Really - it's hard to tell with all of those vertical lines. I once worked for a company that had "illlinois" in the letterhead. Everyone ignored the spell-check alert because it was trendy to do it all in lower-case and they figured that the error was just the first letter missing the cap.
3.[this is the neat one] when writing the budget, the community is absolutely forbidden to write in a single penny of expected revenue from speed camera, and any revenue must be written in at the year end as general proportional tax credit for the citizens, and by citizens I mean the ones who paid the taxes to build the road in question; in the case of an Interstate, all the money goes to the federal government.
I believe on of our eastern states (Virginia? not sure) recently had put in a bunch of cameras with the plan to split the collections 50/50 with the camera company and the police. It later turned out that the state already had an existing rule in place that all such money was supposed to go 50/50 to the schools.
...but these days you can buy consumer LED bulbs in about any color temperature you like, including the "warm" light indistinguishable from incandescents.
Even slicker: Sharp makes an LED bulb which will display any color temperature you like, complete with a remote control.
If the country is producing enough to feed everyone and you have too few jobs and too many workers why not:
a) work shorter hours?
In the US, as long as benefits - esp. health care - are connected to "full-time" employment as a binary relationship, this won't happen. It's in the interest of the employer to have as few people as possible at "full-time", and low-wage jobs are notorious for cutting off workers at 34.5 hours, or whatever the threshold is for the state.
I would GLADLY work 3/4 the hours for 3/4s the pay and 3/4s the health insurance, but it doesn't work like that.
If we had "single-payer" health insurance, you'd see a LOT more variety in working schedules, and we'd have fuller employment; the same number of hours would be worked (disallowing any network effects from single-payer insurance) but more people would be busy working them.
3) "Unauthorized devices" were disallowed from connecting to the network, killing competition and innovation and probably setting back the development of things like fax machines and modems (and all the services built upon them) by a few decades.
THIS. When I was growing up, our family had plenty of 'extra' phones, as well as little devices which the phone company didn't approve of, like forwarders (for the home business) and answering machines. The few times we had the phone company in to take care of something, it was a frantic game of unplugging everything and hiding it in the closet or a box. One time, a cord was left hanging out of a closet door and the phone guy saw it - the jig was up and he confiscated all of it. AND IT WAS OUR STUFF.
Yeah, the stuff was indestructible, but the one thing it wasn't allowed to ever be was YOURS.
The current subsidized model is actually the worst of both worlds. You BARELY own the phone, and if anything goes wrong with it the carrier will claim "abused" and disavow any responsibility. My phone has never gotten wet, but the water indicator is "on" because of placing the phone in the bathroom in the morning on a shelf while I take a shower.
He died before the limit was imposed. Prior to that, many people lived hundreds of years, such as Adam.
There have been some schools of thought that the ages of death for most of those pre-Noah days were actual mistranslations of MONTHS.
Noah=950 months=79 years
Adam=930=77
Seth=912=76
Enosh=905=75
Methuselah=969 months=88 years old
THAT sounds reasonable. Living to age 88 in a pre-medicine, primitive surgery era is pretty impressive, but NOT miraculous or a sign of mutant genes. Given how driven the early cultures were by the lunar cycles rather than solar, this doesn't sound out of line.
And then they told me that if I had done the number transfer myself, they would have *automatically* added 3G charges to my bill (without telling me), even if I never used 3G.
I imagine AT&T is just as despicably evil as Verizon in this matter.
Yup: AT&T employee on the discussion says it happens there too:
Having ground-based stations blasting out signals that are brazillions of times more powerful than the weak space-to-ground signals on adjacent frequencies would overwhelm the relatively weak signal from GPS.
Can I just say how much I like the term 'brazillion'? I'm going to start using now. Sorry to be OT. The rest of your argument is sound and I'd mod you up if I had the points today.
What if we reduced our meat consumption, and reduced consumption of other water-hungry foods?
If we did that, at the first drought, instead of meat and water-hungry foods becoming scarce, it would be grains that get scarce.
I think the GP's point is that with 10-20 pounds of plant stock required to grow each pound of animal stock, we're wasting a lot of food with that extra step. Studies vary, but ~50% of the grains alone are fed to animals. We'd have excess food every year if a fraction of the animal feed were for humans, and have quite a buffer to withstand shocks of drought or blight.
Let's be pretend that it's 999 billion dollars over 10 years (the upper margin of hundreds). That's 100bn/year. Deficit is close to 100bn *a month*... I'm not sure that tax is going to do better than encourage the government to spend more. I humbly propose that a tad more attention be put on lowering spending rather than increasing taxes.
It's much more complex than a direct 'cause-effect' that you're looking for. In the case of leaving the wealthy with too much money, we end up with a big "boom-bust" cycle which will happen over and over. The poor and middle-class will spend all of their money; it moves into circulation to be spent again and again, making "economy". The rich invest (aka store) their wealth. But as the recent crisis showed us, if there isn't a place to put money, places will be created to store it. Too many dollars were chasing too few assets, driving the prices of even fictional assets to ridiculous heights.
And as long this extra money is looking for places to be store, people will create places. I wish I could say with a straight face that it will be used by 'the job creators' to create jobs through business growth, but the those jobs primarily rely on consumerism, and there are fewer consumers running around with excess money.
The police all use their cell phones for the "good stuff" today. With the exception of a few dumb ones in Texas who recently were 'on the record' on the old radios with blatant racism, many police are now chatting with each other over their personal - or sometimes job-supplied - cell phones.
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I wish I was joking. IE 6 as a precent of desktop web browser views went up [arstechnica.com] by 0.72% last month. FF as a whole went down, as did Chrome.
The link indicates that percent of users on IE 6 went from 7.66 to 8.38%. While this is an increase of 0.72% against the whole user base, this can be looked at as a much larger percentage growth in the whole IE population of (8.38/7.66-1)*100 = 9.4%.
For a browser that was replaced by IE 7 in 2006 - six years ago - that's a pretty impressive growth. What I always find more interesting is that IE 6 usage is about 25% in China!
Of course, "tought" is an archaic form of "taught", meaning not only is he a scholar, but also quite the historian of language. We could all learn something from his "teechings" I'm sure.
... well I could be a multimillionaire radio talke show host and do spots on Fox News.
"Talke" of course is a "faux Old English" variation of "talk". The AC is obviously taunting us with this tongue-in-cheek 'fake authentic' touch.
The issue isnt being able to mitigate, the issue is that if the CC companies convince everyone that this isnt possible, then they have an easy path to never having to pay out against fraud.
It was posted here several years ago that some insurance companies were using the same line to claim that RFID cars were 'impossible to steal' and were refusing to pay out on claims because of it.
Let's be sure to always write it PATRIOT so people know it's a acronym and hopefully ask questions. Seems like every bill is given a nifty acronym or backronym, usually with the intent of glossing over how horrid these bills are. I could propose a "Cats Underwater Teeth Extraction" bill, and call it the "CUTE" bill and nobody would be the wiser. You wouldn't vote against something "Cute" would you?
Worse is the more common case; the actual bill title seems perversely the opposite of what the bill accomplishes. "Clear Skies Initiative/Act", anyone?
In short, GDP per capita, even adjusted for inflation has been climbing steadily, but median has leveled off since the 1970s-1980s. Where has the money gone?
How dare people drink their tap water! After all, how are bottled water companies expected to turn a profit when people can just turn a knob on their faucet and get water on their own?
We live in the Chicago suburbs, with tap water good enough that many companies (Hinkley and Schmidt, for one) bottle it and sell it. It's won blind taste tests against tap and bottled water from around the world, I believe.
One time, in 90+ degree heat, my wife was leading a group of seven-year-old Girl Scouts on a trip and they were getting thirsty. Their water bottles had long-since been used up, so my wife found a public fountain and told them to fill up and drink up. One snot refused, saying she wasn't going to be drinking "any poopy water".
Someone, somewhere, had told this child that tap water had been drawn from purified sewage, and that the stuff from the tap was essentially a short hop from the stuff going down the toilet.
But if you would've paid them again, then they would've had more money. You stole their potential profit!
You get modded funny, but this is actually the truth. While the "VHS->DVD->Blu-Ray" upgrade treadmill is often cited, it's also pretty clear that if you destroy a CD in a bad player, your receipt is pretty worthless in begging for a replacement at the local Best Buy.
Some vendors recognize this flaw and have workarounds. Blizzard, Microsoft and even Disney have 'replacement programs' where you can get a replacement for free (Blizzard) or minor cost (Disney/MS).
This is what I so dislike about President Obama. He's not even a good liberal. This is the kind of thing I would Expect from the Bush administration.
While I don't like all of his decisions, everyone got "pwned" (to quote a sibling post) on this one.
Since it was packaged in the defense budget, nobody wanted to be seen as 'bad on military' in an election year. So: It ran through House and Senate with a veto-proof majority. Obama could have either taken a stand on this and had it go through anyway (with the headlines in October reading "He hates our troops") or signed it and gotten painted with "He hates our citizens."
Oddly, the House and Senate, which wrote and passed this POS, seem not to be hit with the same brush.
Until carriers in NA are forced to have plans with different prices for "free" phones vs bring-your-own phones, there will not be much incentive to switch carriers and continue using the previous phone.
T-Mobile, notably, has a different price plan for "in contract" and "out of contract". If you're already a customer, they won't switch you automatically when you end your 2 year term, but you can join with an unlocked phone at any time at the lower rate.
Having this large of an employer in his own district against the legislation should be a big wake-up call to Rep. Smith.
There was a past interview with a Senator - I believe Chuck Grassley - who said in a TV interview that he would vote against his state's interests if the party said so.
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Really - it's hard to tell with all of those vertical lines. I once worked for a company that had "illlinois" in the letterhead. Everyone ignored the spell-check alert because it was trendy to do it all in lower-case and they figured that the error was just the first letter missing the cap.
I believe on of our eastern states (Virginia? not sure) recently had put in a bunch of cameras with the plan to split the collections 50/50 with the camera company and the police. It later turned out that the state already had an existing rule in place that all such money was supposed to go 50/50 to the schools.
The cameras were quickly removed.
Even slicker: Sharp makes an LED bulb which will display any color temperature you like, complete with a remote control.
In the US, as long as benefits - esp. health care - are connected to "full-time" employment as a binary relationship, this won't happen. It's in the interest of the employer to have as few people as possible at "full-time", and low-wage jobs are notorious for cutting off workers at 34.5 hours, or whatever the threshold is for the state.
I would GLADLY work 3/4 the hours for 3/4s the pay and 3/4s the health insurance, but it doesn't work like that.
If we had "single-payer" health insurance, you'd see a LOT more variety in working schedules, and we'd have fuller employment; the same number of hours would be worked (disallowing any network effects from single-payer insurance) but more people would be busy working them.
THIS. When I was growing up, our family had plenty of 'extra' phones, as well as little devices which the phone company didn't approve of, like forwarders (for the home business) and answering machines. The few times we had the phone company in to take care of something, it was a frantic game of unplugging everything and hiding it in the closet or a box. One time, a cord was left hanging out of a closet door and the phone guy saw it - the jig was up and he confiscated all of it. AND IT WAS OUR STUFF.
Yeah, the stuff was indestructible, but the one thing it wasn't allowed to ever be was YOURS.
The current subsidized model is actually the worst of both worlds. You BARELY own the phone, and if anything goes wrong with it the carrier will claim "abused" and disavow any responsibility. My phone has never gotten wet, but the water indicator is "on" because of placing the phone in the bathroom in the morning on a shelf while I take a shower.
I think the Oatmeal explained it best. Bring out the GayRoller!
Oblig The Oatmeal comic on this topic.
There have been some schools of thought that the ages of death for most of those pre-Noah days were actual mistranslations of MONTHS.
Noah=950 months=79 years
Adam=930=77
Seth=912=76
Enosh=905=75
Methuselah=969 months=88 years old
THAT sounds reasonable. Living to age 88 in a pre-medicine, primitive surgery era is pretty impressive, but NOT miraculous or a sign of mutant genes. Given how driven the early cultures were by the lunar cycles rather than solar, this doesn't sound out of line.
Yup: AT&T employee on the discussion says it happens there too:
Can I just say how much I like the term 'brazillion'? I'm going to start using now. Sorry to be OT. The rest of your argument is sound and I'd mod you up if I had the points today.
I think the GP's point is that with 10-20 pounds of plant stock required to grow each pound of animal stock, we're wasting a lot of food with that extra step. Studies vary, but ~50% of the grains alone are fed to animals. We'd have excess food every year if a fraction of the animal feed were for humans, and have quite a buffer to withstand shocks of drought or blight.
Slightly dated study.
It's much more complex than a direct 'cause-effect' that you're looking for. In the case of leaving the wealthy with too much money, we end up with a big "boom-bust" cycle which will happen over and over. The poor and middle-class will spend all of their money; it moves into circulation to be spent again and again, making "economy". The rich invest (aka store) their wealth. But as the recent crisis showed us, if there isn't a place to put money, places will be created to store it. Too many dollars were chasing too few assets, driving the prices of even fictional assets to ridiculous heights.
And as long this extra money is looking for places to be store, people will create places. I wish I could say with a straight face that it will be used by 'the job creators' to create jobs through business growth, but the those jobs primarily rely on consumerism, and there are fewer consumers running around with excess money.
The police all use their cell phones for the "good stuff" today. With the exception of a few dumb ones in Texas who recently were 'on the record' on the old radios with blatant racism, many police are now chatting with each other over their personal - or sometimes job-supplied - cell phones.
The link indicates that percent of users on IE 6 went from 7.66 to 8.38%. While this is an increase of 0.72% against the whole user base, this can be looked at as a much larger percentage growth in the whole IE population of (8.38/7.66-1)*100 = 9.4%.
For a browser that was replaced by IE 7 in 2006 - six years ago - that's a pretty impressive growth. What I always find more interesting is that IE 6 usage is about 25% in China!
Of course, "tought" is an archaic form of "taught", meaning not only is he a scholar, but also quite the historian of language. We could all learn something from his "teechings" I'm sure.
"Talke" of course is a "faux Old English" variation of "talk". The AC is obviously taunting us with this tongue-in-cheek 'fake authentic' touch.
It was posted here several years ago that some insurance companies were using the same line to claim that RFID cars were 'impossible to steal' and were refusing to pay out on claims because of it.
Let's be sure to always write it PATRIOT so people know it's a acronym and hopefully ask questions. Seems like every bill is given a nifty acronym or backronym, usually with the intent of glossing over how horrid these bills are. I could propose a "Cats Underwater Teeth Extraction" bill, and call it the "CUTE" bill and nobody would be the wiser. You wouldn't vote against something "Cute" would you?
Worse is the more common case; the actual bill title seems perversely the opposite of what the bill accomplishes. "Clear Skies Initiative/Act", anyone?
To be fair, nobody around here reads the articles, so I appreciate the grandparent post helping out.
Ah, but when you graph per capita GPD against median income, it paints a more disturbing graph.
In short, GDP per capita, even adjusted for inflation has been climbing steadily, but median has leveled off since the 1970s-1980s. Where has the money gone?
We live in the Chicago suburbs, with tap water good enough that many companies (Hinkley and Schmidt, for one) bottle it and sell it. It's won blind taste tests against tap and bottled water from around the world, I believe.
One time, in 90+ degree heat, my wife was leading a group of seven-year-old Girl Scouts on a trip and they were getting thirsty. Their water bottles had long-since been used up, so my wife found a public fountain and told them to fill up and drink up. One snot refused, saying she wasn't going to be drinking "any poopy water".
Someone, somewhere, had told this child that tap water had been drawn from purified sewage, and that the stuff from the tap was essentially a short hop from the stuff going down the toilet.
Pity the man who marries her in 20+ years.
You get modded funny, but this is actually the truth. While the "VHS->DVD->Blu-Ray" upgrade treadmill is often cited, it's also pretty clear that if you destroy a CD in a bad player, your receipt is pretty worthless in begging for a replacement at the local Best Buy.
Some vendors recognize this flaw and have workarounds. Blizzard, Microsoft and even Disney have 'replacement programs' where you can get a replacement for free (Blizzard) or minor cost (Disney/MS).
While I don't like all of his decisions, everyone got "pwned" (to quote a sibling post) on this one.
Since it was packaged in the defense budget, nobody wanted to be seen as 'bad on military' in an election year. So: It ran through House and Senate with a veto-proof majority. Obama could have either taken a stand on this and had it go through anyway (with the headlines in October reading "He hates our troops") or signed it and gotten painted with "He hates our citizens."
Oddly, the House and Senate, which wrote and passed this POS, seem not to be hit with the same brush.
My favorite was "Santorum Surges From Behind in Iowa".
T-Mobile, notably, has a different price plan for "in contract" and "out of contract". If you're already a customer, they won't switch you automatically when you end your 2 year term, but you can join with an unlocked phone at any time at the lower rate.
There was a past interview with a Senator - I believe Chuck Grassley - who said in a TV interview that he would vote against his state's interests if the party said so.
Party unity and marching orders over local needs.