we had to switch from UPS (they are cheaper) to Fedex because of unreliable delivery. When we're constantly shipping packages to customers and 1 in 100 gets lost, that's a big deal.
It's somewhat telling that UPS doesn't even touch radioactive stuff.
The worry for me was never a company getting it, but the government. Google isn't going to sell the info to the government-- they don't need to; and it would mean betraying their users' trust.
So it doesn't bother me so much. Nobody has the time to look at YOUR file either, they're just doing statistical analysis on the data mined.
You, moron, need to read the national fairtax bill. It reduces the taxes on the poor to absolute 0. If you make below the poverty limit, you get a 100% refund of the taxes, with an increase for each dependent. If you did not work at all this year, you would get a refund of taxes up to the poverty limit, as if you had worked (the same refund, for doing nothing). So your argument is null. Under that tax system, the poor would pay absolutely nothing, and would even get paid, if they didn't work.
Now if you are rich on the other hand, the tax would apply to all kinds of luxury expenses. Buying a ferrari? Well then you are paying 23% of the purchase price in a tax. Buying a plane? The same.
By all means, keep supporting the progressive tax system. I will be more than happy to make millions I can keep shifting through tax loopholes because you are unwilling to close them. The reason a consumption tax is better, is because you can determine your tax overhead at the beginning of the year. No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
It's a shame that you started an otherwise cogent retort with 'You, moron', because that typically makes people tune the rest out. Try civil debate sometime; you may find that you get better results.
funny I see progressive liberals doing it all the time here.
Also, it's telling that that's the best retort you could come up with, as opposed to you know, actually proving him wrong.
This article reads less like a news story than an emotional, personal rant by someone who's puckering with contempt because he got his feelings hurt.
NPR sounds the same way to me. But it's professional journalism. You have to rustle feathers, especially on a site like this, to keep people interested.
Something that amuses me about you Americans is that most of your internet media outlets like/. are so rabidly against the Republicans, but instantly run to the defense of your party of Democrats. Surely they do wrong things, too?
when you want to run insane deficits to pay for your unsustainable social programs, defense spending is the silliest thing to cut: what happens when your loans come due, you can't pay them, and the world is pissed off? You'd better hope you spent a lot on your national defense.
Not to mention, defense is one of the first reasons our Federal government came into existence in the first place...
So that raises another question, maybe the reasons for blocking are protectionist rather than censorist? They don't mind the idea of "Facebook" but want their own running instead (because its Chinese, but also because it's probably easier to control). Maybe some of both.
Reminds me of a compile issue I had a few months ago. There was no documentation on the compiler. It's a dead binary. Yet we still use it for whatever reason.
Anyways, I was getting compile errors that made no sense, which I could not seem to get rid of. I stared at my computer screen for about 2 hours before noticing that there was a difference between " and `` Now, that second one is actually two slanted something-or-the-others, but it's the closest I could get to a double-quotes with an inward slant. What had happened was I wrote some code in Notepad++ and then copied into Notepad, saved, and then tried to compile.
btw, it annoys me to no end when some foreigner complains on Slashdot about how some comment is USA-centric. Sure, the internet is international, but when I go to a British website I don't complain about how it's UK-centric. I love that so many foreigners post on Slashdot; I've learned quite a bit from them, especially when the story is about their home country; but don't get annoyed when comments on a political story use the pronoun 'we' to refer to 'the American people.'
As a foreigner who posts here and has had stories accepted here I feel somewhat eligible to respond to this comment. I will do so with an example of what I have experienced.
I saw an article in a newspaper in my home country (of which English is the native language), made a submission with a direct quote from the linked text. The submission was accepted and published on/. but the kicker was that spelling in the direct quote was converted to US English.
It is this sort of lack of respect that brings forth the things you are complaining about.
You may say that./ is a US centric website. Yes I agree it was a US based creation but I suspect that a significant amount of readership is non-US based and a huge number of stories are non US related, so I feel that complaining about foreigners saying what they do is a bit off base.
Boy, life sure must be rough not having the respect you desire.
Just be glad we're not a real dictator that enslaves the entire populace of countries we capture after importing them to the home country.
Tell me, mr anderson, what good is javascript performance if you are unable to use multiple cores?
I wish someone would get on this and make firefox work with multiple cores better. As it is I use the "|" character in my home page settings to open about 20 tabs-- forums, review sites, slashdot, economics blogs, etc....and firefox slows to a grinding halt for about the 15 seconds (just timed it) it takes to render all those pages. Chrome does it in about 4 seconds and pegs all 4 of my cores to 100%.
Please Mozilla, I know this would require a serious redesign, but it's seriously needed. Hitching while scrolling up/down because a tab is loading in the background (I make use of middle click to open tabs in the background extensively) is very annoying.
Sure, fast cars are fun. I've owned my share, and they have their place. There's no replacement for displacement, as they say.
But it's like volume: if the only thing that makes your music listenable is to turn it up louder, you're probably listening to bad music. If the only thing that makes your car enjoyable is adding horsepower, you're probably driving a crap car.
In spite of that being a car analogy, I'm still completely lost as to the parallel. Can you explain why more horsepower = more fun is a problem?
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we had to switch from UPS (they are cheaper) to Fedex because of unreliable delivery. When we're constantly shipping packages to customers and 1 in 100 gets lost, that's a big deal.
It's somewhat telling that UPS doesn't even touch radioactive stuff.
how dare they give me something for free and tell me to use more of their products.
*in before someone claims their linux experience was always faster than Windows*
The worry for me was never a company getting it, but the government.
Google isn't going to sell the info to the government-- they don't need to; and it would mean betraying their users' trust.
So it doesn't bother me so much.
Nobody has the time to look at YOUR file either, they're just doing statistical analysis on the data mined.
LOL touche!
for example, the parent he was replying to started out with "You are lying or out of your mind"
You, moron, need to read the national fairtax bill. It reduces the taxes on the poor to absolute 0. If you make below the poverty limit, you get a 100% refund of the taxes, with an increase for each dependent. If you did not work at all this year, you would get a refund of taxes up to the poverty limit, as if you had worked (the same refund, for doing nothing). So your argument is null. Under that tax system, the poor would pay absolutely nothing, and would even get paid, if they didn't work.
Now if you are rich on the other hand, the tax would apply to all kinds of luxury expenses. Buying a ferrari? Well then you are paying 23% of the purchase price in a tax. Buying a plane? The same.
By all means, keep supporting the progressive tax system. I will be more than happy to make millions I can keep shifting through tax loopholes because you are unwilling to close them. The reason a consumption tax is better, is because you can determine your tax overhead at the beginning of the year. No need to manage taxes for your employees paycheck, figure out your deductions, find tax credits, buy your car with your company, buy your vacation home as a company asset. It would no longer matter, because all of these things would become moot points. You would pay taxes on them, end of story.
It's a shame that you started an otherwise cogent retort with 'You, moron', because that typically makes people tune the rest out. Try civil debate sometime; you may find that you get better results.
funny I see progressive liberals doing it all the time here.
Also, it's telling that that's the best retort you could come up with, as opposed to you know, actually proving him wrong.
at least when there are no good CLI way of doing it,
shh quiet you.
X is a part of any proper Unix.
Proper Unix doesn't have any graphical display capabilities at all.
Now get off my lawn.
Just install emacs, that's what I use to play Crysis on my pc.
This article reads less like a news story than an emotional, personal rant by someone who's puckering with contempt because he got his feelings hurt.
NPR sounds the same way to me. But it's professional journalism. You have to rustle feathers, especially on a site like this, to keep people interested.
Something that amuses me about you Americans is that most of your internet media outlets like /. are so rabidly against the Republicans, but instantly run to the defense of your party of Democrats. Surely they do wrong things, too?
Just like nobody wanted it this time, yet Obama and the dems went clear against the desires of the country and passed it anyways.
when you want to run insane deficits to pay for your unsustainable social programs, defense spending is the silliest thing to cut: what happens when your loans come due, you can't pay them, and the world is pissed off? You'd better hope you spent a lot on your national defense.
Not to mention, defense is one of the first reasons our Federal government came into existence in the first place...
So that raises another question, maybe the reasons for blocking are protectionist rather than censorist? They don't mind the idea of "Facebook" but want their own running instead (because its Chinese, but also because it's probably easier to control). Maybe some of both.
Sorry, old episode, out of date, so are you.
Reminds me of a compile issue I had a few months ago.
There was no documentation on the compiler. It's a dead binary. Yet we still use it for whatever reason.
Anyways, I was getting compile errors that made no sense, which I could not seem to get rid of.
I stared at my computer screen for about 2 hours before noticing
that there was a difference between
"
and
``
Now, that second one is actually two slanted something-or-the-others, but it's the closest I could get to a double-quotes with an inward slant.
What had happened was I wrote some code in Notepad++ and then copied into Notepad, saved, and then tried to compile.
Good times.
btw, it annoys me to no end when some foreigner complains on Slashdot about how some comment is USA-centric. Sure, the internet is international, but when I go to a British website I don't complain about how it's UK-centric. I love that so many foreigners post on Slashdot; I've learned quite a bit from them, especially when the story is about their home country; but don't get annoyed when comments on a political story use the pronoun 'we' to refer to 'the American people.'
As a foreigner who posts here and has had stories accepted here I feel somewhat eligible to respond to this comment. I will do so with an example of what I have experienced.
I saw an article in a newspaper in my home country (of which English is the native language), made a submission with a direct quote from the linked text. The submission was accepted and published on /. but the kicker was that spelling in the direct quote was converted to US English.
It is this sort of lack of respect that brings forth the things you are complaining about.
You may say that ./ is a US centric website. Yes I agree it was a US based creation but I suspect that a significant amount of readership is non-US based and a huge number of stories are non US related, so I feel that complaining about foreigners saying what they do is a bit off base.
Boy, life sure must be rough not having the respect you desire.
Just be glad we're not a real dictator that enslaves the entire populace of countries we capture after importing them to the home country.
Wow that's good to know. Can't wait. Thanks!
Tell me, mr anderson, what good is javascript performance if you are unable to use multiple cores?
I wish someone would get on this and make firefox work with multiple cores better. As it is I use the "|" character in my home page settings to open about 20 tabs-- forums, review sites, slashdot, economics blogs, etc....and firefox slows to a grinding halt for about the 15 seconds (just timed it) it takes to render all those pages.
Chrome does it in about 4 seconds and pegs all 4 of my cores to 100%.
Please Mozilla, I know this would require a serious redesign, but it's seriously needed. Hitching while scrolling up/down because a tab is loading in the background (I make use of middle click to open tabs in the background extensively) is very annoying.
Sorry, but I disagree. Acceleration is the most fun part.
Sure, fast cars are fun. I've owned my share, and they have their place. There's no replacement for displacement, as they say.
But it's like volume: if the only thing that makes your music listenable is to turn it up louder, you're probably listening to bad music. If the only thing that makes your car enjoyable is adding horsepower, you're probably driving a crap car.
In spite of that being a car analogy, I'm still completely lost as to the parallel. Can you explain why more horsepower = more fun is a problem?
reserved for those who can find a job in this climate if fired.
(shrug)
I just watch the ads. It's easier and less time-consuming.
First they came for my DVDs, and since it was easier, I didn't stand up to them. ...
Then they came for me, because
wait
thanks. Your post title/subject is spot on-- when opinions overshadow facts.
Good post.
hmm.....but how many cars per library of congress is that?