How else can you get people to vote against their own best interest?
If the last 70 years or so are any guide, you tell them that it's not fair that someone else is doing better, and that you're just going to punish those others in order to make things more "fair."
Just because you don't want to call it communism doesn't mean that isn't what you're describing. Some of those guys who messed it up previously probably meant well, too.
I thought his original post was pretty obvious, and just as obvious was the fact that you ignored his obvious point to try to score a few/. pedantry points by deliberately misunderstanding what he was saying.
For one, most taxes aren't based upon "wealth." They're usually event based. Which is why lowering the capital gains tax increases revenue, often dramatically. It reduces the disincentive to hold onto investments, and creates more taxable exchanges.
You're not thinking big enough. It typically takes 12-16 years for education to pay off. Imagine all the money we could save if we stopped all that nonsense.
The state isn't a private corporation that can just pass on cost increases to their customers.
True. The residents, unlike customers, don't typically have the same capability to avoid the cost increases like the proposed "temporary" sales tax increase.
My OSX? I don't now, and I don't plan to ever use OSX. I'm not sure why you'd say this in response to my comment, which didn't even mention anything OSX specific.
User level access is all that's required to get the user's information. I'm not saying that compromising a system doesn't matter, but just that the problem is more than about unnecessary admin/root users.
If you can social engineer someone to run something, you can potentially steal their information without escalating privilege. I certainly agree with the inexperienced user part, and unnecessary admin/root is a problem, but after losing (note: not just damaged, but stolen) key information, formatting and re-installation may be trivial in comparison.
Depends upon what sort of information they stole from your user files. How do you 'recover' stolen proprietary information? The 'whole system' may be trivial in comparison.
If you like XCode, and don't see the need to ever not use it, then it's probably not an improvement. And the people using MSVS probably aren't building makefiles, either. So what? But it's an improvement over "manually invoking" gcc, which is what the AC was talking about. It's also not tied into a specific IDE, which may or may not be important to you.
In any case, it has nothing to do with the OP's issue...
You must be joking. Have you ever written a project that had more than 5 C++ files? I work on projects that have dozens -- if not hundreds -- of different files, organized into multiple different directories, with many different library dependencies and different configuration options. Manually calling gcc is simply impossible, unless I want to waste half a day every time I need to compile something.
WTF? It's called a makefile. "Manually invoking" gcc goes something like this:
Is there only one point of being a musician? I tend to think not. But the point of buying an album is to enjoy it. Why would it matter what their former views on music copyright were? In any case, whatever their motives, they'd be releasing content in the way that all the RIAA-haters have been championing. It would seem that the more success this distribution channel gets, the better.
...to accomplish your true and altruistic goals ( - that is sad state of affairs ) of providing secure products and services.
Why is this altruistic? It makes your product better, and should make you more competitive in the marketplace. Granted, this is more of a long term effect than the short term effect of cutting corners to cut costs. But businesses make investments every day. I think it's just as important to stress the benefits as well as the costs or the risk reduction.
Not to mention all of the encouragement and enabling by the political class. Either way, I agree with your conclusion. It's not only unethical, it's stupid, and will only encourage more.
No, I'd says he's right on. I'd interpret "growth" to mean an absolute number of bytes by which it's growing (i.e., "** PB"). I guess you could interpret that either way, but I think "growth rate" would be more appropriate. If you measured a tree, and it was 10ft tall, then next month it was 11ft, and the following month, 12ft 1in tall, it grew more in the second month, but the rate of growth was slower.
I don't particularly like many big corporations, and I like government less, but at least with government it might actually go to something useful. I know that is a longshot, but it has a greater than 0% chance, which is what you have with a big corporation.
WTF? So paying workers and buying things from other countries is not useful? I agree, that if the money gets spent on the military, or maybe police or fire services, it's probably a useful dollar to the government, but really, how many of those dollars go there?
Why should a state be allowed to tax activities taking place outside of their state? Would NY like it if CA started taxing their activities? It's not simply the actual tax. The consumer obviously pays that. But there's also the cost of administration and record keeping, audits, etc. Suppose you operate an online store. Suddenly, instead of just worrying about the feds and your home state, you have 49 other states burdening you with their own bizarre tax codes and requirements. I'd like to think that the only people who could possibly support this sort of thing would be politicians interested in spending other people's money, but every year or two, millions of my fellow Americans amaze me.
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If the last 70 years or so are any guide, you tell them that it's not fair that someone else is doing better, and that you're just going to punish those others in order to make things more "fair."
Just because you don't want to call it communism doesn't mean that isn't what you're describing. Some of those guys who messed it up previously probably meant well, too.
I thought his original post was pretty obvious, and just as obvious was the fact that you ignored his obvious point to try to score a few /. pedantry points by deliberately misunderstanding what he was saying.
Translation: I want to tell you how to live.
And this is why communism has failed and will fail every time it is tried.
For one, most taxes aren't based upon "wealth." They're usually event based. Which is why lowering the capital gains tax increases revenue, often dramatically. It reduces the disincentive to hold onto investments, and creates more taxable exchanges.
You're not thinking big enough. It typically takes 12-16 years for education to pay off. Imagine all the money we could save if we stopped all that nonsense.
True. The residents, unlike customers, don't typically have the same capability to avoid the cost increases like the proposed "temporary" sales tax increase.
My OSX? I don't now, and I don't plan to ever use OSX. I'm not sure why you'd say this in response to my comment, which didn't even mention anything OSX specific.
User level access is all that's required to get the user's information. I'm not saying that compromising a system doesn't matter, but just that the problem is more than about unnecessary admin/root users. If you can social engineer someone to run something, you can potentially steal their information without escalating privilege. I certainly agree with the inexperienced user part, and unnecessary admin/root is a problem, but after losing (note: not just damaged, but stolen) key information, formatting and re-installation may be trivial in comparison.
Depends upon what sort of information they stole from your user files. How do you 'recover' stolen proprietary information? The 'whole system' may be trivial in comparison.
If you like XCode, and don't see the need to ever not use it, then it's probably not an improvement. And the people using MSVS probably aren't building makefiles, either. So what? But it's an improvement over "manually invoking" gcc, which is what the AC was talking about. It's also not tied into a specific IDE, which may or may not be important to you.
In any case, it has nothing to do with the OP's issue...
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Except for the lobbyists that he likes, right? Like teachers unions and farm lobbies and trial lawyers?
Is there only one point of being a musician? I tend to think not. But the point of buying an album is to enjoy it. Why would it matter what their former views on music copyright were? In any case, whatever their motives, they'd be releasing content in the way that all the RIAA-haters have been championing. It would seem that the more success this distribution channel gets, the better.
Not to mention all of the encouragement and enabling by the political class. Either way, I agree with your conclusion. It's not only unethical, it's stupid, and will only encourage more.
No, I'd says he's right on. I'd interpret "growth" to mean an absolute number of bytes by which it's growing (i.e., "** PB"). I guess you could interpret that either way, but I think "growth rate" would be more appropriate. If you measured a tree, and it was 10ft tall, then next month it was 11ft, and the following month, 12ft 1in tall, it grew more in the second month, but the rate of growth was slower.
Why should a state be allowed to tax activities taking place outside of their state? Would NY like it if CA started taxing their activities? It's not simply the actual tax. The consumer obviously pays that. But there's also the cost of administration and record keeping, audits, etc. Suppose you operate an online store. Suddenly, instead of just worrying about the feds and your home state, you have 49 other states burdening you with their own bizarre tax codes and requirements. I'd like to think that the only people who could possibly support this sort of thing would be politicians interested in spending other people's money, but every year or two, millions of my fellow Americans amaze me.
No, but their parents can.
And if you think Pakistan is in the Middle East, you need a map.
Theism != religeous
Yeah, that Anonymous Coward guy seems to get a bad rap around here. It's about time he had something good happen to him.