At 1600 calories a day I would struggle to walk across the room to pick up the remote. No thanks, I might be chubby, but I can still bench press more than I weigh and run 3 miles without falling over. I can't imagine why someone would choose to be emaciated...
The majority of "avid readers" I know read nothing but garbage like "The Hunger Games." They couldn't read a Stendhal or Pynchon if their lives depended on it, because their attention spans have been completely decimated by electronic distractions.
Most readers I know prefer physical material. And so do I.
The vast majority of avid readers I know love eBooks. Most of the luddites who drone on and on about the feel, smell, whatever, of physical books can't even tell you a book they've read in the past 6 months...
Not true. Other factors come in to play, did someone quickly pull into a lane in front of faster moving traffic while simultaneously decelerating? Was it dark outside and the car in front had broken tail lights? The idea that if someone rear ends a car they are always at fault is a myth.
Most of the recent articles I've read have said there's not even any consensus that CCD is a real thing. Oh well, we all know that the warmists will latch onto pretty much anything...
I see this argument all the time about charitable contributions. "Yeah, sure he gave a million bucks, but it's just a tax write off..."
In what world are tax deductions 1 to 1 with tax liability? That's certainly not how the math ever works out on my taxes. $5k in deductions saves me less than $1k in taxes.
I'm not saying that the parent was right and that taxing services is enough incentive to hire your own people, but the idea that if you can write something off on your taxes means it's "free" is simply silly...
My librarian wife and I are both pretty avid readers and we both use e-readers for vast majority of our reading. Inevitably someone will see us in the doctor office waiting room or some other place reading our ebooks and tell us how they prefer "real books". That's when I like to ask them what the last book they read was and chuckle to myself when they get that deer in the headlights look.
1000 times this. In elementary schools boys are removed from the classroom at alarming rates for things like bringing the one ring to school, wearing an american flag t-shirt, eating pop tarts into the shape of a gun, pointing grilled cheese sandwiches etc. When boys act like boys their parents are told they need to be drugged into compliance. Elementary school classroom and teaching methods are tailor made for girls. Any gender bias in the classroom is certainly not "pro-boy".
Interesting how Obama, Paul, and Christie have the same position yet they are represented so differently in the article (unless of course I'm missing where Obama has suggested making immunizations required by law somewhere.)
Imagine the 2 largest cities in a state had 51% of the population. Those cities could and most likely would come together and simply siphon resources from the rural areas. They can just funnel all the funding for schools, police, roads to their cities to buy local votes and ignore everyone else.
At the national level the same can be said of states. In your scenerio all the people in the red area on this map wouldn't have a voice in government at all.
http://politicalmaps.org/wp-co...
If not then why would Amazon being paying any taxes? Of course I'm under the assumption Amazon still hasn't made any money, if that's changed then I must have missed it...
The US government sitting on knowledge of vulnerabilities is to public safety as not putting out a wet floor sign in the hopes that a terrorist will slip and fall is to crime prevention.
Why does no one ever mention the carbon footprint of space tourism? Slashdot spends a lot of time telling me about the dangers of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but is there a more irresponsible endeavor than space tourism when discussing Climate Change?
maybe they can teach Google the trick. My wife's Note 2 was taking 15 or so seconds to open the messaging or camera apps and finally today I just did a hard reset and started from scratch.
That "handful of pesky terrorists" happen to be the elected Palestinian government. This is what happens when people elect terror organizations as their representatives...
Republicans should love it because it hurts the working poor and illegals disproportionately.
Where I'm from, flyover country, poor people are much more likely to drive 15-20 year old clunkers (dodge durango's, jeep cherokee's, and other big heavy vehicles seem to be super popular with the poor here), they also tend to have longer commutes due to fewer job opportunities and less mobility when it comes to housing.
We're not even talking about the indirect costs. When the price of fuel goes up everything is affected. People like me will easily absorb those costs while the people living paycheck to paycheck will suffer. I drive a 7 year old Honda Civic, and I'm lucky enough that I telework. The mechanic who changes my oil, the AC repair guy who spends a large part of his income on fuel for service calls, and the people who work in the restaurants where I eat and the stores where I shop will probably be forced to give something up.
Sure, it will affect me like a bucket of water affects my swimming pool I guess. I'm not wealthy, not even close, but even if the cost of everything I buy was increased by the same 3% increase to the price of a gallon of gas my lifestyle wouldn't change in the slightest...
12 cents won't affect me one bit. It certainly won't change my driving habits. The poor on the other hand.. well, let's just say if you're living on a fixed income and/or are already below the poverty line a nice big regressive tax might sting a little...
Kaiser users his charities as a tax write off and then funnels money back into his for profit businesses from them.This guy spent much of the 80's-90's "buying" dead and dying companies so that he could use their losses to offset his gains and pay zero taxes on his profits.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
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I saw a third party documentary that said the Pyramids were constructed by aliens...
At 1600 calories a day I would struggle to walk across the room to pick up the remote. No thanks, I might be chubby, but I can still bench press more than I weigh and run 3 miles without falling over. I can't imagine why someone would choose to be emaciated...
If that were true the exercise would be bad for you...
The majority of "avid readers" I know read nothing but garbage like "The Hunger Games." They couldn't read a Stendhal or Pynchon if their lives depended on it, because their attention spans have been completely decimated by electronic distractions.
Most readers I know prefer physical material. And so do I.
Well, which is it?
The vast majority of avid readers I know love eBooks. Most of the luddites who drone on and on about the feel, smell, whatever, of physical books can't even tell you a book they've read in the past 6 months...
Not true. Other factors come in to play, did someone quickly pull into a lane in front of faster moving traffic while simultaneously decelerating? Was it dark outside and the car in front had broken tail lights? The idea that if someone rear ends a car they are always at fault is a myth.
Most of the recent articles I've read have said there's not even any consensus that CCD is a real thing. Oh well, we all know that the warmists will latch onto pretty much anything...
So you're saying that rate against gains is 100%? Not even France has rates where $1k in deductions reduces your tax liability by $1k.
I see this argument all the time about charitable contributions. "Yeah, sure he gave a million bucks, but it's just a tax write off..."
In what world are tax deductions 1 to 1 with tax liability? That's certainly not how the math ever works out on my taxes. $5k in deductions saves me less than $1k in taxes.
I'm not saying that the parent was right and that taxing services is enough incentive to hire your own people, but the idea that if you can write something off on your taxes means it's "free" is simply silly...
My librarian wife and I are both pretty avid readers and we both use e-readers for vast majority of our reading. Inevitably someone will see us in the doctor office waiting room or some other place reading our ebooks and tell us how they prefer "real books". That's when I like to ask them what the last book they read was and chuckle to myself when they get that deer in the headlights look.
1000 times this. In elementary schools boys are removed from the classroom at alarming rates for things like bringing the one ring to school, wearing an american flag t-shirt, eating pop tarts into the shape of a gun, pointing grilled cheese sandwiches etc. When boys act like boys their parents are told they need to be drugged into compliance. Elementary school classroom and teaching methods are tailor made for girls. Any gender bias in the classroom is certainly not "pro-boy".
Interesting how Obama, Paul, and Christie have the same position yet they are represented so differently in the article (unless of course I'm missing where Obama has suggested making immunizations required by law somewhere.)
Imagine the 2 largest cities in a state had 51% of the population. Those cities could and most likely would come together and simply siphon resources from the rural areas. They can just funnel all the funding for schools, police, roads to their cities to buy local votes and ignore everyone else.
At the national level the same can be said of states. In your scenerio all the people in the red area on this map wouldn't have a voice in government at all. http://politicalmaps.org/wp-co...
If not then why would Amazon being paying any taxes? Of course I'm under the assumption Amazon still hasn't made any money, if that's changed then I must have missed it...
The US government sitting on knowledge of vulnerabilities is to public safety as not putting out a wet floor sign in the hopes that a terrorist will slip and fall is to crime prevention.
In that case spew your carbon footprint all over the planet because of "progress" or something...
Why does no one ever mention the carbon footprint of space tourism? Slashdot spends a lot of time telling me about the dangers of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but is there a more irresponsible endeavor than space tourism when discussing Climate Change?
maybe they can teach Google the trick. My wife's Note 2 was taking 15 or so seconds to open the messaging or camera apps and finally today I just did a hard reset and started from scratch.
How many atheists, Christians, and Jews are members of the Palestinian government?
That "handful of pesky terrorists" happen to be the elected Palestinian government. This is what happens when people elect terror organizations as their representatives...
Republicans should love it because it hurts the working poor and illegals disproportionately.
Where I'm from, flyover country, poor people are much more likely to drive 15-20 year old clunkers (dodge durango's, jeep cherokee's, and other big heavy vehicles seem to be super popular with the poor here), they also tend to have longer commutes due to fewer job opportunities and less mobility when it comes to housing.
We're not even talking about the indirect costs. When the price of fuel goes up everything is affected. People like me will easily absorb those costs while the people living paycheck to paycheck will suffer. I drive a 7 year old Honda Civic, and I'm lucky enough that I telework. The mechanic who changes my oil, the AC repair guy who spends a large part of his income on fuel for service calls, and the people who work in the restaurants where I eat and the stores where I shop will probably be forced to give something up.
Sure, it will affect me like a bucket of water affects my swimming pool I guess. I'm not wealthy, not even close, but even if the cost of everything I buy was increased by the same 3% increase to the price of a gallon of gas my lifestyle wouldn't change in the slightest...
12 cents won't affect me one bit. It certainly won't change my driving habits. The poor on the other hand.. well, let's just say if you're living on a fixed income and/or are already below the poverty line a nice big regressive tax might sting a little...
Kaiser users his charities as a tax write off and then funnels money back into his for profit businesses from them.This guy spent much of the 80's-90's "buying" dead and dying companies so that he could use their losses to offset his gains and pay zero taxes on his profits. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
This is the guy who bilked half a billion from the American taxpayer.