I've heard Penn & Teller often begin their stage shows by have Penn walk out on to the middle of the stage with a microphone, turn to the audience, and then scream 'FIRE!'
Nothing happens.
>If the manufacturers of this wireless device provided specifications for this device to the Free/open-source Software >community, a driver would have been written the next day.
And if wishes were horses, even beggars would ride.
People using nofrills ISP (e.g. NetZero) might see something like this, but I doubt you'll see any of full service ISPs switching to Google mail. Their customers are unlikely to keep paying the higher price to have the services they're paying that price for replaced with web apps they could get for free.
In my own case, for instance, POP3 access to my e-mail is one of the reasons I'm paying a bit more for Worldnet.
Since we can't possibly afford to give millions to just anyone who decides to run, public financing inherently necessitates placing limits on who is and who isn't allowed to run. The danger of a system where the people currently in office get to decide who their future opponents will be should be obvious.
Given we already have a system where 97% of the elections are won by the incumbent, what is the purpose of further restricting the pool of potential opponents?
The only thing worse than a government beholdened to campaign supports is a government beholden to nothing.
>SLAC is both the longest and straightest building in the world and is the home of three Nobel Prizes in physics.
Only until the next big SF quake... After which it will have to be renamed the SPLAC (Stanford Piecewise Linear ACcelerator).
>If they GPL'd it from the get go, it would have been a shoe-in, game over, touchdown, and go home.
Yes, this is why, for instance, Linux is now running on 90% of computers where as Windows is just a novelty for codegeeks and the cheaper side of the server market.
In the US, we have that system in the form of the $3 matching funds checkoff on your income taxes, and in that case it doesn't even cost the voters $3 to put the money in the pool--it comes out of the general budget.
83% of people refuse to participate.
You're confusing average tax rates (total taxes / total income) with marginal tax rates (tax rate on last dollar earned). The previous poster was talking about the latter, you're talking about the former.
When the bank has to reimburse customers $200,000+, it's not like they can just go out to the magic money tree behind the bank and get another bushel of bills. All the money the bank has ultimately comes from customers, so one way or another they're ultimately going to be the ones paying for the loss.
The REAL question is whether ALL of the customers should lose out (through higher fees and lower interest rates) or just the ones dumb enough to fall for the phishing scams.
I'll support prosecuting Dentara Rask for fraud, but only if all of his "victims" are prosecuted for income tax evasion for failing to report their ISK's as income.
Either ISK's have real world value or they don't. The "victims" can't have it one way when it's convenient and the other way when it's not.
Sadly, Steve Irwin's death has forced producers to shelve plans for Snakes on a Plane 2: Stingrays on a Boat
"Crikey! I'm fair dinkum annoyed at all these bodgy stingrays on this bodgy boat!"
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I've heard Penn & Teller often begin their stage shows by have Penn walk out on to the middle of the stage with a microphone, turn to the audience, and then scream 'FIRE!' Nothing happens.
>If the manufacturers of this wireless device provided specifications for this device to the Free/open-source Software
>community, a driver would have been written the next day.
And if wishes were horses, even beggars would ride.
People using nofrills ISP (e.g. NetZero) might see something like this, but I doubt you'll see any of full service ISPs switching to Google mail. Their customers are unlikely to keep paying the higher price to have the services they're paying that price for replaced with web apps they could get for free. In my own case, for instance, POP3 access to my e-mail is one of the reasons I'm paying a bit more for Worldnet.
Ever read the constitution? Especially the fourth ammendment?
Since we can't possibly afford to give millions to just anyone who decides to run, public financing inherently necessitates placing limits on who is and who isn't allowed to run. The danger of a system where the people currently in office get to decide who their future opponents will be should be obvious.
Given we already have a system where 97% of the elections are won by the incumbent, what is the purpose of further restricting the pool of potential opponents?
The only thing worse than a government beholdened to campaign supports is a government beholden to nothing.
Considering how wooden the acting was, I'm not sure the last three Star Wars films had members of the Skywalker family as 'characters'.
I wasn't buglarizing this house, I was just checking the home security system for holes!
The Internet - A general purpose wide area network composed of computers communicating with the IPv4 protocol at the network layer.
>the difference between your selling price and your purchase price, less expenses, is income, and
>subject to income tax
Actually, it's not quite that simple. Depending on what you're selling and why, it may be income, or it may be capital gains.
...that Wilkes University doesn't have a school of engineering.
>SLAC is both the longest and straightest building in the world and is the home of three Nobel Prizes in physics. Only until the next big SF quake... After which it will have to be renamed the SPLAC (Stanford Piecewise Linear ACcelerator).
Columbia wasn't still around to be on the launch pad for the inevitable "Hail, Columbia!" headlines that would have resulted.
Oppressed as in speech or oppressed as in beer?
>If they GPL'd it from the get go, it would have been a shoe-in, game over, touchdown, and go home.
Yes, this is why, for instance, Linux is now running on 90% of computers where as Windows is just a novelty for codegeeks and the cheaper side of the server market.
Reindexing the ocean yet?
But will everyone be allowed to edit the ads?
Dumbledore is and will remain dead. The mentor has to die in order to force the hero to come into his own.
In the US, we have that system in the form of the $3 matching funds checkoff on your income taxes, and in that case it doesn't even cost the voters $3 to put the money in the pool--it comes out of the general budget. 83% of people refuse to participate.
>"Give us a Linux port or we spend our money elsewhere!"
This would probably be a more effective threat if the primary reason most people became Linux users wasn't to avoid ever paying for anything.
Content based regulation is generally not allowed by the first ammendment. They have to apply the rules to either all lawyer blogs or none of them.
You're confusing average tax rates (total taxes / total income) with marginal tax rates (tax rate on last dollar earned). The previous poster was talking about the latter, you're talking about the former.
When the bank has to reimburse customers $200,000+, it's not like they can just go out to the magic money tree behind the bank and get another bushel of bills. All the money the bank has ultimately comes from customers, so one way or another they're ultimately going to be the ones paying for the loss. The REAL question is whether ALL of the customers should lose out (through higher fees and lower interest rates) or just the ones dumb enough to fall for the phishing scams.
I'll support prosecuting Dentara Rask for fraud, but only if all of his "victims" are prosecuted for income tax evasion for failing to report their ISK's as income.
Either ISK's have real world value or they don't. The "victims" can't have it one way when it's convenient and the other way when it's not.
>he knew the risks and died doing what he loved to do...
...Iritating the crap out of a poisonous critter.
Sadly, Steve Irwin's death has forced producers to shelve plans for Snakes on a Plane 2: Stingrays on a Boat "Crikey! I'm fair dinkum annoyed at all these bodgy stingrays on this bodgy boat!"