Why only $200 bikes with 26" wheels? Why a one-time sales tax?
Why not just a bicycle license which is needed to ride on these bike paths, renewed annually?
Hell, we had bike licenses when I was growing up (won't say how long ago), people pay fees to use state parks, and many states have licenses for Off Road Vehicles to support their trails.
Then, it's a choice - don't ride on the (fee funded) paths, don't buy a license.
(But yeah, it pisses me off that bicyclists demand access to gasoline tax funded roadways, expect drivers to given them equal right of way, but then feel free to obey or ignore traffic laws as they see fit. I very commonly see cyclists jumping between street and sidewalk, rolling through stop(signs/lights) and cutting ahead of vehicle traffic on the shoulder. Fuck those guys - they want to have their cake, and eat it, too.)
"By your logic, anyone can claim that you owe them money and not have to provide any evidence. "
I've neither said nor implied any such thing. I've just said people are ethically bound to pay their debts, and they should be just as responsible for knowing what those debts are as the lenders.
"cap student loans / income based pay back with say an max interest rate of 2-3% and max pay back time 20 years. And you are under X income then you pay 0."
I don't disagree, but the result may be different that you expect - the availability of loans might dry up. And feel free to give money away, if you believe that's a good thing, no one's stopping you.
Really, the borrower has no responsibility to track the loan, it's all on the lender? You're looking to escape responsibility for your actions and are part of the real problem.
"Any creditor has to be able to prove that you owe them money. it doesn't require a "special kit". It just requires sacrificing all personal integrity."
FTFY.
There may be legitimate cases where payments weren't tracked, but I'd bet a dollar to a penny that the vast majority of borrowers are just looking to get out of their legitimate debt on a technicality.
"And why should education put people in debt? Educating young people is what ensures the future of a country."
Great. How many scholarships are named after Anonymous Coward?
Even if one agrees that society should bear more of the cost of higher education, that's not a legitimate argument for not paying back a loan - did you justify holding up convenience stores because it went to pay for your attendance at Douchebag College of Illegitimate Rationalizations?
This sounds like a bunch of debtors who've found a loophole to get out of their legitimate obligations. Sure, those who provided loans should have tracked things better, but that doesn't eliminate the ethical responsibility borrowers have to pay back what they agreed. The end result will only be to raise the cost of loans for future borrowers.
No, you're completely incorrect. I know what's going on, and a warning can inform others. The "false sense of security" strawman is complete and utter bullshit. And, it does take significant additional effort to get plaintext from even weak encryption than it does from, well, plaintext.
STOP deliberately breaking things. I don't care that my 5 year old IOT thing uses HTTPs with old encryption. I don't care that it uses self-signed certificates. It's still better than unencrypted, and I can't update it. You just deliberately broke things so now I'm forced to use unencrypted communications - what idiot decided that's better than even weak encryption? Put up a warning, fine, but don't break it. Idiots.
"Yevgeny is the official spellingg of his name in roman letters."
No, it isn't. Who made you boss? Perhaps you should STFU, and let Eugene spell his name the way he wants in the Roman alphabet. Can't get any more "official" than that, you retarded foreigner.
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In my state, they charge a tax on alcoholic beverages, which is built into the stated price. Then, they charge a sales tax, on that tax.
Why only $200 bikes with 26" wheels? Why a one-time sales tax?
Why not just a bicycle license which is needed to ride on these bike paths, renewed annually?
Hell, we had bike licenses when I was growing up (won't say how long ago), people pay fees to use state parks, and many states have licenses for Off Road Vehicles to support their trails.
Then, it's a choice - don't ride on the (fee funded) paths, don't buy a license.
(But yeah, it pisses me off that bicyclists demand access to gasoline tax funded roadways, expect drivers to given them equal right of way, but then feel free to obey or ignore traffic laws as they see fit. I very commonly see cyclists jumping between street and sidewalk, rolling through stop(signs/lights) and cutting ahead of vehicle traffic on the shoulder. Fuck those guys - they want to have their cake, and eat it, too.)
Obviously an initiative being pushed by bike shops in neighboring states.
"subsequently copy it to the password field."
I use control-v as a special character in my passwords, you insensitive clod.
" is password masking really on its way out, and does password masking do anything beyond preventing the casual shoulder-surfer?"
It makes it much more likely to make a typo and have to try again.
"Federal loans could easily be set to 2-3% since that is less than the cost of borrowing."
The current 30 year treasury yield as of July 17, 2017 is 2.90%. And you're neglecting to account for the cost of paperwork and defaults.
"By your logic, anyone can claim that you owe them money and not have to provide any evidence. "
I've neither said nor implied any such thing. I've just said people are ethically bound to pay their debts, and they should be just as responsible for knowing what those debts are as the lenders.
Law has nothing to do with it.
"cap student loans / income based pay back with say an max interest rate of 2-3% and max pay back time 20 years. And you are under X income then you pay 0."
I don't disagree, but the result may be different that you expect - the availability of loans might dry up. And feel free to give money away, if you believe that's a good thing, no one's stopping you.
"You do understand that if the lender can't tell you (and document) what you owe, how can you pay it back?"
Account for yourself, assuming you learned basic math with your education.
" the lenders can't prove what the borrowers loaned so it would be impossible for them to pay back."
"What the borrowers loaned?" Sorry, you don't get out of the loan just because you didn't get a decent education.
Really, the borrower has no responsibility to track the loan, it's all on the lender? You're looking to escape responsibility for your actions and are part of the real problem.
I don't disagree. But I'd bet that's the rare exception to the rule.
"Any creditor has to be able to prove that you owe them money. it doesn't require a "special kit". It just requires sacrificing all personal integrity."
FTFY.
There may be legitimate cases where payments weren't tracked, but I'd bet a dollar to a penny that the vast majority of borrowers are just looking to get out of their legitimate debt on a technicality.
"And why should education put people in debt? Educating young people is what ensures the future of a country."
Great. How many scholarships are named after Anonymous Coward?
Even if one agrees that society should bear more of the cost of higher education, that's not a legitimate argument for not paying back a loan - did you justify holding up convenience stores because it went to pay for your attendance at Douchebag College of Illegitimate Rationalizations?
This sounds like a bunch of debtors who've found a loophole to get out of their legitimate obligations. Sure, those who provided loans should have tracked things better, but that doesn't eliminate the ethical responsibility borrowers have to pay back what they agreed. The end result will only be to raise the cost of loans for future borrowers.
As long as they're ignoring reality, why not just pass a law requiring all criminals to turn themselves in to the nearest constabulary?
No, you're completely incorrect. I know what's going on, and a warning can inform others. The "false sense of security" strawman is complete and utter bullshit. And, it does take significant additional effort to get plaintext from even weak encryption than it does from, well, plaintext.
Is Elon going to have his Ironman suit ready before Skynet tries to take over?
This is to you, Mozilla, Google, Firefox...
STOP deliberately breaking things. I don't care that my 5 year old IOT thing uses HTTPs with old encryption. I don't care that it uses self-signed certificates. It's still better than unencrypted, and I can't update it. You just deliberately broke things so now I'm forced to use unencrypted communications - what idiot decided that's better than even weak encryption? Put up a warning, fine, but don't break it. Idiots.
"Yevgeny is the official spellingg of his name in roman letters."
No, it isn't. Who made you boss? Perhaps you should STFU, and let Eugene spell his name the way he wants in the Roman alphabet. Can't get any more "official" than that, you retarded foreigner.
"Yevgeny Kaspersky"
Is that the retarded angel'o'sphere way of spelling his name using a non-Cyrillic alphabet?
Seriously, you're trying to be offended.
" $11.2 million to settle U.S. litigation brought on behalf of roughly 37 million users "
Here's a quarter, kid. Go away.
"Next you'll be telling me there are Russians pretending to be Americans on Slashdot!"
No, but there are Russians pretending to be Americans on TV.
"The golden age of gene tweaking we where promised is upon us. Now, what are we gonna do with it."
You don't watch The Walking Dead, do you?
"No matter how much money you have; you'd have to be a real pretentious douche bag to buy one of these."
So, their market was the extended Kardashian family? That's large enough that I don't see why they went out of business.