At no time did the current US administration claim that as grounds to invade Iraq. And even if that was considered, shooting down an airplane doesn't call for an invasion of the country and hunting down its government, whether it be a nice one or not.
The Charter of the United Nations, specifically Article 2, Clauses 3 and 4. It is against international law to for one country to attack another country unless it's acting in defense to prior action. Iraq never attacked the United States nor did it recently attack any of its allies. Just the suspicion of possible action in the future is not defense just like me hitting someone else to prevent him from hitting me isn't self-defense either.
Psychology speaks against that. There's a country in the EU (I think it's Finnland) where all prizes must be rounded to the next 0.05. Accordingly, there aren't a whole lot of 0.02 and 0.01 coins issued by that country.
The point of this regulation was to avoid psychological tricks where prizes like 2.99 would trick more people into buying a product than when it was prized at 3.00. The difference between those two prizes is often perceived to be greater than the nominal value of 0.01. Getting rid of the penny would stop that same "trick" in the US, which is something the retail lobby will undoubtedly fight against strongly.
Definitely. However, I doubt that these coins will be changed to bills. Bills are more expensive in the long run because they only last a few years. Coins can easily last a decade or more. In fact, I still have German coins from the 1950's that looks pretty decent.
I think in this instance, people used to high-value denominations due to inflation (primarily spain, italy, greece) will just have to get used to coins.
Germany money always had artists and scientists on them. The 1000 DM bill had the Grimm brothers on it (whose stories some Americans might now as Disney movies, e.c. Cinderella or Snow White). I always figured that was because they didn't really have any great presidents/chancellors to put on their money (remember, the curent republic of Germany is only 54 years old).
The new Euro bills don't have any people on them at all. Instead, they feature (non-existent) bridges representing different styles of architecture. That was presumably to avoid inner-european conflicts on which countries get to put their famous person on the bills.
Yeah, they did. They violated (and are still violating) conventions of war by keeping "enemy combatants" in custody without being treated as either POV's or citizens. They also waged a war against Iraq without UN mandate.
Just because you are not satisfied with the way the police is enforcing the law doesn't mean you get to go after the (suspected) criminals yourself. Likewise, just because the US disagree with the way the UN was enforcing their own resolutions doesn't give her the right to enforce them on her own.
In general, it seems like Americans don't like change. In many instances I have seen a lot of people hording change in change jars that get emptied out every now and then in exchange for bills.
Personally, here are some reasons I prefer not to use change:
Unless you are used to it, it's to know how much coins are worth. In many other countries, coins feature large numerals stating the value of the coin (e.g. a big 1 or 10 on the face). American coins don't. If you don't know what a dime is (10 cents), you're out of luck. The quarter, nickel and penny show the value in ridiculously small print.
The dime is way too small. Coins should increase in size as they increase in value. So, a penny should be smaller than a nickel. A nickel should be smaller than a dime, and so on. Again, when you see American coins for the first time, you will have no idea what a dime is worth.
American wallets typically have no change pockets. That means that the only other place to keep change are pockets in your pants/purse/etc.
Until $1 and $2 coins replace bills, people will prefer using bills to coins. The $1 bill is the most commonly used piece of currency.
Coins come in too few denominations. For coins to become more widely adapted, 2c, 20c and 50c coins would have to be introduced. Also, the quarter doesn't really fit in when trying to make exact cent payments. If a 20c or 50c coin was available, coin use would be much easier.
Until these things change, I doubt you will see $1 coins widely accepted. It's also important to note that while the vending machine industry would love to build new machines for the new coins, those companies having to order them will spend considerable efforts at lobbying against such changes.
Well, considering that the total economic output of the EU is larger than that of the US, what did you expect? The GDP per capita might be lower, but if you consider that there are quite a bit more people in the EU than there are in the US, total GDP easily surpasses the US.
The value of a country's (or group of countries in the case of the EU) currency is an expression of the trust in that country's ability to pay its debt. That depends on economic growth and stability. At this point, currency traders apparently trust that the EU is more stable economically than the US.
Right. According to your way of reasoning, construction company shouldn't be forced to build elevators into commercial buildings either considering how much money it costs and how it primarily benefits a minority of the population (those unable to walk stairs). Or reserve space for handicapped parking lots.
Amen. Try even buying one of those here. It's impossible. I have been looking for wallets with change pockets for a long time and to this day can't find any.
From what I've seen, many people here just drop change in a jar at the end of the day and then, when it's full, go to machines that spit out bills for the coins. Of course, they take a percentage of your money but that doesn't seem to bother too many. And, of course, these machines can be found in almost every grocery store.
Destructors will be run for every instance that is created. The only thing that's not determined is at what time that happens. It just is guaranteed to happen before your program terminates.
Or just try to settle somewhere where they don't have or won't charge for bussines licenses. I didn't even know there are places in the US where that's not the case.
What I don't understand are Home Owner Associations. From what I gather, they have the power/right to determine what you property must look like and how it can be used and these powers seem to extend far beyond any legislation.
It's all contract based. When you buy or rent a house from a particular home owner association, the sales/rent agreement will spell out what you can and cannot do. It will also often include some kine of phrasing that allows the association to add rules at their meetings, etc.
Because home owner associations don't have legislative powers, they can only use injunctions and civil lawsuits for breach of contract to "punish" violations of their regulations. With the American legal system and the (very likely) arbitration agreement in the contract, the powers of home owner associations are quite effective.
No one would ever make an ATM without that paper roll inside (or the receipts printed for the customer)... I honestly cannot think of any valid reason not to do so, except to deliberately enable fraud. The printers aren't expensive.
Just to be sure, ATMs in Germany don't give you receipts either. Apparently it's possible and justified by someone (although the reasoning is unknown to me).
I think that Macs are commonly known as superior in the areas Apple is marketing them primarily: DTP and graphic/video production. It is downright frustrating sometimes how often printers who only use Macs tell me that I have to find some way to convert my PC work so they can print it.
If some people who had not-so-great experiences with QuickTime on the PC read somewhere (e.g. Slashdot) that it works find on Macs, Apple just got a bunch of free advertising.
Is it really? If that is the case, then shouldn't a student who can score 100% on tests and quizes be excused from homework?
This is actually what I had in mind too. I do have some classes where homework counts as extra credit so that it is possible to get a 100% in the class without ever touching any homework while still providing students with a tangible incentive for doing it anyway. In a perfect world, students would realize that doing homework could actually help them do better on tests. But of course, in reality laziness usually comes before logic and some kind of more immediate incentive is necessary.
Apple is in the business of selling computers incompatible to PC's. Naturally, they would produce software that works better on Mac's than on PC's, especially if it is free.
...name of the program(comma) a simple java applet...
Actually, you would probably use a comma here instead of a semicolon because "a simple java applet" is not a full sentence. Semicolons tie together full sentences that need some stronger connection than a period. At least, that's the way it's here in the US.
RRRRRight. The point of homework is to make sure that you understand the material. Now, granted, there are teachers who will excessive/nonsensical/boring homework which will achieve the exact opposite. But for some of my classes, I'm glad I have some homework so I got something to test on before the real test. This might become more of an issue in college though where there is considerably less time and opportunity to cover everything in class.
As to the not getting paid thing, if a teacher puts efforts into giving good homework, he or she will probably also assign grades to how well you did on it. Those grades are what you get paid with in school.
No computer system should *ever* use SSN's as the user name or password. The ubiquitous presence and use of SSN's for such purposes are one of the main reasons identity theft is going rampant these days.
Instead, they should let every parent create their own pair of user name and password that can't directly be linked back to either student or parent (well, unless they chose to use their real names, of course). That's, for example, how Washington Mutual is handling their online banking service.
On a slightly unrelated note, how is this supposed to work in school districts that by law have to give access to illegal immigrants who by their very nature have no SSN? There are quite a few places, namely in California, where the law says that schools can't ask for citizenship or immigration status and have to accept children regardless of that.
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At no time did the current US administration claim that as grounds to invade Iraq. And even if that was considered, shooting down an airplane doesn't call for an invasion of the country and hunting down its government, whether it be a nice one or not.
Federal Reserve Notes and Treasury Notes are produced by divisions of the federal government. Hence, the provision of the consitution is fulfilled.
The Charter of the United Nations, specifically Article 2, Clauses 3 and 4. It is against international law to for one country to attack another country unless it's acting in defense to prior action. Iraq never attacked the United States nor did it recently attack any of its allies. Just the suspicion of possible action in the future is not defense just like me hitting someone else to prevent him from hitting me isn't self-defense either.
Psychology speaks against that. There's a country in the EU (I think it's Finnland) where all prizes must be rounded to the next 0.05. Accordingly, there aren't a whole lot of 0.02 and 0.01 coins issued by that country.
The point of this regulation was to avoid psychological tricks where prizes like 2.99 would trick more people into buying a product than when it was prized at 3.00. The difference between those two prizes is often perceived to be greater than the nominal value of 0.01. Getting rid of the penny would stop that same "trick" in the US, which is something the retail lobby will undoubtedly fight against strongly.
Definitely. However, I doubt that these coins will be changed to bills. Bills are more expensive in the long run because they only last a few years. Coins can easily last a decade or more. In fact, I still have German coins from the 1950's that looks pretty decent.
I think in this instance, people used to high-value denominations due to inflation (primarily spain, italy, greece) will just have to get used to coins.
Germany money always had artists and scientists on them. The 1000 DM bill had the Grimm brothers on it (whose stories some Americans might now as Disney movies, e.c. Cinderella or Snow White). I always figured that was because they didn't really have any great presidents/chancellors to put on their money (remember, the curent republic of Germany is only 54 years old).
The new Euro bills don't have any people on them at all. Instead, they feature (non-existent) bridges representing different styles of architecture. That was presumably to avoid inner-european conflicts on which countries get to put their famous person on the bills.
Yeah, they did. They violated (and are still violating) conventions of war by keeping "enemy combatants" in custody without being treated as either POV's or citizens. They also waged a war against Iraq without UN mandate.
Just because you are not satisfied with the way the police is enforcing the law doesn't mean you get to go after the (suspected) criminals yourself. Likewise, just because the US disagree with the way the UN was enforcing their own resolutions doesn't give her the right to enforce them on her own.
In general, it seems like Americans don't like change. In many instances I have seen a lot of people hording change in change jars that get emptied out every now and then in exchange for bills.
Personally, here are some reasons I prefer not to use change:
Until these things change, I doubt you will see $1 coins widely accepted. It's also important to note that while the vending machine industry would love to build new machines for the new coins, those companies having to order them will spend considerable efforts at lobbying against such changes.
Well, considering that the total economic output of the EU is larger than that of the US, what did you expect? The GDP per capita might be lower, but if you consider that there are quite a bit more people in the EU than there are in the US, total GDP easily surpasses the US.
The value of a country's (or group of countries in the case of the EU) currency is an expression of the trust in that country's ability to pay its debt. That depends on economic growth and stability. At this point, currency traders apparently trust that the EU is more stable economically than the US.
Right. According to your way of reasoning, construction company shouldn't be forced to build elevators into commercial buildings either considering how much money it costs and how it primarily benefits a minority of the population (those unable to walk stairs). Or reserve space for handicapped parking lots.
Amen. Try even buying one of those here. It's impossible. I have been looking for wallets with change pockets for a long time and to this day can't find any.
From what I've seen, many people here just drop change in a jar at the end of the day and then, when it's full, go to machines that spit out bills for the coins. Of course, they take a percentage of your money but that doesn't seem to bother too many. And, of course, these machines can be found in almost every grocery store.
Only with the exception that he even states in the article that he primarily used relays outside of the US.
ROFL
Judgments can be enforeced differently in different states. The court could order a garnishment of wages or seize some of the defendant's assets.
Or in Germany, you just go to jail until you pay up. If you can't, you go to jail, work there and pay with that.
Destructors will be run for every instance that is created. The only thing that's not determined is at what time that happens. It just is guaranteed to happen before your program terminates.
I don't even want to think about the ethics dicussions a view like this would start (and already has started).
Or just try to settle somewhere where they don't have or won't charge for bussines licenses. I didn't even know there are places in the US where that's not the case.
If not, Welcome to Texas!
What I don't understand are Home Owner Associations. From what I gather, they have the power/right to determine what you property must look like and how it can be used and these powers seem to extend far beyond any legislation.
It's all contract based. When you buy or rent a house from a particular home owner association, the sales/rent agreement will spell out what you can and cannot do. It will also often include some kine of phrasing that allows the association to add rules at their meetings, etc.
Because home owner associations don't have legislative powers, they can only use injunctions and civil lawsuits for breach of contract to "punish" violations of their regulations. With the American legal system and the (very likely) arbitration agreement in the contract, the powers of home owner associations are quite effective.
No one would ever make an ATM without that paper roll inside (or the receipts printed for the customer)... I honestly cannot think of any valid reason not to do so, except to deliberately enable fraud. The printers aren't expensive.
Just to be sure, ATMs in Germany don't give you receipts either. Apparently it's possible and justified by someone (although the reasoning is unknown to me).
I think that Macs are commonly known as superior in the areas Apple is marketing them primarily: DTP and graphic/video production. It is downright frustrating sometimes how often printers who only use Macs tell me that I have to find some way to convert my PC work so they can print it.
If some people who had not-so-great experiences with QuickTime on the PC read somewhere (e.g. Slashdot) that it works find on Macs, Apple just got a bunch of free advertising.
Is it really? If that is the case, then shouldn't a student who can score 100% on tests and quizes be excused from homework?
This is actually what I had in mind too. I do have some classes where homework counts as extra credit so that it is possible to get a 100% in the class without ever touching any homework while still providing students with a tangible incentive for doing it anyway. In a perfect world, students would realize that doing homework could actually help them do better on tests. But of course, in reality laziness usually comes before logic and some kind of more immediate incentive is necessary.
and the point of that would be?
Apple is in the business of selling computers incompatible to PC's. Naturally, they would produce software that works better on Mac's than on PC's, especially if it is free.
...name of the program(comma) a simple java applet...
Actually, you would probably use a comma here instead of a semicolon because "a simple java applet" is not a full sentence. Semicolons tie together full sentences that need some stronger connection than a period. At least, that's the way it's here in the US.
RRRRRight. The point of homework is to make sure that you understand the material. Now, granted, there are teachers who will excessive/nonsensical/boring homework which will achieve the exact opposite. But for some of my classes, I'm glad I have some homework so I got something to test on before the real test. This might become more of an issue in college though where there is considerably less time and opportunity to cover everything in class.
As to the not getting paid thing, if a teacher puts efforts into giving good homework, he or she will probably also assign grades to how well you did on it. Those grades are what you get paid with in school.
No computer system should *ever* use SSN's as the user name or password. The ubiquitous presence and use of SSN's for such purposes are one of the main reasons identity theft is going rampant these days.
Instead, they should let every parent create their own pair of user name and password that can't directly be linked back to either student or parent (well, unless they chose to use their real names, of course). That's, for example, how Washington Mutual is handling their online banking service.
On a slightly unrelated note, how is this supposed to work in school districts that by law have to give access to illegal immigrants who by their very nature have no SSN? There are quite a few places, namely in California, where the law says that schools can't ask for citizenship or immigration status and have to accept children regardless of that.