Nobel Prize is sometimes given to stir up some local politics. While, I am sure, the writer is a talented intellectual, many times Noble Prize committee is choosing candidates to rattle the cages for the authoritarians and totalitarians in the recipients' original countries. Do not seek absolute and indisputable merits when researching the contributions of Nobel Prize winners.
It is a political tool.
It is also an investment to the weak and unorganized opposition to the moderate European dictator of Republic of Belaruss Mr. Lukashenko.
Writer Alexievich is know for the critics of the current regime in Belarus. Wise gentlemen decided to invest into visibility of the future leaders and intelectuals early...
4. And lastly, EPA is cool with fracking. I am not. But because EPA is cool, you are also ok.
EPA is completely incompetent agency, 100% wast of taxpayer's funds, should have been closed. All they do is pretend to be working. And you must be one of those who says more government and more taxes is the best answer to every issue. Perhaps you should leave to North Korea.
Sound decision from Risk management perspective. VW has 2% market share in USA.
No need to bash EPA on this decision. It was sound decision under the limited resources.
Now that we know VW diesels were not as clean a advertised, we still know that VW share is minuscule.
Risk based analysis is needed for every organization. Only for additional 10% income tax increase, spent on increasing the number of IRS tax collectors, it would probably be possible to collect 98% of all the taxes and to increase overall tax revenues by additional 40%. Almost 100% compliance is always a possibility, but rarely used in practice.
I would say close EPA and allow private independent companies do the testing. EPA has proved that they are useless, yet again.
I thought you forgot that gun is a right. Driving the vehicle is considered (arguably) as a privilege, yet most of the adults use drive the cars, which amount to 3,000 pound projectile on the wheels. Anyone with the driver's license can, or without it, but with the car can make a horrific crimes.
Gun ownership is a right, and a such it, by definition, is easier to obtain.
You have statistically approximately 10,000% higher probability to be killed by drunk driver than be shot by a mass shooter. If you are afraid of statistically barely visible probability to be killed in mass shooting, then, perhaps, you should carry a gun too so that you could defend.
Media should take responsibility for glorifying the crime and the perpetrator?
Almost all the mass shooters were psychiatric patients that were on medications or suffered deprivation of medications, antidepressants to be specific.
There will be a ton of people who will blame, as usual, the guns.
Here is my top 2 list.
1. Media. First amendment has limits. If you will start screaming "Fire", people will follow the instinct of the herd and there will be stampeded. CNN and the like should be sued until the are left without pants, for non-stop propagation and advertisement of the crime. This promotion is consumed by insane individuals who will do whatever the CNN is telling them to do in order to become famous.
2. Antidepressants. Blaming Big pharma is just the same as blaming manufacturers of the guns. It is just a tool. Medical community should take responsibility for putting so many people on antidepressants.
This new website will be a private competition to NSA (or other agency) databases. Or a complement. Peeple will complement everyone's profile with the insights that would normally never be recorded on internet.
Currently US intelligence community "does not" have the files for absolute majority of the citizens. What they do have is databases, available to be queried and the profile of the websites visited, people contacted, or other activities. Imagine this as an old fashioned address book, supplemented with the key interests, ranked by popularity of the connections.
Privacy becomes a privilege. It comes with the cost.
This may be a talking point during GOP debates. When GOP will start talking about fixing healthcare, they can be countered with Fiorina's success in Michigan HP project.
It happened during Fiorina's watch.
It can also be used as a talking point, that private entities operate better. Except private entities always underperform when they operate together with the state entities.
Truth is that up-to-date, accurate and detailed, organizational structure of army or other organization that participates in national defense is a prized reference tool useful both in peace and in a war time. Many of the organizations take extra precautions to distort, obfuscate real org chart and to hide key areas, such as communications/network, nuclear etc.
If enough time and efforts are invested all the org charts can be recreated, however in reality, due to the resource limitations only generals and top-lieutenants are in a typical org tree. Chinese made their own life easier since they have now a significant details and granularity of the information. Be sure that selected individuals will be targeted for intelligence and recruitment operations.
You know the standard answer coming from the school, right of the bat: "We the teachers do not have training or experience to determine if the suspicious looking device is dangerous or not. Safety is our priority".
Who is here to decide? Courts? If the history is any guide, school will prevail and the young tinkerer will be in trouble for a long time and will have a reputation as a troublemaker. More importantly, his name is forever associated with some serious charges, that will stay on internet forever, irrespective if the dude is innocent or guilty.
Then their stocks should not be held by Calpers, and other pension funds of public employees. Those, so called, profits earned by Big Pharma first and foremost are used to pay to FDA, and, in essence, compliance with FDA rules. Big Pharma Companies generate dividends, which enrich many of the people who sincerely don't like pharmaceutical companies, while forgetting that Obamacare in essence legalized the monopoly, and monopoly to get the profits, of the very Pharma companies.
I do have a technology, engine immobilizer, popularized in 90's. I assume that this was a selling point back then to prevent car theft.
Reality is that currently it costs $2 to $20 to cut a key. However, the price is up to $350, or more, to program transponder in the key at the dealer.
My car right now is 10 years old and I do not need some sort of protection for the car whose value is less than $2000. More importantly, once, immobilizer stopped recognizing native original key, which required mechanic tinkering with the immobilizer and car computer.
We are talking about redundant entertainment technology? How about unnecessary technology, a software, which can disable your car in the middle of your trip.
Speaking about car electronics - currently cars can perform the self check, auto diagnose an tell you what is wrong with the car. Can, and actually do, are different things: all the car is doing is only telling you to return to the dealer for "Maintenance", when the "Maintenance indicator" lights up.
I wish automakers would follow the philosophy of low cost airlines - all the features are optional, and not forcefully shoved to the consumers.
I think you got this one wrong, as your thinking is probably 20 years obsolete.
Cartridges are more expense in Eastern Europe. Many from E.Europe buy cartridges from US websites.
Cheaper workers..... Yahwn.... Eastern Europeans do not come to work to USA more frequently than Australians or Japanese. First of all, because they are part of 500M+ European Union now, where people can move freely. Europeans can travel to work to other country, such as UK or Germany, without visas, green cards, fingerprinting and the wait. It is cheaper to fly form Warsaw or Bucharest to Berlin or London, than to San Francisco.
To put it briefly: Eastern Europeans are not flocking to USA anymore.....
So when spin doctors started promoting thalidomide it only highlighted irrationality of individuals and population. Regulation which banned thalidomide is not an evidence that government is a solution to all the problems.
Government does have a role within a functioning society to make it more efficient or, for example, to ensure common defense.
However rationale of governing is many other areas always perverted and illogical: one one side Government allows, heck, funds millions of abortions, meaning killing millions of people all in the sake of choice. On the other hand when people make stupid choice of eating morning sickness pills, smoke weed or get faulty breast implants, all of the sudden, this type of choice is no longer tolerated. Killing with one hand and protecting from voluntary harm with other?
Who get to decide which human choices government regulates and which ones does not?
All authoritarians are bad at math. Many of them just incompetent and the moment they open their mouth and speak in areas that require quantification, they fail often.
This time is not exception. Who does Hillary has in her presidential team? Liberal art majors?
Here is the calculation:
One solar panel generates approximately 200 Wh of energy. Some might say solar panel generates 230 Wh, but for the sake of simple and easy to understand calculation let's use 200 Wh. There will be 500 million of them.
Let's say there will be 4 hours sun in one day, called Peak Sun hours, a factor which need to be taken into account when making this calculation. Let's say there will be 365 days in a year.
Total energy will be generated per hour: 500 million panels times 200 Wh= 100,000 million Watt hours, or 100,000,000,000 Wh, or 100,000,000, KWh, or 100,000 Mega Wh, or 100 Giga Wh per one hour. My math is correct so far. Right? Per year total energy to be generated 100 GWh X 4 hours x 365 days in a year = 146,000 GWh = 146 TWh.
146 TWh, is the output of 500,000,000 of solar panels
This is one of few instances when courts would be wise to do nothing and refuse to rule on the question.
The question is meaningless the same way it is meaningless for the court to rule whether the boiled egg needs to be cracked at the sharp end or the rounder end.
I would also like to remind the famous French Candle makers' petition asking the lawmakers to intervene:
"We (French candle-makers) are suffering from the ruinous competition of a foreign rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun.
We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat."
While the medical achievements are amazing, something is bitter about the pediatric medicine in China.
$80,000 was the cost of the operation.
Yet the Chinese government puts enormous pressure to abort the second child in the family and literally millions of healthy children are aborted.
I never understood this selective use of efforts comparable to other initiative: one launch of satellite costing billions, mainly to pay salaries for the thousands of engineers and technicians, could also be used to provide electricity and internet (even if it is a wireless internet) to the millions and millions of people in Africa who would really benefit from it.
We wish the little girl and their parents the best of luck in their further healing.
Check out FPS Russia video made three years ago with 27Million views. Handgun yielding quadcopter is a bit amateurish compared to the automatic weapon merged with the quadcopter.
Imagine what a quadcopter upgraded with high speed internet, nightvision optics and with the extended range (made possible with advanced batteries) could do.
Heck, drones are already used for smuggling operations.
You are ultimate fool thinking that the appetite of data gathering (spying) organizations is somehow limited to the servers that are stationed in US.
You are double the fool thinking that the government was doing kill US tech business: the truth is these two were adulterers all the times while on surface pretending to be independent. Some Companies even had the guts to state that they are "committed to the privacy" and "fighting the government" ("google and yahoo). The truth is that not only they were adulterers, but more like fused cojoined twins where government and corporations. There is another term that, look it up.
GCHQ is already collecting/monitoring the data, consequently, their request is a bit confusing if not redundat, isn't it?
Do they need a backup to their own databases? Or they want to focuss on relationship databases that aggregate all the metadata? Or perhaps they want to focus on analysis of the data, rather than focusing on collection?
Absence of OPSEC is counter-weighted with several hundred paid internet workers who do nothing else but work day and night to sway internet opinion.
As such, if there will be a report that there were dozens of Russians captured and hundreds of Russians killed, for each and every of the report there will be dozens of comment explaining that such findings are incorrect and fake. And that graves of the Russians are fake. And that Ukrainians are fascists and Nazis, from the failed state. Just read some of the comments for this article.
Regular reader of any news will be flooded with contradicting information and will choose to believe what he wanted to believe.
Some SF86 data has been copied? By definition this data is no longer secret. In the world of intelligence twisted legal logic does not work, such as announcing that the data is still secret and, thus, should remain classified. Beans have been spilled, make a first step and admit it.
The second and last step, In order to prevent blackmail is to make the data available for public. Once it is public, nobody can blackmailed.
Sir, if you run the manufacturing company, you should be knowledgeable that labor expenses, on average, is the largest expense component for manufacturing company in USA. Most of the companies choose absorption model to allocate labor expenses to the product cost, which is the reason they are hidden within "Cost of goods sold".
Now, if you look closely, within labor cost there are two most significant components: 1) taxes and 2) Net pay.
Ordinarily, Net pay represents and reflects the cost of living and the reason it is high because of overall taxation in the area.
To conclude, if taxes cut in half, you can expect to reduce your labor, services and material costs as well.
Labor costs are directly influenced by direct and indirect taxation.
I think that the damage to USA is very much over-exaggerated. So, the article says, that the informational gate to one of the websites has been messed up for some time.
So here is the prospective: if 50 years ago some some villages boys would have desecrated the entry of the US military base by peeing on the gates, or dropping a dead animal, nobody would care.
Same with the desecration of US website. The readiness and combat abilities did not decreased at all.
So a man carrying a pistol shaped gun openly could be arrested.
Except, there is no law that forbids carrying plastic toy gun. Using that kind of logic, next time 5 year old boy impersonating a cowboy during Halloween may be arrested or killed by policemen for disobedience.
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Nobel Prize is sometimes given to stir up some local politics. While, I am sure, the writer is a talented intellectual, many times Noble Prize committee is choosing candidates to rattle the cages for the authoritarians and totalitarians in the recipients' original countries. Do not seek absolute and indisputable merits when researching the contributions of Nobel Prize winners.
It is a political tool.
It is also an investment to the weak and unorganized opposition to the moderate European dictator of Republic of Belaruss Mr. Lukashenko.
Writer Alexievich is know for the critics of the current regime in Belarus. Wise gentlemen decided to invest into visibility of the future leaders and intelectuals early...
1. EPA is trying to ban wood burning stoves. With that type of trend, in thirty years you will end-up in jail for having a barbecue in your backyard.
2. EPA actually polluted rivers by letting industrial waste/poison to them. 1 million gallons... http://www.denverpost.com/envi...
3. EPA is a money stealing organization, waste of taxpayer's funds. http://www2.epa.gov/sites/prod...
4. And lastly, EPA is cool with fracking. I am not. But because EPA is cool, you are also ok.
EPA is completely incompetent agency, 100% wast of taxpayer's funds, should have been closed. All they do is pretend to be working. And you must be one of those who says more government and more taxes is the best answer to every issue. Perhaps you should leave to North Korea.
Sound decision from Risk management perspective. VW has 2% market share in USA.
No need to bash EPA on this decision. It was sound decision under the limited resources.
Now that we know VW diesels were not as clean a advertised, we still know that VW share is minuscule.
Risk based analysis is needed for every organization. Only for additional 10% income tax increase, spent on increasing the number of IRS tax collectors, it would probably be possible to collect 98% of all the taxes and to increase overall tax revenues by additional 40%. Almost 100% compliance is always a possibility, but rarely used in practice.
I would say close EPA and allow private independent companies do the testing. EPA has proved that they are useless, yet again.
I thought you forgot that gun is a right. Driving the vehicle is considered (arguably) as a privilege, yet most of the adults use drive the cars, which amount to 3,000 pound projectile on the wheels. Anyone with the driver's license can, or without it, but with the car can make a horrific crimes.
Gun ownership is a right, and a such it, by definition, is easier to obtain.
You have statistically approximately 10,000% higher probability to be killed by drunk driver than be shot by a mass shooter. If you are afraid of statistically barely visible probability to be killed in mass shooting, then, perhaps, you should carry a gun too so that you could defend.
Media should take responsibility for glorifying the crime and the perpetrator?
Almost all the mass shooters were psychiatric patients that were on medications or suffered deprivation of medications, antidepressants to be specific.
There will be a ton of people who will blame, as usual, the guns.
Here is my top 2 list.
1. Media. First amendment has limits. If you will start screaming "Fire", people will follow the instinct of the herd and there will be stampeded. CNN and the like should be sued until the are left without pants, for non-stop propagation and advertisement of the crime. This promotion is consumed by insane individuals who will do whatever the CNN is telling them to do in order to become famous.
2. Antidepressants. Blaming Big pharma is just the same as blaming manufacturers of the guns. It is just a tool. Medical community should take responsibility for putting so many people on antidepressants.
This new website will be a private competition to NSA (or other agency) databases. Or a complement. Peeple will complement everyone's profile with the insights that would normally never be recorded on internet.
Currently US intelligence community "does not" have the files for absolute majority of the citizens. What they do have is databases, available to be queried and the profile of the websites visited, people contacted, or other activities. Imagine this as an old fashioned address book, supplemented with the key interests, ranked by popularity of the connections.
Privacy becomes a privilege. It comes with the cost.
This may be a talking point during GOP debates. When GOP will start talking about fixing healthcare, they can be countered with Fiorina's success in Michigan HP project.
It happened during Fiorina's watch.
It can also be used as a talking point, that private entities operate better. Except private entities always underperform when they operate together with the state entities.
P.S. Obamacare sucks.
Truth is that up-to-date, accurate and detailed, organizational structure of army or other organization that participates in national defense is a prized reference tool useful both in peace and in a war time. Many of the organizations take extra precautions to distort, obfuscate real org chart and to hide key areas, such as communications/network, nuclear etc.
If enough time and efforts are invested all the org charts can be recreated, however in reality, due to the resource limitations only generals and top-lieutenants are in a typical org tree. Chinese made their own life easier since they have now a significant details and granularity of the information. Be sure that selected individuals will be targeted for intelligence and recruitment operations.
You know the standard answer coming from the school, right of the bat: "We the teachers do not have training or experience to determine if the suspicious looking device is dangerous or not. Safety is our priority".
Who is here to decide? Courts? If the history is any guide, school will prevail and the young tinkerer will be in trouble for a long time and will have a reputation as a troublemaker. More importantly, his name is forever associated with some serious charges, that will stay on internet forever, irrespective if the dude is innocent or guilty.
Then their stocks should not be held by Calpers, and other pension funds of public employees. Those, so called, profits earned by Big Pharma first and foremost are used to pay to FDA, and, in essence, compliance with FDA rules. Big Pharma Companies generate dividends, which enrich many of the people who sincerely don't like pharmaceutical companies, while forgetting that Obamacare in essence legalized the monopoly, and monopoly to get the profits, of the very Pharma companies.
I do have a technology, engine immobilizer, popularized in 90's. I assume that this was a selling point back then to prevent car theft.
Reality is that currently it costs $2 to $20 to cut a key. However, the price is up to $350, or more, to program transponder in the key at the dealer.
My car right now is 10 years old and I do not need some sort of protection for the car whose value is less than $2000. More importantly, once, immobilizer stopped recognizing native original key, which required mechanic tinkering with the immobilizer and car computer.
We are talking about redundant entertainment technology? How about unnecessary technology, a software, which can disable your car in the middle of your trip.
Speaking about car electronics - currently cars can perform the self check, auto diagnose an tell you what is wrong with the car. Can, and actually do, are different things: all the car is doing is only telling you to return to the dealer for "Maintenance", when the "Maintenance indicator" lights up.
I wish automakers would follow the philosophy of low cost airlines - all the features are optional, and not forcefully shoved to the consumers.
I think you got this one wrong, as your thinking is probably 20 years obsolete.
Cartridges are more expense in Eastern Europe. Many from E.Europe buy cartridges from US websites.
Cheaper workers..... Yahwn.... Eastern Europeans do not come to work to USA more frequently than Australians or Japanese. First of all, because they are part of 500M+ European Union now, where people can move freely. Europeans can travel to work to other country, such as UK or Germany, without visas, green cards, fingerprinting and the wait. It is cheaper to fly form Warsaw or Bucharest to Berlin or London, than to San Francisco.
To put it briefly: Eastern Europeans are not flocking to USA anymore.....
Morning sickness is not a disease to begin with.
So when spin doctors started promoting thalidomide it only highlighted irrationality of individuals and population. Regulation which banned thalidomide is not an evidence that government is a solution to all the problems.
Government does have a role within a functioning society to make it more efficient or, for example, to ensure common defense.
However rationale of governing is many other areas always perverted and illogical: one one side Government allows, heck, funds millions of abortions, meaning killing millions of people all in the sake of choice. On the other hand when people make stupid choice of eating morning sickness pills, smoke weed or get faulty breast implants, all of the sudden, this type of choice is no longer tolerated. Killing with one hand and protecting from voluntary harm with other?
Who get to decide which human choices government regulates and which ones does not?
All authoritarians are bad at math. Many of them just incompetent and the moment they open their mouth and speak in areas that require quantification, they fail often.
This time is not exception. Who does Hillary has in her presidential team? Liberal art majors?
Here is the calculation:
One solar panel generates approximately 200 Wh of energy. Some might say solar panel generates 230 Wh, but for the sake of simple and easy to understand calculation let's use 200 Wh. There will be 500 million of them.
Let's say there will be 4 hours sun in one day, called Peak Sun hours, a factor which need to be taken into account when making this calculation. Let's say there will be 365 days in a year.
Total energy will be generated per hour: 500 million panels times 200 Wh= 100,000 million Watt hours, or 100,000,000,000 Wh, or 100,000,000, KWh, or 100,000 Mega Wh, or 100 Giga Wh per one hour. My math is correct so far. Right? Per year total energy to be generated 100 GWh X 4 hours x 365 days in a year = 146,000 GWh = 146 TWh.
146 TWh, is the output of 500,000,000 of solar panels
Total energy consumed in USA in 2009, is approx 25,000 TWh per year, here is the source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So Hillary is proposing to install solar panels that will be 0.5% of overall energy consumption?
Calculating energy in solar panels, is just as bad as scaring the world with Iran's 100,000 centrifuges, or measuring volume with Olympic size pools.
Yeah. Authoritarians are often bad at math and they are bad this time also.
0.5 % is of course better than nothing, speaking in absolute terms, but the same, or more, can be achieved by many other alternatives.
This is one of few instances when courts would be wise to do nothing and refuse to rule on the question.
The question is meaningless the same way it is meaningless for the court to rule whether the boiled egg needs to be cracked at the sharp end or the rounder end.
I would also like to remind the famous French Candle makers' petition asking the lawmakers to intervene:
"We (French candle-makers) are suffering from the ruinous competition of a foreign rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, all the consumers turn to him, and a branch of French industry whose ramifications are innumerable is all at once reduced to complete stagnation. This rival, which is none other than the sun.
We ask you to be so good as to pass a law requiring the closing of all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull's-eyes, deadlights, and blinds — in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun wont to enter houses, to the detriment of the fair industries with which, we are proud to say, we have endowed the country, a country that cannot, without betraying ingratitude, abandon us today to so unequal a combat."
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/20...
While the medical achievements are amazing, something is bitter about the pediatric medicine in China.
$80,000 was the cost of the operation.
Yet the Chinese government puts enormous pressure to abort the second child in the family and literally millions of healthy children are aborted.
I never understood this selective use of efforts comparable to other initiative: one launch of satellite costing billions, mainly to pay salaries for the thousands of engineers and technicians, could also be used to provide electricity and internet (even if it is a wireless internet) to the millions and millions of people in Africa who would really benefit from it.
We wish the little girl and their parents the best of luck in their further healing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Check out FPS Russia video made three years ago with 27Million views. Handgun yielding quadcopter is a bit amateurish compared to the automatic weapon merged with the quadcopter.
Imagine what a quadcopter upgraded with high speed internet, nightvision optics and with the extended range (made possible with advanced batteries) could do.
Heck, drones are already used for smuggling operations.
You are ultimate fool thinking that the appetite of data gathering (spying) organizations is somehow limited to the servers that are stationed in US.
You are double the fool thinking that the government was doing kill US tech business: the truth is these two were adulterers all the times while on surface pretending to be independent. Some Companies even had the guts to state that they are "committed to the privacy" and "fighting the government" ("google and yahoo). The truth is that not only they were adulterers, but more like fused cojoined twins where government and corporations. There is another term that, look it up.
GCHQ is already collecting/monitoring the data, consequently, their request is a bit confusing if not redundat, isn't it?
Do they need a backup to their own databases? Or they want to focuss on relationship databases that aggregate all the metadata? Or perhaps they want to focus on analysis of the data, rather than focusing on collection?
Absence of OPSEC is counter-weighted with several hundred paid internet workers who do nothing else but work day and night to sway internet opinion.
As such, if there will be a report that there were dozens of Russians captured and hundreds of Russians killed, for each and every of the report there will be dozens of comment explaining that such findings are incorrect and fake. And that graves of the Russians are fake. And that Ukrainians are fascists and Nazis, from the failed state. Just read some of the comments for this article.
Regular reader of any news will be flooded with contradicting information and will choose to believe what he wanted to believe.
Some SF86 data has been copied? By definition this data is no longer secret. In the world of intelligence twisted legal logic does not work, such as announcing that the data is still secret and, thus, should remain classified. Beans have been spilled, make a first step and admit it.
The second and last step, In order to prevent blackmail is to make the data available for public. Once it is public, nobody can blackmailed.
Sir, if you run the manufacturing company, you should be knowledgeable that labor expenses, on average, is the largest expense component for manufacturing company in USA. Most of the companies choose absorption model to allocate labor expenses to the product cost, which is the reason they are hidden within "Cost of goods sold".
Now, if you look closely, within labor cost there are two most significant components: 1) taxes and 2) Net pay.
Ordinarily, Net pay represents and reflects the cost of living and the reason it is high because of overall taxation in the area.
To conclude, if taxes cut in half, you can expect to reduce your labor, services and material costs as well.
Labor costs are directly influenced by direct and indirect taxation.
I think that the damage to USA is very much over-exaggerated. So, the article says, that the informational gate to one of the websites has been messed up for some time.
So here is the prospective: if 50 years ago some some villages boys would have desecrated the entry of the US military base by peeing on the gates, or dropping a dead animal, nobody would care.
Same with the desecration of US website. The readiness and combat abilities did not decreased at all.
Nowhere the article says that stormtrooper was waving the gun.
"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
Common sense tells me that you have to assume that storm trooper has a gun, and ... ignore it.
So a man carrying a pistol shaped gun openly could be arrested.
Except, there is no law that forbids carrying plastic toy gun. Using that kind of logic, next time 5 year old boy impersonating a cowboy during Halloween may be arrested or killed by policemen for disobedience.