As a foreigner, how would you handle my out-of-country license? And if you do start reading Card Data -- then comes the inevitable security problems with handling all that data. (Should some company start to just sucking it up)
The difference between most concepts is a subtle, but significant differentions. It is what allows language to evolve to convey context and nuance. Medication, is a very broad term. Medicament is that used in therapy.
The Chinese had it correct by giving each lemma a new character, even though the pronunciation was the same. That practise has died, but the impact on society was great.
If users of English were able to construct new words and better convey its semantics through visual representation in addition to auditory representation, it would greatly increase the expressiveness of the masses.
Only in excessive doses. Studies have shown that there is no discernable effect on the brain for doses of less than 4ug/kg. So for a 220lb person that would be 400mg. Effective dose for such a person is 50-100mg. Recreational dose is the same, plus another dose more after 4 hours.
While the risk is not zero, theraputic doses are going to be quite safe for a majority of the population. (Insert disclaimer about those with undiagnosed psycological disordered)
You obviously haven't been around non-tech people in a while. I've heard "google that on Bing" "I use yahoo to google."; for a non-trivial number of people, "to google" justt means "to search online". Just like "hand me a kleenex" "i need a band-aid". The terms are still trademarked, but the public chooses to use it generically for anything similiar.
Have 40+ controlled trials demonstrating reduction of flu intensity after vaccination:
Bridges CB, Thompson WW, Meltzer MI, Reeve GR, Talamonti WJ, Cox NJ, Lilac HA, Hall H, Klimov A, Fukuda K. Effectiveness and cost-benefit of influenza vaccination of healthy working adults: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2000;284(13):1655-63.
Govaert TM, Thijs CT, Masurel N, Sprenger MJ, Dinant GJ, Knottnerus JA. The efficacy of influenza vaccination in elderly individuals. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. JAMA. 1994;272(21):1661-5.
Darvishian M, Bijlsma MJ, Hak E, van den Heuvel ER. Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine in community-dwelling elderly people: a meta-analysis of test-negative design case-control studies. Lancet Infect Dis 2014; 14(12): 1228-39.
DiazGranados CA, Dunning AJ, Kimmel M, Kirby D, Treanor J, Collins A, Pollak R, Christoff J, Earl J, Landolfi V, Martin E, Gurunathan S, Nathan R, Greenberg DP, Tornieporth NG, Decker MD, Talbot HK. Efficacy of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccine in older adults. N Engl J Med. 2014;371:635-45.
Talbot HK, Griffin MR, Chen Q, Zhu Y, Williams JV, Edwards, KM. Effectiveness of seasonal vaccine in preventing confirmed influenza-associated hospitalization in community dwelling older adults. J Infect Dis 2011; 203: 500–8.
Chen Q, Griffin MR, Nian H, Zhu Y, Williams JV, Edwards, KM, Talbot HK. Influenza vaccine prevents medically attended influenza-associated acute respiratory illness in adults aged 50 years. J Infect Dis 2015; 211: 1045–50.
Ohmit SE, Victor JC, Rotthoff JR, et al. Prevention of antigenically drifted influenza by inactivated and live attenuated vaccines. N Engl J Med 2006; 355(24): 2513-22.
Ohmit SE, Victor JC, Teich ER, et al. Prevention of symptomatic seasonal influenza in 2005-2006 by inactivated and live attenuated vaccines. J Infect Dis 2008; 198(3): 312-7.
Jackson LA, Gaglani MJ, Keyserling HL, et al. Safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of an inactivated influenza vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial over two influenza seasons. BMC Infect Dis 2010; 10: 71.
Beran J, Wertzova V, Honegr K, et al. Challenge of conducting a placebo-controlled randomized efficacy study for influenza vaccine in a season with low attack rate and a mismatched vaccine B strain: a concrete example. BMC Infect Dis 2009; 9
Beran J, Vesikari T, Wertzova V, et al. Efficacy of inactivated split-virus influenza vaccine against culture-confirmed influenza in healthy adults: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Infect Dis 2009; 200(12): 1861-9.
Monto AS, Ohmit SE, Petrie JG, et al. Comparative efficacy of inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccines. N Engl J Med 2009; 361(13): 1260-7.
Madhi SA, Maskew M, Koen A, Kuwanda L, Besselaar TG, Naidoo D, Cohen C, Valette M, Cutland CL, Sanne I. Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in African adults infected with human immunodeficient virus: double blind, randomized clinical trial of efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52(1): 128-37.
Osterholm MT, Kelley NS, Sommer A, et al. Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet ID 2011(12): 36-44.
Frey S, Vesikari T, Szymczakiewicz-Multanowska A, et al. Clinical efficacy of cell culture-derived and egg-derived inactivated subunit influenza vaccines in healthy adults. Clin Infect Dis 2010; 51(9): 997-1004.
Treanor JJ, El Sahly H, King J, et al. Protective efficacy of a trivalent recombinant hemagglutinin protein vaccine (FluBl
Vaccinations are not 100%. Nothing is 100%, and to assume that is even a possibilty is folly.
Plenty of people cannot obtain vaccines, and rely on herd immunity. The very young, the very old, those with immunity-compromising diseases.
One family was sued (and lost) precisely because her child, caught measles, and infected (and killed) two children who were too young for vaccines.
In France, there were less than 10 cases of measles a year, no deaths; when the rate of vaccination fell to 98%, there were over 4500 cases in a single year, many deaths, and then spread through the unvaccinated population across Europe within months, killing many infants.
In Utah, one unvaccinated person returned from Europe, and then promptly exposed over 1000+ people to the Measles virus, those unvaccinated, (mostly children), were hospitalized and suffered brain damaged from the disease.
Neither option is without risk, but the risks of not vaccinating far outweight the risks of vaccinating. And the risks of not vaccinating do not place yourself in danger, but affect thousands of others you are near. If we are to allow non-vaccination as an option, everyone who is un-vaccinated must pay for the health-care and hospitalization of everyone who subsequently catches the disease from communication they caused, directly and indirectly. Those unable to be vaccinated due to disease or age, would be exempt. People must take personal responsibility for the effects their actions cause unto others.
So, would I want to be one of 8000+ dead, unvaccinated, or one of the 100 dead vaccinated. I would rather take the latter odds. Nothing in life is 100% guaranteed. Mitigating risk by taking vaccines helps by mitigating the risk to any given individual. It doesn't nullify it.
I would personally accept the risk of being the unfortunate 1 in a million, who die because the vaccine was not effective on my specific physiology.
The companies own their own internal law company: "independent" but do business with anyone other than the cable company. The independent council -should- have been there to give a non-biased opinion, or to object.
I don't pay taxes back to Canada at all if I leave the country to work elsewhere. I get a letter from the CRA that says "You are no longer a tax resident." and I am exempt from all tax obligations until I once again become a resident of Canada.
It's the same for all other developed nations, emerging markets, and most the remainder.
Pretty much only the US requires their citizens to pay taxes back to their home nation.
As a citizen of almost any other country, if you work abroad, you don't have to pay taxes to your home country at all.
As a German Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Germany for working in the US. As a Canadian Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Canada for working in the US. As a Japanese Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Japan for working in the US.
It's pretty much US only that claims the right to tax earnings on citizens that work abroad. And effectively double tax the person (dependent on specific treaties). Because taxes are there to to support the utilites you use working abroad, the infrastructure you use, the social benefits you are eligible for, all of which imply you pay taxes to the country in which you are residing. Only the US is saying: You aren't using any of our infrastructure, or otherwise being a burden on our country, but we still want you to pay taxes to us.
Because: 1. it needs to power a separate radio to receive the GPS signals. 2. GPS sends out almanac data (rough position information) and ephemeris data (orbital information) 3. Your device needs to calculate the tragetory and position, and lock on to 4 satellites (3 for psotion, 1 for time) using this data 4. You device then needs to calcutate the total time-delta, to the nanosecond, between the time each satellite sends a message, and when you receive it. 5. ** Using this time delta, you can calculate your exact distance to each satellite. 6. Solve three overlapping sphere equations to triangulate your position at the ground. 7. Solve another equations using 4 satellites to calculate the equivalent atomic clock time.
Your device is processing dozens of messages per second, to keep the locks on each GPS satellite, to switch active satellites as you move out of view of any given satellite, and to keep your calculated position, and delta position (speed) all in sync.
It's very computationally expensive, and thus takes power to operate the chipset doing all this work. In addition, if you're in a city, without clear line-of-sight to enough satellites, it can boost the power and try to make sense of fainter data, or try harder to calculate which satellites are in theory overhead, and then to obtain a lock on each satellite and it's orbital trajectory and speed. Net result: GPS uses more battery in cities than in countryside.
The problem lies that almost everyone directly deals with SS7. Every ISP that offers voice services have direct access to SS7 protocols for fully implementing advanced calling features, multi-ring, international routing, cross-network billing, etc. in order to work seamlessly with the traditional phone systems.
The attack vector would be to get into one of the smaller isps, and hijack their internal link to SS7, which is likely a much easier vector in.
Judging by the number of ISP breaches... that this is probably much more easily done. You can then insert message packets, change the source and destination identifiers, and then create a dual stream of data and insert yourself into the call set-up or modification process (like adding new callers to conference, pre-empt connection and connect to alternate priority number and re-signal the connection after you place your line into the loop.
And due to the sheer quantity of data, these additional, legitimate services (Spam pre-filtering/blocking, group calling, etc), will simply get lost in the mix.
If you take the commentaries from historical documents from India and China, it's not the specific substance that determines the reaction, it's the taste. And that, sweet is sweet, regardless of source, producing the same general effects on the body. The only exception was "unheated honey, is a false-sweet, not triggering the expected reactions, however, upon application of heat, it becomes true-sweet."
And then you look at Germany, that has insolation similar to Alaska, making record-breaking amounts of solar power semi regularly. Meaning if a country that is entirely located further south were to make even a modest attempt, would completely outlclass the Germans at Green energy.
Would be nice to see the existing power companies simply add them to power transformer sub-stations. Bascially, every community would be power self-sufficient.
Worst case, they don't want to play ball, and cities simply line every interstate with solar panels for power lighting and infrastructure that's near the population centres.
I'm in Europe, and our debit cards have the bank routing, branch, and account number printed directly on the card. Like in th US, they were never meant to be "secret". However it seems, it works better here, where paying for Ebay transactions, a lot of bills, all take direct bank transfers where you provide your bank info (country-bankid-branch-account). (transfers in EUR are more or less fee-free).
If you purchase something from me on Ebay, Ebay will show you my full banking details and bank address so you can directly send the money.
Depends on which language you speak. Grammar will go by the natural plural; and US-English may use "bitcoin" non-plural; most of the world will use natural plural of English and add an "-s": bitcoins. Or, they will pluralize by composition: cat cats, tomcat tomcats; coin coins, bitcoin bitcoins. Or, they will pluralize by analogy: loin(s) bitcoin(s), or by grammatical rule: 1 book, 1.0 books, 1 potato, 0.4 potatoes; 1 bitcoin, 0.559 bitcoins.
English, also defines the plural explictly as for all numbers other than one, and for all fractional values. 1 book, 1.0 books.
That people will save, rather than consume. It moves the financial responsibilty directly onto the individual, and acts as the inverse of the stock-market, 401k, retirement vessels, and taxation to fund ventures.
The only difference between inflationary and deflationary is the point of reference. Inflationary polity holds the value of transient commodities constant, while the value of currency fluxuates. The problem, is the natural value of all consumer commodies approces zero; leading to a never ending task of stopping inflation from dividing by zero and heading to hyperinflation.
Deflationary policy holds the value of the currency constant over time, and the value of commodities decreases over time. This creates a much more stable system over time as the value of produced things degrade to zero over it's consumable life-span, the economic value of the item also approaches zero; and thus the currency, and economic output remain stable without intervention and monitoring.
People will still spend money, but on what is important to them, rather than mindless consumerism. People will still buy food. Buy housing, etc. But those who want, can live normally, with a modest income.
Those who put off purchases for a year, will see just how much more money will buy, and will be able to save for retirement, through purchases though time, rather than work.
Thus, the economy will switch over to producing things of value, that people will buy, rather than things with no inherent value (hello kitty tweezers?) that few people will.
And society will become more loose with their money, as over time, the money they have will allow any regular citizen to fund and pay others to devise solutions to their problems; and that money flow plus an added few years of money, will allow the next generation to be financially independent and capitalize the next generation.
People spend more on what's worth to them in the now instead of just mindlessly consuming, because people are now intuitively aware that the value of anything they buy is zero. (everything falls apart, wears out, or has a fixed lifespan) People will be able to travel and have more life experiences.
Deflation means that currency gets more valuable over time. That people will save, rather than consume. It's not that "people will hoard currency" it's that : people will be saving for retirement; services and costs previously provided by the government, and through taxes, are now self-generated by the individual. It's a full replacement of tax-policy, taxation, 401k and other forms of subsidized retirement.
People will still spend money, but on what is important to them, rather than mindless consumerism. Peopel will still buy food. Buy housing, etc. But those who want, can live normally, with a modest income. Those who put off purchases for a year, will see just how much more money will buy, and will be able to save for retirement, through purchases though time, rather than work. Thus, the economy will switch over to producing things of value, that people will buy, rather than things with no inherent value (hello kitty tweezers?) that few people will. And society will become more loose with their money, as over time, the money they have will allow any regular citizen to fund and pay others to devise solutions to their problems; and that money flow plus an added few years of money, will allow the next generation to be financially independent and capitalize the next generation.
People spend more on what's worth to them in the now instead of just mindlessly consuming, because people are now intuitively aware that the value of anything they buy is zero. (everything falls apart, wears out, or has a fixed lifespan) People will be able to travel and have more life experiences.
Well in the future described, you have to take into account all the implications of the initial assumption.
As the cost of electric vehicles goes down, as per the article, consumers, most of whom live in their island; will choose to switch to purchasing these more cost-effective vehicles.
80% of Business activity is within the effective range of a electric car.
This will spur the reduction of Gasoline car.
In addition, as the US matures into the "walkable" city concept, LA moving forward with it's LA 2050 project; cars will become second class citizens. Taking note of the rejuvenation caused by the removal of I-480, other cities 2040 and 2050 plans include removal of interstates, and replacing with centralize transportation hubs of busses, trains, and light-rail; in addition to making neighbourhoods a full mix of residential and commercial properties to ensure that vehicle need is reduced.
To spur this along, various plans have included to give priority access to on-demand cars; transit in numerous cities have switched to a last-mile system, or dynamic routing of busses based on destinations (think Uber-Pool). This is to relieve the former problem of fixed-route transit not meeting needs.
LA is building dedicated Bus and taxi lanes that are fully isolated (separate on and off ramps) from non-shared traffic.
Renting is going to become cheaper, like in the rest of the world, where higher density cities basically lower the housing and rental costs as supply increases. And -hopefully- the US-Gov't will step in and remove the Mortgage Interest subsidy that costs the gov't billions, funneling it directly to the Banks. That again will start pushing the trend to lower cost rentals and remove the incentive for home-ownership (which most young people don't particularly desire).
In your example, if you lived 40min away by car, you would probably move. As that's a huge distance; and if that time is caused by congestion, fixed-rail would yield a better commute.
The better option, would be to move.
And this is just one possible out of an infinite number of states that can be obtained in your scenario.
We had to do 30 year modelling, given "Assume that Car ownership drops to 12% (as in Singapore) over the next 10 years. Assume that this number is reached by increasing registration tax on ownership; follow the Singapore trend-lines where the registration cost of a vehicle is 110% of the market value, a registration winning bid (they are auctioned) at $35,000USD. " For your case of "You apply for a job 80 miles away" We would need to write up over 40-50 pages to get the answer. Every leading cause and effect from the initial state need to be addressed; with each effect being the source causes to new effects (reactions, problems, mitigations, behaviour changes, policy changes, etc).
Inflation would dictate that prices go up 2-3% a year. With actual CPI rates, prices would need to go up 19% over the last 10 years in order to not decrease in value at all; Outside of that, as maintenance costs increase, I would also plan for 10-15% price increases over time as well.
Personally, I would prefer that prices be set to actually offset the entire cost of resource management, environmental impact, maintenance contracts, -upgrade contracts- (improve, don't just maintain), inflationary cost capture, and "rainy day fund" (aka: an extra 5% that doesn't get used at all, except to hold in securities to offset future unexpected events, this fund would have a maximum withdrawal allowance of 3% current value per year)
I currentyl pay 20c/kwH for the first "city average, previous year" number of units of usage. Then I pay 40c/kwH. I also believe we are severely under-paying for electricity based on generation. I am actively pushing the city to push to bring up the rates to at least 80c/kwH, and use the extra funds to start building bettter public transit infrastructure, better parkland infrastructure (capping highways and putting park-land on top), and to start a mindshare of financial independence from the federal government.
Gasoline prices are also hideously underpriced. Car registrations are underpriced.
We have too much traffic on the roads. Parking is impossible to find. We need to do what countries around the world do, and have a 2- 3,000$ annual registration tax. And for cities with high congestions, start adding a $50/day "city entrance fee" , and raise prices until congestion goes down.
Singapore is an amazing example of where such a policy has created a wonderful place with public transit, pristine roads, (car tax is 120% of the car value, and registration is another $50,000; total cost to buy a Prius is $200,000).
We in North America need to get off our rumps, and more importantly, to not fall deeper into the trap of materialism, and non-self-sustaining policies. More affordable housing (so, bringing the average housing value in Toronto own to 5-10k; by building appealing skyscrapers, higher density living with more green space, and walkable localaities). And bringing about a cultural change that shuns excessive personal ownership, personal greed; the biblical sins of hatred, sedition, drunkenness, dishonesty, vanity, and worst of all-- envy of others.
People in North America generally need to have a better sense of humility about themselves. Many times I am ashamed to be Canadian.
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As a foreigner, how would you handle my out-of-country license?
And if you do start reading Card Data -- then comes the inevitable security problems with handling all that data. (Should some company start to just sucking it up)
The difference between most concepts is a subtle, but significant differentions.
It is what allows language to evolve to convey context and nuance.
Medication, is a very broad term.
Medicament is that used in therapy.
The Chinese had it correct by giving each lemma a new character, even though the pronunciation was the same. That practise has died, but the impact on society was great.
If users of English were able to construct new words and better convey its semantics through visual representation in addition to auditory representation, it would greatly increase the expressiveness of the masses.
Only in excessive doses.
Studies have shown that there is no discernable effect on the brain for doses of less than 4ug/kg. So for a 220lb person that would be 400mg.
Effective dose for such a person is 50-100mg.
Recreational dose is the same, plus another dose more after 4 hours.
While the risk is not zero, theraputic doses are going to be quite safe for a majority of the population. (Insert disclaimer about those with undiagnosed psycological disordered)
You obviously haven't been around non-tech people in a while.
I've heard "google that on Bing" "I use yahoo to google."; for a non-trivial number of people, "to google" justt means "to search online".
Just like "hand me a kleenex" "i need a band-aid". The terms are still trademarked, but the public chooses to use it generically for anything similiar.
I've heard "Just google it on bing. Works a lot better." That sounded just fine to my ears, truth of the statement notwithstanding. .
Have 40+ controlled trials demonstrating reduction of flu intensity after vaccination:
Bridges CB, Thompson WW, Meltzer MI, Reeve GR, Talamonti WJ, Cox NJ, Lilac HA, Hall H, Klimov A, Fukuda K. Effectiveness and cost-benefit of influenza vaccination of healthy working adults: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2000;284(13):1655-63.
Govaert TM, Thijs CT, Masurel N, Sprenger MJ, Dinant GJ, Knottnerus JA. The efficacy of influenza vaccination in elderly individuals. A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. JAMA. 1994;272(21):1661-5.
Darvishian M, Bijlsma MJ, Hak E, van den Heuvel ER. Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine in community-dwelling elderly people: a meta-analysis of test-negative design case-control studies. Lancet Infect Dis 2014; 14(12): 1228-39.
DiazGranados CA, Dunning AJ, Kimmel M, Kirby D, Treanor J, Collins A, Pollak R, Christoff J, Earl J, Landolfi V, Martin E, Gurunathan S, Nathan R, Greenberg DP, Tornieporth NG, Decker MD, Talbot HK. Efficacy of high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccine in older adults. N Engl J Med. 2014;371:635-45.
Talbot HK, Griffin MR, Chen Q, Zhu Y, Williams JV, Edwards, KM. Effectiveness of seasonal vaccine in preventing confirmed influenza-associated hospitalization in community dwelling older adults. J Infect Dis 2011; 203: 500–8.
Chen Q, Griffin MR, Nian H, Zhu Y, Williams JV, Edwards, KM, Talbot HK. Influenza vaccine prevents medically attended influenza-associated acute respiratory illness in adults aged 50 years. J Infect Dis 2015; 211: 1045–50.
Ohmit SE, Victor JC, Rotthoff JR, et al. Prevention of antigenically drifted influenza by inactivated and live attenuated vaccines. N Engl J Med 2006; 355(24): 2513-22.
Ohmit SE, Victor JC, Teich ER, et al. Prevention of symptomatic seasonal influenza in 2005-2006 by inactivated and live attenuated vaccines. J Infect Dis 2008; 198(3): 312-7.
Jackson LA, Gaglani MJ, Keyserling HL, et al. Safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of an inactivated influenza vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial over two influenza seasons. BMC Infect Dis 2010; 10: 71.
Beran J, Wertzova V, Honegr K, et al. Challenge of conducting a placebo-controlled randomized efficacy study for influenza vaccine in a season with low attack rate and a mismatched vaccine B strain: a concrete example. BMC Infect Dis 2009; 9
Beran J, Vesikari T, Wertzova V, et al. Efficacy of inactivated split-virus influenza vaccine against culture-confirmed influenza in healthy adults: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Infect Dis 2009; 200(12): 1861-9.
Monto AS, Ohmit SE, Petrie JG, et al. Comparative efficacy of inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccines. N Engl J Med 2009; 361(13): 1260-7.
Madhi SA, Maskew M, Koen A, Kuwanda L, Besselaar TG, Naidoo D, Cohen C, Valette M, Cutland CL, Sanne I. Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in African adults infected with human immunodeficient virus: double blind, randomized clinical trial of efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52(1): 128-37.
Osterholm MT, Kelley NS, Sommer A, et al. Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet ID 2011(12): 36-44.
Frey S, Vesikari T, Szymczakiewicz-Multanowska A, et al. Clinical efficacy of cell culture-derived and egg-derived inactivated subunit influenza vaccines in healthy adults. Clin Infect Dis 2010; 51(9): 997-1004.
Treanor JJ, El Sahly H, King J, et al. Protective efficacy of a trivalent recombinant hemagglutinin protein vaccine (FluBl
Vaccinations are not 100%.
Nothing is 100%, and to assume that is even a possibilty is folly.
Plenty of people cannot obtain vaccines, and rely on herd immunity. The very young, the very old, those with immunity-compromising diseases.
One family was sued (and lost) precisely because her child, caught measles, and infected (and killed) two children who were too young for vaccines.
In France, there were less than 10 cases of measles a year, no deaths; when the rate of vaccination fell to 98%, there were over 4500 cases in a single year, many deaths, and then spread through the unvaccinated population across Europe within months, killing many infants.
In Utah, one unvaccinated person returned from Europe, and then promptly exposed over 1000+ people to the Measles virus, those unvaccinated, (mostly children), were hospitalized and suffered brain damaged from the disease.
Neither option is without risk, but the risks of not vaccinating far outweight the risks of vaccinating.
And the risks of not vaccinating do not place yourself in danger, but affect thousands of others you are near.
If we are to allow non-vaccination as an option, everyone who is un-vaccinated must pay for the health-care and hospitalization of everyone who subsequently catches the disease from communication they caused, directly and indirectly. Those unable to be vaccinated due to disease or age, would be exempt. People must take personal responsibility for the effects their actions cause unto others.
So, would I want to be one of 8000+ dead, unvaccinated, or one of the 100 dead vaccinated.
I would rather take the latter odds.
Nothing in life is 100% guaranteed. Mitigating risk by taking vaccines helps by mitigating the risk to any given individual. It doesn't nullify it.
I would personally accept the risk of being the unfortunate 1 in a million, who die because the vaccine was not effective on my specific physiology.
The companies own their own internal law company: "independent" but do business with anyone other than the cable company.
The independent council -should- have been there to give a non-biased opinion, or to object.
There was a court-bailiff there to enforce the search order.
He just didn't stop any actions.
I don't pay taxes back to Canada at all if I leave the country to work elsewhere. I get a letter from the CRA that says "You are no longer a tax resident." and I am exempt from all tax obligations until I once again become a resident of Canada.
It's the same for all other developed nations, emerging markets, and most the remainder.
Pretty much only the US requires their citizens to pay taxes back to their home nation.
As a citizen of almost any other country, if you work abroad, you don't have to pay taxes to your home country at all.
As a German Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Germany for working in the US.
As a Canadian Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Canada for working in the US.
As a Japanese Citizen, I don't pay taxes back to Japan for working in the US.
It's pretty much US only that claims the right to tax earnings on citizens that work abroad. And effectively double tax the person (dependent on specific treaties). Because taxes are there to to support the utilites you use working abroad, the infrastructure you use, the social benefits you are eligible for, all of which imply you pay taxes to the country in which you are residing. Only the US is saying: You aren't using any of our infrastructure, or otherwise being a burden on our country, but we still want you to pay taxes to us.
Because:
1. it needs to power a separate radio to receive the GPS signals.
2. GPS sends out almanac data (rough position information) and ephemeris data (orbital information)
3. Your device needs to calculate the tragetory and position, and lock on to 4 satellites (3 for psotion, 1 for time) using this data
4. You device then needs to calcutate the total time-delta, to the nanosecond, between the time each satellite sends a message, and when you receive it.
5. ** Using this time delta, you can calculate your exact distance to each satellite.
6. Solve three overlapping sphere equations to triangulate your position at the ground.
7. Solve another equations using 4 satellites to calculate the equivalent atomic clock time.
Your device is processing dozens of messages per second, to keep the locks on each GPS satellite, to switch active satellites as you move out of view of any given satellite, and to keep your calculated position, and delta position (speed) all in sync.
It's very computationally expensive, and thus takes power to operate the chipset doing all this work.
In addition, if you're in a city, without clear line-of-sight to enough satellites, it can boost the power and try to make sense of fainter data, or try harder to calculate which satellites are in theory overhead, and then to obtain a lock on each satellite and it's orbital trajectory and speed. Net result: GPS uses more battery in cities than in countryside.
The problem lies that almost everyone directly deals with SS7.
Every ISP that offers voice services have direct access to SS7 protocols for fully implementing advanced calling features, multi-ring, international routing, cross-network billing, etc. in order to work seamlessly with the traditional phone systems.
The attack vector would be to get into one of the smaller isps, and hijack their internal link to SS7, which is likely a much easier vector in.
Judging by the number of ISP breaches... that this is probably much more easily done.
You can then insert message packets, change the source and destination identifiers, and then create a dual stream of data and insert yourself into the call set-up or modification process (like adding new callers to conference, pre-empt connection and connect to alternate priority number and re-signal the connection after you place your line into the loop.
And due to the sheer quantity of data, these additional, legitimate services (Spam pre-filtering/blocking, group calling, etc), will simply get lost in the mix.
If you take the commentaries from historical documents from India and China, it's not the specific substance that determines the reaction, it's the taste. And that, sweet is sweet, regardless of source, producing the same general effects on the body. The only exception was "unheated honey, is a false-sweet, not triggering the expected reactions, however, upon application of heat, it becomes true-sweet."
And then you look at Germany, that has insolation similar to Alaska, making record-breaking amounts of solar power semi regularly. Meaning if a country that is entirely located further south were to make even a modest attempt, would completely outlclass the Germans at Green energy.
Would be nice to see the existing power companies simply add them to power transformer sub-stations.
Bascially, every community would be power self-sufficient.
Worst case, they don't want to play ball, and cities simply line every interstate with solar panels for power lighting and infrastructure that's near the population centres.
I'm in Europe, and our debit cards have the bank routing, branch, and account number printed directly on the card.
Like in th US, they were never meant to be "secret". However it seems, it works better here, where paying for Ebay transactions, a lot of bills, all take direct bank transfers where you provide your bank info (country-bankid-branch-account). (transfers in EUR are more or less fee-free).
If you purchase something from me on Ebay, Ebay will show you my full banking details and bank address so you can directly send the money.
Depends on which language you speak. Grammar will go by the natural plural; and US-English may use "bitcoin" non-plural; most of the world will use natural plural of English and add an "-s": bitcoins. Or, they will pluralize by composition: cat cats, tomcat tomcats; coin coins, bitcoin bitcoins. Or, they will pluralize by analogy: loin(s) bitcoin(s), or by grammatical rule: 1 book, 1.0 books, 1 potato, 0.4 potatoes; 1 bitcoin, 0.559 bitcoins.
English, also defines the plural explictly as for all numbers other than one, and for all fractional values. 1 book, 1.0 books.
That people will save, rather than consume.
It moves the financial responsibilty directly onto the individual, and acts as the inverse of the stock-market, 401k, retirement vessels, and taxation to fund ventures.
The only difference between inflationary and deflationary is the point of reference.
Inflationary polity holds the value of transient commodities constant, while the value of currency fluxuates. The problem, is the natural value of all consumer commodies approces zero; leading to a never ending task of stopping inflation from dividing by zero and heading to hyperinflation.
Deflationary policy holds the value of the currency constant over time, and the value of commodities decreases over time. This creates a much more stable system over time as the value of produced things degrade to zero over it's consumable life-span, the economic value of the item also approaches zero; and thus the currency, and economic output remain stable without intervention and monitoring.
People will still spend money, but on what is important to them, rather than mindless consumerism.
People will still buy food.
Buy housing, etc.
But those who want, can live normally, with a modest income.
Those who put off purchases for a year, will see just how much more money will buy, and will be able to save for retirement, through purchases though time, rather than work.
Thus, the economy will switch over to producing things of value, that people will buy, rather than things with no inherent value (hello kitty tweezers?) that few people will.
And society will become more loose with their money, as over time, the money they have will allow any regular citizen to fund and pay others to devise solutions to their problems; and that money flow plus an added few years of money, will allow the next generation to be financially independent and capitalize the next generation.
People spend more on what's worth to them in the now instead of just mindlessly consuming, because people are now intuitively aware that the value of anything they buy is zero. (everything falls apart, wears out, or has a fixed lifespan)
People will be able to travel and have more life experiences.
Deflation means that currency gets more valuable over time.
That people will save, rather than consume.
It's not that "people will hoard currency" it's that : people will be saving for retirement; services and costs previously provided by the government, and through taxes, are now self-generated by the individual. It's a full replacement of tax-policy, taxation, 401k and other forms of subsidized retirement.
People will still spend money, but on what is important to them, rather than mindless consumerism. Peopel will still buy food. Buy housing, etc. But those who want, can live normally, with a modest income. Those who put off purchases for a year, will see just how much more money will buy, and will be able to save for retirement, through purchases though time, rather than work.
Thus, the economy will switch over to producing things of value, that people will buy, rather than things with no inherent value (hello kitty tweezers?) that few people will. And society will become more loose with their money, as over time, the money they have will allow any regular citizen to fund and pay others to devise solutions to their problems; and that money flow plus an added few years of money, will allow the next generation to be financially independent and capitalize the next generation.
People spend more on what's worth to them in the now instead of just mindlessly consuming, because people are now intuitively aware that the value of anything they buy is zero. (everything falls apart, wears out, or has a fixed lifespan)
People will be able to travel and have more life experiences.
Well in the future described, you have to take into account all the implications of the initial assumption.
As the cost of electric vehicles goes down, as per the article, consumers, most of whom live in their island; will choose to switch to purchasing these more cost-effective vehicles.
80% of Business activity is within the effective range of a electric car.
This will spur the reduction of Gasoline car.
In addition, as the US matures into the "walkable" city concept, LA moving forward with it's LA 2050 project; cars will become second class citizens. Taking note of the rejuvenation caused by the removal of I-480, other cities 2040 and 2050 plans include removal of interstates, and replacing with centralize transportation hubs of busses, trains, and light-rail; in addition to making neighbourhoods a full mix of residential and commercial properties to ensure that vehicle need is reduced.
To spur this along, various plans have included to give priority access to on-demand cars; transit in numerous cities have switched to a last-mile system, or dynamic routing of busses based on destinations (think Uber-Pool). This is to relieve the former problem of fixed-route transit not meeting needs.
LA is building dedicated Bus and taxi lanes that are fully isolated (separate on and off ramps) from non-shared traffic.
Renting is going to become cheaper, like in the rest of the world, where higher density cities basically lower the housing and rental costs as supply increases. And -hopefully- the US-Gov't will step in and remove the Mortgage Interest subsidy that costs the gov't billions, funneling it directly to the Banks. That again will start pushing the trend to lower cost rentals and remove the incentive for home-ownership (which most young people don't particularly desire).
In your example, if you lived 40min away by car, you would probably move. As that's a huge distance; and if that time is caused by congestion, fixed-rail would yield a better commute.
The better option, would be to move.
And this is just one possible out of an infinite number of states that can be obtained in your scenario.
We had to do 30 year modelling, given "Assume that Car ownership drops to 12% (as in Singapore) over the next 10 years. Assume that this number is reached by increasing registration tax on ownership; follow the Singapore trend-lines where the registration cost of a vehicle is 110% of the market value, a registration winning bid (they are auctioned) at $35,000USD. "
For your case of "You apply for a job 80 miles away" We would need to write up over 40-50 pages to get the answer. Every leading cause and effect from the initial state need to be addressed; with each effect being the source causes to new effects (reactions, problems, mitigations, behaviour changes, policy changes, etc).
Your conclusion is naive and simplistic.
Inflation would dictate that prices go up 2-3% a year.
With actual CPI rates, prices would need to go up 19% over the last 10 years in order to not decrease in value at all;
Outside of that, as maintenance costs increase, I would also plan for 10-15% price increases over time as well.
Personally, I would prefer that prices be set to actually offset the entire cost of resource management, environmental impact, maintenance contracts, -upgrade contracts- (improve, don't just maintain), inflationary cost capture, and "rainy day fund" (aka: an extra 5% that doesn't get used at all, except to hold in securities to offset future unexpected events, this fund would have a maximum withdrawal allowance of 3% current value per year)
I currentyl pay 20c/kwH for the first "city average, previous year" number of units of usage. Then I pay 40c/kwH.
I also believe we are severely under-paying for electricity based on generation. I am actively pushing the city to push to bring up the rates to at least 80c/kwH, and use the extra funds to start building bettter public transit infrastructure, better parkland infrastructure (capping highways and putting park-land on top), and to start a mindshare of financial independence from the federal government.
Gasoline prices are also hideously underpriced.
Car registrations are underpriced.
We have too much traffic on the roads. Parking is impossible to find. We need to do what countries around the world do, and have a 2- 3,000$ annual registration tax. And for cities with high congestions, start adding a $50/day "city entrance fee" , and raise prices until congestion goes down.
Singapore is an amazing example of where such a policy has created a wonderful place with public transit, pristine roads, (car tax is 120% of the car value, and registration is another $50,000; total cost to buy a Prius is $200,000).
We in North America need to get off our rumps, and more importantly, to not fall deeper into the trap of materialism, and non-self-sustaining policies. More affordable housing (so, bringing the average housing value in Toronto own to 5-10k; by building appealing skyscrapers, higher density living with more green space, and walkable localaities). And bringing about a cultural change that shuns excessive personal ownership, personal greed; the biblical sins of hatred, sedition, drunkenness, dishonesty, vanity, and worst of all-- envy of others.
People in North America generally need to have a better sense of humility about themselves.
Many times I am ashamed to be Canadian.
How did you find a studio for so cheap? The best I could find while looking this past couple months is $2500/mo for a studio. :|
Please explain,
I would love to hear your take on this.