You give everyone a 'get out of tax free' debit card. Reloads every year with $x value, so for the first $x you pay no tax. You can even set tiers so after $x, then the next $y is at a reduced tax rate, etc. Each card fully resets each year, and is non transferable (photo ID or some such)
If you had read the summary at a minimum, you would have noted that Gates was advocating 1) moving away from a 'labor' tax to a 2) Progressive 'consumption' tax.
It is ok to disagree, but at least disagree with what he actually said.
I agree that I exaggerated regarding the "whole future of the universe". However my point was that sufficient of the future would be 'seen' that the effect I postulated would be true.
Hey, I wasn't expecting a trip to Oslo.
Can you describe a scenario where I am incorrect on the time dilation issue? Not to be argumentative, but just for my enlightenment.
'Lead to' implies something that occurs after passage of (local) time.
Sure, and in classical GR you end up dividing by zero. The point I was making was that 'finite time' is not zero time, and the disparity in the rate of time inside the event horizon vs far away allows plenty of time for quantum effects in the form of Hawking radiation to intervene and dissipate the black hole before the posited singularity come into existence. Since the events transpire over finite time, no infinite force is required.
It is generally posited that a singularity is the result of a gravitational collapse resulting in a black hole. However an event horizon will form whenever sufficient mass density occurs, thus a 'black hole'. If the contention is that the Hawking radiation dissipates the mass before the singularity forms, so be it. Does not mean no black hole, just no singularity.
I have not read the article, so I don't know if this is reflective of her contention, however:
Imagine 2 observers, 1 falling into the black hole, one with great patience a safe distance away. Over time the distant observer will see the black hole eventually become isolated and cease to accumulate new mass (trillions of years perhaps). Thereafter, Hawking radiation begins to dominate and the black hole goes on a diet, eventually going out of existence with a hot bang.
Meanwhile the more adventurous observer is falling toward the postulated center of the black hole, but is experiencing greater and greater time dilation relative to the low density external universe. Thus at some point, before reaching the singularity state, the observer 'sees' the entire future of the external universe, including an ever increasing flood of Hawking radiation that results in the black hole evaporation. So incoming matter never gets to infinite density, no singularity occurs because the evaporation happens on a different time scale than the collapse. Black hole? Yes, Singularity? No
If this is not the equivalent of the cited paper, I am free to go to Oslo at any time.
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Free Will may or may not be a myth, but in either case you really didn't 'have' to type something there.
You give everyone a 'get out of tax free' debit card. Reloads every year with $x value, so for the first $x you pay no tax. You can even set tiers so after $x, then the next $y is at a reduced tax rate, etc. Each card fully resets each year, and is non transferable (photo ID or some such)
If you had read the summary at a minimum, you would have noted that Gates was advocating 1) moving away from a 'labor' tax to a 2) Progressive 'consumption' tax.
It is ok to disagree, but at least disagree with what he actually said.
It has been days since my last battery breakthrough fix. When is the next solar panel announcement?
Hey! Camels gotta earn a living too. Think of their families!
well, I recently installed about 10,000 square feet of sod and it cost me about $3500 just for the sod, so...
and don't forget the raised floor
Limit each applicant to three colleges, instead of the insane blanketing of the choices that goes on today.
Makes the student more responsible for refining the selections and quality of presentation, and not relying on the crap-shoot approach.
How long before I can reinstall Windows 95 and be up to date?
I personally have reservations regarding the Indians
I agree that I exaggerated regarding the "whole future of the universe". However my point was that sufficient of the future would be 'seen' that the effect I postulated would be true.
Hey, I wasn't expecting a trip to Oslo.
Can you describe a scenario where I am incorrect on the time dilation issue? Not to be argumentative, but just for my enlightenment.
'Lead to' implies something that occurs after passage of (local) time.
Sure, and in classical GR you end up dividing by zero. The point I was making was that 'finite time' is not zero time, and the disparity in the rate of time inside the event horizon vs far away allows plenty of time for quantum effects in the form of Hawking radiation to intervene and dissipate the black hole before the posited singularity come into existence. Since the events transpire over finite time, no infinite force is required.
And the 'without quantum mechanical consideration' is exactly ignoring Hawking radiation
Not have, lead to.. which allows time for other events to intervene.
It is generally posited that a singularity is the result of a gravitational collapse resulting in a black hole. However an event horizon will form whenever sufficient mass density occurs, thus a 'black hole'. If the contention is that the Hawking radiation dissipates the mass before the singularity forms, so be it. Does not mean no black hole, just no singularity.
I have not read the article, so I don't know if this is reflective of her contention, however:
Imagine 2 observers, 1 falling into the black hole, one with great patience a safe distance away. Over time the distant observer will see the black hole eventually become isolated and cease to accumulate new mass (trillions of years perhaps). Thereafter, Hawking radiation begins to dominate and the black hole goes on a diet, eventually going out of existence with a hot bang.
Meanwhile the more adventurous observer is falling toward the postulated center of the black hole, but is experiencing greater and greater time dilation relative to the low density external universe. Thus at some point, before reaching the singularity state, the observer 'sees' the entire future of the external universe, including an ever increasing flood of Hawking radiation that results in the black hole evaporation. So incoming matter never gets to infinite density, no singularity occurs because the evaporation happens on a different time scale than the collapse. Black hole? Yes, Singularity? No
If this is not the equivalent of the cited paper, I am free to go to Oslo at any time.
longer blades=more efficient
just don't drop the box...
Or, perhaps more objectively, one of the worst movies of all time.
None of the above?
'har' is the universal substitute
I would guess that the number of stupid jaywalkers will diminish quickly
It only looks crazy in 2 dimensions. In 26 it is perfectly reasonable
How many digits is that code...?
I thought the Republicans passed a law against such outbursts...
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