One problem, particularly in India, is that the 900 or so welfare programs that a UBI would replace currently support a huge constituency of clerks and administrators. Graft and theft aside, too many people make a livelihood managing these plans and doling out benefits. Even with a UBI system that included a means test (they want to limit the Indian UBI to the bottom 75% of the population), very simple screens requiring few administrators could accomplish this.
Another problem, particularly in countries like India, is that it is difficult to evaluate the benefits of any kind of welfare system when a large part of your population live outside of the main stream of modern economies. How poor are they really? They have been living for thousands of years in agricultural communities based on barter within villages. Only recently have the armies of tax collectors, iPhone salesmen and utility companies become concerned with the fact that these people have no money with which to participate in modern markets. So we are going into panic mode to get them some cash. Just so they can pay it back to the tax collector for the bartering they used to do throughout history. Measuring the efficacy of UBI (or any welfare system) is much easier in modern economies like Finland than in older indigenous communities that still prevail in India.
Some people will prefer their own line of employment rather than a make-work government job. Some will stand by the off-ramp with a cardboard sign*. Some will break into your house or car and steal your shit. Some will hold you up at knife or gun point. And some will sell meth or heroin to the above listed sole proprietors.
*Not a bad living, actually. I ran into one of the cardboard sign hobos one morning in a local parking garage near his favorite corner. He was taking his sign out of the trunk of a Lexus that is far nicer then my shitbox car. Keep in mint that this is a 100% cash, no reported income business. If you aren't penalized by the income tax system, a little bit of money can go a long ways. Something for all the lefties to think about.
What about an optical labyrinth? Basically a lead-lined periscope (with a few extra bends and mirrors). With coated front surface mirrors there would be minimal amounts of glass in the pathway for radiation to attack.
It's like a rental property. The police have to serve the tenant with the warrant, not the landlord.
If your legal education consists of TV cop shows, they are wrong. Landlords don't go around unlocking rental units for cops without exigent circumstances.
The car analogy isn't very good in the case of e-mail. It's not Microsoft's e-mail, it's mine. Microsoft is simply storing and moving it for me. If the government serves Microsoft with a warrant to read my e-mail and Microsoft hands it over, they must have stolen it from me.
'Stolen' in the same sense that people pirate music and movies. I'm not missing the e-mail, even though Microsoft took a copy of it. Just like Paramount Pictures isn't missing the latest Star Trek movie when I download a torrent of it. Copyright owners can hold Netflix responsible for distributing their content only as allowed and movie theaters responsible for allowing patrons to sneak video cameras in to grap a shitty copy of a movie.
I'm surprised Microsoft went with a Fourth Amendment claim. It's not their data, its their customers'. What the government is interfering with is Microsoft's First Amendment rights (they can't tell customers when the government slurps up their e-mail) and tortious interference between Microsoft and their customers in their agreement to keep their property secure.
If the Fourth Amendment can only be extended as far as an individual's physical property and the papers and effects contained therein, there is going to be a chilling effect on all commerce. So maybe an issue with the Commerce Clause as well.
major credit card brands sold in America... fake being from the US-of-A
FATCA is designed to keep foreign banks from siphoning off US business. Once you are in the states, we don't care if you rip off some EU license holder.
Not so much. Coal is being replaced by cheaper natural gas. Gas made cheaper by advances in fracking technology. Which is by no means a friend of the greenies.
Not a measly $1000 per instance fine. Just make Airbnb rentals subject to NYC's rent control laws. Rent out a unit off season for a low rate and you can't raise it or kick the occupants out.
Is this even possible in the EU anymore? On this side of the pond (USA) we passed a law prohibiting* foreign financial institutions from creating or maintaining accounts for US persons. So how can some EU bank allow anyone to walk in and set up a credit card account without proof that they are not Americans?
*Well, not actually prohibiting. But if you are caught opening an account for a US person, you will be audited with a rubber glove. Repeatedly.
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Pilot whales. 2000 to 3000 kg. You could roll/drag one with a tractor.
One problem, particularly in India, is that the 900 or so welfare programs that a UBI would replace currently support a huge constituency of clerks and administrators. Graft and theft aside, too many people make a livelihood managing these plans and doling out benefits. Even with a UBI system that included a means test (they want to limit the Indian UBI to the bottom 75% of the population), very simple screens requiring few administrators could accomplish this.
Another problem, particularly in countries like India, is that it is difficult to evaluate the benefits of any kind of welfare system when a large part of your population live outside of the main stream of modern economies. How poor are they really? They have been living for thousands of years in agricultural communities based on barter within villages. Only recently have the armies of tax collectors, iPhone salesmen and utility companies become concerned with the fact that these people have no money with which to participate in modern markets. So we are going into panic mode to get them some cash. Just so they can pay it back to the tax collector for the bartering they used to do throughout history. Measuring the efficacy of UBI (or any welfare system) is much easier in modern economies like Finland than in older indigenous communities that still prevail in India.
It is illegal to be unemployed.
Some people will prefer their own line of employment rather than a make-work government job. Some will stand by the off-ramp with a cardboard sign*. Some will break into your house or car and steal your shit. Some will hold you up at knife or gun point. And some will sell meth or heroin to the above listed sole proprietors.
*Not a bad living, actually. I ran into one of the cardboard sign hobos one morning in a local parking garage near his favorite corner. He was taking his sign out of the trunk of a Lexus that is far nicer then my shitbox car. Keep in mint that this is a 100% cash, no reported income business. If you aren't penalized by the income tax system, a little bit of money can go a long ways. Something for all the lefties to think about.
Won't work. My bedroom has lots of spider webs and its still full of junk.
Ve vill ask ze questions!
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer
What about an optical labyrinth? Basically a lead-lined periscope (with a few extra bends and mirrors). With coated front surface mirrors there would be minimal amounts of glass in the pathway for radiation to attack.
It's like a rental property. The police have to serve the tenant with the warrant, not the landlord.
If your legal education consists of TV cop shows, they are wrong. Landlords don't go around unlocking rental units for cops without exigent circumstances.
The car analogy isn't very good in the case of e-mail. It's not Microsoft's e-mail, it's mine. Microsoft is simply storing and moving it for me. If the government serves Microsoft with a warrant to read my e-mail and Microsoft hands it over, they must have stolen it from me.
'Stolen' in the same sense that people pirate music and movies. I'm not missing the e-mail, even though Microsoft took a copy of it. Just like Paramount Pictures isn't missing the latest Star Trek movie when I download a torrent of it. Copyright owners can hold Netflix responsible for distributing their content only as allowed and movie theaters responsible for allowing patrons to sneak video cameras in to grap a shitty copy of a movie.
Fourth Amendment protection
I'm surprised Microsoft went with a Fourth Amendment claim. It's not their data, its their customers'. What the government is interfering with is Microsoft's First Amendment rights (they can't tell customers when the government slurps up their e-mail) and tortious interference between Microsoft and their customers in their agreement to keep their property secure.
If the Fourth Amendment can only be extended as far as an individual's physical property and the papers and effects contained therein, there is going to be a chilling effect on all commerce. So maybe an issue with the Commerce Clause as well.
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Actual quote: "As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
major credit card brands sold in America ... fake being from the US-of-A
FATCA is designed to keep foreign banks from siphoning off US business. Once you are in the states, we don't care if you rip off some EU license holder.
Now we've got the SOB!
Just hope that the training data set used to tune the enhancement software doesn't include your face.
at the whim of environmentalists
Not so much. Coal is being replaced by cheaper natural gas. Gas made cheaper by advances in fracking technology. Which is by no means a friend of the greenies.
Not necessarily. Setting aside the efficiencies of each source, local generation doesn't suffer from the same levels of transmission loss.
I wonder what's happening now ?
Brace yourselves for a cosmic belch.
Not a measly $1000 per instance fine. Just make Airbnb rentals subject to NYC's rent control laws. Rent out a unit off season for a low rate and you can't raise it or kick the occupants out.
arrange payment details in another country
Is this even possible in the EU anymore? On this side of the pond (USA) we passed a law prohibiting* foreign financial institutions from creating or maintaining accounts for US persons. So how can some EU bank allow anyone to walk in and set up a credit card account without proof that they are not Americans?
*Well, not actually prohibiting. But if you are caught opening an account for a US person, you will be audited with a rubber glove. Repeatedly.
I just hope law enforcement doesn't think they can sell this to a jury.
FTFY.
CSI has already proved problematic in that jurors have developed unreasonable expectations of what is possible.