I refuse to pay for tax software or an actual live preparer on principle. I make just enough now that I don't qualify for any of the free e-file options that I would trust with my data. So I filed on paper. Simple return, only three pages but it will still cost the government a disappointing amount of money to process it even if all they do is enter the routing numbers and refund amount and trust the rest blindly. And was much worse for them back in the days when I was reporting 1040-C income.
They already make fill-able.pdf forms to ease the data entry for themselves (printed versus hand-written). Going the trivial next step of giving us an online fill-able form that transfers all the data straight into their system would cost next to nothing and save the IRS massive amounts of labor. Just think of all the government workers we could layoff (or at least not replace)!
McConnell brought the Green New Deal up for a vote so that he and friends could do a bit of grandstanding against. Will play well with the base but whether it will bite them in butt with other voters is up in the air.
For the national emergency vote, that was legally required to have a floor vote in the Senate once it was approved by the House (also works the other way around). Not a whole lot of credit due for actually following your own laws.
A number of folks here seem to be missing a very important point about this system: the MCAS on the 737 Max is NOT part of the autopilot. It is always there between the pilots and the control surfaces when the pilots are flying the plane and it does not stop itself. This is a fundamental break in system behavior compared to every previous Boeing airliner. Regardless of any lights or sensors or whatnot, the fact that a Boeing now has a computer that will fight the pilots all the way into the ground is not something that should have been buried in an iPad training module. This was a colossal fuck up from end to end on Boeing's part.
Three versions behind? Ha! After accounting for all the things they broke and the spyware/telemetry they added I would say Windows 7 is at least a version superior to 10.
Actually the main reason you won't find Walmart in the mail ad packet is that packet is generally set to arrive on Wednesday's because grocery stores are a major customer and somehow got into the habit of running their ad weeks from Wednesday to Tuesday.
Walmart started as a general merchandise retailer so they run Sunday to Saturday ad weeks (same for Target and all the big department stores) and they push their print ads in the Sunday newspapers. Both Walmart and Target will do grocery specific ad flyers in the Wednesday packet during the lead up to eating holidays.
FDIC has nothing to do with bank robberies unless someone manages to steal enough money to break the bank (hint: would require stealing a lot). Deposit insurance is to protect against bank runs, which is what really brought on the Great Depression. Ordinary commercial insurance is what repays the bank in case of a cash robbery because it is the bank's money exclusively that gets stolen: the bank's liability to you for your deposits is not lessened by them getting robbed.
Well if he was actually pissed about this he could simply issue a pardon for the alleged crimes. Case over, "Deep State" thoroughly thwarted, tensions eased and good karma points earned with China. The use of Presidential pardons to counter over-zealous prosecution is emphatically one of the use cases in mind when the pardon power was written.
But, no, he publicly muses about using the arrest of Ms. Meng as a bargaining chip to extract a better deal from the Chinese government. That dramatically increases the chance that extradition will be denied, since political overtones were just dropped all over the case, while burning any good will there may have been from the trade truce.
It really isn't normal to forewarn the President about individual arrests in ordinary cases. If this had simply been left to career staff to make a legitimate case the Chinese government would have scowled some and then filed it as precedent for later use when the shoe is on the other foot. But it was very much the President's choice to make Iran related issues a priority for the Justice Department, as is his rightful prerogative, and also his choice to make this case a political football. So if he is in fact pissed about this, some of that ire needs to land on the man in the mirror.
The "problem" is that the US and China and Europe all want to try to control the internet globally. The US wants to be able to spy and enforce copyrights, China wants to control what it's people see if they get outside the sandbox (and spy), and Europe seems to want to screw it up until one of their companies figures out how to be relevant again (and spy too). You and I, we just want to read and watch and play and work and buy stuff, but those aren't really any government's top priority.
And they succeeded. But they had to work at it some because over the years they accidentally put out some perfectly fine cars.
I drove a Pontiac Grand Am (with the aluminum 4-cylinder, not the iron V6 boat anchor, up front) all over the country for more than a decade, my brother drives it still. And I bought it used. The Ford Fusion of recent years was my preferred flavor of rental car, vastly better than getting stuck with a Kia on trips. I always thought that it would be nicer if it stuck out a little less front and back and didn't force you to sit so low. Turns out there was a car exactly like that: the Mazda 6 that Ford stretched and otherwise over-complicated to make the Fusion. Guess what I drive now?
Because it is actually pretty hard to have enough people within walking distance to support most types of stores beyond the corner quickie-mart. A grocery store can make a go of it with market area of only a couple thousand people if it is small and has no competition. If you want to have two competing supermarket class stores (plus some smaller players) that is going to need market area of a couple tens of thousands of people, and it is rather difficult to get that many people to fit within walking distance of anything.
You're right, oxygen is highly reactive. So much so that it is basically only found as part of molecule of one sort or another, and molecules of any sort are much less adept at squeezing through interstitial gaps or performing barrier tunneling tricks.
Well, back in 2005 the evidence, while clear, wasn't so overwhelmingly documented as to come all the way down to the reading comprehension level of posturing idiots. By now the posturing idiots have fled the field, leaving the willfully ignorant and deliberately obtuse to carry the Global Cooling is Coming banner.
Unless the other end of my dsl modem is in Nevada rather than at the end of the block, the entirety of the service I am paying for occurs within the state of California.
Others have pointed out that tariffs only make foreign products more expensive and do nothing to make American products cheaper. In fact, the US tariffs as implemented are almost surgically designed to put US manufacturers at a disadvantage since so many of the tariffs are being applied to components, like steel and electric motors, that are used to build consumer and industrial goods and to final goods like finished computer cases.
So a company like this gets hurt by import taxes increasing costs for their materials while their foreign competition does not face that tax, or a tax on their final product, and even see lower material costs as their local suppliers export less to the US.
Even for the chosen 'protected' industries there has been very little increase in production or investment, just a huge increase in profits. That you and I get to pay for. And that are nearly tax-free, which you and I also get to pay for.
No need to carve out a lower reservoir, it already exists in the form of Lake Mohave that is formed by Davis Dam. Davis Dam is about 40 miles downstream from my estimating on Google Maps, and looks to maintain its water level pretty much at the level of Hoover Dam's base. Below Davis Dam is Parker Dam which forms Lake Havasu.
As for letting more water through, all of the discharge from Hoover Dam currently goes through its powerhouses at a fraction of their peak capacity. This plan would use excess power to pump water back up the hill specifically so that water could be flowed through the powerhouses when power demand is high.
I think Musk's shiny Tesla is far better than a broken down Chevy because somebody, to make their own space statement, might launch a mission to get the Tesla back.
The government didn't discover this because they are literally not allowed to. If it is not an FDA regulated product then the FDA can't just decide to test it of their own accord because their budget doesn't cover testing of products they don't regulate. It covers little enough testing of what they are charged with regulating as is.
Complaining that the FDA didn't find this is pretty comparable to asking why Scotland Yard isn't catching bank robbers in Wyoming.
"The Coal Industry Isn't Coming Back" Nov-15 Opinion piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
tl;dr version: coal's problem isn't Obama, its Exxon-Mobile and natural gas, and coal is not going to win that fight
Actually, as a western liberal, I have been on record wishing Texas the best of luck in showing themselves the door, and may possibly have offered them Oklahoma if they didn't let that door hit them on the way out.
Given how dumb and panicky people get in any situation slightly out of the normal it will be infinitely better if the car handles the emergencies and only wakes you up for the odds and ends like your driveway. The computer can dodge around a cat better than you even if gets flummoxed by deciding to stop at the first or second drive thru window.
I don't think you would make it out the door, much less the parking lot, before the workers caught up with you. You would still go down in history. As the cause of the revolution. But history nonetheless.
Nobody serious has ever claimed there weren't some blind zealots on the climate change side because on EVERY issue there are blind zealots. There really are people who get their undies in a serious bunch on both sides of the airline peanut issue. Over peanuts, literally.
But at this point the only people left denying climate change entirely are the blind zealots and the politicians, because even the paid shills have limits.
Same here... my legs are in agony if they can't extend under the seat in front of me. 6 hours with my legs doubled up would probably be considered torture. Why not just give me an injection, knock me out, and stuff me in the cargo hold?
Because human bodies do not respond nearly as well to being treated like luggage as luggage does.
I am willing to bet that Google has more than 8 data centers. And as many as they have, placing clusters of data centers in different regions has the same effect as a smaller company putting each of their few data centers in different areas.
Also by clustering it reduces the costs of laying some seriously high capacity private fiber between them and the five centers can function more like one mammoth center.
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Some of these systems already 'thought' ahead and left out the off button.
I refuse to pay for tax software or an actual live preparer on principle. I make just enough now that I don't qualify for any of the free e-file options that I would trust with my data. So I filed on paper. Simple return, only three pages but it will still cost the government a disappointing amount of money to process it even if all they do is enter the routing numbers and refund amount and trust the rest blindly. And was much worse for them back in the days when I was reporting 1040-C income.
.pdf forms to ease the data entry for themselves (printed versus hand-written). Going the trivial next step of giving us an online fill-able form that transfers all the data straight into their system would cost next to nothing and save the IRS massive amounts of labor. Just think of all the government workers we could layoff (or at least not replace)!
They already make fill-able
McConnell brought the Green New Deal up for a vote so that he and friends could do a bit of grandstanding against. Will play well with the base but whether it will bite them in butt with other voters is up in the air.
For the national emergency vote, that was legally required to have a floor vote in the Senate once it was approved by the House (also works the other way around). Not a whole lot of credit due for actually following your own laws.
A number of folks here seem to be missing a very important point about this system: the MCAS on the 737 Max is NOT part of the autopilot. It is always there between the pilots and the control surfaces when the pilots are flying the plane and it does not stop itself. This is a fundamental break in system behavior compared to every previous Boeing airliner. Regardless of any lights or sensors or whatnot, the fact that a Boeing now has a computer that will fight the pilots all the way into the ground is not something that should have been buried in an iPad training module. This was a colossal fuck up from end to end on Boeing's part.
Three versions behind? Ha! After accounting for all the things they broke and the spyware/telemetry they added I would say Windows 7 is at least a version superior to 10.
Actually the main reason you won't find Walmart in the mail ad packet is that packet is generally set to arrive on Wednesday's because grocery stores are a major customer and somehow got into the habit of running their ad weeks from Wednesday to Tuesday.
Walmart started as a general merchandise retailer so they run Sunday to Saturday ad weeks (same for Target and all the big department stores) and they push their print ads in the Sunday newspapers. Both Walmart and Target will do grocery specific ad flyers in the Wednesday packet during the lead up to eating holidays.
FDIC has nothing to do with bank robberies unless someone manages to steal enough money to break the bank (hint: would require stealing a lot). Deposit insurance is to protect against bank runs, which is what really brought on the Great Depression. Ordinary commercial insurance is what repays the bank in case of a cash robbery because it is the bank's money exclusively that gets stolen: the bank's liability to you for your deposits is not lessened by them getting robbed.
Well if he was actually pissed about this he could simply issue a pardon for the alleged crimes. Case over, "Deep State" thoroughly thwarted, tensions eased and good karma points earned with China. The use of Presidential pardons to counter over-zealous prosecution is emphatically one of the use cases in mind when the pardon power was written.
But, no, he publicly muses about using the arrest of Ms. Meng as a bargaining chip to extract a better deal from the Chinese government. That dramatically increases the chance that extradition will be denied, since political overtones were just dropped all over the case, while burning any good will there may have been from the trade truce.
It really isn't normal to forewarn the President about individual arrests in ordinary cases. If this had simply been left to career staff to make a legitimate case the Chinese government would have scowled some and then filed it as precedent for later use when the shoe is on the other foot. But it was very much the President's choice to make Iran related issues a priority for the Justice Department, as is his rightful prerogative, and also his choice to make this case a political football. So if he is in fact pissed about this, some of that ire needs to land on the man in the mirror.
The "problem" is that the US and China and Europe all want to try to control the internet globally. The US wants to be able to spy and enforce copyrights, China wants to control what it's people see if they get outside the sandbox (and spy), and Europe seems to want to screw it up until one of their companies figures out how to be relevant again (and spy too). You and I, we just want to read and watch and play and work and buy stuff, but those aren't really any government's top priority.
And they succeeded. But they had to work at it some because over the years they accidentally put out some perfectly fine cars.
I drove a Pontiac Grand Am (with the aluminum 4-cylinder, not the iron V6 boat anchor, up front) all over the country for more than a decade, my brother drives it still. And I bought it used. The Ford Fusion of recent years was my preferred flavor of rental car, vastly better than getting stuck with a Kia on trips. I always thought that it would be nicer if it stuck out a little less front and back and didn't force you to sit so low. Turns out there was a car exactly like that: the Mazda 6 that Ford stretched and otherwise over-complicated to make the Fusion. Guess what I drive now?
Because it is actually pretty hard to have enough people within walking distance to support most types of stores beyond the corner quickie-mart. A grocery store can make a go of it with market area of only a couple thousand people if it is small and has no competition. If you want to have two competing supermarket class stores (plus some smaller players) that is going to need market area of a couple tens of thousands of people, and it is rather difficult to get that many people to fit within walking distance of anything.
You're right, oxygen is highly reactive. So much so that it is basically only found as part of molecule of one sort or another, and molecules of any sort are much less adept at squeezing through interstitial gaps or performing barrier tunneling tricks.
Well, back in 2005 the evidence, while clear, wasn't so overwhelmingly documented as to come all the way down to the reading comprehension level of posturing idiots. By now the posturing idiots have fled the field, leaving the willfully ignorant and deliberately obtuse to carry the Global Cooling is Coming banner.
Unless the other end of my dsl modem is in Nevada rather than at the end of the block, the entirety of the service I am paying for occurs within the state of California.
Others have pointed out that tariffs only make foreign products more expensive and do nothing to make American products cheaper. In fact, the US tariffs as implemented are almost surgically designed to put US manufacturers at a disadvantage since so many of the tariffs are being applied to components, like steel and electric motors, that are used to build consumer and industrial goods and to final goods like finished computer cases.
So a company like this gets hurt by import taxes increasing costs for their materials while their foreign competition does not face that tax, or a tax on their final product, and even see lower material costs as their local suppliers export less to the US.
Even for the chosen 'protected' industries there has been very little increase in production or investment, just a huge increase in profits. That you and I get to pay for. And that are nearly tax-free, which you and I also get to pay for.
No need to carve out a lower reservoir, it already exists in the form of Lake Mohave that is formed by Davis Dam. Davis Dam is about 40 miles downstream from my estimating on Google Maps, and looks to maintain its water level pretty much at the level of Hoover Dam's base. Below Davis Dam is Parker Dam which forms Lake Havasu.
As for letting more water through, all of the discharge from Hoover Dam currently goes through its powerhouses at a fraction of their peak capacity. This plan would use excess power to pump water back up the hill specifically so that water could be flowed through the powerhouses when power demand is high.
I think Musk's shiny Tesla is far better than a broken down Chevy because somebody, to make their own space statement, might launch a mission to get the Tesla back.
The government didn't discover this because they are literally not allowed to. If it is not an FDA regulated product then the FDA can't just decide to test it of their own accord because their budget doesn't cover testing of products they don't regulate. It covers little enough testing of what they are charged with regulating as is. Complaining that the FDA didn't find this is pretty comparable to asking why Scotland Yard isn't catching bank robbers in Wyoming.
"The Coal Industry Isn't Coming Back" Nov-15 Opinion piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
tl;dr version: coal's problem isn't Obama, its Exxon-Mobile and natural gas, and coal is not going to win that fight
Actually, as a western liberal, I have been on record wishing Texas the best of luck in showing themselves the door, and may possibly have offered them Oklahoma if they didn't let that door hit them on the way out.
Given how dumb and panicky people get in any situation slightly out of the normal it will be infinitely better if the car handles the emergencies and only wakes you up for the odds and ends like your driveway. The computer can dodge around a cat better than you even if gets flummoxed by deciding to stop at the first or second drive thru window.
I don't think you would make it out the door, much less the parking lot, before the workers caught up with you.
You would still go down in history.
As the cause of the revolution.
But history nonetheless.
Nobody serious has ever claimed there weren't some blind zealots on the climate change side because on EVERY issue there are blind zealots. There really are people who get their undies in a serious bunch on both sides of the airline peanut issue. Over peanuts, literally.
But at this point the only people left denying climate change entirely are the blind zealots and the politicians, because even the paid shills have limits.
Same here... my legs are in agony if they can't extend under the seat in front of me. 6 hours with my legs doubled up would probably be considered torture. Why not just give me an injection, knock me out, and stuff me in the cargo hold?
Because human bodies do not respond nearly as well to being treated like luggage as luggage does.
I am willing to bet that Google has more than 8 data centers. And as many as they have, placing clusters of data centers in different regions has the same effect as a smaller company putting each of their few data centers in different areas.
Also by clustering it reduces the costs of laying some seriously high capacity private fiber between them and the five centers can function more like one mammoth center.