It's not perfect, but Google does answer your questions now. For example, if I type into Google "what is the landspeed record?" I get the following result in a caption box above the website search results:
"The official land-speed record (measured over one mile) is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green (UK) on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, in Thrust SSC."
Most of the Dutch tulip mania trading was actually in futures contracts rather than physical bulbs.
As for Bitcoin, the deflationary design doesn't necessarily mean that people won't lose confidence in it. They must first accept that the "currency" has value in the first place. If I told you that I would sell you a "nealric coin" for $1,000 and that there will never be more nealric coins created, I doubt you'd be very interested in it, because nobody places any value in a "currency" that I just made up. Right now, Bitcoin has value mostly as the original and primary blockchain currency. But if another technically superior blockchain currency eventually supersedes it, the inherent difficulties of exchanging bitcoins may lead to people abandoning it, no matter how deflationary it is by design.
Probably not even most of them. If they've been using a fake SSN (which they need unless they are only making cash under the table), that SSN has probably been associated with them for credit reporting purposes. Even the ones who are 100% cash under the table probably have some identifying information out there that has been hacked- ID numbers from their country of origin, etc.
The concept of the channel dates back to the time when you had to receive a broadcast on a single frequency. The internet has made that whole concept obsolete. I cut the cord a long time ago, with no channels at all- just content bundles (Netflix, Amazon Prime, with a Youtube supplement). Those services are plenty for me, and cost me a total of $11/month (not counting Prime, which I mostly have for the free shipping).
Trying to replicate cable channels over the internet is like trying to motorize your horse drawn carriage instead of just buying a car, then complaining that the car is more expensive after paying for the care and feeding of your horses.
Yes, I know many live broadcasts (like sports) haven't yet moved outside the channel concept, but that is starting to change. Sports nuts may need to stay corded for a while.
Many political scientists like a two axis political definition. It's not just left/right, but authoritarian/libertarian. A single axis just results in semantic gymnastics such as those exercised by parent.
He will argue he's protected under the NLRA and other various Federal anti-discrimination laws. I'm not saying he will necessarily succeed with those arguments, just that they aren't wildly implausible. It's also worth noting that employers often settle such cases even if the merit is tenuous just because they want them to go away and because litigation is expensive. In this case, however, I'm guessing Google goes to the mat due to the high-profile nature of the case.
Shareholders get quarterly reports showing what Google is doing with its money. If they don't like what's happening, they can sell their shares or work to get different board members in place.
IAAL, though not an employment lawyer and not a California lawyer. I think he has a case- it will survive a motion to dismiss and possibly even summary judgment- but not necessarily one he will win if it goes to final merits. Google is likely to fight hard on this one, but they also understood a lawsuit was the likely outcome of firing him, and likely decided it was worth the cost.
It's more than just shifting standards. It's a totally different sense of the word. It means a liberal as in minimal regulation of the market- market actors are at liberty to do as they please. It's much closer to what is understood as "libertarian" in today's world.
They truly don't care if they get sued- even if they loose. The publicity surrounding this incident is sufficiently bad that a few million dollars in settlement would be well-worth it as the price for getting rid of this guy.
A generation younger than Socrates was Plato. A generation behind Plato was Aristotle. Aristotle was the tutor to Alexander the Great, who represented to apex of Hellenistic power in the world. Yes, Alexander was Macedonian, but remember the country of Greece did not exist at the time but rather various city states. Macedon was considered part of the ancient Greek world and Alexander was a native Greek speaker. Even if you consider the end of Athenian independence from Macedonia a fall, that didn't happen until 338BC- about 60 years after Socrates died- several generations later than the one he was criticized for corrupting.
Long story short, the Greeks actually rose to their highest prominence in the succeeding generations after Socrates. Hellenistic influence was still strong in many parts of the world for hundreds of years after Alexander. Athens did not fall to true outside powers (i.e. the Romans) until 146 BC- about 250 years after Socrates died.
People have complaining about the youth having something wrong with them since before the trial of Socrates. There's always something to blame, be it a philosopher, books, video games, or smartphones. People will talk down about a generation until that generation gets old enough to have power in society. Then, they will in turn talk down to next generation. Circle of life I suppose.
I am a tax attorney for an oil company. It's a lot more complicated than that. Overall, the oil industry actually bears one of the highest effective global tax rates- much higher than tech companies. Many countries where we do business have extremely high taxes specifically targeted at the oil industry. We don't have a ton of intellectual property that can be easily shifted between jurisdictions with the stroke of a pen so there are fewer aggressive planning opportunities.
The biggest "tax break" in the U.S. for the upstream oil industry (exploration and production of oil as opposed to transport and refining) is the expensing of intangible drilling costs ("IDC"). These costs would lead to a deduction in almost any income tax regime, but allowing such costs to be expensed accelerates the deduction. The industry would argue that expensing better matches the underlying economics of the transaction than having to capitalize the costs (deducting a portion over time). Many companies are actually capitalizing IDC voluntarily because they've been operating at a loss for the past few years. You don't pay any tax at all if you don't make any money.
Long story short, tax breaks are not what is driving profitability in the oil industry. It's commodity prices first, second, and third that drive profitability. Right now, they are in the tank. I'd also note that renewable sources also have considerable tax benefits- arguably more aggressive than those available for the oil industry, it's unlikely that tax makes a big difference on a comparative basis.
I'm not sure it's true that they "never intended" the service to be used for hosting. The interface is designed to make it easy to link photos- there's several auto copy options for the photos to automatically add forum IMG tags or HTML formatting.
The thing I find most annoying is that it breaks image links all over the internet. I often read forums for car repair how-tos and discussion. With photobucket down, most of those how-tos are imageless, which significantly reduces their usefulness. A solid decade of collective knowledge is likely gone for good.
The suit or 5-star restaurant arguments are devious because these are both items available at a wide variety of price points. A "fine" suit could be defined as a Men's Warehouse basic suit that is at least all wool (~$300), or it could be defined as the finest bespoke Saville Row suit ($10k+). "Armani Suit" is a ridiculous measure of value because Armani actually makes suits at a fairly wide range of price points with several sub brands. A "5-star restaurant" could be defined as a basic entree and appetizer at a nice steakhouse with no alcohol (~$100) or it could be defined as a spot at a multi-Michelin star restaurant with the finest Bordeux to wash it down ($1k+).
Long story short, compared to real goods, the price of gold has varied widely. In the last 100 years, an ounce of gold has been worth as much as $2,500 in 2017 dollars or as little as $300. At times, it's bought a J.C. Penny Suit, at other's it's bought a fine bespoke suit.
The polls were accurate nationally. The EC didn't go the way the media expected because the state-level polls were lower quality than the national ones. This polling about Trump is being done on a national basis by the same outlets that called the popular vote within the stated margin of error.
There's a difference between "retaliation" and the natural consequences of offensive speech. If you invite me to dinner at your house and I hurl invective at you and your family, it's not a violation of my free speech rights if you decide to ask me to leave.
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It's not perfect, but Google does answer your questions now. For example, if I type into Google "what is the landspeed record?" I get the following result in a caption box above the website search results:
"The official land-speed record (measured over one mile) is 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mi/h) (Mach 1.020), set by Andy Green (UK) on 15 October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, in Thrust SSC."
Seems like a pretty good answer to me.
Most of the Dutch tulip mania trading was actually in futures contracts rather than physical bulbs.
As for Bitcoin, the deflationary design doesn't necessarily mean that people won't lose confidence in it. They must first accept that the "currency" has value in the first place. If I told you that I would sell you a "nealric coin" for $1,000 and that there will never be more nealric coins created, I doubt you'd be very interested in it, because nobody places any value in a "currency" that I just made up. Right now, Bitcoin has value mostly as the original and primary blockchain currency. But if another technically superior blockchain currency eventually supersedes it, the inherent difficulties of exchanging bitcoins may lead to people abandoning it, no matter how deflationary it is by design.
Probably not even most of them. If they've been using a fake SSN (which they need unless they are only making cash under the table), that SSN has probably been associated with them for credit reporting purposes. Even the ones who are 100% cash under the table probably have some identifying information out there that has been hacked- ID numbers from their country of origin, etc.
At this point, is there anybody left in the U.S. who has not had their names, addresses, and socials stolen in from a hack somewhere?
The concept of the channel dates back to the time when you had to receive a broadcast on a single frequency. The internet has made that whole concept obsolete. I cut the cord a long time ago, with no channels at all- just content bundles (Netflix, Amazon Prime, with a Youtube supplement). Those services are plenty for me, and cost me a total of $11/month (not counting Prime, which I mostly have for the free shipping).
Trying to replicate cable channels over the internet is like trying to motorize your horse drawn carriage instead of just buying a car, then complaining that the car is more expensive after paying for the care and feeding of your horses.
Yes, I know many live broadcasts (like sports) haven't yet moved outside the channel concept, but that is starting to change. Sports nuts may need to stay corded for a while.
Sure, not everyone makes wise decisions. Cold comfort for their children who had no choice in those decisions and get to live in poverty.
Many political scientists like a two axis political definition. It's not just left/right, but authoritarian/libertarian. A single axis just results in semantic gymnastics such as those exercised by parent.
Prices of any item going vertical is a pretty big sign the market has succumbed to irrational exuberance.
He will argue he's protected under the NLRA and other various Federal anti-discrimination laws. I'm not saying he will necessarily succeed with those arguments, just that they aren't wildly implausible. It's also worth noting that employers often settle such cases even if the merit is tenuous just because they want them to go away and because litigation is expensive. In this case, however, I'm guessing Google goes to the mat due to the high-profile nature of the case.
No, I think we'd just be British- Canadians under the worst case scenario.
Shareholders get quarterly reports showing what Google is doing with its money. If they don't like what's happening, they can sell their shares or work to get different board members in place.
IAAL, though not an employment lawyer and not a California lawyer. I think he has a case- it will survive a motion to dismiss and possibly even summary judgment- but not necessarily one he will win if it goes to final merits. Google is likely to fight hard on this one, but they also understood a lawsuit was the likely outcome of firing him, and likely decided it was worth the cost.
What is a mental and why does he have one?
It's more than just shifting standards. It's a totally different sense of the word. It means a liberal as in minimal regulation of the market- market actors are at liberty to do as they please. It's much closer to what is understood as "libertarian" in today's world.
They truly don't care if they get sued- even if they loose. The publicity surrounding this incident is sufficiently bad that a few million dollars in settlement would be well-worth it as the price for getting rid of this guy.
A generation younger than Socrates was Plato. A generation behind Plato was Aristotle. Aristotle was the tutor to Alexander the Great, who represented to apex of Hellenistic power in the world. Yes, Alexander was Macedonian, but remember the country of Greece did not exist at the time but rather various city states. Macedon was considered part of the ancient Greek world and Alexander was a native Greek speaker. Even if you consider the end of Athenian independence from Macedonia a fall, that didn't happen until 338BC- about 60 years after Socrates died- several generations later than the one he was criticized for corrupting.
Long story short, the Greeks actually rose to their highest prominence in the succeeding generations after Socrates. Hellenistic influence was still strong in many parts of the world for hundreds of years after Alexander. Athens did not fall to true outside powers (i.e. the Romans) until 146 BC- about 250 years after Socrates died.
The question posed by the article can't be falsified either. How do you expect me to construct a falsifiable rebuttal?
People have complaining about the youth having something wrong with them since before the trial of Socrates. There's always something to blame, be it a philosopher, books, video games, or smartphones. People will talk down about a generation until that generation gets old enough to have power in society. Then, they will in turn talk down to next generation. Circle of life I suppose.
Query whether Theresa May will still be PM in 2019...
I am a tax attorney for an oil company. It's a lot more complicated than that. Overall, the oil industry actually bears one of the highest effective global tax rates- much higher than tech companies. Many countries where we do business have extremely high taxes specifically targeted at the oil industry. We don't have a ton of intellectual property that can be easily shifted between jurisdictions with the stroke of a pen so there are fewer aggressive planning opportunities.
The biggest "tax break" in the U.S. for the upstream oil industry (exploration and production of oil as opposed to transport and refining) is the expensing of intangible drilling costs ("IDC"). These costs would lead to a deduction in almost any income tax regime, but allowing such costs to be expensed accelerates the deduction. The industry would argue that expensing better matches the underlying economics of the transaction than having to capitalize the costs (deducting a portion over time). Many companies are actually capitalizing IDC voluntarily because they've been operating at a loss for the past few years. You don't pay any tax at all if you don't make any money.
Long story short, tax breaks are not what is driving profitability in the oil industry. It's commodity prices first, second, and third that drive profitability. Right now, they are in the tank. I'd also note that renewable sources also have considerable tax benefits- arguably more aggressive than those available for the oil industry, it's unlikely that tax makes a big difference on a comparative basis.
I'm not sure it's true that they "never intended" the service to be used for hosting. The interface is designed to make it easy to link photos- there's several auto copy options for the photos to automatically add forum IMG tags or HTML formatting.
The thing I find most annoying is that it breaks image links all over the internet. I often read forums for car repair how-tos and discussion. With photobucket down, most of those how-tos are imageless, which significantly reduces their usefulness. A solid decade of collective knowledge is likely gone for good.
The suit or 5-star restaurant arguments are devious because these are both items available at a wide variety of price points. A "fine" suit could be defined as a Men's Warehouse basic suit that is at least all wool (~$300), or it could be defined as the finest bespoke Saville Row suit ($10k+). "Armani Suit" is a ridiculous measure of value because Armani actually makes suits at a fairly wide range of price points with several sub brands. A "5-star restaurant" could be defined as a basic entree and appetizer at a nice steakhouse with no alcohol (~$100) or it could be defined as a spot at a multi-Michelin star restaurant with the finest Bordeux to wash it down ($1k+).
Long story short, compared to real goods, the price of gold has varied widely. In the last 100 years, an ounce of gold has been worth as much as $2,500 in 2017 dollars or as little as $300. At times, it's bought a J.C. Penny Suit, at other's it's bought a fine bespoke suit.
The polls were accurate nationally. The EC didn't go the way the media expected because the state-level polls were lower quality than the national ones. This polling about Trump is being done on a national basis by the same outlets that called the popular vote within the stated margin of error.
There's a difference between "retaliation" and the natural consequences of offensive speech. If you invite me to dinner at your house and I hurl invective at you and your family, it's not a violation of my free speech rights if you decide to ask me to leave.
I think there's a bit of a recency bias at play with that list. Mad Max Fury Road was a great movie. But better than Casablanca? I think not.