Yes, you are right, corruption involving the fourth largest corporation isn't a big deal and we should just look the other way. This isn't about allowing or disallowing the merger, this is about perhaps taking a look into why the person responsible for the decision is taking a cushy job with the same entity shorty after green-lighting the merger.
Yes, I suppose me having to sue my neighbour who decided to use a high-power transmitter on the frequency I was using for something like my wi-fi is not anarchy.
Xmonad has the best feature to resource ratio for my uses. Very customizable, very unobtrusive, very fast. I don't really need much else to manage my desktop.
No of course they don't have to care, but we as voters probably should care that our tax system is fair. Yes, there are all sorts of problems with it today, but adding another convoluted section to our tax code is not the path towards a solution.
If you want to have a system were citizens can exempt odometer-miles you need to support that paperwork, have an auditing body, have more complicated legislation, set up a penalty structure, etc. That's far more than an odometer to implement that model.
I was exaggerating for effect. I thought that was pretty obvious. I'll spell it out though. If one uses only an odometer to measure impact to publicly funded roads, one needs to be careful of the cases where vehicle miles travelled are not on publicly funded roads.
"Do you know what happened in Jan 2007 that started the decline? Democrats took control of congress*. Don't get mad. Those are just the facts."
Yes, unemployment was at 4.6% in Jan 2007 is a fact. Yes, democrats took control of congress in Jan 2007 is a fact. Democrats taking control of congress *starting* the decline [in the economy not increase in unemployment] is not a *fact*.
From the OED " a. Something that has really occurred or is actually the case; something certainly known to be of this character; hence, a particular truth known by actual observation or authentic testimony, as opposed to what is merely inferred, or to a conjecture or fiction; a datum of experience, as distinguished from the conclusions that may be based upon it."
We don't know if that's actually the case. It could very well be, it could very likely be, but a statement like that is not a fact, it needs to be supported and it wasn't. Also, you should probably stick to the unemployment rate and not the economy as a whole (which is a far more difficult entity to deal with being far more nebulous than something measurable like the unemployment rate).
Your question is missing a component. So why does anyone believe X what? Where X is "storing sensitive information in the 'cloud' or the Internet"? Is a good idea, presumably?
So, where does the other 82% go?! I don't think gas station owner's get much more than a few cents per gallon, or so I've read, which certainly doesn't make up a significant part of that 82%.
If they were only to measure miles driven, how would they know that the miles driven were in their tax jurisdiction. If I put 100k miles on my car in Asia during the year, do they tax me for those?
You do realize that unemployment was at 4.6% in Jan 2007, right? Do the years of sub 5% unemployment not count? Do you know what happened in Jan 2007 that started the decline? Democrats took control of congress*. Don't get mad. Those are just the facts. You can't get mad at the facts.
Just so you know, determining that democrats took control of congress started the unemployment decline (I think you meant increase) was not something you stated as a fact. I fail to see how a change in congress caused an increase, unless you have some specific regulation that you can show to be the cause, but you haven't done that.
You are right, one cannot get mad at the facts, but saying there's a correlation without showing it is not stating a fact: it's speculation. Maybe you are right, maybe you are not, but you probably shouldn't be asking people to not get mad a the "facts" which are absent from your statement.
Say I drive 100k years per year, but 95k of them on my private land and roads I maintain, but once in a while on public roads. Is that fair? Did I do 100k miles worth of damage to publicly-funded roads?
You must have some big monthly expenses. The difference in my bank account between full and "empty" is small enough that it wouldn't raise any tellers eye brows let alone elicit a comment. Maybe if it was six figures, perhaps, but five figures, not really.
Unless you mean that you keep a hefty minimum balance, but then the difference between beginning and end of the month shouldn't made a difference.
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Being angry at cutting costs and being angry at consumer price are not mutually exclusive.
Yes, you are right, corruption involving the fourth largest corporation isn't a big deal and we should just look the other way. This isn't about allowing or disallowing the merger, this is about perhaps taking a look into why the person responsible for the decision is taking a cushy job with the same entity shorty after green-lighting the merger.
Yes, I suppose me having to sue my neighbour who decided to use a high-power transmitter on the frequency I was using for something like my wi-fi is not anarchy.
Depends on if you include testing the system a "use". Annoying on the radio...super annoying on a phone.
Apple could have written WebKit from scratch, but instead they decided to fork KHTML.
What would be more apt would be "don't look an Indian-gift horse in the mouth."
Xmonad has the best feature to resource ratio for my uses. Very customizable, very unobtrusive, very fast. I don't really need much else to manage my desktop.
I'd prefer to just keep it as a gas tax (and raise it).
So when you say "get" you meant profit, not revenue. That was completely unclear.
No of course they don't have to care, but we as voters probably should care that our tax system is fair. Yes, there are all sorts of problems with it today, but adding another convoluted section to our tax code is not the path towards a solution.
If you want to have a system were citizens can exempt odometer-miles you need to support that paperwork, have an auditing body, have more complicated legislation, set up a penalty structure, etc. That's far more than an odometer to implement that model.
I was exaggerating for effect. I thought that was pretty obvious. I'll spell it out though. If one uses only an odometer to measure impact to publicly funded roads, one needs to be careful of the cases where vehicle miles travelled are not on publicly funded roads.
"Do you know what happened in Jan 2007 that started the decline? Democrats took control of congress*. Don't get mad. Those are just the facts."
Yes, unemployment was at 4.6% in Jan 2007 is a fact. Yes, democrats took control of congress in Jan 2007 is a fact. Democrats taking control of congress *starting* the decline [in the economy not increase in unemployment] is not a *fact*.
From the OED " a. Something that has really occurred or is actually the case; something certainly known to be of this character; hence, a particular truth known by actual observation or authentic testimony, as opposed to what is merely inferred, or to a conjecture or fiction; a datum of experience, as distinguished from the conclusions that may be based upon it."
We don't know if that's actually the case. It could very well be, it could very likely be, but a statement like that is not a fact, it needs to be supported and it wasn't. Also, you should probably stick to the unemployment rate and not the economy as a whole (which is a far more difficult entity to deal with being far more nebulous than something measurable like the unemployment rate).
Your question is missing a component. So why does anyone believe X what? Where X is "storing sensitive information in the 'cloud' or the Internet"? Is a good idea, presumably?
Yes, it's *probably* already in the repository for your distro if you use Linux. If it's not, why not contribute it?
Yes, there are solutions to these problems. The trouble is the solution is not the odometer as h4rr4r suggested.
So, where does the other 82% go?! I don't think gas station owner's get much more than a few cents per gallon, or so I've read, which certainly doesn't make up a significant part of that 82%.
Just for comparison: £1.37/l is about $8.44/gal
If they were only to measure miles driven, how would they know that the miles driven were in their tax jurisdiction. If I put 100k miles on my car in Asia during the year, do they tax me for those?
If you live in the state I think you do (Washington), then when you get emissions tested, they do record your odometer reading.
You do realize that unemployment was at 4.6% in Jan 2007, right? Do the years of sub 5% unemployment not count?
Do you know what happened in Jan 2007 that started the decline? Democrats took control of congress*. Don't get mad. Those are just the facts. You can't get mad at the facts.
Just so you know, determining that democrats took control of congress started the unemployment decline (I think you meant increase) was not something you stated as a fact. I fail to see how a change in congress caused an increase, unless you have some specific regulation that you can show to be the cause, but you haven't done that.
You are right, one cannot get mad at the facts, but saying there's a correlation without showing it is not stating a fact: it's speculation. Maybe you are right, maybe you are not, but you probably shouldn't be asking people to not get mad a the "facts" which are absent from your statement.
Except the odometer doesn't tell you how many of those miles were driven on public roads, let alone in this country, let alone on this continent.
Say I drive 100k years per year, but 95k of them on my private land and roads I maintain, but once in a while on public roads. Is that fair? Did I do 100k miles worth of damage to publicly-funded roads?
I think you have your butterfly effect confused with domino effect.
Not five figure account. Five figure monthly churn. I would think five figure accounts are common enough.
You must have some big monthly expenses. The difference in my bank account between full and "empty" is small enough that it wouldn't raise any tellers eye brows let alone elicit a comment. Maybe if it was six figures, perhaps, but five figures, not really.
Unless you mean that you keep a hefty minimum balance, but then the difference between beginning and end of the month shouldn't made a difference.