<div dir="ltr"><div>I can understand another round coming. WTF is below and how does it relate to Linux?? We just had 258 boxes upgraded. Comics are not appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Close...<br>
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On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 08:55 -0500, Jonathan Meek wrote:<br>
> The U.S Tax Code is pretty simple:<br>
> If you're an individual that makes money, pay taxes.<br>
<br>
</span>If you're an individual that makes some money, pay taxes.<br>
If you makes lots of money, like more each year than most people earn in<br>
a lifetime, you win the game and pay very little.<br>
<span><br>
> If you're a corporation that makes money, hide it somewhere.<br>
<br>
</span>If you employ very few people and can't leave town on vacation, you pay<br>
taxes and fees on nearly everything.<br>
If you employ a large number of people, and they are all in the US, you<br>
pay some taxes but get some perks.<br>
If you employ large numbers of people you get huge tax breaks especially<br>
if you contract with the federal and state governments on projects that<br>
used to be done by public service employees.<br>
If you have a gigantic number of employees and most used to be in the US<br>
but now are in other countries after tax-incentive "right sizing", you<br>
get special bonus perks of a designated ear in Congress and a free bank<br>
account in the Caymans. You pay very, very little tax money but use the<br>
court system like crazy to defend "property" that is owned by a tiny<br>
firm in the Caymans that you hid your profits in.<br>
<span><br>
> If you're an individual that doesn't make money, then recieve money.<br>
<br>
</span>If you're an individual that makes very little money, you get some money<br>
handed to you so Walmart doesn't have to pay you enough to survive.<br>
If you're an individual that makes no money, you probably live in the<br>
street or with family and have no access to resources at all since you<br>
have no address, or ID, or ability to get either. And you can't vote.<br>
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> *ducks for the punch being thrown*<br>
<br>
</span>+1<br>
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> On Jan 31, 2015 11:32 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> On 01/30/2015 05:26 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Hogwash. Where there's a will, there's a probate court.<br>
><br>
> Hah, hah. Very funny. :-)<br>
><br>
> I've been involved in a few projects lately where it's been<br>
> more important to prove workability and robustness than to<br>
> have every feature in the world, so I've not been using glibc<br>
> much lately. I certainly can't audit it.<br>
><br>
> Then again, I cannot audit the Linux kernel, either.<br>
><br>
> But, the more code in my system I can read through and audit<br>
> for my own personal satisfaction—or any other reason in the<br>
> world—the closer I get to the goal of understanding every line<br>
> of code in the system.<br>
><br>
> I didn't think that was a terribly important thing to be able<br>
> to do, but several projects working with microcontrollers have<br>
> shown me different. While the world from that perspective is<br>
> a very different place, the concepts are the same, and it's<br>
> rather liberating when you can point to something and know why<br>
> it broke because you have a very clear understanding of your<br>
> entire set of code.<br>
><br>
> That's something which is impossible on any modern<br>
> general-purpose operating system today. I'd almost be willing<br>
> to bet that Linux and the U.S. Tax Code are just as complex as<br>
> the other one (though at least Linux can be compiled!).<br>
><br>
> — Mike<br>
><br>
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