Well, pain is a pretty effective evolutionary development, overwhelming immediate aversion to damage, followed by a lingering reminder that a part was damaged.
Generally the execution of animals is totally acceptable, it's primarily torture and torturous environments that are not, and even then, mostly if people can see it.
Putting a pet to sleep (even with a home brew method) is pretty much completely legal (in the US). Certain types of competitive breeders cull well over 90% of their stock.
Arguably if they simulate pain, the case can be made.
Not that I agree, just stating that an argument can be made. The premise of the summary to me reads like reductio ad absurdum with the intent to end animal rights.
Or, if it gains traction a way to attack various forms of interactive entertainment currently considered speech.
I download zip files often (using download all attachments), probably more than any other.
I then see the file in the folder, and then right-click to extract it. The opening of zips in explorer is not transparent, I do this for the majority of my downloads.
If they provided RSS type streams, one of all the shows "channels" and one for each show, someone would make a nice app almost immediately. Hell, I have 2 apps that would work out well on my phone already.
It's the DRM, not the difficulty of turning a collection of files into an app on the web. Not only techies use RSS.
As an android user, I think flash is still fairly important, but it is worthless on my phone. It simply does.jot work well at all.
I disabled it, but too many sites see I'm on android and give me the flash version anyway. I am very happy that apple dissed flash though, it means that I can fake the site into thinking I'm an iPhone, and then access the flash free version.
He went personally bankrupt (funny thing about confidence, you rapidly break that corporate protection as you borrow against personal assets to try and save the business, because just that one construction job will turn it all around). Definitely didn't end up poor by any measure, but retirement was in investments that were not retirement accounts, so not protected.
I think your proposal of the lower 20% is a little absurd at least, 25% of households make less than 25k/year. It's a livable amount (though that may be a dubious claim for even a 3 person household), but it hardly leaves enough left-over to survive even a few years without working, the median is only double that.
Also, I think in principle both taxes and payouts should be flat. As in everybody of working age gets $x every year, and of retirement age $y every year. this should have nothing to income (past or present) or assets (past or present). Taxes should be a flat unavoidable percentage, as long as $x and $y are high enough nobody should complain, and all those smart lawyers and accountants can be freed up to do real work.
Agreed, that would be an example of a fix (I would like to see benefits calculated the same way (supporting about 66% of the population rather than your proposed 20%), but the cap on contributing lifted significantly, also, add a few years to the age at one receives it (we are living way way longer).
Something like 3 years would pretty much fix the issue for quite a while.
There are plenty of ways to control the ratio of people paying in vs receiving out, and have it remain a broad safety net.The difference is that it is fully regulatable (much like partnerships in a firm), meaning that it can be prevented from collapse. It's just that our politicians are in the end a bunch of short-term populists.
Even people with 10 million lifetime income can become broke (I've seen it happen to a smallish construction business owner) and may need a mild safety net.
Social Security has lasted this long because of two things:
Forced participation Top and bottom are constrained by reality
It is started to get to crumble due to weak management of it (nobody is willing to raise the age for fear of votes), and the bottom is starting to shrink relative to the top due to lack of a baby-boom and stricter immigration policy. I still think real leaders could fix it easily.
It works though because the size of the top and the bottom are completely regulated. Your definition of Ponzi scheme could apply to partnership type organizations too (design/law firms). Of course, once again the relative size of top vs bottom is constantly controlled, so they can last for very long amounts of time.
I always took the term "creationist" to be a reference to the creation story of the bible.
And yes, architecture is clearly intelligent design, and old earth creationists (such as most Catholics) are also creationists, I'd still say applying it to Deism is a stretch.
I'm pretty sure that Creationists believe in a young earth pretty consistently, and those about intelligent design more so. What you describe as "Creationism" is a little disingenuous, nobody means the term to include diests
I paid for WiFi on my last flight, never again. High latency always (250 - 2000 ms), 50+ % dropped packets for about 2/3rds the flight. I paiod for it, and ended up not using it even.
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Apple is nowhere near that much of a price premium, at worst they're 30%, and often they are less.
nah, that's too public, but giving them enough for alcohol poisoning in the privacy of your own home is fine.
Tmo gives a discount (well now they advert it as low price, and payment plan on phone, but it works the same).
Even the log cabin tar is better than 99% of what people call maple syrup down here :(
corn syrup + color + traces of real maple syrup.
doesn't even soak into my pancakes, and I look like a snob when I say I'd prefer butter only.
Well, pain is a pretty effective evolutionary development, overwhelming immediate aversion to damage, followed by a lingering reminder that a part was damaged.
Generally the execution of animals is totally acceptable, it's primarily torture and torturous environments that are not, and even then, mostly if people can see it.
Putting a pet to sleep (even with a home brew method) is pretty much completely legal (in the US). Certain types of competitive breeders cull well over 90% of their stock.
Arguably if they simulate pain, the case can be made.
Not that I agree, just stating that an argument can be made. The premise of the summary to me reads like reductio ad absurdum with the intent to end animal rights.
Or, if it gains traction a way to attack various forms of interactive entertainment currently considered speech.
Are you kidding?
I download zip files often (using download all attachments), probably more than any other.
I then see the file in the folder, and then right-click to extract it. The opening of zips in explorer is not transparent, I do this for the majority of my downloads.
Aren't DVD captions images, not text?
If they provided RSS type streams, one of all the shows "channels" and one for each show, someone would make a nice app almost immediately. Hell, I have 2 apps that would work out well on my phone already.
It's the DRM, not the difficulty of turning a collection of files into an app on the web. Not only techies use RSS.
As an android user, I think flash is still fairly important, but it is worthless on my phone. It simply does.jot work well at all.
I disabled it, but too many sites see I'm on android and give me the flash version anyway. I am very happy that apple dissed flash though, it means that I can fake the site into thinking I'm an iPhone, and then access the flash free version.
Well, much like I like gasoline in my liquor, I apperently like garbage in my syrup, 'cause I legitimately prefer the grade B.
The odds that IHOP would use actual Maple Syrup approach 0, even if it were free.
I like the grade B
He went personally bankrupt (funny thing about confidence, you rapidly break that corporate protection as you borrow against personal assets to try and save the business, because just that one construction job will turn it all around). Definitely didn't end up poor by any measure, but retirement was in investments that were not retirement accounts, so not protected.
I think your proposal of the lower 20% is a little absurd at least, 25% of households make less than 25k/year. It's a livable amount (though that may be a dubious claim for even a 3 person household), but it hardly leaves enough left-over to survive even a few years without working, the median is only double that.
Also, I think in principle both taxes and payouts should be flat. As in everybody of working age gets $x every year, and of retirement age $y every year. this should have nothing to income (past or present) or assets (past or present). Taxes should be a flat unavoidable percentage, as long as $x and $y are high enough nobody should complain, and all those smart lawyers and accountants can be freed up to do real work.
Agreed, that would be an example of a fix (I would like to see benefits calculated the same way (supporting about 66% of the population rather than your proposed 20%), but the cap on contributing lifted significantly, also, add a few years to the age at one receives it (we are living way way longer).
Something like 3 years would pretty much fix the issue for quite a while.
There are plenty of ways to control the ratio of people paying in vs receiving out, and have it remain a broad safety net.The difference is that it is fully regulatable (much like partnerships in a firm), meaning that it can be prevented from collapse. It's just that our politicians are in the end a bunch of short-term populists.
Even people with 10 million lifetime income can become broke (I've seen it happen to a smallish construction business owner) and may need a mild safety net.
No way a bank could get FDIC on accounts paying out that much interest in the US.
Social Security has lasted this long because of two things:
Forced participation
Top and bottom are constrained by reality
It is started to get to crumble due to weak management of it (nobody is willing to raise the age for fear of votes), and the bottom is starting to shrink relative to the top due to lack of a baby-boom and stricter immigration policy. I still think real leaders could fix it easily.
It works though because the size of the top and the bottom are completely regulated. Your definition of Ponzi scheme could apply to partnership type organizations too (design/law firms). Of course, once again the relative size of top vs bottom is constantly controlled, so they can last for very long amounts of time.
But an instance of the text editor is.
I always took the term "creationist" to be a reference to the creation story of the bible.
And yes, architecture is clearly intelligent design, and old earth creationists (such as most Catholics) are also creationists, I'd still say applying it to Deism is a stretch.
I'm pretty sure that Creationists believe in a young earth pretty consistently, and those about intelligent design more so.
What you describe as "Creationism" is a little disingenuous, nobody means the term to include diests
What does "please stow away your belongings and turn your attention to the front of the plane" mean?
I always assumed it.meant put the book away and pay attention (not that anybody does).
I'd hazard a guess that the 35% was a scare number based on the total population, with the 50's being of eligible voters.
40% sounds high for a midterm election though.
I paid for WiFi on my last flight, never again. High latency always (250 - 2000 ms), 50+ % dropped packets for about 2/3rds the flight. I paiod for it, and ended up not using it even.
It may have just been priced too low at $5.00.
Mine doesn't, not that I've tried.