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It usually does make sense to doubt that taxes will be spent effectively.
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As I said... we need a sarcasm icon / emoji
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I never understood why peopole are so worried about taxpayers' money, but don't give a sh*t about, say, Coke buyers' money or iPhone buyers' money, or insurance payers' money or Tesla buyers' money.
All these rich and super-rich companies and owners got their money from somewhere. And guess what: Their source is the same as that of the authorities: The pockets of you and me! It appears as if that is perfectly fine with us!
Of course I know the standard response to that: It is up to you to decide to use your money on a new iPhone or a Tesla, but taxes are avoidable. Sure, it would have been much better if we could choose not to have a highway system. A public school system. A military system. In my country: Also a public health system, a public pension fund, and I never paid a single penny in tuition for my university education.
Try to tell your teenager that he or she has no need for a smartphone. That tap water is as good a drink as Coke. That they can walk or bike to school. Sell your car and bike the five kilometers to work yourself! Drop your health insurance - if you die, you die. Sorry, kids: We can't afford a college education for you; you'll have to live your lives as uneducated manual workers. In our free country, we have the freedom to opt out of such expenses, which whe have decided to do. And by the way: When mom and dad retire, you are the ones who will cover our expenses of living!
I am not buying this thesis that private companies can do the same thing a lot cheaper. A few years ago, the right wing parties forced through a reorganizing of the building of public roads, putting up most projects for competition. Costs were lowered - but why? Because they reduced the qualities of the roads! The new, cheaper roads where narrower, sometimes with no shoulders, the requirements for the road foundation were relaxed... I guess that in Florida, oranges are cheaper than apples. I don't know how much that tells about comparing comparing apples with oranges in Hardanger, Norway's largest apple growing district, but I am sure you can use it as a proof that private enterprises can do things cheaper.
Norway ranks very high on the list of the highest taxes in the world. We also rank at the very top on the list of the richest country. That is not in spite of the high taxes, but more like due to it. You never die because you can't pay your hospital bill. You never drop a higher education because you can't affort it. When we pay our tax money, we are much more assured that they will be spent on some beneficial purpose, rather that on multimillion-dollar mansions and private airplanes for the top leaders and owners of the commercial powers.
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And what about all those songs that have to be rewritten:
Quote: I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore, I want them to turn black
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Quote: The Linux team did not recommend any specific terms but asked developers to choose as appropriate. Oi... Why... It will be more mess than one can imagine...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Maybe they should use terms like "goodlist" and "badlist".
Or "herolist" and "villainlist".
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How about "allow list" and "block list?"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Or, in newspeak:
linux kernel 4.x bb malquoted. rectify upsub thinkpol antepublishing.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'd boycott them, but that would be sexist.
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Is "complexity challenged" a neutral term?
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As businesses around the world slowly start to reopen after being forced to shut down operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the graduates of the class of 2020 are sharpening their presentation skills and updating their resumes to look for employment opportunities. But will their polished resumes make them more competitive relative to their peers? Using the tweets to find the twits
OK, that Venn diagram may be pretty close to a circle.
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So close that it could geometrically be used to find pi to five sig figs!
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Perfect! Wonderful! We all know how information on social media is reliable...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Key people working on the .NET platform at Microsoft are concerned about the continuing perception that it is tied to one company. The "New Microsoft" ain't your grandma's Microsoft
The Windows and Office folk though...
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Counting pre-release announcements, MS .net was officially Windows only for the first 15ish years of it's life. It's only been officially cross platform for 5; and early versions of .net core fell well short of being full featured replacements for the legacy stack.
Give it more time. I hear it heals all wounds. (Or was that wounds all heels?)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Agreed, it takes a while (and VSCode might be a Trojan Horse for it on Linux). I do think the biggest problem is too many Linux folk still think of the company as Micro$oft and refuse to even look at it. Personally, I think they'd love it if they tried.
TTFN - Kent
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Dan Neely wrote: Or was that wounds all heels? This is my church, this is where I hurt my heels.
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opensource was purchased by microsoft for lotta money..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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.NET bound to Windows - for years... it wont disappear in a few months... And packing all that Windows only stuff into it so hasty didn't helped...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicious apps to scam customers in 62 countries around the world. Six domains down, six billion to go...
Also, OAuth is helpful for the bad guys as well. Whodathunkit?
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The Chinese Yutu-2 rover found something interesting on the surface of the moon that has puzzled scientists, and the mystery has finally been solved. Just don't bring it back to Earth. I've seen that movie.
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Apple on Thursday announced a new set of tools and resources for teachers and students as part of its Swift coding education initiatives. "'Will you walk into my parlour?' said a spider to a fly"
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It’s important for us to think about what automation might mean for the future of programming. They can't get rid of us that easily
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