No taxes at all.

Taxation is theft.

Too true. Fair Tax baby...Fair Tax.

That's an oxymoron. Taxation is theft, so you cannot have a "fair" tax. "Fair" would be not stealing /anyone's/ money; fair would be letting everyone spend their money however they want.

But OK, I'll indulge. Let's abolish taxes. No more army. No more navy. No more state or local police. Or justice system.

Funny... but you're assuming the only way you can have security, justice, and other services is if you're forced to pay them.

In fact, the only moral way would be to allow people to spend their money however the heck they want. People need security; in a government-less society, it would be provided.

People need to stop calling taxation "taxation" and start calling it what it truly is: theft and extortion on a massive scale. There's no excuse for wanting that.

From Google's FAQ on the new system:

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Fixed!

Absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

The US economy is heading toward ...

... needing Ron Paul more and more.

if (strcmp(phone_number, "911")) == 0) {
place_call();
} else {
printf("Sorry kid!\n");
}

No really. This is SCARY.

Yes Virginia, there are bad people in this world.

If you had to be an official 'something' or licensed...that would stop a lot of criminals I'd think?

Maybe. But more than likely you'll be preventing a lot of people from putting food on the table every night...

I agree with you there. On OSX it looks the same, but when I'm on FreeBSD the menus and the menu toolbar (File, Edit, Help, etc) have weird colors. It's worth it, though.

Then again it looks like it's using QT 3.3 on my system, but the current version is 4.3. That could be the issue.

Honestly, while apparently Opera isn't the fastest renderer anymore, the UI /feels/ so much faster. Also, moving back and forth with the 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons are faster in Opera because it does not send out another HTTP request each time you click the button, while apparently other browsers do.

the 17-year-old open-source operating system

First person to make a fuss about this gets a prize!

If I had any mod points they'd be yours. I think you're right about this.

Let's cut taxes and reduce spending elsewhere, too!

Smaller government FTW.