Immigration is good at the macro level but not so much at certain micro levels. The way to fix that is income redistribution, but that's not something we generally want in this country for any number of reasons. So we have the continuous tension between "immigration benefits the country" and "immigration makes it hard for me to get a better job".
Whatever Trump is he has done a great job in drawing lines. By that I mean you know where people stand. The man who does the things you mention for some people is an automatic fail, for others it isn't. It's good to know who is whom.
Mandel did not run for re-election, so he's out of a job in about a month. It may go away right then and there.
Also, this sounds a lot like "you pay your taxes in Bitcoin and we will turn around and convert that to cash". The person paying their taxes isn't going to get a bill for 0.53BTC and then the treasury is going to hold onto them in perpetuity. Everything is going to be dollar denominated and the conversion rate will be on the spot. Today you might need to pay 0.53BTC and tomorrow it might be 0.60 and next week it might be 0.47 to meet your dollar denominated tax bill.
Not to mention that if the US Dollar collapsed, that would mean the US economy would have collapsed, and... let's just say that if that happened, the BTC conversion rate will be the least of your worries
If you want to hedge against the Dollar collapsing, I recommend ammunition and store brand pork & beans.
It was never meant to be that executive departments and the courts would have so much power. Congress was designed to be pretty powerful, but for the reasons I mentioned they are not powerful at all.
The idea that Congress would cover for a criminal and corrupt President was unthinkable. There's a reason the question of whether or not the President could pardon himself never came up. It would be unthinkable. Congress would have him out on his ass before the ink dried on the pardon.
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders? If you are here in this country illegally, you have criminally trespassed. You should be deported.
That is the current law.
If folks don't like that, then start to put pressure on your congress-critters and have them change the laws.
Paying attention to just that part of your comment, one of the problems is that Congress is so unresponsive to their constituents and fundamentally broken as an institution people are trying to work around it through putting pressure on the courts and executive departments. This is explicitly not the way this was ever meant to work.
Our institutions have so many veto points that it's impossible to get anything non-trivial done. The system was built on compromise and an assumption that the infighting would be between branches of governments, not political parties. Today, both parties have realized that you are rewarded for blocking the party in power rather than working with them to come to a consensus.
Politics has become a zero-sum game. Figure out how to not make it one, and we might get around to fixing a lot of the intractable problems we have here in the good old US of A.
I'm not sorry that I'm white, but I know that people who are white have done some pretty shitty things to ensure that white people remain the dominant race in many societies.
Is that apologizing for being white? If so, I guess I'm apologizing for being white.
Really all this comes down to owning your beliefs and not adhering to labels. I think it's wrong to call people who are gay "fags" in most circumstances*. If you want to say I'm a terrible human being because I think that word can be used in certain contexts, then I'll own up to being a terrible human being. If you want to say I'm a terrible human being because I discourage other people from using that word, then I'm still a terrible human being.
I really don't care what people call me so long as they don't misrepresent my position or beliefs.
*satire, comedy, etc. -- you shouldn't attempt to offend
Sure it might be $82,500 at time of publishing but later today it'll be $60,000, making the attack more likely. Of course, tomorrow it'll be $120,000, which makes the attack less likely.
Surely if I'm a rational utility maximizer (as we're all theorized to be) I'm going to not give a damn about passing on the costs to people after I'm dead.
There are a few apparently due to streaming agreements where they must show a commercial before the show. There indeed are some, but they are the vast, vast minority.
Well they're too stupid to know that all anyone wants is a web client for sending messages that will use a preferably open standard and then fall back on SMS if necessary. Between Voice and Hangouts and Talk they almost had something, but then they went with Allo and just about killed that off already.
This isn't hard. I'm honestly surprised they're so terrible at it.
The problem is actually government-created - local governments granted service monopolies to cable companies.
Can you name one such municipality? I honestly don't know of any, but if you know of one, I'd be happy to hear about it. Most of the time I've found that the reason why there is only one provider in a market is because another provider simply doesn't want to compete. They'd have to build out all the infrastructure and then convince everyone who had cable TV/internet/whatever to switch.
I know for a fact in Columbus, OH there is no service monopoly for cable because I can switch providers. Anyone can provide service here so long as they sign a franchise agreement. We have a grand total of two providers (Spectrum and WOW). Do you think Comcast doesn't build out infrastructure here because they aren't allowed or because they think it's a bad business proposition?
As I'm sure you know, but I'll say it anyway...BLM doesn't mean "Black lives *only* matter", it means "Black lives matter as well". This is obvious to anyone who has seen a "look out for motorcycles" sticker. That sticker isn't saying "look out for motorcycles and cars, trucks, and buses can go to hell". It's saying "motorcycles are are often missed, so pay closer attention to them."
It's actually commandeering rather than states' rights. The feds were trying make the states enforce federal law.
In the quote you mentioned, Congress can, tomorrow if they wish, outlaw all gambling under interstate commerce power. They can't pass a law stating that the states can't change their laws.
There isn't a critical mass of enough people to get this done. I'll doubt there is in your country either.
If any people did want to use violence to achieve their policy goals, you need a decent sized minority to go along with it. Otherwise you're just asking to be shot by a police officer.
Without even reading the article, I guarantee that they immediately convert that to dollars, and the exchange rate changes pretty regularly.
Arizona is not sitting around holding Bitcoin. They're allowing people to pay off their dollar-denominated debts by use of an exchange as an intermediary.
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Immigration is good at the macro level but not so much at certain micro levels. The way to fix that is income redistribution, but that's not something we generally want in this country for any number of reasons. So we have the continuous tension between "immigration benefits the country" and "immigration makes it hard for me to get a better job".
Whatever Trump is he has done a great job in drawing lines. By that I mean you know where people stand. The man who does the things you mention for some people is an automatic fail, for others it isn't. It's good to know who is whom.
Mandel did not run for re-election, so he's out of a job in about a month. It may go away right then and there.
Also, this sounds a lot like "you pay your taxes in Bitcoin and we will turn around and convert that to cash". The person paying their taxes isn't going to get a bill for 0.53BTC and then the treasury is going to hold onto them in perpetuity. Everything is going to be dollar denominated and the conversion rate will be on the spot. Today you might need to pay 0.53BTC and tomorrow it might be 0.60 and next week it might be 0.47 to meet your dollar denominated tax bill.
Not to mention that if the US Dollar collapsed, that would mean the US economy would have collapsed, and ... let's just say that if that happened, the BTC conversion rate will be the least of your worries
If you want to hedge against the Dollar collapsing, I recommend ammunition and store brand pork & beans.
I recall a study that showed that regardless use of DST, people generally organize their lives around evening television schedules.
It was never meant to be that executive departments and the courts would have so much power. Congress was designed to be pretty powerful, but for the reasons I mentioned they are not powerful at all.
The idea that Congress would cover for a criminal and corrupt President was unthinkable. There's a reason the question of whether or not the President could pardon himself never came up. It would be unthinkable. Congress would have him out on his ass before the ink dried on the pardon.
...what has happened so fundamentally in our country (US) where people don't care about actual citizenship, and protecting our borders?
If you are here in this country illegally, you have criminally trespassed. You should be deported.
That is the current law.
If folks don't like that, then start to put pressure on your congress-critters and have them change the laws.
Paying attention to just that part of your comment, one of the problems is that Congress is so unresponsive to their constituents and fundamentally broken as an institution people are trying to work around it through putting pressure on the courts and executive departments. This is explicitly not the way this was ever meant to work.
Our institutions have so many veto points that it's impossible to get anything non-trivial done. The system was built on compromise and an assumption that the infighting would be between branches of governments, not political parties. Today, both parties have realized that you are rewarded for blocking the party in power rather than working with them to come to a consensus.
Politics has become a zero-sum game. Figure out how to not make it one, and we might get around to fixing a lot of the intractable problems we have here in the good old US of A.
This is a great idea...if congress weren't thoroughly disinterested in doing their jobs.
LOL
I'm not sorry that I'm white, but I know that people who are white have done some pretty shitty things to ensure that white people remain the dominant race in many societies.
Is that apologizing for being white? If so, I guess I'm apologizing for being white.
Really all this comes down to owning your beliefs and not adhering to labels. I think it's wrong to call people who are gay "fags" in most circumstances*. If you want to say I'm a terrible human being because I think that word can be used in certain contexts, then I'll own up to being a terrible human being. If you want to say I'm a terrible human being because I discourage other people from using that word, then I'm still a terrible human being.
I really don't care what people call me so long as they don't misrepresent my position or beliefs.
*satire, comedy, etc. -- you shouldn't attempt to offend
Sure it might be $82,500 at time of publishing but later today it'll be $60,000, making the attack more likely. Of course, tomorrow it'll be $120,000, which makes the attack less likely.
Surely if I'm a rational utility maximizer (as we're all theorized to be) I'm going to not give a damn about passing on the costs to people after I'm dead.
Yes, Mr. Krueger. That's why the businesses have them. Businesses are generally against things that make them less profitable.
There are a few apparently due to streaming agreements where they must show a commercial before the show. There indeed are some, but they are the vast, vast minority.
Well they're too stupid to know that all anyone wants is a web client for sending messages that will use a preferably open standard and then fall back on SMS if necessary. Between Voice and Hangouts and Talk they almost had something, but then they went with Allo and just about killed that off already.
This isn't hard. I'm honestly surprised they're so terrible at it.
I don't believe you. You are lying.
The problem is actually government-created - local governments granted service monopolies to cable companies.
Can you name one such municipality? I honestly don't know of any, but if you know of one, I'd be happy to hear about it. Most of the time I've found that the reason why there is only one provider in a market is because another provider simply doesn't want to compete. They'd have to build out all the infrastructure and then convince everyone who had cable TV/internet/whatever to switch.
I know for a fact in Columbus, OH there is no service monopoly for cable because I can switch providers. Anyone can provide service here so long as they sign a franchise agreement. We have a grand total of two providers (Spectrum and WOW). Do you think Comcast doesn't build out infrastructure here because they aren't allowed or because they think it's a bad business proposition?
As I'm sure you know, but I'll say it anyway...BLM doesn't mean "Black lives *only* matter", it means "Black lives matter as well". This is obvious to anyone who has seen a "look out for motorcycles" sticker. That sticker isn't saying "look out for motorcycles and cars, trucks, and buses can go to hell". It's saying "motorcycles are are often missed, so pay closer attention to them."
As long as studios keep up outrageous fees for online streaming licenses
And as long as rural areas have terrible internet options. No one is streaming shit at Grandpa's farm.
Article? I don't even read the comments I'm replying to.
It's actually commandeering rather than states' rights. The feds were trying make the states enforce federal law.
In the quote you mentioned, Congress can, tomorrow if they wish, outlaw all gambling under interstate commerce power. They can't pass a law stating that the states can't change their laws.
I think it has to do with the fact that the edges are basically Antarctica and you can't pass through all that ice or some such nonsense.
There isn't a critical mass of enough people to get this done. I'll doubt there is in your country either.
If any people did want to use violence to achieve their policy goals, you need a decent sized minority to go along with it. Otherwise you're just asking to be shot by a police officer.
Because............blockchain!
Without even reading the article, I guarantee that they immediately convert that to dollars, and the exchange rate changes pretty regularly.
Arizona is not sitting around holding Bitcoin. They're allowing people to pay off their dollar-denominated debts by use of an exchange as an intermediary.