The tax loophole was not voted in. I don't even think it is actually a loophole, but just something that nobody ever bothered to propose a ruling on. That is, that labor is not taxed as an import.
In some cases, companies in the U.S. own and operate offshore facilities, where they pay the foreign countries associated wage taxes. But in many cases, the offshore facility is actually owned by a foreign corporation as well, meaning that the entire transaction is merely corp-to-corp service. There is no tax on corp-to-corp services, so there is no tax on the U.S. company whatsoever (except we assume the foreign corp pays their proper payroll taxes and that is built into the pricing structure.)
Not that I am in favor of a tax on services. Since my wife owns a consulting company, that would not be beneficial for me specifically, but it would certainly even the playing field.
> Now everyone might be pissed that A is outsourcing, but they're still going to buy from A over B because A's widgits are cheaper. The fact that they outsource doesn't matter. Loyalty in America these days extends only to the pocket book.
More and more people in the U.S. are refusing to buy from companies like company A despite the cost benefit. Sometimes, this is a matter of pride, but sometimes, it is because the cost benefit turns out to be short term. So, you are correct, our loyalty is with our pocket book.
A dilbert cartoon is very much a representative of reality. It is a caricature, to be sure, but at times it is scarily not as much of a caricature as it should be.
Reading that it sounds like carbon dating can only be used on things that were once living, and there is quite a good possibility of contamination of and older item by a newer item that happened to lie near it. Also, I have to wonder if the ratio of Carbon 14 to other isotopes has always been the same as it is now, or if might have been higher longer ago. And finally, I wonder if things like solar flares may contribute to temporarily higher, or lower, ratios of carbon 14.
Religion takes zero reference points and extrapolates to infinity.
Science believes itself to be the wiser because it takes one reference point before doing the same.
>But Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature magazine, goes further. He speculates that species like H.floresiensis might still exist, somewhere in the unexplored tropical forest of Indonesia
But after generations of mating with Sasquatch, the two species average height has settled to about 5'10 and the amount of hair has diminshed to the point where they can just grow a full beard.
What is truly interesting is that despite the fact that pretty much everybody these days has an equal chance of making it to adulthood, the human race as a whole is actually getting taller.
Maybe this happens naturally until such a point where the tallest humans for whatever reason can not make it to breeding age. Or maybe this happens until such a point that only the taller humans will be able to slam dunk the basketball, and the shorter ones will die off.
Well, this post started out well, but it ended badly.
"Why don't we see human remains on this particular island before 11,000 years ago?"
Because like good natives, they made good use of ALL the body parts.
Assuming that the amount of carbon on the earth is a constant, and that the sites oxygen level, soil pH, temperature, rainfall, and depth below the surface have remained fairly constant since the time of creation of the fossil.
But most humans manage to survive beyond breeding age regardless of any genetic predisposition to do so.
Even if it were beneficial for humans to be smaller, the fact that smaller and larger humans all survive in similar numbers to at least breeding age would mean that we wouldn't as a species grow any smaller.
Companies pour their money into what their greedy, short-term focused investors allow them to. Don't blame the car companies. The car companies are us.
If you're going to do that, I have to question whether the inefficiencies of electrolysis are less than the efficiencies of charging batteries. My guess is that they are similar, so maybe it's a wash.
Actually, everyone has talked about this system giving off water as a byproduct, but I see no reason not to recapture the water and re-separate it into H2 and O2. If you make it a closed system, there is no reason to add or subtract anything. You add energy in one side as sunlight, and take it out the other as power. It's sort of like an Air Conditioner. The fluid just goes around and around at different temperatures and pressures, transferring one type of energy in to another type of energy out.
I would hate to think of what climatological anomolies would be caused by soaking up all of this energy instead of allowing it to heat the ground as it normally does.
Cloud cover may not be as much of an issue as the shorter daily duration of sunlight and the fact that the angle of the sun makes the light have to go through more atmosphere than in the summer.
Interesting. In my car, to get it into reverse, you have to put it in 5th first. Then you have to pull up on a collar on the shifter stalk while pulling the stalk down into reverse.
Also, my model didn't have power steering until 1994. It does have power brakes, though. The rear brakes are axle mounted about 18 inches in from the wheels.
Now that there's a do not call list, I'm not sure what's illegitimate about calling people who aren't on it.
Many prey on the meek, lonely and timid. Some people will buy their product just to get them off the phone.
The only real problem I have with this law is I believe the companies are forced to pay for the no call list
I wasn't aware they had to pay, but I'm sure it is not an insurmountable sum for these telemarketing companies to pay. Also, the government probably looks at the fee not as an income generator, but as a prod to maybe think about getting into a more legitimate line of business.
I doubt that the fax spammers utilize an actual phone line and an actual fax machine. More likely they have a pool of outgoing lines and they spool the fax to you from their servers, and incoming faxes are probably either ignored or dropped in a folder where they use no toner.
Your approach would probably work with the likes of an Office Depot or similar, though.
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The tax loophole was not voted in. I don't even think it is actually a loophole, but just something that nobody ever bothered to propose a ruling on. That is, that labor is not taxed as an import.
In some cases, companies in the U.S. own and operate offshore facilities, where they pay the foreign countries associated wage taxes. But in many cases, the offshore facility is actually owned by a foreign corporation as well, meaning that the entire transaction is merely corp-to-corp service. There is no tax on corp-to-corp services, so there is no tax on the U.S. company whatsoever (except we assume the foreign corp pays their proper payroll taxes and that is built into the pricing structure.) Not that I am in favor of a tax on services. Since my wife owns a consulting company, that would not be beneficial for me specifically, but it would certainly even the playing field.
> Now everyone might be pissed that A is outsourcing, but they're still going to buy from A over B because A's widgits are cheaper. The fact that they outsource doesn't matter. Loyalty in America these days extends only to the pocket book.
More and more people in the U.S. are refusing to buy from companies like company A despite the cost benefit. Sometimes, this is a matter of pride, but sometimes, it is because the cost benefit turns out to be short term. So, you are correct, our loyalty is with our pocket book.
A dilbert cartoon is very much a representative of reality. It is a caricature, to be sure, but at times it is scarily not as much of a caricature as it should be.
Reading that it sounds like carbon dating can only be used on things that were once living, and there is quite a good possibility of contamination of and older item by a newer item that happened to lie near it. Also, I have to wonder if the ratio of Carbon 14 to other isotopes has always been the same as it is now, or if might have been higher longer ago. And finally, I wonder if things like solar flares may contribute to temporarily higher, or lower, ratios of carbon 14.
Religion takes zero reference points and extrapolates to infinity.
Science believes itself to be the wiser because it takes one reference point before doing the same.
Yes, this is also one of several thousand things that killed the dinosaurs.
>But Henry Gee, senior editor at Nature magazine, goes further. He speculates that species like H.floresiensis might still exist, somewhere in the unexplored tropical forest of Indonesia
But after generations of mating with Sasquatch, the two species average height has settled to about 5'10 and the amount of hair has diminshed to the point where they can just grow a full beard.
Considering that they were here 95,000 years ago, I think it more likely that it is WE who are the aliens.
What is truly interesting is that despite the fact that pretty much everybody these days has an equal chance of making it to adulthood, the human race as a whole is actually getting taller.
Maybe this happens naturally until such a point where the tallest humans for whatever reason can not make it to breeding age. Or maybe this happens until such a point that only the taller humans will be able to slam dunk the basketball, and the shorter ones will die off.
Well, this post started out well, but it ended badly.
"Why don't we see human remains on this particular island before 11,000 years ago?"
Because like good natives, they made good use of ALL the body parts.
Assuming that the amount of carbon on the earth is a constant, and that the sites oxygen level, soil pH, temperature, rainfall, and depth below the surface have remained fairly constant since the time of creation of the fossil.
Yes. And there are also modern humans who still think that humans descended from apes.
But most humans manage to survive beyond breeding age regardless of any genetic predisposition to do so.
Even if it were beneficial for humans to be smaller, the fact that smaller and larger humans all survive in similar numbers to at least breeding age would mean that we wouldn't as a species grow any smaller.
So primer colored paint jobs, mismatched body panels, and nailed on spoilers are considered a thing of beauty these days? Boy, I have gotten old.
Companies pour their money into what their greedy, short-term focused investors allow them to. Don't blame the car companies. The car companies are us.
If you're going to do that, I have to question whether the inefficiencies of electrolysis are less than the efficiencies of charging batteries. My guess is that they are similar, so maybe it's a wash.
Hindenberg, eh? Okay, point taken. Don't coat my hydrogen powered car with flash paper.
Actually, everyone has talked about this system giving off water as a byproduct, but I see no reason not to recapture the water and re-separate it into H2 and O2. If you make it a closed system, there is no reason to add or subtract anything. You add energy in one side as sunlight, and take it out the other as power. It's sort of like an Air Conditioner. The fluid just goes around and around at different temperatures and pressures, transferring one type of energy in to another type of energy out.
I would hate to think of what climatological anomolies would be caused by soaking up all of this energy instead of allowing it to heat the ground as it normally does.
Cloud cover may not be as much of an issue as the shorter daily duration of sunlight and the fact that the angle of the sun makes the light have to go through more atmosphere than in the summer.
Interesting. In my car, to get it into reverse, you have to put it in 5th first. Then you have to pull up on a collar on the shifter stalk while pulling the stalk down into reverse.
Also, my model didn't have power steering until 1994. It does have power brakes, though. The rear brakes are axle mounted about 18 inches in from the wheels.
Now that there's a do not call list, I'm not sure what's illegitimate about calling people who aren't on it. Many prey on the meek, lonely and timid. Some people will buy their product just to get them off the phone.
The only real problem I have with this law is I believe the companies are forced to pay for the no call list
I wasn't aware they had to pay, but I'm sure it is not an insurmountable sum for these telemarketing companies to pay. Also, the government probably looks at the fee not as an income generator, but as a prod to maybe think about getting into a more legitimate line of business.
I doubt that the fax spammers utilize an actual phone line and an actual fax machine. More likely they have a pool of outgoing lines and they spool the fax to you from their servers, and incoming faxes are probably either ignored or dropped in a folder where they use no toner.
Your approach would probably work with the likes of an Office Depot or similar, though.
The only political organizations that have ever contacted me have been trying to hawk their wares as well.
Same Same charities.