Writer Alan Moore believes, "It's a marketing term
Author Daniel Raeburn wrote "I snicker at the neologism first for its insecure pretension -- the literary equivalent of calling a garbage man a 'sanitation engineer' -- and second because a 'graphic novel' is in fact the very thing it is ashamed to admit: a comic book, rather than a comic pamphlet or comic magazine."
Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening." Comedian and comic book fan Robin Williams joked, "'Is that a comic book? No! It's a graphic novel! Is that porn? No! It's adult entertainment!'"
(Comic book nerds: calling low-brow comic books by a fancy name does not make them high-brow. It makes you look like an idiot who seems to know that reading comic books is juvenile but wants to pretend otherwise.)
Very few nerds call them graphic novels. Nerds have never been afraid of the term "comic book." It is the newer, more mainstream audience that has to hide behind the pretentious "graphic novel" smokescreen.
Also, you should actually read some of the classics like Watchmen before you presuppose that reading comics is only juvenile or low-brow entertainment.
2) Implement a single flat sales tax. People with more money buy more, and thus everyone pays fairly. Note that corporations 'buy' their employees, and so that tax would hit salaries and wages too.
Yes, I know it's huge but it's the only way I know how to do it.
but iTunes still has DRM.
From http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatsnew/
High-quality, DRM-free music. iTunes Plus is the new standard on iTunes. Now, you can choose from millions of iTunes Plus songs from all four major music labels and thousands of independents. With iTunes Plus, you get high-quality, 256-Kbps AAC encoding. All free of burn limits and digital rights management (DRM).
No they don't.
Why didn't the Gov't just create a tax credit?
I think the whole mentality (at least the implicit claim) was that the credit would offset any extra expense incurred by the very lowest earning in the US. Those that earn the very lowest amounts don't pay federal income taxes so a tax credit isn't going to do much good for them.
and most applications run only 1.1 times faster than a modern Java app anyway.
An instant ten percent speed up just by choosing the right language can be a meaningful speed increase in many applications.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
