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I think I see the miscommunication. I said that rich people who attempt to change the rules of the system so that others can't even compete with them are evil, and should be opposed. By "opposed", I just mean that we should not allow them to tilt the playing field solely in their favor. I'm...

Yeah, I'm aware of that. We have an almost infinite capacity to justify immoral things for the argument that it's "better for society in the long run". Such a totalitarian viewpoint. Both rich and poor people make this mistake. I also very much agree with the charity-is-selfish argument. It...

Huh? How am I suggesting that those who don't share my values should be targeted? I'm speaking against the theft of wealth. Whose wealth am I somehow advocating should be taken from them? I advocate no such thing. I don't think anyone should forcefully take/steal the wealth that has been...

I do appreciate the debate here, and that you're not resorting to name calling and simply trying to have a rational argument. Thanks for the civility, tetris42! Some of the services you listed (such as police), I'm fine with being taxed for. My moral argument for that is the following: our...

Yes, I know that the rich have influenced changes in laws that get them tax breaks--I tried to point that out in my post that you quoted. It seems reasonable to me that they want to give themselves tax breaks, since they pay so much tax--I don't think that's wrong. It seems very reasonable (at...

That's why I'm generally not a fan of government regulation. I often hear that governments are vital because they prevent monopolies. It's hilarious--governments create monopolies far more than they prevent them, with their stupid regulations that often guarantee that market entrants have no...

Why? I think the majority of rich people (top 10% let's say) are not bad. They are productive members of society, adding lots of value to mankind, and getting rewarded for their efforts. I think the "bad ones" are a minority, and those ones should be opposed because they are deliberately...

Now we're definitely in agreement. :) I *hate* rich people who try to tilt the playing field in their favor, and this sometimes does actually happen. I believe in equal opportunity for all, and any rich person who tries to stack the laws in a way that gives them an exclusive benefit that...

Completely agree. And to add to it, the reason why I think step #1 is to "stop vilifying the rich" is because we will be unable to make any progress towards self-improvement until we pass this first step. If the rich are the enemy, then they are the oppressors and we are the victims, and every...

I don't see jealousy of success and self-growth as opposites, as you're presenting them. I think people should be jealous of others' success, to the point where it spurs them to grow themselves. Why not strive for high success as modeled by others? Edit: Did you mean to use the word...

Why does the supervisor get paid twice as much? Is it that the supervisor is having twice as much impact? If they are, then they deserve twice as much. If they aren't, then the business is run poorly and someone should reduce that supervisor's pay or hire someone else to be supervisor for...

It's not about how hard people work--"hardness of work" has nothing to do with it. It's about productivity. There are plenty of people in the world who work hard, and when you add all that hard work up, produce almost nothing. Likewise, there are people who work shorter days in a nice air...

If the rich wrote the laws, then why did they write them in such a way that they pay almost all of the taxes? Did they just voluntarily say "yeah, I totally think I should pay higher percentages of taxation than everyone else; that makes sense." Did they write the laws saying that they should...

:) What I'd like to see, and what is feasible, are different things. The ideal case would be that all members of society are equally AND highly productive. The reality--due to difference in human nature and capability--is that the Pareto distribution is probably as good as we'll ever get...

That's a good thing to point out. It's not that I want to see those 10% of people have less wealth. It's just that I want to see a wider swath of people be more productive in this country, which would have the effect of decentralizing the wealth. In other words I'd love to see the bottom...

I think you and I could actually agree that we'd like to see less wealth consolidated in the upper 10%--I'd like that too. The difference is the approach we would take to improve this statistic. One approach is to just try and steal more money from the wealthy (aka taxes imposed by the masses...

While the real taxation system is a bit more complex, the overall sentiment of the beer analogy is sound. But hey, why even bother to use an analogy? Let's just use real actual numbers: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2015-update/ This is from the 2013 tax...

The only reason I'm giving this project a mulligan is because I think deep down inside, we all want to create a real version of this:

They might not be the first company to attempt a reusable rocket, but they are definitely the first to succeed in a big way. They are resupplying the international space station, and have done dozens of launches now. You should check again--they are up and running and doing regular runs to the...

SpaceX helped usher in an age of private space exploration, taking a crazy risk and inventing a rocket that lands back on Earth--the type of innovation that NASA likely never would have tried or been able to justify to the public. Nearly every car maker is now dipping their toe into the EV...

Maybe you can't fathom how people believe what I wrote because you didn't bother to contemplate it. I wrote that Elon exemplifies purpose and impact; he's one of a very select few who are truly driving societal progress forward. (He is not alone, and he is not a god, but he is near the top of...

Agreed. And I honestly doubt this is about personal wealth. Personal wealth isn't the the same thing as "money"; money is needed to accomplish almost anything in this world, and even charities constantly seek more of it. To me, Elon is one of the most worthy individuals of our society in...

OK, this was pretty funny. :)

There is no fail here. There is only win.

After a bit of web searching, I've found it hard to get any good performance data on the raid controller provided by the Intel P67 chipset. Rather than scan over every Atto benchmark on the planet to find someone who has done what I want to do, I thought I'd turn to you guys. ;) I want to...

Once this whole Sandy Bridge chipset gets back to normal, I'm looking to put together a new rig. I want the Mobo to support two main components: A high-end vid card, possily 6990 An LSI 9240-8i pcie RAID controller, which requests 8 lanes [Newegg] My main concern is that on most (all?)...

Music sounds like the Chocobo racing in FF7...

I didn't interpret it the same way as you did Steve. It appears that Google's bot can crawl protected accounts, even after they are protected. At least that looks like what the article is claiming. If this is true, then I think there is a genuine security hole here--I can see why there's...

Great article; it's nice to see these comparisons made to give the consumer an indication of the tradeoffs. Unless I missed it, the article did miss one advantage of the GTX over the 9600's: future expansion. If you're running one GTX rather than two 9600's, there's always that extra PCI...

This is all part of a super-secret strategy to get ants to watch television. Phase 2: Train them to take over the world! :D

Just how powerful (or powerless) are Sempron procs like the one advertised? Man, that's cheap, and I'm looking to build a couple special-purpose PCs; one for a file server, and one for a simple Linux MythTV HTPC. Would a Sempron like this do the job for the server? What about the HTPC? I'm...

It's not quite the same though. They are not patenting the entire process of fixing bugs in code, but rather specific bugs that are found. For example, if they find a hole in MS-Word, they could create a patch and patent it to protect their process for fixing that hole. Interesting, even...

I'm loving that the [H] is into PSU reviews now.. keep up the great work! I for one would like to see some SFX PSUs on the test bench. Expectations might be a little lower here, but it would be nice to examine a couple alternatives for building a decent gaming rig in a small form factor...

I've always been one who didn't feel that video games should be blamed for the worlds problem.. However, claiming that a study only makes "common sense" when the outcome is in line with your beliefs is a little biased-- no offense at all meant by that. It's just that, strangely, studies...

Does anyone who reads these forums have a strong background in US or Canadian law? I would like to have this question answered: Is it legal to sue someone without any reason? I'm not suggesting that the RIAA doesn't have a reason, but if one of these suits actually went through, and it...

I don't think the painter should have to put up a disclaimer; should Keith Urban (the singer) have to put up a disclaimer saying that he's not a painter? Man, I would love if the courts decided that! Really, this is a ridiculous lawsuit, and hopefully the painter will have enough spare cash...