Fjodor’s thoughts

Taxation of the rich vs. the poor

By Fjodor on Sep. 3, 2009.

I saw this comment on a slashdot.org article tonight.

In essence, it’s an explanation of the US tax system, explained in the setting of “beer for 10 people” by a professor in economics.

While one may (rightfully) question the quality of a great many slashdot comments, I find this one rather profound.

I’d say it could be adapted to many other countries’ tax schemes with an equivalent conclusion – perhaps because politicians worldwide seem to be more eager to please the readers of daily newspapers, than to listen to sensible science…

Update 11:12 – link fixed. Thank you Thode :-$

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…and that’s the end of that monstrosity.

By Fjodor on Jun. 1, 2008.

Enough with the telemagenta now. I still think it was a worthwhile point to make, but wow, it sure did look, erm, magenta

Also, instead of just changing back to the default theme, I’d like to try out the one you are seeing now. It’s called Mystefied, and it’s brought to you by the nice guys at http://www.xhtmlvalid.com. I think it looks nice, but if you disagree, please let me know

Edit: Incidentally, I like to provide Atom feeds as well as RSS, so I tweaked the theme a bit with a new image and link for that, which however left no space for the search form in it’s previous position. Thus, it has been moved to the sidebar, and it has been equipped with a submit-button. Most browsers do fine without them, but I’m unsure as to how it would work for a mobile browser without one…

I hope all this is fine with xhtmlvalid and Mr. Chaudhuri, both of whom I have notified.

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AT&T propose to launch largest foot-shooting apparatus ever?

By Fjodor on Jan. 18, 2008.

Once again, I do little more than link to another blogger, but if by this, I can get just a few more to read that link than if I did nothing, then so much for the better.

In other words, this is why you should either sell your AT&T shares or, alternatively, contact all the fellow shareholders you can reach, and get them to side with you in demanding that the mastermind behind this proposition be tarred and feathered. I’d go for the money…

#EDIT: as a commenter pointed out, the link was botched, but should now work. Thanks for the heads up!

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How to tell if a US judge is past his “best before” date

By Fjodor on Jan. 18, 2008.

This is just so mind-numbingly wrong that I am lost for words.

Luckily, however, CircleID pretty much sums it up…

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Manifesto (sort of)

By Fjodor on Feb. 13, 2007.

So, I installed WordPress. The comments to the front page of the main page seemed to take up too much space, so in the course of the next days, they will be added here, along with further posts.

The main focus will probably be MS criticism…

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