You say that, but you're only thinking of federal taxes. There's a huge poor tax in the form of things like sales tax, which hits basically every dollar poorer people see, but not the wealthier people in the world. I should also point out that while I'm an urban person, I'm not poor, and I pay quite typical income taxes.
That's not unique to phones. It also applies to highways, minor airports, housing tax incentives, and a number of other "American Dream" elements that really have nothing to do with having a successful society.
Why not just say 100%, as I'm pretty sure there haven't been 1 dodecillian HTTP connections since 1970? Trim 5-7 nines off that and I'd be more inclined to believe you(maybe).
I haven't physically had to enter a DMV since I got my license years ago. I handle everything necessary through online systems. I won't have to be back in one till my license picture is invalid.
I think you'll find the U.S. Military is actually really good about gun safety, on the level. Armories aren't easily accessed and reasonable safety precautions are taken for every live-fire exercise.
Yeah, I'd lean towards a minor depression, in that there have been systemic factors that prevented a real recovery(in the U.S., U.K., and only a couple of other countries, that all had something very specific in common; I'll let you guess what that is.)
We no longer need 40-hour work-weeks in the US. The productivity of the average worker is really damn high. But we've decided that cutting back hours to what's needed justifies a massive pay-loss.
This manifests in temp-jobs, migrant workers, bored salaried office workers dragged into offices for 40 hours a week. The net result is a less stable society, with a high GDP, and awful wages.
Please note this post represents an observational opinion that doesn't not necessarily represent a rigorously studied position, but rather an intuited one.
Well, I understand the dislike for cursing in place of meaningful debate, but there's a lot of legitimate criticism to be had about modern incarnations of free-market capitalism, especially where social responsibility of investors/capitalists is a factor. I'm not saying there's a clearly better system, but there is a "religion of the free market" that reminds me a lot of how soviet true-believers used to think "true communism" was just around the corner.
No, at a certain point, it becomes about ego. "Look at all I own, I deserve the presidency." It's hard to imagine this, but there is such a thing as so much money that you can do whatever you want, period and Romney was well past that threshold. He didn't need more money. He needed a way to feed his ego when there were those who were richer than him.
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
It's the duration that's problematic here. Things from the 1950s are, by and large, no longer valuable enough to exploit copyright for, but more recent things are, and continue to be published. We should target copyright dates so that things enter the public domain when approximately 75% of a given medium are no longer on the marketplace. For movies, that's probably about 30ish years.
I'm radically anti-advertising, I firmly believe that advertising is actually economically damaging to society, since it represents a deviation from what a person would believe their own best interests were without the advertising present. The degree to which mentally unhealthy con-games and brainwashing are used also potentially represents a mass damage to the human psyche.
I understand that free-speech is valuable and not to be trod on lightly, but if you're paying for it, it's not really free speech anyways. I'd like to see what a paid-ad free post industrial society is like.
Well, believe or not, there's some natural xenophilia in all cultures. I'm not sure your attributed causes are exactly the core of the phenomenon you describe, nor am I sure it's more accentuated in eastern cultures than western, but I'll acknowledge that I can't imagine any woman would be pleased with a misogynistic husband.
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You say that, but you're only thinking of federal taxes. There's a huge poor tax in the form of things like sales tax, which hits basically every dollar poorer people see, but not the wealthier people in the world. I should also point out that while I'm an urban person, I'm not poor, and I pay quite typical income taxes.
That's not unique to phones. It also applies to highways, minor airports, housing tax incentives, and a number of other "American Dream" elements that really have nothing to do with having a successful society.
And that's unique to India, how?
To be fair, it worked pretty well for C.S. lewis and the new testament.
Is this a poorly worded Pogo reference?
Why not just say 100%, as I'm pretty sure there haven't been 1 dodecillian HTTP connections since 1970? Trim 5-7 nines off that and I'd be more inclined to believe you(maybe).
I haven't physically had to enter a DMV since I got my license years ago. I handle everything necessary through online systems. I won't have to be back in one till my license picture is invalid.
I think you'll find the U.S. Military is actually really good about gun safety, on the level. Armories aren't easily accessed and reasonable safety precautions are taken for every live-fire exercise.
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant in the corporate world. It's an important clarification, I suppose.
Yeah, I'd lean towards a minor depression, in that there have been systemic factors that prevented a real recovery(in the U.S., U.K., and only a couple of other countries, that all had something very specific in common; I'll let you guess what that is.)
I haven't seen a legitimate use of a 1099 in my life.
We no longer need 40-hour work-weeks in the US. The productivity of the average worker is really damn high. But we've decided that cutting back hours to what's needed justifies a massive pay-loss.
This manifests in temp-jobs, migrant workers, bored salaried office workers dragged into offices for 40 hours a week. The net result is a less stable society, with a high GDP, and awful wages.
Please note this post represents an observational opinion that doesn't not necessarily represent a rigorously studied position, but rather an intuited one.
Well, I understand the dislike for cursing in place of meaningful debate, but there's a lot of legitimate criticism to be had about modern incarnations of free-market capitalism, especially where social responsibility of investors/capitalists is a factor. I'm not saying there's a clearly better system, but there is a "religion of the free market" that reminds me a lot of how soviet true-believers used to think "true communism" was just around the corner.
Please explain relevance? Especially given your ad-hominem that seems purposely unrelated?
No, at a certain point, it becomes about ego. "Look at all I own, I deserve the presidency." It's hard to imagine this, but there is such a thing as so much money that you can do whatever you want, period and Romney was well past that threshold. He didn't need more money. He needed a way to feed his ego when there were those who were richer than him.
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
It's the duration that's problematic here. Things from the 1950s are, by and large, no longer valuable enough to exploit copyright for, but more recent things are, and continue to be published. We should target copyright dates so that things enter the public domain when approximately 75% of a given medium are no longer on the marketplace. For movies, that's probably about 30ish years.
I'm radically anti-advertising, I firmly believe that advertising is actually economically damaging to society, since it represents a deviation from what a person would believe their own best interests were without the advertising present. The degree to which mentally unhealthy con-games and brainwashing are used also potentially represents a mass damage to the human psyche.
I understand that free-speech is valuable and not to be trod on lightly, but if you're paying for it, it's not really free speech anyways. I'd like to see what a paid-ad free post industrial society is like.
Well, believe or not, there's some natural xenophilia in all cultures. I'm not sure your attributed causes are exactly the core of the phenomenon you describe, nor am I sure it's more accentuated in eastern cultures than western, but I'll acknowledge that I can't imagine any woman would be pleased with a misogynistic husband.
But, I can't help but feel they'll manage 4D just fine when the first TARDIS tv comes out.
Not to defend this, but our crime resolution rate is up, and false convictions are estimated to be down.
Now... if only they could take this technology and use it to filter out the spam.
Yeah, yeah, I know, they make most of their money on spam.
What they don't seem to realize is that if becomes the norm, there won't be any reason to limit one's protest to the ostensibly legal kind.
Seeing as they're doing exactly that at my state capital quite regularly: yeah, they can.
Christ, sarcasm dude. I... what? How do you honestly think that anyone is in favor of arresting dissenters?