I know that in the UK actors belonging to Equity (i.e. anyone who wants to do paid work) have to change their names to avoid confusion with other actors, but that wouldn't apply to musicians or authors.
For instance, there are two writers called David Mitchell currently publishing in the UK (one is the author of "Cloud Atlas", the other is the comedian/broadcaster).
By your definition any taxation which doesn't involve me paying money directly out of my bank account into a specified fund for a specified purpose is a fucking Ponzi scheme then.
I suppose somehow you'll have to add up the military's weekly payroll bill and just deduct that exact amount from the total of everyone's tax paid each week too. Same with health, roads or anything else you pay out of taxes.
You're just showing that you are a libertarian, which is fine if you're honest about it: just admit that you don't want to pay any taxes, and argue from there.
Social Security was never supposed to be a personal savings or investment plan. It's a safety net for the benefit of society as a whole. I suppose in the US it had initially to be presented otherwise to avoid the criticism of it being socialist, which of course it is.
So if I'm forced to participate in Social Security by paying payroll taxes, why is it hypocritical to accept the benefits of that participation?
Because if you were a Randian super(wo)man you should be above polluting yourself by mixing with the sheeple?
Except that the whole point of your accepting social security proves that you also need that money just as much as the feckless workshy untermenschen you have been condemning for their weakness.
So FOR ME and ONLY ME, a device that makes calls, send/received texts and has an alarm clock is just about all I need.
Well, good for you. So you can just buy a basic phone that does those 3 things, and also carry around a camera and tablet/book reader. Personally, I'd rather have one device that fits in my pocket and does everything, for convenience's sake, and I think a lot of people feel the same. Plus, it's handy to have GPS and mobile internet access available, however infrequently you might use either of them.
If you work in some secure environment where cameraphones are banned, I would suggest you are a bit of a special case anyway.
People get frustrated when they're forced to use a limited and crippled appliance for work. Who hasn't been frustrated at some of the software that gets used it the workplace?
But it's pretty much a definition of wasted energy. If you're forced to use crappy software at work, so what? Everyone else is too.
As for battery life, I appreciate them making the things slim, but if they'd make it another 5mm or even 8mm thicker with most of that extra volume given to battery, you'd get about four times as much life out of it. Does anyone make a phone like this?
Hold on, I thought "feature phone" was a polite way of saying "dumb phone"? Something like the Galazy Ace which runs Android is just a smaller, less well specified smartphone isn't it?
I think if your phone is called a Widget LTE it's a safe bet it's got LTE capabilities, or else you'd be able to sue the manufacturer for highly misleading branding.
We haven't had capitalism since 1913 - you can't have capitalism and a central bank.
Let me guess, because we don't have pure capitalism, anything that is wrong is the fault of this evil socialist government watering-down of the purity of the free market? Left to itself, pure laissez faire capitalism would create the best of all possible worlds?
Try reading some history about how wonderful working class people's lives were before 1914..
Can you not get apps to provide short cuts for things like turning bluetooth on/off on an iPhone? Those sort of widgets were one of the first things I downloaded for my Android phone.
I don't care how much money "security" firms and agencies throw at the situation. The only way to avoid it is to not have such events in the first place.
What, just ban any event where two or more people gather together? That'll work out well.
Screw that. If I get stopped by them and they identify themselves, I will tell them they are not police officers, drive away, and call the real police. Then I will take it as far as possible in court on the 4th amendment, hopefully reaching SCOTUS and putting an end to the insanity.
No, you won't. There's a slight difference between talking tough as an AC on an internet forum and actually doing something about it in real life.
Not necessarily. Sometimes social engineering takes advantage of people's assumptions. If you wear a printer servicing uniform and people assume that you're there to fix a printer, are you lying or deceiving them? I'd posit that their assumptions are incorrect and you're not deceiving them unless you're challenged and you start lying.
Bullshit, of course you're deceiving them. You cannot expect normal human beings to question all their assumptions 24/7. Every time you blinked you'd have to prove to yourself that the whole universe hadn't just been switched off and then instantaneously recreated itself.
Kim Dotcom might pay well, but I'm sure he knows as well as anyone else that crime is where the money is
Certainly right. There's probably even huge amounts of money to be made by suing USDOJ trolls for slander.
Dotcom is a convicted fraudster. He made tons of money on Megaupload by exploiting the infringement of copyright. He is a criminal. Just because people here don't agree with copyright changes nothing about his activities.
Yeah, yeah, I'm a fucking paid government shill, obviously, and Dotcom is the fucking second comning of Christ.
There is no such thing as property either. It only means something because there are laws and conventions in a civilised society that allow it to exist.
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I know that in the UK actors belonging to Equity (i.e. anyone who wants to do paid work) have to change their names to avoid confusion with other actors, but that wouldn't apply to musicians or authors.
For instance, there are two writers called David Mitchell currently publishing in the UK (one is the author of "Cloud Atlas", the other is the comedian/broadcaster).
I suppose somehow you'll have to add up the military's weekly payroll bill and just deduct that exact amount from the total of everyone's tax paid each week too. Same with health, roads or anything else you pay out of taxes.
You're just showing that you are a libertarian, which is fine if you're honest about it: just admit that you don't want to pay any taxes, and argue from there.
To be fair, Social Security is pretty indistinguishable from a Ponzi scheme.
Only if you don't know how either Social Security or Ponzi schemes work.
I don't know much about her - trivia about mediocre authors isn't high on my list of things to learn
"Mediocre" is being flattering. Irrespective of your opinion of her philosophy, she is one of the worst writers I have ever had to plough through
Social Security was never supposed to be a personal savings or investment plan. It's a safety net for the benefit of society as a whole. I suppose in the US it had initially to be presented otherwise to avoid the criticism of it being socialist, which of course it is.
So if I'm forced to participate in Social Security by paying payroll taxes, why is it hypocritical to accept the benefits of that participation?
Because if you were a Randian super(wo)man you should be above polluting yourself by mixing with the sheeple?
Except that the whole point of your accepting social security proves that you also need that money just as much as the feckless workshy untermenschen you have been condemning for their weakness.
I may be in the minority, but not being a cack-handed buffoon, I rarely drop phones, cups of coffee or laptops on the floor.
So FOR ME and ONLY ME, a device that makes calls, send/received texts and has an alarm clock is just about all I need.
Well, good for you. So you can just buy a basic phone that does those 3 things, and also carry around a camera and tablet/book reader. Personally, I'd rather have one device that fits in my pocket and does everything, for convenience's sake, and I think a lot of people feel the same. Plus, it's handy to have GPS and mobile internet access available, however infrequently you might use either of them.
If you work in some secure environment where cameraphones are banned, I would suggest you are a bit of a special case anyway.
He doesn't have to , but he's allowed to.
People get frustrated when they're forced to use a limited and crippled appliance for work. Who hasn't been frustrated at some of the software that gets used it the workplace?
But it's pretty much a definition of wasted energy. If you're forced to use crappy software at work, so what? Everyone else is too.
I have a few pieces of software that I paid for and are really critical to how I work and live.
I'm genuinely pleased to say that no software whatsoever is critical to how I work or live.
The flagship products from Apple and Samsung are too large bricks
You must be a child who has never seen a brick.
As for battery life, I appreciate them making the things slim, but if they'd make it another 5mm or even 8mm thicker with most of that extra volume given to battery, you'd get about four times as much life out of it. Does anyone make a phone like this?
Ask this guy.
Hold on, I thought "feature phone" was a polite way of saying "dumb phone"? Something like the Galazy Ace which runs Android is just a smaller, less well specified smartphone isn't it?
I think if your phone is called a Widget LTE it's a safe bet it's got LTE capabilities, or else you'd be able to sue the manufacturer for highly misleading branding.
We haven't had capitalism since 1913 - you can't have capitalism and a central bank.
Let me guess, because we don't have pure capitalism, anything that is wrong is the fault of this evil socialist government watering-down of the purity of the free market? Left to itself, pure laissez faire capitalism would create the best of all possible worlds?
Try reading some history about how wonderful working class people's lives were before 1914..
I assure you, no women have offered sex to me because I own an iPhone!
Well, no. Men though...
Can you not get apps to provide short cuts for things like turning bluetooth on/off on an iPhone? Those sort of widgets were one of the first things I downloaded for my Android phone.
If you install no apps and turn data services off, an iPhone will last 4-5 days. I've done it.
That's the tradeoff.
If you turn it off completely, the battery will probably last for months, maybe even years.
I don't care how much money "security" firms and agencies throw at the situation. The only way to avoid it is to not have such events in the first place.
What, just ban any event where two or more people gather together? That'll work out well.
Screw that. If I get stopped by them and they identify themselves, I will tell them they are not police officers, drive away, and call the real police. Then I will take it as far as possible in court on the 4th amendment, hopefully reaching SCOTUS and putting an end to the insanity.
No, you won't. There's a slight difference between talking tough as an AC on an internet forum and actually doing something about it in real life.
Exactly, so the security worked.
security is always for show, hackers know this very well.
Indeed, that is why Al Qaeda have been able to "hack" their way through US military security and arm themselves with a few H-bombs.
Not necessarily. Sometimes social engineering takes advantage of people's assumptions. If you wear a printer servicing uniform and people assume that you're there to fix a printer, are you lying or deceiving them? I'd posit that their assumptions are incorrect and you're not deceiving them unless you're challenged and you start lying.
Bullshit, of course you're deceiving them. You cannot expect normal human beings to question all their assumptions 24/7. Every time you blinked you'd have to prove to yourself that the whole universe hadn't just been switched off and then instantaneously recreated itself.
Kim Dotcom might pay well, but I'm sure he knows as well as anyone else that crime is where the money is
Certainly right. There's probably even huge amounts of money to be made by suing USDOJ trolls for slander.
Dotcom is a convicted fraudster. He made tons of money on Megaupload by exploiting the infringement of copyright. He is a criminal. Just because people here don't agree with copyright changes nothing about his activities.
Yeah, yeah, I'm a fucking paid government shill, obviously, and Dotcom is the fucking second comning of Christ.
there is no such thing as I.P.
There is no such thing as property either. It only means something because there are laws and conventions in a civilised society that allow it to exist.