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Twitter Plans to Mangle ReTweets #SaveReTweets | Dan Zarrella - http://danzarrella.com/mangle-...
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I’m a huge MJ Fan but this just put a big smile on my face. - http://www.zee.me/blog...
Andrizzle Gizzle, TiTi, Yant and 19 other people liked this
YEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
- Mike Nayyar
He's putting sunglasses on over sunglasses... yeah, I guess he probably WOULD do that, just 'cuz it's so cool!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
LOL - Well spotted Mark
- Zee.
Just awesome!
- Adrian Scicluna
what's with the double specs?! lol
- Rowena Scicluna
To me, the double pair of shades is what really makes this strip, no matter what the dialog is. It's so Horatio Caine. http://i99.photobucket.com/albums...
- Phil G
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Nifty greeting plugin for WordPress.
- Jared Smith
Matthew Williams Design | Weblog - http://www.matthewwilliamsdesign.com/weblog...
Mrsth, Marco, Baard @ Pixum and 13 other people liked this
"Since September 11, photographers have been stopped, harassed, and intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were photographing subjects that made other people uncomfortable, such as ship locks, trains, buildings, bridges, and bus stations. If you live in the United States, here’s a guide to print and carry with you: The Legal Handbook for Photographers. British photographers should carry The UK Photographer’s Rights Guide, since photography is slowly becoming illegal in the United Kingdom"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I'd like my ID issued by CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit, an official-looking, yet totally non-existent government entity.
- Dave Roth
I wouldn't share this with too many people or the suits in D.C. might decide that this is a good idea. I don't want to have to register with Big Brother just to own and operate a camera. >.>
- pitlord
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Where's the "Jump Up and Down This Is Freakin' Awesome" button?
- Gregory Pittman
Unofficial Muni Photography License - http://links.laughingsquid.com/unoffic...
Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕, Andrew Trinh, Dan Morrill AKA Techwag and 17 other people liked this
ROFL! I should get one of these for my trip to california.
- teymur madjderey
Brilliant. I should get myself one if these, just with "City of London" instead of the Muni Logo..could be very handy over here.
- Mike Hellers
That's much nicer than the fake photography permits I created for my kids and me.
- Dave Roth
I want one of these. And I'm not even a photographer. Well done.
- Type Micah
seriously.. why kind of stock do you print these on? I guess you could laminate
- Bastard Operator From FF
Print it on card stock, use two pieces of heavy weight plastic laminate sheeting, and then use Wet'n'Wild iridescent nail polish to simulate the holographic images on most IDs. Or so I've heard...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
A clip from Pelosi's news conference made me laugh so hard, I snorted water up my nose. Does that count as waterboarding?
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Watching: "Matt Damon Does Matthew McConaughey" - Dead on impression! ( http://www.youtube.com/watch... )
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YouTube - Testimony of illegal alien care from 1 Florida hospital - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Check this video out -- Testimony of illegal alien care from 1 Florida hospital http://tinyurl.com/3vlw4y
- tony
Trouble signing in to Fbaction.net. Does anyone know if it is down? Okay... seriously, how many tweets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Kathy and Gregory Pittman liked this
hmm 2? :)
- Kathy
rt @XarkGirl's new rule: if you aren't enjoying Twitter, you're following the wrong people
Ian May, Jared Smith, Gregory Pittman and 2 other people liked this
The Most Badass Epitaph Ever (PIC) - http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222...
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Apple and Verizon consider iPhone deal - USATODAY.com - http://www.usatoday.com/tech...
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"Should Verizon succeed, it would be a big loss for AT&T, says Roger Entner, head of telecom research for Nielsen. "Breaking the (iPhone) exclusivity with AT&T is a huge thing," he says. "That would send shivers into AT&T's stock and senior leadership.""
- Craig Eddy
from Bookmarklet
Dammit Apple, make a deal with T-Mobile!!!
- Chrimmus Tad
Apple really is hanging themselves by maintaining exclusivity with AT&T. As for me, I'm waiting for release of Palm Pre. I no longer need GSM as I once did, I want a cutting edge smartphone, and I definitely am through with AT&T.
- jcunwired
Just had a lady come in and tell me that she's co-starting a "social media advertising group" with another well known local agency. She said I should look into using Twitter and Facebook for the store. She also wanted to know if I had a blog for the business. O.o
Gregory Pittman, Daniel J. Pritchett, Heather Solos and 5 other people liked this
Bwahaha! And what did you say?
- Araceli
Paul, I've heard about this great site called Twitter that's supposed to be just the LATEST rage. You really should look into it...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
they were talking about it on Fox and Friends, so you know it's going to be big.
- James (@willia4)
Tina, that's almost exactly how it went down. I was too stunned to think to ask her for her Twitter username.
- Paul Reynolds
I hear Oprah's using this Twitter thing now. Something about whales.
- Jared Smith
Did she say what other agency? People should do research before they try and sell a product.
- Andre Pope
I gave her one of our postcards with our web address on it and explained that a majority of our online sales are directly from Twitter. I would've gone on to explain that I wrote custom software that uses the Twitter API to virally promote our business and reward people for following us... but I think it wouldn't have landed... if you know what I mean.
- Paul Reynolds
Yes she said. I'll send you an email. ;o) I should say she came in to talk to me about Humane Society stuff, not really sell me on the social media.
- Paul Reynolds
I also thought it was funny because this morning I was reading an article that posits that there is no such thing as social "media". Most of these people in traditional agencies are concentrating on meaningless follower counts because they're still equating it to audience sizes/penetration/ROI of media based advertising.
- Paul Reynolds
Dems and Obama prepare to trash 1st Amendment - http://spectator.org/archive...
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the part about fairness doctrine pisses me off beyond belief. I wanted to so badly to sound the warning bell on this, and I wasn't allowed to. *grr*.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
You have the right to speak, not the right to be heard.
- Craig Eddy
Craig - Messing with anyones right to speak via, radio, internet, TV, Print media or anything else for that matter is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment, "The Gov. shall make NO law abridging the freedom of speech", exactly what is it about that that you do not understand?
- Brian
The thing about cries for "fairness" is that if anyone really wanted to listen to the left end of the spectrum, Air America would be doing far better than it is. Shutting down Rush Limbaugh is not going to help the crew at Air America, nor will it suddenly help liberal talk radio to flourish.
- Joey Gibson
Brian: you mistake me for someone who supports the unFairness Doctrine. I do not. You have the right to speak, but no one has the right to force me to listen to you (i.e., you're being heard). Peter quoted the line "but we also want to makes sure those alternative views are read, heard and seen online" and that's what I was responding to.
- Craig Eddy
i can't believe that senator stabenow from my state is pushing for this as well. i wonder if there was good liberal talk radio would people listen? Or is the problem that liberals don't listen to talk radio? Or what?
- Jonathan Jesse
@Peter I wonder if it because so much of the media is already telling them what they believe, CNN, MSNBC, non-cable news,etc that a liberal talk radio show would just repeate what they already know?
- Jonathan Jesse
It's official, Dems are pushing their first efforts in the Senate voting on a diversity in Ownership law. Censorship has begun!
- Brian
You have any links to that, Brian?
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Bike-shoving, fact-twisting NYPD cop is fired - http://carlosmiller.com/2009...
Mitch, Chris Nixon, Dave Martin and 29 other people liked this
"Patrick Pogan, the New York City Police officer caught on video body slamming a bicyclist for no apparent reason during a Critical Mass ride last year, has been fired."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
troubling video of a cop pushing a critical path bicyclist and making him crash.
- Thomas Hawk
It's cases like this and the Bart cop who shot a subdued suspect in the back that make me so concerned about the new UK police photography laws. Neither of these cases would have had any traction if there hadn't been video evidence of the officer's crime, and knowing that they're not being recorded will only make cops feel more free to overstep their bounds.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, exactly, this is why it's so important to keep our liberties with regards to photographing the police. I'm sure that the vast majority of cops are good cops, but there definitely are bad apples as well and it's important that those bad cops feel the pressure of being photographed in order to regulate their behavior. What the cop did in this video was completely uncalled for and I'm glad he is now off the force and can't abuse his authority in future incidents.
- Thomas Hawk
Kevin. Unlike the USA we only have a few armed units. And the police don't want the law so aren't really going to enforce it anyway IMO
- Phill Price
NYPD response http://theerant.yuku.com/reply...
- Maz
Phill, you don't have to be armed to abuse power. The bike-shoving cop didn't use anything but his hands, yet he's still facing civil and criminal action.
- Kevin Fox
"fact-twisting" aka lying sack of shit. hope that dude ends up cleaning toilets in a federal prison for his next gig. "bad bicyclist?" let's compare that to bad cops and get some perspective here
- Cee Bee
It doesn't make sense? He must've known the guy and been waiting for him or something; there's just no motive.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
*LOL* Maybe NYPD cops should go on a training stage in Amsterdam to learn how to deal with byciclists.
- Rene Wirtz
For anyone who has had to wait 30+ minutes at an intersection less than a mile from their home on a Friday afternoon, the motive to bodyslam someone riding in Critical Mass is completely understandable. This is obviously a separate issue from abuse of power by a police officer which is reprehensible but if that hit had been applied by someone in plain clothes I would have said he fulfilled a long held fantasy of mine.
- Bryan Power
Heh, yeah. I've become quite the hardcore cyclist and I'm always careful to not look too much like a "critical mass" sort of hipster or one of those road cyclist with the spandex outfit that matches the frames that matches the tires that matches the saddle... because either way the drivers are gunning for you. OTOH, the whole point of a trained paid police force is that they will enforce the law, not their personal vendettas and biases, so it's fairly inexcusable on their part.
- Wirehead
I'm very interested to see what occurs, with regard to criminal penalties. Knocking the guy to the ground was bad enough, but the much more serious action, in my opinion, was knowingly bearing false witness as a police officer. The "tackle" *possibly* was performed for a legitimate reason, but the falsifying of reports was done for selfish individual reasons and erodes the legitimacy of the entire system.
- Chester
CNBC reporter launches tirade against mortgage recovery plan. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Gregory Pittman, Jonathan Jesse, Mike Lewis and 4 other people liked this
The guy is expressing how a lot of us feel, I'm a renter and I have no debt and this really pisses me off!
- Brian
lol
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I have owned a home for going on 12 yrs and the plan just riles me as badly as it does Santelli.
- Russ Jackson
FLICKER SUCKS!!! - http://over40andfeelingfine.blogspot.com/2009...
Devlin Dunsmore, Louis Gray, Gary H and 49 other people liked this
"I just deleted my account with Flickr because they censored my protest-art (shown here). They claimed I was harassing and abusing other members by having it posted. My protest-art has the words "Summertownsun sucks". I put this artwork up in protest of Summertownsun complaining that i was infringing on their copyrighted work. They said I was posting images that they own. So flickr removed the images. But the images are actually in the public domain. So I protested Summertownsun's actions by creating a piece of artwork and posting it on Flickr. Then Flickr, in all its controlling, tightwad glory, removed that image too, and sent me an email which said, ""
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Flickr seem to take stuff down if there is a protest, rather than review the situation and see whether it needs to be taken down or not. It seems like a case of the person at Flickr who's job it is to review this stuff is lazy, and isn't doing their job properly.
- Chris Nixon
Wonder if I should move to Zooomr.
- Parth Awasthi
For one moment there I thought you had deleted your account but then saw the quotes.
- Rob Brammeld
yeah, this didn't happen to me, but I posted the same image as dazzlecat so we'll see if they try and censor me next. http://thomashawk.com/2009...
- Thomas Hawk
Usual problem. If they are seen to use brains and check the content. Rather than just act in dmcas they risk safe harbour.
- Phill Price
Phill, even there the answer is simple, mark the photo private. Send the user a note. Give them an opportunity to counter, look at the evidence and make a decision. At least in the second instance though it seems like the photo is not the issue from Flickr's message but that they feel that saying a company sucks = harassment.
- Thomas Hawk
...does anyone know if there has been a specific change in TOS from before the infrastructure changes at yahoo? or are they just going buck wild?
- Carlos Ayala
You're right TH - it's something they've done before with unsafe stuff so I don't see why not
- Phill Price
Flickr is OUTTA CONTROL... damn! They really are managed by a bunch of "Yahoo!s"
- Susan Beebe
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
You have to pay for Photobucket. Or they owe me 3 years worth of pro account.
- Admiral Anika
So if Flickr sucks... where is the best way to go? what is your favorite?
- Peter Efland
Sumertownsun has responded to this post on my blog. http://thomashawk.com/2009...
- Thomas Hawk
@phefland there is no more nice place -- Flickr is the nasty but virtually free... and if you pay, it won't help you avoid any nasty action on you :)
- A.T.
I could get behind Flickr's Nazi practices, if they gave you an opportunity to at least retrieve your stuff before they killed your account. "You are in violation, this account has had public viewing disabled, and will be destroyed in 72 hours."
- Matthew DeVries
It might not be about the sucks comment, but possibly more the 'Rat Bastards' one. I still don't agree with the censoring, just not sure it is about the sucks comment.
- Travis Koger
maybe Travis. I guess I think that Flickr also ought to allow the phrase "rat bastard," and other similar terms.
- Thomas Hawk
My biggest gripe about their censoring is that it is pick and choose for them. They will gladly allow a popular member to break the TOS, but kill off others that might not be so popular... in their eyes. Sheharazade (??) is a perfect example. Saying that some of her pictures were not her own was a joke when they clearly allow more popular... read more 'public' members... to have photos by other photographers in their stream. Moving goal posts comes to mind.
- Travis Koger
I hope Flickr is listening... I just got a pro account, mainly because it works with everything (as mentioned above). Have folks tried Picassa?
- Jason
I've been putting off buying a Flickr Pro account because for me I haven't really noticed the benefits of being on it. The more of this that goes on, the less I want to give them my money.
- Kenton
Does the Flickr policy mention image content standards?
- Douglas Hopkins
This is part of the problem Douglas, Flickr's standards are very vague and not applied uniformly. A while back Stewart Butterfield said that an image of mine ought to be deleted because posting screengrabs "was not what flickr was about." And yet at the time I pointed out that Cal Henderson's (who works for flickr) account was full of WOW screengrabs. Inconsistencies abound with Flickr's censorship. If they are going to enforce content policies they ought to be universal.
- Thomas Hawk
Similary a few weeks ago Flickr without warning deleted Shéhérazade's account because they said she had photos in her stream not taken by her (she was the model in the photos and said she had permission) yet Flickr's Community Manager Heather Champ has photos in her stream not taken by her. Double standards and uneven application of censorship sucks.
- Thomas Hawk
Interesting sidenote. CoolIris (PicLens) completely bypasses the sign in requirement for 'borderline' content.
- Charlie Anzman
what do you mean Charlie? Are you saying that you can see restricted 18+ content with CoolIris without logging into Flickr?
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas - my first thought was you deleted your account. /Restarting heart now.
- Russellreno
nah, I don't think I'd ever delete my own account and I'd be devastated if Flickr ever did.
- Thomas Hawk
Techdirt's take here: http://www.techdirt.com/article...
- Thomas Hawk
You can post them in RedGage.com
- JG Suarez
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Dear Netflix CEO - http://www.glennbeck.com/content...
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Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix has reached out to President Obama and asked him to raise the taxes of anyone that makes over million dollars to 50% per year! But what Hastings may not know is that he can already pay more taxes. Print and then cut-out the sheets below and include them when you send back your DVDs, let him know he CAN pay as much as he wants!
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
It amazes and horrifies me that people actually watch Glenn Beck's show.
- Richard Lawler
haha, never seen it. Didn't even know he had a show.
- Thomas Hawk
I only saw it because I was visiting my parents, they only have basic cable and nothing else was on at 2 a.m. Dude knows how to use a straw man argument, unfortunately it's his only trick so it quickly got boring.
- Richard Lawler
Richard, Glenn Beck is one of the smartest people around. He's the one talk show I listen to because he doesn't cozy up to any one party's agenda. Of course, I'm guessing you would say that anyone who disagrees with you is a right wing lunatic. Hope you prove me wrong.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
This is brilliant, Raising taxes on the people that create jobs, who thinks that's a good idea?
- Robert Hafer
No, I don't have a problem with people who disagree with me, I have a problem with people who are liars, and Glenn Beck is an outright liar. The only way you can ignore that, is if you agree with his political stance. A lie is a lie no matter who tells it.
- Richard Lawler
"This just taxation the millionaires ... have so far escaped, but their day is coming. The hoards of millionaires should be so treated, not as a punishment, but for thier good, because it is just, and justice alone insures general contentment." - Andrew Carnegie, 1912 [http://bit.ly/1dHK3A] (PDF)
- MikeAmundsen
If you really do the math, a lot of us already pay 50% (in total).
- Anthony Citrano
I've disagreed, sometimes vehemenently, with Glenn Beck from time to time (I don't agree with his immigration positions), but I don't think he's a liar.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
He intentionally misrepresents the stance of anyone he opposes, over and over again. You can read it in this statement "reached out to president Obama" reads slightly differently than "wrote an op-ed column". "Suggested raising taxes instead of capping compensation" is a bit more informative than "asked him to raise taxes." He wants to rile up his viewers against the big government and those others coming to take what's theirs, and he doesn't seem to think he needs accurate information to do it.
- Richard Lawler
I hate this argument. I hear it all the time from people on the right, starting with Gov Huckabee. It goes something along the lines of: "If you're in favor of raising taxes, then go ahead and write a check to the government." That's ridiculous. A valid comeback is "okay, and if you want to invade Iran, then get a gun and a plane ticket." The point isn't that people don't deserve to have money or that people should be fighting, it's that big issues like this need to be handled at high levels.
- Blake Caldwell
IMO, Glenn is a living example of 'link-bait' he exists to drive traffic.
- MikeAmundsen
(continued): Reed Hastings' personal check won't make a difference. If this suggestion makes it into law and every rich person does it, then there's a difference. What a ridiculous argument to make. And... every single person that says "well go ahead and send a check" carries that ridiculous, smug grin on their face like they know everything. LOL, sorry for the rant.
- Blake Caldwell
It's not ridiculous, Blake. This is America, and last time I checked, we still have something akin to a representative democracy, aka a Republic. That means, if a majority of our elected representatives think they can keep their jobs by re-assigning wealth from everyone to people who they think need it more, it'll happen. If lone nuts want to affect that change for everyone, then it's more appropriate for them to just write a check.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
(continued) ... and yes, he's a lone nut if he thinks 50% taxes is a good idea in any way. See - http://friendfeed.com/e... and http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I just thought it was funny sending Netflix back something in those little red envelopes. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Mark: Non-sequitur. I understand how our republic works. What's appropriate and not is not in question. I'm not taking a side either way on the 50% thing (I assume you're making > $1million/year). I'm saying that Hastings is lobbying for changing the system, just like all of us do when we write our congressmen. The proper response from the other side isn't "good idea, write a check" - it's whether or not that proposed solution would work. Responding with "write a check" doesn't address the issue.
- Blake Caldwell
I don't see it as non-sequitur, and it's completely not what you characterize, i.e. rational lobbying. It's a self-destructive effort by someone who doesn't understand economics. It's self-destructive for him personally as well as the country. De-incentivizing achievement is poor policy no matter how you slice it. "Write a check" is a perfect response - mostly because he's likely the only one who possibly thinks turning the American dream on it's ear is a good idea....
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... put another way, "he's lobbying the government like we are when we call our congressmen" isn't an apt illustration. He's not lobbying to simply "raise taxes" as you say. He wants to make it so there's no point in achieving financial success above a certain level. Absurd proposals deserve absurd responses.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I'm fine with your criticizing his idea of 50% tax for those > $1 million. You might be right - it might be a stupid idea. Answering it with an absurd response is one way to answer. I guess this just hit a nerve with me because I know people that think it's a clever and serious response. If you're saying "write a check" instead of saying "you're an idiot," that's fine.
- Blake Caldwell
On a side note - and I can't believe I'm not just quitting with the previous comment - it's silly to say that a 50% tax rate for every dollar you make above $1 million equates to "no point in achieving financial success above a certain level." It's a bad point on two levels - first that we're talking about extreme wealth here. Let's remember that. Second, every dollar you gross, you'd net $0.50 instead of $0.67. Keep that in mind. We're not talking about people making more money grossing $999,999 than $1M.
- Blake Caldwell
Isn't the point that rich folk like the Netflix CEO are always volunteering to pay more taxes on behalf of a pay bracket that often extends far lower than their own income (think Warren Buffett) - the point is, it may be affordable at their pay level but not for someone earning rather less. If they think they ought to pay more taxes, let them, but don't let them make the decision for everyone else. I think that's the point of these mailers.
- Jan Dawson
Jan - Again, we're talking about people making over one million dollars per year. I'm not necessarily on board with that proposal, but will argue on its behalf to some extent. I can't accept that a 50% tax bracket for every dollar over $1,000,000 will make life unaffordable for anyone. It's fun to say that he's lobbying to extend this far below his own income, but don't get crazy and include people making $100,000 in that reasoning.
- Blake Caldwell
It would suck to make exactly $1,000,000 and know that people making $1 less than you have a bigger take home pay at the end of the year.
- Bryan Clark
No, the point of the mailers is to rile up people who don't bother to actually read what the Netflix CEO said.
- Richard Lawler
Bryan, isn't that the case with all tax brackets? It's not like our system is flat right now.
- s t e v e
You know, its not a matter of whether or not people can afford to live on 50% tax for income over $1 mil. It's whether or not they deserve to pay that much tax. We're talking about people who (most likely) are fueled by entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, creativity, business genius -- why do they deserve to get punished with taxes?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Another way to ask that, Shey, is to think about being in a restaurant with Mr. Hastings. He could afford to buy everyone in the place dinner. But no one expects him to just because he can.
- Craig Eddy
*looks at Netflix Q4 earnings* ok, business genius, I see it. *looks at so many other companies recent earnings reports* Just not finding the genius here. and if you --- again this is the point -- read original article by the Netflix CEO, you know that's not what he was getting at.
- Richard Lawler
The problem isn't taxes. It's a fact that government income has increased with the lowering of taxes. The problem is spending. Nobody should have their taxes raised to pay for pork bills like this so-called "stimulus" nonsense.
- Spencer
@Richard So you're using earnings, in today's economic climate where EVERYONE is taking a hit, as a gauge? FAIL.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
You're not reading the original article and reaching an intelligent informed decision. FAIL that. and amazing, Netflix seems to be doing ok, and they're not the only ones. Thriving during a time of economic crisis, that's not what a business should aspire to be doing, I can't believe I was so confused. He should've done what many million dollar per year earners did and fluffed profits in the short term on overly risky ventures. That's the ticket.
- Richard Lawler
I'm not defending Beck -- just not agreeing with the idea of the tax. Companies like Netflix will do well in these times, as more people stop going out [to the movies] and stay in.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
and I'm sure that's all there is to it, just wait for bad economic times step 2 ??? step 3 = profit. I don't agree with the idea of the tax either, however if you read the original article, the overall idea that simply capping CEO salaries is a misguided effort that hasn't and won't work I do agree with.
- Richard Lawler
Bryan Clark - You have a common - yet serious - misconception of how tax brackets work. This is one of the biggest problems with all public debates on the topic. You NEVER have less take-home when you earn another dollar. You might pay more taxes on that next dollar than you did your previous one, but you NEVER take home less. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Blake Caldwell
To elaborate - if Hastings is lobbying for a 50% tax break for those making over $1,000,000 per year, that 50% only applies to every dollar you make OVER $1million. Keep in mind that they're already taxed 35% for every dollar over $357,000. This means that this huge argument we're having is over whether or not people making $1,000,000 are going to pay an additional $0.15 per $1.00 they make over a million. See how silly this outrage is now?
- Blake Caldwell
Personally, I think taxing higher incomes at a (much) higher percentage is not a bad idea at all, Look at the Scandinavian countries, where tax brackets can get as high as close to a 100% (Abba actually moved away from Sweden for a while because they got taxed a 100% of their income!), but the quality of life for every citizen of those countries is much higher than it is in the USA ...
- Rene Wirtz
... continued. But, I don't think it will work, simply because then all of a sudden everyone who makes over a certain amount, say $1mio, does not live in the US anymore, nor is their company headquartered there anymore. Everything will be located in Bermuda, Isle of Man and other tax havens.
- Rene Wirtz
I can't laugh hard enough at people in low tax brackets (like myself or I would assume any of you) arguing on behalf of people of extreme wealth. I think JZ or Donald Trump's lifestyle wouldn't change a bit if he got taxed $0.15 more per $1.00 after $1,000,000. I also don't think he'd say "screw it, I'm not working anymore, there's no incentive." I imagine people get outraged about this type of story because (well, first, they don't understand tax brackets) they think...
- Blake Caldwell
(cont)... that "someday, I'll make a million bucks per year, and I shouldn't have to pay 50% of that money to the government!" when in reality, you'll NEVER make that kind of money... let alone that, if you did, you wouldn't even notice the minor incremental taxation on that last few bucks of extreme wealth we're talking about here. Get real, folks. Countries are expensive to run - take a look at how much that new bridge near your house cost your state. Look at our deficit and national debt.
- Blake Caldwell
If you are the Sole Prop. of a small business making $1 mil, raising taxes means less operating budget which less employment. Unless every small business pays taxes like Giethner.
- Robert Hafer
Robert Hafer - I'm no tax expert, but I believe a Sole Prop doesn't pay taxes on business expenses (http://www.nolo.com/article...). They only pay tax on the profit. That diffuses your argument.
- Blake Caldwell
Blake Caldwell - not all expenditures count as expenses, that's why CPAs make money
- Robert Hafer
Robert Hafer - thanks for the clarification. That's interesting. Looks like an expense is anything directly incurred in the process of earning revenue. I would imagine that includes salaries, supplies, etc, right? I'm willing to be convinced that such a tax hike would kill a small business, but would like to hear how.
- Blake Caldwell
Blake Caldwell - paying more taxes means less cash on hand, that has to come out of the budget somewhere. That won't kill all small businesses, but reducing payroll is the most effective way to cut budgets. Even if the cut in cash can be absorbed, it will slow down expansion; so less jobs. (There an old adage: "In business, like nature, if you're not growing, you're dying") In all "get the Rich" schemes, it's the people who work for the Rich who get hurt.
- Robert Hafer
@Blake Caldwell, you taught me something today :)
- Bryan Clark
Blake: Regarding the point which seems to cause you so much entertainment (folks making less than $1M arguing against high taxes) - your reaction misses the point entirely. Firstly, you're completely ignoring an entire class of business that can easily attain that level of income but would certainly be killed once they suddenly lose half their income. Second and more importantly (and telling) is your attitude that somehow none of us will "EVER make that kind of money." I find that attitude ....
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... insulting and presumptuous. You don't know me from Adam, and I'm guessing you don't know the rest of us either. There have been years in my past when I've earned well over a few million, and years when I've lived under the poverty line. It's amazingly easy to move your income level around in this country, and for there to be an incentive for us *not* to achieve - well, that's just absurd.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mark - I sincerely didn't want to offend anyone. I apologize if I did so. However, you can't fault me for my 'crazy' assumption that none of the dozen of us have made $1,000,000 a year. Please, it's not like I just assumed everyone here was white or in their thirties.
- Blake Caldwell
@Bryan Clark - cool! Yeah, I would imagine most people don't understand brackets. I was surprised when I asked around here at work.
- Blake Caldwell
@Robert Hafer - I might agree with you that certain situations of taxing small businesses could amount to hurting the company. There's certainly a difference (in my mind) between an individual making $1,000,000 per year and a small company. I would be in favor of making a distinction in the tax code.
- Blake Caldwell
@Mark - One more point though. If that tax increase was enacted, people wouldn't suddenly lose half of their income. A 50% tax bracket at $1,000,000 would mean you'd lose an additional 15% of your income for every dollar over a million, since the 35% bracket is in effect for every dollar over $357,000.
- Blake Caldwell
@Mark (cont) - so right now, if you make $1,000,000, you'll pay $329,000. If you make $2,000,000, you'll pay $679,000. If this 50% tax bracket went into effect, you'd sill pay $329,000 if you made $1,000,000. If you made $2,000,000, you'd pay an additional $150,000 of taxes: $829,000 instead of $679,000.
- Blake Caldwell
Glen Beck... ugh. What a hack.
- anna sauce
Hack or not, Beck just pwned the CEO of Netflix. Pwned I say.
- Mike Lewis
Except he didn't.
- Richard Lawler
Yeah it doesn't really make sense. I mean, the CEO gets a bunch of little discount cards in the mail saying he can pay more to taxes? Oooooh, scary.
- anna sauce
Nah, not pwned. LOL, he doens't have a 'passionate desire' to pay more taxes, just like anyone that has an opinion about where to send troops doesn't (necessarily) have a passionate desire to shoot people.
- Blake Caldwell
Nothing Glenn Beck does makes sense. He had this anti-communist (!) episode the other day, that was 1/2 in Cyrillic. A friend & I translated it, it was just nonsense. Oooh, scary the Russians are coming. Putin's rearing his ugly head! Glenn Beck is the Tara Reid of the celebrity crowd.
- anna sauce
Well then I'm waiting for the Glenn Beck drunken nipple slip :). Wait, errr....
- Blake Caldwell
What's disturbing about the nipple slip was that it revealed a botched operation...
- anna sauce
That tara reid nipple slip almost ruined "accidental" flashings for everyone.
- Richard Lawler
Tara Reid? OH, right, she had a nipple slip too. What a coincidence :)
- Blake Caldwell
Congressman's 'Twitter' activity attracts attention on Capitol Hill | wzzm13.com | Grand Rapids, MI - http://www.wzzm13.com/news...
Daniel Rowley, Kathryn, Rob Haas and 5 other people liked this
While Obama was speaking, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., was busy sending out messages on his Twitter page, a website that allows users to post updates on what they are doing. At the start of the meeting, as initially noticed by TIME Magazine, Hoekstra sent out his first note on the proceedings, taking a dig at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
- Leo Laporte
Congressional back channel heckling; heh.
- Denise Howell
Facebook launches "I like this" feature. I wonder where they got that idea? - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
Frode Stenstrøm, Matt Griffin, Bill Romanos and 19 other people liked this
I wonder how many people will "like" my FriendFeed link about Facebook launching a "like" feature?
- Scott Beale
Definitely should have given credit where credit is due. It's fine to copy, even to be encouraged, but it would have been classier to at least admit to being inspired.
- DeWitt Clinton
Is I like patented to FF? I do not think so. I remember some forums and bulletin boards having it.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Plagiarism! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Don't worry, I'm sure Zuck will be taken to task by a hard hitting journalist like Sarah Lacy, she'll pin him down and get him to own up!
- Matthew DeVries
I want it! I don't see it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I see the new FB "like" feature on my account. Not impressed. Doesn't show up in my feed that I "liked" an entry.
- Kevin Whalen
heading out to the pinewood derby races with my boys Jack and Will. Both cars exactly 5 oz. Looking forward to seeing how they do.
Susan Beebe, ha3rvey (Ho)^3, ursi and 11 other people liked this
have fun! i used to love those & model rockets, of course (do they still use C02 cartridges for car "engines"?)
- Scott Moskowitz
Oh, that brings back memories. My brother and I always placed very highly in pinewood derby. :)
- Wirehead
I always leave the house just under 5oz in case the "official scale" weights heavier. Nothing like hot glue and pennies to make the cars hits the right weight.
- David Thomas
alright Jack came in 2nd out of 60. Will made it passed the first round but lost in the semi finals. Jack almost won first place. It was down to a hair at the end.
- Thomas Hawk
Waiting for the photos finish shots.
- Russellreno
still have my trophy. did they let them use nitrous this year?
- Anthony Citrano
haha, no nitrous. I think a big part of the key is getting the car to exactly 5 oz with weights. Also we made Jack's car as aerodynamic as possible and used graphite to reduce friction between the wheels and axel. Oh and we filed and polished the nails holding the wheels to make them super slick.
- Thomas Hawk
When I was a den leader, 8 million years ago, one boy always won, every year, with 5 quarters as weights. :)
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Yeah, we used lead weights and graphite when I was a kid. The wikipedia entry had some pointers that it would have been fun had it occurred to my bro and I.
- Wirehead
Nice! Do you all do any R/C? Cheers
- Scott Moskowitz
Been there. Enjoy every moment...
- Chris Gulker
from Friend Deck
Fun! Thanks for making me remember a fun time with my own sons!
- ursi
Comics - Explosm.net - http://www.explosm.net/comics...
Hutch Carpenter, BEX, Uncle CW™ and 41 other people liked this
Excellent :-)
- Richard A.
LOL
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Best one yet.
- Nine
:)
- Andrew Badera
Lovely!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Cool
- Jayavasanthan J
guffawed at wirk. not cool.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Lol!
- Carmen
This is SO my mom
- mjc
Thanks! I needed that! LOL
- Internet Strategist
i usally give this kind of answers. ;-)
- Carol Linden
I had to share this with a few people cos i almost wet meself. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Is anyone else getting the impression that Obama expected to easily get what he wanted, and now that he is being asked to justify his ideas, maybe even compromise, he has become shrill and nasty? This line is nearly unforgivable "PASS IT NOW, OR WE MAY NEVER RECOVER"
Colide81 (James), Brian, Craig Eddy and 3 other people liked this
:)
- "Joey"
I swear to you... it is as if Twitter intentionally set out to create an API and rate limits that make is damn near impossible to develop useful applications.
Gregory Pittman, Christian Burns , Karoli and AJ Kohn liked this
I mean SERIOUSLY... why write an API that will only return ALL REPLIES - but only 20 at a time... oh, and you only get 100 TOTAL API requests per hour. Jeeeeezzzzzz
- Brian Roy
Can I get the replies to a specific Tweet? Nah... just go ahead and poll for all of them 20 at a time and filter client side for the Tweet ID... BRILLIANT!!! It is like the API is written to require the maximum possible number of API requests. Oh, yeah - and you only get 100 per hour TOTAL.
- Brian Roy
Social Media Mini Iconpack · Komodo Media - http://www.komodomedia.com/blog...
Roman Zolotarev, Andy Davies, Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ and 25 other people liked this
"This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. Put them on your blog or on your website to help users bookmark or share your site socially. I hear its all-the-rage these days."
- Corvida
from Bookmarklet
Where was this 6 months ago, when I painstakingly had to make my own? :)
- Admiral Anika
No clue Anika :(
- Corvida
Somehow I think it looks better here than it will anywhere I can put it. :-)
- Louis Gray
Whoa, super helpful link, and great icons! Thanx
- Drew Lucas
from twhirl
They're great value! ;)
- Tyson Key
Lets hope we'll still need the magnolia one
- Andy Davies
From the Tumblr About page, "Since then, we've grown from a team of two, to more than six people." More than six? You mean like, seven? Maybe eight? That's an odd thing to say.
Tyson Key and Gregory Pittman liked this
Maybe one of them is pregnant.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Or maybe one has a split personality.
- Evan Brown
Is this from the woman that had octuplets?
- Greg Guitarbuster
will likely send another Twhirl 0.8.8l preview today to team seesmic
MK35540, Gregory Pittman and bcultral liked this
oooh..looking forward to that.. what new stuff can we see? =)
- Qbat
I am excited! Thanks for keeping us updated.
- Jason DeBoer-Moran
from twhirl
pleasure!
- Loic Le Meur
Twitter Files for an IPO….‘TWEET’ as the Ticker Symbol? - http://howardlindzon.com/...
Gregory Pittman liked this
Brilliant idea - a company with no business model to go IPO during one of the most expensive eras to do so in one of the most down economies in fifty years. I'll say it again... out of the box doesn't need to be the same as stupid.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Panda FAIL
Alexander Benker, OnuRC, Mitch and 181 other people liked this
awww
- ♥patricia♥
I shouldn't laugh but it so funny. He looks like he is Kung Fu Panda
- Shevonne
I can't stop laughing.
- Mona Nomura
ouch
- Rob Sellen :o)
I'm still laughing
- Joe Pierce
Look at his little panda butt LOL
- Mona Nomura
Shevonne: if he doesn't get up quickly, he's gonna end up Kung Pao Panda
- Morgan Haley
@Morgan Now I am going to be laughing for another ten minutes about this
- Shevonne
Epic fail for Epic cute!
- Josh Haley
Poor little baby!!! LMAO
- Yolanda
But panda butts RULE
- Mona Nomura
L O L
- Brandon
I have to admit. This is killing me
- Erin @queenofspain
its like he has resigned to just stay like that. Look at his legs...I gotta stop looking at this, I'm laughing too much.
- Joe Pierce
His head. Is buried. LOL
- Mona Nomura
Is this why they have so much trouble mating? They're too busy laughing and going 'you're a fuckin dork' to their prospective mates ...
- Patrick Jordan
hmmmmm
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Whoopsi!!
- Penny
Do you think he is aware that his butt is Internet famous now?
- Joe Pierce
I don't know. But this picture STILL cracks me up.
- Mona Nomura
cracks me up too...still
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Say, that looks familiar ...
- Steven Perez
Awwww....lol
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
He meant to do that.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Is he looking for his hunny?
- Joe Pierce
BONK!
- Christian (Simply X)
Funny.
- hiroshimo
lol the more I look at it, the more I think it's photoshopped
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Don't ruin this!
- Joe Pierce
slayerboy: Nope, I've seen this before on TV. It's even more hilarious on video.
- Steven Perez
There's video?!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
:(
- ::Kristen::
Yep. Piece of video from AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO. Don't ask how I know that. I'm still trying to forget that I was watching that show.
- Steven Perez
AFHV? Oh no! That must mean someone hits the panda in the groin, I don't want to see that video.
- Joe Pierce
Ok this picture STILL cracks me up hahahaha
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Kungfu Panda is practicing the Power Driver move.
- imabonehead
Maybe the panda hits Saget in the groin?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
What?! Is that on YouTube?
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Well if nobody has found the video then I'm resurrecting the picture! (I'm laughing at it again)
- Joe Pierce
omg I love this so much!
- Penny
How sad ;o(
- Seth Greenblatt
from NoiseRiver
It's not sad. This RULES!
- Mona Nomura
Ah this must have hurt - but it look too cute!
- Manuel
Oh noes!!!!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Yay! The thread lives!!!
- Yolanda
hahahahahahahaha
- Iain Baker
dammit hes still funny!
- Joe Pierce
Every time I see this, I smile :)
- BeeLing
Awwww!
- ursi
This totally made my day - again!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
So cute! Really stirs my motherly instincts.
- Dawn
I think I found it (look at 6:30) : http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Stanislas Jourdan
ahahahah
- Lucio
oh hai again little buddy.
- Joe Pierce
lol
- Marcello Del Bono
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