Youtube to the rescue. I'd look for some videos on proper knife technique. It takes a little mastering, but I like the method where I wrap my index finger around the blade (instead of the handle) with the blade pinched between that and my thumb.
I didn't use that method at first, but after you try it for a while you'll realize just how good it is and it'll fit so naturally after you force yourself to do it for a short time. And then slice rather than chop when you can, that'll stop a lot of the accidental knicks and it's faster (especially if you use the rolling technique where the blade never leaves the cutting board.)
I also keep the knuckles of my guide hand touching the blade. You'd think you'll cut your knuckles, but I have yet to have it happen. Every time I've cut myself it's been my fingertips when I wasn't using that technique on some oddly shaped food.
Well you can get away with a dull knife for *most* foods. However for some foods, like sushi after you've rolled it, cutting it with a dull knife will result in a pretty mashed up roll. Believe me, I've tried, and it was making sushi that lead me to eventually get a proper knife. Tomato as well, if you've ever had trouble cutting them to your exact desired thickness and cutting them straight, a sharp knife makes all the difference in the world, and gets it done faster too. If you've ever seen those cooking shows where some guy makes cutting look easy, yet it never feels that way to you, it's because you've never had the feel of cutting with the right knife.
If you're not into cooking, then don't cook, just go on using cheap crap knives you can buy at walmart. Seriously, I'm all for using cheap utensils so long as they get the job done. I'm only into cooking because my diet basically requires it. If it didn't, I wouldn't bother.
By the way, one of the chief complaints about cooking though is how long it takes. If you cut your food with a proper technique, you'll save a lot of time. If you cut with a sharp knife, you'll save even more time. I cannot stress enough how many times I've wowed people by showing them my victorinox blade, which I paid about $25 for a while back and it's still very sharp. Most proper chef knives you get will run you over $100 for an equivalently good blade, only they won't have a warranty. There's a reason that this particular make/model of knife is popular among restaurants and has won numerous awards. And most of all, it's cheap. I like cheap.
That's not true at all - regulation is extremely tight. You can't so much as sell fruit off of your own tree without a food handler's permit in most states.
Fast food isn't causing health problems btw (in fact, fast food is actually shockingly well documented, especially McDonalds which is one of the few fast food joints I'll eat at because unlike most places I can know exactly what's in it) what's causing problems is people eating lots of calories with minimal nourishment included. You don't have to eat fast food to do that. Fresh foods tend to be cheaper, but nobody buys them because most people don't know how to cook.
Regulation is both holding back profits AND better health. I need to get corneal crosslinking done on both of my eyes to prevent my corneas from eventually becoming useless. I'd be happy to pay for the operation (costs around $5,000 if you're lucky enough to get into a clinical trial) but the FDA won't approve it yet in the US, even though it's been done safely everywhere else around the world since 1998. You know why I can't get it? Because people like you tell the US government that doctors are too greedy and profit driven, therefore we must put up with 15+ years of red tape before the government deems it safe, even though it is already well known throughout most of the world to be perfectly safe.
Thanks to these glorious regulations of yours, I have to sit helplessly as my eyesight continues to deteriorate rapidly (irreversibly I might add, as crosslinking usually only halts the progression) until the FDA can get its head out of its ass.
Oh come the fuck on. This reminds me of a customer defending their snake oil purchase. Neither of them have any ill intent. But just because you voted for him doesn't mean you have to go around defending your decision. This is why politics is such a damn soap opera.
I love lots of onion in the food I cook. Sweet, red, and scallion, and they can taste different ways depending on how you cook them. If you just don't like the bite, just cook them longer.
Ever since coming down with stage 4 kidney failure, I've had to do a lot of cooking of my own food, and that was starting from basically knowing nothing. I've learned the vast majority of my technique from youtube, which offers not just one person's technique but many. I'd be quite surprised if this cookbook or even the app had any information that couldn't be found on youtube.
For example, there are tons of videos that show you how to properly choose a chef's knife (word to the wise, most people have very dull knives in their kitchen - very dangerous and makes food preparation so much slower, but they don't know the difference as they've never actually had a good sharp knife) and how to properly cut different types of foods. It may sound elementary, but try going on youtube and looking up how to dice an onion, you may find a technique that is much better than what you've been doing which will save you time.
(By the way, Victorinox 40520 is easily the best starter knife you can get, has a lifetime warranty, and even well seasoned chefs tend to love it and it is cheap if you buy it as part of a kit.)
Let's not forget that market manipulation due to federal subsidies for corn (which, for various reasons, is currently the cornerstone of all food production in the US), food prices have skyrocketed since the focus on ethanol production from corn began.
That's about as BS a statement as you can get, food is cheaper now than it has ever been.
Depends on where you live. In Phoenix we're powered by hydro and nuclear, and even have enough electricity to spare that we sell to California who has a shortage. Ironically we're also probably the last place you'd look for hippies or "greenies". I think the main thing is that we just don't have NIMBY syndrome (meanwhile the federal government seems content that we be the kidnapping capital of the world because they won't allow us to take the border situation under control because it bothers the hippies, who themselves would never allow a nuclear plant anywhere near them.)
So far Krugman has been wrong in his predictions about bitcoin. I know the guy joked about staging an alien invasion to improve the economy, but if his economic model was accurate then that actually would be a good way to improve the economy. His model isn't accurate though, and therefore it's not. He doesn't pay attention to the broken window fallacy, just assuming that so long as somebody is paid to do something -- even if the results of their labor aren't actually useful -- it builds the economy, nevermind that no capital was gained or wealth was created. This is part of why every decade, something happens in the economy that Keynesians say shouldn't happen, the biggest blunder being stagflation in the 80's which Keynesian theory ruled out entirely saying it was impossible, yet it happened anyways.
Krugman is more or less just a propagandist writer - he's more or less just there to reassure people that they'll be fine so long as vote for politicians who also adopt the Keynesian model (democrat or republican alike.) I think there are other Keynesians who make more sound arguments than he does. Pretty much the only major things he and I agree on is the idea that tariffs are bad and so is minimum wage (Maynard Keynes would disagree though.)
Personally I thought the idea of bitcoins wasn't a sound one (the idea of a community of people you don't even know or trust keeping records of what you own seemed like an odd one,) but I started mining them just as an experiment, and when I found out I could actually buy stuff I wanted with them I've started using them. I've mined about $1,000 worth of bitcoins over the last 8 months at an electricity cost of $5 a month using just GPU's I've obtained for the sole purpose of gaming, so it's not bad. I've actually heavily padded my steam games library with humble bundle using bitcoins - imagine that, my GPU's aren't just playing the games, they're working for them too.
The volatility concerns me a bit (the value going up to $400 I don't have faith in, so I won't sell anything for bitcoins myself at the moment, but I'll buy - such is the nature of the beast of deflation) but with the way our government's current fiscal and monetary policy is setup, I actually have less faith in the dollar (a government can't borrow in perpetuity forever, and there's no sign of a balanced budget coming any time soon.)
I myself tend to like PDFs for print materials because it's pretty much the only format that is guaranteed to scale exactly as shown. When I scan documents, or create documents that are primarily going to be used in print form, it's pretty much a given that they'll always be PDF's.
Personally I wouldn't mind it as currently implemented (my insurance company doesn't offer it so I haven't done it) because they don't monitor you 24/7. With Progressive, they send you a device in the mail and you keep it in your car for a few weeks to pick up actual driving metrics, and then send it back.
If it could make my insurance cheaper, then perfect (though that is kind of hard - my car insurance is about $40 a month) I just won't visit the meth lab or the bath house during that time.
Actually when they do that offshore drilling it tends to thrill paleontologists. Nothing macro-scale is really alive at those depths, but things old dead and long since buried tend to surface, several of which would have been undiscovered without oil drilling.
It is US centric, though not in such a way as to contradict your claim.
For example, even though most of the world really hates the US dollar at this point, when they trade amongst one another they tend to prefer to do it in US dollars. OPEC will only accept dollars as a form of cash payment. The only alternative is actual gold.
Actually it sort of is, and that's coming from somebody who doesn't want it to be even though I am American.
By the way, did you know that Latin Americans hate when people refer to US denizens as American? It really pisses them off...even though our country is the only one with the word America as part of its name. They accuse us of being so ethnocentric even though it also offends them when a European calls us Americans.
Government does give items worth, just when they do so it turns out pretty badly. Wage floors and price controls are classic examples. In the 70's the US government said how much it thinks gas should be worth, and that led to a disaster.
Venezuela is currently telling its citizens and the world how much it says the bolivar is worth with their official exchange rate, and just yesterday they began to see the fallout from that (we'll see how it actually turns out in the end, but I think it is basically going to make their economy tank much worse than it already has.)
They claim the server deletes them. Does it really? Who knows, but I think their reputation would be destroyed if it turned out that they saved them even though you specified otherwise.
You need to move one step further and realize that 1) engineer is also a rank and file worker
I don't think you realize that management isn't a rent-seeking role or necessarily even a leadership role, rather it is just a job function that keeps the operational and logistical cogs turning, and can in fact be taken up by anybody from time to time.
Bill Gates would be a rank and file worker throughout his entire career at the company under your definition.
When I say rank and file, I'm going by the actual meaning of the term based on its military origins. Somebody like Wozniak rarely involved himself in management (though he certainly partook in many management functions) but he certainly wasn't a rank and file employee. The military definition of the term is quite literally those lower in rank, i.e. those who perhaps haven't been with the company long or haven't really advanced anywhere significant within the company.
If I start my own business and run a one man operation, I'd also be a rank and file employee under your idealism. Reality is that I would be wearing many hats.
when they get the portion of the company's income out of proportion to their contribution to its wealth production, they are living off other people's labor.
That's kind of dumb actually. That would be like you hiring somebody to weed your yard, then suddenly that guy saying "Hey, I think I contribute more to your wealth than you're paying me, so now you must pay me more. Who cares if the other guy will do it for less, you have to pay me anyways, so sayeth the people's revolution."
Really what's happening in that exchange is somebody might be better at weeding yards than you are, so his time spent weeding yards is worth less to him than your time spent weeding your own yard is worth to you. So it works out to your mutual advantage to have him to it instead and you just pay him.
"Rank and file" work within companies works this way.
so let's tax him and use that money for social projects that benefit the people who are creating the wealth that backs those dividends in the first place.
These almost always go into projects that nobody actually wants. I mean who really benefits from NEA funds for example? The christians were pissed about piss christ. It didn't bother me insofar as its message, but I'm trying to figure out why somebody deserves to get paid to piss in a jar with a jesus statue in it when it doesn't have any value that somebody would actually pay for it. I mean really, how does a jesus statue in a jar of piss add to our domestic wealth?
It's just throwing money away. Public works is a better idea in principle, but it too was just a waste. The Keynesians have time and time again been proven wrong throughout history - especially in the 80's when stagflation happened, and under Keynesian theory stagflation is impossible. So they replaced that with New Keynesian theory, which too has been taking continuous beatings as the economy does things that their models never account for.
There are still lots of regulations from all levels of government. There's the federal reserve. There's Obamacare. Central planning isn't all or nothing. Most economies, including the United States, are mixed.
The federal reserve doesn't plan the economy or even any part of it, rather it has heavy influence on the medium used for exchange. The federal reserve for example can't influence the number of basket weavers we have. Obamacare is still in its infancy, but it doesn't bode well for the point you're trying to make, as so far it isn't going very well (by that I mean it isn't delivering what it promised since some people are losing their coverage, and many people in the medical field are actually leaving because they don't like the changes.)
Limiting union power is a type of central planning. Most union busting actions come from the state, not from private Pinkertons of ages past (one exception being Walmart, they spend their own money to keep unions from forming)
That doesn't make any sense - in right to work states, the rule is simply that an employer can't reject you for a job because of your standing with any union. That isn't planned at all. Unions very much do exist in these states, by the way, and still organize strikes and everything. They just can't forcibly control any of their members by holding their job hostage, rather they have to earn the respect and trust of their members instead, and they can't force their members to contribute to political campaigns that they don't want to. I think it's better that way.
Or get an even bigger display. Traditionally price has relegated people to smaller size displays for their home theater, but seeing as even big ones are cheap now...
My PC monitor is actually a 55" TV. Sony KDL-55W802A to be precise, because in addition to its size it has a notoriously low input delay, lower than most monitors even. (And it has 3D, though I've rarely used it.) It's what I'm typing this post on now, actually. Big screens are pretty nice for getting work done, and low input delay makes it nice for games too.
I'm not sure how they'd do it physically. If we look at the internet for what it actually is by definition - a network is a bunch of computers connected to other computes, the internet is a bunch of networks connected to other networks - the internet is actually privately owned, even at the peering level of tier 1 ISP's.
I suppose you could bring it down by having the national guard (or whoever) commandeer a major NOC (network operations center) of a tier 1 ISP and then fudge the BGP tables of all of their major peering points worldwide (or nationwide if you prefer,) but the links wouldn't be physically broken. Other ISP's could compensate by just ignoring those peers. The customers of that ISP and its client ISPs would be down for sure, but not everybody.
I'm still trying to figure out why we even have a need for a kill switch. A terror attack on SCADA systems? Just require SCADA systems have a communications kill switch, then you don't need an internet kill switch.
Snapchat sounds kind of like the antithesis of facebook. Facebook wants to keep a permanent record of everything you ever do, whereas this is more about quickly sending information and then redacting it (redacting because you can't erase it from the person's brain without the use of an amnesia ray.)
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Youtube to the rescue. I'd look for some videos on proper knife technique. It takes a little mastering, but I like the method where I wrap my index finger around the blade (instead of the handle) with the blade pinched between that and my thumb.
I didn't use that method at first, but after you try it for a while you'll realize just how good it is and it'll fit so naturally after you force yourself to do it for a short time. And then slice rather than chop when you can, that'll stop a lot of the accidental knicks and it's faster (especially if you use the rolling technique where the blade never leaves the cutting board.)
I also keep the knuckles of my guide hand touching the blade. You'd think you'll cut your knuckles, but I have yet to have it happen. Every time I've cut myself it's been my fingertips when I wasn't using that technique on some oddly shaped food.
Well you can get away with a dull knife for *most* foods. However for some foods, like sushi after you've rolled it, cutting it with a dull knife will result in a pretty mashed up roll. Believe me, I've tried, and it was making sushi that lead me to eventually get a proper knife. Tomato as well, if you've ever had trouble cutting them to your exact desired thickness and cutting them straight, a sharp knife makes all the difference in the world, and gets it done faster too. If you've ever seen those cooking shows where some guy makes cutting look easy, yet it never feels that way to you, it's because you've never had the feel of cutting with the right knife.
If you're not into cooking, then don't cook, just go on using cheap crap knives you can buy at walmart. Seriously, I'm all for using cheap utensils so long as they get the job done. I'm only into cooking because my diet basically requires it. If it didn't, I wouldn't bother.
By the way, one of the chief complaints about cooking though is how long it takes. If you cut your food with a proper technique, you'll save a lot of time. If you cut with a sharp knife, you'll save even more time. I cannot stress enough how many times I've wowed people by showing them my victorinox blade, which I paid about $25 for a while back and it's still very sharp. Most proper chef knives you get will run you over $100 for an equivalently good blade, only they won't have a warranty. There's a reason that this particular make/model of knife is popular among restaurants and has won numerous awards. And most of all, it's cheap. I like cheap.
That's not true at all - regulation is extremely tight. You can't so much as sell fruit off of your own tree without a food handler's permit in most states.
Fast food isn't causing health problems btw (in fact, fast food is actually shockingly well documented, especially McDonalds which is one of the few fast food joints I'll eat at because unlike most places I can know exactly what's in it) what's causing problems is people eating lots of calories with minimal nourishment included. You don't have to eat fast food to do that. Fresh foods tend to be cheaper, but nobody buys them because most people don't know how to cook.
Regulation is both holding back profits AND better health. I need to get corneal crosslinking done on both of my eyes to prevent my corneas from eventually becoming useless. I'd be happy to pay for the operation (costs around $5,000 if you're lucky enough to get into a clinical trial) but the FDA won't approve it yet in the US, even though it's been done safely everywhere else around the world since 1998. You know why I can't get it? Because people like you tell the US government that doctors are too greedy and profit driven, therefore we must put up with 15+ years of red tape before the government deems it safe, even though it is already well known throughout most of the world to be perfectly safe.
Thanks to these glorious regulations of yours, I have to sit helplessly as my eyesight continues to deteriorate rapidly (irreversibly I might add, as crosslinking usually only halts the progression) until the FDA can get its head out of its ass.
Oh come the fuck on. This reminds me of a customer defending their snake oil purchase. Neither of them have any ill intent. But just because you voted for him doesn't mean you have to go around defending your decision. This is why politics is such a damn soap opera.
I love lots of onion in the food I cook. Sweet, red, and scallion, and they can taste different ways depending on how you cook them. If you just don't like the bite, just cook them longer.
Ever since coming down with stage 4 kidney failure, I've had to do a lot of cooking of my own food, and that was starting from basically knowing nothing. I've learned the vast majority of my technique from youtube, which offers not just one person's technique but many. I'd be quite surprised if this cookbook or even the app had any information that couldn't be found on youtube.
For example, there are tons of videos that show you how to properly choose a chef's knife (word to the wise, most people have very dull knives in their kitchen - very dangerous and makes food preparation so much slower, but they don't know the difference as they've never actually had a good sharp knife) and how to properly cut different types of foods. It may sound elementary, but try going on youtube and looking up how to dice an onion, you may find a technique that is much better than what you've been doing which will save you time.
(By the way, Victorinox 40520 is easily the best starter knife you can get, has a lifetime warranty, and even well seasoned chefs tend to love it and it is cheap if you buy it as part of a kit.)
Let's not forget that market manipulation due to federal subsidies for corn (which, for various reasons, is currently the cornerstone of all food production in the US), food prices have skyrocketed since the focus on ethanol production from corn began.
That's about as BS a statement as you can get, food is cheaper now than it has ever been.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/think-food-is-more-expensive-today-than-in-the-past-its-not-its-now-cheaper-than-ever-before/
Depends on where you live. In Phoenix we're powered by hydro and nuclear, and even have enough electricity to spare that we sell to California who has a shortage. Ironically we're also probably the last place you'd look for hippies or "greenies". I think the main thing is that we just don't have NIMBY syndrome (meanwhile the federal government seems content that we be the kidnapping capital of the world because they won't allow us to take the border situation under control because it bothers the hippies, who themselves would never allow a nuclear plant anywhere near them.)
So far Krugman has been wrong in his predictions about bitcoin. I know the guy joked about staging an alien invasion to improve the economy, but if his economic model was accurate then that actually would be a good way to improve the economy. His model isn't accurate though, and therefore it's not. He doesn't pay attention to the broken window fallacy, just assuming that so long as somebody is paid to do something -- even if the results of their labor aren't actually useful -- it builds the economy, nevermind that no capital was gained or wealth was created. This is part of why every decade, something happens in the economy that Keynesians say shouldn't happen, the biggest blunder being stagflation in the 80's which Keynesian theory ruled out entirely saying it was impossible, yet it happened anyways.
Krugman is more or less just a propagandist writer - he's more or less just there to reassure people that they'll be fine so long as vote for politicians who also adopt the Keynesian model (democrat or republican alike.) I think there are other Keynesians who make more sound arguments than he does. Pretty much the only major things he and I agree on is the idea that tariffs are bad and so is minimum wage (Maynard Keynes would disagree though.)
Personally I thought the idea of bitcoins wasn't a sound one (the idea of a community of people you don't even know or trust keeping records of what you own seemed like an odd one,) but I started mining them just as an experiment, and when I found out I could actually buy stuff I wanted with them I've started using them. I've mined about $1,000 worth of bitcoins over the last 8 months at an electricity cost of $5 a month using just GPU's I've obtained for the sole purpose of gaming, so it's not bad. I've actually heavily padded my steam games library with humble bundle using bitcoins - imagine that, my GPU's aren't just playing the games, they're working for them too.
The volatility concerns me a bit (the value going up to $400 I don't have faith in, so I won't sell anything for bitcoins myself at the moment, but I'll buy - such is the nature of the beast of deflation) but with the way our government's current fiscal and monetary policy is setup, I actually have less faith in the dollar (a government can't borrow in perpetuity forever, and there's no sign of a balanced budget coming any time soon.)
Why are we even holding onto PDFs, anyways?
I myself tend to like PDFs for print materials because it's pretty much the only format that is guaranteed to scale exactly as shown. When I scan documents, or create documents that are primarily going to be used in print form, it's pretty much a given that they'll always be PDF's.
For anything else though they're annoying.
Personally I wouldn't mind it as currently implemented (my insurance company doesn't offer it so I haven't done it) because they don't monitor you 24/7. With Progressive, they send you a device in the mail and you keep it in your car for a few weeks to pick up actual driving metrics, and then send it back.
If it could make my insurance cheaper, then perfect (though that is kind of hard - my car insurance is about $40 a month) I just won't visit the meth lab or the bath house during that time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Actually when they do that offshore drilling it tends to thrill paleontologists. Nothing macro-scale is really alive at those depths, but things old dead and long since buried tend to surface, several of which would have been undiscovered without oil drilling.
There's a theory that the older the clam, the better clam chowder it makes.
We'll have to use science to find out for sure, just need to get more 500 year old clams to get a larger sample size.
It is US centric, though not in such a way as to contradict your claim.
For example, even though most of the world really hates the US dollar at this point, when they trade amongst one another they tend to prefer to do it in US dollars. OPEC will only accept dollars as a form of cash payment. The only alternative is actual gold.
Actually it sort of is, and that's coming from somebody who doesn't want it to be even though I am American.
By the way, did you know that Latin Americans hate when people refer to US denizens as American? It really pisses them off...even though our country is the only one with the word America as part of its name. They accuse us of being so ethnocentric even though it also offends them when a European calls us Americans.
Gold is a physical good that they can confiscate though. Bitcoins are more or less just an idea, and ideas are bulletproof.
Government does give items worth, just when they do so it turns out pretty badly. Wage floors and price controls are classic examples. In the 70's the US government said how much it thinks gas should be worth, and that led to a disaster.
Venezuela is currently telling its citizens and the world how much it says the bolivar is worth with their official exchange rate, and just yesterday they began to see the fallout from that (we'll see how it actually turns out in the end, but I think it is basically going to make their economy tank much worse than it already has.)
They claim the server deletes them. Does it really? Who knows, but I think their reputation would be destroyed if it turned out that they saved them even though you specified otherwise.
You need to move one step further and realize that 1) engineer is also a rank and file worker
I don't think you realize that management isn't a rent-seeking role or necessarily even a leadership role, rather it is just a job function that keeps the operational and logistical cogs turning, and can in fact be taken up by anybody from time to time.
Bill Gates would be a rank and file worker throughout his entire career at the company under your definition.
When I say rank and file, I'm going by the actual meaning of the term based on its military origins. Somebody like Wozniak rarely involved himself in management (though he certainly partook in many management functions) but he certainly wasn't a rank and file employee. The military definition of the term is quite literally those lower in rank, i.e. those who perhaps haven't been with the company long or haven't really advanced anywhere significant within the company.
If I start my own business and run a one man operation, I'd also be a rank and file employee under your idealism. Reality is that I would be wearing many hats.
when they get the portion of the company's income out of proportion to their contribution to its wealth production, they are living off other people's labor.
That's kind of dumb actually. That would be like you hiring somebody to weed your yard, then suddenly that guy saying "Hey, I think I contribute more to your wealth than you're paying me, so now you must pay me more. Who cares if the other guy will do it for less, you have to pay me anyways, so sayeth the people's revolution."
Really what's happening in that exchange is somebody might be better at weeding yards than you are, so his time spent weeding yards is worth less to him than your time spent weeding your own yard is worth to you. So it works out to your mutual advantage to have him to it instead and you just pay him.
"Rank and file" work within companies works this way.
so let's tax him and use that money for social projects that benefit the people who are creating the wealth that backs those dividends in the first place.
These almost always go into projects that nobody actually wants. I mean who really benefits from NEA funds for example? The christians were pissed about piss christ. It didn't bother me insofar as its message, but I'm trying to figure out why somebody deserves to get paid to piss in a jar with a jesus statue in it when it doesn't have any value that somebody would actually pay for it. I mean really, how does a jesus statue in a jar of piss add to our domestic wealth?
It's just throwing money away. Public works is a better idea in principle, but it too was just a waste. The Keynesians have time and time again been proven wrong throughout history - especially in the 80's when stagflation happened, and under Keynesian theory stagflation is impossible. So they replaced that with New Keynesian theory, which too has been taking continuous beatings as the economy does things that their models never account for.
There are still lots of regulations from all levels of government. There's the federal reserve. There's Obamacare. Central planning isn't all or nothing. Most economies, including the United States, are mixed.
The federal reserve doesn't plan the economy or even any part of it, rather it has heavy influence on the medium used for exchange. The federal reserve for example can't influence the number of basket weavers we have. Obamacare is still in its infancy, but it doesn't bode well for the point you're trying to make, as so far it isn't going very well (by that I mean it isn't delivering what it promised since some people are losing their coverage, and many people in the medical field are actually leaving because they don't like the changes.)
Limiting union power is a type of central planning. Most union busting actions come from the state, not from private Pinkertons of ages past (one exception being Walmart, they spend their own money to keep unions from forming)
That doesn't make any sense - in right to work states, the rule is simply that an employer can't reject you for a job because of your standing with any union. That isn't planned at all. Unions very much do exist in these states, by the way, and still organize strikes and everything. They just can't forcibly control any of their members by holding their job hostage, rather they have to earn the respect and trust of their members instead, and they can't force their members to contribute to political campaigns that they don't want to. I think it's better that way.
Oh so Woz isn't rich then?
Or get an even bigger display. Traditionally price has relegated people to smaller size displays for their home theater, but seeing as even big ones are cheap now...
My PC monitor is actually a 55" TV. Sony KDL-55W802A to be precise, because in addition to its size it has a notoriously low input delay, lower than most monitors even. (And it has 3D, though I've rarely used it.) It's what I'm typing this post on now, actually. Big screens are pretty nice for getting work done, and low input delay makes it nice for games too.
I'm not sure how they'd do it physically. If we look at the internet for what it actually is by definition - a network is a bunch of computers connected to other computes, the internet is a bunch of networks connected to other networks - the internet is actually privately owned, even at the peering level of tier 1 ISP's.
I suppose you could bring it down by having the national guard (or whoever) commandeer a major NOC (network operations center) of a tier 1 ISP and then fudge the BGP tables of all of their major peering points worldwide (or nationwide if you prefer,) but the links wouldn't be physically broken. Other ISP's could compensate by just ignoring those peers. The customers of that ISP and its client ISPs would be down for sure, but not everybody.
I'm still trying to figure out why we even have a need for a kill switch. A terror attack on SCADA systems? Just require SCADA systems have a communications kill switch, then you don't need an internet kill switch.
Snapchat sounds kind of like the antithesis of facebook. Facebook wants to keep a permanent record of everything you ever do, whereas this is more about quickly sending information and then redacting it (redacting because you can't erase it from the person's brain without the use of an amnesia ray.)