When the limit was imposed in the 30's, it allowed FDR to continue to run and win. I would assume that if a sitting President wanted the limit lifted, he would not be allowed to run for the third term.
Getting an ammendment to the Constitution takes a pretty hefty vote of both the Congress and the states - it's likely that the sitting President would need to show that he was pushing for the change for the good of the country instead of the good of himself.
If you ever visit an emergency room, they have a sign in at least two languages that says that they must, by law, at least stabilize you regardless of your ability to pay.
1. People who were at the lowest tax bracket (aka, poor people and a LOT of senior citizens) weren't paying any income taxes to begin with, and thus this becomes a tax _increase_. The position paper they cite talks about rebates, but I can't believe there's any sane way to audit that.
That's easy enough - if the sales tax is 10% and the baseline is $10,000, give everyone a $1000 check on January 1 of each year. Done. No auditing on the consumer. If the consumer purchases less than $10,000 in taxable goods during the year - they win! If not, the government comes out ahead.
2. It raises the price of goods, and makes people less likely to consume, thereby hurting businesses (and hurting the people they employ). You could make a similar argument for income tax, certainly, but it's an issue of mental framing.
It raises the price of all goods - including imported goods. It would actually help make domestic production of goods and services more competitive because the cost of doing business (input labor costs) would be lowered.
Once you've paid income tax, that money is "yours". But when you pay a sales tax over and over, it feels like the government is artificially raising prices (which, of course, they are).
If you're paying taxes on interest or dividends, you'd see that differently.
In Iowa, the governor proposed taxing services - at least all services except for those provided by lawyers - they are practicing a "constitutionally protected" service and shouldn't be taxed (and he is a lawyer).
I have no problem with goods being taxed. I don't think that food and clothing should be. I really don't think that services should be taxed.
In either event, software licensed or leased by the developer will be taxed in some way.
It already is in the form of the state and federal income tax on the business or individual writing or distributing the software. Sales taxes are just "extra" taxes that the states impose because they can.
Actually, wouldn't even 1 FPS be good enough for security - people don't move fast enough to pass the entire field of view for the camera in less than a second.
The best solution would be to take several pictures per second when movement is detected within the field of view.
I would say that in many cases the damage is easy to assess. I've cleaned off about 4 machines this week at an avarage cost of $50.
More importantly, didn't some big companies get their networks essentially shut down by this thing? If so, I'm sure that they have a pretty good idea about what it cost them.
It's like the NBA - a big marketing scheme where the underlying product does not have the appeal nor the value their pushers would like us to assign...
What - you mean people don't enjoy watching professional basketball? What can be more appealing than 120 meaningless regular season games with no defense, 80% of the league making the playoffs, and players with little self controL?
Spamassassin and ClamAV (actually other antivirus products as well) plug into mimedefang, and can give it a yes or no on whether or not do deliver an e-mail
Our spam is mainly limited to the info account, so I do deliver it on, but it is tagged as spam and users can easily delete it by a simple outlook rule.
Viruses are bounced - no sense in having to explain to someone why they have 20 messages with content telling them that the content was deleted. Anymore, most of the virus-ridden e-mail is generated by viruses anyway and don't contain any actual user-user messages.
The easy answer is that if it doesn't uninstall easily, or if it just comes back upon reboot, it's either spyware or a virus - either way it should be killed.
Each time I clean up someone's machine (after hours for $), I give out a 5 page script with screenshots on how to run AdAware, check for windows updates, and check to make sure Norton is working properly. I hand them that, and then the bill, and tell them that following these steps weekly will save them another call.
I AM however, putting SpamAssassin on a Linux box to do mail filtering.:)
We do this. The only other things I would recommend would be to tie them in with MimeDefang and ClamAV. Doing that lets you bounce e-mail bourne viruses before they make it into the internal network.
One day last month 1/3 of all of our inbound e-mail traffic was e-mail attempting to deliver viruses. They never got to the user's desk, so they never became a security problem.
I found hijack this while cleaning up a sasser infected machine and have started using it - seems to work well and does make it fairly easy to get rid of some of those startup programs that hassle you.
I don't disagree with that - I was just saying that, up until the first plane hit the trade center, they were just hijackings and wouldn't have been shot down - we're saying the same thing from different directions.
So the guy living next to you that has all the makings for a 10 ton fertiliser bomb shouldn't be investigated until after he has blown up some government building with a child care centre in it?
Or like the guy in Omaha making meth in a residential neighborhood. He had a semi tanker full of anhydrous ammonia with a hose into the house where he was cooking the stuff.
That's the kind of stuff that should investigated because it is "odd".
Same goes for that Freedom of Information request. Sometimes, things that don't seem to fit one the surface reveal something much more sinister underneath.
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Add to that the average pro sports career is just a couple of years - don't blame them for making hay while the grass is green.
Cool - just had visions of the preheater being a block of ice in mid-february - not a lot of help there!
Is it outside, and if so how does it work in the winter?
Getting an ammendment to the Constitution takes a pretty hefty vote of both the Congress and the states - it's likely that the sitting President would need to show that he was pushing for the change for the good of the country instead of the good of himself.
If the 2 term limit is revoked, I would suspect that it wouldn't allow for the sitting President to run for a 3rd term.
Much of the high cost of health care is due to non-payers - the hospitals have to make it up somewhere.
If you require attention, you'll get it.
And that is as it should be.
That's easy enough - if the sales tax is 10% and the baseline is $10,000, give everyone a $1000 check on January 1 of each year. Done. No auditing on the consumer. If the consumer purchases less than $10,000 in taxable goods during the year - they win! If not, the government comes out ahead.
2. It raises the price of goods, and makes people less likely to consume, thereby hurting businesses (and hurting the people they employ). You could make a similar argument for income tax, certainly, but it's an issue of mental framing.
It raises the price of all goods - including imported goods. It would actually help make domestic production of goods and services more competitive because the cost of doing business (input labor costs) would be lowered.
Once you've paid income tax, that money is "yours". But when you pay a sales tax over and over, it feels like the government is artificially raising prices (which, of course, they are).
If you're paying taxes on interest or dividends, you'd see that differently.
I have no problem with goods being taxed. I don't think that food and clothing should be. I really don't think that services should be taxed.
It already is in the form of the state and federal income tax on the business or individual writing or distributing the software. Sales taxes are just "extra" taxes that the states impose because they can.
The best solution would be to take several pictures per second when movement is detected within the field of view.
Got to protect the privacy of the thief you know...
Didn't some big insurance companies in Norway and Sweden get hit too - I imagine that there are serveral juridstictions that are interested in him...
More importantly, didn't some big companies get their networks essentially shut down by this thing? If so, I'm sure that they have a pretty good idea about what it cost them.
Will he be extradited to other countries to stand trial for damages done elsewhere?
What - you mean people don't enjoy watching professional basketball? What can be more appealing than 120 meaningless regular season games with no defense, 80% of the league making the playoffs, and players with little self controL?
Our spam is mainly limited to the info account, so I do deliver it on, but it is tagged as spam and users can easily delete it by a simple outlook rule.
Viruses are bounced - no sense in having to explain to someone why they have 20 messages with content telling them that the content was deleted. Anymore, most of the virus-ridden e-mail is generated by viruses anyway and don't contain any actual user-user messages.
The easy answer is that if it doesn't uninstall easily, or if it just comes back upon reboot, it's either spyware or a virus - either way it should be killed.
As near as I can tell, having teenagers in a house is directly proportional to the amount of spyware on a machine.
Each time I clean up someone's machine (after hours for $), I give out a 5 page script with screenshots on how to run AdAware, check for windows updates, and check to make sure Norton is working properly. I hand them that, and then the bill, and tell them that following these steps weekly will save them another call.
We do this. The only other things I would recommend would be to tie them in with MimeDefang and ClamAV. Doing that lets you bounce e-mail bourne viruses before they make it into the internal network.
One day last month 1/3 of all of our inbound e-mail traffic was e-mail attempting to deliver viruses. They never got to the user's desk, so they never became a security problem.
I found hijack this while cleaning up a sasser infected machine and have started using it - seems to work well and does make it fairly easy to get rid of some of those startup programs that hassle you.
I don't disagree with that - I was just saying that, up until the first plane hit the trade center, they were just hijackings and wouldn't have been shot down - we're saying the same thing from different directions.
Or like the guy in Omaha making meth in a residential neighborhood. He had a semi tanker full of anhydrous ammonia with a hose into the house where he was cooking the stuff.
That's the kind of stuff that should investigated because it is "odd".
Same goes for that Freedom of Information request. Sometimes, things that don't seem to fit one the surface reveal something much more sinister underneath.