FOSS can innovate much more than proprietary software because there is no incentive other than to provide a functionality the dev desires.
That's the key, functionality devs want, not end users. Commercial businesses have to provide software end users are willing to pay for but FOSS projects only deliver what the devs want. An excellent example of this is Photoshop vs the GIMP. PS offers 32 bits per colour channel, and print artists need at least 16, whereas GIMP only has 8 bits. They have been promising 16 bits for about 10 years but still have not delivered it. And not because they couldn't, one developers offered them 16 bits but they turned it down. So he forked it and started FilmGIMP, now called CinePaint which offers 32 bits per channel and is used in the movie industry.
For hardware, Apple's can be of higher quality because it is higher priced.
2009 calling. Apple hardware prices have been comparable to Windows PCS for years. At least comparing specs for Mac Pros. The problem is that you will not find a low cost tower or other expandable Mac. I've also heard here and elsewhere that the Mac Mini is under powered. However yesterday I came across some threads on Photo.net asking whether the Mini is any good for photography, which is demanding in specs, and repliers have said it is in fact good for it. I was surprised by this as I thought the Mini was underpowered too.
The thing is it is hard to wear both a "UI Design Hat" and a developer hat at the same time.
This is nothing new however others are able to do it. What it requires is to separate design from programming. As an example take writers. Good writers separate getting words on paper, or disk, from editing. You need the words before you can edit. Some take a recursive route, get words down then edit. Add more words then edit again.
Examples of stuff that still doesn't work on Kubuntu Jaunty: ...
transcoding in Amarok
I'm no expert and am just going on what I've read but have you tried Ubuntu Studio? It uses the RT kernel which should make Amarok run better.
I've been looking into installing Ubuntu on my Mac, unfortunately one reason I first wanted to was because I wanted to use CinePaint however Ubuntu dropped it. Ubuntu Studio still has it though.
Except that Apple laptops are junk. None of them have nipples, they only have a single mouse button
Having switched from Windows PCs I love my MacBook Pro. As do many others. Nipples? The only ones I want are on breasts. Single mouse button? I have three. Just as I was able to alt-click or ctrl-click in Windows I can do the same on my Mac. Or I can use a 2 or 3 button mouse with it. I don't though, instead I prefer to use my 3 button trackball.
Thing is apple laptops are usually pretty good in design, so even OSS people will buy one and then put distro of choice on it, problem? not really. Good hardware is good hardware.
I agree that Apple makes good hardware, and software. However I've been researching on how to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro and it's not so simple. Some people have trouble with their keyboards, specific keys such as function keys, or backlighting. Others, with their WiFi, and still others with their net connection.
And the thing is is I wanted to install Ubuntu because I want to use, or try to use, CinePaint. However it was dropped from Ubuntu. While there's a version for OS X I wasn't able to get it working and wasn't able to find out how to googling. Eventually I found out Ubuntu Studio includes CinePaint.
Which brings up a problem many people have with some open source projects. While GIMP is good for average usage or web work. It lacks things pro photographers, which I hope to become, need for print. Such as at least 16 bit colour depths. GIMP has been promising that for more than 10 years. All those years ago the developer of CinePaint, which can work in 32 bits per colour channel, offered his 16 bit work to the GIMP project. But they turned him down so he started his FilmGIMP, now CinePaint, project.
Because Nissan has US factories and employees Americans. Giving Nissan money keeps Americans employed.
You're stating the obvious and missing the point.
I think I got the right point seeing as how you asked "Shouldn't the Japanese government do that and not the U. S. taxpayer?" Perhaps I should have included that in my reply.
Having said that I don't think the federal government should have given any subsidies or other money to the Detroit big 3 or Nissan. I don't think the feds should have bailed out Wall Street Banks, AIG, or Lehman Brothers either. I especially don't believe in the feds giving farm subsidies worth billions of dollars year in and year out.
> I recall having to memorize the Declaration of Independence and to preamble to the
> Constitution
Though in all honesty, memorizing them is not as valuable as actually understanding them. It's certainly more valuable than not reading them at all, of course.
Yea, people try to say the US is a Christian nation because "God" is invoked in both the DOI and the Constitution. However the DOI does not contain the word "god", what it says is "nature's creator". Also the author of the DOI was Thomas Jefferson who was not a Christian in the dominant view of what a Christian is. TJ was a Deist and didn't believe Jesus Christ was the Son of God. Instead he believed that if Jesus lived he was a great teacher, but that the church distorted his teachings. Believing this he cut out all the miracles, virgin birth, and such out of the Bible to create the Jefferson Bible. "God" is not in the Constitution either. "Lord" is used but at the end where the signatories signed it, giving the date: "Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven".
The USA Constitution itself was based on The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations. As a printer Benjamen Franklin printed some copies of the Constitution for the Iroquois before the Articles of Confederacy. The Constitution itself was created to replace the Articles of Confederacy which was based on the Iroquois Constitution.
Yeap, but as I've said many tymes, I'm more afraid of government than I am of any terrorists. Therefore I try to speak out and try to vote to keep government small.
Getting in a fight now means you get charged with assault.
Yea, this happened to my nephew. Someone started a fight with him and he was arrested and charged. My sister went through a hassle because of it. This happened before 911 though.
I find it ironic that before 911 he was on his high school's football team and was looking forward to going to college and playing football there but after 911, he was a senior then, he enlisted in the Marines before graduation and at 17. The Marine Corp called my sister to ask her if it was alright that he joined the Marines. I would have thought that he'd at least try to be an officer.
And the problem is that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that students in a school are not "people" for purposes of not only that amendment but also various other parts of the constitution.
Yet corporations are persons.
You might even be right; most people in the U.S. should probably not have graduated high school, much less college, if you apply that sort of test.
I might be but I don't think schools teach US history, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights like they used to. I recall having to memorize the Declaration of Independence and to preamble to the Constitution then recite them in front of class.
Bah, we threw that old thing out for drunk driving checkpoints.
I disagree with them, but the rational used for check points is that they check everybody and don't pull people over at random.
We violate it every single time anyone flys commercially.
I most especially disagree with this. I've repeatedly said government shouldn't be running all these security check points to board a plane. If individual airlines want fliers to pass through security check points they should be able to, one airline could say they made sure passengers were safe while another could advertise they didn't harass fliers, but not government. I was really hoping the courts would side with John Gilmore, but they didn't. What really gets me was that the district court said it lacked standing or jurisdiction, yet one of the jobs of the courts is to keep the executive branch within the constitution. You know all that three legs stuff.
We violate it every time anyone enters a public government building. We especially violate it when you show up for legally required jury duty, and are unconstitutionally searched before being allowed to comply with the summons.
Yea, things have really changed since 911. I still recall being able to walk into a government building, not have to empty out my pockets or pass through metal detectors. I was summoned twice for jury duty and didn't have to put up with that BS. Unfortunately neither tyme was I even questioned never mind actually picked to serve on a jury. Both tymes I was hoping to be picked for a victim-less crime trial, such as drug possession, so I could use jury nullification to tell government the law was bad. Law enforcement and prosecutors today would have jailed Thomas Jefferson along with several other Founding Fathers.
Here in the US, public schools are typically surrounded by barbed wire, and not a small number have metal detectors at the doors. There's typically even a local police officer patrolling the halls in addition to the hired security.
Gosh, I know it's bad but are schools really that bad today? When I was in school the school I went to didn't have any of these. The worse thing we had to deal with were drills in case of nuclear attacks, and fires.
It's fact that the word 'privacy' doesn't once appear in the U.S. Constitution. Justice Douglas created it in Griswold v. Connecticut, and a majority of his colleagues voted in favor of it.
A Supreme Court ruling before Griswold v. Connecticut said there was a right to privacy, well anonymity. I couldn't find it, FindLaw used to have it, but in the early 1800s the Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment included the right anonymity. If a person did not have the right to remain anonymous then they would not be able to exercise free political speech. Other rulings said it was a right to distribute anonymous pamphlets.
I believe that taxes have one single purpose. To fund the government. Therefore I believe it is immoral and wrong to tax things differently in an attempt to alter an individual's behavior.
In general I feel the same but I also believe it's the responsibility of government to protect people, and that includes from pollution. If a business or person pollutes they should be held accountable. But I guess you didn't even look at the link I provided. The net zero tax proposal was from the neoconservative publication "Weekly Standard".
I also believe a tax or user fee should cover the cost of what it is for. In the case of fuel tax it should cover the cost of building and maintaining roads, but they don't. Money has to be taken out of general revenue to pay for roads.
Taxes should not be used as a subversive method to influence free choices.
So polluters shouldn't have to pay for their pollution?
Furthermore, your argument suggests if you tax something, you get less of it, or rather people buy/use less of it. Which is true, so why are we taxing income and savings?
Again you say it's my proposal or argument, can you show me where I claimed it was?
Also if you go back in my posting history you should see I oppose personal income taxes. I have repeatedly advocated reducing the size of government, getting rid of the ABCs of agencies and authorities, bureaus, departments, offices, and others the Constitution of the USA does not mention. If there is an exception I make it is the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Personally I don't think it's an exception though others may. That's because pollution does not respect man made lines on a map. Because of heavy use of fertilizers on farms in the Midwest, which gets washed down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, a large and growing Dead Zone forms in the Gulf every year. Among those who have to pay are all the fishermen who don't catch much if any fish because all the fish are dead.
Your suggestion to tax gasoline to change human behavior is in conflict with a free society. In a free society, you don't need to worry about what other people do.
So polluters get a free ride. You do have to worry, because what others put out may cause you to lose your property or kill you, but I guess as long as someone make money that's alright.
there was no way the administrators could have been expected to know whether their actions were constitutional.
The problem with this though is that the Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure specifically states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If admin in a US public school does not understand that then they should never have graduated.
Well at least we now have a Supreme Court decision that stops overzealous administrators and staff from seeing children's nipples in search of non-existent over-the-count drugs. Now, if only the administrators were actually held liable for their stupid decisions.
Actually because no body was held personally responsible it could happen again. Another thing, I don't see how they could rule the strip search wasn't a violation of the 4th amendment. Saying it was on public property doesn't cut it, legally she had to be there and you don't give up your right just because you're on public property.
That's right. DC already picked the Detroit big 3 as winners, but two are going bankrupt anyway. It's only "fair" that since DC tried to them bailout they also give a competitor loans as well. Otherwise the competitor is at a competitive disadvantage.
If you are against the model I posted earlier, that means you are against the X Prize and Google models of funding innovation.
I never said I was against it, actually I'm all for it. As I've said repeatedly I oppose government subsidies and believe in the free market. I only believe government should interfere when there are externalities businesses and consumers are paying for. Actually in another post I cited another proposal I think is better than the government simply giving subsidies or loans, instead I prefer a Net Zero Fuel Tax. Raise the tax on fuel, then say the average person buys 10 gallons of fuel a week and sees their fuel bill rise $20, $2 per gallon, then their income tax is cut by $20 a week. If they then buy a more fuel efficient vehicle they'll have more money in their pockets. Admittedly not much but something like this could encourage people to demand and buy more fuel efficient vehicle.
Yes I do. I have not committed hari kari, sepaku, or another ritualized form of suicide mostly because a belief I formerly had. Though I no longer do I used to believe in reincarnation and whenever I'd think of ending my life I'd think that if reincarnation were true then I'd have to come back and go through what I've been through again. Two other reasons are that I hate giving up, and I am stubborn. Which may be a problem there, some of the doctors and therapists I've seen said that if I weren't stubborn I would not have survived. Actually I just got home from an appointment at my doc's clinic where I told two therapists I met the same thing.
The main Disadvantage of Linux is the rapid development and frequent updates.
I haven't used Linux in years but I think that's an advantage not a disadvantage. Just because an update is available that doesn't mean it has to be installed. When I used Windows I didn't install all the updates, and I don't install all of them on my Mac now. It's nice they're available but I check to see if I need each one before installing them.
And they are still praised to this day for what they have done for this country.
Not everyone, even economists, praise FDR for what he did. Many economists blame him for making the Great Depression last as long as it did. While Teddy Roosevelt was known as a great Trust Buster FDR made trusts more powerful and allowed industries to collaborate to keep competition out.
relative. However, socialism is an economy type, like capitalism. It's not relative.
And liberal is an economic as well as political type and is not relative. Specifically Liberalism and the Liberals that stand for it stand for free markets, liberty, and small government. Ah, but I see you say you're a small government liberal.
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FOSS can innovate much more than proprietary software because there is no incentive other than to provide a functionality the dev desires.
That's the key, functionality devs want, not end users. Commercial businesses have to provide software end users are willing to pay for but FOSS projects only deliver what the devs want. An excellent example of this is Photoshop vs the GIMP. PS offers 32 bits per colour channel, and print artists need at least 16, whereas GIMP only has 8 bits. They have been promising 16 bits for about 10 years but still have not delivered it. And not because they couldn't, one developers offered them 16 bits but they turned it down. So he forked it and started FilmGIMP, now called CinePaint which offers 32 bits per channel and is used in the movie industry.
Falcon
For hardware, Apple's can be of higher quality because it is higher priced.
2009 calling. Apple hardware prices have been comparable to Windows PCS for years. At least comparing specs for Mac Pros. The problem is that you will not find a low cost tower or other expandable Mac. I've also heard here and elsewhere that the Mac Mini is under powered. However yesterday I came across some threads on Photo.net asking whether the Mini is any good for photography, which is demanding in specs, and repliers have said it is in fact good for it. I was surprised by this as I thought the Mini was underpowered too.
Falcon
The thing is it is hard to wear both a "UI Design Hat" and a developer hat at the same time.
This is nothing new however others are able to do it. What it requires is to separate design from programming. As an example take writers. Good writers separate getting words on paper, or disk, from editing. You need the words before you can edit. Some take a recursive route, get words down then edit. Add more words then edit again.
Falcon
Examples of stuff that still doesn't work on Kubuntu Jaunty:
...
transcoding in Amarok
I'm no expert and am just going on what I've read but have you tried Ubuntu Studio? It uses the RT kernel which should make Amarok run better.
I've been looking into installing Ubuntu on my Mac, unfortunately one reason I first wanted to was because I wanted to use CinePaint however Ubuntu dropped it. Ubuntu Studio still has it though.
Falcon
Most Mac users are perfectly happy with Safari.
Some Windows users are also happy with Safari.
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Except that Apple laptops are junk. None of them have nipples, they only have a single mouse button
Having switched from Windows PCs I love my MacBook Pro. As do many others. Nipples? The only ones I want are on breasts. Single mouse button? I have three. Just as I was able to alt-click or ctrl-click in Windows I can do the same on my Mac. Or I can use a 2 or 3 button mouse with it. I don't though, instead I prefer to use my 3 button trackball.
Falcon
Thing is apple laptops are usually pretty good in design, so even OSS people will buy one and then put distro of choice on it, problem? not really. Good hardware is good hardware.
I agree that Apple makes good hardware, and software. However I've been researching on how to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro and it's not so simple. Some people have trouble with their keyboards, specific keys such as function keys, or backlighting. Others, with their WiFi, and still others with their net connection.
And the thing is is I wanted to install Ubuntu because I want to use, or try to use, CinePaint. However it was dropped from Ubuntu. While there's a version for OS X I wasn't able to get it working and wasn't able to find out how to googling. Eventually I found out Ubuntu Studio includes CinePaint.
Which brings up a problem many people have with some open source projects. While GIMP is good for average usage or web work. It lacks things pro photographers, which I hope to become, need for print. Such as at least 16 bit colour depths. GIMP has been promising that for more than 10 years. All those years ago the developer of CinePaint, which can work in 32 bits per colour channel, offered his 16 bit work to the GIMP project. But they turned him down so he started his FilmGIMP, now CinePaint, project.
Falcon
Because Nissan has US factories and employees Americans. Giving Nissan money keeps Americans employed.
You're stating the obvious and missing the point.
I think I got the right point seeing as how you asked "Shouldn't the Japanese government do that and not the U. S. taxpayer?" Perhaps I should have included that in my reply.
Having said that I don't think the federal government should have given any subsidies or other money to the Detroit big 3 or Nissan. I don't think the feds should have bailed out Wall Street Banks, AIG, or Lehman Brothers either. I especially don't believe in the feds giving farm subsidies worth billions of dollars year in and year out.
Falcon
> I recall having to memorize the Declaration of Independence and to preamble to the
> Constitution
Though in all honesty, memorizing them is not as valuable as actually understanding them. It's certainly more valuable than not reading them at all, of course.
Yea, people try to say the US is a Christian nation because "God" is invoked in both the DOI and the Constitution. However the DOI does not contain the word "god", what it says is "nature's creator". Also the author of the DOI was Thomas Jefferson who was not a Christian in the dominant view of what a Christian is. TJ was a Deist and didn't believe Jesus Christ was the Son of God. Instead he believed that if Jesus lived he was a great teacher, but that the church distorted his teachings. Believing this he cut out all the miracles, virgin birth, and such out of the Bible to create the Jefferson Bible. "God" is not in the Constitution either. "Lord" is used but at the end where the signatories signed it, giving the date: "Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven".
The USA Constitution itself was based on The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations. As a printer Benjamen Franklin printed some copies of the Constitution for the Iroquois before the Articles of Confederacy. The Constitution itself was created to replace the Articles of Confederacy which was based on the Iroquois Constitution.
Falcon
not the other way round?
Yeap, but as I've said many tymes, I'm more afraid of government than I am of any terrorists. Therefore I try to speak out and try to vote to keep government small.
Falcon
Getting in a fight now means you get charged with assault.
Yea, this happened to my nephew. Someone started a fight with him and he was arrested and charged. My sister went through a hassle because of it. This happened before 911 though.
I find it ironic that before 911 he was on his high school's football team and was looking forward to going to college and playing football there but after 911, he was a senior then, he enlisted in the Marines before graduation and at 17. The Marine Corp called my sister to ask her if it was alright that he joined the Marines. I would have thought that he'd at least try to be an officer.
Falcon
And the problem is that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that students in a school are not "people" for purposes of not only that amendment but also various other parts of the constitution.
Yet corporations are persons.
You might even be right; most people in the U.S. should probably not have graduated high school, much less college, if you apply that sort of test.
I might be but I don't think schools teach US history, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights like they used to. I recall having to memorize the Declaration of Independence and to preamble to the Constitution then recite them in front of class.
Falcon
Bah, we threw that old thing out for drunk driving checkpoints.
I disagree with them, but the rational used for check points is that they check everybody and don't pull people over at random.
We violate it every single time anyone flys commercially.
I most especially disagree with this. I've repeatedly said government shouldn't be running all these security check points to board a plane. If individual airlines want fliers to pass through security check points they should be able to, one airline could say they made sure passengers were safe while another could advertise they didn't harass fliers, but not government. I was really hoping the courts would side with John Gilmore, but they didn't. What really gets me was that the district court said it lacked standing or jurisdiction, yet one of the jobs of the courts is to keep the executive branch within the constitution. You know all that three legs stuff.
We violate it every time anyone enters a public government building. We especially violate it when you show up for legally required jury duty, and are unconstitutionally searched before being allowed to comply with the summons.
Yea, things have really changed since 911. I still recall being able to walk into a government building, not have to empty out my pockets or pass through metal detectors. I was summoned twice for jury duty and didn't have to put up with that BS. Unfortunately neither tyme was I even questioned never mind actually picked to serve on a jury. Both tymes I was hoping to be picked for a victim-less crime trial, such as drug possession, so I could use jury nullification to tell government the law was bad. Law enforcement and prosecutors today would have jailed Thomas Jefferson along with several other Founding Fathers.
Falcon
Here in the US, public schools are typically surrounded by barbed wire, and not a small number have metal detectors at the doors. There's typically even a local police officer patrolling the halls in addition to the hired security.
Gosh, I know it's bad but are schools really that bad today? When I was in school the school I went to didn't have any of these. The worse thing we had to deal with were drills in case of nuclear attacks, and fires.
Falcon
It's fact that the word 'privacy' doesn't once appear in the U.S. Constitution. Justice Douglas created it in Griswold v. Connecticut, and a majority of his colleagues voted in favor of it.
A Supreme Court ruling before Griswold v. Connecticut said there was a right to privacy, well anonymity. I couldn't find it, FindLaw used to have it, but in the early 1800s the Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment included the right anonymity. If a person did not have the right to remain anonymous then they would not be able to exercise free political speech. Other rulings said it was a right to distribute anonymous pamphlets.
Falcon
Oh but I do.
I believe that taxes have one single purpose. To fund the government. Therefore I believe it is immoral and wrong to tax things differently in an attempt to alter an individual's behavior.
In general I feel the same but I also believe it's the responsibility of government to protect people, and that includes from pollution. If a business or person pollutes they should be held accountable. But I guess you didn't even look at the link I provided. The net zero tax proposal was from the neoconservative publication "Weekly Standard".
I also believe a tax or user fee should cover the cost of what it is for. In the case of fuel tax it should cover the cost of building and maintaining roads, but they don't. Money has to be taken out of general revenue to pay for roads.
Taxes should not be used as a subversive method to influence free choices.
So polluters shouldn't have to pay for their pollution?
Furthermore, your argument suggests if you tax something, you get less of it, or rather people buy/use less of it. Which is true, so why are we taxing income and savings?
Again you say it's my proposal or argument, can you show me where I claimed it was?
Also if you go back in my posting history you should see I oppose personal income taxes. I have repeatedly advocated reducing the size of government, getting rid of the ABCs of agencies and authorities, bureaus, departments, offices, and others the Constitution of the USA does not mention. If there is an exception I make it is the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Personally I don't think it's an exception though others may. That's because pollution does not respect man made lines on a map. Because of heavy use of fertilizers on farms in the Midwest, which gets washed down the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, a large and growing Dead Zone forms in the Gulf every year. Among those who have to pay are all the fishermen who don't catch much if any fish because all the fish are dead.
Your suggestion to tax gasoline to change human behavior is in conflict with a free society. In a free society, you don't need to worry about what other people do.
So polluters get a free ride. You do have to worry, because what others put out may cause you to lose your property or kill you, but I guess as long as someone make money that's alright.
Falcon
Except now the law is firmly established by the Supreme Court. That might change the liability question if someone repeated this or a similar action.
It was established, on 15 Decemeber 1791 when the 4th Amendment was ratified.
Falcon
Arizona does as well.
Okay, that makes two states, out of 50. Even if there are 10 states that have variable electrical rates that's only 1 in 5.
Falcon
there was no way the administrators could have been expected to know whether their actions were constitutional.
The problem with this though is that the Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure specifically states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If admin in a US public school does not understand that then they should never have graduated.
Falcon
Well at least we now have a Supreme Court decision that stops overzealous administrators and staff from seeing children's nipples in search of non-existent over-the-count drugs. Now, if only the administrators were actually held liable for their stupid decisions.
Actually because no body was held personally responsible it could happen again. Another thing, I don't see how they could rule the strip search wasn't a violation of the 4th amendment. Saying it was on public property doesn't cut it, legally she had to be there and you don't give up your right just because you're on public property.
Falcon
winners are picked by those the government funds
That's right. DC already picked the Detroit big 3 as winners, but two are going bankrupt anyway. It's only "fair" that since DC tried to them bailout they also give a competitor loans as well. Otherwise the competitor is at a competitive disadvantage.
If you are against the model I posted earlier, that means you are against the X Prize and Google models of funding innovation.
I never said I was against it, actually I'm all for it. As I've said repeatedly I oppose government subsidies and believe in the free market. I only believe government should interfere when there are externalities businesses and consumers are paying for. Actually in another post I cited another proposal I think is better than the government simply giving subsidies or loans, instead I prefer a Net Zero Fuel Tax. Raise the tax on fuel, then say the average person buys 10 gallons of fuel a week and sees their fuel bill rise $20, $2 per gallon, then their income tax is cut by $20 a week. If they then buy a more fuel efficient vehicle they'll have more money in their pockets. Admittedly not much but something like this could encourage people to demand and buy more fuel efficient vehicle.
Falcon
Yes I do. I have not committed hari kari, sepaku, or another ritualized form of suicide mostly because a belief I formerly had. Though I no longer do I used to believe in reincarnation and whenever I'd think of ending my life I'd think that if reincarnation were true then I'd have to come back and go through what I've been through again. Two other reasons are that I hate giving up, and I am stubborn. Which may be a problem there, some of the doctors and therapists I've seen said that if I weren't stubborn I would not have survived. Actually I just got home from an appointment at my doc's clinic where I told two therapists I met the same thing.
Falcon
The main Disadvantage of Linux is the rapid development and frequent updates.
I haven't used Linux in years but I think that's an advantage not a disadvantage. Just because an update is available that doesn't mean it has to be installed. When I used Windows I didn't install all the updates, and I don't install all of them on my Mac now. It's nice they're available but I check to see if I need each one before installing them.
Falcon
And they are still praised to this day for what they have done for this country.
Not everyone, even economists, praise FDR for what he did. Many economists blame him for making the Great Depression last as long as it did. While Teddy Roosevelt was known as a great Trust Buster FDR made trusts more powerful and allowed industries to collaborate to keep competition out.
Falcon
relative. However, socialism is an economy type, like capitalism. It's not relative.
And liberal is an economic as well as political type and is not relative. Specifically Liberalism and the Liberals that stand for it stand for free markets, liberty, and small government. Ah, but I see you say you're a small government liberal.
Falcon