Plausibly because it's easier than researching carefully to arrive at one's own opinion, siding with the opinion of the partisan tribe has become the default position of the masses.
Both major US parties use the same siren song. On the right: "That's what Obama wanted!" On the left: That's what Trump is doing!"
The power brokers now have the ability to galvanize a large portion of the population with a few key buzzwords. It's a lot more work to remain undecided.
The federal government is subsidizing cheese. The government spent $21.8 million purchasing surplus cheese and providing incentives for companies to enter the cheese industry."Government cheese really grates on taxpayers," the report states, showing the report's affinity for cheesy jokes.
In 2014, Ghost Clinics received $35,000,000 in federal reimbursements.
Millions of dollars were paid out to 118 “phantom” medical clinics. These were clinics, established by a network of criminal gangs, that never actually existed. They may have been fake clinics, but the government paid out real money and a lot of it.
Alien abduction claims aside, it's virtually certain aliens who have the technological ability to travel to our galaxy also possess the advanced cloaking ability necessary to avoid detection. Yet, this may not even qualify as a top ten government spending boondoggle.
There is some reported toxicity regarding cobalt buildup in the body, typically from a hip replacement or overindulging in B12 supplements.
Unless you're prone to removing the battery for a late night snack, any danger presented by the cobalt in your battery is dwarfed by the likelihood of walking into traffic while distracted by your cellie.
It says the ads (it calls them "ad breaks") can't run until a minute into a video, and they can only run if the video is at least three minutes long. At first, the ads could run after 20 seconds and on videos as short as 90 seconds.
Nothing else for me, Santa... that's my whole Christmas list.
Not unlike the intent of the three laws of robotics, it would be wise beyond the normal abilities of those in government to get a sensible definition and implementation of rules in place before corporations have a billion dollar interest in the outcome.
Quite the opposite, some former Uber employees have gone into debt to hang onto shares they still can't sell.
FTA:
Under current tax law, the income from exercising ISOs, a special type of option typically reserved for executives and senior employees, falls under an alternative tax calculation designed to prevent high-earners from using deductions to avoid paying tax. Non-qualified stock options, more commonly awarded to regular employees, are taxed the year they’re exercised on the gain in the stock.
It seems likely the people holding at least 10,000 shares are former executives who chose to exercise their stock options within the 30 days allowed by Uber upon deciding to terminate (or being terminated from) their employment.
Stock options are a way to reward executives financially outside of their normal pay structure. Exercising the afforded option(s) is typically only done when there's been a rise in the stock price during the option period.
TLDR: Nobody forces you to exercise the option on some stock you cannot sell. It's a gamble, like the majority of the investment in the market.
You're correct, but it's still 1/3 to 1/2 of the acreage needed to sustainably free graze the cattle.
Even with optimal acreage, it's necessary to supplement the grazing with protein cakes, salt licks, and winter hay... which generally requires even more acreage.
"Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron."
You may have heard a rule-of-thumb is that it takes 1.5 to 2 acres to feed a cow calf pair for 12 months.
As a last resort, we can always resort to math:
There were 92 million grazing cattle in the US herd for 2016, sharing a total of just south of 800 million acres of range & pasture land with dairy farms, sheep, goats, and horses. Let's generously say that beef producers occupy 50% of the available free range. 400,000,000 acres/92,000,000 cattle is 4 cow/calf units per acre, one third to one half of the optimal average required for sustained range-only feeding.
Interesting stuff on the electrical generation angle.
There have been attempts in the past to use the produced gas to power the pumpjacks and I'm not certain why the vast majority are plumbed into the grid rather than relying on energy produced right at the wellhead.
It's unlikely to happen, but even if Boeing does beat SpaceX to Mars, I'm sure Elon won't mind one bit. His mission was to get mankind to colonize Mars. If Boeing does it, his mission will be accomplished. Without SpaceX, there wouldn't be nearly as much pressure on companies like Boeing to get there and the mission would keep getting postponed as it has been for decades.
Same for electric cars: of course he wants Tesla to win, but even if competitors drive Tesla out of business with better electric cars, his goal of accelerating the advent of electric cars will have been accomplished. He's actually encouraging other car makers to go electric.
Why did he start a tunnel boring company? Because he was sick and tired of being stuck in traffic and nobody was doing anything about it. He doesn't care if he makes money, he just wants to get rid of traffic jams.
On the one hand, I want to say, "What a marketing genius!" He wins if he wins, he wins if he loses.
On the other hand, assuming he doesn't have to make money, that shouldn't present itself as an advantage over government ventures. That's been their strength all along. Musk's fundamental addition has been motivation.
I'm just encouraged someone is in a Space Race again!
Though thousands of employees were added due to this acquisition and others, GE is balancing operations to account for the growing market in wind power generation and the tailspin of the natural gas market.
Natural gas supplies have increased dramatically in the past decade due in large part to innovative fracking technology, and the price of the gas has fallen precipitously.
Producers are flaring the gas off near producing fields rather than piping it to market.
Trust the folks who attempt to give you sage advice with no advantage to them. Ever have the misfortune of looking too long at a the arc of a welder's flash?
The funny thing is, funny strange not funny ha-ha, that it takes several hours to really pay dividends.
Yes indeed, battery acid and prayers to a God you didn't believe in this morning, either.
The earthquake had wide-ranging effects on the society and culture in Europe. The earthquake had struck on an important religious feast and had destroyed almost every important church in a devoted Roman Catholic city. Theologians and the religious authorities - like the Jesuit Malagrida in Lisbon - exploited the situation and the superstitiousness of the people, declaring that the earthquake was a punishment by god for the sins of the world - but why then should god destroy the churches and spare the brothels? (The churches were mostly located in the city center and build on soft sediments deposited by the Tejo).
Such sediments are prone to soil liquefaction during an earthquake, destabilizing the fundaments of large buildings).
Philosophers, naturalists and even some theologians had argued already since ancient times against this simple view of the world and proposed naturalistic explanations of volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters: the most common hypotheses comprised air circulation in the crust of the earth, tremors as the results of electric discharge or the spontaneous explosion of gases in the underground.
But until the earthquake of Lisbon such ideas were hold mostly by a small number of scholars and discussed in restricted circles. With the possibility to produce cheap and fast pamphlets and journals the news of the destruction of such an important city as Lisbon became widely known and discussed in Europe.
The earthquake, the many figures produced over the years and the subsequent discussions had shaken profoundly the belief in a merciful god and the power of the church - for the first time an earthquake was regarded widely as a natural phenomena.
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Both major US parties use the same siren song. On the right: "That's what Obama wanted!" On the left: That's what Trump is doing!"
The power brokers now have the ability to galvanize a large portion of the population with a few key buzzwords. It's a lot more work to remain undecided.
Um, look at voters in the US. Facebook's algorithms helped influence the election...isn't that AI running the country?
You mean Gore? Nah, he invented the internet but has delegated the day-to-day operations of the country to his inferiors.
The federal government is subsidizing cheese. The government spent $21.8 million purchasing surplus cheese and providing incentives for companies to enter the cheese industry."Government cheese really grates on taxpayers," the report states, showing the report's affinity for cheesy jokes.
In 2014, Ghost Clinics received $35,000,000 in federal reimbursements. Millions of dollars were paid out to 118 “phantom” medical clinics. These were clinics, established by a network of criminal gangs, that never actually existed. They may have been fake clinics, but the government paid out real money and a lot of it.
Alien abduction claims aside, it's virtually certain aliens who have the technological ability to travel to our galaxy also possess the advanced cloaking ability necessary to avoid detection. Yet, this may not even qualify as a top ten government spending boondoggle.
Or: The one with Joey's bag my friend.
You don't need to be a Bitcoin millionaire to make a difference. Some difference makers:
Charity Nerds donate games to hospitalized children.
The Shriners help transform the lives of children scarred by burns.
Your local Salvation Army chapter has a great track record of helping those least blessed.
There is some reported toxicity regarding cobalt buildup in the body, typically from a hip replacement or overindulging in B12 supplements.
Unless you're prone to removing the battery for a late night snack, any danger presented by the cobalt in your battery is dwarfed by the likelihood of walking into traffic while distracted by your cellie.
Your nerd-shaming ways will be the end of you.
Anyone else have to count the sets of zeros?
It says the ads (it calls them "ad breaks") can't run until a minute into a video, and they can only run if the video is at least three minutes long. At first, the ads could run after 20 seconds and on videos as short as 90 seconds.
Nothing else for me, Santa... that's my whole Christmas list.
Not unlike the intent of the three laws of robotics, it would be wise beyond the normal abilities of those in government to get a sensible definition and implementation of rules in place before corporations have a billion dollar interest in the outcome.
Also, too, and either... he's no twat, he's the grabber of twat.
Quite the opposite, some former Uber employees have gone into debt to hang onto shares they still can't sell.
FTA:
Under current tax law, the income from exercising ISOs, a special type of option typically reserved for executives and senior employees, falls under an alternative tax calculation designed to prevent high-earners from using deductions to avoid paying tax. Non-qualified stock options, more commonly awarded to regular employees, are taxed the year they’re exercised on the gain in the stock.
It seems likely the people holding at least 10,000 shares are former executives who chose to exercise their stock options within the 30 days allowed by Uber upon deciding to terminate (or being terminated from) their employment.
Stock options are a way to reward executives financially outside of their normal pay structure. Exercising the afforded option(s) is typically only done when there's been a rise in the stock price during the option period.
TLDR: Nobody forces you to exercise the option on some stock you cannot sell. It's a gamble, like the majority of the investment in the market.
In case anyone else is curious: It's Pentalobular though, not to place too fine a penta-pedant on it.
Even with optimal acreage, it's necessary to supplement the grazing with protein cakes, salt licks, and winter hay... which generally requires even more acreage.
Nice play. Shakespeare himself is jelly.
"Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron."
You may have heard a rule-of-thumb is that it takes 1.5 to 2 acres to feed a cow calf pair for 12 months.
As a last resort, we can always resort to math:
There were 92 million grazing cattle in the US herd for 2016, sharing a total of just south of 800 million acres of range & pasture land with dairy farms, sheep, goats, and horses. Let's generously say that beef producers occupy 50% of the available free range. 400,000,000 acres/92,000,000 cattle is 4 cow/calf units per acre, one third to one half of the optimal average required for sustained range-only feeding.
Where do you thing they make up the shortfall?
Yawn. Holler at me when you can make cows from renewable, clean energy.
There have been attempts in the past to use the produced gas to power the pumpjacks and I'm not certain why the vast majority are plumbed into the grid rather than relying on energy produced right at the wellhead.
It's unlikely to happen, but even if Boeing does beat SpaceX to Mars, I'm sure Elon won't mind one bit. His mission was to get mankind to colonize Mars. If Boeing does it, his mission will be accomplished. Without SpaceX, there wouldn't be nearly as much pressure on companies like Boeing to get there and the mission would keep getting postponed as it has been for decades.
Same for electric cars: of course he wants Tesla to win, but even if competitors drive Tesla out of business with better electric cars, his goal of accelerating the advent of electric cars will have been accomplished. He's actually encouraging other car makers to go electric.
Why did he start a tunnel boring company? Because he was sick and tired of being stuck in traffic and nobody was doing anything about it. He doesn't care if he makes money, he just wants to get rid of traffic jams.
On the one hand, I want to say, "What a marketing genius!" He wins if he wins, he wins if he loses.
On the other hand, assuming he doesn't have to make money, that shouldn't present itself as an advantage over government ventures. That's been their strength all along. Musk's fundamental addition has been motivation.
I'm just encouraged someone is in a Space Race again!
Though thousands of employees were added due to this acquisition and others, GE is balancing operations to account for the growing market in wind power generation and the tailspin of the natural gas market.
Natural gas supplies have increased dramatically in the past decade due in large part to innovative fracking technology, and the price of the gas has fallen precipitously.
Producers are flaring the gas off near producing fields rather than piping it to market.
Perhaps it's true we can't learn some things from the experiences of others.
I will complete penance and mail seven Harry's.
Trust the folks who attempt to give you sage advice with no advantage to them. Ever have the misfortune of looking too long at a the arc of a welder's flash?
The funny thing is, funny strange not funny ha-ha, that it takes several hours to really pay dividends.
Yes indeed, battery acid and prayers to a God you didn't believe in this morning, either.
The earthquake had wide-ranging effects on the society and culture in Europe. The earthquake had struck on an important religious feast and had destroyed almost every important church in a devoted Roman Catholic city. Theologians and the religious authorities - like the Jesuit Malagrida in Lisbon - exploited the situation and the superstitiousness of the people, declaring that the earthquake was a punishment by god for the sins of the world - but why then should god destroy the churches and spare the brothels? (The churches were mostly located in the city center and build on soft sediments deposited by the Tejo).
Such sediments are prone to soil liquefaction during an earthquake, destabilizing the fundaments of large buildings).
Philosophers, naturalists and even some theologians had argued already since ancient times against this simple view of the world and proposed naturalistic explanations of volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters: the most common hypotheses comprised air circulation in the crust of the earth, tremors as the results of electric discharge or the spontaneous explosion of gases in the underground.
But until the earthquake of Lisbon such ideas were hold mostly by a small number of scholars and discussed in restricted circles. With the possibility to produce cheap and fast pamphlets and journals the news of the destruction of such an important city as Lisbon became widely known and discussed in Europe. The earthquake, the many figures produced over the years and the subsequent discussions had shaken profoundly the belief in a merciful god and the power of the church - for the first time an earthquake was regarded widely as a natural phenomena.
Fascinating.