This is what business schools teach? No wonder the US is going down the toilet.
No joke. Get rich quick! Don't worry about making something you're proud of. Be proud of the money you tricked people into giving you for broken functionality. Then call them morons for ever trusting you.
I never understood why people (especially on/.) would click on a shortened url. Even though my machine is pretty resistant to exploits and malware, blindly following links seems a bit like roulette to me. Not to mention the possibilites of the url leading to child porn or 2girls, goatse etc. what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Every link is blind. Does http://example.com/totally_safe_for_work.gif point to a gif exploit, a jpg exploit, an html page, a redirect to a goatse png, or any number of other things? Remember when whitehouse.com used to be the "OMG it looks like a safe link!" site? I thank the early-adopters who click on links before us and warn others of naughty links.
I really doubt this. If you wikipedia titan moon you'll see the temperature is -179 degrees celius.
At what pressure beneath the surface? Remember, water is a weirdo substance where liquid takes up less volume than solid. increase the pressure enough and H2O below 0C will still be liquid. Plus, -179C is the surface temperature. Perhaps the core is warmer?
It is an adversarial game designed to extract the maximum amount of information from you. The money comes after the ??? step. So many companies are just buying and selling copies of information, and very few actually do anything useful that people will pay for with that information.
I'd recommend Windows Deployment Serivices / Remote Installation Services that's included in Windows Server. It allows you to PXE boot a machine, copies the Windows installation files to it, and when configured with an installation script will automatically configure your system (Product key, timezone, etc...)
It multicasts like ghost? If not, scaling will be painful.
"Arcane" is a term that is only ever used to describe a non-Microsoft OS
LOL As if undocumented registry hacks and tricks like "psexec \\computer cmd/c echo . | wmic bios get serialnumber" are normal. Why does wmic still require ghostly input?
1) Have you ever even filed your own taxes? Do you not know how tax credits work? You make it sound like you think that the government cuts you a check if you come up negative.
Have you ever filed a 1040ez? The Earned Income Credit says just that:
"The Earned Income Tax Credit or the EITC is a refundable federal income tax credit for low to moderate income working individuals and families. Congress originally approved the tax credit legislation in 1975 in part to offset the burden of social security taxes and to provide an incentive to work. When EITC exceeds the amount of taxes owed, it results in a tax refund to those who claim and qualify for the credit." http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96406,00.html
I've gotten free money from eic before. Felt dirty but I needed it at the time.
Did you even read what I said? Tax the tires. Those rubber things on the axles that wear out and need replacing regularly? The ones that every car has, whether gasoline or electric? Creating a new agency is a terrible waste of tax dollars.
I used to live within three minutes of my job in the suburbs. I could easily fill up for less than $40 and have that last for a couple months back then. Then I got a better job downtown, and gas prices started rising. I thought about moving downtown, but the housing downtown is either in bad neighborhoods or too expensive (or both). The gas prices still don't force me to buy a house downtown even though they're now over $50 for a fill up once a week. No Train. No Bus. Bike, are you kidding? Walk, impossible. Carpool is out of the question with my hours. Maybe when smaller cars stop costing $10,000 more than the larger ones I'll buy one.
Fact: Bears eat honey, which is filled with sugars
Fact: Beets are our primary source of sugar
Fact: Battlestar Galactica is sweeEEt
Battlestar Galactica is made of beets and bears eat it.
What does "reducing the size and scope of the Federal Government" have to do with making the government work for us? If anything, a small government is less able to work for us
A small government is also less able to work against us, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
The goal is to generate revenue by the least effort-intensive method available, and a simple per-mile-driven metric satisfies that.
Creating a whole new agency and hiring buttloads of odometer inspectors is the least effort-intensive method available? No, tax tires, windshield wiper fluid, or like GP said the whole fscking car itself. That's low effort. The amount of effort expended here speaks to a different motive than mere revenue generation. At best, it's an attempt to create jobs in the government. At worst, it's an attempt to create jobs in the government.
OK, Mr. Smarty Pants. How can you tell which of those miles were driven in USA, Mexico, or Canada mandatory odometer readings for every vehicle at the border?
You can still have a consumption based tax no matter what fuel is used: Tax tires. Heavier vehicles require sturdier tires, and all (non-treaded ground based) vehicles use them, and they use them up, forcing a constant stream of tax revenue that is specifically targeted to roads and requires no new agencies or manpower. But Washington wants to "create jobs", so here come the odometer police.
The way Americans in particular just suckle on the gas pump not knowing how much they use except for $40 to $50 here or there to fill a tank must end. We must be made responsible for the amount of fossil fuels we use.
We already are via fuel taxes. This change is all about roads, not gasoline. Once electric cars become the norm, something has to be taxed to pay for the roads. I just wish it was tires or windshield wipers or something consumable on vehicles that doesn't require a whole new agency to be created that sucks up money while being (slightly) more invasive.
Do you want the folks in your office to think you are a cheapskate? No, then you buy the lung cancer sticker for $20. Do you want the cashier to give you a dirty look for not donating to the foodbank? No, then you give them a buck.
Any time I'm "guilted" into giving, I am disgusted with the "guilter". No, I will not buy a lung cancer sticker. I may give to the charity anonymously later, but if I feel good about my anonymous giving, that doesn't mean that it's not voluntary, it just means that I like being anonymously altruistic. If I felt neutral or poorly about it, I obviously wouldn't do it. Feelings are internal motivators, they aren't external dictates that force us into an action.
Being a part of a society entails voluntarily giving up some of your freedoms. The freedom to kill, for example, is necessarily sacrificed. Taxation is one of the prices you pay for being a part of the society.
Taxation is one of the prices you pay for being a part of this society. Society and rules/laws such as "do not kill" do not absolutely necessitate taxation.
B) You act like "welfare" is the only thing tax revenues are ever spent on, and that rich people gain no benefit from not living in a Mad-Max anarchist hellscape.
There's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one. Lack of Social Security and Medicare does not turn the world into a Mad-Max anarchist hellscape. If anything, it gives the lower class immediate access to a bigger chunk of their money, which they might determine is more wisely spent now rather than later (doubtful that it's actually wiser, but at least the flexibility is there). Changing Welfare so that only truly disabled get taken care of by the state doesn't turn things into Mad-Max either. Now, perhaps if all Welfare was done away with, some disabled folk without skills might have to fight to survive (like Blaster), but that seems pretty unrealistic too, considering there are tons of altruistic people who will give charitably to the truly disadvantaged (even when not forced to!).
By the way, what was his argument? That paying taxes and having that tax money go to charity (e.g. welfare) is "slavery"? (Talk about melodramatic - as if some guy earning six-figures is now compared to African-American slaves because he has to pay a few thousand dollars more in taxes.).
You miss the point. Everyone has a right to their property, the wealthy and the poor alike; and it is extremely dangerous when we succumb to the class warfare notion that some people have less right to their property than others. Slavery is the one extreme result of that notion. Bleeding-heart socialism is another--thinking that because the wealthy have more property than they need to live comfortably, it's okay to keep seizing their money in ever increasing amount to fund an endlessly increasing number of entitlements for the lower classes is just as dangerous; because...
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters (read: the poor and middle class) discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." --Alexis de Tocqueville
Seizing other people's money to pay for your preferred charitable causes always sounds great until it turns into somebody else seizing your money to pay for charitable causes you don't support, which it inevitably will. Funny how morality always hinges on personal perspective.
It's sad that you posted AC. So many people read at 2 or higher that you'll almost never be read.
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This is what business schools teach? No wonder the US is going down the toilet.
No joke. Get rich quick! Don't worry about making something you're proud of. Be proud of the money you tricked people into giving you for broken functionality. Then call them morons for ever trusting you.
I never understood why people (especially on /.) would click on a shortened url. Even though my machine is pretty resistant to exploits and malware, blindly following links seems a bit like roulette to me. Not to mention the possibilites of the url leading to child porn or 2girls, goatse etc. what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Every link is blind. Does http://example.com/totally_safe_for_work.gif point to a gif exploit, a jpg exploit, an html page, a redirect to a goatse png, or any number of other things? Remember when whitehouse.com used to be the "OMG it looks like a safe link!" site? I thank the early-adopters who click on links before us and warn others of naughty links.
I really doubt this. If you wikipedia titan moon you'll see the temperature is -179 degrees celius.
At what pressure beneath the surface? Remember, water is a weirdo substance where liquid takes up less volume than solid. increase the pressure enough and H2O below 0C will still be liquid. Plus, -179C is the surface temperature. Perhaps the core is warmer?
It is an adversarial game designed to extract the maximum amount of information from you. The money comes after the ??? step. So many companies are just buying and selling copies of information, and very few actually do anything useful that people will pay for with that information.
I'd recommend Windows Deployment Serivices / Remote Installation Services that's included in Windows Server. It allows you to PXE boot a machine, copies the Windows installation files to it, and when configured with an installation script will automatically configure your system (Product key, timezone, etc...)
It multicasts like ghost? If not, scaling will be painful.
"Arcane" is a term that is only ever used to describe a non-Microsoft OS
LOL As if undocumented registry hacks and tricks like "psexec \\computer cmd /c echo . | wmic bios get serialnumber" are normal. Why does wmic still require ghostly input?
1) Have you ever even filed your own taxes? Do you not know how tax credits work? You make it sound like you think that the government cuts you a check if you come up negative.
Have you ever filed a 1040ez? The Earned Income Credit says just that:
"The Earned Income Tax Credit or the EITC is a refundable federal income tax credit for low to moderate income working individuals and families. Congress originally approved the tax credit legislation in 1975 in part to offset the burden of social security taxes and to provide an incentive to work. When EITC exceeds the amount of taxes owed, it results in a tax refund to those who claim and qualify for the credit."
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96406,00.html
I've gotten free money from eic before. Felt dirty but I needed it at the time.
That sort of future didn't seem to have any alternatives. Just an ever-dwindling supply of go-juice.
Barter Town used a different kind of gas.
Kids can't vote so I don't believe you are correct on that one.
Kids these days are kids until they're in their late 20's. I kid you not.
Did you even read what I said? Tax the tires. Those rubber things on the axles that wear out and need replacing regularly? The ones that every car has, whether gasoline or electric? Creating a new agency is a terrible waste of tax dollars.
I used to live within three minutes of my job in the suburbs. I could easily fill up for less than $40 and have that last for a couple months back then. Then I got a better job downtown, and gas prices started rising. I thought about moving downtown, but the housing downtown is either in bad neighborhoods or too expensive (or both). The gas prices still don't force me to buy a house downtown even though they're now over $50 for a fill up once a week. No Train. No Bus. Bike, are you kidding? Walk, impossible. Carpool is out of the question with my hours. Maybe when smaller cars stop costing $10,000 more than the larger ones I'll buy one.
Fact: Bears eat honey, which is filled with sugars
Fact: Beets are our primary source of sugar
Fact: Battlestar Galactica is sweeEEt
Battlestar Galactica is made of beets and bears eat it.
If it attacks you or the new baby, you put it down. Pets are only almost family. A ps3 even less so.
What does "reducing the size and scope of the Federal Government" have to do with making the government work for us? If anything, a small government is less able to work for us
A small government is also less able to work against us, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
They put some DHS code into mafiaafire right before they did this, to subvert subversive people.
But users of subblock-plus will never see the subvertizement.
The goal is to generate revenue by the least effort-intensive method available, and a simple per-mile-driven metric satisfies that.
Creating a whole new agency and hiring buttloads of odometer inspectors is the least effort-intensive method available? No, tax tires, windshield wiper fluid, or like GP said the whole fscking car itself. That's low effort. The amount of effort expended here speaks to a different motive than mere revenue generation. At best, it's an attempt to create jobs in the government. At worst, it's an attempt to create jobs in the government.
OK, Mr. Smarty Pants. How can you tell which of those miles were driven in USA, Mexico, or Canada mandatory odometer readings for every vehicle at the border?
You can still have a consumption based tax no matter what fuel is used: Tax tires. Heavier vehicles require sturdier tires, and all (non-treaded ground based) vehicles use them, and they use them up, forcing a constant stream of tax revenue that is specifically targeted to roads and requires no new agencies or manpower. But Washington wants to "create jobs", so here come the odometer police.
The way Americans in particular just suckle on the gas pump not knowing how much they use except for $40 to $50 here or there to fill a tank must end. We must be made responsible for the amount of fossil fuels we use.
We already are via fuel taxes. This change is all about roads, not gasoline. Once electric cars become the norm, something has to be taxed to pay for the roads. I just wish it was tires or windshield wipers or something consumable on vehicles that doesn't require a whole new agency to be created that sucks up money while being (slightly) more invasive.
Once a whole new agency is created, that agency lives forever, and its role grows and changes over time.
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Do you want the folks in your office to think you are a cheapskate? No, then you buy the lung cancer sticker for $20. Do you want the cashier to give you a dirty look for not donating to the foodbank? No, then you give them a buck.
Any time I'm "guilted" into giving, I am disgusted with the "guilter". No, I will not buy a lung cancer sticker. I may give to the charity anonymously later, but if I feel good about my anonymous giving, that doesn't mean that it's not voluntary, it just means that I like being anonymously altruistic. If I felt neutral or poorly about it, I obviously wouldn't do it. Feelings are internal motivators, they aren't external dictates that force us into an action.
Being a part of a society entails voluntarily giving up some of your freedoms. The freedom to kill, for example, is necessarily sacrificed. Taxation is one of the prices you pay for being a part of the society.
Taxation is one of the prices you pay for being a part of this society. Society and rules/laws such as "do not kill" do not absolutely necessitate taxation.
B) You act like "welfare" is the only thing tax revenues are ever spent on, and that rich people gain no benefit from not living in a Mad-Max anarchist hellscape.
There's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one. Lack of Social Security and Medicare does not turn the world into a Mad-Max anarchist hellscape. If anything, it gives the lower class immediate access to a bigger chunk of their money, which they might determine is more wisely spent now rather than later (doubtful that it's actually wiser, but at least the flexibility is there). Changing Welfare so that only truly disabled get taken care of by the state doesn't turn things into Mad-Max either. Now, perhaps if all Welfare was done away with, some disabled folk without skills might have to fight to survive (like Blaster), but that seems pretty unrealistic too, considering there are tons of altruistic people who will give charitably to the truly disadvantaged (even when not forced to!).
By the way, what was his argument? That paying taxes and having that tax money go to charity (e.g. welfare) is "slavery"? (Talk about melodramatic - as if some guy earning six-figures is now compared to African-American slaves because he has to pay a few thousand dollars more in taxes.).
You miss the point. Everyone has a right to their property, the wealthy and the poor alike; and it is extremely dangerous when we succumb to the class warfare notion that some people have less right to their property than others. Slavery is the one extreme result of that notion. Bleeding-heart socialism is another--thinking that because the wealthy have more property than they need to live comfortably, it's okay to keep seizing their money in ever increasing amount to fund an endlessly increasing number of entitlements for the lower classes is just as dangerous; because... "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters (read: the poor and middle class) discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years." --Alexis de Tocqueville Seizing other people's money to pay for your preferred charitable causes always sounds great until it turns into somebody else seizing your money to pay for charitable causes you don't support, which it inevitably will. Funny how morality always hinges on personal perspective.
It's sad that you posted AC. So many people read at 2 or higher that you'll almost never be read.