And I'll be the greenie economist and back you up. The subsidy is an example of a negative Pigovian tax. These taxes (both positive and negative) are used to "internalise externalities" and are one of the few cases when taxation actually increases efficiency. Just as carbon taxation (another Pigovian tax) forces people to account for the public cost of their actions, this subsidy allows people to account for the public benefit. This corrects the tendency for firms to over-produce goods with negative externalities and under-produce those with positive externalities. This allows the market to get closer to Pareto efficiency - a real win-win.
They may be 95% confident that he didn't, but that doesn't mean that the final 5% can't happen. It did.
And you are so sure of this because...? I agree, Kerry was a terrible candidate. If he was a better candidate he could have won, even if there were irregularities. But just saying "it did" doesn't make the evidence in TFA go away.
There is No2ID which organises resistance to such things, including defence funds for people who refuse to register for ID cards and the National Identity Database. They have been quite successful. The public opposition to the ID Database has increased massively over the past year, which is probably why the govt is doing this. By integrating existing databases, they needn't rely on anyone registering.
No, bipolar is classified as an affective (mood) disorder, not a personality disorder. I'd reckon that Anti-social personality disorder would be very prevalent in the worst business crimes. Intelligent sociopaths, while rare, can be extremely effective criminals, as they are excellent liars and, of course, utterly amoral. Then again, I reckon all children are sociopaths, the evil little bastards.
The increased likelihood of someone with a mental illness committing a crime or otherwise harming someone else is very small indeed. Far, far smaller than the increase for someone who's had a couple of beers (and I'm not just talking the amount that would be considered drunk enough to be locked up). Some might propose that we ban alcohol, but I don't think that many would agree. The mentally ill are an easy scapegoat. In this case (as in so many other recent illiberal UK government policies) it is pressure from the tabloid press. In this case it was the murder of the Russell family by Michael Stone - who had been diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder. The tabloids were up in arms about the "loophole" that means that he couldn't be imprisoned until he'd committed a crime. So of course the government moved to close that tiresome loophole.
Bipolar Disorder is mostly genetic, and there is a very good reason that it hasn't died out: despite having a 20% mortality rate (suicide), it also confers big advantages. In the hypomanic phase, it can make one charismatic, highly driven and hard working, full of inspiration and plenty of other things that offer a genetic advantage.
The reason that this doesn't support Safari is almost certainly the same reason FCKEditor and others don't support it or have limited support: Safari's implementation of designMode is very buggy. Apparently most of these bugs have been fixed in webkit, so it may just be a case of waiting til Safari is updated.
The E2 system works for a number of reasons related to the major differences it has from wikipedia. Primarily, each writeup has only one author, who is accountable for the whole thing this removes the problem of having edits of varying degrees of reliability within one article. Secondly, there is no concept of an edit war, as users cannot edit each others' writeups, and only admins can delete stuff.
My point is that by giving as part of a sponsorship program, more of your donation goes on admin than if you gave to an NGO that doesn't use child sponsorship.
Is that so? Let's take a look at Plan's 2005 accounts. Here is the breakdown of their expenditure.
Employee salary costs 96,485
Other staff costs 25,562
Consultants and other professional costs 27,837
Other field project payments 191,818
Communications 19,005
Travel and meetings 28,723
Rent and related costs 9,834
Depreciation and amortisation 5,748
Marketing and media 39,758
Supplies, vehicles and other office costs 31,729
This is the total expenditure for 2005. Sure, a lot of these things are technically part of project costs, and I'm not saying that they're unnecessary, but you are very naive if you think 90% is "going to the child". Hell, 30% goes just on staff and consultants. NGOs that operate sponsorship projects always spend a significant proportion of their income on administering them. I'm not even going to get into the massive flaws in the NGO system in general.
Child sponsorship programs are more about giving the donor a warm fuzzy feeling than actually helping. Do you really want your money going on administering all these reports and photos and letters? Why exactly do you want these things? If it's because you want to monitor where the money is going, bear in mind that there is no obligation on the part of the charity to spend your donation on schemes that directly benefit that child. They may publish reassuring figures saying that "only 20% of our budget is spent on administration", but that figure only includes admin spent at head office. The costs of administering the photos, letters etc are not included. Nor are the salaries and expenses of the aid workers who go out finding these kids. Nor any other expenditure 'in the field'. The 80% spent on the projects also includes ring-fenced payments given by governments and other organisations to carry out specific projects.
Yes, it's the biggest market and the biggest trading bloc, but it cannot be considered the largest economy, as it's not one economy. Leaving aside the question of whether the Eurozone can be considered a unified economy, those outside certainly cannot. Without the UK, Denmark, Sweden and the 2004 states, then it's not as large an economy as the US (nor probably Japan). If the others do join the euro, then a case could be made that it's the largest economy.
Time for a history lesson?
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After WW2 and the end of the Japanese occupation, a civil war was fought between the Communists under Mao and the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT were effectively defeated by 1949, and Chiang evacuated to Taiwan. For much of the Cold War, "Free China" (ROC) was the only government of China recognised by most states and international organisations. However, as part of the 'detente' in the 1970s, most countries switched their recognition to Communist China (PRC). The ROC is obviously a state in all but name, but the situation is maintained to avoid nuclear war. The PRC has said that if the ROC declares independence then they will invade, while the US has stated that it will defend Taiwan, and has meanwhile provided large amounts of military aid. So, basically, it's a mess.
It's not about their content, it's about their customers. They'd be paying for market share, and it's probably the only way to enter the auction marketplace. eBay has simply too much first-mover advantage there. The barriers to entry are huge.
It's highly unlikely that Adobe shareholders would accept a name with only a single character taken from the popular Adobe name. It's far more likely that the name would take both the "A" and the "e" from Adobe, and the "ppl" from Apple as an infix. This 2:3 split is more likely to satisfy shareholders and leverage the goodwill associated with the Adobe brand.
This is my mate's site. The server is actually quite a good dedicated one. I'm not sure which datacentre it's in. It should be running fine now, as we've moved it to boa.
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And I'll be the greenie economist and back you up. The subsidy is an example of a negative Pigovian tax. These taxes (both positive and negative) are used to "internalise externalities" and are one of the few cases when taxation actually increases efficiency. Just as carbon taxation (another Pigovian tax) forces people to account for the public cost of their actions, this subsidy allows people to account for the public benefit. This corrects the tendency for firms to over-produce goods with negative externalities and under-produce those with positive externalities. This allows the market to get closer to Pareto efficiency - a real win-win.
And you are so sure of this because...? I agree, Kerry was a terrible candidate. If he was a better candidate he could have won, even if there were irregularities. But just saying "it did" doesn't make the evidence in TFA go away.
Jesus!..and people wonder why we need the metric system.
It hasn't changed a lot, but AFAIK my town hasn't been heavily bombed by the US Air Force or anyone since at least the early 90s.
There is No2ID which organises resistance to such things, including defence funds for people who refuse to register for ID cards and the National Identity Database. They have been quite successful. The public opposition to the ID Database has increased massively over the past year, which is probably why the govt is doing this. By integrating existing databases, they needn't rely on anyone registering.
No, bipolar is classified as an affective (mood) disorder, not a personality disorder. I'd reckon that Anti-social personality disorder would be very prevalent in the worst business crimes. Intelligent sociopaths, while rare, can be extremely effective criminals, as they are excellent liars and, of course, utterly amoral. Then again, I reckon all children are sociopaths, the evil little bastards.
The increased likelihood of someone with a mental illness committing a crime or otherwise harming someone else is very small indeed. Far, far smaller than the increase for someone who's had a couple of beers (and I'm not just talking the amount that would be considered drunk enough to be locked up). Some might propose that we ban alcohol, but I don't think that many would agree. The mentally ill are an easy scapegoat. In this case (as in so many other recent illiberal UK government policies) it is pressure from the tabloid press. In this case it was the murder of the Russell family by Michael Stone - who had been diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder. The tabloids were up in arms about the "loophole" that means that he couldn't be imprisoned until he'd committed a crime. So of course the government moved to close that tiresome loophole.
Bipolar Disorder is mostly genetic, and there is a very good reason that it hasn't died out: despite having a 20% mortality rate (suicide), it also confers big advantages. In the hypomanic phase, it can make one charismatic, highly driven and hard working, full of inspiration and plenty of other things that offer a genetic advantage.
The reason that this doesn't support Safari is almost certainly the same reason FCKEditor and others don't support it or have limited support: Safari's implementation of designMode is very buggy. Apparently most of these bugs have been fixed in webkit, so it may just be a case of waiting til Safari is updated.
The E2 system works for a number of reasons related to the major differences it has from wikipedia. Primarily, each writeup has only one author, who is accountable for the whole thing this removes the problem of having edits of varying degrees of reliability within one article. Secondly, there is no concept of an edit war, as users cannot edit each others' writeups, and only admins can delete stuff.
But as you obviously know, E2 does also have editors who will quickly delete anything that isn't up to standard.
My point is that by giving as part of a sponsorship program, more of your donation goes on admin than if you gave to an NGO that doesn't use child sponsorship.
This is the total expenditure for 2005. Sure, a lot of these things are technically part of project costs, and I'm not saying that they're unnecessary, but you are very naive if you think 90% is "going to the child". Hell, 30% goes just on staff and consultants. NGOs that operate sponsorship projects always spend a significant proportion of their income on administering them. I'm not even going to get into the massive flaws in the NGO system in general.
Child sponsorship programs are more about giving the donor a warm fuzzy feeling than actually helping. Do you really want your money going on administering all these reports and photos and letters? Why exactly do you want these things? If it's because you want to monitor where the money is going, bear in mind that there is no obligation on the part of the charity to spend your donation on schemes that directly benefit that child. They may publish reassuring figures saying that "only 20% of our budget is spent on administration", but that figure only includes admin spent at head office. The costs of administering the photos, letters etc are not included. Nor are the salaries and expenses of the aid workers who go out finding these kids. Nor any other expenditure 'in the field'. The 80% spent on the projects also includes ring-fenced payments given by governments and other organisations to carry out specific projects.
In Google's case, a cute kitten with a thermonuclear arsenal.
Yes, it's the biggest market and the biggest trading bloc, but it cannot be considered the largest economy, as it's not one economy. Leaving aside the question of whether the Eurozone can be considered a unified economy, those outside certainly cannot. Without the UK, Denmark, Sweden and the 2004 states, then it's not as large an economy as the US (nor probably Japan). If the others do join the euro, then a case could be made that it's the largest economy.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
After WW2 and the end of the Japanese occupation, a civil war was fought between the Communists under Mao and the KMT under Chiang Kai-shek. The KMT were effectively defeated by 1949, and Chiang evacuated to Taiwan. For much of the Cold War, "Free China" (ROC) was the only government of China recognised by most states and international organisations. However, as part of the 'detente' in the 1970s, most countries switched their recognition to Communist China (PRC). The ROC is obviously a state in all but name, but the situation is maintained to avoid nuclear war. The PRC has said that if the ROC declares independence then they will invade, while the US has stated that it will defend Taiwan, and has meanwhile provided large amounts of military aid. So, basically, it's a mess.
You know, it could also be something to do with the fact that the US is the world's largest economy.
Yeah. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
It's not about their content, it's about their customers. They'd be paying for market share, and it's probably the only way to enter the auction marketplace. eBay has simply too much first-mover advantage there. The barriers to entry are huge.
Two words. Network effect.
It's highly unlikely that Adobe shareholders would accept a name with only a single character taken from the popular Adobe name. It's far more likely that the name would take both the "A" and the "e" from Adobe, and the "ppl" from Apple as an infix. This 2:3 split is more likely to satisfy shareholders and leverage the goodwill associated with the Adobe brand.
It's working fine now.
This is my mate's site. The server is actually quite a good dedicated one. I'm not sure which datacentre it's in. It should be running fine now, as we've moved it to boa.