A middle-class person who pays taxes to go to public school earns an education; a rich person who pays taxes to support a school gains...an educated and skilled workforce.
A middle-class person who pays car and gas taxes earns a road they may drive on; a rich person who pays those taxes gains...a transportation system that allows them to transport their company's goods to far-flung locations and markets.
And so forth. Any person who uses wealth to produce wealth (i.e. true Capitalists) are using the benefits of an infrastructure that most taxpayers can barely fathom. So, yeah, they get to pay a little more.
I like this comment more than anything else I have read on Slashdot in the past year; perhaps the past five years. Thank you.
Where did you first come upon such a clear justification for progressive taxation, or did you come up with this yourself?
The people who did the Lucida family published a couple of articles on font readability in various traditional and moderm media. For screen pixels, the most important factor was x-height, with a point increase in a 12-point screen font yeilding something like eight times as much readbility as dropping the serifs.
Strangely, when the resolution was decreased and noise was added for the FAX media, adding serifs helped readbility because of context cues.
So that is why Lucida fonts are sans-serif, with huge x-heights, except for Lucida Fax which has serifs.
Lucida is the only family designed with actual emperical experimental investigation, other than Univers, which was an attempt to modernize Helvetica done back in the '60s before screen fonts were read on computers -- back then electronic fonts were added to TV broadcasts with $100,000 equipment. So, Univers, as you might expect, looks like Helvetica with a larger x-height.
I thought the movie was okay, but was more than a little disappointed about how the director set up the final scene in the present without any story behind it. In a world where people have conversations using drugs to communicate, they could have told us why the clones were experencing past-life memories instead of just showing some mystical visions.
Also, too many gunfights and not enough cool tech scenes.
I think the guy just wanted to provide Ancorage with fluorine-18 which is unavailable in Alaska. The energies involved in that aren't going to zap anyone if he does it right. Plus, the accelerator was already assembled, tested, run for years, licensed, and inspected.
insert a content header immediately ahead of the IP datagram. The datagram would specify content settings and either be processed by equipment that are Content-Shim aware or ignored by those that aren't.
Sorry; no way to do that without patching all customer equipment to ignore the prefix.
The hidden Markov model Viterbi beam search algorithms that I depend on for my work run less than 50% as fast on 64 bit architectures than on 32 bit processors. Primarily, that is because of the fine memory access paterns, complicated locality issues, and probably other things that I am not really very aware of, such as less mature compiler technology.
In any case, the fact that everyone wants to jump to 64 without testing the waters very carefully first is seriously foolish. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way -- Microsoft's Windows speech recognition subsystem refuses to run on any 64 bit architecture unless all of the OS and applications are strapped to 32 bit mode.
This is possibly worse than five years ago when people were paying absurd premiums to go from 800 MHz to 1.3 Ghz with RAM speeds stagnant. At least then you got something more from algorithms which weren't memory access-bound. From 32 to 64 is a significant step backwards in many cases.
He's probably planning to counter with an Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) countercomplaint. That would work well in a case like this.
He used to live in California when he worked for Apple and SGI. I stopped by his office a few times when I worked at MIPS and MIPS was then a subsidiary of SGI.
I bet you got mod-bombed for saying the price-performance ratio of x86 is better than that of PPC. People don't want that to be true because they think there is a reason that it shouldn't be, and because they are afraid of a machine-level monoculure. It will be interesting to see whether Apple consumers show brand loyalty to PPC.
What bothers me is the legacy support for segmented addressing and all the other legacy kruft. If I were Apple CEO, I would make sure that ARM is supported just like he made sure that x86 was supported five years ago.
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Thank you again; very much.
Where did you first come upon such a clear justification for progressive taxation, or did you come up with this yourself?
Strangely, when the resolution was decreased and noise was added for the FAX media, adding serifs helped readbility because of context cues.
So that is why Lucida fonts are sans-serif, with huge x-heights, except for Lucida Fax which has serifs.
Lucida is the only family designed with actual emperical experimental investigation, other than Univers, which was an attempt to modernize Helvetica done back in the '60s before screen fonts were read on computers -- back then electronic fonts were added to TV broadcasts with $100,000 equipment. So, Univers, as you might expect, looks like Helvetica with a larger x-height.
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I thought the movie was okay, but was more than a little disappointed about how the director set up the final scene in the present without any story behind it. In a world where people have conversations using drugs to communicate, they could have told us why the clones were experencing past-life memories instead of just showing some mystical visions.
Also, too many gunfights and not enough cool tech scenes.
The Bush administration is "rethinking" the use of tortured confessions supporting Iraq-Al Qaida ties.
I think the guy just wanted to provide Ancorage with fluorine-18 which is unavailable in Alaska. The energies involved in that aren't going to zap anyone if he does it right. Plus, the accelerator was already assembled, tested, run for years, licensed, and inspected.
Heisenberg's principle certainly applies here: observation is participation!
My HP doesn't have anthing plugged into the VGA, you insensitive clod.
Well!
Psst: Are you the reincarnation of J.C.?
In any case, the fact that everyone wants to jump to 64 without testing the waters very carefully first is seriously foolish. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way -- Microsoft's Windows speech recognition subsystem refuses to run on any 64 bit architecture unless all of the OS and applications are strapped to 32 bit mode.
This is possibly worse than five years ago when people were paying absurd premiums to go from 800 MHz to 1.3 Ghz with RAM speeds stagnant. At least then you got something more from algorithms which weren't memory access-bound. From 32 to 64 is a significant step backwards in many cases.
You can fax to 202.707.8366, but be sure to send six faxes total.
He's probably planning to counter with an Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) countercomplaint. That would work well in a case like this.
He used to live in California when he worked for Apple and SGI. I stopped by his office a few times when I worked at MIPS and MIPS was then a subsidiary of SGI.
Yeah, well, I predict comets are both rocks and ice.
Report to jail at once.
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Very right.
ARM is great if you give it a cache with the same geometry PPC or x86 desktops get.
What bothers me is the legacy support for segmented addressing and all the other legacy kruft. If I were Apple CEO, I would make sure that ARM is supported just like he made sure that x86 was supported five years ago.
Cool case mod: use waste heat for power.
I was being serious. The "faster than light travel" variety of science fiction should be classified as mere fantasy instead.
Generation starship science fiction is the only kind of the interplanetary variety that I feel is intellectually honest.