High speed rail will get you to your destination faster than by air, curb to curb, up to about 400 miles. (Even bicycles are occasionally faster than flying.) And to date, no terrorist has ever steered a train into a building, so unless you're going through the tunnel under the English Channel, there will always be less groping to board a train than an airliner.
But you would rather people live in rat warrens reliant on a central government for their security and sustenance.
Actually, it's the suburban residents who rely more heavily on tax breaks, which infers a central government, to finance their lifestyles, than urban residents.
Its pretty much too late to do anything useful. There are some way out there schemes but the most positive effect for species survival now is figuring out how to sustain our population on a warming Earth.
You mean like moving from sprawling, single family ranch-style homes, which are expensive to cool, into the city? And planting trees and other vegetation in order to reduce the urban heat island effect? And switching to energy efficient appliances and using them at night in order to reduce cooling costs?
Seems the way to sustain our population on a warming earth is to do what we should have been doing all along.
I pay about $20 per month for my no-contract cell phone, including data, because I'm on a pay-as-you-go plan, and I use my $20 per month VoIP landline whenever I need to make a call. Before Google Voice, if a call came through on my cell and I thought it would be a long call, I would ask to call the person back, but now I just take the call on the landline. Total cost for phone service: $40 per month.
I don't advise getting rid of the landline because it might tempt you to switch your cell phone to a much more costly unlimited plan.
In Michigan, there is an 85\15 rule. After studying traffic flow, if it is found that 85% of the cars were going over the posted speed limit, then that community has to up the speed limit.
This is what happens when you don't fully test your legislation before rolling it out to production. At least run it in a virtual world first. And put in a sunset clause so it can easily be shut down if it doesn't have the desired effect in the real world.
By becoming a content delivery network (CDN) host for Xfinity, Comcast lowers their bandwidth costs when their subscribers use Xfinity. So why shouldn't Comcast pass on the savings to their subscribers?
Net Neutrality is nice, but not when it encourages inefficiency.
These tax breaks. Other benefits include minimum parking requirements that encourage people to use oil, and external costs of oil use (such as air pollution) that are not recovered in the price of oil.
They're only harmful if you assume sales tax is charged on the basics of life.
Like clothes.
Even if all of the basics of life were tax free, it still doesn't change the fact that sales taxes are regressive. It only makes them slightly less regressive.
With so many advantages of property taxes over sales taxes, the sales tax just doesn't make much sense. Conveniently, eliminating the sales tax would also solve the problem of collecting it over the Internet.
#4 through #6 could be avoided by having the upload process verify each file as it's received. If the file is in the wrong format or contains a virus, the student would know right away and could immediately take steps to fix the problem when there's still time.
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High speed rail will get you to your destination faster than by air, curb to curb, up to about 400 miles. (Even bicycles are occasionally faster than flying.) And to date, no terrorist has ever steered a train into a building, so unless you're going through the tunnel under the English Channel, there will always be less groping to board a train than an airliner.
Actually, it's the suburban residents who rely more heavily on tax breaks, which infers a central government, to finance their lifestyles, than urban residents.
But don't let facts cloud your view of the world.
Seeing as Microsoft wrote it in the first place, I think it's fair for them to share some of the blame.
[Citation needed], because I think you're just making stuff up.
You mean like moving from sprawling, single family ranch-style homes, which are expensive to cool, into the city? And planting trees and other vegetation in order to reduce the urban heat island effect? And switching to energy efficient appliances and using them at night in order to reduce cooling costs?
Seems the way to sustain our population on a warming earth is to do what we should have been doing all along.
I pay about $20 per month for my no-contract cell phone, including data, because I'm on a pay-as-you-go plan, and I use my $20 per month VoIP landline whenever I need to make a call. Before Google Voice, if a call came through on my cell and I thought it would be a long call, I would ask to call the person back, but now I just take the call on the landline. Total cost for phone service: $40 per month.
I don't advise getting rid of the landline because it might tempt you to switch your cell phone to a much more costly unlimited plan.
This is why tailgating laws need to be more vigorously enforced.
Of course they won't. They only go up. It's called, "inflation."
Does anyone else think it's a very bad idea to allow people who overestimate their own driving ability to set the speed limits?
This is what happens when you don't fully test your legislation before rolling it out to production. At least run it in a virtual world first. And put in a sunset clause so it can easily be shut down if it doesn't have the desired effect in the real world.
Could you cite your source for the above statement?
Could you cite your source for the above statement?
By becoming a content delivery network (CDN) host for Xfinity, Comcast lowers their bandwidth costs when their subscribers use Xfinity. So why shouldn't Comcast pass on the savings to their subscribers?
Net Neutrality is nice, but not when it encourages inefficiency.
How many more inches do they need, and how much is that in pixels?
These tax breaks. Other benefits include minimum parking requirements that encourage people to use oil, and external costs of oil use (such as air pollution) that are not recovered in the price of oil.
Like clothes.
Even if all of the basics of life were tax free, it still doesn't change the fact that sales taxes are regressive. It only makes them slightly less regressive.
Sales taxes are regressive, they discourage commerce, and they incentivize cities to put up big-box stores, while property taxes encourage cities to make land-use decisions that bolster property values.
With so many advantages of property taxes over sales taxes, the sales tax just doesn't make much sense. Conveniently, eliminating the sales tax would also solve the problem of collecting it over the Internet.
#4 through #6 could be avoided by having the upload process verify each file as it's received. If the file is in the wrong format or contains a virus, the student would know right away and could immediately take steps to fix the problem when there's still time.
PDF solves that.
Paper? Printing? Why?
My bank gives me the option to have my statements delivered electronically. Surely this doesn't double the bank's workload.
Not MenuetOS. It's an operating system with a graphical UI, pre-emptive multitasking, and USB and TCP/IP stacks that boots from a single floppy.
It beats your silly idea of a 20 mile extension cord.
Here's one.
I've never found myself with an empty gas tank. What's it like?
And carry all that extra weight around? (generator + fuel)
I'd rather just carry around a power cord.