Will he write an ending for it, or will it just sort of stop in mid-page?
Wait... Neal didn't write the final episode of The Sopranos, did he?
No, no... he wrote the secret alternate final episode where Tony sets up a data haven in East Orange, New Jersey in order to get at the Civil War gold hidden by steam powered robots that fled Sicily in 1860. He puts his son in charge, but A.J. whines like a bitch until even his own sister, Meadow, finally has enough and whacks him herself. And then there's a four hour monologue by the ghost of Big Pussy.
I get a bit tired of some of these authors claiming not to care what's done with their work when it goes to movie. It would be nice if one of them would make an effort to make sure a good film is made if only for the fans. You know, the fans that made them very rich? Not saying they owe anyone anything, it would just be nice.
Take it to the other extreme. A tax rate of 0% results in zero revenue. There's clearly a function between those two endpoints, but that thought experiment does nothing to describe it.
*sigh* I was responding to someone who implied that a tax cut can *never* result in a revenue increase, so I didn't bother with the other side of the Laffer curve. I'm sorry I didn't have time to write a complete 50 page treatise. Can you *ever* forgive me!?
Same thing happened under Reagan. Revenues went up, but Congress outspent the increases. That's what the brain damaged morons here in California have been doing. Our state revenues have been ever increasing, but they still managed to outspend, and then get on TV and say, "We're not spending too much." Vacuumheads, every one of them.
The primary problem is that too many people think there is a fixed amount of money. The other major problem is that most adults in the USA have the math skills of a dead stoat.
No, I think everyone is pretty sure you're living in an underground bunker with little to no contact with the outside world. Seriously, you have to be ideological to the point of mental illness not to understand how a tax cut can increase tax revenues.
Tax cuts spur the economy, grow the GDP, and increase revenue. The table even makes sense without any other theory. After the tax cut there is a slowing and even a one year backoff of the revenues. The economy does not react instantly, and a two year time constant is about right given typical business cycles and planning habits.
I mean, c'mon, a 5th grader can understand this. The only reason to deny such a simple thing is impacted ideology, and at that point one needs the mental equivalent of a colon cleanding.
Take it to the extreme. Raise the tax rate to 100%. What happens then? The economy dies, that's what. Individuals can't buy anything. Companies can replace broken equipment, or hire anyone. No R&D gets done. Vast wasteland.
The pinhead professors in the universities, who advocated gigantic government, suddenly wonder why their grants disappeared.;-)
So what happens at 99% tax rate? 90%? 70%? Can you see how there might be an optimal rate of taxation that isn't "as high as possible without making the economy bleed to death from government ass raping"? And can you understand that maybe we're on the far side of that curve in some places?
I know I'm probably talking to an ideologue who doesn't care about reality, but sometimes I do try.
It's programmed? According to the launch time press material from Sony, the PS3 has sexy magical elf babes inside that weave the game in real time directly out of sunshine, the holy spirit and the smiles of kittens.
Meanwhile, beyond the borders of False Dichotomy Land, some of us will work out solutions that are even better. Have fun in Defeatistville, though. I hear the shuffleboard is great.
Avast! By the Neptune's testicles! Man the torrents, me mateys! From Fiddlers Green to Davey Jone's Locker, we'll do battle with these scurvy land lubbers! Climb the mizzen masts and get the black flag a flappin' in the Nor'Easter and WE BE IN DERE INTERTOOBS STEALIN' DERE COPYRITES!
Whoops. Lapsed from Pirate to LOLCAT there. Me heartys. KTHX!
All the crap is depressing. I was looking for something Monday, and clicked on a link to someone's blog, and the browser just went into "not responding" mode. Happened on three different browsers on two different OSes. What the hell could some douchesack put in his blog that kills three fully up to date web browsers?
There's just too much clutter. Gaming sites are the worst. Most of them make 5 Mbps broadband feel like dialup again. And too many pages where you get a header, and then nothing but white space for a long time because some ad banner is getting lagged.
Ah, don't get me started. Oh, wait, you did.:-)
And I'm no Luddite. It's just they every new "innovation" seems to be implemented poorly in 95% of the cases.
It needs an entire Ron Paul font.:-) Man, that was weird...
I think is funny, because there's a good overlap between the group that is rabidly "alternative energy" and the group that wants draconian government environmental policies. I love it when thing blow up in faces like this. I have the day off, so I'm gonna go out and find an activist to laugh at.:-)
Every one of those screaming kids you see in the grocery store today will become the asshat in seat 30B on your flight to Chicago. *Every* one? Every unruly kid will eventually meld together into one giant asshat entity? And that entity will be in seat 30B on some as yet undetermined flight to Chicago in the future?
I mean... apart from the fact that I don't believe in precognition, would the multihuman mass organism even fit on the plane?
Then again, having all the asshats combined into a single giant being might be good as it makes it a single, slow moving target.:-) Or Voltron. Whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
CherryPal!?
Was "My Little Computer" fraught with trademark peril? Or could they not get Hello Kitty to return their calls?
There's a "popping cherry" joke here somewhere, but damned if I can find it.
Oh, wait... *snicker*
I've often found that by far the best way of teaching him to do this kind of thing relies on finding something he wants his computer to do for him.
echo $GENERIC_PORN_QUIP
No, I'm not wrong. You just want me to be. :-)
Will he write an ending for it, or will it just sort of stop in mid-page?
Wait... Neal didn't write the final episode of The Sopranos, did he?
No, no... he wrote the secret alternate final episode where Tony sets up a data haven in East Orange, New Jersey in order to get at the Civil War gold hidden by steam powered robots that fled Sicily in 1860. He puts his son in charge, but A.J. whines like a bitch until even his own sister, Meadow, finally has enough and whacks him herself. And then there's a four hour monologue by the ghost of Big Pussy.
in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."
Wow. I'm already bored.
Basically all I got from the trailer was "Glowing blue guys".
I thought people like Blue Man Group?
I get a bit tired of some of these authors claiming not to care what's done with their work when it goes to movie. It would be nice if one of them would make an effort to make sure a good film is made if only for the fans. You know, the fans that made them very rich? Not saying they owe anyone anything, it would just be nice.
So you're not forgiving me for not writing the impromptu 50 page treatise? Oh, well.
Take it to the other extreme. A tax rate of 0% results in zero revenue. There's clearly a function between those two endpoints, but that thought experiment does nothing to describe it.
*sigh* I was responding to someone who implied that a tax cut can *never* result in a revenue increase, so I didn't bother with the other side of the Laffer curve. I'm sorry I didn't have time to write a complete 50 page treatise. Can you *ever* forgive me!?
Same thing happened under Reagan. Revenues went up, but Congress outspent the increases. That's what the brain damaged morons here in California have been doing. Our state revenues have been ever increasing, but they still managed to outspend, and then get on TV and say, "We're not spending too much." Vacuumheads, every one of them.
The primary problem is that too many people think there is a fixed amount of money. The other major problem is that most adults in the USA have the math skills of a dead stoat.
No, I think everyone is pretty sure you're living in an underground bunker with little to no contact with the outside world. Seriously, you have to be ideological to the point of mental illness not to understand how a tax cut can increase tax revenues.
Hint: The GDP is not a constant value.
Take Reagan's term as the archetype.
Tax cuts spur the economy, grow the GDP, and increase revenue. The table even makes sense without any other theory. After the tax cut there is a slowing and even a one year backoff of the revenues. The economy does not react instantly, and a two year time constant is about right given typical business cycles and planning habits.
I mean, c'mon, a 5th grader can understand this. The only reason to deny such a simple thing is impacted ideology, and at that point one needs the mental equivalent of a colon cleanding.
Take it to the extreme. Raise the tax rate to 100%. What happens then? The economy dies, that's what. Individuals can't buy anything. Companies can replace broken equipment, or hire anyone. No R&D gets done. Vast wasteland.
The pinhead professors in the universities, who advocated gigantic government, suddenly wonder why their grants disappeared. ;-)
So what happens at 99% tax rate? 90%? 70%? Can you see how there might be an optimal rate of taxation that isn't "as high as possible without making the economy bleed to death from government ass raping"? And can you understand that maybe we're on the far side of that curve in some places?
I know I'm probably talking to an ideologue who doesn't care about reality, but sometimes I do try.
It's programmed? According to the launch time press material from Sony, the PS3 has sexy magical elf babes inside that weave the game in real time directly out of sunshine, the holy spirit and the smiles of kittens.
I had a $100 bet riding on this, and I won! Woot!
It'll pay for FF13 *and* the FF6 remake on the DS! :-)
Thank you, Square-Enix!
"Your aircraft has crashed. Click OK to restore session."
Meanwhile, beyond the borders of False Dichotomy Land, some of us will work out solutions that are even better. Have fun in Defeatistville, though. I hear the shuffleboard is great.
Now - how hard was that?
Get Jay Leno to go out and ask random people on the street to give a 6-digit random number. You'll have your answer.
I'm 43, and I hate it when anyone uses "kid" for anyone over 18, usually to "explain" some sort of idiotic act. The word "boy" would be the same.
That being said, everyone involved in the decision to prosecute this 19 year old should be fired immediately.
Nothing cleanses like fire!
The stegosaurus can do whatever it wants, and the rats can't stop it. The rats, however, will last far longer than the dinosaurs.
Ah, I see! So what you are saying is that we should be free of annoying DRM in about 200 to 300 million years? Cool!
Avast! By the Neptune's testicles! Man the torrents, me mateys! From Fiddlers Green to Davey Jone's Locker, we'll do battle with these scurvy land lubbers! Climb the mizzen masts and get the black flag a flappin' in the Nor'Easter and WE BE IN DERE INTERTOOBS STEALIN' DERE COPYRITES!
Whoops. Lapsed from Pirate to LOLCAT there. Me heartys. KTHX!
All the crap is depressing. I was looking for something Monday, and clicked on a link to someone's blog, and the browser just went into "not responding" mode. Happened on three different browsers on two different OSes. What the hell could some douchesack put in his blog that kills three fully up to date web browsers?
There's just too much clutter. Gaming sites are the worst. Most of them make 5 Mbps broadband feel like dialup again. And too many pages where you get a header, and then nothing but white space for a long time because some ad banner is getting lagged.
Ah, don't get me started. Oh, wait, you did. :-)
And I'm no Luddite. It's just they every new "innovation" seems to be implemented poorly in 95% of the cases.
You know, I *did* put a smiley. I was kidding. Typical holier than thou Slashdotter.
I do not leave my iris information at a crime scene.
Er... what *do* you leave at your crime scenes?
The world needs more Ron Paul type characters.
It needs an entire Ron Paul font. :-) Man, that was weird...
I think is funny, because there's a good overlap between the group that is rabidly "alternative energy" and the group that wants draconian government environmental policies. I love it when thing blow up in faces like this. I have the day off, so I'm gonna go out and find an activist to laugh at. :-)
I mean... apart from the fact that I don't believe in precognition, would the multihuman mass organism even fit on the plane?
Then again, having all the asshats combined into a single giant being might be good as it makes it a single, slow moving target. :-) Or Voltron. Whatever.