What can the rich buy with their tax cut?


Employ another employee
Invest in capital equipment
keep the company insurance plan
Keep company matching to employee 401k
Spend then money more wisely

Congressman Grayson (D-Fla.) is such a wipe. Wonder why he lost his election.

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What part of "magic and revolutionary" don't you understand Blankfist?

Steve Jobs is by all accounts a real asshole. I still like the products. Not because it's cool, trendy or makes me feel superior. I like it because it works best for me. I agree with @kronosposeidon that HTML5 and other open technologies will eventually supplant the stopgap that is Flash.

Google is pushing it themselves with their recent in browser game project for Chrome. They give faint praise to Adobe and talk about Flash collaboration, but I don't think there is love in the heart of the Google hacker for proprietary Flash. I do realize that the compiled .SWF format is kind of open- but the .FLA most definitely is not - am I right? I know there are some 3rd party tools that can compile SWF like Swift3D, but Adobe has a stranglehold on a "complete" authoring tool for Flash- and intends to keep it. Open indeed.

And just because I'm feeling cantankerous - I'll let Trip Hawkins put some icing on this cake - in a post aimed at professional developers who would actually like to make some money off their creations.

>> ^blankfist:
Too early at the moment to count Flash out. But, anytime a company tries to be too proprietary they tend to go south quickly (see Real Player), and Flash has a tight lock on the FLA authoring. I don't know enough about html 5 at the moment to tell one way or another what will come of Flash, but Flash has a high user base in terms of development and a high user base in terms of plugin penetration.


And who would know more about penetration than you, blankie?



OpenLaszlo is pretty cool.

If HTML5 can get an IDE or SDK (does it have one yet?) then maybe it's for the best.

I am a big Flash fan and will be really bummed if it becomes extinct.

Too early at the moment to count Flash out. But, anytime a company tries to be too proprietary they tend to go south quickly (see Real Player), and Flash has a tight lock on the FLA authoring. I don't know enough about html 5 at the moment to tell one way or another what will come of Flash, but Flash has a high user base in terms of development and a high user base in terms of plugin penetration.

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Are there not other ways to do motion graphics without Flash's model of frames and tweens?

IMO the only way Flash will survive is to open the FLA and make it a web standard. While the SWF runtime is open and lots of programs can make one (eg. Swift3D) - Adobe nee Macromedia has always maintained tight control over the FLA source.

To be honest, even that probably won't save Flash. the wind is blowing towards search-engine readable HTML - and plug-ins feel like old technology.

>> ^rougy:
I need to look into that, but I don't think Flash is going anywhere.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any frames or tweens yet.
I personally think Flash would do well to release "low caliber" versions of Flash editors for free so that people can get in there and play with the basics.
I'm a huge Flash enthusiast, but the main thing that prohibits its popularity is, in large part, the price of the editor.

Some much needed context:

(AP) WASHINGTON — Show me some civility, Republicans cried Friday after a Missouri congressman speaking on the House floor was caught on microphone apparently cussing out a fellow Missourian.

Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., had just finished addressing his Republican colleague Todd Akin Thursday.

Skelton then turned to the side and muttered "stick it up your ass."

The comment was just audible on the C-SPAN tape of the proceedings and was not included in the Congressional Record, the official record of speeches on the House and Senate floor.

Skelton's spokeswoman, Jennifer Kohl, said the comment was not intended to be broadcast and was "said out of frustration in the heat of debate." She said Skelton, a veteran lawmaker known for working well with Republicans, planned to apologize to Akin.

The dispute arose over opposition from Akin and other Republicans to inclusion in a major defense policy bill of a provision extending federal hate crimes law to include violence against gays.

Akin, a member of the Armed Services Committee, had spoken before Skelton, saying the hate crimes measure was "poisonous enough in fact that we refuse to be blackmailed into voting for a piece of social agenda that has no place in this bill."

Skelton, in his on-mike reply, said he wanted "to remind my fellow Missourian" that the Senate had voted for the defense bill, with the hate crimes provision, by a vote of 87-7.

Akin's spokesman, Steve Taylor, said the remark was "shocking and not characteristic of Skelton's behavior." He said Akin, who has a son going to Afghanistan in three weeks and is normally a strong supporter of defense legislation, was "very disappointed in the personal digression."

National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Tom Erickson issued a statement that "Skelton needs to apologize, not only to his colleagues in the House, but also to his constituents who shouldn't have to put up with this sort of behavior from their elected representatives."

Both parties have complained recently about the lack of civility in the House, the Democrats after Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., yelled out "you lie" during a speech by President Barack Obama on health care legislation, and Republicans after Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., said on the House floor that the GOP approach to health care reform was telling sick people to "die quickly."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/rep-skelton-to-rep-akin-s_n_315821.html

He's luckier than his half-cousin, Fla-ming.

Gravity is a theory.. So is evolution. I guess conservation of momentum is also a theory.. to those folks in Fla.

this would totally rock. i would help with the typography if you send me .fla

Lyrics of the song by "The Drinkers"

Sviče zora u subotu
Dan doleče iz daljine
Svi junaci ovog kraja
Čekaju da sunce svine
Čekaju da sunce svine

Joj ojoj…..

Za Beograd (za Beograd)
firmom Krstič (firmom Krstič)
Upravo se narod sprema
Sve razloge za put ima
Samo valjda sreče nema joj

Majko mila (majko mila)
Šta se zbiva (šta se zbiva)
Tužna li se pesma peva
Smrt je došla u pohode
Ovde više nema mira joj

Nesrečnik sam od malena
Od sve muke pesme pevam
Voleo bih majko mila
Da se ovo samo sneva
Da se ovo samo sneva

Joj ojoj….

Spremao je (dugo švaba)
Ovaj dugi (strašni let)
Ko nekako da uništi
I izgradi novi svet (i izgradi novi svet) joj

Švaba jaše (švaba jaše)
Crnog konja (crnog konja)
Potresla se sva Europa
Naša vojska napad sprema
Spremila je malog topa jooj

Drinker jaše pune flaše