A) The income tax restricted to the top 20% is merely to tax disparate income. There should still be a consumption tax IMHO.
B) Capital tax, as I understood it, is on current wealth. After skimming TFA again, it appears that is how capital is used in TFA. I'd imagine to encourage savings, etc, this again would be applied to the top 20% percent
FYI - 20% is an arbitrary number between the top 100% and 0%. Slide as necessary to balance the budget or achieve whatever is necessary. That, of course, can allow the current situation to continue, or achieve a lowered rate of income inequality and a more robust economy.
First, I'm not 100% sure what he means by a "progressive" consumption tax, perhaps the more you consume, the higher your tax rate? How would that work? Ideally, income tax would only hit the top 20% of income earners, plus a capital tax if your goal is to reduce wealth. However, note that a capital tax can most likely be gotten around precisely via such vehicles as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, because it's a philanthropic entity run by, whom again? And IIRC no tax was ever levied against that wealth nor its "transfer".
Heck, all of the majors and even some minors have this capability built in or via a plugin (I don't know about IE thought). Who runs without one? Some of us want more than just click to play, however.
You'll need to read those clauses carefully, and they're usually sprinkled across at least 2 sections, if not 3. You need to read them separately and as a whole, and redline anything that's unreasonable or detrimental. Note that doing so may cost you the job. Some companies are not flexible at all in this area. However, depending upon your state, those clauses may not be enforceable, or truly be difficult to enforce. Some restrict this to use of company owned equipment and/or on company time. This one can be relatively benign, especially if you're using your own equipment.
Interesting on the breakdown of phones. Apparently both Apple and Android increased sales, but Android, thanks in large part to Xiaomi, jumped significantly. and Samsung was number 1 with double the phones that Apple, #2, shipped. Then there's a few smaller Android makers at less than half of Apple, and then the rest. to make up the numbers. In terms of "smart" phones, I wonder what they are, they're certainly not all Samsung Galaxy equivalents.
As for loading your own apps on your phone, you can still do that via their developer program. I have several currently. It is a bit of an admitted pain.
A) I don't disagree with your training statements. I agree the CDC has not handled this the way it should have.
B) When you have been notified about ebola and specific countries, and are in health care, it behooves you to at least learn something about it. That's the difference between having a "job" and a "career". Apparently this knowledge is no longer being taught, that in a career you keep learning and need to stay up to date.
Then when you get a patient like Duncan, you at least realize that he might have ebola and that this means you better refresh your procedures since a good number of health workers in the affected countries have been infected and died from treating patients with this disease. One of the more telling quotes from one of the interviews with staff at this hospital was that they "didn't have protocols on how to deal with the deadly virus" You can also tell by the Nurses national union rep confirming that it appears these protocols are lacking in the entire country. This is obviously not true, as there are at least 4 hospitals as designated by the CDC that are ready for these cases. The CDC problem is they should have quarantined and moved the patients to one of these ready and qualified hospitals instead of letting unprepared institutions attempt to get up to speed while under fire. Having a checklist handed to you to follow while under the gun is bound to have lapses compared to people that train under those checklists. But, we could go on and on about failures in hindsight and lay blame all around, but these initial steps would have significantly reduced risk with little effort.
CPU - probably the best out there. GPU - ditto. drive space? The entire cloud is your drive oh, you meant SD card interface? Ok, you win. Customizability - I'll give you that one as Android can basically be anything you want it to be, except iOS.:). What really matters to me is that the phone does what I need it to, and works the way I want it to. For me, my choice works and has given me no trouble in anything I wish to do. I have also used the competing product, and find it confusing, disorganized, and generally too many steps to do anything I want to do. Others state that this is "my problem". They are wrong, it's my preference. That's one of the reasons I also no longer use any MS products. They kept getting harder and harder to use for my use cases. Gentoo is easier. So was switching to Open Office or pretty much any other office suite.
iOS is a walled garden. It's the nature of the beast, albeit a very large beast these days. The plus side of the iOS appstore, because of its nature, it's highly unlikely that you'll get malware from it. That's not true in the Android world where you can download from anywhere. That's the trade-off Apple decided upon at the start, whether you like it or not, you have to admit it was their choice. Users can jailbreak their devices, but a large number choose not to, and remain in the Apple iOS walled garden. Apparently it's not so terrible. Compared to earlier phones, Apple's walled garden was a huge improvement and pushed the walls so far away they are virtually out of sight for almost all of its customers. Compared to Android, it's very controlled and may seem small. I guess it depends upon what you want to do with your phone.
One could of course say that a game would be better if there was a choice to play as something else than Generic Grizzled White Dude #58
I'd say that if the game play is good, it wouldn't matter if it was Generic Purple whatisit that you're playing, the avatar is largely meaningless other than a positional visualization you use to dodge, locate, target, etc. It merely needs to standout from the surroundings, or blend in, depending upon the game mechanics (anything that's PVP obviously blending in is better than standing out, unless its team oriented, in which case identifying team members vs enemies is #1)
For those that think the avatar is the #1 important thing, perhaps that game is not for you.
Note he said he'd buy a second one, and rotate and keep one off-site. This is standard procedure for backup and restore guidelines for anyone that cares about data. Putting your data in the cloud well, might as well launch that local disk in the cloud. Maybe you'll get it back, maybe not.
Definitely agree with this, there's no excuse to have been as ignorant and unprepared as this particular hospital has proven to be. A statement from the first case said that nurses got no training on ebola until quite a while after the patient had been admitted. You'd think that any hospital in a first world country would be going "there's lots of travel, we may get a case, here's a basic set of guidelines to handle a suspected ebola patient" at a minimum. Especially after the CDC had already sent out notices to do so.
You're missing another point - I already paid Comcast for 'x' amount of bandwidth, and should I choose to use 'x' amount of that bandwidth continuously, I can. Now here's the rub - Comcast has no issue with me using their content servers, but should I choose Netflx. . . wait, is that a conflict of interest I hear roaring over your head?
It's irrelevant anyways, there's an entire cadre of people that can't follow even a simple 1 line instruction as soon as irrational panic sets in, like when masks drop from the ceiling.
Did you read TFA? This deputy walked into the apartment after the patient had left, in order to get a decontamination warrant signed. Without protective gear. And he caught it. Apparently it's significantly more contagious than HIV. When's the last time you heard that an HIV victim's apartment or ambulance had to be completely decontaminated by people in level 4 bio-hazard gear?
the original theses i was objecting to was that somehow restricting immigration was going to help to save lives. and that is simply asinine.
You're right - it is asinine to restrict immigration to control ebola. You have to restrict travel. 21 day quarantine before you're allowed in, if you have been anywhere that doesn't quarantine. We're all in this together, so let's keep the quarantined area as small as possible.
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A) The income tax restricted to the top 20% is merely to tax disparate income. There should still be a consumption tax IMHO.
B) Capital tax, as I understood it, is on current wealth. After skimming TFA again, it appears that is how capital is used in TFA. I'd imagine to encourage savings, etc, this again would be applied to the top 20% percent
FYI - 20% is an arbitrary number between the top 100% and 0%. Slide as necessary to balance the budget or achieve whatever is necessary. That, of course, can allow the current situation to continue, or achieve a lowered rate of income inequality and a more robust economy.
Did you see any such statement above? No? I wonder why.
First, I'm not 100% sure what he means by a "progressive" consumption tax, perhaps the more you consume, the higher your tax rate? How would that work? Ideally, income tax would only hit the top 20% of income earners, plus a capital tax if your goal is to reduce wealth. However, note that a capital tax can most likely be gotten around precisely via such vehicles as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, because it's a philanthropic entity run by, whom again? And IIRC no tax was ever levied against that wealth nor its "transfer".
Well done, Bill!
I do believe income inequality is the inevitable result of unchecked capitalism. It's not necessary by any means.
Heck, all of the majors and even some minors have this capability built in or via a plugin (I don't know about IE thought). Who runs without one? Some of us want more than just click to play, however.
A Chromebook will do all of that and boot to a browser in less than 10 seconds andreport everything you do back to Google
FTFY. FWIW, I don't use Google for anything important pretty much the past 8 or so years.
and be super easy to maintain (no package conflicts!). Sometimes, you just want something that works without having to fiddle around with it.
That would be the argument for using an Apple product. You don't fiddle with it, some say you can't fiddle with it. :)
“If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested” -Thomas Wolfe
As we see these effects in various forms and extremes even today, I'd say the genes are irrelevant.
Id rather run straight linux.
You'll need to read those clauses carefully, and they're usually sprinkled across at least 2 sections, if not 3. You need to read them separately and as a whole, and redline anything that's unreasonable or detrimental. Note that doing so may cost you the job. Some companies are not flexible at all in this area. However, depending upon your state, those clauses may not be enforceable, or truly be difficult to enforce. Some restrict this to use of company owned equipment and/or on company time. This one can be relatively benign, especially if you're using your own equipment.
But we do care when practically no one competes.
Interesting on the breakdown of phones. Apparently both Apple and Android increased sales, but Android, thanks in large part to Xiaomi, jumped significantly. and Samsung was number 1 with double the phones that Apple, #2, shipped. Then there's a few smaller Android makers at less than half of Apple, and then the rest. to make up the numbers. In terms of "smart" phones, I wonder what they are, they're certainly not all Samsung Galaxy equivalents.
As for loading your own apps on your phone, you can still do that via their developer program. I have several currently. It is a bit of an admitted pain.
Sadly, that studying is happening too late for some. Even if these 2 survive, it will be an unpleasant few months.
A) I don't disagree with your training statements. I agree the CDC has not handled this the way it should have.
B) When you have been notified about ebola and specific countries, and are in health care, it behooves you to at least learn something about it. That's the difference between having a "job" and a "career". Apparently this knowledge is no longer being taught, that in a career you keep learning and need to stay up to date.
Then when you get a patient like Duncan, you at least realize that he might have ebola and that this means you better refresh your procedures since a good number of health workers in the affected countries have been infected and died from treating patients with this disease. One of the more telling quotes from one of the interviews with staff at this hospital was that they "didn't have protocols on how to deal with the deadly virus" You can also tell by the Nurses national union rep confirming that it appears these protocols are lacking in the entire country. This is obviously not true, as there are at least 4 hospitals as designated by the CDC that are ready for these cases. The CDC problem is they should have quarantined and moved the patients to one of these ready and qualified hospitals instead of letting unprepared institutions attempt to get up to speed while under fire. Having a checklist handed to you to follow while under the gun is bound to have lapses compared to people that train under those checklists. But, we could go on and on about failures in hindsight and lay blame all around, but these initial steps would have significantly reduced risk with little effort.
"I've come from Liberia and I feel sick"
Did you need to hear anything more than that one line given the news in the last 4 or so months?
CPU - probably the best out there. GPU - ditto. drive space? The entire cloud is your drive oh, you meant SD card interface? Ok, you win. Customizability - I'll give you that one as Android can basically be anything you want it to be, except iOS. :). What really matters to me is that the phone does what I need it to, and works the way I want it to. For me, my choice works and has given me no trouble in anything I wish to do. I have also used the competing product, and find it confusing, disorganized, and generally too many steps to do anything I want to do. Others state that this is "my problem". They are wrong, it's my preference. That's one of the reasons I also no longer use any MS products. They kept getting harder and harder to use for my use cases. Gentoo is easier. So was switching to Open Office or pretty much any other office suite.
iOS is a walled garden. It's the nature of the beast, albeit a very large beast these days. The plus side of the iOS appstore, because of its nature, it's highly unlikely that you'll get malware from it. That's not true in the Android world where you can download from anywhere. That's the trade-off Apple decided upon at the start, whether you like it or not, you have to admit it was their choice. Users can jailbreak their devices, but a large number choose not to, and remain in the Apple iOS walled garden. Apparently it's not so terrible. Compared to earlier phones, Apple's walled garden was a huge improvement and pushed the walls so far away they are virtually out of sight for almost all of its customers. Compared to Android, it's very controlled and may seem small. I guess it depends upon what you want to do with your phone.
What? You can get a 8 or 12 TB setup for less than $1200, all packaged up for you IIRC.
One could of course say that a game would be better if there was a choice to play as something else than Generic Grizzled White Dude #58
I'd say that if the game play is good, it wouldn't matter if it was Generic Purple whatisit that you're playing, the avatar is largely meaningless other than a positional visualization you use to dodge, locate, target, etc. It merely needs to standout from the surroundings, or blend in, depending upon the game mechanics (anything that's PVP obviously blending in is better than standing out, unless its team oriented, in which case identifying team members vs enemies is #1)
For those that think the avatar is the #1 important thing, perhaps that game is not for you.
Note he said he'd buy a second one, and rotate and keep one off-site. This is standard procedure for backup and restore guidelines for anyone that cares about data. Putting your data in the cloud well, might as well launch that local disk in the cloud. Maybe you'll get it back, maybe not.
Definitely agree with this, there's no excuse to have been as ignorant and unprepared as this particular hospital has proven to be. A statement from the first case said that nurses got no training on ebola until quite a while after the patient had been admitted. You'd think that any hospital in a first world country would be going "there's lots of travel, we may get a case, here's a basic set of guidelines to handle a suspected ebola patient" at a minimum. Especially after the CDC had already sent out notices to do so.
You're missing another point - I already paid Comcast for 'x' amount of bandwidth, and should I choose to use 'x' amount of that bandwidth continuously, I can. Now here's the rub - Comcast has no issue with me using their content servers, but should I choose Netflx. . . wait, is that a conflict of interest I hear roaring over your head?
It's irrelevant anyways, there's an entire cadre of people that can't follow even a simple 1 line instruction as soon as irrational panic sets in, like when masks drop from the ceiling.
Youngster. All that means is you jumped at signing up. Some of us didn't bother getting an account for a while.
Did you read TFA? This deputy walked into the apartment after the patient had left, in order to get a decontamination warrant signed. Without protective gear. And he caught it. Apparently it's significantly more contagious than HIV. When's the last time you heard that an HIV victim's apartment or ambulance had to be completely decontaminated by people in level 4 bio-hazard gear?
the original theses i was objecting to was that somehow restricting immigration was going to help to save lives. and that is simply asinine.
You're right - it is asinine to restrict immigration to control ebola. You have to restrict travel. 21 day quarantine before you're allowed in, if you have been anywhere that doesn't quarantine. We're all in this together, so let's keep the quarantined area as small as possible.