There is nothing certain but taxes.
– Marvin Minsky
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Since taxes are “man made” and controled by man they are not certain. Our day will come 🙂
Death not on the cards then?
Im guessing you can proberbly cure death….
Oh! how original!!!
Minsky’s Follies?
Stuart,
Not if you’re hit by a mac truck.
Marvin Minsky has been peddling superficial artificial intelligence junk for 35 years. Fortunately there are some grownups who can see how threadbare the whole sham is.
.. and the death of our solar system in a cataclysmic explosion…
… or that the moon will continue to recede and that tides will reduce and days will get longer…
…or that in a million years we shall have evolved into something that is not Homo Sapiens…
…or that the EU will fight to deliver us to a joyous highland of harmonised socialism for as long as it draws breath and taxes…
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=646523
G8 wants tax on airline tickets to help world poor
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent
13 June 2005
Without shame.
Penalising the most eficient and competitive transport industry. Of course without taxes, those nice cute state owned TGVs will start to rust very soon because cant compete with airlines…
Minsky’s a pessimist. The classic extropian credo is to fight both death and taxes with equal vigour!
Governement has two main functions. The first is to print money, the second is to devise ways of getting it back.
To date, taxation remains the best way yet devised.
Steve:
State-run lotteries are a close second, though.
12 comments on a 6 word quote!
13 now..