I've run into that. "If you want the lies told to the customers to be consistent, you must identify which lies you've already told them." Management didn't like my snark, but I received a briefing before future customer meetings.
I go one step further. If you want lies to be told to the customer, then tell them yourself. I am not going to lie to a customer.
ten-gallon hat wearers at DFW?
You know, I live in Oklahoma, and fly through DFW from time to time, and I can't remember the last time I saw someone wearing a cowboy hat, ten gallon or otherwise. I'm sure the last time I saw one was probably in a movie about Oklahoma or Texas, though.
If he doesn't have health insurance and got his legs blown off, then that's his fucking problem isn't it? Just because a bunch of people got hurt in a "terrorist" attack doesn't mean we need to become communist socialists.
No, that is whoever is responsible for the attack's problem. They need to pay for any damage to the people that got hurt and any repairs or cleanup to the city required.
Really? You are buying private health insurance as an individual? Either you are crazy or you are swimming in money or you are being swindled.
The reason people think that healthcare insurance is expensive is because people are buying a product that is not healthcare insurance. The product which is actually healthcare insurance now is somewhat difficult to find, but goes by the name "Catastrophic Care", "Major Medical" or "High Deductible Insurance". Anyone who knows the dictionary definition of insurance will recognize that this product meets the definition of insurance, and all that crap that the employers offers does not.
The crazy thing is that you can pay $1,000 a month for your employer's product, and still have to pay deductibles, copays, and coinsurances and still have to pay if they deny the claim.
With major medical, you pay everything up to a fixed amount, and then the insurance company pays everything after that. Also, what you pay is subject to the insurance company's contracted rates. The deductibles are sometimes $7,500 to $10,000 a year, but surely if you can afford to pay $12,000 or more per year for the company plan prior to copays, coinsurance, deductibles and denials, then you must be able to pay $7,500 to $10,000 a years instead. Oh, and that's a maximum, don't forget. I am paying about $300 a month to insure my family and I have never even come close to hitting the deductible limit. I am saving probably $7,000 a year over the company plan.
Every day on the calendar is an anniversary of something.
Yes, a fun, if somewhat maudlin, game to play is to try to guess why the flag is at half staff today. You can play it almost every day now. Perhaps they will soon introduce a quarter staff, for when things really are bad.
But it seems to rise and fall an awful lot depending on the degree to which you can exchange it for dollars. Which would tend to indicate that it does require backing at some level from dollars.
It seems to be trading at about $92 USD, which is approximately where it was before bitfloor's announcement.
"Money is most optimal when it is fixed in value..." (Emphasis mine.)
And what makes a currency less likely to fluctuate? Basically the strength of the faith and the number of believers in the currency. That is why traditional currencies, when they first start out, usually have to be tied to something material to inspire more faith. If you can trade your piece of paper for something, you will have more faith in it than if your government tells you it is worth something because they say so.
Bitcoin used to fluctuate much more even than it does now, but now a lot more people are actually using it. Not that the number of people who use it now is very big, but it is much larger than it used to be.
Another factor in making a currency fluctuate is the amount of new currency injected into the system. Injecting money in faster than the GDP rises causes inflation, which makes the currency worth less.
If bitcoin ever became a currency that was as commonly used as the USD, you can bet that it would fluctuate as little as the USD. However, being that the bitcoin is a fixed supply currency, it is by nature deflationary and there are very good questions about how that would work as far as debt and investment.
1. If you're a US citizen, you can use US dollars to pay your legally required taxes to the US government (and probably the government of your town, county, and state). If you don't have US dollars, you can't, and the IRS can and will seize your other assets, sell them for US dollars, and use that to pay your taxes. And if you try to stop the IRS from doing this, the police and courts will if necessary use force to make that happen.
If you have a hoard of 1000 bitcoins, will they declare "that is not real money" and let you keep it, or will they hypocritically take it and convert it to USD? 2. On your US dollar bill, you'll see "This Note Is Legal Tender For All Debts, Public and Private". If you go to a restaurant, order a meal, and offer the appropriate amount of cash to pay for your meal, the restaurant owner cannot legally refuse to accept your cash and then have you arrested for not paying your debt to them. Again, this is enforced by the police and court system.
Maybe they can't legally do this, but plenty of restaurants will not take cash, period. I'm sure they can't have you arrested, but they probably won't allow you to come back.
The point is not that the dollar's value doesn't fluctuate and the bitcoin's does.
That very much depends on what your definition of fluctuate is. The dollar's value changes against other currencies constantly, and it changes against the cost of goods and services as well. According to the CPI, a dollar on average buys 3% less every year. Or according to the prices of consumer goods and utilities, a dollar on average buys about 20% less every year. That's pretty significant.
Of course, bitcoin fluctuates much more rapidly. Yesterday, one bitcoin would buy about 20 gallons of gas, and today, it is more like 25 gallons of gas. So, yes bitcoin is much more volatile than the USD, but the USD absolutely fluctuates constantly.
The bad news is that $2 billion was in bitcoins which are now worth about $11.79
Oops, slight mathematical error on your part. 2 billion in bitcoins would be worth about $160 billion USD.
Or perhaps, you meant $2 billion in bitcoins, which would of course be equal to $2 billion in bitcoins.
Of course, they are investing in U.S. assets with money they have borrowed from their own people, other countries, even the U.S.
Japan's debt ratio is the largest in the world, exceeding the United State's debt ration as well. Their debt to GDP ratio is over 2.30:1. Their debt lags behind the U.S. debt by only a few percent, while their GDP is 1/3 that of the United States.
Basically, they are leveraged to the hilt, and in serious danger of having it all come crashing down.
According to some calculations I plugged into a formula on the internet for calculating curvature of the Earth, a 500 foot Wind Turbine would be below the horizon if placed 30 miles out.
So, the TIME article is claiming that fossil fuels had 2/3 as much money budgeted to them as Defense? I smell some week old Halibut.
Not, the money wasn't budgeted to them. Time was merely reporting as subsidies what most normal people would call writing off business expenses. The money that was given to renewables was real budgeted money from taxpayers. The money reported as being given to fossil fuels was standard business deductions that could not be taken into consideration as part of the government's budget.
Scotland is on coarse for 100% renewable energy by 2020
Of course we will ignore the fact that the only difference between renewable and non-renewable energy is the time scale. There is actually no such thing as renewable energy.
Lawyers are indistinguishable from a disease on the body of the populace. A parasite -- an organism that exists drawing resources from the host organism, and causing degradation to the host organism.
Lawyers would die off if the populace itself didn't constantly feed them, by suing every time little Timmy swallows a buckyball, or gets hurt climbing a tree in a neighbor's yard uninvited, etc. etc.
15% is downright cheap if they are also handling the withholding, liability and professional insurance and whatnot. In fact, it is probably unprofitable. Just the FICA is already 7.65%, then there is state and federal unemployment which is probably going to be another half a percent, then there is liability insurance and professional insurance, which is difficult to calculate on a percentage level, because it is a yearly amount, but it can be about $5,000.
I think most users exchange e.g. dollars for Bitcoin, and then spend the latter as quickly as possible on (mostly) illegal goods.
And what evidence do you have that people use bitcoins mostly for buying illegal goods?
There are probably half a billion people in this world that would claim that you could never in your life get $25,000 worth of enjoyment out of a new car.
Millions would say that never in your life would you get $400 worth of enjoyment out of a PC or smart phone.
I would say you could get $400 worth of entertainment out of a PC. Out of a smartphone? Probably not. I definitely would be one to say you couldn't get $25,000
worth of enjoyment out of a new car. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to have a car to get around in U.S. society. So there is some utilitarian value in addition to the happiness provided. Also, there is some resale value.
With a boat of this value, and an already deflated price, there is a pretty good chance you could get some enjoyment value out of it, because you will probably sell it for about the same price, and you will only have to hope that your cost of operating it was offset by the happiness it gave you.
I just want them to pay tax on them, just like I pay tax on the toys that I can afford.
If you buy online and don't report Use Tax, then you are doing the exact same thing. No scratch that. You are doing worse. That would be tax evasion. If you go two towns over to where they have cheaper sales tax and buy your luxury items there, then THAT is the exact same thing.
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I've run into that. "If you want the lies told to the customers to be consistent, you must identify which lies you've already told them." Management didn't like my snark, but I received a briefing before future customer meetings.
I go one step further. If you want lies to be told to the customer, then tell them yourself. I am not going to lie to a customer.
ten-gallon hat wearers at DFW?
You know, I live in Oklahoma, and fly through DFW from time to time, and I can't remember the last time I saw someone wearing a cowboy hat, ten gallon or otherwise. I'm sure the last time I saw one was probably in a movie about Oklahoma or Texas, though.
Witch Hunts? In Massachusetts? Surely, you jest.
If he doesn't have health insurance and got his legs blown off, then that's his fucking problem isn't it? Just because a bunch of people got hurt in a "terrorist" attack doesn't mean we need to become communist socialists.
No, that is whoever is responsible for the attack's problem. They need to pay for any damage to the people that got hurt and any repairs or cleanup to the city required.
Really? You are buying private health insurance as an individual? Either you are crazy or you are swimming in money or you are being swindled.
The reason people think that healthcare insurance is expensive is because people are buying a product that is not healthcare insurance. The product which is actually healthcare insurance now is somewhat difficult to find, but goes by the name "Catastrophic Care", "Major Medical" or "High Deductible Insurance". Anyone who knows the dictionary definition of insurance will recognize that this product meets the definition of insurance, and all that crap that the employers offers does not. The crazy thing is that you can pay $1,000 a month for your employer's product, and still have to pay deductibles, copays, and coinsurances and still have to pay if they deny the claim.
With major medical, you pay everything up to a fixed amount, and then the insurance company pays everything after that. Also, what you pay is subject to the insurance company's contracted rates. The deductibles are sometimes $7,500 to $10,000 a year, but surely if you can afford to pay $12,000 or more per year for the company plan prior to copays, coinsurance, deductibles and denials, then you must be able to pay $7,500 to $10,000 a years instead. Oh, and that's a maximum, don't forget. I am paying about $300 a month to insure my family and I have never even come close to hitting the deductible limit. I am saving probably $7,000 a year over the company plan.
Every day on the calendar is an anniversary of something.
Yes, a fun, if somewhat maudlin, game to play is to try to guess why the flag is at half staff today. You can play it almost every day now. Perhaps they will soon introduce a quarter staff, for when things really are bad.
But it seems to rise and fall an awful lot depending on the degree to which you can exchange it for dollars. Which would tend to indicate that it does require backing at some level from dollars.
It seems to be trading at about $92 USD, which is approximately where it was before bitfloor's announcement.
"Money is most optimal when it is fixed in value..." (Emphasis mine.)
And what makes a currency less likely to fluctuate? Basically the strength of the faith and the number of believers in the currency. That is why traditional currencies, when they first start out, usually have to be tied to something material to inspire more faith. If you can trade your piece of paper for something, you will have more faith in it than if your government tells you it is worth something because they say so.
Bitcoin used to fluctuate much more even than it does now, but now a lot more people are actually using it. Not that the number of people who use it now is very big, but it is much larger than it used to be.
Another factor in making a currency fluctuate is the amount of new currency injected into the system. Injecting money in faster than the GDP rises causes inflation, which makes the currency worth less.
If bitcoin ever became a currency that was as commonly used as the USD, you can bet that it would fluctuate as little as the USD. However, being that the bitcoin is a fixed supply currency, it is by nature deflationary and there are very good questions about how that would work as far as debt and investment.
1. If you're a US citizen, you can use US dollars to pay your legally required taxes to the US government (and probably the government of your town, county, and state). If you don't have US dollars, you can't, and the IRS can and will seize your other assets, sell them for US dollars, and use that to pay your taxes. And if you try to stop the IRS from doing this, the police and courts will if necessary use force to make that happen.
If you have a hoard of 1000 bitcoins, will they declare "that is not real money" and let you keep it, or will they hypocritically take it and convert it to USD?
2. On your US dollar bill, you'll see "This Note Is Legal Tender For All Debts, Public and Private". If you go to a restaurant, order a meal, and offer the appropriate amount of cash to pay for your meal, the restaurant owner cannot legally refuse to accept your cash and then have you arrested for not paying your debt to them. Again, this is enforced by the police and court system.
Maybe they can't legally do this, but plenty of restaurants will not take cash, period. I'm sure they can't have you arrested, but they probably won't allow you to come back.
The point is not that the dollar's value doesn't fluctuate and the bitcoin's does.
That very much depends on what your definition of fluctuate is. The dollar's value changes against other currencies constantly, and it changes against the cost of goods and services as well. According to the CPI, a dollar on average buys 3% less every year. Or according to the prices of consumer goods and utilities, a dollar on average buys about 20% less every year. That's pretty significant.
Of course, bitcoin fluctuates much more rapidly. Yesterday, one bitcoin would buy about 20 gallons of gas, and today, it is more like 25 gallons of gas. So, yes bitcoin is much more volatile than the USD, but the USD absolutely fluctuates constantly.
Wake me up when it is NON-downloadable content and I can play it offline.
The bad news is that $2 billion was in bitcoins which are now worth about $11.79
Oops, slight mathematical error on your part. 2 billion in bitcoins would be worth about $160 billion USD.
Or perhaps, you meant $2 billion in bitcoins, which would of course be equal to $2 billion in bitcoins.
Of course, they are investing in U.S. assets with money they have borrowed from their own people, other countries, even the U.S.
Japan's debt ratio is the largest in the world, exceeding the United State's debt ration as well. Their debt to GDP ratio is over 2.30:1. Their debt lags behind the U.S. debt by only a few percent, while their GDP is 1/3 that of the United States.
Basically, they are leveraged to the hilt, and in serious danger of having it all come crashing down.
According to some calculations I plugged into a formula on the internet for calculating curvature of the Earth, a 500 foot Wind Turbine would be below the horizon if placed 30 miles out.
So, the TIME article is claiming that fossil fuels had 2/3 as much money budgeted to them as Defense? I smell some week old Halibut.
Not, the money wasn't budgeted to them. Time was merely reporting as subsidies what most normal people would call writing off business expenses. The money that was given to renewables was real budgeted money from taxpayers. The money reported as being given to fossil fuels was standard business deductions that could not be taken into consideration as part of the government's budget.
Scotland is on coarse for 100% renewable energy by 2020
Of course we will ignore the fact that the only difference between renewable and non-renewable energy is the time scale. There is actually no such thing as renewable energy.
During the first year, core duo would mine about $200.000 worth (if sold today) per day.
Well, without mining at all, you could have bought some bitcoins back then and sold them for $200,000 today. So how is that a pyramid scheme?
The number is at zero right now, but if we don't stop it now, that number could increase a hundredfold!
Lawyers are indistinguishable from a disease on the body of the populace. A parasite -- an organism that exists drawing resources from the host organism, and causing degradation to the host organism.
Lawyers would die off if the populace itself didn't constantly feed them, by suing every time little Timmy swallows a buckyball, or gets hurt climbing a tree in a neighbor's yard uninvited, etc. etc.
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15% is downright cheap if they are also handling the withholding, liability and professional insurance and whatnot. In fact, it is probably unprofitable. Just the FICA is already 7.65%, then there is state and federal unemployment which is probably going to be another half a percent, then there is liability insurance and professional insurance, which is difficult to calculate on a percentage level, because it is a yearly amount, but it can be about $5,000.
I think most users exchange e.g. dollars for Bitcoin, and then spend the latter as quickly as possible on (mostly) illegal goods.
And what evidence do you have that people use bitcoins mostly for buying illegal goods?
There are probably half a billion people in this world that would claim that you could never in your life get $25,000 worth of enjoyment out of a new car. Millions would say that never in your life would you get $400 worth of enjoyment out of a PC or smart phone.
I would say you could get $400 worth of entertainment out of a PC. Out of a smartphone? Probably not. I definitely would be one to say you couldn't get $25,000 worth of enjoyment out of a new car. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to have a car to get around in U.S. society. So there is some utilitarian value in addition to the happiness provided. Also, there is some resale value.
With a boat of this value, and an already deflated price, there is a pretty good chance you could get some enjoyment value out of it, because you will probably sell it for about the same price, and you will only have to hope that your cost of operating it was offset by the happiness it gave you.
I would posit that Crazy Eddie is not a geographically restricted phenomenon.
I just want them to pay tax on them, just like I pay tax on the toys that I can afford.
If you buy online and don't report Use Tax, then you are doing the exact same thing. No scratch that. You are doing worse. That would be tax evasion. If you go two towns over to where they have cheaper sales tax and buy your luxury items there, then THAT is the exact same thing.