Um, dude. Whats wrong with you? Taxing the rich more is unfair. These people who have made millions earned their money. They deserve to keep the money they earn. They have worked hard to educate themselves. They worked day and night and they have sacrificed time with their familes. The rich worked so very hard to make their millions so support themselves and family. And what do they get for it? Disrespect. Dishonor. Forced to pay excessive taxes so the government can pay welfare to some poor uneducated people. This is not right. And I dare say downright UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Government has NO RIGHT to take THEIR MONEY from them to pay welfare to some poor ass person at McDonald's that can't even do their job right. I walk into fast food places and retail stores and all I see people who can't work. These so-called workers mope around and slowly doing tasks. Doing as little as possible while making $5-$9/hr. I believe these retail and fast food workers should be paid what their worth -- $1.00 to $4.00. And get paid $7.25/hr when they have earned it.
Government should not and has no right to distribute wealth to anyone. It is not their job. Their job is protect us from foreign countries and provide the infrastructure necessary to survive. And by infrastructure I mean water, electricity, natural gas, roads and etc. Americans are not entitled to the money they have not earned. They are not entitled to free education. They are not entitled to free health care. Read the US Constitution.
Fair Tax is fair because it a sales tax. People only pay what they want to pay. Prebate checks are to pay the taxes that will be paid on living essentials (food, water, clothes). If you choose to buy expensive things, you will end up paying more in sales tax. The good thing is you don't have to. You can just buy bare essentials. Let's take for example Plasma screen tv. The rich, middle-class, and poor will pay the same amount of tax on it. Truly Fair. Rich may fly overseas allot but they still pay taxes on those tickets. They still pay taxes on those big fancy cars they drive. You can choose not to pay any taxes at all by buying used items. It's your money and you should choose how much tax you pay.
Wake up America! You are not entitled to free education, free health care, or those big fat welfare checks. You are only entitled to what the US Constitution says you are entitled too. And the distribution of wealth through excessive taxation is not the government's job.
Now I have spoken the truth and my mind. I don't care if I get modded down. Long live Freedom of Speech.
I challenge slashdot to do the same exact thing with Ubuntu 6.1 or the equivalent Linux distro. The only requirement is that must be using it's bundled Gnome/KDE desktop running. ie, Ubuntu with Gnome (bundled version) running on 8mhz x86 machine.
No cheating. Linux distro must be the latest version using the stock desktop environment. No booting into command-line and thats it. It has to boot into Gnome or KDE and be able to run.
Let's see how Windows XP and a latest Linux distro do on the same machine.
Why should you pay federal income tax?
Why pay social security tax?
You don't have to. Just tell your Representatives in Congress to vote YES to Fair Tax
The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a rebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar revenue neutrality, and the repeal of the 16th Amendment. This non-partisan legislation (HR 25/S 25) abolishes all federal personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes and replaces them all with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax - collected by existing state sales tax authorities. The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend, not on what we earn. It does not raise any more or less revenue; it is designed to be revenue neutral. So it is also cost neutral - the final cost for goods and services changes little under the FairTax. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system.
Because under Fair Tax, even illegal immigrants pay their fair share of taxes yet don't get a monthly prebates.
This kind of defense against software piracy is a bad idea. What if the person got scammed with an illegal copy? The person could have bought the software thinking it was a legal. What if the home folder contains important financial documents? Developer leaves himself open to lawsuits.
I have found the best way to stop piracy is to use Viatech's Elicense.
This article is a lobbying article. And trying to get people into writing letters to their Representatives in Congress. In other words, Slashdot got duped into a political lobbying.
And Net Neutrality should exist. Where there is a problem, there is a solution. Qwest and others just wants to take the easy out instead of solving the network congestion.
Solution: Serve up the data faster to clients can disconnect so others can connect, download, and disconnect. Since servers use T3 or OC lines, it's not the server in question. It is the clients inability to receive the data at faster rates. Imagine if every computer in the world had a OC-48 connection. Verizon has the right idea too. They are connecting Optical Fiber to residential customers and hooking up Gigabit Ethernet in homes. It is a start in resolving the problem.
How many hard drives would that take? The Internet has terabytes of information and growing rapidly everyday. By the time they could do a massive cache server, It would need more then 1 petabyte of space.
I would disagree with your logic. They put the Blu-Ray in the PS3 is to boost the Blu-Ray brand and blu-ray disc sales. PS3 is to replace the PS2 and compete with 360. Obviously, That game plan is failing. Sony needs to revise it so their Playstation Division stays in the black
Remove the hard drive and bluray drive. Replace blu-ray with a Sony DVD drive and make the HDD optional add on if possible.
If Sony removed those two components with lower cost solutions, they could knock off $100-$200. They could easily sell a PS3 at $299-$399 instead. That is a much better price point. PS3 could compete with both 360 and Wii better.
What exactly would Ballmer do? Throw another chair?
His threats a meaningless to Linux community. Ballmer is an idiot that is in charge of a company that uses strong arm tactics and using anything in it's arsenal to make companies bow to them. Unfortunately, Microsoft and Ballmer don't realize that Linux community is made up of people who hate them and would gladly throw a cream pie in his face.
Ion Drives are not slow. And Japan is probably most interested in how the drives perform.
From Deep Space 1;
The ultimate speed of a spacecraft using ion thrust depends upon how much propellant it carries; indeed, the same principle applies to chemical propulsion systems, although they are much less efficient. The ion propulsion system on Deep Space 1 carries about 81.5 kilograms of xenon propellant, and it takes about 20 months of thrusting to use it all. It increases the speed of the spacecraft by about 4.5 kilometers per second, or about 10,000 miles per hour. If we had the same amount of chemical propellant, it would provide only one tenth as much velocity increment. If DS1 carried a larger solar array, it certainly would have a slightly higher acceleration, and if it carried more Xe propellant it could reach a much higher final velocity by simply thrusting longer. But DS1 is testing ion propulsion solely to find out if it works as well as predicted. Future missions that use it likely will carry more propellant to achieve still higher speeds.
1. Bring these security additions to public linux distributions.
2. Would you (and the rest of/.ers) be willing to purchase 1 of these laptops for $200? I say $200 so the extra $100 goes toward a laptop for a child in third world country.
Hand them a Ubuntu 6.10 cd, Tell them to download Automatix (to install libdvdcss and commercial apps) or Easy Ubuntu, and give them a years subscription to Cedega. I just wish Cyberlink would release Linux version of PowerDVD so Linux users have legal means of watching dvds.
TV commercial idea for Linux using Apple's commercial.
PC and Mac compare themselves. PC gets mad (Because gates expressed how much he hates the commercial.) and starts choking Mac. Mac defends himself and chokes PC. Linux walks in wearing white penguin tshirt and sees them fighting. Linux grabs back of PC and Mac's head and bangs them together with them both of them being knocked out and laying flat on their backs. Linux steps over them and camera pans on the Penguin logo.Penguin logo can be replaced with a distributions logo like the Ubuntu one. Note: this is a pun of Apple and Bill Gates.
I've finally LOST all RESPECT for Bill Gates. He bullshitted Steven Levy from the very beginning. And Bill gates revealed that he is a dumb ass. He says consumers are smart. He does not act like it. Entire article was a bunch of bullshit and lies. And he knows he will get away with it because he actually thinks consumers are dumb enough to fall for it.
I am getting sick of *cough*democrats*cough* always complaining about voting systems.
If you're not concerned with the system by which votes are counted, then you clearly have no interest in continuing to live in a democracy.
If small groups of individuals are given the capability to significantly manipulate the vote results, then it will not take long to turn a democracy into a dictatorship. There is nothing to be concerned about. The system does work. I'm just not willing to listen to some bullshit spouted off by some idiotic democrats. Democrats should be shot for treason. They don't give a crap about the US Constitution.
Since day the beginning, it's not the citizens that elect people. It is the Electoral College that elects them on the behalf of the public. They should be given the authority to break ties and vote how they want.
I am getting sick of *cough*democrats*cough* always complaining about voting systems. They will never be happy with any system that is used.
I think Electoral College should be unrestricted. It's really them who elect officials. State laws always make them vote with the people. They should vote however they choose.
Stop being lazy and do product research aka shop around. Whenever I shop on ebay, I search completed listings and bid no more then lowest price the item has sold for. Sellers can shill bid all they want, I am not an idiot.
And these sellers give eBay a bad rep. Hence Time's articles. This is why eBay is actively trying to stop it. Bad rep is bad for business.
In Star Trek, many things changed after WW3. Everything changed. Hollywood, TV, Money all went bye bye. Gene Roddenberry had a grand future for humanity. Humans made it their focus to 'better' themselves (from First Contact) instead of acquiring wealth.
News Corp should not be responsible for a persons incompetence. Parents have the tools to keep their kids from visiting websites. It's called a wireless router. Block any site and ability to keep it out of their children's hands so the settings can't be changed.
This kind of lawsuit is exactly the same as AOL being sued for not taking care of sexual predators in chatrooms.
I would not like to be too hasty in placing blame OR congratulations. After 10 years of "negotiated salaries", the price for a series can get quite out of hand. Having a "record-breaking" show can lead a studio to think they have a REAL "gold mine" on their hands. To top THAT off, having Comcast moving Stargate SG-1 to their "Digital Cable" offering, and REMOVING it from "Regular Cable" cut the number of folks who could watch the show.
That VP of programming at Sci-Fi came out and said that there will be NO TV show, anywhere with the name of "Stargate SG-1", because THEY (Sci-Fi) had a contract giving them rights to a show with that name. So he is either an ASS, or someone insulted him by asking FAR TOO MUCH money for renewal for season 11. We don't really know which one is true.
I actually thought the writing had improved quite a bit in the last two years. Each character was more "filled in", Daniel wasn't the "Whiny Bitch", Sam cound be "hot" AND an extremely intelligent woman, Teal'c actually voiced his opinions and took the lead on occasion, and the two new folks were good, strong, additions to the cast. It should have run for a couple of more years. Somehow, that got screwed up.
That, I was very sorry to hear.
I hate networks that fuck up franchises by preventing it to be picked up by another network. It is the whole "If I can't have it, nobody will" mentality. Fox did it with Firefly. And SciFi VP obviously has the whole mind set too. MGM just has to wait for the contract to expire.
I don't mind the Ori seasons, I just felt that the goauld weren't finished properly.
Its my understanding that Stargate: Atlantis is not ending. Additionally, these movies are allegedly going to launch a new Earth based Stargate series as well, it just won't be Stargate: SG1 anymore. I am aware of this. SciFi dropped Sg-1 and choose to continue Atlantis. Writers/Directors fucked up SG-1. They introduced the Ori too soon. I would have loved to have seen actual end of the goauld. They could have gotten a full season or at very least a half a season from the goauld plot.
I got the impression from SG-1 stars that MGM has more plans for them in the announcement of the ending of the show.
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Um, dude. Whats wrong with you? Taxing the rich more is unfair. These people who have made millions earned their money. They deserve to keep the money they earn. They have worked hard to educate themselves. They worked day and night and they have sacrificed time with their familes. The rich worked so very hard to make their millions so support themselves and family. And what do they get for it? Disrespect. Dishonor. Forced to pay excessive taxes so the government can pay welfare to some poor uneducated people. This is not right. And I dare say downright UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Government has NO RIGHT to take THEIR MONEY from them to pay welfare to some poor ass person at McDonald's that can't even do their job right. I walk into fast food places and retail stores and all I see people who can't work. These so-called workers mope around and slowly doing tasks. Doing as little as possible while making $5-$9/hr. I believe these retail and fast food workers should be paid what their worth -- $1.00 to $4.00. And get paid $7.25/hr when they have earned it.
Government should not and has no right to distribute wealth to anyone. It is not their job. Their job is protect us from foreign countries and provide the infrastructure necessary to survive. And by infrastructure I mean water, electricity, natural gas, roads and etc. Americans are not entitled to the money they have not earned. They are not entitled to free education. They are not entitled to free health care. Read the US Constitution.
Fair Tax is fair because it a sales tax. People only pay what they want to pay. Prebate checks are to pay the taxes that will be paid on living essentials (food, water, clothes). If you choose to buy expensive things, you will end up paying more in sales tax. The good thing is you don't have to. You can just buy bare essentials. Let's take for example Plasma screen tv. The rich, middle-class, and poor will pay the same amount of tax on it. Truly Fair. Rich may fly overseas allot but they still pay taxes on those tickets. They still pay taxes on those big fancy cars they drive. You can choose not to pay any taxes at all by buying used items. It's your money and you should choose how much tax you pay.
Wake up America! You are not entitled to free education, free health care, or those big fat welfare checks. You are only entitled to what the US Constitution says you are entitled too. And the distribution of wealth through excessive taxation is not the government's job.
Now I have spoken the truth and my mind. I don't care if I get modded down. Long live Freedom of Speech.
I challenge slashdot to do the same exact thing with Ubuntu 6.1 or the equivalent Linux distro. The only requirement is that must be using it's bundled Gnome/KDE desktop running. ie, Ubuntu with Gnome (bundled version) running on 8mhz x86 machine.
No cheating. Linux distro must be the latest version using the stock desktop environment. No booting into command-line and thats it. It has to boot into Gnome or KDE and be able to run.
Let's see how Windows XP and a latest Linux distro do on the same machine.
Why pay social security tax?
You don't have to. Just tell your Representatives in Congress to vote YES to Fair Tax
Because under Fair Tax, even illegal immigrants pay their fair share of taxes yet don't get a monthly prebates.
This kind of defense against software piracy is a bad idea. What if the person got scammed with an illegal copy? The person could have bought the software thinking it was a legal. What if the home folder contains important financial documents? Developer leaves himself open to lawsuits.
I have found the best way to stop piracy is to use Viatech's Elicense.
This article is a lobbying article. And trying to get people into writing letters to their Representatives in Congress. In other words, Slashdot got duped into a political lobbying.
And Net Neutrality should exist. Where there is a problem, there is a solution. Qwest and others just wants to take the easy out instead of solving the network congestion.
Solution: Serve up the data faster to clients can disconnect so others can connect, download, and disconnect. Since servers use T3 or OC lines, it's not the server in question. It is the clients inability to receive the data at faster rates. Imagine if every computer in the world had a OC-48 connection. Verizon has the right idea too. They are connecting Optical Fiber to residential customers and hooking up Gigabit Ethernet in homes. It is a start in resolving the problem.
How many hard drives would that take? The Internet has terabytes of information and growing rapidly everyday. By the time they could do a massive cache server, It would need more then 1 petabyte of space.
That can be changed. And note I said optional hdd. Note everyone would use it for downloadable content.
Both (hdd and bluray) could be made optional.
I would disagree with your logic. They put the Blu-Ray in the PS3 is to boost the Blu-Ray brand and blu-ray disc sales. PS3 is to replace the PS2 and compete with 360. Obviously, That game plan is failing. Sony needs to revise it so their Playstation Division stays in the black
Is a new PS3 console.
Remove the hard drive and bluray drive. Replace blu-ray with a Sony DVD drive and make the HDD optional add on if possible.
If Sony removed those two components with lower cost solutions, they could knock off $100-$200. They could easily sell a PS3 at $299-$399 instead. That is a much better price point. PS3 could compete with both 360 and Wii better.
What exactly would Ballmer do? Throw another chair?
His threats a meaningless to Linux community. Ballmer is an idiot that is in charge of a company that uses strong arm tactics and using anything in it's arsenal to make companies bow to them. Unfortunately, Microsoft and Ballmer don't realize that Linux community is made up of people who hate them and would gladly throw a cream pie in his face.
From Deep Space 1;
I've got two things to say.
1. Bring these security additions to public linux distributions.
2. Would you (and the rest of
Hand them a Ubuntu 6.10 cd, Tell them to download Automatix (to install libdvdcss and commercial apps) or Easy Ubuntu, and give them a years subscription to Cedega. I just wish Cyberlink would release Linux version of PowerDVD so Linux users have legal means of watching dvds.
TV commercial idea for Linux using Apple's commercial.
PC and Mac compare themselves. PC gets mad (Because gates expressed how much he hates the commercial.) and starts choking Mac. Mac defends himself and chokes PC. Linux walks in wearing white penguin tshirt and sees them fighting. Linux grabs back of PC and Mac's head and bangs them together with them both of them being knocked out and laying flat on their backs. Linux steps over them and camera pans on the Penguin logo.Penguin logo can be replaced with a distributions logo like the Ubuntu one.
Note: this is a pun of Apple and Bill Gates.
I've finally LOST all RESPECT for Bill Gates. He bullshitted Steven Levy from the very beginning. And Bill gates revealed that he is a dumb ass. He says consumers are smart. He does not act like it. Entire article was a bunch of bullshit and lies. And he knows he will get away with it because he actually thinks consumers are dumb enough to fall for it.
If small groups of individuals are given the capability to significantly manipulate the vote results, then it will not take long to turn a democracy into a dictatorship. There is nothing to be concerned about. The system does work. I'm just not willing to listen to some bullshit spouted off by some idiotic democrats. Democrats should be shot for treason. They don't give a crap about the US Constitution.
Since day the beginning, it's not the citizens that elect people. It is the Electoral College that elects them on the behalf of the public. They should be given the authority to break ties and vote how they want.
I am getting sick of *cough*democrats*cough* always complaining about voting systems. They will never be happy with any system that is used.
I think Electoral College should be unrestricted. It's really them who elect officials. State laws always make them vote with the people. They should vote however they choose.
How to Avoid eBay Fraud.
Stop being lazy and do product research aka shop around. Whenever I shop on ebay, I search completed listings and bid no more then lowest price the item has sold for. Sellers can shill bid all they want, I am not an idiot.
And these sellers give eBay a bad rep. Hence Time's articles. This is why eBay is actively trying to stop it. Bad rep is bad for business.
In Star Trek, many things changed after WW3. Everything changed. Hollywood, TV, Money all went bye bye. Gene Roddenberry had a grand future for humanity. Humans made it their focus to 'better' themselves (from First Contact) instead of acquiring wealth.
True. Wouldn't you rather support Linux initiatives? The best way to get Linux computers in retail stores is to buy them when available.
The Mini PC could also be the Koala Mini from System 76.
News Corp should not be responsible for a persons incompetence. Parents have the tools to keep their kids from visiting websites. It's called a wireless router. Block any site and ability to keep it out of their children's hands so the settings can't be changed.
This kind of lawsuit is exactly the same as AOL being sued for not taking care of sexual predators in chatrooms.
How long will it take to hack this so-called "digital locker"?
That VP of programming at Sci-Fi came out and said that there will be NO TV show, anywhere with the name of "Stargate SG-1", because THEY (Sci-Fi) had a contract giving them rights to a show with that name. So he is either an ASS, or someone insulted him by asking FAR TOO MUCH money for renewal for season 11. We don't really know which one is true.
I actually thought the writing had improved quite a bit in the last two years. Each character was more "filled in", Daniel wasn't the "Whiny Bitch", Sam cound be "hot" AND an extremely intelligent woman, Teal'c actually voiced his opinions and took the lead on occasion, and the two new folks were good, strong, additions to the cast. It should have run for a couple of more years. Somehow, that got screwed up.
That, I was very sorry to hear.
I hate networks that fuck up franchises by preventing it to be picked up by another network. It is the whole "If I can't have it, nobody will" mentality. Fox did it with Firefly. And SciFi VP obviously has the whole mind set too. MGM just has to wait for the contract to expire.
I don't mind the Ori seasons, I just felt that the goauld weren't finished properly.
I got the impression from SG-1 stars that MGM has more plans for them in the announcement of the ending of the show.
Those who don't know, BitDefender Antivirus has rootkit detection and removal since v10. It was released back in Aug-Sept 2006.