When my grandparents were in college, they were addressed by their professors as Mr. and Ms. Now, professors address their students by first name. I'm all for insisting on correct spelling and grammar, and for respecting the use of Dr. or Professor, but perhaps the faculty could win support if they treated their students like the adults they are.
On topic: Wealth should not decide elections. I am responding to the suggestion that the relatively small number of urban counties shouldn't count as much as the many rural counties, even though they have many people and drive the economy. Our system is roughly based on population, as it should be.
Off topic: Wealth can be used to acquire or produce food, just like anything else. As a nation, we could abolish our agricultural subsidies and be better off economically.
And those cities generate most of America's wealth. It would be a terrible idea to decide elections by the number of counties won. If you think the election should be decided by poor people who live in the middle of nowhere, then you're wrong.
Not only that, but forcing companies to build domestically is itself a type of regulation. Or, Trump could give corporations huge tax decreases, they'll pocket the money and then continue business as usual!
It's probably because the baby boomers are just hitting 65+, and so the average person over 65 in 2012 is younger than the average person over 65 in 2000.
Set it up so that each hour watched costs $1.00. To avoid being charged ridiculously high fees, make it so that you have to confirm you're watching each time the program switches over, or make it confirm every hour that you're still watching. This gets rid of the issue of worrying about what channels you do or don't subscribe to... because you won't need a subscription!
The point of the GPL is to make the code free, not the coders. When starting, you're free to choose the GPL or not, and thus the GPL never revokes that initial freedom from you. GPL code can never be reverted to a less free state, whereas code under other licenses, such as BSD, can.
And let's make HTML support and the ability to zoom plugins too, while we're at it/s. No, seriously, some features are popular enough that they warrant being standard.
Most states are not contested in presidential elections -- hence the term "swing state" for the rare few that are. Thus if you vote in a non-swing state, then voting for a 3rd party comes with little risk, and is a reasonable way to cast a protest vote.
The money has been squandered on a perpetual war that began in 2001. As of 2013, the combined costs of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were estimated at $4 trillion. That money equally divided amongst all Americans amounts to roughly $1000 / person / year.
Drug testing the wealthy could be one way to clamp down on those very tax avoidance strategies that the ultra-wealthy take advantage of. That's the whole point of this discussion. And the quote you mention is talking about absolute numbers -- the tax handouts and loopholes for the ultra-wealthy are so big that even a small increase in their tax rate is larger than all "handouts" for the poor.
Very similar to what my mother's coworker once said, that cancer is simply nature's failsafe to make sure that eternal life just does not happen.
Why would "Nature" (which is not a willful entity) "want" to make sure that eternal life doesn't happen? By the way, when a bacterium divides, or when a sperm (alive) and egg (alive) join, guess what -- they stay alive. The germline cells are, in a very real sense, immortal. They can die by the usual physical means (e.g. getting crushed, eaten, etc...) but are nonetheless the means and result of rejuvenation.
But what if somebody schedules heavy downloads every night between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM? Surely that won't be causing congestion with the neighbors, and yet it still counts against the cap. How about we just pay per megabyte? That seems fair, except that there's no way they will charge anything close to the true cost of delivering that megabyte. The cost of a megabyte should be in flux, and it should be transparent.
What fraction of the student population in general studies science vs. religion? If 57% of jihadis study science, but 90% of non-jihadis study science, then this would actually show that scientists are less likely to turn to jihad (and vice-versa). We need more numbers.
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When my grandparents were in college, they were addressed by their professors as Mr. and Ms. Now, professors address their students by first name. I'm all for insisting on correct spelling and grammar, and for respecting the use of Dr. or Professor, but perhaps the faculty could win support if they treated their students like the adults they are.
Maybe you shouldn't make your vocalized password the default "OK google." Yeah I know, first world problems...
Washington, D.C. has been growing animal-free pork for the last two centuries.
Wait -- that sounds exactly like bees. How about we promote the bees, rather than replace them with robots?
Is this really news, or is USA Today just promoting Facebook for free?
Or, Facebook could just pay taxes like the rest of us do, and contribute as proscribed by established societal norms.
Yes, they still have to be downloaded. Where else are the data coming from?
On topic: Wealth should not decide elections. I am responding to the suggestion that the relatively small number of urban counties shouldn't count as much as the many rural counties, even though they have many people and drive the economy. Our system is roughly based on population, as it should be.
Off topic: Wealth can be used to acquire or produce food, just like anything else. As a nation, we could abolish our agricultural subsidies and be better off economically.
And those cities generate most of America's wealth. It would be a terrible idea to decide elections by the number of counties won. If you think the election should be decided by poor people who live in the middle of nowhere, then you're wrong.
Not only that, but forcing companies to build domestically is itself a type of regulation. Or, Trump could give corporations huge tax decreases, they'll pocket the money and then continue business as usual!
It's probably because the baby boomers are just hitting 65+, and so the average person over 65 in 2012 is younger than the average person over 65 in 2000.
Set it up so that each hour watched costs $1.00. To avoid being charged ridiculously high fees, make it so that you have to confirm you're watching each time the program switches over, or make it confirm every hour that you're still watching. This gets rid of the issue of worrying about what channels you do or don't subscribe to... because you won't need a subscription!
Comcast. Compete. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! That was a good joke.
The point of the GPL is to make the code free, not the coders. When starting, you're free to choose the GPL or not, and thus the GPL never revokes that initial freedom from you. GPL code can never be reverted to a less free state, whereas code under other licenses, such as BSD, can.
And let's make HTML support and the ability to zoom plugins too, while we're at it /s. No, seriously, some features are popular enough that they warrant being standard.
Most states are not contested in presidential elections -- hence the term "swing state" for the rare few that are. Thus if you vote in a non-swing state, then voting for a 3rd party comes with little risk, and is a reasonable way to cast a protest vote.
The money has been squandered on a perpetual war that began in 2001. As of 2013, the combined costs of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were estimated at $4 trillion. That money equally divided amongst all Americans amounts to roughly $1000 / person / year.
Drug testing the wealthy could be one way to clamp down on those very tax avoidance strategies that the ultra-wealthy take advantage of. That's the whole point of this discussion. And the quote you mention is talking about absolute numbers -- the tax handouts and loopholes for the ultra-wealthy are so big that even a small increase in their tax rate is larger than all "handouts" for the poor.
Why would "Nature" (which is not a willful entity) "want" to make sure that eternal life doesn't happen? By the way, when a bacterium divides, or when a sperm (alive) and egg (alive) join, guess what -- they stay alive. The germline cells are, in a very real sense, immortal. They can die by the usual physical means (e.g. getting crushed, eaten, etc...) but are nonetheless the means and result of rejuvenation.
Don't like Windows? Don't use it. Done.
But what if somebody schedules heavy downloads every night between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM? Surely that won't be causing congestion with the neighbors, and yet it still counts against the cap. How about we just pay per megabyte? That seems fair, except that there's no way they will charge anything close to the true cost of delivering that megabyte. The cost of a megabyte should be in flux, and it should be transparent.
Great, now American law applies to foreign countries too.
You wouldn't believe how a teenager discovered a Mayan city using this one weird trick! Archaeologists hate him!
What fraction of the student population in general studies science vs. religion? If 57% of jihadis study science, but 90% of non-jihadis study science, then this would actually show that scientists are less likely to turn to jihad (and vice-versa). We need more numbers.
No, their policy of making people take off their shoes is causing long lines.