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Comment: Re:Wimp (Score 1) 911

The person who died already paid the taxes, and his wish is to leave the money to whoever he pleases, but not the government, but the government comes in and says: you can't do so. We taxed you while you were alive and we'll tax your wealth once you are dead too for good measure, just to remind everybody who's the boss.

Daddy WarBucks has $10,000,000 in a bank account. I do a ton of construction and computer work for him with a $5,000,000 bill on it.

At the same time my bill is paid, WarBucks dies. His son, JR, gets the remaining $5,000,000.

Now, me and JR just got $5mm from WarBucks. For some reason, you claim that while I need to pay taxes on my $5mm for WORK I did, JR shouldn't have to pay a dime in taxes for money he got while sucking air.

WarBucks is dead. No one is taxing HIM. This is a debate over what happens to the money that is handed to someone else.

I contend that the money EARNED BY WORK is more sacred than money received as a gift. I have more of a right to that money.

However, I would find it acceptable if we were both taxed the same, since JR's dad died and all. Dead dad or not, he shouldn't pay less taxes than I have to pay.

Comment: Color temperature (Score 2) 529

The spectrum from a LED bulb is better than florescent. Many people don't like florescents simple because the color temperature isn't as close to incandescent.

From what I've heard, LED can come in several ranges.

Better explanations: http://www.agreensupply.com/what-is-warm-white-and-natural-daylight-cool-white-color-for-led-light-bulbs/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Temperature#Lighting

All that said, that is worth maybe $5 to me, but not $30.

Comment: Open format? (Score 4, Interesting) 628

IIRC, one of the big issues with the existing black boxes is that they are in a format only the OEM can read.

I didn't see anything in TFA about making a standard, any news about that?

I'd love the ability to put an app on my laptop or phone & review the data logs my car can produce. There a ton of data in a modern car that could be very useful to an owner. Even more if you're a parent with kids that drive.

Comment: Small text (Score 4, Insightful) 394

by Aqualung812 (#39662543) Attached to: 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time

Don't you know that higher resolution means smaller text?

Sure, when you have a proper application & OS, you can resize the text all you want, and also get the benefits of much better graphics.

However, most end user reaction to seeing over 2000 lines was "The text is too small. Change it back."

Why give them something better* & more expensive if they don't want it?

*I suppose that better could be that lower res = lower graphics card power use = longer battery life & cheaper cost.

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