If they're genuinely only making $1 a year then there's nothing wrong with that. The reality though is that they aren't making only $1 a year, they're drawing that as a salary typically. Even if they weren't being paid in shares, they've all got huge investment portfolios which do end up getting taxed.
I think you've got a good point there. The research related to defense really ought to be recategorized as just research and broadened out so that things like ARPANET which have other uses outside of military can be allowed to meander across the boundaries back and forth between civilian and military application.
You mean like the fact that few people, if any, would actually pay taxes and the nations infrastructure would finally collapse when nobody felt like working on it for free? This isn't a particularly nitpicky complaint, the GOP regularly runs successfully under the premise that they can provide all the functions of government without actually taxing anybody.
The problem is that the only way it ever gets fixed is when somebody raise taxes as the GOP tends to suck at cutting spending on things that aren't unpopular. And if they're that unpopular the Democrats would've cut it themselves.
That's insane. Out of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the US constitution
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
You do realize that Defence isn't any more special than general welfare, right?
Just because you don't agree with something doesn't mean that it's not in the constitution. Considering that the constitution specifically authorizes the Federal Government to tax to pay for the general Welfare of the United States, I think it's pretty clear that the constitution grants the power.
I hear that often enough, but I never hear how much it should cost to run a country of 310m people and preside over a spending of ~$13tn. I'm also not aware of any comparable organization in the world. The closest would probably be China or India, but they're in a very different situation than we are.
Realistically it does require taxes. By the time you grow large enough to not be making all decisions jointly you're going to need people dedicated to providing various civil services. At that point you need taxes, it might not be in the form of money, but somebody has to cover the costs of managing a region.
I think the problem is that nobody's come up with a reasonable alternative. What happens when unlicensed parents procreate? Do you take the babby away or do you abort it? If you take the babby away, then what exactly do you do with him or her? They can presumably only be given to licensed parents.
Or do you prohibit men and women from being alone with each other?
For all the problems that result from incompetent parenting nobody has been able to propose a sane way of handling it.
The issue there is that passive mode works, unless the server is behind a firewall. Which it should be, if you're only serving up files and web pages, there's absolutely no good reason to have any more ports open than you absolutely need to, and having extra ports open is just plain silly. And since FTP mandates that those ports be randomly assigned there's no good way of knowing which ports are going to be used.
You should try Libreoffice then, they forked it just after Oracle took over Sun, and merged it with the interoperability patches that Go-oo.org had been using.
That's embarrassing given that they presumably get points for supporting h.264 and mpeg-4, as well as some of the other codecs that they presumably expose for IE to use.
By comparison my Firefox 4.0 install got 255 out of 400 without the benefit of those free points.
Chrome light on resources? Is that the same Chrome that insists upon having a completely separate process for each tab, rather than just the portions necessary to keep the tabs isolated?
Publishers vary quite a bit in terms of both royalties and freedom they provide to the customer. I'm not sure what O'Reilly pays for the books they publish, but the terms of the digital distribution are really generous. No DRM, multiple formats and sometimes even minor updates to the book.
The main downside with them is a lot of the older books are still PDF. But the ebooks are often cheaper than the print and you can even get the two bundled together if you wish.
As far as novels go, I don't know of any that are that progressive.
That's sort of my thought on the matter. I've yet to come across a book, with the possible exception of a reference book, that was worth the migraines I get from trying to position myself to read for more than a few minutes. There's also the issue of trying to store these books. And that should be something that the publishers are worried about because otherwise why bother buying new?
Book people seem to think that there's something about physical books that's innately pleasurable, but really that's just an example of conditioning. Same as with Pavlov's dogs.
I've heard that spotify is a great service, but they still haven't managed to launch in the US, I can only wonder if this has something to do with them trying to broaden their availability in regions not yet supported.
I'd expect that this will end up like the USPS where the rural voters will whine about having to live with the consequences of their choices and city folks will end up having to subsidize their lifestyle via higher costs to allow for a consistent pricing scheme across the country. That's part of why we have to pay that universal access fee whenever we pay a phone bill.
Just because there are consequences of choosing to live in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean that the people choosing to do so will be expected to live with them. It's one of the consequences of having the House of Representatives be divied up like it is.
That's not Firefox's fault, it's most likely the drivers on your system. I don't have any trouble with fonts, and a lot of other people don't. Just run the grafxbot that you can find in the addons page and it'll tell them what's going wrong.
Unfortunately videocard drivers vary wildly across the numerous combination of OSes and vendors.
Constantly? I'm sorry, but that's incredibly stupid, having to release a browser ever few months because neither the web developers nor the W3C can figure out how to branch revisions or handle updates gratefully is hardly a reasonable thing to have to work around.
We could still pull it around, but it's going to be difficult given that the GOP has a distinct hatred for the lower classes. It's really hard to maintain our position as a world power economically if we're dismantling the tools we used to produce wealth and other nations lose their interest in being exploited so we can have a service sector economy.
Just look at all the blow back over closing the loophole that allows corporations to subsidize foreign investment with US tax payer money. A minor tweak to making them book profits before they can book losses is some sort of an outrage to many.
Or health care reform, we were the only developed country not to have a recognized right to access health care and it was a very serious problem for our competitive edge. At the rate it was growing it was going to have to change otherwise it would very quickly take up all of our GDP.
I think the point is that they did it themselves. At some point it might well become realistic to make entire sheets of these rings, a bit like nano-scale chain mail. Which would have its own benefits when done in many layers.
That doesn't sound expensive, it is expensive. For some projects it's an absolute must, but it has to be a pretty substantial project to justify the outlay of cash.
The issue though is that if you're in a game shop and you see a cool game, is it really reasonable to expect you to pull out a smartphone, navigate to EA's website and read it on that screen? I personally don't think that's realistic. And ultimately even if you do go to the trouble, good luck actually understanding what if any of it is actually enforceable in court.
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Pretty soon it's going to be so secure that Windows 8 won't run it.
Judges don't always go along with the agreements. Former employees of Arthur Anderson were allowed out of their agreements when they fled the firm due to the massive fraud scandal following Enron. Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP The Death of Non-Competition Agreements?
If they're genuinely only making $1 a year then there's nothing wrong with that. The reality though is that they aren't making only $1 a year, they're drawing that as a salary typically. Even if they weren't being paid in shares, they've all got huge investment portfolios which do end up getting taxed.
I think you've got a good point there. The research related to defense really ought to be recategorized as just research and broadened out so that things like ARPANET which have other uses outside of military can be allowed to meander across the boundaries back and forth between civilian and military application.
You mean like the fact that few people, if any, would actually pay taxes and the nations infrastructure would finally collapse when nobody felt like working on it for free? This isn't a particularly nitpicky complaint, the GOP regularly runs successfully under the premise that they can provide all the functions of government without actually taxing anybody.
The problem is that the only way it ever gets fixed is when somebody raise taxes as the GOP tends to suck at cutting spending on things that aren't unpopular. And if they're that unpopular the Democrats would've cut it themselves.
That's insane. Out of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the US constitution
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
You do realize that Defence isn't any more special than general welfare, right?
Just because you don't agree with something doesn't mean that it's not in the constitution. Considering that the constitution specifically authorizes the Federal Government to tax to pay for the general Welfare of the United States, I think it's pretty clear that the constitution grants the power.
I hear that often enough, but I never hear how much it should cost to run a country of 310m people and preside over a spending of ~$13tn. I'm also not aware of any comparable organization in the world. The closest would probably be China or India, but they're in a very different situation than we are.
Realistically it does require taxes. By the time you grow large enough to not be making all decisions jointly you're going to need people dedicated to providing various civil services. At that point you need taxes, it might not be in the form of money, but somebody has to cover the costs of managing a region.
I think the problem is that nobody's come up with a reasonable alternative. What happens when unlicensed parents procreate? Do you take the babby away or do you abort it? If you take the babby away, then what exactly do you do with him or her? They can presumably only be given to licensed parents.
Or do you prohibit men and women from being alone with each other?
For all the problems that result from incompetent parenting nobody has been able to propose a sane way of handling it.
The issue there is that passive mode works, unless the server is behind a firewall. Which it should be, if you're only serving up files and web pages, there's absolutely no good reason to have any more ports open than you absolutely need to, and having extra ports open is just plain silly. And since FTP mandates that those ports be randomly assigned there's no good way of knowing which ports are going to be used.
I think Google should take a blow at Apple. It's not like St. Steve hasn't been behaving evil himself as of late.
You should try Libreoffice then, they forked it just after Oracle took over Sun, and merged it with the interoperability patches that Go-oo.org had been using.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. Firefox uses Direct2d where available.
That's embarrassing given that they presumably get points for supporting h.264 and mpeg-4, as well as some of the other codecs that they presumably expose for IE to use.
By comparison my Firefox 4.0 install got 255 out of 400 without the benefit of those free points.
Chrome light on resources? Is that the same Chrome that insists upon having a completely separate process for each tab, rather than just the portions necessary to keep the tabs isolated?
Publishers vary quite a bit in terms of both royalties and freedom they provide to the customer. I'm not sure what O'Reilly pays for the books they publish, but the terms of the digital distribution are really generous. No DRM, multiple formats and sometimes even minor updates to the book.
The main downside with them is a lot of the older books are still PDF. But the ebooks are often cheaper than the print and you can even get the two bundled together if you wish.
As far as novels go, I don't know of any that are that progressive.
That's sort of my thought on the matter. I've yet to come across a book, with the possible exception of a reference book, that was worth the migraines I get from trying to position myself to read for more than a few minutes. There's also the issue of trying to store these books. And that should be something that the publishers are worried about because otherwise why bother buying new?
Book people seem to think that there's something about physical books that's innately pleasurable, but really that's just an example of conditioning. Same as with Pavlov's dogs.
I've heard that spotify is a great service, but they still haven't managed to launch in the US, I can only wonder if this has something to do with them trying to broaden their availability in regions not yet supported.
I'd expect that this will end up like the USPS where the rural voters will whine about having to live with the consequences of their choices and city folks will end up having to subsidize their lifestyle via higher costs to allow for a consistent pricing scheme across the country. That's part of why we have to pay that universal access fee whenever we pay a phone bill.
Just because there are consequences of choosing to live in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean that the people choosing to do so will be expected to live with them. It's one of the consequences of having the House of Representatives be divied up like it is.
That's not Firefox's fault, it's most likely the drivers on your system. I don't have any trouble with fonts, and a lot of other people don't. Just run the grafxbot that you can find in the addons page and it'll tell them what's going wrong.
Unfortunately videocard drivers vary wildly across the numerous combination of OSes and vendors.
Constantly? I'm sorry, but that's incredibly stupid, having to release a browser ever few months because neither the web developers nor the W3C can figure out how to branch revisions or handle updates gratefully is hardly a reasonable thing to have to work around.
We could still pull it around, but it's going to be difficult given that the GOP has a distinct hatred for the lower classes. It's really hard to maintain our position as a world power economically if we're dismantling the tools we used to produce wealth and other nations lose their interest in being exploited so we can have a service sector economy.
Just look at all the blow back over closing the loophole that allows corporations to subsidize foreign investment with US tax payer money. A minor tweak to making them book profits before they can book losses is some sort of an outrage to many.
Or health care reform, we were the only developed country not to have a recognized right to access health care and it was a very serious problem for our competitive edge. At the rate it was growing it was going to have to change otherwise it would very quickly take up all of our GDP.
I think the point is that they did it themselves. At some point it might well become realistic to make entire sheets of these rings, a bit like nano-scale chain mail. Which would have its own benefits when done in many layers.
That doesn't sound expensive, it is expensive. For some projects it's an absolute must, but it has to be a pretty substantial project to justify the outlay of cash.
The issue though is that if you're in a game shop and you see a cool game, is it really reasonable to expect you to pull out a smartphone, navigate to EA's website and read it on that screen? I personally don't think that's realistic. And ultimately even if you do go to the trouble, good luck actually understanding what if any of it is actually enforceable in court.