AC - I have noticed that a lot of guys on./ talk about their guns. It is not surprising. The real gun crowd often seem to have a BSEE, ham license, and 5 guns.
Seriously!
I have never seen the book at a gun show. I have met one person whom read the book because he heard a similar tale as you have retold.
ISDN is also used for link lines. I know of one clear channel station that does not have good LOS between the studio and the transmitters. The have a ISDN line to transfer the audio.
Teachers hold the public trust. To say that they are like other workers is wrong. There is a requirement for a public accounting since the PUBLIC has the right to remove these teachers. The public has the right to set the budget and prepare the agenda. The teachers do not have any such right.
In a democracy newspapers provide access to all of these things. This has been their role. To say that the newspaper should not have published would be akin to saying that Watergate papers should have remained hidden.
Where is the silent majority?
Most of them ignore the Texas debacle. Most know that it really does not apply to their state. Only people on./ think that their children shall be forced fed creationism during the upcoming school years.
Why would anyone think that a NEA member would teach creationism?
I think that we should also take a poll. We should see how many./ posters are Catholic. I tend to see the whole thing on./ as a Catholic vs Southern Baptist issue. They're really upset because most people in Texas do not believe in the social justice that Catholic church demands. Has anyone noticed the direction of all the asides on this thread? People are insinuating a lot of stuff as the expound past the issues germaine to the topic. I am left wondering why.
Roosevelt's son should have run against FDR. We might not had 20 years of economic hell.
Does anyone realize that FDR ran against the "socialistic" Irish in NY, then completed a 180 after the election? He took all of those "socialistic" ideals that he abhorred.
I went to school in Massachusetts. We learned that Nixon got us into Vietnam. I really remember this because I actually called the teacher on it. I also asked about Nixon's economic policies.
How much processor and ram should one have to run the latest EXCEL with two files open? Let's assume that each of these files has 1 million lines of data? Now, you want to open a third file so that you can list exceptions in a separate file.
Can you do that on your underpowered 1 gig machine? I can not!!!
I think that only Irish bus drivers are worse than British Bus Drivers. They give no quarter to bicyclists. Bicyclists can not also pass those long buses when they are stopped. In general they are just too long. I am not one of those daring cyclists.
Top Gear even tried to demonstrate that articulated buses are dynamicly unstable through turns at moderate speeds.;)
Not quite true. The Flying Yankee had been the victim of good intentions and little planning for a long time. There was no museum for it, when they were trying to save it. You have to buy land and build!!!
The Yankee was loaded with asbestos. It has issues to do with the lack of money. I saw it while it sat near a road in the middle of nowhere during one of the many phases of inertia in the restoration process. I think that it sat for at least a 10 year span with nothing concrete occuring.
Steam railroading also requires logistical management which is very hard for museums to muster. The age of steam in the museums is coming to an end as many outfits including for-profit large scale tourism operators retire the units due to a lack of machining capability.
You can not block an intersection when the light turns green the other way. You can not stop in the middle of a rotary. You can not stop in the middle of a 4-way stop.
If you can not proceed through the intersection when the light is yellow or green, then you are not supposed to travel through the intersection. Most states have another paragraph regarding this. So the above comments need to be qualified.
The reality is this...they were probably on the phone to a LT or at least a SARGE about some matter. The higher-up had called them because they did not want it to go over the radio.
Think about it. It is more scary than you think.
Aren't you ignoring the American issue? Why aren't they providing the subjects that you mentioned on an earlier basis to the children. It takes too long for them to develop math and science skills. Why should an extra year be introduced when they are so behind the 8 ball.
The best thing would be the elimination of the US Dept of Education. They really don't set any of the concrete standards for which schools have currently used. They only collate data.
They also supervise the provision of massive loans, which has created price inflation at the collegiate level. The tuition at public schools in Europe does not cost anywhere near the average US cost.
We should also consider that the public schools can and should perform better, but ignore these pleas to send every child to a 4 year institution. Many of these educational programs are already moribund. They offer little to no value for the students. Many of the European programs had only been for 3 years. Why do we have a 4 year program as the basis?
I have to say two things.
Running MS is the same as producing a factory in the 1950's. You are only off-step when you think that manufacturers had proper management in the 1950's. Aren't most of those manufacturers gone? Doesn't this tell you something? So clearly they are not similar.
You are describing a "pull" conciousness versus the "push" mentality of most 1950's manufacturers. I have to think that it GM was "pulling" and decided to produce a decent product in the 1970's then we might never have seen Toyota's large market share; btw they do not have the large share in any European country.
I drive approximately 40 miles each way to reach my office. I drive on the highway. My "gaz-guzzling" V8 is surprisingly efficient at 4000-5000 RPM.
The stop'n'go city driving folks are the ones whom are driving highly inefficient vehicles.
So, when did McCarthy arrest anyone? Oh and when did McCarthy serve in the House as a Democrat on the HUAC? The committee that you reference was lead by a Democrat. The same party that continues to perpetuate its lies.
Morrow was full of it, too. Just as Cronkite has admitted to playing the party lines.
+5
Sales tax is hard to enforce.
Income tax places two individuals at odds over the income tax. The employer can not cheat the government as the employee would simply make a call. Income tax is considerably easier to enforce due to the opposing forces involved in this system.
Countries with withholding systems obtain the money on a reliable basis.
The list is inaccurate. Some items are not compared properly.
FICA is a payroll tax on the employees. Medicare is another payroll tax which is authorized by the statute following the FICA tax. Germany does not have such payroll taxes.
In someways they have a system which is less complex but more regressive as the federal government relies upon hard to collect transaction taxes which affect the poor more than the rich. In addition to the income tax the republic also collects the church tithes, which is approximately 10% of the annual tax bill. Bet you did not see that one. Many of these churches conduct social welfare programs. They are an extension of government in that they provide medical programs and hospitals as well.
They have income tax rates, which can reach 50.5%.
We have tax rates for the self employed including income tax and the other payroll taxes which can vary at percentage due to unlimited basis for medicare and a maximum amount for FICA.
Someone earning $300,000 would be taxed at the federal rate of 33%. They would also be subject to FICA tax equivalent to 2.7%. If the person is self-employed(no difference in Germany), then the FICA tax would be equivalent to 5.4%. The medicare tax would be equivalent to 1.45% or 2.9% if self employed.
If you were employed by some entity in the USA, then you would pay 37.15% of your income for federal taxes. You would also have to pay at least 10%(highly variable) of your income to the states. Remember, that German government only really has a federally collected tax; this also considerably reduces collection and administrative burdens.
So if you might pay 41% of your income to fed government in Germany(including tithe) isn't this cheaper then perhaps 47.15% of your income in America? Plus, if you are self-employed then you would actually pay 41.3% to the federal government plus 10% for 51.3%.
Remember, Germany has better health care and better retirement age options. We have a much older age base used for the calculation of pensions. Which system is fairer and more cost efficient?
Just because someone has a high income tax rate does not mean that the system is fundamentally unfair.
A progressive tax system would allocate the burden of the government on a pro-rata basis in regards to usage and ability to pay. Sales tax is a regressive system, which taxes almost everything. Coindicky, Massachusetts had one of the LOWEST if NOT LOWEST sales tax rate in the country. Most of the other states had local taxes and county taxes. Some people might pay 10% on bread and milk. In massachusetts you do not pay sales tax on food unlike every other state. In most states you are paying a high tax of 10% on food. I don't know about you, but I spend approximately 25% of my income on food. I worry about having kids to feed in the future.
One of these individuals in a high tax jurisdiction with a salary of 50,00 would suffer the equivalent of 2.5% income tax just for buying food. I am sorry. They are suffering right now. They have to buy clothes, too!
Sales tax favors the rich. It pays to be rich in places such as Florida, where you have no income tax. You pay less. You have no burden paying sales tax on your purchases as you do not buy more food then the next individual.
A fair tax or VAT would only see this rise to new heights in inequity.
Sales tax is also impossible to collect in entirety. It requires significant more personnel to police than an income tax system based on wage garnishment. Any nationalized system to collect tax on a transactional basis would require an organization considerably larger than the current IRS. It would require offices in many more locales in order to reach out to the public. The IRS currently has 100k employees. Each state government has at least 1,000 employees involved in collecting taxes, right now. I would think that a fair tax or vat would require at least 50k more employees on the federal level, but you also need more management to handle the new personnel and facilities. I also think that you need more employees to provide the coverage. Some states have very sparse employee counts.
Where do you get this non-sense?
Have you ever been to a church? Do you simply have no idea?
1/4 of the US population are roman catholics. The Roman Catholic church believes in evolution. Most of the US population(including bishops) disagrees with the Catholic church on many things stemming from Vatican II such as language of masses. The Lutheran Church was not about hellfire and a figurative view of the bible. It was about providing access to God without the structure of the Roman Church and in the native language. Calvinism is very similar. So isn't the Methodist offshoot.
Those equate to probably significantly more than 50% of the population of the US.
It also prevented most Jewish scientists from rising to the top. It took Einstein almost 20 years from his first published paper until he became a professor. He also suffered from attacks and bounced from one university to the next.
I have watched the poor results of my school system. I have compared the results of my school to the other schools in my region. My area has an epidemic of highly rated public schools(Massachusetts). Yet, little seems to rub from these schools off to the other local schools. I have noticed in my personal observations that the quality of teachers can be far different from one to the next. My school system has spent enormous amounts of times with problematic teachers. I have noticed that other schools hire teachers with better educational backgrounds and have significantly less problems.
Every year the teachers campaign and hold picket signs in my town. However, many of them do not live here. They picket on public property and some private property in order to encourage the voters to approve their pay raises. They put a lot of effort into canvassing the neighborhood, when it comes to election season. They devote lots of hours to telephone calls.
Yet, many of them are out the door at 2:30 to work their second jobs in order to earn social security quarters.
I only hear them bemoan the issues of pay, when they are paid 10% higher than the employees of surrounding towns. I never hear complaints about the education. A tour of every single school while in my official capacity only netted one comment from a principal. I asked about possible improvements at every turn. The lone principal, whom was close to retirement, asked why have the computers when you have no plan for them.
I do not think there ever was a plan for anything in my school system. I do not see the tenured teachers striking complaints about the issues.
Slashdot Mirror
Hunting for food is allowable in Britain and it is not allowable in America. You can not sell game meat. Yet you can in Britain.
AC - I have noticed that a lot of guys on ./ talk about their guns. It is not surprising. The real gun crowd often seem to have a BSEE, ham license, and 5 guns.
Seriously!
I have never seen the book at a gun show. I have met one person whom read the book because he heard a similar tale as you have retold.
ISDN is also used for link lines. I know of one clear channel station that does not have good LOS between the studio and the transmitters. The have a ISDN line to transfer the audio.
Teachers hold the public trust. To say that they are like other workers is wrong. There is a requirement for a public accounting since the PUBLIC has the right to remove these teachers. The public has the right to set the budget and prepare the agenda. The teachers do not have any such right. In a democracy newspapers provide access to all of these things. This has been their role. To say that the newspaper should not have published would be akin to saying that Watergate papers should have remained hidden.
Where is the silent majority? Most of them ignore the Texas debacle. Most know that it really does not apply to their state. Only people on ./ think that their children shall be forced fed creationism during the upcoming school years.
Why would anyone think that a NEA member would teach creationism?
I think that we should also take a poll. We should see how many ./ posters are Catholic. I tend to see the whole thing on ./ as a Catholic vs Southern Baptist issue. They're really upset because most people in Texas do not believe in the social justice that Catholic church demands. Has anyone noticed the direction of all the asides on this thread? People are insinuating a lot of stuff as the expound past the issues germaine to the topic. I am left wondering why.
Roosevelt's son should have run against FDR. We might not had 20 years of economic hell. Does anyone realize that FDR ran against the "socialistic" Irish in NY, then completed a 180 after the election? He took all of those "socialistic" ideals that he abhorred.
I went to school in Massachusetts. We learned that Nixon got us into Vietnam. I really remember this because I actually called the teacher on it. I also asked about Nixon's economic policies.
Well, You know it is really like, "Yes, Minister." The new government has already gone native.
How much processor and ram should one have to run the latest EXCEL with two files open? Let's assume that each of these files has 1 million lines of data? Now, you want to open a third file so that you can list exceptions in a separate file. Can you do that on your underpowered 1 gig machine? I can not!!!
I think that only Irish bus drivers are worse than British Bus Drivers. They give no quarter to bicyclists. Bicyclists can not also pass those long buses when they are stopped. In general they are just too long. I am not one of those daring cyclists. Top Gear even tried to demonstrate that articulated buses are dynamicly unstable through turns at moderate speeds. ;)
Not quite true. The Flying Yankee had been the victim of good intentions and little planning for a long time. There was no museum for it, when they were trying to save it. You have to buy land and build!!! The Yankee was loaded with asbestos. It has issues to do with the lack of money. I saw it while it sat near a road in the middle of nowhere during one of the many phases of inertia in the restoration process. I think that it sat for at least a 10 year span with nothing concrete occuring. Steam railroading also requires logistical management which is very hard for museums to muster. The age of steam in the museums is coming to an end as many outfits including for-profit large scale tourism operators retire the units due to a lack of machining capability.
You can not block an intersection when the light turns green the other way. You can not stop in the middle of a rotary. You can not stop in the middle of a 4-way stop. If you can not proceed through the intersection when the light is yellow or green, then you are not supposed to travel through the intersection. Most states have another paragraph regarding this. So the above comments need to be qualified.
The reality is this...they were probably on the phone to a LT or at least a SARGE about some matter. The higher-up had called them because they did not want it to go over the radio. Think about it. It is more scary than you think.
How can you re-assign a teacher to study hall duty? How are you going to pay for their replacement? did you really think about this one?
Aren't you ignoring the American issue? Why aren't they providing the subjects that you mentioned on an earlier basis to the children. It takes too long for them to develop math and science skills. Why should an extra year be introduced when they are so behind the 8 ball.
The best thing would be the elimination of the US Dept of Education. They really don't set any of the concrete standards for which schools have currently used. They only collate data. They also supervise the provision of massive loans, which has created price inflation at the collegiate level. The tuition at public schools in Europe does not cost anywhere near the average US cost. We should also consider that the public schools can and should perform better, but ignore these pleas to send every child to a 4 year institution. Many of these educational programs are already moribund. They offer little to no value for the students. Many of the European programs had only been for 3 years. Why do we have a 4 year program as the basis?
I have to say two things. Running MS is the same as producing a factory in the 1950's. You are only off-step when you think that manufacturers had proper management in the 1950's. Aren't most of those manufacturers gone? Doesn't this tell you something? So clearly they are not similar. You are describing a "pull" conciousness versus the "push" mentality of most 1950's manufacturers. I have to think that it GM was "pulling" and decided to produce a decent product in the 1970's then we might never have seen Toyota's large market share; btw they do not have the large share in any European country.
I drive approximately 40 miles each way to reach my office. I drive on the highway. My "gaz-guzzling" V8 is surprisingly efficient at 4000-5000 RPM. The stop'n'go city driving folks are the ones whom are driving highly inefficient vehicles.
So, when did McCarthy arrest anyone? Oh and when did McCarthy serve in the House as a Democrat on the HUAC? The committee that you reference was lead by a Democrat. The same party that continues to perpetuate its lies. Morrow was full of it, too. Just as Cronkite has admitted to playing the party lines.
+5 Sales tax is hard to enforce. Income tax places two individuals at odds over the income tax. The employer can not cheat the government as the employee would simply make a call. Income tax is considerably easier to enforce due to the opposing forces involved in this system. Countries with withholding systems obtain the money on a reliable basis.
The list is inaccurate. Some items are not compared properly. FICA is a payroll tax on the employees. Medicare is another payroll tax which is authorized by the statute following the FICA tax. Germany does not have such payroll taxes. In someways they have a system which is less complex but more regressive as the federal government relies upon hard to collect transaction taxes which affect the poor more than the rich. In addition to the income tax the republic also collects the church tithes, which is approximately 10% of the annual tax bill. Bet you did not see that one. Many of these churches conduct social welfare programs. They are an extension of government in that they provide medical programs and hospitals as well. They have income tax rates, which can reach 50.5%. We have tax rates for the self employed including income tax and the other payroll taxes which can vary at percentage due to unlimited basis for medicare and a maximum amount for FICA. Someone earning $300,000 would be taxed at the federal rate of 33%. They would also be subject to FICA tax equivalent to 2.7%. If the person is self-employed(no difference in Germany), then the FICA tax would be equivalent to 5.4%. The medicare tax would be equivalent to 1.45% or 2.9% if self employed. If you were employed by some entity in the USA, then you would pay 37.15% of your income for federal taxes. You would also have to pay at least 10%(highly variable) of your income to the states. Remember, that German government only really has a federally collected tax; this also considerably reduces collection and administrative burdens. So if you might pay 41% of your income to fed government in Germany(including tithe) isn't this cheaper then perhaps 47.15% of your income in America? Plus, if you are self-employed then you would actually pay 41.3% to the federal government plus 10% for 51.3%. Remember, Germany has better health care and better retirement age options. We have a much older age base used for the calculation of pensions. Which system is fairer and more cost efficient?
Just because someone has a high income tax rate does not mean that the system is fundamentally unfair. A progressive tax system would allocate the burden of the government on a pro-rata basis in regards to usage and ability to pay. Sales tax is a regressive system, which taxes almost everything. Coindicky, Massachusetts had one of the LOWEST if NOT LOWEST sales tax rate in the country. Most of the other states had local taxes and county taxes. Some people might pay 10% on bread and milk. In massachusetts you do not pay sales tax on food unlike every other state. In most states you are paying a high tax of 10% on food. I don't know about you, but I spend approximately 25% of my income on food. I worry about having kids to feed in the future. One of these individuals in a high tax jurisdiction with a salary of 50,00 would suffer the equivalent of 2.5% income tax just for buying food. I am sorry. They are suffering right now. They have to buy clothes, too! Sales tax favors the rich. It pays to be rich in places such as Florida, where you have no income tax. You pay less. You have no burden paying sales tax on your purchases as you do not buy more food then the next individual. A fair tax or VAT would only see this rise to new heights in inequity. Sales tax is also impossible to collect in entirety. It requires significant more personnel to police than an income tax system based on wage garnishment. Any nationalized system to collect tax on a transactional basis would require an organization considerably larger than the current IRS. It would require offices in many more locales in order to reach out to the public. The IRS currently has 100k employees. Each state government has at least 1,000 employees involved in collecting taxes, right now. I would think that a fair tax or vat would require at least 50k more employees on the federal level, but you also need more management to handle the new personnel and facilities. I also think that you need more employees to provide the coverage. Some states have very sparse employee counts.
Where do you get this non-sense? Have you ever been to a church? Do you simply have no idea? 1/4 of the US population are roman catholics. The Roman Catholic church believes in evolution. Most of the US population(including bishops) disagrees with the Catholic church on many things stemming from Vatican II such as language of masses. The Lutheran Church was not about hellfire and a figurative view of the bible. It was about providing access to God without the structure of the Roman Church and in the native language. Calvinism is very similar. So isn't the Methodist offshoot. Those equate to probably significantly more than 50% of the population of the US.
It also prevented most Jewish scientists from rising to the top. It took Einstein almost 20 years from his first published paper until he became a professor. He also suffered from attacks and bounced from one university to the next.
I have watched the poor results of my school system. I have compared the results of my school to the other schools in my region. My area has an epidemic of highly rated public schools(Massachusetts). Yet, little seems to rub from these schools off to the other local schools. I have noticed in my personal observations that the quality of teachers can be far different from one to the next. My school system has spent enormous amounts of times with problematic teachers. I have noticed that other schools hire teachers with better educational backgrounds and have significantly less problems. Every year the teachers campaign and hold picket signs in my town. However, many of them do not live here. They picket on public property and some private property in order to encourage the voters to approve their pay raises. They put a lot of effort into canvassing the neighborhood, when it comes to election season. They devote lots of hours to telephone calls. Yet, many of them are out the door at 2:30 to work their second jobs in order to earn social security quarters. I only hear them bemoan the issues of pay, when they are paid 10% higher than the employees of surrounding towns. I never hear complaints about the education. A tour of every single school while in my official capacity only netted one comment from a principal. I asked about possible improvements at every turn. The lone principal, whom was close to retirement, asked why have the computers when you have no plan for them. I do not think there ever was a plan for anything in my school system. I do not see the tenured teachers striking complaints about the issues.