It's the clutch and hold phenomena. You don't spend a penny at the end of your fiscal year that can be saved and reported as additional net revenue as of 12/31. Once the arbitrary deadline is passed, you can start doing the job hunt that you should have started in October. Another example of the efficiency of the invisible hand of the market (i.e. short-term oriented corporate leadership gaming the numbers to increase the stock value, and thus their benefits and pay).
This is mostly limited to publicly traded companies, but any company that emphasizes end of calendar year financials is open to this kind of manipulation. Spend less, make more, at least on paper, and you do better.
Instead the U.S. backs its currency with the force of law. You must accept U.S. dollars as legal tender in the U.S. or you are in breach of law. There are penalties. I wonder if anyone's revisited this issue since the price of Gold shot through the roof. There is quite a lot of it at fort nox, and in the treasury's vaults.
No. It won't. Not in a representative democracy. If the last two years have shown us anything, it should be that elections have consequences. When people vote, policy changes.
Problem 1: he is so brave and tough that he's posting as an AC.
Problem 2: "go and make him" is the argument of the violent lout. I stated a policy proposal, specifically a tax, which will only happen if the folks the majority of the country elected to represent them decide to enact it.
Error: you conflate with the inability to kill off an insurgency hiding within its own population with the ability to put down a rebellion. These are not the same. And, for that matter, we've killed a fuck-ton of insurgents in Afghanistan, we're bleeding the whole region as the zealots pour in from all over to support the Taliban.
The problem is, this isn't a story about stopping the government, you're mouthing off against positions that are widely popular. Restricting assault weapons and the sale of bulk ammunition has more than 50% support in the U.S. You are talking about killing me, and your other neighbors, because you have decided that your minority opinion is more valid than the majority opinion. There's no British Army roaming the U.S. imposing the Federal will, it's us. Your extended family, the people who go to the same school as you, the folks that complain with you about taxes but used to serve in the Army and would move to protect out government from your rebellion.
The conceit of your argument is that the "jackbooted thug" isn't a human being. It's BS.
There is nothing to prevent the government from imposing a use tax on data. The decision to do so, or not, is a policy decision based on the wisdom of the policy. Even traffic shaping, as you describe, isn't barred by anything in the founding document. So, yeah, if you think that data use on the internets is killing people, lets do that.
And then these wack-a-loons would be blowing up whole schools at a time. The right to gun ownership, recognized by the Supreme Court over the last decade, is that of personal/defense/ not protection from tyranny. Even the great right-wing hero Antonin Scalia has oft commented from the bench that when it comes to the rights of the states/individuals as sovereign over the government, we had a war to determine those issues, and the South lost.
"We the People" the collective "we" the majority of the democratic electorate, rule. Individuals who do not want to be bound by that rule have a choice, they can leave. That's really your only option. What you are describing is not "resistance" it is murdering your neighbors to implement by force the policies they rejected at the ballot box.
You think anyone in our government fears a mob with guns? Recall, this is the government that has a fleet of robots that roam the skies looking for people to bomb without ever risking a life.
The only people that need to fear militias are their neighbors.
Chris Rock was right. Time for the $1000 bullet. Make it not apply to birdshot (hunting) and build in an exemption for shooting ranges so long as the bullets are used there. I'm okay with home-made bullets and small armory jobs, but the idea that the average person needs a horde of 10,000 bullets in their house is just... dumb.
More often than not the responses piss me off. Too middle-of-the-road to please anyone. Leadership means taking the position you think is right and telling people why they should follow. Obama's done it a few times (get out of Iraq and gay rights for example) but mostly he hides within the range of the acceptable opinions.
This whole article is based on a common (and false) myth.
The U.S. is a signatory to the international treaty of the meter. Our yards, pounds and gallons are defined on the meric scale and have been since the 1890s. The problem is not that the Gov't hasn't adopted the meter, its that the public has decided not to use metric measurements and has openly opposed efforts to convert public signage to metric. see, e.g.http://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system2.htm
Yes, calling you a right winger is an insult. He didn't say "conservative" he used the pejorative "winger." Having read your post, you don't have a lot of room to cry over insults, winger.
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Different sized organizations.
The first two are real people with strengths and flaws. The last is, at best, a Hitler clone with magical powers.
It's the clutch and hold phenomena. You don't spend a penny at the end of your fiscal year that can be saved and reported as additional net revenue as of 12/31. Once the arbitrary deadline is passed, you can start doing the job hunt that you should have started in October. Another example of the efficiency of the invisible hand of the market (i.e. short-term oriented corporate leadership gaming the numbers to increase the stock value, and thus their benefits and pay).
This is mostly limited to publicly traded companies, but any company that emphasizes end of calendar year financials is open to this kind of manipulation. Spend less, make more, at least on paper, and you do better.
I'm out. Changed careers after the .com bubble.
Tux is totally into Roids though. True story.
Instead the U.S. backs its currency with the force of law. You must accept U.S. dollars as legal tender in the U.S. or you are in breach of law. There are penalties. I wonder if anyone's revisited this issue since the price of Gold shot through the roof. There is quite a lot of it at fort nox, and in the treasury's vaults.
No. It won't. Not in a representative democracy. If the last two years have shown us anything, it should be that elections have consequences. When people vote, policy changes.
Problem 1: he is so brave and tough that he's posting as an AC.
Problem 2: "go and make him" is the argument of the violent lout. I stated a policy proposal, specifically a tax, which will only happen if the folks the majority of the country elected to represent them decide to enact it.
Error: you conflate with the inability to kill off an insurgency hiding within its own population with the ability to put down a rebellion. These are not the same. And, for that matter, we've killed a fuck-ton of insurgents in Afghanistan, we're bleeding the whole region as the zealots pour in from all over to support the Taliban.
The two are not reasonable facsimiles.
The problem is, this isn't a story about stopping the government, you're mouthing off against positions that are widely popular. Restricting assault weapons and the sale of bulk ammunition has more than 50% support in the U.S. You are talking about killing me, and your other neighbors, because you have decided that your minority opinion is more valid than the majority opinion. There's no British Army roaming the U.S. imposing the Federal will, it's us. Your extended family, the people who go to the same school as you, the folks that complain with you about taxes but used to serve in the Army and would move to protect out government from your rebellion.
The conceit of your argument is that the "jackbooted thug" isn't a human being. It's BS.
You realize, you are talking about murdering your neighbors because they happen to be democrats, right?
If you read my post, I specified that home made bullets should be exempted.
Me too. All things being relative.
Or, go fuck yourself.
Get a sponsor or drive 40 miles. Too hard? Tough shit. I do not care about your issue.
There is nothing to prevent the government from imposing a use tax on data. The decision to do so, or not, is a policy decision based on the wisdom of the policy. Even traffic shaping, as you describe, isn't barred by anything in the founding document. So, yeah, if you think that data use on the internets is killing people, lets do that.
And then these wack-a-loons would be blowing up whole schools at a time. The right to gun ownership, recognized by the Supreme Court over the last decade, is that of personal /defense/ not protection from tyranny. Even the great right-wing hero Antonin Scalia has oft commented from the bench that when it comes to the rights of the states/individuals as sovereign over the government, we had a war to determine those issues, and the South lost.
"We the People" the collective "we" the majority of the democratic electorate, rule. Individuals who do not want to be bound by that rule have a choice, they can leave. That's really your only option. What you are describing is not "resistance" it is murdering your neighbors to implement by force the policies they rejected at the ballot box.
You think anyone in our government fears a mob with guns? Recall, this is the government that has a fleet of robots that roam the skies looking for people to bomb without ever risking a life.
The only people that need to fear militias are their neighbors.
Chris Rock was right. Time for the $1000 bullet. Make it not apply to birdshot (hunting) and build in an exemption for shooting ranges so long as the bullets are used there. I'm okay with home-made bullets and small armory jobs, but the idea that the average person needs a horde of 10,000 bullets in their house is just... dumb.
More often than not the responses piss me off. Too middle-of-the-road to please anyone. Leadership means taking the position you think is right and telling people why they should follow. Obama's done it a few times (get out of Iraq and gay rights for example) but mostly he hides within the range of the acceptable opinions.
US doesn't use imperial.
This whole article is based on a common (and false) myth.
The U.S. is a signatory to the international treaty of the meter. Our yards, pounds and gallons are defined on the meric scale and have been since the 1890s. The problem is not that the Gov't hasn't adopted the meter, its that the public has decided not to use metric measurements and has openly opposed efforts to convert public signage to metric.
see, e.g.http://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system2.htm
Yes, calling you a right winger is an insult. He didn't say "conservative" he used the pejorative "winger." Having read your post, you don't have a lot of room to cry over insults, winger.
Dude had to yawn somewhere.
their own tech over "right tool for the right job." Dedication to any brand (even your own) over using the right tool is a sign of stupidity.
You have Gary -- murder capital of the U.S.A. -- fucking Indiana. NEXT.