Would you hold Snapcat liable if they recorded the surrounding temperature and someone tried to maximize it by sitting in an enclosed car in the hot sun and died? All Snapchat did was to record a readily available piece of GPS data. It is the fault of the driver that she tried to maximize it. Snapchat does not have a "speed trophy". They even show a warning not to use Snapchat while driving.
a UBI level of $1200 is not feasible. Now if we slash it in half,
Sorry but you can not cook the numbers to make your solution look feasible. The UBI is based on the minimum amount to live reasonably. You can't just arbitrarily set it to an amount that works.
I'll reduce it to a simple question. Say one person makes $1000/month and the UBI is $800. If he receives a cheque for $800/month how much money would he get for that month and please show your math.
It seems that from your calculation he would send $800+200*.36= $872 to the government and get $800 back and have a total of $928 to spend.
Anyone who made less than $800/month would have to send all their income in to get $800 back.
If you are only sending a check for the difference between their income and minimum income then it is not UBI and is much more complex to administer.
Not all locations are conducive to solar energy. Some properties are in shadows most of the day due to topography and surrounding terrain. Some properties face the wrong way so sun only hits directly half the day.
How many of these systems will be installed and never maintained? How many of these systems will just be shut off?
There will be many systems that will never recoup their costs installed under this new regulation.
If everyone gets the UBI check, you don't need to maintain a system to determine who gets it and who doesn't (and how much).
You missed the point about Mincome. Buy your definition Mincome is not UBI as not everyone gets the same check from the government. If you make more than twice the mincome you don't get a check. It has a system, current income level, to determine who gets it and how much. Therefore Mincome is not a representative of the UBI program you are advocating.
I'll give you three income scenarios and you answer the three following questions; 1. How much will they pay in taxes? 2. How much will the monthly UBI check be? Say UBI is $1,200/month.
A. $1,000/month B. 1,500/month. C. $2,500/month
Remember by your definition of UBI everyone gets the same check.
Participants who worked had their mincome supplement reduced by 50 cents for every dollar they earned by working.
So if one worked their guaranteed income check would decease based on how much they earned. This is not a check to everyone. If one earned over 2 times the Mincome level they would get no check at all.
The motivation to earn the extra money to cover that delta doesn't really go anywhere.
Someone who can get a basic income and work a few hours a week, possibly under the table, to get themselves back to where they were
Where does the money come from? Same place as all welfare comes from today, of course - taxes.
Say someone is currently making mincome + 10%. Would they be taxed 91% so that they could get that money back in their monthly check? Why tax it when you are just going to give it back?
I am assuming nothing. All I am saying is the "it's bad now, lets try something different" is a bad idea when that something different has the very real potential of being extremely damaging and possibly irreversible. The idea needs more comprehensive studies. So far people have looked at replacing welfare with UBI.
What has not been studied is what happens when people who are currently above UBI become eligible for it. Will they quit their jobs and go on UBI? How far above UBI would most people have to be before they continued to work? How will that effect the number on UBI? How will the effect the cost of UBI? In some UBI plans everyone gets a monthly check. If everyone gets a check where does that money come from? These questions have not been answerd well enough to "try it".
A little geology for you. The Pacific rim is made up by subsection zones where the hot rock has a tendency to be very deep and dry. Iceland in on a mid ocean ridge which brings hot rock to the surface and therefore into contact with water. Just because there are faults and volcanoes does not mean good areas for geothermal. There are some small pockets of geothermal potential on the Pacific Rim but it is not everywhere.
Batteries? Hell sure they are powering a plane, but they're so damn expensive - never be practical!
Expense is not the issue weight is. Fossil fuels are over an order of magnitude more energy dense that batteries and it will take a while to change that. Weight is the most important factor for aircraft
It would add one more and may eliminate quite a few. The added level could be extremely simple as it could be a number of objective tests that if any one fails it goes back to the regular appeals process.
For a start, execution is more expensive than long-term imprisonment. (If you doubt this, do some reading.)
This is caused by the long drawn out appeals process. Maybe in cases like this some levels of appeal can be skipped so as to get to the highest authority faster.
If you look at the storage per $100 you would see the graph is relatively flat.
A clarification. I meant the graph you referenced which is relatively flat after 2001.
What I am mainly pointing out is that an article that is out of date by ten years is probably not relevant in a technology that only took off 30 years ago.
One problem. That is ten year old data. What has been happening during that time. If you look at the storage per $100 you would see the graph is relatively flat.
I think you may be hung up on the term "racist". If you talk about the things Trump says that people object to think "bigoted" rather than "racist". Bigoted encompasses racism, sexism, religious discrimination, etc.
That's great, a HEPA filter the place that doesn't want to spend on paper towels will never spend on replacing.
It is not about not wanting to spend money on buying paper towels. The cost of the towel itself is only a small part of the overall cost. A few HEPA filters replaced every few months is very different than buying, stocking and storing large quantities of towels; replenishing them on a daily basis; collecting and storing the waste; and disposing of all that waste. The volumes are very different.
sprayover from nearby toilets being flushed [which] will enter the unit and be propelled when it starts up
The HEPA filter will filter that.
And where am I to carry this tissue?
You get it from the bathroom stall. If you are such a germophobe then carry a small travel size of tissues as I do during pollen season. If you don't have a purse you probably have a pocket.
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Would you hold Snapcat liable if they recorded the surrounding temperature and someone tried to maximize it by sitting in an enclosed car in the hot sun and died? All Snapchat did was to record a readily available piece of GPS data. It is the fault of the driver that she tried to maximize it. Snapchat does not have a "speed trophy". They even show a warning not to use Snapchat while driving.
How do you tell the difference between the driver's phone and a passenger's phone? These is little issue with passengers using phones.
1. On a train.
2. On a bus.
3. On an aircraft.
4. As a passenger in a car.
There is no evidence that Snapchat has a "speed" trophy. There is a site that tracks them.
If you read the actual bill
Citation please. I could not find it.
a UBI level of $1200 is not feasible. Now if we slash it in half,
Sorry but you can not cook the numbers to make your solution look feasible. The UBI is based on the minimum amount to live reasonably. You can't just arbitrarily set it to an amount that works.
I'll reduce it to a simple question.
Say one person makes $1000/month and the UBI is $800.
If he receives a cheque for $800/month how much money would he get for that month and please show your math.
It seems that from your calculation he would send $800+200*.36= $872 to the government and get $800 back and have a total of $928 to spend.
Anyone who made less than $800/month would have to send all their income in to get $800 back.
If you are only sending a check for the difference between their income and minimum income then it is not UBI and is much more complex to administer.
Not all locations are conducive to solar energy. Some properties are in shadows most of the day due to topography and surrounding terrain. Some properties face the wrong way so sun only hits directly half the day.
How many of these systems will be installed and never maintained? How many of these systems will just be shut off?
There will be many systems that will never recoup their costs installed under this new regulation.
If everyone gets the UBI check, you don't need to maintain a system to determine who gets it and who doesn't (and how much).
You missed the point about Mincome. Buy your definition Mincome is not UBI as not everyone gets the same check from the government. If you make more than twice the mincome you don't get a check. It has a system, current income level, to determine who gets it and how much. Therefore Mincome is not a representative of the UBI program you are advocating.
I'll give you three income scenarios and you answer the three following questions;
1. How much will they pay in taxes?
2. How much will the monthly UBI check be?
Say UBI is $1,200/month.
A. $1,000/month
B. 1,500/month.
C. $2,500/month
Remember by your definition of UBI everyone gets the same check.
The Mincome program had a very important feature.
Participants who worked had their mincome supplement reduced by 50 cents for every dollar they earned by working.
So if one worked their guaranteed income check would decease based on how much they earned. This is not a check to everyone. If one earned over 2 times the Mincome level they would get no check at all.
The motivation to earn the extra money to cover that delta doesn't really go anywhere.
Someone who can get a basic income and work a few hours a week, possibly under the table, to get themselves back to where they were
Where does the money come from? Same place as all welfare comes from today, of course - taxes.
Say someone is currently making mincome + 10%. Would they be taxed 91% so that they could get that money back in their monthly check? Why tax it when you are just going to give it back?
I am assuming nothing. All I am saying is the "it's bad now, lets try something different" is a bad idea when that something different has the very real potential of being extremely damaging and possibly irreversible. The idea needs more comprehensive studies. So far people have looked at replacing welfare with UBI.
What has not been studied is what happens when people who are currently above UBI become eligible for it. Will they quit their jobs and go on UBI? How far above UBI would most people have to be before they continued to work? How will that effect the number on UBI? How will the effect the cost of UBI? In some UBI plans everyone gets a monthly check. If everyone gets a check where does that money come from? These questions have not been answerd well enough to "try it".
A little geology for you. The Pacific rim is made up by subsection zones where the hot rock has a tendency to be very deep and dry. Iceland in on a mid ocean ridge which brings hot rock to the surface and therefore into contact with water. Just because there are faults and volcanoes does not mean good areas for geothermal. There are some small pockets of geothermal potential on the Pacific Rim but it is not everywhere.
Iceland is on an active plate boundary. It has access to hot wet rock. There are not many places like that in the world.
The idea that if Iceland can to it everyone can is just wrong.
Batteries? Hell sure they are powering a plane, but they're so damn expensive - never be practical!
Expense is not the issue weight is. Fossil fuels are over an order of magnitude more energy dense that batteries and it will take a while to change that. Weight is the most important factor for aircraft
The fully charged batteries could be considered fuel.
Sometimes they are and civilizations have suffered for it. Do you really want to be Greece?
Because the results of a failure could be catastrophic. If the result is a ruined economy how do you go back?
Of the first 18 US Presidents twelve of them owned slaves.
It would add one more and may eliminate quite a few. The added level could be extremely simple as it could be a number of objective tests that if any one fails it goes back to the regular appeals process.
A few shots in the chest by the arresting officer would do the trick.
That would be "executing officer" as not arrest would have been attempted.
We need a system somewhere between street justice and endless appeals.
For a start, execution is more expensive than long-term imprisonment. (If you doubt this, do some reading.)
This is caused by the long drawn out appeals process. Maybe in cases like this some levels of appeal can be skipped so as to get to the highest authority faster.
Tesla has open sourced their patents so the liability should be very low.
If you look at the storage per $100 you would see the graph is relatively flat.
A clarification. I meant the graph you referenced which is relatively flat after 2001.
What I am mainly pointing out is that an article that is out of date by ten years is probably not relevant in a technology that only took off 30 years ago.
One problem. That is ten year old data. What has been happening during that time. If you look at the storage per $100 you would see the graph is relatively flat.
I think you may be hung up on the term "racist". If you talk about the things Trump says that people object to think "bigoted" rather than "racist". Bigoted encompasses racism, sexism, religious discrimination, etc.
That's great, a HEPA filter the place that doesn't want to spend on paper towels will never spend on replacing.
It is not about not wanting to spend money on buying paper towels. The cost of the towel itself is only a small part of the overall cost. A few HEPA filters replaced every few months is very different than buying, stocking and storing large quantities of towels; replenishing them on a daily basis; collecting and storing the waste; and disposing of all that waste. The volumes are very different.
sprayover from nearby toilets being flushed [which] will enter the unit and be propelled when it starts up
The HEPA filter will filter that.
And where am I to carry this tissue?
You get it from the bathroom stall. If you are such a germophobe then carry a small travel size of tissues as I do during pollen season. If you don't have a purse you probably have a pocket.