If you are in the job of looking for tax fraud then you'd think the chances of finding it are higher with groups that are ideologically opposed to the very idea of taxation.
What makes you think that these low level IRS agents, whose job was processing applications, would have anything to do with tax fraud? What is this some kind of "Minority Report" where they are procescuting crimes before they happen?
If you don't realise your paying pretty close to half your gross income in taxes, you've got your head up your ass! 15% goes to Social Security, 15% goes to Medicare, 5-15% is Federal income taxes, 5% in State income taxes, 6% state sales/use taxes, God only knows how much fuel taxes, property taxes for county,municipal and school district.
Your right it's not politically motivated, it's philosophically motivated. it's the philosphy of "The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" vs. "The Least Harm for Anyone". No rational person is aligned on the extremes of these two positions, but Socialists and Liberals tend to be Greatest Gooders, and Conservatives and Libertarians tend to be Least Harmers. It has nothing to do with thinking people who want to minimise governmental interference in individuals lives are more likely to be "tax dogers" and everything to do with people who want government to micromanage every aspect of society not wanting to lose power.
The IRS isn't supposed to care, their mission is to collect each taxpayer's fair share as determined by congress. Unfortunately the tax code has become more an instrument of social engineering than government financing. This has set an example that it's OK for the IRS to have secondary agendas, it's nor surprising that the low level minions would follow suit.
I'm so happy this shit is sitting in the USA and not anywhere else in the world.
That we know of so far... I think India and Israel ran pretty clean operations, but I suspect that Pakistan, North Korea, Iran didn't give a shit about environmental concerns when developing their nuclear weapons programs; the environmental disregard of Russia and China are legendary.
That makes a lot of sense to me, when they say sludge, I'm thinking sludge as in sloppy wet clay, and we all have seen how a colloidal clay suspension shrinks as it dries out. Now considering how this sludge contains fissile and fertile materials, we're unsure how those materials have stratified. It's easy to imagine how change the existing conditions could have unexpected and untoward effects; possible even unexpected fissioning events.
My understanding is that operational test are performed periodically, and when they happen the Launch Officers are not sure whether it's a test or a live launch, they just do their thing then listen to see if the bird leaves the tube or not. Most of the time it's pretty easy, but lately with the war in Syria and chemical weapons rumours and North Korea being so stupid turning those keys has got to be pretty freaky.
"intensive training" is a euphemism "A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant." and unpleasant is a euphemism for "A living hell designed to make magots like you 17 wish you were ever born" For example, remember that some fell asleep on watch, so obviously they need intensive training on staying awake, so I for see many 20 hour training days over the 60 day training cycle. Imagine 4 days with only 16 hours total sleep, then sitting through a 4 hour lecture on nuclear security protocols and a hour long written exam on the same after lunch. Don't pass, don't worry, you can repeat the week twice, or you can resign.
Realisticaly Venus is ~96.5% carbon dioxide @92 bar = 88.78 bar of CO2, the Earth is 20.95% oxygen (O2) @ 1 bar or.21 bar, burning all of the oxygen in the atmospher would only get us up to 0.28875 bar, so there is no way the Earth could go Venus.
They could march here and we wouldn't have enough bullets to stop them if they did, they could build a bridge of corpses across the Barring straits into Alaska.
The thing is called Climate Sensitivity, what it means is how much will the Earth's average temperature increase for each doubling of the CO2, and that number is looking like it's somewhere between 1.8 and 2.4, 2 seems most likely. We're at 400 ppm CO2, to add 2 degree's we'd need to get our CO2 up to 800 ppm, 4 degrees needs 1600 ppm and 6 degrees needs 3200 ppm CO2; I'm not sure that the effect of anthropgenic CO2 is strong enough right now to be visible in the background of natural variation.
skepticalscience.com is completely unreliable source, they make non-trivial edits to posts after comments have began, they edit user comments and delete user comments without reference.
The National Guard falls under both Federal and State Juridiction, the Federal Government can not involuntarily activate an individual Servicemember for more than 180 days, only entire units. This also has implications in regards to the Posse Comitatus Act, The National Guard has the same restrictions while in Federal Service As the US Army and Air Force, and not while under State Service.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and play violent video games shall not be infringed.
being able to remotely operate combat systems is almost more important than being able to shoot what you intend to shoot!
That requires the site that your trying to log into to store the passwords, which is a really Bad_Idea(tm), the site should only store a crytographic hash of the password and a salt value; please don't use a simple md5sum hash. Now if the site gets hacked and the database is stolen, the 'ner-do-wells don't have the passwords. Storing the md5 hashes doesn't work, there are plenty of lists of passwords and their md5 hashes out there.
No, with the current length of copyright in the US, all combinations of notes that sound even remotely pleasent to the ear will be almost perpetually under copyright; all bands will be cover bands!
That's OK because now he'll be getting enough BBC, Big Black Cock, to make up for the lack of fisting and some ATM, Ass To Mouth to make up for the face shitting too.
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That is by far the most rational arguement I've ever heard for gun control; as a short penised gun nut I'm not convinced, but well a argued point.
If you are in the job of looking for tax fraud then you'd think the chances of finding it are higher with groups that are ideologically opposed to the very idea of taxation.
What makes you think that these low level IRS agents, whose job was processing applications, would have anything to do with tax fraud? What is this some kind of "Minority Report" where they are procescuting crimes before they happen?
If you don't realise your paying pretty close to half your gross income in taxes, you've got your head up your ass!
15% goes to Social Security, 15% goes to Medicare,
5-15% is Federal income taxes, 5% in State income taxes, 6% state sales/use taxes, God only knows how much fuel taxes, property taxes for county,municipal and school district.
Your right it's not politically motivated, it's philosophically motivated. it's the philosphy of "The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number" vs. "The Least Harm for Anyone". No rational person is aligned on the extremes of these two positions, but Socialists and Liberals tend to be Greatest Gooders, and Conservatives and Libertarians tend to be Least Harmers. It has nothing to do with thinking people who want to minimise governmental interference in individuals lives are more likely to be "tax dogers" and everything to do with people who want government to micromanage every aspect of society not wanting to lose power.
Personally I find that Obama being from Chicago far more damning that his being a black, progressive liberal, muslim.
The IRS isn't supposed to care, their mission is to collect each taxpayer's fair share as determined by congress. Unfortunately the tax code has become more an instrument of social engineering than government financing. This has set an example that it's OK for the IRS to have secondary agendas, it's nor surprising that the low level minions would follow suit.
I'm so happy this shit is sitting in the USA and not anywhere else in the world.
That we know of so far ... I think India and Israel ran pretty clean operations, but I suspect that Pakistan, North Korea, Iran didn't give a shit about environmental concerns when developing their nuclear weapons programs; the environmental disregard of Russia and China are legendary.
That makes a lot of sense to me, when they say sludge, I'm thinking sludge as in sloppy wet clay, and we all have seen how a colloidal clay suspension shrinks as it dries out. Now considering how this sludge contains fissile and fertile materials, we're unsure how those materials have stratified. It's easy to imagine how change the existing conditions could have unexpected and untoward effects; possible even unexpected fissioning events.
Don't forget, this is liginite coal, more like pressed peat-moss than real coal.
You forgot Neil Young!
My understanding is that operational test are performed periodically, and when they happen the Launch Officers are not sure whether it's a test or a live launch, they just do their thing then listen to see if the bird leaves the tube or not. Most of the time it's pretty easy, but lately with the war in Syria and chemical weapons rumours and North Korea being so stupid turning those keys has got to be pretty freaky.
"intensive training" is a euphemism "A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant." and unpleasant is a euphemism for "A living hell designed to make magots like you 17 wish you were ever born"
For example, remember that some fell asleep on watch, so obviously they need intensive training on staying awake, so I for see many 20 hour training days over the 60 day training cycle. Imagine 4 days with only 16 hours total sleep, then sitting through a 4 hour lecture on nuclear security protocols and a hour long written exam on the same after lunch. Don't pass, don't worry, you can repeat the week twice, or you can resign.
All it takes is a couple F16s with 500 pound bombs.
Realisticaly Venus is ~96.5% carbon dioxide @92 bar = 88.78 bar of CO2, the Earth is 20.95% oxygen (O2) @ 1 bar or .21 bar, burning all of the oxygen in the atmospher would only get us up to 0.28875 bar, so there is no way the Earth could go Venus.
I think you forgot Comrade, we were allies in the Great War.
They could march here and we wouldn't have enough bullets to stop them if they did, they could build a bridge of corpses across the Barring straits into Alaska.
The thing is called Climate Sensitivity, what it means is how much will the Earth's average temperature increase for each doubling of the CO2, and that number is looking like it's somewhere between 1.8 and 2.4, 2 seems most likely. We're at 400 ppm CO2, to add 2 degree's we'd need to get our CO2 up to 800 ppm, 4 degrees needs 1600 ppm and 6 degrees needs 3200 ppm CO2; I'm not sure that the effect of anthropgenic CO2 is strong enough right now to be visible in the background of natural variation.
Yes but zombies give off methane as they ferment, which is worse than carbon dioxide!
skepticalscience.com is completely unreliable source, they make non-trivial edits to posts after comments have began, they edit user comments and delete user comments without reference.
The National Guard falls under both Federal and State Juridiction, the Federal Government can not involuntarily activate an individual Servicemember for more than 180 days, only entire units. This also has implications in regards to the Posse Comitatus Act, The National Guard has the same restrictions while in Federal Service As the US Army and Air Force, and not while under State Service.
We'll just change it to,
being able to remotely operate combat systems is almost more important than being able to shoot what you intend to shoot!
Well be careful the grunts have enough shit to hump, now if they take a round in the rucksack, the battery fire is liable to kill half the squad.
That requires the site that your trying to log into to store the passwords, which is a really Bad_Idea(tm), the site should only store a crytographic hash of the password and a salt value; please don't use a simple md5sum hash. Now if the site gets hacked and the database is stolen, the 'ner-do-wells don't have the passwords. Storing the md5 hashes doesn't work, there are plenty of lists of passwords and their md5 hashes out there.
No, with the current length of copyright in the US, all combinations of notes that sound even remotely pleasent to the ear will be almost perpetually under copyright; all bands will be cover bands!
That's OK because now he'll be getting enough BBC, Big Black Cock, to make up for the lack of fisting and some ATM, Ass To Mouth to make up for the face shitting too.