Car manufacturers don't mind giving up control over things like the entertainment system provided it works better than what they can do.
A number don't like it, especially dealers. The base unit is a $50 piece of junk, the $500 option cost them $100, and the $5000 option cost them under $1000. $4000 extra profit per car is a nice thing.
Yeah, but if you are unemplyed, rob a bank to make up the difference. The best thing is, proceeds from robery are tax free, as the bank never files the 1099 under the right SSN.
A touring golf pro making $1,000,000 a year is scraping by. Paying 20-50% of that to fees and support staff, 25% on travel, and much of the remainder on training, they take home almost nothing. Same with some of the entertainers. I find it funny that so many people measure "wealth" by income. They are related, but certainly not the same thing. Wealth is power. Income provides an opportunity to generate and store wealth, but certainly isn't a guarantee. See Bobby Brown and Willie Nelson, and so many others. Made more in a year than most do in a life, and still went bankrupt. You have to store it and invest it to be wealthy. But the 1% is usually measured in income. But the wealth divide is much greater, and the core problem. But taxing wealth will never work. It's only ever tried with real estate, and even there is problematic.
What, are you a goldbug? "hard assets" include real estate. The only thing with actual value everywhere, and everywhere in history. Beats gold most of the time, and, so long as there's any government at all, won't ever be worthless. Stocks are also "hard assets" as much (or more) than people who buy gold in a remote vault. For all you know, they sold the same bar 10 times. And keeping it under your matress isn't very secure.
I'd want $5,000,000. I have 15-20 years until retirement. I'm on track. Are you?
I'd re-define "millionaire" (as in the rich with no money cares rich) to be people with unearned income greater than a million a year. That's the level of comfort people think of for millionaire. The millionaire next door type (I know quite a few) don't live that well. A tiny 2-bedroom house, raising one child, one new car every 10-20 years. Saving most of their disposable income. Having just enough so that when their health fails, they can go into a nice home, rather than the worst ones (and there's quite a difference). Maybe leaving a little for their child. Of course, the one I'm thinking of managed to put their child through medical school, paying her whole way, so she got her inheritance early. Each generation better off than the one before. Not like my father who left us nothing. Well, piles of bills that will never be paid. But my plans never counted on that anyway.
Not all issues are negative. Relatives die, leaving you things and such. I've had a similar plan, and am still on track to retire at 55 with $5,000,000+ in net worth. 15 years into the plan, and still nothing that set it off track. That includes a few layoffs, some major medical issues, no accidents.
It's simple. It just takes a plan, and some self control. Why aren't you a millionaire?
And what about Australia and NZ? And since many of the people came from England, is England ready to accept all white NZ, OZ, and USA peoples back? How much Native American does one need to have to claim US ownership?
No. Texas was recognized as an independent country for 10 years before it joined the US. Even Mexico recognized it, I think (not to clear on the details, they become moot after a 100+ years and other treaties recognizing the independence). So the US had no direct dealings or conflict with Mexico with regards to Texas.
They vote for the laws and politicians that spend enough to require massive tax increases. Of course, the solution is to move. I did, and it was a great thing. Lower taxes and more services.
So if you bought a house for $500,000 10 years ago, and it's now worth $5,000,000, the taxes will be no more than (0.02 * 500,000 * 1.20) = $12,000, but if you sell your $5,000,000 place to buy another $5,000,000 place, your tax will be no more than 0.02 * 5,000,000 = $100,000. The massive financial disincentive to selling also helps inflate prices, making the problem worse.
In a car, the number one thing you can do to improve the sound is to close the windows. Given so many people that turn it up with the windows down, I presume "good speakers" are not required.
In my area the sub-station already has those safety features in place, if you tried a attack with a 'bow and arrow, with think wire" it would do anything, other then disrupt the system for a few minutes, before it determines whether there's something wrong like a short, before powering back up. And the company responds quickly to any sub-station issues, to make sure the system reset, or to physically inspect any problems..
About 5 years ago, a snake took out my substation for 5+ days. I think you greatly over-estimate the level of monitoring and response times.
I also heard that if you sell a CA house, and buy a CA house, you pay taxes on the fist house, plus the difference between the two, so you buy a house for $50,000 (and are paying taxes on $50,000) and sell it for $1,000,000 and buy another one for $1,050,000 and pay taxes on $100,000. But then, I've never lived in CA, so I wouldn't really know or care how it works. It's just funny that so many claim it works one way, then someone else will correct them. For something that's so simple, it seems very complex.
Arrest means "convicted by police". The police like to track that to identify trouble people to put more effort into convicting them in the courts. Job applications ask for it, background checks show it. It's public information. Stored forever.
Yes they did, in the 9th and 10th Amendments. The trouble is all the people who can't count past the 2nd and don't care if they take all the other rights away.
You can request your FBI file. If they have your picture, are they required to disclose as part of their response? You have to give your fingerprints to get your file, so asking for your file results in a file being made, if one didn't exist. So the FBI and State of Texas have my prints on file. Though nothing to associate the prints with, other than my name (no actions, no arrests or the like).
So the cheek inserts that appear to change bone structure would work, but facial hair that partially obscures the mouth (preventing accurate readings of the mouth) would have no effect? I've been told the opposite before. So how will I know which is right?
Tie one end of the cable to the base of the tower, have enough line that when you fire it, it'll pull away from you, and not stay coiled at your feet. The arc from the power line to the base will likely vaporise the line, so you wouldn't want to be too close, and it will damage the line, the tower, and the equipment on both ends of the line.
The Cyber FUD is like the Y2K FUD of 15 years ago and the EMP FUD and the Solar Flair FUD... All designed to make you fear something most of us don't understand.
Y2K wasn't FUD. 95% of it was needed work to prevent more expensive failures after. Yes, a broken date on a system clock isn't that bad, unless your accounting software uses the date, and you accidentally send out 99 years of pay for the next pay stub (amazingly enough, back then and even now, there are few systems that have flags thrown up for unusual amounts). It isn't going to kill anyone (like flying an F-22 across the date line, or taking off from below sea level could have), but there would have been mass confusion and unplanned error fixes. It was easier to spend 6 months doing firmware updates, and replacing old hardware, and the software updates needed so things would work. And even after, there were still lots of little issues with dates.
EMP is FUD until North Korea detonates a nuke 500 miles above MO/KY (I'd go MO/KY to lean east to ensure the loss of NYC, but they could go KS and hope to get all of CA and NY), taking out NASDAQ, Wall Street, the power grid, and 99% of all cars in the continental US. That's the worst-case WWIII scenario.
Solar flares have yet to cause anything more than a mild increase in bit errors in ICs.
They traced most of the "big blackouts" down to a single line failure, and cascade failures after that. That should demonstrate the fragility of our grid.
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I'm not sure you are the best person to take such advice from. If it worked, why haven't you tried it? If you have tried it, it obviously didn't take.
That will help me stop pointing out your bad statistics?
Is it still irrational to pay more for it if it works better?
Car manufacturers don't mind giving up control over things like the entertainment system provided it works better than what they can do.
A number don't like it, especially dealers. The base unit is a $50 piece of junk, the $500 option cost them $100, and the $5000 option cost them under $1000. $4000 extra profit per car is a nice thing.
Yeah, but if you are unemplyed, rob a bank to make up the difference. The best thing is, proceeds from robery are tax free, as the bank never files the 1099 under the right SSN.
A touring golf pro making $1,000,000 a year is scraping by. Paying 20-50% of that to fees and support staff, 25% on travel, and much of the remainder on training, they take home almost nothing. Same with some of the entertainers. I find it funny that so many people measure "wealth" by income. They are related, but certainly not the same thing. Wealth is power. Income provides an opportunity to generate and store wealth, but certainly isn't a guarantee. See Bobby Brown and Willie Nelson, and so many others. Made more in a year than most do in a life, and still went bankrupt. You have to store it and invest it to be wealthy. But the 1% is usually measured in income. But the wealth divide is much greater, and the core problem. But taxing wealth will never work. It's only ever tried with real estate, and even there is problematic.
What, are you a goldbug? "hard assets" include real estate. The only thing with actual value everywhere, and everywhere in history. Beats gold most of the time, and, so long as there's any government at all, won't ever be worthless. Stocks are also "hard assets" as much (or more) than people who buy gold in a remote vault. For all you know, they sold the same bar 10 times. And keeping it under your matress isn't very secure.
I'd want $5,000,000. I have 15-20 years until retirement. I'm on track. Are you?
I'd re-define "millionaire" (as in the rich with no money cares rich) to be people with unearned income greater than a million a year. That's the level of comfort people think of for millionaire. The millionaire next door type (I know quite a few) don't live that well. A tiny 2-bedroom house, raising one child, one new car every 10-20 years. Saving most of their disposable income. Having just enough so that when their health fails, they can go into a nice home, rather than the worst ones (and there's quite a difference). Maybe leaving a little for their child. Of course, the one I'm thinking of managed to put their child through medical school, paying her whole way, so she got her inheritance early. Each generation better off than the one before. Not like my father who left us nothing. Well, piles of bills that will never be paid. But my plans never counted on that anyway.
Not all issues are negative. Relatives die, leaving you things and such. I've had a similar plan, and am still on track to retire at 55 with $5,000,000+ in net worth. 15 years into the plan, and still nothing that set it off track. That includes a few layoffs, some major medical issues, no accidents.
It's simple. It just takes a plan, and some self control. Why aren't you a millionaire?
And what about Australia and NZ? And since many of the people came from England, is England ready to accept all white NZ, OZ, and USA peoples back? How much Native American does one need to have to claim US ownership?
No. Texas was recognized as an independent country for 10 years before it joined the US. Even Mexico recognized it, I think (not to clear on the details, they become moot after a 100+ years and other treaties recognizing the independence). So the US had no direct dealings or conflict with Mexico with regards to Texas.
Searching on paid agitators indcated more paid agitators were at OWS than tea party events.
Like many licensed things, he can choose whether it's working, but not how it works, when he lets it work.
People have no control over that.
They vote for the laws and politicians that spend enough to require massive tax increases. Of course, the solution is to move. I did, and it was a great thing. Lower taxes and more services.
So if you bought a house for $500,000 10 years ago, and it's now worth $5,000,000, the taxes will be no more than (0.02 * 500,000 * 1.20) = $12,000, but if you sell your $5,000,000 place to buy another $5,000,000 place, your tax will be no more than 0.02 * 5,000,000 = $100,000. The massive financial disincentive to selling also helps inflate prices, making the problem worse.
In a car, the number one thing you can do to improve the sound is to close the windows. Given so many people that turn it up with the windows down, I presume "good speakers" are not required.
In my area the sub-station already has those safety features in place, if you tried a attack with a 'bow and arrow, with think wire" it would do anything, other then disrupt the system for a few minutes, before it determines whether there's something wrong like a short, before powering back up. And the company responds quickly to any sub-station issues, to make sure the system reset, or to physically inspect any problems..
About 5 years ago, a snake took out my substation for 5+ days. I think you greatly over-estimate the level of monitoring and response times.
I also heard that if you sell a CA house, and buy a CA house, you pay taxes on the fist house, plus the difference between the two, so you buy a house for $50,000 (and are paying taxes on $50,000) and sell it for $1,000,000 and buy another one for $1,050,000 and pay taxes on $100,000. But then, I've never lived in CA, so I wouldn't really know or care how it works. It's just funny that so many claim it works one way, then someone else will correct them. For something that's so simple, it seems very complex.
Arrest means "convicted by police". The police like to track that to identify trouble people to put more effort into convicting them in the courts. Job applications ask for it, background checks show it. It's public information. Stored forever.
Yes they did, in the 9th and 10th Amendments. The trouble is all the people who can't count past the 2nd and don't care if they take all the other rights away.
You can request your FBI file. If they have your picture, are they required to disclose as part of their response? You have to give your fingerprints to get your file, so asking for your file results in a file being made, if one didn't exist. So the FBI and State of Texas have my prints on file. Though nothing to associate the prints with, other than my name (no actions, no arrests or the like).
So the cheek inserts that appear to change bone structure would work, but facial hair that partially obscures the mouth (preventing accurate readings of the mouth) would have no effect? I've been told the opposite before. So how will I know which is right?
I'd hire a cement mixer and weld on some push bars, and drive into them. Faster, and more fun.
The Cyber FUD is like the Y2K FUD of 15 years ago and the EMP FUD and the Solar Flair FUD... All designed to make you fear something most of us don't understand.
Y2K wasn't FUD. 95% of it was needed work to prevent more expensive failures after. Yes, a broken date on a system clock isn't that bad, unless your accounting software uses the date, and you accidentally send out 99 years of pay for the next pay stub (amazingly enough, back then and even now, there are few systems that have flags thrown up for unusual amounts). It isn't going to kill anyone (like flying an F-22 across the date line, or taking off from below sea level could have), but there would have been mass confusion and unplanned error fixes. It was easier to spend 6 months doing firmware updates, and replacing old hardware, and the software updates needed so things would work. And even after, there were still lots of little issues with dates.
EMP is FUD until North Korea detonates a nuke 500 miles above MO/KY (I'd go MO/KY to lean east to ensure the loss of NYC, but they could go KS and hope to get all of CA and NY), taking out NASDAQ, Wall Street, the power grid, and 99% of all cars in the continental US. That's the worst-case WWIII scenario.
Solar flares have yet to cause anything more than a mild increase in bit errors in ICs.
They traced most of the "big blackouts" down to a single line failure, and cascade failures after that. That should demonstrate the fragility of our grid.