No, the good book says that all global warming is caused by man, and it would be sacrilegious to perform a study that proves otherwise. Anyone who suggests that global warming could occur without man's influence is lacking in faith.
First, a developer with any morals would not develop such an app (and it sounds like they didn't). Second, the discerning public should know that their phone is not capable of broadcasting on the 457 kHz band, by government regulation, that their phone is not even warranted for use in temperatures where an avalanche might be a possibility, and that if they were in an avalanche, the phones stray droplet of water detector would instantly render it useless.
If and only if all of those things fail, then maybe the government should step in, but probably not even then. Instead, we should probably just allow people to quietly cull themselves from the gene pool so that the next generation will be better capable of surviving.
Lucky for us their app is dumb. I will share what has happened several times to me. I get an e-mail saying "so and so has endorsed you". So and so probably doesn't really know what I do or know that am an expert in whatever they are endorsing me for, but let's skip that. Okay, it says "add to profile". Click! "Would you like to install the LinkedIn App?" Why, no, since I already installed it like a year ago. Okay, so what is my other choice, "open mobile site". Click! "Please Login" and then it has a google and a yahoo login. Um, no, I want to login to LinkedIn, not google or yahoo. If I login to Google or Yahoo, then LinkedIn will browse all my contacts and spam them. So obviously I am not doing that. Ok, well i guess I will leave that e-mail sitting around and maybe look at it from a real computer someday. At least it works from a real computer.
Torture has been a staple of Christianity since at least 1252 when Pope Innocent IV* authorized its use by inquisitors.
[*I can't make these names up, kids.]
And obviously, a policy that was in existence 800 years ago must remain in full force and affect today. That's why slavery is still legal, right?
Also, why would Christians adopt a Catholic decision?
Without taking stand on the death penalty, I have to ask, why can't we make anaesthetics here, instead of buying it from overseas? is there some law that says we have to buy everything from overseas and not allow American workers to earn a living?
Do you realize that almost all states have mandatory reinstatement periods? California's for example is 1 year. If they take the stuff back, you have up to a year in CA to reinstate your account at where you were without losing any of the equity you had paid toward the goods.
Why, no I didn't know that. But then again, I don't buy from rent-to-own places.
I'm sure it is noted in the small print somewhere, if state law also requires for them to inform the customer, but I would bet that they don't exactly call attention to that fact.
IANAL, but "rent-to-own" seldom really functions as a rental; it's effectively an installment sales contract in which you pay more interest than your state allows on real installment loans, in return for having walk-away rights.
Quite right. With the addition that when you miss one of the usury payments, they take the stuff back, often after you have paid several multiples of the retail price of the item.
Laws don't always make sense from a big-picture perspective.
As for gas, it doesn't matter where it's used. It's just like sales tax on food or other goods; it doesn't matter if you take that food or other goods out of the state; you're just taxed at the point-of-sale.
Ah, but it does matter if you take the food or goods out of state. Even if you are taxed at the point of sale, if you take it to a state where the sales tax rate is higher, you owe additional Use Tax on it.
What I don't understand is why they can't legally tax you for mileage that you use out of state, but it is just fine for them to tax you for gas that you use out of state. Seems like 6 of one half a dozen of the other.
In Oklahoma, we don't have it anymore, but we used to use it to improve the revenues of certified inspection garages. "Oh, gee, it looks like our expert engineer says your wipers need replacing. We can't let you drive out without replacing them, but we do sell and install them here."
So you are saying that the hippies are in favor of having a 6000 lb SUV paying the same rate as they do for their Prius?
6,000 pounds is pretty heavy even for an SUV. Unless you are going to count tanks like the H1, which hardly anybody drives. Most SUVs that are actually on the road today are in the 4,000-5,000 pound range. The Prius is hardly even a lightweight by comparison. Although about 1/4 of the overall cubic dimensions of an average SUV, they way about 2/3 of what an average SUV weighs.
As a smug hippie, I'd rather see gas taxes rise proportional to the average MPG of cars on the road. The higher the average MPG, the higher the gas tax, keeping revenue constant, and making low mileage cars less and less attractive.
So basically, no matter good your gas mileage is, you pay the same lump amount? I don't see how that encourages better gas mileage. Or did you mean inversely proportional? If so, that is the way it already works.
How does a mileage meter know that you're on a private road without some way to locate the vehicle?
The same way your gas tank does. ie., it doesn't. And yet you still have to pay the taxes even if you drive on your driveway or on private roads, or out of state, or wherever. The same edge cases that exist today without a GPS could exist in the future without a GPS.
Since we pay gas tax at the pump, why not have ev chargers ding you a tax / kwh? Report that back to the electric co and it could show up on your bill.
But some lousy tax evader will probably charge off his home electricity!
They're going to put a GPS unit in your car so they can record where exactly it's been driven, because they can't legally tax you for mileage out-of-state, or on private roads, so they need GPS to tell when you're actually driving on public roads in-state.
So, if it is illegal, then how do they reimburse me for my current gas tax when I drive out of state or on private roads, or just run my engine all day in the garage?
Why are parents worried? You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account. Surely parents aren't letting their children who aren't old enough to meet the ToS of Facebook to have a Facebook account?
I don't know or care. Hire a sweaty lawyer to do it for $10,000, or figure out how to do it yourself for maybe $1,000. Since over a million people immigrate legally every year, I don't think they could all be PhDs and there are probably more than a few that are illiterate.
When my wife became a citizen I knew more about this stuff than I do now, but I know that they allow translators for the oral test, and in some cases that I have heard of, there are "professional" translators that basically give the answers even if you don't know them. The written test is also available in a variety of languages. My wife took it in English, although her first language was Korean, and Korean is available.
We did not use a lawyer, because all of the information is out there, and the lawyers don't really do anything for you that you couldn't do yourself. They won't even do some of what you would do yourself, like checking the status vigilantly and following up with people to keep things moving. Plus most of them use websites that try to appear to be official sites, but are really there to take your money and file a piece of paper and then disappear.
HR posts a position for an IT position, and puts on the job description "MIS" as a requirement. So, what do they get, MIS candidates. If they want engineers, they need to post for engineers, not MIS. MIS majors are if you want a Project Manager, not a developer. Sure, that fish restaurant might make a decent steak. But if you want steak, why not go to the steak restaurant?
We have Cannonball Runs, where our developers and engineers work long days, enjoy company-provided, catered meals, and concierge services to help in their absence at home, and of course preems, which are financial incentives for accelerating the schedule.
Wow, that would be nice. When we have to work extra long hours where I work, that usually means you have to skip meals too because you don't have time to eat.
If I were to lose certain important documents, I would be undocumented and I'm a US citizen.
You might be temporarily personally without documentation, but you would not be undocumented. Unless all of the official files that various agencies hold pertaining to your citizenship all happen to get lost at the same time.
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The "president" of the IPCC is the guy that owns the worlds biggest trading company of "carbon credits".
I'd trust a study funded by a carbon credits trading company about as much as I would trust a weight loss company that sells food.
No, the good book says that all global warming is caused by man, and it would be sacrilegious to perform a study that proves otherwise. Anyone who suggests that global warming could occur without man's influence is lacking in faith.
First, a developer with any morals would not develop such an app (and it sounds like they didn't). Second, the discerning public should know that their phone is not capable of broadcasting on the 457 kHz band, by government regulation, that their phone is not even warranted for use in temperatures where an avalanche might be a possibility, and that if they were in an avalanche, the phones stray droplet of water detector would instantly render it useless.
If and only if all of those things fail, then maybe the government should step in, but probably not even then. Instead, we should probably just allow people to quietly cull themselves from the gene pool so that the next generation will be better capable of surviving.
Lucky for us their app is dumb. I will share what has happened several times to me. I get an e-mail saying "so and so has endorsed you". So and so probably doesn't really know what I do or know that am an expert in whatever they are endorsing me for, but let's skip that. Okay, it says "add to profile". Click! "Would you like to install the LinkedIn App?" Why, no, since I already installed it like a year ago. Okay, so what is my other choice, "open mobile site". Click! "Please Login" and then it has a google and a yahoo login. Um, no, I want to login to LinkedIn, not google or yahoo. If I login to Google or Yahoo, then LinkedIn will browse all my contacts and spam them. So obviously I am not doing that. Ok, well i guess I will leave that e-mail sitting around and maybe look at it from a real computer someday. At least it works from a real computer.
Torture has been a staple of Christianity since at least 1252 when Pope Innocent IV* authorized its use by inquisitors.
[*I can't make these names up, kids.]
And obviously, a policy that was in existence 800 years ago must remain in full force and affect today. That's why slavery is still legal, right?
Also, why would Christians adopt a Catholic decision?
Yeah, I hate niggers too. Gosh damn Obama and his socialist policies. /republican-mode
Oh, yes Republicans hate blacks, just ask National Black Republican Association chairman Frances Rice.
Without taking stand on the death penalty, I have to ask, why can't we make anaesthetics here, instead of buying it from overseas? is there some law that says we have to buy everything from overseas and not allow American workers to earn a living?
Do you realize that almost all states have mandatory reinstatement periods? California's for example is 1 year. If they take the stuff back, you have up to a year in CA to reinstate your account at where you were without losing any of the equity you had paid toward the goods.
Why, no I didn't know that. But then again, I don't buy from rent-to-own places.
I'm sure it is noted in the small print somewhere, if state law also requires for them to inform the customer, but I would bet that they don't exactly call attention to that fact.
People who rent from Aaron's don't have the money to buy and maintain uninstalled legitimate versions of Windows.
IANAL, but "rent-to-own" seldom really functions as a rental; it's effectively an installment sales contract in which you pay more interest than your state allows on real installment loans, in return for having walk-away rights.
Quite right. With the addition that when you miss one of the usury payments, they take the stuff back, often after you have paid several multiples of the retail price of the item.
Laws don't always make sense from a big-picture perspective.
As for gas, it doesn't matter where it's used. It's just like sales tax on food or other goods; it doesn't matter if you take that food or other goods out of the state; you're just taxed at the point-of-sale.
Ah, but it does matter if you take the food or goods out of state. Even if you are taxed at the point of sale, if you take it to a state where the sales tax rate is higher, you owe additional Use Tax on it.
What I don't understand is why they can't legally tax you for mileage that you use out of state, but it is just fine for them to tax you for gas that you use out of state. Seems like 6 of one half a dozen of the other.
In Oklahoma, we don't have it anymore, but we used to use it to improve the revenues of certified inspection garages. "Oh, gee, it looks like our expert engineer says your wipers need replacing. We can't let you drive out without replacing them, but we do sell and install them here."
So you are saying that the hippies are in favor of having a 6000 lb SUV paying the same rate as they do for their Prius?
6,000 pounds is pretty heavy even for an SUV. Unless you are going to count tanks like the H1, which hardly anybody drives. Most SUVs that are actually on the road today are in the 4,000-5,000 pound range. The Prius is hardly even a lightweight by comparison. Although about 1/4 of the overall cubic dimensions of an average SUV, they way about 2/3 of what an average SUV weighs.
As a smug hippie, I'd rather see gas taxes rise proportional to the average MPG of cars on the road. The higher the average MPG, the higher the gas tax, keeping revenue constant, and making low mileage cars less and less attractive.
So basically, no matter good your gas mileage is, you pay the same lump amount? I don't see how that encourages better gas mileage. Or did you mean inversely proportional? If so, that is the way it already works.
Sounds like you should live in WA and shop in OR. Except, of course, you would still have to pay Use Tax in WA on the item.
How does a mileage meter know that you're on a private road without some way to locate the vehicle?
The same way your gas tank does. ie., it doesn't. And yet you still have to pay the taxes even if you drive on your driveway or on private roads, or out of state, or wherever. The same edge cases that exist today without a GPS could exist in the future without a GPS.
Since we pay gas tax at the pump, why not have ev chargers ding you a tax / kwh? Report that back to the electric co and it could show up on your bill.
But some lousy tax evader will probably charge off his home electricity!
Maybe they should tax sneakers and shoes?
They already do in most jurisdictions.
They're going to put a GPS unit in your car so they can record where exactly it's been driven, because they can't legally tax you for mileage out-of-state, or on private roads, so they need GPS to tell when you're actually driving on public roads in-state.
So, if it is illegal, then how do they reimburse me for my current gas tax when I drive out of state or on private roads, or just run my engine all day in the garage?
Why are parents worried? You have to be 13 to have a Facebook account. Surely parents aren't letting their children who aren't old enough to meet the ToS of Facebook to have a Facebook account?
I don't know or care. Hire a sweaty lawyer to do it for $10,000, or figure out how to do it yourself for maybe $1,000. Since over a million people immigrate legally every year, I don't think they could all be PhDs and there are probably more than a few that are illiterate.
When my wife became a citizen I knew more about this stuff than I do now, but I know that they allow translators for the oral test, and in some cases that I have heard of, there are "professional" translators that basically give the answers even if you don't know them. The written test is also available in a variety of languages. My wife took it in English, although her first language was Korean, and Korean is available.
We did not use a lawyer, because all of the information is out there, and the lawyers don't really do anything for you that you couldn't do yourself. They won't even do some of what you would do yourself, like checking the status vigilantly and following up with people to keep things moving. Plus most of them use websites that try to appear to be official sites, but are really there to take your money and file a piece of paper and then disappear.
HR posts a position for an IT position, and puts on the job description "MIS" as a requirement. So, what do they get, MIS candidates. If they want engineers, they need to post for engineers, not MIS. MIS majors are if you want a Project Manager, not a developer. Sure, that fish restaurant might make a decent steak. But if you want steak, why not go to the steak restaurant?
We have Cannonball Runs, where our developers and engineers work long days, enjoy company-provided, catered meals, and concierge services to help in their absence at home, and of course preems, which are financial incentives for accelerating the schedule.
Wow, that would be nice. When we have to work extra long hours where I work, that usually means you have to skip meals too because you don't have time to eat.
If I were to lose certain important documents, I would be undocumented and I'm a US citizen.
You might be temporarily personally without documentation, but you would not be undocumented. Unless all of the official files that various agencies hold pertaining to your citizenship all happen to get lost at the same time.