Last year, there was a decoding competition that use some old Enigma messages from WWII. Several were decoded. Almost all the mechanical rotor based machines have been broken (publicly), but still present quite a challenge (particularly if you don’t have a huge amount of traffic to work with).
The algorithm used in the Hagelin M209 series machines used for tactical messages in WWII and Korea was the basis for the Unix crypt and password commands.
I’m a degreed electrical engineer, but do work in many different technological areas. After a few years where well over 90% of everything that I spent went to pay some sort of taxes, I retired from normal work and now only work on interesting and challenging projects that strike my fancy… it’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
If you reread it a few times, it could be that 90% of everything was taxed for like 5 cents a dollar. So, that 10% could be food, being that it isn’t taxed.
that is true, i never saw it that way, but to follow the same reasoning i could have claimed i noticed this and my question is addressing it, and my 90% tax rate question is asking about the tax he spent on the 90% of earnings.
Its been my experience that people don’t agonize on the exact words they use, so you can’t always dissect individual words to determine meanings (though you often can)
Yes, SPENT. I was making a lot of money. I’m pretty much a cheapskate (i.e. I’m here). For over 10 years, between 90 and 97% of everything that I paid out went to some form of taxes (income, property, social insecurity, sales, etc). I finally said, “Enough of this crap…”
Effective income tax rates ranged from 35-55% during this period, social insecurity was around 15% (applied to around your first $100K of income), sales tax is 8.5, property taxes are around 2 (and dirt in my neighborhood is now selling for several million dollars an acre (!!!) so even a small lot costs you an ever-increasing quadruple-big-ass bundle each year)
