• Tax email to reduce spam?
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merge [editline]30th March 2013[/editline] god damn
[QUOTE=Trogdon;40096413]Email should be charged by character, which would reduce grammar further and we could use the collected tax money to instate email classes in the US so we generated tax money and spent it on the same thing[/QUOTE] I would tax those with bad spelling and grammar if I had to. The worse it is the higher the tax. I think that would motivate a lot of people to use it properly.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;40096463]I would tax those with bad spelling and grammar if I had to. The worse it is the higher the tax. I think that would motivate a lot of people to use it properly.[/QUOTE] I would prefer if they started with such tax on SMS and Facebook instead
this is an awful idea and will cripple alot of business.
Who are we kidding, this isnt to reduce spammers, its just the government trying to get another source of income.
We have a tax on regular mail because a government entity handles and delivers the mail, but a government entity doesn't deliver our emails. And I haven't seen a notable amount of spam emails in years anyways
And here is why everybody thinks our congress is out of touch with modern times.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096073]Let's stop complicating things and just tax every bit that passes through your router.[/QUOTE] but my Linux distros...
[QUOTE=Van-man;40096498]I would prefer if they started with such tax on SMS and Facebook instead[/QUOTE] Just tax bad spelling outside of public school for people above 11 or 13.
[QUOTE=gokiyono;40096962]Just tax bad spelling outside of public school for people above 11 or 13.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of FP back in the good ol' days
I wish people would think before they speak.
Ugh, that is the dumbest idea I've heard in a long time, and undoubtedly coming from one of those people that bitches and moans about the good old days of sitting at a desk writing letters to people and waiting three months or some bullshit for a response.
[quote] Wozniak, however, is certified brainy — a retired nuclear scientist, a futurist who, he admits, may be ahead of his time about taxing email.[/quote] no this is just impossible even if it were a good idea, unless we changed everything about the internet
We should tax cars to subsidize the horse and buggy.
[quote]"There should be something like a bit tax," he said. "I mean, a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would make, probably, billions of dollars a year.... And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email."[/quote] time for you to retire as a councilman [QUOTE=Eudoxia;40096073]Let's stop complicating things and just tax every bit that passes through your router.[/QUOTE] yeah you were joking but he said this so
[QUOTE=Shadaez;40097582][QUOTE]"There should be something like a bit tax," he said. "I mean, a bit tax could be a cent per gigabit and they would make, probably, billions of dollars a year.... And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email." [/QUOTE] time for you to retire as a councilman[/QUOTE] It boggles the mind, doesn't it?
[QUOTE=Frankiscool!;40096561]Who are we kidding, this isnt to reduce spammers, its just the government trying to get another source of income.[/QUOTE] I had the same thought. Like how I see the Cigarette taxes and how I saw the failed(here in New York) "Obesity Tax", they just see something that gets used a lot and want to try and cash in on it under the guise of "but its for your protection!"
[QUOTE=smurfy;40096085]I agree. We could divide each bit by the gradient of the hypotenuse for a start[/QUOTE] just underrun the buffer and reroute the code through firewall memory space, then it's just a few simple calculations to figure out what the joke was in the first place
[QUOTE=SteakStyles;40098954]I had the same thought. Like how I see the Cigarette taxes and how I saw the failed(here in New York) "Obesity Tax", they just see something that gets used a lot and want to try and cash in on it under the guise of "but its for your protection!"[/QUOTE] Smoking cigarettes is a very unhealthy habit that you don't have to do, taxing it not only makes it expensive and could potentially (not saying it does) stop some people from buying them. All at the same time supporting the government with tons of money. Taxing emails is basically saying, "Well Timmy wants to send a million emails a day, so everyone give us money because Timmy is a little bitch" Emails aren't a bad habit that destroy your health and create many other problems. Yes, people spam, instead of taxing to get rid of spam, do what email companies already do... Figure out how to block it and not allow the user ever to see spam.
How are people with this little knowledge on a subject able to make laws based on said subject?
[QUOTE=cani;40099575]How are people with this little knowledge on a subject able to make laws based on said subject?[/QUOTE] Welcome to America. Where people who have NO IDEA what it is like living as an average citizen become leaders and then make legislation on how normal people should live life, while none of it applies to them.
Hmm this sounds familiar... [IMG]http://images.nintendolife.com/games/wiiware/strong_bad_episode_2_strong_badia_the_free/cover_large.jpg[/IMG]
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