Disagree totally. Academia is going to be rocked sooner rather than later.
Right now people are saying that it's real use is making connections. Ha!!! Learning. No. Connections. (As a parent of a teenager I hear this constantly.)
"Video killed the radio star" comes to the current university system.
ALL lecture courses will be gone. Lab work is a different story.
What is fascism?
What makes something fascist? I don't know anymore. It used to be relatively simple. It was defined by Mussolini but now everything is Fascist.
Hey - you libertarian over there are you for free speech and free markets? "Yup" Well, then, you're a fascist.
Now I'm not fond of either Google or Amazon.
I use Brave or Firefox, use DuckDuckGo unitl and unless I'm forced to go to Google. I've reduced my use of gmail. (Using protonmail)
It can't be because they oppose free speech and the free expression of ideas? Because then Antifa would be fascist? Right?
The anecdotal evidence was presented to show that it does exist.
I agree that reading is important. I have a MA in history (intellectual history, development of technology) so obviously I agree that reading is important. However, stocking shelves at a bookstore for minimum wage is not superior to learning a trade. I own a house and my experience has saved me 1000s of dollars.
Except that was my experience also. I worked my way through college working as a roofer and carpenter. I had more than one professors turned their nose up at it saying that I wouldn't "learn" anything by working as a carpenter. They said working in a book store would be better (it was a fraction of my take home pay).
It took me 8 years to finish college but I didn't have a cent of student debt.
The first part of a solution would be for the state to set up, and update, a sales tax API.
That way the retailer would know what to collect.
Then there has to be a simple system to pay said taxes. If you've ever had to file sales tax reports you would know that... it is not simple.
Do you have to file in 50 states? and how do you handle the multiple tax jurisdictions in each state?
NYS has multiple jurisdictions, not simply NYC and the rest of the state.
Purchases above $110 are subject to a 4.5% NYC Sales Tax and a 4% NY State Sales Tax. The City Sales Tax rate is 4.5%, NY State Sales and Use Tax is 4% and the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District surcharge of 0.375% for a total Sales and Use Tax of 8.875 percent.
How do you handle the different categories of items to be taxed?
New York State charges taxes on clothing priced $110 and above. A belt is an article of clothing. A belt buckle is not and is always taxed. A belt strap is not an article of clothing and is always taxed.
The best solution would be to keep it simple for the retailers and put the burden of distribution on the states.
The retailer will send a list of address jurisdictions* and the collected sales taxes and send the check to a federal tax office. This office will distribute the funds to the states.
*address jurisdictions - you want to keep individual purchases anonymous. The API must provide a means to convert an address to tax jurisdiction.
No. I've read articles pointing that the picture is much worse.
Does the USPS pay real estate tax? No.
Does the USPS pay market rent for the property used? No.
Does the USPS pay the water and sewage?
Does the USPS pay the tax on their electricity. (Take a look at the tax on your electric bill.)
There are, from my experience, far more people driving manual transmission in the country than the city. (I would love to see stats.)
I was born and raised in NYC, still live there, and virtually no one drives a manual. I don't anymore. Traffic kills the joy of driving a manual.
I propose to you that people driving a manual transmission are paying more attention to their car and how it performs than those who use an automatic.
I also propose to you (as someone who knows NYC and lived in rural NH for 5 years) that you know the road FAR FUKING better in rural areas than in cities. You know where the frost heaves are, you know the turns and you certainly know where to slow down and be careful about pedestrians.
I'm going to be teaching my daughter to drive next year. She's going to learn to steer on an automatic and then learn how to drive on a manual. We'll be spending time in NH and Maine where it's far easier to learn how to deal with the road and then come down to the city to learn how to deal with people.
The above sentence needs to be qualified - roads can be more difficult in the country. They have turns. They can be banked the wrong way. They're narrow. In the City roads (except for parkways and highways) are basically all at right angles.
[quote]outbreak of common sense from one of the most unlikely places.[quote]
Oh. You must be one of those who believes that inanimate objects causes people to do things. Right.
Don't believe the hype:
News channels which say: "Hey look at this AR-15" (Oops. It was a fuking shotgun)
Or how about the chainsaw attachment (According to USA Today)
Next thing you know you'll be trying to ban 4 wheel-drive assault motorcycles.
[quote]The thing to realize is that we're fast approaching a point in which untrained or lowly trained human labor will become essentially worthless, [/quote]
Therefore we shouldn't be importing millions of untrained laborers under the guise that Americans wouldn't do the work - or should we?
The Russian economy is dependent upon oil revenue. Putin's power is helped by higher oil prices so Putin would be far more interested in preventing fracking than just about anything else that could be promoted (or discouraged) by a US President.
Which of the two candidates was for fracking (which brings prices of oil down)? Hillary or Trump?
Whatever the case may be about the environmental consequences of fracking Hillary and her supporters were (and are) dead set against it. Trump and his supporters tend to be for it.
Good to hear people criticizing the Educational Monopoly.
How do we break it and make it more useful?
My solution is vouchers and let parents find teachers and schools that provide value.
I'm constantly told by kids (and then their parents) - why aren't you teaching. BECAUSE.
I would have to take education classes and be stuck in a mind numbing bureaucracy.
Bullet Points
High School should be then end of the educational process and not preparation for college.
We need to stress more apprentice programs where one does useful work in a trade the person is interested in. Yes they won't get paid much (if anything) during this apprenticeship program but then - how much does one get paid when going to college?
Apprenticeship is more than being a mechanic. It includes:
graphic design
dance
fine arts
and a good portion of the programming trade.
Will there be a need for specific classes outside of the apprentice work. Yes. Of course.
I learned HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/Photoshop etc... on my own (as well as being mentored and taking course work).
Is the above fleshed out? No. But we need to get away from the ridiculous "ya need to go to college" routine.
Conservative? No. Conservatives (especially social conservatives) rail against liberals for exactly this. It's conservatives who are opposed to euthanasia and abortion. It's atheists (mostly progressive) who are in favor of "culling the herd."
The insurance industry is sclerotic for what reason? Could it be the layers and layers of regulations? How many hours per week do doctors need to spend to fill out bureaucratic information as requested (no demanded) by the government.
Government is horrible at deciding insurance - look at the idiots that want everything, including the kitchen sink, to be mandatory in insurance policies.
If the market was more involved there would be simple - high deductible catastrophic insurance available. I want to be covered for cancer, car crashes and the like. But no, government requires that so many other things from birth control to mental health to sex-change operations be included. (Kidding - I hope re the sex change).
But of course governments are wonderful in creating long lines. The wait times in Europe for health care compared to the US is horrendous.
You think I'm wrong? Prove me wrong. Create a wonderful health care system in your state. Show me how wonderful it is. Make me a believer. The US allows for states to act in such manners. Do not make it a federal solution. Western Europe couldn't make Greece and Germany and Portugal work. What makes you think we can have a one size fits all solution here?
The argument is NOT that companies aren't wasteful.
The argument is that as companies waste more and more money; as they become more and more inefficient they become less profitable and less competitive. Over time, companies that become wasteful go out of business.
Now, as governments and government agencies get more bureaucratic, more wasteful is there anything that stops this process?
Do bureaucracies magically reorganize themselves and become more efficient (ie removing, reducing positions)?
It's not that corporations are "magically" more efficient - it's that the more inefficient a company becomes the more likely it will succumb to a more nimble adversary. Governments (and their supporters) resist all efforts at efficiency.
Foolishness of the first order. You, may need to go, but there are many people who contribute in all sorts of ways - if nothing else helping their children and grandchildren.
There are many people who contribute greatly in their seventies and eighties.
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I guess you weren't in Shanghai or Beijing (especially Beijing).
This NYer was appalled at the lack of trees and green space.
Disagree totally. Academia is going to be rocked sooner rather than later.
Right now people are saying that it's real use is making connections. Ha!!! Learning. No. Connections. (As a parent of a teenager I hear this constantly.)
"Video killed the radio star" comes to the current university system.
ALL lecture courses will be gone. Lab work is a different story.
No!!!! Corporatism == Mercanitlism != Fascism
Amazon and Google are fascist. OK.
What is fascism?
What makes something fascist? I don't know anymore. It used to be relatively simple. It was defined by Mussolini but now everything is Fascist.
Hey - you libertarian over there are you for free speech and free markets? "Yup" Well, then, you're a fascist.
Now I'm not fond of either Google or Amazon.
I use Brave or Firefox, use DuckDuckGo unitl and unless I'm forced to go to Google. I've reduced my use of gmail. (Using protonmail)
It can't be because they oppose free speech and the free expression of ideas? Because then Antifa would be fascist? Right?
So, what the fuk is fascism.
ha. ha. ha. Thanks for the lulz.
The anecdotal evidence was presented to show that it does exist.
I agree that reading is important. I have a MA in history (intellectual history, development of technology) so obviously I agree that reading is important. However, stocking shelves at a bookstore for minimum wage is not superior to learning a trade. I own a house and my experience has saved me 1000s of dollars.
Also, I graduated without any student debt. Zero.
Get rid of the 4 Olds was a central point of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas)
The US is going through its own version of the Cultural Revolution right now.
"The constitution is evil." "Only the the revolution counts." "Anything that opposes the revolution is evil." "Fk free speech"
Except that was my experience also. I worked my way through college working as a roofer and carpenter. I had more than one professors turned their nose up at it saying that I wouldn't "learn" anything by working as a carpenter. They said working in a book store would be better (it was a fraction of my take home pay).
It took me 8 years to finish college but I didn't have a cent of student debt.
That way the retailer would know what to collect.
Then there has to be a simple system to pay said taxes. If you've ever had to file sales tax reports you would know that
Do you have to file in 50 states? and how do you handle the multiple tax jurisdictions in each state?
NYS has multiple jurisdictions, not simply NYC and the rest of the state.
Purchases above $110 are subject to a 4.5% NYC Sales Tax and a 4% NY State Sales Tax. The City Sales Tax rate is 4.5%, NY State Sales and Use Tax is 4% and the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District surcharge of 0.375% for a total Sales and Use Tax of 8.875 percent.
How do you handle the different categories of items to be taxed?
New York State charges taxes on clothing priced $110 and above. A belt is an article of clothing. A belt buckle is not and is always taxed. A belt strap is not an article of clothing and is always taxed.
The best solution would be to keep it simple for the retailers and put the burden of distribution on the states.
The retailer will send a list of address jurisdictions* and the collected sales taxes and send the check to a federal tax office. This office will distribute the funds to the states.
*address jurisdictions - you want to keep individual purchases anonymous. The API must provide a means to convert an address to tax jurisdiction.
No. I've read articles pointing that the picture is much worse.
Does the USPS pay real estate tax? No.
Does the USPS pay market rent for the property used? No.
Does the USPS pay the water and sewage?
Does the USPS pay the tax on their electricity. (Take a look at the tax on your electric bill.)
yeah. right. I've lost many jobs. I guess I have more than 9 lives. Right?
There are, from my experience, far more people driving manual transmission in the country than the city. (I would love to see stats.)
I was born and raised in NYC, still live there, and virtually no one drives a manual. I don't anymore. Traffic kills the joy of driving a manual.
I propose to you that people driving a manual transmission are paying more attention to their car and how it performs than those who use an automatic. I also propose to you (as someone who knows NYC and lived in rural NH for 5 years) that you know the road FAR FUKING better in rural areas than in cities. You know where the frost heaves are, you know the turns and you certainly know where to slow down and be careful about pedestrians.
I'm going to be teaching my daughter to drive next year. She's going to learn to steer on an automatic and then learn how to drive on a manual. We'll be spending time in NH and Maine where it's far easier to learn how to deal with the road and then come down to the city to learn how to deal with people.
The above sentence needs to be qualified - roads can be more difficult in the country. They have turns. They can be banked the wrong way. They're narrow. In the City roads (except for parkways and highways) are basically all at right angles.
All in all I think the OP made a good point.
signed, skinny jeans wearing Brooklyn hipster.
a Russian conservatard? really?
ha ha ha.
You're funny.
How about going to Predict It and putting some money on it.
I love taking money from saps like you.
[quote]outbreak of common sense from one of the most unlikely places.[quote]
:
Oh. You must be one of those who believes that inanimate objects causes people to do things. Right.
Don't believe the hype
News channels which say: "Hey look at this AR-15" (Oops. It was a fuking shotgun)
Or how about the chainsaw attachment (According to USA Today)
Next thing you know you'll be trying to ban 4 wheel-drive assault motorcycles.
[quote]The thing to realize is that we're fast approaching a point in which untrained or lowly trained human labor will become essentially worthless, [/quote]
Therefore we shouldn't be importing millions of untrained laborers under the guise that Americans wouldn't do the work - or should we?
Ha. Ha. Ha.
You're funny.
The Russian economy is dependent upon oil revenue. Putin's power is helped by higher oil prices so Putin would be far more interested in preventing fracking than just about anything else that could be promoted (or discouraged) by a US President.
Which of the two candidates was for fracking (which brings prices of oil down)? Hillary or Trump?
Whatever the case may be about the environmental consequences of fracking Hillary and her supporters were (and are) dead set against it. Trump and his supporters tend to be for it.
Good to hear people criticizing the Educational Monopoly.
How do we break it and make it more useful?
My solution is vouchers and let parents find teachers and schools that provide value.
I'm constantly told by kids (and then their parents) - why aren't you teaching. BECAUSE.
I would have to take education classes and be stuck in a mind numbing bureaucracy.
Bullet Points
High School should be then end of the educational process and not preparation for college.
We need to stress more apprentice programs where one does useful work in a trade the person is interested in. Yes they won't get paid much (if anything) during this apprenticeship program but then - how much does one get paid when going to college?
Apprenticeship is more than being a mechanic. It includes:
graphic design
dance
fine arts
and a good portion of the programming trade.
Will there be a need for specific classes outside of the apprentice work. Yes. Of course.
I learned HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/Photoshop etc... on my own (as well as being mentored and taking course work).
Is the above fleshed out? No. But we need to get away from the ridiculous "ya need to go to college" routine.
Conservative? No. Conservatives (especially social conservatives) rail against liberals for exactly this. It's conservatives who are opposed to euthanasia and abortion. It's atheists (mostly progressive) who are in favor of "culling the herd."
She stressed rule of law - that requires cooperation.
She admired the constitution and the ideals as embodied in the US Constitution. Washington, Madison, Jefferson couldn't cooperate? Really?
You want to disagree with her? Fine. Disagree all you want. But making things up doesn't help you make your case.
The definition of "Right" to most people is anything "not left"
Whatever you may think of Ayn Rand her philosophy promoting the rights of individuals and freedom of association is antithetical with H!tlers.
That's a reflection upon you if you think Bernie Sanders is middle of the road.
The biggest problem in politics is we don't have a definition of "right" that makes any sense.
Ayn Rand and Adolf Htler cannot both be "right-wing". They are mutually exclusive.
The insurance industry is sclerotic for what reason? Could it be the layers and layers of regulations? How many hours per week do doctors need to spend to fill out bureaucratic information as requested (no demanded) by the government.
Government is horrible at deciding insurance - look at the idiots that want everything, including the kitchen sink, to be mandatory in insurance policies.
If the market was more involved there would be simple - high deductible catastrophic insurance available. I want to be covered for cancer, car crashes and the like. But no, government requires that so many other things from birth control to mental health to sex-change operations be included. (Kidding - I hope re the sex change).
But of course governments are wonderful in creating long lines. The wait times in Europe for health care compared to the US is horrendous.
You think I'm wrong? Prove me wrong. Create a wonderful health care system in your state. Show me how wonderful it is. Make me a believer. The US allows for states to act in such manners. Do not make it a federal solution. Western Europe couldn't make Greece and Germany and Portugal work. What makes you think we can have a one size fits all solution here?
The argument is NOT that companies aren't wasteful.
The argument is that as companies waste more and more money; as they become more and more inefficient they become less profitable and less competitive. Over time, companies that become wasteful go out of business.
Now, as governments and government agencies get more bureaucratic, more wasteful is there anything that stops this process?
Do bureaucracies magically reorganize themselves and become more efficient (ie removing, reducing positions)?
It's not that corporations are "magically" more efficient - it's that the more inefficient a company becomes the more likely it will succumb to a more nimble adversary. Governments (and their supporters) resist all efforts at efficiency.
Foolishness of the first order. You, may need to go, but there are many people who contribute in all sorts of ways - if nothing else helping their children and grandchildren.
There are many people who contribute greatly in their seventies and eighties.