I have been running Linux on the desktop for 3 years... I don't miss anything. I upgraded from CentOS 6 to 7 recently and from a fresh install, it took 2 hours including my toolchain and epel apps.
On the other hand, I maintain my families Windows machines. Had to reinstall Windows 10 on a laptop this weekend because all the crapware that was slowing it down making it unusable. I swear you have to do this every few years because of crap that accumulates - let alone the crap that comes with a new PC. It took the entire day to re-install Windows and Office - many reboots for reasons I don't know -
Goodbye Sunday
I have Facebook friends who are Flat Earthers... the primary motivation is religion. I have been told by these fellow that NASA maintains guards on the Ice Wall in Antarctica to prevent you from learning the truth.
The S in NASA stands for Satan. There is vast conspiracy trying to keep you from finding out the truth of the Bible... No kidding.
Obvious bait to those who can't see very far into the future in order sneak in the trojan horse of permanent lower taxes for the extremely wealthy. Say Hello to the new landed gentry
They lead to massive injustices like people inheriting their grandfather's old house in the city centre which the family has owned since the 19th century and which he inherited just after WWII. Only now that the real-estate prices have risen astronomically and you have to pay an inheritance tax calculated on the basis of ridiculously inflated land values resulting in tax payments that are beyond the means of any normal family.
This is not true in the USofA. The basis of the new inherence is stepped up to present value and no tax is owed at all. The capital gains are entirely skipped. Wealthy families use this to preserve their wealth across generations - we call it Old Money and is why we have so many Trust Fund Babies who while away their time hunting endangered species.
I prefer to live in a meritocracy when each generation earns their way in life and not some born to privilege. As Adam Smith wrote the fullness of the earth should be available to each succeeding generation.
Inheritance income has already been taxed at least once. Taxing it again is double taxation.
We are all double taxed, I earn income... i am taxed then I buy a car I pay tax with post-tax dollars, I pay property tax with post-tax dollars, etc.
Should your kid pay taxes on every pancake you feed them at breakfast? Of course not, because you already paid taxes on the income to acquire the pancakes.
The current exemption that is soon to go away is $11M per couple. You can buy a lot of pancakes for $11M.
It doesn't matter to society if you spend all your money before you die at 110 years old or if you die young at 60 and your kids inherit and spend that money. Why should more of it be diverted from the market economy to government spending (such as US military operations in foreign countries) just because you got cancer young?
There is a transaction from the original wealth creator to their heirs - it is clearly income from the perspective of the heirs. It should be taxed.
People are trying to argue that all income should be taxed.
Estate Tax is being repealed in this very same GOP plan. How can anyone argue that inheritance isn't income? And the assets in an inheritance (property, stocks, bonds) have their basis (original cost) magically stepped up to present value and thereby dodging the normal Capital Gains tax.
It appears the Republicans favor old money, the idle rich and trust fund babies than they do scientists, doctors, educators, engineers - you know the people that actually make American Great.
The tuition waiver is a coupon or a scholarship. It isn't real income. When you get a coupon for something of value... do you get taxed on the full price value?
Inheritance is income... it now won't be taxed. The heirs receive a huge windfall AND the assets in Estates have their base stepped up - completely dodging capital gains tax. But lowly Grad Student will be taxed on something they never see and pay taxes in the realm of 30% on a poverty level income.
If this doesn't piss you off you are not paying attention.
In the current GOP Tax plan, they are seeking to tax Grad students on the Tuition waiver (usually in the range of 25k to 50k). This would wipe out the meager stipends that middle-class and disadvantaged students require to live.
My son a Grad Student has a stipend of 20K at a school where the tuition waiver is worth 50k. He will have to pay taxes as if he were making 70K. He will have to drop out because he can't make it.
Driving a nail into a slab of wood requires a lot less energy than driving one into concrete
Seems like a desperate attempt at coming up with advantages... Does the energy of driving a nail into concrete really have some measurable impact? How many nails are driven into concrete in modern buildings?
Back in the day I had evolved a string handling library for my c programming. Then when someone showed my Perl I realized that: Hey here is much better string handling library and it is available wherever I go.
Same here... I have a lot of Perl stuff running under cgi-bin (some of it over 20 years old) and have never ever had it break because of a system update. I had one long term running script break when a bit was flipped on the drive though.
Microsoft realized they made a mistake with Windows 8.0/8.1 and came out with Windows 10.
Give some points to the AC above.
Yes Gnome 3 is non-intuitive, breaks with gui common memes and is hard to configure. I manage a number of workstations for visiting scientist/engineers that come from different non-linux (ie Windows and Mac) backgrounds. When I have Mate configured they sit down and start work immediately without even noticing what is the underlying OS/GUI. Switched to Gnome 3 and immediately started getting questions and WTFs complaints.
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Who are in charge of the DHS in May 2017? Hmmmmm?
Just curious why did you pick Santa Barbara here?
I have been running Linux on the desktop for 3 years... I don't miss anything. I upgraded from CentOS 6 to 7 recently and from a fresh install, it took 2 hours including my toolchain and epel apps.
On the other hand, I maintain my families Windows machines. Had to reinstall Windows 10 on a laptop this weekend because all the crapware that was slowing it down making it unusable. I swear you have to do this every few years because of crap that accumulates - let alone the crap that comes with a new PC. It took the entire day to re-install Windows and Office - many reboots for reasons I don't know -
Goodbye Sunday
I have Facebook friends who are Flat Earthers... the primary motivation is religion. I have been told by these fellow that NASA maintains guards on the Ice Wall in Antarctica to prevent you from learning the truth.
The S in NASA stands for Satan. There is vast conspiracy trying to keep you from finding out the truth of the Bible... No kidding.
LOL... Look at the clean aerodynamics on the second picture... at 500 MPH!!!
https://storage.googleapis.com... [googleapis.com]
And then oh boy the sponsors
https://storage.googleapis.com... [googleapis.com]
He really needs to add Looney Tunes as a sponsor because I believe this was inspired by watching too many cartoons as a child.
Obvious bait to those who can't see very far into the future in order sneak in the trojan horse of permanent lower taxes for the extremely wealthy. Say Hello to the new landed gentry
They lead to massive injustices like people inheriting their grandfather's old house in the city centre which the family has owned since the 19th century and which he inherited just after WWII. Only now that the real-estate prices have risen astronomically and you have to pay an inheritance tax calculated on the basis of ridiculously inflated land values resulting in tax payments that are beyond the means of any normal family.
This is not true in the USofA. The basis of the new inherence is stepped up to present value and no tax is owed at all. The capital gains are entirely skipped. Wealthy families use this to preserve their wealth across generations - we call it Old Money and is why we have so many Trust Fund Babies who while away their time hunting endangered species.
I prefer to live in a meritocracy when each generation earns their way in life and not some born to privilege. As Adam Smith wrote the fullness of the earth should be available to each succeeding generation.
Inheritance income has already been taxed at least once. Taxing it again is double taxation.
We are all double taxed, I earn income... i am taxed then I buy a car I pay tax with post-tax dollars, I pay property tax with post-tax dollars, etc.
Should your kid pay taxes on every pancake you feed them at breakfast? Of course not, because you already paid taxes on the income to acquire the pancakes.
The current exemption that is soon to go away is $11M per couple. You can buy a lot of pancakes for $11M.
It doesn't matter to society if you spend all your money before you die at 110 years old or if you die young at 60 and your kids inherit and spend that money. Why should more of it be diverted from the market economy to government spending (such as US military operations in foreign countries) just because you got cancer young?
There is a transaction from the original wealth creator to their heirs - it is clearly income from the perspective of the heirs. It should be taxed.
Exactly.... it is obvious that the GOP favors Old Money and Trust Fund Babies and shits on the next generation scientists and engineers and educators.
Perhaps the universities, which are in many cases hoarding billions of dollars of tax-free endowment money
Ever wonder why America is great? Or why we have some of the best graduate schools? You seem to advocate we eat our seed corn?
People are trying to argue that all income should be taxed.
Estate Tax is being repealed in this very same GOP plan. How can anyone argue that inheritance isn't income? And the assets in an inheritance (property, stocks, bonds) have their basis (original cost) magically stepped up to present value and thereby dodging the normal Capital Gains tax.
It appears the Republicans favor old money, the idle rich and trust fund babies than they do scientists, doctors, educators, engineers - you know the people that actually make American Great.
The tuition waiver is a coupon or a scholarship. It isn't real income. When you get a coupon for something of value... do you get taxed on the full price value?
Just FYI, any time you are given something of value, it is income. Someone lets you live in their house for free? Income. ...
Estate inheritance, it is income and taxed... Wait no it isn't! Not anymore the R's take'n care of their owners
Square that one with you claim that when given something of value, it is income.
Reference, please...
Reminds me of an Edward Abbey quote: The new conservatives are neither new nor conservative - but as old as Babylon and Evil as Hell.
Inheritance is income... it now won't be taxed. The heirs receive a huge windfall AND the assets in Estates have their base stepped up - completely dodging capital gains tax. But lowly Grad Student will be taxed on something they never see and pay taxes in the realm of 30% on a poverty level income.
If this doesn't piss you off you are not paying attention.
Yeap... Grad students will be paying taxes on income they never see and in a tax bracket of around 40%
Here is another article talking about.
http://www.illinoishomepage.ne...
"Instead of just most people getting Ph.D.s it would be pretty much every Ph.D. student would have to come from relative wealth."
Middle class while essentially be filtered out of Ph. D programs. This is sleeper bombshell in the new Tax Plan. Write your congressman!
In the current GOP Tax plan, they are seeking to tax Grad students on the Tuition waiver (usually in the range of 25k to 50k). This would wipe out the meager stipends that middle-class and disadvantaged students require to live.
My son a Grad Student has a stipend of 20K at a school where the tuition waiver is worth 50k. He will have to pay taxes as if he were making 70K. He will have to drop out because he can't make it.
https://twitter.com/ClausWilke...
They are attacking the middle-class and education all the while giving the rich a huge tax break by repealing the Estate Tax.
Oh where are my mod points...
Driving a nail into a slab of wood requires a lot less energy than driving one into concrete
Seems like a desperate attempt at coming up with advantages... Does the energy of driving a nail into concrete really have some measurable impact? How many nails are driven into concrete in modern buildings?
Exactly Perl gets slammed for being ASCII character line noise and yet Javascript code frequency ends with something like:
);
};
} );
wtf
Back in the day I had evolved a string handling library for my c programming. Then when someone showed my Perl I realized that: Hey here is much better string handling library and it is available wherever I go.
Same here... I have a lot of Perl stuff running under cgi-bin (some of it over 20 years old) and have never ever had it break because of a system update. I had one long term running script break when a bit was flipped on the drive though.
Microsoft realized they made a mistake with Windows 8.0/8.1 and came out with Windows 10.
Give some points to the AC above.
Yes Gnome 3 is non-intuitive, breaks with gui common memes and is hard to configure. I manage a number of workstations for visiting scientist/engineers that come from different non-linux (ie Windows and Mac) backgrounds. When I have Mate configured they sit down and start work immediately without even noticing what is the underlying OS/GUI. Switched to Gnome 3 and immediately started getting questions and WTFs complaints.
Ransomware writers around the world are salivating.
Seriously who would make such a boneheaded decision?