This is just the gas tax, tho. CA also charges sales tax (not included in the totals), and not just on the price of gas, but on the price after all other taxes are tacked onto it.
Ya know, that's a good point. If the U.S. didn't subsidize NATO defense, those other nations couldn't afford to have socialized medicine and migrant-welfare programs. Hmmm.....
California already does that, in spades (about a third of the cost of gas at present). All it achieves is making poor people poorer, since it's largely working-class people who have to live far enough away from jobs that they're forced to commute (and no, it's not practical to have mass transit handle that when no two people go the same direction at the same time all over a metro area over 50 miles wide). And selling 'em all new efficient hybrids isn't such a good solution either. Most can't quality for a newer used car, let alone a new car loan.
Also, the only thing higher taxes encourages government to do is... spend more. When did you last see higher taxes go toward reducing gov't debt?
Hmmph. My '91 F350 can make it into low orbit under its own power.;)
Seriously, it's not so much what they grew up without, as that nowadays they grow up with too much, cuz the toys all come with blueprints and do the playing for the child. Conversely we old farts had to create from whatever we could scrounge and cobble it together however we could imagine. Wonder is imagination on the loose.
"Oh dear! 75% of the land surface isn't actually arable, or even habitable. Humans must have ruined it!"
I note that people who make these broad proclamations *never* have any sense of the scale of the planet. They see a hobby farm and think that's all of agriculture.
For once we utterly agree. I don't care why he did it, or if the flat-earth thing is a sham. He DID it, that very thing kids our age dreamed about doing as we built go-karts and bottle rockets, in our 10-year-old's best imitation of those newfangled manned space missions. And that's an inspiration.
Maybe we all need to be kids again, so we can understand what he achieved.
If I turn my monitor up to FRY, and crank along frame by frame, I can just barely see her feet reflecting at about 40 yards, and the rest of her becomes visible at about 20 yards.
35mph is about 51 feet per second. There's just one second between a squinted What's-That? and Oh-Shit! and one more second til impact.
There's also at least one of a guy burning to death in a multi-car pile-up. It's 18 minutes long. Some people might take it as torture porn; I took it as a sobering advertisement for the Jaws of Life (and for not driving like a maniac).
Since when are artists getting royalties from their stuff being played over any media? (radio or youtube) Last I heard, ASCAP collects the money and labels get some of it, but artists are still waiting for that first royalty check.
And there you put your finger square on the real problem. There are plenty of alternatives. There aren't any alternatives where average content creators can make a living.
Gab TV is hoping to manage this, but has a long way to go to achieve it.
I'm wondering how they justify prohibiting links to one type of merchandise while allowing links to others. I also wonder if someday merch links will only function as affiliate links where Google gets a cut.
Yer doin' it wrong. If you read the mass feed, you'll get all the garbage (seriously, would you read here at a default of -1 ??) Far better is to make an account, then find and follow a few people you like, and branch off by checking out people they repost, and so on. No reason to read the raw-sewage feed (tho you can do so at any time by putting * in the Search box). Meanwhile, you can mute keywords for shit you don't want to see.
I have a Gab Pro account solely because it lets me makes Lists, so I can sort out a few specialized feeds for when my Followed group is too much to skim through.
Further, tho I'd probably find being required to play GTA at least somewhat relaxing.... if I had to play the Sims every day, by the end of the first week I'd have committed a violent act upon the testers.
They must have started doing it again, then, because I did use it once (unwanted gift and Target actually had what I wanted, but it cost a little more, so I walked out the door poorer than I went in) but very shortly thereafter started requiring receipts.
Back in the 1970s, for a while Target had a policy that so long as it was an item Target carried, you could return it to Target for a refund -- no matter where you bought it, because they figured they could just put it on the shelf and resell it. Needless to say this didn't last very long.
Yep. And massively encouraged by the welfare state, which frankly should be restricted to citizens, not open to everyone with their hand out. Charity is one thing, but this is suicidally pathological altruism.
The current mess boils down to divide and conquer. A cohesive people are tough to overwhelm; "diverse" people (whose first loyalty is to their foreign tribe) can't and won't pull together well enough to resist, and some will welcome their new overlords.
And from all I've seen, while Soros money may largely fund the "resettlement" NGOs, the real backer of this scheme appears to be Saudi Arabia, which has discovered an excellent way to spread the reach of Islam (which is basically proto-Marxism with hellfire pasted on top) without the tedium and expense of a shooting war. They've been trying to conquer Europe for 1400 years, and have always ultimately failed. But this time, the enemy is already inside the gates.
Slashdot Mirror
TinyURL lets you make a human-readable URL (they call it a "custom alias").
https://tinyurl.com/
Not exactly.
https://taxfoundation.org/stat...
This is just the gas tax, tho. CA also charges sales tax (not included in the totals), and not just on the price of gas, but on the price after all other taxes are tacked onto it.
Ya know, that's a good point. If the U.S. didn't subsidize NATO defense, those other nations couldn't afford to have socialized medicine and migrant-welfare programs. Hmmm.....
I noted that the owner of Politico is a contributor to the Clinton Foundation, and decided not to believe a word it says, either.
California already does that, in spades (about a third of the cost of gas at present). All it achieves is making poor people poorer, since it's largely working-class people who have to live far enough away from jobs that they're forced to commute (and no, it's not practical to have mass transit handle that when no two people go the same direction at the same time all over a metro area over 50 miles wide). And selling 'em all new efficient hybrids isn't such a good solution either. Most can't quality for a newer used car, let alone a new car loan.
Also, the only thing higher taxes encourages government to do is... spend more. When did you last see higher taxes go toward reducing gov't debt?
... Rules Requiring Cars To Be Unrealistically Cleaner and Impossibly More Efficient
FTFY.
Hmmph. My '91 F350 can make it into low orbit under its own power. ;)
Seriously, it's not so much what they grew up without, as that nowadays they grow up with too much, cuz the toys all come with blueprints and do the playing for the child. Conversely we old farts had to create from whatever we could scrounge and cobble it together however we could imagine. Wonder is imagination on the loose.
"Oh dear! 75% of the land surface isn't actually arable, or even habitable. Humans must have ruined it!"
I note that people who make these broad proclamations *never* have any sense of the scale of the planet. They see a hobby farm and think that's all of agriculture.
For once we utterly agree. I don't care why he did it, or if the flat-earth thing is a sham. He DID it, that very thing kids our age dreamed about doing as we built go-karts and bottle rockets, in our 10-year-old's best imitation of those newfangled manned space missions. And that's an inspiration.
Maybe we all need to be kids again, so we can understand what he achieved.
Pat Buchanan makes some useful observation:
http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/w...
If I turn my monitor up to FRY, and crank along frame by frame, I can just barely see her feet reflecting at about 40 yards, and the rest of her becomes visible at about 20 yards.
35mph is about 51 feet per second. There's just one second between a squinted What's-That? and Oh-Shit! and one more second til impact.
Welcome. I couldn't stand if it I had to swim in the cesspool. :)
There's also at least one of a guy burning to death in a multi-car pile-up. It's 18 minutes long. Some people might take it as torture porn; I took it as a sobering advertisement for the Jaws of Life (and for not driving like a maniac).
Since when are artists getting royalties from their stuff being played over any media? (radio or youtube) Last I heard, ASCAP collects the money and labels get some of it, but artists are still waiting for that first royalty check.
And there you put your finger square on the real problem. There are plenty of alternatives. There aren't any alternatives where average content creators can make a living.
Gab TV is hoping to manage this, but has a long way to go to achieve it.
Oh, but the advertisers, they won't like it!!
Let the advertisers decide that for themselves.
Meanwhile, there's Hooktube.
https://hooktube.com/
I'm wondering how they justify prohibiting links to one type of merchandise while allowing links to others. I also wonder if someday merch links will only function as affiliate links where Google gets a cut.
I think it's more likely Muslim Brotherhood trolls, but yeah, regardless of the source, it's shit.
Yer doin' it wrong. If you read the mass feed, you'll get all the garbage (seriously, would you read here at a default of -1 ??) Far better is to make an account, then find and follow a few people you like, and branch off by checking out people they repost, and so on. No reason to read the raw-sewage feed (tho you can do so at any time by putting * in the Search box). Meanwhile, you can mute keywords for shit you don't want to see.
I have a Gab Pro account solely because it lets me makes Lists, so I can sort out a few specialized feeds for when my Followed group is too much to skim through.
Further, tho I'd probably find being required to play GTA at least somewhat relaxing.... if I had to play the Sims every day, by the end of the first week I'd have committed a violent act upon the testers.
Not necessarily unstable, but quite possibly toxic.
They must have started doing it again, then, because I did use it once (unwanted gift and Target actually had what I wanted, but it cost a little more, so I walked out the door poorer than I went in) but very shortly thereafter started requiring receipts.
Back in the 1970s, for a while Target had a policy that so long as it was an item Target carried, you could return it to Target for a refund -- no matter where you bought it, because they figured they could just put it on the shelf and resell it. Needless to say this didn't last very long.
Yep. And massively encouraged by the welfare state, which frankly should be restricted to citizens, not open to everyone with their hand out. Charity is one thing, but this is suicidally pathological altruism.
The current mess boils down to divide and conquer. A cohesive people are tough to overwhelm; "diverse" people (whose first loyalty is to their foreign tribe) can't and won't pull together well enough to resist, and some will welcome their new overlords.
And from all I've seen, while Soros money may largely fund the "resettlement" NGOs, the real backer of this scheme appears to be Saudi Arabia, which has discovered an excellent way to spread the reach of Islam (which is basically proto-Marxism with hellfire pasted on top) without the tedium and expense of a shooting war. They've been trying to conquer Europe for 1400 years, and have always ultimately failed. But this time, the enemy is already inside the gates.