FBI to enforce those findings) and roads and all else made them possible. There is NOBODY who is wealthy and well fed that doesn't owe his society directly and completely for the privilege, and there hasn't been for a hundred years. Now get lost, kochsucker (now that you've outed yourself)
You're out of your mind. The freedom to take a walk around the block or *gasp* blockS when one feels like have so many important uses! What's your power trip, anyway? Okay, here's another - how about darling daughter wants to check up on sick mother - but oh no! she spent the night at a friends house! let's lock her up. I can't believe you believe what you are saying, end of story.
not really. I really got a lot of mileage out the 550Mhz Athlon I used all throughout college (until the end anyway) and, for almost all the coding I did, it was pretty much equal to what I have today -- one can only code/type so fast. I realize there are certain industries that will always use more - but fer chrissakes acting like a netbook is somehow crippled IS a bit much..
actually, the dilithium is only a regulator for the reaction. It doesn't change the nature of the energy release into being "warp fields" at all - the warp coils do that. IIRC Dilithium crystals are either transparent or reflective to anti-hydrogen when stimulated, allowing precise amounts of antimatter to be combined with normal matter as part of a stable reaction process./from the star trek technical manual I read 20 years ago
you are kidding me. Well, let's lower those taxes to zero! that would be, like infinite growth maaaaaaaan. You are seriously bent, so i don't mind telling you to get that way.
no it didn't. Have you even seen a Tea Bagger rally??? Have you? Fuck man, thats no rhetoric - those politicans and the people they cater to are nasty people. Dumb, racist, bloody thirsty. I think this guys point stands, period.
going on a walk. A bloody fucking i feel like i've been sitting too long or gee that nightmare was bad i'd like to take a bloody fucking WALK. Do you want another reason that doesn't involve 100% of the people on this earth's needs? Geez.
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it's only because of predatory policies where the affluent affect our political process disproportionately that many of these people have wealth at all! (see mickey mouse act - one of hundreds - that only create massive social inequity)
I'm not grateful that a politically connected tyrant is paying less their "fair" share! I don't agree it's fair! "But do you necessarily live any differently?" my ass. They would have how, much, let's be conservative - 6 million on paper? What bullshit for you to say someone with 6 mil on the books lives like a teacher on a teachers salary!
It's disproportionately wrong for the political system to create and uphold laws that prevent the flow of wealth in this society, or worse, direct it. (see supreme court; companies; unlimited donations; political causes)
It's disproportionately wrong for you to act as if this extreeeeeeeeme wealth distribution is some how NOT the product of manipulation, opportunism, and downright unethical corruption and graft.
SURE Asshole but you forgot to mention that the bottom FIFTY FREAKING PERCENT have 5% or less of the wealth! you simply aren't imagining the scope of the wealth-concentration problem! if the top 1% DIDN'T PAY THAT WE WOULD HAVE NO MONEY AT ALL./Rant not off - figure this shit out, please!
since when it is behaving "badly" online a problem anyway? I know *you* may not like it, but it's hardly a "problem".. Unless you want to control people.
That's Not How It Works!... I don't know but i'd imagine the brain gives off signals requiring simultaneous activation of locamator, fear, and decisions areas to indicate an attempt. I don't imagine their looking for something as general as "oh shit". DNRTFA
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What?? See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/corporate-tax-revenues-ne_n_830361.html for a breakdown of just "how much tax they are paying". The super rich 400 or so families also control that much more in the countries wealth, and thus your statistic is meaningless. All you have done is highlight the problem of wealth concentration - it is sad that 1% pay 38% --- AND THAT STILL ISN'T FAIR.
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by the way "bro" taxation is not legalized theft. Using the output of our nations's Army, Education, and Transportation Structures without paying for them is theft. That has got to be the dumbest meme around.
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That is crazy. The order in which businesses decide to base their money is; Stability, Inflation, Regulations, Taxes. They aren't going to remove them selves from the largest stable economy in the world because they actually have to *gasp* pay some taxes. It sounds like you've drank their koolaid though. Companies aren't going to tell you to raise taxes even if it's the best damned deal they have, they aren't stupid!
he served as a balance to the drop into the basest worries throughout the book. By showing Frodo Bombadil timeless nature - that of the universes - against evil and the ring in specific, he provided Frodo with the spiritual strength to survive in his darkest moments. Frodo's flashes of insight in mordor about the moon and realization of the passing nature of Sauron's realm got Frodo through his darkest moments... that's the point of Bombadil
they think they are getting that too! That's what's so sad/infuriating! What they are getting is the chance to be controlled by a new master, not the lack of one. One they can't vote out.
Any competent criminal MUST have a smartphone, it's a honey-pot see? It can be used to establish innocence. All your important communiques are ported through custom android software that does encrypted VOIP over wifi because you are a mega villain with resources, right? But why not have the best of both worlds? If you you KNOW your adversary is tapping you - you provide disinformation. This furor about smartphones is a tax against the ignorant, effective, but limited.
so a smart villain must have a smartphone, it's a honey-pot see? And can be used to establish innocence to boot. All your important communiques are ported through custom android software that does encrypted VOIP over wifi because you are a mega villain with resources, but why not have the best of both worlds? If you you KNOW your adversary is tapping you - you provide disinformation. This furor about smartphones is a tax against the ignorant, effective, but limited.
because we all know how just looking at the speed and processor type is all you need to know! Why those pentium 4's at 3Ghz (running windows millennium or.. who cares) were the best evar! Reputation *counts*
on what relative merits do you even determine what the cost of that is? That's a retarded statement because I was talking about MEMORY markup, not the damned OS, whatever you dream it worth.
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Absolutely it is. If anything this shows HOW FUCKING WASTEFUL to our world the "information" economy is. Did apple spend X amount to deliver goods to X people? Hell no, they wrote something once and copied it over and over. That copying will be the end of us fundamentally - if you can claim money for a good to which that money you claim was not associated with a creative act, eventually money itself won't have value. I don't care what your theories are - if we all pay money for something that is in effect free, we devalue our currency. This has been rampant with the music and movie industries (the sad sad waste - if we invested what we've paid on shiny discs and explosions on infrastructure, we'd have been set. Instead we give BILLIONS to people that sell... ringtones. Really fucking smart.
And that's why I am a proud pirate.
eh, i admit the situation also has nuance - perhaps it's all too visible nowadays, and that the raw back room dealing of the era is no longer possible, giving a disadvantage to the art of politics? Really...
yes 50% sounds about right. When we have the greatest skewed wealth distribution the history of HUMANITY why are our taxes almost the lowest they've ever been? I say again - no bullet in the head comrade - but 50% sounds just fine. Of course it will never BE 50% because we should have tax write offs for creating jobs, right? Not just saving wealth or shipping it over seas - not trickle down madness - but actually making a US of A job. here. How can you oppose that (or any of this post, given the nuance I am implying by saying "tax the hell out of the rich that do not invest it in their country"?)
George Soros gets no pass. Tax him too. That's your bias, clear and simple. I never named names - but you did. Telling. NONE of us would have what we have if we didn't support laws and decency - the magna carta for christ sake - and that NONE of it is free. Their "talent" alone did NOT make them money - a peaceful and lawful society ALLOWED them to make money. Period. Courts (one of THE biggest "freebies" the rich and the corporate have, who then get their own free army aka police and FBI to enforce those findings) and roads and all else made them possible. There is NOBODY who is wealthy and well fed that doesn't owe his society directly and completely for the privilege, and there hasn't been for a hundred years. Now get lost, kochsucker (now that you've outed yourself)
You're out of your mind. The freedom to take a walk around the block or *gasp* blockS when one feels like have so many important uses! What's your power trip, anyway? Okay, here's another - how about darling daughter wants to check up on sick mother - but oh no! she spent the night at a friends house! let's lock her up. I can't believe you believe what you are saying, end of story.
not really. I really got a lot of mileage out the 550Mhz Athlon I used all throughout college (until the end anyway) and, for almost all the coding I did, it was pretty much equal to what I have today -- one can only code/type so fast. I realize there are certain industries that will always use more - but fer chrissakes acting like a netbook is somehow crippled IS a bit much..
actually, the dilithium is only a regulator for the reaction. It doesn't change the nature of the energy release into being "warp fields" at all - the warp coils do that. IIRC Dilithium crystals are either transparent or reflective to anti-hydrogen when stimulated, allowing precise amounts of antimatter to be combined with normal matter as part of a stable reaction process. /from the star trek technical manual I read 20 years ago
you are kidding me. Well, let's lower those taxes to zero! that would be, like infinite growth maaaaaaaan. You are seriously bent, so i don't mind telling you to get that way.
no it didn't. Have you even seen a Tea Bagger rally??? Have you? Fuck man, thats no rhetoric - those politicans and the people they cater to are nasty people. Dumb, racist, bloody thirsty. I think this guys point stands, period.
going on a walk. A bloody fucking i feel like i've been sitting too long or gee that nightmare was bad i'd like to take a bloody fucking WALK. Do you want another reason that doesn't involve 100% of the people on this earth's needs? Geez.
it's only because of predatory policies where the affluent affect our political process disproportionately that many of these people have wealth at all! (see mickey mouse act - one of hundreds - that only create massive social inequity)
I'm not grateful that a politically connected tyrant is paying less their "fair" share! I don't agree it's fair! "But do you necessarily live any differently?" my ass. They would have how, much, let's be conservative - 6 million on paper? What bullshit for you to say someone with 6 mil on the books lives like a teacher on a teachers salary!
It's disproportionately wrong for the political system to create and uphold laws that prevent the flow of wealth in this society, or worse, direct it. (see supreme court; companies; unlimited donations; political causes)
It's disproportionately wrong for you to act as if this extreeeeeeeeme wealth distribution is some how NOT the product of manipulation, opportunism, and downright unethical corruption and graft.
SURE Asshole but you forgot to mention that the bottom FIFTY FREAKING PERCENT have 5% or less of the wealth! you simply aren't imagining the scope of the wealth-concentration problem! if the top 1% DIDN'T PAY THAT WE WOULD HAVE NO MONEY AT ALL. /Rant not off - figure this shit out, please!
since when it is behaving "badly" online a problem anyway? I know *you* may not like it, but it's hardly a "problem".. Unless you want to control people.
That's Not How It Works! ... I don't know but i'd imagine the brain gives off signals requiring simultaneous activation of locamator, fear, and decisions areas to indicate an attempt. I don't imagine their looking for something as general as "oh shit". DNRTFA
What?? See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/corporate-tax-revenues-ne_n_830361.html for a breakdown of just "how much tax they are paying". The super rich 400 or so families also control that much more in the countries wealth, and thus your statistic is meaningless. All you have done is highlight the problem of wealth concentration - it is sad that 1% pay 38% --- AND THAT STILL ISN'T FAIR.
by the way "bro" taxation is not legalized theft. Using the output of our nations's Army, Education, and Transportation Structures without paying for them is theft. That has got to be the dumbest meme around.
That is crazy. The order in which businesses decide to base their money is; Stability, Inflation, Regulations, Taxes. They aren't going to remove them selves from the largest stable economy in the world because they actually have to *gasp* pay some taxes. It sounds like you've drank their koolaid though. Companies aren't going to tell you to raise taxes even if it's the best damned deal they have, they aren't stupid!
perhaps if you MAC'ed on her some more she would be persuaded by your leet skills /veal!
he served as a balance to the drop into the basest worries throughout the book. By showing Frodo Bombadil timeless nature - that of the universes - against evil and the ring in specific, he provided Frodo with the spiritual strength to survive in his darkest moments. Frodo's flashes of insight in mordor about the moon and realization of the passing nature of Sauron's realm got Frodo through his darkest moments... that's the point of Bombadil
they think they are getting that too! That's what's so sad/infuriating! What they are getting is the chance to be controlled by a new master, not the lack of one. One they can't vote out.
Any competent criminal MUST have a smartphone, it's a honey-pot see? It can be used to establish innocence. All your important communiques are ported through custom android software that does encrypted VOIP over wifi because you are a mega villain with resources, right? But why not have the best of both worlds? If you you KNOW your adversary is tapping you - you provide disinformation. This furor about smartphones is a tax against the ignorant, effective, but limited.
so a smart villain must have a smartphone, it's a honey-pot see? And can be used to establish innocence to boot. All your important communiques are ported through custom android software that does encrypted VOIP over wifi because you are a mega villain with resources, but why not have the best of both worlds? If you you KNOW your adversary is tapping you - you provide disinformation. This furor about smartphones is a tax against the ignorant, effective, but limited.
because we all know how just looking at the speed and processor type is all you need to know! Why those pentium 4's at 3Ghz (running windows millennium or.. who cares) were the best evar! Reputation *counts*
There needs a capital T. It's "There" not "there".
on what relative merits do you even determine what the cost of that is? That's a retarded statement because I was talking about MEMORY markup, not the damned OS, whatever you dream it worth.