Brave is a fairly good browser and an excellent replacement for Chrome.
DuckDuckGo is not bad; with !G it's just as good. It's worth two keystrokes when you need it.:)
Protonmail is good for replacing ones' person email. It's privacy centric from end to end. However the free version is limited to one account, 150 emails per day and 500 MB of storage. So it's not good for having multiple accounts.
I'm still checking out zoho as a replacement for google docs. Not certain yet how I like it.
They aren't giving Foxcomm any money. There isn't a check that the state of wisconsin is giving to Foxcomm. They simply are not going to tax them as much.
If Foxcomm doesn't open up a plant then Wisconsin doesn't give Foxcomm a tax break.
Here's a word that has been appropriated : Liberal.
Liberalism is antithetical to socialism.
There are some that want to reclaim the name.
A democracy is not a republic. And the size of republic means the scope and reach of what the government can do. In other words if a government can do whatever it wants if the majority of the people will it then it is a democracy - not a republic,
If the government budget rises to meet an existential threat then the government is not "too big." It's just right.
The modern dictionary is correct? The modern dictionary gives the modern general consensus of what the words mean. When you hear people bring up the distinction between a Republic and a Democracy it's because we're rejecting the Counter-Enlightenment political theory; we are promoting an ideal of a limited government as opposed to the dictatorship of the democracy (um proletariat).
That's true. Just like liberal and conservative are not objectively defined terms. A conservative Soviet leader from the 1980s was not identical to a conservative from the US. Ronald Reagan (a US conservative != to a conservative polituburo member).
Just look at the idiots who through the word fascist all over the place.
Nonetheless, there are clear, well-written, well defined differences between a republic and a democracy. A great introduction to this is Madison #10 (Federalist Papers).
Madison thought they were mutually exclusive concepts. So did Jefferson. So did Blackstone. So did Thomas Paine. So did John Locke. So did Burke. So did Montesquieu. So did de Tocqueville.
Are you that ignorant that you're unaware of the distinction between a Democracy and a Republic? If you're not an American you may get a pass. If you're an American and you want to understand our political system you need to start reading.
Federalist #10 is probably the best place to start.
2500 people at an average of $50,000 in taxable income (probably higher) plus untaxable contributions such as health care, unemployment, medicare, FICA.
At a state tax of 6.27 %
Total taxable income = 2500 * 50,000 (a low estimate) = 125,000,000
125,000,000 *.0627 = 7,8375,000 in state tax revenue from employees every year. If that was all the benefit that the state would get from this then you're correct it wouldn't be worthwhile.
But you're forgetting all the other benefits from purchase of property (taxes) to construction (taxes and jobs) to the fact that the company itself will be paying taxes while there. The state isn't giving anything away. They are taking away less. There is a difference.
Urbanization PLUS changes in culture. When I was a kid being sent to my room was punishment. Now I have to force my kids to go outside and when they do they're sitting around using their portable computers (sorry phones). I have to force them to do anything outside of dance class.
I walk 30 blocks to go to a store and people think I'm crazy. Why didn't I take the train (live in NYC). In the suburbs people drive when their only going a half mile. WTF?
Maybe because we're less active than we used to be? My father, in his 80s still used to walk 5-6 miles a day. When he got alzheimer's disease nurses aids kept quitting because he wanted to go for a stroll after breakfast and lunch everyday. These strolls were slow 1.5 hour walks.
How many kids do you know barely get off the couch?
He got that job (head of the mint) long after the development of calculus and the laws of thermodynamics. He was already about 60 and his work on optics, thermodynamics, calculus was done while in his 20s and 30s.
There was no government subsidy for the development of optics, calculus or any of his work.
At the end of his life he was given well paid positions to honour him and hopefully that a man of his intellect could solve the counterfeiting problem.
First of all the blockchain is NOT truly anonymous. It is, after all, a ledger of financial transactions. Each, and every, transaction is recorded and saved forever.
BTC is not very effective for evading sanctions except on a very small scale. BTC is excellent for transmitting assets from one place to another; it's excellent for proving ownership of an asset. It is not useful in transporting goods on a large scale to a specific location.
The US government probably would have no problem with Kim buying all sorts of things from Walmart or GE. It would have a problem with Walmart or GE sending said goods to North Korea. See the difference?
BTC doesn't help with that problem.
And, in case it matters, the sanctions include Britain, France, Russia and China.
I guess you haven't read any of the cryptocurrency White Papers, or the tons of articles and books discussing the problems of a central authority which devalues currency and the resulting inflation.
Calculus was funded by subsidies?
Telescopes were funded by subsidies?
Determining Longitude was found by a government prize.
The steam engine was funded by subsidies?
How about the cotton gin?
No. Somethings, at sometimes were aided by subsidies.
how about all those companies and ideas that were subsidized that didn't pan out.
How about all the government corruption that occurs as a DIRECT RESULT of subsidies.
Hey. In 20-30 years electric vehicles will make gasoline vehicles obsolete. No one in the US, or anyplace else, will be buying ICE cars if electric is cheaper and better. This is a feel good law. It makes the fools feel like governments are "doing something."
So. According to you criminals and criminal behavior would not exist if things were illegal?
Therefore there is no underage drinking, no one is driving without a license (or driving with a suspended license) there is no illegal drug use, And, no rape, murder and theft because all those are illegal as well.
Since there is no crime, and no threat of crime, we therefore do not need to be able to protect ourselves.
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Brave is a fairly good browser and an excellent replacement for Chrome.
:)
DuckDuckGo is not bad; with !G it's just as good. It's worth two keystrokes when you need it.
Protonmail is good for replacing ones' person email. It's privacy centric from end to end. However the free version is limited to one account, 150 emails per day and 500 MB of storage. So it's not good for having multiple accounts.
I'm still checking out zoho as a replacement for google docs. Not certain yet how I like it.
They aren't giving Foxcomm any money. There isn't a check that the state of wisconsin is giving to Foxcomm. They simply are not going to tax them as much.
If Foxcomm doesn't open up a plant then Wisconsin doesn't give Foxcomm a tax break.
Here's a word that has been appropriated : Liberal.
Liberalism is antithetical to socialism.
There are some that want to reclaim the name.
A democracy is not a republic. And the size of republic means the scope and reach of what the government can do. In other words if a government can do whatever it wants if the majority of the people will it then it is a democracy - not a republic,
If the government budget rises to meet an existential threat then the government is not "too big." It's just right.
The modern dictionary is correct? The modern dictionary gives the modern general consensus of what the words mean. When you hear people bring up the distinction between a Republic and a Democracy it's because we're rejecting the Counter-Enlightenment political theory; we are promoting an ideal of a limited government as opposed to the dictatorship of the democracy (um proletariat).
That's true. Just like liberal and conservative are not objectively defined terms. A conservative Soviet leader from the 1980s was not identical to a conservative from the US. Ronald Reagan (a US conservative != to a conservative polituburo member).
Just look at the idiots who through the word fascist all over the place.
Nonetheless, there are clear, well-written, well defined differences between a republic and a democracy. A great introduction to this is Madison #10 (Federalist Papers).
Madison thought they were mutually exclusive concepts. So did Jefferson. So did Blackstone. So did Thomas Paine. So did John Locke. So did Burke. So did Montesquieu. So did de Tocqueville.
Are you that ignorant that you're unaware of the distinction between a Democracy and a Republic? If you're not an American you may get a pass. If you're an American and you want to understand our political system you need to start reading.
Federalist #10 is probably the best place to start.
2500 people at an average of $50,000 in taxable income (probably higher) plus untaxable contributions such as health care, unemployment, medicare, FICA.
.0627 = 7,8375,000 in state tax revenue from employees every year. If that was all the benefit that the state would get from this then you're correct it wouldn't be worthwhile.
At a state tax of 6.27 %
Total taxable income = 2500 * 50,000 (a low estimate) = 125,000,000
125,000,000 *
But you're forgetting all the other benefits from purchase of property (taxes) to construction (taxes and jobs) to the fact that the company itself will be paying taxes while there. The state isn't giving anything away. They are taking away less. There is a difference.
Urbanization PLUS changes in culture. When I was a kid being sent to my room was punishment. Now I have to force my kids to go outside and when they do they're sitting around using their portable computers (sorry phones). I have to force them to do anything outside of dance class.
I walk 30 blocks to go to a store and people think I'm crazy. Why didn't I take the train (live in NYC). In the suburbs people drive when their only going a half mile. WTF?
Maybe because we're less active than we used to be? My father, in his 80s still used to walk 5-6 miles a day. When he got alzheimer's disease nurses aids kept quitting because he wanted to go for a stroll after breakfast and lunch everyday. These strolls were slow 1.5 hour walks.
How many kids do you know barely get off the couch?
Is it?
Most beliefs can have nuggets of truth. Doesn't mean it's not a religion.
Gaia anyone?
Fair enough.
I would have hoped that people could distinguish between a troll post (unless really well done) and a reasoned argument that they disagree with.
But I think you're correct.
That could be it for me as well then.
I've had posts marked down as troll because people disagreed with the points raised.
Trolling is making inflammatory statements for the sake of getting people to respond. Disagreeing with a position does not make it a troll post.
I stand corrected. The transactions are most definitely not saved forever :)
He got that job (head of the mint) long after the development of calculus and the laws of thermodynamics. He was already about 60 and his work on optics, thermodynamics, calculus was done while in his 20s and 30s.
There was no government subsidy for the development of optics, calculus or any of his work.
At the end of his life he was given well paid positions to honour him and hopefully that a man of his intellect could solve the counterfeiting problem.
First of all the blockchain is NOT truly anonymous. It is, after all, a ledger of financial transactions. Each, and every, transaction is recorded and saved forever.
BTC is not very effective for evading sanctions except on a very small scale. BTC is excellent for transmitting assets from one place to another; it's excellent for proving ownership of an asset. It is not useful in transporting goods on a large scale to a specific location.
The US government probably would have no problem with Kim buying all sorts of things from Walmart or GE. It would have a problem with Walmart or GE sending said goods to North Korea. See the difference?
BTC doesn't help with that problem.
And, in case it matters, the sanctions include Britain, France, Russia and China.
I guess you haven't read any of the cryptocurrency White Papers, or the tons of articles and books discussing the problems of a central authority which devalues currency and the resulting inflation.
Newton was most definitely not subsidized. Having a job is not (necessarily) a government subsidy and in his case it most definitely was not.
Didn't even read the rest.
Really?
I didn't read the article - but was their request for deregulation regarding security standards or in something else.
If it's something else then the request is irrelevant,
Calculus was funded by subsidies?
Telescopes were funded by subsidies?
Determining Longitude was found by a government prize.
The steam engine was funded by subsidies?
How about the cotton gin?
No. Somethings, at sometimes were aided by subsidies.
how about all those companies and ideas that were subsidized that didn't pan out.
How about all the government corruption that occurs as a DIRECT RESULT of subsidies.
Hey. In 20-30 years electric vehicles will make gasoline vehicles obsolete. No one in the US, or anyplace else, will be buying ICE cars if electric is cheaper and better. This is a feel good law. It makes the fools feel like governments are "doing something."
So. According to you criminals and criminal behavior would not exist if things were illegal?
Therefore there is no underage drinking, no one is driving without a license (or driving with a suspended license) there is no illegal drug use, And, no rape, murder and theft because all those are illegal as well.
Since there is no crime, and no threat of crime, we therefore do not need to be able to protect ourselves.
How do you know he isn't red and black spotted with a brown background. I mean, like duh.
Assimilated or appropriate? Nay murdered by the evil white man. Is there no end to their depravity?
/sarc for you idiotic SJWs