The free market is all about the EFFICIENT allocation of goods and services. Is having fiber optics to everyone's home really efficient when a vast majority of consumers use their connection for email and myspace? All of these other countries are paying for it one way or another and I'd be willing to bet it costs more per customer than in the US.
Estonia is one of the most free-market oriented countries in all of europe. It is ranked 6th in the world for economic freedom (above both the UK and US). Get your facts straight. And since no one ever cites sources I'll humor you http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/co untries.html
Is it just me or does this sound like it was ripped from the pages of a book written decades ago? I wonder two things: 1) Which company (Yahoo, Microsoft, etc) got this bill passed? 2) How much were the congresspeople paid?
Who gave the government the power to stifle innovation? Oh yeah, we did.
Who never objected when they did so? That was us too.
Are we so envious to fight corporations who have earned their position in exchange for mediocrity?
I live in Austin and recently switched from AT&T Wireless to T-mobile. Recently AT&T Wireless(according to their advertising campaign) improved coverage and signal. I think they just found a way to have their phones display full bars of coverage even when there is barely a signal or something. In my apartment, my AT&T Wireless phone would get a full signal, yet would cut out all the time, yet my T-mobile phone had 1 out of 6 bars of signal and had better call quality then the AT&T. Something smells fishy there.
I was in your situation last year, although I was more interested in a business type of degree like MIS with the ability to double or triple major in other degrees. I didn't have much luck on the admissions game, I got denied from MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. I did, however, get accepted to Carnegie Mellon and The University of Texas at Austin. Since Carnegie Mellon was an outrageous $40k/year and UT was only $15k/year, I didn't have much of a choice. UT is ranked well for MIS and CS/CE majors and since I was admitted to the honors program, I get special advisors and the freedom to take classes in any of the departments or colleges at the University. From what I have seen, the outlook after college is roughly the same and I plan on going to one of the more prestigious graduate business schools (Harvard, Stanford) as many in the program have. From what people have told me, it really doesn't matter much where you get your undergraduate degree (within reason), especially if you have a graduate degree from a more prominent school. And most of all, I think college is what you make of it. Going to a big name doesn't necessarily guarantee anything after graduation. What matters is that you used all the available resources to their full extent (and large public universities have a wide array of resources). After all, you can't get a true measure of what the MITs, Stanfords, and Berkeleys are really imparting on their students if they only accept the best of the best, the real schools are the ones that educate their above average students to the point where they are equals with the premier schools.
How much do these consultants that pull these figures out of thin air get paid? Someone should fund a study into the cost of urination or mosquito bites to businesses. I bet it causes more loss in productivity than hitting the delete button every once in a while.
Dr Pepper bottled at the Dublin, Texas bottling plant still uses cane sugar to sweeten the soft drinks. That is just about the only place I know of that still puts cane sugar in soda.
Why not just put a higher quality filter in your air conditioning or ventilation system? It would probably work better than other filters and probably much cheaper. I have heard good things about aller-pure or something like that, you just have to wash it every once in a while. Or just get those disposable 3M filters. Anything better than the loose fiberglass filters that let everything through will help exponentially.
We even had these at high school football games shooting t-shirts into the bleachers. Other objects work well too. You could make one yourself for much less cost.
No it isnt. A grocery store a few miles away uses fingerprint scanners to charge groceries on the owner's account. Obviously if a grocery store is doing it, it can't be too expensive. Why not have a national database of fingerprints matching identity? It would be extremely convenient to scan your thumb for all transactions and identity validations. Of course privacy proponents will argue against this, but I really don't see the problem if you don't routinely break the law. After all, nowhere in the constitution does it grant a right of privacy, this is just a false idea most americans have.
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At least someone is making money off of it. Last time I checked, my wallet didn't pay interest on its contents. What do I care if someone else profits while I still get the same effect?
Did anyone notice the article under that on their site? I guess not because it is soo much more important than that video card article;) A pill that gives you a 14-minute orgasm...wow... http://www.megarad.com/modules.php?name=News&file= article&sid=1270
Correct, Libertarian. Yes, they are (thankfully) cutting many many programs. They just need to stop thinking that cutting programs will solve the problem. They need to start eliminating programs.
They usually do. The lottery is a voluntary tax of which winnings are taxed. The only problem is that the recursive loop is that the contents is a decimal lower than one raised exponentially.
Thats basically what I was talking about. Amazon.com could move a few miles north and do all their business out of Canada. It would be kind of hard for the states to tax that. The feds might get their share of some sort of customs/import tax, but it would probably still be cheaper and generate more sales for amazon. Not to mention they and all their employees wouldn't live in the US, so the states/cities would actually lose tax money by doing that.
Let's make it so inhospitable to do business in the US that companies have to locate their servers out of country and move yet another industry and even more jobs overseas. That sounds like a good way to boost state revenue!
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The free market is all about the EFFICIENT allocation of goods and services. Is having fiber optics to everyone's home really efficient when a vast majority of consumers use their connection for email and myspace? All of these other countries are paying for it one way or another and I'd be willing to bet it costs more per customer than in the US.
There's a lot more you can do when it's daylight after work than you can do if it were daylight before work.
Estonia is one of the most free-market oriented countries in all of europe. It is ranked 6th in the world for economic freedom (above both the UK and US). Get your facts straight. And since no one ever cites sources I'll humor you http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/co untries.html
http://users.cis.net/sammy/grandpa.htm I remember when my teacher in high school played this while we were studying genetics.
Is it just me or does this sound like it was ripped from the pages of a book written decades ago? I wonder two things: 1) Which company (Yahoo, Microsoft, etc) got this bill passed? 2) How much were the congresspeople paid? Who gave the government the power to stifle innovation? Oh yeah, we did. Who never objected when they did so? That was us too. Are we so envious to fight corporations who have earned their position in exchange for mediocrity?
I live in Austin and recently switched from AT&T Wireless to T-mobile. Recently AT&T Wireless(according to their advertising campaign) improved coverage and signal. I think they just found a way to have their phones display full bars of coverage even when there is barely a signal or something. In my apartment, my AT&T Wireless phone would get a full signal, yet would cut out all the time, yet my T-mobile phone had 1 out of 6 bars of signal and had better call quality then the AT&T. Something smells fishy there.
Now all he has to worry about is the toy going out of his sight range, not the radio range.
The top 1% of taxpayers pay ~35% of the nation's taxes so you are blatently wrong.
I was in your situation last year, although I was more interested in a business type of degree like MIS with the ability to double or triple major in other degrees. I didn't have much luck on the admissions game, I got denied from MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley. I did, however, get accepted to Carnegie Mellon and The University of Texas at Austin. Since Carnegie Mellon was an outrageous $40k/year and UT was only $15k/year, I didn't have much of a choice. UT is ranked well for MIS and CS/CE majors and since I was admitted to the honors program, I get special advisors and the freedom to take classes in any of the departments or colleges at the University. From what I have seen, the outlook after college is roughly the same and I plan on going to one of the more prestigious graduate business schools (Harvard, Stanford) as many in the program have. From what people have told me, it really doesn't matter much where you get your undergraduate degree (within reason), especially if you have a graduate degree from a more prominent school. And most of all, I think college is what you make of it. Going to a big name doesn't necessarily guarantee anything after graduation. What matters is that you used all the available resources to their full extent (and large public universities have a wide array of resources). After all, you can't get a true measure of what the MITs, Stanfords, and Berkeleys are really imparting on their students if they only accept the best of the best, the real schools are the ones that educate their above average students to the point where they are equals with the premier schools.
The true test for the ability to run a state government is whether or not your website can withstand being slashdotted.
I still haven't heard a case of someone killing 3000 people with the internet...
How much do these consultants that pull these figures out of thin air get paid? Someone should fund a study into the cost of urination or mosquito bites to businesses. I bet it causes more loss in productivity than hitting the delete button every once in a while.
Doesn't the combustion of methanol produce water vapor and carbon dioxide?
I think the zip is for sales tax reasons...the rest is to add you to their marketing lists :)
Dr Pepper bottled at the Dublin, Texas bottling plant still uses cane sugar to sweeten the soft drinks. That is just about the only place I know of that still puts cane sugar in soda.
Why not just put a higher quality filter in your air conditioning or ventilation system? It would probably work better than other filters and probably much cheaper. I have heard good things about aller-pure or something like that, you just have to wash it every once in a while. Or just get those disposable 3M filters. Anything better than the loose fiberglass filters that let everything through will help exponentially.
We even had these at high school football games shooting t-shirts into the bleachers. Other objects work well too. You could make one yourself for much less cost.
No it isnt. A grocery store a few miles away uses fingerprint scanners to charge groceries on the owner's account. Obviously if a grocery store is doing it, it can't be too expensive. Why not have a national database of fingerprints matching identity? It would be extremely convenient to scan your thumb for all transactions and identity validations. Of course privacy proponents will argue against this, but I really don't see the problem if you don't routinely break the law. After all, nowhere in the constitution does it grant a right of privacy, this is just a false idea most americans have.
At least someone is making money off of it. Last time I checked, my wallet didn't pay interest on its contents. What do I care if someone else profits while I still get the same effect?
Did anyone notice the article under that on their site? I guess not because it is soo much more important than that video card article ;) A pill that gives you a 14-minute orgasm...wow... http://www.megarad.com/modules.php?name=News&file= article&sid=1270
Correct, Libertarian. Yes, they are (thankfully) cutting many many programs. They just need to stop thinking that cutting programs will solve the problem. They need to start eliminating programs.
They usually do. The lottery is a voluntary tax of which winnings are taxed. The only problem is that the recursive loop is that the contents is a decimal lower than one raised exponentially.
Amazing how quickly they look to tax more instead of looking at their budget and ridding themselves of all the bloat of government.
Thats basically what I was talking about. Amazon.com could move a few miles north and do all their business out of Canada. It would be kind of hard for the states to tax that. The feds might get their share of some sort of customs/import tax, but it would probably still be cheaper and generate more sales for amazon. Not to mention they and all their employees wouldn't live in the US, so the states/cities would actually lose tax money by doing that.
Let's make it so inhospitable to do business in the US that companies have to locate their servers out of country and move yet another industry and even more jobs overseas. That sounds like a good way to boost state revenue!