Law: Congress is given taxing authority by the Constitution, therefore Congress can tax your income any way choose.
But, a more clear cut method would have been to raise taxes by $750 and then give tax credits to those who choose to purchase health insurance. Then it would be a choice that the libertarians could have just ignored.
Don't forget, it's the health insurance companies who wanted this law. The cartel is the sole beneficiary in a system where buyers are mandated to purchase a product.
It's bigger than an iPod, but a Treo w/PocketTunes can do streaming audio. With Sprint's Unlimited PowerVision plan you get all you can drink music anywhere they have coverage. Carrying only one device is a nice plus too.
The murder rate in Baghdad last year was 95/100k. I'd say it's at least 10x easier to kill someone today than it was 800 years ago. It's not nearly as easy to ax someone as it is to shoot them or blow them up. Who knows if it's right, but 10/100k is not unreasonable.
There is no difference between being pro-choice and pro-abortion. Either you think it is wrong, or you don't - either you think it's murder, or you don't. Or, I guess, either you think murder is wrong, or you don't, if you think it is murder. For the record (again) I do not think that it is.
Straw man. It is not a crime, and it is defined as a right by the only interpretation of the Constitution that matters (the Supreme Court's). You can support those constitutional rights of women to make their own decisions - to decide for themselves if they believe that having an abortion is wrong and whether or when it is not -- and still firmly believe that it is wrong and that these women are going against your morality or creed by having abortions. The two are mutually exclusive. Supporting our system of government and every right that we are guaranteed because of it has absolutely nothing to do with your personal morality.
Ah yes -- it's ignition timing I was thinking of not compression. I think I got it in my head a few years ago that they were now making engines with variable compression... but apparently that's not true. Thanks.
Although I did suggest using regular, my post was more commenting on his suggestion that 93 is the "good stuff" which made me think that he'd fallen for the good/better/best marketing gimmick. 93 octane isn't required for any production vehicle that I'm aware of. 91 is fairly common, my car "requires" it.. but I've never heard of a car that requires 89 -- so there's hardly any reason to even make it except to get a few extra cents/gallon from suckers who think it's better.
If you have a knock sensor, your engine should just compensate for the lower octane gas by running at a lower compression ratio. But even then, if a car requires premium, it's going to get better power and fuel economy when using it, and the premium you pay for buying premium is less than 5% these days... so there is little or no incentive to buy cheap gas.
I don't think that the >100% tax that European countries place on fuel is the answer. But adding 25 or 50 cents to the existing 18.4 cent gas tax, or better, setting it at a fixed percentage of the pump price, would be a good revenue booster. Dropping the tariff on ethanol is a good idea. In fact dropping all taxes on ethanol would be a good idea. If the US govt taxed gasoline at a high rate and ethanol at zero, they could keep subsidizing the corn growers and eventually come to a market value for fuel that would be substantially lower than it is today.
I'm paying $3.70 out here in Los Angeles for premium 91 octane (we don't get the good 93 oct out here due to smog:-(
Then buy regular unleaded. 93 isn't better than 91, and 91 isn't better than 87 -- they're just different. It's fixed at ~15 cents above the price of regular because the additives used to get an octane rating of 91 or 93 cost the same regardless of the price of oil. And if your engine isn't specifically tuned to use higher compression ratios when running on 93, you'll get absolutely no benefit from using it. The energy level in 93 is the same as 87 -- unless the gas has been cut with ethanol as the octane booster, and then the energy level is actually lower. So, spending that extra money is foolish (unless your car uses a knock sensor or dedicated programming for higher octane fuel).
Gmail has Web Clips, that's almost to what you want. But what you really want is for Google Reader to be integrated into Gmail. It probably won't be too long before that happens anyway.
No, that wasn't the question either... he asked, jokingly, if a laptop purchased today would still be in operating condition by the time Vista ships. Answer's still the same though -- Nobody knows;-)
And, again... what functionality does this new ping give to _ME_, the user who bought this hardware and is paying the electric bill to run this browser? If I were to talk with the author of the code for this little snippet what explanation would he be able to give to justify that _I_, the user, want this?
You want it because the provider of the link is going to monitor your click-thru whether you like it or not. At least this way you can click on a link, which points directly to the page, and get there without them having to resort to http redirection and possibly javascript to obscure the fact that they're redirecting you.
Maybe the poster should have actually read the PDF of the bill. It calls for a registery of member states -- and that all local jurisdictions have a common tax base identical to the member state. Everything is supposed to be set up to be "one stop shopping" for merchants who need to do it. And those are companies with more than $5M in gross sales -- that is those who can afford a little overhead in implementing the system. It's supposed to make things easier, not harder.
The MS Natural is ok - but if you check out the "SmartKey" layout from DataDesk, I think you'll find that it's much more ergonomic. The far reaches just plain go away and your fingers don't have to move in unnatural directions.
What that leads to is a God who has chosen to tie himself to that era. He for his own reasons chose to tell all before and all after to fuck off. They are not as important as one particualr group at one point in time. He's all powerful. He obviously could have chosen to get do otherwise. He could have prevented a lot of the killing he hates so much. Instead, he caused it on purpose.
Any other interpretation makes him less than god. Really sad people buy into that purely evil crap.
I'd guess that God isn't evil, nor are there any chosen people. People just want to think they're the chosen ones. It's like saying the whole rest of the universe is lifeless. We just have to face the facts that the bible was written down by human beings between 1800 and 5000+ years ago. Human beings who didn't know that the earth revolves around the sun or that the earth wasn't flat. I'd say it's all part of some master plan gone wrong...
God creates universe.
God waits.
Long time passes.
Humans evolve, thrive, and develop culture.
God notices the sentient beings and reveals self to humans in various ways.
Humans don't understand God and interpret the revelations how they see fit.
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Law: Congress is given taxing authority by the Constitution, therefore Congress can tax your income any way choose.
But, a more clear cut method would have been to raise taxes by $750 and then give tax credits to those who choose to purchase health insurance. Then it would be a choice that the libertarians could have just ignored.
Don't forget, it's the health insurance companies who wanted this law. The cartel is the sole beneficiary in a system where buyers are mandated to purchase a product.
Who needs more than 640k anyway?
Don't forget the Hot Babes who want to meet you..
Solution... Bigger Battery or HUGE Battery
The murder rate in Baghdad last year was 95/100k. I'd say it's at least 10x easier to kill someone today than it was 800 years ago. It's not nearly as easy to ax someone as it is to shoot them or blow them up. Who knows if it's right, but 10/100k is not unreasonable.
So, did you ask them to fix it and get shot down?
The Dell PowerConnect 2724 is pretty good - web managed, vlans, etc.. and only $258 right now. http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetail s.aspx/pwcnt_2724?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
"Miss Crabtree - call the feds! I think Johnny's evolving!"
Ah yes -- it's ignition timing I was thinking of not compression. I think I got it in my head a few years ago that they were now making engines with variable compression... but apparently that's not true. Thanks.
If you have a knock sensor, your engine should just compensate for the lower octane gas by running at a lower compression ratio. But even then, if a car requires premium, it's going to get better power and fuel economy when using it, and the premium you pay for buying premium is less than 5% these days... so there is little or no incentive to buy cheap gas.
Yes, but if you had read my whole post you'd see that I wasn't advocating putting 87 into an engine that's designed for premium.
I don't think that the >100% tax that European countries place on fuel is the answer. But adding 25 or 50 cents to the existing 18.4 cent gas tax, or better, setting it at a fixed percentage of the pump price, would be a good revenue booster. Dropping the tariff on ethanol is a good idea. In fact dropping all taxes on ethanol would be a good idea. If the US govt taxed gasoline at a high rate and ethanol at zero, they could keep subsidizing the corn growers and eventually come to a market value for fuel that would be substantially lower than it is today.
Then buy regular unleaded. 93 isn't better than 91, and 91 isn't better than 87 -- they're just different. It's fixed at ~15 cents above the price of regular because the additives used to get an octane rating of 91 or 93 cost the same regardless of the price of oil. And if your engine isn't specifically tuned to use higher compression ratios when running on 93, you'll get absolutely no benefit from using it. The energy level in 93 is the same as 87 -- unless the gas has been cut with ethanol as the octane booster, and then the energy level is actually lower. So, spending that extra money is foolish (unless your car uses a knock sensor or dedicated programming for higher octane fuel).
But don't drink the real "Diet Coke with Lemon" -- it tastes like furniture polish.
Gmail has Web Clips, that's almost to what you want. But what you really want is for Google Reader to be integrated into Gmail. It probably won't be too long before that happens anyway.
Actually, Apple bought Fingerworks.
No, that wasn't the question either... he asked, jokingly, if a laptop purchased today would still be in operating condition by the time Vista ships. Answer's still the same though -- Nobody knows ;-)
It does work with them, lawyers can be disbarred if they repeatedly bring frivolous lawsuits to court.
You want it because the provider of the link is going to monitor your click-thru whether you like it or not. At least this way you can click on a link, which points directly to the page, and get there without them having to resort to http redirection and possibly javascript to obscure the fact that they're redirecting you.
Which facts? I'm interested to know the specific sources of the facts that support ID and disprove Evolution.
Maybe the poster should have actually read the PDF of the bill. It calls for a registery of member states -- and that all local jurisdictions have a common tax base identical to the member state. Everything is supposed to be set up to be "one stop shopping" for merchants who need to do it. And those are companies with more than $5M in gross sales -- that is those who can afford a little overhead in implementing the system. It's supposed to make things easier, not harder.
The MS Natural is ok - but if you check out the "SmartKey" layout from DataDesk, I think you'll find that it's much more ergonomic. The far reaches just plain go away and your fingers don't have to move in unnatural directions.
I'd guess that God isn't evil, nor are there any chosen people. People just want to think they're the chosen ones. It's like saying the whole rest of the universe is lifeless. We just have to face the facts that the bible was written down by human beings between 1800 and 5000+ years ago. Human beings who didn't know that the earth revolves around the sun or that the earth wasn't flat. I'd say it's all part of some master plan gone wrong...