just like most inhabitants of the usa don't know/understand they're just 1/4 of the population of china... wait, what was your argument supposed to say ?:)
Unfortunately, the purpose of governments is not "to protect the people from the depredations of the Leviathan", but rather the opposite.
The courts merely interpret the laws to that end.
They never have and they never will.
Corporations collect money from their customers, pay the necessary expenses and pass the residue on to their shareholders.
If the "residue" is not large enough to satisfy the shareholders, and expenses cannot be cut further, the prices go up.
Any attempt to tax a corporation results in increased costs to the consumer.
That is the way a consumer economy works.
This is why the so-called "Value Added Tax" actually ends up being more equitable. Money collected in a country stays in that country, and the corporation has no additional cost to pass on to the consumer, beyond that tax on the value they add.
As an earlier poster so ably illustrated, if you talk like a gangsta, you will be thought of as one.
Similarly, if you talk like an uneducated idiot, people will assume you are one.
While I quite agree that the English language is -- and should be -- a dynamic language that grows and develops, it has backwaters and dead ends.
Newspapers -- and I assume that this includes the Wall Street Journal -- have a style manual that *is* rigidly followed, so there is nothing inherently wrong with rules -- at the very least they provide consistency. By teaching the rules of grammar to schoolchildren, they will at least have a chance of sounding like they know what they are talking about.
Inasmuch as a person has a choice they will choose the language style of the group that they identify with, regardless of how stupid they sound to everyone not of that particular group.
If smoking really does cause all that death, let's promote it.
It is a cheap eugenics program for starters.
Besides, if all those people die off early, we won't have to look after them when they're old.
But all that death-and-destruction scare mongering won't stop people from smoking. To get people to quit, just put hundreds of thousands of click-bait ads all over the intertubes that say, "1 quick trick to live longer, stay healthier and stay pretty longer".
For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.
The meeting location will be posted next Wednesday.
It is not possible to tax a corporation.
Corporations exist to provide a return on shareholder investment.
Taxing a corporation requires that the money for the tax comes from the customers.
Thus all so-called corporate taxes are hidden taxes on the consumer of that corporations products and services.
If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big loan rate drops. OTOH, if it enables a person who otherwise would not qualify for a loan to get one, it could be argued as a 'good thing'. I personally shudder at this level of what feels invasive.
No, that is a 'very bad thing', since if a person does not qualify for a loan, they do not have the means to pay it back. Thus, the finance company gets what little money they had, plus the car.
This was one of the root causes of the US banking collapse of 2008 -- they permitted mortgage loans to those who could ill afford them, then bundled all that bad debt in with good debt and re-sold it as "asset backed commercial paper"
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... NINJA loan, the Interest-only loan and a host of other vehicles were used to take the earnings and the savings (and ultimately, the houses) from people who should never ever have been given mortgages at that point in their lives.
Convict gets a rush of euphoria, and shuffles off the mortal coil.
Side benefit is that it stigmatizes heroin.
Another side benefit is that all of the judicial mistakes get at least one good rush before they are wrongfully executed.
Think it doesn't happen?
It must have happened at least once -- and that is too many.
If anyone is seriously interested in Time Travel, the inaugural meeting of the Vancouver Time Travel association will be held last Tuesday at the planetarium.
Personhood implies social responsibility.
This is much more than paying taxes, it involves a wide range of social interactions including employment, self-reliance, participation in government etc.
Chimps if "released" could not function in our society. Releasing them into the wild would be a death sentence for most lab animals.
They would still need to be cared for, and are unlikely to be able to contribute much.
I do not see how a judge could make a finding of personhood under (what little I know of) American law.
A major function of adolescence is forging a life apart from the parents' control.
Parents can facilitate this by gradually relinquishing control in response to trustworthy behaviour on the part of the teen. The progression results in self-disciplining young adults who are independent, yet respect authority
Parents can thwart the burgeoning independence of their adolescent children by attempting to control and monitor their offspring's behaviour, even when the adolescent has shown no tendency toward suspicious behaviour. Treating ANYONE in a suspicious manner tends to foster the behaviour expected. This progression results in young adults who resent authority, and have sub-standard life skills.
"Just because you can" is never a valid reason for doing something.
from the article:: "Human rights groups estimate that China executes thousands of prisoners a year, but correspondents say that the official figures remain a state secret."
non-Google translation:
"Nobody knows -- not even the Chinese government -- how many prisoners are executed each year...
Since governments in general disregard laws with impunity, what difference can it possibly make to pass laws requiring warrants?
They will do what they are going to do anyway.
The existence of a law will not change this behaviour.
The powerful are not constrained by laws, only the weak.
You don't need a service to extract the audio.from a YouTube stream
While I have no objection to anyone doing this themselves for the convenience etc, I DO object to someone trying to extract $$$ from something that is not his
I have always been like this.
I do not remember anything bad that happened to me.
I can be reminded, and when I am, I remember them in sufficient detail, but in general, I just plain don't.
One of the the greatest blessings of my existence.
So following the announcement of the postponement, MS decides to include the updated calendar info in a patch.
Since the patch isn't a critical or security patch, a large portion of end users -- and a larger portion of systems administrators would not install the patch.
Still not a news item.
I gave up on the holidays calendar years ago due to an overabundance of errors -- primarily inclusions of US holidays in the Canada calendar.
I suspect most Outlook users in the UK did the same.
Voting is done by the masses and the dead.
Ammo will soon be illegal. (Guess why)
In any jurisdiction where a machine sits between the voter and the offical count, no election outcome can be trusted.
"the people" as in "Government, of the people, by the poeple for the people" have been disenfranchised for decades.
The situation now is more along the lines of "Government of the powerless, by the stooges, for the elite"
There are no candidates for office anywhere in the "free" world that are not controlled by corporations & their cartels, trade unions or organized crime. Even if sufficient numbers of independant canditates could be elected, their ideologies are so fragmented that they would be unable to stand against the onslaught of the powerful self-interest groups.
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space.....
I was tempted to mod this funny.
There is a common misconception amongst law-abiding people that making something illegal will change other people's behaviour, because they themselves change their behavour in response to a change in law.
As society becomes increasingly fragmented, the fraction of the earth's population that could be described as "law-abiding" is decreasing rapidly, and the process is further accelerated by governments that bow to the pressure of special interests.
Examples of laws that are defied or ignored abound.
Here on Slashdot we tend to revile copyright laws, and other IP laws.
Others openly defy laws controlling substances -- drugs, alcohold, tobacco etc.
Why on earth -- or above it -- would anyone abide by a "law" that would be ultimately unenforceable?
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just like most inhabitants of the usa don't know/understand they're just 1/4 of the population of china... wait, what was your argument supposed to say ? :)
What !? The USA is part of China now?
That explains a lot...
Unfortunately, the purpose of governments is not "to protect the people from the depredations of the Leviathan", but rather the opposite.
The courts merely interpret the laws to that end.
They never have and they never will.
Corporations collect money from their customers, pay the necessary expenses and pass the residue on to their shareholders.
If the "residue" is not large enough to satisfy the shareholders, and expenses cannot be cut further, the prices go up.
Any attempt to tax a corporation results in increased costs to the consumer.
That is the way a consumer economy works.
This is why the so-called "Value Added Tax" actually ends up being more equitable. Money collected in a country stays in that country, and the corporation has no additional cost to pass on to the consumer, beyond that tax on the value they add.
As an earlier poster so ably illustrated, if you talk like a gangsta, you will be thought of as one.
Similarly, if you talk like an uneducated idiot, people will assume you are one.
While I quite agree that the English language is -- and should be -- a dynamic language that grows and develops, it has backwaters and dead ends.
Newspapers -- and I assume that this includes the Wall Street Journal -- have a style manual that *is* rigidly followed, so there is nothing inherently wrong with rules -- at the very least they provide consistency. By teaching the rules of grammar to schoolchildren, they will at least have a chance of sounding like they know what they are talking about.
Inasmuch as a person has a choice they will choose the language style of the group that they identify with, regardless of how stupid they sound to everyone not of that particular group.
Peace
If smoking really does cause all that death, let's promote it.
It is a cheap eugenics program for starters.
Besides, if all those people die off early, we won't have to look after them when they're old.
But all that death-and-destruction scare mongering won't stop people from smoking. To get people to quit, just put hundreds of thousands of click-bait ads all over the intertubes that say, "1 quick trick to live longer, stay healthier and stay pretty longer".
Gotta run -- smoke break!
For those interested in time travel, the inaugural meeting of the International Time Travel Association will be held at the Perimeter Institute last Tuesday at 20:00.
The meeting location will be posted next Wednesday.
It is not possible to tax a corporation.
Corporations exist to provide a return on shareholder investment.
Taxing a corporation requires that the money for the tax comes from the customers.
Thus all so-called corporate taxes are hidden taxes on the consumer of that corporations products and services.
It is only a public shaming if there is shame involved. .
I'm guessing that most people who drive drunk don't care much
Some may even be proud of it.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has had driverless trains since 1985
If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big loan rate drops. OTOH, if it enables a person who otherwise would not qualify for a loan to get one, it could be argued as a 'good thing'. I personally shudder at this level of what feels invasive.
No, that is a 'very bad thing', since if a person does not qualify for a loan, they do not have the means to pay it back. Thus, the finance company gets what little money they had, plus the car.
This was one of the root causes of the US banking collapse of 2008 -- they permitted mortgage loans to those who could ill afford them, then bundled all that bad debt in with good debt and re-sold it as "asset backed commercial paper"
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... NINJA loan, the Interest-only loan and a host of other vehicles were used to take the earnings and the savings (and ultimately, the houses) from people who should never ever have been given mortgages at that point in their lives.
Convict gets a rush of euphoria, and shuffles off the mortal coil.
Side benefit is that it stigmatizes heroin.
Another side benefit is that all of the judicial mistakes get at least one good rush before they are wrongfully executed.
Think it doesn't happen?
It must have happened at least once -- and that is too many.
If anyone is seriously interested in Time Travel, the inaugural meeting of the Vancouver Time Travel association will be held last Tuesday at the planetarium.
Personhood implies social responsibility.
This is much more than paying taxes, it involves a wide range of social interactions including employment, self-reliance, participation in government etc.
Chimps if "released" could not function in our society. Releasing them into the wild would be a death sentence for most lab animals.
They would still need to be cared for, and are unlikely to be able to contribute much.
I do not see how a judge could make a finding of personhood under (what little I know of) American law.
A major function of adolescence is forging a life apart from the parents' control.
Parents can facilitate this by gradually relinquishing control in response to trustworthy behaviour on the part of the teen.
The progression results in self-disciplining young adults who are independent, yet respect authority
Parents can thwart the burgeoning independence of their adolescent children by attempting to control and monitor their offspring's behaviour, even when the adolescent has shown no tendency toward suspicious behaviour. Treating ANYONE in a suspicious manner tends to foster the behaviour expected.
This progression results in young adults who resent authority, and have sub-standard life skills.
"Just because you can" is never a valid reason for doing something.
All humans have "similar" DNA
Is that somebody will have a bright idea that we can deliberately prolong the status quo.
They then convince a bunch of idiots w/ money and power (aka politicians) that their "solution" will somehow save the planet.
Humans will do what humans do best: We will adapt.
The climate is changing. Let it change. Go with the flow.
from the article::
"Human rights groups estimate that China executes thousands of prisoners a year, but correspondents say that the official figures remain a state secret."
non-Google translation:
"Nobody knows -- not even the Chinese government -- how many prisoners are executed each year...
Since governments in general disregard laws with impunity, what difference can it possibly make to pass laws requiring warrants? They will do what they are going to do anyway. The existence of a law will not change this behaviour. The powerful are not constrained by laws, only the weak.
This is sofa king lame.
You don't need a service to extract the audio.from a YouTube stream
While I have no objection to anyone doing this themselves for the convenience etc, I DO object to someone trying to extract $$$ from something that is not his
.
I have always been like this.
I do not remember anything bad that happened to me.
I can be reminded, and when I am, I remember them in sufficient detail, but in general, I just plain don't.
One of the the greatest blessings of my existence.
Then get them back there RIGHT NOW and make them clean it up.
That was a period after Connif, not a comma
And a geological period at that.
So following the announcement of the postponement, MS decides to include the updated calendar info in a patch.
Since the patch isn't a critical or security patch, a large portion of end users -- and a larger portion of systems administrators would not install the patch.
Still not a news item.
I gave up on the holidays calendar years ago due to an overabundance of errors -- primarily inclusions of US holidays in the Canada calendar.
I suspect most Outlook users in the UK did the same.
Voting is done by the masses and the dead.
Ammo will soon be illegal. (Guess why)
In any jurisdiction where a machine sits between the voter and the offical count, no election outcome can be trusted.
"the people" as in "Government, of the people, by the poeple for the people" have been disenfranchised for decades.
The situation now is more along the lines of "Government of the powerless, by the stooges, for the elite"
There are no candidates for office anywhere in the "free" world that are not controlled by corporations & their cartels, trade unions or organized crime.
Even if sufficient numbers of independant canditates could be elected, their ideologies are so fragmented that they would be unable to stand against the onslaught of the powerful self-interest groups.
A wiser course would be to outlaw leaving junk in space.....
I was tempted to mod this funny.
There is a common misconception amongst law-abiding people that making something illegal will change other people's behaviour, because they themselves change their behavour in response to a change in law.
As society becomes increasingly fragmented, the fraction of the earth's population that could be described as "law-abiding" is decreasing rapidly, and the process is further accelerated by governments that bow to the pressure of special interests.
Examples of laws that are defied or ignored abound.
Here on Slashdot we tend to revile copyright laws, and other IP laws.
Others openly defy laws controlling substances -- drugs, alcohold, tobacco etc.
Why on earth -- or above it -- would anyone abide by a "law" that would be ultimately unenforceable?