The point is that you can still buy your 6 dollar all natural, organic, gluten-free cookie, but it is going to cost you 6.50 because sugar is sugar, whether it comes from slave labor or corn fields.
If the extra 50 cents is used to subsidize your healthcare or your fresh produce purchases, you shouldn't care if you indulge in moderation. Only the people that eat an unbalanced quantity of sin-tax food will be burdened by the tax. And, its not like we are going to take your 50 cents and give it to the communists or burn it or something. The tax revenue can be used to alleviate other tax burden, balance food prices, etc.
no, that is the worst political development in American history.
You make this sound like you are complaining about "welfare". But if groups spend millions of dollars lobbying to make their businesses more profitable, they are ALSO using the government to take money from people.
personally I'd rather government be changed by votes than dollar signs.
Yeah but he will be dead some day, and 100 - 100 million years from now (whatever the time frame may be) when they prove that something can come from nothing, he will be the guy that said it first with conviction.
At least that's how it will likely be remembered, when we are all dead and scientific history gets trimmed and reorganized into a more manageable memory.
What we need is a bill to negates all riders. Might be hard to pass though... maybe if we can attach it to a bigger, more popular bill no one will see it!
Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.
‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’
Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.
‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’
Ok but how is one million dollars towards one yacht more circulation than one million towards 100 speed boats or 5000 canoes?
Are you assuming that if one million dollars was split up between 10 non-executives they would have it printed into cash so they could admire the "pretty pieces of colored, printed paper?"
When a sum of money is exchanged for goods and surfaces, those goods and surfaces are what the "leaches" are receiving.
As you said, money has no value. Salary is a measurement the value of what they are getting out of the system.
When something as simple as chatroulette "goes viral" or becomes as popular as chatroullete has become, "it" is not what its creator created, "it" becomes something else.
Do you think Rick Astley or whoever wrote that song should have a say in how rick rolls are used?
Chatroulette would not be nearly as popular if users felt like they needed to uphold the same social contracts you would during a conversation with a tourist in an uncle's shop.
If chatroulette became popular as raw, unfiltered internet; then filtering it will be, as the poster you quoted stated, bastardizing it.
I agree that it would be a better service with less dicks, but don't try to tell someone off because their opinion is that it is better unfiltered.
I don't think this would fit into a greatest good for the greatest number model. Yeah, having bills that are the exact same size and shape isn't THAT important to those without visual impairments. But does it really benefit the visually impaired enough to make it worth the minor sacrifice to the majority? Just making bills slightly smaller or larger isn't going to be very effective, they would have to have more dramatic differences like shape (or texture, but texture can solve the problem w/o changing size) and the more the bills change the more of a burdon on those with sight that are trying to stack bills in a wallet or where ever.
I think if this is such an issue it would make more sense to make $5, $20, and $100 coins. I'm gonna assume they would be far easier to recognize than paper money of different shapes. They wouldn't have to be commonly used, the impaired individuals could get them from banks and carry around enough coins to pay the exact amount (within a dollar since the vendors would have normal coins).
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Isn't there some kind of law about not owning an entire industry?
The point is that you can still buy your 6 dollar all natural, organic, gluten-free cookie, but it is going to cost you 6.50 because sugar is sugar, whether it comes from slave labor or corn fields. If the extra 50 cents is used to subsidize your healthcare or your fresh produce purchases, you shouldn't care if you indulge in moderation. Only the people that eat an unbalanced quantity of sin-tax food will be burdened by the tax. And, its not like we are going to take your 50 cents and give it to the communists or burn it or something. The tax revenue can be used to alleviate other tax burden, balance food prices, etc.
you mean we threw away all of that money on banks when we coulda bought a dozen of these systems? :(
Easy, they just send in space sharks to eat the space dolphins.
better icon.
I think this post wins the internet.
"+6 Incredible" imo
The Rolls-Royce, if you will.
You sound like a reputable source for what is most nutritional for a cow.
OMG, here, have all of this funding!
no, that is the worst political development in American history.
You make this sound like you are complaining about "welfare". But if groups spend millions of dollars lobbying to make their businesses more profitable, they are ALSO using the government to take money from people.
personally I'd rather government be changed by votes than dollar signs.
no the officials added that after observing the possums take hold in new york.
Shoulda stuck to binary for the 50/50 chance.
You can milk whales.
You can milk anything with nipples.
Such a fuel cell could be used to power nano-devices embedded in living organisms, says Chiragwandi, for example to diagnose disease.
is it just me or is this quote ridiculously buzzword-esque?
or do they really think they have unlocked the key to nanotechnology and cured cancer?
Yeah but he will be dead some day, and 100 - 100 million years from now (whatever the time frame may be) when they prove that something can come from nothing, he will be the guy that said it first with conviction. At least that's how it will likely be remembered, when we are all dead and scientific history gets trimmed and reorganized into a more manageable memory.
What we need is a bill to negates all riders. Might be hard to pass though... maybe if we can attach it to a bigger, more popular bill no one will see it!
its like installing a new air-freshener at a stoplight, but more exciting.
lol, i'm pretty sure flying 100 miles is a ton cheaper when you don't have to invent the thing that lets you drive the first 95.
burn things
Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.
‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’
Taylor is most particular about the nomenclature of the new development: it’s not an ‘airship’, he says, it’s a ‘hybrid air vehicle’.
‘It’s a new vehicle. It’s a hybrid because we’re combining helium lift, aerodynamic lift, a hovercraft landing system and vectored thrust,’ he says. ‘If you can get beyond the word airship – because that has a lot of history – people think about them differently.’
There should be a movement to save it if for no other reason than it rhymes.
Ok but how is one million dollars towards one yacht more circulation than one million towards 100 speed boats or 5000 canoes?
Are you assuming that if one million dollars was split up between 10 non-executives they would have it printed into cash so they could admire the "pretty pieces of colored, printed paper?"
When a sum of money is exchanged for goods and surfaces, those goods and surfaces are what the "leaches" are receiving.
As you said, money has no value. Salary is a measurement the value of what they are getting out of the system.
When something as simple as chatroulette "goes viral" or becomes as popular as chatroullete has become, "it" is not what its creator created, "it" becomes something else.
Do you think Rick Astley or whoever wrote that song should have a say in how rick rolls are used?
Chatroulette would not be nearly as popular if users felt like they needed to uphold the same social contracts you would during a conversation with a tourist in an uncle's shop.
If chatroulette became popular as raw, unfiltered internet; then filtering it will be, as the poster you quoted stated, bastardizing it.
I agree that it would be a better service with less dicks, but don't try to tell someone off because their opinion is that it is better unfiltered.
I don't think this would fit into a greatest good for the greatest number model. Yeah, having bills that are the exact same size and shape isn't THAT important to those without visual impairments. But does it really benefit the visually impaired enough to make it worth the minor sacrifice to the majority? Just making bills slightly smaller or larger isn't going to be very effective, they would have to have more dramatic differences like shape (or texture, but texture can solve the problem w/o changing size) and the more the bills change the more of a burdon on those with sight that are trying to stack bills in a wallet or where ever.
I think if this is such an issue it would make more sense to make $5, $20, and $100 coins. I'm gonna assume they would be far easier to recognize than paper money of different shapes. They wouldn't have to be commonly used, the impaired individuals could get them from banks and carry around enough coins to pay the exact amount (within a dollar since the vendors would have normal coins).