Because it is allowed to control the money supply; almost without exception this is done to create inflation. It is also allowed to act as a lender of last resort to financial institutions. In practice, it allows smaller banks to be liquidated while huge institutions (sometimes not even financial institutions like AIG) are considered "too big to fail".
Do you seriously believe that the mere existence of the Federal reserve system is taught in public schools? I'm sure the average 18 year old has not clue what half the crap on paper money signifies other than "it buys me stuff; give me more".
Xres directly accesses hardware like disk drives and RAM? You can't be referring to Windows 2000 requirements either, as I ran a Windows 2000 server with SATA and DDR RAM, though admittedly it did not boot from an SATA disk.
So, what's Paypal's standard policy on this? Have they done this with any other orgs? They often do stupid things like this for no reason other than they have stupid policies. For example, it took years-- YEARS I tell you-- to get them to verify and change the address on my wife's account.
This is hilarious. Not only did I get a "troll" mod for simply stating what I believed to be the facts, you got modded INFORMATIVE for making a personal attack on me for absolutely no reason. One mistake doesn't entitle you to childish insults. I don't know why people want to live in a fantasy word. The truth is the truth. By the way, you should calm down before you have a stroke or something.
Patrick Stewart is a well-respected British actor. Don't you think that if this was absurd, he would have pointed this out himself? He specified it as "hot" because it was a computer, not a human who would know his preference. It does seem silly that he wouldn't simply tell the computer he always wants it "hot", but perhaps he also has a "warm" preference that is a little cooler and the writers simply never bothered to use that because they figured only pedantic Europeans would care.
I'm sure I ate a box or two in the 1980s. If only I had known! I'm sure even a stale 30 year old box could net $50, and that's a great return on an investment! Smurf-berry crunch-is-fun-to-eeeeeeeat
This type of behaviour includes the ban on Unionisation in Wisconsin, 30 years ago US diplomats, politicians and the free press would have had a field day blasting such policies.
Not only is there no ban on unionization, there is not even a ban on private unionization. The issue is with unions of public workers having collective bargaining for pension benefits. Collective bargaining would still be in place for wages, working conditions, etc.
Did you know that before 1913, corporations weren't directly taxed? So if we go back to your limited charters, we eliminate the corporate income tax too. Sounds like a nice compromise.
I was called to jury duty in 1995 or 96 while I was working at OfficeMax stocking shelves. The pay for jury duty was actually more than I was being paid by OfficeMax.
You know, we have debit cards in the USA. Checks are basically only used to pay landlords and independent contractors. If you use them for anything else, you're probably over 70. If you think Americans still use checks all the time or consider that explaining "a credit card uses money you don't have" is insightful, you're probably on Slashdot.
If it were up to me, every corporate license would be immediately revoked.
People who say this have no idea how business works. They get a job, work in their own tiny area and don't even understand how things of value are created.
In the modern world, without corporate charters, every owner of shares in a public company would be liable for its debts. Since everyone involved has personal obligation to every dollar invested, what do you think suddenly removing all corporate charters would do to the economy? Do you have a 401K? Would you like to be on the hook if one of the companies in your retirement fund tanked?
Your favorite non-profit orgs would probably no longer exist. Do you think everyone involved with the American Cancer Society would like to be on the hook for any losses? Do you think they could operate without the tax breaks? Oh, I know what the solution is: make the government one big "charity".
The Constitution is a list of enumerated rights. The federal government only has those rights which it is given, explicitly. That being said, when we're talking about local governments that's a matter of debate as to whether the federal or state constitutions have more force. In any case, the ninth amendment explicitly protects the natural rights of the individual from arguments such as yours, and the 10th explicitly reserves those rights to the states and/or the people. I'd say it's pretty well covered.
The REVOLUCION!!! VIVA LA CHE! application wants permission to do the following: [Post to your wall] [Read your personal information] [Empty your bank account] [Ruin your credit rating] [Turn you in to the authorities]
Well, besides the tiny size that I personally don't care about, these SSDs should provide IOPS that would embarrass your Velociraptor mirror. However, I forgive you for not realizing that because most internet hardware hardware reviews-- like this one-- get stuck on one favored metric and don't get the whole picture or understand the value of applications beyond a standard desktop or laptop. I/Os per second might be rolled into one of the benchmark suites, but I wouldn't know because they don't mention it.
Advising people not to use Google because of a tenuous connection to radicals in the Middle East is alarmist. However, the data he provides on the show is solid and you simply don't hear it from the mainstream media. I wouldn't come to the same conclusions he does, but don't you think we'd be better off if the media would at least report on some of the connections of guys like Soros or the radical statements of leaders of the "peaceful" and, ironically, "secular" Muslim Brotherhood?
It's a fallacy to think that 100% of a tax gets passed down. If that were true, in 1946, when the top tax rate was 94%, then the government would have gotten around 94% of the money. And yet, it only got 20% of GDP or so.
OK... was the 94% the only rate, starting at $0? This is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm even responding. Obviously, unless 100% of the citizens are paying 94% tax on 100% of their earnings, the revenue is not going to be 94% of GDP.
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Because it is allowed to control the money supply; almost without exception this is done to create inflation. It is also allowed to act as a lender of last resort to financial institutions. In practice, it allows smaller banks to be liquidated while huge institutions (sometimes not even financial institutions like AIG) are considered "too big to fail".
Drug abuse used to be painless before the USA Patriot Act of 2001!
Do you seriously believe that the mere existence of the Federal reserve system is taught in public schools? I'm sure the average 18 year old has not clue what half the crap on paper money signifies other than "it buys me stuff; give me more".
Xres directly accesses hardware like disk drives and RAM? You can't be referring to Windows 2000 requirements either, as I ran a Windows 2000 server with SATA and DDR RAM, though admittedly it did not boot from an SATA disk.
So, what's Paypal's standard policy on this? Have they done this with any other orgs? They often do stupid things like this for no reason other than they have stupid policies. For example, it took years-- YEARS I tell you-- to get them to verify and change the address on my wife's account.
You really think that VMS hasn't been developed since the 1990s?
Real ACLs? Real clusters, even over TCP/IP WANs? RMS? Not crashing? A filesystem that doesn't corrupt your data, even if you do crash?
This is hilarious. Not only did I get a "troll" mod for simply stating what I believed to be the facts, you got modded INFORMATIVE for making a personal attack on me for absolutely no reason. One mistake doesn't entitle you to childish insults. I don't know why people want to live in a fantasy word. The truth is the truth. By the way, you should calm down before you have a stroke or something.
No, but it's hard for people who haven't evolved since the 1960s to recognize that the peaceful Civil Rights movement succeeded.
Patrick Stewart is a well-respected British actor. Don't you think that if this was absurd, he would have pointed this out himself? He specified it as "hot" because it was a computer, not a human who would know his preference. It does seem silly that he wouldn't simply tell the computer he always wants it "hot", but perhaps he also has a "warm" preference that is a little cooler and the writers simply never bothered to use that because they figured only pedantic Europeans would care.
I'm sure I ate a box or two in the 1980s. If only I had known! I'm sure even a stale 30 year old box could net $50, and that's a great return on an investment! Smurf-berry crunch-is-fun-to-eeeeeeeat
Not only is there no ban on unionization, there is not even a ban on private unionization. The issue is with unions of public workers having collective bargaining for pension benefits. Collective bargaining would still be in place for wages, working conditions, etc.
Did you know that before 1913, corporations weren't directly taxed? So if we go back to your limited charters, we eliminate the corporate income tax too. Sounds like a nice compromise.
I was called to jury duty in 1995 or 96 while I was working at OfficeMax stocking shelves. The pay for jury duty was actually more than I was being paid by OfficeMax.
You know, we have debit cards in the USA. Checks are basically only used to pay landlords and independent contractors. If you use them for anything else, you're probably over 70. If you think Americans still use checks all the time or consider that explaining "a credit card uses money you don't have" is insightful, you're probably on Slashdot.
People who say this have no idea how business works. They get a job, work in their own tiny area and don't even understand how things of value are created.
In the modern world, without corporate charters, every owner of shares in a public company would be liable for its debts. Since everyone involved has personal obligation to every dollar invested, what do you think suddenly removing all corporate charters would do to the economy? Do you have a 401K? Would you like to be on the hook if one of the companies in your retirement fund tanked?
Your favorite non-profit orgs would probably no longer exist. Do you think everyone involved with the American Cancer Society would like to be on the hook for any losses? Do you think they could operate without the tax breaks? Oh, I know what the solution is: make the government one big "charity".
I second this. Fix the RR and you'll fix most of the blacklisting right there.
The Constitution is a list of enumerated rights. The federal government only has those rights which it is given, explicitly. That being said, when we're talking about local governments that's a matter of debate as to whether the federal or state constitutions have more force. In any case, the ninth amendment explicitly protects the natural rights of the individual from arguments such as yours, and the 10th explicitly reserves those rights to the states and/or the people. I'd say it's pretty well covered.
The REVOLUCION!!! VIVA LA CHE! application wants permission to do the following:
[Post to your wall]
[Read your personal information]
[Empty your bank account]
[Ruin your credit rating]
[Turn you in to the authorities]
Dale Carnegie?
Then they're anti-capitalism. Or shall Muslims only be allowed to use Imam-approved weapons when they kill Jews and gays?
I eagerly await seeing Bruce Campbell with a new hardware implant in the next "Evil Dead" movie. I'm hoping for a jackhammer leg.
Well, besides the tiny size that I personally don't care about, these SSDs should provide IOPS that would embarrass your Velociraptor mirror. However, I forgive you for not realizing that because most internet hardware hardware reviews-- like this one-- get stuck on one favored metric and don't get the whole picture or understand the value of applications beyond a standard desktop or laptop. I/Os per second might be rolled into one of the benchmark suites, but I wouldn't know because they don't mention it.
Advising people not to use Google because of a tenuous connection to radicals in the Middle East is alarmist. However, the data he provides on the show is solid and you simply don't hear it from the mainstream media. I wouldn't come to the same conclusions he does, but don't you think we'd be better off if the media would at least report on some of the connections of guys like Soros or the radical statements of leaders of the "peaceful" and, ironically, "secular" Muslim Brotherhood?
OK... was the 94% the only rate, starting at $0? This is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm even responding. Obviously, unless 100% of the citizens are paying 94% tax on 100% of their earnings, the revenue is not going to be 94% of GDP.