Friday, August 31, 2007

New Wallpapers

Here's some new wallpapers that I've made, also posted to my deviantart account...
(click image for full size)



Northern Lights - 1024x768







Peaceful Aura - 1680x1050 (Widescreen)







Soul Fractal - 1680x1050 (Widescreen)



Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Using profit to reduce tax burden amongst the common folk

So I've been doing a little bit of brainstorming about ways to cut tax burden without services, and this is one idea that came to mind: have the govt. launch a few buisnesses of its own in relatively stable markets. These would be run just like normal buisnesses, the only difference being that the profits would go to the government.

The income from the buisness profit could then be used not only reduce the tax burden on americans, but could also be used to bolster under-funded programs that benefit the public - without raising taxes. Theoretically, if enough govt-owned buisness prospered we could eliminate tax burden completely without reducing services. (Something that I think both capitalists and socialists could go for)

Along with that - if there were enough govt-owned buisness - I would require that any new regulations on any industry be first enforced on the govt-owned buisnesses for 6 months to one year, so that the effect of such regulations could be examined - and if negative, reconsidered.

Just a thought...
that's all for now...

Thursday, August 16, 2007

I've already upgraded, lol

I've already upgraded to an Intel Core2 Duo E6300 processor, lol.
I'll probably get another gig of ram on friday.

...and I'm absolutely addicted to NWN2! :)

Govt waste takes 20+ years to fix?

From Ron Paul's weekly column (emphasis mine):

You see, while waste, fraud and abuse are very easy to attack, it seems they are much more difficult to actually address within the current federal behemoth. For example, the General Accounting Office puts out a “high risk list” and describes this list as programs with “vulnerabilities to fraud, waste and abuse and mismanagement.”

There are currently 27 programs and operations on this list, up from 26 last year. But here are the more surprising facts, the list was originated with 14 programs in 1990. Of those original 14 programs, from 17 years ago, only 8 have been removed. How can it be that 6 programs remain on such a list nearly two decades later? While government is supposed to move slowly, this is ridiculous.

What GAO is saying is that a problem exists, we have been aware of it for 17 years, and it is still not corrected


http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst081307.htm

Another reason to elect Ron Paul.