It's saber rattling that is common in budget fights. An agency with it's budget cut threatens to kill needed/popular programs to get it's budget increased. Same as when it looks like state budgets will be cut the first thing on the chopping block is police and early release of prisoners.
I've only seen one first class jerk, and he was a senator flying back from Thanksgiving. Wouldn't turn off his phone until well after the stewardess was yelling at him. Other than that it seems most first class passengers have all been much better passengers than the average coach flyer.
Every state did, Montana and Wyoming were the last two. Congress tied highway money to passing open container laws in 2004 and that pretty much makes the western states jump.
Montana didn't have drinking and driving laws until 2005 (you couldn't be intoxicated, but the driver could enjoy what ever beverage they wished while they drove).
Florida is a haven to three large groups of people, the politically liberal retirees from the Northeast, politically conservative retirees from the midwest (this group is smaller than the liberal group) and anti-Castro Cubans who fled. The conservative retirees and Cubans were a large enough group to make Florida a key conservative voting state in Senate and Presidential elections (one of the few large states that is) but only as long as the Republican party carried it's anti-Communist plank long after it was really necessary.
Castro somehow kept the country from imploding after the Soviet Union failed (and stopped buying Sugar at inflated prices to keep them alive). Simply surviving, without the backing of the most powerful regional nation, was thorn enough.
I don't have cable either, but the rabbit ears are pretty nice if you can get a good HD signal (and your TV has a tuner). Many sports become much better in HD, and if nothing else, you get a couple of extra digital channels. Plus it's nice to see movies in full HD goodness.
I know I am, property taxes though per unit on an apartment are substantially lower than on a SFH. My annual rent is about double what local property taxes would be, so I'm building equity through equities which can approach the leverage of a home with options but generally don't.
No federal laws means your state's laws would determine legality/illegality of your actions. In Tennessee, you might get busted, in California, it would be legal and sold in Whole Foods or something. That's about the straightest answer you'll get from any pol on any subject. Drug policy is mostly a federal effort, so repealing federal drug laws means, "no, I would repeal the laws that put you there."
4 and 5 are tricky to answer straight (and I agree were not straight answers) because unless you're Dr. Lessig, you probably haven't put nearly enough thought into the issue to give a fair, straight answer and you're going to need at least two experts, or a two handed economist, to lay out the issues.
I much prefer Washington's method, not filing income taxes is wonderful. Plus tax avoidance is much easier (don't want to pay the tax? Don't buy property).
Verizon could borrow many times google's cash balances much easier than Google could borrow money. Bond holders are exceedingly conservative (to the point they might consider Microsoft a good credit).
At some point that's likely to be what happens. The telecom/cable companies earn about 10x the total revenues of the music industry, so when net distribution becomes common enough that it begins to threaten the existance of the music industry (not just the cushiness level of the exec jobs) the telecoms/cable companies will either become the only customers or owners of the music firms. I'm surprised that one of them hasn't purchased one already. Imagine the marketing. "Broadband from Verizon, we'll give you bundled access to all of [Warner/EMI/Universal's with cross licensing with Comcast and Ma Bell] catalogs, so you don't need to download it any longer." I think each of the three could pay for any of the majors with less than a quarter's income.
I didn't say it wasn't useful, just that it doesn't pollute or bring extra benefits (besides it's uses). For example because it's difficult for the land-owner to charge motorists for a nice view their desire for him not to harvest trees along a highway isn't something that markets handle well. Markets are exceedingly good at allocating resources to their best use which means that if helium becomes very rare it will still keep magnet arrays nice and chilly, but helium balloons will be much less common.
Please, there aren't any real externalities associated with helium usage (unless talking with a funny voice brings far more joy to the masses than I've noticed at previous parties). Markets have a wonderful way to balance the needs of the future with the needs of today, interest rates. Google Hoteling's model to see how they apply to extractive industries. Markets continue to function fine when the government doesn't mess with them, as they have with helium since WWI.
All likely, but that makes it curiouser, because Obama beat Clinton in wealthier/better educated exit polls (while Clinton won the poorer/less educated vote).
Um, for the government (federal or state) with the ability to borrow at rock bottom rates, capital investments ammortize very, very well. It's much cheaper to finance something than pay future fuel prices (that will rise with inflation). The key factors would be the impacts on the environment would covering that large an area with PV/mirrors change the local climate/eliminate species and what is the cost of those actions what impacts would this have on water systems (that are already strained by the people of the southwest? The other real question is what would the sale rate be? Will the program be self funding or subsidized? How do you mitigate the impact on existing generation? What if anything will you do with our transportation infastructure?
I agree, I find my blackberry much more freeing. I can read all my emails on the subway and get an extra hour of communiation with my team mate (we have very flexible schedules so I come in normally 2 hours before him and he leaves 2 hours after me). With the blackberry I can answer emails on the commute home and can respond to a time sensitive but easy request at other times.
I've yet to meet anyone who played Pirates! who didn't learn far more there than in school about sailing, piracy, or 17th century colonial economic systems.
I usually play RPGs once doing what I think is best (mostly but not always the alignment:good) thing, then I do bad stuff, which is fun sometimes, but can really take effort near the end (Example from KOTOR, it's easy to steal the hunter widow's plate because I didin't have any interaction with the character, but when you announce your "conversion to the group" the fallout bothered me for a while (and I knew it was coming so I put it off for weeks).
This deals with options the company grants to employees, which are an expense, but one paid (eventually) with shares of the company. The options were granted with value, which should have been reflected on the income statement, but the value won't be paid directly, rather the company will create and issue new shares which don't have a "cost" to the company, but reduce the proportion of ownership that the remaining shareholders own. Apple said the options were issued on a certain day with the price on that day as the strike price, (which accountants still allow to be called a no cost transaction) but the options were actually issued later when the stock was at a higher price.
This is especially interesting because when back dated options are granted to employees, fewer shares are required (because the options are already in the money) so the ultimate hit to other shareholders is smaller, but accountants would require an expense be created reducing current earnings, so the company decieved the accountants and shareholders on the day the options were granted.
Could be a different version thing, if show menus after a delay is indented below show recently used commands first it's that one especially if it's greyed out when that is checked or unchecked (if it's greyed out your menus should show everything). The wording might have changed (I use Office for Mac at home and 2003 at work).
I think it came from someone learning that users thought office was too complex and learning that most users only use a few menu commands, so they concluded that if we hide the stuff they don't use it won't be there to confuse them. Of course then they have zero idea where to look when it's there.
Under tools|customize... go to the options tab, and make sure "Always show full menus" is checked. I hate that too! First thing I change on encountering a new office installation. On the other hand I dislike that I can't find a preferences file to keep all my old excel short cuts in open office's spreadsheet application. Not having F4, ctrl+d and ctrl+r is a pain and on the last version I couldn't find the right menu item to fix them.
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What about a pricing scheme like $0+$0.05-10/GB transferred starting at 0. Make it something cheap, similar to how electricity is metered and sold.
It's saber rattling that is common in budget fights. An agency with it's budget cut threatens to kill needed/popular programs to get it's budget increased. Same as when it looks like state budgets will be cut the first thing on the chopping block is police and early release of prisoners.
If you had a dollar for every octet, you could have bought another 64k of memory.
I've only seen one first class jerk, and he was a senator flying back from Thanksgiving. Wouldn't turn off his phone until well after the stewardess was yelling at him. Other than that it seems most first class passengers have all been much better passengers than the average coach flyer.
Every state did, Montana and Wyoming were the last two. Congress tied highway money to passing open container laws in 2004 and that pretty much makes the western states jump.
Montana didn't have drinking and driving laws until 2005 (you couldn't be intoxicated, but the driver could enjoy what ever beverage they wished while they drove).
Florida is a haven to three large groups of people, the politically liberal retirees from the Northeast, politically conservative retirees from the midwest (this group is smaller than the liberal group) and anti-Castro Cubans who fled. The conservative retirees and Cubans were a large enough group to make Florida a key conservative voting state in Senate and Presidential elections (one of the few large states that is) but only as long as the Republican party carried it's anti-Communist plank long after it was really necessary.
Castro somehow kept the country from imploding after the Soviet Union failed (and stopped buying Sugar at inflated prices to keep them alive). Simply surviving, without the backing of the most powerful regional nation, was thorn enough.
I don't have cable either, but the rabbit ears are pretty nice if you can get a good HD signal (and your TV has a tuner). Many sports become much better in HD, and if nothing else, you get a couple of extra digital channels. Plus it's nice to see movies in full HD goodness.
I know I am, property taxes though per unit on an apartment are substantially lower than on a SFH. My annual rent is about double what local property taxes would be, so I'm building equity through equities which can approach the leverage of a home with options but generally don't.
No federal laws means your state's laws would determine legality/illegality of your actions. In Tennessee, you might get busted, in California, it would be legal and sold in Whole Foods or something. That's about the straightest answer you'll get from any pol on any subject. Drug policy is mostly a federal effort, so repealing federal drug laws means, "no, I would repeal the laws that put you there."
4 and 5 are tricky to answer straight (and I agree were not straight answers) because unless you're Dr. Lessig, you probably haven't put nearly enough thought into the issue to give a fair, straight answer and you're going to need at least two experts, or a two handed economist, to lay out the issues.
I much prefer Washington's method, not filing income taxes is wonderful. Plus tax avoidance is much easier (don't want to pay the tax? Don't buy property).
Verizon could borrow many times google's cash balances much easier than Google could borrow money. Bond holders are exceedingly conservative (to the point they might consider Microsoft a good credit).
At some point that's likely to be what happens. The telecom/cable companies earn about 10x the total revenues of the music industry, so when net distribution becomes common enough that it begins to threaten the existance of the music industry (not just the cushiness level of the exec jobs) the telecoms/cable companies will either become the only customers or owners of the music firms. I'm surprised that one of them hasn't purchased one already. Imagine the marketing. "Broadband from Verizon, we'll give you bundled access to all of [Warner/EMI/Universal's with cross licensing with Comcast and Ma Bell] catalogs, so you don't need to download it any longer." I think each of the three could pay for any of the majors with less than a quarter's income.
I didn't say it wasn't useful, just that it doesn't pollute or bring extra benefits (besides it's uses). For example because it's difficult for the land-owner to charge motorists for a nice view their desire for him not to harvest trees along a highway isn't something that markets handle well. Markets are exceedingly good at allocating resources to their best use which means that if helium becomes very rare it will still keep magnet arrays nice and chilly, but helium balloons will be much less common.
Please, there aren't any real externalities associated with helium usage (unless talking with a funny voice brings far more joy to the masses than I've noticed at previous parties). Markets have a wonderful way to balance the needs of the future with the needs of today, interest rates. Google Hoteling's model to see how they apply to extractive industries. Markets continue to function fine when the government doesn't mess with them, as they have with helium since WWI.
All likely, but that makes it curiouser, because Obama beat Clinton in wealthier/better educated exit polls (while Clinton won the poorer/less educated vote).
Just where did you think the government was going to get the $400 billion?
Um, for the government (federal or state) with the ability to borrow at rock bottom rates, capital investments ammortize very, very well. It's much cheaper to finance something than pay future fuel prices (that will rise with inflation). The key factors would be the impacts on the environment would covering that large an area with PV/mirrors change the local climate/eliminate species and what is the cost of those actions what impacts would this have on water systems (that are already strained by the people of the southwest? The other real question is what would the sale rate be? Will the program be self funding or subsidized? How do you mitigate the impact on existing generation? What if anything will you do with our transportation infastructure?
Did you notice the stock market dropped after Obama did well in Iowa? He's running on a more populist campaign, it happens most election years.
I agree, I find my blackberry much more freeing. I can read all my emails on the subway and get an extra hour of communiation with my team mate (we have very flexible schedules so I come in normally 2 hours before him and he leaves 2 hours after me). With the blackberry I can answer emails on the commute home and can respond to a time sensitive but easy request at other times.
I've yet to meet anyone who played Pirates! who didn't learn far more there than in school about sailing, piracy, or 17th century colonial economic systems.
I usually play RPGs once doing what I think is best (mostly but not always the alignment:good) thing, then I do bad stuff, which is fun sometimes, but can really take effort near the end (Example from KOTOR, it's easy to steal the hunter widow's plate because I didin't have any interaction with the character, but when you announce your "conversion to the group" the fallout bothered me for a while (and I knew it was coming so I put it off for weeks).
This deals with options the company grants to employees, which are an expense, but one paid (eventually) with shares of the company. The options were granted with value, which should have been reflected on the income statement, but the value won't be paid directly, rather the company will create and issue new shares which don't have a "cost" to the company, but reduce the proportion of ownership that the remaining shareholders own. Apple said the options were issued on a certain day with the price on that day as the strike price, (which accountants still allow to be called a no cost transaction) but the options were actually issued later when the stock was at a higher price.
This is especially interesting because when back dated options are granted to employees, fewer shares are required (because the options are already in the money) so the ultimate hit to other shareholders is smaller, but accountants would require an expense be created reducing current earnings, so the company decieved the accountants and shareholders on the day the options were granted.
Could be a different version thing, if show menus after a delay is indented below show recently used commands first it's that one especially if it's greyed out when that is checked or unchecked (if it's greyed out your menus should show everything). The wording might have changed (I use Office for Mac at home and 2003 at work).
I think it came from someone learning that users thought office was too complex and learning that most users only use a few menu commands, so they concluded that if we hide the stuff they don't use it won't be there to confuse them. Of course then they have zero idea where to look when it's there.
Under tools|customize... go to the options tab, and make sure "Always show full menus" is checked. I hate that too! First thing I change on encountering a new office installation. On the other hand I dislike that I can't find a preferences file to keep all my old excel short cuts in open office's spreadsheet application. Not having F4, ctrl+d and ctrl+r is a pain and on the last version I couldn't find the right menu item to fix them.