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  3. I have this issue too. But if you click the "Login" button on the home page, then you get another logon box, and if you click "user name" entry box there, it DOES remember your user-ID and password, and inserts the values for you. I take that extra step so I don't have to type it every time. But the initial logon box on the home page should do it too, so this is a valid problem. I use Windows XP.

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    Zero is not a fair share

    The vast majority of people who pay zero income tax do pay sales tax, property tax (even if in the form of rent, which always includes the owner's property tax costs), etc.

    If there were a flat rate of (say) $25 minimum, what would be the cost of administering that flat rate, and what would be the rate of return to the gummint for collecting it, enforcing it, etc. Would it be worth it? You might bend over to pick up pennies, but not everyone thinks it's worth their while.



    I think everyone should pay some federal income tax. We all need to be invested in America, and have some stake in how the money gets spent. If 47% pay no federal taxes, then that's 47% who don't care about federal spending, and thus we have out-of-control federal spending. If everyone had to pay something, then everyone would pay more attention to federal spending, and would vote to get it under control. Even if you only make $20k per year, you ought to pay, say, $200 federal income tax. We need something to make people a part of this country, and to care about how it's run. If half of all Americans have no stake in it, then we're doomed.

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    ...we screen people who should not be jumping what they have i.e. the 50 jump person with a 107 Katana.

    The firearm-laden society of the USA is doing no such equivalent. Instead of stopping the 50 jump wonder with the 107 Katana, we let them have the gun and then hope they don't do anything stupid with it.



    Every gun sale made by a gun dealer is personally approved by the BATF. They ARE screened.

  18. Yes. Because of the tailgate opening, the air in the cabin is sucked out the back end, creating a low-pressure area in the cabin. So it's the equivalent of being at a high altitude where there's less oxygen. And that leads some people to feel short of breath and to pant like a dog. Most people compensate by absorbing oxygen through their skin, like fish with gills. You might be one of the people who didn't inherit the fish gene, and so you feel it worst than most.

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    Really, I mean you should go back to your Texas desert and think about it again (especially about the "few"...).

    Skydivers have to prove their skills permanently - at least, here in Germany with a minimum jump number per year to keep licence valid.

    What are you gun kissing folks doing to prove your shooting skills? I mean, except bringing your little kids to the shooting range to make you feel proud if that 5 y/o is killing a coke can :S

    Your "right to exercise ..." is killing more and more people in your country. Do you think, that was your *founding fathers'* intention?

    :|



    Dallas isn't desert. Everything else you said about guns is wrong too.

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    So what would you propose to keep guns from the hands of madmen while allowing sane law abiding gun owners to exercise their rights? Or do you consider a few mass shootings like Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora and Milwaukee to be of little consequence?



    What would you propose to stop the highway carnage of 36,000 dead every year in auto accidents, while still allowing safe drivers on the road? Or do you consider 36,000 dead to be of little consequence? Is that acceptable losses so that you can enjoy the freedom of driving a car? Is it selfish of you to want your car while 36,000 people die every year?

    Apparently the answer for just about everyone is "yes". We love our cars, and live with the consequences of that. Freedoms have a price. Just like the right to own guns.

    But we can reduce this highway carnage by instituting a nationwide 20 mph speed limit, that would eliminate nearly all of those traffic fatalities, without infringing upon everyone's freedom to own cars and drive. Would you be in favor of that? Sure, it's gonna take you longer to get to work and back home, but wouldn't saving 36,000 lives be worth it?

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    And said deficit of tax will be taken from anyone who makes over say....$250k a year in personal income. And if you decide to resign your citizenship in protest your assets will be frozen and held by the Federal Government for the equivalent of one tour of service.



    Sieg Heil!

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    The first retaliation for 9/11 was a white guy who shot a Sikh outside his gas station a few days after 9/11, assuming he was a Muslim.

    If Americans are really this stupid, is there justification for allowing them to have guns? I mean really?



    Are Americans stupid enough to use the actions of a few madmen as justification for taking away the constitutional right of everyone else who exercises that right responsibly?

    If skydivers are really stupid enough to fly themselves into the ground at high speed and kill themselves under perfectly functioning canopies, is there justification for allowing them to have parachutes? I mean really?