It's a philosophical question. Say we develop a perfect electromagnetic replacement for a synapse. What happens if you replace 1 synapse in a humans brain with one? What about 10%? What about 50%? Will they still have a 'soul' and consciousness?

Same goes for the rest of the body. What if we develop the perfect arm for amputees? What if someone wants two arms? What about both arms and legs?

So at this point it's been taxed 3 times. And as Andy Dufresne pointed out. Just give it away to your family before you die in increments.

> I see, so you'll only pay for it if you get something out of it? What is it you don't understand about how the other rich kids feel, again?

I'll only pay for it if I see society as a whole get something out of it.

> You want more services? Start paying more in, you can certainly afford it, Richie Rich. Household median is around 45k. Guess what - you're not going to be given more services, you're going to be ASKED TO PAY for more services.

Don't get all high and fucking mighty. I DID pay into it for 6 years. I then decided I wanted to complete my masters. So I went back to college. Long story short I got screwed out of a TA position and found myself without health insurance. So I've progressively developed a hole in one tooth because of a cavity and have a wrist injury that limits me to around 50% mobility because I can't afford to go to a doctor. I've been to the ER ONCE without health insurance. The visit, them to look me over and splint something was over a grand. Then you get 2 bills. You get a bill for $400 from the Hospital for 'renting' a room and all the overhead. And then you get billed from the service that provides the doctor.

That '70k' a year job doesn't start for another month and in the mean time I get to deal with the pain of my tooth because our country has decided as a whole that providing for its citizens isn't worth it.

Second, Fuck You. I'm watching my father die of cancer right now because of this mentality. He has always responded very well to chemo when he comes out of remission. Except 3 years ago his company decided that at 58 he was 'redundant'. So he used almost all the rest of his severance to pay for COBRA for one year for him and my mom. And since that ran out he's been with nothing. He's paid into the system since he was 18 and now he's sitting at the house I grew up in wasting away. He's always been around 220-240 stocky Rugby player. (He still plays at 61 when he gets the chance). The last time I saw him his clothes were hanging off of him and he was considerably thinner. He's also got a chronic cough that is most likely related to the cancer. Do you want to guess what oncology appointment costs? I'm not talking about any blood work or even treatment. Last I heard one bag of chemo was something around $10k.

  Until I start working full time again I can't provide for myself, let alone him. I'm hoping and praying that the SCOTUS doesn't deny preexisting conditions. Because at that point I can do what ever I can to make him my dependent in the IRS's eyes and

Meanwhile, what have we spent on the F22 project? How much has Afghanistan and Iraq cost us since 2001? Everyone is going broke but I'd rather live in a country where they go broke taking care of their citizens rather than going broke blowing up someone elses.

I never want my children to be punished for going back to school. I never want my kids to see me wasting away dying of some easily treatable disease because because I lost my job.

So yes. I'll pay into it if I see that it is doing society something. Other than that, fuck off.

Define "make any sort of money". I make $70k a year as an engineer. Compared to most people it's good. Compared to the top it's a drop in the bucket.

I would have absolutely no qualms paying 50% taxes if it meant I got some sort of services for it like they do elsewhere.

I'll try to find the birth tax.

The death tax, 'you' are still getting taxed. It's your money even though you're dead. That still counts as a tax in my book.

So if you make more than 91k you get taxed. So, yes you do get taxed abroad.

Expatriation Tax

You can install Chrome in ICS. I have it running on my Asus Transformer right now. It's a bit different than the bundled browser but 90% the same.

Not only that, they tax you if you leave. It's amazing how complicated our tax code is yet we can't provide basic human needs (IMHO) to our citizens.

They tax you if you're born. They tax you when you die. They tax you if you live elsewhere and they tax you if you renounce your citizenship. Yet corporations and the rich manage to find loopholes to avoid a majority of it.

If you want to see what Apple is parsing out and if the Government has a hand in it just start scheduling fun stuff.

'Siri, Skype call with Al Qaeda. 5 PM Afghanistan time'
'Siri, Reminder to purchase 1 ton of fertilizer.'
'Siri, Schedule President Obama's assassination for election day this year'

Or if you would prefer a different organization than the DHS.

'Siri, track package 0004202392389 5 lbs of Marijuana.'

* This may get you on a few lists. Try at your own digression.

You mean like all those pinup photos from WWII? Here's a before and after. (NSFWish, they're pinups). People have been photoshopping since before photoshop was invented. They still paid a team of analog artists to fix up all those photographs.

It sounds closer to the Binars of 11001001

Their most definitive characteristic is that they are interconnected with a master computer on Bynaus.

When a Bynar is born, a surgeon removes the child's parietal lobe and replaces it with a synaptic processor.