Yes. They will come and pick you up and take you to a polling station. Or if you are unable to travel for health or other reasons they will come to you.
I dunno. I grew up with compulsory voting. It is made extremely easy, huge number of polling stations, postal voting, declaratory voting in other electorates. Ring the AEC and they will send someone to your house to help you vote, or if you are in a nursing home they come to you so you can vote. We also don't disenfranchise prisoners so they get the votes counted in prison too.
Because it is the entire electoral role every time there is never any shocks due to higher than expected turn out. I think 10 minutes is the absolute longest I've ever had to queue.
Just go compulsory voting. If you are on the register you must vote. If you want to argue that you should have the right to not vote then turn up, get your name crossed off and draw a giant dick and balls on the ballot sheet.
If you want to have electronic voting have an option that says "I do not wish to vote, so register my vote as informal, this means my vote will not count" and make them hit through 5 are you sures.
If everyone has to vote it makes impersonating someone else really really hard as those people have to vote as well. As soon as the same person gets marked off you have problems.
The main sentence that gets put forward as to how bad the quran is is "kill the idolaters wherever you find them and take them prisoners, and beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush". It comes from about the most brutal chapter in the book.
But it is generally taken out of context because the next sentence is left out. "But if they repent and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, then leave their way free. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful"
What's more is the next sentence is "And if anyone of the idolaters ask protection of thee, grant him protection so that he may hear the word of Allah; then convey him to his place of security. That is because they are a people who have no knowledge."
Which would imply to me that even if you don't accept Allah and the all the Muslim teachings you should be accorded security. So which part of that are ISIS holding to strictly?
Unless of course they decide to use a version or interpretation of the Bible that supports their desires EXACTLY the same way they are twisting the Islamic texts to do so.
In which case all you have done is swap Islam for "XXism". I think it would be safe to agree that the history of Christianity is less than peaceful and I would propose the peace of western civilisations had more to do with their economic and educational advancement then any evolution of their religion.
282km / 141 miles is to the next intersection.... It is 500km / 312 miles to the next fuel stop and there is NOTHING in between. No houses, no farms no anything. Just a dirt road and the occasional road train. I would also suggest given the quality of that road you won't be going over 100kph and my personal experience is you average 60kph in those types of conditions. If you managed to do that 500km in 6 hours it would be a damn good run.
Lol you know when you are in the middle of nowhere when you pass a sign that says in huge red letters "No Fuel for 500km" and then gives you 228km to the next intersection.
Fair enough. I was in beijing in march as well as in Guanzhou for work for 3 weeks. In the main business districts I only saw vehicles and pedestrians. Outside of the centre though and it because a mix of anything. I particularly like the little trike things with the ute back.
Partially this. But also they have banned cars on alternate days in beijing dependent on your number plate. Even numbers 1 day odds the next. This has meant everyone has had to plan around not being able to drive in 2 or 3 days a week.
The only exception to this is if your vehicle is electric. It was amazing to see hundreds and hundreds of electric scooters with chargers everywhere.
You don't see that inside the centre of major cities where these are likely to be used.
That said Beijing roads are really really weird. They have these massive roads right through the middle but no traffic. First time I went there my wife asked if we had missed the zombie apocalypse because the place felt empty. Their metro on the other hand was packed like no where else I have seen.
Lol. If you ever go to China then you will understand that written road rules don't really seem to matter. There is a definite attitude of biggest gets right of way. If you get hit by this thing you are going to be the one in trouble.
You see I'm not American. I live in a country where a private medical system and a public full care medical system work hand in hand to the benefit of all. I've actually seen it work.
There are lots of things that are electives that doesn't include cosmetic survery. These things are the sorts of things that improve quality of life but aren't necessarily something that is essential. Things like foot surgery for bunions is one example. Corrective shoulder reconstruction. In both cases the joints work, your are in some discomfort true but it's not essential to have it repaired. This is where a private system helps, and my insurance does cover that.
On the guns, again not american, and it works real real well where I am. I look at the American system of mass gun deaths every year and I just can't understand it. History is on my side when you look outside of your country.
But in your example your widgets remain the same value to you as a worker. If each was $1 before tax, they are worth 80c to you after tax.
But a tax that takes 20c on the first widget but then takes 50c on the 10th widget is decreasing the incentive to work more. So it's more like 1000 widgets @ 20% leaves 800. 10000 widgets at 42% leaving 5800 widgets. Yes the person who made 10,000 widgets is better off, by more than a factor of 7. But their productivity was higher by a factor of 10.
I'm not with you that flat taxes are fundamentally unfair. Personally I would have a flat tax with a high tax free threshold.
This would reduce the tax load significantly on the lower income earners and increase their discretionary income, I don't like the idea of food stamps at all.
But with regards to fairness, I have never understood how, if I am making widgets, I will get paid $5 for the first widget I make but then get paid $3 for the 20th widget I make. Are my widgets now worth less than they were? Is my labor not as valuable?
A progressive tax system acts as a disincentive to work harder.
Couple of points for you to consider, * I would abolish abortion beyond the first trimester. The Neucal fold test to test for chromosomal abnormalities occurs at 12 weeks. If you get a bad result you then have an amniocentesis which is usually around 20 weeks. It is at this point that the parents have the information about whether their child has downs or other chromosomal abnormality. Your law would prevent an abortion of that child. You would get a lot of push back on that.
*I would setup universal healthcare and kick the private insurance companies out of health care. - Why remove them from the healthcare system? Personally I see that a parallel system is not actually a bad thing as long as the base tier provides excellent health care. A private healthcare system can provide services such a child birthing, day surgery, electives etc and that would only work to lower the load on the wider public system.
*The 2nd amendment says exactly what the fuck it says, you can own guns, any type of guns, that you want. - And see I would be right at the other end of the spectrum to this one. My first thing would be the removal of the second amendment and the immediate and strict control of firearms.
*The Corporate Tax would be abolished, instead companies would pay a 5% gross receipts tax on anything sold in the US that was 51% made here, and a 10% gross receipts tax on anything that was 51% made overseas. - You have just pushed the price up on a huge number of products. And most of those products are the low value items which will effect the most people. 10% margin is a target for many business to achieve before costs. This simply wouldn't work. Also your regulatory load on this would be insane. Is it 50% by weight, part count, volume or value? Will it make my package 5% cheaper by making sure it contains 51% american air? You would have created a monster just on the compliance side.
*You must have the right to challenge a warrant in court - Not sure how this would work. We have a warrant to search your house. Nope you are going to have to wait while I challenge this in court. The hearing is in 11 weeks? You could challenge the warrant wasn't valid and hence any evidence obtained is unable to be used, but can't you do that anyway?
* Not with you on toll roads as I have no objection to private enterprise building infrastructure. They wont do it if there isn't a return. That said infrastructure should also be built by the govt.
This is one of the advantages of preferential voting.
The party I want in power is C, then B then A. After the first round no one has 50% of the vote, but C came last and A is currently in the lead. All of A's votes are then re-counted based on their second preference, of those 80% move to B and 20% to A. B over takes A and crosses the 50% threshold.
No wasted votes and you as a voter have a method for indicating that your views are not directly in line with the winner. If that % gets big enough the policies will move in that direction.
There are negatives to this system. It is more complex which means more voters stuff up their ballot papers. And it can sometimes empower smaller fringe parties more than they deserve. If your Left party is bleeding votes to a raving crazy left party it will have the effect of dragging the main party left to recapture those votes. Same on the right, if you are bleeding votes to the crazies on that side your more mainstream right party can be dragged right to recapture.
I don't know what the tidal stresses would be in the fjords. I don't know how much they empty and fill and at what rate. That though is easy to calculate.
I was more thinking along the lines of anchors dropped by ships though. Depending on how far off the bottom they are you could conceivably get a large torsional force applied by the chain.
That said this was only to think what the difference was between an immersed tube tunnel being on the bottom vs suspended.
The only risk differential I could see is I would assume a floating structure would be more susceptible to torsion stress than one sitting on the bottom.
That would be a huge assumption. The DJI Phantoms and Inspires might work like that, and while they are very popular, they don't make up anything like a majority of drones out there.
While the DJI products are great there is nothing preventing you from building a more capable drone from scratch for less money. It won't have the nice white case of the DJIs, but it will be faster, lighter and have a longer flight time if you scratch build.
If you scratch build then you aren't going to be running DJI software and the flight control software you would be running won't have any of the geofencing installed.
It's not build into the Naze, CC3D, SP Racing F3 or KISS flight controllers. The flight controllers that at in the vast majority of flying RC aircraft. Not to mention none of those require GPS.
And most drones don't have the ability to report those numbers you want. My drones could tell you which way they were facing relative to north, and a rough altitude. They could not tell you what direction they were flying in (they don't have to fly forwards), their speed, or their position.
Size wise mine are all tiny. Under 500g with battery. But there is absolutely nothing stopping me from using the exact save systems on a 50kg drone if I wanted.
This system simply cannot work. How are you meant to geofence something that has no autonomous control systems and no gps? None of my quads have GPS, autopilot, pathing or anything else that could be used to control them.
That doesn't stop my quads having an aerodynamic ceiling of 3000+ meters or being able to do in excess of 100kph.
I'm not going to fly over a wild fire. I'd be too upset if one of my quads fell into it. But if someone built a quad like mine there isn't anything anyone could do to stop it flying in that direction short of shooting it down. It's not even that I would have to stand close. If I wanted directional antennas will allow me to get well in excess of 5km streaming video from the quad and the control range would be further.
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Yes. They will come and pick you up and take you to a polling station. Or if you are unable to travel for health or other reasons they will come to you.
I dunno. I grew up with compulsory voting. It is made extremely easy, huge number of polling stations, postal voting, declaratory voting in other electorates. Ring the AEC and they will send someone to your house to help you vote, or if you are in a nursing home they come to you so you can vote. We also don't disenfranchise prisoners so they get the votes counted in prison too.
Because it is the entire electoral role every time there is never any shocks due to higher than expected turn out. I think 10 minutes is the absolute longest I've ever had to queue.
Just go compulsory voting. If you are on the register you must vote. If you want to argue that you should have the right to not vote then turn up, get your name crossed off and draw a giant dick and balls on the ballot sheet.
If you want to have electronic voting have an option that says "I do not wish to vote, so register my vote as informal, this means my vote will not count" and make them hit through 5 are you sures.
If everyone has to vote it makes impersonating someone else really really hard as those people have to vote as well. As soon as the same person gets marked off you have problems.
But that simply isn't true.
The main sentence that gets put forward as to how bad the quran is is "kill the idolaters wherever you find them and take them prisoners, and beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush". It comes from about the most brutal chapter in the book.
But it is generally taken out of context because the next sentence is left out. "But if they repent and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, then leave their way free. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful"
What's more is the next sentence is "And if anyone of the idolaters ask protection of thee, grant him protection so that he may hear the word of Allah; then convey him to his place of security. That is because they are a people who have no knowledge."
Which would imply to me that even if you don't accept Allah and the all the Muslim teachings you should be accorded security. So which part of that are ISIS holding to strictly?
Unless of course they decide to use a version or interpretation of the Bible that supports their desires EXACTLY the same way they are twisting the Islamic texts to do so.
In which case all you have done is swap Islam for "XXism". I think it would be safe to agree that the history of Christianity is less than peaceful and I would propose the peace of western civilisations had more to do with their economic and educational advancement then any evolution of their religion.
Here, have a look at this map to get an idea - https://www.google.com.au/maps...
282km / 141 miles is to the next intersection.... It is 500km / 312 miles to the next fuel stop and there is NOTHING in between. No houses, no farms no anything. Just a dirt road and the occasional road train. I would also suggest given the quality of that road you won't be going over 100kph and my personal experience is you average 60kph in those types of conditions. If you managed to do that 500km in 6 hours it would be a damn good run.
Lol you know when you are in the middle of nowhere when you pass a sign that says in huge red letters "No Fuel for 500km" and then gives you 228km to the next intersection.
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Fair enough. I was in beijing in march as well as in Guanzhou for work for 3 weeks. In the main business districts I only saw vehicles and pedestrians. Outside of the centre though and it because a mix of anything. I particularly like the little trike things with the ute back.
Partially this. But also they have banned cars on alternate days in beijing dependent on your number plate. Even numbers 1 day odds the next. This has meant everyone has had to plan around not being able to drive in 2 or 3 days a week.
The only exception to this is if your vehicle is electric. It was amazing to see hundreds and hundreds of electric scooters with chargers everywhere.
You don't see that inside the centre of major cities where these are likely to be used.
That said Beijing roads are really really weird. They have these massive roads right through the middle but no traffic. First time I went there my wife asked if we had missed the zombie apocalypse because the place felt empty. Their metro on the other hand was packed like no where else I have seen.
Lol. If you ever go to China then you will understand that written road rules don't really seem to matter. There is a definite attitude of biggest gets right of way. If you get hit by this thing you are going to be the one in trouble.
How about looking at it a little differently rather than getting your knickers in a bunch.
I work 8 hours, and make 8 widgets. Someone else works 1 hour makes 1 widget. I pay more tax, both as a gross number and as a % than the other person.
Surely if you look at that it is obvious that a progressive tax system acts as a disincentive for me to work longer.
On the medical system
You see I'm not American. I live in a country where a private medical system and a public full care medical system work hand in hand to the benefit of all. I've actually seen it work.
There are lots of things that are electives that doesn't include cosmetic survery. These things are the sorts of things that improve quality of life but aren't necessarily something that is essential. Things like foot surgery for bunions is one example. Corrective shoulder reconstruction. In both cases the joints work, your are in some discomfort true but it's not essential to have it repaired. This is where a private system helps, and my insurance does cover that.
On the guns, again not american, and it works real real well where I am. I look at the American system of mass gun deaths every year and I just can't understand it. History is on my side when you look outside of your country.
But in your example your widgets remain the same value to you as a worker. If each was $1 before tax, they are worth 80c to you after tax.
But a tax that takes 20c on the first widget but then takes 50c on the 10th widget is decreasing the incentive to work more. So it's more like 1000 widgets @ 20% leaves 800. 10000 widgets at 42% leaving 5800 widgets. Yes the person who made 10,000 widgets is better off, by more than a factor of 7. But their productivity was higher by a factor of 10.
I'm not with you that flat taxes are fundamentally unfair. Personally I would have a flat tax with a high tax free threshold.
This would reduce the tax load significantly on the lower income earners and increase their discretionary income, I don't like the idea of food stamps at all.
But with regards to fairness, I have never understood how, if I am making widgets, I will get paid $5 for the first widget I make but then get paid $3 for the 20th widget I make. Are my widgets now worth less than they were? Is my labor not as valuable?
A progressive tax system acts as a disincentive to work harder.
Couple of points for you to consider,
* I would abolish abortion beyond the first trimester. The Neucal fold test to test for chromosomal abnormalities occurs at 12 weeks. If you get a bad result you then have an amniocentesis which is usually around 20 weeks. It is at this point that the parents have the information about whether their child has downs or other chromosomal abnormality. Your law would prevent an abortion of that child. You would get a lot of push back on that.
*I would setup universal healthcare and kick the private insurance companies out of health care. - Why remove them from the healthcare system? Personally I see that a parallel system is not actually a bad thing as long as the base tier provides excellent health care. A private healthcare system can provide services such a child birthing, day surgery, electives etc and that would only work to lower the load on the wider public system.
*The 2nd amendment says exactly what the fuck it says, you can own guns, any type of guns, that you want. - And see I would be right at the other end of the spectrum to this one. My first thing would be the removal of the second amendment and the immediate and strict control of firearms.
*The Corporate Tax would be abolished, instead companies would pay a 5% gross receipts tax on anything sold in the US that was 51% made here, and a 10% gross receipts tax on anything that was 51% made overseas. - You have just pushed the price up on a huge number of products. And most of those products are the low value items which will effect the most people. 10% margin is a target for many business to achieve before costs. This simply wouldn't work. Also your regulatory load on this would be insane. Is it 50% by weight, part count, volume or value? Will it make my package 5% cheaper by making sure it contains 51% american air? You would have created a monster just on the compliance side.
*You must have the right to challenge a warrant in court - Not sure how this would work. We have a warrant to search your house. Nope you are going to have to wait while I challenge this in court. The hearing is in 11 weeks? You could challenge the warrant wasn't valid and hence any evidence obtained is unable to be used, but can't you do that anyway?
* Not with you on toll roads as I have no objection to private enterprise building infrastructure. They wont do it if there isn't a return. That said infrastructure should also be built by the govt.
The Australian system is Preferential voting, which is your instant-run off example. It is used for the house or representatives.
For the Senate we use transferable vote which is a hybrid with proportional representation.
It makes the ballot more complex but I believe more reflective of the desires of the population
This is one of the advantages of preferential voting.
The party I want in power is C, then B then A. After the first round no one has 50% of the vote, but C came last and A is currently in the lead. All of A's votes are then re-counted based on their second preference, of those 80% move to B and 20% to A. B over takes A and crosses the 50% threshold.
No wasted votes and you as a voter have a method for indicating that your views are not directly in line with the winner. If that % gets big enough the policies will move in that direction.
There are negatives to this system. It is more complex which means more voters stuff up their ballot papers. And it can sometimes empower smaller fringe parties more than they deserve. If your Left party is bleeding votes to a raving crazy left party it will have the effect of dragging the main party left to recapture those votes. Same on the right, if you are bleeding votes to the crazies on that side your more mainstream right party can be dragged right to recapture.
I don't know what the tidal stresses would be in the fjords. I don't know how much they empty and fill and at what rate. That though is easy to calculate.
I was more thinking along the lines of anchors dropped by ships though. Depending on how far off the bottom they are you could conceivably get a large torsional force applied by the chain.
That said this was only to think what the difference was between an immersed tube tunnel being on the bottom vs suspended.
The only risk differential I could see is I would assume a floating structure would be more susceptible to torsion stress than one sitting on the bottom.
That would be a huge assumption. The DJI Phantoms and Inspires might work like that, and while they are very popular, they don't make up anything like a majority of drones out there.
While the DJI products are great there is nothing preventing you from building a more capable drone from scratch for less money. It won't have the nice white case of the DJIs, but it will be faster, lighter and have a longer flight time if you scratch build.
If you scratch build then you aren't going to be running DJI software and the flight control software you would be running won't have any of the geofencing installed.
It's not build into the Naze, CC3D, SP Racing F3 or KISS flight controllers. The flight controllers that at in the vast majority of flying RC aircraft. Not to mention none of those require GPS.
And most drones don't have the ability to report those numbers you want. My drones could tell you which way they were facing relative to north, and a rough altitude. They could not tell you what direction they were flying in (they don't have to fly forwards), their speed, or their position.
Size wise mine are all tiny. Under 500g with battery. But there is absolutely nothing stopping me from using the exact save systems on a 50kg drone if I wanted.
This system simply cannot work. How are you meant to geofence something that has no autonomous control systems and no gps? None of my quads have GPS, autopilot, pathing or anything else that could be used to control them.
That doesn't stop my quads having an aerodynamic ceiling of 3000+ meters or being able to do in excess of 100kph.
I'm not going to fly over a wild fire. I'd be too upset if one of my quads fell into it. But if someone built a quad like mine there isn't anything anyone could do to stop it flying in that direction short of shooting it down. It's not even that I would have to stand close. If I wanted directional antennas will allow me to get well in excess of 5km streaming video from the quad and the control range would be further.