2000–2009 55 - More than any recorded decade 2010s 3 - The lowest count since 1800-1809 and it's unlikely we actually recorded all the hurricanes accurate during that period as there was no radar and Florida was not densly populated.
Texas is a big state and it's a little more challenging but there have been many record settings lows and hail damage estimates, including this year with over 1.5 billion in hail damage with more expected tonight.
It's kind of stretch to call something that happened at least twice in the last 1200 years the ancient past. Especially a condition which lasted for 1/6th of that timeframe. That isn't ancient history, it's just history.
That may be true of California. Having lived in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico over the last decade and a half I can tell you the biggest consistent differences I've seen is an increased incidence of the extremes. More storms and more intense storms, record lows and highs, etc.
There is this misconception that because many refer to it as "global warming" that the changes you should see in the weather are that it is hotter. The increases in temps are slight, it's how those changes impacts currents, winds, and evaporation compounded across the surface area of the oceans that has a much bigger immediate impact in the weather. I also suspect for the same reason we'll start to see increased fault activity eventually as the crust temperatures adjust and the earth slightly expands but I doubt we are there yet the more recent activity is likely all down to fraking,
Depending on age a child may as well. Either way a child has a guardian to that for them.
I'm not arguing for taking a child passenger while txting or drinking. I'm simply arguing that it has nothing to do with you. I would certainly argue against any parenting style that doesn't involve endangering your children.
I'll tell you what, you go with that no endangering thing and teaching your child not to stand by while another is mocked. I'll teach my child how to defend his/herself both physically and verbally while also teaching them respect for life and suffering and letting them experience a limited taste of what challenge and difficulty feels like.
You would be mistaken in my case. But the median income defines the midpoint of the middle class not it's limits. As I said, this would be impact lower middle class and lower class.
Of course, these stats get pretty flawed on a few points because they ignore wealth and there is a top end to the tax brackets making a working class engineer look no different than a billionaire.
When they say the "typical" American family they ignore the homeless, the unemployed, the wealthy, and top and bottom income earners.
Shush, some of us get paid a minimum 40 hr week and get paid OT if we get called during on call rotations or have to work after hours. In fact, almost everyone in IT who isn't a programmer or without direct reports should be getting the same. A few major tech companies got nailed on this front for billions.
Of course you still get burned sometimes, they'll indicate no OT except case A, B, and C and then dump work on you which requires excess hours in category D.
The first part of that statement is what many don't realize. So many initiatives are targeted at minimum wage full time workers and what people don't realize is that in most minimum wage industries they've all but eliminated such a thing. Working three jobs to get 40 hours a week is a hell of a lot more work than getting the same hours at one.
"It has EVERYTHING to do with me if they cross the center dividing line and hit me head on."
"It's not some victimless crime"
If that happens it certainly wouldn't be but since I gather it did not happen it certainly was victimless and though calling it a crime is begging the question a bit.
As for the child in the other vehicle, you can care all you want but you don't have any right to expect that caring should result in any sort of action on the parts of others. I'm sure there are all sorts of things I'd do in the raising of my child you wouldn't approve of. I'm also certain I'm likely to consider a quick end in an automobile accident to be better for a child than many of the things you do in the raising of yours. But it is none of my business what occurs between you and your child any more than it is yours what occurs between me and my children.
I'm not just talking about your eyes, I'm talking about your attention.
Granted all things are not equal, there is a huge difference between the cruise of a long haul interstate drive and in city traffic but in city traffic requires a driver to actually have all their vision and focus on the road and mirrors it also requires both hands on the wheel, or at least free to grab without pause.
If you are texting you are unlikely to even notice something that would take a fast two hand reaction to resolve before it's too late. You spend less time on your decision making for actions like switching lanes. You spend less time checking indicators like the speedometer and that reduced time to check everything adjusts the speed at which you want everything coming at you so you tend to slow down like a drunk driver. There is also a dramatic difference between focusing on an unrelated to task and switching between the many tasks involved in driving.
Here in the US where we all drive on a daily basis we tend to forget how much is actually involved because we do most of what it takes to drive automatically and without conscious thought. Because of the tax all being reflexive and automatic it feels incredibly easy leading us to believe that adding on other tasks is likewise easy. But make no mistake, your driving is impaired if the radio is loud vs quiet. Your driving is impaired if you are eating a cheeseburger, and your driving is far far more impaired if you are texting vs those things.
It's actually impossible to focus your eyes on the screen right in front of your face and the road ahead, you are doing one or the other. The same true of your GPS but that you can glance at just like you would one of your mirrors. You can't do that with a text.
People lose perspective, these are not even things which are themselves criminal, they merely increase the probability that one will do something criminal. In the old days before any of this DUI crackdown or the more recent decade or two of DUI insanity there were drunk people driving most of the time. While there were certainly accidents most people who drove drunk had none. Some of these people were alcoholics who drove around drunk effectively every time they drove for 40 years or more and never once had an accident.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending drunk driving or texting while driving. I think both are incredibly foolish. But these are things that increase the chance something bad will happen, not things which are criminal in their own right.
Are you the parent of their child? No? Then it really has nothing to do with you.
Worry about the damage you do to your own child. Especially the severe trauma and inability to cope with real life that comes from constant monitoring, sheltering, and censorship.
Shaming is one thing but neither should be felonies. I don't approve of drunk driving or texting while driving but we do need to keep in mind that both are things which increase the probability you will do something bad, not something bad in their own right.
"If you are paying out more overall, it's going to cost more."
Yes, in the form of inflation, every dollar in every pocket is worth less. Currently we create new inflation money and give it to the banks at near 0 interest and they in turn loan it to you to say buy a house, you pay them back a higher interest rate, they pocket most of that but pay the original loan back slowly (because a dollar tomorrow is worth less than a dollar today). The interest that has to be paid back creates a slight economic pressure, everyone has to find new value to produce the money to pay back their loans. You feel that pressure every time you have to make a mortgage or rent payment. That is what keeps the economy moving, if you have funds you must invest them not just because you want more money but because money is literally worth less every day it sits there.
Currently we are having trouble throwing enough new money into the system to generate that pressure. Money itself is not the point here, it's just a tool, the purpose of money is yes to allow the exchange of goods and services but more than that to drive people to create more value both domestically and to the world. This isn't a simple matter of double entry accounting matching up. A change like this adds new money into the system and does so where it will have a dramatic impact on the production of goods, services, and value nationally that makes us stronger economically. There will be an increase in tax revenues and decrease in government expenses as a result and that in turn can be used to improve education, health, and infrastructure all of which further enable increased and more valuable productivity.
Huh? You don't pay this income out of taxes. You pay for it out of inflation, inflation has been stagnant in the US and our entire economic system depends on it. Out of control inflation is bad, no inflation is much much worse. You don't need to find a way to pay for this at all, we desperately need to create new inflation to keep money moving. We've already dropped the fed rate to effectively zero and with all refinancing in the world we can't give it away to the banks fast enough to create inflation.
But if we are going to create inflation we want a return on that inflation. Currently if someone pays no income tax because they make too little, if they get this extra income it could push them into taxable territory and disqualify for social programs which both generates revenue and the reduces taxpayer costs. Obviously people can generate business by spending this money, but more importantly more people will have disposable income for the first time and be able to actually invest both domestically and abroad. These investments increase the value of the US vs the world and help push us from a working class into an investment class society.
Last but not least, you can do away with a minimum wage and bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. Of course we would want to limit this program to citizens at the time implemented and natural born citizens descended from them to stop any sort of mass immigration for free money.
Well, just any random person wandering the countryside who can't spot a giant mote could accidentally fall into that thing. Here in the US you build the fence because if they hurt themselves falling on your property you are liable... even if they were trying to rob you.
It will push more people into taxable territory, raise profits, generally generate tax revenue.
Yes, inflation at the Fed tap but that is a step up. Currently we let the fed create money out of air (if it's digital, they buy notes at printing cost for currency) and loan it to banks, then for every program we generate a bunch of treasury bills to pay for it. The banks who borrow from the fed buy those higher interest t-bills and tax payers pay the higher interest on the t-bill. So, actually getting money without two tiers of banks between us and the Fed is a good deal.
It also eliminates the need for a minimum wage which alleviates a lot of pressure on small and fledgling businesses. This is how you bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.
True but a little city centric. If you among the nearly half the population who live outside the cities you can most likely build motes, fences, and make noise as you please. You can also count on a good hour wait before any sort of civil servant shows in response to your call and if you have a fire by the time they get there it won't be to save your house and property but containment and you'll be fine tens of thousands for it.
The addiction is not to a substance but rather to substances your brain creates in response to a bahavior or a substance. Psychological addiction is not less severe, it is more severe because parts of your brain will trigger those rewards signals no matter what you do, you can't cold turkey similar to diet issues.
Yes, you can rewire around it but one important thing is you can substitute, any other activity which triggers reward pathways in your brain will create similar reward chemicals. The neural pathways associated with the previous activity do not go away per say, a former tennis addict is best avoiding Tennis. But you don't have to walk around miserable because of it, taking up soccer is likely close enough to do as a substitute. Another important thing to remember is pretty much everyone is psychological addict to varying degrees toward various things. Not all habits result in negative life consequences or commonly occurring disruptive consequences in life. Being addicted in and of itself isn't an illness and doesn't need "curing." Reward pathways are part of the normal function of our brain.
Some things are very difficult to cure but Therapists and addiction specialists/clinics are heavily biased, their personal interest is not served by curing anything it is served by prolonged treatment.
"The analogy breaks down because the brain gets rewired by throughts Maybe a better analogy is a dynamically-reconfigurable FPGA."
Software re configures based on changing data. Some programs have things like neural networks and evolutionary algorithms that change them dynamically, much of this is in fact based on the study of organics and the brain.
The point is that the nature of the addiction does matter. There are limited subset of chemicals you can form a physical addiction to. You can become physically addicted to heroin after a single dose. A psychological addiction forms over time and can be to essentially anything.
If you enjoy Tennis you can easily form a psychological addiction to Tennis over time. You won't feel normal if you skip your play, you'll feel euphoria at just the thought of playing. You'll definitely have physical symptoms such as lethargy. Sure, your brain will be frothing with serotonin at that moment but here is the critical thing... Tennis is not the only thing that will make your brain do this. You can replace the Tennis with other activities you enjoy and satisfy your addiction. The heroin requires heroin or another opiate to satisfy it.
Psychological addictions form more slowly and are in some ways harder to break but the underlying physical addiction is not to an external substance. You addiction after a dose of Heroin is physical only, it comes fast and will go fast (72hrs is the most often quoted figure). After years of using heroine you will have both, and they will be interwined. It's the same for smoking and nicotine. The psychological addiction is much more serious and difficult to kick, you can't just suffer three days and be done.
It is never useful in dealing with a problem, such as addiction, to oversimply it and ignore it's internal operation.
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I said incidents of extremes.
Florida Hurricane records:
2000–2009 55 - More than any recorded decade
2010s 3 - The lowest count since 1800-1809 and it's unlikely we actually recorded all the hurricanes accurate during that period as there was no radar and Florida was not densly populated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes
Texas is a big state and it's a little more challenging but there have been many record settings lows and hail damage estimates, including this year with over 1.5 billion in hail damage with more expected tonight.
Agreed. And as much as I love New Orleans, those people should have moved too.
It's kind of stretch to call something that happened at least twice in the last 1200 years the ancient past. Especially a condition which lasted for 1/6th of that timeframe. That isn't ancient history, it's just history.
That may be true of California. Having lived in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico over the last decade and a half I can tell you the biggest consistent differences I've seen is an increased incidence of the extremes. More storms and more intense storms, record lows and highs, etc.
There is this misconception that because many refer to it as "global warming" that the changes you should see in the weather are that it is hotter. The increases in temps are slight, it's how those changes impacts currents, winds, and evaporation compounded across the surface area of the oceans that has a much bigger immediate impact in the weather. I also suspect for the same reason we'll start to see increased fault activity eventually as the crust temperatures adjust and the earth slightly expands but I doubt we are there yet the more recent activity is likely all down to fraking,
Depending on age a child may as well. Either way a child has a guardian to that for them.
I'm not arguing for taking a child passenger while txting or drinking. I'm simply arguing that it has nothing to do with you. I would certainly argue against any parenting style that doesn't involve endangering your children.
I'll tell you what, you go with that no endangering thing and teaching your child not to stand by while another is mocked. I'll teach my child how to defend his/herself both physically and verbally while also teaching them respect for life and suffering and letting them experience a limited taste of what challenge and difficulty feels like.
You would be mistaken in my case. But the median income defines the midpoint of the middle class not it's limits. As I said, this would be impact lower middle class and lower class.
Of course, these stats get pretty flawed on a few points because they ignore wealth and there is a top end to the tax brackets making a working class engineer look no different than a billionaire.
When they say the "typical" American family they ignore the homeless, the unemployed, the wealthy, and top and bottom income earners.
Shush, some of us get paid a minimum 40 hr week and get paid OT if we get called during on call rotations or have to work after hours. In fact, almost everyone in IT who isn't a programmer or without direct reports should be getting the same. A few major tech companies got nailed on this front for billions.
Of course you still get burned sometimes, they'll indicate no OT except case A, B, and C and then dump work on you which requires excess hours in category D.
The first part of that statement is what many don't realize. So many initiatives are targeted at minimum wage full time workers and what people don't realize is that in most minimum wage industries they've all but eliminated such a thing. Working three jobs to get 40 hours a week is a hell of a lot more work than getting the same hours at one.
Not sure what they are smoking, that is the lower middle to lower class.
"It has EVERYTHING to do with me if they cross the center dividing line and hit me head on."
"It's not some victimless crime"
If that happens it certainly wouldn't be but since I gather it did not happen it certainly was victimless and though calling it a crime is begging the question a bit.
As for the child in the other vehicle, you can care all you want but you don't have any right to expect that caring should result in any sort of action on the parts of others. I'm sure there are all sorts of things I'd do in the raising of my child you wouldn't approve of. I'm also certain I'm likely to consider a quick end in an automobile accident to be better for a child than many of the things you do in the raising of yours. But it is none of my business what occurs between you and your child any more than it is yours what occurs between me and my children.
I'm not just talking about your eyes, I'm talking about your attention.
Granted all things are not equal, there is a huge difference between the cruise of a long haul interstate drive and in city traffic but in city traffic requires a driver to actually have all their vision and focus on the road and mirrors it also requires both hands on the wheel, or at least free to grab without pause.
If you are texting you are unlikely to even notice something that would take a fast two hand reaction to resolve before it's too late. You spend less time on your decision making for actions like switching lanes. You spend less time checking indicators like the speedometer and that reduced time to check everything adjusts the speed at which you want everything coming at you so you tend to slow down like a drunk driver. There is also a dramatic difference between focusing on an unrelated to task and switching between the many tasks involved in driving.
Here in the US where we all drive on a daily basis we tend to forget how much is actually involved because we do most of what it takes to drive automatically and without conscious thought. Because of the tax all being reflexive and automatic it feels incredibly easy leading us to believe that adding on other tasks is likewise easy. But make no mistake, your driving is impaired if the radio is loud vs quiet. Your driving is impaired if you are eating a cheeseburger, and your driving is far far more impaired if you are texting vs those things.
In fairness cops generally aren't indicted when they kill someone no matter the manner in which they do it.
It's actually impossible to focus your eyes on the screen right in front of your face and the road ahead, you are doing one or the other. The same true of your GPS but that you can glance at just like you would one of your mirrors. You can't do that with a text.
People lose perspective, these are not even things which are themselves criminal, they merely increase the probability that one will do something criminal. In the old days before any of this DUI crackdown or the more recent decade or two of DUI insanity there were drunk people driving most of the time. While there were certainly accidents most people who drove drunk had none. Some of these people were alcoholics who drove around drunk effectively every time they drove for 40 years or more and never once had an accident.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending drunk driving or texting while driving. I think both are incredibly foolish. But these are things that increase the chance something bad will happen, not things which are criminal in their own right.
Are you the parent of their child? No? Then it really has nothing to do with you.
Worry about the damage you do to your own child. Especially the severe trauma and inability to cope with real life that comes from constant monitoring, sheltering, and censorship.
Shaming is one thing but neither should be felonies. I don't approve of drunk driving or texting while driving but we do need to keep in mind that both are things which increase the probability you will do something bad, not something bad in their own right.
"If you are paying out more overall, it's going to cost more."
Yes, in the form of inflation, every dollar in every pocket is worth less. Currently we create new inflation money and give it to the banks at near 0 interest and they in turn loan it to you to say buy a house, you pay them back a higher interest rate, they pocket most of that but pay the original loan back slowly (because a dollar tomorrow is worth less than a dollar today). The interest that has to be paid back creates a slight economic pressure, everyone has to find new value to produce the money to pay back their loans. You feel that pressure every time you have to make a mortgage or rent payment. That is what keeps the economy moving, if you have funds you must invest them not just because you want more money but because money is literally worth less every day it sits there.
Currently we are having trouble throwing enough new money into the system to generate that pressure. Money itself is not the point here, it's just a tool, the purpose of money is yes to allow the exchange of goods and services but more than that to drive people to create more value both domestically and to the world. This isn't a simple matter of double entry accounting matching up. A change like this adds new money into the system and does so where it will have a dramatic impact on the production of goods, services, and value nationally that makes us stronger economically. There will be an increase in tax revenues and decrease in government expenses as a result and that in turn can be used to improve education, health, and infrastructure all of which further enable increased and more valuable productivity.
Huh? You don't pay this income out of taxes. You pay for it out of inflation, inflation has been stagnant in the US and our entire economic system depends on it. Out of control inflation is bad, no inflation is much much worse. You don't need to find a way to pay for this at all, we desperately need to create new inflation to keep money moving. We've already dropped the fed rate to effectively zero and with all refinancing in the world we can't give it away to the banks fast enough to create inflation.
But if we are going to create inflation we want a return on that inflation. Currently if someone pays no income tax because they make too little, if they get this extra income it could push them into taxable territory and disqualify for social programs which both generates revenue and the reduces taxpayer costs. Obviously people can generate business by spending this money, but more importantly more people will have disposable income for the first time and be able to actually invest both domestically and abroad. These investments increase the value of the US vs the world and help push us from a working class into an investment class society.
Last but not least, you can do away with a minimum wage and bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. Of course we would want to limit this program to citizens at the time implemented and natural born citizens descended from them to stop any sort of mass immigration for free money.
Well, just any random person wandering the countryside who can't spot a giant mote could accidentally fall into that thing. Here in the US you build the fence because if they hurt themselves falling on your property you are liable... even if they were trying to rob you.
We also tend to get pushed toward the 1% by income, wealth is what we need to focus on.
It will push more people into taxable territory, raise profits, generally generate tax revenue.
Yes, inflation at the Fed tap but that is a step up. Currently we let the fed create money out of air (if it's digital, they buy notes at printing cost for currency) and loan it to banks, then for every program we generate a bunch of treasury bills to pay for it. The banks who borrow from the fed buy those higher interest t-bills and tax payers pay the higher interest on the t-bill. So, actually getting money without two tiers of banks between us and the Fed is a good deal.
It also eliminates the need for a minimum wage which alleviates a lot of pressure on small and fledgling businesses. This is how you bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.
True but a little city centric. If you among the nearly half the population who live outside the cities you can most likely build motes, fences, and make noise as you please. You can also count on a good hour wait before any sort of civil servant shows in response to your call and if you have a fire by the time they get there it won't be to save your house and property but containment and you'll be fine tens of thousands for it.
The addiction is not to a substance but rather to substances your brain creates in response to a bahavior or a substance. Psychological addiction is not less severe, it is more severe because parts of your brain will trigger those rewards signals no matter what you do, you can't cold turkey similar to diet issues.
Yes, you can rewire around it but one important thing is you can substitute, any other activity which triggers reward pathways in your brain will create similar reward chemicals. The neural pathways associated with the previous activity do not go away per say, a former tennis addict is best avoiding Tennis. But you don't have to walk around miserable because of it, taking up soccer is likely close enough to do as a substitute. Another important thing to remember is pretty much everyone is psychological addict to varying degrees toward various things. Not all habits result in negative life consequences or commonly occurring disruptive consequences in life. Being addicted in and of itself isn't an illness and doesn't need "curing." Reward pathways are part of the normal function of our brain.
Some things are very difficult to cure but Therapists and addiction specialists/clinics are heavily biased, their personal interest is not served by curing anything it is served by prolonged treatment.
"The analogy breaks down because the brain gets rewired by throughts Maybe a better analogy is a dynamically-reconfigurable FPGA."
Software re configures based on changing data. Some programs have things like neural networks and evolutionary algorithms that change them dynamically, much of this is in fact based on the study of organics and the brain.
The point is that the nature of the addiction does matter. There are limited subset of chemicals you can form a physical addiction to. You can become physically addicted to heroin after a single dose. A psychological addiction forms over time and can be to essentially anything.
If you enjoy Tennis you can easily form a psychological addiction to Tennis over time. You won't feel normal if you skip your play, you'll feel euphoria at just the thought of playing. You'll definitely have physical symptoms such as lethargy. Sure, your brain will be frothing with serotonin at that moment but here is the critical thing... Tennis is not the only thing that will make your brain do this. You can replace the Tennis with other activities you enjoy and satisfy your addiction. The heroin requires heroin or another opiate to satisfy it.
Psychological addictions form more slowly and are in some ways harder to break but the underlying physical addiction is not to an external substance. You addiction after a dose of Heroin is physical only, it comes fast and will go fast (72hrs is the most often quoted figure). After years of using heroine you will have both, and they will be interwined. It's the same for smoking and nicotine. The psychological addiction is much more serious and difficult to kick, you can't just suffer three days and be done.
It is never useful in dealing with a problem, such as addiction, to oversimply it and ignore it's internal operation.