In many states laws have a time limit and they automatically expire and must be repassed.
The problem is as enough of these laws build up, the representatives start repassing them as big clumps.
I would like to see laws that last forever require a 90% majority. Laws that last a lifetime (50 years) would require a 66% majority. A 51% majority could only pass laws that would last 8 years.
At one point, if someone was a racist, or religious bigot, or a tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, they said so and were up front about it.
These days it seems like everyone lies so freely and easily and without guilt that you can't make a rational decision since you can't trust anyone.
Islam out and out says it is okay to lie to non-believers (I think judiasm does in the torah too).
But lots of government officials in the US these days lie constantly. Corporate types lie as well.
"officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom" while right in front of you they are strangling internet freedom.
It's like the sid ceasor skit where the wife catches him in bed with his lover and he denies it constantly until the bed is made and the lover has left the room and then the wife is not even sure if it happened any more.
Well technically, if he was being aroused by thoughts of a female while screwing big M, he wouldn't be gay. The act doesn't define the orientation- the attraction does. Lots of gay males force themselves through several years of marriage (and even kids) before realizing they are gay (or bisexual but with very strong gay leanings).
And if no other male aroused him that way, then I'm not sure if gay is the right label either- it's a bit more of a fetish than full-blown (hehe) homosexuality.
The America we shed blood for really started dying after Carter.
Since then, it has become increasingly evil. I'm sure we tortured people in WW1 & WW2 as well. Difficult choices for difficult times. But we were not proud of it back then. The constitution meant something.
Today our government is owned by corporations and serving corporate interests.
Ubuntu has really come a long way man. Money is being put into improved user experience.
Mac has alway been too expensive. It is a very nice machine if you have the money. I view it in a different universe where folks with lots of money are willing to pay for things that "just work".
Windows "is cheap enough and usually works except when the drivers don't work or some other mysterious thing happens or you get a virus but it works often enough and is cheap enough and is friendly enough that most folks go for it."
Most folks that buy windows buy a working, installed box and use a very small software stack. The fact that 40k programs run on windows doesn't matter to 99% of users.
Why do they get paid the rest of their life for work when other professions do not?
Copyright is for us- not for the artists. There is some evidence that copyright periods which are too long reduce the amount of work artists create. Once they have a gravy train, they lose motivation to create new works.
The wealth of Senators reflects both the Senate's long tradition as a body of elite members of society as well as growing inequality in the United States, especially between those who hold power and those who do not. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the income gap is the widest it has been in 75 years.
House members had a median net worth of $385,000. (a fairer number since there are a few extremely wealthy congressmen). ---
Our government is now staffed by the wealthy and run for the wealthy. The laws they pass are expectedly passed to benefit people like themselves. There have been numerous anecdotal stories showing how completely out of touch they are with difficulties and troubles of the typical citizen.
As long as Microsoft can maintain a quick pace of innovation, Linux will always be chasing behind it.
Once the problem becomes well defined and stable, Linux will catch up and O/S will commoditize.
The longer the release cycles- and the more windows UI changes with those releases, the more likely people will change to linux. I'm ready except for Everquest. Everything else is open source on my boxes now.
Hmm. Perhaps they can title OOXML the "standard for interchange with microsoft programs" and then call ODF the "standard for interchange between non-microsoft programs" as a way of finessing it.
Then the states and countries could say that microsoft had to be compatible with the general standard in addition to their internal standard.
He's made about 2k posts in less time than I've been a member and I post fairly heavily. Based on that and the content of his recent posts, I think it is more likely that he is very angry than that he is trolling.
The discussion had reached the point where one of the following applied:
Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty and the pig likes it. Never argue with an idiot; people watching might not be able to tell the difference.
People can also go for civil disobedience for bad laws (tho these days they forget that includes accepting the punishment).
Riaa are a bunch of thugs and the terms of copyright are unreasonable these days-- however using brand new works without compensating the creators is equally immoral. I remember 7 years ago folks like the ones here were saying on boards like this "well sue the people who are infringing".
They emotionally "want it" so they rationalize their acts. The main problem there is, if they fool themselves into believing they are doing no wrong, they will eventually be caught. If you are going to break the law and do not want to do it for the purpose of civil disobedience then you better be discrete and keep right from wrong straight in your head.
Facts are facts man. $30k salary doesn't add up to $10k a year taxes (even including social security). Given the facts you stated combined with the facts available on the government web sites, your story sounds off somehow.
My income has varied from that level in 1993 to considerably higher today and I've never paid that kind of tax rate.
Since we won't be posting digitized W2's here- we just agree to disagree.
They said they lost 500 grand. Wouldn't they have noticed that they were loading a half a million in cash into the machines?
I assumed that the machines were like the ones I have seen- you get credits. When you cash out, you get a receipt that you take to the cash box and they give you cash.
The result is, they don't see that the machine is over paying.
Are you saying that you paid $10,000 taxes on a $30,000 salary?
That seems high. Sure you were not paying for health insurance or some other deductions too?
From www.irs.gov:
If taxable income is over-- But not over-- The tax is: $0 $7,550 10% of the amount over $0 $7,550 $30,650 $755 plus 15% of the amount over 7,550 $30,650 $74,200 $4,220.00 plus 25% of the amount over 30,650 $74,200 $154,800 $15,107.50 plus 28% of the amount over 74,200 $154,800 $336,550 $37,675.50 plus 33% of the amount over 154,800 $336,550 no limit $97,653.00 plus 35% of the amount over 336,550
Social Security Tax is 7.650% (with another 7.650% paid by employer)
After your standard deduction, you should have had an effective income of under $25k. That would result in a tax of about $3k + $1.5k for SSN.
25% of income and social security tax is not that far off.
On $90k I would expect to pay about $16k taxes and $8k SSN taxes (with the company really paying another $8k SSN taxes too). Remember, you don't pay much taxes on your first $40k of income. And the rate is only roughly 28% above that.
The other 50% of taxes (that keeps you working until June 1 each year) are sales tax, cell phone tax, phone tax, gasoline tax, registration tax, property tax, use tax, etc.
Oh yea... and the 2/3 burn rate doesn't reflect the fact that they tell me that Infosys pays them a salary but expects them to work 60 hours a week. When infosys commits to a deadline- they have to work even more sometimes (without extra compensation or time off). They are willing too since currently the wage differential is like making $200k a year. Once the rupee comes up enough, the dollar drops enough, and the wage inflation brings them close to parity, and they get a little older and wiser, they are not going to be as willing to kill themselves and give up their lives (sheesh- 4 of them to an apartment in some cases-- no life except cricket on the weekends).
Given that colleges are ending cs programs since americans are wisely concluding this field is stupid, I see a "perfect storm" in 4-6 years.
Given that large law firms are being busted for showing many corporations how to reject qualified american candidates legally, (it was here on slashdot in the last few weeks), I think it is pretty clear that it is about salary. One of the reported scams was to ask the american what salary they wanted and whatever salary they requested- just record that it was a few thousand dollars to high and then reject them.
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In many states laws have a time limit and they automatically expire and must be repassed.
The problem is as enough of these laws build up, the representatives start repassing them as big clumps.
I would like to see laws that last forever require a 90% majority. Laws that last a lifetime (50 years) would require a 66% majority. A 51% majority could only pass laws that would last 8 years.
This is what is depressing about modern life.
At one point, if someone was a racist, or religious bigot, or a tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, they said so and were up front about it.
These days it seems like everyone lies so freely and easily and without guilt that you can't make a rational decision since you can't trust anyone.
Islam out and out says it is okay to lie to non-believers (I think judiasm does in the torah too).
But lots of government officials in the US these days lie constantly. Corporate types lie as well.
"officials insist the law is not intended to strangle internet freedom" while right in front of you they are strangling internet freedom.
It's like the sid ceasor skit where the wife catches him in bed with his lover and he denies it constantly until the bed is made and the lover has left the room and then the wife is not even sure if it happened any more.
Well technically, if he was being aroused by thoughts of a female while screwing big M, he wouldn't be gay. The act doesn't define the orientation- the attraction does. Lots of gay males force themselves through several years of marriage (and even kids) before realizing they are gay (or bisexual but with very strong gay leanings).
And if no other male aroused him that way, then I'm not sure if gay is the right label either- it's a bit more of a fetish than full-blown (hehe) homosexuality.
Not necessarily.
Brilliant people overlook obvious things all the time.
The America we shed blood for really started dying after Carter.
Since then, it has become increasingly evil. I'm sure we tortured people in WW1 & WW2 as well. Difficult choices for difficult times. But we were not proud of it back then. The constitution meant something.
Today our government is owned by corporations and serving corporate interests.
Ubuntu has really come a long way man. Money is being put into improved user experience.
Mac has alway been too expensive. It is a very nice machine if you have the money. I view it in a different universe where folks with lots of money are willing to pay for things that "just work".
Windows "is cheap enough and usually works except when the drivers don't work or some other mysterious thing happens or you get a virus but it works often enough and is cheap enough and is friendly enough that most folks go for it."
Most folks that buy windows buy a working, installed box and use a very small software stack. The fact that 40k programs run on windows doesn't matter to 99% of users.
Why do they get paid the rest of their life for work when other professions do not?
Copyright is for us- not for the artists. There is some evidence that copyright periods which are too long reduce the amount of work artists create. Once they have a gravy train, they lose motivation to create new works.
First- sorry they modded you as troll.
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Second- while I agree corporations have basically bought our government. I disagree that it is not about classism.
http://www.mediamouse.org/briefs/061604new_2.php
The wealth of Senators reflects both the Senate's long tradition as a body of elite members of society as well as growing inequality in the United States, especially between those who hold power and those who do not. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the income gap is the widest it has been in 75 years.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/13/senator
These "top 40" were worth, collectively, $626 million.
Many senators are worth MORE than the Hilton's who are famous for being wealthy.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=19
Overall, the average net worth of the top 100 members of the Bush administration was somewhere between $3.7 million and nearly $12 million.
http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/taxonomy/term/5
Based on just the minimums the members reported, the Center for Responsive Politics calculated that the average House member had a net worth of $2.4 million.
House members had a median net worth of $385,000. (a fairer number since there are a few extremely wealthy congressmen).
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Our government is now staffed by the wealthy and run for the wealthy. The laws they pass are expectedly passed to benefit people like themselves. There have been numerous anecdotal stories showing how completely out of touch they are with difficulties and troubles of the typical citizen.
As long as Microsoft can maintain a quick pace of innovation, Linux will always be chasing behind it.
Once the problem becomes well defined and stable, Linux will catch up and O/S will commoditize.
The longer the release cycles- and the more windows UI changes with those releases, the more likely people will change to linux. I'm ready except for Everquest. Everything else is open source on my boxes now.
Hmm. Perhaps they can title OOXML the "standard for interchange with microsoft programs" and then call ODF the "standard for interchange between non-microsoft programs" as a way of finessing it.
Then the states and countries could say that microsoft had to be compatible with the general standard in addition to their internal standard.
I'm not sure if he is a troll or just very angry.
He's made about 2k posts in less time than I've been a member and I post fairly heavily. Based on that and the content of his recent posts, I think it is more likely that he is very angry than that he is trolling.
The discussion had reached the point where one of the following applied:
Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Never argue with an idiot; people watching might not be able to tell the difference.
So there wasn't any point in continuing. LoL.
That's interesting. So ODF supports older dates? Is the date range unlimited?
But imagine if laws were passed through a modding mechanism.
Someone posts a possible law and once it gets up-modded enough- it's legal. It can later be down-modded as it goes out of favor.
I agree.
People can also go for civil disobedience for bad laws (tho these days they forget that includes accepting the punishment).
Riaa are a bunch of thugs and the terms of copyright are unreasonable these days-- however using brand new works without compensating the creators is equally immoral. I remember 7 years ago folks like the ones here were saying on boards like this "well sue the people who are infringing".
They emotionally "want it" so they rationalize their acts. The main problem there is, if they fool themselves into believing they are doing no wrong, they will eventually be caught. If you are going to break the law and do not want to do it for the purpose of civil disobedience then you better be discrete and keep right from wrong straight in your head.
LoL.
Okay. Those seem like reasonable points.
Not sure what I would have done. I'm suspicious of things that are too good to be true usually.
You have a lot of posts, so I don't think you are troll per se. However, a good 50% of your most recent posts all share this raving quality.
This anger is going to lead you to an early death and is already destroying any chance for you to be happy.
Facts are facts man. $30k salary doesn't add up to $10k a year taxes (even including social security).
Given the facts you stated combined with the facts available on the government web sites, your story sounds off somehow.
My income has varied from that level in 1993 to considerably higher today and I've never paid that kind of tax rate.
Since we won't be posting digitized W2's here- we just agree to disagree.
I can't see how that is possible.
They said they lost 500 grand. Wouldn't they have noticed that they were loading a half a million in cash into the machines?
I assumed that the machines were like the ones I have seen- you get credits. When you cash out, you get a receipt that you take to the cash box and they give you cash.
The result is, they don't see that the machine is over paying.
Are you saying that you paid $10,000 taxes on a $30,000 salary?
That seems high. Sure you were not paying for health insurance or some other deductions too?
From www.irs.gov:
If taxable income is over-- But not over-- The tax is:
$0 $7,550 10% of the amount over $0
$7,550 $30,650 $755 plus 15% of the amount over 7,550
$30,650 $74,200 $4,220.00 plus 25% of the amount over 30,650
$74,200 $154,800 $15,107.50 plus 28% of the amount over 74,200
$154,800 $336,550 $37,675.50 plus 33% of the amount over 154,800
$336,550 no limit $97,653.00 plus 35% of the amount over 336,550
Social Security Tax is 7.650% (with another 7.650% paid by employer)
After your standard deduction, you should have had an effective income of under $25k. That would result in a tax of about $3k + $1.5k for SSN.
25% of income and social security tax is not that far off.
On $90k I would expect to pay about $16k taxes and $8k SSN taxes (with the company really paying another $8k SSN taxes too). Remember, you don't pay much taxes on your first $40k of income. And the rate is only roughly 28% above that.
The other 50% of taxes (that keeps you working until June 1 each year) are sales tax, cell phone tax, phone tax, gasoline tax, registration tax, property tax, use tax, etc.
If the machine had been loaded with real money and dropped real tokens, the casino would have noticed the problem much sooner.
This is the same problem with people using credit cards instead of using cash.
I can't buy your argument because your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberry wine.
Oh yea... and the 2/3 burn rate doesn't reflect the fact that they tell me that Infosys pays them a salary but expects them to work 60 hours a week. When infosys commits to a deadline- they have to work even more sometimes (without extra compensation or time off). They are willing too since currently the wage differential is like making $200k a year. Once the rupee comes up enough, the dollar drops enough, and the wage inflation brings them close to parity, and they get a little older and wiser, they are not going to be as willing to kill themselves and give up their lives (sheesh- 4 of them to an apartment in some cases-- no life except cricket on the weekends).
Given that colleges are ending cs programs since americans are wisely concluding this field is stupid, I see a "perfect storm" in 4-6 years.
Given that large law firms are being busted for showing many corporations how to reject qualified american candidates legally, (it was here on slashdot in the last few weeks), I think it is pretty clear that it is about salary. One of the reported scams was to ask the american what salary they wanted and whatever salary they requested- just record that it was a few thousand dollars to high and then reject them.