No they shouldn't. Corporate taxes are regressive. The cost of the taxes are passed on to the customers (as higher prices), the employees (as lower wages), or the shareholders (as lower dividends or share prices). The first is equivalent to a sales tax. The second is equivalent to a payroll tax, which is even more regressive. The third is applied to all shareholders equally, so a working class family with a pension pays the same as a billionaire. It is better to just get rid of corporate taxes, and collect the tax at the individual level. This will not only be more progressive, but it will also give corporations a greater incentive to invest and grow, and fewer reasons to lobby and corrupt our government.
That is 1 state above the threshold for making the criticism legitimate.
It is technically illegal in one rural state, yet, despite claims to the contrary, there is no record of anyone ever being procesecuted in Idaho for feeding a baby.
It is a total non-issue, and anyone upset about the zero women who have gone to jail is just looking for some phony manufactured issue to be outraged about.
So God bless motherhood, and God bless the United States of America.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a false flag operation as well.
I once thought the same thing about the "birther" movement. It was so stupid and inane, that I figured it was secretly pushed by liberals to make Republicans look like shrill dysfunctional idiots. But now the leading birther is in the oval office, so I guess I was wrong.
I think you are wrong too. Republicans think that people on the Left are disorderly self-entitled rule breaking jerks, and these rioters confirmed all those perceptions, which was stupid and counterproductive. But there are a lot of stupid people out there, and I am more willing to assume that the rioters were stupid than to assume that Trump's supporters were intelligent enough to pull off a false flag op.
Actually, most Neo-Nazi BS is best debunked by actual Nazis. "The Holocaust never happened" is thoroughly debunked by Nazi testimony at Nuremberg. The defenses fell in one of two categories:
1. Yes, I killed people, but I was just following orders, so I am not responsible. 2. Yes, I gave orders, but I didn't actually kill anyone myself, so I am not responsible.
But NONE of them use the defense, or ever claimed, that the killings didn't happen, or that the death camps didn't exist. No one claimed that until many years later.
So the original claim that she was not only at his Innauguration, but also had her diary with her, is at least two kinds of bullshit itself.
Except that nobody claimed that. The famous diary writer at Hitler's inauguration was Joseph Goebbels. His diary is fascinating to read, and provides a huge amount of insight into the inner workings of Nazi Germany, unlike Anne's which is just the musing of a girl locked in a room.
Anne wrote the body of her diary with a fountain pen. The only things written in ballpoint pen ink are two loose notes written by someone else and put with the papers later and some page numbers written on the sheets during the compilation process.
There is a long history of neo-Nazis trying to discredit Anne's diaries, so in 1963 her defenders tracked down the arresting officer that led the raid on their hideout. He corroborated nearly everything that Anne's father had said.
No, I believe it because I understand economics. I also understand history: Britain controlled the world's reserve currency from the Napoleonic Wars until WW1. They had trade deficits for a century while their economy boomed and British people enjoyed the highest living standards in the world. Most of the bonds issued to fund this debt were repeatedly rolled over, and eventually inflated away and never repaid in real terms. Now we enjoy those same benefits, and we would be foolish to throw them away in some idiotic quest for "balanced trade".
USA is in enormous debt because the world subsidises its consumption.
Duh. Of course. But that is not going to stop. Trade "debt" is not like personal credit card debt. There is no reason that it EVER has to be paid back. As long as we control the world's reserve currency, we can continue to issue checks that will never be cashed. Besides, it is not "collective debt". If I buy a German made BMW, that adds to our trade deficit, but paying it back is MY problem, not yours.
Trade deficits are a sign of strength, not weakness. It means foreigners want to invest in dollar denominated assets (such as American stocks and bonds) and are willing to reduce their own consumption and subsidize ours in order to make that happen.
Japan has run trade surpluses for more than 50 years. What has it got them? My chicken coop is bigger than the average Japanese home. The yen went from ~400 to the dollar to 90 today, which means 80% of the "savings" that they sweated for decades to achieve simply disappeared, and their economy is stagnant. Do you really think America should be more like Japan?
Reserve currency does not prevent the need to pay for consumption
This country is running trade deficits because manufacturing jobs have been shoved overseas
Nope. America manufactures more today than ever before. We just do it with a lot fewer people. The main reason for the trade deficit is that America controls the world's reserve currency, which is a GOOD THING.
Foxconn, the Chinese company...
Foxconn is not a Chinese company.
Children are chained to desks
All the evidence for that was part of a hoax. There is no credible evidence that anyone at Foxconn was ever physically restrained at their desk, and they do not employ children.
Now, if that's the world you want here in the US...
You mean the world of "alternative facts?" We already have that.
Trump has always been anti-union, something those white union workers who voted for him have seem to have forgotten.
Many union members in closed shop states (including California, but not Nevada) don't actually like unions, and are only members because paying union dues is a condition of employment.
All real rocks are actually finite in size, come in many different sizes, shapes, and colors, and tend to be solid
But if you were building a wall, you would also want the "rocks" to be rectangular so they are easy to place and minimize the amount of mortar needed. So that would lead instead to the hypothesis that bricks were man made.
That is a weak rebuttal. Basically it says "I don't like this theory therefore it must not be true". A simulation would not have to compute the state of every quark in 13.85B-LY^3 with planck-time granularity. It would just need to compute the sensory input to a single brain.
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it.
There is no conclusive proof, but there is plenty of evidence that the universe is a simulation. In many ways, the universe appears to be designed to be easy to simulate. If you were designing a universe simulation, what would you do?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum". 2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons. 3. The maximum speed of information transfer would be finite, to limit the propagation of changes through the universe.
All of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are very likely a simulation.
intra-program sanity checks shouldn't be necessary (or ever deployed!) outside of debug mode.
Unless sanity checks are a bottleneck (rare) they should be left in. Users will do things to your program that you never imagined. When I deploy, I use a custom assert that emails me a stack trace and keylog on failure. That is infinitely more valuable than a useless complaint like "Your program keeps crashing for no reason".
I was never in a cell. I was in an open dormitory like area with about 50 other guys, and there was an eating/TV/Reading area that we could use anytime we wanted. We had to spend about an hour every morning cleaning, and since I was a "new guy" I was assigned the toilets. But otherwise we could spend our time doing whatever we wanted... watching TV, playing cards, reading books, etc.
He is cutting NASA's budget for this year (from $19.5B to $19.1B) but is expressing support for a goal that will cost WAY more than that AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE, so paying for it will be somebody else's problem.
He applied QM to black holes to determine that they inevitably must radiate energy, and thus are finite and will eventually evaporate.
Only for very large values of "eventually". A black hole the size of the sun would take 10e67 years to evaporate. The sun contains about 10e57 hydrogen atoms. So that means it would lose the mass of one hydrogen atom every 10 billion years, which is roughly the current lifetime of the universe. To lose an entire gram would take a hundred trillion trillion times as long as that.
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Yes, corporations should pay higher taxes.
No they shouldn't. Corporate taxes are regressive. The cost of the taxes are passed on to the customers (as higher prices), the employees (as lower wages), or the shareholders (as lower dividends or share prices). The first is equivalent to a sales tax. The second is equivalent to a payroll tax, which is even more regressive. The third is applied to all shareholders equally, so a working class family with a pension pays the same as a billionaire. It is better to just get rid of corporate taxes, and collect the tax at the individual level. This will not only be more progressive, but it will also give corporations a greater incentive to invest and grow, and fewer reasons to lobby and corrupt our government.
That is 1 state above the threshold for making the criticism legitimate.
It is technically illegal in one rural state, yet, despite claims to the contrary, there is no record of anyone ever being procesecuted in Idaho for feeding a baby.
It is a total non-issue, and anyone upset about the zero women who have gone to jail is just looking for some phony manufactured issue to be outraged about.
So God bless motherhood, and God bless the United States of America.
...said the main living in the glorious country where the simple apparition of a nipple is considered a major mediatic catastrophe
Nipples are only banned from broadcast TV. On cable, and on the internet, Americans are nipple tolerant.
where breast feeding is a public offense
Here is a complete exhaustive list of all the American states where public breastfeeding is illegal:
1. Idaho
It is legal everywhere else.
A quintupling of income against a ten-fold increase of prices would make you 50% WORSE off.
Chinese incomes quintupled in real inflation adjusted terms.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a false flag operation as well.
I once thought the same thing about the "birther" movement. It was so stupid and inane, that I figured it was secretly pushed by liberals to make Republicans look like shrill dysfunctional idiots. But now the leading birther is in the oval office, so I guess I was wrong.
I think you are wrong too. Republicans think that people on the Left are disorderly self-entitled rule breaking jerks, and these rioters confirmed all those perceptions, which was stupid and counterproductive. But there are a lot of stupid people out there, and I am more willing to assume that the rioters were stupid than to assume that Trump's supporters were intelligent enough to pull off a false flag op.
Neo-Nazi B.S. de-bunked by an actual ex-Nazi!
Actually, most Neo-Nazi BS is best debunked by actual Nazis. "The Holocaust never happened" is thoroughly debunked by Nazi testimony at Nuremberg. The defenses fell in one of two categories:
1. Yes, I killed people, but I was just following orders, so I am not responsible.
2. Yes, I gave orders, but I didn't actually kill anyone myself, so I am not responsible.
But NONE of them use the defense, or ever claimed, that the killings didn't happen, or that the death camps didn't exist. No one claimed that until many years later.
So the original claim that she was not only at his Innauguration, but also had her diary with her, is at least two kinds of bullshit itself.
Except that nobody claimed that. The famous diary writer at Hitler's inauguration was Joseph Goebbels. His diary is fascinating to read, and provides a huge amount of insight into the inner workings of Nazi Germany, unlike Anne's which is just the musing of a girl locked in a room.
Anne Frank's diary was written long after the end of WWII, using a ballpoint pen (which wasn't invented until after WWII)
That is holocaust denialist BS that has been debunked:
Anne wrote the body of her diary with a fountain pen. The only things written in ballpoint pen ink are two loose notes written by someone else and put with the papers later and some page numbers written on the sheets during the compilation process.
There is a long history of neo-Nazis trying to discredit Anne's diaries, so in 1963 her defenders tracked down the arresting officer that led the raid on their hideout. He corroborated nearly everything that Anne's father had said.
or don't bring one at all..
Then how are you going to coordinate the riot?
I don't know, he didn't make a push for drugs legalization.
Drug legalization has moved inside the Overton Window. It is now a ballot box issue rather than a soapbox issue.
Even in China you don't have poors that get richer.
Yes you do. Chinese incomes have quintupled over the last 20 years.
It's heartwarming how quickly the commies have embraced capitalist ideals, ain't it?
Communism gave them famine. Capitalism brought them prosperity. So it wasn't a hard decision.
You believe this because it worked so far.
No, I believe it because I understand economics. I also understand history: Britain controlled the world's reserve currency from the Napoleonic Wars until WW1. They had trade deficits for a century while their economy boomed and British people enjoyed the highest living standards in the world. Most of the bonds issued to fund this debt were repeatedly rolled over, and eventually inflated away and never repaid in real terms. Now we enjoy those same benefits, and we would be foolish to throw them away in some idiotic quest for "balanced trade".
USA is in enormous debt because the world subsidises its consumption.
Duh. Of course. But that is not going to stop. Trade "debt" is not like personal credit card debt. There is no reason that it EVER has to be paid back. As long as we control the world's reserve currency, we can continue to issue checks that will never be cashed. Besides, it is not "collective debt". If I buy a German made BMW, that adds to our trade deficit, but paying it back is MY problem, not yours.
Trade deficits are a sign of strength, not weakness. It means foreigners want to invest in dollar denominated assets (such as American stocks and bonds) and are willing to reduce their own consumption and subsidize ours in order to make that happen.
Japan has run trade surpluses for more than 50 years. What has it got them? My chicken coop is bigger than the average Japanese home. The yen went from ~400 to the dollar to 90 today, which means 80% of the "savings" that they sweated for decades to achieve simply disappeared, and their economy is stagnant. Do you really think America should be more like Japan?
Reserve currency does not prevent the need to pay for consumption
False.
Why should city-dwellers subsidize your chosen lifestyle.
"Dig once" is cheaper, and reduces the need for rural internet subsidies.
This country is running trade deficits because manufacturing jobs have been shoved overseas
Nope. America manufactures more today than ever before. We just do it with a lot fewer people. The main reason for the trade deficit is that America controls the world's reserve currency, which is a GOOD THING.
Foxconn, the Chinese company ...
Foxconn is not a Chinese company.
Children are chained to desks
All the evidence for that was part of a hoax. There is no credible evidence that anyone at Foxconn was ever physically restrained at their desk, and they do not employ children.
Now, if that's the world you want here in the US ...
You mean the world of "alternative facts?" We already have that.
Trump has always been anti-union, something those white union workers who voted for him have seem to have forgotten.
Many union members in closed shop states (including California, but not Nevada) don't actually like unions, and are only members because paying union dues is a condition of employment.
All real rocks are actually finite in size, come in many different sizes, shapes, and colors, and tend to be solid
But if you were building a wall, you would also want the "rocks" to be rectangular so they are easy to place and minimize the amount of mortar needed. So that would lead instead to the hypothesis that bricks were man made.
Umm no and here's the rebuttal: http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
That is a weak rebuttal. Basically it says "I don't like this theory therefore it must not be true". A simulation would not have to compute the state of every quark in 13.85B-LY^3 with planck-time granularity. It would just need to compute the sensory input to a single brain.
It isn't even a theory though, as there isn't anything to support it.
There is no conclusive proof, but there is plenty of evidence that the universe is a simulation. In many ways, the universe appears to be designed to be easy to simulate. If you were designing a universe simulation, what would you do?
1. Due to limited computational resources, the simulated universe would be granular or "quantum".
2. To limit computation, reality would be held in a fuzzy probabilistic "superposition" state until it is actually observed, similar to how a GPU running OpenGL will skip the generation of hidden polygons.
3. The maximum speed of information transfer would be finite, to limit the propagation of changes through the universe.
All of these are actually true in our universe, ergo, we are very likely a simulation.
intra-program sanity checks shouldn't be necessary (or ever deployed!) outside of debug mode.
Unless sanity checks are a bottleneck (rare) they should be left in. Users will do things to your program that you never imagined. When I deploy, I use a custom assert that emails me a stack trace and keylog on failure. That is infinitely more valuable than a useless complaint like "Your program keeps crashing for no reason".
I was never in a cell. I was in an open dormitory like area with about 50 other guys, and there was an eating/TV/Reading area that we could use anytime we wanted. We had to spend about an hour every morning cleaning, and since I was a "new guy" I was assigned the toilets. But otherwise we could spend our time doing whatever we wanted ... watching TV, playing cards, reading books, etc.
He is cutting NASA's budget for this year (from $19.5B to $19.1B) but is expressing support for a goal that will cost WAY more than that AFTER HE LEAVES OFFICE, so paying for it will be somebody else's problem.
and I've been calling for professional licensing and liability for software engineers for at least 30 years.
We already have professional licensing/certificates such as MCSE, MCP, etc. They are negatively correlated with competence.
And yeah, this will slow things down and require people do things right the first time
It will also greatly increase the cost, and be the end of free software.
Programming should not be a crime.
Addiction isn't a disease. It is a choice.
Bullcrap. Try to go three days without food. The urge to eat will be overwhelming. Yet a heroin addict will chose heroin over food.
He applied QM to black holes to determine that they inevitably must radiate energy, and thus are finite and will eventually evaporate.
Only for very large values of "eventually". A black hole the size of the sun would take 10e67 years to evaporate. The sun contains about 10e57 hydrogen atoms. So that means it would lose the mass of one hydrogen atom every 10 billion years, which is roughly the current lifetime of the universe. To lose an entire gram would take a hundred trillion trillion times as long as that.