Not just age, but climate and care matter. Are you driving on the salty roads up north, or near salty ocean air?...it matters. Is your vehicle garaged, or baking in the sun all day? How often to you clean it? Etc., etc.
I occasionally deal with similar situations. I'm in a Fortune 500 company, and we give HR a set of screening questions for the candidates to answer. The bad part about this is that if the candidate doesn't answer the right way, we'll never see them on our tool that shows potential interview candidates. Also, HR will only release a limited number. Some of this is due to government compliance reasons. And some of it is helpful to us hiring managers, saving us time looking at unqualified candidates, but occasionally, when we can't find a good one in the list, we ask HR to open up the floodgates, and they do so grudgingly...as they might have to explain why in a compliance audit.
Now, you would think the screening questions should be simple, but that's not always the case. For example, we ask about potential conflicts of interest...we can't hire people who worked contracts for competitors or the govt. w/o careful screening.
Let me start...took me about 2 mins to come up with ten.
VA - failure to take care of veterans records. Vets dying waiting for service. EPA - Colorado mine spill ATF - Fast and Furious IRS - targeting FEMA - Katrina
TSA - Do I need to say anything? Secret Service - Just reorged last year because of multiple incidents NSA - collection w/o a warrent OPM - Failure to secure data from hackers WMD/Iraq Invasion - It's a bit unclear which agency gets the blame. Exec likes to point to CIA, which can't defend itself publicly.
I live just a few miles from IAD, and fly through there all the time. As bad as it is, it's not even close to being "the worst border crossing in the world". And FWIW, I've been to over 50 countries, so I've seen a few of them.
In general, I do subscribe to the same belief as you though. That government management has been a failure in so many areas.
Monopoly behavior is not capitalism. Capitalism requires competition. Many pro-capitalists mistakenly embrace monopolies, which is completely counter-productive to their cause.
Yeah, AT&T was broken up, but the resulting companies each continued to hold rights to items in their respective areas. I don't believe the court removed their rights to infrastructure. FWIW, I inherited some NYNEX shares (which became Bell Atlantic and now Verizon, who claims $93B in property assets as of the end of '15)...there's . That infrastructure was simply divided...the rights didn't just disappear. Merging with other former Ma-Bell divisions, recombines some of that.
All that said, I'm very much in favor of more control of monopolistic behavior. The U.S. has done a shit job of it for many years.
Utility companies (monopolies) are given "un-American" privileges and access to public property in order to provide a service, typically w/o any competition. Often your tax dollars subsidize them. So don't give me this bullshit about it being un-American. It's not a level playing field for competition when you're talking about monopolies.
Can't image the damage a cow must have done. I've hit a dog, deer, and coyote over 42 yrs of driving. But I'd still choose the animal over a tree unless it was a sapling...trees don't budge, and I've seen the wreckage from a former coworker's encounter with one. The tree was where the transmission belonged, coming through the drivers side...he lived only because he didn't have his seatbelt on, and ended up on the passenger side.
When you see a sudden hazard on the road at high speed there is simply no TIME to think through a chain of consequences or evaluate multiple possible chains of events
Absolutely correct. I drive a two lane forested road daily, and have had close calls with deer, as well as an idiot who stepped out from behind trees to cross w/o looking. Fortunately, I was able to brake in time for all of those. But given the choice between them and slamming into a 3ft thick tree at 50mph, I've already made the decision that I'm not going to swerve and kill myself. You may disagree with my position, but I'd rather face a jury trial than a pine box.
All of your airbags and seatbelts might not save your ass if you hit a tree at 50+ mph. I have a daily drive on a 2 lane road with forest on both sides, at the edge of the road. I've had deer and even a person walking a dog step out in front of me, and fortunately been able to brake in time. But I'll be damned if I'm going to swerve into a tree for a deer or someone stupid enough to walk out in front of fast moving traffic, and risk my own life.
I've been around A10s a few times (including a close call with one while flying a Cessna in Korea). I've never heard one referred to as a fighter before. It's a bit like calling Trump "presidential".
I suppose we should just use SAMs when there's a situation with a civilian aircraft over the US since we don't need a fighter to go up and check things out up close. I'm sure the guys launching it will be able to figure out how much collateral damage will be likely.
Right, and someone who doesn't follow the party platform is a "RINO" if they're a republican. Does that make them not a true republican? NEWSFLASH, most people don't hold all of the same values as their respective parties. It's not a black & white situation. We need to stop trying to throw labels on everyone...and start trying to do what's best for our nation.
You completely left out the fact that all the other excess disappears. The deductions (or loopholes if you like), and all the added bureaucracy that goes with it. No more bitching that people aren't paying their fair share, because everyone would be paying the same damn percentage. I'd personally be happy to pay a little more if I didn't have to do so god damn much paperwork every year.
Please outline the "critical accounting functions", and who they're critical to? Obviously, we couldn't entirely abolish the IRS, or at least we'd need a much smaller group to provide the functions to support even a flat tax. But, it sure would put a lot of bureaucrats, accountants, tax attorneys, and H&R Block looking for something productive to do.
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Not just age, but climate and care matter. Are you driving on the salty roads up north, or near salty ocean air?...it matters. Is your vehicle garaged, or baking in the sun all day? How often to you clean it? Etc., etc.
That is not how "demand" works. Scientists need to make their case to consumers. Consumers have a right to demand the labels, full stop.
How's that working for you, full stop. Clue: It's not, full stop
Because nature doesn't make toxic stuff...oh, wait.
Don't for get the anti-vax crowd
I bet you can't name a single nobel laurete who isn't OBVIOUSLY smarter than Mike Tyson in general. >
Obama...
I occasionally deal with similar situations. I'm in a Fortune 500 company, and we give HR a set of screening questions for the candidates to answer. The bad part about this is that if the candidate doesn't answer the right way, we'll never see them on our tool that shows potential interview candidates. Also, HR will only release a limited number. Some of this is due to government compliance reasons. And some of it is helpful to us hiring managers, saving us time looking at unqualified candidates, but occasionally, when we can't find a good one in the list, we ask HR to open up the floodgates, and they do so grudgingly...as they might have to explain why in a compliance audit.
Now, you would think the screening questions should be simple, but that's not always the case. For example, we ask about potential conflicts of interest...we can't hire people who worked contracts for competitors or the govt. w/o careful screening.
Let me start...took me about 2 mins to come up with ten.
VA - failure to take care of veterans records. Vets dying waiting for service.
EPA - Colorado mine spill
ATF - Fast and Furious
IRS - targeting
FEMA - Katrina
TSA - Do I need to say anything?
Secret Service - Just reorged last year because of multiple incidents
NSA - collection w/o a warrent
OPM - Failure to secure data from hackers
WMD/Iraq Invasion - It's a bit unclear which agency gets the blame. Exec likes to point to CIA, which can't defend itself publicly.
I'd bet that I could name five bad examples for every good one you could list when talking about the feds.
I'm gonna call bullshit.
I live just a few miles from IAD, and fly through there all the time. As bad as it is, it's not even close to being "the worst border crossing in the world". And FWIW, I've been to over 50 countries, so I've seen a few of them.
In general, I do subscribe to the same belief as you though. That government management has been a failure in so many areas.
Monopoly behavior is not capitalism. Capitalism requires competition. Many pro-capitalists mistakenly embrace monopolies, which is completely counter-productive to their cause.
Yeah, AT&T was broken up, but the resulting companies each continued to hold rights to items in their respective areas. I don't believe the court removed their rights to infrastructure. FWIW, I inherited some NYNEX shares (which became Bell Atlantic and now Verizon, who claims $93B in property assets as of the end of '15)...there's . That infrastructure was simply divided...the rights didn't just disappear. Merging with other former Ma-Bell divisions, recombines some of that.
All that said, I'm very much in favor of more control of monopolistic behavior. The U.S. has done a shit job of it for many years.
And they paid with money earned via having monopoly rights to service an area. A virtual tax.
Utility companies (monopolies) are given "un-American" privileges and access to public property in order to provide a service, typically w/o any competition. Often your tax dollars subsidize them. So don't give me this bullshit about it being un-American. It's not a level playing field for competition when you're talking about monopolies.
Can't image the damage a cow must have done. I've hit a dog, deer, and coyote over 42 yrs of driving. But I'd still choose the animal over a tree unless it was a sapling...trees don't budge, and I've seen the wreckage from a former coworker's encounter with one. The tree was where the transmission belonged, coming through the drivers side...he lived only because he didn't have his seatbelt on, and ended up on the passenger side.
When you see a sudden hazard on the road at high speed there is simply no TIME to think through a chain of consequences or evaluate multiple possible chains of events
Absolutely correct. I drive a two lane forested road daily, and have had close calls with deer, as well as an idiot who stepped out from behind trees to cross w/o looking. Fortunately, I was able to brake in time for all of those. But given the choice between them and slamming into a 3ft thick tree at 50mph, I've already made the decision that I'm not going to swerve and kill myself. You may disagree with my position, but I'd rather face a jury trial than a pine box.
All of your airbags and seatbelts might not save your ass if you hit a tree at 50+ mph. I have a daily drive on a 2 lane road with forest on both sides, at the edge of the road. I've had deer and even a person walking a dog step out in front of me, and fortunately been able to brake in time. But I'll be damned if I'm going to swerve into a tree for a deer or someone stupid enough to walk out in front of fast moving traffic, and risk my own life.
We've decided as a society that we don't want autonomous robots shooting at humans, without a human giving the command to shoot.
We have? Which society did this? What happens when some tyrant decides to disagree, and does use autonomous weapons...aren't you screwed?
I've been around A10s a few times (including a close call with one while flying a Cessna in Korea). I've never heard one referred to as a fighter before. It's a bit like calling Trump "presidential".
I suppose we should just use SAMs when there's a situation with a civilian aircraft over the US since we don't need a fighter to go up and check things out up close. I'm sure the guys launching it will be able to figure out how much collateral damage will be likely.
They'll have to be damn good to work for people with claustrophobia.
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Right, and someone who doesn't follow the party platform is a "RINO" if they're a republican. Does that make them not a true republican? NEWSFLASH, most people don't hold all of the same values as their respective parties. It's not a black & white situation. We need to stop trying to throw labels on everyone...and start trying to do what's best for our nation.
Really? What tax break have I been missing?
Now, if you own a company, and have a "company car", that's a different story.
You completely left out the fact that all the other excess disappears. The deductions (or loopholes if you like), and all the added bureaucracy that goes with it. No more bitching that people aren't paying their fair share, because everyone would be paying the same damn percentage. I'd personally be happy to pay a little more if I didn't have to do so god damn much paperwork every year.
Please outline the "critical accounting functions", and who they're critical to? Obviously, we couldn't entirely abolish the IRS, or at least we'd need a much smaller group to provide the functions to support even a flat tax. But, it sure would put a lot of bureaucrats, accountants, tax attorneys, and H&R Block looking for something productive to do.