Who are these "Europe" and "US" entities you speak about as if they were individuals and not vast, diverse populations?:-) Sorry. Just speaking as someone who spent 12 years in the California BDSM scene where every type of sex known to humanity was experienced, much of it quite casually.
I wonder why religions even have made sex to look like a bad thing.
Go ask St. Augustine. He actually thought sex *within* marriage was bad, but a necessary evil. Yeesh.
The US may have once had tax rates north of 70%, but there were a vast number of deductions and shelters. When they lowered the rates, they tossed a lot of those deductions. You'd have to ask an old tax professional with a few decades experience whether things are actually better or worse now. I couldn't tell you as I entered the workforce in 1988.
If you combine state and federal rates, the U.S. has higher corporate tax rates than some EU members.
However we have generally lower income tax rates. It's a mixed bag, in other words, and yet another topic that fails to follow the Oversimplified World Rule Set of the Slashdot Brain Trust.
I'd be happy just to see the system simplified. The AMT, for example, is a fucking abomination.
Lots of people pay nothing for their schooling. For example, many Europeans (e.g. those in countries where education is completely free)
Wow. So the professors and administrators all work for nothing and the buildings, books, labs, etc are all donated? I did not know that. I just assumed it was paid for by taxation. Huh.
You do know it's a living document that can be and has been amended over the years, right? Right?
Oh yeah, I'm loving the growing "U.S. Constitution is obsolete" folks.:-\ I'm sure they have *NOTHING* but good intentions in mind. Everyone is all a flutter about the stupid Tea Party, but I'm more closely watching the "Constitution is old and irrelevant" crowd.
Oh, please. The climate summit farces in Copenhagen and Cancun show how seriously the rest of the world takes the issue. Most of the Kyoto treaty signers actually increased emissions, some by *more* than the US did. Your high horse is made of straw.
Is that still true, though? More and more I read about how controversial papers could, if they don't get confirmed by the experiments of others, could "ruin" the careers of the authors. That arsenic based life hub bub a few months back had such comments swirling about it. Seems to me there is not much incentive to go against the grain anymore.
And this is from someone who works in R&D where if we *don't* fail once in a while it's assumed we're not pushing the envelope hard enough.
it's like believing that the earth is flat, which was widely held by even scientists centuries ago.
No, it wasn't. That's a fallacy.
"There never was a period of 'flat earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology." -- Stephen Jay Gould
Well, I have the long term stuff as well. I do the options for fun and speculation. It would be nice, though, after doing a lot of math and having a covered call work out profitably, if I could keep a bit more of it. I'm at a level low enough where trading fees have to be factored in carefully.
More than an exaggeration. I work with some of the fastest digital circuitry in the world (complex gate circuits operating at 10 GHz and up), and stuff at 1 ps is still lost down in the clock jitter.
Can we move the 15% out to 4 months? I'm just Joe Average, but I make some decent cash selling covered calls 2 to 3 months out. No need to pick on little old me.
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How about a screed against his fellow technical people?
You know, the one who *create* the malware and junkware and root kits and junk operating systems and whatnot.
I've converted more than a dozen individuals and families to the Mac. All have lived happily ever after.
A before you all geek rage on me, I have steered a few of the young-uns with a clear interest in computers as more than tools toward Linux.
FWIW, they're making a sequel to Demon's Souls. :-)
Who are these "Europe" and "US" entities you speak about as if they were individuals and not vast, diverse populations? :-) Sorry. Just speaking as someone who spent 12 years in the California BDSM scene where every type of sex known to humanity was experienced, much of it quite casually.
I wonder why religions even have made sex to look like a bad thing.
Go ask St. Augustine. He actually thought sex *within* marriage was bad, but a necessary evil. Yeesh.
and what comes out of our mouth is totally irrelevant.
However, what goes in... [WARNING! INTERNET KILL SWITCH ACTIVATED. POST TERMINATED.]
For what? Questioning some miseryshit's understanding about the Constitution already having a built in process to upgrade it?
Or downgrade it. That's why the process is quite involved.
I'm sure they'll keep working on that little revolution of theirs, though.
I hope they make sure to map everything with hex grids.
I made no claims. That was the other guy. I was just wondering if *you* could support *your* claim about the meme.
You know, seeing how you're all about proof and stuff.
I dunno. Has "The Fox And The Grapes" ever been peer reviewed?
The US may have once had tax rates north of 70%, but there were a vast number of deductions and shelters. When they lowered the rates, they tossed a lot of those deductions. You'd have to ask an old tax professional with a few decades experience whether things are actually better or worse now. I couldn't tell you as I entered the workforce in 1988.
If you combine state and federal rates, the U.S. has higher corporate tax rates than some EU members.
However we have generally lower income tax rates. It's a mixed bag, in other words, and yet another topic that fails to follow the Oversimplified World Rule Set of the Slashdot Brain Trust.
I'd be happy just to see the system simplified. The AMT, for example, is a fucking abomination.
Lots of people pay nothing for their schooling. For example, many Europeans (e.g. those in countries where education is completely free)
Wow. So the professors and administrators all work for nothing and the buildings, books, labs, etc are all donated? I did not know that. I just assumed it was paid for by taxation. Huh.
This whole "You appreciate what you work for" meme was more than likely started by people who had everything handed to them,
Please provide support for this ideological thesis.
Whatever you say, Che.
I'm assuming you don't have a job, which is basically selling your skill set to an employer.
You do know it's a living document that can be and has been amended over the years, right? Right?
Oh yeah, I'm loving the growing "U.S. Constitution is obsolete" folks. :-\ I'm sure they have *NOTHING* but good intentions in mind. Everyone is all a flutter about the stupid Tea Party, but I'm more closely watching the "Constitution is old and irrelevant" crowd.
Oh, please. The climate summit farces in Copenhagen and Cancun show how seriously the rest of the world takes the issue. Most of the Kyoto treaty signers actually increased emissions, some by *more* than the US did. Your high horse is made of straw.
Is that still true, though? More and more I read about how controversial papers could, if they don't get confirmed by the experiments of others, could "ruin" the careers of the authors. That arsenic based life hub bub a few months back had such comments swirling about it. Seems to me there is not much incentive to go against the grain anymore.
And this is from someone who works in R&D where if we *don't* fail once in a while it's assumed we're not pushing the envelope hard enough.
it's like believing that the earth is flat, which was widely held by even scientists centuries ago.
No, it wasn't. That's a fallacy.
"There never was a period of 'flat earth darkness' among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth's roundness as an established fact of cosmology." -- Stephen Jay Gould
Reference: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS06/pmo/eng/Gould-FlatEarth.pdf
Actually, wouldn't a real Luddite glom on to AGW as proof that technology is going to destroy us?
So.... the solution to a "troll" is to act like an Eliza program?
At this point we beat him up and took a dump on his face.
So when did you realize you enjoy exposing your ass to other men?
There. How's that?
You can reform society about as easily as you can milk a unicorn.
Society is in need of reform? What does that even mean? You have access to alien mind altering rays?
The kind of damage that a Facebook post by a disgruntled student could do to a teacher's career should be nil.
Welcome to reality. We can make pragmatic laws that recognize it, or we can sit around waving magic wands and shouting "Societus Reformio!"
OK, but Carlin did borrow it. I definitely heard him say it right after his "God's will" routine on a cable special.
Well, I have the long term stuff as well. I do the options for fun and speculation. It would be nice, though, after doing a lot of math and having a covered call work out profitably, if I could keep a bit more of it. I'm at a level low enough where trading fees have to be factored in carefully.
Great. Another super battery. Will this one actually reach market or is it another steaming pile of nothing?
Thou shalt not process faster than your clock jitter will alloweth.
More than an exaggeration. I work with some of the fastest digital circuitry in the world (complex gate circuits operating at 10 GHz and up), and stuff at 1 ps is still lost down in the clock jitter.
Can we move the 15% out to 4 months? I'm just Joe Average, but I make some decent cash selling covered calls 2 to 3 months out. No need to pick on little old me.