I went from 1976-1979. We could say anything about anything to anybody. You can't smoke on campus, we could smoke in the classroom! Well, except for printmaking class, what with all the explosive vapors, but we could smoke anywhere else. If you lit up a joint they'd have asked you (politely) to put it out.
I went to SIU-E, we had the Mississippi River Festival, with top name rock, jazz, country, and classical shows nightly, outdoors. It was close enough to our on-campus apartment that you could hear the music standing on the balcony! I seldom actually went in the concert; that would have cost three bucks and you couldn't take alcohol in (although drugs were ok). There were always mountains of abandoned beer outside the gate (since alcohol was forbidden) so we'd sit outside the fence and drink beer and smoke pot and listen to the concerts.
There were no "hate speech" laws. The first amendment had yet to be repealed.
There were no incurable STDs. Girls would come up and ask YOU "wanna fuck?" as often as "wanna smoke a doob?"!
You would go to a party, and your professors would be there smoking dope with you. Now you kids might as well be going to Git Mo U.
I guess I picked a good year to be born (1952)!
Please don't take this as a flame, but you kids are gutless pansies. Your generation needs to grow a pair and burn some campuses down, riot, run roughshod, regain what we had that you never knew. Your corporate masters have your leash on tight and you should incinerate a few corporate HQs while you're at it.
Students of the US, revolt now, or hold a funeral for your dead rights. Where are the campus protests? Is every on eof you beef waiting for the slaughter? If I was in college now I'd be ashamed of my generation.
Call it what you wish, when the government takes my money it's a tax. Just like all the other taxes you listed.
As for passports, what in the hell does a poor man need a passport for? You have to have enough money to leave the ountry to need a passport. I don't believe a passport should have a fee attached, nor entrance to a national park. And I'm firmly against toll roads.
OK, I can buy that. If that was the case, though, they should have modded it "overrated" rather than "redundant".
This post is offtopic and I don't care, my karma never seems to suffer. Perhaps it's because I don't try for karma? Hmmm... In fact I'll save the mods the trouble on this post by checking the "no karma bonus" box.
Speaking of whores, my journal is about a prostitute today. Like most of my journals are.
Government is not my friend, nor is it a business, nor is it run like a business. If it was a government owned restaraunt (e.g., a soup kitchen) than charging its patrons per income would make sense.
BUT! 90% of the people out there with vehicles like mine, aren't in the same situation that I am in
Bingo! I continually see these bigassed pickup trucks that will carry six people in the cab and a small house in the bed, with a handicap license plate and one guy driving it to the store.
If your vehicle is a moneymaker, then it's the people who are paying you who are buying the gas, paying the tolls, and gas taxes. You have to pass the cost along to them, just as a landlord passes the cost of loan interest and property taxes alomg to his renters. Part of the price of a bar of soap is the cost of electricity (and tax on the electricity) for the store.
No, I completely disagree. I think property taxes are the most evil of all taxes. A couple of decades ago I knew an elderly couple who had paid off their modest house and were living on retirement income. The housing boom ballooned the value of their house, making the property taxes on it so high they lost their home.
Tax my modest income, not my even more modest property. Income taxes won't make me homeless; property taxes might.
If you have no income, how can you pay tax? If you have income, why shouldn't you pay tax?
Note that renters are paying their landlords' property taxes for them.
A) slashdot is international; less than half of its readership is in the US B) The US is not a democracy. It is a Republic C) the USSR was also a Republic. The various factions of its Communist Party had more differences than the two wings of the US' single corporate party.
Democracy? When we get a Democracy let me know. I want to legalize pot. Which wing of the Corporate Party wants pot legalized, the Rs or the Ds? Oh that's right, neither.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
No, generally "troll/offtopic" means that either a) the mod has no sense of humor or b) your joke wasn't funny.
What gets me is when I'm trying to be funny and they mod me "insightful" or "interesting".
-mcgrew
Speaking of insightful and interesting offtopic stuff, today's mcgrew journal concerns my good looking roommate, economics, religion, a hooker, the possibility that the roommate is jealous of the hooker, and a pimp. Family fare!
Wow, the mods are really retarded today. AFAICT, yours is the first post yet is modded "redundant". *scratches head*. I'd have modded it "insightful" for the "subject" alone; ROT-13 isn't a lot more secure than ROT-0 (i.e., no cryptography at all) and is protected by the US DMCA (or Skylarov wouldn't have been arrested), that means that everything is encoded; indeed, your analog sound waves, whan sampled, are coded. Since it takes a computer to decode them... oh shit did I just give RIAA lawyers some ammo?
As to blocking outbound connections, I don't see your point. Blocking outbound connections doesn't expose anyone's data. This concerns Dumb restrictions on Media (DRM) for programs that expose third party data, and blocking outbound connections doesn't do that. In fact, it pretty much prevents it.
And, I believe ALL major roads should be toll so that the people who are actually using a road can pay for it.
I'm already paying for the roads with my gasoline taxes. Toll roads make me pay twice. If I'm on a toll road, it doubles as a garbage can and all my trash goes out the fucking window. I'm getting my money's worth, or as close as I can get.
No, I do NOT tip fast food servers. I tip cabbies and waitresses and bartenders.
Charging people more for things in higher demand is called "capitalism".
No, worshiping the God of Commerce is called "capitalism." Taxing someone (tolls are taxes) who is poor at the same dollar rate as someone who is rich is called "regressive". Taxing someone the same percentage of income is called egalitarian.
If the government charges, it's a tax and economics in the capitalist sense do not come into play.
They used to be literate, too. Have you noticed how many here don't know when (or not) to use an apostrophe, to be able to tell "their" from "they're" from "there", or "lose" from "loose"?
See what happens when you become respectable? Normal people try to horn in. Me, here I am trying to not be so much of a nerd (one of my hookers, "Bighead", was aghast this past weekend that I called myself a "computer nerd") and all these normal people want to be like us? Wierdness abounds.
This is a tax. Flat dollar rates for taxes are NOT egalitarian, percentages of income are.
A ten dollar per head tax is regressive. A ten percent tax per head is egalitarian. Personally, I'd like to see gasoline taxes based on a) the cost of the vehicle, b) the size of the vehicle (larger vehicles tear up the roads more) and c) the mileage of the vehicle. If you're driving a beater you should pay less than a new car, a new SUV you should get the shit taxed out of you, if you're driving a hybrid you should get a break.
Better yet, how about getting rid of tolls, excise taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes, and just tax income? While you're at it, how about taxing capital gains at the same rate that working stiffs' income is taxed? Income should be income. It galls me that someone who "earns" money by sitting on his ass collecting interest or selling stock (capital gains is from selling assets) is taxed at a lower rathe than I am.
Oddly, my latest journal is kinda on-topic for this comment; at least, a digression within the journal is. The said journal deals with my hot babe roommate that won't fuck me, economics, religion, a needle-junkie hooker, and her crackhead pimp. Family fun!
Let me ask it this way: Why does a woman have the choice of whether she wants to support a child for 18 years, while a man has no such choice? A manb cannot prevent pregnance, what should he be forced to apy for it?
Actually I never had a lot of respect in the first place; When I was a teenager my boss had the local cops paid off, which doesn't tend to make one have a lot of respect.
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That's an insult to daleks, you insensitive clod!
I went from 1976-1979. We could say anything about anything to anybody. You can't smoke on campus, we could smoke in the classroom! Well, except for printmaking class, what with all the explosive vapors, but we could smoke anywhere else. If you lit up a joint they'd have asked you (politely) to put it out.
I went to SIU-E, we had the Mississippi River Festival, with top name rock, jazz, country, and classical shows nightly, outdoors. It was close enough to our on-campus apartment that you could hear the music standing on the balcony! I seldom actually went in the concert; that would have cost three bucks and you couldn't take alcohol in (although drugs were ok). There were always mountains of abandoned beer outside the gate (since alcohol was forbidden) so we'd sit outside the fence and drink beer and smoke pot and listen to the concerts.
There were no "hate speech" laws. The first amendment had yet to be repealed.
There were no incurable STDs. Girls would come up and ask YOU "wanna fuck?" as often as "wanna smoke a doob?"!
You would go to a party, and your professors would be there smoking dope with you. Now you kids might as well be going to Git Mo U.
I guess I picked a good year to be born (1952)!
Please don't take this as a flame, but you kids are gutless pansies. Your generation needs to grow a pair and burn some campuses down, riot, run roughshod, regain what we had that you never knew. Your corporate masters have your leash on tight and you should incinerate a few corporate HQs while you're at it.
Students of the US, revolt now, or hold a funeral for your dead rights. Where are the campus protests? Is every on eof you beef waiting for the slaughter? If I was in college now I'd be ashamed of my generation.
-mcgrew
I should be more careful with that chainsaw. Poor tree, only 5 branches , I hope it survives...
Call it what you wish, when the government takes my money it's a tax. Just like all the other taxes you listed.
As for passports, what in the hell does a poor man need a passport for? You have to have enough money to leave the ountry to need a passport. I don't believe a passport should have a fee attached, nor entrance to a national park. And I'm firmly against toll roads.
OK, I can buy that. If that was the case, though, they should have modded it "overrated" rather than "redundant".
This post is offtopic and I don't care, my karma never seems to suffer. Perhaps it's because I don't try for karma? Hmmm... In fact I'll save the mods the trouble on this post by checking the "no karma bonus" box.
Speaking of whores, my journal is about a prostitute today. Like most of my journals are.
yeah, but if I'd said "y'all" then y'all'd know I was a redneck ;)
Government is not my friend, nor is it a business, nor is it run like a business. If it was a government owned restaraunt (e.g., a soup kitchen) than charging its patrons per income would make sense.
BUT! 90% of the people out there with vehicles like mine, aren't in the same situation that I am in
Bingo! I continually see these bigassed pickup trucks that will carry six people in the cab and a small house in the bed, with a handicap license plate and one guy driving it to the store.
If your vehicle is a moneymaker, then it's the people who are paying you who are buying the gas, paying the tolls, and gas taxes. You have to pass the cost along to them, just as a landlord passes the cost of loan interest and property taxes alomg to his renters. Part of the price of a bar of soap is the cost of electricity (and tax on the electricity) for the store.
I just got a memo here just now, it says:
"No.
Sincerely,
Your Corporate Overlords"
No, I completely disagree. I think property taxes are the most evil of all taxes. A couple of decades ago I knew an elderly couple who had paid off their modest house and were living on retirement income. The housing boom ballooned the value of their house, making the property taxes on it so high they lost their home.
Tax my modest income, not my even more modest property. Income taxes won't make me homeless; property taxes might.
If you have no income, how can you pay tax? If you have income, why shouldn't you pay tax?
Note that renters are paying their landlords' property taxes for them.
A) slashdot is international; less than half of its readership is in the US
B) The US is not a democracy. It is a Republic
C) the USSR was also a Republic. The various factions of its Communist Party had more differences than the two wings of the US' single corporate party.
Democracy? When we get a Democracy let me know. I want to legalize pot. Which wing of the Corporate Party wants pot legalized, the Rs or the Ds? Oh that's right, neither.
Democracy, my ass.
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
No, generally "troll/offtopic" means that either a) the mod has no sense of humor or b) your joke wasn't funny.
What gets me is when I'm trying to be funny and they mod me "insightful" or "interesting".
-mcgrew
Speaking of insightful and interesting offtopic stuff, today's mcgrew journal concerns my good looking roommate, economics, religion, a hooker, the possibility that the roommate is jealous of the hooker, and a pimp. Family fare!
Wow, the mods are really retarded today. AFAICT, yours is the first post yet is modded "redundant". *scratches head*. I'd have modded it "insightful" for the "subject" alone; ROT-13 isn't a lot more secure than ROT-0 (i.e., no cryptography at all) and is protected by the US DMCA (or Skylarov wouldn't have been arrested), that means that everything is encoded; indeed, your analog sound waves, whan sampled, are coded. Since it takes a computer to decode them... oh shit did I just give RIAA lawyers some ammo?
As to blocking outbound connections, I don't see your point. Blocking outbound connections doesn't expose anyone's data. This concerns Dumb restrictions on Media (DRM) for programs that expose third party data, and blocking outbound connections doesn't do that. In fact, it pretty much prevents it.
And, I believe ALL major roads should be toll so that the people who are actually using a road can pay for it.
I'm already paying for the roads with my gasoline taxes. Toll roads make me pay twice. If I'm on a toll road, it doubles as a garbage can and all my trash goes out the fucking window. I'm getting my money's worth, or as close as I can get.
No, I do NOT tip fast food servers. I tip cabbies and waitresses and bartenders.
Charging people more for things in higher demand is called "capitalism".
No, worshiping the God of Commerce is called "capitalism." Taxing someone (tolls are taxes) who is poor at the same dollar rate as someone who is rich is called "regressive". Taxing someone the same percentage of income is called egalitarian.
If the government charges, it's a tax and economics in the capitalist sense do not come into play.
"Nerds" use to be considered smart.
They used to be literate, too. Have you noticed how many here don't know when (or not) to use an apostrophe, to be able to tell "their" from "they're" from "there", or "lose" from "loose"?
See what happens when you become respectable? Normal people try to horn in. Me, here I am trying to not be so much of a nerd (one of my hookers, "Bighead", was aghast this past weekend that I called myself a "computer nerd") and all these normal people want to be like us? Wierdness abounds.
Yeah, because apparently my government doesn't think that it costs me enough to drive
That's what you get for putting two dishonest oil men in the White House.
This is a tax. Flat dollar rates for taxes are NOT egalitarian, percentages of income are.
A ten dollar per head tax is regressive. A ten percent tax per head is egalitarian. Personally, I'd like to see gasoline taxes based on a) the cost of the vehicle, b) the size of the vehicle (larger vehicles tear up the roads more) and c) the mileage of the vehicle. If you're driving a beater you should pay less than a new car, a new SUV you should get the shit taxed out of you, if you're driving a hybrid you should get a break.
Better yet, how about getting rid of tolls, excise taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes, and just tax income? While you're at it, how about taxing capital gains at the same rate that working stiffs' income is taxed? Income should be income. It galls me that someone who "earns" money by sitting on his ass collecting interest or selling stock (capital gains is from selling assets) is taxed at a lower rathe than I am.
Oddly, my latest journal is kinda on-topic for this comment; at least, a digression within the journal is. The said journal deals with my hot babe roommate that won't fuck me, economics, religion, a needle-junkie hooker, and her crackhead pimp. Family fun!
-mcgrew
I, for one, welcome our duplicate comment overlords
Waiter: "Ssh! Don't tell anyone, everyone will want one!"
"Help me! Help me!"
Good thing too, because I hold the patent on posting worthless comments.
You other posters will be hearing from my lawyers soon.
-mcgrew
(link is to latest journal. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can imagine.)
First prove that I'm not in a coma imagining this life.
Let me ask it this way: Why does a woman have the choice of whether she wants to support a child for 18 years, while a man has no such choice? A manb cannot prevent pregnance, what should he be forced to apy for it?
Actually I never had a lot of respect in the first place; When I was a teenager my boss had the local cops paid off, which doesn't tend to make one have a lot of respect.