you're right that we allow inherited wealth to have a large impact. The alternative is an estate tax that encourages the wealthy to consume near the end of life rather than produce.
what utter crap.
An estate tax does not take 100% of an estate. It doesn't encourage them to piss away their entire fortune.
You also suffer from some delusion that people who make this kind of money perform any real labor. They hire someone else to do their job.
We have high inequality, but also high mobility opportunity.
what a fat steaming load. Who gave you your in on the professional sector? I know every job listing, even ones for "recent graduates" and "senior year" require 2-5 years expereince, and NOBODY wants to give that experience to you.
Without an engine that rewards production, the amassing of wealth must come from a zero-sum game.
please explain to me then, why the most prosperous states in the unions impose progressive tax rates weighted heavily toward the rich, and those states are forced to subsidize reaganites like you who fubar the tax structure everywhere else.
Without an engine that provides disposable income for consumption, the amassing of wealth by producers becomes severely stunted, because one wealthy person, no matter how much money he amasses, will not consume as much or as broadly as several people who make a middle class income.
I agree with you otherwise, but it wasn't the unions which destroyed the US auto industry. This blame rests solely with their management.
The industry is/was not a co-op. The workers were not given a referendum on cheaper, better engineered, more fuel efficient vehicles, and the management was arrogant enough to think they didn't need to produce them.
and none of them have experience, and the same type of companies that don't want to pay overtime ALSO don't want to train people, expecting them to come pre-canned for their needs.
Honestly it's only now that the ipod has the screen the zune had when it was released, the Zune could have made a dent in ipod sales if the managers at Microsoft did not have their head so far in their rear you couldn't see their shoulders
Microsoft has a nasty habit of acting like they already have a monopoly in markets they are merely exploring.
I would consider this propensity a godsend, otherwise, you would see it only AFTER they drove everyone else out of the market.
isn't identity theft easier in a world without biometric IDs? I mean, while forging a biometric ID requires access to the ID and expensive technology
forging a biometric id is substantially easier than forging others, because they can be measured at a distance or gleaned from any object we touch.
what does posing as someone in a world without IDs require?
I would very much like to see this world without ID's you're talking about.
Last I checked every nation with roads required license plates, driver's licenses, birth and death certificates, etc.
The big difference between these and biometric ID's, as I pointed out before, is you can't apply to the government for a new fingerprint, DNA strand, sub-dermal artery pattern, or retinal pattern.
I was one of a class of two in a CS practicum where we were handed an orphaned OSS work.
It had no comments, and we didn't even really get even one good live demonstration of what it even did. (it was specialized to the linguistics field).
Because of this paucity of information, I was tasked with running through the code and documenting it.
The fact that each class didn't appear to enclose a distinct function, and that every function traversed 15 classes because of this, made for a very VERY frustrating experience.
It ended up taking months to do, and i'm still not satisfied with the results.
The truth is, the app would probably have been better off rewritten from scratch given the amount of time it took to analyze the byzantine nightmare I slogged through.
It isn't a big thing. It's an ID card that holds a fingerprint record. How is it bad to tie a card to a person?
"It's looking like the UK is in for biometric ID cards within the next few years, despite widespread protest from groups such as 'NO2I"
Nice troll.
There was a similar push for biometric ID's in germany.
A hacker protest group lifted his prints and published them on a t-shirt.
Including biometric identification info on a card which can be stolen, lost, hacked, or otherwise tampered with is a very good way to assure a security breach has no viable means of recovery.
The implications considering other "biometric" security devices are pretty horrible, especially if the foreign nationals/immigrants in question were brought in to assist high level corporate, defense, or other prestigious research.
Send hooker to foreign Ph. D.'s apartment, copy info on ID card, manufacture a fake fingerprint using the info, walk straight into a BL4 lab and help yourself to a nice engineered strain of small pox
I distinctly remember hearing, from what at the time seemed a credible source, about a national security related trade regulation which made the export of game consoles to certain nations illegal because the computing technology within could (in the legislators' irrational minds) be used in missile guidance systems.
Can I get a confirm or deny on this one?
If I wasn't just hearing fud, does this mean we're allowed to send PS3's there now?
i'm sorry, but "wanting" war, and acquiescing to presidential demands for war under the weight of (eventually debunked) "evidence" mysteriously produced from agencies the president controlled.. are two different things.
It was an illegal war, but not directly so. It stemmed from the manipulation of information.
Propaganda is illegal, though difficult to prove, in the US.
Unfortunately, it takes two to tango. IF the democrats had put up someone even reasonably qualifying for the office, they would have won. And yet again, they may prove to have made the same mistake again, choosing the MOST liberal senator out of the whole bunch. If they had picked like 85 instead of 100 on the list, this election would not even be in doubt...
an excellent example of the dissonance discussed.
you are a republican, a thoroughly indoctrinated one.
Obama isn't even close to "liberal" democrat.
If you want liberal take a look to canada, and that's only what 85 out of 100 scale liberals want.
The truth is it wouldn't matter who the democrats trotted up there.
If you never knew GW, and he ran under the democratic ticket, you would rain the same derision upon him.
even if it was a mere inquiry, or a simple request, it's still an advocation of and affirmative personal attempt at censorship.
This was a public repository, not some private home or a business whose job it is to please only her.
She acted in a way designed to deny children perspective.
It doesn't matter if she whispered it with a please between each word, or pulled out a quiver of flaming arrows and set the stacks alight. It all amounts to the same intent.
Or, really try to make the best choice, but be ultimately thwarted by a lack of education, ability to reason, or by having been propagandized into being unable to see more than one side of an issue.
the education thing i buy.
the reason and propaganda I dont.
People who fail to dissect that, and act upon it without thorough thought, belong in the "external moral compass" camp.
those with an internal moral compass still have the opinions those with an external compass have access to, but they also have a strong capacity for critical thought and an actual sense of right from wrong, rather than just a propensity to follow the crowd.
one of these groups forges positive change in society, the other is often massed against those changes by the actively amoral.
you do realize globalism only "works" in the economic sense if the given players in a multilateral trade agreement have equal labor and human rights standards, right?
you also realize china, india, and many of the places we most heavily import from do not have this parity, right?
it's a shame i have yet to see a good color calibration tool for linux.. or maybe i'm also not looking hard enough there? I spent a week and a half searching for that though : /
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you're right that we allow inherited wealth to have a large impact. The alternative is an estate tax that encourages the wealthy to consume near the end of life rather than produce.
what utter crap.
An estate tax does not take 100% of an estate. It doesn't encourage them to piss away their entire fortune.
You also suffer from some delusion that people who make this kind of money perform any real labor. They hire someone else to do their job.
We have high inequality, but also high mobility opportunity.
what a fat steaming load. Who gave you your in on the professional sector? I know every job listing, even ones for "recent graduates" and "senior year" require 2-5 years expereince, and NOBODY wants to give that experience to you.
Without an engine that rewards production, the amassing of wealth must come from a zero-sum game.
please explain to me then, why the most prosperous states in the unions impose progressive tax rates weighted heavily toward the rich, and those states are forced to subsidize reaganites like you who fubar the tax structure everywhere else.
Without an engine that provides disposable income for consumption, the amassing of wealth by producers becomes severely stunted, because one wealthy person, no matter how much money he amasses, will not consume as much or as broadly as several people who make a middle class income.
But the US is not even top 5 in real per capita income.
Notice us is 15th in per capita income when measured in it's own currency!
It fares better in international dollars, but it's still below singapore, norway, etc.
I agree with you otherwise, but it wasn't the unions which destroyed the US auto industry. This blame rests solely with their management.
The industry is/was not a co-op. The workers were not given a referendum on cheaper, better engineered, more fuel efficient vehicles, and the management was arrogant enough to think they didn't need to produce them.
what company do you work for.
They appear to be one of few who do this.
and none of them have experience, and the same type of companies that don't want to pay overtime ALSO don't want to train people, expecting them to come pre-canned for their needs.
I've been job hunting, and noticed several listings in CA for tech positions. (Second major is CS).
I will now be submitting cover letters decrying the legislation, and a resume which carries a copy of this article.
I WILL NOT become a 90 hour/week slave.
Honestly it's only now that the ipod has the screen the zune had when it was released, the Zune could have made a dent in ipod sales if the managers at Microsoft did not have their head so far in their rear you couldn't see their shoulders
Microsoft has a nasty habit of acting like they already have a monopoly in markets they are merely exploring.
I would consider this propensity a godsend, otherwise, you would see it only AFTER they drove everyone else out of the market.
isn't identity theft easier in a world without biometric IDs? I mean, while forging a biometric ID requires access to the ID and expensive technology
forging a biometric id is substantially easier than forging others, because they can be measured at a distance or gleaned from any object we touch.
what does posing as someone in a world without IDs require?
I would very much like to see this world without ID's you're talking about.
Last I checked every nation with roads required license plates, driver's licenses, birth and death certificates, etc.
The big difference between these and biometric ID's, as I pointed out before, is you can't apply to the government for a new fingerprint, DNA strand, sub-dermal artery pattern, or retinal pattern.
The commenting point cannot be stressed enough.
I was one of a class of two in a CS practicum where we were handed an orphaned OSS work.
It had no comments, and we didn't even really get even one good live demonstration of what it even did. (it was specialized to the linguistics field).
Because of this paucity of information, I was tasked with running through the code and documenting it.
The fact that each class didn't appear to enclose a distinct function, and that every function traversed 15 classes because of this, made for a very VERY frustrating experience.
It ended up taking months to do, and i'm still not satisfied with the results.
The truth is, the app would probably have been better off rewritten from scratch given the amount of time it took to analyze the byzantine nightmare I slogged through.
It isn't a big thing. It's an ID card that holds a fingerprint record. How is it bad to tie a card to a person?
"It's looking like the UK is in for biometric ID cards within the next few years, despite widespread protest from groups such as 'NO2I"
Nice troll.
There was a similar push for biometric ID's in germany.
A hacker protest group lifted his prints and published them on a t-shirt.
Including biometric identification info on a card which can be stolen, lost, hacked, or otherwise tampered with is a very good way to assure a security breach has no viable means of recovery.
The implications considering other "biometric" security devices are pretty horrible, especially if the foreign nationals/immigrants in question were brought in to assist high level corporate, defense, or other prestigious research.
Send hooker to foreign Ph. D.'s apartment, copy info on ID card, manufacture a fake fingerprint using the info, walk straight into a BL4 lab and help yourself to a nice engineered strain of small pox
One more thing.
The community DOES have a right to determine what is right for their children, by refusing to allow them to take it home.
What they DONT have a right to do is determine what is right for someone else's children within that community.
You are NOT my kid's parents, I AM, and how dare you try to remove a book from the shelves which I might find valuable.
Wow, did oreilly coach you?
I never said anything about the bible, nor attacking religion.
The fact you project those things upon me should be a clue as to how far into the "utterly wacko" fringe right you have traversed.
People should be allowed to read the bible as much as "daddy's roommate", the book palin wanted censored.
What I don't believe in is abrogating established science curricula because some religious zealots are taking the bible at face value.
I distinctly remember hearing, from what at the time seemed a credible source, about a national security related trade regulation which made the export of game consoles to certain nations illegal because the computing technology within could (in the legislators' irrational minds) be used in missile guidance systems.
Can I get a confirm or deny on this one?
If I wasn't just hearing fud, does this mean we're allowed to send PS3's there now?
yes it does.
it basically says:
if(resolution > 640x480) degrade.pixellate.butcher(video)
else stream(video)
I'm having a very difficult time dragging up much else which requires a large amount of time sensitive bandwidth than streaming dvd+ quality video.
The intent is quite clear.
i'm sorry, but "wanting" war, and acquiescing to presidential demands for war under the weight of (eventually debunked) "evidence" mysteriously produced from agencies the president controlled.. are two different things.
It was an illegal war, but not directly so. It stemmed from the manipulation of information.
Propaganda is illegal, though difficult to prove, in the US.
Unfortunately, it takes two to tango. IF the democrats had put up someone even reasonably qualifying for the office, they would have won. And yet again, they may prove to have made the same mistake again, choosing the MOST liberal senator out of the whole bunch. If they had picked like 85 instead of 100 on the list, this election would not even be in doubt...
an excellent example of the dissonance discussed.
you are a republican, a thoroughly indoctrinated one.
Obama isn't even close to "liberal" democrat.
If you want liberal take a look to canada, and that's only what 85 out of 100 scale liberals want.
The truth is it wouldn't matter who the democrats trotted up there.
If you never knew GW, and he ran under the democratic ticket, you would rain the same derision upon him.
QURAN..
i don't have a personal stake in it, but i know many parts of the world where the muslim base is conservative enough to take offense.
even if it was a mere inquiry, or a simple request, it's still an advocation of and affirmative personal attempt at censorship.
This was a public repository, not some private home or a business whose job it is to please only her.
She acted in a way designed to deny children perspective.
It doesn't matter if she whispered it with a please between each word, or pulled out a quiver of flaming arrows and set the stacks alight. It all amounts to the same intent.
Or, really try to make the best choice, but be ultimately thwarted by a lack of education, ability to reason, or by having been propagandized into being unable to see more than one side of an issue.
the education thing i buy.
the reason and propaganda I dont.
People who fail to dissect that, and act upon it without thorough thought, belong in the "external moral compass" camp.
I don't follow.
those with an internal moral compass still have the opinions those with an external compass have access to, but they also have a strong capacity for critical thought and an actual sense of right from wrong, rather than just a propensity to follow the crowd.
one of these groups forges positive change in society, the other is often massed against those changes by the actively amoral.
uum..
you do realize globalism only "works" in the economic sense if the given players in a multilateral trade agreement have equal labor and human rights standards, right?
you also realize china, india, and many of the places we most heavily import from do not have this parity, right?
earlier than 2000 i'm afraid, a lot earlier.
interesting. I will give it another try.
it's a shame i have yet to see a good color calibration tool for linux.. or maybe i'm also not looking hard enough there? I spent a week and a half searching for that though : /
I would "suggest" they do what they were paid a staggering 200 Billion dollars by the american tax payers to do, lay more physical infrastructure!
i'm sorry, but i'm not.
I've adjusted my views when presented with evidence which contradicted those initial views.
I have never held irrationally to a belief when all evidence pointed to the contrary.