The CIA and various other 3 letter agencies like to self-finance, including rumours of counterfeiting, though I guess bits can be counterfeited. There is also the under the table gifts, contributions etc that many politicians would like to keep quiet about, not to mention the payments for hookers and blow, though those can be easily faked. What is hard to fake is all those pallets of $100 bills that the government uses for foreign policy reasons.
It's complicated. Take forests, trees are usually darker then grasslands and for sure darker then ice and snow while conifers (what we usually plant) are darker then deciduous trees which increases the albedo. How does the increase in albedo relate to the changes in evaporative effects? As for solar effects, I also understand that it may drive about a 1/3rd of climate change, varying with the sunspot cycle so actually slowing down the warming during low sunspots such as the beginning of the 21st century. We can't do much about the Sun so we're left with those factors that we can (maybe) control such as greenhouse gas release.
So more privacy invasions that 1/3rd of the population will resist or not be able to partake in due to other reasons such as bad credit or no bank account. Actually if under-employment keeps increasing it'll likely be more then a 1/3rd.
One of the drivers of climate change, on the scale of 10's to 100's of thousands of years are the regular changes in a planets orbit, eccentricity, axial tilt, whether summer in a hemisphere happens at perihelion etc. This will drive climate change on both the Earth and especially Mars as its orbit is so eccentric. They're named Milankovitch cycles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The poster said CD. Where I am the music publishers demanded a cut from every blank CD sold and the courts ruled that making personal copies of CD's is perfectly legal due to the levy on blank CDs. We could do the same with dedicated e-book readers, give the publishers a nickel for everyone sold and allow unlimited personal copying.
The story I heard was that when Gutenburg demonstrated his printing, there were lineups to buy his books, he borrowed money to start printing, after a short run his creditor (Faust, as in Faustian bargain) called in his debt, sued, and got the press and the copies that he'd already printed. Gutenburg died a pauper and the creditor became the first publisher. Wiki almost agrees with this, lost half of his books but did eventually get recognition and a pension,no mention of
When Gutenburg demonstrated his printing press, the scribes and clergy of the period fell all over themselves with condemnations, onerous laws forbidding the "profane" reproduction of sacred works, and literal goon squads to try to symie the tide of availability that literature now enjoyed.
My local grocery store tried that as well. The self-checkouts are mostly empty and now one of the stores selling points is that all (human operated) checkouts are open, Sat-Sun 10:00AM-10:00PM. It's nice as the time spent waiting in line is a minute or two and humans are much nicer to deal with then a machine that's always bugging you to follow a certain routine for theft prevention. They also pay their employees better then minimum wage, treat them good enough that there is no talk about unions and their prices are about the same as the new Walmart and didn't change when Walmart opened. They're also profitable as well.
It doesn't matter what you think about the law being clear. I think the 1st Amendment is very clear (and simple) and yet people have been executed (the Rosenburgs (sp?) for telling how to make an atomic bomb) for speech due to some Judge deciding that the 1st doesn't cover some types of speech. The 2nd amendment is also pretty clear, people have the right to bear arms and yet Judges have ruled that laws that only allow some people can bear arms are legal. And if you don't want to pay taxes, don't. It's really easy, just don't take the benefits of those taxes just like any other economic transaction you don't want to do.
The problem is that the law as written has fuzzy edges and whether they're obeying the law or not can only be decided in a court of law, something else that is fuzzy (look at many Supreme Court decisions where there is a split with some Judges ruling one way and others ruling the other way).
Of course changing the albedo of the Earth by replacing frozen snow with trees will have an affect as well. At that just replacing light coloured deciduous forests with conifers (as is common when replanting) actually makes the Earth darker and increases the temperature. It's complicated.
That and censorship. Once that King was deposed the modern copyright was introduced as "An Act to Promote Learning" with a 14+14 year copyright length (IIRC a 35 year grandfather clause). 28 years later when copyrights started expiring and works falling into the public domain, the courts ruled there was no Common Law right to copyright.
For a local game it sure wanted a lot of permissions on my Android tablet. Didn't mind the contacts as I have none, but why the hell it needs access to my camera amongst other things I don't know. Anyways I refused the permissions.
Just get rid of all corporation tax. It doesn't really matter, resulting increase sales and personal income will more than make up for it.
How so? Corporations set their prices to whatever the market will bear, they won't lower their prices just because their profits increase. For example see Apple. Corporations also currently write off wages so it is in their interest to pay large salaries so as not to pay taxes on that money and they still attempt to pay as little as they can get away with, see numerous violations of H1Bs and various large corps conspiring to keep wages down. Remove the write off angle and they'll drop wages even more if they can get away with it. Research and expansion is another way for corps to avoid taxes, they'll do less if they don't need the write offs. Perhaps you're thinking of the yacht building businesses and various other luxury goods where business would increase if companies had even more money. One, these super rich already have more money then they can spend. Two, yachts and other luxury goods are as likely to be built somewhere overseas anyways. Of course if you are in politics, the corps having even more money might trickle down to you in the form of bribesCTRL-W donations but even they're tax write-offs so are as likely to drop as go up.
And I always thought it referenced the free Braves that the Americans wiped out to steal their land after revolting against their King for saying those free natives had rights to their land, fucking tyrant removing peoples right to remove peoples rights.
So you're saying we'd be better off not having any way to get info on the severe weather, fires etc if the one phone line goes down? Digital carries like shit and we don't all live in small highly connected countries with low data caps. As it is I have 2 ways to get outside info at home, the POTS phone system which seems to use rusty barbed wire and often goes out, sometimes for 8+ hours when the copper thieves strike, and FM radio (AM as well most nights). TV is gone due to the switch to digital and higher frequencies and you have to live in town for the expensive cell coverage (starts at $30 for 100MBs).
We get dangerous weather here in Canada. Where I live we get wind storms (often knock 100,000 customers out of the grid), snow storms, ice storms and fire storms. The fire storms are the scariest and seem to be getting more frequent (see whats happening up north) and once the one phone line burns (or the copper thieves cut it), we're left with FM radio and hopefully police/firetrucks PA systems telling us whether the one road is open or where to marshal for the helicopters to pick us up. It would be nice to have a visible cell tower but unless you're in town or on a main highway...
That's not really true. Here in Vancouver we have a problem with illegal trafficking in restaurant workers, a perfectly legal business. Due to having the lowest minimum wage and highest cost of living in the country, restaurants (and other minimum wage businesses) lobby to get labour under the foreign worker program (similar to H1Bs) rather then paying enough to attract local labour. Often the workers are coerced into illegally paying for their temporary visa, perhaps $10,000, and then basically enslaved as they can't pay off the debt on minimum wage minus living costs that are forced on them, eg being forced to pay large rents. They are also commonly put to work in a different location then their visa allows and then threatened with deportation if they don't do what their bosses demand or complain to the authorities about abuse. As long as illegal trafficking means cost savings, it'll happen whether a business is legal or not, and many businesses will pay the minimum possible rather then raising wages to get needed labour.
Can you name one successful non-authoritarian right winger? A Gandhi, Mandala, Dali Lama, or even the current Pope? Shit even most of the signers of the American Constitution were leftists.
Lots of fairly new ones are thrown out that just need a good cleaning. Between formatting the drive and blowing out the dust, these computers are as good as any built in the last 5 or so years. My son found a fairly new Dell, it was packed solid with dust bunnies so overheated instantly and probably ran at a couple of hundred Mhz, cleaned it and had a decent computer.
America consists of 50 States. Federal government says the minimum that needs supported and takes money from the richest and gives it to the poorest States to equalize things. States each take care of their own healthcare. I don't understand why these things need to be actually run at the federal level
We're talking automatics, which won't let you put it into 1st at high speeds. Put it in 1st and it'll gear down into the appropriate gear as you slow down, usually about 50 kmph to go into 1st which will have a milder ratio then 4.56:1, perhaps close to 2:1 plus the torque converter to double the ratio when starting off. I don't think too many manuals have such a low 1st either, at least none I've owned and the old trucks that did have a bull low had no synchros on it and it wasn't usually used unless off-road or loaded right up and starting on a hill. Besides, can't modern engines rev up that high? I can remember revving my old Datsun up close to that, needed with a 4:875 rear end and 1:1 4th gear (14 in tires) if you wanted to hit a hundred miles an hour. Little sowing machine really took off when you passed 6 grand
I obviously made a typo (realized after posting and leaving the house) and it should have been D-2-1 or D-L, ignoring park, reverse and neutral. Yes, on most automatics I've driven, 2 is some engine braking and 1 is even more. If put in 1 at too high of a speed, the tranny will go into 2nd until it slows down enough (perhaps 30 mph) to safely go into 1st. Really old automatics only had low but same idea. Newest have more and someone was complaining to me that they borrowed a fairly new VW which was automatically downshifting when he took his foot of the gas pedal. I learned the hard way about engine braking when I was first driving, went miles up a mountain, windy dirt road. Coming back down I overheated the brakes, which was very scary. Someone explained engine braking to me and I never made that mistake again. At that almost all my vehicles after that have been manuals where using engine braking comes a lot more naturally.
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The CIA and various other 3 letter agencies like to self-finance, including rumours of counterfeiting, though I guess bits can be counterfeited. There is also the under the table gifts, contributions etc that many politicians would like to keep quiet about, not to mention the payments for hookers and blow, though those can be easily faked. What is hard to fake is all those pallets of $100 bills that the government uses for foreign policy reasons.
Perhaps, though there is a lot to be said for anonymous money, which I'd think parts of the government would agree with.
It's complicated. Take forests, trees are usually darker then grasslands and for sure darker then ice and snow while conifers (what we usually plant) are darker then deciduous trees which increases the albedo. How does the increase in albedo relate to the changes in evaporative effects?
As for solar effects, I also understand that it may drive about a 1/3rd of climate change, varying with the sunspot cycle so actually slowing down the warming during low sunspots such as the beginning of the 21st century.
We can't do much about the Sun so we're left with those factors that we can (maybe) control such as greenhouse gas release.
So more privacy invasions that 1/3rd of the population will resist or not be able to partake in due to other reasons such as bad credit or no bank account. Actually if under-employment keeps increasing it'll likely be more then a 1/3rd.
One of the drivers of climate change, on the scale of 10's to 100's of thousands of years are the regular changes in a planets orbit, eccentricity, axial tilt, whether summer in a hemisphere happens at perihelion etc. This will drive climate change on both the Earth and especially Mars as its orbit is so eccentric. They're named Milankovitch cycles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The poster said CD. Where I am the music publishers demanded a cut from every blank CD sold and the courts ruled that making personal copies of CD's is perfectly legal due to the levy on blank CDs. We could do the same with dedicated e-book readers, give the publishers a nickel for everyone sold and allow unlimited personal copying.
The story I heard was that when Gutenburg demonstrated his printing, there were lineups to buy his books, he borrowed money to start printing, after a short run his creditor (Faust, as in Faustian bargain) called in his debt, sued, and got the press and the copies that he'd already printed. Gutenburg died a pauper and the creditor became the first publisher.
Wiki almost agrees with this, lost half of his books but did eventually get recognition and a pension,no mention of
When Gutenburg demonstrated his printing press, the scribes and clergy of the period fell all over themselves with condemnations, onerous laws forbidding the "profane" reproduction of sacred works, and literal goon squads to try to symie the tide of availability that literature now enjoyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My local grocery store tried that as well. The self-checkouts are mostly empty and now one of the stores selling points is that all (human operated) checkouts are open, Sat-Sun 10:00AM-10:00PM. It's nice as the time spent waiting in line is a minute or two and humans are much nicer to deal with then a machine that's always bugging you to follow a certain routine for theft prevention.
They also pay their employees better then minimum wage, treat them good enough that there is no talk about unions and their prices are about the same as the new Walmart and didn't change when Walmart opened.
They're also profitable as well.
It doesn't matter what you think about the law being clear. I think the 1st Amendment is very clear (and simple) and yet people have been executed (the Rosenburgs (sp?) for telling how to make an atomic bomb) for speech due to some Judge deciding that the 1st doesn't cover some types of speech. The 2nd amendment is also pretty clear, people have the right to bear arms and yet Judges have ruled that laws that only allow some people can bear arms are legal.
And if you don't want to pay taxes, don't. It's really easy, just don't take the benefits of those taxes just like any other economic transaction you don't want to do.
The problem is that the law as written has fuzzy edges and whether they're obeying the law or not can only be decided in a court of law, something else that is fuzzy (look at many Supreme Court decisions where there is a split with some Judges ruling one way and others ruling the other way).
Of course changing the albedo of the Earth by replacing frozen snow with trees will have an affect as well. At that just replacing light coloured deciduous forests with conifers (as is common when replanting) actually makes the Earth darker and increases the temperature.
It's complicated.
That and censorship. Once that King was deposed the modern copyright was introduced as "An Act to Promote Learning" with a 14+14 year copyright length (IIRC a 35 year grandfather clause). 28 years later when copyrights started expiring and works falling into the public domain, the courts ruled there was no Common Law right to copyright.
For a local game it sure wanted a lot of permissions on my Android tablet. Didn't mind the contacts as I have none, but why the hell it needs access to my camera amongst other things I don't know. Anyways I refused the permissions.
Just get rid of all corporation tax. It doesn't really matter, resulting increase sales and personal income will more than make up for it.
How so? Corporations set their prices to whatever the market will bear, they won't lower their prices just because their profits increase. For example see Apple. Corporations also currently write off wages so it is in their interest to pay large salaries so as not to pay taxes on that money and they still attempt to pay as little as they can get away with, see numerous violations of H1Bs and various large corps conspiring to keep wages down. Remove the write off angle and they'll drop wages even more if they can get away with it.
Research and expansion is another way for corps to avoid taxes, they'll do less if they don't need the write offs.
Perhaps you're thinking of the yacht building businesses and various other luxury goods where business would increase if companies had even more money. One, these super rich already have more money then they can spend. Two, yachts and other luxury goods are as likely to be built somewhere overseas anyways.
Of course if you are in politics, the corps having even more money might trickle down to you in the form of bribesCTRL-W donations but even they're tax write-offs so are as likely to drop as go up.
I'm sure the old people would vote that the soylent green is made from young people.
And I always thought it referenced the free Braves that the Americans wiped out to steal their land after revolting against their King for saying those free natives had rights to their land, fucking tyrant removing peoples right to remove peoples rights.
So you're saying we'd be better off not having any way to get info on the severe weather, fires etc if the one phone line goes down? Digital carries like shit and we don't all live in small highly connected countries with low data caps.
As it is I have 2 ways to get outside info at home, the POTS phone system which seems to use rusty barbed wire and often goes out, sometimes for 8+ hours when the copper thieves strike, and FM radio (AM as well most nights). TV is gone due to the switch to digital and higher frequencies and you have to live in town for the expensive cell coverage (starts at $30 for 100MBs).
We get dangerous weather here in Canada. Where I live we get wind storms (often knock 100,000 customers out of the grid), snow storms, ice storms and fire storms. The fire storms are the scariest and seem to be getting more frequent (see whats happening up north) and once the one phone line burns (or the copper thieves cut it), we're left with FM radio and hopefully police/firetrucks PA systems telling us whether the one road is open or where to marshal for the helicopters to pick us up. It would be nice to have a visible cell tower but unless you're in town or on a main highway...
That's not really true. Here in Vancouver we have a problem with illegal trafficking in restaurant workers, a perfectly legal business. Due to having the lowest minimum wage and highest cost of living in the country, restaurants (and other minimum wage businesses) lobby to get labour under the foreign worker program (similar to H1Bs) rather then paying enough to attract local labour.
Often the workers are coerced into illegally paying for their temporary visa, perhaps $10,000, and then basically enslaved as they can't pay off the debt on minimum wage minus living costs that are forced on them, eg being forced to pay large rents. They are also commonly put to work in a different location then their visa allows and then threatened with deportation if they don't do what their bosses demand or complain to the authorities about abuse.
As long as illegal trafficking means cost savings, it'll happen whether a business is legal or not, and many businesses will pay the minimum possible rather then raising wages to get needed labour.
Can you name one successful non-authoritarian right winger? A Gandhi, Mandala, Dali Lama, or even the current Pope? Shit even most of the signers of the American Constitution were leftists.
They probably ship as cheap as possible, which means loading the container where it is more likely to get washed overboard and end up in the ocean.
Lots of fairly new ones are thrown out that just need a good cleaning. Between formatting the drive and blowing out the dust, these computers are as good as any built in the last 5 or so years.
My son found a fairly new Dell, it was packed solid with dust bunnies so overheated instantly and probably ran at a couple of hundred Mhz, cleaned it and had a decent computer.
America consists of 50 States. Federal government says the minimum that needs supported and takes money from the richest and gives it to the poorest States to equalize things. States each take care of their own healthcare.
I don't understand why these things need to be actually run at the federal level
We're talking automatics, which won't let you put it into 1st at high speeds. Put it in 1st and it'll gear down into the appropriate gear as you slow down, usually about 50 kmph to go into 1st which will have a milder ratio then 4.56:1, perhaps close to 2:1 plus the torque converter to double the ratio when starting off.
I don't think too many manuals have such a low 1st either, at least none I've owned and the old trucks that did have a bull low had no synchros on it and it wasn't usually used unless off-road or loaded right up and starting on a hill.
Besides, can't modern engines rev up that high? I can remember revving my old Datsun up close to that, needed with a 4:875 rear end and 1:1 4th gear (14 in tires) if you wanted to hit a hundred miles an hour. Little sowing machine really took off when you passed 6 grand
I obviously made a typo (realized after posting and leaving the house) and it should have been D-2-1 or D-L, ignoring park, reverse and neutral.
Yes, on most automatics I've driven, 2 is some engine braking and 1 is even more. If put in 1 at too high of a speed, the tranny will go into 2nd until it slows down enough (perhaps 30 mph) to safely go into 1st. Really old automatics only had low but same idea. Newest have more and someone was complaining to me that they borrowed a fairly new VW which was automatically downshifting when he took his foot of the gas pedal.
I learned the hard way about engine braking when I was first driving, went miles up a mountain, windy dirt road. Coming back down I overheated the brakes, which was very scary. Someone explained engine braking to me and I never made that mistake again. At that almost all my vehicles after that have been manuals where using engine braking comes a lot more naturally.