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Federal Income Taxes on Middle-Income Families Remain Near Historic Lows
Revised April 11, 2013
Federal taxes on middle-income Americans are near historic lows,[1] according to the latest available data. That's true both for federal income taxes and total federal taxes.[2]
- Income taxes: A family of four in the exact middle of the income spectrum will pay only 5.3 percent of its 2013 income in federal income taxes next year, according to a new analysis by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC).[3] Average income tax rates for these typical families have been lower during the Bush and Obama Administrations than at any time since the 1950s (see Figure 1). As discussed below, 2009 and 2010 were particularly low because of the temporary Making Work Pay Tax Credit.
- Overall federal taxes: Overall federal taxes — which include income, payroll, and excise taxes, and imputed corporate taxes — on middle-income households in 2009 were at their lowest levels in decades, according to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Federal Income Taxes Have Declined Significantly in Recent Decades
Federal income taxes on middle-income families have declined significantly in recent decades. In 1998-2000, the years before the 2001 tax cut enacted by President Bush and Congress, the median-income family of four paid roughly 8.0 percent of its income in individual income taxes, according to TPC estimates — a smaller share than in any year since 1967.[4] The Bush tax cuts further reduced taxes for middle-income taxpayers, and January's "fiscal cliff" bill (the American Taxpayer Relief Act) made these middle-income tax cuts permanent. TPC estimates that the median-income family of four will pay 5.3 percent of its 2013 income in federal income taxes when it files its return next year.
The 5.3 percent rate (as well as the other rates discussed here for 2013 and other years) is the effective tax rate, or the percentage of its income that a family pays in taxes. It is well below the 15 percent marginal tax rate — the rate paid on a filer's next dollar of income — that a family of four in the exact middle of the income spectrum faces. A family's effective tax rate typically is significantly lower than its marginal tax rate because the family takes the standard deduction (or, in some cases, itemized deductions), personal exemptions, and tax credits such as the child tax credit, and because a portion of the family's taxable income is taxed at lower rates. (For the median-income family, some of its income is not taxed, some is taxed at a 10 percent rate, and some is taxed at a 15 percent rate.)
Expiration of Temporary Tax Breaks Raised Effective Income Tax Rate
Figure 1 shows that while the overall trend in a typical family's effective tax rate has been downward, the 2013 rate is above the rates for 2008-2010. This is because of the expiration of the Recovery Rebate Credit of 2008 and Making Work Pay Tax Credit of 2009 and 2010.
In 2008, policymakers enacted a one-time income tax rebate up to a maximum of $1,200 for married couples filing jointly.[5] The following year they enacted the Making Work Pay Tax Credit as part of the 2009 Recovery Act; it provided an income tax credit of up to $800 to married couples ($400 to single filers) in 2009 and 2010.
Expiration of Payroll Tax Cut Is Biggest Tax Change for Most People in 2013
In 2011, policymakers shifted their tax-cutting stimulus focus from the income tax to the Social Security payroll tax. They allowed the income-tax-based Making Work Pay credit to expire and, in its place for 2011 and 2012, cut the employee portion of the Social Security payroll tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent of workers' Social Security taxable earnings (which were capped at $110,100 in 2012). The payroll tax cut did not adversely affect Social Security's finances because general revenue transfers to the Social Security trust funds offset the loss of payroll tax revenue.
This payroll tax cut has now expired. This is the most significant tax change for most people in 2013 (Table 1 highlights the tax cut's value for workers in various occupations). Expiration of the payroll tax cuts is one of the key contributors to the slowdown in economic growth that CBO forecasted for 2013 in its latest economic and budget outlook.[6]
Table 1 Effect of Payroll Tax Cut in 2012 | ||
Occupation | Average Salary* | Amount of Payroll Tax Cut |
Cashier | $20,370 | $407 |
Home health aide | $21,830 | $437 |
Hairdresser | $26,790 | $536 |
Truck Driver | $40,360 | $807 |
Machinist | $40,860 | $817 |
Plumber | $52,950 | $1,059 |
Electrician | $53,030 | $1,061 |
Nurse | $67,930 | $1,359 |
Computer Programmer | $78,260 | $1,565 |
Real Estate Broker | $80,220 | $1,604 |
Marketing Manager | $129,870 | $2,202** |
* Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2012 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm. ** The maximum amount of wages subject to the payroll tax in 2012 was $110,100, which implies a maximum tax cut under the payroll tax provision of $2,202. See http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/autoAdj.html for more information. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, CBPP analysis. |
Overall Federal Taxes Also at Low Levels
While income taxes on middle-class households have declined in recent years, so, too, have overall federal taxes.
Households in the middle fifth of the income spectrum paid an average of 11.1 percent of their income in overall federal taxes in 2009, the latest year for which data are available, according to CBO.[7] This is the lowest on record in data that go back to 1979. When CBO publishes data for more recent years (such as 2013), overall federal average tax rates on this middle group will likely be higher — though still low historically — because they will reflect the expiration of the temporary income and payroll tax cuts discussed above.
Most Americans pay more in payroll taxes, which support Social Security and Medicare, than they do in income taxes. In a typical, non-recession year (that is, one without a temporary tax cut), payroll taxes amount to about 9 percent of income for households in the middle quintile, according to CBO.[8]
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[1] Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC), "Average and Marginal Federal Income Tax Rates for Four-Person Families at the Same Relative Position in Income Distribution, 1955-2013," April 3, 2013. TPC derived its estimates by updating (using Treasury's methodology) a 1998 Treasury Department analysis that examined changes since 1955 in the percentage of income that the median-income family of four pays in federal income taxes. Income tax rates on many higher-income people are also historically low; TPC estimates that the rates for a family of four at twice the median income level have been lower in recent years (including 2013) than at any time since the 1960s.
[2] Congressional Budget Office, "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009," July 10, 2012, http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43373.
[3] Tax Policy Center.
[4] Ibid.
[5] The full text of H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, is available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ185/html/PLAW-110publ185.htm.
[6] Congressional Budget Office, "The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023," February 5,
2013, http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43907.
[7] The CBO study covers the 1979-2009 period and includes federal income, payroll, excise, and imputed corporate taxes. Congressional Budget Office, "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009," July 10, 2012, http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43373. The 11.1 percent rate is the average for the middle income quintile, which may differ from the median value for the population.
[8] CBO estimates that, on average, households in the middle quintile paid 8.9 percent of their income in payroll taxes in 2007.


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Increasing DemocracyFighting Vote Suppression by the RightwingComplicated and confusing processes, threats of punishment for voter registration volunteers, systematic purging of voter databases -- a wholesale effort to use any means necessary to deny the right to vote to wide swaths of Americans. This is what People for the American Way recently called The New Face of Jim Crow [6]. Suppressing the vote is hardy new tool of rightwing campaigns, but the efforts have taken new twists, as stories in the New York Times [7], Washington Post [8], Salon [9] and numerous other news sources have recently documented:
Make no mistake. These laws are not designed to fight fraud, of which there is little evidence, but to systematically deny the right to vote to those Americans most likely to be impacted by these actions: young voters, mobile voters, and low-income voters. There is good news as advocates and political leaders have stepped up to challenge these new abusive tactics, but it's clear that progressive leaders need to use the next legislative sessions to rebuild fair and accessible voting systems that don't disenfranchise citizens. Increasing DemocracyThe War Against Registration DrivesBack in 1993, the National Voter Registration Act [10] (NVRA), better known as the "Motor Voter" act, was designed to open up the registration process, allowing people to register at most public agencies and by mail. The latter was a key change in many states, since it allowed community organizations to do outreach to bring unregistered citizens into the voting process. Working to undermine that law, new state laws have declared that any clerical mistake by groups doing registration drives would be grounds for criminal sanctions -- a way to intimidate those groups and shut down voter drives in poor and minority communities:
Thankfully, lower courts in both Florida and Ohio in the last few weeks blocked enforcement of the laws [11] in those states as gross violations of federal law and the First Amendment. Judge Kathleen O'Malley in Ohio found [12] that such restrictions on voter registration "severely chills participation in the voter registration process" through "an unusual and burdensome maze of laws and penalties." But voter registration drives lost months in various states to this voter suppression gambit. The Brennan Center for Justice, which is assisting the plaintiffs in both Florida and Ohio, believes the precedents will be helpful [13] in derailing the similar laws in Georgia, Colorado, and New Mexico. Increasing DemocracyIDs as the New Poll TaxFor individual voters, states are throwing up new ID requirements to vote that many of them just can't meet:
The good news is that Georgia's 2005 law [14] requiring that non-drivers purchase a government ID was overturned by federal courts as discriminatory, although the state passed a new version in 2006 that is still being litigated [15]. Other states are facing similar lawsuits [16] that these ID laws violate the federal Civil Rights Act. Increasing DemocracyPurging Voter DatabasesUnfortunately, even if they get to register, many voters may find it hardly matters, since computerized databases [17], required under the federal Help American Vote Act, may drop them from the voting rolls. Earlier this year, the Los Angeles County registrar discovered that 43 percent of all new registered voters in that county, 26,824 people [18]between January and June, had been disqualified by the state computer database system. The system was trying to match each name against social security rolls, but was so rigid that the slightest discrepancy with the social security information -- Joe versus Joseph used as the first name for example -- invalidated the registration. Reviving memories of Florida, where a politically-tainted database [19]was used to purge legitimate voters in 2000, the question is whether states are going to mechanically knock people off the voter rolls-- or followup with phone calls and other research to make sure that no one is denied the right to vote. California modified its matching rules after protests earlier in the year, but 11 percent of Los Angeles County registrants have still been disqualified in 2006. Even more worrisome, Florida's law -- like a number of other states -- now allows "voting observers" to descend on voting precincts and challenge any voter's right to cast a ballot, forcing that voter to use a provisional ballot and rush home to bring additional proof of their right to vote. Combining such "voter observers" intimidating voters at the polls with recent election tactics of voter deception and intimidation [20], from letters that threatened voters with possible arrest at the polls to lies that polling stations had moved, and you have a recipe for massive voter suppression in many of our communities -- all courtesy of a well-organized campaign by rightwing groups. Increasing DemocracyLegislative Action to Protect Voting RightsLitigation and political pressure on election officials are the main tools for protecting voting rights for this coming election, but legislators and advocates need to be developing legislative strategies that will defend the right to vote in our states in the future
Combined with allowing registration at the same time a person votes [27], these reforms will give citizens the fullest opportunity to exercise their vote free of vote suppression efforts or intimidation. Fighting Vote Suppression by the RightwingPFAW, The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America [6] The War Against Registration DrivesU.S. Federal Courts, Project Vote v. Blackwell [12] - Ohio court decision IDs as the New Poll TaxNAACP Legal Defense Fund, Georgia Voting ID Voting Requirement resources [33] Purging Voter DatabasesBrennan Center for Justice, Purges [35] and other problems with Voter Registration Databases [17] Legislative Action to Protect VotingProject Vote, NVRA Implementation Project [21] Eye on the RightTo paraphrase Napoleon Bonaparte, never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by other factors. While we'd like to give rightwingers the benefit of the doubt, the evidence indicates otherwise. Conservative guru Paul Weyrich told [6] a gathering of the faithful back in 1979, "I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down." Publicly, he takes the same approach [40] as his brethren of fretting about fraud. The reality, though, is clear. What bothers Weyrich isn't voter fraud, but voting. Outrages of the WeekPerdue scores again, Racism rides again, and Howard Rich's gang can't shoot straight. Find out the gory details in Outrages of the Week [41]. Three Steps Forward1. Arkansas Leads in Low-Income Assisted Living [42] Two Steps Back1. MT: Howard Rich Refuses Debate With Gov. Schweitzer on TABOR Measure [45] 2. MA: Romney Vetoes Bill Tripling Damages for Delayed Wages [46] Jobs & InternshipsCheck out current opportunities with Progressive States on the Jobs & Internships Page [47]. SuggestionsPlease shoot me an email at email@example.com [48] if you have feedback, tips, suggestions, criticisms, or nominations for any of our sidebar features. Matt Singer Progressive
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SummaryPlasmodium falciparum, the primary cause of deaths from malaria, is a purine auxotroph and relies on hypoxanthine salvage from the host purine pool. Purine starvation as an antimalarial target has been validated by inhibition of purine nucleoside phosphorylase. Hypoxanthine depletion kills Plasmodium falciparum in cell culture and in Aotus monkey infections. Hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGXPRT) from P. falciparum is required for hypoxanthine salvage by forming inosine 5′-monophosphate, a branchpoint for all purine nucleotide synthesis in the parasite. Here, we present a class of HGXPRT inhibitors, the acyclic immucillin phosphonates (AIPs), and cell permeable AIP prodrugs. The AIPs are simple, potent, selective, and biologically stable inhibitors. The AIP prodrugs block proliferation of cultured parasites by inhibiting the incorporation of hypoxanthine into the parasite nucleotide pool and validates HGXPRT as a target in malaria.
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Crystal structure of quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a potential TB drug target
Structure, Volume 6, Issue 12, 15 December 1998, Pages 1587-1599
Vivek Sharma, Charles Grubmeyer and James C Sacchettini
SummaryBackground:Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the single most deadly human pathogen and is responsible for nearly three million deaths every year. Recent elucidation of the mode of action of isoniazid, a frontline antimycobacterial drug, suggests that NAD metabolism is extremely critical for this microorganism. M. tuberculosis depends solely on the de novo pathway to meet its NAD demand. Quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase (QAPRTase), a key enzyme in the de novo biosynthesis of NAD, provides an attractive target for designing novel antitubercular drugs.Results: The X-ray crystal structure of the M. tuberculosis QAPRTase apoenzyme has been determined by multiple isomorphous replacement at 2.4 å resolution. Structures of the enzyme have also been solved in complex with the substrate quinolinic acid (QA), the inhibitory QA analog phthalic acid (PA), the product nicotinate mononucleotide (NAMN), and as a ternary complex with PA and a substrate analog, 5-phosphoribosyl-1-(β-methylene)pyrophosphate (PRPCP). The structure of the nonproductive QAPRTase–PA–PRPCP Michaelis complex reveals a 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate-binding site that is different from the one observed in type I phosphoribosyltransferases (PRTases). The type II PRTase active site of QAPRTase undergoes conformational changes that appear to be important in determining substrate specificity and eliciting productive catalysis.Conclusions: QAPRTase is the only known representative of the type II PRTase fold, an unusual α/β barrel, and appears to represent convergent evolution for PRTase catalysis. The active site of type II PRTase bears little resemblance to the better known type I enzymes.
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Structure, Volume 8, Issue 12, 1309-1318, 1 December 2000
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Substrate Deformation in a Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase Ternary Complex
Annie Héroux†, E.Lucile White, Larry J. Ross, Alexandre P. Kuzin and David W. Borhani†, *,
Drug Discovery Division Southern Research Institute Birmingham, AL 35205 USA
† Present addresses: A. H., Biochemistry Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232; D. W. B., BASF Bioresearch Corporation, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605.
- Background: Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferases (HGPRTs) are well-recognized antiparasitic drug targets. HGPRT is also a paradigmatic representative of the phosphoribosyltransferase family of enzymes, which includes other important biosynthetic and salvage enzymes and drug targets. To better understand the reaction mechanism of this enzyme, we have crystallized HGPRT from the apicomplexan protozoan Toxoplasma gondii as a ternary complex with a substrate and a substrate analog.Results: The crystal structure of T. gondii HGPRT with the substrate Mg2+-PRPP and a nonreactive substrate analog, 9-deazaguanine, bound in the active site has been determined at 1.05 Å resolution and refined to a free R factor of 15.4%. This structure constitutes the first atomic-resolution structure of both a phosphoribosyltransferase and the central metabolic substrate PRPP. This pre–transition state complex provides a clearer understanding of the structural basis for catalysis by HGPRT.Conclusions: Three types of substrate deformation, chief among them an unexpected C2′-endo pucker adopted by the PRPP ribose ring, raise the energy of the ground state. A cation-π interaction between Tyr-118 and the developing oxocarbenium ion in the ribose ring helps to stabilize the transition state. Enforced substrate propinquity coupled with optimal reactive geometry for both the substrates and the active site residues with which they interact contributes to catalysis as well.


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Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib vs Vemurafenib Alone in Unresectable or Metastatic BRAF V600E/K Cutaneous Melanoma (COMBI-v)
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This is a two-arm, open-label, randomised, Phase III study comparing dabrafenib (GSK2118436) and trametinib (GSK1120212) combination therapy to vemurafenib. Subjects with histologically confirmed cutaneous melanoma that is either stage IIIc (unresectable) or stage IV, and BRAF V600E/K mutation positive will be screened for eligibility. Subjects who have had prior systemic anti-cancer treatment in the advanced or metastatic setting will not be eligible although prior systemic treatment in the adjuvant setting will be allowed. Approximately 694 subjects will be randomised 1:1 (combination therapy:vemurafenib). The primary endpoint is overall survival (OS) for subjects receiving the combination therapy compared with those receiving vemurafenib.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Melanoma |
Drug: Dabrafenib Drug: Vemurafenib Drug: Trametinib |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase III, Randomised, Open-label Study Comparing the Combination of the BRAF Inhibitor, Dabrafenib and the MEK Inhibitor, Trametinib to the BRAF Inhibitor Vemurafenib in Subjects With Unresectable (Stage IIIc) or Metastatic (Stage IV) BRAF V600E/K Mutation Positive Cutaneous Melanoma |
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: approx. 20 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]time from randomisation until death due to any cause
- Progression Free Survival [ Time Frame: approx. 10 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]time from randomisation to until the earliest date of disease progression or death due to any cause
- Overall Response Rate [ Time Frame: approx. 10 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]percentage of subjects with a confirmed or unconfirmed completed response (CR) or partial response (PR) at any time per RECIST 1.1
- Duration of Response [ Time Frame: approx. 10 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]time from first documented evidence of CR or PR until disease progression or death due to any cause among subjects who achieve an overall response (i.e., confirmed or unconfirmed CR or PR)
Enrollment: | 694 |
Study Start Date: | June 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | June 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Dabrafenib plus Trametinib
BRAF inhibitor plus MEK inhibitor
Drug: Dabrafenib
dabrafenib 150 mg twice daily po
Drug: Trametinib
trametinib 2 mg once daily po
Active Comparator: Vemurafenib
BRAF inhibitor
Drug: Vemurafenib
vemurafenib 960 mg twice daily po
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- >= 18 years of age
- Stage IIIc or Stage IV BRAF V600E/K cutaneous melanoma
- Measurable disease according to RECIST 1.1
- Women of childbearing potential with negative serum pregnancy test prior to randomisation
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 or 1
- Adequate baseline organ function
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any prior use of a BRAF or MEK inhibitor
- Prior systemic anti-cancer treatment in the advanced or metastatic setting; prior systemic treatment in the adjuvant setting is allowed
- History of another malignancy (except subjects who have been disease free for 3 years or with a history of completely resected non-melanoma skin cancer)
- Known HIV, HBV, HCV infection (except chronic or cleared HBV and HCV infection which will be allowed)
- Brain metastases (except if all known lesions were previously treated with surgery or stereotactic radiosurgery and lesions, if still present, are confirmed stable for >= 12 weeks prior to randomisation or if no longer present are confirmed no evidence of disease for >= 12 weeks, and are asymptomatic with no corticosteroid requirements for >= 4 weeks prior to randomisation, and no enzyme inducing anticonvulsants for >= 4 weeks prior to randomisation
- History or evidence of cardiovascular risk (LVEF < LLN; QTcB >= 480 msec; blood pressure or systolic >=140 mmHg or diastolic >= 90 mmHg which cannot be controlled by anti-hypertensive therapy)
- History or current evidence/risk of retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or central serous retinopathy (CSR)
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Study Director: | GSK Clinical Trials | GlaxoSmithKline |
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | GlaxoSmithKline |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01597908 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 116513 |
Study First Received: | May 10, 2012 |
Last Updated: | February 27, 2014 |
Health Authority: | Australia: Human Research Ethics Committee United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
BRAF inhibitor Metastatic Melanoma Cancer MEK inhibitor |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Melanoma Skin Neoplasms Neuroendocrine Tumors Neuroectodermal Tumors Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neoplasms by Histologic Type |
Neoplasms Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Nevi and Melanomas Neoplasms by Site Skin Diseases |
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Hey folks, Harry here... Ernie Cline - world's best tech support badass, turned tree killing novelist & screenwriter has sold a new book that's 20page outline is kept safer than his DeLorean. The book is titled ARMADA and Variety announced its sale to CROWN Publishing. His reps are currently shopping the film rights. What they didn't have was this nifty art that I found:
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Ready Player One was crazy overrated.
Ready Player glamorizes obsession.
Was an awesome book !!! Any word on a future adaptation of that novel ?
I liked the D&D module, I liked the robot battle. The rest was nostalgic window dressing. There are two pages in the first third or so that are literally a list of bands, TV shows, and movies. They don't figure into the plot at all, they're just a dumping ground for things Cline couldn't work into the book.
Dec. 4, 2012, 9:45 p.m. CST
It's like reading wiki entries, there's no insight or perspective
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Just endless name dropping of geeky stuff.
I gave it a chance and didn't click. It tried too hard to be cool and geeky.
http://granades.com/2011/11/30/ready-player-one-reinforces-some-bad-geek-outlooks/ It's not horrible or unenjoyable. It's just not the next coming of Star Wars or anywhere near being one of my favorite books. Knowing geek stuff doesn't make you the Best Geek Ever.
It doesn't? Better not tell that to every geek who ever lived, or will ever live! That's what geek culture is: knowing everything geek! Am I right?
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RP1 was a fun book that brought back great memories for me and was a overall great read. Can't wait to read this new one
Dec. 4, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
Ready Player One is a fun romp, but the plot is kind of derivative, but in a fresh milieu, one that geek's relate to
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It's kind of a sci-fi Charlie and Charlie Factory, mixed with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Brewster's Millions, but in a virtual setting. It also has the added benefit of being able to give geek's a nostalgic serotonin injection every other sentence by referencing some obscure part of nerdy fandom. Because if there's one way to satisfy geeks, it's to validate all their hours of mispent youth, feeding us references like a lab rat receiving a morsels of cheese.
Dec. 4, 2012, 11:01 p.m. CST
I JUST read Snow Crash and listened to Ready Player One audiobbok months ago...
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I liked both but they definitely have shortcomings. Ready Player One sometimes has annoying pop culture bullshit for no reason. I didn't like the ending either. It also has some hokey dialogue and cliches. I rolled my eyes quite a few times at RP1. I enjoyed a lot of it though. Snow Crash is pretty amazing seeing as how it was written in 1992. Loved the world and tech stuff. Hated the sex/relationship stuff seemingly written by an immature idiot. Also, it grinds to a fucking halt when talking about the Sumerians. I kind of think Ready Player One will almost work better as a movie. That way it can have quick pop culture stuff in the background or just shown easily and not pound it into your head all the time. Snow crash would be a cool movie as well as long as they fixed the ending and got rid of so much of the Sumerian bullshit. I'm fine with it being a theory/cause but they went into it way too much. I could see Zach Snyder directing it (for better or worse as I have mixed feelings with Snyder...I did like Watchmen though).
Not one character felt real, and the main character's unconditional love for his face stained girlfriend was laughable.
Oh man, the love story...so awful...
Dec. 4, 2012, 11:48 p.m. CST
RP1 was a nostaligagasm for me. It's Klines love letter to the late 70's and 80's pop and geek culture, not high culture. Let
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But the ending bugged me. SPOILERS AHEAD It irked me that the final challenge was a repeat of an earlier challenge (I think the one where he got the special token)--act out a well-loved geek classic film. By that point I was really curious to see what the final challenge would be, since the other ones had been so clever. And then to have it be just another version of one he'd already done...well, that didn't do much for me. Overall I enjoyed the book but that ending took it down a notch or two.
Rectify the situation immediately.
I've listened to it maybe 4-5 times. Love it.
"errrr, RP1 is terrible, the characters aren't realistic". Seriously? If people who read this kind of site can't take enjoyment from a book like RP1, because it doesn't have booker prize winning prose, then they need to take a few minutes to stop masturbating over their Watchmen collection and go outside and take in the world for a while. Methinks you've forgotten the definition of 'fun'.
Fun enough book but were it not for the constant stream of references would you REEEEALLLLLLYYYY have liked as much? You could just list off the characters / games mentioned and have the same nostalgia trip.
...Gen X wish fufillment. That all the time you wasted on television, video games, movies - good and bad - will somehow be vitally important to some future generation who in reality won't really give a rat's ass about Whiz Kids, or Atari, or episodes of Family Ties and will probably by then have put you in an old folks home.
You sound disappointed and surprised by that, so what exactly did you expect before reading it?
As they get picked off one by one, it's like Cavill's increasingly hairless bonce being exposed as his hairline moves north at super-speed.
Dec. 5, 2012, 6:09 a.m. CST
Is this about F-18s (or whatever) and Eurofighters VS alien crafts?
by Ditko
That´d be cool! It was the best sequence in Independence Day, anyway. We have enough military technology to give those alien bastards a good run. Why do you think they haven´t invaded us already? :P
Dec. 5, 2012, 6:46 a.m. CST
RE: dubster32 "If people who read this kind of site can't take enjoyment from a book like RP1, because it doesn't have booker prize winning prose"
by thefreshestthing
The fuck? I didn't like it because it pandered to "geeks", and the lead character was basically Bella from Twilight - except instead of living out every teenaged girls' fantasy, he was living out every geeks. There was never any real conflict. Our hero had unlimited resources, and any situation that arose was conquered easily. You want to read an awesome book? Read John Dies At The End by David Wong. Or The MAgician King by Lev Grossman. Now those are good books.
Dec. 5, 2012, 7:31 a.m. CST
Some of you sound like prudes. RP1 is fast food literature. But after ASoF&I I was ready for some fluff. It's complete escapist reading.
by moorE12
Dec. 5, 2012, 7:37 a.m. CST
dvaderip: as a woman I see men with receding hairlines all the time. Cavil doesn't seem to have one. So relax. It's ok. Your superman daddy still has hair. Now imagine him tucking you in at night. All better?
by UltraTron
It's because we DON'T get off on 20 year old comic books that we think RP1 is overrated.
They love the worlds and universes of others but fail to create good ones of their own.
Yes, it's fun, yes it's escapist. But people have called it the ultimate geek book and the best sci-fi of the year/decade and an absolute must-read. Statements like that are overrating it. Hence, overrated.
Cline needs to work on SHOW don't TELL.
ZERO references to Mario or Nintendo. Seriously?
Book is NOT fun. It's boring and has poor prose overflowing with telling, as wa pointed out above. You can find fun books that are well written, like Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard, or The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Ready Player one was just boring and was not well constructed in almost every way.
Dec. 5, 2012, 8:11 a.m. CST
@zardoz re: That's what geek culture is: knowing everything geek! Am I right?
by bah
Well, sure. That doesn't refute my statement: knowing geek stuff doesn't make you the Greatest Geek Ever. It simply makes you a Geek.
Me thinks Senor Harry is in Cline's pocket.
Dec. 5, 2012, 8:25 a.m. CST
The book was good, but it tended to slow to a crawl near the end.
by TheMachinist
It's kinda like the Assassin's Creed games, in a way. A fantastic virtual world, a disappointing real one. The escape scenes and the rich version of Wade, made the 80's fanboyism pretty fucking obvious. Not that it wasn't before, it just made it even more so. Enjoyable book, overall.
I mean, c'mon, Rush?!!? Who fucking listened to that crap in the 80s?
Harry's in everyone's pocket.
Who looked normal.
I did not get the majority of the references in the book. They were just a few years before my time (born in '80). What worked about Ready Player One was the imagination behind it. It was a narrative chronicling the birth of gaming and the future of gaming. He used his love of the original games to show what he would like in the future. I dug the book because it was fun, not for the references. It's not the greatest thing ever, but it's a lot of fun.
Sums up RP1.
The whole Pac-Man Fever part, where he gets the quarter. Was that an easter egg set up by Halliday or was that Morrow helping Wade? And do you think it was just a one time easter egg? I know it was sort of a lazy plot point. If that was a movie, it would sort of slow down the pacing, eventhough it leads to a key element for the finale.
Along with the Supaidaman Capsule, it was just a random Easter Egg. I really liked that part, because gives you the sense that these things are hidden all over the Oasis and when he later brings up things like super powerful artifacts being auctioned off, I don't question it. They're all just out there, somewhere.
A cheeseburger. Allow me to explain: I can honestly say I was thoroughly entertained all throughout, tickled by all the nostalgic references (especially the Pac-Man extra life credit), and felt absolutely zero enrichment after finishing it, other than feeling like I already accomplished the moral of the story of "Get a girl you geeks." Maybe nostalgic entertainment was it's purpose and quite frankly I think it succeeded on that level. But if anyone is claiming it's Star Wars reincarnated is smoking some serious endo.
I expected the background to be more of a synthesis of the 80s, like bits of dialogue from 80s movies or tv or video games would be part of the lexicon, like the 80s were woven into the fabric of his time, instead of sticking out like giganticly sore thumbs. Plus the absence of pop culture from before the 80s and after the 80s kept nagging me.
One major puzzle involves acting out WarGames. Mimicking WarGames = lame. What would have been interesting is having to know the password from WarGames. That would have challenged the reader as well. Or instead of clues, the characters might have had to deal with obstacles by figuring out what items from games and movies would be useful, and finding them. Using familiar things out of their known context, using different items together. THAT is the book all the hype led me to believe I was going to be reading.
and making a decision based on that. "Which robot do you like best?" is not geek. "Which robot would win in a fight?" is geek.
Youre moaning about the sort of plot issues you'd expect from a proper piece of literary. I thought of RP1 as a computer game/comic in book form. It was meant to be fun, daft, not devoid of plot holes. Of course theres conflict, and he didn't start with unlimited resources. This changes in the same way it would in a computer game. That was good enough for me. Ive a first edition of John Dies At The End. I agree, it's brilliant. I'll check out the other one though defo.
Dec. 6, 2012, 2:28 a.m. CST
Um, the future of gaming is Farmville and Angry Birds. Sorry, VR, you go bye bye nobody like you not real.
by Nintendarth
Just do a search on Google for: GAMING IS DEAD GAMING IS DYING E3 IS DYING Enjoy the reading!
Gaming received a massive boom at the start of the cycle because of the Wii," says Handler. "Schools were buying Wiis. Nursing homes were buying Wiis. Everyone under the age of 95 was playing 'Wii Play.' It created this massive groundswell. I would say the hard-core gamer has been pretty constant [in his or her gaming habits], but the big shift has been among the casual players who have come into this space.
E3 is usually the videogame industry's big party of the year — a chance to celebrate its strengths and showcase the titles it expects to drive sales forward for the rest of the year. But as the game makers gather for this year's event, a cloud hangs over the soiree. Retail sales are down 27 percent compared to this time in 2011. Mobile devices are stealing the spotlight from traditional consoles. And naysayers are openly questioning the long-term viability of the console industry. Given the hard numbers, that's understandable, but there are a few other factors to consider before making such a declaration. The first is the age of today's game machines. Microsoft's Xbox 360 made its debut in 2005 — and Sony's PlayStation 3 bowed the next year. In an industry that has traditionally swapped in new hardware every five years, that's a big gap — and it's one that is starting to affect sales. Investors are also comparing current sales numbers to the cycle's peak, back when the Wii was a must-have device that retailers couldn't keep on store shelves. Now that demand for Nintendo's system has effectively dried up, the numbers can't compete. If not for the recession, those Wii owners might have kept the industry on a fairly even keel. But the longevity of the economic downturn, coupled with the rise of the smart phone and the app market with its cheap games, stole much of Nintendo's audience away. He also touched upon the impact the expanding mobile space has had on the industry. -When the recession hit, you had this massive downdraft [and everyone] stopped buying Wii games- he said. -Then, you had the rise of the [Apple] iPad and smartphones and suddenly the casual business changed from a $35 business to a $1, $3, $5 business.-
Dec. 6, 2012, 2:31 a.m. CST
When the recession hit, you had this massive downdraft [and everyone] stopped buying Wii games- he said. -Then, you had the rise of the [Apple] iPad and smartphones and suddenly the casual business changed from a $35 business to a $1, $3, $5 business.-
by Nintendarth
Compare the lists and rote memorization of RP1 to the climax of Galaxy Quest. The good guys win not because an alien race has memorized their TV show, but because geeks had figured out how all the hand-waving pseudo-science of television would work in real life. That's geek. And by the way, if you think Galaxy Quest isn't great, Patrick Stewart has a facepalm for you, because he loved it.
Dec. 6, 2012, 8:36 a.m. CST
Casual gaming becoming less profitable does not equal gaming being dead
by bah
Those are two different things. Actually, it's three or four different things.
Dec. 10, 2012, 9:34 a.m. CST
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Bogleheads® Local Chapters
Bogleheads® Local Chapters chapters are as varied as the Bogleheads. As a complement to the national meetings, local Diehards or Bogleheads chapters have existed since January 2005. In addition to the Local Chapters and Bogleheads Community sub-forum, Yahoo Groups serves as a venue for meeting plans, recaps, and a way to stay in touch between meetings.
Some chapters meet in small informal groups at random dates. Other chapters have a set meeting schedule and a more formal meeting agenda. But the common bond between these local chapters are the desire to discuss personal investing with like minded peers.
To organize a local chapter, all a Boglehead needs to do is post the call for a new chapter on the local forum, get at least five members in the area to join the group, and then ask to be added to the national chapter map. Details are in this forum thread: Bogleheads Local Chapters - General Info and Chapter List
Local chapters
A current list of local chapters and contact information is posted in the forum: Bogleheads Local Chapters - General Info and Chapter List
Alternatively, local chapter information can be found on google maps: Bogleheads® Local Chapters[1][2]
Refer to the following threads for further information. Bogleheads forum members interested in joining these meetings should post in the relevant thread:
Ohio (Cleveland area): NE Ohio (Cleveland Area) Master Thread
Local chapters on Yahoo Groups
Below is a listing of local Bogleheads chapters on Yahoo! Groups.[3]
San Diego, CA |
Click to join |
San Francisco, CA |
Click to join See note below. |
- Bay Area / Central CA: To be invited to join the San Francisco/Bay Area Diehards and/or the Central CA Diehards, first please send the meeting coordinator a private message, or, contact the meeting coordinator as listed for Chapter 5 - Central California in Google Maps (above). When writing to either email address: Please send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com with your contact information, (name, email address, mailing address, phone number), and also please include how you first heard of the Bogleheads.
District of Columbia
Click to join |
North Carolina
Click to join |
New Jersey
New Jersey Click to join |
Click to join |
Click to join |
Special interest chapters on Yahoo Groups
Click to join |
Setting up a Yahoo Group
Here are the recommended Yahoo Group configurations:
- Decide on a Yahoo Group name. Suggested: (area name)Bogleheads -or- (area name)Diehards
- Create a Yahoo Group ID email for the group administrator. The email address should include the group name, nothing personal, as it will be publicly viewable and is the email address that all messages are sent from. Suggest: (area name)firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Log into Yahoo under this ID. Select "Start a Group" at the top of any group page.
- Select and place the group in Yahoo! Groups Category: Business Finance: Investments: Mutual Funds
- Enter the group email address (created previously)
- Enter a description. Include "Boglehead" so search engines can find the group. Copy suggested text below, then modify as needed:
We are a group of (area) investors inspired by the investing advice of John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group. The Bogleheads® group informally began in March 1998 when Morningstar established the Vanguard Diehards Forum to discuss Vanguard Funds. |
- Enter profile, the group is created.
Group settings
Main help reference: Group Owner/Moderator Help Topics
The Management menu (left side of page) is only available to moderators or group owners.
Below are recommended initial settings. If everything is configured correctly, the menu on the page's left side should show: Home at the top, everything else should be below the Members Only heading.
Membership approval
All applications for group membership must be subject to approval by the group moderator, as manual approvals impede spam attempts.
Force membership approval by:
- Can I restrict membership? How?
- Management --> Group Settings --> Membership --> Membership Type and Welcome Message (Edit) --> Membership Type: Restricted
Description and appearance
Enter the group's description and related link, which will be seen from the Home menu.
- Management --> Group Settings --> Description & Appearance --> Description (edit)
- Description: Edit as required (see description above). Be sure to include "Boglehead" for the search engines.
- Related Link: http://www.bogleheads.org/
- Listing Type: Listed in Yahoo! Groups directory
Images give a good first impression and add a level of overall quality. Add a representative image, such as landmark which identifies the area. The size should not dominate the text description, and should be usable over a wide range of displays. Suggested size: no more than 320 pixels on the longest side.
Yahoo does not scale the image - it will be displayed like the original. The image may need to be resized prior to uploading.
- Management --> Group Settings --> Description & Appearance --> Photo (edit) --> Group Photo
- New Photo: Browse... (upload), Add Now. (If an error message appears, ignore it and hit the browser back-button, the image should be loaded)
Group communications are through messages posted to the site and distributed by email. As the Bogleheads forum provides anonymity through screen names, consideration should be given to allowing members to have relative privacy within the group.
Yahoo provides some privacy by allowing members to hide their profiles. However, email addresses can only be partially hidden (the address up to "@" is visible). Email addresses are always visible in messages. Additionally, some members may feel comfortable using their real names within chapters, but not in public.
Therefore, message content should be restricted to Members Only. The message archive settings govern this feature.
- How do I restrict access to the message archives?
- Management --> Group Settings --> Messages --> Posting and Archives (edit) --> Archive Options --> Members
Moderating email
The group settings allow members to post messages directly, which is categorized as "unmoderated" email. In some cases, such as a concern for spam, individual members may be configured to have their messages "moderated". Messages will only be posted to the group after a moderator approval. Approving messages is more work for the moderator.
Web features
These applications should be restricted to Members Only.
- Managing Web Only Features
- Management --> Group Settings --> Web Tools (edit)
- Files: Limited (members can download files; moderators can upload/modify/download files)
- Photos: Moderators only (upload/modify/download photos)
- Links: Members (create/modify/delete links))
- Database: Members (members can access Database feature)
- Polls: Members (create/modify/vote in polls)
- Members: Members (members view profiles; moderators can view profiles/change settings)
- Calendar: Members (create/modify/delete events)
- Promote: Members (get sign-up boxes)
- Chat: Enabled
Adding members
Yahoo Groups membership works by two ways:
- Using the "Join This Group!" button
- By invitation from a group owner/moderator
Those who use "Join This Group!" will show up as a pending member (Members --> Pending). The owner/moderator can decide if further action is necessary, such as requesting further information from the applicant (by separate email), or approve the application.
Those who request group membership by email will need to be "Invited" to the group. (Members --> Invite People, at the top right of the page). Hint: Don't use the "Add Members" link, which is at the bottom of the Invite page.
Sharing responsibility
The owner may wish other trusted members to share ownership, or act as a moderator. Each group can have a maximum of 15 owners/moderators (there must be at least 1 owner).
- From the list on the left, click Members and locate the member on the Members page.
- Click Edit Membership.
- A little way down, click Change to Moderator -or- Change to Owner.
- Click on the Make Moderator -or- Make Owner button to confirm.
See also
- ↑ A temporary replacement for: Diehards Local Chapters (not working correctly)
- ↑ New Diehards Local Chapter Forum, forum discussion
- ↑ Some groups can be found by "bogleheads" or "vanguard diehard" searches. Other groups may choose not be listed in the Yahoo Groups directory.


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Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White, Excerpt on the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the African American Community
…The root of anti-Semitism among Negroes is, ironically the relationship of colored peoples – all over the globe – to the Christian world. This is a fact which may be difficult to grasp, not only for the ghetto's most blasted and embittered inhabitants, but also for many Jews, to say nothing of many Christians. But it is a fact, and it will not be ameliorated – in fact, it can only be aggravated – by the adoption, on the part of colored people now, of the most devastating of the Christian vices.
Of course, it is true, and I am not so naïve as not to know it, that many Jews despise Negroes, even as their Aryan brothers do. (There are also Jews who despise Jews, even as their Aryan brothers do.) It is true that many Jews use, shamelessly, the slaughter of the 6,000,000 by the Third Reich as proof that they cannot be bigots – or in the hope of not being held responsible for their bigotry. It is galling to be told by a Jew whom you know to be exploiting you that he cannot possibly be doing what you know he is doing because he is a Jew. It is bitter to watch the Jewish storekeeper locking up his store for the night, and going home. Going, with your money in his pocket, to a clean neighborhood, miles from you, which you will not be allowed to enter. Nor can it help the relationship between most Negroes and most Jews when part of this money is donated to civil rights. In the light of what is now known as the white backlash, this money can be looked on as conscience money merely, as money given to keep the Negro happy in his place, and out of white neighborhoods.
… In the American context, the most ironical thing about Negro anti-Semitism is that the Negro is really condemning the Jew for having become an American white man – for having become, in effect, a Christian. The Jew profits from his status in America, and he must expect Negroes to distrust him for it. The Jew does not realize that the credential he offers, the fact that he has been despised and slaughtered, does not increase the Negro's understanding. It increases the Negro's rage...
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In 1967, James Baldwin, an African American novelist, poet, and civil rights activist, wrote an article trying to explain why after all that Jews had done for the Civil Rights Movement some African Americans could be anti-Semitic. This excerpt describes the roots of anti-Semitism in African American communities.


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Man Charged In PARI Break-In
Updated: Tuesday, January 1 2013, 04:55 PM EST
One man is in jail charged with the Christmas Eve break-in at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. Authorities say 29-year-old Brian Koontz is in the Transylvania County Jail on charges of felony breaking and entering, felony larceny, and injury to personal property. He allegedly stole electrical equipment like monitors and projectors, as well as meteorites that were on display from PARI last Monday. Koontz was arrested Sunday, December 30th. He is being held on a $10,000 dollar bond.
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