I wouldn't call it a tax per se. If my server does a bad job or the whole dining experience went poorly, I do not tip. If the server doesn't make tips, they will be paid minimum wage.
Most of the time I'll glad tip 15% or a bit more if the server has a personality and is actually making sure drinks are topped off and generally not ignoring us.
Such a tax would likely hurt the poorest of consumers more. I'm not going to look up the numbers, but I'm willing to bet the farm most uber drivers need that job and would be the people most hit by it.
Real estate and property management would also get hit by it.
The rest of us just drive our car to work and the car waits. We don't drive for a living in our own car.
So if they really want to kick the poor people some more, feel free to raise taxes on tires.
P.S. Tear wear does seem like a good use indicator though, no disputing that.
Considering how lame the those two parts of the laws are, I would strongly consider blocking EU or putting up a one page site explaining why Europe is blocked. I'm really glad I'm not going to be put into such a crazy situation and I feel for the businesses this will hurt or destroy.
The other part of me just wants to laugh because this will really hurt those news sites. I love these news aggregates and use them often. I generally do click through to the site to read the entire article on the site, then return to the comments sections on either slashdot or yahoo. If these two platforms were not allowed to do that, I would likely end up at one news site, perhaps two but then I wouldn't get to talk about the news.
This really just looks like EU shooting itself in the foot. If I was in Europe, I would definitely get a VPN hosted outside of EU so I could still read the news as I currently do.
Also, making platforms police user content just means platforms stop having user content. How many sites will stop having content because they disallow users from posting it? Definitely sounds like Europe wants to make the Internet a one way street that serves only the few.
The government already gets it from both my cable company that provides wired Internet and Verizon which controls wireless for my phone. If the government wants to get that information, especially if they have a warrant, they will.
If I spent all my time worrying about what the government is doing I would not have time for anything else. This is not to say I trust the government but merely that they have such a stacked deck that I should probably either avoid committing crimes or I should definitely avoid getting caught because they will likely win.
The most security you can really provide for yourself is owning a home off the grid that's not in the city with a well, water treatment and preferably a large enough solar power system to sustain your family. Owning guns and having lots of like-minded people in the surrounding region also helps a lot.
That means 99.99% of us are in trouble when things hit the fan.
Please, neither US or Russia was strong enough to handle Germany and Japan individually. Had Germany be able to mobilize their forces a couple months earlier in 1941 they would of surely made it to Moscow. Instead, they ended up getting stuck in the snow and the things get worse from there.
The allies would not of been able to pull off D-day at Normandy had the Germans won in Russia.
Russia did help the US out with Japan but even without Russia pushing them in the East the US would of just nuked their asses into the stone age.
We mostly needed Russian blood as we had plenty of weapons, tanks, airplanes and ammo but not nearly enough people to let die.
Well that $1 must go pretty far, because my wife and I make a measly 93k a year but we still have a mortgage (just a townhouse but its ours), two car payments, zero credit debt and vacation for at least one full week out of town/state. That doesn't count all the other weekend things.
Clearly the person with $491 lives in the rich part of town with a house on a hill and ten cars and a super model wife, but I think I'm doing pretty awesome.
In short, yes I think things are pretty good in American if you put in some basic effort.
Every person, illegal or citizen, gets to go K-12 for free. That right there is a great opportunity. You go to school and work hard at it. You can then take out loans or if you are lucky enough get some scholarships or a combination.
That's available to nearly everyone, including those that aren't even legally here.
So spare me the dribble that there are people in USA that are given zero opportunities. That's just simply not true.
And we disagree with you mark-t. Go read Bill's post again and maybe it will sink in. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to live on. They are what you do when you are living with your parents and going to school. If you work hard enough at most of those jobs, you can get a raise.
More importantly is the job experience for actually working at a job. Any job. Then when you have some education and apply for a career style job, you will actually have some real world experience dealing with coworkers and customers. It goes nicely with a degree and it's how you are suppose to move up.
Pretty sure the only reason any of us have a job can be tied to the fact that we just can't automate it yet. Once something can be automated with reliable on par or nearly on par with a person, means it will be soon enough. Especially if a cheap manager hears about it.
In the mean time I'll just keep on doing things that still require people to be involved whenever possible. A good example is getting my driver's license renewed. California wants to charge me $35 for this. I can renew by mail, phone or online. If I go online I'm fairly certain no person will have anything to do with me getting my license. Be shocked if it wasn't totally automated.
If that's even close to true, why the heck does it have to cost $35? Powering and keep the server maintained doesn't cost that much so clearly it's just fleecing the taxpayers that drive. Not very progressive of them, unless there is some kind of waiver for low-income. I couldn't find one with a quick search.
My little protest will being sending a paper check in the mail with the form filled out. I'm hoping someone will have to actually read and input that information. At least then I can say the $35 went to actually processing my renewal.
it definitely seems prudent to keep the specifics from the world at large. There have already been enough reports over the past few years to realize our electric infrastructure is vulnerable. It's good to see they are at least doing something to motivate these various entities to get their stuff protected.
It would be a smart move for any country that wants to attack to us to use a coordinated Internet attack against our grid while also hitting us in whatever fashion they intend, be it landing troops or bombing us with aircraft and ICBMs.
I would imagine the amount of missed texts and calls would be near zero if the entire school was locking everyone's phones up. Everyone the student knew would likely already be at school...
It's funny you talk about truck driving. There is a pretty large shortage of truck drivers in USA. Walmart is paying nearly 90k to drive for them and they are promised two days off and other benefits as well. It's tempting but you need a couple years of experience to be considered.
Sure, once automation takes over all those jobs will be gone, but in the now there are actual needs going unmet.
I would says the most likely jobs to stay around are those where you have to figure things out or jobs that are people facing where other people demand people.
The Democrats are posture as far left as they can to ramp up for the primaries. It's a brutal thing. They are self bashing pretty nicely too. Who ever comes through as the primary winner will definitely take some punishment on the way. I've seen negative articles on most Dem candidates from CNN and New York Times, not Fox where you would expect it.
Harris was apparently tough on crime. Beto is white and male. Biden is old, white and male. The Hawaii lady was/is homophobic.
Needless to say it should be an interesting primary but in the meantime the Dems really don't want to agree to a wall. That would be like taking poison for their base, which on the extreme side of things wants to disband ICE and try open borders. Most Dems aren't so far left but you got to walk a line to win the primary.
HornWumpus's post went right over your head AC. If there was an overall larger police presence in the neighborhoods that had higher crime rates, the crime rate would go down. The streets would be safer for everyone but the gangs running the place. Parents don't want their children getting show while walking home from school because a bunch of gang members are shooting at each other.
Hence his point is, not doing more to help the communities that need help is in fact racist. More police would let the mostly non-criminal element go about their business instead of being victims because the cops won't go to that area.
Not committing a crime? By selling a controlled substance with zero labeling, regulation and certainly no taxation being done. That's not a crime?
One, the substance is illegal to just have in some states. So that's one law. If you are selling it, you are an unlicensed business. That's against the law. Are you following all the packaging laws for your substance? That's another law.
Depending on the state you live in, those laws aren't even being talked about for changing. At least in California we are, poorly, trying to get things going in a legal fashion.
It still won't be legal to sell it out of your garage to anyone though.
Why not require legal workers and proper compensation? Why should big farm get to screw over illegal workers for their profit margins? If you required citizens with workers rights you would indeed find American citizens willing to do these seasonal jobs.
Would food cost more? It just might but then again we would have a larger tax base with those extra jobs so we could afford more services or food subsidies if you wanted to go that route.
No one should be here undocumented and without basic medical screening. No one should be working without a tax ID. It's not fair on those of us that pay taxes for corporations and undocumented (illegal) workers to skip out on that. It also screws the worker out of retirement and disability which they have indeed earned.
I guess we both can agree the laws need some work.
That's just it. You are being played by both sides. Illegal immigration is a wonderful football issue they can kick back and force. Both sides can use it to whip up their base. That's why nothing real is ever done about it.
Big companies love the slave labor and Democrats love the optics if gives their candidates with the people that can vote that sympathize with those that are here unlawfully.
Jail CEOs for hiring illegals. Mandatory e-verify. Sure, you will still have individuals going for fraudulent papers but this would go a long way to helping. Also do away with birthright citizenship. Anyone with enough money can fly here on a travel visa, have a child, and go back home. It's an abuse of the system and a deprecated law that was designed to give slaves citizenship.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) very well could be an alien spacecraft. Since it is unidentified it could be quite a few things. We just don't have enough information to make that judgement. Hence, unidentified flying object.
If we knew what the flying object was, it would be an identified flying object and likely given a more specific term.
Get real. Congress needs to just pass a budget and then force trump to sign it with however many votes it needs to be. At this point, this is Majority Leaders fault for not bringing a bill up for a vote.
If he would hold a vote, Trump can veto it. Then everyone needs to vote on it again and it won't matter what Trump says.
If Congress can't get that done, what makes you possibly think they will invoke the 25th?
To be on topic, this issue can actually wait for the government to reopen, but it definitely should be made illegal for the carriers to sell this data. Only reason the data should go to anyone is with a warrant from the government. Better would be if the carrier didn't save the data at all, but who we are kidding.
All it takes is a cop threatening to arrest you until they can get a warrant from a judge to look into your phone. That's enough for most of us to give in unless we know we are guilty. Who wants to waste all the time and money on even a book and release.
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Hey dumbass, don't take jobs that can't even bother to offer minimum wage.
I wouldn't call it a tax per se. If my server does a bad job or the whole dining experience went poorly, I do not tip. If the server doesn't make tips, they will be paid minimum wage.
Most of the time I'll glad tip 15% or a bit more if the server has a personality and is actually making sure drinks are topped off and generally not ignoring us.
Most servers do just fine. Most get that tip.
Such a tax would likely hurt the poorest of consumers more. I'm not going to look up the numbers, but I'm willing to bet the farm most uber drivers need that job and would be the people most hit by it.
Real estate and property management would also get hit by it.
The rest of us just drive our car to work and the car waits. We don't drive for a living in our own car.
So if they really want to kick the poor people some more, feel free to raise taxes on tires.
P.S. Tear wear does seem like a good use indicator though, no disputing that.
Considering how lame the those two parts of the laws are, I would strongly consider blocking EU or putting up a one page site explaining why Europe is blocked. I'm really glad I'm not going to be put into such a crazy situation and I feel for the businesses this will hurt or destroy.
The other part of me just wants to laugh because this will really hurt those news sites. I love these news aggregates and use them often. I generally do click through to the site to read the entire article on the site, then return to the comments sections on either slashdot or yahoo. If these two platforms were not allowed to do that, I would likely end up at one news site, perhaps two but then I wouldn't get to talk about the news.
This really just looks like EU shooting itself in the foot. If I was in Europe, I would definitely get a VPN hosted outside of EU so I could still read the news as I currently do.
Also, making platforms police user content just means platforms stop having user content. How many sites will stop having content because they disallow users from posting it? Definitely sounds like Europe wants to make the Internet a one way street that serves only the few.
The government already gets it from both my cable company that provides wired Internet and Verizon which controls wireless for my phone. If the government wants to get that information, especially if they have a warrant, they will.
If I spent all my time worrying about what the government is doing I would not have time for anything else. This is not to say I trust the government but merely that they have such a stacked deck that I should probably either avoid committing crimes or I should definitely avoid getting caught because they will likely win.
The most security you can really provide for yourself is owning a home off the grid that's not in the city with a well, water treatment and preferably a large enough solar power system to sustain your family. Owning guns and having lots of like-minded people in the surrounding region also helps a lot.
That means 99.99% of us are in trouble when things hit the fan.
Please, neither US or Russia was strong enough to handle Germany and Japan individually. Had Germany be able to mobilize their forces a couple months earlier in 1941 they would of surely made it to Moscow. Instead, they ended up getting stuck in the snow and the things get worse from there.
The allies would not of been able to pull off D-day at Normandy had the Germans won in Russia.
Russia did help the US out with Japan but even without Russia pushing them in the East the US would of just nuked their asses into the stone age.
We mostly needed Russian blood as we had plenty of weapons, tanks, airplanes and ammo but not nearly enough people to let die.
Yeah, fraud is a great idea. We should all just commit fraud because that would save so much money. Fuck you.
Well that $1 must go pretty far, because my wife and I make a measly 93k a year but we still have a mortgage (just a townhouse but its ours), two car payments, zero credit debt and vacation for at least one full week out of town/state. That doesn't count all the other weekend things.
Clearly the person with $491 lives in the rich part of town with a house on a hill and ten cars and a super model wife, but I think I'm doing pretty awesome.
In short, yes I think things are pretty good in American if you put in some basic effort.
Every person, illegal or citizen, gets to go K-12 for free. That right there is a great opportunity. You go to school and work hard at it. You can then take out loans or if you are lucky enough get some scholarships or a combination.
That's available to nearly everyone, including those that aren't even legally here.
So spare me the dribble that there are people in USA that are given zero opportunities. That's just simply not true.
And we disagree with you mark-t. Go read Bill's post again and maybe it will sink in. Minimum wage jobs are not meant to live on. They are what you do when you are living with your parents and going to school. If you work hard enough at most of those jobs, you can get a raise.
More importantly is the job experience for actually working at a job. Any job. Then when you have some education and apply for a career style job, you will actually have some real world experience dealing with coworkers and customers. It goes nicely with a degree and it's how you are suppose to move up.
Pretty sure the only reason any of us have a job can be tied to the fact that we just can't automate it yet. Once something can be automated with reliable on par or nearly on par with a person, means it will be soon enough. Especially if a cheap manager hears about it.
In the mean time I'll just keep on doing things that still require people to be involved whenever possible. A good example is getting my driver's license renewed. California wants to charge me $35 for this. I can renew by mail, phone or online. If I go online I'm fairly certain no person will have anything to do with me getting my license. Be shocked if it wasn't totally automated.
If that's even close to true, why the heck does it have to cost $35? Powering and keep the server maintained doesn't cost that much so clearly it's just fleecing the taxpayers that drive. Not very progressive of them, unless there is some kind of waiver for low-income. I couldn't find one with a quick search.
My little protest will being sending a paper check in the mail with the form filled out. I'm hoping someone will have to actually read and input that information. At least then I can say the $35 went to actually processing my renewal.
it definitely seems prudent to keep the specifics from the world at large. There have already been enough reports over the past few years to realize our electric infrastructure is vulnerable. It's good to see they are at least doing something to motivate these various entities to get their stuff protected.
It would be a smart move for any country that wants to attack to us to use a coordinated Internet attack against our grid while also hitting us in whatever fashion they intend, be it landing troops or bombing us with aircraft and ICBMs.
I would imagine the amount of missed texts and calls would be near zero if the entire school was locking everyone's phones up. Everyone the student knew would likely already be at school...
It's funny you talk about truck driving. There is a pretty large shortage of truck drivers in USA. Walmart is paying nearly 90k to drive for them and they are promised two days off and other benefits as well. It's tempting but you need a couple years of experience to be considered.
Sure, once automation takes over all those jobs will be gone, but in the now there are actual needs going unmet.
I would says the most likely jobs to stay around are those where you have to figure things out or jobs that are people facing where other people demand people.
The Democrats are posture as far left as they can to ramp up for the primaries. It's a brutal thing. They are self bashing pretty nicely too. Who ever comes through as the primary winner will definitely take some punishment on the way. I've seen negative articles on most Dem candidates from CNN and New York Times, not Fox where you would expect it.
Harris was apparently tough on crime. Beto is white and male. Biden is old, white and male. The Hawaii lady was/is homophobic.
Needless to say it should be an interesting primary but in the meantime the Dems really don't want to agree to a wall. That would be like taking poison for their base, which on the extreme side of things wants to disband ICE and try open borders. Most Dems aren't so far left but you got to walk a line to win the primary.
HornWumpus's post went right over your head AC. If there was an overall larger police presence in the neighborhoods that had higher crime rates, the crime rate would go down. The streets would be safer for everyone but the gangs running the place. Parents don't want their children getting show while walking home from school because a bunch of gang members are shooting at each other.
Hence his point is, not doing more to help the communities that need help is in fact racist. More police would let the mostly non-criminal element go about their business instead of being victims because the cops won't go to that area.
Yeah!!! Think of the taxes that aren't being paid on the transaction of a sell. How dare you harm the government's coffers!
Not committing a crime? By selling a controlled substance with zero labeling, regulation and certainly no taxation being done. That's not a crime?
One, the substance is illegal to just have in some states. So that's one law. If you are selling it, you are an unlicensed business. That's against the law. Are you following all the packaging laws for your substance? That's another law.
Depending on the state you live in, those laws aren't even being talked about for changing. At least in California we are, poorly, trying to get things going in a legal fashion.
It still won't be legal to sell it out of your garage to anyone though.
Exactly!!!
Why not require legal workers and proper compensation? Why should big farm get to screw over illegal workers for their profit margins? If you required citizens with workers rights you would indeed find American citizens willing to do these seasonal jobs.
Would food cost more? It just might but then again we would have a larger tax base with those extra jobs so we could afford more services or food subsidies if you wanted to go that route.
No one should be here undocumented and without basic medical screening. No one should be working without a tax ID. It's not fair on those of us that pay taxes for corporations and undocumented (illegal) workers to skip out on that. It also screws the worker out of retirement and disability which they have indeed earned.
I guess we both can agree the laws need some work.
That's just it. You are being played by both sides. Illegal immigration is a wonderful football issue they can kick back and force. Both sides can use it to whip up their base. That's why nothing real is ever done about it.
Big companies love the slave labor and Democrats love the optics if gives their candidates with the people that can vote that sympathize with those that are here unlawfully.
Jail CEOs for hiring illegals. Mandatory e-verify. Sure, you will still have individuals going for fraudulent papers but this would go a long way to helping. Also do away with birthright citizenship. Anyone with enough money can fly here on a travel visa, have a child, and go back home. It's an abuse of the system and a deprecated law that was designed to give slaves citizenship.
An unidentified flying object (UFO) very well could be an alien spacecraft. Since it is unidentified it could be quite a few things. We just don't have enough information to make that judgement. Hence, unidentified flying object.
If we knew what the flying object was, it would be an identified flying object and likely given a more specific term.
Well it was funny until you posted that gloomy assessment. Sadly what you said is probably true.
Get real. Congress needs to just pass a budget and then force trump to sign it with however many votes it needs to be. At this point, this is Majority Leaders fault for not bringing a bill up for a vote.
If he would hold a vote, Trump can veto it. Then everyone needs to vote on it again and it won't matter what Trump says.
If Congress can't get that done, what makes you possibly think they will invoke the 25th?
To be on topic, this issue can actually wait for the government to reopen, but it definitely should be made illegal for the carriers to sell this data. Only reason the data should go to anyone is with a warrant from the government. Better would be if the carrier didn't save the data at all, but who we are kidding.
All it takes is a cop threatening to arrest you until they can get a warrant from a judge to look into your phone. That's enough for most of us to give in unless we know we are guilty. Who wants to waste all the time and money on even a book and release.