No thanks. In California or any open primary state, belonging to a political party does nothing aside from reminding you what to believe and how to vote. If you are a person who likes to think for yourself, this constant buzzing in the ear just gets in the way of independent thought.
Do you know what hurts poor people and economies even more than a carbon tax? A sales tax. If Washington used the carbon tax to offset and eliminate the sales tax, it would be a net win all around. Will they do it? Probably not. But it's a nice thought.
Could we use the revenue to eliminate the sales tax? The gas tax discourages burning fossil fuels while the sales tax discourages commerce. One of these taxes is better for the economy and the environment than the other.
With H1B Visas getting shut down, they should be especially short on software engineers, shouldn't they?
Correct, they lowball you just so they can prove that they can't find anyone to fill the position before (ab)using the H1B program for cheap labor. They don't expect you to actually take the job, nor are they willing to pay more to fill the position.
Yes, but before Net Neutrality, remember when ISPs blocked VOIP, P2P, and video services that competed with their own? Why do you want to radically change things and return back to that world?
Then how about an electromagnetic catapult-assist jumbo glider? Shoot it up along the side of a tall mountain (ok a VERY tall mountain) into low earth orbit and then it falls back into the atmosphere and glides to its destination.
The lever is handheld and it communicates my intentions wirelessly to other road users. If I ever get pulled over for not using it, I will have a good argument to defend myself.
I am pretty sure the number is bounded at two, without two there is no competition.
I would say the lower bound is three to make it possible for the largest company to not have an absolute majority of the market share.
In any case, this is a very good question to ask, if you believe in the zero-one-infinity rule. Some people say the rule applies only to software but I think it applies to code of any kind (e.g. legal). For example, at what interest rate does a loan become usury?
Capitalism works best (as in, markets work most efficiently in solving the basic economic problem) when market failures (monopolies, asymmetrical information, negative externalities, etc.) are corrected. This requires government.
Because of red state socialism. In other words, most of the red states (except Texas) could not afford to exist without the blue states transferring vast amounts of wealth to them.
Smoker is claiming he has been tricked into physical addiction, good luck claiming physical addiction to fossil fuels.
Because you can quit fossil fuels anytime you want, right?
We've allowed our rail lines to languish, gutted our cities with parking craters, and rebuilt them around the automobile such that driving is now the only feasible way of getting around American cities. Would we have done anything different if the oil companies hadn't lied and suppressed evidence about the environmental harm of burning fossil fuels? I think this is the real test of liability.
Nice try but I'm looking at Toronto's zoning code and it's filled with laws that limit how many housing units can be built within the city. Minimum parking requirements, minimum setbacks, maximum floor area ratios, height limits, and on and on.
"Forcing everyone out" is what happens when you tried so hard to keep out foreigners by restricting new housing and now there isn't enough housing for both the current residents and the newcomers. In other words, you did it to yourself!
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I agree that Apple's connector is better, but how do you accidentally break the tongue deep inside a USB-C socket?
Why can't an Internet ID be anonymous?
No thanks. In California or any open primary state, belonging to a political party does nothing aside from reminding you what to believe and how to vote. If you are a person who likes to think for yourself, this constant buzzing in the ear just gets in the way of independent thought.
Not every activity, just the ones that create a danger to others.
And pilot licensing!
Do you know what hurts poor people and economies even more than a carbon tax? A sales tax. If Washington used the carbon tax to offset and eliminate the sales tax, it would be a net win all around. Will they do it? Probably not. But it's a nice thought.
Yes but today's warming is 10 times faster. Such rapid change will be devastating on a scale never seen before in a natural cycle.
Nice ad hominem! But logical fallacies don't work on thinking people.
Could we use the revenue to eliminate the sales tax? The gas tax discourages burning fossil fuels while the sales tax discourages commerce. One of these taxes is better for the economy and the environment than the other.
Correct, they lowball you just so they can prove that they can't find anyone to fill the position before (ab)using the H1B program for cheap labor. They don't expect you to actually take the job, nor are they willing to pay more to fill the position.
Yes, but before Net Neutrality, remember when ISPs blocked VOIP, P2P, and video services that competed with their own? Why do you want to radically change things and return back to that world?
Then how about an electromagnetic catapult-assist jumbo glider? Shoot it up along the side of a tall mountain (ok a VERY tall mountain) into low earth orbit and then it falls back into the atmosphere and glides to its destination.
What is there to offset? The sum total of all CO2 out-gassed by active volcanoes amounts to about 1/150th of anthropogenic emissions.
Yes, to influence mentally unstable people not to shoot up the local school/mall/religious institution.
So what's the downside?
No, I would definitely need a lawyer, the kind who can successfully defend a drunk driving case on the basis of entrapment!
The lever is handheld and it communicates my intentions wirelessly to other road users. If I ever get pulled over for not using it, I will have a good argument to defend myself.
I would say the lower bound is three to make it possible for the largest company to not have an absolute majority of the market share.
In any case, this is a very good question to ask, if you believe in the zero-one-infinity rule. Some people say the rule applies only to software but I think it applies to code of any kind (e.g. legal). For example, at what interest rate does a loan become usury?
Union = abuser
Weak-kneed employer who caves to union demands = enabler
NIMBY = abuser
City council who listens only to the loudest voice = enabler
Capitalism works best (as in, markets work most efficiently in solving the basic economic problem) when market failures (monopolies, asymmetrical information, negative externalities, etc.) are corrected. This requires government.
Because of red state socialism. In other words, most of the red states (except Texas) could not afford to exist without the blue states transferring vast amounts of wealth to them.
That's funny because Republicans are nearly all infrastructure socialists. In fact they're even trying to increase the road subsidy!
Remember, the opposite of socialism is anarchy. Capitalism is somewhere between the two extremes.
Your requirements #2 and #3 are mutually exclusive. How could a city ban hydrocarbons (#2) when alternatives are not available (#3)?
Because you can quit fossil fuels anytime you want, right?
We've allowed our rail lines to languish, gutted our cities with parking craters, and rebuilt them around the automobile such that driving is now the only feasible way of getting around American cities. Would we have done anything different if the oil companies hadn't lied and suppressed evidence about the environmental harm of burning fossil fuels? I think this is the real test of liability.
That's like saying a smoker cannot sue the cigarette company as long as they continue to smoke.
Nice try but I'm looking at Toronto's zoning code and it's filled with laws that limit how many housing units can be built within the city. Minimum parking requirements, minimum setbacks, maximum floor area ratios, height limits, and on and on.
"Forcing everyone out" is what happens when you tried so hard to keep out foreigners by restricting new housing and now there isn't enough housing for both the current residents and the newcomers. In other words, you did it to yourself!