At best, they provide a filter for individuals of a certain level of ability of competence, e.g. the average graduate from a school #1 is going to be more capable than the average graduate from school #100.
I started playing WoW this spring and stopped this summer. I was hooked to an unhealthy degree, and it was negatively affecting my professional and personal life. I quit cold turkey, and am very happy I did.
I know there are mechanisms built in to the game to encourage logging off (daily quests, rested experience), but those aren't as much of a motivation when you hit 70, and there's plenty of dungeons, raids, bg's, etc. to keep you playing.
What, if anything, are you guys going to be doing in WOTLK to help the weaker-willed players such as myself enjoy the game without ruining our lives?
Mostly because it does not appear to be libertarian. How can you seriously support McCain and Palin and still consider yourself any sort of libertarian? While the Democrats are pushing the welfare state, the Republicans are pushing the warfare state. They're both pushing the extreme-debt state, too.
Take this election seriously. Our economy is near, if not at, a disastrous tipping point. Neither major party has any plans to do anything about it.
Not quite. There have been a few years where social security revenues fell short of expenditures, but for the most part you're correct. The "trust fund" is an accounting fiction which is used to bring the federal budget closer to balance and we'd be better off without the program.
years matter, though. just because a person lives to 90 instead of 80 doesn't mean they're any more capable of working after the age of 70 than they otherwise would be. old age is still old age... medicine can't fix that.
education is also an important part of the equation, since the elderly are less likely to have the skills to compete in the modern workforce compared to younger workers.
Most researchers have to fight tooth and nail to get funding, or even access to, that kind of hardware. You get it without even a plan to use it? Send it back. Save your sponsor's money.
i am generally opposed to the income tax and i'm well aware of it's shady constitutional justifications. since i'm stuck with it, i'd at least like to get my money's worth. i don't even get that.
i wouldn't mind paying a tenth of what i pay just to have a court system and a national defense. unfortunately, i'm paying much more than that for things i don't need or want, and even some things i strongly object to funding.
and, yes, it is self-serving. i don't know how you feel about paying for things you don't want or don't receive, but i don't particularly like it.
Stay out of public libraries, stay off the public highways, don't take any unemployment insurance, don't ever enroll your young children in WIC, don't go to a state university (or if you already have, donate the state-supported portion of your tuition back to the school), don't use federal loan guarantees to get through school or purchase a house, don't deduct your house or school loan interest payments on your income tax, and lobby any church you my go to to pay full income taxes like all other businesses do.
I meet all but two of your criteria (roads and tax deductions). I don't think roads are a good example because those are funded by gas taxes in most states, so it's functionally a user fee, even if it's hidden.
The tax deduction is a very poor example because income taxes are a fraud in the first place. An individual's earnings has no relation to their consumption of government services. I certainly don't feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of the government for what I've paid during my lifetime.
I took the AB, got a 5, then ended up going to a school where I didn't even get credit for that. I'm not convinced the AP test itself is worth much, though I was much better prepared for the intro-level data structures and algorithms classes in college than I would have been otherwise. Just my experience, of course.
Forcing these graduates into teaching after their undergraduate degree reduces their competetiveness for graduate school and industry, which is where new talent needs to be. The government shouldn't be mucking around with these things.
The fundamental problem is that these cheap drugs aren't going to stay in Brazil. If they can be made overseas and shipped back to the first world more cheaply than they can be made in the first world, they'll end up on the black market and cut into the sales of the patented drugs being sold.
Mr. Cho certainly isn't the first to purchase gun parts off Ebay, nor will he be the last. His actions don't implicate Ebay any more than the seller of the clips, the manufacturer of the clips, or the delivery company which transported them across the country.
Rights are not granted by any government. They are retained by THE PEOPLE and recognized by the government. This is a very important distinction which you absolutely must understand before entering into any discussion of property rights.
Open specs do help the market, but that doesn't mean businesses should be forced to open the specs of their software. If consumers are willing to buy what's available, then open specs don't even matter.
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no application, they just cut in line when the gov was handing out research grants
At best, they provide a filter for individuals of a certain level of ability of competence, e.g. the average graduate from a school #1 is going to be more capable than the average graduate from school #100.
I started playing WoW this spring and stopped this summer. I was hooked to an unhealthy degree, and it was negatively affecting my professional and personal life. I quit cold turkey, and am very happy I did.
I know there are mechanisms built in to the game to encourage logging off (daily quests, rested experience), but those aren't as much of a motivation when you hit 70, and there's plenty of dungeons, raids, bg's, etc. to keep you playing.
What, if anything, are you guys going to be doing in WOTLK to help the weaker-willed players such as myself enjoy the game without ruining our lives?
i don't buy groceries and expect to use them more than once
Mostly because it does not appear to be libertarian. How can you seriously support McCain and Palin and still consider yourself any sort of libertarian? While the Democrats are pushing the welfare state, the Republicans are pushing the warfare state. They're both pushing the extreme-debt state, too.
Take this election seriously. Our economy is near, if not at, a disastrous tipping point. Neither major party has any plans to do anything about it.
Not quite. There have been a few years where social security revenues fell short of expenditures, but for the most part you're correct. The "trust fund" is an accounting fiction which is used to bring the federal budget closer to balance and we'd be better off without the program.
years matter, though. just because a person lives to 90 instead of 80 doesn't mean they're any more capable of working after the age of 70 than they otherwise would be. old age is still old age ... medicine can't fix that.
education is also an important part of the equation, since the elderly are less likely to have the skills to compete in the modern workforce compared to younger workers.
It's the good kind of incest.
Most researchers have to fight tooth and nail to get funding, or even access to, that kind of hardware. You get it without even a plan to use it? Send it back. Save your sponsor's money.
Great idea! Guys on death row should *definitely* wait until after being executed to appeal the sentence.
i am generally opposed to the income tax and i'm well aware of it's shady constitutional justifications. since i'm stuck with it, i'd at least like to get my money's worth. i don't even get that.
i wouldn't mind paying a tenth of what i pay just to have a court system and a national defense. unfortunately, i'm paying much more than that for things i don't need or want, and even some things i strongly object to funding.
and, yes, it is self-serving. i don't know how you feel about paying for things you don't want or don't receive, but i don't particularly like it.
Stay out of public libraries, stay off the public highways, don't take any unemployment insurance, don't ever enroll your young children in WIC, don't go to a state university (or if you already have, donate the state-supported portion of your tuition back to the school), don't use federal loan guarantees to get through school or purchase a house, don't deduct your house or school loan interest payments on your income tax, and lobby any church you my go to to pay full income taxes like all other businesses do.
I meet all but two of your criteria (roads and tax deductions). I don't think roads are a good example because those are funded by gas taxes in most states, so it's functionally a user fee, even if it's hidden.
The tax deduction is a very poor example because income taxes are a fraud in the first place. An individual's earnings has no relation to their consumption of government services. I certainly don't feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of the government for what I've paid during my lifetime.
I took the AB, got a 5, then ended up going to a school where I didn't even get credit for that. I'm not convinced the AP test itself is worth much, though I was much better prepared for the intro-level data structures and algorithms classes in college than I would have been otherwise. Just my experience, of course.
why is HTML5 standardizing or recommending anything in regards to video content?
the "government granted monopoly" bit. Shouldn't South Africa try blaming itself, first?
Forcing these graduates into teaching after their undergraduate degree reduces their competetiveness for graduate school and industry, which is where new talent needs to be. The government shouldn't be mucking around with these things.
I wasn't aware that regulating media licensing fees was one of the powers enumerated in Article 1, Section 8.
Which part of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to do this? Does the 10th amendment mean anything anymore?
The easiest way to circumvent such a system is to upload your video elsewhere.
I thought Google's mantra was "Do no evil."
How is seeking government regulation to strengthen a particular company's ability to do business not evil?
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The fundamental problem is that these cheap drugs aren't going to stay in Brazil. If they can be made overseas and shipped back to the first world more cheaply than they can be made in the first world, they'll end up on the black market and cut into the sales of the patented drugs being sold.
Mr. Cho certainly isn't the first to purchase gun parts off Ebay, nor will he be the last. His actions don't implicate Ebay any more than the seller of the clips, the manufacturer of the clips, or the delivery company which transported them across the country.
and it's going to fail in New York. Mr. Spitzer should stop wasting his time and taxpayer dollars.
Rights are not granted by any government. They are retained by THE PEOPLE and recognized by the government. This is a very important distinction which you absolutely must understand before entering into any discussion of property rights.
Open specs do help the market, but that doesn't mean businesses should be forced to open the specs of their software. If consumers are willing to buy what's available, then open specs don't even matter.