You know that the US of A stops at the border, right?
What you think of other countries are at most an opinion that the rest of the world couldn't care less about.
We've chosen systems that work, like this Canadian system, based solely on how bad the US handles itself.
It is like seeing that poor drunk uncle that always makes a fool of himself at every party trying to convince someone that he hasn't a drinking problem and if just he could run everything it would all be so much better.
I just had to comment on the fact that neither Hammurabi nor Moses used English...:-P
I would probably look into German, French or even Hebrew if you want to get down history lane on the etymology... Perhaps Google Translate would be a good starting point?
Apparently, you don't understand how the tax system work in Sweden... If you think that you only think that your tax is paid on your part of your salary... Must be the result of the flawed school-system or old-school socialist indoctrination I suppose.
So as a break down on that 18000 kr you "don't" pay taxes on looks like this:
You actually earn 18000 kr + 5600 kr = 23600 kr but the last part is withheld and hidden by the state as tax your employer pays. So even there you pay 24% tax... Sorry to rain on your parade!
Of those 18000 you "don't" pay tax on you then pay 25% in sales tax and so forth...
If you save what small sum you have left you then have to pay 22% tax on the interest...
If you think that your tax is "zero" you should perhaps read up on the real facts!
Sorry but this is not true by any means. I'm living under the so-called social democracy of Sweden. Which is a joke as our social welfare is based on a lie... a big lie!
It is nothing but a Ponzi-scheme on a country scale and as soon as something goes horribly wrong, as it often does, we only raise taxes to cover the huge holes in the budget. The economy is only working if all current costs including pensions etc are paid through the taxes of the workers and they are getting fewer by the minute. That gives us a tax pressure of about 76%... Yes, 76 cents of every dollar you earn is taken by the state in taxes, direct or indirect. More than 50% of the working population is working for the state. So it is fewer than 25% that has to carry the weight of the whole country. Wonderful? It is foul and nasty!
The state also run our lives completely by first take all your money and then give it back as welfare but only if you are nice and a good citizen that votes for the right party.
So if you fancy a country where free speech is based on the decisions of a "benevolent" state, the whole financial system is run by the state, the school system is in shambles and the healthcare is a joke with people dying in the queues to their hopefully life-saving operations...
Well, if that is your view of a "good" society you can have it. We are sick and tired of it and by the 9th of September, after our general election, we will get rid of this GDR-like state.
This news if any, proves to me, that the credibility that Slashdot has had fÃr years in the most varied of fields are now slipping significantly into crap-land..
It is almost so bad that I will stop reading Slashdot for good, based on the complete "junk science" that you give credibility by headlining it in this way.
Shame on you and the money grabbing hands you've got and this from a long, seriously long, time reader that is now fed up!
So this is where the Patent Trolls got their business model from.
Now when the Patents aren't as lucrative as it used to be I wonder if you can't find the same actors in these suits...
It is just disgusting that you can earn your living on the back of creative people just by suing everybody that may have come in contact with the results of these creative souls labour...
Should have wished that for a New Years resolution...
I know it is Christmas but hey, this is something that is: a) Not news! b) Seriously NOT NEWS! c) Yikes, when will you ever learn!
Selling ads through Click Bait is probably as old as the Internet itself (imagining Vint Cerf standing with a UUCP connection to connect to that document claiming to fix the hosts-file problem) but I thought that Slashdot was above this... apparently not!
When the common Joe starts to use a term like this it all goes straight to hell... not one technical or otherwise defined term that goes mainstream survive.
So welcome to the new brave world of the Crypto Hacker Troll!:-P
Python... smython...Still using FORTRAN 77 with the wonderful way of (not) declaring types of variables... or rather looking at the name of the variable to understand what kind of type it is...
Why are the animals somersaulting all the time? And look like freak goths? Unless the jury is seriously on some mind altering drug I sincerely hope they are running last... Yikes!
The idea behind terrorism is not the attack itself but the assumed possibility that an attack will happen somewhere sometime.
The western worlds governments are doing the dirty work for the terrorists by imposing ridiculous rules on us instead of trying to solve the problems in the world and by that taking away the fertile ground in which radical extremism keeps growing.
We should not forget medias role in this as they are trying to cut through the noise and competitive landscape by trying to scare the living crap out us... and the way that news has been transformed to entertainment it won't be better.
It has gone far when Al Jazeera actually have a more balanced coverage on things happening INSIDE the US than US media itself...
It is a sad, sad day for humanity that the terrorists win this on walk over by our lack of understanding and commitment!
When will the US come and join the rest of the civilised world and use real SI units instead of these archaic messurement units...
Cubic yards??? Come on... it's not that strange that you shot a hole in mars with your probe.
Can someone tell these boneheads that we outside of the US aren't to pleased to allways see that the event horizon of the US citizen ends at the border of the US of A.
Ever heard of things like KDE and Linux??? Not invented in the US!!! Suprise, suprise!
Go back to the drawingboard and come up with a contest worthy of the Mozilla project!
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You know that the US of A stops at the border, right?
What you think of other countries are at most an opinion that the rest of the world couldn't care less about.
We've chosen systems that work, like this Canadian system, based solely on how bad the US handles itself.
It is like seeing that poor drunk uncle that always makes a fool of himself at every party trying to convince someone that he hasn't a drinking problem and if just he could run everything it would all be so much better.
Well... NO!
I just had to comment on the fact that neither Hammurabi nor Moses used English... :-P
I would probably look into German, French or even Hebrew if you want to get down history lane on the etymology... Perhaps Google Translate would be a good starting point?
Apparently, you don't understand how the tax system work in Sweden... If you think that you only think that your tax is paid on your part of your salary... Must be the result of the flawed school-system or old-school socialist indoctrination I suppose.
So as a break down on that 18000 kr you "don't" pay taxes on looks like this:
You actually earn 18000 kr + 5600 kr = 23600 kr but the last part is withheld and hidden by the state as tax your employer pays. So even there you pay 24% tax... Sorry to rain on your parade!
Of those 18000 you "don't" pay tax on you then pay 25% in sales tax and so forth...
If you save what small sum you have left you then have to pay 22% tax on the interest...
If you think that your tax is "zero" you should perhaps read up on the real facts!
https://www.ekonomifakta.se/ (In Swedish but I think you can manage)
Sorry but this is not true by any means. I'm living under the so-called social democracy of Sweden. Which is a joke as our social welfare is based on a lie... a big lie!
It is nothing but a Ponzi-scheme on a country scale and as soon as something goes horribly wrong, as it often does, we only raise taxes to cover the huge holes in the budget. The economy is only working if all current costs including pensions etc are paid through the taxes of the workers and they are getting fewer by the minute. That gives us a tax pressure of about 76%... Yes, 76 cents of every dollar you earn is taken by the state in taxes, direct or indirect. More than 50% of the working population is working for the state. So it is fewer than 25% that has to carry the weight of the whole country. Wonderful? It is foul and nasty!
The state also run our lives completely by first take all your money and then give it back as welfare but only if you are nice and a good citizen that votes for the right party.
So if you fancy a country where free speech is based on the decisions of a "benevolent" state, the whole financial system is run by the state, the school system is in shambles and the healthcare is a joke with people dying in the queues to their hopefully life-saving operations...
Well, if that is your view of a "good" society you can have it. We are sick and tired of it and by the 9th of September, after our general election, we will get rid of this GDR-like state.
This news if any, proves to me, that the credibility that Slashdot has had fÃr years in the most varied of fields are now slipping significantly into crap-land..
It is almost so bad that I will stop reading Slashdot for good, based on the complete "junk science" that you give credibility by headlining it in this way.
Shame on you and the money grabbing hands you've got and this from a long, seriously long, time reader that is now fed up!
So this is where the Patent Trolls got their business model from.
Now when the Patents aren't as lucrative as it used to be I wonder if you can't find the same actors in these suits...
It is just disgusting that you can earn your living on the back of creative people just by suing everybody that may have come in contact with the results of these creative souls labour...
Should have wished that for a New Years resolution...
I know it is Christmas but hey, this is something that is:
a) Not news!
b) Seriously NOT NEWS!
c) Yikes, when will you ever learn!
Selling ads through Click Bait is probably as old as the Internet itself (imagining Vint Cerf standing with a UUCP connection to connect to that document claiming to fix the hosts-file problem) but I thought that Slashdot was above this... apparently not!
Merry Christmas to you all!
... lite the Hacker and the Troll.
When the common Joe starts to use a term like this it all goes straight to hell... not one technical or otherwise defined term that goes mainstream survive.
So welcome to the new brave world of the Crypto Hacker Troll! :-P
Python... smython...Still using FORTRAN 77 with the wonderful way of (not) declaring types of variables... or rather looking at the name of the variable to understand what kind of type it is...
Why are the animals somersaulting all the time? And look like freak goths? Unless the jury is seriously on some mind altering drug I sincerely hope they are running last... Yikes!
That is so 90s...
And this is how Musks new Mars spaceship will contain it's inhabitants... ðY
Ever heard of security issues? They need to have someone to get them fixed if you aren't able to "fix" the code yourself...
Could we all get a reality check here, please!
The idea behind terrorism is not the attack itself but the assumed possibility that an attack will happen somewhere sometime.
The western worlds governments are doing the dirty work for the terrorists by imposing ridiculous rules on us instead of trying to solve the problems in the world and by that taking away the fertile ground in which radical extremism keeps growing.
We should not forget medias role in this as they are trying to cut through the noise and competitive landscape by trying to scare the living crap out us... and the way that news has been transformed to entertainment it won't be better.
It has gone far when Al Jazeera actually have a more balanced coverage on things happening INSIDE the US than US media itself...
It is a sad, sad day for humanity that the terrorists win this on walk over by our lack of understanding and commitment!
When will the US come and join the rest of the civilised world and use real SI units instead of these archaic messurement units... Cubic yards??? Come on... it's not that strange that you shot a hole in mars with your probe.
Can someone tell these boneheads that we outside of the US aren't to pleased to allways see that the event horizon of the US citizen ends at the border of the US of A. Ever heard of things like KDE and Linux??? Not invented in the US!!! Suprise, suprise! Go back to the drawingboard and come up with a contest worthy of the Mozilla project!