Wouldn't increasing the gas tax thereby further increasing the value of low gas mileage vehicle be preferable?
This is why you aren't a Governor.
Anyone with a brain in his head (and without malice in his heart) would propose just that. Make up for the shortfall, provide a further incentive for people to operate fuel efficient vehicles, and not create a huge new bureaucracy to track citizen's movements.
*sigh*
-Peter
PS: I just posted another comment. While I wait for the posting time limit to elapse I'd like to point out that this guy is a Democrat. A Democrat who wants to track your car. Next time you're voting, consider voting for someone who isn't a member of one of the two parties who have been bringing us so many bad ideas for the last . . . however long. Thanks.
I'm constantly getting in arguments with people when I assert that Democrats are essentially no more desirable than Republicans (and vice versa); that, in fact, "both" parties are composed of raging shitheads.
So, here we have it. A Democrat Governor who wants to track your car by GPS.
I rest my case.
Now, PLEASE stop voting for these people. I'm begging you.
That's fine for your one bank that you set up once.
I go to a lot of shows at small venues around town. Should I spend a couple of days driving around to all of them collecting their certs so I can buy tickets? (Maybe. Maybe once, maybe never.)
And where do I pick up my gmail certificate CD? And for my credit card company? (The one that doesn't have an office in my state.) And for my insurance company?
Oh, and I like to pay my cable, power, and cell phone bills on-line, too. So I guess I need to get CDs from them as well.
Oh, I also do my time sheets for work through a secure website. And I get my pay stubs through another. And manage my 401k through yet another.
So would the interstate commerce clause give the feds the power to have, say, built the railroads? Why not federalize all trucking? Or at least start a trucking company no one can compete with, since it's taxpayer funded?
Would we be better off if the feds had build the national phone infrastructure?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
After years of wondering why the other guys are so stupid when it comes to policy I realized that maybe I'm not so smart either. In fact, I realized that maybe we, collectively, shouldn't be telling each other, individually, what to do.
I can almost guarantee that I do some things that you think are a horrible idea. And it's likely that you do some things I don't like, too. But I realize that I'm not the best person to make those choices for you.
I think this applies equally to money. Doesn't it?
The Libertarian Party is the most mainstream expression of this idea that I'm aware of. Next time, why don't you vote against this sort of hypocrisy? You strike me as the kind of guy who isn't really comfortable doing things because "everybody else is doing it".
Not talking about what you're required to do, talking about what's moral.
Do you fit into my statement above? That you think it's okay to collect taxes to pay for our invasion of Iraq, but not to fund things that involve abortion? Or are you like me, and don't really feel okay about either?
What if the tax money was being used to torture puppies? Would it be okay to evade that? What if it was some other thing you find highly morally objectionable? Be it blowing up some country you have no quarrel with or doing embryonic stem cell research. (I understand that the electorate is generally divided into either-or camps on those two topics, but I think both are a bad idea.)
I understand that NY isn't doing any of these things, but there's always something.
The fundamental reason that I believe that taxes (and corresponding spending) should be absolutely minimal is that it forces people to fund things they may find morally objectionable under threat of loss of liberty. I think liberty should trump having our personal needs met by the state.
It's funny, he didn't mention cigars either, but you fixated on the word "Republicans". I find hyperbole to be a useful rhetorical tool. I take it that you disagree.
Also, regarding your sig, you might want to reconsider your definition of "civilization". A substantial portion of your tax dollars are spent on offensive weaponry and curtailing civil liberties.
So, we go from a guy who cuts taxes and then over-spends to a guy who won't cut taxes but still over-spends. Time will tell, but I have a feeling that Obama's spending will exceed Bush's, just as George "Smaller Government" Bush's exceeded Clinton's. I have a feeling Obama's will be roughly in proportion to the difference in their tax policies. I suppose this is an improvement. Kinda.
What will it take for the electorate to become too ashamed (or at least angry) to keep voting for these people? To paraphrase Penn Jillette, if we keep voting for the lesser of two evils and we're just going to keep getting evil.
The DEA's budget was $2,300,000,000 last year. And the year before. The people cashing those checks aren't going to nod sagely at the merit of your argument and leave that kind of money on the table.
(Which is why I think the income tax, another stupid 20th century invention, is the problem. But that is a whole other conversation.)
I pay a premium for a faster tier of service from Comcast. They marketed this feature to me, and have collected hundreds of dollars from me for this upgrade.
And somehow I'm doing them wrong by using it?
They already have tiered service. I see no reason they shouldn't deliver on what they have marketed and sold.
Who you worked for doesn't bear on the facts. About a year ago Echostar broke up into Dish Network, which owns all of the service, advertising, and programming contracts and Echostar Technologies, which controls the satellites, manufactures the set tops, and controls the underlying technology.
I believe employees of both companies continue to use @echostar.com address.
We don't need you to accept this in order for it to be true.
Stretching might be bad for performance, but it does reduce injury. 30% more power in your legs is useless when you snap your achilles tendon. That happened to a coworker who didn't stretch before playing ultimate. They had to dig it out of his calf and re-attach it.
Before you drew one little box or cloud on a whiteboard as part of the design process? Before your customer had a prototype to say "Oh, I don't like this at all"?
What are you talking about? The point was about being locked in by design choices. My comments were in the context of the original "ask slashdot", not whatever was going through your head when I made them. So, no, not before the first whiteboarding, but long before marrying an object model framework that squeezed all the air out of the project.
And, yes, part of being an expert is being out ahead of the ball. If you aren't asking your customer questions that he hasn't even considered then what does he really need you for? He could just get some college kids to code the thing up if it is fully realized in his mind.
I believe that ahead-of-schedule and under-budget have very little to do with success, unless there's no way in which you can delight the customer.
Well, they have everything to do with success if you're, you know, running a business. Delighting the customer is a laudable goal as well, but little comfort if you have to close the doors.
Has digging for requirements ever worked for me? I'll say! You must be doing it all wrong!
Maybe I don't understand your question. Are you asking if digging for requirements has turned every project I've touched into a paragon of ahead-of-schedule under-budget success? Certainly not.
But I have headed off innumerable problems by asking probing questions, clarifying what the customer wants (in his head and mine) and, thereby, minimizing dead-ends and unacceptable implementations.
And sometimes I get slapped down. And sometimes that causes over-runs and schedule slips. And when that happens I know that I've done my job . . . and I make sure my boss knows it, too.
Never worked on space probes, but I have worked on satellite set top boxes!
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Or maybe some companies just think they're above the law.
-Peter
This is why you aren't a Governor.
Anyone with a brain in his head (and without malice in his heart) would propose just that. Make up for the shortfall, provide a further incentive for people to operate fuel efficient vehicles, and not create a huge new bureaucracy to track citizen's movements.
*sigh*
-Peter
PS: I just posted another comment. While I wait for the posting time limit to elapse I'd like to point out that this guy is a Democrat. A Democrat who wants to track your car. Next time you're voting, consider voting for someone who isn't a member of one of the two parties who have been bringing us so many bad ideas for the last . . . however long. Thanks.
I'm constantly getting in arguments with people when I assert that Democrats are essentially no more desirable than Republicans (and vice versa); that, in fact, "both" parties are composed of raging shitheads.
So, here we have it. A Democrat Governor who wants to track your car by GPS.
I rest my case.
Now, PLEASE stop voting for these people. I'm begging you.
-Peter
That's fine for your one bank that you set up once.
I go to a lot of shows at small venues around town. Should I spend a couple of days driving around to all of them collecting their certs so I can buy tickets? (Maybe. Maybe once, maybe never.)
And where do I pick up my gmail certificate CD? And for my credit card company? (The one that doesn't have an office in my state.) And for my insurance company?
Oh, and I like to pay my cable, power, and cell phone bills on-line, too. So I guess I need to get CDs from them as well.
Oh, I also do my time sheets for work through a secure website. And I get my pay stubs through another. And manage my 401k through yet another.
I'm not so sure about your plan.
-Peter
So would the interstate commerce clause give the feds the power to have, say, built the railroads? Why not federalize all trucking? Or at least start a trucking company no one can compete with, since it's taxpayer funded?
Would we be better off if the feds had build the national phone infrastructure?
-Peter
Is there some ambiguity here that I'm missing?
Ah! But there is another choice!
After years of wondering why the other guys are so stupid when it comes to policy I realized that maybe I'm not so smart either. In fact, I realized that maybe we, collectively, shouldn't be telling each other, individually, what to do.
I can almost guarantee that I do some things that you think are a horrible idea. And it's likely that you do some things I don't like, too. But I realize that I'm not the best person to make those choices for you.
I think this applies equally to money. Doesn't it?
The Libertarian Party is the most mainstream expression of this idea that I'm aware of. Next time, why don't you vote against this sort of hypocrisy? You strike me as the kind of guy who isn't really comfortable doing things because "everybody else is doing it".
-Peter
Not talking about what you're required to do, talking about what's moral.
Do you fit into my statement above? That you think it's okay to collect taxes to pay for our invasion of Iraq, but not to fund things that involve abortion? Or are you like me, and don't really feel okay about either?
-Peter
That's a bit simplistic, isn't it?
What if the tax money was being used to torture puppies? Would it be okay to evade that? What if it was some other thing you find highly morally objectionable? Be it blowing up some country you have no quarrel with or doing embryonic stem cell research. (I understand that the electorate is generally divided into either-or camps on those two topics, but I think both are a bad idea.)
I understand that NY isn't doing any of these things, but there's always something.
The fundamental reason that I believe that taxes (and corresponding spending) should be absolutely minimal is that it forces people to fund things they may find morally objectionable under threat of loss of liberty. I think liberty should trump having our personal needs met by the state.
-Peter
In two words: your expectations.
When Congress swoops in to solve a problem I always expect them to fail. They almost never let me down.
-Peter
If your opinion of sex is no better than that, I suppose you've been doing it wrong.
I mean, even without a partner it should be better than that!
-Peter
You're NEVER going to get elected with THAT attitude.
-Peter
It's funny, he didn't mention cigars either, but you fixated on the word "Republicans". I find hyperbole to be a useful rhetorical tool. I take it that you disagree.
Also, regarding your sig, you might want to reconsider your definition of "civilization". A substantial portion of your tax dollars are spent on offensive weaponry and curtailing civil liberties.
-Peter
Right, because overweight, cigar smoking, filthy rich Republicans build yachts and fuel private jets.
It would be neat if your understanding of economics was less . . . cartoonish.
-Peter
So, we go from a guy who cuts taxes and then over-spends to a guy who won't cut taxes but still over-spends. Time will tell, but I have a feeling that Obama's spending will exceed Bush's, just as George "Smaller Government" Bush's exceeded Clinton's. I have a feeling Obama's will be roughly in proportion to the difference in their tax policies. I suppose this is an improvement. Kinda.
What will it take for the electorate to become too ashamed (or at least angry) to keep voting for these people? To paraphrase Penn Jillette, if we keep voting for the lesser of two evils and we're just going to keep getting evil.
-Peter
The DEA's budget was $2,300,000,000 last year. And the year before. The people cashing those checks aren't going to nod sagely at the merit of your argument and leave that kind of money on the table.
(Which is why I think the income tax, another stupid 20th century invention, is the problem. But that is a whole other conversation.)
-Peter
I pay a premium for a faster tier of service from Comcast. They marketed this feature to me, and have collected hundreds of dollars from me for this upgrade.
And somehow I'm doing them wrong by using it?
They already have tiered service. I see no reason they shouldn't deliver on what they have marketed and sold.
-Peter
I'm sure the SEC and IRS will find your theory fascinating.
You may have just revolutionized business practices in America.
-Peter
Who you worked for doesn't bear on the facts. About a year ago Echostar broke up into Dish Network, which owns all of the service, advertising, and programming contracts and Echostar Technologies, which controls the satellites, manufactures the set tops, and controls the underlying technology.
I believe employees of both companies continue to use @echostar.com address.
We don't need you to accept this in order for it to be true.
-Peter
Did anyone check the tool bag?
-Peter
PS: Remember, there is no mod option for "I don't get it."
Stretching might be bad for performance, but it does reduce injury. 30% more power in your legs is useless when you snap your achilles tendon. That happened to a coworker who didn't stretch before playing ultimate. They had to dig it out of his calf and re-attach it.
I'll stretch, thanks.
-Peter
Your post would have been twice as good if you had said, "I fully back you on this. Now, control your fucking children."
-Peter
For an instant I was upset that you spoiled it. That feeling was immediately washed away by gratitude.
Thank you for sparing me from reading this.
-Peter
What are you talking about? The point was about being locked in by design choices. My comments were in the context of the original "ask slashdot", not whatever was going through your head when I made them. So, no, not before the first whiteboarding, but long before marrying an object model framework that squeezed all the air out of the project.
And, yes, part of being an expert is being out ahead of the ball. If you aren't asking your customer questions that he hasn't even considered then what does he really need you for? He could just get some college kids to code the thing up if it is fully realized in his mind.
Well, they have everything to do with success if you're, you know, running a business. Delighting the customer is a laudable goal as well, but little comfort if you have to close the doors.
-Peter
Has digging for requirements ever worked for me? I'll say! You must be doing it all wrong!
Maybe I don't understand your question. Are you asking if digging for requirements has turned every project I've touched into a paragon of ahead-of-schedule under-budget success? Certainly not.
But I have headed off innumerable problems by asking probing questions, clarifying what the customer wants (in his head and mine) and, thereby, minimizing dead-ends and unacceptable implementations.
And sometimes I get slapped down. And sometimes that causes over-runs and schedule slips. And when that happens I know that I've done my job . . . and I make sure my boss knows it, too.
Never worked on space probes, but I have worked on satellite set top boxes!
-Peter