Phil Cook wrote:
>> I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
> 
> Pah the financial route's for sissys, give me a good old fashioned Death 
> Ray anytime.

Sure, I've got a spare one lying around here somewhere...

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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And lo on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:01 +0100, Chambers  
<ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> I may now proceed with my plans of world domination! Muwahaha!
>>  Pah the financial route's for sissys, give me a good old fashioned  
>> Death Ray anytime.
>
> Sure, I've got a spare one lying around here somewhere...

Oo how much do you want for it, or do you want to swap for a prototype  
time machine (only works one way and at one speed) or a wormhole generator  
(Planck size only)?

-- 
Phil Cook

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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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Darren New wrote:
> http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6 

>> It's on a web page produced by a political action organization. 
> 
> It's on a web page produced by "political action organization"??
> 
> It's on a web page produced by THE F'ING CONGRESS OF THE USA!
> 

 From the NTU site to which you linked:

"Since it was founded over 35 years ago, the National Taxpayers Union's 
Number One job has been helping to protect every single American's right 
to keep what they've earned....We are a nonprofit, non-partisan citizen 
group whose members work every day for lower taxes and smaller 
government at all levels."

"Since its founding in 1977, NTUF has actively engaged in the policy 
formation process at the academic, judicial, and political levels."

--Sherry Shaw


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Darren New wrote:
> 
> I.e., not that you're "ignoring them" as unworthy, but that you're 
> "ignoring them" when counting the percentage of people who make lots of 
> money. You obviously interact more with people who make lots of money - 
> that's how they make it.
> 

Rich people don't associate with the likes of me.  I don't mind a bit.

> Me, I think I know very few people who make >$250K who don't have 
> millions and millions of dollars.  (I know a fair number of people who 
> have millions and millions of dollars, tho.)
> 

Whoa, how could anyone ever have guessed that?

--Sherry Shaw


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Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:47:11 +0100, "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> 
>> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
>> news:48038975$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>
>>> It's not that you know lots of doctors. It's that you ignore all the poor 
>>> people who you pass every day.
>>     That was a low call.
>>
> 
> Fighting talk, where I come from. Worse than putting your empty beer
> glass, upside down on the table.

For the last couple or three decades, it's been getting easier and 
easier to identify the far-right-wing elements here, without ever 
bringing up politics:  They're incredibly rude, and they think that's OK.

--Sherry Shaw


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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6 
> 
>>> It's on a web page produced by a political action organization. 
>>
>> It's on a web page produced by "political action organization"??
>>
>> It's on a web page produced by THE F'ING CONGRESS OF THE USA!
>>
> 
>  From the NTU site to which you linked:

So you're going to ignore the numbers that say the same thing that come 
from the congress and the IRS?


See, read what I wrote:
Blah blah blah, Congress and IRS says in 2004 it was like this, blah 
blah, other people *claim* it's even worse later.  (That's what the word 
"apparently" means, you see. It *appears* that way.)

So if you don't like arguing about the NTU while having no actual facts 
of your own, why not argue with the Congress and the IRS while having no 
facts of your own?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> I don't currently know any doctors.  I can't afford to know any doctors. 
>  I did spend a number of years doing people's taxes.

So, based on the numbers you saw while doing peoples taxes, you figure 
most of the country makes a lot of money?  Did you consider the 
selection bias that people who are *not* making a lot of money don't 
come to you to have their taxes done?

Indeed, you'd see only rich people if *only* the top 1% of earners had 
to pay any income tax at all?

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>>
>> I.e., not that you're "ignoring them" as unworthy, but that you're 
>> "ignoring them" when counting the percentage of people who make lots 
>> of money. You obviously interact more with people who make lots of 
>> money - that's how they make it.
>>
> 
> Rich people don't associate with the likes of me.  I don't mind a bit.

Well, it's good to know that makes you more of an expert than the IRS on 
how many rich people are paying taxes. Thanks for playing.

(Geez, is it me, or has everyone in the last couple weeks been playing 
the Creationism Logic Game here? "It's hard for me to believe that rich 
people pay a lot of tax in spite of the evidence presented, therefore 
I'll argue it must not be true without providing any evidence of my 
own."  "It's hard for me to believe some people use non-relational data 
storage in spite of being provided with a list of both reasons and 
users, so I'll claim it's true without any evidence to counter it.")

>> Me, I think I know very few people who make >$250K who don't have 
>> millions and millions of dollars.  (I know a fair number of people who 
>> have millions and millions of dollars, tho.)
> 
> Whoa, how could anyone ever have guessed that?

Unfortunately, I'm not one of them. And unfortunately they're not giving 
me any of their money any more.

But I apologize if I've actually insulted you.  It wasn't my intention 
to do so.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:00:23 -0500, Sherry Shaw <ten### [at] aolcom>
wrote:

>For the last couple or three decades, it's been getting easier and 
>easier to identify the far-right-wing elements here, without ever 
>bringing up politics:  They're incredibly rude, and they think that's OK.
>

Oh! So that's where our upper classes went. You got them :)

Seriously they are always like that. When our Mrs T was in power it
was the same over here. When there is a far right government in power
more crawl out of the woodwork than you would imagine was possible.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> "It's hard for me to believe some people use non-relational data
> storage in spite of being provided with a list of both reasons and
> users, so I'll claim it's true without any evidence to counter it.")

Where's that one? I seem to have somehow missed it...

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