About ten years ago, my 1994 Ford Ranger exhibited similar behavior (choking under sudden throttle pressure and detonation under high load at speed). I brought it to a shop which has a good reputation in town and they said there was nothing major that they could find wrong and said maybe I should try higher octane fuel. I then brought it to a Ford Dealership and they had it fixed it withing 30 minutes. It was a dirty mass airflow sensor - I had left the air filter housing partially open by mistake when changing the air filter. They cleaned the MAS and the truck ran like new. I still does run great (not *quite* like new) today.
Anyhoo, moral of the story: People at the authorized service center might have just been incompetent.
When my oldest was in kindergarten, he would tell the school he didn't have a lunch because he liked what was on the menu better than what had packed him. The school would, of course bill us the 1.25 for the lunch.
My cowoker's son, who is in kindergarten now has pulled the same stunt.
Apologies for the horrible grammar mistakes in that post. I'm not very good at proof reading my own writing. For whatever reason it seems the act of hitting the submit button transforms me into a eagle-eyed editor.
Water is typically produced by local municipalities
Except in all the places where it is not. In the Western United States, much of the water comes from one of two large sources, and piped around to various areas via aqueducts. Access to it is controlled by the federal or state governments and local access to that water supplies are not ultimately up to local officials. In these cases, all local municipalities do it treat water and handle the "last mile" distribution.
Here in central CA, farmers get their water supplies heavily subsidized, especially on the West side of the valley where, if it were not for the CA aqueduct system, the land would be barren. For the last two years, I've had to endure rantings and ravings of local water interests around here blaming Sacramento for "stealing" "their" water.
The GP's point about corporate involvement is spot on. It is corporate water interests (wealthy farmers here in Central CA) who lobby politicians to give them sweet deals on water access. Meanwhile, us plebs pay inflated costs on our household water usage to make up for those subsidies.
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why not have a tax system based on how much money people spend?
1) Inherently regressive. They may seem somewhat fair for households that earn up into 200,000's, but when you get into the very high income earners, the effective tax rate drops to near zero because the percentage of income spent on consumables starts to drop and ends up being...near zero. There is only so much money one can spend on consumables. Mitt Romney, who recently revealed that his effective tax rate was 13.9%, would probably have an effective tax rate of 1% or less under a system of consumption-only taxation. The difference or course would have to be made up by middle income households.
2) It would be an enforcement nightmare. Sales tax is already more difficult to enforce than income tax. jacking the effective sales tax rate from ~6% to 35% would encourage more tax evasion. Widespread evasion would either force a feedback loop of ever higher rates, or draconian enforcement mechanisms that result in even more of our rights being taken away....or BOTH.
3) It would be catastrophically disruptive to our economy. 70% of the U.S. economy is based on consumption. The paradigm shift would cause a massive drop in consumption and result in a massive recession, which of course would cause tax revenue to plummet.
If you want to tax consumption, a small VAT is the logical way to do it.
Since you like Ray-Gun quotes, here is one for you:
"Taxes should hurt. I just mailed my own tax return last night and I am prepared to say 'ouch!' as loud as anyone."
--Reagan, 1970, after approving California's largest tax increase in history. Reporters soon pointed out that Reagan didn't pay a cent on state taxes that year. For all his talk about shrinking government, California's state budget more than doubled under his governorship, from $4.6 billion to $10.2 billion.
But despite their success, the telecoms companies say that like the population at large, they are desperate to have a government.
"We are very interested in paying taxes," says Mr Abdullahi - not a sentiment which often passes the lips of a high-flying businessman.
And Mr Abdulkadir at the Global Internet Company fully agrees.
"We badly need a government," he says. "Everything starts with security - the situation across the country.
"All the infrastructure of the country has collapsed - education, health and roads. We need to send our staff abroad for any training."
Another problem for companies engaged in the global telecoms business is paying their foreign partners.
At present, they use Somalia's traditional "Hawala" money transfer companies to get money to Dubai, the Middle East's trading and financial hub.
With a government would come a central bank, which would make such transactions far easier.
Taxes would mean higher prices but Mr Abdullahi says that Somalia's previous governments have kept taxes low and hopes this will continue under the regime due to start work in the coming months.
The Android update model's been working great for me. My Samsung Epic shipped with Eclair and has since been updated to Froyo, and Gingerbread. Samsung is working on another update to the phone right now, 17 months after the phone's initial release.
Fully functional and stable CM7 and CM9 builds for the Epic are also available from the community.
Come to think of it, you don't even need an Android phone for the Android update model to work for you. I was running Android on my Touch Pro 2 before I got the Epic!
Thanks for the history lesson but I was talking primarily about Democratic voters, not politicians. The minority of Democrats from the South who voted for the civil rights legislation were voted out of office by their racist constituents as a result of their votes.
Ever since then the GOP has owned the South. Surely you don't think all those new Republican voters didn't suddenly appear out of thin air?
For some reason, you forgot to mention that all of racist southen Democrats that were against the civil rights legislation in the 1960s defected and formed what is now the core of the Republican party today.
I'm sure it was just an innocent oversight, right?
Obama inherited those 1.5T deficit (the largest deficit was actually Bush's last budget, FY2009), and the deficit has gone down every year Obama has been in office.
Maybe you just shouldn't vote.
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Thanks.
While not identical, the "focus follows mouse" option seems to offer the functionality I want.
I've always loved and used KDE (even the early 4.x versions were better than gnome IMO), but one thing about it annoys me. In Windows 7, if I have one window partially overlapping another window, if I click a file from the background windows, the focus will not be shifted to the background window until I release the mouse button. This allows me to click and drag a file from the background window to the foreground window without the background window becoming the foreground window. In KDE, the second you click on the background windows it becomes the foreground window. This feature in Windows 7 (and XP?) is incredibly useful and I never noticed how usefull until I started using KDE again recently. Does anyone know if KDE can be configured to emulate this behavior?
College is not more expensive today. It's just that the state has subsidized less and less of the cost over the couple of decades, making it appear to cost more.
This what people 40 and older don't get when they bitch and moan about students not being able to work their way through college like *they did* when they went to state school. It'd be pretty damn easy to work your way through college if tuition were still around $1000 a semester, but it's not 1980 any more.
Banks, of course, have stepped in and filled the gap. I've seen a few prognosticators predict that the next financial bubble to pop will be student loans.
Lawrence Gelman was a fifty-seven-year-old anesthesiologist with a Bill Clinton shock of white hair and a weekly local radio show tag-lined "Opinions from an Unrelenting Conservative Spirit." He had helped found the hospital. He barely greeted me, and while the others were trying for a how-can-I-help-you-today attitude, his body language was more let's-get-this-over-with.
So I asked him why McAllen's health-care costs were so high. What he gave me was a disquisition on the theory and history of American health-care financing going back to Lyndon Johnson and the creation of Medicare, the upshot of which was: (1) Government is the problem in health care. "The people in charge of the purse strings don't know what they're doing." (2) If anything, government insurance programs like Medicare don't pay enough. "I, as an anesthesiologist, know that they pay me ten per cent of what a private insurer pays." (3) Government programs are full of waste. "Every person in this room could easily go through the expenditures of Medicare and Medicaid and see all kinds of waste." (4) But not in McAllen. The clinicians here, at least at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, "are providing necessary, essential health care," Gelman said. "We don't invent patients."
Then why do hospitals in McAllen order so much more surgery and scans and tests than hospitals in El Paso and elsewhere?
In the end, the only explanation he and his colleagues could offer was this: The other doctors and hospitals in McAllen may be overspending, but, to the extent that his hospital provides costlier treatment than other places in the country, it is making people better in ways that data on quality and outcomes do not measure.
"Do we provide better health care than El Paso?" Gelman asked. "I would bet you two to one that we do."
It was a depressing conversationâ"not because I thought the executives were being evasive but because they weren't being evasive. The data on McAllen's costs were clearly new to them. They were defending McAllen reflexively. But they really didn't know the big picture of what was happening.
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In which case a judge would not be able to declare a constitutional amendment unconstitutional, but this has happened./quote?
It has?
Can you please cite your source.
That's just how common law legal systems work. It's not unique to the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Hilarious.
You criticize judges for "creating new laws" in one sentence and then proceed to defend case law a couple of sentences later.
About ten years ago, my 1994 Ford Ranger exhibited similar behavior (choking under sudden throttle pressure and detonation under high load at speed). I brought it to a shop which has a good reputation in town and they said there was nothing major that they could find wrong and said maybe I should try higher octane fuel. I then brought it to a Ford Dealership and they had it fixed it withing 30 minutes. It was a dirty mass airflow sensor - I had left the air filter housing partially open by mistake when changing the air filter. They cleaned the MAS and the truck ran like new. I still does run great (not *quite* like new) today.
Anyhoo, moral of the story: People at the authorized service center might have just been incompetent.
So you are basing your idea of which cars to are reliable and which cars to avoid based on two cars that are so old that they regarded as classics?
There, FYFY
Working on your doctorate?
A likely scenario.
When my oldest was in kindergarten, he would tell the school he didn't have a lunch because he liked what was on the menu better than what had packed him. The school would, of course bill us the 1.25 for the lunch.
My cowoker's son, who is in kindergarten now has pulled the same stunt.
No worse than the narcissism inherent in libertarian ideology.
Apologies for the horrible grammar mistakes in that post. I'm not very good at proof reading my own writing. For whatever reason it seems the act of hitting the submit button transforms me into a eagle-eyed editor.
Water is typically produced by local municipalities
Except in all the places where it is not. In the Western United States, much of the water comes from one of two large sources, and piped around to various areas via aqueducts. Access to it is controlled by the federal or state governments and local access to that water supplies are not ultimately up to local officials. In these cases, all local municipalities do it treat water and handle the "last mile" distribution.
Here in central CA, farmers get their water supplies heavily subsidized, especially on the West side of the valley where, if it were not for the CA aqueduct system, the land would be barren. For the last two years, I've had to endure rantings and ravings of local water interests around here blaming Sacramento for "stealing" "their" water.
The GP's point about corporate involvement is spot on. It is corporate water interests (wealthy farmers here in Central CA) who lobby politicians to give them sweet deals on water access. Meanwhile, us plebs pay inflated costs on our household water usage to make up for those subsidies.
why not have a tax system based on how much money people spend?
1) Inherently regressive. They may seem somewhat fair for households that earn up into 200,000's, but when you get into the very high income earners, the effective tax rate drops to near zero because the percentage of income spent on consumables starts to drop and ends up being...near zero. There is only so much money one can spend on consumables. Mitt Romney, who recently revealed that his effective tax rate was 13.9%, would probably have an effective tax rate of 1% or less under a system of consumption-only taxation. The difference or course would have to be made up by middle income households.
2) It would be an enforcement nightmare. Sales tax is already more difficult to enforce than income tax. jacking the effective sales tax rate from ~6% to 35% would encourage more tax evasion. Widespread evasion would either force a feedback loop of ever higher rates, or draconian enforcement mechanisms that result in even more of our rights being taken away....or BOTH.
3) It would be catastrophically disruptive to our economy. 70% of the U.S. economy is based on consumption. The paradigm shift would cause a massive drop in consumption and result in a massive recession, which of course would cause tax revenue to plummet.
If you want to tax consumption, a small VAT is the logical way to do it.
Since you like Ray-Gun quotes, here is one for you:
"Taxes should hurt. I just mailed my own tax return last night and I am prepared to say 'ouch!' as loud as anyone."
--Reagan, 1970, after approving California's largest tax increase in history. Reporters soon pointed out that Reagan didn't pay a cent on state taxes that year. For all his talk about shrinking government, California's state budget more than doubled under his governorship, from $4.6 billion to $10.2 billion.
Yet for some reason the leaders of those telecom companies still desperately want a government.
Source
But despite their success, the telecoms companies say that like the population at large, they are desperate to have a government.
"We are very interested in paying taxes," says Mr Abdullahi - not a sentiment which often passes the lips of a high-flying businessman.
And Mr Abdulkadir at the Global Internet Company fully agrees.
"We badly need a government," he says. "Everything starts with security - the situation across the country.
"All the infrastructure of the country has collapsed - education, health and roads. We need to send our staff abroad for any training."
Another problem for companies engaged in the global telecoms business is paying their foreign partners.
At present, they use Somalia's traditional "Hawala" money transfer companies to get money to Dubai, the Middle East's trading and financial hub.
With a government would come a central bank, which would make such transactions far easier.
Taxes would mean higher prices but Mr Abdullahi says that Somalia's previous governments have kept taxes low and hopes this will continue under the regime due to start work in the coming months.
Whoops. Guess they have a bit of work to do on that build.
It's only been public for a couple of weeks though.
CM7 is solid.
The Android update model's been working great for me. My Samsung Epic shipped with Eclair and has since been updated to Froyo, and Gingerbread. Samsung is working on another update to the phone right now, 17 months after the phone's initial release.
Fully functional and stable CM7 and CM9 builds for the Epic are also available from the community.
Come to think of it, you don't even need an Android phone for the Android update model to work for you. I was running Android on my Touch Pro 2 before I got the Epic!
No. By "core" I mean the children and grandchildren of all the Democrat voters who switched to the GOP after the civil rights legislation was passed.
Thanks for the history lesson but I was talking primarily about Democratic voters, not politicians. The minority of Democrats from the South who voted for the civil rights legislation were voted out of office by their racist constituents as a result of their votes.
Ever since then the GOP has owned the South. Surely you don't think all those new Republican voters didn't suddenly appear out of thin air?
Native android apps have the ability to run shell scripts, which run in the "linux" part of Android. There is nothing to break out of.
For some reason, you forgot to mention that all of racist southen Democrats that were against the civil rights legislation in the 1960s defected and formed what is now the core of the Republican party today.
I'm sure it was just an innocent oversight, right?
Obama inherited those 1.5T deficit (the largest deficit was actually Bush's last budget, FY2009), and the deficit has gone down every year Obama has been in office.
Maybe you just shouldn't vote.
Thanks.
While not identical, the "focus follows mouse" option seems to offer the functionality I want.
this will lead to easier root access on Android devices
When I saw the headline that's exactly what popped into my head; "one-click" root tools for various Android devices that don't currently have any.
I've always loved and used KDE (even the early 4.x versions were better than gnome IMO), but one thing about it annoys me. In Windows 7, if I have one window partially overlapping another window, if I click a file from the background windows, the focus will not be shifted to the background window until I release the mouse button. This allows me to click and drag a file from the background window to the foreground window without the background window becoming the foreground window. In KDE, the second you click on the background windows it becomes the foreground window. This feature in Windows 7 (and XP?) is incredibly useful and I never noticed how usefull until I started using KDE again recently. Does anyone know if KDE can be configured to emulate this behavior?
College is not more expensive today. It's just that the state has subsidized less and less of the cost over the couple of decades, making it appear to cost more.
This what people 40 and older don't get when they bitch and moan about students not being able to work their way through college like *they did* when they went to state school. It'd be pretty damn easy to work your way through college if tuition were still around $1000 a semester, but it's not 1980 any more.
Banks, of course, have stepped in and filled the gap. I've seen a few prognosticators predict that the next financial bubble to pop will be student loans.
Several years ago called. They want their debunked myth back.
Great article.
This stood out to me...
Lawrence Gelman was a fifty-seven-year-old anesthesiologist with a Bill Clinton shock of white hair and a weekly local radio show tag-lined "Opinions from an Unrelenting Conservative Spirit." He had helped found the hospital. He barely greeted me, and while the others were trying for a how-can-I-help-you-today attitude, his body language was more let's-get-this-over-with.
So I asked him why McAllen's health-care costs were so high. What he gave me was a disquisition on the theory and history of American health-care financing going back to Lyndon Johnson and the creation of Medicare, the upshot of which was: (1) Government is the problem in health care. "The people in charge of the purse strings don't know what they're doing." (2) If anything, government insurance programs like Medicare don't pay enough. "I, as an anesthesiologist, know that they pay me ten per cent of what a private insurer pays." (3) Government programs are full of waste. "Every person in this room could easily go through the expenditures of Medicare and Medicaid and see all kinds of waste." (4) But not in McAllen. The clinicians here, at least at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, "are providing necessary, essential health care," Gelman said. "We don't invent patients."
Then why do hospitals in McAllen order so much more surgery and scans and tests than hospitals in El Paso and elsewhere?
In the end, the only explanation he and his colleagues could offer was this: The other doctors and hospitals in McAllen may be overspending, but, to the extent that his hospital provides costlier treatment than other places in the country, it is making people better in ways that data on quality and outcomes do not measure.
"Do we provide better health care than El Paso?" Gelman asked. "I would bet you two to one that we do."
It was a depressing conversationâ"not because I thought the executives were being evasive but because they weren't being evasive. The data on McAllen's costs were clearly new to them. They were defending McAllen reflexively. But they really didn't know the big picture of what was happening.