Read http://rightwingnews.com/2009/11/tax-facts/ for analysis and http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/taxwatch-fall2009.pdf for the original data. No wonder people think government services are “free”. They are – for them. At least directly.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/newsweek-fighting-for-survival-drifts-towards-irrelevancy/ I used to subscribe to Newsweek. From the time I was a teenager into my 30s I was a subscriber. I liked their news coverage. If I wanted in depth detail accounts of world events, Newsweek was fantastic about it. Then something happened after George W Bush got elect
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Great article today at Town Hall. “4 reasons the American Dream will be over unless we act” Great quote: "In 1985, just 16.5% of filers paid no income tax." Today, "<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/542
I was too lazy to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my Thinkpad T400. I didn’t want to monkey arounhd with reinstalling all my software. In hindsight, I probably would have been better off doing so as there’s so much crud on my system sucking away its life that I am regretting my decision not to just start from scratch.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091103121605.htm So it increasingly looks like sugar is really really bad for you – at least in the quanitites that the typical American now consumes. I consume more than my share of sugar and I hate to sound unconcerned about my own health but you know, I might lose some years of life becaue of my love of sugar but I’d rather have sugar than a life lacking
Who else is playing it? Where you at?
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/10/court-upholds-.html I’d say this is a good call by the court even if I think the law itself to be foolish for California (talk about incenting people to leave).
Someday, someone is going to do a round up of digital distribution platforms and get around to comparing one very important feature: How FAST they download. That’s one of Impulse’s biggest advantages. It’s got crazy fast download speeds whether you’re in North America or Australia or Germany or wherever. Here’s a little video I took from my relatively humble home Comcast cable setup. <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; disp
One of the things I’ve noticed is that people say they want transparency in things but in action, they really don’t seem to want it. For example, politically, I’m a conservative (more of a libertarian). I am not particularly “into” politics but I do follow it pretty closely and will debate any issue even if I have to switch sides in order to debate it. But other people take it seriously. Very seriously. When someone links to one of my blogs, it shows up on
The more I work with the beta of Elemental the more I think we need to integrate info cards into it. Those of you who have played Sins of a Solar Empire know what info cards are. They are one of the major game UI innovations that Ironclad has introduced to the genre. The idea is that when you mouse over something, a “card” appears on the screen that gives detailed information about it. They’re kind of like super tooltips. Well, for Elemental, that’s what we’re looking to
I’m getting overexposed. I’m as narcissistic as the next guy who refers to themselves in the third person in the name of an article and even I am not that interested in my opinions. At PAXX I gave an interview to Shacknews primarily on Elemental but we talked about all kinds of other things including my thoughts on Games for Windows Live. It’s no secret that I’ve been an advocate for Games for Windows Live.
If you don’t already have Impulse Ready to Play’s beta definitely sign up. People who have Demigod are going to be getting a copy
Some of you in the beta are probably starting to recognize the influence you now have and why we had the beta be so primitive – so that your ideas can really REALLY go into the game. So let’s talk about how units should be designed in the game. Here’s how it works: <img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-r
This next week we’ve got a ton of things to do. Most of what we’re working on doesn’t show up in the game. In no particular order, here are some things on the high priority list: 1. Gotta expose the AI to Python. Need that so that I can start doing serious surgery on the AI without constantly having to recompile and re-run the game. 2. Nail down what resources we want to have in the game. I keep thinking that
One of the things that I’m surprised isn’t offered up on the desktop version of Windows 7 more easily is telling the PC to go to sleep after N minutes. A high end PC can eat up quite a bit of power if left on 24/7 – which I do. But over the last couple of versions, Windows has gotten pretty good at coming out of sleep mode really well. Below is step by step on how to set up sleep mode on Windows 7. <a href="http://www.draginol.com/images2009/QuicktipSaveo
“Any human being, who accepts help from another, knows that good will is the giver’s only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.” –Hank Rearden It has been my experience whether it be at the nation-state level or on a personal level that good will distributed freely is often returned with disdain and contempt.
In hindsight, Notes are such an obvious feature that every RTS should have them. Though, admittedly, I would like to thank the v
My father in law is the most easy going guy you’d ever meet. He’s gentle. Kind. Thoughtful. But don’t mistake those attributes as weakness. He simply picks his battles because in the apocalypse, this is one guy you’d want to have your back. Politics sometimes is like this. People will rail against "the rich" or corporations and assume wrongly think they have leverage when they don't. This is typically seen with the American left who gleefully hope for high
So as I mentioned earlier, I’ve started getting into <a href="http://draginol.joeuser.com/article/363761/Nutrit
As I get older, I am becoming more aware of how the body seems to change from a position of “must make sure this organism lives so it can reproduce” to “meh”. At 38, I am definitely seeing the transition from “must live” to “meh” which is not uncommon for people my age from what I’m learning. Being the ungraceful kook I am, I’m learning about dietary supplements that might provide if not a reversal of the negative trend
Oh I support the concept of someone not purchasing something in order to express a political belief. The problem, however, is whether anyone knows why they aren't purchasing something. The main problem I've always seen online with those kinds of customers is the belief that the customer is somehow doing the company a favor by purchasing a product. I've never seen it that way. I look at it as a trade - money for a good or service. Hence, historically we've exiled pe
I hang out on a number of left-wing forums and one thing that is pretty consistent is how wimpy left-wingers are when compared to conservatives. Specifically, if the debate doesn't involve a 10 to 1 advantage in their favor (in participants) they start whining about being ganged up on. I see liberals on these forums whine about how "right wing" JoeUser is (for example) when I would say that in terms of active members, it's about 2 to 1 in favor of conservatives right now (and wh
That seems to be the attitude I see online by liberals. Well, yea but Bush deserved what he got because he and Cheney were bad bad men. Whereas Obama is, you know "the one".
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