Yes, because paygo pension funds are doing so wonderfully.
All pension funds should have been pre-funded from the start and never have been backed by the faith and credit of government. Only the most basic wellfare should be paygo and paid from general revenue instead of complicated payroll tax line items and trust funds (government shouldn't be in the business of maintaining investment funds).
Without subsidy the USPS will need to scale down massively, they can't compete in a free market environment.
Even then, they'll always run losses because the international treaties rapes every western postal service. If Trump wants to do something useful he should unilaterally get the US out of the treaty of Bern.
I don't think that was what they were after, I think they were looking to get banned.
What was curiously absent from the article is any mention of attempts to report the impersonators, twitter has a policy which states that impersonation is not allowed after all.
Obviousness is a fundamentally subjective measure which can only be judged by domain experts.
That is why patent lawyers always try to redefine the English language and create really convoluted ways to redefine obviousness in terms of prior art.
There is nothing magical about meat, it's just chemicals. I doubt there is any nutritionally useful chemical in meat we can't already mass produce cheaply.
Stuff like Coenzyme Q10, hydroxocobalamin (B12 as it occurs in meat), L-carnosine, Taurine etc. are not common in vegan diets... but you can just fortify the food.
A good ground patty is easier than a steak. For small pieces extrusion techniques can somewhat emulate muscle fibers, mostly used to emulate chicken chunks, but that doesn't work for larger pieces.
A clash of civilizations is is taking place in Xinjiang, between a pseudo-Islam increasing being dragged to Sunni fundamentalism by Middle East money (just like all the other pseudo Islamic religions in Asia and the Balkans) and China's pseudo-communism. The latter was winning through demography for a while, but the low birthrates of Han Chinese present a problem.
"if the government is in the interests of the people, why would anyone resist it?"
In a people internally divided they can't serve all of their interests. Religion obviously being the main sticking point, highly dogmatic religions obviously being the most difficult to accommodate, orthodox Sunni Islam obviously being the major creator of problems.
Ah yes, the tidal gauges which I can simply drive to and read myself, with paper logs maintained by a bunch old geezers from my own country going back over a hundred years have been manipulated by the petrol industry...
Just like there can be sea water rise without acceleration as seen on tidal gauges in civilized nations... but conveniently appearing on satellite data.
Of course I'm jealous, but that's neither here nor there. Bitcoin has fulfilled it's promise as an investment, it has failed it's promise as a currency.
You can't use it's success as an investment to argue that transaction costs of 20 fucking bucks and a throughput counted in one or two digits per second don't make it completely useless as a currency, Lightning network isn't a solution either because the limitations and lack of transparency will be very hard to explain or justify to normal users.
If it continues its run as an investment and criminal transaction method for a while longer, bully for you. That makes it no more useful for commercial trade such as Steam, it will have still failed as a currency.
For the moment the US state has plenty of force. They let their citizens easily use bitcoin, they don't have to. They make their citizens pay taxes in US dollars, those citizens most definitely have to comply.
State fiat currencies of strong states are backed by the most fundamental value in human existence of all, survival. You obey legal tender laws, or you don't get to survive in a meaningful way. In that regard state fiat currencies are more fundamentally valuable than even commodity currencies.
4. MTG can also change the rarity and strength of cards. They determine what cards are legal to play and can ban/nerf them in popular formats, this has a major impact on demand/rarity/price.
Maybe we should just let people declare themselves juvenile and give them a nice badge to indicate it. Having sex with these people would be statutory rape.
That way we can reserve the term adult for people who are able to say "stop, I'm leaving".
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Yes, because paygo pension funds are doing so wonderfully.
All pension funds should have been pre-funded from the start and never have been backed by the faith and credit of government. Only the most basic wellfare should be paygo and paid from general revenue instead of complicated payroll tax line items and trust funds (government shouldn't be in the business of maintaining investment funds).
Without subsidy the USPS will need to scale down massively, they can't compete in a free market environment.
Even then, they'll always run losses because the international treaties rapes every western postal service. If Trump wants to do something useful he should unilaterally get the US out of the treaty of Bern.
I don't think that was what they were after, I think they were looking to get banned.
What was curiously absent from the article is any mention of attempts to report the impersonators, twitter has a policy which states that impersonation is not allowed after all.
There's no need to sockpuppet, there's next to no brigading here ... except for the occasional random loon.
Obviousness is a fundamentally subjective measure which can only be judged by domain experts.
That is why patent lawyers always try to redefine the English language and create really convoluted ways to redefine obviousness in terms of prior art.
There is nothing magical about meat, it's just chemicals. I doubt there is any nutritionally useful chemical in meat we can't already mass produce cheaply.
Stuff like Coenzyme Q10, hydroxocobalamin (B12 as it occurs in meat), L-carnosine, Taurine etc. are not common in vegan diets ... but you can just fortify the food.
A good ground patty is easier than a steak. For small pieces extrusion techniques can somewhat emulate muscle fibers, mostly used to emulate chicken chunks, but that doesn't work for larger pieces.
Not control, replacement.
A clash of civilizations is is taking place in Xinjiang, between a pseudo-Islam increasing being dragged to Sunni fundamentalism by Middle East money (just like all the other pseudo Islamic religions in Asia and the Balkans) and China's pseudo-communism. The latter was winning through demography for a while, but the low birthrates of Han Chinese present a problem.
Sure, but the story makes the point that it's worst in that region. By multiculturalism and communism combined we get Xinjiang.
It's also true that China itself turned the region multicultural, but that's still not a ringing endorsement of multiculturalism.
How do they do it in Japan?
"if the government is in the interests of the people, why would anyone resist it?"
In a people internally divided they can't serve all of their interests. Religion obviously being the main sticking point, highly dogmatic religions obviously being the most difficult to accommodate, orthodox Sunni Islam obviously being the major creator of problems.
Low trust, high tech society => surveillance society.
This is the future you choose.
Ah yes, the tidal gauges which I can simply drive to and read myself, with paper logs maintained by a bunch old geezers from my own country going back over a hundred years have been manipulated by the petrol industry ...
There can be global warming without acceleration.
Just like there can be sea water rise without acceleration as seen on tidal gauges in civilized nations ... but conveniently appearing on satellite data.
Of course I'm jealous, but that's neither here nor there. Bitcoin has fulfilled it's promise as an investment, it has failed it's promise as a currency.
You can't use it's success as an investment to argue that transaction costs of 20 fucking bucks and a throughput counted in one or two digits per second don't make it completely useless as a currency, Lightning network isn't a solution either because the limitations and lack of transparency will be very hard to explain or justify to normal users.
If it continues its run as an investment and criminal transaction method for a while longer, bully for you. That makes it no more useful for commercial trade such as Steam, it will have still failed as a currency.
So did tulip bulbs for those who got out in time, but tulip bulbs weren't any good as a currency either.
For the moment the US state has plenty of force. They let their citizens easily use bitcoin, they don't have to. They make their citizens pay taxes in US dollars, those citizens most definitely have to comply.
State fiat currencies of strong states are backed by the most fundamental value in human existence of all, survival. You obey legal tender laws, or you don't get to survive in a meaningful way. In that regard state fiat currencies are more fundamentally valuable than even commodity currencies.
Other languages are less costly to society.
Buffer overflow and use after free are some of the most costly bugs around, right after SQL injection and cross site scripting.
They both target addictive personalities, randomness just does it moreso.
TF2 is not strictly cosmetic, but close enough.
Take a look around and you'll find quite a few people who got into trouble because of TF2 loot chest addiction. It's been a problem for years.
4. MTG can also change the rarity and strength of cards. They determine what cards are legal to play and can ban/nerf them in popular formats, this has a major impact on demand/rarity/price.
In the US.
Maybe we should just let people declare themselves juvenile and give them a nice badge to indicate it. Having sex with these people would be statutory rape.
That way we can reserve the term adult for people who are able to say "stop, I'm leaving".
What "all"? There are none in the story.