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| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast Charles1dad, Agreed. The problem is not too little taxation, it is too much utterly wrong headed government spending. But you know, these things run in cycles, and this problem with waste and entitlements can be addressed. What is not easily fixab... | |
| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast Charles1dad, I could not agree more with everything you said above. I paid more in federal income tax alone last year than my entire gross salary for 1985, which was sufficiently large to permit me to support a family of 5. My idea of me paying "m... | |
| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast Folks, I don't like paying taxes. But the laws are what they are. The fact that it is easy to cheat on this makes no difference. If people like me refuse to follow the existing laws, our society will collapse faster than it will from anything else. | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Chayro and Charles1dad, Well stated commentaries on the current non-sustainable inherently wrong headed pour someone else's money down utterly ridiculous holes mentality. As has been stated, "Socialism works great until you run out of someone else... | |
| The absolute "best" filter/conditioner for digital Zd542's advice is spot on, but The cable company doesn't carry everything out there. Because of the unique interaction of your electricity with your system, no one can tell you what the best will be, and you could easily blow your whole 401K balan... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time Tubegroover, Astute comment regarding Chopin. It was for exactly that reason that I excluded Verdi (although not Wagner) from my list. I don't see Debussey in the top 5 or Bartok in the top 10, and with Schubert, he just died too young. His late c... | |
| Greatest Composers of All Time I don't doubt that this will be of interest, in the sense of inciting a riot. Haydn below Rachmaninov, Liszt and Schumann above Brahms and Mahler? Shostakovich, Bruckner and Dvorak completely absent? Oh my! Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Haydn i... | |
| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast mjpfan, It is incumbent on the feds to figure out a sane way to implement this. The state i live in requires one to claim anything bought sales tax free. I think I am probably the only one in the entire state who actually does this, therefore, the... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Goofyfoot, I get no enjoyment out of doing this, but I think the Janowski 4th is more to my liking that the 2nd and 3rd. I used the same reasoning and found the 2nd and 3rd a let down. Don't listen to that disc much. | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Goofyfoot, I reread the SA-CD.net review on the Manze Brahms. Its a bit more positive than I had remembered it. This may well be worth a shot. | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Goofyfoot, The review I read was on SACD.net. I got the idea it was another post HIP run of the mill me too. I do agree on CPO. Check out the Dvorak quartets. I love the first release. Also, I really like Venzago's Bruckner, and plan on ordering t... | |
| just starting - mac vs. windows computer source? Mitch2, Thanks for starting this thread. I am in the same position as you, and have decided to delay taking the plunge for a couple more years mostly because i get the feeling that computer audio is a lot of work to get right. Same reason I don't ... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Goofyfoot, I had my eye on that Brahms set for a long time prior to its release. I got the impression from one review I read that it might be along the same lines as the Macarras set on Telarc, which is OK but is not necessarily what I like in Bra... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Chicago really liked him, and boy was that snippet of Wagner a serious tease! I need to get up there more often for concerts. PM hasn't come through yet. Saturday night we heard the piano version of the Brahms violin concerto here in Indy, plus th... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Lowrider, It was one of those experiences you don't forget. It was, for me at least, the Brahms 4 that stole the show. The violin concerto was very good. Not great. It was cool seeing the concerto played on the ex-Joachim Strad, which I presume wa... |