I also lived in Chicago about 15 years and never owned snow tires. Up there, they usually kept the roads clean enough where it wouldn't have mattered. Chains? That is illegal.
I remember one time while I lived there that people got stuck for about 10 hours on Lake Shore Drive due to particularly heavy snow in a short time frame They can't keep the roads clean if there are already people stuck on them.
I live in Oklahoma, too. We got a couple of inches dropped on us in the middle of a school day what, 6 weeks ago? And I got stuck in traffic for maybe an hour and a half. School didn't even let out early. I'd say we are probably about as prepared for winter weather as Atlanta. We have dump trucks that they put blades and sand dispensers on. And not a whole lot of those. The difference here was everybody slowed down and drove carefully and eventually got where they were going.
Most southern cities don't have dedicated snowplows, but they do often have blades that can be attached to regular dump trucks and also feeder systems that can be attached to the back to dispense salt or sand. In the south, sand is a lot more common than salt.
Anyone using anything but the National Weather Service for weather information is a fool consuming altered data proffered with the intent to draw eyeballs to adverts.
That may be true in Atlanta, but here in Oklahoma where the location of severe weather can change from one minute to the next, they have MUCH better equipment than the NWS, and much better live coverage. You could get yourself killed watching the weather channel or waiting on an update from the NWS.
I would think like anything else, you claim them as income when you convert them to whatever currency your taxing authority does business in. I don't know of any government that has decided to tax them as assets yet, and they don't accept bitcoin, you can't tax it until it is converted to the currency they accept..
Well, of course, PT Cruisers come free with three boxtops from Cheerios, so there probably would be rather a lot of them getting towed. You would have to compare the relative frequency with the number of that vehicle out there.
Artificially tampering with Mother Nature by bringing back extinct species into modern environs is probably even worse in the end than (maybe) helping to drive them into extinction to begin with.
Something needs to keep the surplus population in check. Help weed out some of the slow and stupid as well.
We spend billions of dollars a year making sure that the slow and stupid are protected from themselves and others and even encouraged to breed in order to get more handouts. Why would we suddenly decide to thin them out?
We know it was people. They just used to think it was the paleoindians, but now they are thinking it was 20th and 21st century man that killed them with their manmade global warming.
With an unemployment rate of 17.7%, it doesn't look to me like they need MORE people imported to look for work. Looks to me like they need to be spurring businesses to start there so that they can hire some of these people who are looking for work.
As we well know, 17.7% means that these are the number of people on the eligible list of unemployment benefits...which they just cut to 20 weeks. So, it doesn't include the number of people who never found a job while they were on unemployment and now have neither a job nor can collect unemployment.
Since he has been found by the court to be financially responsible for the child, is he going to be given the normal tax breaks associated with dependents?
I don't think so. In cases I have seen, the father does not get to claim the child as a dependent even if he is supplying more than 50% of the cost of raising the child. Often, the father has to fight and sometimes loses, to be able to see the child he is paying for.
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Increased property taxes would force Google employees to pay their fair share and shut the protesters up.
Presumably they already are. The magic of percentages is that if the value of something goes up, you make more money. You don't have to raise the tax rate as well. I'm sure the assessor is valuing the properties higher and as a result, they are collecting more tax.
What is so wrong with a landlord, who put up his own money buying, repairing and maintaining buildings in a rundown area, to make a profit? Why should the laws of supply and demand not apply to their case? If the law of supply and demand does not apply, the investors should have been told this in the first place, so they could look elsewhere to invest their money, and the area could have stayed rundown slums with low rent.
Those are people not being caught. No doubt you do see some of them pulled over from time to time, just not all of them because there are so many. The difference is that a cop or a politician can do it while they're the only car on a road lined on both sides with cops running speed traps. I find that inherently wrong.
I'm sure a cop can, if he is in an official service vehicle. A politician would likely be pulled over, but released when they found out who he was. Or maybe not even then.
Regarding the overall claim that "smart people don't live in the city", that's flat-out ridiculous. Cities provide a much greater wealth of quality and diversity in food, entertainment, and culture than the suburbs or rural areas. You could get that by living out in the burbs and driving to the city, but some people are smart enough to value their time for more than sitting in traffic. I guess you could go the other way and do nothing but stay home and watch TV, but I think that kind of disqualifies you from the "intelligent" part we mentioned earlier.
Yeah cities are awesome, that is for sure. That is why I like to live near, not in, one. Driving to the city doesn't require sitting in traffic when you are going for food or a show. Traffic happens when people are going to work. I prefer not to work in the city either. It sucks on so many levels. The drive, the lack of parking, or if you take public transportation, the lack of options and the increase in time spent trying to get to work, the lack of places to eat (odd how the eating places are nowhere near the working places), the tiny cubes due to the high cost per square foot of commercial space, the lack of windows, and if there are windows, the lack of view of anything other than the next building.
No thanks, I'll live in the suburbs, work in the suburbs, and go to the occasional show or dinner in the city. Matter of fact, I don't think I have even gone into the city in the last year and I don't feel I have missed anything.
There's a difference between just-for-fun traditions and superstitions. I don't think forgetting to eat birthday cake was cited as a cause of the Challenger accident in NASA's official inquiry.
Of course not. They did remember to eat birthday cake. The cause of the Challenger crash was forgetting to throw a pinch of salt over their shoulder.
Oh, yes, NASA is a wonderful example. Okay, they don't publicly pray to God before every launch (although i bet many of them pray privately), however, they do adhere to a bunch of other superstitious nonsense. Having birthday cake before each launch. Continually fixing up the same old RV that has been used since the '60s. Peanuts in the control room, playing cards before launch, eating steak and eggs, the list goes on.
It probably won't, because they will do it at auction and whomever buys it will either hold on to them, or sell them in smaller chunks or buy goods with them to maximize profit.
And let's not forget the money and property of people who had accounts there. Most of those bitcoins do not even belong to him or to the government. They were being held in accounts on the silkroad site that belonged to other people who may or may not have been using the account to buy illegal drugs. Unless those people are also brought up on charges, that money has to be returned to them.
mtgox has a trade volume of about 17k BTC per day [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html], so you can assume that those 30k BTCs are about as much as is traded in one day. I don't have an economics degree, and I am proud of not having one, but I assume that, would an entity put this many BTCs on the market at a single time, the market value would collapse by about 70%, and take a week to recover.
Seems unlikely, as the average volume is 16k, but there have been much higher volume days in which the price has not collapsed.
I find it extremely unlikely that the government will use an exchange at all, since their normal tactic is to do an auction. That seems the most likely avenue here as well.
So what you are saying is Bitcoin is like any other speculative investment. After all, Amazon takes penny stocks as well. Of course, I have to sell them through a broker who wires Amazon money.
The difference being that the conversion happens on the side of the vendor, with no effort on your part. Whether Amazon keeps it as BTC or converts it to USD, or Euro or gold or tulip bulbs is not your concern in the slightest.
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I also lived in Chicago about 15 years and never owned snow tires. Up there, they usually kept the roads clean enough where it wouldn't have mattered. Chains? That is illegal.
I remember one time while I lived there that people got stuck for about 10 hours on Lake Shore Drive due to particularly heavy snow in a short time frame They can't keep the roads clean if there are already people stuck on them.
I live in Oklahoma, too. We got a couple of inches dropped on us in the middle of a school day what, 6 weeks ago? And I got stuck in traffic for maybe an hour and a half. School didn't even let out early. I'd say we are probably about as prepared for winter weather as Atlanta. We have dump trucks that they put blades and sand dispensers on. And not a whole lot of those. The difference here was everybody slowed down and drove carefully and eventually got where they were going.
Most southern cities don't have dedicated snowplows, but they do often have blades that can be attached to regular dump trucks and also feeder systems that can be attached to the back to dispense salt or sand. In the south, sand is a lot more common than salt.
Anyone using anything but the National Weather Service for weather information is a fool consuming altered data proffered with the intent to draw eyeballs to adverts.
That may be true in Atlanta, but here in Oklahoma where the location of severe weather can change from one minute to the next, they have MUCH better equipment than the NWS, and much better live coverage. You could get yourself killed watching the weather channel or waiting on an update from the NWS.
I would think like anything else, you claim them as income when you convert them to whatever currency your taxing authority does business in. I don't know of any government that has decided to tax them as assets yet, and they don't accept bitcoin, you can't tax it until it is converted to the currency they accept..
Well, of course, PT Cruisers come free with three boxtops from Cheerios, so there probably would be rather a lot of them getting towed. You would have to compare the relative frequency with the number of that vehicle out there.
Artificially tampering with Mother Nature by bringing back extinct species into modern environs is probably even worse in the end than (maybe) helping to drive them into extinction to begin with.
Jurassic Park anybody?
Something needs to keep the surplus population in check. Help weed out some of the slow and stupid as well.
We spend billions of dollars a year making sure that the slow and stupid are protected from themselves and others and even encouraged to breed in order to get more handouts. Why would we suddenly decide to thin them out?
We know it was people. They just used to think it was the paleoindians, but now they are thinking it was 20th and 21st century man that killed them with their manmade global warming.
So if there are no laws, nobody breaks the law. So now there is no bullying, just a lot of kids playing sadistic and reluctant masochist games.
With an unemployment rate of 17.7%, it doesn't look to me like they need MORE people imported to look for work. Looks to me like they need to be spurring businesses to start there so that they can hire some of these people who are looking for work.
As we well know, 17.7% means that these are the number of people on the eligible list of unemployment benefits...which they just cut to 20 weeks. So, it doesn't include the number of people who never found a job while they were on unemployment and now have neither a job nor can collect unemployment.
Does the federal government own land in Detroit?
Since he has been found by the court to be financially responsible for the child, is he going to be given the normal tax breaks associated with dependents?
I don't think so. In cases I have seen, the father does not get to claim the child as a dependent even if he is supplying more than 50% of the cost of raising the child. Often, the father has to fight and sometimes loses, to be able to see the child he is paying for.
Looking for justification for your latest cost cutting, employee inconveniencing measure? Just subscribe to Management Weekly, where we take the latest trends in cost cutting and spin them positively so that they look like they are good for morale and productivity, while in fact they are demoralizing, dehumanizing and even your lowest paid, least educated employee will see right through the ruse. Of course, like any good manager, you consider all of your employees to be dumber than rocks, and you figure that the fact they don't immediately quit is proof positive that you have once again successfully pulled the wool over their eyes.
Here are some highlights from upcoming issues:
Have your Christmas party in January. It is much cheaper, but you can tell your employees it is because you respect their busy holiday schedules!
Convert your employee's vacation and sick leave plans into one Paid Time Off plan. You can effectively reduce the amount of potential paid time off by up to an infinite amount, and if you start them off with three weeks vacation, they will think you are doing them a FAVOR!
Convert the employees offices and cubes into an open plan. This reduces the cost of furniture and walls, while only greatly decreasing productivity and employee privacy. Your higher-ups will grant you a huge bonus in cost savings long before all of the employees quit in disgust and besides, you will have moved on to the next high paying gig where you can ruin them too, and if you get fired, hey, there is always your golden parachute which insures you will never have to work again in your life.
Increased property taxes would force Google employees to pay their fair share and shut the protesters up.
Presumably they already are. The magic of percentages is that if the value of something goes up, you make more money. You don't have to raise the tax rate as well. I'm sure the assessor is valuing the properties higher and as a result, they are collecting more tax.
What is so wrong with a landlord, who put up his own money buying, repairing and maintaining buildings in a rundown area, to make a profit? Why should the laws of supply and demand not apply to their case? If the law of supply and demand does not apply, the investors should have been told this in the first place, so they could look elsewhere to invest their money, and the area could have stayed rundown slums with low rent.
Those are people not being caught. No doubt you do see some of them pulled over from time to time, just not all of them because there are so many. The difference is that a cop or a politician can do it while they're the only car on a road lined on both sides with cops running speed traps. I find that inherently wrong.
I'm sure a cop can, if he is in an official service vehicle. A politician would likely be pulled over, but released when they found out who he was. Or maybe not even then.
Regarding the overall claim that "smart people don't live in the city", that's flat-out ridiculous. Cities provide a much greater wealth of quality and diversity in food, entertainment, and culture than the suburbs or rural areas. You could get that by living out in the burbs and driving to the city, but some people are smart enough to value their time for more than sitting in traffic. I guess you could go the other way and do nothing but stay home and watch TV, but I think that kind of disqualifies you from the "intelligent" part we mentioned earlier.
Yeah cities are awesome, that is for sure. That is why I like to live near, not in, one. Driving to the city doesn't require sitting in traffic when you are going for food or a show. Traffic happens when people are going to work. I prefer not to work in the city either. It sucks on so many levels. The drive, the lack of parking, or if you take public transportation, the lack of options and the increase in time spent trying to get to work, the lack of places to eat (odd how the eating places are nowhere near the working places), the tiny cubes due to the high cost per square foot of commercial space, the lack of windows, and if there are windows, the lack of view of anything other than the next building.
No thanks, I'll live in the suburbs, work in the suburbs, and go to the occasional show or dinner in the city. Matter of fact, I don't think I have even gone into the city in the last year and I don't feel I have missed anything.
There's a difference between just-for-fun traditions and superstitions. I don't think forgetting to eat birthday cake was cited as a cause of the Challenger accident in NASA's official inquiry.
Of course not. They did remember to eat birthday cake. The cause of the Challenger crash was forgetting to throw a pinch of salt over their shoulder.
Oh, yes, NASA is a wonderful example. Okay, they don't publicly pray to God before every launch (although i bet many of them pray privately), however, they do adhere to a bunch of other superstitious nonsense. Having birthday cake before each launch. Continually fixing up the same old RV that has been used since the '60s. Peanuts in the control room, playing cards before launch, eating steak and eggs, the list goes on.
Civil Forfeiture law is insane.
Not to mention unconstitutional.
It probably won't, because they will do it at auction and whomever buys it will either hold on to them, or sell them in smaller chunks or buy goods with them to maximize profit.
No, but his money and property has.
Civil Forfeiture law is insane.
And let's not forget the money and property of people who had accounts there. Most of those bitcoins do not even belong to him or to the government. They were being held in accounts on the silkroad site that belonged to other people who may or may not have been using the account to buy illegal drugs. Unless those people are also brought up on charges, that money has to be returned to them.
mtgox has a trade volume of about 17k BTC per day [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html], so you can assume that those 30k BTCs are about as much as is traded in one day. I don't have an economics degree, and I am proud of not having one, but I assume that, would an entity put this many BTCs on the market at a single time, the market value would collapse by about 70%, and take a week to recover.
Seems unlikely, as the average volume is 16k, but there have been much higher volume days in which the price has not collapsed.
I find it extremely unlikely that the government will use an exchange at all, since their normal tactic is to do an auction. That seems the most likely avenue here as well.
So what you are saying is Bitcoin is like any other speculative investment. After all, Amazon takes penny stocks as well. Of course, I have to sell them through a broker who wires Amazon money.
The difference being that the conversion happens on the side of the vendor, with no effort on your part. Whether Amazon keeps it as BTC or converts it to USD, or Euro or gold or tulip bulbs is not your concern in the slightest.