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What are other property taxes based on?

I'd say every labour saving device invented would qualify as property that can create more time.

Doesn't look like anything to me. This shows the tax rates: http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php . They climbed up for WW1 & WW2, and now are falling back to historical le…

Bad parking or Murder?

Instead of what? On a more serious note, this would be a complete non-issue, except that education is state controlled. So now it's politics. Where it private people could choose w…

Pretty easy. Compare the sum with the expected sum. Compare the sum of squares with the expected sum of squares. Two equations, just solve them. I wrote the final equations in the …

I notice this in politics. Some people vote for charitable political parties, while they themselves never give to charity.

Sometimes software stinks because it IS bad. Perhaps the software he is using grew from simple to complex and nobody did any housework, thus the smell. Maybe it does need some work…

Quick question: Is this suitable for streaming video? Just wondering, thanks.

Also, once you have a permanent address you can trade. Civilization does well in places with trade routes (like coasts, big slow rivers, or well defended roads)

Forth is number 1 on my list of greatest languages -- and I've been coding Lisp full time for years. If you want to have your mind blown, take a look at what Moore has done recentl…

My criteria is when someone mentions a right, can I meaningfully append the question 'At whose expense'? If I can, it's bogus. These are rights: Right to liberty, to own property, …

I'll bet the version off pirate bay works fine. I know this is kind of snarky, but if they want to successfully combat piracy they need to make the pay-and-play experience better t…

Or maybe they are? Or maybe a bit of both? Some people (myself included) feel a contract is a contract is a contract.

Having courts retroactively redefine contracts based on their fairness weakens contract law greatly. Besides being very subjective, things that start fair often seem unfair in time…

That's what I thought too. I stumbled across this yesterday, while searching for a market for my script. The deal sounds great, I'm too busy to market my script properly, but I can…

OSM doesn't own volunteer time. If the volunteers find Googles platform & terms more pleasing, then more power to them. However, if the original article is correct in that Google m…

I agree. The only thing standing in the way is state licensing. The AMA lobbied for medical practitioner licensing in the earlier 1900s on the grounds that they would set high stan…

True, but that value isn't for sale, it's manifest as easements owned by your neighbors. (the true price is buying the land and the easements that conflict with your agenda). For e…

Today most of the environment is federally owned as crown or public land. 89% of Canada and at least 20% of the US are in this state (some western states are between 25% and 75% pu…

In theory, if it could identify the food & quantity, it should be able to produce every useful food statistic. From daily nutrition, to calories, to a map showing which regions of …

I'm glad you said it first. This is a REALLY well written essay. The writer obviously knows something about Ghandi. He has clearly read much of the man's letters, knows who he asso…

The other day I was pondering if non-violent resistance really would help the Tibetans. If Gandhi's revolution really wasn't non-violent (and the transition was already well underw…