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Reply to JU is a micro society in action in Blogging Stardock Forums

[quote]We developed the site using Firefox and adapted it to other browsers from there.[/quote] That is so weird. I wasn't really surprised when I posted about not being able to click my cursor in the text box to start typing. I figured it was a Firefox thing. Now I have no clue. Also, the part where I click on the Paste button and it says "Copy/Cut/Paste are not available in Mozilla/Firefox" and takes me to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/secur

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

Income reported to the IRS as "business, farm, partnership, and small corporations (S corporations) income" was counted as "entrepreneurial income." Income reported as "wages, salaries, pensions, and annuities" was counted as wage income. So work for a C-corp, you have no small business income by that measure. Work for an S-corp you have all small business income. Of course a lot of rich people have S-corps for tax shelters on the side. I do

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

Is there an edit link any more? I don't see one. The box that pops up when I click the hyperlink anchor is completely blank in Firefox, so I was hoping to add the links in on edit.

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

Okay, I decided to dig in myself and see if I could find out what you were talking about. I googled "top 1%" "small business owners" and found a news report citing this claim: [quote]The Tax Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to studying the tax code, claims 75 percent of the taxpayers in the highest income tax bracket are small business owners or farmers.[/quote] That sounds like it might be the source of your claim. There are hardly any farm

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I have provided this evidence in the past. It's based on the US census data and the IRS.[/quote] Well, neither my years of reading you nor site:draginol.joeuser.com "small business" have helped me find it. (By the way, it looks to me like Google search results with a "CID" in the URL, like " draginol.joeuser.com/index.asp?p=9&CID=16" , end up taking you to the home page instead of the article. My impression of reality is

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

OK, now that I've been through all that, I can comment in Firefox now. Who knows why.

Reply to On behalf of evil capitalistic bastards everywhere in Politics Stardock Forums

Hey Draginol - it took me about six minutes to get a comment in here. First because I can't comment with Firefox 2.0.0.12. I simply can't click in the text box to enter text. I can get text in the text box by quoting someone, but I still can't type over it. (I also couldn't paste in a message from Notepad because the Paste feature is disabled by Mozilla in that kind of text box. It gave me a <a class="null" href="http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/securitypr

Reply to People who do things and people who don't in Politics JoeUser Forums

"People who don't do things" is a good way to put it. Focus on criticizing behavior, not character, and I can say, "yeah, that's me" without the negative reaction you get from calling people "losers." I definitely listen when you talk about things like the difficulty of finding distributors for computer games and the future of consoles. That's the equivalent of a doctor talking about how to take care of your liver. When you talk about how i

Reply to Frogboy in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Is it safe to lick him? Will I get high if I try?

Reply to Stimulus package a slap in the face to American tax payers in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ziggystyles: I had the same question, but I decided we probably won't have to pay it back. In 2001, when we had to pay back the $300 or $600 from Bush, it was because they were cutting the 10% and 15% brackets and sort of giving you an advance on it to keep you from being overwithheld. But this is more of a straight up gift. <TD class="mb-Body-Quot

Reply to Stimulus package a slap in the face to American tax payers in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hey now, remember that the tone Brad uses in this particular post invites people who disagree with him to "fuck off as far as I'm concerned." I think Jeremy can respond that way too if he wants to. It's not really normal for JoeUser though. Jeremy, can I ask, how did you find your way to this blog post? I just can't believe the size of this giveaway compared to things conservatives usually complain about like $17 billion a year in farm subs

Reply to Sins MyColors theme in Gaming JoeUser Forums

I lost track of the post where you gave the X-Play link, but wow -- you got to meet Morgan Webb! Congratulations.

Reply to Brad's one sentence summary of the candidates 2008 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Do the neo-Nazis and the communists ever endorse the same candidate? I have not yet bought a copy of Jonah Goldberg's [i]Liberal Fascism[/i] but that doesn't seem likely.

Reply to Brad's one sentence summary of the candidates 2008 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Leauki -- who do you think would win an election in Sweden -- Kucinich or Bush? (I searched for polling data but found nothing.) I think France would go for Bush, and the UK might, but I think Germany and Sweden would go for Kucinich. What do you think?

Reply to Brad's one sentence summary of the candidates 2008 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Leauki, I was thinking of how Sweden ranks #7 on the Global Peace Index. I could have said Ireland -- they're #4! Tom Tancredo: My candidacy was downsized and outsourced to a Mexican immigrant named Juan Credo. Dang it!

Reply to Brad's one sentence summary of the candidates 2008 in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ha! Is this the origin of the "Not your bro and I am going to tase you" category? My favorite is Giuliani. Dennis Kucinich: My campaign message is carefully crafted to appeal to the median voter... in Sweden. Huckabee: I had a hilariously over-the-top one sentence summary ready until Chuck Norris actually endorsed me in real life.

Reply to Slavery for the government in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Man, if I worked 100 hours a week there is no way I would ever have time to post in a JoeUser comments thread. Actually that is 14 hours a day, there is no way I would even have time to eat. Feel free to name these tricks. I always hear about these tricks from people who, naturally, just happen to not be able to use th

Reply to Brad's New Years Resolutions for business in Blogging JoeUser Forums

That's a lot of resolutions.. maybe it would help to break these down into specific action items so you can make sure which ones you accomplished? eg, kill which darling, be more forceful in which meeting.

Reply to Tragedy of the commons explained: Why socialism doesn’t work in Blogging JoeUser Forums

You are relying too much on evolution here. Fact is that families with adopted children, who are not kin, merely children, also work. Hmm -- a family with adopted children works OK, especially if they get the children young. A family with a stepfather doesn't work as well. I wonder if you got together

Reply to Tragedy of the commons explained: Why socialism doesn’t work in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Governments try to tap into our family-loyalty circuits to get us to support their non-familylike organizations. If they could really get you thinking you should obey the leader like your father, or sacrifice for others like your brothers, they could get a lot more loyalty from you. The family is actually subversive to government because it gives people outside loyalties and unofficial sources of support. I don't think of the gover

Reply to Are you a loser? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

call people names, and back it up by not giving them promotions. In retrospect, this was kind of gratuitous. I don't have to drag class struggle into every single post just because you're a CEO. I was raised with the "we are all God's chilluns" kind of outlook, so the life skill of dividing pe

Reply to Tragedy of the commons explained: Why socialism doesn’t work in Blogging JoeUser Forums

In fact, people do wash rental cars. Link I don't know if people find it easy to believe the opposite because our culture promotes self-interest, or because it helps validate selfish behavior if you believe everyone else is doing it. I don't believe Stossel's idea of "you need to privatize the commons!" makes sense. In specific, I think cattle wan

Reply to Are you a loser? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Nobody has an avatar on my computer -- Firefox or IE. And I'm curious now! Being a winner means you get to call people names, and back it up by not giving them promotions. And turn how not fair this is into their problem (see #7).

Reply to Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming is a scam in Politics JoeUser Forums

Daiwa, I don't think Coleman qualifies as an ex-insider because he was really never "inside" the global warming movement. It's not like he had to resign his job to speak out on this issue like those Guantanamo lawyers.

Reply to Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming is a scam in Politics JoeUser Forums

Leauki, I hope this thread is a lesson to you that when you're looking for an analogy, you need to look for one that's less controversial than the argument you're already having, or you will be having a whole different argument far from your original point. Anyway, on the crucial issue of kangaroos on the ark, I find it more plausible that there was Pangaea before the Flood and Noah got kangaroos that way. It is really, really stretching the