Moreover, there should be a big push to lower US corporate income taxes to be more in line with the rest of the world. To compensate for this, one idea would be to raise dividend taxes. (Since the money wouldn't be taxed "twice" any more.)
However, that policy fails if companies are able to directly pay for employee non-cash benefits with untaxed dollars. I could see a company arrange to buy its executives' condos, cars, clothes, food, travel, etc., thereby opening a giant loophole that would let the executives never pay taxes on a large portion of their income.
The only way around that is to make sure that both cash and non-cash benefits provided to employees are taxable. Then it's fair again, and then we can fix corporate tax rates.
Yeah, no kidding. That's why executives should just be given a salary of $1 but a corporate charge card with a $50 Million preload each year, and thus be able to legally circumvent all income taxes!
The exchange itself could reduce the bid-ask gap by, you know, giving each side half the gap. That way I'd make half the difference selling, and the buyer would make half the difference buying, instead of letting some third party come in and scoop up the profit for their HFT traders so that they and their management can make millions of dollars and only pay hedge fund tax rates on it all.
He meant that corporations can suppress the free speech rights of others, because they themselves are not bound by the first amendment, and also because they can strong-arm the government into giving the corporations pseudo-governmental powers that also sidestep the first amendment.
I'm pretty certain that was the Bank of America file, the one that was ultimately lost when someone leaving Wikileaks "took it for safety" and then it was destroyed.
A joke is something that a nervous person often does to relieve tension. I'm okay with them varying standard routine and giving a little extra professional and polite attention to someone who seems unusually nervous. (I'm not okay with the standard routine, but that's a different topic.)
What you want to do is seem bored. That's pretty easy if you can just picture spending your own day as a checkpoint security guard. It's likely harder to do if you're actually trying to conceal something since you probably can't control your own adrenaline that well, so someone able to pull it off is genuinely less suspicious.
In my opinion, microsecond stock transactions are the very type of dirty trick the exchanges should be protecting against, so based on the current actions of the stock exchanges, I disagree with your opinion on the big exchanges' track records.
At my university, one of my professors told me that they split patent royalties 50/50. But, in exchange for their half, the university would provide the legal resources to write and file the patent, and would defend it against challenges if necessary. I don't think you can buy legal help and insurance for such a bargain on the open market.
For the past few weeks, my evening reading has been the Wikipedia articles for every airplane accident in the last 60 years that resulted in the deaths of 50 or more people.
For those flights that crashed on takeoff and landing and had any survivors whatsoever, the theme I found is that survivors tend to be the people who are seated near a convenient hole in the crashed plane, and are able to jump out and run away before they burn to death. I would be opposed to anything that would impair my or a fellow passenger's ability to save our own lives or those of our families.
Not that anyone will ever read this, but my company just added like 15 more stations to the garage. There's a whole row dedicated to recharging now. I wish it wasn't on the first floor...
I'm pretty certain he was only referring to the encryption part as a "niche market" or as interference with "instant narcissism". Most of your reply instead assumes he was talking about dashboard cameras in general, making the last line of your comment pretty extra unfriendly. You're a nice person, girlintraining, and I like your posts, but I think you misread his post and a personal attack is unnecessary.
As others have pointed out, this is what wake-on-lan is for. My company bought a package (Night Watchman) that shuts down all of our machines but manages scheduled backups and scans, and we saved a few hundred thousand dollars a year in electricity.
The idea to leave the machines on at all, much less use them to mine bitcoins, is horribly bad for a "green" initiative. It's bad enough that if anyone knows what school/company you work for, they should contact the local media so they can do a story on how your "green initiatives" are perverting the term and making things worse.
That assumes resistive heating is the most efficient way to heat your home. A heat pump is more efficient, in that it puts more watts of heat into your house than you consumed from the power line. And of course natural gas heat is just plain cheaper than resistive heat in many parts of the country.
"waste" doesn't just mean no use at all, but also grossly inefficient use.
Spain, on the other hand, I believe claims sovereign rights to prosecute crimes against Spanish nationals regardless of where they were committed. This means that if you kill a Spaniard while in South America, for example, and aren't "sufficiently" punished for your crime there, Spain may attempt to get you arrested and extradited to Spain where you can stand trial. Occasionally, they are successful.
I do not know which Spanish laws have such worldwide jurisdiction under their law.
We just bought a diesel vehicle. The only issue we've had is that most gas stations that sell diesel seem to have the old nozzle style, while our new vehicle is designed to use the special diesel nozzle style. There are only a few stations we can use because of this.
My company installed two slow charging stations in our parking garage last year. They are the kind that can text you when your car is charged, and you are required to go move your car to let someone else use them. (Presumably the requirement is enforced by you losing your job.)
From the anecdotal news I see, injecting used fracking water underground seems to turn any area into a geologically active area. See: DFW, North Dakota, Pennsylvania.
It doesn't imply anything about bypassing content restrictions. It does mean that someone could create an import business to buy region 2 and 3 players overseas and resell them in the US, along with region 2 and 3 DVDs.
Why do you assume that militia = cops? That's not in the Constitution.
So the parts that make perfect sense to you are based on your limited and made-up assumptions about the words. That's no better than anyone else's sense based on their own definitions of "right" or "arms" or "militia".
There's three main SXSW festivals - Music, Film, and Interactive.
Interactive is now the largest, by a pretty large margin. The Twitter launch really made SXSW explode. Then music is the next biggest festival, with more bands than you can imaging playing at official venues, side parties, fast food restaurants, on the street. Film is the smallest. Then there's the education festival, the comedy festival, the eco festival, the gaming exposition, the fashion show, etc., but those are all free, for industry only, or accessible using one of the three main badges. Nintendo had a big booth at the gaming expo, and Board Game Geek made a showing for wood-and-cardboard gaming.
The first half of this week is the Interactive festival, which from my perspective is mostly filled with thirty-something wanna-be hipsters hoping to become the next big thing. The latter of this week will be the Music festival, which is mostly filled with thirty-something wanna-be douchebags hoping to become the next big thing. Meanwhile, the Film festival runs the entire week, and is mostly filled with thirty-something boors who are willing to patiently queue for hours a day to get into film screenings, and generally look on the attendees of the other two festivals with contempt.
For full disclosure, I'm posting this from the show floor of the SXSW trade show, wearing a Film badge. My wife has an Interactive badge and I have several friends who attend for Music.
Two years is bullshit. 17 weeks of Senate control, from Al Franken to Ted Kennedy. The Senate stopped the House during the rest of those two years you're bantering on about.
Most of that time was spent on health care, and division within the Democratic party (who know, the healthy kind of debate and compromise we need more of) kept them from ramming through their entire agenda in the same way you think that a party would when they have a supermajority. (Only one part moves in sufficient lock step to try that, which is one of the problems with that party.)
But as a corporation, they enjoy limited liability from the consequences of their actions and speech. Moreover, they enjoy tax protections not available to non-corporate entities.
Maybe you can't remove their right to free speech just because they want to use a different name, but you can remove their special legal protections and tax status. Then, for organizations that voluntarily choose to incorporate for legal protections and favorable tax status, they can be asked to voluntarily relinquish some legal speech rights in exchange for these special benefits. And, if they choose to regain their speech rights, their special benefits can be taken away.
There's a difference between a group of people who have formed together to amplify their speech, and a group of people who have formed together to limit risk and increase profit. The former is protected by the Constitution. The latter could be eliminated by legislative action tomorrow with no Constitutional challenge.
I don't get to vote on the issues most of the time. I get to vote on the people who get to vote on the issues. Actually, given the gerrymandering in my area, I get to vote for or against the winner, where the winner has been predetermined prior to the vote, and then he gets to vote on the issues.
For the rare times that I get to vote directly on the issues (usually local bond packages), I research each one before voting to make sure I agree it's a good use of my tax dollars.
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No kidding.
Moreover, there should be a big push to lower US corporate income taxes to be more in line with the rest of the world. To compensate for this, one idea would be to raise dividend taxes. (Since the money wouldn't be taxed "twice" any more.)
However, that policy fails if companies are able to directly pay for employee non-cash benefits with untaxed dollars. I could see a company arrange to buy its executives' condos, cars, clothes, food, travel, etc., thereby opening a giant loophole that would let the executives never pay taxes on a large portion of their income.
The only way around that is to make sure that both cash and non-cash benefits provided to employees are taxable. Then it's fair again, and then we can fix corporate tax rates.
Yeah, no kidding. That's why executives should just be given a salary of $1 but a corporate charge card with a $50 Million preload each year, and thus be able to legally circumvent all income taxes!
Oh, wait..
The exchange itself could reduce the bid-ask gap by, you know, giving each side half the gap. That way I'd make half the difference selling, and the buyer would make half the difference buying, instead of letting some third party come in and scoop up the profit for their HFT traders so that they and their management can make millions of dollars and only pay hedge fund tax rates on it all.
He meant that corporations can suppress the free speech rights of others, because they themselves are not bound by the first amendment, and also because they can strong-arm the government into giving the corporations pseudo-governmental powers that also sidestep the first amendment.
I'm pretty certain that was the Bank of America file, the one that was ultimately lost when someone leaving Wikileaks "took it for safety" and then it was destroyed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/us-bankofamerica-wikileaks-idUSTRE77L55P20110822
A joke is something that a nervous person often does to relieve tension. I'm okay with them varying standard routine and giving a little extra professional and polite attention to someone who seems unusually nervous. (I'm not okay with the standard routine, but that's a different topic.)
What you want to do is seem bored. That's pretty easy if you can just picture spending your own day as a checkpoint security guard. It's likely harder to do if you're actually trying to conceal something since you probably can't control your own adrenaline that well, so someone able to pull it off is genuinely less suspicious.
In my opinion, microsecond stock transactions are the very type of dirty trick the exchanges should be protecting against, so based on the current actions of the stock exchanges, I disagree with your opinion on the big exchanges' track records.
At my university, one of my professors told me that they split patent royalties 50/50. But, in exchange for their half, the university would provide the legal resources to write and file the patent, and would defend it against challenges if necessary. I don't think you can buy legal help and insurance for such a bargain on the open market.
For the past few weeks, my evening reading has been the Wikipedia articles for every airplane accident in the last 60 years that resulted in the deaths of 50 or more people.
For those flights that crashed on takeoff and landing and had any survivors whatsoever, the theme I found is that survivors tend to be the people who are seated near a convenient hole in the crashed plane, and are able to jump out and run away before they burn to death. I would be opposed to anything that would impair my or a fellow passenger's ability to save our own lives or those of our families.
Not that anyone will ever read this, but my company just added like 15 more stations to the garage. There's a whole row dedicated to recharging now. I wish it wasn't on the first floor...
I'm pretty certain he was only referring to the encryption part as a "niche market" or as interference with "instant narcissism". Most of your reply instead assumes he was talking about dashboard cameras in general, making the last line of your comment pretty extra unfriendly. You're a nice person, girlintraining, and I like your posts, but I think you misread his post and a personal attack is unnecessary.
As others have pointed out, this is what wake-on-lan is for. My company bought a package (Night Watchman) that shuts down all of our machines but manages scheduled backups and scans, and we saved a few hundred thousand dollars a year in electricity.
The idea to leave the machines on at all, much less use them to mine bitcoins, is horribly bad for a "green" initiative. It's bad enough that if anyone knows what school/company you work for, they should contact the local media so they can do a story on how your "green initiatives" are perverting the term and making things worse.
That assumes resistive heating is the most efficient way to heat your home. A heat pump is more efficient, in that it puts more watts of heat into your house than you consumed from the power line. And of course natural gas heat is just plain cheaper than resistive heat in many parts of the country.
"waste" doesn't just mean no use at all, but also grossly inefficient use.
Spain, on the other hand, I believe claims sovereign rights to prosecute crimes against Spanish nationals regardless of where they were committed. This means that if you kill a Spaniard while in South America, for example, and aren't "sufficiently" punished for your crime there, Spain may attempt to get you arrested and extradited to Spain where you can stand trial. Occasionally, they are successful.
I do not know which Spanish laws have such worldwide jurisdiction under their law.
We just bought a diesel vehicle. The only issue we've had is that most gas stations that sell diesel seem to have the old nozzle style, while our new vehicle is designed to use the special diesel nozzle style. There are only a few stations we can use because of this.
My company installed two slow charging stations in our parking garage last year. They are the kind that can text you when your car is charged, and you are required to go move your car to let someone else use them. (Presumably the requirement is enforced by you losing your job.)
From the anecdotal news I see, injecting used fracking water underground seems to turn any area into a geologically active area. See: DFW, North Dakota, Pennsylvania.
Anything that contains pseudoephedrine requires ID now. I take it you haven't tried to buy any in the last five years.
It doesn't imply anything about bypassing content restrictions. It does mean that someone could create an import business to buy region 2 and 3 players overseas and resell them in the US, along with region 2 and 3 DVDs.
Why do you assume that militia = cops? That's not in the Constitution.
So the parts that make perfect sense to you are based on your limited and made-up assumptions about the words. That's no better than anyone else's sense based on their own definitions of "right" or "arms" or "militia".
You have to pay several hundred dollars to see these presentations live, so they don't post them online for free immediately.
There's three main SXSW festivals - Music, Film, and Interactive.
Interactive is now the largest, by a pretty large margin. The Twitter launch really made SXSW explode. Then music is the next biggest festival, with more bands than you can imaging playing at official venues, side parties, fast food restaurants, on the street. Film is the smallest. Then there's the education festival, the comedy festival, the eco festival, the gaming exposition, the fashion show, etc., but those are all free, for industry only, or accessible using one of the three main badges. Nintendo had a big booth at the gaming expo, and Board Game Geek made a showing for wood-and-cardboard gaming.
The first half of this week is the Interactive festival, which from my perspective is mostly filled with thirty-something wanna-be hipsters hoping to become the next big thing. The latter of this week will be the Music festival, which is mostly filled with thirty-something wanna-be douchebags hoping to become the next big thing. Meanwhile, the Film festival runs the entire week, and is mostly filled with thirty-something boors who are willing to patiently queue for hours a day to get into film screenings, and generally look on the attendees of the other two festivals with contempt.
For full disclosure, I'm posting this from the show floor of the SXSW trade show, wearing a Film badge. My wife has an Interactive badge and I have several friends who attend for Music.
Two years is bullshit. 17 weeks of Senate control, from Al Franken to Ted Kennedy. The Senate stopped the House during the rest of those two years you're bantering on about.
Most of that time was spent on health care, and division within the Democratic party (who know, the healthy kind of debate and compromise we need more of) kept them from ramming through their entire agenda in the same way you think that a party would when they have a supermajority. (Only one part moves in sufficient lock step to try that, which is one of the problems with that party.)
But as a corporation, they enjoy limited liability from the consequences of their actions and speech. Moreover, they enjoy tax protections not available to non-corporate entities.
Maybe you can't remove their right to free speech just because they want to use a different name, but you can remove their special legal protections and tax status. Then, for organizations that voluntarily choose to incorporate for legal protections and favorable tax status, they can be asked to voluntarily relinquish some legal speech rights in exchange for these special benefits. And, if they choose to regain their speech rights, their special benefits can be taken away.
There's a difference between a group of people who have formed together to amplify their speech, and a group of people who have formed together to limit risk and increase profit. The former is protected by the Constitution. The latter could be eliminated by legislative action tomorrow with no Constitutional challenge.
I don't get to vote on the issues most of the time. I get to vote on the people who get to vote on the issues. Actually, given the gerrymandering in my area, I get to vote for or against the winner, where the winner has been predetermined prior to the vote, and then he gets to vote on the issues.
For the rare times that I get to vote directly on the issues (usually local bond packages), I research each one before voting to make sure I agree it's a good use of my tax dollars.