I would gladly destroy every bee on earth if I could sit outside without spraying a ton of chemicals on myself to prevent mosquito bites carrying disease.
What are you going to do when a lot of foods are no longer available or are prohibitively expensive?
Firstly, it's not Scotland's use that is important, since the UK has a grid that covers Scotland, England and Wales.
Secondly, and I don't know if this is a good or bad measure, but households in the UK use more electricity per household than in many other European countries. Of course the number is much lower than in the USA, which is profligate in its domestic electricity use.
Note that many people use electricity for heating. They use storage heaters, which store heat when electricity is cheap (at night) and release it during the day.
Don't worry, there are posters here who will find a way to blame the breach on "government" and continue to claim that governments can do nothing right, while applauding big companies for whatever they do, good or bad.
I worked at a company that had a policy of firing the bottom 5% on a regular basis.
This wasn't actually done in any consistent manner and often the bottom 5% were merely unliked by management, while their performance was actually OK. All kinds of things can lead to a single bad performance review, few of them related to the person's actual capability.
The idea originates with Jack Welsh at GE (he proposed firing the bottom 10% in any year).
Your belief system seems to recognize climate data going back only a few decades, perhaps a century.
In fact, we have climate data going back further than you apparently believe. There are direct measurements of sea temperatures from the mid-18th century (ships logs) and many proxy measurements, going back far, far, further.
So, yes, we can tell that the rate of climate change is unprecedented.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but, in the USA, a 220v circuit requires a double-pole breaker, each of which is connected between one half of the 220V and neutral.
In other words, two breakers, each one between one half of the split phase 220v and neutral. Since each of the split-phases is the same as a 110V circuit, you effectively have 2 x 110V x 100A.
Correct?
As for your comments about existing breaker box installations, that probably depends largely on the age of the house.
Even if there are no loopholes, a flat tax still means a tax increase for the poor and a tax cut for many wealthy people. There are a few exceptions amongst the wealthy like Mitt Romney, but for the most part, that what would happen.
Unless you are advocating abolishing the Social Security tax? Is that your plan? Abolishing the Social Security tax would result in the gradual death of Social Security, which would result in more poverty and early death amongst the elderly poor. Is that what you want?
Either way, flat tax is a con that is promulgated by the ultra wealthy so that they can get a tax cut that the rest of the USA will pay for.
Most? The most popular EVs in America are Teslas, and their wall chargers use (2)x50A 240V circuits and draw 19.2kW for ~60 miles per hour of charge. Sure, you can plug into a dryer outlet (great for that vacation rental trip) or even standard wall outlet in a pinch, but no sane person would spend $60k+ on a Tesla and not sport the $420 for a proper power circuit.
Your math is wrong. Those 19.2kW chargers take 80A and require a 100A breaker. You haven't allowed for installation costs, which could be quite substantial as an additional 100A load could require a complete new breaker board (and may exceed the capability of the house supply circuit).
Imagine a typical company. Let's say that their revenue is $10M/year. They incur costs of $9M/year paying for employee salaries, office rents, materials they buy, etc..
In the current scenario, the business makes a profit of $1M/yr, on which they pay tax (at 35%) of $350K. [note, this is massively simplified].
In your scenario, they pay 35% tax on $10M. That's $3.5M. Where does the money to pay $3.5M in tax come from? They would have to put up prices by a huge amount. But guess, what, not only do they have to put up prices, but so do all their suppliers, so they still can't pay their tax bill, because, after increasing their prices, their tax bill went up, along with all their costs.
(The home chargers are 3KW or even 1KW but let's ignore them for the moment)
Most dedicated home chargers are 6-7kW. They are on a dedicated 30A/220V circuit. Or you can use a dryer outlet, which, as you point out, is also 30A/220V.
You really have no idea how tax accounting works, have you?
So I run a business. I buy some product and sell them. Do I pay tax on all my revenue? On all my revenue minus my cost of the product I buy? What about the cost of running my store?
Irrespective of the above, any flat tax, including one with "no loopholes", is highly regressive: it's a massive tax increase for poor people and a tax cut for rich people. Is that what you want?
As someone else commented, why not ask for a unicorn tax code?
Because "flat tax" really means "tax increase for the poor, tax cut for the wealthy".
It's also not as simple as people would like to think. You run a business, what's a legitimate expense and what isn't? The costs of compliance (which are probably exaggerated by the site you linked to) are not going to be zero with a flat tax.
"The Tax Foundation is funded by private donations from members, corporate donations, and donations from charitable foundation such as the Koch Foundation, Earhart Foundation, etc."
Funded in part by the Koch Brothers. Yes, that's going to have promoting the interests of ordinary Americans as one of its most important goals.
I believe that these things occur because of an old mentality amongst the military that is still true on a physical battlefield: "the best defence is a strong offence".
The thing is that, in "the cyber", offence and defence are mostly unrelated. Hacking another country does not stop that country from hacking back.
This leads to the ridiculous situation where the NSA leaves the US government vulnerable so that it can hack Russia.
Remember when people mocked the credentials of Equifax's former CIO and other people pushed back because many people in the field didn't have traditional background?
Well, it looks like security was a systemic failure at Equifax, so perhaps it's actually time to suggest that someone with a music degree wasn't qualified for the job?
Let's face it: success is defined as no known security breaches, yet, this could be down to luck rather than skill. Either no-one successfully targeted her prior employers or any breaches never became public.
The legality of shouting "fire!" in a theatre are not as clear as people commonly think. Even the Supreme Court judge who used it in an example walked back his opinion on the subject.
It could be that crowdsourcing misrepresents itself by claiming to offer a product when in fact people are making an investment, or, in some cases, more accurately making a donation.
People are never making an investment. At best they get the product. Just look at Oculus Rift. Did the the people who bought into that product see any of the profits when Facebook bought the company?
Crowdsourcing is a hack which really only exists because laws in the USA don't allow some types of speculative investment by anyone except the already wealthy. For a historical example of how that works out, look at how "La Serrata" (the closure) affected the economy of Venice.
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The real trust problem is the need to trust a closed-source application for security.
What are you going to do when a lot of foods are no longer available or are prohibitively expensive?
Trolling much?
Firstly, it's not Scotland's use that is important, since the UK has a grid that covers Scotland, England and Wales.
Secondly, and I don't know if this is a good or bad measure, but households in the UK use more electricity per household than in many other European countries. Of course the number is much lower than in the USA, which is profligate in its domestic electricity use.
Note that many people use electricity for heating. They use storage heaters, which store heat when electricity is cheap (at night) and release it during the day.
Me too. $2.68.
Don't worry, there are posters here who will find a way to blame the breach on "government" and continue to claim that governments can do nothing right, while applauding big companies for whatever they do, good or bad.
I worked at a company that had a policy of firing the bottom 5% on a regular basis.
This wasn't actually done in any consistent manner and often the bottom 5% were merely unliked by management, while their performance was actually OK. All kinds of things can lead to a single bad performance review, few of them related to the person's actual capability.
The idea originates with Jack Welsh at GE (he proposed firing the bottom 10% in any year).
Check out the primary source: Flexera. They are definitely not supporters of open source software.
Their business relies on closed source.
Your belief system seems to recognize climate data going back only a few decades, perhaps a century.
In fact, we have climate data going back further than you apparently believe. There are direct measurements of sea temperatures from the mid-18th century (ships logs) and many proxy measurements, going back far, far, further.
So, yes, we can tell that the rate of climate change is unprecedented.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but, in the USA, a 220v circuit requires a double-pole breaker, each of which is connected between one half of the 220V and neutral.
In other words, two breakers, each one between one half of the split phase 220v and neutral. Since each of the split-phases is the same as a 110V circuit, you effectively have 2 x 110V x 100A.
Correct?
As for your comments about existing breaker box installations, that probably depends largely on the age of the house.
Even if there are no loopholes, a flat tax still means a tax increase for the poor and a tax cut for many wealthy people. There are a few exceptions amongst the wealthy like Mitt Romney, but for the most part, that what would happen.
Unless you are advocating abolishing the Social Security tax? Is that your plan? Abolishing the Social Security tax would result in the gradual death of Social Security, which would result in more poverty and early death amongst the elderly poor. Is that what you want?
Either way, flat tax is a con that is promulgated by the ultra wealthy so that they can get a tax cut that the rest of the USA will pay for.
Your math is wrong. Those 19.2kW chargers take 80A and require a 100A breaker. You haven't allowed for installation costs, which could be quite substantial as an additional 100A load could require a complete new breaker board (and may exceed the capability of the house supply circuit).
But, Microsoft remains a lumbering company, even if it is evergreen.
I'm sure there are people who pine to work at Microsoft.
No, you don't get it.
Imagine a typical company. Let's say that their revenue is $10M/year. They incur costs of $9M/year paying for employee salaries, office rents, materials they buy, etc..
In the current scenario, the business makes a profit of $1M/yr, on which they pay tax (at 35%) of $350K. [note, this is massively simplified].
In your scenario, they pay 35% tax on $10M. That's $3.5M. Where does the money to pay $3.5M in tax come from? They would have to put up prices by a huge amount. But guess, what, not only do they have to put up prices, but so do all their suppliers, so they still can't pay their tax bill, because, after increasing their prices, their tax bill went up, along with all their costs.
Please stick to subjects where you have a clue.
Home charging is typically done overnight. Fast charge at home isn't really a requirement.
Most dedicated home chargers are 6-7kW. They are on a dedicated 30A/220V circuit. Or you can use a dryer outlet, which, as you point out, is also 30A/220V.
You really have no idea how tax accounting works, have you?
So I run a business. I buy some product and sell them. Do I pay tax on all my revenue? On all my revenue minus my cost of the product I buy? What about the cost of running my store?
Irrespective of the above, any flat tax, including one with "no loopholes", is highly regressive: it's a massive tax increase for poor people and a tax cut for rich people. Is that what you want?
As someone else commented, why not ask for a unicorn tax code?
Because "flat tax" really means "tax increase for the poor, tax cut for the wealthy".
It's also not as simple as people would like to think. You run a business, what's a legitimate expense and what isn't? The costs of compliance (which are probably exaggerated by the site you linked to) are not going to be zero with a flat tax.
"The Tax Foundation is funded by private donations from members, corporate donations, and donations from charitable foundation such as the Koch Foundation, Earhart Foundation, etc."
Funded in part by the Koch Brothers. Yes, that's going to have promoting the interests of ordinary Americans as one of its most important goals.
I believe that these things occur because of an old mentality amongst the military that is still true on a physical battlefield: "the best defence is a strong offence".
The thing is that, in "the cyber", offence and defence are mostly unrelated. Hacking another country does not stop that country from hacking back.
This leads to the ridiculous situation where the NSA leaves the US government vulnerable so that it can hack Russia.
Remember when people mocked the credentials of Equifax's former CIO and other people pushed back because many people in the field didn't have traditional background?
Well, it looks like security was a systemic failure at Equifax, so perhaps it's actually time to suggest that someone with a music degree wasn't qualified for the job?
Let's face it: success is defined as no known security breaches, yet, this could be down to luck rather than skill. Either no-one successfully targeted her prior employers or any breaches never became public.
Bullshit
The legality of shouting "fire!" in a theatre are not as clear as people commonly think. Even the Supreme Court judge who used it in an example walked back his opinion on the subject.
And participants in crowdfunding get none of the investment proceeds. No dividends. No capital appreciation. Nothing.
Crowdfunding is not an investment. It's a speculative purchase.
Your /. id number indicates that you have been here for a long time. Were it not for this, i would be asking "are you new here?"
People are never making an investment. At best they get the product. Just look at Oculus Rift. Did the the people who bought into that product see any of the profits when Facebook bought the company?
Crowdsourcing is a hack which really only exists because laws in the USA don't allow some types of speculative investment by anyone except the already wealthy. For a historical example of how that works out, look at how "La Serrata" (the closure) affected the economy of Venice.