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At 11/10/06 01:14 PM, Techware wrote: A little more progressive... yeah I said it.

if taxes are to be applied fairly then they shoudl be applied equally as stated withtin articel one section eight of the constitution. All taxes are to be levied equally. That means I pay the same as you no matter how much I make. In fact you might notice that the constitution in this section makes no mention of income... becasue it was never meant to be directly taxed and because it was never meant to be applied in any way but equally amongst us all.

if you support congress in its actions to violate THIS clause of the cosntitution then dont complain when they do it elsewhere.

At 11/10/06 12:56 PM, DrWurm wrote: NEVER EVER BASH TAXES.

How do you think we get money for schools or hospitals? hmm?

Don't be a whiny bitch because you shell out some extra money here and there. In the end it ALWAYS comes back to you.

Yes. Never question the authority of those above you. Never question having someones hand in your wallet. Never question the gun to your head while your forced to shell out the money to pay for these thigns.

I dont want to fund your schools especially. I dont have kids, I dont want kids yet, if I did I woudl send them to PRIVATE schools to teach what I want them to teach, (they brainwash u in public school), especially considering public schools are inferior to private schools in every way. Privateschols spend less money on teacher, less money per student, and still outperform public schools... which I might add we spend more on than EVER before in the history fo this fucked up nation. Its not the amount, its what it is going to. Your public schools elimiante competition, elimiante parental responsibility by displacing that responsibility to the state, and destroy parental choice in what the child is taught.

so long as democrats and republicans remain "in power" (that phrase being so commonly used is just fucking scary) we will continue to be a interventionalist nation. You can thank your progressive movement for this...

i cant give you an opinion about an event I knwo nothing about.

At 11/10/06 12:44 PM, StealthSteve wrote:

who said you had to ask? i didn't ask the government to build the highway system but i use it all the time regardless. just because you might not choose to frequent places like public libraries or parks or whatnot doesn't mean you should be exempt from contributing money towards their maintenance -- they're always going to be available for your use whether you choose to take advantage of them or not. what would you prefer, paying yearly taxes or paying per-use? do you want every road you drive on to be a toll road? do you want to pay admission every time you enter a public library or walk through a public park? after firemen put out your burning house, should they charge you a labor fee for it? pff, ninja please.

You missed the point. I never asked for military protection, I never asked or WANTED public schools, etc. I shoudl nto be forced to pay for services i DONT wnat, NEVER asked for, DONT USE. I would much prefer per use. If it were per use I would not be paying for services i dont want or use... only BY use. Liek any legitimate business. Your taxes by the way are no protection against tolls. Tolls are everywhwere even though you pay taxes. So really you ought to ask yourself if you want to pay by use, or pay by taxes and by use.

Why shoulnt the fireman charge for there service? Why shoudl they be onligatd to help you? just becasue they have the means? Taxes are forced funding and that is all. Anyone who sees any service as jsutification in itself for stealing from someone else... is a tyrant.

saying taxes are too high is one thing, but saying that you shouldn't have to pay ANY taxes (even though you probably make use of government-maintained public works on a daily basis) is just dumb.

No its not. Its saying governemtn shoudl not exist. Business can maintain roads better, cheaper, and provide a per use basis insted of forcing everyone to pay for them which does not take into account frequency of use. Governemtn taking over any aspect of socity eliminates choice. I should be able to opt out of any service the governemtn provides and not recieve from that service in return. Like a legitimate business... of course that involves choice so o course governmetn will not allow that...

real life isn't a 'hagar the horrible' comic strip.

i was making a point. I was comapring taxes to the days of vassels and lords and knights. its the same thing now, only we have citizens presidents and policemen.

they really should elimiante the tax on oil.

At 11/10/06 12:15 PM, StealthSteve wrote:

At 11/10/06 12:02 PM, iiREDii wrote: basically you are asking what kind of armed robbery by the state we prefer. I prefer none. Tax is a duty. It is an obligation. An obligation suggests that use of force can be placed upon you to make you... oblige. This inevitably means that tax is slavery.

You wouldnt tolerate wal-mart coming to your home with a gun forcing you to pay up, why would you tolerate it from anyone else?

well... wal-mart doesn't maintain roads, parks, schools, libraries, shelters, coordinate with energy and communications companies, fund police and firefighters and medical facilities, provide community services, etc etc etc. comparing a big-box retail outlet to the government is dumb.

and i don't recall the last time the government collected taxes with guns. when you don't pay taxes they don't stick you up, they just seize your assets and/or throw you in the clink.

Why should I be forced to fund anything? There is NO service or product that in itselfis jsutification for the armed robbery to support its funding.

I never asked for governemtn. i never asked for these services. You cant provide a service to me without my consent and expect me to pay. I cant come to your home and fix your porch without you asking me to and then demand payment. I cant paint your house and force you to pay for it under threat of death or imprisonment. But somehow, when the man who does this is wearing an american flag or a badge in his walelt its suddenly TOTALLY acceptable.

Government does so collect its taxes with weapons. Placing force upon my person comes in a variety offorms but inevitably can end in your lifes end. If you avoid paying your tithe to thine lords and ladies, the lord will send his men to your door to force you to pay. If you refuse, he will attempt to throw you in ye ol dungeon. If you resist arrest he will have you slain. Its that simple.

At 11/10/06 11:46 AM, Begoner wrote: I hope it's only a coincedence. However, the possibility that prices are influnced by the conservatives who run oil companies can't be discounted off-hand.

businesses are typically apolitical. They only care about governemtn usign its power to control business to eliminate thier compeittion or help them in various ways. Which is why we have this government/bsiness relationship which is so terrible. We have to elimiante the abilkit to control bsuiness from the state.

When DC attempts to control business, the first thing to be bought and sold is ALWAYS politicians

nope. I didnt see or hear about them. Would you like to post a link to help me out?

At 11/10/06 05:54 AM, Camarohusky wrote: What is the best form of taxation (high/low, flat/progresseive, etc.) and why?

basically you are asking what kind of armed robbery by the state we prefer. I prefer none. Tax is a duty. It is an obligation. An obligation suggests that use of force can be placed upon you to make you... oblige. This inevitably means that tax is slavery.

You wouldnt tolerate wal-mart coming to your home with a gun forcing you to pay up, why would you tolerate it from anyone else?

republicans and democrats are the same fucking thing. If you cant see that then your ignorant to politics and beyond help.

Republicans lose, democrats win, we still lose

same circus different clowns

Okay basically I am trying to get a loading bar to appear with a simple .png image and also display text for percent loaded (0%, 1%, 2%... till 100%) then automatically start playing. Problem is it doesnt really show up till about 30 or so percent loaded. Why is that?

here is the link to the zip file containing the .fla
flash file

Any and all help is appreciated.

At 11/3/06 03:06 PM, Begoner wrote: Any economic policy with which you do not agree is "dogma," eh? Well, if you must make another biased, pro-capitalist movie, at least have the common decency to call it "Compeer Communist," compeer being such a cool word and all.

Of course the movie will be biased. They always are. Being biased doesnt mean you arent being all ecompasing nor does it exclude true journalism.

Communism, along with all other collectivist theories, is based on nothing but dogma. On some twisted atruistic philosphy of mob rule. Collectivism is slavery to the majority pure and simple. Only in an anarchocapitalist society, are you truly FREE. Free to do wat you please with your life liberty and property so long as you do not interfere with anyone elses L L or P. A society where consentual contract is the rule. If the market isnt free, then there is no freedom. Read some rothbard, hayek, mises, CATO papers, and come back.

Compeer is far too esoteric. Commissar is more widely known as well as Captain.

At 10/29/06 01:02 AM, StoneColdSteve wrote: I found this as a comment for a flash, but i thought it was interesting so I copy/pasted to the politics forum. Yes it is all true, use google =)

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It would be fair of you to state that americans are generally quite ignorant of global affairs, but to say that americans are unintelligent is just ignorant. To those smug canadian individuals here is a breakdown of certain national average IQs.

(source: IQ and the wealth of nations, Lynn/Vanhanen)
Hong Kong:107
South Korea:106
Japan:105
UK: 100
USA: 98
Canada:97
Russia:96
Greece:92
Mexico:87
India:81

If americans are idiots what does that make canadians, functionally retarded?

and keep in mind are population is 12% black so that skews are numbers. Did I say something racist!? actually no, here is a beakdown of average IQs by race in america

(same source)
Asians:106
Whites:101
Hispanics:91
Blacks:87

so white america is actually more intelligent then canada and the united kingdom

check and mate, motherfuckers!!!!

IQ is an outdated and tired test of intelligence. besides... Intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge... which is far more important. Nor does it have a lick to do with political.ethical/sociological idealogy. (Some of the smartest people in america are republicrats and demopublicans... heh)

EUREKA BITHCES!

Well... More like (eureka*.75); Heh. He FINALLY has fire suppression but if ou press the F button while walking, then stop walking... the walk animation continues...

http://www.darrinkno..65/patriotengine.zip

At 11/3/06 01:49 PM, iiREDii wrote: see originally I tried to do soemthing like capture the getTimer ina variable and compare to to a new one to see how much time elapsed to restrict firing but it odnt work... leat the wya I tried it... OF COURSE

god I cant type today

see originally I tried to do soemthing like capture the getTimer ina variable and compare to to a new one to see how much time elapsed to restrict firing but it odnt work... leat the wya I tried it... OF COURSE

well honestly I dont have any clue how to code this otherwise :-/

At 11/3/06 01:13 PM, Blaze wrote:

At 11/3/06 12:36 PM, iiREDii wrote: nothin blaze. Would you mind takin a look at the .fla?

http://www.darrinkno../imd465/forBLAZE.zip

I don't like the way you're coding it... But then again, it's not me. I think i got it... :P

I'm not even sure how its supposed to fire.

Lovely graphics, by the way. did you draw those? hawt.

even if it doesn't work, i tried. :D

http://denvish.net/u..2577599_forBlaze.fla

Yea... I did al the artwork. Theres lots mroe where that came from :-) You shoudl see the axis soldiers and the nazi mega version of the suit your controling. heh...

Whats wrong with the code? I know it a tad long but that sorts comes from themultiple lines. I tried using listeners but I dont liek them... AT ALL. they are slow and not very responsive. Its really full of alot of code that is grayed out. And there are probaby remnants of old thigns that I tried I can get rid of.

I know my jump code is bogus and long probably but, hey, I did it without ANY freakin' help or tutorials. All me baby. Home grown. :-)

It fires by detecting F being pressed. Then if F is pressed it sets fire to true. If fire is true it plays the clip for firing the beam and sets a variable to start a countdown to when it can fire again... in theory.

Feel fre to trash the fire code and edit it to uhm... work. haha.

nothin blaze. Would you mind takin a look at the .fla?

http://www.darrinkno../imd465/forBLAZE.zip

button spamming is like... ok for example in my .fla:

the "F" button makes the dude fire his beam from his hand. I dont want them to be able to press F insanely fast and have the animation... and te code for firing... acivate a zillion times very quickly.

When "F" is pressed I want th aninmation to play, code to activate or waht not, and then when the animation for the firing is over... AND ONLY THEN... can you press the "F" key again

I just wanted to see if there was some interest in making a Libertarian oriented flash movie for myspace... something similair to Captain Capitalist but obvioulsy without the sarcasm and blatant biased against REAL capitalism.

I was thinking we coudl go one of two directions:
1 serious
2 funny

Keeping it serious might be a bit moe boring but woudl be alot more informative, dispelling myths about the capitalist ideals and exposign collectivist theory for what it is... dogma. Funny would be directly along the lines of Captain Capitalism. Instead of defending Capitalism though perhaps we shoudl take the offensive and Create our own Comrade Communism? or Commisar Communism? And poke fun of from there?

Its jsut a pet idea I have had for sometime and owuld really like to see if there was interest in collaborating on this project. Respond here if your interested of hit me at thorsmitersaw@gmail.com... please place "Libertarian Flash" in the subject.

How would you prevent button spamming in a game? I have tried several methods including using getTimer with no success. I can provide my source .fla with an external link if need be.

is there another method?

heh... still not functioning properly.

At 10/27/06 12:32 PM, Me-Patch wrote:

A company isn't a plot of land, a company is open to private stockholders, each stockholder owns a portion of a company, anyone is allowed to buy said stock. A public company should have to abide by the governments equal oppurtunity employment laws, as it is not a private organization and not entitled to the same rights.

And those stock holders are entitled to THIER property. THEY own it. THEY invested int he business... NOT YOU. The general public who does NT have a vestment within the company can lay no claim to thier property.

A public domain business is a contradiction of terms.

ARG! that doesnt work either. Think you could mark that fla up to get it to work and send me the file? Or possibly post the script here?

I tried addign it to te down function but it iwll in any case make the man stand still unless I am moving down

if is not...

god damn it

why is it you can stare at code for hours and pull your hair out and not see the simplest solution? :-P

He would be just like any other republicrat.

Look him up on OnTheIssues.org

He spends like theres no tommroow, supports marraige bans, promotes public miseducation (heh), voted for the patriot act, believes in economic "justice"... etc.

no. All business. Not jsut small business. The number of owners does not matter.

if 20 people share coownership of a plot of land you have no right to say that you are entitled to some of that land just because more than one person owns it or because it is large

Property rights, like all rights, are either absolute or nonexistant