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Dr Brain

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  1. Abhorsen
  2. Language rule (evil laugh)
  3. Here's a better one. Breakdown by who won each county.
  4. I hereby nominate you for this year's supreme loser award.
  5. No.
  6. I've already got a exp and money system in place. The new item system I have is even more flexable than what you have there. It can basicly do everything you suggested there, and much more (for example, emulating the current system is possible).
  7. Improvments are: Letters Better arrangement Support for new tileids All around better looking-ness It still has a few issues, but they're mostly with the fly over and fly under tiles.
  8. I ate too many pine nuts. Oh, they were good. Greek stuffing owns all other stuffings hands down (pine nuts are in greek stuffing, for those of you who have not been blessed with eating it). But they sometimes give me a headache. So I'm not all here mentally, but I'm quite happy all the same
  9. Funny how you made up that he was talking to you
  10. Macro? Hmm, not a bad idea. I was simply being clear. Most people don't understand how Hyperspace is structured. Explaining it releases that information into the wild, where people who spend a lot of time with the zone pick it up. I can tell if someone cares about the zone by how much they know about it. This is absolutly invaluable when people come around asking for staff. The reasons were good ones, and I have made progress on the zone that might not have otherwise been made. As before, I cannot offer any sort of time frame, but rest !@#$%^&*ured that work is being done.
  11. So does GWB.
  12. tiara
  13. If you really want to understand an issue yourself you should learn the value of raw data and primary sources. As a wise man once said: Also: tax cuts are the last thing the US needs right now. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Primary sources? I used the same site you did. And quotes mean nothing. I could quote myself saying you're a moron, but it doesn't make it true.
  14. Yah Funk! Three words, or else.
  15. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/wm182.cfm http://www.heritage.org/Research/taxes/bg1414.cfm
  16. It didn't? Please, inform me.
  17. I've always been partial to man eating, fire breathing dragons.
  18. You're a moron. You have all the facts in front of you. The tax cut increased revenue.
  19. You do not have enough money to buy Life.
  20. They are probably a "future feature" that priitk never finished. By testing older versions of Cont, we can find how long it has been around. My guess is since 0.38.
  21. New page magic. Page 100, here we come.
  22. I'll double post so I can get the new page.
  23. The top 5% of tax payers pay % of all taxes.
  24. Ripped from another source. I didn't write this. Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men -- the poorest -- would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1, the sixth would pay $3, the seventh $7, the eighth $12, the ninth $18, and the tenth man -- the richest -- would pay $59. That's what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement -- until one day, the owner threw them a curve (in tax language a tax cut). "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20." So now dinner for the ten only cost $.00. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six -- the paying customers? How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?" The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, Then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being PAID to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man who pointed to the tenth. "But he got $7!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man, "I only saved a dollar, too . . . It's unfair that he got seven times more than me!". "That's true!" shouted the seventh man, "why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night he didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered, a little late what was very important. They were FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS short of paying the bill! Imagine that! And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table any more.
  25. $$ Poor Canadians.
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