The problem isn't that there are no rules and procedures preventing it, the problem is that people are officious and petty. If you take away their current ways of being officious and petty, they will simply invent new ones. Take away those, and they will make some new ones. And on and on.
The easy answer is to look with awe upon the level of cooperation that has been reached, not with shame at the level of cooperation that can be imagined.
Well, no, but there is a reason that thousands of people own and operate stores. For some of them, part of that reason is tax fraud, which was my joke (yay insightful mods).
(there was a family in a city near here that had set aside several million dollars of cash that they did not pay taxes on; they got caught and would have been much better off if they had paid the taxes, but the takeaway is that they had the cash flow to set aside hundreds of thousands of dollars).
That's more of an expansion than a nitpick. I didn't make any statement about the scope of what states can do.
In theory, as far as I am concerned, the people can up and abandon the entire system of government. In practice, nothing even close to that looks like it will happen in the U.S. I can see subordination to a regional or global system happening, but I would think it would happen within the context of the current system, not outside of it.
There is a mechanism for the various states to get together and amend the Constitution without the participation of the congress, but it has never been used and it is unlikely that it will ever be used.
You don't know that he has good credit, or that he timed his purchase well.
It *could* be explained by excellent credit and perfect timing, but there is no harm in checking up on exactly why he got the rate he got, his position obligates him to a higher standard.
My $30 phone is an LG. I can go into the entry for a contact, select a number and then edit the category associated with that number. It would seem like a smart phone would have a similar capability.
My $30 junker phone has categories. I think it will do an arbitrary amount of phone numbers for each contact, but I don't know that many people with 2 cell phones...
Unfortunately, people driving brand new SUV's generally pay ~$0.60 a mile, at a bare minimum, just to purchase them. The jump in gas prices from ~$0.10 a mile (that's $2 and 20 mpg) to ~$0.30 a mile (that's $6 and 20 mpg) isn't all that daunting.
The material inside the casks is stable. The casks are so that it is easier to work with the material, not to keep it from dispersing. A simple crack in a vessel would mean that they would have to move the spent fuel to another cask.
Even vaporizing a bunch of them would be 'unfortunate', not 'Armageddon scale disaster', and it wouldn't exactly be easy to accomplish.
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The problem isn't that there are no rules and procedures preventing it, the problem is that people are officious and petty. If you take away their current ways of being officious and petty, they will simply invent new ones. Take away those, and they will make some new ones. And on and on.
The easy answer is to look with awe upon the level of cooperation that has been reached, not with shame at the level of cooperation that can be imagined.
I'll bet you a nickel that I am younger than you.
I'm 28, so there you go.
Congress proposed the 21st amendment...
Well, no, but there is a reason that thousands of people own and operate stores. For some of them, part of that reason is tax fraud, which was my joke (yay insightful mods).
(there was a family in a city near here that had set aside several million dollars of cash that they did not pay taxes on; they got caught and would have been much better off if they had paid the taxes, but the takeaway is that they had the cash flow to set aside hundreds of thousands of dollars).
That's more of an expansion than a nitpick. I didn't make any statement about the scope of what states can do.
In theory, as far as I am concerned, the people can up and abandon the entire system of government. In practice, nothing even close to that looks like it will happen in the U.S. I can see subordination to a regional or global system happening, but I would think it would happen within the context of the current system, not outside of it.
Knowledge or information?
Jim-Bob's report on "Charlotte's Web" isn't really the same thing as cutting edge physics research.
http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+fox+mislabel
Simplified tax fraud.
(Note that I pay my use tax.)
Because Congress gets to make their own rules.
There is a mechanism for the various states to get together and amend the Constitution without the participation of the congress, but it has never been used and it is unlikely that it will ever be used.
You don't know that he has good credit, or that he timed his purchase well.
It *could* be explained by excellent credit and perfect timing, but there is no harm in checking up on exactly why he got the rate he got, his position obligates him to a higher standard.
You are missing the benefits of running a cash based brick and mortar business...
The imaginary guy party?
Yeah, but how do you shake an entire planet?
My $30 phone is an LG. I can go into the entry for a contact, select a number and then edit the category associated with that number. It would seem like a smart phone would have a similar capability.
Are you also this guy?
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/002539.html
My $30 junker phone has categories. I think it will do an arbitrary amount of phone numbers for each contact, but I don't know that many people with 2 cell phones...
Some of the fuel for his rocket boots must have accidentally gotten in the reactor.
Unfortunately, people driving brand new SUV's generally pay ~$0.60 a mile, at a bare minimum, just to purchase them. The jump in gas prices from ~$0.10 a mile (that's $2 and 20 mpg) to ~$0.30 a mile (that's $6 and 20 mpg) isn't all that daunting.
So what's the difference?
What happens when someone Knuth's a thread on the internet?
What do you think the temperature in the ice bath is?
I tooted!
Are you going to insist me in the face if I keep using Fahrenheit?
Hyperbole much?
NCLB is about 7 years old, blaming it for all the ills of society is a wild over-reaction.
I graduated from high school 10 years ago, and I never had an ethics class in any of grade, junior or high school.
You could probably structure your idea around "the attitude behind NCLB", but the act itself is simply the latest symptom.
The material inside the casks is stable. The casks are so that it is easier to work with the material, not to keep it from dispersing. A simple crack in a vessel would mean that they would have to move the spent fuel to another cask.
Even vaporizing a bunch of them would be 'unfortunate', not 'Armageddon scale disaster', and it wouldn't exactly be easy to accomplish.