When talking about taxation, it really is the principal use, at least in my experience. I doubt the AC will clarify it, though. Re-reading his post, it sure looks like he or she was talking about something like expansion of estate taxes.
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which gives you all sorts of great features that you'd normally associate with native apps, like push notifications
There you have it. Push notifications are not great features. They are evil, distracting, manipulating, crud that leads to more and more advertising.
Let's hope Apple at least has the sense to contain this disaster.
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Tell us how you will allocate the funds better than the person who created this "excessive" wealth.
Certainly the subject line was poorly chosen, but this part of your post suggests you didn't read the post you replied to. The anonymous coward did not suggest allocating funds better than the person who created the wealth. The suggestion was to break up the estate. Estates in this context are what is left after the person who accumulated it has died. It would be absurd to argue that a dead person knows better how to allocate the wealth he left behind than our civil government. Dead people are dead. Breaking up their estate will not bother them in any way. They won't know or care.
The Republican zeal for somehow preserving estates escapes me. What could be more fair than society reclaiming wealth from someone who neither knows nor cares about it?
You may argue that their heirs have somehow inherited the savvy. I think that's a bogus argument, but it has worked for royalty for a zillion years.
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You (and many other sibling posters) are fighting a straw man. The OP didn't suggest taking the wealth away from Bezos. Not at all; let him enjoy the crap out of it. The proposal was to take more wealth from estates. That means the guy who earned it is dead. And man, he just cannot enjoy a dime of it after he's dead. It is the absolutely ultimate in fair tax, since it has absolutely zero impact on the person whose money it used to be.
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I just installed this addon and set it to pick firefox os for news.google.com. Seems to flawlessly give the old news page.
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I just installed this addon and set it to pick firefox os for news.google.com. Seems to flawlessly give the old news page.
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I struggled with destiny up on the ledge, and gasped when, defeated, he slipped off the edge.
I'm buying a new car, and just ran the numbers for a volt versus a normal gas engine...
Buy the Volt anyway — it's just an awesome car. Zero to 30 takes about a millisecond [1]. Zero to 60 in 7.5 seconds. And the torque is always there; doesn't matter how fast you are going, you hit the pedal and it zings! It's just nothing like a gas engine.
And when you decide to drive to the next state, you don't have to plan some route based on expensive Chargepoints; you just gas up and go.
You get 60 miles on a charge. I guess if your commute is more than that, it's probably not for you. I don't usually drive more than 30 miles in a day unless something is up, so for me it's perfect. I don't work for Chevrolet, no relatives either. I'm just really happy with my Volt. By the way, the federal rebate was $7.5k when I did my taxes this past April, not 9k.
[1] I know, it was hyperbole.
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Masturbating, on the other hand, is enjoyable.
Masturbating on the other hand sounds kinky. I think the floor is an easier target.
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No TV for me since 1993! Yet, I don't watch any shows, whether they have ads or not. Just can't find any that hold my interest. I watch a movie or every week or so. Otherwise, it's books, music, cooking, puttering, hell I even spend time at the gym most days. Anything beats TV.
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Netflix totally brought this on themselves by banning VPNs. If I could easily connect though my VPN, then Verizon couldn't tell it was video and throttle it.
—George
[Note] Well, I guess Verizon could try to block VPN traffic like China does, but that's a whack-a-mole game if you dress your VPN in TLS wrappers, like with stunnel.
Well, you might be right. But it should be that your numbers are inverted, since it would be incredibly stupid for any non-republican to favor a President Pence to a President Trump. President Trump is impeding the republican agenda. President Pence would do far more damage to the democrats.
I'll bet enough democrats realize this to eliminate any chance of impeachment.
All bets are off if the democrats can take control at midterm, which is incredibly unlikely. Just imagine it though: first impeach and convict Trump, then impeach and convict Pence. Who would be president? You got it: Nancy Pelosi. This would result in armed rebellion throughout Jesusland.
—George
Or, you can buy a Chevy Volt today and get the great (if not best) of both worlds.
My 2017 Volt goes 60 miles on a charge -- it's a *very* rare day when I exceed that. Essentially all of my daily driving is all electric. It has awesome acceleration: zero to 60 in 7.6 seconds. And it has that fantastic electric torque curve. But, when I need to drive across Texas, I don't have to plan ahead. Just gas up and go. Really, in today's world, the Volt is just about perfect.
I do not work for Chevrolet, just a very happy customer.
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Purchasing books from Barnes and Noble or Amazon absolutely does NOT lock you in to their ecosystem. All either does is provide a convenient storefront. I buy most of my books from Amazon because they make it convenient and easy to shop, and because I like my Kindle's hardware. But the first thing I do when I buy any book is load it into Calibre, convert it to epub, and archive on my backed up filesystem. No lock in. Some people may point to the DRM, but both B&N and Amazon's DRM have the same effect as that on DVDs. It is so trivially removed that it is simply ignorable.
It's a bit pricey, but I love the Kindle Voyage. It's lighter than your Nook and the haptic feedback rocks. I do covet the Nook's water resistance, though.
Sometimes I buy from Barnes and Noble too, and I've often bought directly from Baen and even Google. The only reason to prefer one over the other is convenience. Thinking that you have to stick with one because of "lock in" is just wrong (for now, at least).
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Do they program in Which in What? (Motherfucker.)
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
