I was responding to the A/C comment, you should probably try reading it.
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Really? I haven't seen anything of the sort to be able to even consider that statement true. There is a huge segment of the population dedicated and paid to distributing things. They are truckers, couriers, merchant sailor and captains, rail road workers, road workers, logistics clerks, etc.
I was taught that one uses "one" or one uses one's own gender for hypothetical person of unspecified gender. e.g. "One goes to the store, then one buys some cheese", "He went to the store and bought himself some cheese" for a male speaker, "She went to the store and bought herself some cheese" for a female speaker.
This! I am tired of seeing these lazy ass fucks who who then complain that they have so much debt from college because they took loans instead of working so they could go out partying every night and all weekend for 4 to 6 years.
You didn't answer my first question. Who pays for the initial four to six years that the universities won't have tuition coming in to help pay the bills?
How about those students. If they drop out due to bad grades or other non-hardship reasons then tax those students for costs incurred.
But, that is not what is being proposed. If they leave the country, how is the money collected? What if they claim they can't pay because of financial hardship? What if they do that and are getting paid for illegal activity, work under the table, etc.?
Easy. You get subsidized for 4 years (or 2 if for grad school) and then after that you start incurring debt if you need longer to graduate
"In order to get a job, I need a Bachelor's degree!"
4-5 years later: "Now, in order to get a job, I will need a Master's!"
2-3 years later: "In order to get a job now, I will need a Doctorate! I won't be able to pay back all the money unless I get a Doctorate!"
2-4 years later: *Graduates and moves out of the country to get a good job that pays well with no school debt*
As far as I can see, your country is just lowering the value of a degree.
You never answered my first question.
Who cares if one more person sits in the course? Don't get a seat? Then come in earlier for the next lecture! It's not like you have any right to sleep in.
You don't have a right to a university education either.
If they can afford it, again, who cares?
They don't have to afford it, remember? Their university costs are being paid for by others. They just have to be able to afford a place to live and food, and maybe not even that.
Well, the "pay back in full if you bail" clause you have to sign if you want your degree.
Good luck collecting on that clause when the student is in another country.
You seem to think people somehow have a right to university level education. They don't. And, as far as I can see, we are already lowering the value of a degree through lowered requirements and grade inflation.
Your barriers will last right up to the first lawsuit. What lawsuit you ask?
The "I was denied admission because I didn't do well on the tests but those tests are not geared to people like me!" We have already seen complaints that the admission tests discriminate against the urban poor.
The "my friend got in and I didn't test. The only difference is the color of our skins so the admission committee must be biased!" lawsuit.
The "I didn't get into my preferred college, but this person whom I believe to be of lower caliber than me but his father is friends with someone on the admissions committee" lawsuit.
The 'I couldn't get in because I am from a poor neighborhood so didn't get a good high school education" lawsuit.
Who pays for the four to six years of the first crop of graduates? Remember, this suggestion means universities lose the tuition from that first crop and it must be made up somewhere or the universities can't pay their bills. And, if you say "The government", which translate into people like me, I say "Fuck you".
Who pays for the students who go to university and don't graduate?
What happens with perpetual students? You know, the people who have been in school for the last ten to twenty years and haven't received a degree. What happens with them?
What is to stop someone from going to a university until they are one class shy of graduating, moving out of state or even out of the country, and then finishing their degree and never falling under the tax?
A better idea would be to tell the boss to read up on the difference between contractors and employees and to read the labor law posters that are supposed to be conspicuously posted in the workplace.
A mason, what the OP refer to as a builder, is an independent contractor. As an independent contractor, he quotes a job and gets paid to do the job. If he falls behind or makes a mistake, he still has to complete the job to get paid.
The OP is an employee. Employees are different from independent contractors. To further the boss' analogy, if the builder had hired a mason as an employee to build the wall, the builder would have had to pay the mason overtime, do the work himself, or hire an extra mason, etc. to fix the wall but the builder wouldn't be paid anymore money or given anymore time.
The fact that the OP doesn't know this distinction is rather disturbing because it indicates a lack of knowledge about labor laws on his part and possibly on his employers part. Both should read the labor law posters that are required to be posted in most workplaces.
The reason behind it doesn't matter anywhere near as much as that it happened and is high profile. It is like being arrested for a sex crime, especially child molestation. Even if one is proven innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt, one's life will be changed beyond recovery. Every time someone searches one's name online, that arrest will pop up and inject doubt.
As the events happen, they eat away at the credibility of not just the individual people and companies involved but also BitCoin. It shows how easy it is to steal them, how sites thought safe are not.
Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
If the targeted, gate-kept platform refuses to allow one's code because one used an external library they don't like, then all the time one has spent developing one's app is wasted.
And, "because it is faster for the developer" is not a good excuse to include massive libraries in a resource limited environment. "Sure, it will suck up all the resources on the device and run slow as hell, but that is OK because I wrote it in 10 minutes!"
This most of this article is based on information from the Ceres Investor Group. So, who are they?
Ceres mobilizes a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.
Our mission is to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy.
They are a self-professed environmental activist organization. That puts the results of their self-done study in question.
The major tip-off that something wasn't right was the title of this submission. It implies that fracking is causing water shortages by destroying watershead via draining. The report doesn't say that. What it says is that fracking uses lots of water and most fracking operations are taking in areas that are experiencing water shortages and/or drought.
The rest of the article is based on information from another journalistic source that is known to be biased.
The problem is not "Nuclear vs Renewables". The problem is "Anti-nuclear environmentalists vs nuclear". There are renewable energy supporters who are not against nuclear energy and some even consider nuclear power renewable.
Your statement is false and shows a lack of knowledge of nuclear reactor design and operation.
It is quite easy to ramp up electrical output from a nuclear power plant. A good example if a nuclear powered ship or submarine, both of which need to be able to accelerate quickly. Both use electric motors to turn the screws which move the vessel through the water. The electricity is provided via generators connected to steam turbines which are fed steam provided by steam generators heated by the nuclear reactors.
If more electricity is needed, increase the steam flow and the power output of the plant. The stored heat in the reactor coolant maintains the steam output while the reactor ramps up heat production.
If less electricity is needed, decrease the steam flow and the power output of the plant. The excess heat is stored in the reactor coolant as increased heat and pressure. This can be bled off by running the reactor at a lower power level.
If you are wondering how I know this, it is because I have actually training in nuclear reactor plant design and operation.
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I was responding to the A/C comment, you should probably try reading it.
Really? I haven't seen anything of the sort to be able to even consider that statement true. There is a huge segment of the population dedicated and paid to distributing things. They are truckers, couriers, merchant sailor and captains, rail road workers, road workers, logistics clerks, etc.
Let me guess, you are under the age of 30, yes? Probably under the age of 25?
I was taught that one uses "one" or one uses one's own gender for hypothetical person of unspecified gender. e.g. "One goes to the store, then one buys some cheese", "He went to the store and bought himself some cheese" for a male speaker, "She went to the store and bought herself some cheese" for a female speaker.
Can't be that long. It was considered wrong when I was in school and that wasn't that long ago.
No, "they/their" is plural. Using it as gender neutral for a single person is just stupid and bad grammar.
Student athletes aren't paid any money. Just ask them.
This! I am tired of seeing these lazy ass fucks who who then complain that they have so much debt from college because they took loans instead of working so they could go out partying every night and all weekend for 4 to 6 years.
How about those students. If they drop out due to bad grades or other non-hardship reasons then tax those students for costs incurred.
But, that is not what is being proposed. If they leave the country, how is the money collected? What if they claim they can't pay because of financial hardship? What if they do that and are getting paid for illegal activity, work under the table, etc.?
Easy. You get subsidized for 4 years (or 2 if for grad school) and then after that you start incurring debt if you need longer to graduate
"In order to get a job, I need a Bachelor's degree!"
4-5 years later: "Now, in order to get a job, I will need a Master's!"
2-3 years later: "In order to get a job now, I will need a Doctorate! I won't be able to pay back all the money unless I get a Doctorate!" 2-4 years later: *Graduates and moves out of the country to get a good job that pays well with no school debt*
You never answered my first question.
Who cares if one more person sits in the course? Don't get a seat? Then come in earlier for the next lecture! It's not like you have any right to sleep in.
You don't have a right to a university education either.
If they can afford it, again, who cares?
They don't have to afford it, remember? Their university costs are being paid for by others. They just have to be able to afford a place to live and food, and maybe not even that.
Well, the "pay back in full if you bail" clause you have to sign if you want your degree.
Good luck collecting on that clause when the student is in another country.
You seem to think people somehow have a right to university level education. They don't. And, as far as I can see, we are already lowering the value of a degree through lowered requirements and grade inflation.
You know, those lawsuits.
Only if you planned to stay in the country to begin with, but what if you want to live in a different country for any number of reasons?
Who pays for the four to six years of the first crop of graduates? Remember, this suggestion means universities lose the tuition from that first crop and it must be made up somewhere or the universities can't pay their bills. And, if you say "The government", which translate into people like me, I say "Fuck you".
Who pays for the students who go to university and don't graduate?
What happens with perpetual students? You know, the people who have been in school for the last ten to twenty years and haven't received a degree. What happens with them?
What is to stop someone from going to a university until they are one class shy of graduating, moving out of state or even out of the country, and then finishing their degree and never falling under the tax?
And, like everyone else, the prosecutor should interrogate him in the town/city where the crime was committed.
Refusing to return to the country with jurisdiction and demanding to be interrogated in a third country is special treatment.
A better idea would be to tell the boss to read up on the difference between contractors and employees and to read the labor law posters that are supposed to be conspicuously posted in the workplace.
A mason, what the OP refer to as a builder, is an independent contractor. As an independent contractor, he quotes a job and gets paid to do the job. If he falls behind or makes a mistake, he still has to complete the job to get paid.
The OP is an employee. Employees are different from independent contractors. To further the boss' analogy, if the builder had hired a mason as an employee to build the wall, the builder would have had to pay the mason overtime, do the work himself, or hire an extra mason, etc. to fix the wall but the builder wouldn't be paid anymore money or given anymore time.
The fact that the OP doesn't know this distinction is rather disturbing because it indicates a lack of knowledge about labor laws on his part and possibly on his employers part. Both should read the labor law posters that are required to be posted in most workplaces.
The reason behind it doesn't matter anywhere near as much as that it happened and is high profile. It is like being arrested for a sex crime, especially child molestation. Even if one is proven innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt, one's life will be changed beyond recovery. Every time someone searches one's name online, that arrest will pop up and inject doubt.
As the events happen, they eat away at the credibility of not just the individual people and companies involved but also BitCoin. It shows how easy it is to steal them, how sites thought safe are not.
Whoever, except as authorized by law, makes or utters or passes, or attempts to utter or pass, any coins of gold or silver or other metal, or alloys of metals, intended for use as current money, whether in the resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries, or of original design, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Delete "EPA" and substitute "Federal Government".
Add the phrase "All legislation that is currently enacted that isn't scientifically supported in the manner of this bill is hereby repealed."
If the targeted, gate-kept platform refuses to allow one's code because one used an external library they don't like, then all the time one has spent developing one's app is wasted.
And, "because it is faster for the developer" is not a good excuse to include massive libraries in a resource limited environment. "Sure, it will suck up all the resources on the device and run slow as hell, but that is OK because I wrote it in 10 minutes!"
Ceres mobilizes a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.
Our mission is to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy.
They are a self-professed environmental activist organization. That puts the results of their self-done study in question.
The major tip-off that something wasn't right was the title of this submission. It implies that fracking is causing water shortages by destroying watershead via draining. The report doesn't say that. What it says is that fracking uses lots of water and most fracking operations are taking in areas that are experiencing water shortages and/or drought.
The rest of the article is based on information from another journalistic source that is known to be biased.
What about every other state, territory, and possession?
The problem is not "Nuclear vs Renewables". The problem is "Anti-nuclear environmentalists vs nuclear". There are renewable energy supporters who are not against nuclear energy and some even consider nuclear power renewable.
Your statement is false and shows a lack of knowledge of nuclear reactor design and operation.
It is quite easy to ramp up electrical output from a nuclear power plant. A good example if a nuclear powered ship or submarine, both of which need to be able to accelerate quickly. Both use electric motors to turn the screws which move the vessel through the water. The electricity is provided via generators connected to steam turbines which are fed steam provided by steam generators heated by the nuclear reactors.
If more electricity is needed, increase the steam flow and the power output of the plant. The stored heat in the reactor coolant maintains the steam output while the reactor ramps up heat production.
If less electricity is needed, decrease the steam flow and the power output of the plant. The excess heat is stored in the reactor coolant as increased heat and pressure. This can be bled off by running the reactor at a lower power level.
If you are wondering how I know this, it is because I have actually training in nuclear reactor plant design and operation.
That saying does not mean what you think it means.