Nope. Any gun control law that is strong enough to be effective would run a foul of the 2nd amendment. And the 2nd amendment is never going to go away as long as the US stands as a country.
52.9% of prisoners are were convicted of violent crimes. Only 15.7% had a drug conviction as their most serious offence. Of those, only 3.5% of had simple procession as their most serious conviction.
The election cycle was from August or September, when states require that parties file their official candidates for the ballot, to November 8, when the polls closed. That's about 3 months. Everything before that is just speculation and build up. Within the framework of a free society, how to you propose that we restrict speculation about an upcoming event without violating the first amendment?
Executive privilege is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, but has been part of how courts interpret the separation of powers. Therefore, the exact limits of executive privilege are subject to the courts' interpretation. In both of the recent cases (United States v Nixon and Clinton v. Jones), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the sitting President. Clinton v. Jones, in particular, ruled that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. This really sets a strong precedent that Presidential immunity only applies to actions taken in the official capacity as President. If Donald shot and killed someone on 5th avenue, he would almost certainly be indicted under state law, since separation of powers does not apply. He might be able to drag the case to the Supreme Court, but precedent suggest that he would ultimately lose the case.
Climate change policy disproportionately affects conservatives. If you live in matchbox apartment and take public transportation, then your carbon footprint is already at the targeted levels; you have nothing to lose. If you have a large house in a rural area, a boat, and a truck to tow the boat, then climate change policy is a direct attack on your quality of life.
What are you complaining about exactly? The movie that actually "the Hulk bash the crop out of aliens" got a 92% of Rotten Tomatoes. Critics loved it!
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
Plenty of good movies are still released these days. Just based on rottentomatoes alone, 22 of the top 100 movies of all time have been released since 2010:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
IMO, this in particular has had a high percentage of quality movies: Get Out, Hidden Figures, Colossal, Lost City of Z, Logan. Even Wonder Woman has received good reviews.
You don't have to buy points. But you do have to pay for Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI). The PMI can be discharged once you have 20% equity in the house, either by making payments or from appreciation on the value of the house. In market where housing prices are going up, that might only be 2 or 3 years of PMI.
I expect that is we do a basic income, there would be businesses that would meet these needs. For example, you could build group housing with cafeterias and require that residents autopay 80% of their UBI check each month. College dorms and old-folks homes already use this model. UBI would make it practical on a larger scale.
The article talks about a 20% down payment. But I don't know any first time home buyers who actually pay that much. FHA loans require 3% for a down payment. Many cities, counties and states have additional programs that will provide additional assistance. Washington state has a down payment assistance program that will give you a second mortgage loan up to 4.00% of the total loan amount with 0% interest and payments deferred for 30 years.
So you're going to take away good paying, middle class, union jobs from sanitation workers and park workers? Then hand them over to unskilled below-minimum wage welfare recipients? Why we can't we just pay people to stay home and take care of their kids and families? That seems to be exactly the definition of a job that isn't economically worth doing but has other benefits.
All money is free. Money is a fiction. Production of goods and services is the only thing that actually matters. As long there is sufficient incentive for production, we can hand out as much money as we want.
Historically, production was limited by the availability of human labor. We had to restrict money so that people would have an incentive to work. But we are reaching a point where the only limit to production is the demand for consumption. So to continue to incentivize production, we have to subsidize consumption.
Section 8 is a program that provide vouchers for people so that they can rent from private landlords.Like every other rental, it is the landlords' responsibility to maintain the premises, not the renters'.
There is no program in the US called "welfare". The closest thing is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Which, as the name implies, is only for families with kids and is only temporary (60 months). If you don't have kids and/or are down on your luck for more than 5 years, then you are SOL.
This country did just fine by the poor prior to FDR
No, it really did not. You might want to look up this thing called the Great Depression. My great-grandfather was a miner who was injured on the job and couldn't work anymore. There was no Disability or Worker's Comp back then. My grandfather has some horrific stories about growing up in extreme poverty right here in the US. If you think Venezuala is bad, you should read up on what the US was like before the FDR reforms.
The year is 2020. Self-driving cars, automatic check-out and other technologies have put 50% of the US workforce into unemployment. What jobs are you going to create that employ 80 million people? And you can't create any jobs that compete with private sector, because putting companies out of business would create even more unemployment.
Of course you can count impact factor for web journals or open publications. Its just a statistic, like average word count or average daily site visitors. There is no governing authority of impact factor.
Maybe this is something that is field specific. I've heard that in computer science conference presentations are more important than journal publication. Maybe that's true.
But speaking as an actual laboratory scientist: I read. My colleagues read. Conferences presentations are either "work in progress" or "broad summary of everything in our lab for the last 5 years", depending on the venue. There is no way that a half hour talk or a single poster can actually provide the detail necessary to understand and evaluate cutting edge research.
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Nope. Any gun control law that is strong enough to be effective would run a foul of the 2nd amendment. And the 2nd amendment is never going to go away as long as the US stands as a country.
It is not the federal government that is behind the mass incarceration problem. And its not the drug laws either.
Source:https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p15.pdf Table 9
The election cycle was from August or September, when states require that parties file their official candidates for the ballot, to November 8, when the polls closed. That's about 3 months. Everything before that is just speculation and build up. Within the framework of a free society, how to you propose that we restrict speculation about an upcoming event without violating the first amendment?
Executive privilege is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, but has been part of how courts interpret the separation of powers. Therefore, the exact limits of executive privilege are subject to the courts' interpretation. In both of the recent cases (United States v Nixon and Clinton v. Jones), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the sitting President. Clinton v. Jones, in particular, ruled that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. This really sets a strong precedent that Presidential immunity only applies to actions taken in the official capacity as President. If Donald shot and killed someone on 5th avenue, he would almost certainly be indicted under state law, since separation of powers does not apply. He might be able to drag the case to the Supreme Court, but precedent suggest that he would ultimately lose the case.
Climate change policy disproportionately affects conservatives. If you live in matchbox apartment and take public transportation, then your carbon footprint is already at the targeted levels; you have nothing to lose. If you have a large house in a rural area, a boat, and a truck to tow the boat, then climate change policy is a direct attack on your quality of life.
So many pretentious art movies! Like Mad Max:Fury Road, Star Wars: Episode VII, and The Lego Movie.
Most of other majors critics did too: http://www.businessinsider.com...
What are you complaining about exactly? The movie that actually "the Hulk bash the crop out of aliens" got a 92% of Rotten Tomatoes. Critics loved it! https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
Plenty of good movies are still released these days. Just based on rottentomatoes alone, 22 of the top 100 movies of all time have been released since 2010: https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
IMO, this in particular has had a high percentage of quality movies: Get Out, Hidden Figures, Colossal, Lost City of Z, Logan. Even Wonder Woman has received good reviews.
Happiness in life comes from dopamine and serotonin.
You don't have to buy points. But you do have to pay for Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI). The PMI can be discharged once you have 20% equity in the house, either by making payments or from appreciation on the value of the house. In market where housing prices are going up, that might only be 2 or 3 years of PMI.
And if everything is communism, then calling something communist isn't a meaningful argument.
I expect that is we do a basic income, there would be businesses that would meet these needs. For example, you could build group housing with cafeterias and require that residents autopay 80% of their UBI check each month. College dorms and old-folks homes already use this model. UBI would make it practical on a larger scale.
Those railroad workers still sound like they were getting a better deal than Uber. A flop house and a saloon sound like pretty cushy benefits.
The article talks about a 20% down payment. But I don't know any first time home buyers who actually pay that much. FHA loans require 3% for a down payment. Many cities, counties and states have additional programs that will provide additional assistance. Washington state has a down payment assistance program that will give you a second mortgage loan up to 4.00% of the total loan amount with 0% interest and payments deferred for 30 years.
So you're going to take away good paying, middle class, union jobs from sanitation workers and park workers? Then hand them over to unskilled below-minimum wage welfare recipients? Why we can't we just pay people to stay home and take care of their kids and families? That seems to be exactly the definition of a job that isn't economically worth doing but has other benefits.
Historically, production was limited by the availability of human labor. We had to restrict money so that people would have an incentive to work. But we are reaching a point where the only limit to production is the demand for consumption. So to continue to incentivize production, we have to subsidize consumption.
Not even close to the same thing. Communism is the collective ownership of the means of production.
Section 8 is a program that provide vouchers for people so that they can rent from private landlords.Like every other rental, it is the landlords' responsibility to maintain the premises, not the renters'.
This country did just fine by the poor prior to FDR
No, it really did not. You might want to look up this thing called the Great Depression. My great-grandfather was a miner who was injured on the job and couldn't work anymore. There was no Disability or Worker's Comp back then. My grandfather has some horrific stories about growing up in extreme poverty right here in the US. If you think Venezuala is bad, you should read up on what the US was like before the FDR reforms.
The year is 2020. Self-driving cars, automatic check-out and other technologies have put 50% of the US workforce into unemployment. What jobs are you going to create that employ 80 million people? And you can't create any jobs that compete with private sector, because putting companies out of business would create even more unemployment.
Of course you can count impact factor for web journals or open publications. Its just a statistic, like average word count or average daily site visitors. There is no governing authority of impact factor.
But speaking as an actual laboratory scientist: I read. My colleagues read. Conferences presentations are either "work in progress" or "broad summary of everything in our lab for the last 5 years", depending on the venue. There is no way that a half hour talk or a single poster can actually provide the detail necessary to understand and evaluate cutting edge research.