A lorry is a large vehicle which attaches a 40-foot shipping container to produce an 18-wheeled vehicle-plus-trailer with over 12,000kg of gross vehicle weight. They typically drop off a trailer at a loading dock and take a new, empty or pre-loaded one (generally a pre-loaded one if the place has incoming and outgoing shipping; empty at termination points, loaded at distribution centers).
Huh? 44 tonnes is the maximum weight in the UK. 12 tonnes is nothing.
I was filling my return in yesterday. I was owing the feds $200 until I put in my mortgage interest deduction. Suddenly Uncle Sam owed me $2000. Property taxes are negligible given the system that's skewed in favor of home owners who take a massive benefit from the general population's tax contributions. It's a huge driver of income inequality.
One might say that the web of treaties that made up a united Europe of the early 1900s, The European Union 1.0, was exactly what instigated and fueled WW I & II. We had the exact same situation then, just with a different name. A group of powerful unelected globalists controlled Europe together, and lead us into the two most deadly wars in human history while they divided the world between each other like you would a cake. The history of a Europe tied together by laws and treaties and centrally controlled is one of bloodshed and chaos.
This is flat out incorrect. Europe of the 1910s had nothing in common with the EU. The web of alliances in those days were based on economic protectionism and military rivalry, not peace and cooperation. The EU, and to a large extent the WTO, are attempts to prevent a repeat of the same economic conditions that led to two world wars. The right wing anti-immigration sentiment that's infesting the continent now is what could put us right back there again. The EU is a firewall against it.
Incidentally, Winston Churchill called for the creation of a "United States of Europe" after WWII. He had seen enough of conflict and was smart enough to see that the best way to prevent it was through economic cooperation and development, not militaristic posturing and trying to shut out international trade.
This idea that all senators and reps are terrible - except mine has got to go. We are all continually being bent over. Vote all of them out.
Ugh. Vote the Republicans out, dum dum! Can you not see that the Democrats voted against this abomination? This "one side is as bad as the other" bullshit is what got Trump elected in the first place.
You're not missing a thing. Providing services to suburbs is way more expensive. However developers are often forced to pick up the cost of providing them during construction, so it's attractive for cities to approve sprawling subdivisions.
How's the downsizing going in Detroit? I hear it's hard to provide services to such a sprawled out city where so much of it is derelict and not producing tax revenue.
This is a sign of a shortage of higher density living in the urban core. There are multiple reasons for that, the power of the NIMBY lobby being one of them. But for the demographic of young single professionals at the early stages of their careers, vibrant and compact walkable neighborhoods are so much in demand that rents are being driven sky high and lower income people are being displaced to the suburbs where they are either saddled with longer commutes of forced to find jobs on the periphery.
Suburbs are great for when you get a little older and want to raise a family, but in the meantime the city is where it's at.
This is a slippery slope. Your hate speech may be another's holy scripture, and who are you to judge? Who is anyone? All speech should be legal.
The Germans, given their history, are a bit wiser than that. One man's freedom of speech can infringe on a million other people's freedom to survive. Speech can be dangerous.
Libel laws are also in place so that if someone ruins your life by calling you, say, a child molester for no reason, then you can sue and get some compensation.
I have a really hard time feeling sorry for a company whose entire business is to harvest as much data about every human being as they possibly can, in every domain they possibly can, even if you take serious measures to keep any info out of their hands.
Stealing trade secrets is not the same thing at all.
And if you live in a small village you'll probably stay int he same job for life. Doesn't mean you're more loyal, it just means you've got fewer choices.
When the manufacturers ramp up production to the point that a new or used electric vehicle will be sub-$15,000, this would be great, albeit unnessecary at that point. At the current price of electric vehicles, this is just a rebate for the upper class.
And air travel used to be affordable to the upper class only.
i hate when cars are in bus-only lanes. The purpose of the lanes is to allow buses to bypass traffic. it doesn't help when its' so clogged by cars that the lane moves at the same speed as the general purpose lane. thanks a lot, cars!
The railway line through Silicon Valley was originally used to carry canned fruit to the port of San Francisco. Now it's used by commuters. It's okay for transport infrastructure to be used for different purposes when the circumstances change.
Manufacturers reduce costs with economies of scale. Short term subsidies like this are what helps manufacturers to ramp up mass production to that end.
Slashdot Mirror
First half: We are totes spying.
Second half: Claims of spying are unsubstantiated.
First half: Trump is spying
Second half: Obama was not spying
Fixed that for you.
A lorry is a large vehicle which attaches a 40-foot shipping container to produce an 18-wheeled vehicle-plus-trailer with over 12,000kg of gross vehicle weight. They typically drop off a trailer at a loading dock and take a new, empty or pre-loaded one (generally a pre-loaded one if the place has incoming and outgoing shipping; empty at termination points, loaded at distribution centers).
Huh? 44 tonnes is the maximum weight in the UK. 12 tonnes is nothing.
Ha! The mortgage tax deduction is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.
I'm aware of that. My point was about my mortgage deduction lowering my tax bill by $2,200.
No tax deduction for mortgages in the UK since ~1987.
It's being quietly phased out in Ireland too. No sign of that happening in the US though.
Who cares, most "real" shows are going into summer reruns here soon if not already.
TWD is off till next Oct, etc....
Not much new content to watch in summer anyway, so, let them strike.
You do realise it takes quite a while to make a scripted TV show, right? A strike now will make itself felt a lot later in the year.
VAT is an indirect (sales) tax, so it's collected alongside income tax.
I was filling my return in yesterday. I was owing the feds $200 until I put in my mortgage interest deduction. Suddenly Uncle Sam owed me $2000. Property taxes are negligible given the system that's skewed in favor of home owners who take a massive benefit from the general population's tax contributions. It's a huge driver of income inequality.
You fail to say that while Churchill was a proponent of a United States of Europe, he stated that Britain should have no part in it.
Maybe. But Thatcher was a big proponent of the common market.
One might say that the web of treaties that made up a united Europe of the early 1900s, The European Union 1.0, was exactly what instigated and fueled WW I & II. We had the exact same situation then, just with a different name. A group of powerful unelected globalists controlled Europe together, and lead us into the two most deadly wars in human history while they divided the world between each other like you would a cake. The history of a Europe tied together by laws and treaties and centrally controlled is one of bloodshed and chaos.
This is flat out incorrect. Europe of the 1910s had nothing in common with the EU. The web of alliances in those days were based on economic protectionism and military rivalry, not peace and cooperation. The EU, and to a large extent the WTO, are attempts to prevent a repeat of the same economic conditions that led to two world wars. The right wing anti-immigration sentiment that's infesting the continent now is what could put us right back there again. The EU is a firewall against it.
Incidentally, Winston Churchill called for the creation of a "United States of Europe" after WWII. He had seen enough of conflict and was smart enough to see that the best way to prevent it was through economic cooperation and development, not militaristic posturing and trying to shut out international trade.
Oh FFS, do you seriously thing the Dems would have voted for this if they had a majority in the House? Gimme a break!
Was there lube? I didn't feel any lube.
This idea that all senators and reps are terrible - except mine has got to go. We are all continually being bent over. Vote all of them out.
Ugh. Vote the Republicans out, dum dum! Can you not see that the Democrats voted against this abomination? This "one side is as bad as the other" bullshit is what got Trump elected in the first place.
You're not missing a thing. Providing services to suburbs is way more expensive. However developers are often forced to pick up the cost of providing them during construction, so it's attractive for cities to approve sprawling subdivisions.
How's the downsizing going in Detroit? I hear it's hard to provide services to such a sprawled out city where so much of it is derelict and not producing tax revenue.
This is a sign of a shortage of higher density living in the urban core. There are multiple reasons for that, the power of the NIMBY lobby being one of them. But for the demographic of young single professionals at the early stages of their careers, vibrant and compact walkable neighborhoods are so much in demand that rents are being driven sky high and lower income people are being displaced to the suburbs where they are either saddled with longer commutes of forced to find jobs on the periphery.
Suburbs are great for when you get a little older and want to raise a family, but in the meantime the city is where it's at.
The "average American" did vote for Trump.
Only if you consider urban votes not worth counting. Democracy is supposed to be one person-one vote. Not one acre of land-one vote.
This is a slippery slope. Your hate speech may be another's holy scripture, and who are you to judge? Who is anyone? All speech should be legal.
The Germans, given their history, are a bit wiser than that. One man's freedom of speech can infringe on a million other people's freedom to survive. Speech can be dangerous.
Libel laws are also in place so that if someone ruins your life by calling you, say, a child molester for no reason, then you can sue and get some compensation.
Uber may or may not have been guilty, but:
downloaded 14,000 files from a Google repository
I have a really hard time feeling sorry for a company whose entire business is to harvest as much data about every human being as they possibly can, in every domain they possibly can, even if you take serious measures to keep any info out of their hands.
Stealing trade secrets is not the same thing at all.
The Economist also wrote about this in 2015.
And if you live in a small village you'll probably stay int he same job for life. Doesn't mean you're more loyal, it just means you've got fewer choices.
I think it'd be funny if they decided that they would rip out the American Flag and put theirs in it's place. What you going to do about it, bitch?
The American flags on the moon would all be bleached white by now.
A subsidy for you is a tax on everyone else. It's not like the Government of NY produces money, everyone else in your State pays for it.
And...?
When the manufacturers ramp up production to the point that a new or used electric vehicle will be sub-$15,000, this would be great, albeit unnessecary at that point. At the current price of electric vehicles, this is just a rebate for the upper class.
And air travel used to be affordable to the upper class only.
i hate when cars are in bus-only lanes. The purpose of the lanes is to allow buses to bypass traffic. it doesn't help when its' so clogged by cars that the lane moves at the same speed as the general purpose lane. thanks a lot, cars!
The railway line through Silicon Valley was originally used to carry canned fruit to the port of San Francisco. Now it's used by commuters. It's okay for transport infrastructure to be used for different purposes when the circumstances change.
Manufacturers reduce costs with economies of scale. Short term subsidies like this are what helps manufacturers to ramp up mass production to that end.