While I can't vouch for the data, it is pretty clear that illegal aliens can, if they choose, pay taxes.
As to your other point, if you decided to go live in Germany or Italy without going through the proper process, or having been rejected by the proper process due to a lack of relevant skills, would you have a total disrespect for the law once you got there?
Yes, illegal aliens often pay taxes, approximately half according to the article linked below. They apply for an ITN, which is something they're allowed to do, and pay taxes using it.
A week without online shopping would probably save tens of thousands of small businesses for a year. Especially if that week was the one after Thanksgiving.
It won't change any minds, but it might prevent people from falling for it to begin with.
I remember when I first discovered moon landing conspiracy sites. I was fascinated and went down that rabbit hole until I stumbled onto a debunking site.
Since I was just looking into it for the first time, I had no commitment to it, and I was able to see that the debunkers has much simpler, more plausible arguments.
But if I had found the debunkers after telling people about it for a year, I might not have had the strength to admit I was wrong. So thanks, Internet debunkers. You do good work.
So what happens with the universal stuff like theft and murder? Do I just sign a contract with the local police agency that they'll avenge my death? What if the guy who kills me pays them more than I did to look the other way? Is there someone that enforces that breach of contract? Do I need a contract with them, or is it done by a non-government government?
OK, cool, I suppose. If you get us to a point where we don't need a government to not get screwed by everybody else, I'll be psyched about that. But it sounds like you agree that that isn't possible today.
No amount of bold text changes the fact that "government" is not some evil force that descended from the stars to harm us. In the case of the US, it was just a bunch of guys who got together to build a decision-making framework so we could decide as a group:
1) what happens when my freedom to do what I want butts up against your freedom to not have it done to you,
2) what services we want to provide for the community so that each individual person doesn't have to worry about those things, and
3) how we're going to pay for that.
All of the results of that are government. Not the evil "other" that a few of these comments have been making it out to be.
It really doesn't matter to me how you vote, but as long as you think of government as an uncontrollable evil, your locus of control will always be external and you'll be stuck in learned helplessness and despair. Once you understand that government is what we make it, you get to try to remake it, and as frustrating as that is, it's better than the alternative.
Nature abhors a government vacuum. It might take the form of a local strong man's death squad or a constitutional monarchy, but if you don't have a government, you're about to have a government.
So pondering what would happen in the absence of government is not a productive use of time.
The difference between "do as I say" and "do as we agreed" just shows that you don't consider yourself part of the community.
Government can't be an "I" in a democracy. Government in the US is "we." You and me, buddy. We get to vote and we get to convince each other we're right. And we're going to agree on things in the form of legislation, and if we don't do as we agreed, we'll end up paying fines or rotting in prison thanks to the institution we agreed to create to enforce our agreements.
Government didn't do those things. WE did. You live in a country where the people collectively wanted those things to happen. Don't try to demonize the government for doing what we instructed it to do.
There are points when both falling boosters are firing where the plume coming off them are identical. Pause the video and then do the old Magic Eye cross-eyed lineup. Absolutely identical.
But at other times you can pause it and the plumes will be different.
This happens for the entire length of the video when those two shots are on screen.
I suspect we might be looking at something like even and odd frames from a single higher speed camera.
My fear is that once cars are fully automated, cops will still claim you need to be sober to operate them, and being near your car with the keys will still be worth $25,000 in fines and legal fees.
Your perspective is entirely valid. But equally valid is the perspective that life is better when we don't have to worry about being shot, so as a society we should take some simple precautions to prevent that. Obviously I lean in the direction that we should pool our resources to make life a little bit easier through the judicious application of government.
If MBAs really aren't taught "bad management skills," what is it that corrupts them and causes the disastrous short term thinking epidemic in companies these days?
It's not that the MBA training is negative, it's just not enough to be useful on day 1. So the process goes like this:
The guy who hires him is looking to fill a role, and he knows it's not going to happen without a learning curve, so he can never find an exact match to the job.
So you can hire someone who wants twice what you want to pay and doesn't have the exact skillset you need, or you can hire someone out of college who wants 60% of what you're willing to pay and, after some on-the-job training will have the skillset you need. So you take the cheaper one.
And it turns out he's an idiot. But by the time you find that out he's been working there for a year, and he's not so bad that you need him fired right now, and bringing someone else up to speed is going to take a year, so you make do. And 10 years later you realize you're still just "making do", so you put out an ad and replace him.
Forget about teaching your children not to do it, we`ll just create another useless device to offset parenting skills and common sense.
If your plan requires a large number of people to have parenting skills or common sense, or any other virtue, your plan will fail. If it requires people to be vile, stupid animals, you'll probably get get much better results. If it only requires that people breathe from time to time, it's a very good plan.
9.6 / 10 people suck. You know that if you've ever been in traffic. It's not fixable, and it never will be. Work around it.
(This is not an endorsement of this article's stupid system. It's stupid.)
It's not general, the summary is just dumb. As far as I can tell, it's a patent on a scrollbar that disappears when you're not dragging the view. If that's right, it's certainly a crummy patent, but not a general one.
I'm sure that's great for the people receiving money they didn't earn. Why is that worthwhile to Rovio? Or for anyone who actually earns his paycheck?
When Rovio Ireland realizes that contracting Rovio Finland is more expensive than contracting Rovio Pakistan, the former employees from Finland will think it was very worthwhile.
But that's only the healthy ones. The ones who were lazy enough to get sick were already pretty much fine with it.
The problem here isn't transport energy costs as much as zoning regulations that ban home gardening.
That's absolutely ridiculous. You want 3 million people in Chicago, in addition to having 1 or 2 full time jobs, to also grow their own food. And be good enough at it to survive. In their 3 foot by 2 foot patch of dirt. OK, those 4 cucumbers ought to sustain them for lunch on August 6th. 364 days to figure out.
Slashdot Mirror
While I can't vouch for the data, it is pretty clear that illegal aliens can, if they choose, pay taxes.
As to your other point, if you decided to go live in Germany or Italy without going through the proper process, or having been rejected by the proper process due to a lack of relevant skills, would you have a total disrespect for the law once you got there?
Yes, illegal aliens often pay taxes, approximately half according to the article linked below. They apply for an ITN, which is something they're allowed to do, and pay taxes using it.
Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
A week without online shopping would probably save tens of thousands of small businesses for a year. Especially if that week was the one after Thanksgiving.
It won't change any minds, but it might prevent people from falling for it to begin with.
I remember when I first discovered moon landing conspiracy sites. I was fascinated and went down that rabbit hole until I stumbled onto a debunking site.
Since I was just looking into it for the first time, I had no commitment to it, and I was able to see that the debunkers has much simpler, more plausible arguments.
But if I had found the debunkers after telling people about it for a year, I might not have had the strength to admit I was wrong. So thanks, Internet debunkers. You do good work.
So what happens with the universal stuff like theft and murder? Do I just sign a contract with the local police agency that they'll avenge my death? What if the guy who kills me pays them more than I did to look the other way? Is there someone that enforces that breach of contract? Do I need a contract with them, or is it done by a non-government government?
OK, cool, I suppose. If you get us to a point where we don't need a government to not get screwed by everybody else, I'll be psyched about that. But it sounds like you agree that that isn't possible today.
No amount of bold text changes the fact that "government" is not some evil force that descended from the stars to harm us. In the case of the US, it was just a bunch of guys who got together to build a decision-making framework so we could decide as a group:
1) what happens when my freedom to do what I want butts up against your freedom to not have it done to you,
2) what services we want to provide for the community so that each individual person doesn't have to worry about those things, and
3) how we're going to pay for that.
All of the results of that are government. Not the evil "other" that a few of these comments have been making it out to be.
It really doesn't matter to me how you vote, but as long as you think of government as an uncontrollable evil, your locus of control will always be external and you'll be stuck in learned helplessness and despair. Once you understand that government is what we make it, you get to try to remake it, and as frustrating as that is, it's better than the alternative.
I agree completely?
Nature abhors a government vacuum. It might take the form of a local strong man's death squad or a constitutional monarchy, but if you don't have a government, you're about to have a government.
So pondering what would happen in the absence of government is not a productive use of time.
And I think you think it means "I".
The difference between "do as I say" and "do as we agreed" just shows that you don't consider yourself part of the community.
Government can't be an "I" in a democracy. Government in the US is "we." You and me, buddy. We get to vote and we get to convince each other we're right. And we're going to agree on things in the form of legislation, and if we don't do as we agreed, we'll end up paying fines or rotting in prison thanks to the institution we agreed to create to enforce our agreements.
Government didn't do those things. WE did. You live in a country where the people collectively wanted those things to happen. Don't try to demonize the government for doing what we instructed it to do.
Developers don't want to spend 8 hours tracking down a double-free'd pointer, so they use garbage collection, which adds heft.
Developers need to include graphics for 83 different iOS screen sizes, by Apple fiat.
Developers don't want to write the fastest possible code that only they could ever understand, because the next guy that touches it will break it.
Developers don't want to write in super-fast C because it won't run in a browser and it's too easy to create vulnerabilities.
Developers don't have time to reinvent the wheel constantly so they pull in bloated dependencies.
Plus a thousand other reasons.
And sure, they're also morons, I suppose.
Because google isn't an organization built entirely on misleading the paranoid and angry into being more paranoid and more angry.
On a re-watch, I think it's probably a single booster's stereo image.
There are points when both falling boosters are firing where the plume coming off them are identical. Pause the video and then do the old Magic Eye cross-eyed lineup. Absolutely identical.
But at other times you can pause it and the plumes will be different.
This happens for the entire length of the video when those two shots are on screen.
I suspect we might be looking at something like even and odd frames from a single higher speed camera.
My fear is that once cars are fully automated, cops will still claim you need to be sober to operate them, and being near your car with the keys will still be worth $25,000 in fines and legal fees.
Your perspective is entirely valid. But equally valid is the perspective that life is better when we don't have to worry about being shot, so as a society we should take some simple precautions to prevent that. Obviously I lean in the direction that we should pool our resources to make life a little bit easier through the judicious application of government.
You say "proactive enforcement" like it's a curse word.
Proactively enforcing stair step standards prevents people from tripping and smashing their hips. It's a great thing. Thank God for building codes.
Respectfully, your post gives me the impression you make a habit of letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Yeah. You know, for when you need to kill 15 geese per minute.
Vlad pretends to be American. I suspect this is a straight-up Brit.
If MBAs really aren't taught "bad management skills," what is it that corrupts them and causes the disastrous short term thinking epidemic in companies these days?
It's not that the MBA training is negative, it's just not enough to be useful on day 1. So the process goes like this:
The guy who hires him is looking to fill a role, and he knows it's not going to happen without a learning curve, so he can never find an exact match to the job.
So you can hire someone who wants twice what you want to pay and doesn't have the exact skillset you need, or you can hire someone out of college who wants 60% of what you're willing to pay and, after some on-the-job training will have the skillset you need. So you take the cheaper one.
And it turns out he's an idiot. But by the time you find that out he's been working there for a year, and he's not so bad that you need him fired right now, and bringing someone else up to speed is going to take a year, so you make do. And 10 years later you realize you're still just "making do", so you put out an ad and replace him.
Rinse / repeat.
Forget about teaching your children not to do it, we`ll just create another useless device to offset parenting skills and common sense.
If your plan requires a large number of people to have parenting skills or common sense, or any other virtue, your plan will fail. If it requires people to be vile, stupid animals, you'll probably get get much better results. If it only requires that people breathe from time to time, it's a very good plan.
9.6 / 10 people suck. You know that if you've ever been in traffic. It's not fixable, and it never will be. Work around it.
(This is not an endorsement of this article's stupid system. It's stupid.)
It's not general, the summary is just dumb. As far as I can tell, it's a patent on a scrollbar that disappears when you're not dragging the view. If that's right, it's certainly a crummy patent, but not a general one.
I'm sure that's great for the people receiving money they didn't earn. Why is that worthwhile to Rovio? Or for anyone who actually earns his paycheck?
When Rovio Ireland realizes that contracting Rovio Finland is more expensive than contracting Rovio Pakistan, the former employees from Finland will think it was very worthwhile.
But that's only the healthy ones. The ones who were lazy enough to get sick were already pretty much fine with it.
The problem here isn't transport energy costs as much as zoning regulations that ban home gardening.
That's absolutely ridiculous. You want 3 million people in Chicago, in addition to having 1 or 2 full time jobs, to also grow their own food. And be good enough at it to survive. In their 3 foot by 2 foot patch of dirt. OK, those 4 cucumbers ought to sustain them for lunch on August 6th. 364 days to figure out.