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by camiller 15y ago
Realize that a different CEO was in charge at HP when the acquisition of Palm occurred and the new CEO came from an enterprise software company (SAP) and seems intent on turning HP into a company he knows how to run, rather than running HP
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by camiller 15y ago
By 2000 SS and Medicare trust funds were already held in IOU's (i.e. US treasuries).
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by camiller 15y ago
Buffet's receptionists should get a good tax guy. With the availability of tax breaks for even middle class income ranges there is no reason his receptionists should be paying more.
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by camiller 15y ago
1) Warren only takes a salary of $100k. 2) For investment income you only pay taxes on the gains, not the principal.
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by camiller 15y ago
OK, what about the many "breaks and loopholes." for the other tax brackets? I'm in the 25% bracket (Married filing jointly, $68,001 - $137,300) and I paid under 6% effective rate for each of the last few years.
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by camiller 15y ago
When WebOS and the Pre first launched it was indeed just HTML/Javascript applications (not entirely unlike the first iPhone which ran apps on the safari engine) Later Palm released a more capable dev kit that could do native code. "The Plug
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by camiller 15y ago
Releasing it is not the issue for the user, possession of the software is.
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by camiller 15y ago
IIRC/IANAL, violating the copyright without commercial intent (you are not selling it) is still a civil law violation although DMCA takedown provisions still apply. Breaking DRM elevates it to a criminal charge. I think that is the case, bu
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by camiller 15y ago
Sometimes. - I turn it off for sites I frequent and benefit from, leave it on for sites I rarely visit. Exception: even for sites I read regularly, if you are using that intellitext crap that pops up an add every time my mouse pointer slips
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by camiller 15y ago
And me. Generally I only flip someone off if I had to slow down so fast the Anti-lock Breaking System activated. That usually only happens when someone enters my lane without looking and nearly hits me. I've eased up on screaming and cursin
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by camiller 15y ago
So far information is only coming from interviews with congress-critters on the committee that passed the bill(19-10). It takes awhile for Thomas (and from there GovTrack) to get updated with the revised text.
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by camiller 15y ago
And if it was the bill introduced two months ago that would be fine. Govtrack, as great a resource as it is, is often days to weeks behind. According to the cnet article linked from the Atlantic article a few changes were made by the commit
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by camiller 15y ago
If your scared of Eclipse spend some time with IBM WebSphere Developer workstation (Eclipse underneath, smothered with 10,000 "best in class plugins)[NOT an exaggeration]. Eclipse seems downright zippy in comparison! Full disclosure... I de
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by camiller 15y ago
My comment was just to point out that loopholes exist for every income level, not just the rich. I agree that a simpler tax scheme like the "fair tax" or a flat tax with the first $(poverty level annually adjusted for inflation) tax free wo
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by camiller 15y ago
What is patently absurd is the assumption that tax havens and loopholes are only for the filthy rich. I make less than $80K, I'm solidly in the "middle class", and my effective federal income tax rate last year was less than 6% after deduct
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by camiller 15y ago
When we do this (with jQueryUI) we add the little down arrow button decoration so you expect the dropdown to appear.
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by camiller 15y ago
Not 100% comparable, this is in 2005 dollars while the other was 20?? http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=230
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by camiller 15y ago
Nearing 100% of GDP. The only time it was higher, not shown on the chart I am linking to, was during World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Federal_Debt_as_Percent...
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by camiller 15y ago
It's going to put a lot of wear-and-tear on the driveway, more than what she is likely to make hawking sunscreen. And what happens when no-body is home?
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by camiller 15y ago
Sometimes legality and morality don't intersect. This is one of those times. Also, the OP of the reddit article is not a US citizen or resident. Not entirely sure if his actions ARE illegal in his jurisdiction, wherever it is. Edit: In fac
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by camiller 15y ago
I have an old 8" floppy disk with some of my old IBM Series/1 code on it. Needless to say it is staying on it.
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by camiller 15y ago
Palm Pre
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by camiller 15y ago
Yeah, but I don't own a Kindle. If I owned a Kindle I probably wouldn't be inclined to switch either having invested in books locked (albeit easily unlocked) to that platform. I had been considering the Kobo reader since Kobo is the only v
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by camiller 15y ago
I can't find any indication that it is Sony hardware. Have you a link to such info?
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by camiller 15y ago
Well, although I am likely in the minority, there is no Kindle or Nook app for my phone of choice (and certainly no iBooks app). I can read Google Books editions on my phone and there is a Kobo app for my phone. Does Google Books do it bet
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by camiller 15y ago
I didn't look at the guys spread sheet, but I wonder if he discounted the future savings to their present value and current interest rates.
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by camiller 15y ago
If you have any remaining I am <HN id> @ gmail
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by camiller 15y ago
Yeah, the site is kind of slow right not but I can't tell if they provide an abstraction layer to various system level API's or not to get access to accelerometers, gyros, cameras, etc. like PhoneGap the other "first open source multi-devic
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by camiller 15y ago
I came here to ask for that as well. Also, I like that you only have to enter a zip code, otherwise I might have thought it was a great way to harvest mailing addresses ;)
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by camiller 15y ago
On top of that how would Amazon identify if I live inside Omaha 7% (state+local) sales tax, or just outside Omaha 5.5% (state only) sales tax? Nothing changed about my address between when I lived in an un-annexed suburb and after I was ann

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