One of my friends bought his fancy $2000 digital SLR
Canon's xD, and to a lesser extent xxD, and L lenses are weather/dust/water-sealed as a selling point. Their xxxD (Rebel blah) and consumer and mid ranges lenses, not so. Not sure how this specifically proves your point.
The defendant is, "with all due respect", a fuckwit. He's still tooling around the internet, patting himself on the back for his "EPIC LULZ", with a small band of sycophantic followers.
Taxing those people making $250k+ is neither morally appropriate nor fair. What is fair in the minds of those making $20k/year (as an example: taxing the wealthy and not taxing themselves at all) is different that what is fair to those making $250k/year (as an example: taxing everybody at the exact same rate of 20%).
I personally fall into neither the very rich nor very poor category, and I'm more inclined to follow the flat percentage tax approach. In such a situation the rich pay far more than the poor, as they should. But not unfairly so.
You might ask yourself why the $20K'ers think that. A flat tax would be fine, if there weren't all sorts of loopholes that unfairly benefit the rich. (Buy a nice yacht for yourself, spend some money on it, be $50k, or $25M. Put a propane camp stove in it. Put a single mattress in it. Voila, you have a second home, and you get to write off the interest on your repayments as a deduction! And so on and so forth.)
I think you'd find that a lot of people would be happier with a flat tax if it was "X% of your pre-tax income and compensation. No ifs, buts, maybes, pre-tax deductions, taxation-deferred, etc et al claims that you typically need an account or tax professional and an above median income to even consider, let alone put into action".
People get pissy when they see someone buying a new yacht, a new Escalade, multiple homes, and then seeing that someone getting a bigger check back from the government than they might earn in a year because of all those loopholes, and personally, I don't blame them.
The president must be natural born for security reasons, and as part of a large list of qualifications: age, and lack of criminal record some of the biggest.
And yet our previous president freely admits to being arrested, charged, and pleading guilty to DUI offenses. Maybe in TX they don't put DUIs on your criminal record, I guess...
I think it's fantastic that the GP points to it "not being a vulnerability because it did what it was told", and is within 30 mins "5: Insightful". A response that says "Well, by that rationale, malicious ActiveX controls aren't vulnerabilities either". Despite being only 10 minutes older, it languishes at "1".
I'm pretty sure that this would be based on a ratio of purchases to returns/refunds. If you buy more, you shouldn't hit the threshold sooner, and I highly doubt that that is the case.
Maybe I'm just lucky but, if I spend about £1700 on a display, then I really DO EXPECT PERFECTION. Any dead pixels = getting returned, no question
ProTip: If you're spending US$2,500 on an LCD display, you're not buying a consumer display. Yes, if I buy an Eizo color calibrated LCD, I'd expect perfection, too.
Yeah, you gotta try fairly hard to piss Amazon off... my wife and I use Amazon all the time. I use it for getting stuff for my company (I telecommute from home, simplest way)... we order thousands of dollars worth of stuff a year. I've had to return a fair amount, and never had any issue. Bu really, there's red flags in the guys story. Who calls up Amazon to speak to CS about "the lightness of the e-ink"? (and then mentions how he's returned lots of defective electronics to them)...?
FOSS. Unless you want tools for mass deployment (can't imagine why a company would want that), or the ability to use it in clustered or HA environments (after all, business email would never need HA)...
No mention of what the price is there, but I'd guess "not cheap".
Is not cheap a problem? Of course not. But let's not claim it's a FOSS panacea.
Or take certain other hardware manufacturers route and deny, deny, deny, delete forum posts, deny some more, and then verrrrrry belatedly acknowledge it for a subset of users...
If you want shitty cable connector, look at HDMI. Nice heavy HDMI cable, possibly with capacitor, plugged in vertically? If it stays plugged in more than a few days without some outside influence, I'd be surprised.
Please, I'm curious, for all the skepticals out there, including myself, what exactly were you able to do "more/easier" with the GIMP than a designer who "uses Photoshop non-stop"?
I loved how when talking about the "minimum configuration' in respect to the MBA being "better", you only picked those attributes that the MBA was ahead in, and none of those that it was not.
Subtle. I like it.
I didn't see any mention of integrated EvDO. eSATA. I liked the little spin that implies "you can get an SSD with the Adamo, but it'll cost you", neglecting the fact that the Adamo's SSD retails for around $450, whereas the difference in price is $200 + $48 for the MBA's 120GB SATA drive (unless of course you bought it from Apple, who'd probably charge you $200 for it)...
Half the world? Wow, that's what we're calling the US, Canada, Belize, Micronesia, Kenya, Palau, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
Then again, I remember the Coalition Of The Willing well, how Micronesia, Belize and Palau had sent half their military to Iraq (I think it was what, 7 soldiers between them?), so "people were for us". (One wonders if they would have if the US hadn't threatened to withhold aid, but that's getting even more off-topic...)
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I'd flame on, but I'm trying to compose myself after the fits of laughter that the phrase "lifestream transactions" brought on. Seriously?
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EFF, sure... FSF? I love how you spin it in a way such that it's not possible for someone to disagree. "You just don't understand. Poor ignorant."
I'm not ignorant, just unimpressed.
Canon's xD, and to a lesser extent xxD, and L lenses are weather/dust/water-sealed as a selling point. Their xxxD (Rebel blah) and consumer and mid ranges lenses, not so. Not sure how this specifically proves your point.
Somehow, I doubt it.
What a crappy analogy.
The defendant is, "with all due respect", a fuckwit. He's still tooling around the internet, patting himself on the back for his "EPIC LULZ", with a small band of sycophantic followers.
You might ask yourself why the $20K'ers think that. A flat tax would be fine, if there weren't all sorts of loopholes that unfairly benefit the rich. (Buy a nice yacht for yourself, spend some money on it, be $50k, or $25M. Put a propane camp stove in it. Put a single mattress in it. Voila, you have a second home, and you get to write off the interest on your repayments as a deduction! And so on and so forth.)
I think you'd find that a lot of people would be happier with a flat tax if it was "X% of your pre-tax income and compensation. No ifs, buts, maybes, pre-tax deductions, taxation-deferred, etc et al claims that you typically need an account or tax professional and an above median income to even consider, let alone put into action".
People get pissy when they see someone buying a new yacht, a new Escalade, multiple homes, and then seeing that someone getting a bigger check back from the government than they might earn in a year because of all those loopholes, and personally, I don't blame them.
And yet our previous president freely admits to being arrested, charged, and pleading guilty to DUI offenses. Maybe in TX they don't put DUIs on your criminal record, I guess...
My UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
And yet I'll still get called a hater...
My UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
And yet I'll still get called a hater...
Ahh, Mac fanboys with mod points. Gotta love em.
I'm pretty sure that this would be based on a ratio of purchases to returns/refunds. If you buy more, you shouldn't hit the threshold sooner, and I highly doubt that that is the case.
ProTip: If you're spending US$2,500 on an LCD display, you're not buying a consumer display. Yes, if I buy an Eizo color calibrated LCD, I'd expect perfection, too.
Yeah, you gotta try fairly hard to piss Amazon off... my wife and I use Amazon all the time. I use it for getting stuff for my company (I telecommute from home, simplest way)... we order thousands of dollars worth of stuff a year. I've had to return a fair amount, and never had any issue. Bu really, there's red flags in the guys story. Who calls up Amazon to speak to CS about "the lightness of the e-ink"? (and then mentions how he's returned lots of defective electronics to them)...?
You couldn't afford the $375 for the MSDN Empower program, which provides all that software, including betas? Hmm.
Oh.
No mention of what the price is there, but I'd guess "not cheap".
Is not cheap a problem? Of course not. But let's not claim it's a FOSS panacea.
Most new cabs in Seattle these days are Prius's. Most cab drivers I've spoken to are exceptionally happy about it.
Yeah, because a NYC cab really needs the same battery pack that can power a 2700lb car from 0-60 in 3.7 seconds and sustain 130mph...
And a new Prius battery (hybrid, yes, not fully electric) is about $3,000.
Or take certain other hardware manufacturers route and deny, deny, deny, delete forum posts, deny some more, and then verrrrrry belatedly acknowledge it for a subset of users...
If you want shitty cable connector, look at HDMI. Nice heavy HDMI cable, possibly with capacitor, plugged in vertically? If it stays plugged in more than a few days without some outside influence, I'd be surprised.
Please, I'm curious, for all the skepticals out there, including myself, what exactly were you able to do "more/easier" with the GIMP than a designer who "uses Photoshop non-stop"?
Subtle. I like it.
I didn't see any mention of integrated EvDO. eSATA. I liked the little spin that implies "you can get an SSD with the Adamo, but it'll cost you", neglecting the fact that the Adamo's SSD retails for around $450, whereas the difference in price is $200 + $48 for the MBA's 120GB SATA drive (unless of course you bought it from Apple, who'd probably charge you $200 for it)...
I use Comcast Business at home. $99 a month I get 8 IP addresses, no port blocking, no throttling, 22mbps down, 5mbps up.
Then again, I remember the Coalition Of The Willing well, how Micronesia, Belize and Palau had sent half their military to Iraq (I think it was what, 7 soldiers between them?), so "people were for us". (One wonders if they would have if the US hadn't threatened to withhold aid, but that's getting even more off-topic...)
I'd flame on, but I'm trying to compose myself after the fits of laughter that the phrase "lifestream transactions" brought on. Seriously?