There doesn't seem to be any modern day anti-immigrant stance toward legal immigrants. Unless you count people coming on work visas to take jobs at below market rates and leech money out of the economy to be sent overseas.
I doubt it. It's a scam. My phone's data usage is higher than that. The data usage is so ridiculous any student, low income, or other user will exceed it within a week even trying to "behave" they'll be getting massive overage bills. The faster the link, the faster they'll exhaust it.
Something about the government deciding it is empowered to enforce the death penalty outside of war, even on our own citizens, without any sort of due process. That and that any instance of them doing this gets classified and isn't subject to any scrutiny. Not that anyone could do anything about it if they did scrutinize.
If occupy wallstreet showed anything it is that the government no longer fears the people. The only power left to the people is the ability to try to whine loud enough that they shut us up. Usually a that point they make a minor tweak in policy that appears to satisfy our gripes but doesn't change the status quo in the slightest.
This report is dumb. There is no way to even begin to implement enough controls to be able to make a claim like this. Do you know how many correlations there are to a 40 year global scale trend?
There might be work available in Texas but that doesn't mean there is work available everywhere.
I had to make an emergency still unemployed relocation across the country from FL to NM because it took a year to get a crappy Job in FL (bottom level retail crappy) and despite having no kids and relocating to the cheapest apartment I could find and cutting all possible costs that job didn't pay enough to keep afloat. After the move I was amazed when applying for positions actually resulted in responses again and had no problem getting not just a crappy job but an excellent position in my chosen profession.
If I had $30 in a jar for the last 6 months it would be worth less than it was when I put it there. If I had purchased $30 worth of bitcoin 6 months ago it would be worth $90 now. The average price of Bitcoin increases over time because it is deflationary where dollars are inflationary. People tend to forget that the market isn't just perception, supply and demand plays a big role. There is a limited supply of bitcoin. It requires a greater and greater investment to maintain that supply so the perception is going to be that Bitcoin is more and more valuable.
So yeah. I'd rather have the Bitcoin than cash. Also, I can deposit $10k in cash, or amounts totaling that within a 3 month period, all day, every day, without the bank and the IRS giving me a hard time about it. So if I'm going to sell concessions outside the stadium your damn right I want to use BTC. Since BTC is not US Currency I can count it as inventory and let profits accumulate there and only take the tax hit on the BTC I trade for cash.
Basically I can use my BTC account like a Roth IRA but without any early withdraw penalties or contribution limits.
With cash I get some of the privacy offered by Bitcoin but I have to deal with all the hassles of cash. Paying wrong amounts, incorrect change, not having change, no large transactions, avoiding counterfeit currency. Cash is a pain in the ass. You can use a debit or credit card but then your life is a paper trail. Your money can be frozen or taken. The bank you deal with is undoubtedly a hostile entity that has embraced fee based banking and is going to be looking for ways to fee you. All of them will authorize overdrafts rather than simply blocking transactions and they do everything they can to make it hard to figure out what you can safely spend. You can sometimes reverse a transaction with a charge back but they will refuse to block a vendor from charging you again.
First the instability incorrectly implied was created by using choice peaks and valleys in the speculative market. You can lose 50% of your money on the USD/EUR speculative market in minutes. The rest of the world doesn't operate on the spot price of dollars vs euros or dollars vs anything else. It operates on a sliding AVERAGE price. The average price of bitcoin is up 200% in the last 6 months. About 300% in the last year and about 3000% in the last 3 years. Bitcoin is deflationary, the market is lower volume so it can be moved quickly for short periods of time and takes longer to stabilize around legitimate market moving events (like the recent halving of new bitcoin supply, which is the reason for the recent 200% move) but over time your Bitcoin goes up in value not down. You can be as certain of that as you can that the value of the dollar will go down over the course of time. Unlike the dollar's inflation, Bitcoins deflation is at a constant rate but marked by events that halve the reward periodically for mining that create large but permanent moves in price it will happen again in 2016. There is more certainty in the Bitcoin than the dollar, there is no hidden inflation, no disparity between the money supply and purchasing power. There really isn't much room for speculation on the supply of bitcoin. Reward changes will result in price bumps of ever smaller magnitude over time. For instance the official inflation rate was mentioned by someone as being 2% right now. That seems high but the subjective difference in goods you can buy with a given amount of USD vs a few years ago is 1/2 to 1/3.
You are guaranteed to be able to pay your taxes with USD. The rest is dependent on someone wanting USD more than the goods you want to buy. At the moment that is more likely than the person wanting bitcoin but as bitcoin adoption grows that problem slowly fades. This "ATM" is a great step in that direction.
As for no reward. You are out of your mind. People adopting Bitcoin would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. You have all the assurance and privacy you get with cash with all the convenience of a digital currency. No coins or paper to worry about. No change when you buy something. No counterfeiting, no wrong change, no paying with the wrong sized bill. And get all that without generating a record that can be analyzed by third parties for reasons that aren't beneficial to you. Nobody can freeze your account, not even the IRS or the DEA. There is no bank generating policies that try to get you to overdraft your account so they can change fees. If you have a debt nobody can forcefully take your funds and block you from buying food or paying for shelter. There are as many benefits for vendors. No charge backs, canceled checks, or need for a merchant account.
There is also no need for currency conversions to conduct trade with other nations. There isn't even a need for other currencies. There is no longer a worry that China is undervaluing it's currency for trade advantage or the US overvaluing it's currency. No nation would be dependent on the honesty of another with regard to currency. No fractional reserve banking tricks, banks would be on a level playing field with individuals the only difference would be the size of the loans they could give. You gain all the advantages of a global currency without any of the downfalls. You might store an encrypted copy of your wallet in a bank but not in a bank account. National governments would want none of this of course. They like manipulating their money and even more so they like people being forced to use easily tracked and traced currency so they can tax it. This wouldn't really be impacted much because large enterprise pays very little tax as it is and the overhead to keep separate ledgers for government and real internal ledgers wouldn't be worthwhile even without the consequences of being caught.
Not to mention the ease of use. No more wallet filled with cards. You just carry a cell phone. Drinking at a bar? No need for a tab. Put a durable touch
It's sad because prosecutors are agents of the court not of the executive. The mentality associated with the job is that they are agents of the executive. The prosecutor is not an enforcement tool of a legislative his discretion means he has no obligation to prosecute under an unjust law. His success is not measured in how many people he managed to have punished. The success of the prosecutor is defined by the instances in which he prevents a miscarriage of justice by not bringing charges. The prosecutor essentially has the same nullification powers as a jury but on a larger scope.
The system was built to stop unjust laws in their tracks. If congress passed a law limiting free speech for example. They lack the power to see anyone actually imprisoned. First that law must be enforced by the executive. The executive could block enforcement altogether but congress has granted itself micro "oversight" of the executives budget so it strong arm the executive into doing what it wants. So then the unjust law goes to more localized agents of the people with a smaller sphere of influence but who can be "checked" only by the people themselves. The prosecutor can nullify an unjust law in his jurisdiction. If he does not, the people are reserved the power to overrule government entirely but only on a case-by-case basis, as a jury. The jury interprets facts and the judge the law but the jury also has the obligation to judge the merit of application of the law and factor that into their decision.
In this way the people in the form of their prosecutor and directly in the form of their juries were SUPPOSED to be proof against all three branches of government. The courts haven't decided that nullification powers don't exist but they have decided that they have no obligation to inform juries of them. In fact the judges have decided they can legally lie in instructions to the jury and will declare a mistrial if they discover a jury is aware of their nullification powers.
As a citizen this is your most important civil obligation. To protect the peers in your community and thereby to protect yourself.
" It's total childish tomfoolery, of course, but boy have we missed good old Uncle Joes like yourself since the Cold War ended and communism was tossed away like the rag doll economic system it is."
Oh yeah, totally. Minus the dictator, each according to his means, market regulation, and government redistribution of wealth. Other than that everything I said was commie to the bone./sarcasm hint
Valuating staff according to their actual contribution to gross profit is not a communist idea. Correcting false valuations gives one a competitive edge. That is capitalism. There is nothing capitalist about focusing on the quick buck at revenue generation and overpaying management and executives. That isn't capitalism, it's just bad business. Do you honestly believe there is even one respect in which the CEO should be earning more than an engineer? Does he work harder? Certainly not. Not physically and certainly not mentally. Greater intellectual skills or education? Not even in the same ballpark.
I find his criticism of the UI wasn't immature it was constructive. He gave specific examples of problems he was having with the UI. You don't have to know the solution to recognize a problem. You don't have to be able to write the program to know a bug or missing critical feature when you see one. Especially a UI bug or feature.
Obviously the problem is a challenging one or it is safe to say the minds who built an advanced 3D modeling platform wouldn't have built an interface the elicits so much criticism. The developers are free to not care and ignore that criticism and do what they want anyway. Or the devs can file the criticism away and use it as window into the mind of a user. After all, the entire point of an interface is to be intuitive and work the way the users expect. I suspect that the devs are creative problem solvers and exactly the type to be up to that challenge and would want all the constructive criticism they can get.
Your need to irrationally belittle those around you reveals deep rooted personal insecurity. It might just be that you don't believe in your own worth and thus must prove it to yourself and others by constantly trying to assert superiority. Or you may just have a very tiny penis. Either way, making others feel small doesn't make you big. It might make them feel small but it proves you actually are small.
"I got no severance pay, but they gave me 70% of my remaining vacation time in cash."
Assuming you were a salaried employee they are actually required to give you 100% of your ACCRUED vacation time in cash by law in the US. Vacation, not personal/sick time, or holiday time.
"I think the issue is when you feel that you deserve to work a couple hours a day (or week) and get paid more than other people who work for 10s of hours a week (or day) and be paid the same amount."
I suppose that depends on what you do in those hours. It is quite likely you pay your attorney and your doctor as much or more for working a few hours as you pay your grunts for working a full time week.
There is truth in this though. An hour of one man's life is not worth more than another. You can make up lost dollars but not lost hours. The doctor and the lawyer just invested dollars and hours up front. There is no reason their total lifetime earnings should exceed that of the grunt plus the cost of their education unless they are working more hours overall and then the increase should be relative to the number of extra hours.
An important thing for an employer to remember is that the worth of an employee isn't defined by the going market rate for labor. The worth of an employee is the total gross profit of the organization divided by the total number of employees. You then average education hours and hours worked and adjust up or down at the individual level based on their relative education hours and hours worked. There is a rampant fallacy that overseeing 30 employees makes you more valuable than those employees. If it takes you 40 hours to oversee a staff of 40 you aren't more valuable than an employee under you working 40 hours. A related fallacy is that the stress of white collar work is somehow worse than that of physical labor. This is nothing but an attempt to shed guilt from accepting disproportionate pay and a lack of desire to perform physical labor. Another myth is that people are somehow magically more valuable because they are close to the source of revenue. It isn't uncommon to see 5-20% of revenue pissed away at the sales staff. In reality long term sales performance is dictated not by fast talking sales staff and their relationships with clients but by the output of the low paid grunts actually making the goods and performing the services. The "relationship" is based on the sales staff "shooting the client straight" which amounts to having sold them quality goods and services over time. Not only are sales staff not worth 5-20% they don't actually work anywhere near the number of hours they would report.
A similar fallacy is that living your job somehow amounts to actually working more hours. You might work at random times, you might be thinking about work during off hours, but typically staff that "live their job" are deluding themselves with regard to their significance in the overall machine. Usually this is seen in executives and for the most part everyone past middle management is either doing what middle management has told them needs done or getting in the way. They have far more ability to screw things up than to fix it. They'll spend 60hrs a week in useless meetings to produce a couple hours worth of output. Working at a higher level doesn't make the problems more difficult or require more time than working at the bottom. To make it worse these individuals often would count countless hours socializing with their peers as work because their peers are similar executives. Shareholders are only worth something at the point of investment, after investment they aren't worth anything at all!
All of this staff is needed but their contribution is not really more than that of the grunts. If your organization has grunts that are professionals the grunts are probably each worth more than any manager or executive in your organization. The market dictates what you pay staff but that has very little relation to what they are actually worth. Investors aren't worth anything at all!
Are we talking about revolvers? I thought we were just talking about guns in space.
Even with a revolver you wouldn't need to reload for the heat to start being a significant factor. After one or two shots the barrel expansion would be causing inaccuracy. Of course handguns aren't especially accurate even at 10 yards to this would be a bigger issue in a rifle. I have a rifle that goes from being able to hit a tomato at 300 yards with iron sights to not being able to hit a watermelon at 100 yards after about 5 shots due to barrel expansion.
A semi-auto (almost all civilian arms these days) or automatic weapon would likely start jamming in short order. Those mechanisms are fairly delicate and expansion on the order of mils in the wrong places will stop them. Some are more resistant than others though. I'd much rather be relying on an AK-47 in space than US designs.
As to the near absolute zero it seems the temperature of the gun and not the surrounding space that would determine this. At some point the springs might be cold enough to shatter when you attempt to put tension on them to cock the gun. Or the gun might shatter when the hammer strikes. If the hammer strikes it likely will detonate the bullet even if it does shatter the firing pin but the brittle chamber will explode rather than containing and directing the explosion. The bullet itself would shatter as well but it's fragments would still be propelled in the direction the bullet is intended to go because brittle chamber or no that remains the path of least resistance for the energy in the explosion. Those fragments might have enough energy to kill your target since they wouldn't lose any energy fighting air resistance on their path to said target.
It occurs to me that you wouldn't want to fire a gun that cold unless it was some desperate attempt to sacrifice yourself for the chance of stopping someone trying to do something bad enough to justify that sacrifice. You might kill the target but you'd almost certainly kill yourself. Or you could just keep your gun warm.
Sorry I forget sometimes how successfully the powers at be have managed to partition everyone in the US into two groups targeted at one another while both acting in the interests of the powers at be and spinning their actions as support for one side or the other.
United States of America is a nation not a subset of individual states. By "Red", I was making a pretty obvious association with unjust totalitarian state action such as that typically seen in the USSR and China. If you are among the brainwashed and need it spun to fit with the dogma and spin of your designated political partition feel free to re-read my sentence with red replaced by "Ultra Conservative" or "Commie" as appropriate and fail to see what those of us who have resisted such partitioning might recognize as sad yet hilarious irony.
"If someone commits suicide over the prospect of 6 months in jail for committing a crime you're guilty of you can't blame the prosecutor."
When someone engages in civil disobedience you can't just shift the blame from the people who are committing the injustice onto the protestor simply because he knew they would do something unjust in response to his action. That would render the exercise pointless.
Blame works like a digital file not like a physical pie. One person taking some portion of it doesn't reduce or dilute what is left for everyone else.
It's actually kind of messed up that they would get away with passing such a law. They aren't allowed to imprison you without due process (except in the situations in which they've given themselves that power because nobody can stop them) but they can make various forms of not committing a crime a crime in itself.
Lawmakers also like to thwart due processing by writing things in saying "x will be construed as sufficient evidence of blah blah."
Here in the Red States of America the prosecution is allowed to specifically threaten you with any ridiculous charges they want to get you to accept a plea bargain. Somehow coercion is allowed for both the police and the prosecution.
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There doesn't seem to be any modern day anti-immigrant stance toward legal immigrants. Unless you count people coming on work visas to take jobs at below market rates and leech money out of the economy to be sent overseas.
I doubt it. It's a scam. My phone's data usage is higher than that. The data usage is so ridiculous any student, low income, or other user will exceed it within a week even trying to "behave" they'll be getting massive overage bills. The faster the link, the faster they'll exhaust it.
Something about the government deciding it is empowered to enforce the death penalty outside of war, even on our own citizens, without any sort of due process. That and that any instance of them doing this gets classified and isn't subject to any scrutiny. Not that anyone could do anything about it if they did scrutinize.
If occupy wallstreet showed anything it is that the government no longer fears the people. The only power left to the people is the ability to try to whine loud enough that they shut us up. Usually a that point they make a minor tweak in policy that appears to satisfy our gripes but doesn't change the status quo in the slightest.
This report is dumb. There is no way to even begin to implement enough controls to be able to make a claim like this. Do you know how many correlations there are to a 40 year global scale trend?
"despite the bad economy there is work available"
There might be work available in Texas but that doesn't mean there is work available everywhere.
I had to make an emergency still unemployed relocation across the country from FL to NM because it took a year to get a crappy Job in FL (bottom level retail crappy) and despite having no kids and relocating to the cheapest apartment I could find and cutting all possible costs that job didn't pay enough to keep afloat. After the move I was amazed when applying for positions actually resulted in responses again and had no problem getting not just a crappy job but an excellent position in my chosen profession.
Doesn't do much to explain the reduced work ethic west, east, northeast, and northwest of the midwest though.
That won't stop the ass fucking, it will just change the texture of the lube.
If I had $30 in a jar for the last 6 months it would be worth less than it was when I put it there. If I had purchased $30 worth of bitcoin 6 months ago it would be worth $90 now. The average price of Bitcoin increases over time because it is deflationary where dollars are inflationary. People tend to forget that the market isn't just perception, supply and demand plays a big role. There is a limited supply of bitcoin. It requires a greater and greater investment to maintain that supply so the perception is going to be that Bitcoin is more and more valuable.
So yeah. I'd rather have the Bitcoin than cash. Also, I can deposit $10k in cash, or amounts totaling that within a 3 month period, all day, every day, without the bank and the IRS giving me a hard time about it. So if I'm going to sell concessions outside the stadium your damn right I want to use BTC. Since BTC is not US Currency I can count it as inventory and let profits accumulate there and only take the tax hit on the BTC I trade for cash.
Basically I can use my BTC account like a Roth IRA but without any early withdraw penalties or contribution limits.
With cash I get some of the privacy offered by Bitcoin but I have to deal with all the hassles of cash. Paying wrong amounts, incorrect change, not having change, no large transactions, avoiding counterfeit currency. Cash is a pain in the ass. You can use a debit or credit card but then your life is a paper trail. Your money can be frozen or taken. The bank you deal with is undoubtedly a hostile entity that has embraced fee based banking and is going to be looking for ways to fee you. All of them will authorize overdrafts rather than simply blocking transactions and they do everything they can to make it hard to figure out what you can safely spend. You can sometimes reverse a transaction with a charge back but they will refuse to block a vendor from charging you again.
Thanks but no thanks. I'll take Bitcoin.
First the instability incorrectly implied was created by using choice peaks and valleys in the speculative market. You can lose 50% of your money on the USD/EUR speculative market in minutes. The rest of the world doesn't operate on the spot price of dollars vs euros or dollars vs anything else. It operates on a sliding AVERAGE price. The average price of bitcoin is up 200% in the last 6 months. About 300% in the last year and about 3000% in the last 3 years. Bitcoin is deflationary, the market is lower volume so it can be moved quickly for short periods of time and takes longer to stabilize around legitimate market moving events (like the recent halving of new bitcoin supply, which is the reason for the recent 200% move) but over time your Bitcoin goes up in value not down. You can be as certain of that as you can that the value of the dollar will go down over the course of time. Unlike the dollar's inflation, Bitcoins deflation is at a constant rate but marked by events that halve the reward periodically for mining that create large but permanent moves in price it will happen again in 2016. There is more certainty in the Bitcoin than the dollar, there is no hidden inflation, no disparity between the money supply and purchasing power. There really isn't much room for speculation on the supply of bitcoin. Reward changes will result in price bumps of ever smaller magnitude over time. For instance the official inflation rate was mentioned by someone as being 2% right now. That seems high but the subjective difference in goods you can buy with a given amount of USD vs a few years ago is 1/2 to 1/3.
You are guaranteed to be able to pay your taxes with USD. The rest is dependent on someone wanting USD more than the goods you want to buy. At the moment that is more likely than the person wanting bitcoin but as bitcoin adoption grows that problem slowly fades. This "ATM" is a great step in that direction.
As for no reward. You are out of your mind. People adopting Bitcoin would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. You have all the assurance and privacy you get with cash with all the convenience of a digital currency. No coins or paper to worry about. No change when you buy something. No counterfeiting, no wrong change, no paying with the wrong sized bill. And get all that without generating a record that can be analyzed by third parties for reasons that aren't beneficial to you. Nobody can freeze your account, not even the IRS or the DEA. There is no bank generating policies that try to get you to overdraft your account so they can change fees. If you have a debt nobody can forcefully take your funds and block you from buying food or paying for shelter. There are as many benefits for vendors. No charge backs, canceled checks, or need for a merchant account.
There is also no need for currency conversions to conduct trade with other nations. There isn't even a need for other currencies. There is no longer a worry that China is undervaluing it's currency for trade advantage or the US overvaluing it's currency. No nation would be dependent on the honesty of another with regard to currency. No fractional reserve banking tricks, banks would be on a level playing field with individuals the only difference would be the size of the loans they could give. You gain all the advantages of a global currency without any of the downfalls. You might store an encrypted copy of your wallet in a bank but not in a bank account. National governments would want none of this of course. They like manipulating their money and even more so they like people being forced to use easily tracked and traced currency so they can tax it. This wouldn't really be impacted much because large enterprise pays very little tax as it is and the overhead to keep separate ledgers for government and real internal ledgers wouldn't be worthwhile even without the consequences of being caught.
Not to mention the ease of use. No more wallet filled with cards. You just carry a cell phone. Drinking at a bar? No need for a tab. Put a durable touch
It's sad because prosecutors are agents of the court not of the executive. The mentality associated with the job is that they are agents of the executive. The prosecutor is not an enforcement tool of a legislative his discretion means he has no obligation to prosecute under an unjust law. His success is not measured in how many people he managed to have punished. The success of the prosecutor is defined by the instances in which he prevents a miscarriage of justice by not bringing charges. The prosecutor essentially has the same nullification powers as a jury but on a larger scope.
The system was built to stop unjust laws in their tracks. If congress passed a law limiting free speech for example. They lack the power to see anyone actually imprisoned. First that law must be enforced by the executive. The executive could block enforcement altogether but congress has granted itself micro "oversight" of the executives budget so it strong arm the executive into doing what it wants. So then the unjust law goes to more localized agents of the people with a smaller sphere of influence but who can be "checked" only by the people themselves. The prosecutor can nullify an unjust law in his jurisdiction. If he does not, the people are reserved the power to overrule government entirely but only on a case-by-case basis, as a jury. The jury interprets facts and the judge the law but the jury also has the obligation to judge the merit of application of the law and factor that into their decision.
In this way the people in the form of their prosecutor and directly in the form of their juries were SUPPOSED to be proof against all three branches of government. The courts haven't decided that nullification powers don't exist but they have decided that they have no obligation to inform juries of them. In fact the judges have decided they can legally lie in instructions to the jury and will declare a mistrial if they discover a jury is aware of their nullification powers.
As a citizen this is your most important civil obligation. To protect the peers in your community and thereby to protect yourself.
" It's total childish tomfoolery, of course, but boy have we missed good old Uncle Joes like yourself since the Cold War ended and communism was tossed away like the rag doll economic system it is."
/sarcasm hint
Oh yeah, totally. Minus the dictator, each according to his means, market regulation, and government redistribution of wealth. Other than that everything I said was commie to the bone.
Valuating staff according to their actual contribution to gross profit is not a communist idea. Correcting false valuations gives one a competitive edge. That is capitalism. There is nothing capitalist about focusing on the quick buck at revenue generation and overpaying management and executives. That isn't capitalism, it's just bad business. Do you honestly believe there is even one respect in which the CEO should be earning more than an engineer? Does he work harder? Certainly not. Not physically and certainly not mentally. Greater intellectual skills or education? Not even in the same ballpark.
I find his criticism of the UI wasn't immature it was constructive. He gave specific examples of problems he was having with the UI. You don't have to know the solution to recognize a problem. You don't have to be able to write the program to know a bug or missing critical feature when you see one. Especially a UI bug or feature.
Obviously the problem is a challenging one or it is safe to say the minds who built an advanced 3D modeling platform wouldn't have built an interface the elicits so much criticism. The developers are free to not care and ignore that criticism and do what they want anyway. Or the devs can file the criticism away and use it as window into the mind of a user. After all, the entire point of an interface is to be intuitive and work the way the users expect. I suspect that the devs are creative problem solvers and exactly the type to be up to that challenge and would want all the constructive criticism they can get.
Not all belittling is irrational.
"So Kid"
Your need to irrationally belittle those around you reveals deep rooted personal insecurity. It might just be that you don't believe in your own worth and thus must prove it to yourself and others by constantly trying to assert superiority. Or you may just have a very tiny penis. Either way, making others feel small doesn't make you big. It might make them feel small but it proves you actually are small.
It exists in MOST states. There are a few backwards states though.
http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/30895/state-laws-on-vacation-pay-after-termination
"I got no severance pay, but they gave me 70% of my remaining vacation time in cash."
Assuming you were a salaried employee they are actually required to give you 100% of your ACCRUED vacation time in cash by law in the US. Vacation, not personal/sick time, or holiday time.
"I think the issue is when you feel that you deserve to work a couple hours a day (or week) and get paid more than other people who work for 10s of hours a week (or day) and be paid the same amount."
I suppose that depends on what you do in those hours. It is quite likely you pay your attorney and your doctor as much or more for working a few hours as you pay your grunts for working a full time week.
There is truth in this though. An hour of one man's life is not worth more than another. You can make up lost dollars but not lost hours. The doctor and the lawyer just invested dollars and hours up front. There is no reason their total lifetime earnings should exceed that of the grunt plus the cost of their education unless they are working more hours overall and then the increase should be relative to the number of extra hours.
An important thing for an employer to remember is that the worth of an employee isn't defined by the going market rate for labor. The worth of an employee is the total gross profit of the organization divided by the total number of employees. You then average education hours and hours worked and adjust up or down at the individual level based on their relative education hours and hours worked. There is a rampant fallacy that overseeing 30 employees makes you more valuable than those employees. If it takes you 40 hours to oversee a staff of 40 you aren't more valuable than an employee under you working 40 hours. A related fallacy is that the stress of white collar work is somehow worse than that of physical labor. This is nothing but an attempt to shed guilt from accepting disproportionate pay and a lack of desire to perform physical labor. Another myth is that people are somehow magically more valuable because they are close to the source of revenue. It isn't uncommon to see 5-20% of revenue pissed away at the sales staff. In reality long term sales performance is dictated not by fast talking sales staff and their relationships with clients but by the output of the low paid grunts actually making the goods and performing the services. The "relationship" is based on the sales staff "shooting the client straight" which amounts to having sold them quality goods and services over time. Not only are sales staff not worth 5-20% they don't actually work anywhere near the number of hours they would report.
A similar fallacy is that living your job somehow amounts to actually working more hours. You might work at random times, you might be thinking about work during off hours, but typically staff that "live their job" are deluding themselves with regard to their significance in the overall machine. Usually this is seen in executives and for the most part everyone past middle management is either doing what middle management has told them needs done or getting in the way. They have far more ability to screw things up than to fix it. They'll spend 60hrs a week in useless meetings to produce a couple hours worth of output. Working at a higher level doesn't make the problems more difficult or require more time than working at the bottom. To make it worse these individuals often would count countless hours socializing with their peers as work because their peers are similar executives. Shareholders are only worth something at the point of investment, after investment they aren't worth anything at all!
All of this staff is needed but their contribution is not really more than that of the grunts. If your organization has grunts that are professionals the grunts are probably each worth more than any manager or executive in your organization. The market dictates what you pay staff but that has very little relation to what they are actually worth. Investors aren't worth anything at all!
It wouldn't just send the target flying but the shooter as well!
Are we talking about revolvers? I thought we were just talking about guns in space.
Even with a revolver you wouldn't need to reload for the heat to start being a significant factor. After one or two shots the barrel expansion would be causing inaccuracy. Of course handguns aren't especially accurate even at 10 yards to this would be a bigger issue in a rifle. I have a rifle that goes from being able to hit a tomato at 300 yards with iron sights to not being able to hit a watermelon at 100 yards after about 5 shots due to barrel expansion.
A semi-auto (almost all civilian arms these days) or automatic weapon would likely start jamming in short order. Those mechanisms are fairly delicate and expansion on the order of mils in the wrong places will stop them. Some are more resistant than others though. I'd much rather be relying on an AK-47 in space than US designs.
As to the near absolute zero it seems the temperature of the gun and not the surrounding space that would determine this. At some point the springs might be cold enough to shatter when you attempt to put tension on them to cock the gun. Or the gun might shatter when the hammer strikes. If the hammer strikes it likely will detonate the bullet even if it does shatter the firing pin but the brittle chamber will explode rather than containing and directing the explosion. The bullet itself would shatter as well but it's fragments would still be propelled in the direction the bullet is intended to go because brittle chamber or no that remains the path of least resistance for the energy in the explosion. Those fragments might have enough energy to kill your target since they wouldn't lose any energy fighting air resistance on their path to said target.
It occurs to me that you wouldn't want to fire a gun that cold unless it was some desperate attempt to sacrifice yourself for the chance of stopping someone trying to do something bad enough to justify that sacrifice. You might kill the target but you'd almost certainly kill yourself. Or you could just keep your gun warm.
Sorry I forget sometimes how successfully the powers at be have managed to partition everyone in the US into two groups targeted at one another while both acting in the interests of the powers at be and spinning their actions as support for one side or the other.
United States of America is a nation not a subset of individual states. By "Red", I was making a pretty obvious association with unjust totalitarian state action such as that typically seen in the USSR and China. If you are among the brainwashed and need it spun to fit with the dogma and spin of your designated political partition feel free to re-read my sentence with red replaced by "Ultra Conservative" or "Commie" as appropriate and fail to see what those of us who have resisted such partitioning might recognize as sad yet hilarious irony.
"If someone commits suicide over the prospect of 6 months in jail for committing a crime you're guilty of you can't blame the prosecutor."
When someone engages in civil disobedience you can't just shift the blame from the people who are committing the injustice onto the protestor simply because he knew they would do something unjust in response to his action. That would render the exercise pointless.
Blame works like a digital file not like a physical pie. One person taking some portion of it doesn't reduce or dilute what is left for everyone else.
What if neither is guilty?
It's actually kind of messed up that they would get away with passing such a law. They aren't allowed to imprison you without due process (except in the situations in which they've given themselves that power because nobody can stop them) but they can make various forms of not committing a crime a crime in itself.
Lawmakers also like to thwart due processing by writing things in saying "x will be construed as sufficient evidence of blah blah."
Here in the Red States of America the prosecution is allowed to specifically threaten you with any ridiculous charges they want to get you to accept a plea bargain. Somehow coercion is allowed for both the police and the prosecution.