You're right that basic income doesn't really fit the definition if it's taken away when you get a job, if it works like that it's just another name for welfare or unemployment. Basic income should be unconditional to work as advertised, but that isn't what the 'U' means. This experiment doesn't seem to fit any of the definitions of UBI, it's not universal and if they take it away when the recipient gets other income then it's not basic income.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Just because a right is not enumerated in the Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right. In my experience "legislating from the bench" or "judicial activism" means "a ruling was made with which I politically disagree". For example, many conservatives consider Roe v Wade to be legislating from the bench and many liberals consider Citizen's United v FEC to be the same. So your solution is for the most political body in the country (the US Congress) to adjudicate what judges they feel are "legislating"? That doesn't seem like a very workable solution to me.
What if we created a corporation type that had half of all voting shares collectively owned by the employees
Congratulations, you've just invented the "cooperative", specifically a worker cooperative. There's nothing that prevents you from founding or working for one of these companies, here's a list of active worker cooperatives in the United States.
Well it hasn't because in order to post a time you need to do a lap, at full chat the batteries in a Model 3 cant last the 3.1 miles of track.
Do you have a reference for that or are you just a "hater"? I haven't seen any Model 3 times for the Nurburgring but here's an article (complete with video) about a Model 3 doing 9 laps at full speed around Laguna Seca. Laguna Seca is 2.2 miles so that's around 20 miles at full bore on a road course without the car limiting the power, is there a reason to believe that it couldn't do that on the Nurburgring?
It's a limited access highway and the speed limits in the area are 55 or 60 (I had to streetview quite a way south before I could find a speed limit sign, but the sign I found was 60)
Jet fuel is often used in ground support vehicles at airports, instead of diesel. The United States military makes heavy use of JP-8, for instance. However, jet fuel tends to have poor lubricating ability in comparison to diesel, thereby increasing wear on fuel pumps and other related engine parts.
Such as the wages of corruption. Such is the price of not having integrity. By all means... Burn the FCC official you don't like because he rolled back Net Neutrality and of course was appointed by Trump who is the second coming of Hitler/Satan. Whatever you hyperbolic scree.
Who's being hyperbolic here? "Burn the FCC official"? He was found to be violating the law and received a "warning letter". Doesn't sounds like a very effective burning. I get a much worse burning that that for exceeding the speed limit. And of course the guy wasn't appointed by Trump so your whole "I'm being oppressed" screed falls flat on its face. Also, YOU'RE the only one that compared Trump to Hitler or Satan in this thread, great strawman though. I totally agree that the laws should be applied evenly, but in this case it appears that they have - a warning is the usual outcome of a Hatch Act violation.
You act as if the private sector was in any way more competent. I am "blessed" with the chance to play with the security of a large international corporation. Incompetence and bureaucracy are rampart here.
If you are going to call people incompetent, you should check to make sure the word you are using means what you think it means.
So it's an bug that can only be exploited locally, is this really a big deal? I'm not worried that people can now run arbitrary code on hardware they own.
Citation needed. Bison are bovines just like cows and they have a similar digestive system. The answers on this page seem to indicate bison put out a large amount of methane, just like cows. Of course, they also exhale CO2 just like all animals so that's at least two greehouse gasses they emit.
The bulk of the money that Shapiro claims is subsidizing the post office is that item ($14 billion of $18 billion total) so it seems to be the logical item to discuss. I don't see how barring other companies from delivering to US mailboxes is a subsidy, having that law takes no money from the treasury and I question the value Shapiro claims it provides - that number is based on a ton of assumptions about a hypothetical competitor which does not currently exist and the study that Shapiro was basing his research on said it was worth $2.9-$3.9 billion annually, not $14 billion.
The other items are more concrete and they do rise to the level of a subsidy, but the USPS also has a large number of responsibilities that private companies don't have like rural delivery requirements, Saturday delivery and the oft-mentioned pension requirements which offsets the benefits. Congress mandated those requirements and they also passed the laws providing the subsides. If Trump is looking to change the way the USPS operates he is barking up the wrong tree, he needs to be talking to Congress not the USPS. But for him it's not about finding ways for them to be more efficient, it's about trying to retaliate against Amazon. Personally, I hope Amazon just drops the USPS contract altogether but I don't think that they are prepared to do that yet.
in fact, that was the single largest source of lead to Americans back in the 70s. Next came house paint, which ALL contained lead. Any house made before the 70s, has lead on the walls.
What is interesting is that back then, coal plants were a small % of our electricity and lead as well. But after 3-mile island combined with the china syndrome, Coal plants jumped to 60% of our electricity. Needless to say, by mid 80s, they were #1 source of lead and mercury around our nation. Still far less than in China, but enough to impact us. Now, with the mercury clean-up and shutting down of coal plants, I believe that our #1 emitter of lead/mercury is our steel mills. Thankfully, Project Tim in Michigan will kill that off.
Do you have actual data to back that up? Looking at this graph and this graph, coal generation in the 70's was around 1/2 of the total generating capacity and doesn't seem to have any correlation to Three Mile Island or the release of The China Syndrome (both 1979).
But the US could then file a grievance regarding India the UN under the consultation clause, which was put into place because of the abovementioned space needles:
"A State Party to the Treaty which has reason to believe that an activity or experiment planned by another State Party in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, would cause potentially harmful interference with activities in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, may request consultation concerning the activity or experiment."
The US has a duty and authority under the Outer Space Treaty to regulate their citizens to ensure continued access to space for all. Since Swarm Technologies is a US company, it falls under this jurisdiction. India is also a signatory to the treaty and shouldn't have launched this payload if the US didn't approve it. From the wiki article:
"the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty" and that States Parties shall bear international responsibility for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities.
Maybe if your product wasn't a 12 cent piece of plastic that you sell for $12 you wouldn't have such a hard time with counterfeits. What does your product do that the counterfeit product does not? It's a stupid plastic hook with a piece of double-sided tape on it. If I see one for $3 and one for $12 then I doubt I am going to give your company my money just so you can afford to show me even more stupid ads to inflate the price of your plastic crap.
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Nope, it means "Universal". Look in the title of the /. story, it's right there.
The Wikipedia article on basic income also says it means "Universal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Also WhatIs: https://whatis.techtarget.com/...
Also Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/th...
You're right that basic income doesn't really fit the definition if it's taken away when you get a job, if it works like that it's just another name for welfare or unemployment. Basic income should be unconditional to work as advertised, but that isn't what the 'U' means. This experiment doesn't seem to fit any of the definitions of UBI, it's not universal and if they take it away when the recipient gets other income then it's not basic income.
That's because it's an unattributed quote
https://quoteinvestigator.com/...
How many overseas military bases does China have, yep ZERO.
Actually, they have a naval base in Djibouti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just because a right is not enumerated in the Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right. In my experience "legislating from the bench" or "judicial activism" means "a ruling was made with which I politically disagree". For example, many conservatives consider Roe v Wade to be legislating from the bench and many liberals consider Citizen's United v FEC to be the same. So your solution is for the most political body in the country (the US Congress) to adjudicate what judges they feel are "legislating"? That doesn't seem like a very workable solution to me.
What if we created a corporation type that had half of all voting shares collectively owned by the employees
Congratulations, you've just invented the "cooperative", specifically a worker cooperative. There's nothing that prevents you from founding or working for one of these companies, here's a list of active worker cooperatives in the United States.
Well it hasn't because in order to post a time you need to do a lap, at full chat the batteries in a Model 3 cant last the 3.1 miles of track.
Do you have a reference for that or are you just a "hater"? I haven't seen any Model 3 times for the Nurburgring but here's an article (complete with video) about a Model 3 doing 9 laps at full speed around Laguna Seca. Laguna Seca is 2.2 miles so that's around 20 miles at full bore on a road course without the car limiting the power, is there a reason to believe that it couldn't do that on the Nurburgring?
The accident occurred here: https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
It's a limited access highway and the speed limits in the area are 55 or 60 (I had to streetview quite a way south before I could find a speed limit sign, but the sign I found was 60)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Such as the wages of corruption. Such is the price of not having integrity. By all means... Burn the FCC official you don't like because he rolled back Net Neutrality and of course was appointed by Trump who is the second coming of Hitler/Satan. Whatever you hyperbolic scree.
Who's being hyperbolic here? "Burn the FCC official"? He was found to be violating the law and received a "warning letter". Doesn't sounds like a very effective burning. I get a much worse burning that that for exceeding the speed limit. And of course the guy wasn't appointed by Trump so your whole "I'm being oppressed" screed falls flat on its face. Also, YOU'RE the only one that compared Trump to Hitler or Satan in this thread, great strawman though. I totally agree that the laws should be applied evenly, but in this case it appears that they have - a warning is the usual outcome of a Hatch Act violation.
Actually AlphaZero also plays chess and shogi at high levels in addition to its go prowess.
You act as if the private sector was in any way more competent. I am "blessed" with the chance to play with the security of a large international corporation. Incompetence and bureaucracy are rampart here.
If you are going to call people incompetent, you should check to make sure the word you are using means what you think it means.
So it's an bug that can only be exploited locally, is this really a big deal? I'm not worried that people can now run arbitrary code on hardware they own.
Bison don't emit greenhouse gasses.
Citation needed. Bison are bovines just like cows and they have a similar digestive system. The answers on this page seem to indicate bison put out a large amount of methane, just like cows. Of course, they also exhale CO2 just like all animals so that's at least two greehouse gasses they emit.
The bulk of the money that Shapiro claims is subsidizing the post office is that item ($14 billion of $18 billion total) so it seems to be the logical item to discuss. I don't see how barring other companies from delivering to US mailboxes is a subsidy, having that law takes no money from the treasury and I question the value Shapiro claims it provides - that number is based on a ton of assumptions about a hypothetical competitor which does not currently exist and the study that Shapiro was basing his research on said it was worth $2.9-$3.9 billion annually, not $14 billion.
The other items are more concrete and they do rise to the level of a subsidy, but the USPS also has a large number of responsibilities that private companies don't have like rural delivery requirements, Saturday delivery and the oft-mentioned pension requirements which offsets the benefits. Congress mandated those requirements and they also passed the laws providing the subsides. If Trump is looking to change the way the USPS operates he is barking up the wrong tree, he needs to be talking to Congress not the USPS. But for him it's not about finding ways for them to be more efficient, it's about trying to retaliate against Amazon. Personally, I hope Amazon just drops the USPS contract altogether but I don't think that they are prepared to do that yet.
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Less than 10% of these accidents are due to mechanical failure
This research indicates mechanical problems are about 2% of accidents.
in fact, that was the single largest source of lead to Americans back in the 70s. Next came house paint, which ALL contained lead. Any house made before the 70s, has lead on the walls.
What is interesting is that back then, coal plants were a small % of our electricity and lead as well. But after 3-mile island combined with the china syndrome, Coal plants jumped to 60% of our electricity. Needless to say, by mid 80s, they were #1 source of lead and mercury around our nation. Still far less than in China, but enough to impact us. Now, with the mercury clean-up and shutting down of coal plants, I believe that our #1 emitter of lead/mercury is our steel mills. Thankfully, Project Tim in Michigan will kill that off.
Do you have actual data to back that up? Looking at this graph and this graph, coal generation in the 70's was around 1/2 of the total generating capacity and doesn't seem to have any correlation to Three Mile Island or the release of The China Syndrome (both 1979).
Are you hearing a "whooshing" sound right now?
But the US could then file a grievance regarding India the UN under the consultation clause, which was put into place because of the abovementioned space needles:
The US has a duty and authority under the Outer Space Treaty to regulate their citizens to ensure continued access to space for all. Since Swarm Technologies is a US company, it falls under this jurisdiction. India is also a signatory to the treaty and shouldn't have launched this payload if the US didn't approve it. From the wiki article:
Imagine if Trump came around and said "We're devaluing the USD
It sounds like he would be fine with doing that:
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2018-02-14)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2017-11-05)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2017-10-02)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2017-05-17)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2015-12-03)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2015-10-01)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2015-06-17)
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (2014-05-27)
I could continue, but I think most people get the point.
I am an American myself.
Yeah, we could tell by the way you use an apostrophe to make a noun plural.
Maybe if your product wasn't a 12 cent piece of plastic that you sell for $12 you wouldn't have such a hard time with counterfeits. What does your product do that the counterfeit product does not? It's a stupid plastic hook with a piece of double-sided tape on it. If I see one for $3 and one for $12 then I doubt I am going to give your company my money just so you can afford to show me even more stupid ads to inflate the price of your plastic crap.
and hard criminals would snuggle in illegal guns from out of the country
I've heard of gun lovers but snuggling with their guns sounds a little extreme. Exactly how hard are these criminals?