You guys are forgetting what Slashdot really is - a small, 3-person sausagefest in a craphole town of Dexter, Michigan. I, for one, welcome their lame posts on a slow business day.
You can't possibly be serious. I live in Texas. There is NO state tax, ALL related federal withdrawals amount to 19% out of every paycheck, tolls are fairly cheap AND can be avoided most of the time.
As far as health insurance, unless you live in Scandinavia, free health coverage by definition cannot be better than the one you pay for. Besides, in the US there's a flexible system of payment for health - employer matching, etc. You can trust me on the superiority of "bought" social services over the "provided free" ones - as an immigrant from Eastern Europe, I should know.
I was jealous of all of you Commodore 64 people because you had better games. However, your creme-colored Commodore 64 would look wicked dirty, a problem I did not have with my all-black Commodore 16. In addition to the unit, I used to own a Blue Chip 5.25" drive, a Datasette tape deck, two joysticks, and a dozen tapes with games ran through High Speed Turbo for compression. Then my father gave me a 64k memory expansion, which bumped me up to the likes of Commodore +4 and Commodore 64.
I remember writing music with commands like SOUND1 for clean sound, SOUND3 for noise, good for fake drums, and SOUND2 for harmonies. I remember playing SABOTEURE, getting obsessed with ninjas, and drawing my own ninjas like so: DRAW1, 10, 10 TO 120, 10. Ah, the olden days...
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You guys are forgetting what Slashdot really is - a small, 3-person sausagefest in a craphole town of Dexter, Michigan. I, for one, welcome their lame posts on a slow business day.
You can't possibly be serious. I live in Texas. There is NO state tax, ALL related federal withdrawals amount to 19% out of every paycheck, tolls are fairly cheap AND can be avoided most of the time.
As far as health insurance, unless you live in Scandinavia, free health coverage by definition cannot be better than the one you pay for. Besides, in the US there's a flexible system of payment for health - employer matching, etc. You can trust me on the superiority of "bought" social services over the "provided free" ones - as an immigrant from Eastern Europe, I should know.
I was jealous of all of you Commodore 64 people because you had better games. However, your creme-colored Commodore 64 would look wicked dirty, a problem I did not have with my all-black Commodore 16. In addition to the unit, I used to own a Blue Chip 5.25" drive, a Datasette tape deck, two joysticks, and a dozen tapes with games ran through High Speed Turbo for compression. Then my father gave me a 64k memory expansion, which bumped me up to the likes of Commodore +4 and Commodore 64.
I remember writing music with commands like SOUND1 for clean sound, SOUND3 for noise, good for fake drums, and SOUND2 for harmonies. I remember playing SABOTEURE, getting obsessed with ninjas, and drawing my own ninjas like so: DRAW1, 10, 10 TO 120, 10. Ah, the olden days ...