I'm not sure I understand all of this talk of "dumping", or maybe it's the people proposing the action that don't understand it. They can only do 3 things with those bonds, cash them in, sell them to someone else for a loss (dumping?), or burn them.
The first option does nothing, as claiming matured bonds is what you are supposed to do. The third option is awesome, free money.
The second option, if they had enough to kill the world market (which I don't think they do) for US bonds might have an impact, but only if they price very low and somehow managed to keep the US itself from buying them.
The fact of the matter is, as soon as they post 100B in US T-Bills for substantially lower than the market rate someone will buy them all instantly and they will no longer exert pressure on the market for new debt.
If they doled them out slowly, there isn't enough to cause an issue.
I was found at fault. Had been at the stop light for 30 seconds or more when I was rear-ended. I was found at fault and cited for "stopping short". Didn't have to wait long for the cops to show up and make that determination, since it was a patrol car that hit me.
I learned Algebra in the 4th grade and progressed through to Calculus my sophomore year of highschool as part of our regular, public school carriculum right here in the good ole US of A.
Apparently even some 'Mericans forget this is a big place and whats true in NY isn't always true in CA.
And that seems to be everyones argument here. The US took down our websites, in our countries. Only they didn't. They removed the.com from the domain servers under their control.
If you want to keep control local, use a local TLD.
The Tea Party is never going to vote for a liberal, or even a centrist.
So, if this is a district that is going to vote in a Tea Party candidate no matter what, what single thing could you change about that person to make them more acceptible to you without totally disenfranchising them from their own party?
If only I could make ALL Tea Party candidates real engineers with a snap of my fingers,
You should fly more often in the US. Seems like many of the discount airlines provide much better service now than the big guys (southwest being the notable exception).
Strictly speaking, if you were trying to "convert" someone, would you go where you are likely to find people of opposing viewpoint or someplace where everyone is already pre-disposed to your belief?
Anecdotal, but my experience perfectly matches this.
I started couch-to-5k three years ago (to gain fitness and lose weight). I never modified my eating habits, but I gradually increased my running until I would run 5-6 miles a day, 2-3 times a week.
I never lost weight.
1 month ago I decided to restrict carbs (and I because I injured my calf I stopped running). I didn't try to restrict calories, watch fat, or do anything except keep as low carb as possible (usually try for under 100 grams, under 50 if possible).
With several cheat days (probably about 1 a week or more), and no exercise, I still lost 18-20 lbs. I can't friggin believe it.
I don't even feel like I have been "trying hard" to diet.
And I have always felt that when someone asks you what you do / what "are" you; it would be most correct to answer with what you get paid to do.
If you have a degree in EE, but your job position is "Programming Team Lead", you are a programmer, or possibly even a manager, but not really an engineer.
Conversely, if you never went to college but somehow manage to work your way into a full engineering position and you perform that work adequately, I would call you an engineer.
Of course, take that attitude to the extreme and If someone pays you on the street to give medical advice, can I call you a doctor? I think the answer is yes, you may be the worlds shittiest doctor but someone believes in you enough to pay for your services.
Spoken like someone who has never owned one. Aside from the '95 and '96 models, they are some of the most reliable cars on the road today.
My whole family drives them, for the same reasons that the OP stated.
My current neon is a 2003, has 206k miles and has never needed a single repair. I did the preventative maintenance (timing belt at 115k, oil changes, etc).
My previous neon was a 97, which I put 190k miles on and the only issue it ever had was a bad fuel pump, which took me an hour to fix.
So, I see this argument a lot, that there are too many, changing, tax locations to keep track of.
Then I remembered that when I buy something from a store, they don't usually ask me for my address and generate the tax rate on the fly. Why, because the tax rate I pay is based on where the transaction takes place.
If they can make the argument that the online retailer has a physical presence in the state, then the tax rate is based on where that presence is.
So, for Amazon in Indiana, it sounds like they may have to track up to 3 tax rates (for the 3 distribution centers).
My parents both have Yarises, Yaris', Yarii, err whatever. They both get in the mid 40s as well, their cars cost half as much as most hybrids, costs less to repair (if they break down, which neither has), and are less of an impact on the environment when they are built.
And I keep seeing mention of how easy it is to "JAM" the signal, but this is assuming everyone uses cheap commercial handset receivers. Expensive commercial receivers, such as those used in surveying equipment, let alone actual military receivers using both bands and m-codes are much more difficult.
And if you did manage to generate enough power, over enough spectrum, to disrupt military grade GPS, they could find you and "remove" the threat with 1940s technology.
I read your comment and thought to myself, wow. I really can't answer any of those completely off of the top of my head.
Then I remembered that my CS/CE degrees (where I somewhat purposefully avoided the networking courses) perfectly prepared for my role as a programmer where I do interface design, device drivers, and the occasional manual assembler optimization.
The networking stuff (which still falls on me to do periodically) I find can be answered by 5 minutes on google.
People might pay for a performance (much the way that I will pay to go to the movie theater, but rarely buy DVDs). They might pay for a tangible product (a produced CD/DVD in a nice case is "worth" a couple of bucks). They just may not be willing to pay as much as they have in the past for something whose value is wholly tied to legislated scarcity.
The simple fact is, things of intrinsic value will always have that value.
We had musicians before recorded music and we had actors before films. Artistic creation is not and argue should not be soley tied to remuneration.
Wow, not even a good attempt. No other place in the verbiage do thay make reference to "this version" rather than specific version numbers. You left out a word, had a rudundant "to", and you fail at basic IT (unless you expect Sony to produce "wireless" thumbdrives, etc. and share the radio used for the controllers to communicate with them).
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I'm not sure I understand all of this talk of "dumping", or maybe it's the people proposing the action that don't understand it. They can only do 3 things with those bonds, cash them in, sell them to someone else for a loss (dumping?), or burn them.
The first option does nothing, as claiming matured bonds is what you are supposed to do. The third option is awesome, free money.
The second option, if they had enough to kill the world market (which I don't think they do) for US bonds might have an impact, but only if they price very low and somehow managed to keep the US itself from buying them.
The fact of the matter is, as soon as they post 100B in US T-Bills for substantially lower than the market rate someone will buy them all instantly and they will no longer exert pressure on the market for new debt.
If they doled them out slowly, there isn't enough to cause an issue.
The CVG version of the '12 Subaru Imprezza is more efficient than the manual.
I got in on that deal too. Recently dropped it for republic wireless. $19 a month, cool phone, unlimited everything.
I was found at fault. Had been at the stop light for 30 seconds or more when I was rear-ended. I was found at fault and cited for "stopping short". Didn't have to wait long for the cops to show up and make that determination, since it was a patrol car that hit me.
I learned Algebra in the 4th grade and progressed through to Calculus my sophomore year of highschool as part of our regular, public school carriculum right here in the good ole US of A.
Apparently even some 'Mericans forget this is a big place and whats true in NY isn't always true in CA.
I think what you are describing can more accurately be referred to as aptitude.
The fact is, you really can teach a good percentage of the population the principles of CS.
Getting them to apply what they learned correctly, to problem solve, and to grow their expertise, and to not get bored while doing so is the trick.
Jury is still out on Clinton.
FYI- According to the US Census Bureau, the top 20th percentile starts at 55k. 100k/yr gets you closer to the top 7th percentile.
What episode of Dougie Houser, MD was that?
And that seems to be everyones argument here. The US took down our websites, in our countries. Only they didn't. They removed the .com from the domain servers under their control.
If you want to keep control local, use a local TLD.
The Tea Party is never going to vote for a liberal, or even a centrist.
So, if this is a district that is going to vote in a Tea Party candidate no matter what, what single thing could you change about that person to make them more acceptible to you without totally disenfranchising them from their own party?
If only I could make ALL Tea Party candidates real engineers with a snap of my fingers,
You should fly more often in the US. Seems like many of the discount airlines provide much better service now than the big guys (southwest being the notable exception).
I found a phone once while on travel. I opened it up and called the number listed as "Home".
The person who answered accused me of stealing his phone.
I told him fuck off and that I was throwing his phone in the garbage.
Then I had a change of heart and left the phone with the front desk of my hotel, texted "Mom" where the phone was and that her son is an ass.
Strictly speaking, if you were trying to "convert" someone, would you go where you are likely to find people of opposing viewpoint or someplace where everyone is already pre-disposed to your belief?
He could of been talking about this. Mechanically read video from a black disc (in a caddy).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodisc
Anecdotal, but my experience perfectly matches this.
I started couch-to-5k three years ago (to gain fitness and lose weight). I never modified my eating habits, but I gradually increased my running until I would run 5-6 miles a day, 2-3 times a week.
I never lost weight.
1 month ago I decided to restrict carbs (and I because I injured my calf I stopped running). I didn't try to restrict calories, watch fat, or do anything except keep as low carb as possible (usually try for under 100 grams, under 50 if possible).
With several cheat days (probably about 1 a week or more), and no exercise, I still lost 18-20 lbs. I can't friggin believe it.
I don't even feel like I have been "trying hard" to diet.
And I have always felt that when someone asks you what you do / what "are" you; it would be most correct to answer with what you get paid to do.
If you have a degree in EE, but your job position is "Programming Team Lead", you are a programmer, or possibly even a manager, but not really an engineer.
Conversely, if you never went to college but somehow manage to work your way into a full engineering position and you perform that work adequately, I would call you an engineer.
Of course, take that attitude to the extreme and If someone pays you on the street to give medical advice, can I call you a doctor? I think the answer is yes, you may be the worlds shittiest doctor but someone believes in you enough to pay for your services.
Spoken like someone who has never owned one. Aside from the '95 and '96 models, they are some of the most reliable cars on the road today.
My whole family drives them, for the same reasons that the OP stated.
My current neon is a 2003, has 206k miles and has never needed a single repair. I did the preventative maintenance (timing belt at 115k, oil changes, etc).
My previous neon was a 97, which I put 190k miles on and the only issue it ever had was a bad fuel pump, which took me an hour to fix.
In my neck of the woods they routinely drop MPLS lines to the towers. Mich higher bandwidth and much lesser cost than what you mentioned.
So, I see this argument a lot, that there are too many, changing, tax locations to keep track of.
Then I remembered that when I buy something from a store, they don't usually ask me for my address and generate the tax rate on the fly. Why, because the tax rate I pay is based on where the transaction takes place.
If they can make the argument that the online retailer has a physical presence in the state, then the tax rate is based on where that presence is.
So, for Amazon in Indiana, it sounds like they may have to track up to 3 tax rates (for the 3 distribution centers).
My parents both have Yarises, Yaris', Yarii, err whatever. They both get in the mid 40s as well, their cars cost half as much as most hybrids, costs less to repair (if they break down, which neither has), and are less of an impact on the environment when they are built.
You realise GPS is spread spectrum, right?
And I keep seeing mention of how easy it is to "JAM" the signal, but this is assuming everyone uses cheap commercial handset receivers. Expensive commercial receivers, such as those used in surveying equipment, let alone actual military receivers using both bands and m-codes are much more difficult.
And if you did manage to generate enough power, over enough spectrum, to disrupt military grade GPS, they could find you and "remove" the threat with 1940s technology.
I read your comment and thought to myself, wow. I really can't answer any of those completely off of the top of my head.
Then I remembered that my CS/CE degrees (where I somewhat purposefully avoided the networking courses) perfectly prepared for my role as a programmer where I do interface design, device drivers, and the occasional manual assembler optimization.
The networking stuff (which still falls on me to do periodically) I find can be answered by 5 minutes on google.
People might pay for a performance (much the way that I will pay to go to the movie theater, but rarely buy DVDs). They might pay for a tangible product (a produced CD/DVD in a nice case is "worth" a couple of bucks). They just may not be willing to pay as much as they have in the past for something whose value is wholly tied to legislated scarcity.
The simple fact is, things of intrinsic value will always have that value.
We had musicians before recorded music and we had actors before films. Artistic creation is not and argue should not be soley tied to remuneration.
Wow, not even a good attempt. No other place in the verbiage do thay make reference to "this version" rather than specific version numbers. You left out a word, had a rudundant "to", and you fail at basic IT (unless you expect Sony to produce "wireless" thumbdrives, etc. and share the radio used for the controllers to communicate with them).