If it were easy [to find another job with reasonable pay in your field with a different work schedule], those jobs would already be taken by those who don't have any job.
Not necessarily. It's hard to get a job when you don't already have a job.
Did a representative of MY government just try and tell me that my breath is somehow more harmful to the environment than the Hummer exhaust I'm choking on?
No, he said bicycling is, in absolute terms, more harmful to the environment than doing nothing.
Of course, driving a Hummer is relatively more harmful to the environment than bicycling, but he didn't add that to the conversation.
So his argument depends on the ability of the reader to understand the difference between "absolute" and "relative."
Thos heavy trucks aren't being driven for fun; they're bringing goods to market that we all collectively buy.
And as long as we continue to distort the market for freight transport by heavily subsidizing the trucking industry, those trucks will continue to tear up our roads (literally) and contribute to traffic congestion when much of their cargo should instead go by rail which causes much less of a problem.
JavaScript is insecure and violates privacy. CSS can handle some of the eye candy that JavaScript is currently used for. Web forms ultimately need to be validated on the server side, so client-side validation isn't 100% necessary.
There are cases where there's just no substitute for JavaScript. It should only be used in those cases.
Let's hope companies also stop mandating the use of Shockwave and JavaScript, or at least let me use the web site without having to completely disable NoScript.
no non-voluntary system can objectively be said to produce a better allocation [than voluntary trade]
Surely any voluntary system can produce a better allocation than any non-voluntary system, once all market failures are corrected (monopolies, negative externalities, information asymmetries, etc.).
The problem is not - NOT - revenue. It is spending. The Federal Government is spending over 3 TIMES more per capita, in constant dollars, than it did back in those high-marginal rate days.
Sorry, but that doesn't prove we're spending too much. In fact, we may still be spending too little. The optimal amount is the amount where spending an additional dollar brings less than a dollar in economic benefits. Only when you can prove we're past that point will you be able to truthfully claim that we have a spending problem.
The BSSE is what you want. There are 22 schools in the USA that offer the degree at this time.
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I used to use the Gimp, because it was free. I mainly used it for restoring old photos and for some postprocessing on my own digital photos. But then I discovered Lightroom. In the Gimp, fixing the white balance is a manual process using curves, but in Lightroom, you just point at a neutral color in the photo and it's all done for you.
In the Gimp, applying a graduated neutral density filter involves working with layers, but in Lightroom, you just click and drag to create two regions, then set the exposure individually for each.
Lightroom's cataloging and batch features make it easy to work with large numbers of images.
I still occasionally use the Gimp for things I can't do in Lightroom (most recently, to blur out a license plate using a mosaic effect), but for most of what I do, Lightroom is much easier and faster.
There's a shortage of P.O. boxes in some areas, proving that the price of renting a box in those areas is too low. As a result, the post office loses money.
There's a surplus of P.O. boxes in other areas, proving that the price is too high, and the post office loses business to Fedex, UPS, and Amazon Lockers.
Clearly, the people in charge of setting prices are destroying the United States Postal Service.
Instead of allowing the cap to rise automatically with demand, why not allow the price to rise automatically with demand? In other words, eliminate the "shortage" by selling the visas at auction. Then we'll find out which companies genuinely need those visas.
Trespassing includes accessing communication networks and computer systems, or accounts and/or files associated with those systems, without explicit authorization to do so.
I am accessing this very web page on Slashdot.org without explicit written or verbal authorization from Slashdot's owners. Am I trespassing?
the First amendment explicitly asserts that free speech is a right, not 'something you get to do if it doesn't bother anybody' or 'something you can do if you clean up after yourself'.
The Supreme Court on multiple occasions has ruled that there are limitations to the right of speech where it harms others.
If you can calculate the external cost of some product or activity, why would you *not* want to correct the market failure by internalizing that cost into a tax?
That said, I doubt 1.00% is the actual cost to society of violent video games. It's a suspiciously round number, just like most taxes we pay. Making up numbers out of thin air like this is an irresponsible way to create legislation.
Geothermal energy has an enourmous potential to reduce those emissions. If the price is a some minor tremors in remote locations, it is worth it.
If it were only that simple. Besides creating tremors, harvesting geothermal energy also hastens the cooling of the Earth's mantle. Once that's done, say goodbye to the magnetosphere, and shortly thereafter, the entire atmosphere and all life on Earth.
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Not necessarily. It's hard to get a job when you don't already have a job.
I can't think of anyone who couldn't find a job with a different work schedule.
No, he said bicycling is, in absolute terms, more harmful to the environment than doing nothing.
Of course, driving a Hummer is relatively more harmful to the environment than bicycling, but he didn't add that to the conversation.
So his argument depends on the ability of the reader to understand the difference between "absolute" and "relative."
False. If you'll recall from Econ 101, adding supply isn't the only way to eliminate a shortage.
It's unfortunate for our economy that so few people understand Supply and Demand.
And as long as we continue to distort the market for freight transport by heavily subsidizing the trucking industry, those trucks will continue to tear up our roads (literally) and contribute to traffic congestion when much of their cargo should instead go by rail which causes much less of a problem.
I should also add that trains are three times as fuel-efficient as trucks, which means they create one-third as much air pollution. Air pollution costs us up to $1,600 per person annually.
We would all save a lot of money if the trucking industry pulled its own weight, so to speak.
A market works best with a little regulation. For example, to break up monopolies.
Telling someone he can't do something restricts freedom more than telling him he can do it but he has to clean up the mess.
JavaScript is insecure and violates privacy. CSS can handle some of the eye candy that JavaScript is currently used for. Web forms ultimately need to be validated on the server side, so client-side validation isn't 100% necessary.
There are cases where there's just no substitute for JavaScript. It should only be used in those cases.
Let's hope companies also stop mandating the use of Shockwave and JavaScript, or at least let me use the web site without having to completely disable NoScript.
Yes, but somehow it doesn't make sense to me to have a fake review of a real product.
Surely any voluntary system can produce a better allocation than any non-voluntary system, once all market failures are corrected (monopolies, negative externalities, information asymmetries, etc.).
Sorry, but that doesn't prove we're spending too much. In fact, we may still be spending too little. The optimal amount is the amount where spending an additional dollar brings less than a dollar in economic benefits. Only when you can prove we're past that point will you be able to truthfully claim that we have a spending problem.
The BSSE is what you want. There are 22 schools in the USA that offer the degree at this time.
I used to use the Gimp, because it was free. I mainly used it for restoring old photos and for some postprocessing on my own digital photos. But then I discovered Lightroom. In the Gimp, fixing the white balance is a manual process using curves, but in Lightroom, you just point at a neutral color in the photo and it's all done for you.
In the Gimp, applying a graduated neutral density filter involves working with layers, but in Lightroom, you just click and drag to create two regions, then set the exposure individually for each.
Lightroom's cataloging and batch features make it easy to work with large numbers of images.
I still occasionally use the Gimp for things I can't do in Lightroom (most recently, to blur out a license plate using a mosaic effect), but for most of what I do, Lightroom is much easier and faster.
Shortages are the price of a good mail system?
There's a shortage of P.O. boxes in some areas, proving that the price of renting a box in those areas is too low. As a result, the post office loses money.
There's a surplus of P.O. boxes in other areas, proving that the price is too high, and the post office loses business to Fedex, UPS, and Amazon Lockers.
Clearly, the people in charge of setting prices are destroying the United States Postal Service.
It would be an X-Plane!
They pay the "full" tuition, but are you sure their tuition isn't subsidized by taxpayers?
Instead of allowing the cap to rise automatically with demand, why not allow the price to rise automatically with demand? In other words, eliminate the "shortage" by selling the visas at auction. Then we'll find out which companies genuinely need those visas.
Then how can they "assure" the "quality" of the released software?
You're thinking of software testers, not QA. There's a difference.
I am accessing this very web page on Slashdot.org without explicit written or verbal authorization from Slashdot's owners. Am I trespassing?
And give the QA team enough authority to prevent buggy releases.
The Supreme Court on multiple occasions has ruled that there are limitations to the right of speech where it harms others.
Why would you ever want a made-up number?
If you can calculate the external cost of some product or activity, why would you *not* want to correct the market failure by internalizing that cost into a tax? That said, I doubt 1.00% is the actual cost to society of violent video games. It's a suspiciously round number, just like most taxes we pay. Making up numbers out of thin air like this is an irresponsible way to create legislation.
If it were only that simple. Besides creating tremors, harvesting geothermal energy also hastens the cooling of the Earth's mantle. Once that's done, say goodbye to the magnetosphere, and shortly thereafter, the entire atmosphere and all life on Earth.