Too bad that Trump's voter base just does not hear the incessant "fuck you, plebes" messages from the Republican party and their president.
It's funny you say that when the economy is booming and the populace is receiving exactly the opposite message from Trump.. which is why his approval numbers have been climbing.
From almost all the polls I have seen Trump's approval rating has been rather steady at ~44%. The only poll I can find where Trump has a positive approval rating is the Rasmussen poll. That is despite the strong US economy.
This is sort of true since the corporation doesn't print their own money.
The thing is that if you raise the taxes on a corporation that extra money can come from the corporation in the form of lower profits. There is no law written in stone that the corporation has to pass a tax increase on to their customers or face bankruptcy. If they are making more in profit than the increase in their taxes they are still making a profit.
You really think that a company like Amazon or Apple would go out of business if they paid slightly more in taxes and didn't pass that increase on to their customers?
Hate to tell you but the video you linked is total BS. Sure clinics are closed on the weekend. Guess what, the clinics in the US are also closed on the weekend (I'm sure there are some in each country that may be open on the weekend though). You will also notice that they went to the emergency room and clearly stated that their problem was "not super urgent". Basic triage dictates that non-serious problems get put at the back of the pack (this would also be the case in any US emergency room). At that point in the video the guy asked if he could have a glove so that he could put it on his head and act like a rooster. I stopped watching some ass try and cherry pick situations to show how bad the Canadian system is.
They have an obligation to treat you if you show up at emergency (spoiler alert this also holds true for all countries with universal health care). The difference is that in the US the hospital can them bill you for those procedures and take you to court if you can't pay. Just because they are obligated to treat you doesn't mean that they won't also try to reclaim those costs later. If there is absolutely no way that the patient can pay and suing them wouldn't change that fact then the hospital may write off the treatment.
I love all these stories of long wait times in the UK and Canada. I have no experience with UK hospitals but I have plenty of experience with the Canadian system. Are there some situations where people have to wait for treatment in Canada? Yes. Are there some situations in the US where people have to wait for treatment? Yes. On average though I would say that the waiting periods in both countries are about the same assuming the person in the US has an average insurance plan. I would also safely say that a patient in the US without insurance will wait a lot longer than any Canadian patient (for the same or similar conditions).
In Sweden you have a couple of month's waiting time to get a simple ultra-sound.. There are articles about people DYING while waiting to get to see a doctor, and it's not an uncommon thing!
The only thing i don't like about healthcare in the US is that insurance companies can exclude pre-existing conditions, but that's something that could be regulated while keeping the rest the same.
So in the US how long is the waiting period to get an ultrasound if you don't have insurance (or if you only have basic insurance)? How many Americans die waiting to see a doctor in the US? I would assume that there are many that can't afford insurance in that die because they can't afford to see a doctor. I would also assume that you could find people in the US that do have insurance that also die waiting for a doctor. Is universal government health care a perfect solution to health care? No. But I would take it any day over the private insurance policy that is in place in the US.
From what I have seen lately, a lot of the Humble games only come with a Steam option. The truly DRM free Humble bundles (where every game was a separate downloadable file that didn't need Steam) seem to be a thing of the past. I haven't bought a Humble bundle in ages since they all seem to need Steam now.
By that logic though, cancelling your cable TV service and subscribing to Netflix (or any of the other similar services) isn't really cord-cutting either. You still need a cord to connect to the Internet to get those streaming services.
But even when he did produce the birth certificate the Republicans and Trump weren't satisfied that Obama was born in the US and eligible to be President.
Would Chrome be used by as many people as it is if it wasn't side loaded with so many other programs?
I really don't know but it would be an interesting study I think.
People complained about Microsoft bundling IE with Windows but I don't remember Google getting much flack for side loading Chrome (there was some but not really that much).
59.3% of respondents saying that they would pay for Netflix does not mean that 59.3% would actually pay for Netflix if they couldn't use someone else's account. The actual losses is zero because you can't lose something you never had. It would be fair to say that they may see $112mil in revenue by stopping shared accounts but that is also just a guesstimate.
Technically a megabit is 1,048,576 bits but for marketing use they like to use 10 to the 6th power to represent a megabit (megabyte would be 1,048,576 bytes). I have no idea if they are using the true megabit in this case or the marketing megabit though.
It isn't hard to replace an Apple phone battery but it is a pain in the... to get the damn thing out. Is there really any need to use such a strong adhesive to hold the battery in place? There is a back cover on the phone after all. Shouldn't that be enough to keep the battery in place?
I'm not sure where you got the idea that the ocean releases a molecule (it is a molecule not an atom) of CO2 for every molecule absorbed. The oceans are actually a huge CO2 sink at the moment.
I'd say the big reason that monitors went from 4:3 to 16:9 was because of HD tv taking over from SD. If television programing stayed in the 4:3 format then monitors would have stayed in the 4:3 format as well. No sense making two different aspect ratio LCD screens when you can just use the same panels for monitors or televisions.
Or you could make the corporations pay all the taxes and the people pay no taxes. This would also be a step closer to overturning the idea the corporations are people. 8^)
If they make no profit over their first 10 years then I wouldn't expect them to pay any income tax (since they had no net income). The problem is that they made $11b profit and didn't pay anything in taxes (they actually got a refund). Now I am not an accountant but from my understanding profits are the money left over after you have accounted for the money spent building infrastructure and other capital investments.
I think when your profits go up $5,000,000,000+ in a year you can afford to absorb at least some income taxes without passing them along to the consumer.
To be fair it is a bit about market share. Apple could have avoided storing the data in Russia if they stopped serving Russians. This would of course affect their market share so the OP was sort of correct that "they're perfectly happy to protect your privacy as long as it doesn't affect their market share".
Of course if they pulled out of the Russian market there wouldn't be any private data for them to protect.
Admittedly I haven't read the actual article but if he is only allowing people in the city that he has an antenna in to access that stream and isn't altering the content in any way (e.g. isn't stripping the commercials from the feeds) then is there really anything the broadcasters have to be upset with? If the feeds are unaltered and limited to the area the antenna is in then it is the same signal anyone with an antenna could get. This just guarantees that there is a strong signal and the feed isn't getting interrupted (at the viewer's end). In fact it could actually be better since the system is actually guaranteeing the the commercials reach the viewer (i.e. the commercial could suffer interference if the viewer used their own antenna). Since Locast isn't profiting from this I can't see the broadcasters having much to complain about.
First off, GP is right. This wasn't Tom Walker driving up a truck with a pallet of $4 billion dollars to give to Foxconn the day they broke ground like every story on earth says it is. It was tax breaks for a supposed huge plant that if it existed as planned, would have equaled $4 billion dollars in tax revenue over 15 years. Also keep in mind that this was basically farmland. and it was generating little to no Tax Revenue as it was.
I think the food that is produced on farmland is a better investment than the supposed lose of tax revenue. Should we really be using farm land to build display factories?
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Saying that is a water rocket isn't a rocket is a bit disingenuous. Just because it uses water as a propellant doesn't mean it isn't a rocket.
The fact that a water rocket won't get you very high off the earth is a valid point though.
Too bad that Trump's voter base just does not hear the incessant "fuck you, plebes" messages from the Republican party and their president.
It's funny you say that when the economy is booming and the populace is receiving exactly the opposite message from Trump.. which is why his approval numbers have been climbing.
From almost all the polls I have seen Trump's approval rating has been rather steady at ~44%. The only poll I can find where Trump has a positive approval rating is the Rasmussen poll. That is despite the strong US economy.
This is sort of true since the corporation doesn't print their own money.
The thing is that if you raise the taxes on a corporation that extra money can come from the corporation in the form of lower profits. There is no law written in stone that the corporation has to pass a tax increase on to their customers or face bankruptcy. If they are making more in profit than the increase in their taxes they are still making a profit.
You really think that a company like Amazon or Apple would go out of business if they paid slightly more in taxes and didn't pass that increase on to their customers?
They have an obligation to treat you if you show up at emergency
Nope. This is a popular misconception...
That's the US system.
You misunderstood my comment. I was referring to the Canadian system.
Hate to tell you but the video you linked is total BS. Sure clinics are closed on the weekend. Guess what, the clinics in the US are also closed on the weekend (I'm sure there are some in each country that may be open on the weekend though). You will also notice that they went to the emergency room and clearly stated that their problem was "not super urgent". Basic triage dictates that non-serious problems get put at the back of the pack (this would also be the case in any US emergency room). At that point in the video the guy asked if he could have a glove so that he could put it on his head and act like a rooster. I stopped watching some ass try and cherry pick situations to show how bad the Canadian system is.
They have an obligation to treat you if you show up at emergency (spoiler alert this also holds true for all countries with universal health care). The difference is that in the US the hospital can them bill you for those procedures and take you to court if you can't pay. Just because they are obligated to treat you doesn't mean that they won't also try to reclaim those costs later.
If there is absolutely no way that the patient can pay and suing them wouldn't change that fact then the hospital may write off the treatment.
I love all these stories of long wait times in the UK and Canada. I have no experience with UK hospitals but I have plenty of experience with the Canadian system. Are there some situations where people have to wait for treatment in Canada? Yes. Are there some situations in the US where people have to wait for treatment? Yes. On average though I would say that the waiting periods in both countries are about the same assuming the person in the US has an average insurance plan. I would also safely say that a patient in the US without insurance will wait a lot longer than any Canadian patient (for the same or similar conditions).
In Sweden you have a couple of month's waiting time to get a simple ultra-sound.. There are articles about people DYING while waiting to get to see a doctor, and it's not an uncommon thing!
The only thing i don't like about healthcare in the US is that insurance companies can exclude pre-existing conditions, but that's something that could be regulated while keeping the rest the same.
So in the US how long is the waiting period to get an ultrasound if you don't have insurance (or if you only have basic insurance)? How many Americans die waiting to see a doctor in the US? I would assume that there are many that can't afford insurance in that die because they can't afford to see a doctor. I would also assume that you could find people in the US that do have insurance that also die waiting for a doctor.
Is universal government health care a perfect solution to health care? No. But I would take it any day over the private insurance policy that is in place in the US.
From what I have seen lately, a lot of the Humble games only come with a Steam option. The truly DRM free Humble bundles (where every game was a separate downloadable file that didn't need Steam) seem to be a thing of the past. I haven't bought a Humble bundle in ages since they all seem to need Steam now.
By that logic though, cancelling your cable TV service and subscribing to Netflix (or any of the other similar services) isn't really cord-cutting either. You still need a cord to connect to the Internet to get those streaming services.
But isn't an interest rate really just a late fee? So if the card really has no late fees then there shouldn't be any interest either. 8^)
But even when he did produce the birth certificate the Republicans and Trump weren't satisfied that Obama was born in the US and eligible to be President.
For iDevices, Apple has a 44% Market share in the US, and its market share across the world as a whole is less than 20%.
For iDevices, Apple has a 100% market share in the US and across the rest of the world.
I think what you meant to say is that Apple's iDevices have a 44% market share (of mobile devices?) in the US and a 20% market share world wide. 8^)
Would Chrome be used by as many people as it is if it wasn't side loaded with so many other programs?
I really don't know but it would be an interesting study I think.
People complained about Microsoft bundling IE with Windows but I don't remember Google getting much flack for side loading Chrome (there was some but not really that much).
59.3% of respondents saying that they would pay for Netflix does not mean that 59.3% would actually pay for Netflix if they couldn't use someone else's account. The actual losses is zero because you can't lose something you never had. It would be fair to say that they may see $112mil in revenue by stopping shared accounts but that is also just a guesstimate.
Sorry I forgot they call those Mebibits now.
Technically a megabit is 1,048,576 bits but for marketing use they like to use 10 to the 6th power to represent a megabit (megabyte would be 1,048,576 bytes). I have no idea if they are using the true megabit in this case or the marketing megabit though.
It isn't hard to replace an Apple phone battery but it is a pain in the ... to get the damn thing out. Is there really any need to use such a strong adhesive to hold the battery in place? There is a back cover on the phone after all. Shouldn't that be enough to keep the battery in place?
I'm not sure where you got the idea that the ocean releases a molecule (it is a molecule not an atom) of CO2 for every molecule absorbed. The oceans are actually a huge CO2 sink at the moment.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
I'd say the big reason that monitors went from 4:3 to 16:9 was because of HD tv taking over from SD. If television programing stayed in the 4:3 format then monitors would have stayed in the 4:3 format as well. No sense making two different aspect ratio LCD screens when you can just use the same panels for monitors or televisions.
Or you could make the corporations pay all the taxes and the people pay no taxes. This would also be a step closer to overturning the idea the corporations are people. 8^)
If they make no profit over their first 10 years then I wouldn't expect them to pay any income tax (since they had no net income). The problem is that they made $11b profit and didn't pay anything in taxes (they actually got a refund). Now I am not an accountant but from my understanding profits are the money left over after you have accounted for the money spent building infrastructure and other capital investments.
I think when your profits go up $5,000,000,000+ in a year you can afford to absorb at least some income taxes without passing them along to the consumer.
To be fair it is a bit about market share. Apple could have avoided storing the data in Russia if they stopped serving Russians. This would of course affect their market share so the OP was sort of correct that "they're perfectly happy to protect your privacy as long as it doesn't affect their market share".
Of course if they pulled out of the Russian market there wouldn't be any private data for them to protect.
Admittedly I haven't read the actual article but if he is only allowing people in the city that he has an antenna in to access that stream and isn't altering the content in any way (e.g. isn't stripping the commercials from the feeds) then is there really anything the broadcasters have to be upset with? If the feeds are unaltered and limited to the area the antenna is in then it is the same signal anyone with an antenna could get. This just guarantees that there is a strong signal and the feed isn't getting interrupted (at the viewer's end). In fact it could actually be better since the system is actually guaranteeing the the commercials reach the viewer (i.e. the commercial could suffer interference if the viewer used their own antenna).
Since Locast isn't profiting from this I can't see the broadcasters having much to complain about.
First off, GP is right. This wasn't Tom Walker driving up a truck with a pallet of $4 billion dollars to give to Foxconn the day they broke ground like every story on earth says it is. It was tax breaks for a supposed huge plant that if it existed as planned, would have equaled $4 billion dollars in tax revenue over 15 years. Also keep in mind that this was basically farmland. and it was generating little to no Tax Revenue as it was.
I think the food that is produced on farmland is a better investment than the supposed lose of tax revenue. Should we really be using farm land to build display factories?