First, we need to drop our average per capita energy usage from 250 kWh/day to 125 kWh/day.
That number seems wrong. I looked at his website (the design is Geocities, circa 1998 - nice!) and it's not immediately obvious where that number came from, but it appears to be too high. In 2015 the US generated 4,077.6 TWh of electricity so that's around 35 kWh per capita per day. That year 3.22 trillion miles were driven, if everyone magically had a Telsa Model S (which uses 340 wh/mi, smack dab in the middle in efficiency for electric cars listed by the EPA) instead of their current car that would be another 9.3 KWh per day per capita.
So that's around 45 kWh for electricity and transportation, where does the other 205 kWh come from? Heating? The electricity number already includes all the electric heating (as well as commercial and industrial use) so it would just be oil and natural gas - do those really add up to 205 kWh? We used 27.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but a ton of that is already included in the electric number. According to the EIA it was closer to 15 trillion for residential, commercial and industrial use. That would be another 38 kWh. We burned around 390 billion gallons of heating oil, that's another 1.5 kWh. I don't necessarily think that converting the total heat available in those substances to kWh is a valid comparison but let's ignore that for now. We are still only to 84 kWh per person per day, where is the missing 166 kWh?
Looking further on his site I think I see what the issue is. He just makes up numbers and then adds those to his total. For example, on this page he guesses at a number for kWh per airline passenger and then rather than using data like actual miles flown he just assumes every person makes exactly one intercontinental trip (from London to Cape Town) per year and extrapolates a 30 kWh usage for that. He does similar things throughout the site, instead of using actual consumption data he makes estimates based on broad assumptions. I'm sure he has interesting things to say but there's certainly no rigor in his numbers and it's a poor site on which to base a numbers post.
The reason cars won over trains is because of this, in comparison to RR tracks Roadways are ridiculously cheap
Do you have a citation for that? From a quick search, rail costs $1-2 million per mile (source, while a 2 lane road costs $2-3 million per mile in rural areas and $3-5 million per mile in urban areas (source). Certainly doesn't seem "ridiculously cheap" in comparison.
They're in favor of SMALL (ie, less) government moreso than local government.
In general most conservatives have no issue with a higher level of government saying to a lower level "No, you can't do that".
You know how when Linux geeks say "I just want the OS to be unobtrusive and stay out of the way so I can work."? Apply the same logic to government.
No, they say they are in favor of small government but when the rubber actually hits the road they never actually shrink the government overall. Here is a graph of the number of federal employees, where are the big decreases when these "small government" Republicans take office? That graph doesn't count the military, which Republicans tend to increase as well. I'm certainly for a smaller government, but neither of the authoritarian parties are going to provide it, they got into this game for power and money and they aren't going to do anything to reduce either of those.
Maybe a state versus federal thing? I don't know, from a non US standpoint 2.25% income tax on $250k seems almost comically small, so intuitively I'd guess it's in addition to existing income tax(es). Heck I get less than half that and I'm paying over 30%.
If you make $250,000 you fall into the 33% bracket (between $191,650 and $416,700), so you nominally one would pay $65,899.25 or 26.4%. Of course that is before any deductions and is different if you are married, but overall someone making $250k will generally pay 20-25% in federal income taxes (plus 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare) .
And people have been predicting the next recession since 2009. Eventually they will be right, but that doesn't mean they can predict the future. The people who listened to them and sold their stocks or stayed out of the market missed all the gains that have happened since then. There are ALWAYS people predicting doom in the markets and most of the time they are wrong. Timing the market is a sucker's game, the best policy is to be widely diversified and stay the course (and buy stocks at a lower price) when a recession does come.
I understand that they take up a very dangerous mantle
They like to create that perception, but it's really not the case, they rarely make the top 10 dangerous jobs. For example, this list pegs them at number 18 with 11.7 deaths per 100,000. And it's not getting shot that causes that danger, the most common cause of on-duty police officer deaths is traffic accidents. I worked for many years in a much more dangerous job but nobody had parades and 21 gun salutes when one of us died.
Depending on how the PGP server is set up it can also proxy the connection and do the encryption on the server itself, a lot of companies are set up that way. The encryption server sits between the MTA and the mail gateway or the Internet and encrypts/decrypts on the fly so compromising the mail server still would give the attacker access to plaintext messages. Actually encrypting mail is a solved problem, the problem is with key exchange. Despite many attempts at searchable keyservers and different keyserver naming conventions, sharing keys usually requires manual intervention. Unless this problem is solved email encryption will never be widespread.
declining tax revenue's manditory 401k contributions government employee's college degree's government employee's live within the munincipality
I'm sorry to see the education system has failed you, but if you can't get simple spelling and punctuation right do you expect people to take your analysis of a complex issue seriously?
c) They don't get paid any extra for the car or lift time
But the summary says "They also had to pay twice as much in fares, according to the ERC's study."
If the fare is paying more doesn't the driver get more? I was under the impression the driver got a portion of the fare. So either the driver isn't getting paid more or the fare isn't increased, either your statement or the summary are wrong.
Why not RTFA and answer the question for yourself rather than professing your ignorance in the first post? You want the answer (or at least you ask the question) and the answer is right at your fingertips. If you're interested, then why not read it? Are you just SOOOOOO busy that you have time to post on/. but you don't have 2 minutes to do a tiny amount of reading?
Because Huntsville’s economy is so wrapped up in aerospace, Alabama’s lawmakers want to keep it that way, and a few of them are in key positions to get what they want. For instance, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is the chairman of the subcommittee responsible for appropriating funds for NASA, and he is constantly fighting to keep the Space Launch System well funded. ...
That same “Alabama first” mentality has trickled down to the competition over which engines the Vulcan will use. Since Aerojet is making the AR-1 in Huntsville, a few Alabama politicians have tried to come up with innovative ways of influencing ULA’s decision. A good example came earlier this year, when two Alabama congressmen wrote a letter to the acting US Air Force secretary about the Vulcan’s engine selection, as Ars Technica reported. In the letter, they argued that since ULA receives millions of dollars from the US government to develop the Vulcan, the US government should be involved in the engine selection process. Translation: Alabama lawmakers didn’t want ULA to just pick Blue Origin and leave Aerojet in the dust.
But now that Blue Origin plans to build the BE-4 in Huntsville, there’s perhaps less incentive for Alabama politicians to favor Aerojet over Blue Origin. In fact, the Alabama Governor’s office, the Alabama Department of Commerce, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and many more economic partners all worked together to recruit Blue Origin to the state, according to today’s announcement.
We're talking about comedians that get away with saying things like "Trump really wants to bang his daughter" and don't get sued by Trump... because even Trump's lawyers aren't stupid enough to try to win such a case.
Trump's solution is to change libel laws so that he can sue people in those cases. If you are losing the game, just change the rules.
That wasn't the point. The OP said nothing was being done and that Trump wasn't keeping his promises.
That was a list of things being done and promises kept. Do you and I have disagreements with Trump? Yes. Probably. (I can't speak for you) But don't kid yourself. Things are getting done.
But he hasn't kept the majority of his promises. Here is Trump's "Contract with the American Voter", things Trump promised to do in his first 100 days in office. Let's go through each of the promises and see if they were fulfilled: (corruption/influence) FIRST, propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. Nope SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health). Nope, tried but already removed THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Yes FOURTH, a five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.Partial, for executive officials only FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. Yes SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections. Nope (protect american workers) FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205. Nope SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Yes THIRD, I will direct the Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator. Nope, not even close FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately. Yes FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. He has done some things toward this goal so I will give him credit for this SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.Yes SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.Yes, to a degree. His proposed budget does reduce or eliminate some of these payments but that budget certainly isn't (yet) law and it's doubtful that the $1.6 B will "fix" America's water and environmental infrastructure.
(security/rule of law) FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama. Partial credit, he has canceled several Obama executive orders but certainly hasn't shown any to be unconstitutional. After all the bitching he did about Obama's use of executive orders Trump sure likes to use them himself SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Yes THIRD, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Nope FOURTH, begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back. Partial, he has at least tried FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered “extreme vetting.” Nope, the way he proposed it was unconstitutional
(from the back, legislation he promised to get introduced) Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act
Uh, it was later proven that it was a software glitch. First it was user error, then it was floor mats, then the truth came out.
[citation needed]
This article from 2010 says it was just floormats and stupidity based on a DOT report, and the the Wikipedia article states that Toyota was prosecuted and fined for misleading people about the floormat problem and may have covered up a third cause (sticky gas pedal) but there is nothing about a software defect. Do you have a reference for your claim?
Driving, maybe. Parking, no. The cars that park themselves today are a very specialized case - it's the human that navigated up to and chooses the space.
It sounds strange to say it, but I think in many ways parking is a harder problem than driving. There are no universal rules to follow, and every parking spot has it's own unique challenges (street-side, residential garage, open lot, commercial multi-floor garage with gates, etc), and isn't mapped as part of the common street data sets.
I'm betting the first self-driving cars probably won't be able to self-park, perhaps except for your own driveway or garage if it's not too tricky to navigate.
Tesla already autoparks and soon will expand the feature, at least according to this Elon interview:
Musk confirmed that second generation Autopilot cars should also get automatic perpendicular parking and auto windshield wipers next month: The vehicles already have automatic parallel parking in their ‘Autopark’ features powered by Autopilot, but the latest update didn’t include perpendicular parking.
This would be as stupid as the bank questioning what you will do with$10,000 cash you are withdrawing occassionally. Why withdraw? Because it's my fucking money, and my right to privacy in my business affairs is a fundamental right.
They may not ask you what you are doing with it, but they are required to report the transaction to the government. You can thank the drug war and the "small government" Republicans (as well as the "big government" Democrats). As long as people keep voting for these authoritarian jackwads these kinds of laws will continue to be made. The new Attorney General is ramping the drug war back up, because so far we have spent trillions of dollars with no appreciable impact on drug supply or demand, so obviously what we need to do is double down and spend even more money have have even more intrusive laws.
Nobody will name the staffer or say what happened to him.
Nobody will name him? So the thousands of articles that have the name "Charles Delevan" don't exist? This interview with the guy doesn't exist? The front page article in the New York Times (complete with a screenshot of the actual email) doesn't exist? Don't confuse your own ignorance with a conspiracy to keep information from you.
It wasn't? This paper says the "widely" believed age is 2-3 million years and the paper argues for much older origins, 7-10 million years old. The fossils we are discussing here are on the order of 300,000 years old which is well within both ranges. Yes, there have been some periods where it received more rain than it currently does but it has been a very dry place for a long time.
Morocco and Ethiopia are close enough to each other that it's conceivable populations in both places were in semi-frequent contact, so that kind of thing could happen. As opposed to an isolated population evolving in the rift valley and then deciding one day they were going to leave and go settle the planet.
At their closest Morocco and Ethiopia are about 4500 km apart and that's if you go straight across several thousand kilometers of the Sahara. The more probable migration route through equatorial Africa then up the coast is an even longer trek. How frequently could pre-technology homonids cross such a huge geographic barrier? I guess it's conceivable as you say, but I certainly wouldn't call it probable. This find certainly doesn't preclude H. sapiens arising out of east Africa, but if their dating is accurate it certainly looks like it happened earlier than previously thought.
There are no "standard holidays" in the US. Some jobs get no holidays off at all. Most professional positions give around 6-8 days for holidays (New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are pretty standard). This is fewer days than all the other countries that my company operates in, for example, my co-workers in India get 12 paid holidays and colleagues in Germany receive 15. For vacation/sick time, the standard is usually 10 days off (2 weeks) but that varies widely company-to-company and as this article notes, they aren't even taking that much. There are no legally mandated holidays or vacation time in the US, everything is at the whim of the company.
Here's some more information on the bill to allow employers to give comp time rather than overtime pay for overtime hours: https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...
Great news, it's to benefit employees! Check out these quotes about how great it is for workers:
"Nothing should stop us from doing what we can right now to help make life a little easier for moms and dads" "we can give men and women more choice and flexibility in how they choose to use their time” Martha Roby (R-AL)
"I don't think there's anything more powerful than giving them more control over their time so that they can make the best decisions for themselves and their families," Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
See? It's not about companies screwing their employees and making them work overtime without overtime pay, it's to give "choice and flexibility" to families. Thank you Republicans, at least SOMEONE is looking out for the workers and Making America Great Again!
You are getting way too abstract about it, trying to define what a 'company' is. It's a simple accounting item, salaries are paid nearly immediately when the liability is incurred, so no, they are not a liability on a company's books. Banked vacation time, on the other hand, is a liability on the books (particularly if there is a cash payout of the unused time when the worker leaves the company). Yes, they are both costs of doing business but one is not an ongoing liability and one is, at least from an accounting standpoint.
My company recently switched from a 'banked' system to a 'take as much time as you want!' system, the primary (stated) reason was to remove the liability for banked time from the balance sheet. I believe a secondary goal is to reduce the amount of time people take. If you don't have a set number of days you can take, the decision that you are taking too much time depends more on the perception of your manager rather that a quantifiable number, which makes people more leery of taking a lot of time off. Before, I knew how many days I could take without causing myself any problems, but now it's all very nebulous and I have no way of knowing if there is a problem with the number of days I take until I take too many. It's a manyfold benefit for the company, since it sounds good to an interviewee (take a much time as you want!), they get the banked time off their books and the existing employees will probably take less time since "too much time" is now a gray area.
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First, we need to drop our average per capita energy usage from 250 kWh/day to 125 kWh/day.
That number seems wrong. I looked at his website (the design is Geocities, circa 1998 - nice!) and it's not immediately obvious where that number came from, but it appears to be too high. In 2015 the US generated 4,077.6 TWh of electricity so that's around 35 kWh per capita per day. That year 3.22 trillion miles were driven, if everyone magically had a Telsa Model S (which uses 340 wh/mi, smack dab in the middle in efficiency for electric cars listed by the EPA) instead of their current car that would be another 9.3 KWh per day per capita.
So that's around 45 kWh for electricity and transportation, where does the other 205 kWh come from? Heating? The electricity number already includes all the electric heating (as well as commercial and industrial use) so it would just be oil and natural gas - do those really add up to 205 kWh? We used 27.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but a ton of that is already included in the electric number. According to the EIA it was closer to 15 trillion for residential, commercial and industrial use. That would be another 38 kWh. We burned around 390 billion gallons of heating oil, that's another 1.5 kWh. I don't necessarily think that converting the total heat available in those substances to kWh is a valid comparison but let's ignore that for now. We are still only to 84 kWh per person per day, where is the missing 166 kWh?
Looking further on his site I think I see what the issue is. He just makes up numbers and then adds those to his total. For example, on this page he guesses at a number for kWh per airline passenger and then rather than using data like actual miles flown he just assumes every person makes exactly one intercontinental trip (from London to Cape Town) per year and extrapolates a 30 kWh usage for that. He does similar things throughout the site, instead of using actual consumption data he makes estimates based on broad assumptions. I'm sure he has interesting things to say but there's certainly no rigor in his numbers and it's a poor site on which to base a numbers post.
The reason cars won over trains is because of this, in comparison to RR tracks Roadways are ridiculously cheap
Do you have a citation for that? From a quick search, rail costs $1-2 million per mile (source, while a 2 lane road costs $2-3 million per mile in rural areas and $3-5 million per mile in urban areas (source). Certainly doesn't seem "ridiculously cheap" in comparison.
I prefer Dwayne Elizondo "Mountain Dew" Herbert Camacho
That's why my comment said "Of course that is before deductions".
They're in favor of SMALL (ie, less) government moreso than local government.
In general most conservatives have no issue with a higher level of government saying to a lower level "No, you can't do that".
You know how when Linux geeks say "I just want the OS to be unobtrusive and stay out of the way so I can work."? Apply the same logic to government.
No, they say they are in favor of small government but when the rubber actually hits the road they never actually shrink the government overall. Here is a graph of the number of federal employees, where are the big decreases when these "small government" Republicans take office? That graph doesn't count the military, which Republicans tend to increase as well. I'm certainly for a smaller government, but neither of the authoritarian parties are going to provide it, they got into this game for power and money and they aren't going to do anything to reduce either of those.
Maybe a state versus federal thing? I don't know, from a non US standpoint 2.25% income tax on $250k seems almost comically small, so intuitively I'd guess it's in addition to existing income tax(es). Heck I get less than half that and I'm paying over 30%.
If you make $250,000 you fall into the 33% bracket (between $191,650 and $416,700), so you nominally one would pay $65,899.25 or 26.4%. Of course that is before any deductions and is different if you are married, but overall someone making $250k will generally pay 20-25% in federal income taxes (plus 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare) .
And people have been predicting the next recession since 2009. Eventually they will be right, but that doesn't mean they can predict the future. The people who listened to them and sold their stocks or stayed out of the market missed all the gains that have happened since then. There are ALWAYS people predicting doom in the markets and most of the time they are wrong. Timing the market is a sucker's game, the best policy is to be widely diversified and stay the course (and buy stocks at a lower price) when a recession does come.
I understand that they take up a very dangerous mantle
They like to create that perception, but it's really not the case, they rarely make the top 10 dangerous jobs. For example, this list pegs them at number 18 with 11.7 deaths per 100,000. And it's not getting shot that causes that danger, the most common cause of on-duty police officer deaths is traffic accidents. I worked for many years in a much more dangerous job but nobody had parades and 21 gun salutes when one of us died.
Depending on how the PGP server is set up it can also proxy the connection and do the encryption on the server itself, a lot of companies are set up that way. The encryption server sits between the MTA and the mail gateway or the Internet and encrypts/decrypts on the fly so compromising the mail server still would give the attacker access to plaintext messages. Actually encrypting mail is a solved problem, the problem is with key exchange. Despite many attempts at searchable keyservers and different keyserver naming conventions, sharing keys usually requires manual intervention. Unless this problem is solved email encryption will never be widespread.
declining tax revenue's
manditory 401k contributions
government employee's
college degree's
government employee's
live within the munincipality
I'm sorry to see the education system has failed you, but if you can't get simple spelling and punctuation right do you expect people to take your analysis of a complex issue seriously?
c) They don't get paid any extra for the car or lift time
But the summary says "They also had to pay twice as much in fares, according to the ERC's study."
If the fare is paying more doesn't the driver get more? I was under the impression the driver got a portion of the fare. So either the driver isn't getting paid more or the fare isn't increased, either your statement or the summary are wrong.
Why not RTFA and answer the question for yourself rather than professing your ignorance in the first post? You want the answer (or at least you ask the question) and the answer is right at your fingertips. If you're interested, then why not read it? Are you just SOOOOOO busy that you have time to post on /. but you don't have 2 minutes to do a tiny amount of reading?
It's more likely to go down like this
We're talking about comedians that get away with saying things like "Trump really wants to bang his daughter" and don't get sued by Trump... because even Trump's lawyers aren't stupid enough to try to win such a case.
Trump's solution is to change libel laws so that he can sue people in those cases. If you are losing the game, just change the rules.
That wasn't the point. The OP said nothing was being done and that Trump wasn't keeping his promises.
That was a list of things being done and promises kept.
Do you and I have disagreements with Trump? Yes. Probably. (I can't speak for you) But don't kid yourself. Things are getting done.
But he hasn't kept the majority of his promises. Here is Trump's "Contract with the American Voter", things Trump promised to do in his first 100 days in office. Let's go through each of the promises and see if they were fulfilled:
(corruption/influence)
FIRST, propose a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. Nope
SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health). Nope, tried but already removed
THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Yes
FOURTH, a five-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.Partial, for executive officials only
FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. Yes
SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections. Nope
(protect american workers)
FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205. Nope
SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Yes
THIRD, I will direct the Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator. Nope, not even close
FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately. Yes
FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. He has done some things toward this goal so I will give him credit for this
SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.Yes
SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.Yes, to a degree. His proposed budget does reduce or eliminate some of these payments but that budget certainly isn't (yet) law and it's doubtful that the $1.6 B will "fix" America's water and environmental infrastructure.
(security/rule of law)
FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama. Partial credit, he has canceled several Obama executive orders but certainly hasn't shown any to be unconstitutional. After all the bitching he did about Obama's use of executive orders Trump sure likes to use them himself
SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Yes
THIRD, cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Nope
FOURTH, begin removing the more than two million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back. Partial, he has at least tried
FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered “extreme vetting.” Nope, the way he proposed it was unconstitutional
(from the back, legislation he promised to get introduced)
Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act
Uh, it was later proven that it was a software glitch. First it was user error, then it was floor mats, then the truth came out.
[citation needed]
This article from 2010 says it was just floormats and stupidity based on a DOT report, and the the Wikipedia article states that Toyota was prosecuted and fined for misleading people about the floormat problem and may have covered up a third cause (sticky gas pedal) but there is nothing about a software defect. Do you have a reference for your claim?
Driving, maybe. Parking, no. The cars that park themselves today are a very specialized case - it's the human that navigated up to and chooses the space.
It sounds strange to say it, but I think in many ways parking is a harder problem than driving. There are no universal rules to follow, and every parking spot has it's own unique challenges (street-side, residential garage, open lot, commercial multi-floor garage with gates, etc), and isn't mapped as part of the common street data sets.
I'm betting the first self-driving cars probably won't be able to self-park, perhaps except for your own driveway or garage if it's not too tricky to navigate.
Tesla already autoparks and soon will expand the feature, at least according to this Elon interview:
This would be as stupid as the bank questioning what you will do with$10,000 cash you are withdrawing occassionally. Why withdraw? Because it's my fucking money, and my right to privacy in my business affairs is a fundamental right.
They may not ask you what you are doing with it, but they are required to report the transaction to the government. You can thank the drug war and the "small government" Republicans (as well as the "big government" Democrats). As long as people keep voting for these authoritarian jackwads these kinds of laws will continue to be made. The new Attorney General is ramping the drug war back up, because so far we have spent trillions of dollars with no appreciable impact on drug supply or demand, so obviously what we need to do is double down and spend even more money have have even more intrusive laws.
Nobody will name the staffer or say what happened to him.
Nobody will name him? So the thousands of articles that have the name "Charles Delevan" don't exist? This interview with the guy doesn't exist? The front page article in the New York Times (complete with a screenshot of the actual email) doesn't exist? Don't confuse your own ignorance with a conspiracy to keep information from you.
It wasn't? This paper says the "widely" believed age is 2-3 million years and the paper argues for much older origins, 7-10 million years old. The fossils we are discussing here are on the order of 300,000 years old which is well within both ranges. Yes, there have been some periods where it received more rain than it currently does but it has been a very dry place for a long time.
Morocco and Ethiopia are close enough to each other that it's conceivable populations in both places were in semi-frequent contact, so that kind of thing could happen. As opposed to an isolated population evolving in the rift valley and then deciding one day they were going to leave and go settle the planet.
At their closest Morocco and Ethiopia are about 4500 km apart and that's if you go straight across several thousand kilometers of the Sahara. The more probable migration route through equatorial Africa then up the coast is an even longer trek. How frequently could pre-technology homonids cross such a huge geographic barrier? I guess it's conceivable as you say, but I certainly wouldn't call it probable. This find certainly doesn't preclude H. sapiens arising out of east Africa, but if their dating is accurate it certainly looks like it happened earlier than previously thought.
You mean like this one, which was posted more than an hour before your comment?
There are no "standard holidays" in the US. Some jobs get no holidays off at all. Most professional positions give around 6-8 days for holidays (New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas are pretty standard). This is fewer days than all the other countries that my company operates in, for example, my co-workers in India get 12 paid holidays and colleagues in Germany receive 15. For vacation/sick time, the standard is usually 10 days off (2 weeks) but that varies widely company-to-company and as this article notes, they aren't even taking that much. There are no legally mandated holidays or vacation time in the US, everything is at the whim of the company.
Here's some more information on the bill to allow employers to give comp time rather than overtime pay for overtime hours: https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...
Great news, it's to benefit employees! Check out these quotes about how great it is for workers:
"Nothing should stop us from doing what we can right now to help make life a little easier for moms and dads"
"we can give men and women more choice and flexibility in how they choose to use their time”
Martha Roby (R-AL)
"I don't think there's anything more powerful than giving them more control over their time so that they can make the best decisions for themselves and their families,"
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
See? It's not about companies screwing their employees and making them work overtime without overtime pay, it's to give "choice and flexibility" to families. Thank you Republicans, at least SOMEONE is looking out for the workers and Making America Great Again!
You are getting way too abstract about it, trying to define what a 'company' is. It's a simple accounting item, salaries are paid nearly immediately when the liability is incurred, so no, they are not a liability on a company's books. Banked vacation time, on the other hand, is a liability on the books (particularly if there is a cash payout of the unused time when the worker leaves the company). Yes, they are both costs of doing business but one is not an ongoing liability and one is, at least from an accounting standpoint.
My company recently switched from a 'banked' system to a 'take as much time as you want!' system, the primary (stated) reason was to remove the liability for banked time from the balance sheet. I believe a secondary goal is to reduce the amount of time people take. If you don't have a set number of days you can take, the decision that you are taking too much time depends more on the perception of your manager rather that a quantifiable number, which makes people more leery of taking a lot of time off. Before, I knew how many days I could take without causing myself any problems, but now it's all very nebulous and I have no way of knowing if there is a problem with the number of days I take until I take too many. It's a manyfold benefit for the company, since it sounds good to an interviewee (take a much time as you want!), they get the banked time off their books and the existing employees will probably take less time since "too much time" is now a gray area.