The Japanese have had "Navitime" (phone with built in GPS plus maps) for several years (I think I first saw ads on japanese trains around 04/05). They have also had other map clients that integrate map functions alone with trains for quite some time as well (used one on a sony erricson around 05/06).
I haven't seen an app store, or visual voice mail before, but all of the other features have been around years prior in other Japanese phones.
"The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005.
More than half of foreign companies and about 42 percent of U.S. companies paid no U.S. income taxes for two or more years in that period, the report said.
During that time corporate sales in the United States totaled $2.5 trillion, according to Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, who requested the GAO study."
So taxing business is mostly an illusion, as few business actually pay taxes. As you said it is pandering to the masses so that they think that "fat cats" are paying taxes. Granted wealthy people do pay most of the taxes, but it winds up being people rather businesses that pay those taxes.
I am curious if eliminating the payroll tax (both employee and employer share) for a short term period would be a better option as it would free up a lot of money for personal as well as corporate spending.
The article also states that they are spending several billion on funding newark and camden's schools financed primarily through income and sales taxes. One of the points of the article is that NJ residents aren't just paying for their own local schools but those of Camden and Newark, in part because of a ruling that school can spend the same per student statewide as that of the richest school district.
As a former NJ resident it is a wierd place (where else is there a multi-page corruption segment in the newspaper of record every week). Its the only place I have seen billboards extolling the virtues of the NJEA (the teachers union). Its not surprising that due to the tax situation that companies have or are moving their corporate HQ's out of state: various pharmacuticals, Exxon, the remnants of Bell Labs etc.
I would be curious how many people get pulled over who have a ~.08BAC. Annecdotal of course, but everytime there is some alcohol accident it seems that one person was significantly over the limit (.15 etc).
You need to be pretty close to hit someone fatally while they are sleeping (in a bedroom), unless you plan on setting up a ladder outside and shoot through the windows. Given that most people don't sleep outdoors, you are going to need some pretty amazing skill to aim through drywall.
A 17 year old isn't a little kid. They serve in our armed forces and often are tried as adults. Some might be not as mature as others, but we aren't talking about a 7 year old giving a temper tantrum.
probably more guns, less crime? Been out for years. Given this is a US centric website, it makes sense. If you want to compare the US with the rest of the world it is a different story given our drug policy.
Until recently Alaskan state law required pilots of passenger plans carrying 15 people or less to carry a gun as part of a survival kit. Why? If they go down in the woods for bear protection.
They are pretty useful items to have if you live out in the country and need them to protect livestock or yourself if you live in bear country.
Buying a stock because you think the price will rise is speculation.
Not that there is anything inherently wrong with the later. Given double taxation of profits (once on the company's profit, once on your divident payment), it can make sense for companies to not pay investments.
I haven't played it yet, but can you win the game with out fighting anyone at all?
As I recall in the first one, you could get yourself captured early on in the game, and if you had the right stats convince the computer to kill itself and win.
You could play fallout a number of ways, minimizing combat as much as you liked was one of them.
Take a highway safety course and you will realize there are all sorts of ways to avoid hitting people and objects.
Take a number of High Performance Drive Education courses and you will become a better driver on and off the track.
Become a motorcycle rider and you will gain similiar skills.
I save the vast majority of my higher speed driving for the track, but there are a number of skills which you will pick up riding motorcycles and via track schools which carry over into daily driving (asides from better gas mileage).
You will learn: 1)AWARENESS of your surroundings (rocks in the road, sand, oil, ice, deer, other vehicles etc) 2)avoiding objects can occur by speeding up AND braking 3)if you are about to wreck or collide with another vehicle, you can aim for a quarter panel and cause less injury to yourself and other drivers 4) spins aren't a bad thing. Learning how to rotate a car (or recover from a spin) is a valueable skill in inclimate weather, or to get around an object or corner 5) braking in shorter distances, braking while turning at high speed to avoid an object/aim for a point 6) the limits of most "normal" cars are far higher than most drivers realize
Driver training is a joke in the US, the tests need to be harder, and in my opinon should include some sort of car control element similiar to what a motorcyclist must go through to get a license (saloms, braking within distances, how they take curves at speed, emergency lane change manuevers). Couple this with harsher penalities for inattentive drivers and we would have safer roads.
As an enthusiast who runs in HPDE's throughout the year, I am probably one of those rare crazy people who purchases cars like these and risks crashing them into a tire wall on a regular basis.
If you look for the environment for which many of these cars were designed (areas with higher speedlimits/no speed limits) some of the costs begin to make sense as they can be used on a daily basis in these environments.
With BMW, the most common complaints by buyers are excessive brake dust, but this is a result im part of pad selection for the domestic market (though one might conclude that switching to a less agressive compound for the US market).
Most people however are automotive posuers and buy the cars for the look/image associated with it and would be spooked running them in the manner in which they were designed for.
Check out tsa.gov/blog for an idea of how one could work.
The problem there is that people make repeated requests for information which is ignored, along with most posts critical of TSA policies. When they are responded to, they usually recieve statements like "we think its important." with no reasoning or explaination as to why they feel that way.
Being actively involved in community service was one way for college bound people to build up their application for schools. If everyone else is required to do it, it seems like it dimishes it a bit as well.
Im curious how much work there is out there to be done by high school students. Might be an easy way to get some work done without raising taxes.
The only thing I have to say is that there are studys out there (Grammer is one of them) suggesting that during ovulation women are more likely to wear skimpy clothes without making a conscious decision to do so.
Assuming that is true, the subconscious decision to engage in such behaviour might make the previous posters comment true.
He would overhaul Medicare, Social Security and public education; cut taxes; reinvigorate the military; restore civility to the political system; and help the poor with tax credits for health insurance, assistance buying homes and charitable-giving incentives. "We will use these good times for great goals," he said. "We will confront the hard issues."
Four years ago, Republican nominee George W. Bush rehearsed an acceptance speech containing a menu of ambitious campaign promises. (Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
Thursday night, President Bush will accept the party's nomination for a second term here with a mixed record on those hard issues. On some -- tax cuts and education -- he made enormous progress toward his goals. On others -- Medicare, the military and his "compassion" agenda -- he made partial progress. And on the rest -- Social Security and attempting to "change the tone" of Washington -- nothing much has changed.
Bush's 2000 acceptance speech was widely seen as having successfully introduced the nation to a leader with strong principles, clear policies and a determination to return dignity to the Oval Office after President Bill Clinton's scandals. The speech's main refrain -- "They had their chance. They have not led. We will." -- neatly encapsulated Bush's message to the largest audience the relatively little-known Texas governor had ever faced.
But the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, made the Bush presidency largely unrecognizable from the one he outlined in Philadelphia. He did not even mention terrorism in that speech, and the speech reflected the country's inward-looking priorities. After promising a "humble" foreign policy on the stump, his main non-domestic proposal that night was for a missile defense system first debated two decades earlier.
Sept. 11, said Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot, "redefined the planet." And it would be impossible to assess Bush's work toward his campaign promises without considering the way the attacks necessitated an entirely new agenda for his presidency: a Department of Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and against al Qaeda.
Even so, a look at Bush's record on his original promises shows that he was more successful at achieving specific policies such as tax cuts and changes in federal education support than he was at translating into specific achievement the broader promises he used in 2000 to present himself as "a different kind of Republican" -- a promise of bipartisan cooperation and help for the poor and disadvantaged.
As I recall, Bush in 2000 ran on a platform that seemed like he had stolen many ideas from the democrats. There was lots of talk with regards to his education successes in Texas and not much about getting involved overseas.
Of course 9/11 happened and people don't really remember much about Bush's goals prior to that point, but I can see where someone might think that Bush might run things in a Clinton like way.
The media has done a poor job really telling us anything about the candidates. Yes, an intelligent voter who wants to be informed on the issues can go find the information on their own, but the campaigns and the media coverage of the campaigns has done little to help the situation.
Even NPR is guilty of horse race coverage rather than covering the issues.
i am curious what teachers do during winter recess and spring recess. As those appear to be another 2-4 weeks a year, so one could come to the conclusion that teachers do have 3-4 months off. I am sure that teachers are using that time off to improve their skills, but others might be like my buddy the math teacher in Santa Barbra who goes surfing/too the beach all day, and skis during the winter/early spring break.
English is a flexible language, given enough useage of a word, or useage in a particular way, meanings of a word will change.
Anyways some comments by someone else:
What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it's the agenda of those left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property is eliminated. The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn't belong. When this is done privately we call it theft. When it's done collectively we use the euphemisms: income transfers or redistribution. It's not just left-wingers and Democrats who call for and admire socialism but right-wingers and Republicans as well.
Republicans and right-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to farmers, banks, airlines and other failing businesses. Democrats and left-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to poor people, cities, and artists. Both agree on taking one American's earnings to give to another; they simply differ on the recipients. This kind of congressional activity constitutes at least two-thirds of the federal budget.
Regardless of the purpose such behavior is immoral. It's a reduced form of slavery. After all what is the essence of slavery? It's the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes of another person. When Congress, through the tax code, takes the earnings of one person and turns around to give it to another person in the forms of prescription drugs, social security, food stamps, farm subsidies or airline bailouts, it is forcibly using one person to serve the purposes of another.
well considering how much they played "Don't you want me baby" and the fact that its still on the radio and that MTV back in the day played a lot of british synthpop, I am kind of surprised it isn't there.
What you say may be true for FEDERAL spending, but as I am sure you are well aware, k-12 and public colleges are funded by mostly by property and state income taxes.
Check the facts, you have (like most people) confused federal and local spending on these issues (not counting iraq the overall education spending throughout the US is roughly simliar to military spending).
Stupid? I think when viewed in the context of overall spending my comments are accurate.
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The Japanese have had "Navitime" (phone with built in GPS plus maps) for several years (I think I first saw ads on japanese trains around 04/05). They have also had other map clients that integrate map functions alone with trains for quite some time as well (used one on a sony erricson around 05/06).
I haven't seen an app store, or visual voice mail before, but all of the other features have been around years prior in other Japanese phones.
The Woz apparently has a jailbroken Iphone and has done it for others:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/23/
they plan on going after him? Speaking of which, how much of apple does he own?
It would be considered bad for the following:
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1249465620080812
"The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005.
More than half of foreign companies and about 42 percent of U.S. companies paid no U.S. income taxes for two or more years in that period, the report said.
During that time corporate sales in the United States totaled $2.5 trillion, according to Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, who requested the GAO study."
So taxing business is mostly an illusion, as few business actually pay taxes. As you said it is pandering to the masses so that they think that "fat cats" are paying taxes. Granted wealthy people do pay most of the taxes, but it winds up being people rather businesses that pay those taxes.
I am curious if eliminating the payroll tax (both employee and employer share) for a short term period would be a better option as it would free up a lot of money for personal as well as corporate spending.
The article also states that they are spending several billion on funding newark and camden's schools financed primarily through income and sales taxes. One of the points of the article is that NJ residents aren't just paying for their own local schools but those of Camden and Newark, in part because of a ruling that school can spend the same per student statewide as that of the richest school district.
As a former NJ resident it is a wierd place (where else is there a multi-page corruption segment in the newspaper of record every week). Its the only place I have seen billboards extolling the virtues of the NJEA (the teachers union). Its not surprising that due to the tax situation that companies have or are moving their corporate HQ's out of state: various pharmacuticals, Exxon, the remnants of Bell Labs etc.
I would be curious how many people get pulled over who have a ~.08BAC. Annecdotal of course, but everytime there is some alcohol accident it seems that one person was significantly over the limit (.15 etc).
You need to be pretty close to hit someone fatally while they are sleeping (in a bedroom), unless you plan on setting up a ladder outside and shoot through the windows. Given that most people don't sleep outdoors, you are going to need some pretty amazing skill to aim through drywall.
A 17 year old isn't a little kid. They serve in our armed forces and often are tried as adults. Some might be not as mature as others, but we aren't talking about a 7 year old giving a temper tantrum.
probably more guns, less crime? Been out for years. Given this is a US centric website, it makes sense. If you want to compare the US with the rest of the world it is a different story given our drug policy.
Until recently Alaskan state law required pilots of passenger plans carrying 15 people or less to carry a gun as part of a survival kit. Why? If they go down in the woods for bear protection.
They are pretty useful items to have if you live out in the country and need them to protect livestock or yourself if you live in bear country.
Plus target shooting of course.
Stocks paying dividends are an investment.
Buying a stock because you think the price will rise is speculation.
Not that there is anything inherently wrong with the later. Given double taxation of profits (once on the company's profit, once on your divident payment), it can make sense for companies to not pay investments.
I haven't played it yet, but can you win the game with out fighting anyone at all?
As I recall in the first one, you could get yourself captured early on in the game, and if you had the right stats convince the computer to kill itself and win.
You could play fallout a number of ways, minimizing combat as much as you liked was one of them.
I thought the US got most of its oil from canada and mexico?
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
Turns out Canada is #1, Mexico is number 3 with Saudi Arabia #2.
Take a highway safety course and you will realize there are all sorts of ways to avoid hitting people and objects.
Take a number of High Performance Drive Education courses and you will become a better driver on and off the track.
Become a motorcycle rider and you will gain similiar skills.
I save the vast majority of my higher speed driving for the track, but there are a number of skills which you will pick up riding motorcycles and via track schools which carry over into daily driving (asides from better gas mileage).
You will learn:
1)AWARENESS of your surroundings (rocks in the road, sand, oil, ice, deer, other vehicles etc)
2)avoiding objects can occur by speeding up AND braking
3)if you are about to wreck or collide with another vehicle, you can aim for a quarter panel and cause less injury to yourself and other drivers
4) spins aren't a bad thing. Learning how to rotate a car (or recover from a spin) is a valueable skill in inclimate weather, or to get around an object or corner
5) braking in shorter distances, braking while turning at high speed to avoid an object/aim for a point
6) the limits of most "normal" cars are far higher than most drivers realize
Driver training is a joke in the US, the tests need to be harder, and in my opinon should include some sort of car control element similiar to what a motorcyclist must go through to get a license (saloms, braking within distances, how they take curves at speed, emergency lane change manuevers). Couple this with harsher penalities for inattentive drivers and we would have safer roads.
As an enthusiast who runs in HPDE's throughout the year, I am probably one of those rare crazy people who purchases cars like these and risks crashing them into a tire wall on a regular basis.
If you look for the environment for which many of these cars were designed (areas with higher speedlimits/no speed limits) some of the costs begin to make sense as they can be used on a daily basis in these environments.
With BMW, the most common complaints by buyers are excessive brake dust, but this is a result im part of pad selection for the domestic market (though one might conclude that switching to a less agressive compound for the US market).
Most people however are automotive posuers and buy the cars for the look/image associated with it and would be spooked running them in the manner in which they were designed for.
Check out tsa.gov/blog for an idea of how one could work.
The problem there is that people make repeated requests for information which is ignored, along with most posts critical of TSA policies. When they are responded to, they usually recieve statements like "we think its important." with no reasoning or explaination as to why they feel that way.
I would expect the same for a presidential blog.
I thought head start was a program for low income preschoolers which gave them free preschool education.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_start
Being actively involved in community service was one way for college bound people to build up their application for schools. If everyone else is required to do it, it seems like it dimishes it a bit as well.
Im curious how much work there is out there to be done by high school students. Might be an easy way to get some work done without raising taxes.
The only thing I have to say is that there are studys out there (Grammer is one of them) suggesting that during ovulation women are more likely to wear skimpy clothes without making a conscious decision to do so.
Assuming that is true, the subconscious decision to engage in such behaviour might make the previous posters comment true.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54556-2004Sep1.html
He would overhaul Medicare, Social Security and public education; cut taxes; reinvigorate the military; restore civility to the political system; and help the poor with tax credits for health insurance, assistance buying homes and charitable-giving incentives. "We will use these good times for great goals," he said. "We will confront the hard issues."
Four years ago, Republican nominee George W. Bush rehearsed an acceptance speech containing a menu of ambitious campaign promises. (Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
Thursday night, President Bush will accept the party's nomination for a second term here with a mixed record on those hard issues. On some -- tax cuts and education -- he made enormous progress toward his goals. On others -- Medicare, the military and his "compassion" agenda -- he made partial progress. And on the rest -- Social Security and attempting to "change the tone" of Washington -- nothing much has changed.
Bush's 2000 acceptance speech was widely seen as having successfully introduced the nation to a leader with strong principles, clear policies and a determination to return dignity to the Oval Office after President Bill Clinton's scandals. The speech's main refrain -- "They had their chance. They have not led. We will." -- neatly encapsulated Bush's message to the largest audience the relatively little-known Texas governor had ever faced.
But the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, made the Bush presidency largely unrecognizable from the one he outlined in Philadelphia. He did not even mention terrorism in that speech, and the speech reflected the country's inward-looking priorities. After promising a "humble" foreign policy on the stump, his main non-domestic proposal that night was for a missile defense system first debated two decades earlier.
Sept. 11, said Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot, "redefined the planet." And it would be impossible to assess Bush's work toward his campaign promises without considering the way the attacks necessitated an entirely new agenda for his presidency: a Department of Homeland Security, the USA Patriot Act, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and against al Qaeda.
Even so, a look at Bush's record on his original promises shows that he was more successful at achieving specific policies such as tax cuts and changes in federal education support than he was at translating into specific achievement the broader promises he used in 2000 to present himself as "a different kind of Republican" -- a promise of bipartisan cooperation and help for the poor and disadvantaged.
As I recall, Bush in 2000 ran on a platform that seemed like he had stolen many ideas from the democrats. There was lots of talk with regards to his education successes in Texas and not much about getting involved overseas.
Of course 9/11 happened and people don't really remember much about Bush's goals prior to that point, but I can see where someone might think that Bush might run things in a Clinton like way.
The media has done a poor job really telling us anything about the candidates. Yes, an intelligent voter who wants to be informed on the issues can go find the information on their own, but the campaigns and the media coverage of the campaigns has done little to help the situation.
Even NPR is guilty of horse race coverage rather than covering the issues.
The previous poster wrote 3-4 months off.
i am curious what teachers do during winter recess and spring recess. As those appear to be another 2-4 weeks a year, so one could come to the conclusion that teachers do have 3-4 months off. I am sure that teachers are using that time off to improve their skills, but others might be like my buddy the math teacher in Santa Barbra who goes surfing/too the beach all day, and skis during the winter/early spring break.
English is a flexible language, given enough useage of a word, or useage in a particular way, meanings of a word will change.
Anyways some comments by someone else:
What is socialism? We miss the boat if we say it's the agenda of those left-wingers and Democrats. According to Marxist doctrine, socialism is a stage of society between capitalism and communism where private ownership and control over property is eliminated. The essence of socialism is the attenuation and ultimate abolition of private property rights. Attacks on private property include, but are not limited to, confiscating the rightful property of one person and giving it to another to whom it doesn't belong. When this is done privately we call it theft. When it's done collectively we use the euphemisms: income transfers or redistribution. It's not just left-wingers and Democrats who call for and admire socialism but right-wingers and Republicans as well.
Republicans and right-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to farmers, banks, airlines and other failing businesses. Democrats and left-wingers support taking the earnings of one American and giving them to poor people, cities, and artists. Both agree on taking one American's earnings to give to another; they simply differ on the recipients. This kind of congressional activity constitutes at least two-thirds of the federal budget.
Regardless of the purpose such behavior is immoral. It's a reduced form of slavery. After all what is the essence of slavery? It's the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes of another person. When Congress, through the tax code, takes the earnings of one person and turns around to give it to another person in the forms of prescription drugs, social security, food stamps, farm subsidies or airline bailouts, it is forcibly using one person to serve the purposes of another.
well considering how much they played "Don't you want me baby" and the fact that its still on the radio and that MTV back in the day played a lot of british synthpop, I am kind of surprised it isn't there.
What you say may be true for FEDERAL spending, but as I am sure you are well aware, k-12 and public colleges are funded by mostly by property and state income taxes.
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html
We spent over $500 billion in 03/04 on education. In FY2008 the US government spent 515 billion dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
Check the facts, you have (like most people) confused federal and local spending on these issues (not counting iraq the overall education spending throughout the US is roughly simliar to military spending).
Stupid? I think when viewed in the context of overall spending my comments are accurate.