Soback

They should give you a frequent movie goer card or something.

"The lack of government controls on Internet pornography has permitted the industry to blossom on the Web. " Interesting how whenever there's little or no government oversight and involvement, things blossom.

"The lack of government controls on Internet pornography has permitted the industry to blossom on the Web. " Interesting how whenever there's little or no government oversight and involvement, things blossom.

"In some cases, it appears the tax would be collected by the providers of communications services such as wireless companies or voice-over-IP firms. The tax would be added to the user's bill and then turned over to the Department of Revenue." Sounds to me like some politician will have a new ranch, the collecting firm would obviously get a cut for collection "service". This whole thing that's happening to this government with the corruption and pay offs reminds me of Russia so so much, which is sad. My phone bill has more than $10 in taxes and fees, which ads up to more than 20% of the total bill, what gives? They just want more and more and more, and then when the businesses raise prices to compensate everyone is pissed off at the businesses, well don't be, thank the politicians, don't blame the corporations. That's why the plumer charges you $100 and hour when he comes to fix your bathroom, because $75 of that hundred goes to Robber Sam, while the plummer gets $25 and still has to pay income tax on that too. "The tax would go, in part, toward school construction and other projects. " LOL, biggest bull ever. It's like where I live, they installed an additional $85 a year property tax on homeowners to pay for cuts in schools budget. Let's see, if I am a home owner and don't have any kids I still pay, if I live in an appartment and have kids but don't own a home who pays for my kids school, the home owner pays, now why should he pay for the other persons kids to go to school and not the kids parents? BECAUSE, the money doesn't really go to schools, it's easier for the $$$ to get lost in the system if they take it from the people who don't demand accountability. If the people who had their kids attend that particular school paid the tax and then saw no improvement in the school they would raise questions as to where the money they are paying for their own kids education is dissapearing to, the home owner with no kids will not ask, and even if he does, he will get slammed down with remarks like "you have no right to ask, you don't have kids in that school" On another note, it is equivalent to taking money in taxes from my paycheck and giving it to people who are poor and have 5 kids. Why should I pay for their kids? The reason I don't have my own kids is because I am not having any till I can afford them, and the reason I can't afford them is because they are taking my hard earned $$$ to give to people who are having kids without being able to afford them. Makes sense what this piece of $hit government is doing to people? Yeah, it makes sense alright, they are literally s*&%%ing us. PS, with all the lawsuits going on, maybe I can sue the government for taxation without representation. [ 06-26-2004, 08:39 PM: Message edited by: Soback ]

"In 1985 the state passed a law to tax businesses using their own communications networks, because otherwise the state could not collect tax revenue on the businesses' local telephone service." And what gives the the right to tax a business that uses it's own infrastructure to conduct it's business?

And to back that up, just look at the service passengers recieved when they flew with the airlines during 40s through 60s, and now you'll be lucky if you get to stretch your legs (yeah, right) and maybe get a soda and a cookie (here you go doggie). "Pack em up, ship em out"

Ugh, pisses me off. In aviation everything is already so expensive that costs are way above than "through the roof" now they want 10% of the fleet tested? Ludicrous, each slide deployment costs about $10,000. If you have 100 airplanes, each having at least 4 slides that's $400,000 just for one test, and for what? They should not only think about that stupidity, but also in what ammount of cases the slides are actually used, that's considering the type of emergency and if the plane survives it period, then run cost vs. risk assesment and see if it works out. And then everyone else wonders why the airlines are going bankrupt and why everything costs so much, it's because the FAA is a beuracracy that doesn't know heads from tails, aviation used to be so much better before it was established in the 50s. Shows that whatever government touches turns to $hit.

Oh yea, and I would also like to sue those gypsies for the use of the words sue, IBM and Nazzi all in one sentence which made my head hurt, and the I would like to sue myself for suing so much.

I would also like to sue whoever is in the courtroom before me for suing whoever they were suing.

I would like to sue the knife making company for getting my hand cut, the paper making company for cutting my finger and not making their paper safe for use and with no warning labels, the water heating company for selling a water heater that heats the water to such a temperature that I can burn myself, the Gillete for false advertisement of their "safety razors" and I have the little pieces of toilet paper soacked in blood to prove it....

lol, must've been a very tired horse.

Whoohoo, that's what I am talking about. I was passing through some town on my way to Sequoia national park. Every frickin sign in the stoors windows there was in Spanish, it pissed me off so much. I don't speak Spanish and I live in America, so what the HELL WAS THAT?

"whose youre damn isp? im on cox and recive - no - ads before that on dialup I was on TBI and never got spammed with -anything- if youre using aol,msn, or any others youre WASTEING youre money oh and its not "new" take alook Intel has an ad in PLanetsides loading screens Nvidia? we've all seen there logos ut2k4, farcry, planetside etc -- simply put How'd you like a larger demo? A demo that even while you play a "full" featured multiplayer game the developers make money off you by? thats right you guessed it - running a comeercial - of course if ive bought the game and am still forced to watch an advertisement I will personally hunt down every member of the offending group and yell at them very loudly from a safe distance (preferbly over a telephone) LASTLY. I'd love to see galcom HQ in a nice shade of orange so thatd be what dupont? " LOL, my eyes hurt...

"What's wrong with it?* It's the natural progression of things. You pay your ISP to spam you on every page you go to. You pay your cable bill to watch ads. It's just one more step. It's their money and they want it. * Devil's advocate. I actually hate it." No, I don't pay my ISP to spam me, I pay them to use the bandwith, the problem is, they actually steal the bandwith that I pay for and use some of it to throw ads at me, which I think should be illegal. And my cable, I pay for it to watch movies/shows, the commercials that run in between I DON'T want, so in actuality they are stealing my time, everytime they show a commercial, the time I've paid for so that I could watch the show.

"And for the record, before Iran started to piss off the US, they werenÔÇÖt all that friendly either (people disappearing, killing minorities, you get the idea) ." I guess that proves my point. That's exactly why they are fighting pretty much every country that they can. It's in THEIR SOCIETY AND CULTURE you genious.

Yes, I would fight for my country to protect it's supperiority. I guess that's exactly why Netherlands is considered a pushover country that's famous for legall drugs and prostitution world wide.

He didn't have the eyes shined in prison, his eyes are like that because he is a Furion. It makes a reference to that when he finds his chick friend in prison and she makes a remark that he is a liar, and when he asks her when did he ever lied to her, she quotes his words when she asked him in Pitchblack, "How do you get eyes like this" and his answer was "You gotta kill a few people" so in Riddick she says "I killed more than a few people, and I still couldn't get eyes like that"

You are joking right. First of all, 9/11 did not happen because of US involvement in the middle east, it happened because Arab society/nation/bliefs are by their nature a violent society that prides those who are strong within it and hates those who are strong outsid of it. Their whole beliefs are based on the notion of being better than their neighbors and if they are not then they must take what their neighbors have otherwise they will deem themselvs weak and dishonorable. There is over 10 other conflicts in this world that Arabs are involved in, and those conflicts have nothing to do with US, but with some Arab country attacking it's neighboring country because it wants power/land it's resources or purely because that country has insulted them. Second, middle east will not stabilize, those countries have been there for thousands of years, way before US, european countries, ect.. and they have never been stable. Other civilizations have risen and fallen, created technological advances, medicine ect... in all this time countries in the middle east just dedicated their energy to fighting amongst themselvs and when they saw that their neighboring countries, instead of fighting, created technology and accumulated other riches, they went after theif neighbors. So you really gotta be kidding when you say all those things. And on another note, yes, I live in US, and since it's my country I do want it to to be the strongest and most powerfull country in the world, so when it attacks another I will fight for it to maintain it's supperiority because that way my children will not have to be threatened by any other nation that might become a threat to us. [ 06-13-2004, 10:25 PM: Message edited by: Soback ]

Hey, take it easy with that battlecruiser all day and all night, remember, save electricity.

What do you need to legally and otherwise homeschool your child?

"We have, for example, the great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else." So so true.

Hasn't anyone seen a movie called "The Postman"

Does anyone have Space Empires IV? Any thoughts about it?

Palm is alright, it's user friendly, however if you can upgrade to HP then it's more like a little mini computer. However, if you are just using it for an organizer and maybe a few other things, palm does it nicely.

Actually it's pretty sad and kinda scary.