Actually, most of what you've talked about is similar to the most compelling reasons to support a national consumption tax to replace all other taxes: putting domestically-made goods sold in the US on the same tax footing as imported goods, and simplifying the personal income tax system to increase compliance.
That's not what the Laffer Curve says. It says that tax revenues are optimized at a certain point. Taxes always* have a negative effect on productivity, and that has to be considered against the potential increase in tax revenue that an increase in the tax rate would otherwise bring.
* Specific uses for tax dollars can increase productivity, but that increase is usually not as much as the productivity that a firm could gain by just spending the money itself.
Actually, the daughter wouldn't necessarily be a clone of the mother, since the various alleles present in the mother could occur zero, one, or two times in the daughter.
In a well-designed voting system, voters shouldn't have to take anyone's actions on faith. The entire process should be simple and transparent, so that anyone can observe it and verify that it was carried out correctly. Moreover, a well-designed voting system should be 100% accurate in the counting of votes because of, not despite, the removal of humans from the counting process. The problem is that so far, no commercially available electronic voting system exists yet that has been well designed.
Awesome! I didn't want to vote anyway. Thank God the ACLU is there to relieve me of the horrible task of making up my mind regarding who's the least of a dozen evils this year.
Seriously, though, my head is spinning from the shenanigans going on here from all directions. In 2006, the county BoE had fubared my voter registration, and I got stuck voting provisionally despite bringing ample identification with me, and despite having lived and voted in that precinct in every general election for the past several years. I filled out a paper ballot, jammed it into a big envelope, sealed it, and dropped it in the box. Not only do I have no idea whether my vote got counted, but I also didn't get these vaunted protections the ACLU is now complaining about.
Where was the ACLU when I needed them, I ask you?!
Prevalence of particular fields among terrorists isn't necessarily indicative of a mindset present in those fields. I would instead point toward the sorts of people who can afford to leave their home country and travel to where the terrorist opportunities are. Dirt farmers can't afford to do this; engineers can. Moreover, in a lot of cases, people in developing and recently-developed countries who get the chance to study engineering, medicine, etc., come from well-to-do families already and have the resources at their disposal to travel.
Thanks for adding U2 to the tainted "Metallica" pool of music downloading. Agreed. It's interesting that the last thing of note Metallica did was put their collective lips directly on the RIAA's ass. I guess the RIAA is a big enough ass that there's room enough for U2 there as well.
Fortunately, there's enough good music out there that I only need to offer the briefest lament for U2's downfall before I move on.
Instead, we should invent plot-directed recognition technology. I mean, you never see the computer on Star Trek misinterpreting the zillions of conversations as being directed toward it. Why? Because it would bog down the plot, except for those rare occasions where it's funny.
Same thing applies to the doors. The doors know exactly when someone is going to walk through them, because they are plot-directed. You can stand mere inches away from a door, facing it, but until the plot indicates that the time for you to go through has arrived, they won't budge.
As many other people have noted, this recount, for a wide variety of reasons, doesn't "prove no fraud" here. I'd like to add one other factor that can't be covered by any recount: people voting in precincts where they aren't eligible to vote.
Failing to count one person's vote disenfranchises that one person completely. Allowing someone to vote where/when they aren't legally supposed to disenfranchises all of us by a little bit each.
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I'm sad that Joel didn't answer the question about RiffTrax. I'm one of those apparently rare people who really liked both Joel and Mike, and as far as I'm concerned, the more riffs that both of these new old teams produce for us, the better.
The only real downside here is the loss of the 'Bots. As I understand it, that's 100% Jim Mallon's fault, but if someone who really knows the answer to why the 'Bots will likely never be seen in new material again, I'd be interested to hear it.
Google Translate English->Japanese->English:
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The problem that makes poor countries poor isn't that the concepts of worldwide {insert philosophy here} have failed. It's that those concepts never touch the people inside those countries due to massive government corruption and military/paramilitary oppression. Throw as much money as you like at the problem - the warlords will thank you for your generous "donation".
Ultimately, this is all moot. In 2029, the Tree of Life will get what's coming to it, as administered by a giant hexapedal cloaking tank with miniguns for arms.
I switched, as fast as I could when AT&T merged with Cingular. Hehe, I dodged a bullet on my cell phone service with that one as well. I was with Cingular, decided they sucked hairy goat balls, and tried switching to AT&T. Of course, AT&T screwed up my order (LNP had just become available here, and they weren't ready for it), so I ended up cancelling and going with Sprint. A couple months later came the headlines that Cingular and AT&T were merging.
My suggestion - though I'm not an AT&T customer - is to investigate the possibility of implementing tiered pricing as Time Warner is considering. If the problem with BitTorrent and other P2P apps (from your perspective, anyway) is disproportionate bandwidth usage, why not just charge more from the people using more than their fair share?
That is, unless the true motivation here is that you're deep in the pocket of the content cabal and will do anything to get whatever pittance of a kickback they're willing to give.
FWIW: I played D&D twice and found both groups to be complete morons. (I know there are non-moron D&D players out there, but I have yet to actually see them play.) This is because, just like in MMOGs, the people who aren't morons already play with a select group of people and don't want to deal with the grief and hassle of a pickup group.
You can also follow this procedure for getting the mains back online:
Enter glass-walled reactor room Remove shiny tube cover Hold hands over open end of tube in mysterious fashion while leaning over tube, ensuring maximum irradiation Replace cover, waddle over to locked door, collapse Die in dramatic fashion while taking a subtle parting shot at your best friend for his lack of manual dexterity
Optionally, you might consider transferring your katra to someone else beforehand, especially if you've been thinking about directing and would like a shot at it in your next movie.
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Actually, most of what you've talked about is similar to the most compelling reasons to support a national consumption tax to replace all other taxes: putting domestically-made goods sold in the US on the same tax footing as imported goods, and simplifying the personal income tax system to increase compliance.
That's not what the Laffer Curve says. It says that tax revenues are optimized at a certain point. Taxes always* have a negative effect on productivity, and that has to be considered against the potential increase in tax revenue that an increase in the tax rate would otherwise bring.
* Specific uses for tax dollars can increase productivity, but that increase is usually not as much as the productivity that a firm could gain by just spending the money itself.
Screw Ron Paul, where's the CowboyNeal option!?
Actually, the daughter wouldn't necessarily be a clone of the mother, since the various alleles present in the mother could occur zero, one, or two times in the daughter.
It's all okay, though. On Atlantis, McKay can just reprogram them.
People find mystery liquids on the subway all the time. It's called "urine".
If there's no opportunity for profit, why would a company bother participating in research, even if the research itself is government-funded?
Awesome! I didn't want to vote anyway. Thank God the ACLU is there to relieve me of the horrible task of making up my mind regarding who's the least of a dozen evils this year.
Seriously, though, my head is spinning from the shenanigans going on here from all directions. In 2006, the county BoE had fubared my voter registration, and I got stuck voting provisionally despite bringing ample identification with me, and despite having lived and voted in that precinct in every general election for the past several years. I filled out a paper ballot, jammed it into a big envelope, sealed it, and dropped it in the box. Not only do I have no idea whether my vote got counted, but I also didn't get these vaunted protections the ACLU is now complaining about.
Where was the ACLU when I needed them, I ask you?!
Prevalence of particular fields among terrorists isn't necessarily indicative of a mindset present in those fields. I would instead point toward the sorts of people who can afford to leave their home country and travel to where the terrorist opportunities are. Dirt farmers can't afford to do this; engineers can. Moreover, in a lot of cases, people in developing and recently-developed countries who get the chance to study engineering, medicine, etc., come from well-to-do families already and have the resources at their disposal to travel.
Fortunately, there's enough good music out there that I only need to offer the briefest lament for U2's downfall before I move on.
Captain Murphy: And give that five Ph.D.'s thing a rest, will ya? Nobody likes hubris.
Instead, we should invent plot-directed recognition technology. I mean, you never see the computer on Star Trek misinterpreting the zillions of conversations as being directed toward it. Why? Because it would bog down the plot, except for those rare occasions where it's funny.
Same thing applies to the doors. The doors know exactly when someone is going to walk through them, because they are plot-directed. You can stand mere inches away from a door, facing it, but until the plot indicates that the time for you to go through has arrived, they won't budge.
You gotta wonder whether and how much money changed hands to make these criminal cases happen.
As many other people have noted, this recount, for a wide variety of reasons, doesn't "prove no fraud" here. I'd like to add one other factor that can't be covered by any recount: people voting in precincts where they aren't eligible to vote.
Failing to count one person's vote disenfranchises that one person completely. Allowing someone to vote where/when they aren't legally supposed to disenfranchises all of us by a little bit each.
I'm sad that Joel didn't answer the question about RiffTrax. I'm one of those apparently rare people who really liked both Joel and Mike, and as far as I'm concerned, the more riffs that both of these new old teams produce for us, the better.
The only real downside here is the loss of the 'Bots. As I understand it, that's 100% Jim Mallon's fault, but if someone who really knows the answer to why the 'Bots will likely never be seen in new material again, I'd be interested to hear it.
The problem that makes poor countries poor isn't that the concepts of worldwide {insert philosophy here} have failed. It's that those concepts never touch the people inside those countries due to massive government corruption and military/paramilitary oppression. Throw as much money as you like at the problem - the warlords will thank you for your generous "donation".
Ultimately, this is all moot. In 2029, the Tree of Life will get what's coming to it, as administered by a giant hexapedal cloaking tank with miniguns for arms.
On the other hand, hyperventilation and mass Sterno consumption are known to counteract its ability to replicate.
Now they won't need to activate that laboratory self-destruct!
My suggestion - though I'm not an AT&T customer - is to investigate the possibility of implementing tiered pricing as Time Warner is considering. If the problem with BitTorrent and other P2P apps (from your perspective, anyway) is disproportionate bandwidth usage, why not just charge more from the people using more than their fair share?
That is, unless the true motivation here is that you're deep in the pocket of the content cabal and will do anything to get whatever pittance of a kickback they're willing to give.
Whatever he was doing in those movies, it sure as hell wasn't acting.
You can also follow this procedure for getting the mains back online:
Enter glass-walled reactor room
Remove shiny tube cover
Hold hands over open end of tube in mysterious fashion while leaning over tube, ensuring maximum irradiation
Replace cover, waddle over to locked door, collapse
Die in dramatic fashion while taking a subtle parting shot at your best friend for his lack of manual dexterity
Optionally, you might consider transferring your katra to someone else beforehand, especially if you've been thinking about directing and would like a shot at it in your next movie.