Remember that everyone BUT corporations is taxed by revenue, not profits.
What, no Standard Deduction or Itemized Deductions where you live? Which, at least theoretically (yah, it's been a very long time since any attempt was made to update those deductions) is meant to allow for the costs of actually, you know, living and paying your bills.
In other words, no you're taxed on income over and above cost of living (again, it's been a very long time since they adjusted the Standard Deductions and such to actually match a "normal" cost of living for taxpayer and family) - in other words on profit....
For example take newspapers, my dad still gets one in the dead tree format. Nobody knows what articles he reads or how long he's read it in total and outside the paperboy nobody knows if he's picked it up at all.
Hmm...one of my neighbors gets the dead tree newspapers. I don't have a clue what they read of the paper, but I DO know whether it's been picked up daily, since I walk by their house every morning with the dog. And I've occasionally known when they were on vacation when they forgot to stop paper delivery while they were out of town (five or six papers in the front yard is usually a good clue).
And while I don't know what they read, I do know what they could have read - it's not like every newspaper in the world has every story in the world....
It would be really cool to have IR ability- but not at the expense of becoming colour-blind. Having some troops with IR ability mixed with some troops without might maximize all benefits. You wouldn't want your entire army being colourblind though.
Nope. Of course, it's not going to be used on the troops till those little...issues...are worked out. But if they reach the point where they can extend visual range into IR without significantly (note that word - it may not mean what you think it does to the Army) impacting normal color perception, then it'll become part of being a soldier.
And later on, it'll be part of being an EX-soldier.
And at some point after that, it'll be part and parcel of being a human....
However, I really really hope that some brave transhumanists chomping at the bit to be able to use this new technique on themselves, are allowed to do so
At some point, the military will wake up to this, and then the Special Forces guys will be using it (well, okay, it'll be tested on them), followed in a decade or three by "it's part of Boot Camp to have your vision augmented to include IR"
You know there is a bit in the US constitution that requires all be treated equal under law. Technically they are committing constitutional crimes by taxing different individuals under different laws.
And yet, corporate tax rates have always been different than individual tax rates...
For that matter, some individuals pay taxes at a higher (or lower) rate than others.
No, there's no requirement in the Constitution that tax rates must be the same for everyone and every entity....
I imagine the assessor's office has a huge database to deal with,
By modern standards, I'm not so sure. About a million people, one megabyte per person, twelve backups, and it'll all fit on ONE $500 HD.
Yeah, a properly designed system won't be that cheap or easy. Of course, you won't be keeping a MB of data on each person, either. You won't be keeping a MB on each piece of property, much less each person....
Sounds like a budget that includes bleeding edge equipment (that'll still be obsolete in ten years), and huuuge amounts of "training, sir!" on the new system....
Oh, and a hefty bit of graft to someone's brother-in-law that happens to be selling the package....
If a family is paying for a 2 or more concurrent streams, and the account isn't exceeding that in actual use, then there is no "loss". It's the customer getting what they pay for.
If you pay for two concurrent streams, and don't use both of them all the time, then Netflix is ripping you off, right? Which is essentially the same logic as whoever did this idiot study used....
There's no way that pill costs $500 to manufacture.
No, but it probably cost billions to develop, what with the actual development of a new drug, plus clinical trials, FDA approval, lawsuits, etc. And unless the drug affects a LOT of people, they'll never sell enough to recover development costs if they sell it for cost to manufacture plus small profit margin.
Do remember that a drug company will, in general, try to produce 10+ new drugs for every one that makes it to market. And in addition to the colossal costs a new drug incurs, it has to carry the 9+ other drugs that didn't make it out of widespread testing....
And no, it wouldn't be improved much if the whole business were done by the government. Because the money has got to come from somewhere, even when it's the government spending it....
When used correctly (i.e. don't allow the officer to "switch off" the body cam just before a traffic stop and claim it "malfunctioned")
Simple solution to the "body cam was off/malfunctioned/whatever" thing - in the absence of body cam evidence to the contrary, the cop is automatically assumed to be in the wrong....
Use that rule, enforce it vigorously a few times, and cops won't even THINK about turning off their bodycams....
Replace a hundred workers with machines and 5 highly educated workers who have to know the job to make sure the machines are working right and to fix/reprogram them when not?
You mean sort of like the way the PC replaced all the Computers used in the Manhattan Project, right? You remember the Computers used in engineering back then, right? A bunch of (usually) women who did the multiplication and division and such for the engineers?
Or maybe you're talking about the way that the combine harvester replaced a bunch of guys harvesting whatever was in that particular field?
Or tractors? Same deal, though they put more horses out of business (and life - why keep a horse that does nothing but eat?) than humans.
Trains? Yep, they put people (and animals) out of work (and usually life, in the case of the work animals)....
Seriously, the last couple centuries are all about increasing use of machines to do things. You're used to the ones that happened before you were born, and hate/fear the ones that happened since....
If the GAFAMs really want to help education, they may start by paying their taxes.
I'm curious - which of the GAFAMs didn't pay their taxes?
If you know that they didn't, I have to assume you're a tax lawyer who works for one of them, and didn't report whatever illegal activity you noticed when doing so, so you should be able to cite chapter and verse of the tax law(s) they broke, as well as provide info to the relevant prosecutors....
Do note that if (as I suspect) you're NOT a tax lawyer, it's unlikely in the extreme that you have clue one whether any particular entity (other than yourself, and maybe not that) has broken ANY tax laws, anywhere....
Again with the Hillary issues...you do realize the election was two years ago
Yep.
So, do YOU realize that what you're responding to was responding to someone who brought up the election. You know, the one where Trump and Hillary were running against each other?
Forced mass collection of DNA is REALLY crossing a lot of lines. I can't believe anyone would even propose such a bill.
Mass collection? This is only the collection of DNA of public employees, and not all of them. You don't want to pay to have your DNA collected, don't work for the government....
So if there was no reading 5 feet from the buckets, then the radiation was most entirely alpha decay.
Well, yes. Uranium is an alpha emitter. You can generally protect yourself quite well from radiation from natural uranium (not enriched uranium) by, well, wearing clothes. If worse comes to worst, holding a piece of paper between you and the uranium would be sufficient. Or wrapping the uranium in a couple layers of decent quality toilet tissue....
It should be noted that a nuclear power plant is NOT useful for developing nuclear weapons. It doesn't produce plutonium in useful quantities, nor does it teach you much, if anything, about designing the equipment that does produce Pu in useful quantities.
"Company Stores" existed mainly in communities where the workers were paid in 'company script', which could only be spent at the company store.
Quite so.
Nonetheless, when the government decides it has the right to specify that some stores (selling legal products) aren't allowed, you're setting things up for a whole new generation of "company stores".
After all, how much in the way of bribes would it really cost to make sure that the only kind of grocery store in town belonged to one particular company, which, just by chance, was owned by the owner of the largest employer in town?
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What, no Standard Deduction or Itemized Deductions where you live? Which, at least theoretically (yah, it's been a very long time since any attempt was made to update those deductions) is meant to allow for the costs of actually, you know, living and paying your bills.
In other words, no you're taxed on income over and above cost of living (again, it's been a very long time since they adjusted the Standard Deductions and such to actually match a "normal" cost of living for taxpayer and family) - in other words on profit....
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Hmm...one of my neighbors gets the dead tree newspapers. I don't have a clue what they read of the paper, but I DO know whether it's been picked up daily, since I walk by their house every morning with the dog. And I've occasionally known when they were on vacation when they forgot to stop paper delivery while they were out of town (five or six papers in the front yard is usually a good clue).
And while I don't know what they read, I do know what they could have read - it's not like every newspaper in the world has every story in the world....
Depends on how you determine "truth". If you are working on the assumption that "I said it, therefore it's TRUTH", then it's misleading.
Nope. Of course, it's not going to be used on the troops till those little...issues...are worked out. But if they reach the point where they can extend visual range into IR without significantly (note that word - it may not mean what you think it does to the Army) impacting normal color perception, then it'll become part of being a soldier.
And later on, it'll be part of being an EX-soldier.
And at some point after that, it'll be part and parcel of being a human....
At some point, the military will wake up to this, and then the Special Forces guys will be using it (well, okay, it'll be tested on them), followed in a decade or three by "it's part of Boot Camp to have your vision augmented to include IR"
And yet, corporate tax rates have always been different than individual tax rates...
For that matter, some individuals pay taxes at a higher (or lower) rate than others.
No, there's no requirement in the Constitution that tax rates must be the same for everyone and every entity....
But what about the low credit tighters, that's what I want to know!
By modern standards, I'm not so sure. About a million people, one megabyte per person, twelve backups, and it'll all fit on ONE $500 HD.
Yeah, a properly designed system won't be that cheap or easy. Of course, you won't be keeping a MB of data on each person, either. You won't be keeping a MB on each piece of property, much less each person....
Sounds like a budget that includes bleeding edge equipment (that'll still be obsolete in ten years), and huuuge amounts of "training, sir!" on the new system....
Oh, and a hefty bit of graft to someone's brother-in-law that happens to be selling the package....
If you pay for two concurrent streams, and don't use both of them all the time, then Netflix is ripping you off, right? Which is essentially the same logic as whoever did this idiot study used....
No, but you're free to genitally mutilate YOURSELF, if that makes you happy.
Note the key difference: doing unto others starts to infringe on THEIR Rights. Doing unto yourself is noone's business but your's....
No, but it probably cost billions to develop, what with the actual development of a new drug, plus clinical trials, FDA approval, lawsuits, etc. And unless the drug affects a LOT of people, they'll never sell enough to recover development costs if they sell it for cost to manufacture plus small profit margin.
Do remember that a drug company will, in general, try to produce 10+ new drugs for every one that makes it to market. And in addition to the colossal costs a new drug incurs, it has to carry the 9+ other drugs that didn't make it out of widespread testing....
And no, it wouldn't be improved much if the whole business were done by the government. Because the money has got to come from somewhere, even when it's the government spending it....
I graduated from High School in 1977, you ignorant clod.
That said, while I have a preference for the alien Captain Marvel of my youth, I've got nothing against the woman they replaced the Kree with.
Other than ditching the Skrull storylines, of course. Always entertaining to watch the aliens blowing each other up....
Simple solution to the "body cam was off/malfunctioned/whatever" thing - in the absence of body cam evidence to the contrary, the cop is automatically assumed to be in the wrong....
Use that rule, enforce it vigorously a few times, and cops won't even THINK about turning off their bodycams....
Posting weather? Like, "rain likely on Wednesday"?
You mean sort of like the way the PC replaced all the Computers used in the Manhattan Project, right? You remember the Computers used in engineering back then, right? A bunch of (usually) women who did the multiplication and division and such for the engineers?
Or maybe you're talking about the way that the combine harvester replaced a bunch of guys harvesting whatever was in that particular field?
Or tractors? Same deal, though they put more horses out of business (and life - why keep a horse that does nothing but eat?) than humans.
Trains? Yep, they put people (and animals) out of work (and usually life, in the case of the work animals)....
Seriously, the last couple centuries are all about increasing use of machines to do things. You're used to the ones that happened before you were born, and hate/fear the ones that happened since....
I'm curious - which of the GAFAMs didn't pay their taxes?
If you know that they didn't, I have to assume you're a tax lawyer who works for one of them, and didn't report whatever illegal activity you noticed when doing so, so you should be able to cite chapter and verse of the tax law(s) they broke, as well as provide info to the relevant prosecutors....
Do note that if (as I suspect) you're NOT a tax lawyer, it's unlikely in the extreme that you have clue one whether any particular entity (other than yourself, and maybe not that) has broken ANY tax laws, anywhere....
What a novel notion - a Chinese SF thriller would have a Chinese hero, unlike American SF thrillers, which have...American heroes....
Yeah, we're supposed to be really surprised that Chinese movies have Chinese heroes, and be really appalled that American movies have American heroes.
Yep.
So, do YOU realize that what you're responding to was responding to someone who brought up the election. You know, the one where Trump and Hillary were running against each other?
If only OP could spell "too late"...or is he suggesting that he also needs to undergo this procedure?
Mass collection? This is only the collection of DNA of public employees, and not all of them. You don't want to pay to have your DNA collected, don't work for the government....
No, this one is from Methuselah's Children, by Robert A. Heinlein.
Well, yes. Uranium is an alpha emitter. You can generally protect yourself quite well from radiation from natural uranium (not enriched uranium) by, well, wearing clothes. If worse comes to worst, holding a piece of paper between you and the uranium would be sufficient. Or wrapping the uranium in a couple layers of decent quality toilet tissue....
It should be noted that a nuclear power plant is NOT useful for developing nuclear weapons. It doesn't produce plutonium in useful quantities, nor does it teach you much, if anything, about designing the equipment that does produce Pu in useful quantities.
Quite so.
Nonetheless, when the government decides it has the right to specify that some stores (selling legal products) aren't allowed, you're setting things up for a whole new generation of "company stores".
After all, how much in the way of bribes would it really cost to make sure that the only kind of grocery store in town belonged to one particular company, which, just by chance, was owned by the owner of the largest employer in town?