200% tax for: cars that go faster than 130km/h, screens above 28", GPUs over 150W, guitars, audio amplifiers using vacuum tubes
right of way is always in the following order: pedestrians, muscle driven, motorized
javascript, python, java, CSS 3, spreadsheets and everything .NET is now illegal
Companies are liable in case of data leaks as well as for critical security issues they didn’t fix or provide patches for within a reasonable timeframe
mandatory “driving license” for using computers attached to any network
Companies with job offerings or marketing texts including the following words will for ever be excluded from official tenderings, funding and aid payments: “stack”, “AI”, “culture”, “cloud”, “fixed-term”, “flexible”, “internship”, “driven”, “blockchain”, “agile”
They waste energy and resources and have bad sound quality and are somehow still sold as “hifi”. Somehow that bothers me, it’s like selling steam powered trains to someone who already has an overhead line fed with green energy on his train tracks.
Edit: Thinking of it, I forgot vinyl records. They are even worse, they aren’t just outdated, bad sound quality and wasteful, they are also toxic.
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
200% tax for: cars that go faster than 130km/h, screens above 28", GPUs over 150W, guitars, audio amplifiers using vacuum tubes
Or, crazy idea (surely), a rich tax that actually brings them down to the level of people they think they’re superior to? I’m not talking about “50% on your income” and some capital gains or something, I’m talking redistributing the vast majority of their wealth until they’re even with the rest of the citizens. Hmm…
all very good suggestions, but why tube amps though 🤔
They waste energy and resources and have bad sound quality and are somehow still sold as “hifi”. Somehow that bothers me, it’s like selling steam powered trains to someone who already has an overhead line fed with green energy on his train tracks.
Edit: Thinking of it, I forgot vinyl records. They are even worse, they aren’t just outdated, bad sound quality and wasteful, they are also toxic.
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
The snob tax !
Or, crazy idea (surely), a rich tax that actually brings them down to the level of people they think they’re superior to? I’m not talking about “50% on your income” and some capital gains or something, I’m talking redistributing the vast majority of their wealth until they’re even with the rest of the citizens. Hmm…
That wouldn’t be obscure or minor. My tax isn’t meant to target the rich, but the stupid. (and guitarists)