The primary reason manufacturing jobs have declined in the US is automation, not outsourcing. In terms of manufacturing output the US is just as large as China, just done with 1/10 the people.
The jobs are not coming back, and if they did it means the standard of living in the US has completely crashed.
Going paperless is a bad idea. The number of required file boxes of critical documents over a typical lifetime is like about 2 or less. I know because I buried my 83 year old father last year, and that's all he had.
Not to mention we don't have any sort of backup that is at l close to as reliable as paper.
Now if you want to digitize some key items that you otherwise store in a safe deposit box, that's fine. But keep the paper.
I find the convenience of walking the 20 feet from my family room to my garage to be way better than the convenience factor of driving to a Best Buy and dealing with their ridiculous prices.
Yes this stuff exists, but plenty of audiophiles realize it's baloney and don't purchase it. Basically audiophiles are divided into subjectivist and objectivist camps.
I'm an objectivist audiophile, and generally make my own cables from zip cord and $5 ebay connectors. I believe in measurement and double blind testing, and buy my components from companies who engage in scientific methods when they design their stuff.
What Alan Parsons is talking about is something completely different, which is the neglect of the room, which is pretty important. You can spend a lot of money on good objectively designed gear and still get crummy sound if you have a bad room. Room correction like ARC and Trinnov can help a lot but it won't cure all ills and at some level spending money on the room acoustics is needed.
Not only stock. Mark to market would apply to every real asset, including your home.
Imagine having a small business and have to pay tax on the value of it every year. You really can't sell off parts of the business to pay the tax, so it has to come from your income. While you are trying to put your kid through school.
I agree. All asset taxes are unreasonable. Municipalities should rely on other sources of revenue.
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I'm in favor of the Huntsman proposal that would remove both the favored treatment for capital gains AND put an end to corporate taxes.
This has a lot of positive aspects including reducing the incentive for corporations to corrupt the political process in search of lower taxes.
However this idea is dumb. Among other things it means you would have to get a valuation on all property you own and might sell, and account for that on your tax return every year. And you will likely have both gains and losses depending on the fluctuations of the economy on a yearly basis.
Suppose you buy some stock and in year one you have a market value increase, and in year two you sell for a loss. Do you get a tax refund on what you paid in year one?
Not to mention the turmoil it would cause in a privately held small business where the proprietor would have to pay taxes on the value of his company every year. How is he going to raise the money for this? Joe's Drywall can't sell pieces of itself off.
It takes a lot more effort to put a license plate reader on every street corner and use it to pick one car out of every car on the road than to put one GPS device on a car.
Not to mention that driving at night would probably defeat the camera system.
Of course it has free speech implications. What it the EU going to do, censor web sites that don't live up to their privacy laws? How is that any different from SOPA that would censor web sites that don't adhere to certain US copyright laws?
The United States already has a limited immigration policy. This is not what the Tea Party proposes. They propose police harassment of anyone who looks like he might be an immigrant, denial of basic human rights to anyone who looks like an immigrant, denial of rights guaranteed in the Constitution to anyone who looks like an immigrant, denial of the benefits of the society they pay taxes in to anyone who looks like an immigrant and so on.
NONE of this has anything to do with the concept of fiscal conservatism. It's a warped social agenda just like the idea of pushing religion in schools, preventing the teaching of scientific concepts that conflict with superstitions promoted by religions, attempting to limit tax benefits to heterosex married couples when the equal protection clause specifically makes this sort of behavior unconstitutional etc.
If you want to try to slap a label on what I am saying like 'liberal', go ahead. It just further exposes your position that the Tea Party is just about fiscal conservatism, which is something I am in favor, of as being baloney.
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The primary reason manufacturing jobs have declined in the US is automation, not outsourcing. In terms of manufacturing output the US is just as large as China, just done with 1/10 the people.
The jobs are not coming back, and if they did it means the standard of living in the US has completely crashed.
Federal law defines child porn in the US.
Going paperless is a bad idea. The number of required file boxes of critical documents over a typical lifetime is like about 2 or less. I know because I buried my 83 year old father last year, and that's all he had.
Not to mention we don't have any sort of backup that is at l close to as reliable as paper.
Now if you want to digitize some key items that you otherwise store in a safe deposit box, that's fine. But keep the paper.
This is America. One person per SUV please.
Kick out the cars and I bet the citizens will vote in proper transit funding right quick.
My solution to that is:
1. Plan ahead.
2. Maintain a stock of cables in my garage.
I find the convenience of walking the 20 feet from my family room to my garage to be way better than the convenience factor of driving to a Best Buy and dealing with their ridiculous prices.
Don't forget the $100 Monster HDMI cables.
It's not related. It's due to the El Nino cycle and is basically noise in the overall trend of higher sea levels.
That's ridiculous. A few condensors vs the effective surface area of the planet as an evaporation pad?
Get a grip man.
Nah, lots of audiophiles believe in scientific testing. It's just the ones that don't that give the hobby a bad name.
Go on any audio forum and you will see both objectivist and subjectivist camps represented.
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Yes this stuff exists, but plenty of audiophiles realize it's baloney and don't purchase it. Basically audiophiles are divided into subjectivist and objectivist camps.
I'm an objectivist audiophile, and generally make my own cables from zip cord and $5 ebay connectors. I believe in measurement and double blind testing, and buy my components from companies who engage in scientific methods when they design their stuff.
Here's a good blog touching on these ideas.
http://seanolive.blogspot.com/
What Alan Parsons is talking about is something completely different, which is the neglect of the room, which is pretty important. You can spend a lot of money on good objectively designed gear and still get crummy sound if you have a bad room. Room correction like ARC and Trinnov can help a lot but it won't cure all ills and at some level spending money on the room acoustics is needed.
Not only stock. Mark to market would apply to every real asset, including your home.
Imagine having a small business and have to pay tax on the value of it every year. You really can't sell off parts of the business to pay the tax, so it has to come from your income. While you are trying to put your kid through school.
This is a disgusting idea.
I agree. All asset taxes are unreasonable. Municipalities should rely on other sources of revenue.
I'm in favor of the Huntsman proposal that would remove both the favored treatment for capital gains AND put an end to corporate taxes.
This has a lot of positive aspects including reducing the incentive for corporations to corrupt the political process in search of lower taxes.
However this idea is dumb. Among other things it means you would have to get a valuation on all property you own and might sell, and account for that on your tax return every year. And you will likely have both gains and losses depending on the fluctuations of the economy on a yearly basis.
Suppose you buy some stock and in year one you have a market value increase, and in year two you sell for a loss. Do you get a tax refund on what you paid in year one?
Not to mention the turmoil it would cause in a privately held small business where the proprietor would have to pay taxes on the value of his company every year. How is he going to raise the money for this? Joe's Drywall can't sell pieces of itself off.
It's just stupid.
There isn't one. The article is pants.
Ongoing criminal activity is generally considered something that police are empowered to put a stop to.
Upkeep of any such equipment would be prohibitive anywhere near where I live.
Software is more problematic because of claims by the copyright owner that it is licensed rather than sold.
Good thing I still buy physical media.
Because it's a civil vs. a criminal case.
So you are saying they have managed to crack Chrome and are using it to track people, and are recommending people use Chrome to make their job easier?
It takes a lot more effort to put a license plate reader on every street corner and use it to pick one car out of every car on the road than to put one GPS device on a car.
Not to mention that driving at night would probably defeat the camera system.
Not to mention that 80% think they are above average drivers.
Of course it has free speech implications. What it the EU going to do, censor web sites that don't live up to their privacy laws? How is that any different from SOPA that would censor web sites that don't adhere to certain US copyright laws?
The United States already has a limited immigration policy. This is not what the Tea Party proposes. They propose police harassment of anyone who looks like he might be an immigrant, denial of basic human rights to anyone who looks like an immigrant, denial of rights guaranteed in the Constitution to anyone who looks like an immigrant, denial of the benefits of the society they pay taxes in to anyone who looks like an immigrant and so on.
NONE of this has anything to do with the concept of fiscal conservatism. It's a warped social agenda just like the idea of pushing religion in schools, preventing the teaching of scientific concepts that conflict with superstitions promoted by religions, attempting to limit tax benefits to heterosex married couples when the equal protection clause specifically makes this sort of behavior unconstitutional etc.
If you want to try to slap a label on what I am saying like 'liberal', go ahead. It just further exposes your position that the Tea Party is just about fiscal conservatism, which is something I am in favor, of as being baloney.