Are you sure? From what I've found so far, the tariff on Brazil sugar is 1.5 cents (US$) per kg but they are limited to 155,000 tons. That doesn't seem like enough of a hike to make using sugar unaffordable.
The theory I've heard is that it was eating fruit a ready way for our primitive ancestors to get certain nutrients, like vitamin C which can't be synthesized by humans and is not available in meat. In fact, we need VitC to absorb iron.
You don't like the sites I linked to? Do they not conform to your ideological stance? Did you bother to actually read them or were your ideological lenses too deeply tinted? Try this one from the New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/06/darrell-issa-vanishing-irs-tax-scandal.html Are you really so naive as to think that a lawsuit filing contains only the unvarnished truth? Do lawyers habitually include details that support or exonerate the other party?
The IRS suppressed the speech of political groups and disseminated private information about them to other groups apposed to their views
"Suppressed the speech"?? How? But there was what seems to be a clear violation of policy in some of the info that was released to ProPublica.
Finally, this isn't about wanting taxes or not. Besides, the IRS is NOT A POLITICAL organization and should not in any way be singling anyone out because of political ideology or political speech
The IRS is an INVESTIGATIVE org and since there was influx of groups on both sides applying for tax-exempt status thanks to the idiotic Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, extra scrutiny is warranted based on a group activities since there are restrictions on the POLITICAL activity for groups granted tax-exempt status.
To reiterate, if a group seeking to be tax-exempt is going to be POLITICAL, then it behooves the IRS to be INVESTIGATIVE.
Imagine what happens when someone opposite your screwed up ideology gets power and the IRS starts coming after you.
That IS a grave concern and serious allegations SHOULD be investigated - but Issa and co appear to have started on the assumption that Obama has the Cincinnati office on speed dial and their "investigation" quickly became a witch hunt and is going up in flames.
The IRS scandal is bullshit - there was no involvement from the Oval Office and groups on both sides of the political spectrum were singled out for scrutiny. And if your stated philosophy is low taxes at any cost, why be surprised if the tax man is suspicious of you?
A new story about the NSA giving $150 million to the Brits to help spy for them and they're bitching about $2 mil to a US state to house their datacenter?
I would expect that the governors of states who want to secede because Obama is big, black and scary would not want any secret government listening post on their hallowed ground.
Fuck 'em. They can pay the bill like everyone else. Don't like it? Move your shit somewhere else - it's called outsourcing or offshoring or whatever. Lots of corporations have move their operations elsewhere when they were dissatisfied.
The NSA can do the same; I'm sure they'd be welcome at Guantanamo Bay.
The Karma was stylish was, as you stated, poorly executed. Tesla's strategy of having the Roadster as a test bed and built on a platform engineered by an established auto manufacturer was a smart move. That said, there were lots of problems getting the Roadsters up and running but it was all abou the brand-new stuff Tesla was doing that other companies weren't, not the kinds of things you expect to be flawless when you spend 100k for a set of wheels.
Read the post I was replying to. I disdain Jobs as well but that didn't stop Apple from bringing him back after he was turfed from the company. And even the most wonderfully nice people die, and of horrible diseases.
The peace prize nomination was done before his 1st MONTH in office was up and was given based on the campaign promises he made, non-proliferation agenda and statements that he would reach out to the Muslim world. This was before NDAA, failure to close Gitmo, continuing most of the Bush practices and the raid into sovereign Pakistan to kill bin Laden.
It's hardly disingenuous to have a change of heart based on the actions between now and then and differences between promises and policy.
Serving your time used to be synonymous with "paying your debt to society". That hasn't been true in some places, for a while.
Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington State are among the 12+ states where you can be jailed for debt - that is simple inability to pay.
And freed prisoners are handed bills for some of the costs of incarceration as well as the fines they might have incurred which grow with interest while they're locked out. You have to make a lot of license plates to pay off a $1000 fine.
So many end up back in jail shortly after being released because of the debtors laws or because they resorted to crime when the couldn't find work to pay off their fines.
Stalin and others were much, much worse. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge spring to mind. But what disgusts me about America is the private prison industry - not a coincidence, IMO, that their staggering growth goes hand-in-hand with world record incarceration rates
Read Henri Wedell's reply to a question about profiting off of incarceration
Not sure there's a lot of meat on those bones but there does seem to be quite a bit of frequently-debunked conclusions.
The ACS study on REE availability is paywalled, unfortunately but most of the Spectrum article is so full of weasel words, it's sickening
For example "The materials used in batteries are no less burdensome to the environment, the MIT study noted. Compounds such as lithium, copper, and nickel must be coaxed from the earth and processed in ways that demand energy and can release toxic wastes"
Seriously? So we've only been getting these precious metals up to now by praying to the Earth Fey but because they'll all die from the anti-magic fields of EVs, we'll be forced to break rock, grind stone and poison water from here on out?
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Are you sure? From what I've found so far, the tariff on Brazil sugar is 1.5 cents (US$) per kg but they are limited to 155,000 tons. That doesn't seem like enough of a hike to make using sugar unaffordable.
The theory I've heard is that it was eating fruit a ready way for our primitive ancestors to get certain nutrients, like vitamin C which can't be synthesized by humans and is not available in meat.
In fact, we need VitC to absorb iron.
So it tastes good because it was good for us.
The only reason HCFS is so cheap is because of corn subsidies. Get rid of those and it's half the battle.
You don't like the sites I linked to? Do they not conform to your ideological stance? Did you bother to actually read them or were your ideological lenses too deeply tinted?
Try this one from the New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/06/darrell-issa-vanishing-irs-tax-scandal.html
Are you really so naive as to think that a lawsuit filing contains only the unvarnished truth?
Do lawyers habitually include details that support or exonerate the other party?
"Suppressed the speech"?? How? But there was what seems to be a clear violation of policy in some of the info that was released to ProPublica.
The IRS is an INVESTIGATIVE org and since there was influx of groups on both sides applying for tax-exempt status thanks to the idiotic Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, extra scrutiny is warranted based on a group activities since there are restrictions on the POLITICAL activity for groups granted tax-exempt status.
To reiterate, if a group seeking to be tax-exempt is going to be POLITICAL, then it behooves the IRS to be INVESTIGATIVE.
That IS a grave concern and serious allegations SHOULD be investigated - but Issa and co appear to have started on the assumption that Obama has the Cincinnati office on speed dial and their "investigation" quickly became a witch hunt and is going up in flames.
Et tu, sumdumass?
Further reading:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/19/1210132/-The-Only-Scandal-Regarding-the-IRS-is-How-EVERY-Tea-Party-Group-Obtained-501-C-4-Status
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/15/meet_the_group_the_irs_actually_revoked_democrats/
The IRS scandal is bullshit - there was no involvement from the Oval Office and groups on both sides of the political spectrum were singled out for scrutiny.
And if your stated philosophy is low taxes at any cost, why be surprised if the tax man is suspicious of you?
A new story about the NSA giving $150 million to the Brits to help spy for them and they're bitching about $2 mil to a US state to house their datacenter?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/08/02/2220201/nsa-provided-100m-funding-for-gchq-operations
They couldn't go fuck themselves hard and fast enough to suit me.
I would expect that the governors of states who want to secede because Obama is big, black and scary would not want any secret government listening post on their hallowed ground.
So that knocks 30 states off the list.
Fuck 'em. They can pay the bill like everyone else. Don't like it? Move your shit somewhere else - it's called outsourcing or offshoring or whatever.
Lots of corporations have move their operations elsewhere when they were dissatisfied.
The NSA can do the same; I'm sure they'd be welcome at Guantanamo Bay.
If you have the cash for either of those Beemers, you can also have a lot of clean fun in a price equivalent Model S.
I have and it's one SEXY beast. They need to do something eye-catching with the front grille but otherwise, it's a damn fine piece of auto artisanry
Democrats tend to be too empathic; Republicans are almost entirely soulless
The Karma was stylish was, as you stated, poorly executed. Tesla's strategy of having the Roadster as a test bed and built on a platform engineered by an established auto manufacturer was a smart move.
That said, there were lots of problems getting the Roadsters up and running but it was all abou the brand-new stuff Tesla was doing that other companies weren't, not the kinds of things you expect to be flawless when you spend 100k for a set of wheels.
What bullshit. Computer models are just a tool, not the foundation of climate research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ6Z04VJDco
Read the post I was replying to. I disdain Jobs as well but that didn't stop Apple from bringing him back after he was turfed from the company.
And even the most wonderfully nice people die, and of horrible diseases.
Corporate America tolerated Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. When it comes to being hardasses, either of them made Linus look like an amateur.
What a pity, because not only do quite a few deserve convictions but at least a handful should have executions as well.
Are they using bois bandé to achieve this?
If so, I guess this is one of the downsides.
Bullshit.
The peace prize nomination was done before his 1st MONTH in office was up and was given based on the campaign promises he made, non-proliferation agenda and statements that he would reach out to the Muslim world. This was before NDAA, failure to close Gitmo, continuing most of the Bush practices and the raid into sovereign Pakistan to kill bin Laden.
It's hardly disingenuous to have a change of heart based on the actions between now and then and differences between promises and policy.
Wait till you hear them try to pronounce Harlan.
Serving your time used to be synonymous with "paying your debt to society". That hasn't been true in some places, for a while.
Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Washington State are among the 12+ states where you can be jailed for debt - that is simple inability to pay.
And freed prisoners are handed bills for some of the costs of incarceration as well as the fines they might have incurred which grow with interest while they're locked out.
You have to make a lot of license plates to pay off a $1000 fine.
So many end up back in jail shortly after being released because of the debtors laws or because they resorted to crime when the couldn't find work to pay off their fines.
Stalin and others were much, much worse. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge spring to mind.
But what disgusts me about America is the private prison industry - not a coincidence, IMO, that their staggering growth goes hand-in-hand with world record incarceration rates
Read Henri Wedell's reply to a question about profiting off of incarceration
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/whos-getting-rich-off-the-prison-industrial-complex
No matter what you think of Snowden, at this point he's just a whistleblower or spy.
If the US wants to search plane, they can fucking do it themselves - they still have an Air Force, after all.
Which article?
This? http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/unclean-at-any-speed
Not sure there's a lot of meat on those bones but there does seem to be quite a bit of frequently-debunked conclusions.
The ACS study on REE availability is paywalled, unfortunately but most of the Spectrum article is so full of weasel words, it's sickening
For example "The materials used in batteries are no less burdensome to the environment, the MIT study noted. Compounds such as lithium, copper, and nickel must be coaxed from the earth and processed in ways that demand energy and can release toxic wastes"
Seriously? So we've only been getting these precious metals up to now by praying to the Earth Fey but because they'll all die from the anti-magic fields of EVs, we'll be forced to break rock, grind stone and poison water from here on out?