In the US we also are taxed in the same way. They call them tax brackets and I think there are 5 or 6 of them. Currently the highest federal tax rate is 35%. Even many Americans don't seem to notice that our federal and state governments are have very different areas of responsibility and most areas of state policy (like tax rates) cannot be directly dictated by the federal government. Back to taxes, the state tax rate is set by each state. There are 3 to 4 states with no income tax at all. My state, Alabama, has a maximum tax rate of around 8% (not sure on that one, I haven't got there yet)
On the broken leg thing, If a person enters a hospital in the US the hospital must treat them for all serious problems wether or not they can afford to pay. If your poor without insurance and you break your leg every hospital in the country WILL treat you.
That boutique formulation isn't just them complaining. It is a lot more expensive to produce track and distribute 10 different mixtures than it is to do 1 or 2.
There are currently no laws that will prevent you. Fuels are taxed by the specific fuel (gas, diesel, propane, etc...). Since they are not used there are no current taxes on them. There are no laws on what you can pour in your tank. You will probably void the delear warrenty though, but that is a private matter of the warrenty aggrement between you and the delear. To give more information, in Alabama only fuel for use on roads is taxed. You can buy untaxed fuel that has a color dye added for use driving on private property. This is generally used by farmers for farm trucks, tractors, and generators.
One problem. Diesel currently costs more than premium gas. Also many of the enviro activists are trying to mandate very low sulfur diesel which will drive the price up farther. Even if they get better mileage the extra cost per gallon will prevent most people from buying.
Why are fuel cells any better than the internal combustion engine? I believe they use hydrogen to run the cells. All the proposals I've seen for hydrogen production use electrolosys. To get the electricity you have to use established power production methods. To start from the other end, you have to produce electricy at the efficiency of the power plant, transmitt it through power line with loss along the way, zap the water then use the hydrogen to produce electricty which then turns the motor. Even if power plant, hydrogen production, and the electic engine were all 90% efficent you still end up with an overall system that is less than 73% efficient. That doesn't figure in line loss, and I'm pretty sure that electrolisys isn't anywhere close to 90%. Does anybody have an real numbers for comparison?
All geeks shoud know that electricity runs on the magic smoke in the wires. You should never ever let the magic smoke out. For those few doubters out there, just try letting the magic smoke out and see if your stuff keeps working.
A leader is in front pointing the way to go. If you are unwilling to step out in front then nobody can follow behind you. If you remove your ability to act alone then you are dependent on others for your preservation. Of course just because you step out in front doesn't mean people will follow. But the one in front is always alone untill somebody falls in behind.
On a different subject. Why is being alone wrong? If a person steps forward to stop a wrong how are they diminished if nobody else is willing to help? I have always been taught that the lone candle standing against the darkness is honorable and noble. How can the fires of change be light if nobody is willing to be that lone candle to start the change?
Most scientists and engineers use the metric system. In fact most areas that need precision or calculation use the metric system. For things like a gallon of milk or the speed limit on a road the traditional metod is used. For those area there is really no difference in what is used but everyone is used to dealing with Miles per hour and it is very expensive to replace all those road signs with no real gain.
True, having the power to invade a Third World country doesn't make you a world leader. Being unable to project enought power to defeat a third world country does exclude you though.
I would like to point out that most of the Warlords in third world countries would improve their quality of life if they moved to the US an lived in the slums on welfare. The poverty line is relative to the rest of the society in which it is being drawn.
Ummmm.... Without some economic growth and some way to pay the government welfare and retierment benifits the EU will not supplant the US as the largest market. If the only metric you are using for comparison is population then China should have been the largest market for a couple hundred years.
You might want to look at the cost projections for European welfare and retirement costs for the next 20 years. There is no way that western European nations can maintain the current levels. Especially with the extremely low economic growth of those countries.
Is there anyplace to go that explains the makeup and divisions of the EU? I would like to find out how the system is designed. How does it break up executive, legislative, and judical authority. Does it break them up. Are there any limits on the authority of the EU. Could a deskjocky somewhere declare that everybody must wear pink on tuesdays? What are the mechanisms to stop that? How do they deal with conflicts between states with large and small populations? These are the types of things I would like to find out. No one in the US really reported things about the structer. My current (hopefully wrong) impression is that the EU has no checks on power, no division of responsiblity among competeing branches, a complete lack of transparency in all areas, no say or representation from the citizens.
Doesn't advocating tolerance imply that you must tolerate intolerant people? If you won't tolerate somebody elses intolerance then doesn't that make you intolerant?
How would a person know the command was burn? how does he know what the paramaters are? With a GUI you only have to learn how to deal with a window. Every window works the same way. With a command line you have to learn a different command for everything you want to do. If you want to save the file click on the menus at the top of the window untill you see save, you want to copy click on the menus at the top of the window, etc.. Everything works in the same way. How do you find out you can do? look at the menus at the top. With a command line to find out what you can do you have to read through a bunch of man pages.
Isn't that why warnings are built into graphical systems? If you format the hard drive a warning pops up that tells you if will destroy all data. If somebody doesn't know what they are doing the words destroy and perminant make an impression. If the warnings are not there then it is a poorly designed graphical system. Despite all it's problems the one thing windows does well is the graphical interface. When you open a window all the things you can do are listed. All you have to do is click. You don't have to read through 30 pages in a man document to find the command with all the paramaters that you need.
You do know that we shut down the newspaper because they were inciting violence don't you? Here in the US a paper would be shut down if it was calling for the violent overthrow of the government and the murder of anybody associated with it.
Which jokes? Trailer parks do exist about as much as in the rest of the country. They do tend to attract tornados. The only this that pulls them more is strip malls. But then again, due to a very low cost of living I was able to buy a decent house 60,000. Thats with a half acre of land. Actually had a guy from Philly ask me if it was a double or a triple. Took me four day to find out what a double and triple were in that context. We generally call those things apartments down here.
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In the US we also are taxed in the same way. They call them tax brackets and I think there are 5 or 6 of them. Currently the highest federal tax rate is 35%. Even many Americans don't seem to notice that our federal and state governments are have very different areas of responsibility and most areas of state policy (like tax rates) cannot be directly dictated by the federal government. Back to taxes, the state tax rate is set by each state. There are 3 to 4 states with no income tax at all. My state, Alabama, has a maximum tax rate of around 8% (not sure on that one, I haven't got there yet)
On the broken leg thing, If a person enters a hospital in the US the hospital must treat them for all serious problems wether or not they can afford to pay. If your poor without insurance and you break your leg every hospital in the country WILL treat you.
I thought that hemp was legal. It's just dope that is illegal.
That boutique formulation isn't just them complaining. It is a lot more expensive to produce track and distribute 10 different mixtures than it is to do 1 or 2.
There are currently no laws that will prevent you. Fuels are taxed by the specific fuel (gas, diesel, propane, etc...). Since they are not used there are no current taxes on them. There are no laws on what you can pour in your tank. You will probably void the delear warrenty though, but that is a private matter of the warrenty aggrement between you and the delear. To give more information, in Alabama only fuel for use on roads is taxed. You can buy untaxed fuel that has a color dye added for use driving on private property. This is generally used by farmers for farm trucks, tractors, and generators.
One problem. Diesel currently costs more than premium gas. Also many of the enviro activists are trying to mandate very low sulfur diesel which will drive the price up farther. Even if they get better mileage the extra cost per gallon will prevent most people from buying.
Why are fuel cells any better than the internal combustion engine? I believe they use hydrogen to run the cells. All the proposals I've seen for hydrogen production use electrolosys. To get the electricity you have to use established power production methods. To start from the other end, you have to produce electricy at the efficiency of the power plant, transmitt it through power line with loss along the way, zap the water then use the hydrogen to produce electricty which then turns the motor. Even if power plant, hydrogen production, and the electic engine were all 90% efficent you still end up with an overall system that is less than 73% efficient. That doesn't figure in line loss, and I'm pretty sure that electrolisys isn't anywhere close to 90%. Does anybody have an real numbers for comparison?
All geeks shoud know that electricity runs on the magic smoke in the wires. You should never ever let the magic smoke out. For those few doubters out there, just try letting the magic smoke out and see if your stuff keeps working.
A leader is in front pointing the way to go. If you are unwilling to step out in front then nobody can follow behind you. If you remove your ability to act alone then you are dependent on others for your preservation. Of course just because you step out in front doesn't mean people will follow. But the one in front is always alone untill somebody falls in behind.
On a different subject. Why is being alone wrong? If a person steps forward to stop a wrong how are they diminished if nobody else is willing to help? I have always been taught that the lone candle standing against the darkness is honorable and noble. How can the fires of change be light if nobody is willing to be that lone candle to start the change?
Most scientists and engineers use the metric system. In fact most areas that need precision or calculation use the metric system. For things like a gallon of milk or the speed limit on a road the traditional metod is used. For those area there is really no difference in what is used but everyone is used to dealing with Miles per hour and it is very expensive to replace all those road signs with no real gain.
True, having the power to invade a Third World country doesn't make you a world leader. Being unable to project enought power to defeat a third world country does exclude you though.
I would like to point out that most of the Warlords in third world countries would improve their quality of life if they moved to the US an lived in the slums on welfare. The poverty line is relative to the rest of the society in which it is being drawn.
The US government doesn't have the authority to mandate the units that gas is sold in.
Ummmm.... Without some economic growth and some way to pay the government welfare and retierment benifits the EU will not supplant the US as the largest market. If the only metric you are using for comparison is population then China should have been the largest market for a couple hundred years.
Doesn't Hockey=ice hockey? Whenever someone talks about a hockey game they are talking about ice hockey. At least in Alabama anyway.
You might want to look at the cost projections for European welfare and retirement costs for the next 20 years. There is no way that western European nations can maintain the current levels. Especially with the extremely low economic growth of those countries.
Is there anyplace to go that explains the makeup and divisions of the EU? I would like to find out how the system is designed. How does it break up executive, legislative, and judical authority. Does it break them up. Are there any limits on the authority of the EU. Could a deskjocky somewhere declare that everybody must wear pink on tuesdays? What are the mechanisms to stop that? How do they deal with conflicts between states with large and small populations? These are the types of things I would like to find out. No one in the US really reported things about the structer. My current (hopefully wrong) impression is that the EU has no checks on power, no division of responsiblity among competeing branches, a complete lack of transparency in all areas, no say or representation from the citizens.
Strange, I have comcast and TechTV is part of my basic cable package.
I believe your instructor was mixing up the properties of of kevlar with the properties of the cermaic plates used to provide additional protection.
It says more stab resistant than normal body armor. Not stab proof. I'll bet it takes a bit more force on the needle to sew it.
Isn't that what your supposed to do with passwords?
Doesn't advocating tolerance imply that you must tolerate intolerant people? If you won't tolerate somebody elses intolerance then doesn't that make you intolerant?
How would a person know the command was burn? how does he know what the paramaters are? With a GUI you only have to learn how to deal with a window. Every window works the same way. With a command line you have to learn a different command for everything you want to do. If you want to save the file click on the menus at the top of the window untill you see save, you want to copy click on the menus at the top of the window, etc.. Everything works in the same way. How do you find out you can do? look at the menus at the top. With a command line to find out what you can do you have to read through a bunch of man pages.
Isn't that why warnings are built into graphical systems? If you format the hard drive a warning pops up that tells you if will destroy all data. If somebody doesn't know what they are doing the words destroy and perminant make an impression. If the warnings are not there then it is a poorly designed graphical system. Despite all it's problems the one thing windows does well is the graphical interface. When you open a window all the things you can do are listed. All you have to do is click. You don't have to read through 30 pages in a man document to find the command with all the paramaters that you need.
You do know that we shut down the newspaper because they were inciting violence don't you? Here in the US a paper would be shut down if it was calling for the violent overthrow of the government and the murder of anybody associated with it.
Which jokes? Trailer parks do exist about as much as in the rest of the country. They do tend to attract tornados. The only this that pulls them more is strip malls. But then again, due to a very low cost of living I was able to buy a decent house 60,000. Thats with a half acre of land. Actually had a guy from Philly ask me if it was a double or a triple. Took me four day to find out what a double and triple were in that context. We generally call those things apartments down here.