I don't think that's true about Glee. At least by the time the pilot was shown in the spring, it was already announced to be a fall show. There may have been some behind-the-scenes steps I don't know about
Senate Republicans on Tuesday prevented Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from setting up a budget conference.
Reid sought the Senate's unanimous consent to form a budget conference committee aimed at reconciling the wildly different House and Senate budget resolutions, but Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) objected.
Toomey said he was objecting on behalf of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee who had a conflict and could not be present.
“It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen even discussing the possibility of compromise with the Democrats for fear of a Tea Party revolt,” Reid said.
He noted that Republicans have called for “regular order” for years.
"A strange thing happened: House Republicans did a complete 180 — they flipped. They're no longer interested in regular order even though they preached that for years," Reid said.
[snip]
The Senate passed its first budget resolution in four years last month. Republicans had criticized Reid and Senate Democrats for their inaction on budgets, calling it irresponsible.
Since the article's behind a paywall, the following is a guess: the tax guy responded the "fact" as given to him by the WSJ, which is the entity to blame for getting this wrong. But thanks for the actual fact!
Actually, parking is specifically exempted up to a $245 monthly benefit; there are similar exemptions for public transit passes. But the principle you mention is true -- they had to deliberately exempt those expenses otherwise they would be taxable.
(Or is it different if the money never passes through the employee's hands?)
Can I get anyone to take this position: OSC is within his rights to his opinion, DC is within their rights to not print his story...
but maybe it would be a better world if DC comics didn't have the ability to prevent publication of a given story about Superman, a character created 75 years ago by a couple of guys who were paid a small flat rate for the character?
Then Card could put out whatever story he wants and we could all avoid it by ourselves, should we so choose.
I'm pretty sure the USA constitution has words to the effect that all people are equal.
You'd think. But, sadly, it doesn't. "All MEN are created equal" is from the DOI, not the constitution, and note that the Equal Rights Amendment (pertainining to equality of the sexes) was never ratified.
Deflation has an interesting effect on economies as well. Fixing something becomes cheaper than buying it.
Don't both the cost-to-fix and the cost-to-replace drop together, and cancel out? (Unless you assume fixing things is free, in which case free always wins anyway.)
You're right about amplification, but you've got a lot of those numbers wrong and have confused two different elections. In 1968, it was Nixon 43.4% to Humphrey 42.7%, which turned into 301 EV for Nixon -- and that was a lot less than a 5% difference, which does reinforce your point. (George Wallace won 13.5% of the vote and 46 EV, making analysis a bit more complicated.) The Nixon landslide you're thinking of was in 1972, when he won 61%/38% (rounded) -- a pretty good thumping for a Presidential election.
Instant access to the money, plus whatever advantage from not necessarily having to declare/track it. Useful for paying other people who have the same issues.
I don't think this is what the GP meant, but there's another sense in which software like this can't benefit everybody: both sides can't win an election. The benefit of it is to gain advantage relative to an opponent, and everybody can't do that.
I use a land line when I want to comfortably understand the person on the other end. (The world seems to be divided into people who notice that cell phones lose a lot of signal information compared to land lines, and people who don't.)
It is, but it's delayed. That is, all of the pre-Avengers films are streaming now, but the newest of those are over a year old. If the new deal were in place, Avengers would be on Netflix at the moment when, in the current system, it appears on Starz or whichever.
Note that a consequence of this is that district-level gerrymandering, which already produces disproportionate congressional delegations, would then also produce disproportional EVs from state. That is, Ohio, a 51/49 state, would have had something like 14 Repub. EVs and then Dems would have had 4.
A fair number of people have heard the term "fiscal cliff" but don't know what it refers to:
"The United States fiscal cliff refers to the effect of a series of enacted legislation which, if unchanged, will result in tax increases, spending cuts, and a corresponding reduction in the budget deficit."
No, he's saying (well, Silver is saying) that since all the polls use kinda-sorta the same methodology, then if Romney unexpectedly wins Ohio, then whatever made the polls wrong in Ohio suggests that the polls might well be wrong in the same way in other states.
You must not be a U.S. citizen. The U.S. has laws against discriminatory practices. If you don't want to hang around certain types of people on your own time that is fine. The workplace is another matter entirely.
If that's in response to the guy who says he was fired for being gay: in plenty of states in the US there is no protection against that at all.
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I don't think that's true about Glee. At least by the time the pilot was shown in the spring, it was already announced to be a fall show. There may have been some behind-the-scenes steps I don't know about
Obsolete talking point:
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/295477-reid-to-seek-consent-to-convene-budget-conference-
But you can't get at the pizzas until you're 59 1/2, and that's REALLY stale pizza.
Right there with you, AC.
Since the article's behind a paywall, the following is a guess: the tax guy responded the "fact" as given to him by the WSJ, which is the entity to blame for getting this wrong. But thanks for the actual fact!
Actually, parking is specifically exempted up to a $245 monthly benefit; there are similar exemptions for public transit passes. But the principle you mention is true -- they had to deliberately exempt those expenses otherwise they would be taxable.
(Or is it different if the money never passes through the employee's hands?)
In this case, the readers are refusing to be customers at all.
Can I get anyone to take this position: OSC is within his rights to his opinion, DC is within their rights to not print his story...
but maybe it would be a better world if DC comics didn't have the ability to prevent publication of a given story about Superman, a character created 75 years ago by a couple of guys who were paid a small flat rate for the character?
Then Card could put out whatever story he wants and we could all avoid it by ourselves, should we so choose.
I'm pretty sure the USA constitution has words to the effect that all people are equal.
You'd think. But, sadly, it doesn't. "All MEN are created equal" is from the DOI, not the constitution, and note that the Equal Rights Amendment (pertainining to equality of the sexes) was never ratified.
Deflation has an interesting effect on economies as well. Fixing something becomes cheaper than buying it.
Don't both the cost-to-fix and the cost-to-replace drop together, and cancel out? (Unless you assume fixing things is free, in which case free always wins anyway.)
You're right about amplification, but you've got a lot of those numbers wrong and have confused two different elections. In 1968, it was Nixon 43.4% to Humphrey 42.7%, which turned into 301 EV for Nixon -- and that was a lot less than a 5% difference, which does reinforce your point. (George Wallace won 13.5% of the vote and 46 EV, making analysis a bit more complicated.) The Nixon landslide you're thinking of was in 1972, when he won 61%/38% (rounded) -- a pretty good thumping for a Presidential election.
Instant access to the money, plus whatever advantage from not necessarily having to declare/track it. Useful for paying other people who have the same issues.
I don't think this is what the GP meant, but there's another sense in which software like this can't benefit everybody: both sides can't win an election. The benefit of it is to gain advantage relative to an opponent, and everybody can't do that.
I took the question to mean "what if they had been arrested when younger because of their drug use", which is not as silly a question.
I can't decide which is less informative: the book's title, or the article summary here.
This deserves more than mod points.
I use a land line when I want to comfortably understand the person on the other end. (The world seems to be divided into people who notice that cell phones lose a lot of signal information compared to land lines, and people who don't.)
It is, but it's delayed. That is, all of the pre-Avengers films are streaming now, but the newest of those are over a year old. If the new deal were in place, Avengers would be on Netflix at the moment when, in the current system, it appears on Starz or whichever.
I get junk mail from all over the country. Is that unusual? (Maybe you mean supermarket circulars.)
Note that a consequence of this is that district-level gerrymandering, which already produces disproportionate congressional delegations, would then also produce disproportional EVs from state. That is, Ohio, a 51/49 state, would have had something like 14 Repub. EVs and then Dems would have had 4.
A fair number of people have heard the term "fiscal cliff" but don't know what it refers to:
"The United States fiscal cliff refers to the effect of a series of enacted legislation which, if unchanged, will result in tax increases, spending cuts, and a corresponding reduction in the budget deficit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff
So, not like Greece.
No, he's saying (well, Silver is saying) that since all the polls use kinda-sorta the same methodology, then if Romney unexpectedly wins Ohio, then whatever made the polls wrong in Ohio suggests that the polls might well be wrong in the same way in other states.
You must not be a U.S. citizen. The U.S. has laws against discriminatory practices. If you don't want to hang around certain types of people on your own time that is fine. The workplace is another matter entirely.
If that's in response to the guy who says he was fired for being gay: in plenty of states in the US there is no protection against that at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination_in_the_United_States
That refers to statements you make to the police after being arrested, not to previous statements.
There's no "special election" in the event of a Presidential death; the VP becomes President until the next normal election.