I heard (and it was a years ago, I'm not going to go looking) a number of farmers who were affected by the estate tax talking on NPR (I think ATC.) Right now I know a farmer who's land used to be worth very little (20 years ago) but now the city is getting closer and the land is worth in excess of $25M, but he still lives day to day unless he wants to sell some land or borrow against it. When his kids have to pay the estate tax, they won't be able to. They WILL HAVE to SELL some of the land to pay the tax.
The real rich use corporations and generation jumping trusts to avoid this situation or believe in the estate tax and make their inheritors prepare to pay it.
They could run on it now! Most of Europe has B20 diesel which has 20% Bio, 80% Petro diesel. Kind of like in the United States a lot of gas is 10% ethanol.
While this doesn't do a lot to reduce emissions right away, it is renewable at least and all diesel engines can run on B100. After that push to require diesel engines to run on straight vegetable oil, which is a much cleaner, renewable source.
Eventually we could think about moving to hydrogen as well.
And I think we should heavily consider Wind and Sun. If every new house built had supplemental Solar Power it could greatly reduce our need for power over the long haul. I know California had some new regulation requiring solar power on a percentage of new houses and over 10 years it would be equivalent to building a couple medium to large coal plants in the state, although I don't remember the GWh totals.
I thought it was mandatory civil service for all Americans regardless of if we were at war. This doesn't necessarily mean joining the army. The official title of the bill was: "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."
I for one hope they are created to be infertile, or at least only sold spayed/neutered. We do not need genetically modified cats of any sort out in the wild.
In fact, would prefer nothing that could sow itself was genetically engineered and out in the wild, but it's a little later for that now thanks to the likes of Monsanto.
What happened anyway? It used to be the republican party stood for low taxes, small government, strict interpretation of the constitution and bill of rights, and keeping out of the daily lives of people (for better or worse). Now they are for big government, new branches of the beuracracy, deficiet spending, and reducing the seperation between church and state.
I think they got taken over the by the Christian Right, which is the moralistic wing of the Republican party. Bob Barr is about as "conservative" as it gets and he almost gave the Libertarian an endorsement over this a number of core conservative issues. I do miss the pre-Nixon republican era, that's for sure. Regan was alright, but I'm not sure he was that conservative, especially in the end. I think Regan's success may have something to do with the new direction of the party though.
I think the real trick is/was to lock the internal memory (some sort of TSOP packaged EEPROM I believe)so that it won't accept any programming cancelation messages after you subscribe, then cancel.
I also heard it's possible to "clone" the subbed chip to another radio. It would all require some serious solder re-work skills though. I'm sure there's a website somewhere.
The definition of libertarian is one who is for minimal government intrusion in both personal and economic life. A person for personal freedom and more government programs is a liberal. A person for minimal government intrusion in economic life and more intruusion in personal life is a conservative. Of course the dems and repubs here in the U.S. don't fit those definitions. The repubs used to be libertarians before the Christian "Right" got so involved.
Changing the way votes are cast in Congress would make no sense. It's a yes or no vote. All these other methods of voting are for 2 or more system.
Of course maybe we need 3 or 5 version of every bill and can use one of these methods to get better compromise. Now the bill can still get botched in committee on it's way to the President though...
He wanted tax payers to REPAY Russia's debt to him. If I lent someone $2 Billion with the intent of getting paid back with interest I think would do what I could to see that it happens, maybe I shold write it off as a market risk?
Maybe Soros is more of a libertarian than a American Political Libertarian. dictionary.com describes a libertarian as:
One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
One who believes in free will.
Where does Soros not fit in? He wants some market control in this new global economy, I guess that could make him a little less of a libertarian.
Soros, if you use the diamond method, is probably a libertarian which doesn't mesh well with the the left or right model.
That is, Soros is for economic AND self determination, which is smaller government with less taxes and regulations. I always thought the republicans were for that too, but they're too influenced by the "christian right" these days...
This has already been done. If you husbands company were to get some sort of group policy, rather than an individual policy then HIPAA makes it illegal to exempt you for a pre-existing condition.
Maybe we should take HIPAA farther, but can you require a insurance company to take a loss on an individual? Should they be able to set unlimited premiums to write these more expenses policies?
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And you can skip all the time wasting commercials until they make it illegal. Watch what would have been a 60 minute program in 45 minutes or so.
I heard (and it was a years ago, I'm not going to go looking) a number of farmers who were affected by the estate tax talking on NPR (I think ATC.) Right now I know a farmer who's land used to be worth very little (20 years ago) but now the city is getting closer and the land is worth in excess of $25M, but he still lives day to day unless he wants to sell some land or borrow against it. When his kids have to pay the estate tax, they won't be able to. They WILL HAVE to SELL some of the land to pay the tax.
The real rich use corporations and generation jumping trusts to avoid this situation or believe in the estate tax and make their inheritors prepare to pay it.
They could run on it now! Most of Europe has B20 diesel which has 20% Bio, 80% Petro diesel. Kind of like in the United States a lot of gas is 10% ethanol.
While this doesn't do a lot to reduce emissions right away, it is renewable at least and all diesel engines can run on B100. After that push to require diesel engines to run on straight vegetable oil, which is a much cleaner, renewable source.
Eventually we could think about moving to hydrogen as well.
And I think we should heavily consider Wind and Sun. If every new house built had supplemental Solar Power it could greatly reduce our need for power over the long haul. I know California had some new regulation requiring solar power on a percentage of new houses and over 10 years it would be equivalent to building a couple medium to large coal plants in the state, although I don't remember the GWh totals.
I thought it was mandatory civil service for all Americans regardless of if we were at war. This doesn't necessarily mean joining the army. The official title of the bill was:
"To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."
Maybe if you aren't in the U.S. you ain't voting, but smart states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and other do allow same day registration.
I for one hope they are created to be infertile, or at least only sold spayed/neutered. We do not need genetically modified cats of any sort out in the wild.
In fact, would prefer nothing that could sow itself was genetically engineered and out in the wild, but it's a little later for that now thanks to the likes of Monsanto.
What happened anyway? It used to be the republican party stood for low taxes, small government, strict interpretation of the constitution and bill of rights, and keeping out of the daily lives of people (for better or worse). Now they are for big government, new branches of the beuracracy, deficiet spending, and reducing the seperation between church and state.
I think they got taken over the by the Christian Right, which is the moralistic wing of the Republican party. Bob Barr is about as "conservative" as it gets and he almost gave the Libertarian an endorsement over this a number of core conservative issues. I do miss the pre-Nixon republican era, that's for sure. Regan was alright, but I'm not sure he was that conservative, especially in the end. I think Regan's success may have something to do with the new direction of the party though.
Cloning a current or past sub and making the "TSOP" readonly would work then? Or does the "TSOP" have to be read/write for the radio to function?
I think the real trick is/was to lock the internal memory (some sort of TSOP packaged EEPROM I believe)so that it won't accept any programming cancelation messages after you subscribe, then cancel.
I also heard it's possible to "clone" the subbed chip to another radio. It would all require some serious solder re-work skills though. I'm sure there's a website somewhere.
The definition of libertarian is one who is for minimal government intrusion in both personal and economic life. A person for personal freedom and more government programs is a liberal. A person for minimal government intrusion in economic life and more intruusion in personal life is a conservative. Of course the dems and repubs here in the U.S. don't fit those definitions. The repubs used to be libertarians before the Christian "Right" got so involved.
Changing the way votes are cast in Congress would make no sense. It's a yes or no vote. All these other methods of voting are for 2 or more system.
Of course maybe we need 3 or 5 version of every bill and can use one of these methods to get better compromise. Now the bill can still get botched in committee on it's way to the President though...
He wanted tax payers to REPAY Russia's debt to him. If I lent someone $2 Billion with the intent of getting paid back with interest I think would do what I could to see that it happens, maybe I shold write it off as a market risk?
Maybe Soros is more of a libertarian than a American Political Libertarian. dictionary.com describes a libertarian as:
- One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state.
- One who believes in free will.
Where does Soros not fit in? He wants some market control in this new global economy, I guess that could make him a little less of a libertarian.Soros, if you use the diamond method, is probably a libertarian which doesn't mesh well with the the left or right model.
That is, Soros is for economic AND self determination, which is smaller government with less taxes and regulations. I always thought the republicans were for that too, but they're too influenced by the "christian right" these days...
I think the editor was apolitical, not Soros.
This has already been done. If you husbands company were to get some sort of group policy, rather than an individual policy then HIPAA makes it illegal to exempt you for a pre-existing condition.
Maybe we should take HIPAA farther, but can you require a insurance company to take a loss on an individual? Should they be able to set unlimited premiums to write these more expenses policies?