I see nothing wrong here except the rich aren't being taxed enough.
First, what is rich to you? I'm sure many people still think $100,000/year = wealthy. That is no longer the case. Sure, you're well off at that point, but after taxes a family with 3 kids, 2 cars, and a house can take a very large bite out of that.
I imagine the middle class would love to pay zero income taxes if the ultra-wealthy paid 90%.
How could the ultra wealthy pay 90%? If by ultra-wealthy you refer to the top 1% then you'd have to almost triple their taxes to achieve this. That would put their tax rate above 100%.
If you're referring to the top 5% (which includes the majority of small business owners across the US, who employ 50% of the workers in the US and pay 44% of the US payroll) then you could increase the tax rate on them to about 65-70% and you'd achieve your 90% tax burden.
I'm sure you feel that taxing the well-off among us to death would have no effect on the economy.
We could do it, too. Yes, we could also behead them all and divide up their property, for the Commonwealth States of America. Who cares about their rights? Who cares that the majority of "rich" people in the US are hard working individuals who bust their asses off working 70-80 hours a week. And we're not talking about the sleazebags who make the news with their $45 million a year salaries and guys like Ken Lay. The stereotype of the fat, lazy, rich white man is one of the most perpetuated, but absolutely false, stereotypes that exist today.
I'm assuming you are implying the US? Facts suck, but here they are:
The top 1% pays 33.89% of all income taxes The top 5% pays 53.25% The top 10% pays 64.89% The top 25% pays 82.9% The top 50% pays 96.03% The bottom 50% pays a mere 3.97% of income taxes.
Income Distribution The top 1% earns 17.53 of all income. The top 5% earns 31.99. The top 10% earns 43.11% The top 25% earns 65.23%, Top 50% earns 86.19% of all income.
In case you don't know why this is a question the reason is that there is no year 0.
Yes, everyone (with a mildly scientific brain) knows that and agrees with that. First century 1-100, 2nd century 101-200, and so on. That was the point. The answer is clear to anyone with half a brain.
1 year wrong on the scale of 2000 years is a pretty marginal error
It may be a marginal error, but it's an error none the less.
considering what usually happens in this world fill with people who can't grasp basic math and statistics so I say we should let it pass
But these aren't supposed to be just normal people, they're the people who are supposed to be "trying to prove that there's really no difference between 'hard' and 'not hard' problems".
Re:Nope, wrong, invalid.. nothing to see here.
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These guys couldn't even figure out when the century began.
"There was a little bit of a controversy as to when the entry of the century was," he recalls. "Was it January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2001?
Come on now. They can't figure out that and we're looking to them to figure out the whole P=NP mess?
The last 5 on your list would easily be long gone in much less than 50,000 years. Mines collapse, bridges and buildings fall and the metal inside them rusts and the glass and concrete deteriorates. If we spent those 50,000 years destroying ourselves we'd make the first three either non-existent or very hard to find as well. Given that there were a lot less people around 5000 years ago and they mostly lived in places that would accelerate this deterioration...
You ever take a look at a 30-40 year old steel and concrete bridge? Deteriorating, rusting, needs to be repaired. Give it another 50 years of neglect and you'll most likely not have a bridge anymore.
I'm not really into the whole "advanced past society" but it is an interesting topic, to say the least (best argument I've seen for it has to do with the alignment of major archeological sites across the whole world to where stars would have been about 10,500 years ago, think I saw something on Discovery about it).
Good question. Probably free considering how much slashdot's editors wack off about each typcial boring Apple news items.
So, Apple posted an ad to hire a guy with audio and video experience! Amazing. Because I know with most companies they typically are only looking for people that only have the required experience needed for a job in it's current state. Companies never ever look for employees who might have some skill sets outside of the required ones.
And how long does it take to go through the whole hiring process, and then get them up to speed on a very important product? 6 months? More?
Ever see that old George Carlin routine about how god has been one of the leading killers of man throughout the ages?
Yes the great philosopher George Carlin. George "they _only_ killed 3000 people on 9/11 - what's the big deal?" Carlin. I don't know if there's a man more full of himself.
That argument is tired and old. Those people were not killed by God or religion, they were killed by people taking advantage of the beliefs of others for their own corrupt political/selfish/disgusting gains.
I don't see most religions having those problems anymore (with one notable exception - hopefully that religion will get it figured out over the next decade or two).
Don't know how this is a troll. It's pretty much right on. Those guys are absolute idiots and deserve everything they have coming. Just because the guy who hired them fled doesn't mean they shouldn't get in trouble.
Re:In other news...
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What I really enjoyed about "the Sims" was the ultra repetitive game play! Who wouldn't want a game where hardly anything changes?
Of course, the feature that's really going to sell more copies of the Sims 2 is the feature that makes me sad for humanity: Virtual people making more virtual loving! Great... now that's excitement. Here's a tip people: the real thing is just a little bit better (or so I've heard, I obviously haven't experienced it since I post on slashdot)
I imagine their reason has nothing to do with being really evil and wanting to eliminate freedom, so don't even throw that one in the ring.
Their "reason" is religious fantacism. Amazing parallels can be drawn between the current crop of Muslim facists and the Catholic church for much of the early and mid-2nd millenia. Fortunately for us, we got over most of our "kill the non-believers" faze about 200-300 years ago. In truth they do want to curb freedom, mainly the freedom of religion, and the rights of women.
Nobody is really evil, just greedy and motivated by their own self-interests.
Largest ever non-nuclear blast has already occured.
Does that sentence make anyone elses head hurt? Of course it has occured. That may have been a big explosion, but this would then suplant that as being the largest. The thing about being the biggest/largest/tallest/longest etc of something, is that you only keep the title as long as nothing else comes along and surpasses you.
I thought that the explosion along the Siberian pipeline was the largest non-nuclear anyways.
Re:Won't matter. Expect a settlement.
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Just once, I'd like to see the lawyers and state paid with in-store credit settlement checks.
That's how it is in Texas now. Best. Law. Ever.
I'm sorry, but when I'm in charge these class action lawyers who go around from state to state to state suing companies will be round up and executed. Looking forward to having one as our Vice President...
Want to see lawsuits in the US get even worse? Kerry/Edwards 2004!
Not even in the same league. Game consoles run apps that utilize 100% of their power for a fully interactive experience.
Game consoles have operating systems, as do computers. When I run a game on my computer or my game console they both utilize the majority of the processing power of the hardware. Last time I checked a Windows/Linux/Mac OS based computer was also a "fully interactive experience".
Computers run apps of varying capability.
As do game consoles. Have you seen some of the new stuff Sony is doing with that eyeToy? Completely unrelated to gaming, strangely enough. They're launching a video chat service. Oh, wait, but I thought these console things were just for gaming?
So? Nobody has them. Your interface for something like this is a controller. That's what you got. That means when you create an online service, you have to deal with issues like 'how does one find another person's IP address?' Putting a keyboard into the mix is one way of doing it. But if you take the time to actually deal with it sans kb, you've done something innovative.
I use a mouse to find my online servers, can I patent that? And I never see the IP for a lot of games I play online. Hell, I think I've played games online that have allowed me to use my Gravis Gamepad to select servers. Again, how is this anything special? It's not even innovative. It's just a standard input device (gamepad, mouse, keyboard, etc) that allows you to input (hence the name input device). And it doesn't matter if a lot of people don't have keyboards for their consoles. I'm sure there aren't a lot, but I'm sure there are at least several thousand people who do.
Sharing similar internals does not make them the same any more than saying a woman and a man are the same just because they share most of the same organs.
Men and women are actually extremely similar. They're also both humans, just like consoles and personal computers are both computers.
You don't surf the web with consoles, and you don't play Super Mario Sunshine on your PC.
I play games on my computer and I use software that connects over the internet on my console. Just because a certain game or application isn't available on one or the other means nothing.
Honestly, trying to argue with you that game consoles are comptuers is getting a little tiring, because they are computers. It's a specialized computer. There are many different types of specialized computers. Everything from cash registers, to embedded systems that run weather stations, to super computers, to rendering clusters, etc. etc. etc. All of them are computers.
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I see nothing wrong here except the rich aren't being taxed enough.
First, what is rich to you? I'm sure many people still think $100,000/year = wealthy. That is no longer the case. Sure, you're well off at that point, but after taxes a family with 3 kids, 2 cars, and a house can take a very large bite out of that.
I imagine the middle class would love to pay zero income taxes if the ultra-wealthy paid 90%.
How could the ultra wealthy pay 90%? If by ultra-wealthy you refer to the top 1% then you'd have to almost triple their taxes to achieve this. That would put their tax rate above 100%.
If you're referring to the top 5% (which includes the majority of small business owners across the US, who employ 50% of the workers in the US and pay 44% of the US payroll) then you could increase the tax rate on them to about 65-70% and you'd achieve your 90% tax burden.
I'm sure you feel that taxing the well-off among us to death would have no effect on the economy.
We could do it, too.
Yes, we could also behead them all and divide up their property, for the Commonwealth States of America. Who cares about their rights? Who cares that the majority of "rich" people in the US are hard working individuals who bust their asses off working 70-80 hours a week. And we're not talking about the sleazebags who make the news with their $45 million a year salaries and guys like Ken Lay. The stereotype of the fat, lazy, rich white man is one of the most perpetuated, but absolutely false, stereotypes that exist today.
I'm assuming you are implying the US? Facts suck, but here they are:
The top 1% pays 33.89% of all income taxes
The top 5% pays 53.25%
The top 10% pays 64.89%
The top 25% pays 82.9%
The top 50% pays 96.03%
The bottom 50% pays a mere 3.97% of income taxes.
Income Distribution
The top 1% earns 17.53 of all income.
The top 5% earns 31.99.
The top 10% earns 43.11%
The top 25% earns 65.23%,
Top 50% earns 86.19% of all income.
Source: IRS
1986 - 2001.
The bottom 10% of US population uses roughly 80% of the government services. So, in the US, the tax money goes to the poorest as well.
You make the same error as the author of the article. You ignore the fact that most of the the Canadian population is grouped along the US border.
In the UK? Then there are two offices near by:
European Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
United Kingdom Sales Office
London W1D 4AD
You lucked out! Now, just move to Dublin, and you're all set.
Google Offices world-wide
How does a competition which mandates the use of proprietary languages
From Google: Use Java, C++, C# or VB.NET
C++ is proprietary?
In case you don't know why this is a question the reason is that there is no year 0.
Yes, everyone (with a mildly scientific brain) knows that and agrees with that. First century 1-100, 2nd century 101-200, and so on. That was the point. The answer is clear to anyone with half a brain.
1 year wrong on the scale of 2000 years is a pretty marginal error
It may be a marginal error, but it's an error none the less.
considering what usually happens in this world fill with people who can't grasp basic math and statistics so I say we should let it pass
But these aren't supposed to be just normal people, they're the people who are supposed to be "trying to prove that there's really no difference between 'hard' and 'not hard' problems".
These guys couldn't even figure out when the century began.
"There was a little bit of a controversy as to when the entry of the century was," he recalls. "Was it January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2001?
Come on now. They can't figure out that and we're looking to them to figure out the whole P=NP mess?
The /. article was of course poorly written, making it seem like Best Brains was doing something evil when in fact they are totally in the right.
Transistor radios. TV's. Silicon chips. Large factories. Machines. Mines. Bridges. Skyscrapers.
The last 5 on your list would easily be long gone in much less than 50,000 years. Mines collapse, bridges and buildings fall and the metal inside them rusts and the glass and concrete deteriorates. If we spent those 50,000 years destroying ourselves we'd make the first three either non-existent or very hard to find as well. Given that there were a lot less people around 5000 years ago and they mostly lived in places that would accelerate this deterioration...
You ever take a look at a 30-40 year old steel and concrete bridge? Deteriorating, rusting, needs to be repaired. Give it another 50 years of neglect and you'll most likely not have a bridge anymore.
I'm not really into the whole "advanced past society" but it is an interesting topic, to say the least (best argument I've seen for it has to do with the alignment of major archeological sites across the whole world to where stars would have been about 10,500 years ago, think I saw something on Discovery about it).
There are a number of real apple job postings related to the iPod, but none feature the word video. It appears this "news" is completely bogus.
Here are the jobs:
Hardware System Integrator - iPod
Hardware System Integrator - iPod
Hardware System Integrator - iPod SPG
Now, how easy would that have been for the slashdot editors to check? Took me about 1 minute.
Good question. Probably free considering how much slashdot's editors wack off about each typcial boring Apple news items.
So, Apple posted an ad to hire a guy with audio and video experience! Amazing. Because I know with most companies they typically are only looking for people that only have the required experience needed for a job in it's current state. Companies never ever look for employees who might have some skill sets outside of the required ones.
And how long does it take to go through the whole hiring process, and then get them up to speed on a very important product? 6 months? More?
retarded
adj : relatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development
I'd say that seems to describe them fairly well.
Ever see that old George Carlin routine about how god has been one of the leading killers of man throughout the ages?
Yes the great philosopher George Carlin. George "they _only_ killed 3000 people on 9/11 - what's the big deal?" Carlin. I don't know if there's a man more full of himself.
That argument is tired and old. Those people were not killed by God or religion, they were killed by people taking advantage of the beliefs of others for their own corrupt political/selfish/disgusting gains.
I don't see most religions having those problems anymore (with one notable exception - hopefully that religion will get it figured out over the next decade or two).
Had he done so he probably wouldn't be in the situation he currently is in.
Don't know how this is a troll. It's pretty much right on. Those guys are absolute idiots and deserve everything they have coming. Just because the guy who hired them fled doesn't mean they shouldn't get in trouble.
1. You don't know how to create a link using either the slashdot tag or a standard anchor tag.
2. The link you posted redirects to a specific file, so why not just link to that? http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/re
Does .Net support anchor tags?
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http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=6&tabid=
oops... responded to the wrong post. Oh well.
What I really enjoyed about "the Sims" was the ultra repetitive game play! Who wouldn't want a game where hardly anything changes?
Of course, the feature that's really going to sell more copies of the Sims 2 is the feature that makes me sad for humanity: Virtual people making more virtual loving! Great... now that's excitement. Here's a tip people: the real thing is just a little bit better (or so I've heard, I obviously haven't experienced it since I post on slashdot)
Oh I feel stupid now, I'm so used to no html forums...
What makes you feel more stupid? Incorrectly italicizing something, or apologizing for an anonymous post that no one but yourself knows was you?
Imagine if Coppola tried to do 'Godfather 4'.. I would have to kill him...
Couldn't be any worse than Godfather 3.
Coppola needs to be shot for Godfather 3 - absolutely tainted my perception of the first two movies. Just horrible.
I imagine their reason has nothing to do with being really evil and wanting to eliminate freedom, so don't even throw that one in the ring.
Their "reason" is religious fantacism. Amazing parallels can be drawn between the current crop of Muslim facists and the Catholic church for much of the early and mid-2nd millenia. Fortunately for us, we got over most of our "kill the non-believers" faze about 200-300 years ago. In truth they do want to curb freedom, mainly the freedom of religion, and the rights of women.
Nobody is really evil, just greedy and motivated by their own self-interests.
You're right. Hitler was just misunderstood.
There are plenty of evil people out there.
Largest ever non-nuclear blast has already occured.
Does that sentence make anyone elses head hurt? Of course it has occured. That may have been a big explosion, but this would then suplant that as being the largest. The thing about being the biggest/largest/tallest/longest etc of something, is that you only keep the title as long as nothing else comes along and surpasses you.
I thought that the explosion along the Siberian pipeline was the largest non-nuclear anyways.
Just once, I'd like to see the lawyers and state paid with in-store credit settlement checks.
That's how it is in Texas now. Best. Law. Ever.
I'm sorry, but when I'm in charge these class action lawyers who go around from state to state to state suing companies will be round up and executed. Looking forward to having one as our Vice President...
Want to see lawsuits in the US get even worse? Kerry/Edwards 2004!
Not even in the same league. Game consoles run apps that utilize 100% of their power for a fully interactive experience.
Game consoles have operating systems, as do computers. When I run a game on my computer or my game console they both utilize the majority of the processing power of the hardware. Last time I checked a Windows/Linux/Mac OS based computer was also a "fully interactive experience".
Computers run apps of varying capability.
As do game consoles. Have you seen some of the new stuff Sony is doing with that eyeToy? Completely unrelated to gaming, strangely enough. They're launching a video chat service. Oh, wait, but I thought these console things were just for gaming?
So? Nobody has them. Your interface for something like this is a controller. That's what you got. That means when you create an online service, you have to deal with issues like 'how does one find another person's IP address?' Putting a keyboard into the mix is one way of doing it. But if you take the time to actually deal with it sans kb, you've done something innovative.
I use a mouse to find my online servers, can I patent that? And I never see the IP for a lot of games I play online. Hell, I think I've played games online that have allowed me to use my Gravis Gamepad to select servers. Again, how is this anything special? It's not even innovative. It's just a standard input device (gamepad, mouse, keyboard, etc) that allows you to input (hence the name input device). And it doesn't matter if a lot of people don't have keyboards for their consoles. I'm sure there aren't a lot, but I'm sure there are at least several thousand people who do.
Sharing similar internals does not make them the same any more than saying a woman and a man are the same just because they share most of the same organs.
Men and women are actually extremely similar. They're also both humans, just like consoles and personal computers are both computers.
You don't surf the web with consoles, and you don't play Super Mario Sunshine on your PC.
I play games on my computer and I use software that connects over the internet on my console. Just because a certain game or application isn't available on one or the other means nothing.
Honestly, trying to argue with you that game consoles are comptuers is getting a little tiring, because they are computers. It's a specialized computer. There are many different types of specialized computers. Everything from cash registers, to embedded systems that run weather stations, to super computers, to rendering clusters, etc. etc. etc. All of them are computers.