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Software developer and political nihilist.
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image Their Accountants Told Them They Were Going Broke In April 1966, the London firm Bryce, Hammer, Isherwood & Co. delivered a report to the biggest band on the planet. The verdict: "Two of you are close to being bankrupt, and the other two could soon be. Harrison put it more plainly in his autobiography. "'Taxman' was when I first realised that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes." Nineteen Shillings Out of Every Twenty Harold Wilson's Labour government had layered a supertax on top of income tax that hit the highest earners at 95 per cent. Twenty shillings made a pound, so the top bracket took nineteen and left one. That arithmetic is the entire first verse. "Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me." Harrison closes the verse with "Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all. A Year Earlier the Same Prime Minister Had Pinned Medals on Them In June 1965 Wilson nominated all four Beatles as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an award no pop musician had received before. The official reason was economic: their 1964 breakthrough had built an export market for British music where none existed, and it pulled tourism, fashion and film along with it. Beatles biographer Ian MacDonald read the situation exactly right. The money the band handed to the Treasury was the price of the medals. Listen to How the Record Actually Starts Harrison coughs, then counts the band in himself, in what biographer Jonathan Gould calls a "grim, miserly voice." Three years earlier the Beatles had opened their first album with a shouted "One, two, three, four!" on "I Saw Her Standing There." Now the count-in is dragged, sour, and cut off before it finishes. Gould hears self-mockery in it. In three years the band's attention had travelled from the dance floor to the counting house. The Villain Was Written as a Comic-Book Character Steve Turner traced the riff's inspiration to Neal Hefti's theme for the Batman television series, the pop-art sensation of 1966. That is why the band yells "Taxman!" right before the solo, the way a cartoon announces its arrival. Here comes the hero whose superpower is taking nineteen shillings out of every twenty. Harrison Never Let the Song Age He first played it live in 1991, twenty-five years after recording it, and introduced it onstage as "a very old song written in 1873," deadpanning that the grievance was Victorian and he had merely inherited it. He swapped the politicians for John Major, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin, worked in a verse about VAT, and added two new lines: "If you wipe your feet, I'll tax the mat. If you're overweight, I'll tax your fat. His explanation was one sentence. "There's always a taxman." Sixty Years Later the Complaint Still Holds In 2019 the trade publication Tax Journal, debating whether Britain should bring supertax back, looked at what Wilson had done to the top bracket and sided with Harrison. The rate, they wrote, "wasn't a fair progressive system. It was outright theft. Source: https://web.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1534719372020651&set=a.242077657951502
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image Julian Assange was warning about this years ago, and today it has become a normal part of how the internet works. This makes me think of mainstream media stealth edits and retractions in the middle of the night on big stories without really notifying people after initial headlines run. It gets worse than stealth edits though. Now, most digital information lives on centralized servers controlled by a relatively small number of organizations. When an article is removed, the link often just leads to a "page not found" error. There's usually no explanation, no record of why it disappeared, and no notice that the content was ever there in the first place. Assange's concern wasn't just that information could be removed. It was that once something disappears from a digital archive, future generations may have no easy way of knowing it ever existed. The record doesn't just vanish; in many cases, the disappearance itself becomes invisible. Over the years, there have been many examples of articles, government pages, datasets, and reports being removed, rewritten, or relocated. Sometimes it's for legitimate reasons such as corrections, redesigns, policy changes, or legal issues. Researchers have also found that a significant portion of the web simply fades away over time. Studies suggest that many webpages from the early internet are no longer accessible, leaving behind broken links and missing records. Assange is recognizing that the systems we build to shape what future generations are able to remember, study, and understand about the past are inherently and deeply manipulated as well, just like book burnings and culture destruction of the past. Source: https://web.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1492388062934935&set=a.634822885358128
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This page explores the world beyond limits … A massive, roaring crowd packs a narrow street, creating an atmosphere that feels like a sold-out stadium. On the starting line stands a wildly lopsided matchup: a heavy-set adult versus a tiny kid. Seconds later, the signal drops, the crowd erupts, and the little kid leaves the adult in the dust to take a shocking victory. The entire street instantly descends into absolute chaos, with grown men screaming, celebrating, and realizing they just lost their bets to a child. This is a flawless demonstration of sprinting bio-mechanics, proving why raw size doesn't guarantee a win on the asphalt. In short-distance acceleration, the most critical factor is the power-to-weight ratio. Because the kid has a significantly lighter frame, his muscles require far less force to overcome inertia from a dead stop. This allows him to hit his peak velocity almost instantly. While a larger adult possesses more absolute power, moving a heavier mass requires a massive amount of energy and time to build momentum, meaning a longer stride is completely useless if the race is won in the first few meters. Adventure in the blood. Exploration in the mind. Adrenaline in every heartbeat. Live wild. Stay wild. Credit: (Unknown – all rights belong to the owner) #LostMyGuide #Wildmoments #Staywild #BeyondLimits #StreetRace Source:
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為了TONY老師.....動漫版本的打架也是很好看的~ 一般動畫其實用 SD2 480P就可以了!! 不需要用SD 2.5。 #推薦LibTV使用SD2可以選480P #原廠官網即夢SD2最少也要選720P 挑戰動漫風格的高速複雜運鏡。 所有影片製作教學目錄已完成; 請私訊:"影片製作教學目錄" #YUKI #Adelina #Seedacne2 Source: