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Taxes

September 29th, 2006

There are many types of taxes:

  1. Income Tax
  2. Property Tax
  3. Sales Tax
  4. Social Security Tax
  5. Estate Tax
  6. Gift Tax
  7. Corporate Income Tax
  8. Excise Tax
  9. Alcohol Tax
  10. Gasoline Tax
  11. Cigarette Tax
  12. Lottery and Gambling Tax

Blame the 16th amendment to the United States Constitution.
By 1913, 36 States had ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. In October, Congress passed a new income tax law with rates beginning at 1 percent and rising to 7 percent for taxpayers with income in excess of $500,000. Less than 1 percent of the population paid income tax at the time. 

Prior to the enactment of the income tax, most citizens were able to pursue their private economic affairs without the direct knowledge of the government. Individuals earned their wages, businesses earned their profits, and wealth was accumulated and dispensed with little or no interaction with government entities. The income tax fundamentally changed this relationship,

References:

http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

http://people.howstuffworks.com/income-tax.htm

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday/


Enemy Combatant?

September 21st, 2006

What is an Ememy Combatant?

A combatant is a person who takes a direct part in the hostilities of an armed conflict who upon capture qualifies for prisoner of war under the Third Geneva Convention (GCIII). An unlawful combatant is someone, such as a mercenary, who take a direct part in the hostilities but who upon capture does not qualify for prisoner of war status.[1]

Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals.

Most combatants who do not qualify for protection under the Third Geneva Convention do so under the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV), which concerns civilians, until they have had a “fair and regular trial”. If found guilty at a regular trial, they can be punished under the civilian laws of the detaining power.

Reference:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_combatant


Wordpress embedded Gallery2 URL rewrite module

September 21st, 2006

I finally got the Gallery2 URL rewrite module to work in combination with Wordpress and WPG2.  In hindsight, the problem was simple.  The Gallery2 URL rewrite modules support multiple methods (parsers), including Apache mod_rewrite and PHP PATH_INFO.  When I initially installed the URL rewrite module, I must have selected the PATH_INFO method.  You are prompted with the choice when the install the module, and the only way you can change the option is the uninstall and re-install the module.  It turns out, that the PATH_INFO method is either not support by WPG2 or is so poorly supported that it should not be used.   After re-installing the Gallery2 URL rewrite module, and selecting mod_rewrite, everything worked perfectly.


WDCR SCCA Autocross #6, FedEx Field

September 3rd, 2006

Pictures | Run 2(64.765) | Run 3(64.618) | Run 4(64.258) | Results

The 6th event in the SCCA WDCR Solo Championship series was held at FedEx field parking lots E and F on Sunday.  

Seventeen drivers were registered in the Super Stock class, but two drivers did not start.  Registered cars in Super Stock included 9 Corvette C5 Z06’s, 6 Lotus Elise’s, 1 Lotus Exige, and 1 Mazda RX-7. 

The course design was tight, and looked a little different due to a different course designer.

Jerry Enger and Brian Conners took first and second place in super stock.  Both of these drivers are running in the Nationals in Topeka Kansas later this month.  

The event results are available here.