The penalty for noncompliance is weak. If a country does not meet its promised emission goal by 2012, it will have to make both the promised cuts and 30 percent more in a second period starting 2013. They rejected the idea of a financial penalty. If a country can't meet its original goal, why should we expect to meet that goal PLUS 30%?? And the penalty if they fail AGAIN? Nothing, as far as I can tell. The Kyoto Treaty is just a lot of hot air, so to speak.
Once internet service is provided by the government, it will be politicized. The FBI will be snooping and logging everyone's internet activity. They won't need to get a court order to look at a private ISP's servers because they own the servers. Religious fundamentals will insist that taxes dollars not allow people to access pr0n and violence. Look at all of the issues with internet access in public libraries.
"Free" internet will be severely regulated and built on outdated equipment. When your internet service goes offline, you will just have to suck it up because you can't threaten to switch to another ISP.
People will complain that they are paying for internet service taxes, but they don't have a computer. Does the government now have to hand out "free" computers or subsidize computer purchases?
Liberals rarely seem to understand that someone, somewhere must PAY for "free" government services. Which other government program's budget would they like to reduce for these luxuries like WiFi?
25% --> 10%? Does that mean that 15% of Utah drivers are illegal immigrants? Why would Utah, of all places, have such a large illegal immigrant population?
I don't know what the average salary or wage is, but if someone making $30,000 per year saves 12% in a 401k starting at age 21, their retirement account will have over $1,000,000 at age 65.
Why shouldn't they be able to do so? Is their democratic rights to make such decisions surpassed by the principle of private profit?
I don't see any problem with people can't band together to provide "free" internet service. The problem I see is that those people will expect the service to be funded by OTHER people's taxes, people may not want or use internet service.
Once internet service is provided by the government, it will be politicized. The FBI will be snooping and logging everyone's internet activity. They won't need to get a court order to look at a private ISP's servers because they own the servers. Religious fundamentals will insist that taxes dollars not allow people to access pr0n and violence. Look at all of the issues with internet access in public libraries.
Your "free" internet will severely regulated and built on outdated equipment. When your internet service goes offline, you will just have to suck it up because you can't threaten to switch to another ISP.
People will complain that they are paying for internet service taxes, but they don't have a computer. Does the government now have to hand out "free" computers or subsidize computer purchases?
An interesting idea I've been researching lately is "folksonomies", emergent non-hiearachical taxonomies built bottom-up by the "wisdom of crowds". Flickr tags/keywords are a good example. Humans are good at the messy, ambigious parts of life. Harnessing that power programatically is very interesting.
Workers are being forced to pay 12.4 percent of their income into Social Security. What if that 12.4 percent went into an IRA-like account that worker OWNED?
Social Security may provide a barely adequate retirement income, but it generates no wealth. Workers don't own their Social Security funds and have no legal right to the benefits. It is, simply, not wealth in the same way as a 401(k) plan, an IRA, or a bank account. The rich, however, have 401(k) plans at work: They have discretionary income with which to invest. They can accumulate greater wealth. The rich get richer; the poor do not.
Social Security may also lead to a greater intergenerational wealth gap. You can't inherit someone's Social Security benefits. A worker can pay 12.4 percent of his income into the system for 30 or 40 years, but, if that worker dies without children under the age of 18 or a spouse over the age of 65, none of the money is passed on to his heirs.
the wealth of more affluent people generally is inheritable. Thus, inheritance becomes a "disequalizing" force, leading to greater inequality of wealth in America. The answer is not to penalize the wealthy through inheritance taxes and such, but to allow poor workers to accumulate inheritable wealth the same way their wealthier counterparts can. Allowing them to invest their Social Security taxes would go a long way toward accomplishing that goal.
Mozilla 0.9's "Begin finding when you begin typing" feature was non-invasive and worked well. Mozilla 1.0 totally broke it! The Find toolbar is annoying. It pops up at the wrong time, you can't close it with a keyboard shortcut such as the ESC key (as far as I can tell), it seems confused by text within tables and frames, and it seems to search starting from your last mouse click instead of the top of the page.
Where can I sign up to sell these car security systems? If the car security systems are so profitable, why doesn't the partent company sell them itself?:)
The proxy server at work does filtering; it won't let me search google for cable 'strippers', or go to 'demorcrat' or 'buddist' related sites (though I can go to 'republican' or 'christian' related sites). Draw your own conclusions.
Maybe your employer has high grammar standards? Have you tried searching for "democrat" or "buddhist" web sites?
My employer's mail server "helpfully" filter these "clearly malicious" attachments. The solution: just rename your files to something like "bugfix.exe_".
uh, most of those schools and their curricula are controlled by authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers. Sure, the religious right harp about gays and abortions, but the authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are the ones enforcing school bans on Confederate flags, pictures of guns, and speech codes. And they control our children's education. Ironically, these authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are being used by the authoritarian conservatives (religious or not) to keep our children fat, stupid, and anti-freedom.
Most of those schools and their curricula are controled controlled by authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers. Sure, the religious right harp about gays and abortions, but the authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are the ones enforcing school bans on Confederate flags, pictures of guns, and speech codes. And they control our children's education. Ironically, these authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are being used by the authoritarian conservatives (religious or not) to keep our children fat, stupid, and anti-freedom.
Those articles would be a lot more useful if they actually GRAPHED their annual results in nice chart. Instead, they make the reader click to multiple pages to find their survey results buried deep within multiple paragraphs.
What is the point of a GBrowswer based on Firefox and then including optional extensions which can be removed during installation? Why don't you just install Mozilla's Firefox?
Slashdot Mirror
Why not have something like those folding sunvisors people put up in their windshields to keep out some of the heat?
Because you would look like a nerd.
Baskin-Robbins Hypercard Stack?
The penalty for noncompliance is weak. If a country does not meet its promised emission goal by 2012, it will have to make both the promised cuts and 30 percent more in a second period starting 2013. They rejected the idea of a financial penalty. If a country can't meet its original goal, why should we expect to meet that goal PLUS 30%?? And the penalty if they fail AGAIN? Nothing, as far as I can tell. The Kyoto Treaty is just a lot of hot air, so to speak.
"Backgrounder: Kyoto Protocol"
Once internet service is provided by the government, it will be politicized. The FBI will be snooping and logging everyone's internet activity. They won't need to get a court order to look at a private ISP's servers because they own the servers. Religious fundamentals will insist that taxes dollars not allow people to access pr0n and violence. Look at all of the issues with internet access in public libraries.
"Free" internet will be severely regulated and built on outdated equipment. When your internet service goes offline, you will just have to suck it up because you can't threaten to switch to another ISP.
People will complain that they are paying for internet service taxes, but they don't have a computer. Does the government now have to hand out "free" computers or subsidize computer purchases?
Liberals rarely seem to understand that someone, somewhere must PAY for "free" government services. Which other government program's budget would they like to reduce for these luxuries like WiFi?
It would be interesting to know at what frequency the two are similar.
0 MHz?
25% --> 10%? Does that mean that 15% of Utah drivers are illegal immigrants? Why would Utah, of all places, have such a large illegal immigrant population?
sure, you can choose to write your Perl code in any of those styles, BUT you must understand ALL of them to read other people's code. 3x the effort.
For your convenience, Starbucks is located on both sides of the street.
Why left turns only? Wouldn't right turns be preferable because you would never have to wait at a red light??
Flash, running on 98% of desktops, is more ubiquitious than IE + Firefox.
Flash is even more ubiquitious Windows!
I don't know what the average salary or wage is, but if someone making $30,000 per year saves 12% in a 401k starting at age 21, their retirement account will have over $1,000,000 at age 65.
Why shouldn't they be able to do so? Is their democratic rights to make such decisions surpassed by the principle of private profit?
I don't see any problem with people can't band together to provide "free" internet service. The problem I see is that those people will expect the service to be funded by OTHER people's taxes, people may not want or use internet service.
Once internet service is provided by the government, it will be politicized. The FBI will be snooping and logging everyone's internet activity. They won't need to get a court order to look at a private ISP's servers because they own the servers. Religious fundamentals will insist that taxes dollars not allow people to access pr0n and violence. Look at all of the issues with internet access in public libraries.
Your "free" internet will severely regulated and built on outdated equipment. When your internet service goes offline, you will just have to suck it up because you can't threaten to switch to another ISP.
People will complain that they are paying for internet service taxes, but they don't have a computer. Does the government now have to hand out "free" computers or subsidize computer purchases?
if you think your CURRENT taxes will cover not only the services they must provide, but also these new services, you are stupid as well as silly.
He does not expect his taxes to pay for his new services. He expects someone else's taxes to pay for his new services.
An interesting idea I've been researching lately is "folksonomies", emergent non-hiearachical taxonomies built bottom-up by the "wisdom of crowds". Flickr tags/keywords are a good example. Humans are good at the messy, ambigious parts of life. Harnessing that power programatically is very interesting.
Workers are being forced to pay 12.4 percent of their income into Social Security. What if that 12.4 percent went into an IRA-like account that worker OWNED?
Social Security may provide a barely adequate retirement income, but it generates no wealth. Workers don't own their Social Security funds and have no legal right to the benefits. It is, simply, not wealth in the same way as a 401(k) plan, an IRA, or a bank account. The rich, however, have 401(k) plans at work: They have discretionary income with which to invest. They can accumulate greater wealth. The rich get richer; the poor do not.
Social Security may also lead to a greater intergenerational wealth gap. You can't inherit someone's Social Security benefits. A worker can pay 12.4 percent of his income into the system for 30 or 40 years, but, if that worker dies without children under the age of 18 or a spouse over the age of 65, none of the money is passed on to his heirs.
the wealth of more affluent people generally is inheritable. Thus, inheritance becomes a "disequalizing" force, leading to greater inequality of wealth in America. The answer is not to penalize the wealthy through inheritance taxes and such, but to allow poor workers to accumulate inheritable wealth the same way their wealthier counterparts can. Allowing them to invest their Social Security taxes would go a long way toward accomplishing that goal.
but what about the Lock Box? I was assure there was a Lock Box of some sort!!1!
Mozilla 0.9's "Begin finding when you begin typing" feature was non-invasive and worked well. Mozilla 1.0 totally broke it! The Find toolbar is annoying. It pops up at the wrong time, you can't close it with a keyboard shortcut such as the ESC key (as far as I can tell), it seems confused by text within tables and frames, and it seems to search starting from your last mouse click instead of the top of the page.
Where can I sign up to sell these car security systems? If the car security systems are so profitable, why doesn't the partent company sell them itself?
The proxy server at work does filtering; it won't let me search google for cable 'strippers', or go to 'demorcrat' or 'buddist' related sites (though I can go to 'republican' or 'christian' related sites). Draw your own conclusions.
Maybe your employer has high grammar standards? Have you tried searching for "democrat" or "buddhist" web sites?
My employer's mail server "helpfully" filter these "clearly malicious" attachments. The solution: just rename your files to something like "bugfix.exe_".
uh, most of those schools and their curricula are controlled by authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers. Sure, the religious right harp about gays and abortions, but the authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are the ones enforcing school bans on Confederate flags, pictures of guns, and speech codes. And they control our children's education. Ironically, these authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are being used by the authoritarian conservatives (religious or not) to keep our children fat, stupid, and anti-freedom.
Most of those schools and their curricula are controled controlled by authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers. Sure, the religious right harp about gays and abortions, but the authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are the ones enforcing school bans on Confederate flags, pictures of guns, and speech codes. And they control our children's education. Ironically, these authoritarian leftist/socialist teachers are being used by the authoritarian conservatives (religious or not) to keep our children fat, stupid, and anti-freedom.
Those articles would be a lot more useful if they actually GRAPHED their annual results in nice chart. Instead, they make the reader click to multiple pages to find their survey results buried deep within multiple paragraphs.
What is the point of a GBrowswer based on Firefox and then including optional extensions which can be removed during installation? Why don't you just install Mozilla's Firefox?