jerfelix

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by jerfelix 15y ago
You said two different things: that tithing is payment for facilities, and then that tithing is a tax. Mormons - all people - have the free choice to pay or not pay the Mormon church. And they do quite well. I would have no issue with a g
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by jerfelix 15y ago
People thought something as complicated as an Operating System couldn't be written by volunteers also, because volunteerism doesn't scale. > Where exactly is the unfairness in taxing wealthier people at the same percentage as middle cl
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Maybe I am misreading what you are saying, but I didn't say taxation was immoral. I said it's immoral for me to vote to impose a tax on someone else. There's nothing inherently immoral about taxation, and certainly if I wanted to vote to i
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Well, I know people like Wesley Snipes didn't just get a letter and report to jail. I am quite certain that someone showed up at his door, with a gun, and hauled him away. Maybe the gun wasn't pointed at him, but I'm sure it would have be
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I am not trying to start a rally to get people to quit paying their taxes. I am trying to ask the question as to whether voting for a tax is moral. I have come to the conclusion that it is not, and am asking for some reasons why that might
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by jerfelix 15y ago
> What in your view is the threshold for government action? Is it only to prevent violence, or similar violations of person and property? My views are evolving, which is why I asked the question in this forum, which I consider to be pre
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Interesting. Is there any logic behind that?
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by jerfelix 15y ago
> How can you run a government without revenue of some sort? How does the Mormon Church work? They have no tax. Don't tell me tithe. There's no threat of jail time and income confiscation for not tithing.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I cited several examples where this works in the "real world" and not fantasy land. You cited zero. I NEVER advocated not paying taxes - I pay my taxes as I am forced to do, and I do it "honestly". So your second paragraph is simply inacc
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by jerfelix 15y ago
This article has a fundamental flaw. It starts with the premise that some outrageous tax revenue level is necessary, and from that premise tries to analyze the fairness of the existing tax code. There's one thing I would really like to und
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Many corporate environments are not allowed, period, to use software against the terms of of the license. In absence of a license, the author retains all rights.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Very cool. I'm not seeing a license file, or any mention of licensing. You might want to toss that in there, if you want to allow / encourage people to use it.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Imagine how long it would have taken if he was constantly interrupted with email and facebook! I was mesmerized watching this video. Very cool. I kept wanting to tell him "Make sure you press save!"
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I was the same way. Foreign language was extremely difficult. Then I realized that memorization itself is a process that can be learned, improved, and mastered. Once I began studying and learning the process of effective memorization, the
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Can't get people to read the right details on a page, eh? So you probably missed the link on the right side, that shows you how to do this - fill in the form completely... all they need to do is press the Send button: http://supportdetail
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I look at it this way. How many years of REAL experience does a highly qualified 22 year old have? If they spent their college years EXTREMELY productively, then maybe 4 or 5. OK, you're 33. The upper limit of re-tooling time required, t
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Version 2 should "average" the faces of the people with that name. See what the average "Helga" looks like, vs. the average "Brad".
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by jerfelix 15y ago
But then you have a different problem. See http://xkcd.com/927/ (it's the one about standards.)
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by jerfelix 15y ago
You can have more fun if you mix up the length of the 9's. For example, 1/9999/99 = 1/989901 = .00 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 ... 97 97 98 99 00 00 01 01 ... 1/999/9 = 1/8991 = .000 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 889 repeating.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
> That's strange, about 998 being absent. What follows is definitely nonsense I had to re-read what the parent poster said to get it. So I thought I'd explain what he means when he says: > Also, "998" doesn't appear 'in sequence' (
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by jerfelix 15y ago
... and 1/9999999800000001 = .00000000 00000001 00000002 00000003 00000004 00000005 00000006 ... 99999996 99999997 99999999 ...repeating Basically, the pattern is 1 over some number of 9s, followed by an 8, followed by the same number of
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by jerfelix 15y ago
It has the word Boobies in one of the comments.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
Wednesday's protests against the bills (in which Google, Wikipedia, Ars Technica, and other sites took part) was "a day for the history books," Wyden said, one that will "change permanently the way citizens communicate
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I calculated the 2011 results using this system: Buy and Hold the Dow: 5.5% gain Investing only on the "best" days: 8.3% gain Investing only in the "worst" days: -2.5% "best" and "worst" are defined by the formula at th
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Why you should have sold stock yesterday(books.google.com)
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I thought that Stewart made the congresspersons on the Nerds clip look all look like ignorant supporters of SOPA. The last speaker, Jason Chaffetz, who said "maybe we ought to ask some nerds what this really does" was in opposition to SOPA.
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by jerfelix 15y ago
I read all the way to the bottom, and got stumped by this statement in the footer: 256,026,015 people think stopping SOPA will change anything. What do you suppose that means? That he has 256M hits on this page? Is he missing a "
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by jerfelix 15y ago
>> the proportion of dentists and physicians who become part of the 1% is extremely high As implied in another comment, this is cloudy because the New York Times has a hard time with the difference between "income" and "wealth". If
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by jerfelix 15y ago
This is a bit misleading. They incorrectly haphazardly swap "income" and "wealth": The subtitle says "Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households." Yet the chart note is "The chart counts the number of ind
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by jerfelix 15y ago
It wasn't real clear to me what the URL was, so I'll post it: http://www.ninjavideo.net/ It's not even listed on the Wikipedia page [42], and can't easily be found in google anymore. The NinjaVideo.net page now has a huge image explaini

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