When talking about taxation, it really is the principal use, at least in my experience. I doubt the AC will clarify it, though. Re-reading his post, it sure looks like he or she was talking about something like expansion of estate taxes.
Tell us how you will allocate the funds better than the person who created this "excessive" wealth.
Certainly the subject line was poorly chosen, but this part of your post suggests you didn't read the post you replied to. The anonymous coward did not suggest allocating funds better than the person who created the wealth. The suggestion was to break up the estate. Estates in this context are what is left after the person who accumulated it has died. It would be absurd to argue that a dead person knows better how to allocate the wealth he left behind than our civil government. Dead people are dead. Breaking up their estate will not bother them in any way. They won't know or care.
The Republican zeal for somehow preserving estates escapes me. What could be more fair than society reclaiming wealth from someone who neither knows nor cares about it?
You may argue that their heirs have somehow inherited the savvy. I think that's a bogus argument, but it has worked for royalty for a zillion years.
You (and many other sibling posters) are fighting a straw man. The OP didn't suggest taking the wealth away from Bezos. Not at all; let him enjoy the crap out of it. The proposal was to take more wealth from estates. That means the guy who earned it is dead. And man, he just cannot enjoy a dime of it after he's dead. It is the absolutely ultimate in fair tax, since it has absolutely zero impact on the person whose money it used to be.
I'm buying a new car, and just ran the numbers for a volt versus a normal gas engine...
Buy the Volt anyway — it's just an awesome car. Zero to 30 takes about a millisecond [1]. Zero to 60 in 7.5 seconds. And the torque is always there; doesn't matter how fast you are going, you hit the pedal and it zings! It's just nothing like a gas engine.
And when you decide to drive to the next state, you don't have to plan some route based on expensive Chargepoints; you just gas up and go.
You get 60 miles on a charge. I guess if your commute is more than that, it's probably not for you. I don't usually drive more than 30 miles in a day unless something is up, so for me it's perfect. I don't work for Chevrolet, no relatives either. I'm just really happy with my Volt. By the way, the federal rebate was $7.5k when I did my taxes this past April, not 9k.
[1] I know, it was hyperbole.
-- Happy happy oh my friend.
No TV for me since 1993! Yet, I don't watch any shows, whether they have ads or not. Just can't find any that hold my interest. I watch a movie or every week or so. Otherwise, it's books, music, cooking, puttering, hell I even spend time at the gym most days. Anything beats TV.
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I fought with destiny up on the ledge and gasped when, defeated, he slipped off the edge.
Netflix totally brought this on themselves by banning VPNs. If I could easily connect though my VPN, then Verizon couldn't tell it was video and throttle it.
—George
[Note] Well, I guess Verizon could try to block VPN traffic like China does, but that's a whack-a-mole game if you dress your VPN in TLS wrappers, like with stunnel.
Well, you might be right. But it should be that your numbers are inverted, since it would be incredibly stupid for any non-republican to favor a President Pence to a President Trump. President Trump is impeding the republican agenda. President Pence would do far more damage to the democrats.
I'll bet enough democrats realize this to eliminate any chance of impeachment.
All bets are off if the democrats can take control at midterm, which is incredibly unlikely. Just imagine it though: first impeach and convict Trump, then impeach and convict Pence. Who would be president? You got it: Nancy Pelosi. This would result in armed rebellion throughout Jesusland.
Or, you can buy a Chevy Volt today and get the great (if not best) of both worlds.
My 2017 Volt goes 60 miles on a charge -- it's a *very* rare day when I exceed that. Essentially all of my daily driving is all electric. It has awesome acceleration: zero to 60 in 7.6 seconds. And it has that fantastic electric torque curve. But, when I need to drive across Texas, I don't have to plan ahead. Just gas up and go. Really, in today's world, the Volt is just about perfect.
I do not work for Chevrolet, just a very happy customer.
Purchasing books from Barnes and Noble or Amazon absolutely does NOT lock you in to their ecosystem. All either does is provide a convenient storefront. I buy most of my books from Amazon because they make it convenient and easy to shop, and because I like my Kindle's hardware. But the first thing I do when I buy any book is load it into Calibre, convert it to epub, and archive on my backed up filesystem. No lock in. Some people may point to the DRM, but both B&N and Amazon's DRM have the same effect as that on DVDs. It is so trivially removed that it is simply ignorable.
It's a bit pricey, but I love the Kindle Voyage. It's lighter than your Nook and the haptic feedback rocks. I do covet the Nook's water resistance, though.
Sometimes I buy from Barnes and Noble too, and I've often bought directly from Baen and even Google. The only reason to prefer one over the other is convenience. Thinking that you have to stick with one because of "lock in" is just wrong (for now, at least).
The wireless carrier further says, "LTE Advanced currently uses a combination of two- and three-carrier aggregation. Customers will continue to enjoy typical download speeds of 5 - 12 Mbps, but two-channel carrier aggregation has shown peak download speeds of up to 225 Mbps, far exceeding the current speeds being experienced by wireless data networks nationwide.
Awesome. I can now exceed my monthly data cap in just under nine minutes.
Old Intel Atom processors won't run 64-bit code. My firewall/gateway machine is running an nice but old nano-ITX motherboard with such a processor. I had to download debian's 386 build to get it to work. So, I hope debian at least keeps the 386 build for a while.
I really don't understand why anybody buys media (books, music, movies, TV shows) through a streaming service - not from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony or anyone else's.
For movies, for sure I understand. But buying books from Amazon is great. The DRM is trivially removed (like with DVDs), the azw format is easily converted to others, and their ebooks are often very high quality. Amazon is now my preferred book vendor for this reason. I get to own the book for life.
The guy who was running admitted he thought they were wasting about half the aperture. I didn't want to think about that; I just wanted to drool over getting to look through such an instrument!:-).
To me, this is no surprise. The science case for the GMT is a drool-worthy cornucopia of astrophysics, including formation of stars and planetary systems, properties of exoplanets (including their atmospheres), chemical evolution in stellar populations, dark matter and dark energy (including synergy with the LSST), galaxy formation and evolution, and the first light and reionization of the universe. The potential for observing non-equilibrium chemistry in extrasolar planetary atmospheres is pretty darned exciting with consequences that could reach beyond astrophysics to religion, philosophy, and policy.
I was incredibly fortunate to be invited to the official groundbreaking event for the GMT last November, which concluded with one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Just a couple of kilometers away from the GMT site are the twin Magellan telescopes. These telescopes are both 6.5 meter aperture and have a large number of instruments that astronomers can use, with fairly easy switching between instruments. That night the telescope staff did something extremely rare. They fitted the Clay telescope with an actual eyepiece and all 190 guests were allowed to look through this 6.5 meter telescope! (The president of Chile got to go first, of course.) For this event, the telescope was trained on the saturn nebula and with this much aperture the colors were quite striking even to human eyes.
One of the astronomers told me that the number of people who have actually looked through such a telescope doubled that night.
As long as it is possible to block ads, I will do it. I hate ads. I would gladly sacrifice the web as it currently exists to avoid ads. If that means subscription only sites, so be it. If it means going back to the web of 1998, so be it. Ads are vomitory, corrosive, fatuous mind-leeches. Kill them all.
No auto-play, no complexity, fast loading, no tracking? Does not matter. All ads are horrible. Kill them all.
Still no word on gapless playback for audio files? It would be a great music player, but lack of gapless playback is a showstopper. No one can listen to side 2 of Abbey Road with gaps and stay sane.
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When talking about taxation, it really is the principal use, at least in my experience. I doubt the AC will clarify it, though. Re-reading his post, it sure looks like he or she was talking about something like expansion of estate taxes.
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which gives you all sorts of great features that you'd normally associate with native apps, like push notifications
There you have it. Push notifications are not great features. They are evil, distracting, manipulating, crud that leads to more and more advertising.
Let's hope Apple at least has the sense to contain this disaster.
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Tell us how you will allocate the funds better than the person who created this "excessive" wealth.
Certainly the subject line was poorly chosen, but this part of your post suggests you didn't read the post you replied to. The anonymous coward did not suggest allocating funds better than the person who created the wealth. The suggestion was to break up the estate. Estates in this context are what is left after the person who accumulated it has died. It would be absurd to argue that a dead person knows better how to allocate the wealth he left behind than our civil government. Dead people are dead. Breaking up their estate will not bother them in any way. They won't know or care.
The Republican zeal for somehow preserving estates escapes me. What could be more fair than society reclaiming wealth from someone who neither knows nor cares about it?
You may argue that their heirs have somehow inherited the savvy. I think that's a bogus argument, but it has worked for royalty for a zillion years.
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Happy happy oh my friend
You (and many other sibling posters) are fighting a straw man. The OP didn't suggest taking the wealth away from Bezos. Not at all; let him enjoy the crap out of it. The proposal was to take more wealth from estates. That means the guy who earned it is dead. And man, he just cannot enjoy a dime of it after he's dead. It is the absolutely ultimate in fair tax, since it has absolutely zero impact on the person whose money it used to be.
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Happy happy oh my friend
I just installed this addon and set it to pick firefox os for news.google.com. Seems to flawlessly give the old news page.
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Happy happy oh my friend.
I just installed this addon and set it to pick firefox os for news.google.com. Seems to flawlessly give the old news page.
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I struggled with destiny up on the ledge, and gasped when, defeated, he slipped off the edge.
I'm buying a new car, and just ran the numbers for a volt versus a normal gas engine...
Buy the Volt anyway — it's just an awesome car. Zero to 30 takes about a millisecond [1]. Zero to 60 in 7.5 seconds. And the torque is always there; doesn't matter how fast you are going, you hit the pedal and it zings! It's just nothing like a gas engine.
And when you decide to drive to the next state, you don't have to plan some route based on expensive Chargepoints; you just gas up and go.
You get 60 miles on a charge. I guess if your commute is more than that, it's probably not for you. I don't usually drive more than 30 miles in a day unless something is up, so for me it's perfect. I don't work for Chevrolet, no relatives either. I'm just really happy with my Volt. By the way, the federal rebate was $7.5k when I did my taxes this past April, not 9k.
[1] I know, it was hyperbole.
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Happy happy oh my friend.
Masturbating, on the other hand, is enjoyable.
Masturbating on the other hand sounds kinky. I think the floor is an easier target.
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Happy happy oh my friend.
No TV for me since 1993! Yet, I don't watch any shows, whether they have ads or not. Just can't find any that hold my interest. I watch a movie or every week or so. Otherwise, it's books, music, cooking, puttering, hell I even spend time at the gym most days. Anything beats TV.
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I fought with destiny up on the ledge and gasped when, defeated, he slipped off the edge.
Netflix totally brought this on themselves by banning VPNs. If I could easily connect though my VPN, then Verizon couldn't tell it was video and throttle it.
—George
[Note] Well, I guess Verizon could try to block VPN traffic like China does, but that's a whack-a-mole game if you dress your VPN in TLS wrappers, like with stunnel.
Well, you might be right. But it should be that your numbers are inverted, since it would be incredibly stupid for any non-republican to favor a President Pence to a President Trump. President Trump is impeding the republican agenda. President Pence would do far more damage to the democrats.
I'll bet enough democrats realize this to eliminate any chance of impeachment.
All bets are off if the democrats can take control at midterm, which is incredibly unlikely. Just imagine it though: first impeach and convict Trump, then impeach and convict Pence. Who would be president? You got it: Nancy Pelosi. This would result in armed rebellion throughout Jesusland.
—George
Or, you can buy a Chevy Volt today and get the great (if not best) of both worlds.
My 2017 Volt goes 60 miles on a charge -- it's a *very* rare day when I exceed that. Essentially all of my daily driving is all electric. It has awesome acceleration: zero to 60 in 7.6 seconds. And it has that fantastic electric torque curve. But, when I need to drive across Texas, I don't have to plan ahead. Just gas up and go. Really, in today's world, the Volt is just about perfect.
I do not work for Chevrolet, just a very happy customer.
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Happy happy oh my friend.
Ed, man! !man ed.
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
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Purchasing books from Barnes and Noble or Amazon absolutely does NOT lock you in to their ecosystem. All either does is provide a convenient storefront. I buy most of my books from Amazon because they make it convenient and easy to shop, and because I like my Kindle's hardware. But the first thing I do when I buy any book is load it into Calibre, convert it to epub, and archive on my backed up filesystem. No lock in. Some people may point to the DRM, but both B&N and Amazon's DRM have the same effect as that on DVDs. It is so trivially removed that it is simply ignorable.
It's a bit pricey, but I love the Kindle Voyage. It's lighter than your Nook and the haptic feedback rocks. I do covet the Nook's water resistance, though.
Sometimes I buy from Barnes and Noble too, and I've often bought directly from Baen and even Google. The only reason to prefer one over the other is convenience. Thinking that you have to stick with one because of "lock in" is just wrong (for now, at least).
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Do they program in Which in What? (Motherfucker.)
The wireless carrier further says, "LTE Advanced currently uses a combination of two- and three-carrier aggregation. Customers will continue to enjoy typical download speeds of 5 - 12 Mbps, but two-channel carrier aggregation has shown peak download speeds of up to 225 Mbps, far exceeding the current speeds being experienced by wireless data networks nationwide.
Awesome. I can now exceed my monthly data cap in just under nine minutes.
—George
Old Intel Atom processors won't run 64-bit code. My firewall/gateway machine is running an nice but old nano-ITX motherboard with such a processor. I had to download debian's 386 build to get it to work. So, I hope debian at least keeps the 386 build for a while.
—G
Will this also replace PIN numbers at ATM machines? /grammar
I've often wondered if FET transistors are involved when you type your PIN number at an ATM machine that uses LCD displays.
—George
I really don't understand why anybody buys media (books, music, movies, TV shows) through a streaming service - not from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony or anyone else's.
For movies, for sure I understand. But buying books from Amazon is great. The DRM is trivially removed (like with DVDs), the azw format is easily converted to others, and their ebooks are often very high quality. Amazon is now my preferred book vendor for this reason. I get to own the book for life.
—G
The guy who was running admitted he thought they were wasting about half the aperture. I didn't want to think about that; I just wanted to drool over getting to look through such an instrument! :-).
To me, this is no surprise. The science case for the GMT is a drool-worthy cornucopia of astrophysics, including formation of stars and planetary systems, properties of exoplanets (including their atmospheres), chemical evolution in stellar populations, dark matter and dark energy (including synergy with the LSST), galaxy formation and evolution, and the first light and reionization of the universe. The potential for observing non-equilibrium chemistry in extrasolar planetary atmospheres is pretty darned exciting with consequences that could reach beyond astrophysics to religion, philosophy, and policy.
It seems the future of astronomy is bright.
I was incredibly fortunate to be invited to the official groundbreaking event for the GMT last November, which concluded with one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Just a couple of kilometers away from the GMT site are the twin Magellan telescopes. These telescopes are both 6.5 meter aperture and have a large number of instruments that astronomers can use, with fairly easy switching between instruments. That night the telescope staff did something extremely rare. They fitted the Clay telescope with an actual eyepiece and all 190 guests were allowed to look through this 6.5 meter telescope! (The president of Chile got to go first, of course.) For this event, the telescope was trained on the saturn nebula and with this much aperture the colors were quite striking even to human eyes.
One of the astronomers told me that the number of people who have actually looked through such a telescope doubled that night.
As long as it is possible to block ads, I will do it. I hate ads. I would gladly sacrifice the web as it currently exists to avoid ads. If that means subscription only sites, so be it. If it means going back to the web of 1998, so be it. Ads are vomitory, corrosive, fatuous mind-leeches. Kill them all.
No auto-play, no complexity, fast loading, no tracking? Does not matter. All ads are horrible. Kill them all.
—G
Still no word on gapless playback for audio files? It would be a great music player, but lack of gapless playback is a showstopper. No one can listen to side 2 of Abbey Road with gaps and stay sane.
Then *PSSSHHH*, the doors open, and you are basically in Antarctica - for LIFE!
Except that even the highest point in Antarctica has almost 100 times as much atmospheric pressure as the surface of Mars.
—George