But someone is using it, so traffic is not 0. And installed means potential security hole.

Tariffs are entirely different than a flat tax. It appears that your references were true tariffs and the Great Depression was already underway. They did lead to retaliatory tariffs from our trading partners, and trade dropped by half in both directions. Currently, that would more than halve our trade deficit, not a terrible thing, however, applying it as a flat tax across the board for imports in most cases would only be evening up the playing field.

But you're right - I prefer a flat sales tax, with the border also being a point of sale. Instead of a VAT, this is just a simple flat tax model. Imports get taxed twice under this proposal. Replacing the current morass of tax law could only make this country better.

How can you be sure? Have you seen gunnnnslinger?

What is this "Alt" key you speak of?

Well, I learned something today, the top 1% starts at 380K or so according to quite a few different sites via Google. Way different (lower) than what Intuit stated when filing my return, IIRC. Maybe he meant high 5 figure income? High 6 figure, his house should be paid off in a few years or he should be ready for retirement already, or we might all just have to be envious of his lifestyle....

Everyone has jobs that can be done elsewhere. Just don't allow them to sell their output here for subsidized prices. That means tax imports, all imports, with a flat tax. (That side steps all trade agreement issues, as it's across the board).

That doesn't make it secure, only a potentially less desirable target.

Why would you trust your data to your network connection?

A "cut" on a non-editable item equals a copy, so I suppose to be pedantically correct, I should have said "copied".

Amazingly enough, for OSX, the major kernel change occurred with 10.7 with the inclusion of GrandCentral. It's been 4 releases, and there's still bugs in that change, but they're getting ironed out slowly. The GUI changes on the last go round were... jarring. For the most part, I ignore them.

Perhaps they could then just call their OS {Windows} X?

This is provably false. There are certain people, we'll call them rock stars, that you can stick in a room and they'll get a better solution out faster that addresses everything you need versus 100 lines of doesn't work for 20% of the cases code. Sometimes the rock stars do this to existing code with a 1 line mod. It's because they actually take the time to understand the problem and can visualize the system, instead of writing some boilerplate garbage cut and pasted from stackoverflow.

Removing party affiliation from the ballot would be an excellent first step. Why is it on there anyways? And removing straight party voting as an option. Each person voted for must be selected individually. Let's see how long parties survive locally when that happens.

How much money does the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation have again? What breakthroughs have occurred from that source and how long have they been at it?

So you go no cable, you're then paying 1 of the 2 telecoms.... That's "better"? They're all equally corrupt, and not even in meaningfully different ways.

As for music, you're fine, as long as you don't publicly perform nor distribute it. If you do wind up doing either, and there's a question of copying, pay the $0.01 cent per performance fee and you're good.