Are you kidding? He makes a living being the Jesse Jackson of the open source movement.
Count on Bruce Perens to promptly get in front of every open source parade that's already left without him.
ROFLMAO!
Where's my mod points when I need 'em?
Re:SPARC64-V Buys Time For Sun: It's Critical Now
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Most importantly, the SPARC64-V will buy time for McNealy. Maybe 1 year or 2 years of breathing room. Then, he can make the hard decision of spinning off the processor-development group and transforming Sun into a niche player that focuses on two areas: software applications and highend-servers that use Fujitsu processors (or, gasp, IBM processors) designed by native talent. Other possibilities have been thoughtfully outlined by Merrill Lynch, the premier American investment company.
I'd agree with that. Sun should migrate to IBM's Power architecture. IBM can afford the R&D and has the manufacturing prowess to maintain their own processor line. Sun doesn't.
How do you figure we are wealthy when your hero George Bush just passed trillions in tax cuts?
How do you figure a reduction of federal taxes effects Massachusettes state tax revenues?
Are we wealthy? We were under Clinton, now we actually owe 20 billion dollars or so because we wasted money on the big dig, and our taxes are being lowed to attract people to our biotechnology/service based economy which is taking off.
What does Clinton (or Bush) have to do with the Massachusettes state government's profligate spending?
I wasn't aware Clinton or Bush had ever been governors of Massachusettes. You learn something new every day, I guess.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: HanzoSan is dying
Yet another
crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered HanzoSan when recently IDC confirmed that HanzoSan
accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all positive karma. Coming on the heels of the
latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that HanzoSan has lost more karma, this
news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. HanzoSan is collapsing in complete disarray,
as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict HanzoSan's future. The hand writing is on the wall: HanzoSan faces a bleak future.
In fact there won't be any future at all for HanzoSan because HanzoSan is dying. Things are
looking very bad for HanzoSan. As many of us are already aware, HanzoSan continues to lose karma. Red ink flows like a river of blood. HanzoSan is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of his karma. There can no longer be any doubt: HanzoSan is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot editor CmdrTaco states that there are 3786 posts of HanzoSan. How many posts of HanzoSan
are there? Let's see. The number of HanzoSan posts versus intelligent posts on Slashdot is roughly in
ratio of 5 to 1. HanzoSan posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of posts. A recent article put HanzoSan as author of about 80 percent of Slashdot posts.
All major surveys show that HanzoSan has steadily declined in karma. HanzoSan is very sick
and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If HanzoSan is to survive at all it will
be at (Troll,-1). HanzoSan continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, HanzoSan is dead.
Did anyone else read the tagline as "Sun's Schwantz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO"?
Re:What about Burlington in 1999?
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Ford To Move To Linux
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Banks (while running OS/2 on the desktop) use full-screened VT-102 terminal emulators to access the bank's server. Have we ever seen those employees running to OS/2 because they used it at work?
That really isn't the point. While the employees themselves may not bring Linux home with them directly, the fact that a company as big as Ford is using it as a desktop will encourage third parties to create applications for it. Also, if SuSE and Red Hat are making some money from Linux on the desktop rather than just on the server, they'll have some incentive to divert more resources to developing their desktop versions.
An ever-friendlier Linux desktop with a healthy selection of 3rd party commercial apps might ultimately be very attractive to a home user.
Those guis and wizards need to be FLAWLESS. If the are not, you'll need to go to the command line and config files anyways, and those GUIs will just obfuscate you from what you need to do.
Mandrake, which is supposed to be among the easiest, was a nightmare to configure properly by comparison, because when the wizard fucks up (which it did numerous times), you don't have a clue what to do with the damned thing.
You got that right. Particularly broken is the DrakeConnect wizard. That one sure needs a lot of work! Not only does it install a broken configuration, the arrangement of the scripts it modifies is so obfuscated it took me several hours to track down what it did and straighten it out.
For all that, most of their wizards work pretty well. But you're right - if they're going to provide wizards, they can't just work some of the time. They have to work every time. If it's going to leave a mess more often than it's going to configure your system properly, what's the use in having the wizard at all? It's easier to modify the text files yourself than it is trying to figure out what the wizard broke.
Of course, you realize, that a bunch of us are going to come and beat you to a pulp and steal your land and your belongings, and the police will laugh since you're not paying for their services anymore.
Not necessarily. There have been societies where police protection has been privately purchased:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/I ce land.html
Or maybe we'll just set your house on fire, and the fire department will be on hand to protect the belongings of taxpayers.
And my (privately paid for) insurance company will be on hand to put out the fire in my house, which was the way it was done before socialized fire departments. You'd have a sticker in your window indicating who your provider was, similar to the way you put an ADT sticker in your window indicating who your security provider is.
Just because you'd like to use the government to freeload off of your neighbors doesn't mean it's a societal necessity. There's plenty of historical evidence demonstrating it's not.
How much longer do you plan to milk your career as the Jesse Jackson of Open Source? Is there any controversy in the Open Source world you don't feel the need to interject yourself into the middle of?
Ha! You sure got that one right! You can always count on Bruce to issue a press release at the drop of a hat!
Do you suppose that they did all the work to earn it themselves?
OK, then. What did the 50% "living in abject poverty" do for Bill Gates to make it possible for him to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"? Be specific.
Those poor programmers, slaving away at their desks for those meager six-figure salaries and stock options, so Bill could sell illicit software to ghetto kids on street corners.
Oy.
It doesn't make sense to say, "they made it by X", since X will tend to vary tremendously, but in many cases it was inherited hence they have no real "right" to it.
If they inherited it, they have a right to it because the rightful owner of it voluntarily and legaly gave it to them.
In many cases it was made by illegal immoral activities using government sponsored thugs see the strikebreakers back at the start of the labor movement.
Again, you refuse to be specific. How about some examples?
But the least frequent case would be one where the person with the huge bank account did the hard work to earn it.
Wrong. Nearly 90% of all millionairs in the United States earned their money in their lifetime. Check you facts. Do a Google search yourself.
Generally they started out with money and used it to make more off the backs of the poor.
How did they make more "off the backs of the poor"? Name some names and give some examples.
This has been true throughout history.
It has?
You might argue that this is a good thing, but I certainly hope you wouldn't try to say it isn't true. That would just make you look dumb.
Until you can come up with some cases to demonstrate the truth of your statement, I have no reason to believe that it is true. I'm prepared to offer plenty of cases to the contrary.
Since the top 1% of the population owns over 90% of the wealth, why shouldn't they pay some of it back to the people who made it possible for them to accumulate that ridiculous amount of wealth which it isn't even possible for them to spend?
How did the 50% of the people in abject poverty make it possible for the top 1% to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"?
Why should the wealthy pay them anything? For what? For getting themselves born on the same planet?
Even the rich are against this tax cut, they dont WANT the money and they flat out tell people they wont spend it.
The rich aren't the only ones who benefit from the tax cuts. So do people like me.
Isn't it nice of billionaires like Warren Buffet to be so generous with my money?
Anyway the tax cut is bad, the worlds richest people know more about the economy than you, if warren buffet says hes not going to spend the money and to give it to the poor, why the hell dont you listen to him? Hes going to get most of the tax cut anyway.
If Warren Buffet is going to give his money to the poor anyway, why does the government need to tax him in the first place?
I'm a single male, in college, I have no wife or kids, lets assume I have a job that pays $30,000, I pay federal taxes, I get no returns. Why? Because I have no kids, I'm not married, i get no exemptions except for school tax credit, so maybe I can get $1000-2000 back at the absolute most.
Well, let's see - if you earn $30k a year, that puts you in the 15% tax bracket. That means you paid $4500 in income tax.
If you got back $2000 for deductions, you only paid $2500 in federal income tax.
What are you complaining about? I paid nearly 10x that last year, and I only earn about 3x as much as you do.
What was the cash value of public goods you consumed last year?
If these rules had been in place in 1970, it would have been virtually impossible for me to start Turner Broadcasting or, 10 years later, to launch CNN.
That's about the best reason I've heard for changing the media ownership rules yet!
The real irony is that SCO isn't really SCO at all. What we currently call "SCO" is nothing more than Caldera, the company that ran their Linux IPO to enough cash to buy out SCO's UNIX holdings.
Not all their holdings. The original owners of SCO held on to Tarentella (sp?) and I believe they now operate under the same name. When they saw Linux coming, they were smart enough to dump their propriatary unix on Caldera and go into the business of selling ancillary software.
To them, IBM didn't want to pay the license fees any more, so IBM starts to sell Linux as their *Nix solution, not the SCO-compile. This locks SCO out from at least IBM's fat check to them.
They may get one more fat check from IBM. When IBM buys them out to liquidate them.
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I am also aware that he did not sympathize with the nazis and only did his work because he had to. But nonetheless, he _did_ the work.
I don't necessarily sympathize with the Republicans, but I still live and work in the United States. It's my home!
What would you do in his position?
Are you kidding? He makes a living being the Jesse Jackson of the open source movement.
Count on Bruce Perens to promptly get in front of every open source parade that's already left without him.
ROFLMAO!
Where's my mod points when I need 'em?
Most importantly, the SPARC64-V will buy time for McNealy. Maybe 1 year or 2 years of breathing room. Then, he can make the hard decision of spinning off the processor-development group and transforming Sun into a niche player that focuses on two areas: software applications and highend-servers that use Fujitsu processors (or, gasp, IBM processors) designed by native talent. Other possibilities have been thoughtfully outlined by Merrill Lynch, the premier American investment company.
I'd agree with that. Sun should migrate to IBM's Power architecture. IBM can afford the R&D and has the manufacturing prowess to maintain their own processor line. Sun doesn't.
How do you figure we are wealthy when your hero George Bush just passed trillions in tax cuts?
How do you figure a reduction of federal taxes effects Massachusettes state tax revenues?
Are we wealthy? We were under Clinton, now we actually owe 20 billion dollars or so because we wasted money on the big dig, and our taxes are being lowed to attract people to our biotechnology/service based economy which is taking off.
What does Clinton (or Bush) have to do with the Massachusettes state government's profligate spending?
I wasn't aware Clinton or Bush had ever been governors of Massachusettes. You learn something new every day, I guess.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered HanzoSan when recently IDC confirmed that HanzoSan accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all positive karma. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that HanzoSan has lost more karma, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. HanzoSan is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict HanzoSan's future. The hand writing is on the wall: HanzoSan faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for HanzoSan because HanzoSan is dying. Things are looking very bad for HanzoSan. As many of us are already aware, HanzoSan continues to lose karma. Red ink flows like a river of blood. HanzoSan is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of his karma. There can no longer be any doubt: HanzoSan is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot editor CmdrTaco states that there are 3786 posts of HanzoSan. How many posts of HanzoSan are there? Let's see. The number of HanzoSan posts versus intelligent posts on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. HanzoSan posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of posts. A recent article put HanzoSan as author of about 80 percent of Slashdot posts.
All major surveys show that HanzoSan has steadily declined in karma. HanzoSan is very sick and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If HanzoSan is to survive at all it will be at (Troll,-1). HanzoSan continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, HanzoSan is dead.
Fact: HanzoSan is dead
Did anyone else read the tagline as "Sun's Schwantz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO"?
Banks (while running OS/2 on the desktop) use full-screened VT-102 terminal emulators to access the bank's server. Have we ever seen those employees running to OS/2 because they used it at work?
That really isn't the point. While the employees themselves may not bring Linux home with them directly, the fact that a company as big as Ford is using it as a desktop will encourage third parties to create applications for it. Also, if SuSE and Red Hat are making some money from Linux on the desktop rather than just on the server, they'll have some incentive to divert more resources to developing their desktop versions.
An ever-friendlier Linux desktop with a healthy selection of 3rd party commercial apps might ultimately be very attractive to a home user.
Those guis and wizards need to be FLAWLESS. If the are not, you'll need to go to the command line and config files anyways, and those GUIs will just obfuscate you from what you need to do.
Mandrake, which is supposed to be among the easiest, was a nightmare to configure properly by comparison, because when the wizard fucks up (which it did numerous times), you don't have a clue what to do with the damned thing.
You got that right. Particularly broken is the DrakeConnect wizard. That one sure needs a lot of work! Not only does it install a broken configuration, the arrangement of the scripts it modifies is so obfuscated it took me several hours to track down what it did and straighten it out.
For all that, most of their wizards work pretty well. But you're right - if they're going to provide wizards, they can't just work some of the time. They have to work every time. If it's going to leave a mess more often than it's going to configure your system properly, what's the use in having the wizard at all? It's easier to modify the text files yourself than it is trying to figure out what the wizard broke.
Of course, you realize, that a bunch of us are going to come and beat you to a pulp and steal your land and your belongings, and the police will laugh since you're not paying for their services anymore.
I ce land.html
Not necessarily. There have been societies where police protection has been privately purchased:
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/
Or maybe we'll just set your house on fire, and the fire department will be on hand to protect the belongings of taxpayers.
And my (privately paid for) insurance company will be on hand to put out the fire in my house, which was the way it was done before socialized fire departments. You'd have a sticker in your window indicating who your provider was, similar to the way you put an ADT sticker in your window indicating who your security provider is.
Just because you'd like to use the government to freeload off of your neighbors doesn't mean it's a societal necessity. There's plenty of historical evidence demonstrating it's not.
How much longer do you plan to milk your career as the Jesse Jackson of Open Source? Is there any controversy in the Open Source world you don't feel the need to interject yourself into the middle of?
Ha! You sure got that one right! You can always count on Bruce to issue a press release at the drop of a hat!
MOD THIS UP!
Have you seen this Darl guy?
He looks a lot like Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies.
That explains a lot.
Thanks!
Do you suppose that they did all the work to earn it themselves?
OK, then. What did the 50% "living in abject poverty" do for Bill Gates to make it possible for him to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"? Be specific.
Those poor programmers, slaving away at their desks for those meager six-figure salaries and stock options, so Bill could sell illicit software to ghetto kids on street corners.
Oy.
It doesn't make sense to say, "they made it by X", since X will tend to vary tremendously, but in many cases it was inherited hence they have no real "right" to it.
If they inherited it, they have a right to it because the rightful owner of it voluntarily and legaly gave it to them.
In many cases it was made by illegal immoral activities using government sponsored thugs see the strikebreakers back at the start of the labor movement.
Again, you refuse to be specific. How about some examples?
But the least frequent case would be one where the person with the huge bank account did the hard work to earn it.
Wrong. Nearly 90% of all millionairs in the United States earned their money in their lifetime. Check you facts. Do a Google search yourself.
Generally they started out with money and used it to make more off the backs of the poor.
How did they make more "off the backs of the poor"? Name some names and give some examples.
This has been true throughout history.
It has?
You might argue that this is a good thing, but I certainly hope you wouldn't try to say it isn't true.
That would just make you look dumb.
Until you can come up with some cases to demonstrate the truth of your statement, I have no reason to believe that it is true. I'm prepared to offer plenty of cases to the contrary.
Since the top 1% of the population owns over 90% of the wealth, why shouldn't they pay some of it back to the people who made it possible for them to accumulate that ridiculous amount of wealth which it isn't even possible for them to spend?
How did the 50% of the people in abject poverty make it possible for the top 1% to accumulate "that ridiculous amount of wealth"?
Why should the wealthy pay them anything? For what? For getting themselves born on the same planet?
Even the rich are against this tax cut, they dont WANT the money and they flat out tell people they wont spend it.
The rich aren't the only ones who benefit from the tax cuts. So do people like me.
Isn't it nice of billionaires like Warren Buffet to be so generous with my money?
Anyway the tax cut is bad, the worlds richest people know more about the economy than you, if warren buffet says hes not going to spend the money and to give it to the poor, why the hell dont you listen to him? Hes going to get most of the tax cut anyway.
If Warren Buffet is going to give his money to the poor anyway, why does the government need to tax him in the first place?
I'm a single male, in college, I have no wife or kids, lets assume I have a job that pays $30,000, I pay federal taxes, I get no returns. Why? Because I have no kids, I'm not married, i get no exemptions except for school tax credit, so maybe I can get $1000-2000 back at the absolute most.
Well, let's see - if you earn $30k a year, that puts you in the 15% tax bracket. That means you paid $4500 in income tax.
If you got back $2000 for deductions, you only paid $2500 in federal income tax.
What are you complaining about? I paid nearly 10x that last year, and I only earn about 3x as much as you do.
What was the cash value of public goods you consumed last year?
You got of cheap, bozo. Quit yer bitchin'!
Forget about love, now people have incentive to marry strictly for financial reasons.
And this is new since when?
This is why divorce rates are so high.
Actually, marriages for money are statisticly the most successful.
Marriages for love don't do so hot.
Convervative communists benefit from this too.
Conservative communists?!
Um, yeah. Okay.
That's great, HanzoSan!
When are you leaving?
While I'm by no means a fan of IBM, their whole microchannel experence has left a sour taste in my mouth
How many years ago was that?! Get over it, already!
Sheesh!
If these rules had been in place in 1970, it would have been virtually impossible for me to start Turner Broadcasting or, 10 years later, to launch CNN.
That's about the best reason I've heard for changing the media ownership rules yet!
Q: Why can't you circumsize Darl McBride?
A: Because there's no end to the prick.
The real irony is that SCO isn't really SCO at all. What we currently call "SCO" is nothing more than Caldera, the company that ran their Linux IPO to enough cash to buy out SCO's UNIX holdings.
Not all their holdings. The original owners of SCO held on to Tarentella (sp?) and I believe they now operate under the same name. When they saw Linux coming, they were smart enough to dump their propriatary unix on Caldera and go into the business of selling ancillary software.
To them, IBM didn't want to pay the license fees any more, so IBM starts to sell Linux as their *Nix solution, not the SCO-compile. This locks SCO out from at least IBM's fat check to them.
They may get one more fat check from IBM. When IBM buys them out to liquidate them.
...is also fixing EMC's Clariion storage arrays. We get visits from them, too.