Okay, suppose you implement a 10% annual tax on financial assets. Now that 1% savings account would actually net -9% (roughly), so you have to jack up interest rates to 17% to still make that 1% (why so high? remember you're still paying income tax on that interest too).
Now ripple that through the rest of the economy... your 4% home mortgage now becomes 20% (remember the good ol' days back in the early 80's? This would be worse), and treasury bonds would then have to pay 18% instead of 3%... oops, that means you just had about zero net effect on the deficit, as the interest on the national debt explodes.
Sure it sounds like a great idea to hit the 1%'ers, but the downstream effect will hurt the 99%'ers much more.
I had to look up "ad libitum"... it sounds like it means that the mice could eat however much they wanted. I would assume the salted chow would be tastier so the mice may have eaten more of it, which would then skew the results due to obesity.
They are much more likely to inspire legislation banning 3D printing.
More likely they will require the 3D printer identify such designs and refuse to print them, like they did with color copiers to prevent them from printing currency.
I'm not sure why you and parent thought I was talking about "iPhone users".
It is nice that the iPhone fits your needs but it did not fit mine on the two occasions when I considered purchasing one and I stated the specific reasons it did not. Given your dismissive comment I know you really don't care about my opinion so there is no point in elaborating any further.
Like ethnic/racial/religious profiling? Somehow I think the Constitution will get in the way of that.
On the other hand the first, second and fourth amendments don't seem to get in the way of the TSA so whats the big deal about ignoring another amendment?
I agree with you to a degree... a little bit more here or there won't make a difference. But where it mattered for me the iPhone didn't measure up at the time (EDGE vs 3G), and later 600mhz single core with 3G vs 1000mhz dual core with 4G... both times it was a big enough difference that it was quite noticeable. Apple has since closed the gap quite a bit, and as I said with the iPhone 5 I don't think there will be a practical difference.
As far as screen size I really think that is a personal preference thing. IMO 3.5" is just too small, and running around trying to use a phone with one hand isn't one of my priorities. And since Apple finally caved and added another 1/2" I'm guessing they saw enough of a market they were missing to make that change.
Browsing on the flip phone? Sparingly. Entering web addresses using T9 was not particularly quick, and the browser was rudimentary. I used it much more tethered to a laptop, and for that purpose it was fantastic.
I had a RAZR 3G. When the original iPhone was announced I was all ready to pick it up... touch screen, games, music, what was not to love? Then I saw that it didn't have 3G, so I would drop from 3.6mbps max to 0.384 max on EDGE. Not happening... so disappointed.
3G wouldn't show up on iPhone for a full 2 years after I already had it on the RAZR.
The thing with the 5 is that it largely catches up to what is out there now for Android. Every iPhone ever released has been a year or more behind in technology, whether it was 2G vs 3G, 3G vs 4G/LTE, screen resolution, CPU speed/cores, etc. Now iPhone has a decent screen (not 720p HD but close), LTE, and fast dual core CPU. I don't see Android making a large leap over that in technology in the short term, so you can finally get an iPhone and won't have to be embarrassed about the features that it is missing. Just make sure you overpay as much as possible to get the storage you think you'll need because you still can't add or upgrade that ($200 for an extra 48GB is insane).
Criminal verdicts have to be unanimous so one idiot on the jury won't condemn you to death, at worst it would be a mistrial. But as we saw in the OJ case it is sometimes possible to get twelve idiots.
I did not call Social Security "welfare". Stated are the actual 2012 budget amounts for Welfare and MediCAID.
Social Security and MediCARE spending is significantly higher (about 600B each), but as I said they are self funded by separate FICA and HI payroll taxes. Of course what Congress actually did with the trust fund is another matter.
The vast majority of Federal spending goes to the DoD, Medicare, and Social Security.
Medicare and Social Security are technically self funded by FICA and HI taxes so they are not the spending problem.
DoD (925B), Welfare (430B - includes 100B in unemployment) and Medicaid (333B) are the top three, and by themselves currently spends every dollar of revenue... everything else (another trillion) is just piled on the debt.
You cannot, according to what we know of physics, use quantum entanglement to send information faster than light.
But would it be faster sending information from one side of the Earth to the other than satellites or undersea fiber? If so financial institutions will be all over this.
1. a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
2. a procession of people escorting a corpse to burial
I think it would be more difficult to define "protest". Several of the recent Westboro activities has incited counter-protests... but I'm ok with those being banned as well. You're either a party to the funeral service, or you just really don't belong there.
Yes. I would make it a capital offense to protest at a funeral. There are lots of appropriate places they can protest the war and gays, like the Pentagon and San Francisco, respectively, but doing so at a funeral for a fallen soldier is not one of them.
I really tried to like WebOS. The clean UI and smooth multitasking were wonderful but ultimately it's all about the apps, and WebOS is a disaster there. There is only a few thousand available, and most of them are designed for the Palm Pre so they ran in a tiny window.
After trying it for about a month I loaded CM7 and never looked back.
Hopefully the CM team can use some of the WebOS source to improve the CM drivers, but otherwise I personally don't see a need for any further development on WebOS
grown to $10,500 today from $2,831 (in 2010 dollars) in 1961.
Per above quote, $2,831 is an adjusted 2010 dollar figure. Pretty scary, no?
Granted an increase in teacher pay relative to inflation is certainly not a bad thing given how underpaid they traditionally were, but ultimately the main issue is that 50 years ago there were two teachers for every non-teacher, today there are two non-teachers for every teacher, which doubles the cost per pupil all by itself.
...that will return to the vicinity of Earth in two (or three or four, etc) years, allowing for the possibility of recovery and reattachment to ground of same.
Could get interesting for the tourists in the elevator above the break.
Schools already got all the money they need but they just used it to hire more administrators and other staff. I don't think throwing even more money at them will help without some fundamental changes in the way they operate.
In 1955, teachers constituted about 65% of local education workers; today, despite years of rapid gains in teacher ranks, they amount to only about 40% of the eight million local education workers.
Per-pupil spending in public schools has grown to $10,500 today from $2,831 (in 2010 dollars) in 1961.
When my kids were young if you offered them the choice of chicken nuggets or a turkey sandwich the chicken nuggets would win every time. So it may not have been "forced", but for most kids it was effectively no different.
The problem is at what dosage? The CNN article described it as a "mega-dose", so who knows if the normal human dosage (300mg/day) for skin cancer treatment is enough. The drug is quite expensive; the Canada mail order sites are quoting about $20 per 75mg pill so that would be $80 per day just for the normal dose.
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Okay, suppose you implement a 10% annual tax on financial assets. Now that 1% savings account would actually net -9% (roughly), so you have to jack up interest rates to 17% to still make that 1% (why so high? remember you're still paying income tax on that interest too).
Now ripple that through the rest of the economy... your 4% home mortgage now becomes 20% (remember the good ol' days back in the early 80's? This would be worse), and treasury bonds would then have to pay 18% instead of 3%... oops, that means you just had about zero net effect on the deficit, as the interest on the national debt explodes.
Sure it sounds like a great idea to hit the 1%'ers, but the downstream effect will hurt the 99%'ers much more.
I had to look up "ad libitum"... it sounds like it means that the mice could eat however much they wanted. I would assume the salted chow would be tastier so the mice may have eaten more of it, which would then skew the results due to obesity.
They are much more likely to inspire legislation banning 3D printing.
More likely they will require the 3D printer identify such designs and refuse to print them, like they did with color copiers to prevent them from printing currency.
Nah I'd prefer a SD slot over HDMI.
I'm not sure why you and parent thought I was talking about "iPhone users".
It is nice that the iPhone fits your needs but it did not fit mine on the two occasions when I considered purchasing one and I stated the specific reasons it did not. Given your dismissive comment I know you really don't care about my opinion so there is no point in elaborating any further.
Like ethnic/racial/religious profiling? Somehow I think the Constitution will get in the way of that.
On the other hand the first, second and fourth amendments don't seem to get in the way of the TSA so whats the big deal about ignoring another amendment?
I agree with you to a degree... a little bit more here or there won't make a difference. But where it mattered for me the iPhone didn't measure up at the time (EDGE vs 3G), and later 600mhz single core with 3G vs 1000mhz dual core with 4G... both times it was a big enough difference that it was quite noticeable. Apple has since closed the gap quite a bit, and as I said with the iPhone 5 I don't think there will be a practical difference.
As far as screen size I really think that is a personal preference thing. IMO 3.5" is just too small, and running around trying to use a phone with one hand isn't one of my priorities. And since Apple finally caved and added another 1/2" I'm guessing they saw enough of a market they were missing to make that change.
Browsing on the flip phone? Sparingly. Entering web addresses using T9 was not particularly quick, and the browser was rudimentary. I used it much more tethered to a laptop, and for that purpose it was fantastic.
I had a RAZR 3G. When the original iPhone was announced I was all ready to pick it up... touch screen, games, music, what was not to love? Then I saw that it didn't have 3G, so I would drop from 3.6mbps max to 0.384 max on EDGE. Not happening... so disappointed.
3G wouldn't show up on iPhone for a full 2 years after I already had it on the RAZR.
The thing with the 5 is that it largely catches up to what is out there now for Android. Every iPhone ever released has been a year or more behind in technology, whether it was 2G vs 3G, 3G vs 4G/LTE, screen resolution, CPU speed/cores, etc. Now iPhone has a decent screen (not 720p HD but close), LTE, and fast dual core CPU. I don't see Android making a large leap over that in technology in the short term, so you can finally get an iPhone and won't have to be embarrassed about the features that it is missing. Just make sure you overpay as much as possible to get the storage you think you'll need because you still can't add or upgrade that ($200 for an extra 48GB is insane).
Criminal verdicts have to be unanimous so one idiot on the jury won't condemn you to death, at worst it would be a mistrial. But as we saw in the OJ case it is sometimes possible to get twelve idiots.
SpaceX received $390M worth of public funding from NASA so in reality it is not totally commercial, yet.
ISS speed is 7.7 km/s and escape velocity is roughly 11 km/s... it would have to be a really big "push".
I did not call Social Security "welfare". Stated are the actual 2012 budget amounts for Welfare and MediCAID.
Social Security and MediCARE spending is significantly higher (about 600B each), but as I said they are self funded by separate FICA and HI payroll taxes. Of course what Congress actually did with the trust fund is another matter.
The vast majority of Federal spending goes to the DoD, Medicare, and Social Security.
Medicare and Social Security are technically self funded by FICA and HI taxes so they are not the spending problem.
DoD (925B), Welfare (430B - includes 100B in unemployment) and Medicaid (333B) are the top three, and by themselves currently spends every dollar of revenue... everything else (another trillion) is just piled on the debt.
You cannot, according to what we know of physics, use quantum entanglement to send information faster than light.
But would it be faster sending information from one side of the Earth to the other than satellites or undersea fiber? If so financial institutions will be all over this.
No, I was exaggerating for emphasis. Maybe sending them to Guantanamo would be more appropriate. :-)
I think it would be more difficult to define "protest". Several of the recent Westboro activities has incited counter-protests... but I'm ok with those being banned as well. You're either a party to the funeral service, or you just really don't belong there.
Yes. I would make it a capital offense to protest at a funeral. There are lots of appropriate places they can protest the war and gays, like the Pentagon and San Francisco, respectively, but doing so at a funeral for a fallen soldier is not one of them.
I really tried to like WebOS. The clean UI and smooth multitasking were wonderful but ultimately it's all about the apps, and WebOS is a disaster there. There is only a few thousand available, and most of them are designed for the Palm Pre so they ran in a tiny window.
After trying it for about a month I loaded CM7 and never looked back.
Hopefully the CM team can use some of the WebOS source to improve the CM drivers, but otherwise I personally don't see a need for any further development on WebOS
grown to $10,500 today from $2,831 (in 2010 dollars) in 1961.
Per above quote, $2,831 is an adjusted 2010 dollar figure. Pretty scary, no?
Granted an increase in teacher pay relative to inflation is certainly not a bad thing given how underpaid they traditionally were, but ultimately the main issue is that 50 years ago there were two teachers for every non-teacher, today there are two non-teachers for every teacher, which doubles the cost per pupil all by itself.
...that will return to the vicinity of Earth in two (or three or four, etc) years, allowing for the possibility of recovery and reattachment to ground of same.
Could get interesting for the tourists in the elevator above the break.
Schools already got all the money they need but they just used it to hire more administrators and other staff. I don't think throwing even more money at them will help without some fundamental changes in the way they operate.
In 1955, teachers constituted about 65% of local education workers; today, despite years of rapid gains in teacher ranks, they amount to only about 40% of the eight million local education workers. Per-pupil spending in public schools has grown to $10,500 today from $2,831 (in 2010 dollars) in 1961.
From: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204531404577052194234235910.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0 (paywalled)
When my kids were young if you offered them the choice of chicken nuggets or a turkey sandwich the chicken nuggets would win every time. So it may not have been "forced", but for most kids it was effectively no different.
The problem is at what dosage? The CNN article described it as a "mega-dose", so who knows if the normal human dosage (300mg/day) for skin cancer treatment is enough. The drug is quite expensive; the Canada mail order sites are quoting about $20 per 75mg pill so that would be $80 per day just for the normal dose.