I seem to recall that it could be sent out with a -s or/s (silent) switch which was useful for enterprises. This was, of course, some time ago but they may still have the same process. Basically it was a run command that ran the installer with the switch as I recall. It can also be done with MSI packaging. Adobe offers such through their enterprise portal, or did when I was last interested in such things.
It could be worse. My dad, I am old - he is ANCIENT, seems to think he is a Computer Science Security Engineer. He's got firewalls, AV programs, everything disabled, has to click a setting each time to do anything online - multiple settings often but always at least one per page - and then shuts off the desktop background because it "eats system resources." He knows just enough to be a pain in the ass, not even dangerous, just a pain in the ass.
"Why won't this work?" "You have blocked port 80, disabled JavaScript and Flash, have your AV settings to scan everything - even web links you are not going to visit, have your firewall also blocking all scripts, have turned your user level into that with less privileges than a guest, and you really want to know why it does not work?" "My computer is slow." "I just bought you an eight core i7 for Christmas. It has a 250 GB SSD, a 3 TB SATA HDD, Windows 7 Ultimate, Office Professional (that you do not use but insisted I order even though I have an MSDN subscription), and 16 GB of RAM. Maybe you should try disabling the desktop themes along with your removal of the background. That will help." "You're an ass." "Stop blacklisting anything with a colon in the URL."
Those might be slightly embellished. Slightly... Gotta love him. I am going down to spend next week with him. It is summer so he is up here in Maine and close by. I toddle him off to the retirement community outside of Panama City Beach, FL when it starts getting cold. At least there he can catch the women, they have walkers and he's surprisingly fast for an old man. Kind of like a snapping turtle. The person who put a turtle logo to mean slow on a lawn mower has never tried to move a snapping turtle out of the road.
Nah. I had the same question until I rented a "ute" in Australia (I had never bothered to look or ask on my first trip). The gas is on the right, brake is to the left, clutch is to the left of that. The shifting lever is still between the driver and the passenger. The awkward part, for me, was getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road first. That took a minute. The next, and only other remaining, awkward part was shifting with my left hand. I am used to driving off-road, some was required for my journey there as well, and was fully trained to operate a vehicle in those conditions (my MOS was 3505, I drove in the motor pool). However, my brain just did not want to function with that last little bit. I stalled out a couple of times even - just from it being odd. Worse, I missed gears for the first two hours or so. I was 'okay' after that and I was downright used to it by the end of my journey. The toilet does not flush in the opposite direction either. They say it does because of the water jets and not the Coriolis (spelling?) effect. However, not one of the toilets that I noticed, and I drank - a lot, flushed backwards. Or I was very drunk. Actually, both may be true.
Now it is Voat's turn. Let's see how they handle it. I do hope that they do not migrate here in large numbers. We have enough non-technical users already. I am not sure that the limited amount of culture we have left can handle the influence from a mass migration.
You missed the part that you quoted. They get stats from over 25,000 different browser extensions. That is quite a few and likely results in a more than an acceptable sample size. You do not have to like the data. You do have to prove otherwise if you want to argue against the data. "Waah! I do not like the results of that data." That is not an acceptable response if you want to be taken seriously.
This is beautiful! It is obviously effective. I did not even say it, except to reference it, and you still have your bloomers in a ruffle. You are as playable as a piano. My hat is off to OS/X Man. He struck a nerve and you are still whinging. I suspect you will cry some more, too. I anticipate it with glee. No, I really do. I can see the attraction of trolling if it nets you someone this childish and thin skinned. Someone insulted your pretty device's manufacturer and you went off and kept doing it when someone pointed out the effectiveness of the trigger. It is beautiful. You're hurping and durping away and, really, it is over someone's trivial misunderstanding/misspelling.
You are almost exceptional in those regards. Almost... I think a better term is 'special.' No, I am not going to get upset when someone calls it Linfart, Lindows, or Open Sores. Nor will I whine and cry when people call it Winblows or M$. I do not know a single person in the real world who would. So you, you whinger you, are certainly special. However, do go on... You can even get in the last word and feel like you won something. Go ahead.
Hah! OS/X!!! It's beautiful. Put on your favorite Apple emblazoned man-panties and grow a pair. You are so emotionally disturbed by some goober typing OS/X on them there intertubes that you whinge like a school girl who lost her best friend. Your OS does not have feelings, it is not offended when someone calls it an unapproved name, and it does not need you to white-knight on its behalf. You are free to do so. Others are free to call you on it and make fun of you for that behavior. We can laugh at you because, well, you are entertaining.
But, like I said, you go - you. You can even get in the last word and make yourself feel better. You need the ego boost more than anyone else around here. It would be healthier if you just let things go instead of trying to white-knight an operating system or your favorite toy. Really, seek help. Until then...
I pirate all the time. I would actually pay if they had a reasonable service to allow such. I do not even ask for a whole lot. Just make it one stop, make it complete, and make it DRM free. I would be willing to pay out the ass for it. Couple it with movies and I will pay TREBLE the price - not because it should be lower due to bulk but because I am willing to pay more for the single platform and ease of access.
If there are 317 million tax-paying people in the EU *and* they wanted to pay down the debt to cover Greece and help stave off inflation then they could all pay about €87/month for a year and be done with all of it. That is without any debt forgiveness. As the goal is to (ideally) keep the union going and healthy as well as to keep a healthy monetary system this might be something to consider. It could be structures to pay over five or even ten years. Over 10 years, not unreasonable with country-sized loans, that would be €9/mo and affordable to everyone. Spread out over the whole, and asking/forcing people to contribute, the pain is not so bad. Given the socialist nature of many of the EU countries this may actually work.
Obviously this could be changed around a bit and whatnot but it seems like it may be a good idea to limit Euro value fluctuations. It may even make sense at the individual level? By paying their €9 every month for ten years they *may* be keeping their buying power at a steady limit instead of having to deal with inflation lowering their buying power. The diversity would mean less risks overall and more investments in the future - maybe. I am *not* an Economics Guru and my understanding is layman at best, laughable at worst, so I am open to correction on this. I also do not think we will find that many idealists when it comes down to it. I suspect any politician proposing such a thing will be a pariah from there on out.
Link please? I can not figure out which video that is. I like VICE and think they do great work while being mostly objective. However, I am about five years behind in keeping up with their stuff. The last bit about Russia that I saw, from VICE, was them going through an arms dealer and actually almost getting a nuclear weapon. They did not buy said weapon nor was it, IIRC, for sale exactly. It was in private hands it seemed and they were able to verify its existence somehow though it was off-camera. So, yeah, I would love a link if you have one handy. I am not sure what the hell to use as a search so I browsed and searched for the countries involved but did not find anything that looked like it was about what you are saying. I will try searching some more. Thanks.
Please, do at least read the article before repeating popular misinformation.
Welcome to Slashdot. I can see from your number you've been here for some time, but when you immigrate, you should always try to integrate into the host society. RTFA? You are insulting my culture.
I am pretty sure that this is the first time I think someone has been accused of being a racist for suggesting that another should RTFA. As a long-time reader of this site (though I did not join for quite a while) it brings a tear to my eye to see such. It is... It is beautiful!
I can not speak for the habits of Greece. I do not know and am unwilling to put out the effort of informing myself as it is not important to me nor does it alter what I am saying. However, avoiding taxes is legal and is the fiscally responsible thing to do. It is the responsibility of businesses and citizens to pay the least amount of taxes that they are legally obligated to pay. Tax avoidance is what you are meant to do and is well within the law in any country where I have earned money.
Tax evasion is illegal and is morally reprehensible even if you do not agree with the manner in which your taxes are spent or feel that you are being taxed more than is proper. Tax evasion should not be tolerated and, if this is what is happening, should be investigated with the judged guilty parties being punished according to the laws of their country.
Tax avoidance is very different than tax evasion. I avoid a lot of taxes by donating to charity. (I donate more than I can deduct actually. I do not donate for tax avoidance purposes, that is just an added benefit.) By structuring my income from capital gains (not illegal structuring) and making use of a limited liability corporation I am able to reduce the amount of taxes owed in a lawful manner which is ethical. That is perfectly legal and is something that one probably should do. Now if I have money in a safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands and I have a currier bring it to me in $9500 increments while also lugging a bunch of pre-paid debit cards in his suitcase then I am evading taxes and that is illegal and immoral.
To clarify my own definitions: Morals do not change (though are not absolutely universal). Ethics are mutable, they can be changed for the situation. Cf. Situational Ethics.
Neo-conservative Republicans are ashamed to be associated with the Republican political party. They have co-opted the Libertarian moniker, to the detriment and disgust of the party members who have no way of stopping them and are not organized well enough to compel them to change, and this has been a trend for at least ten years. It started happening during Bush's second campaign and continued to grow until a couple of years into that presidency. Until such a time most of us Libertarians (I am now a registered Independent/Green Party member - they are tied together in this state) actually advocated things like universal health care, taxes on businesses and wealthy, a reasonable tax rate all around, laws keeping our environment clean, etc...
No, we did not advocate those things out of kindness, we advocated those things because they are more financially sound for long-term growth. Healthy people make better workers and an infrastructure to get them to work gets them to buy stuff. However we advocated personal freedoms such as the right to ingest what we choose even with the potential detriment of self-harm. A number of us disagreed with everything and disagreed with how we should do this while still siding on the personal liberties side of things. However, most of us were not maladjusted teens and old people who want to screw anybody over in their personal effort to gain wealth. Most of us were not Ayn Rand fans either.
The reason I say things in the past tense is because that was the past. Today it has changed. The party has been taken over, the platform completely bastardized (not that it was ever that clear), and the vocal (I am not sure if they are a minority any more) bunch have put the party on a different path entirely. Libertarians used to be sane, usually to the left than the Democrats, and did not believe in some pure form of any political ideology because it is well known that no such thing can exist effectively now that we've grown past the tribal stage. We are not, or at least were not, advocates of anarchy (usually, there were some nutjobs), nor did we suggest that capitalism was the solution to everything or even most things. We did advocate state rights, personal liberties, and social responsibilities. We were in favor of things like, you know, a social safety-net. We were in favor of educating those on said nets so that they could become productive persons who could enjoy their liberties because liberties should be what everyone has and not just for the wealthy.
That being said, it is not what the party really is or what the party is about. It is what is currently being thrown about in the party's name however. The Democrats are not defined by Obama nor are the Republicans defined by Bush. The Tea Party is not Libertarian. Greenpeace is not Democrats. I can not say who is in the majority now, I can only say that the nuts were once a vocal minority or even just a minority. Now they seem to be prevalent enough to make it so that I changed my party affiliation to more accurately represent my voting. My beliefs have not changed. I just do not like the platform as it seems to stand now. Of course the whole party is segmented and about as manageable as a herd of cats. It is hard enough to get a clear message out and much worse to actually get meaningful statistics. Most of us got stoned and forgot to fill out the survey. It is hard to remember the importance of voting when you're stoned.
I found the one guy who was paying Grecian taxes. He is up-thread and paid pretty much all of his income in taxes (86% total taxation rate). He left. Assuming he was telling the truth, and I generally do make that assumption, he was the last tax payer and now Greece is truly screwed. I almost want to send Greece a check for like $50 to "help them out." Also, I think it would be cool to have the canceled check. Maybe we need to start a Kickstarter for Greece? Anyone who pays gets a copy of the cashed check. The three highest payers get to kick a Grecian politician in the nuts/vagina - their choice. If the amount paid is high enough they might just go for it.
Maybe we can set it up so that a donation of $100,000 USD would net the payer the chance to kick the prime minister or president (or both) in the nuts while recording it for later playback on YouTube. I say it is far more useful than buying Bidden a car. On top of that, the politicians can show how much they love (or do not love) their country by their willingness to endure pain on behalf of their countrymen. It is bound to alter the elections in one way or another.
Saved along with the attribution. Consider it stolen (though attributed) in some future conversation. It is almost shameful that nobody noticed your post and the value of it. So very true and so very overlooked. A gem in the rough, so to speak.
In 2012 I had 100,000 Euros income paid 86,000 Euros spent on taxes
In 2007 I sold my business to a major government contractor, that is pretty much all they do - government contracts from food service to defense, for an eight-figure sum. My taxes were nowhere near your taxation rate and now they are even less, I pay less in capital gains taxes than I paid before. (I can afford an accountant and a lawyer now.) The only taxes that I pay "dearly" on are property taxes and I do get raped there. I really can not complain - I still pay less than I probably should.
For those who would say that I should pay more... I pay exactly what is due and avoid any taxes possible. I donate as much as is reasonable instead. I consider it my same social spending only I get to spend it on feeding hungry people instead of bombing brown people.
But, come on now... You spent an absurd amount on taxes, overall taxes, and that is not cool. Now if you were making a huge some of money, say 10,000,000 per year as some jackass CEO, then sure - the amount is still absurd but the overall amount that you'd keep is still acceptable. In your case? I do not blame you for being unhappy. That is simply unacceptable. The obvious result is that you, and others like you, will go elsewhere and the business will move elsewhere when and where it can unless they provide some very compelling reasons to stay. At those rates? I am going to need a daily supply of hookers and blow (and blackjack) on the government dime. Otherwise? I am taking my ball and I am going home. Fuck you and fuck your society (no, not you personally but the society you left) because I do not like my neighbor that much. Oh, I love my neighbor, so to speak, I just do not love him that much.
You kept 14% of your income... I am shocked that you stayed as long as you did. You probably would have been better off being on welfare. It probably pays better. Note: I have no idea how Greece's welfare system works. I have been to Greece twice (I once stayed for six months while I did some work there) and never asked about the welfare system but I did deal with their government and, if that is any indication, you may well have been better off on welfare. (The myriad government agents that I consulted with were almost always different people, almost always had no idea what was going on, and were really difficult to contact.)
Seriously... How did you manage to put up with that for as long as you did? Is it the only job you could get? Was there a compelling reason to do so such as a significant other? I'd need hookers, blow, and blackjack and I am not going to let them skimp on any of them.
No no... You are still whinging. Would you like a tissue? Methinks your maladjusted dislike for someone typing OS/X is a sign of your lack of ego. It is healthy to have a good ego. Maybe you should seek professional assistance.
Anyone who is a zealot is unbearable (and wrong). Then again, I am zealous in my desire for moderation. But, seriously, fans of any OS (or company, or similar) are just blinded by their biases and stuck that way because their ego will not let them change. I prefer to judge each by its own merits and I do not think I am exceptional in those regards.
Yeah... Hmm... Google indicates otherwise. I am going to need a citation for that.
What would possess you to lie like that? I do not understand. This is the internet, it is the one place where you can be completely honest and nobody will know who you are (within reason). Why lie?
I think the difference is "gave" vs "loaned." Gifts do not get repaid. Nor loans, if you are Greece, but that is a different topic altogether. In other words a gift, like you are pointing out, has no bearing on this conversation whatsoever. Not even a tiny bit. It is an interesting subject but it has nothing to do with this subject unless you are saying the loans to Greece were gifts. If that is what you are saying then why are you worried about them paying it back?
And you are only downloading music that you have permission to use... Uh huh... Nope, do not believe you. I have absolutely no reason to believe you. You might as just fess up and be honest at this point. I pirate music all the time. I do not take it and then make money from it. There is the difference and we all know that you are pirating your music and there is not one damned thing you can say to change that.
That was a long read but interesting. It gives a nice, and different, view. That is, frankly, a dilemma that I am not sure how to solve. The people that live there should have the right to determine the growth and if that means a poor business growth climate then that is their choice. That is all I can come up with. I suppose you could say that people have a right to live and do business where they want but I do not feel that they should do those at the expense of those who already live there.
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What has Microsoft got to do with this? Reading comprehension skills - one of us is missing them.
I seem to recall that it could be sent out with a -s or /s (silent) switch which was useful for enterprises. This was, of course, some time ago but they may still have the same process. Basically it was a run command that ran the installer with the switch as I recall. It can also be done with MSI packaging. Adobe offers such through their enterprise portal, or did when I was last interested in such things.
It could be worse. My dad, I am old - he is ANCIENT, seems to think he is a Computer Science Security Engineer. He's got firewalls, AV programs, everything disabled, has to click a setting each time to do anything online - multiple settings often but always at least one per page - and then shuts off the desktop background because it "eats system resources." He knows just enough to be a pain in the ass, not even dangerous, just a pain in the ass.
"Why won't this work?"
"You have blocked port 80, disabled JavaScript and Flash, have your AV settings to scan everything - even web links you are not going to visit, have your firewall also blocking all scripts, have turned your user level into that with less privileges than a guest, and you really want to know why it does not work?"
"My computer is slow."
"I just bought you an eight core i7 for Christmas. It has a 250 GB SSD, a 3 TB SATA HDD, Windows 7 Ultimate, Office Professional (that you do not use but insisted I order even though I have an MSDN subscription), and 16 GB of RAM. Maybe you should try disabling the desktop themes along with your removal of the background. That will help."
"You're an ass."
"Stop blacklisting anything with a colon in the URL."
Those might be slightly embellished. Slightly... Gotta love him. I am going down to spend next week with him. It is summer so he is up here in Maine and close by. I toddle him off to the retirement community outside of Panama City Beach, FL when it starts getting cold. At least there he can catch the women, they have walkers and he's surprisingly fast for an old man. Kind of like a snapping turtle. The person who put a turtle logo to mean slow on a lawn mower has never tried to move a snapping turtle out of the road.
Nah. I had the same question until I rented a "ute" in Australia (I had never bothered to look or ask on my first trip). The gas is on the right, brake is to the left, clutch is to the left of that. The shifting lever is still between the driver and the passenger. The awkward part, for me, was getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road first. That took a minute. The next, and only other remaining, awkward part was shifting with my left hand. I am used to driving off-road, some was required for my journey there as well, and was fully trained to operate a vehicle in those conditions (my MOS was 3505, I drove in the motor pool). However, my brain just did not want to function with that last little bit. I stalled out a couple of times even - just from it being odd. Worse, I missed gears for the first two hours or so. I was 'okay' after that and I was downright used to it by the end of my journey. The toilet does not flush in the opposite direction either. They say it does because of the water jets and not the Coriolis (spelling?) effect. However, not one of the toilets that I noticed, and I drank - a lot, flushed backwards. Or I was very drunk. Actually, both may be true.
Now it is Voat's turn. Let's see how they handle it. I do hope that they do not migrate here in large numbers. We have enough non-technical users already. I am not sure that the limited amount of culture we have left can handle the influence from a mass migration.
You missed the part that you quoted. They get stats from over 25,000 different browser extensions. That is quite a few and likely results in a more than an acceptable sample size. You do not have to like the data. You do have to prove otherwise if you want to argue against the data. "Waah! I do not like the results of that data." That is not an acceptable response if you want to be taken seriously.
This is beautiful! It is obviously effective. I did not even say it, except to reference it, and you still have your bloomers in a ruffle. You are as playable as a piano. My hat is off to OS/X Man. He struck a nerve and you are still whinging. I suspect you will cry some more, too. I anticipate it with glee. No, I really do. I can see the attraction of trolling if it nets you someone this childish and thin skinned. Someone insulted your pretty device's manufacturer and you went off and kept doing it when someone pointed out the effectiveness of the trigger. It is beautiful. You're hurping and durping away and, really, it is over someone's trivial misunderstanding/misspelling.
You are almost exceptional in those regards. Almost... I think a better term is 'special.' No, I am not going to get upset when someone calls it Linfart, Lindows, or Open Sores. Nor will I whine and cry when people call it Winblows or M$. I do not know a single person in the real world who would. So you, you whinger you, are certainly special. However, do go on... You can even get in the last word and feel like you won something. Go ahead.
Hah! OS/X!!! It's beautiful. Put on your favorite Apple emblazoned man-panties and grow a pair. You are so emotionally disturbed by some goober typing OS/X on them there intertubes that you whinge like a school girl who lost her best friend. Your OS does not have feelings, it is not offended when someone calls it an unapproved name, and it does not need you to white-knight on its behalf. You are free to do so. Others are free to call you on it and make fun of you for that behavior. We can laugh at you because, well, you are entertaining.
But, like I said, you go - you. You can even get in the last word and make yourself feel better. You need the ego boost more than anyone else around here. It would be healthier if you just let things go instead of trying to white-knight an operating system or your favorite toy. Really, seek help. Until then...
That's what they all say. ;)
I pirate all the time. I would actually pay if they had a reasonable service to allow such. I do not even ask for a whole lot. Just make it one stop, make it complete, and make it DRM free. I would be willing to pay out the ass for it. Couple it with movies and I will pay TREBLE the price - not because it should be lower due to bulk but because I am willing to pay more for the single platform and ease of access.
If there are 317 million tax-paying people in the EU *and* they wanted to pay down the debt to cover Greece and help stave off inflation then they could all pay about €87/month for a year and be done with all of it. That is without any debt forgiveness. As the goal is to (ideally) keep the union going and healthy as well as to keep a healthy monetary system this might be something to consider. It could be structures to pay over five or even ten years. Over 10 years, not unreasonable with country-sized loans, that would be €9/mo and affordable to everyone. Spread out over the whole, and asking/forcing people to contribute, the pain is not so bad. Given the socialist nature of many of the EU countries this may actually work.
Obviously this could be changed around a bit and whatnot but it seems like it may be a good idea to limit Euro value fluctuations. It may even make sense at the individual level? By paying their €9 every month for ten years they *may* be keeping their buying power at a steady limit instead of having to deal with inflation lowering their buying power. The diversity would mean less risks overall and more investments in the future - maybe. I am *not* an Economics Guru and my understanding is layman at best, laughable at worst, so I am open to correction on this. I also do not think we will find that many idealists when it comes down to it. I suspect any politician proposing such a thing will be a pariah from there on out.
Link please? I can not figure out which video that is. I like VICE and think they do great work while being mostly objective. However, I am about five years behind in keeping up with their stuff. The last bit about Russia that I saw, from VICE, was them going through an arms dealer and actually almost getting a nuclear weapon. They did not buy said weapon nor was it, IIRC, for sale exactly. It was in private hands it seemed and they were able to verify its existence somehow though it was off-camera. So, yeah, I would love a link if you have one handy. I am not sure what the hell to use as a search so I browsed and searched for the countries involved but did not find anything that looked like it was about what you are saying. I will try searching some more. Thanks.
Please, do at least read the article before repeating popular misinformation.
Welcome to Slashdot. I can see from your number you've been here for some time, but when you immigrate, you should always try to integrate into the host society. RTFA? You are insulting my culture.
I am pretty sure that this is the first time I think someone has been accused of being a racist for suggesting that another should RTFA. As a long-time reader of this site (though I did not join for quite a while) it brings a tear to my eye to see such. It is... It is beautiful!
I can not speak for the habits of Greece. I do not know and am unwilling to put out the effort of informing myself as it is not important to me nor does it alter what I am saying. However, avoiding taxes is legal and is the fiscally responsible thing to do. It is the responsibility of businesses and citizens to pay the least amount of taxes that they are legally obligated to pay. Tax avoidance is what you are meant to do and is well within the law in any country where I have earned money.
Tax evasion is illegal and is morally reprehensible even if you do not agree with the manner in which your taxes are spent or feel that you are being taxed more than is proper. Tax evasion should not be tolerated and, if this is what is happening, should be investigated with the judged guilty parties being punished according to the laws of their country.
Tax avoidance is very different than tax evasion. I avoid a lot of taxes by donating to charity. (I donate more than I can deduct actually. I do not donate for tax avoidance purposes, that is just an added benefit.) By structuring my income from capital gains (not illegal structuring) and making use of a limited liability corporation I am able to reduce the amount of taxes owed in a lawful manner which is ethical. That is perfectly legal and is something that one probably should do. Now if I have money in a safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands and I have a currier bring it to me in $9500 increments while also lugging a bunch of pre-paid debit cards in his suitcase then I am evading taxes and that is illegal and immoral.
To clarify my own definitions: Morals do not change (though are not absolutely universal). Ethics are mutable, they can be changed for the situation. Cf. Situational Ethics.
Neo-conservative Republicans are ashamed to be associated with the Republican political party. They have co-opted the Libertarian moniker, to the detriment and disgust of the party members who have no way of stopping them and are not organized well enough to compel them to change, and this has been a trend for at least ten years. It started happening during Bush's second campaign and continued to grow until a couple of years into that presidency. Until such a time most of us Libertarians (I am now a registered Independent/Green Party member - they are tied together in this state) actually advocated things like universal health care, taxes on businesses and wealthy, a reasonable tax rate all around, laws keeping our environment clean, etc...
No, we did not advocate those things out of kindness, we advocated those things because they are more financially sound for long-term growth. Healthy people make better workers and an infrastructure to get them to work gets them to buy stuff. However we advocated personal freedoms such as the right to ingest what we choose even with the potential detriment of self-harm. A number of us disagreed with everything and disagreed with how we should do this while still siding on the personal liberties side of things. However, most of us were not maladjusted teens and old people who want to screw anybody over in their personal effort to gain wealth. Most of us were not Ayn Rand fans either.
The reason I say things in the past tense is because that was the past. Today it has changed. The party has been taken over, the platform completely bastardized (not that it was ever that clear), and the vocal (I am not sure if they are a minority any more) bunch have put the party on a different path entirely. Libertarians used to be sane, usually to the left than the Democrats, and did not believe in some pure form of any political ideology because it is well known that no such thing can exist effectively now that we've grown past the tribal stage. We are not, or at least were not, advocates of anarchy (usually, there were some nutjobs), nor did we suggest that capitalism was the solution to everything or even most things. We did advocate state rights, personal liberties, and social responsibilities. We were in favor of things like, you know, a social safety-net. We were in favor of educating those on said nets so that they could become productive persons who could enjoy their liberties because liberties should be what everyone has and not just for the wealthy.
That being said, it is not what the party really is or what the party is about. It is what is currently being thrown about in the party's name however. The Democrats are not defined by Obama nor are the Republicans defined by Bush. The Tea Party is not Libertarian. Greenpeace is not Democrats. I can not say who is in the majority now, I can only say that the nuts were once a vocal minority or even just a minority. Now they seem to be prevalent enough to make it so that I changed my party affiliation to more accurately represent my voting. My beliefs have not changed. I just do not like the platform as it seems to stand now. Of course the whole party is segmented and about as manageable as a herd of cats. It is hard enough to get a clear message out and much worse to actually get meaningful statistics. Most of us got stoned and forgot to fill out the survey. It is hard to remember the importance of voting when you're stoned.
I found the one guy who was paying Grecian taxes. He is up-thread and paid pretty much all of his income in taxes (86% total taxation rate). He left. Assuming he was telling the truth, and I generally do make that assumption, he was the last tax payer and now Greece is truly screwed. I almost want to send Greece a check for like $50 to "help them out." Also, I think it would be cool to have the canceled check. Maybe we need to start a Kickstarter for Greece? Anyone who pays gets a copy of the cashed check. The three highest payers get to kick a Grecian politician in the nuts/vagina - their choice. If the amount paid is high enough they might just go for it.
Maybe we can set it up so that a donation of $100,000 USD would net the payer the chance to kick the prime minister or president (or both) in the nuts while recording it for later playback on YouTube. I say it is far more useful than buying Bidden a car. On top of that, the politicians can show how much they love (or do not love) their country by their willingness to endure pain on behalf of their countrymen. It is bound to alter the elections in one way or another.
Saved along with the attribution. Consider it stolen (though attributed) in some future conversation. It is almost shameful that nobody noticed your post and the value of it. So very true and so very overlooked. A gem in the rough, so to speak.
In 2012 I had 100,000 Euros income paid 86,000 Euros spent on taxes
In 2007 I sold my business to a major government contractor, that is pretty much all they do - government contracts from food service to defense, for an eight-figure sum. My taxes were nowhere near your taxation rate and now they are even less, I pay less in capital gains taxes than I paid before. (I can afford an accountant and a lawyer now.) The only taxes that I pay "dearly" on are property taxes and I do get raped there. I really can not complain - I still pay less than I probably should.
For those who would say that I should pay more... I pay exactly what is due and avoid any taxes possible. I donate as much as is reasonable instead. I consider it my same social spending only I get to spend it on feeding hungry people instead of bombing brown people.
But, come on now... You spent an absurd amount on taxes, overall taxes, and that is not cool. Now if you were making a huge some of money, say 10,000,000 per year as some jackass CEO, then sure - the amount is still absurd but the overall amount that you'd keep is still acceptable. In your case? I do not blame you for being unhappy. That is simply unacceptable. The obvious result is that you, and others like you, will go elsewhere and the business will move elsewhere when and where it can unless they provide some very compelling reasons to stay. At those rates? I am going to need a daily supply of hookers and blow (and blackjack) on the government dime. Otherwise? I am taking my ball and I am going home. Fuck you and fuck your society (no, not you personally but the society you left) because I do not like my neighbor that much. Oh, I love my neighbor, so to speak, I just do not love him that much.
You kept 14% of your income... I am shocked that you stayed as long as you did. You probably would have been better off being on welfare. It probably pays better. Note: I have no idea how Greece's welfare system works. I have been to Greece twice (I once stayed for six months while I did some work there) and never asked about the welfare system but I did deal with their government and, if that is any indication, you may well have been better off on welfare. (The myriad government agents that I consulted with were almost always different people, almost always had no idea what was going on, and were really difficult to contact.)
Seriously... How did you manage to put up with that for as long as you did? Is it the only job you could get? Was there a compelling reason to do so such as a significant other? I'd need hookers, blow, and blackjack and I am not going to let them skimp on any of them.
I did not mention that there was an ID3 tag for it. Only what was what.
No no... You are still whinging. Would you like a tissue? Methinks your maladjusted dislike for someone typing OS/X is a sign of your lack of ego. It is healthy to have a good ego. Maybe you should seek professional assistance.
Anyone who is a zealot is unbearable (and wrong). Then again, I am zealous in my desire for moderation. But, seriously, fans of any OS (or company, or similar) are just blinded by their biases and stuck that way because their ego will not let them change. I prefer to judge each by its own merits and I do not think I am exceptional in those regards.
If we had 10,000 legislators then nothing would get done - ever. Note that I do not say that that is a bad thing.
Yeah... Hmm... Google indicates otherwise. I am going to need a citation for that.
What would possess you to lie like that? I do not understand. This is the internet, it is the one place where you can be completely honest and nobody will know who you are (within reason). Why lie?
I think the difference is "gave" vs "loaned." Gifts do not get repaid. Nor loans, if you are Greece, but that is a different topic altogether. In other words a gift, like you are pointing out, has no bearing on this conversation whatsoever. Not even a tiny bit. It is an interesting subject but it has nothing to do with this subject unless you are saying the loans to Greece were gifts. If that is what you are saying then why are you worried about them paying it back?
I am Amerindian, Micmac from Northern Maine, and I believe you are on my lawn.
And you are only downloading music that you have permission to use... Uh huh... Nope, do not believe you. I have absolutely no reason to believe you. You might as just fess up and be honest at this point. I pirate music all the time. I do not take it and then make money from it. There is the difference and we all know that you are pirating your music and there is not one damned thing you can say to change that.
That was a long read but interesting. It gives a nice, and different, view. That is, frankly, a dilemma that I am not sure how to solve. The people that live there should have the right to determine the growth and if that means a poor business growth climate then that is their choice. That is all I can come up with. I suppose you could say that people have a right to live and do business where they want but I do not feel that they should do those at the expense of those who already live there.