I don't mind (too much) paying normal sales tax, but they need to simplify the system. The ship-to address is in state X, municipality Y, the retailer can charge X's and Y's sales tax and send it to X and Y at the end of the year. This will average out in the long run, so not more of this fighting over where is the seller and where is the buyer. Will a few people have something sent to a friend who lives in the nearby low tax county? Sure. Is it worth 10K pages of legislative if-then-else? Hell no.
You should rest easy! It's been confirmed directly using planes and atomic clocks:
I'm glad those experiments were conducted back in the 70's. If someone thought that up now, well, just imagine what the TSA goons would do if you said the mysterious electronic device in your carry on was an atomic clock.
which probably means that the FBI had a good laugh about it and then filed it away.
No, in the 40's it was still thought that Venus was probably inhabitable (ever read Heinlein's Future History?), and maybe Mars too, so the FBI guys probably were scared witless over a pending invasion.
The Whigs turned into the Republicans and religious fanatics who kill abortion doctors do not do it in the name of politics but in the name of religion so any political affiliation is just coincidental. Anyway, my post and link was an attempt at lightening the mood.
Employee salaries and benefits only make up about 10% of the state budget ($7B salaries + $3.4B benefits) (p.177). This can hardly be blamed for the budget woes of California. Much more serious are Prop 13 and 2/3 majority needed for the state senate to pass any tax increases.
That number for salaries is for state employees, not all employees of the lower government levels. There is $30B for education and the biggest expense in education is salaries but teachers are employees of local school districts and universities. Something like 90% of a typical school district's expenses are salaries. Other categories are similar; a lot of the money goes to localities where they go for local government employees' salaries.
it's our poor public education system and a lack of training on using critical thinking skills that has caused this
And it's difficult to get this point across since they stress that they do teach critical thinking. Unfortunately, criticizing "the man" is not critical thinking.
In ye olden days, it was the writers guilds that was the "RIAA" of the time. The printing press was a scroll "ripper".
No, writers then were the same as writers now; they want to sell as many books as possible and don't care how the books are made and distributed. It was the scribes guild that was the RIAA of the time.
There hasn't been much coverage lately of how the independent engineering team decided the blowout prevention valve's malfunction was to blame and not some active corporate malfeasance after all. On the other hand, there also hasn't been much coverage of how BP owns a lot of the oil facilities in Libya that the US military is now busy defending.
Couldn't we just dump all our trash into volcanoes? Also, we could put some kind of air filter at the top of the volcano to capture the toxic fumes that result from burning trash.
There must be some reason why this wouldn't work, or we'd be doing it by now.
Because volcanoes are the top of where stuff is coming OUT. What you need to do is dump trash into a subduction zone.
Anyone who does usability studies can assure you that people won't read confirmations, they'll just blindly click OK. And it's worth noting here that this was entirely an ID10T error, not a computer glitch, although I'm sure a fair number of folks will try to blame it on the computer.
To be fair though, it does say this was a mistake of choosing between 'save' and 'submit'. Those choices could have been worded a lot more clearly. Something like 'save template' and 'activate alarm' would be much clearer to an end user.
I think the key sentence in the summary is "I don't know what a TV is anymore".
No kidding it's the key sentence; a television company exec doesn't know what a tele (far) vision (sight) is?!? The name itself is pretty self explanatory, duh. Is he another viktem of the publek edjakashun sistem or what?
That's that crusty old thing that says black people are three fifths of a person, right?
Nowhere does the Constitution say any such thing about black people.
Perhaps you were confused by the part that said representation was calculated by adding up all free persons plus 3/5 of all other persons? Do you realize representation should have been free persons plus zero or do you think the other persons were well served by their elected representatives?
Shouldn't we be encouraging people to use less gas? An excise tax on gasoline is an excellent way to do so.
Shouldn't we encourage government to spend less money on entitlement programs? Then they'd be in less of a budget crunch and less likely to make more new taxes.
1) Food contaminated products are not recycled (most McDs food packaging is unsurprisingly contaminated by food) 2) Almost no foamed polystyrene is recycled in any case. 3) Switching to paper reduced McDonald's waste by around 90%
1) It can be cleaned, 2) that it isn't doesn't mean it can't be. It can be, see #1. 3) sure, but see #2: if the foam were all recycled, waste volume from packaging would be reduced 100%.
My point is not about what IS done, but what COULD be done. What IS done is that Styrofoam not recycled much, but that wasn't my point. It IS easily recyclable, should we choose to do so, and that is NOT a myth. Wax or plastic coated paper is NOT recyclable and this is NOT a myth; please cite any source claiming it can be recycled. At best, it can be burned easily. The only non-myth is that paper comes from trees that can be re-grown while foam is a petroleum product. However, since it is a byproduct of the refining process. Until the cars all run from sunshine it seems more efficient to make use of refining byproducts and just let the trees grow taller but I guess I'm just crazy.
McDonald's wrappers could be the swamp saving trash of the future?
Apparently; so that was the plan behind the environmentally conscious crowd bullying them into no longer using those easily recyclable styrofoam containers! The switch to waxy cups and paper is designed to provide future ecosystems.
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I don't mind (too much) paying normal sales tax, but they need to simplify the system. The ship-to address is in state X, municipality Y, the retailer can charge X's and Y's sales tax and send it to X and Y at the end of the year. This will average out in the long run, so not more of this fighting over where is the seller and where is the buyer. Will a few people have something sent to a friend who lives in the nearby low tax county? Sure. Is it worth 10K pages of legislative if-then-else? Hell no.
You should rest easy! It's been confirmed directly using planes and atomic clocks:
I'm glad those experiments were conducted back in the 70's. If someone thought that up now, well, just imagine what the TSA goons would do if you said the mysterious electronic device in your carry on was an atomic clock.
soo.... you'd have to have two pedometers for it to work -- one to take with you and one to leave behind?
Is a pedometer only a pedometer when you take it for a walk? What is the one left behind, a sitometer?
Look, it isn't called grok sco, it's called grok law. Why not re-purpose toward legal issues in general or at least some broad subcategory?
which probably means that the FBI had a good laugh about it and then filed it away.
No, in the 40's it was still thought that Venus was probably inhabitable (ever read Heinlein's Future History?), and maybe Mars too, so the FBI guys probably were scared witless over a pending invasion.
The Whigs turned into the Republicans and religious fanatics who kill abortion doctors do not do it in the name of politics but in the name of religion so any political affiliation is just coincidental. Anyway, my post and link was an attempt at lightening the mood.
Care to name the last time a Republican shot a Democrat? Please cite your source or admit that you're a troll.
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Lance Guest was the actor in The Last Starfighter not Kenny Reeves.
I just cant put my finger on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
Not really; the X30 was about Ludicrous Speed. These projects are mainly about fuel efficiency.
If you buy this as an antique do you still have to pay the tv tax?
Employee salaries and benefits only make up about 10% of the state budget ($7B salaries + $3.4B benefits) (p.177). This can hardly be blamed for the budget woes of California. Much more serious are Prop 13 and 2/3 majority needed for the state senate to pass any tax increases.
That number for salaries is for state employees, not all employees of the lower government levels. There is $30B for education and the biggest expense in education is salaries but teachers are employees of local school districts and universities. Something like 90% of a typical school district's expenses are salaries. Other categories are similar; a lot of the money goes to localities where they go for local government employees' salaries.
it's our poor public education system and a lack of training on using critical thinking skills that has caused this
And it's difficult to get this point across since they stress that they do teach critical thinking. Unfortunately, criticizing "the man" is not critical thinking.
In ye olden days, it was the writers guilds that was the "RIAA" of the time. The printing press was a scroll "ripper".
No, writers then were the same as writers now; they want to sell as many books as possible and don't care how the books are made and distributed. It was the scribes guild that was the RIAA of the time.
There hasn't been much coverage lately of how the independent engineering team decided the blowout prevention valve's malfunction was to blame and not some active corporate malfeasance after all. On the other hand, there also hasn't been much coverage of how BP owns a lot of the oil facilities in Libya that the US military is now busy defending.
Couldn't we just dump all our trash into volcanoes? Also, we could put some kind of air filter at the top of the volcano to capture the toxic fumes that result from burning trash.
There must be some reason why this wouldn't work, or we'd be doing it by now.
Because volcanoes are the top of where stuff is coming OUT. What you need to do is dump trash into a subduction zone.
Better yet:
No, the real version will say "shooter at BUILDING NAME/INTERSECTION, looking for owner of %SEND_TO_PHONENUM%".
Anyone who does usability studies can assure you that people won't read confirmations, they'll just blindly click OK. And it's worth noting here that this was entirely an ID10T error, not a computer glitch, although I'm sure a fair number of folks will try to blame it on the computer.
To be fair though, it does say this was a mistake of choosing between 'save' and 'submit'. Those choices could have been worded a lot more clearly. Something like 'save template' and 'activate alarm' would be much clearer to an end user.
... if there was a real shooter, and it still said BUILDING NAME/INTERSECTION. Thanks for the heads up, morons!
Maybe that's what they can send when there's a shooter at every building and intersection.
I think the key sentence in the summary is "I don't know what a TV is anymore".
No kidding it's the key sentence; a television company exec doesn't know what a tele (far) vision (sight) is?!? The name itself is pretty self explanatory, duh. Is he another viktem of the publek edjakashun sistem or what?
That's that crusty old thing that says black people are three fifths of a person, right?
Nowhere does the Constitution say any such thing about black people.
Perhaps you were confused by the part that said representation was calculated by adding up all free persons plus 3/5 of all other persons? Do you realize representation should have been free persons plus zero or do you think the other persons were well served by their elected representatives?
Shouldn't we be encouraging people to use less gas? An excise tax on gasoline is an excellent way to do so.
Shouldn't we encourage government to spend less money on entitlement programs? Then they'd be in less of a budget crunch and less likely to make more new taxes.
However, the facts are that:
1) Food contaminated products are not recycled (most McDs food packaging is unsurprisingly contaminated by food)
2) Almost no foamed polystyrene is recycled in any case.
3) Switching to paper reduced McDonald's waste by around 90%
1) It can be cleaned, 2) that it isn't doesn't mean it can't be. It can be, see #1. 3) sure, but see #2: if the foam were all recycled, waste volume from packaging would be reduced 100%.
My point is not about what IS done, but what COULD be done. What IS done is that Styrofoam not recycled much, but that wasn't my point. It IS easily recyclable, should we choose to do so, and that is NOT a myth. Wax or plastic coated paper is NOT recyclable and this is NOT a myth; please cite any source claiming it can be recycled. At best, it can be burned easily. The only non-myth is that paper comes from trees that can be re-grown while foam is a petroleum product. However, since it is a byproduct of the refining process. Until the cars all run from sunshine it seems more efficient to make use of refining byproducts and just let the trees grow taller but I guess I'm just crazy.
McDonald's wrappers could be the swamp saving trash of the future?
Apparently; so that was the plan behind the environmentally conscious crowd bullying them into no longer using those easily recyclable styrofoam containers! The switch to waxy cups and paper is designed to provide future ecosystems.
Sorry, replace 'deficit' with 'debt'.
Putting this figure into context, $75 trillion is about $250000 per person in the USA.
Let's try an even better context: if they won the suit and this amount were taxed at 18%, the US Federal deficit could be paid off.