It is kind of like the Clintions donating some large percentage of their "charity" to the Clinton Foundation, and getting a tax write off for essentially donating to themselves. Genius!
I would classify Promotional things like "airline miles" as nothing more than a coupon. I would love to see the IRS try and classify a Coupon as "income".
Income taxes are some of the most regressive taxes. Period. Liberals love "Taxes" because they always want more (at least for the "rich") but the rich can avoid them, the poor don't pay them, and the middle class is stuck with them, and they are ever increasing.
Taxes, all of them, are regressive. Income taxes are some of the most regressive taxes available.
IMHO, if the value "earned" isn't something that has a regular (commodity) trade value, then it isn't "income" at all. Something that has no trade value at all (like Airline Miles) is of no use outside of flying that airline. You can't even use them on another airline, therefore it has not actual value (like a coupon).
Sure they are. You're just tied up with the concept of "standards" which are... nothing more than rules and regulations. They aren't merely guidelines as suggested by people like yourself, because they are not optional.
Because Common Core gives more emphasis on procedure than the correct answer, students will grow up thinking 3x4=11, if they have a "valid" explanation for it. Because memorizing FACTS leads to correct answers without understading! (liberal logic).
Don't tell me Common Core isn't rules based, it is. But the rules aren't based in facts, but in how things ought to be. My previous example is an example of the logic that leads to Common Core, process is more important that the result.
BTW, the correct answer is, the process matters only if it reliably gets to the correct answer. You don't want your next car designed in a process that looks fantastic, but only works 78% of the time. You want a car that is designed by a process that is correct 100% of the time.
So no, I do know what I am talking about. I work in a school. I see it first hand.
Give those people in far away cities enough time, data, and infinite "political capital" and they'll probably come up with a general system that works much better for most all students.
They have had the Dept of Education, since Jimmy Carter, to do exactly that. And they have failed. They have failed, not in collecting data, but generalizing "students" in such a way that no student fits their "average" student in their models. There is no such thing as "average student" except in a statistical mean.
Sorry, but the ONLY people who can educate a student (singular individualized) is in the classroom, and they are hamstrung by the "System" these people in far away cities have come up with (See Common Core). You have people who SUCKED at learning decide how they were taught was all wrong, and you have "whole language" for reading (instead of Phonics) and "new math" and "common core" methods of doing math that take a simple one step problem and make it into a 12 step complicated problem.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy it at all that people in far away lands can manage what goes on in every classroom, in every school, in every city, in every state in this country.... in anyway that is effective. I know, I work for a school district, and see the stupid rules and regulations mandated by people who are political hacks designing a system to fit their political agenda. In short, they don't care about Susie School Girl or Tammy the Teacher. They only care about numbers to make themselves look good.
It isn't just Kindergarten, is is throughout all of school, K-12.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art (often replacing with Social Conformity Drills).
The problem is, we have people in far away cities, who don't have any real interest in the education of any student, making all sorts of Rules and Regulations (see Common Core) about not only how, but what kids ought to learn by when. All, often without any clue how long it takes to teach a room full of kids who just want to play.
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory.
If you're gonna do that, you might as well just pull the fiber to each house and end the Franchise agreements to ATT and Comcast. Pull to a COLO facility and offer any / all service providers to provide service to as many customers as they can contract with. Charge a maintenance fee for maintaining poles and fiber as needed based on usage.
You are assuming every pole needs work, and that is probably not even close to being correct.
Also, I would add a condition to the T rule, that if they even LOOK at one of their poles, they have to provide mitigation as requested at that time, and that it doesn't count against whatever artificial limit they place (I would increase those too). Meaning that if they are dragging their feet for google, that they have to drag their feet for themselves as well.
I make this like painting a house. Painting a house is easy, and quick. The prep work is tedious and takes a long long time.
The problem with Government involvement, it is much of the Prep work. Submitting of plans, approval (and revision) of plans, permits, objections by special interests groups, more revisions, permits expire, newly created permits now needed requiring resubmitting of plans for approval. 18 different government entities all vying for a piece of the action. All for Dick Waving politicians to say "We did this thing, you should be happy".
It just doesn't slow down progress, it often halts it.
Do you REALLY want someone who knows nothing about the industry under consideration to be writing laws about that industry?
Actually, I would prefer that Government stop writing laws to regulate such in this manner at all. The Telephone Poles are granted special rights (right of way) and operate usually in some sort of Franchise or Lease arraignment. As such, it would be easy to write a law that was fair to all parties.
OR
We start boring horizontally and burying the cables in conduit underground. Since we no longer need to hang wires, why not fix the problem right?
And unions? And Liberal Special interest groups? And PACs? And......?
IF you want ONLY citizens to have access to our representatives, and not any "organized" version of advocacy groups, then lets be fair and make apply all forms of advocacy groups (and I would agree with you).
However, since I rather doubt that you'd object to "citizen advocacy" groups influencing politicians, your choice on which advocacy groups are allowed, and which ones are prohibited is purely arbitrary in nature, based on your political leanings. Corporation are citizen advocacy groups too, you just don't like what they represent.
I am not sure why we are still attaching wires to poles, when we have horizontal boring equipment that can drill and place conduit underground, and avoid or reduce stupid problems caused by drunk drivers and squirrels.
Yes, I am sure it costs more, but laying fiber / copper in sealed conduit seems like a much better long term plan.
That being said, I am wondering why they aren't just removing the franchise agreements for these companies, and building out their own fiber plant, bringing it back to a COLO that can offer any company access to any house via the "open road" of the now "last mile" fiber.
Currently that is the case. In the future, that may not be the case. The problem with Cryptocurrency is that its base is in fiat currency of the realm it is being used in. At some point, BitCoin (and other cryptocurrency) will no longer be based on another Fiat currency, it will become its own Fiat Currency, outside the control of any one government. At that point, it becomes "real" money (for all values of real that are also Fiat)
That is not what that clause says. Federal Government doesn't have exclusive right to coin money. If it did, then the Federal Reserve would be illegal.
Unless that is the point you're trying to make, try again.;)
FYI, That clause is limited to "State" (government). Not private entities or businesses. There are plenty of examples of Amusement Parks and Kiddie Pizza Places that offer coins of the realm currency.
Typical Clintonian excuse. "As far as we know" doesn't mean shit. We know that people she was talking to were compromised. We know that her server(s) were at least attacked, and hard enough to require the power to be pulled. We know that she destroyed (or at least at the direction of her staff) backups that were under investigation. We also know that she failed to preserve documentation related to her being SOS, which is a federal regulation.
There was at least ONE piece of email, that is so restricted, that people who have oversight do not have the ability to know who the originating entity was for the source of that classification. ONE is all that is needed.
So, while your retort is kind of cute (typical deflection), it is also wrong by understating scope, and understating the obligation she was under. But being a leftwinger, you probably do not understand the word "obligation" in this context, since it doesn't have tax payer dollars going to the "poor" or some"oppressed" minority.
It depends on which case you're talking about. In the case of Snowden, I've always said he is a both a traitor and a hero. He can be both, at the same time.
Actually, there is increasing evidence that it isn't biological, or at least one "cause" isn't biological. There are studies of identical twins, where one is gay, and the other isn't, that would pretty much eliminate natal / chromosome disorders. Which means it likely to be psychological or environmental, at least in part.
But that doesn't fit the narrative of the LGBT community because they want it to be biological, so you won't hear them talking about those studies.
we don't punish people for the rest of their lives in all but the most exceptional cases
Consequences aren't "punishment". Though I hear that equivocation a lot by liberals. "I had sex, I don't want to be punished with a child ", "I got a tattoo on my face, and now nobody will give me a job, why am I being punished?"
That kind of reasoning always kinda makes me sick to my stomach. The second point is, that if you play it like the Kardashians did, you can become rich and famous and marry a douchbag rapper... okay that last part sounds like punishment...
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It is kind of like the Clintions donating some large percentage of their "charity" to the Clinton Foundation, and getting a tax write off for essentially donating to themselves. Genius!
Do "Coupons" have value?
I would classify Promotional things like "airline miles" as nothing more than a coupon. I would love to see the IRS try and classify a Coupon as "income".
Income taxes are some of the most regressive taxes. Period. Liberals love "Taxes" because they always want more (at least for the "rich") but the rich can avoid them, the poor don't pay them, and the middle class is stuck with them, and they are ever increasing.
Taxes, all of them, are regressive. Income taxes are some of the most regressive taxes available.
IMHO, if the value "earned" isn't something that has a regular (commodity) trade value, then it isn't "income" at all. Something that has no trade value at all (like Airline Miles) is of no use outside of flying that airline. You can't even use them on another airline, therefore it has not actual value (like a coupon).
Sure they are. You're just tied up with the concept of "standards" which are ... nothing more than rules and regulations. They aren't merely guidelines as suggested by people like yourself, because they are not optional.
Because Common Core gives more emphasis on procedure than the correct answer, students will grow up thinking 3x4=11, if they have a "valid" explanation for it. Because memorizing FACTS leads to correct answers without understading! (liberal logic).
Don't tell me Common Core isn't rules based, it is. But the rules aren't based in facts, but in how things ought to be. My previous example is an example of the logic that leads to Common Core, process is more important that the result.
BTW, the correct answer is, the process matters only if it reliably gets to the correct answer. You don't want your next car designed in a process that looks fantastic, but only works 78% of the time. You want a car that is designed by a process that is correct 100% of the time.
So no, I do know what I am talking about. I work in a school. I see it first hand.
Give those people in far away cities enough time, data, and infinite "political capital" and they'll probably come up with a general system that works much better for most all students.
They have had the Dept of Education, since Jimmy Carter, to do exactly that. And they have failed. They have failed, not in collecting data, but generalizing "students" in such a way that no student fits their "average" student in their models. There is no such thing as "average student" except in a statistical mean.
Sorry, but the ONLY people who can educate a student (singular individualized) is in the classroom, and they are hamstrung by the "System" these people in far away cities have come up with (See Common Core). You have people who SUCKED at learning decide how they were taught was all wrong, and you have "whole language" for reading (instead of Phonics) and "new math" and "common core" methods of doing math that take a simple one step problem and make it into a 12 step complicated problem.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy it at all that people in far away lands can manage what goes on in every classroom, in every school, in every city, in every state in this country .... in anyway that is effective. I know, I work for a school district, and see the stupid rules and regulations mandated by people who are political hacks designing a system to fit their political agenda. In short, they don't care about Susie School Girl or Tammy the Teacher. They only care about numbers to make themselves look good.
It isn't just Kindergarten, is is throughout all of school, K-12.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art (often replacing with Social Conformity Drills).
The problem is, we have people in far away cities, who don't have any real interest in the education of any student, making all sorts of Rules and Regulations (see Common Core) about not only how, but what kids ought to learn by when. All, often without any clue how long it takes to teach a room full of kids who just want to play.
We don't live in an industrial world, we shouldn't be treating our education system like a factory.
most people are idiots
Simple Statistical analysis*: Think about how stupid the average** person is. Now realize that 1/2 the people are even more stupid than this.
*It is a joke, don't ruin it
**Average being statistical median, for the pedantic people who would ruin the joke anyways.
If you're gonna do that, you might as well just pull the fiber to each house and end the Franchise agreements to ATT and Comcast. Pull to a COLO facility and offer any / all service providers to provide service to as many customers as they can contract with. Charge a maintenance fee for maintaining poles and fiber as needed based on usage.
End the monopoly at the last mile.
You are assuming every pole needs work, and that is probably not even close to being correct.
Also, I would add a condition to the T rule, that if they even LOOK at one of their poles, they have to provide mitigation as requested at that time, and that it doesn't count against whatever artificial limit they place (I would increase those too). Meaning that if they are dragging their feet for google, that they have to drag their feet for themselves as well.
Letting a monopoly write your legislation should be illegal.
Government sanction franchise agreement holder.
Remove the need for Franchise agreements and the problem of "monopoly" goes away.
I make this like painting a house. Painting a house is easy, and quick. The prep work is tedious and takes a long long time.
The problem with Government involvement, it is much of the Prep work. Submitting of plans, approval (and revision) of plans, permits, objections by special interests groups, more revisions, permits expire, newly created permits now needed requiring resubmitting of plans for approval. 18 different government entities all vying for a piece of the action. All for Dick Waving politicians to say "We did this thing, you should be happy".
It just doesn't slow down progress, it often halts it.
Do you REALLY want someone who knows nothing about the industry under consideration to be writing laws about that industry?
Actually, I would prefer that Government stop writing laws to regulate such in this manner at all. The Telephone Poles are granted special rights (right of way) and operate usually in some sort of Franchise or Lease arraignment. As such, it would be easy to write a law that was fair to all parties.
OR
We start boring horizontally and burying the cables in conduit underground. Since we no longer need to hang wires, why not fix the problem right?
And unions? ......?
And Liberal Special interest groups?
And PACs?
And
IF you want ONLY citizens to have access to our representatives, and not any "organized" version of advocacy groups, then lets be fair and make apply all forms of advocacy groups (and I would agree with you).
However, since I rather doubt that you'd object to "citizen advocacy" groups influencing politicians, your choice on which advocacy groups are allowed, and which ones are prohibited is purely arbitrary in nature, based on your political leanings. Corporation are citizen advocacy groups too, you just don't like what they represent.
I am not sure why we are still attaching wires to poles, when we have horizontal boring equipment that can drill and place conduit underground, and avoid or reduce stupid problems caused by drunk drivers and squirrels.
Yes, I am sure it costs more, but laying fiber / copper in sealed conduit seems like a much better long term plan.
That being said, I am wondering why they aren't just removing the franchise agreements for these companies, and building out their own fiber plant, bringing it back to a COLO that can offer any company access to any house via the "open road" of the now "last mile" fiber.
Make Currency Exchange the exception, perhaps? Just thinking off the top of my head.
At some point you need to convert to real money.
Currently that is the case. In the future, that may not be the case. The problem with Cryptocurrency is that its base is in fiat currency of the realm it is being used in. At some point, BitCoin (and other cryptocurrency) will no longer be based on another Fiat currency, it will become its own Fiat Currency, outside the control of any one government. At that point, it becomes "real" money (for all values of real that are also Fiat)
That is not what that clause says. Federal Government doesn't have exclusive right to coin money. If it did, then the Federal Reserve would be illegal.
Unless that is the point you're trying to make, try again. ;)
FYI, That clause is limited to "State" (government). Not private entities or businesses. There are plenty of examples of Amusement Parks and Kiddie Pizza Places that offer coins of the realm currency.
Try again.
Take two antiHISStamine and call Apple in the morning.
And Rachel Dolezal is "black" .. got it.
as far as we know
Typical Clintonian excuse. "As far as we know" doesn't mean shit. We know that people she was talking to were compromised. We know that her server(s) were at least attacked, and hard enough to require the power to be pulled. We know that she destroyed (or at least at the direction of her staff) backups that were under investigation. We also know that she failed to preserve documentation related to her being SOS, which is a federal regulation.
There was at least ONE piece of email, that is so restricted, that people who have oversight do not have the ability to know who the originating entity was for the source of that classification. ONE is all that is needed.
So, while your retort is kind of cute (typical deflection), it is also wrong by understating scope, and understating the obligation she was under. But being a leftwinger, you probably do not understand the word "obligation" in this context, since it doesn't have tax payer dollars going to the "poor" or some"oppressed" minority.
It depends on which case you're talking about. In the case of Snowden, I've always said he is a both a traitor and a hero. He can be both, at the same time.
I hate my government, but love my country. For exactly the same reason why Snowden is both a traitor and a hero.
Actually, there is increasing evidence that it isn't biological, or at least one "cause" isn't biological. There are studies of identical twins, where one is gay, and the other isn't, that would pretty much eliminate natal / chromosome disorders. Which means it likely to be psychological or environmental, at least in part.
But that doesn't fit the narrative of the LGBT community because they want it to be biological, so you won't hear them talking about those studies.
we don't punish people for the rest of their lives in all but the most exceptional cases
Consequences aren't "punishment". Though I hear that equivocation a lot by liberals. "I had sex, I don't want to be punished with a child ", "I got a tattoo on my face, and now nobody will give me a job, why am I being punished?"
That kind of reasoning always kinda makes me sick to my stomach. The second point is, that if you play it like the Kardashians did, you can become rich and famous and marry a douchbag rapper ... okay that last part sounds like punishment ...