Moreso when you consider this guy will never make that much a year in his lifetime.
To be fair, the company he allegedly was going to buy makes (again, allegedly) over $250,000/yr. Unless the company is a corporation, it most likely provides pass-through taxation, meaning that the company's profits are treated as personal income of the owner for taxation purposes.
Thus, if Joe the Plumber owned a company that made over $250K/yr (I'm assuming this means "netted"), he would be making over $250K/yr for taxation purposes.
Quick question: If you found a hive of bees in your bedroom, would you destroy them or leave them? What about a spiderweb? A yellow jacket nest?
I'm not trying to poke holes in anything you say; I'm honestly trying to explore what the contours of "reasonable" arthropod-friendly behavior by humans might be.
Indeed. The average for medical expert witnesses is over $400/hr. The average. I've heard of the hourly fee for some highly sought-after expert witnesses to be over $5,000/hr. The reason is that it is quite difficult to find someone who comes across as an expert, has gravitas, and is also personable. Remember that juries do not like to believe people they dislike.
Perhaps men are socially trained to think that HHD is for women. You know, men suppressing other men? Or society in general suppressing them? Hell, it doesn't even have to be labeled "suppression." It could be labeled "conditioning." I would not expect a nerd on Slashdot to argue that conditioning does not exist.
I mean, I see on TV shows all the freaking time male nurses getting ripped on. And when TV and novels portray the caregivers as women, boys learn that it's not a job for them.
Is that really so hard to even fathom?!? I mean, at least entertain the idea!
it's not like we've ever really had a non-Christian as president
The source you quoted is just wrong. It's likely that the first few Presidents we had were deist, not Christian. Furthermore, there is significant disagreement in the Christian community about whether Jehova's Witnesses and Unitarians even "count" as Christian. Primarily because JWs and Unitarians deny that Jesus was the son of God.
I'm a Christian and I have no problem with "accepting" them as Christians, but there is significant disagreement on this issue. So that makes five who are not considered Christian by the majority of Christian denominations out there, along with at least five Deists. That's almost 25% of our Presidents who are openly perhaps not Christian.
Just to back you up on the "university lawyers" comment: I worked for the Office of General Counsel of one of the largest university systems in the United States this summer. The lawyers were both very good and very well connected.
Takedown notices. If you share files, you could be an ISP. UT's residential network likely qualifies as an OSP/ISP in Title II of the DMCA (aka the "OSCILLA"). If someone on their network is sharing files, that possibly makes them liable if they ignore a takedown notice.
Well that proves you have no taste or are terribly ignorant about the great country artists who have existed through time. Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, George Strait, etc.
In my opinion, modern country music is trying too hard to be rock and pop, but country music had a lot of great artists until about 15 years ago.
it is the most "left-wing" judges on the Supreme Court who decide to refer to European sources for their decisions instead of limiting them to the founding principles embodied in the Constitution
I believe you speak of either Roper or Lawrence, cases J. Kennedy authored. Regarding Roper (the only one I'll address in this comment), the problem is, the VIII Amd. talks about "cruel and unusual punishment" without defining it. What "founding principles" enlighten us with the meaning? The Declaration of Independence? The opinions of the founders? The practice of lawyers since the founding of the USA?
You do realize that the SCOTUS has cited foreign cases for 200 years, right? In the decade after WWII, the SCOTUS cited foreign cases over 130 times. I shall quote one of the most eminent legal minds of the United States, the well-respected Steven Calabresi out of Northwestern. Oh, and he also happens to be a conservative legal commentator who is actively involved with the Federalist Society:
citation to foreign law is most justifiable when the U.S. Constitution asks the justices to weigh whether a certain practice is reasonable, as it does in the Fourth Amendment, or whether it is unusual, as it does in the Eighth Amendment
Our entire systems of property and contract are still heavily informed by British thinkers.
Until the ascendancy of the American Bar Assocation and university accreditation for law schools, lawyers literally memorized the writings of a dead British author to learn the law.
And you dare to suggest that foreign thought has no relevancy in the United States judicial system? Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the US would have to show a "decent respect for the opinions of mankind"! In the Declaration of Independence!
Finally, I quote from the opinion:
This reality [regarding global opinion on execution of minors] does not become controlling.
But that has nothing to do with the current discussion, which is whether a higher frequency of Obama commercials implies that channel is biased toward Obama.
government-run school system, which trains children to believe only government can provide a solution, not the People acting individually (from the bottom up)
Funny. I went through public education in the US end it wasn't until university (where I majored in math and Japanese, so it wasn't all them histree classes brainwarshin me) that I changed my mind FROM "big government is bad."
Yes, although the syntax is different a = foo.search("(?P<label>regexstring)",wall_of_text) will let you then look at a.group('label') if I recall correctly.
Why, back in the old days, you could send mail to things like "bob%example.com@example.org" which would shoot the email off to example.org, who's mail server would then shoot the email off to example.com. A way to hand route your email around a broken network link in the old days. Throw in a few UUCP hops, maybe getting final delivery to a BITNET connected system. Ah, those were the days!
It's tales like this that Slashdot preserves for posterity. I love it!
If India's standard of living goes up dramatically enough in a decade that their purchasing power per person rivals the US, I'll eat my soggy underpants.
Recall that if the average American can pay $1 for something but the average Indian can only afford $.1, the goods will all be shipped to the US (provided that the shipping cost disparity between China-US and China-India < $.9.
Law professors typically don't have research grants--legal research is a different entity from regular university research. And their salaries are typically huge (a comfortable six figures is standard) and paid for by universities.
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To be fair, the company he allegedly was going to buy makes (again, allegedly) over $250,000/yr. Unless the company is a corporation, it most likely provides pass-through taxation, meaning that the company's profits are treated as personal income of the owner for taxation purposes.
Thus, if Joe the Plumber owned a company that made over $250K/yr (I'm assuming this means "netted"), he would be making over $250K/yr for taxation purposes.
That's a nice little turn-of-phrase there.
Quick question: If you found a hive of bees in your bedroom, would you destroy them or leave them? What about a spiderweb? A yellow jacket nest?
I'm not trying to poke holes in anything you say; I'm honestly trying to explore what the contours of "reasonable" arthropod-friendly behavior by humans might be.
Fun fact, the guy saw a bunch of American flags at half-mast, so referring to Americans who had died was relevant and proper, not nationalistic.
Yes, I'm sure that Hezbollah is bribing the AP into publishing shooped photos.
WOOSH
We are it.
Indeed. The average for medical expert witnesses is over $400/hr. The average. I've heard of the hourly fee for some highly sought-after expert witnesses to be over $5,000/hr. The reason is that it is quite difficult to find someone who comes across as an expert, has gravitas, and is also personable. Remember that juries do not like to believe people they dislike.
Perhaps men are socially trained to think that HHD is for women. You know, men suppressing other men? Or society in general suppressing them? Hell, it doesn't even have to be labeled "suppression." It could be labeled "conditioning." I would not expect a nerd on Slashdot to argue that conditioning does not exist.
I mean, I see on TV shows all the freaking time male nurses getting ripped on. And when TV and novels portray the caregivers as women, boys learn that it's not a job for them.
Is that really so hard to even fathom?!? I mean, at least entertain the idea!
Which, of course, explains why the programmers of the ENIAC were men. Oh, wait.
The source you quoted is just wrong. It's likely that the first few Presidents we had were deist, not Christian. Furthermore, there is significant disagreement in the Christian community about whether Jehova's Witnesses and Unitarians even "count" as Christian. Primarily because JWs and Unitarians deny that Jesus was the son of God.
I'm a Christian and I have no problem with "accepting" them as Christians, but there is significant disagreement on this issue. So that makes five who are not considered Christian by the majority of Christian denominations out there, along with at least five Deists. That's almost 25% of our Presidents who are openly perhaps not Christian.
What a nice double entendroo you've got there, juxtaposing "bosun" and "harbor."
Just to back you up on the "university lawyers" comment: I worked for the Office of General Counsel of one of the largest university systems in the United States this summer. The lawyers were both very good and very well connected.
And very numerous.
Takedown notices. If you share files, you could be an ISP. UT's residential network likely qualifies as an OSP/ISP in Title II of the DMCA (aka the "OSCILLA"). If someone on their network is sharing files, that possibly makes them liable if they ignore a takedown notice.
Well that proves you have no taste or are terribly ignorant about the great country artists who have existed through time. Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, George Strait, etc.
In my opinion, modern country music is trying too hard to be rock and pop, but country music had a lot of great artists until about 15 years ago.
I think what you're trying to say is that PNG is lossless, while JPG is lossy. This is similar to how FLAC is lossless, while MP3 is lossy.
I believe you speak of either Roper or Lawrence, cases J. Kennedy authored. Regarding Roper (the only one I'll address in this comment), the problem is, the VIII Amd. talks about "cruel and unusual punishment" without defining it. What "founding principles" enlighten us with the meaning? The Declaration of Independence? The opinions of the founders? The practice of lawyers since the founding of the USA?
You do realize that the SCOTUS has cited foreign cases for 200 years, right? In the decade after WWII, the SCOTUS cited foreign cases over 130 times. I shall quote one of the most eminent legal minds of the United States, the well-respected Steven Calabresi out of Northwestern. Oh, and he also happens to be a conservative legal commentator who is actively involved with the Federalist Society:
Our entire systems of property and contract are still heavily informed by British thinkers.
Until the ascendancy of the American Bar Assocation and university accreditation for law schools, lawyers literally memorized the writings of a dead British author to learn the law.
And you dare to suggest that foreign thought has no relevancy in the United States judicial system? Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the US would have to show a "decent respect for the opinions of mankind"! In the Declaration of Independence!
Finally, I quote from the opinion:
But that has nothing to do with the current discussion, which is whether a higher frequency of Obama commercials implies that channel is biased toward Obama.
Funny. I went through public education in the US end it wasn't until university (where I majored in math and Japanese, so it wasn't all them histree classes brainwarshin me) that I changed my mind FROM "big government is bad."
Yes, although the syntax is different
a = foo.search("(?P<label>regexstring)",wall_of_text) will let you then look at a.group('label') if I recall correctly.
It's tales like this that Slashdot preserves for posterity. I love it!
Me too!!!!!
Bah. You're the kind of guy who visits Jerusalem and doesn't want to visit the Sexateria.
If India's standard of living goes up dramatically enough in a decade that their purchasing power per person rivals the US, I'll eat my soggy underpants.
Recall that if the average American can pay $1 for something but the average Indian can only afford $.1, the goods will all be shipped to the US (provided that the shipping cost disparity between China-US and China-India < $.9.
Law professors typically don't have research grants--legal research is a different entity from regular university research. And their salaries are typically huge (a comfortable six figures is standard) and paid for by universities.
At least, that is true at my tier 1 school.