His lack of command of his native language, his inability to understand relatively simple scientific concepts, his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of his job, the lack of understanding of the complexity of healthcare, international relations, and just about everything else.
Now, he could be acting, he could be playing stupid to appeal to his deplorable followers, but I think the stupidity is very likely fundamentally real.
Ben Carson is an intellectual specialist. He knows brain surgery, and very little else. That's different than stupidity.
As if loopholes and unearned income taxed at different rates aren't still a problem.
Obviously income is income, there shouldn't be different rates for earned vs unearned, capital gains should be taxed as income, and social security and medicare should be taxed on all income, not just the first $127k of earned income.
And seriously, Joe Louis? Look, it sucks that he blew all his money instead of paying his tax bill, and the IRS eventually agreed to a compromise anyway, but that doesn't mean the rate was too high, and tax debt can be discharged in bankruptcy.
No, the $15 minimum wage needs to happen, and it needs to be indexed to inflation. Maybe it needs to be $20 to start instead.
Jobs that would be replaced by at $15 would still be replaced at $7.35, would still be replaced at $5, would still be replaced at $2, and would still be replaced at $0.50. It's not going to be stopped because we allow employers to pay slave wages.
All that allowing employers to pay ridiculously low wages accomplishes is to shift the costs associated with their shitty business practices to the public, while privatizing the profits.
That's because it isn't nearly high enough. And no amount of wailing that it's too high for the poor overtaxed corporate robber barons is going to change that.
There are so many holes and corporate welfare giveaways in that rate that it's an utterly fake number.
But let's actually fix it. There shouldn't be a corporate tax rate at all.
Corporations should be taxed as if they were people. And rich people, who aren't taxed nearly enough. It's time to bring back 1950's tax rates, with a 91% top tax bracket.
Well, if your friend lives close to the edge of your range, it might make a lot of sense to charge there. And if I'd installed a permanent L2 charger at home, I'd leave the cable that came with the car in the car, I know my car has a spot to store it, most others do too. And my friends who live far enough away for it to matter have things like "get an electric car" on their list of things to do as soon as they can afford it, so at some point I wouldn't even need my own cable. So yeah, charging at a friend's place is something I'd do.
And yeah, when I get a pure electric car, L3 availability is going to be important, not so much for daily driving, but for road trips. And if I had a pure electric, I'd definitely install the L2 at home, you're not going to get 300 miles of charge overnight on 120V, and that range is pretty much what it's going to take for me to go pure electric instead of plug in hybrid. I'll never need it most days, but if I'm doing electric only I've gotta cover the outliers. 300 miles should do it, it'll cover days when I've got to travel to surrounding states, and with enough available L3 chargers, I'd be able to do most road trips.
It doesn't do anything of the sort. Virtually every house in the US has 240V available. Most houses have 200A service.
Sure, if you're plugging in to a 120V wall outlet with the charger that comes with the car, it's a bit slow (and it's actually what I do, it charges my Ford C-Max quite nicely overnight) but if I needed faster charging it would take me maybe a couple hours to pull a 240V circuit to a L2 EVSE, and it wouldn't be any harder for me to pull a 50A circuit than a 30A circuit.
Most days, the 15-20 miles of range I get on battery is enough. I'd like to have one of the new Volts, 53 miles would keep me running on electricity almost all the time, but the C-Max was only $10k.
1) I like my vision sharp, so I have it tuned as tight as I can get it, just a bit better than 20/20.
2) I like my high contrast term. Terminal background color - white. Terminal foreground color - black. Cursor - blinking black rectangle, can't miss it.
Web browsing defaults are also white background, black text.
3) Eh, it's about there.
4) Contacts, all the way. No headache from the frame, and full focus peripheral vision, you can never get that from glasses, there's always a line beyond which things are blurry.
It's already known that phone thieves are desoldering, rewriting, reballing, and resoldering memory chips on iPhones to defeat Find My iPhone. Replacing a SMD fuse is trivial in comparison.
I've got one that finally failed after over 20 years in service. Most reliable drive I've ever had, that Rodime.
The funny thing is that it was recalled a few months after I got it, Apple wanted to replace it with a Seagate. After two bad drives out of the box, I told the dealer I'd keep the Rodime.
No, the Apple IIgs it was connected to wasn't being used much by the time that drive finally died, but it was still annoying. The computer still works, it's over 30 years old now.
That's exactly the wrong approach. What we need is good public schools, not a giant money transfer to for-profit companies, which is what a voucher system would very quickly degenerate into.
The opposite approach would actually do much more to improve education - a complete ban on private schools would motivate parents with more resources to push for improvements instead of pulling their kids out.
You know, I don't remember where I looked, it's been quite a few years. Gas is basically plumbing, with some special considerations for the fact that it's potentially explosive if it leaks. Most of the run was done with corrugated stainless steel tube, the floor penetration had to be iron pipe. Don't use regular plumbing pipe dope on gas pipe, btw, it's not designed for gas. CSST is really easy to work with, just remember do not lubricate the fittings.
Well, I absolutely am. The law is quite clear on it, as the homeowner I can do all of it.
My water heater that I put in is 10 years old now, it hasn't blown up yet. I wired the HVAC system, have done quite a few plumbing jobs, installed the gas stove in the kitchen, fixed the insanity that somebody hacked up on the electric outlets in one room (seriously, somebody wired a couple outlets to one leg of a double-pole 30A breaker - absolutely nuts).
I call $10k pretty price competitive for the 2013 plug-in that I bought last year.
I've found that it doesn't make enough of a dent in my electricity bill to even notice. It's around 9 cents/kWh here, gas is around $2/gallon. I've gone from putting gas in twice a week to once or twice a month, so I'm coming out ahead on what it's actually costing me, the old car was paid for, I'm making payments on this one.
I doubt that tax is coming very soon, if at all. There's no point in figuring it in now because it doesn't exist yet, and I've got the car now.
Maybe. But lots of people don't buy new cars. I don't.
My 2013 plug-in hybrid was $10k when I bought it last spring. I don't know how much the Model 3 is going to be 3-5 years after it's released, but that's about the point where I'd be looking at one.
So, a plug-in hybrid would be a good choice for you. It's what I went with, 20 miles on electricity (which covers most days) and 450 miles on a tank of gas.
I wasn't suggesting it was built into the meter. But just backfeeding a generator or solar inverter into the panel without it is dangerous and generally illegal.
There is absolutely switching involved, to avoid backfeeding into a dead line when the feed has failed. For a generator it's with a transfer switch which kills the feed and switched to the generator. For solar without battery backup, it typically just kills everything if the feed fails.
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His lack of command of his native language, his inability to understand relatively simple scientific concepts, his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of his job, the lack of understanding of the complexity of healthcare, international relations, and just about everything else.
Now, he could be acting, he could be playing stupid to appeal to his deplorable followers, but I think the stupidity is very likely fundamentally real.
Ben Carson is an intellectual specialist. He knows brain surgery, and very little else. That's different than stupidity.
As if loopholes and unearned income taxed at different rates aren't still a problem.
Obviously income is income, there shouldn't be different rates for earned vs unearned, capital gains should be taxed as income, and social security and medicare should be taxed on all income, not just the first $127k of earned income.
And seriously, Joe Louis? Look, it sucks that he blew all his money instead of paying his tax bill, and the IRS eventually agreed to a compromise anyway, but that doesn't mean the rate was too high, and tax debt can be discharged in bankruptcy.
That's a huge problem today. I mean, it's obviously sarcasm, but there are people who are really stupid enough to believe it.
No, the $15 minimum wage needs to happen, and it needs to be indexed to inflation. Maybe it needs to be $20 to start instead.
Jobs that would be replaced by at $15 would still be replaced at $7.35, would still be replaced at $5, would still be replaced at $2, and would still be replaced at $0.50. It's not going to be stopped because we allow employers to pay slave wages.
All that allowing employers to pay ridiculously low wages accomplishes is to shift the costs associated with their shitty business practices to the public, while privatizing the profits.
No, he's stupid.
That doesn't mean he's not dangerous, but he absolutely IS stupid.
That's because it isn't nearly high enough. And no amount of wailing that it's too high for the poor overtaxed corporate robber barons is going to change that.
Complete and utter bullshit.
There are so many holes and corporate welfare giveaways in that rate that it's an utterly fake number.
But let's actually fix it. There shouldn't be a corporate tax rate at all.
Corporations should be taxed as if they were people. And rich people, who aren't taxed nearly enough. It's time to bring back 1950's tax rates, with a 91% top tax bracket.
Well, if your friend lives close to the edge of your range, it might make a lot of sense to charge there. And if I'd installed a permanent L2 charger at home, I'd leave the cable that came with the car in the car, I know my car has a spot to store it, most others do too. And my friends who live far enough away for it to matter have things like "get an electric car" on their list of things to do as soon as they can afford it, so at some point I wouldn't even need my own cable. So yeah, charging at a friend's place is something I'd do.
And yeah, when I get a pure electric car, L3 availability is going to be important, not so much for daily driving, but for road trips. And if I had a pure electric, I'd definitely install the L2 at home, you're not going to get 300 miles of charge overnight on 120V, and that range is pretty much what it's going to take for me to go pure electric instead of plug in hybrid. I'll never need it most days, but if I'm doing electric only I've gotta cover the outliers. 300 miles should do it, it'll cover days when I've got to travel to surrounding states, and with enough available L3 chargers, I'd be able to do most road trips.
It doesn't do anything of the sort. Virtually every house in the US has 240V available. Most houses have 200A service.
Sure, if you're plugging in to a 120V wall outlet with the charger that comes with the car, it's a bit slow (and it's actually what I do, it charges my Ford C-Max quite nicely overnight) but if I needed faster charging it would take me maybe a couple hours to pull a 240V circuit to a L2 EVSE, and it wouldn't be any harder for me to pull a 50A circuit than a 30A circuit.
Most days, the 15-20 miles of range I get on battery is enough. I'd like to have one of the new Volts, 53 miles would keep me running on electricity almost all the time, but the C-Max was only $10k.
I'm pretty sure the "bribes" you're talking about are a $150 fee for the first 10 test vehicles and $50 for each additional 10 test vehicles.
Yeah, that's it. Far less than it cost to ship the cars to Arizona, and far less than the administrative costs of the program.
Boy, Uber sure came out ahead on that one.
1) I like my vision sharp, so I have it tuned as tight as I can get it, just a bit better than 20/20.
2) I like my high contrast term.
Terminal background color - white.
Terminal foreground color - black.
Cursor - blinking black rectangle, can't miss it.
Web browsing defaults are also white background, black text.
3) Eh, it's about there.
4) Contacts, all the way. No headache from the frame, and full focus peripheral vision, you can never get that from glasses, there's always a line beyond which things are blurry.
Neutral density sunglasses only for me, thanks. Those things screw with colors.
Chrome is WebKit. Yeah, it's a fork, but it's WebKit.
A fuse is useless.
It's already known that phone thieves are desoldering, rewriting, reballing, and resoldering memory chips on iPhones to defeat Find My iPhone. Replacing a SMD fuse is trivial in comparison.
I've got one that finally failed after over 20 years in service. Most reliable drive I've ever had, that Rodime.
The funny thing is that it was recalled a few months after I got it, Apple wanted to replace it with a Seagate. After two bad drives out of the box, I told the dealer I'd keep the Rodime.
No, the Apple IIgs it was connected to wasn't being used much by the time that drive finally died, but it was still annoying. The computer still works, it's over 30 years old now.
That's exactly the wrong approach. What we need is good public schools, not a giant money transfer to for-profit companies, which is what a voucher system would very quickly degenerate into.
The opposite approach would actually do much more to improve education - a complete ban on private schools would motivate parents with more resources to push for improvements instead of pulling their kids out.
Ugh, no. I don't watch M Night Shalamalalama movies.
You know, I don't remember where I looked, it's been quite a few years. Gas is basically plumbing, with some special considerations for the fact that it's potentially explosive if it leaks. Most of the run was done with corrugated stainless steel tube, the floor penetration had to be iron pipe. Don't use regular plumbing pipe dope on gas pipe, btw, it's not designed for gas. CSST is really easy to work with, just remember do not lubricate the fittings.
Here's a link to the standard code: http://codes.iccsafe.org/app/b...
That's probably not the exact code where you are, so you'll want to look it up.
Well, I absolutely am. The law is quite clear on it, as the homeowner I can do all of it.
My water heater that I put in is 10 years old now, it hasn't blown up yet. I wired the HVAC system, have done quite a few plumbing jobs, installed the gas stove in the kitchen, fixed the insanity that somebody hacked up on the electric outlets in one room (seriously, somebody wired a couple outlets to one leg of a double-pole 30A breaker - absolutely nuts).
I call $10k pretty price competitive for the 2013 plug-in that I bought last year.
I've found that it doesn't make enough of a dent in my electricity bill to even notice. It's around 9 cents/kWh here, gas is around $2/gallon. I've gone from putting gas in twice a week to once or twice a month, so I'm coming out ahead on what it's actually costing me, the old car was paid for, I'm making payments on this one.
I doubt that tax is coming very soon, if at all. There's no point in figuring it in now because it doesn't exist yet, and I've got the car now.
Maybe. But lots of people don't buy new cars. I don't.
My 2013 plug-in hybrid was $10k when I bought it last spring. I don't know how much the Model 3 is going to be 3-5 years after it's released, but that's about the point where I'd be looking at one.
So, a plug-in hybrid would be a good choice for you. It's what I went with, 20 miles on electricity (which covers most days) and 450 miles on a tank of gas.
I wasn't suggesting it was built into the meter. But just backfeeding a generator or solar inverter into the panel without it is dangerous and generally illegal.
There is absolutely switching involved, to avoid backfeeding into a dead line when the feed has failed. For a generator it's with a transfer switch which kills the feed and switched to the generator. For solar without battery backup, it typically just kills everything if the feed fails.
My Ford messages me when it's charged too.