It is amazing how quickly people forget what middle school and high school were like.
Real boys tell crap like that to girls all the time and they don't hang themselves. The only person at fault here is the 13 year old who hung herself and the parents of the 13 year old who didn't teach their daughter to be confident in herself.
The group of people who made the fake boy up are ass holes, but no more than any of the people I went to school with. It was mean, but being mean doesn't make it a crime.
Exemptions. I can buy a diesel fuel tank and put it on my parents farm and pay 0 taxes for the fuel in it. I'm sure the same exemptions would apply to tractor tires.
The other option would be to tax cars at the point of sale. Most cars have a life of about 100,000 miles. You could tax it directly at purchase.
As for the tires, most tires have a mileage rating, if the tire companies made tires that lasted longer then their rating would go up and so would the tax.
People aren't running out of gas all the time now because of tax on fuel. How is that different?
But of all the possible solutions, a GPS is the worst for citizens and best for government.
Couldn't you achieve the same goal by directly taxing the good (in this case oil and coal) directly and having the proceeds go to "clean up" as you put it. Wouldn't that 'internalize' the 'hidden' costs, but in a less political way?
Actually the easiest way to do it is to tax oil and coal directly. Green tech boomed when gas prices got up to about $5.00 a gallon. Just tax foreign oil directly and you'll have the same effect.
Good luck getting that passed the coal lobbies and big oil lobbies though...
First let us define the problem: Electric vehicles do not use gasoline and therefore are not taxed to pay for road maintenance. More fuel efficient vehicles pay less tax.
So now that the problem is defined here are a few non-intrusive solutions that don't involve new technology: 1. One time tax at the time of purchase. The average car lifespan is somewhere around 100,000 miles. Compute what the expected tax should be and add it to the purchase price of the car. 2. Registration tax. I pay one already and it is approx. $70 a year. They check the odometer when I go for my new tags, charge for mileage then. 3. Tire tax: Tires last on average about 50,000 miles. Say you want a $0.01 per mile tax, then the per tire tax would be $0.0025 * 50,000. If a big truck uses more than 4 tires they are having a larger impact on the roads, esp 18 wheelers. Also if you drive hard then your tires wear out faster (as does the road) so you pay more tax. If you drive more gently then you get more miles out of your car and pay less tax. (Also "Big Rigs" leave tires on the highway which need to be cleaned up...)
Also a Tariff on imported oil would really help national security.
The reason for the tax is because I can now buy production electric cars which don't use any gas. So you could put whatever amount of tax on gas you wanted and the government wouldn't get a cent.
This then leads to: SUV owner pays a lot of tax. Trucking Industry collapses. Daily commuter pays near the same tax due to fuel economy. Hybrid owner pays low tax. EV owner pays no tax.
All use the same roads, but are now taxed at different rates.
My solution: Tax tires. It has a direct correlation to road usage and all vehicles use tires. If you drive hard you do more damage to the road and your tires, meaning you'll need to replace both sooner. If you drive like a granny your tires will last longer and so will the roads.
I'll remove any GPS unit they try and put in my car. I may soon be spending a great deal of time in jail.
The controller lends itself well to a 'masturbation' game. With Nintendo being all Japanese you'd think they'd have a Bukkake game or something...
-- I found out about Bukkake when trying to find out what type of Udon noodles I wanted for lunch, when looking up Bukkake on the wiki my appetite waned.
What is missing from the new gaming, music and movie business is economies of scale. Digital distribution does have costs, lots of costs. Production has costs, lots of costs. The advantage to digital distribution is the number of people that can be reached and the time frame in which they can be reached. You can potentially distribute your digital content to a billion people on the day of release. You could sell a game like Crysis for $1 and have one hundred million people buy it, or you could sell it for $60 and have half a million people buy it. Which one made more money? Digital distributors still have their prices set to close to the physical price.
For instance I like to support developers, but I'm not dropping $20 for an X-Box Live Arcade game. I have bought some at full price (Castle Crashers, Peggle) but that is about it. There are a lot of good games on there that would be easily worth $2-$5 and I would buy them regularly instead of only when a killer app comes out. I'm sure there are a million more customers like me that would be willing to buy online games if the price just came down some. In this way development companies aren't taking advantage of economies of scale and are setting their price points to high. They could make a fortune if they would start a tired service where games start at $20 for the first 6 months and then started regular drops in price with a price floor of like $1. At some point everyone who would play the game will buy it. Not everyone wants to spend $20 for a new game, but they may buy it if the price was right. You'll still have your early adopters who'll pay full price to have the newest game, but you'll get the most $ out of a product when you reach near 100% of your market.
I'm on the verge of driving up to the courthouse and on the way buying a playboy magazine, a people magazine, construction paper, scissors and elmer's glue. Then sitting on the courthouse steps and recreating similar images just to show how stupid this law is.
Not only that, but the desire for sex is a more primal instinct than the need for food. When your hormones flare and you have to choose between eating and sex, you choose sex over food. This is a primal reaction at the most basic levels of humanity. If we didn't have this desire we would expire as a species.
What separates a "sex offender" from everyone else is that when the desire hit they didn't go in the bathroom and masturbate, instead they followed their natural inclination and acted on those instincts.
To quote Slim Shady from Guilty Conscience: Now listen to me, while you're kissin her cheek and smearin her lipstick, I slipped this in her drink Now all you gotta do is nibble on this little bitch's earlobe.. Yo! This girl's only fifteen years old You shouldn't take advantage of her, that's not fair Yo, look at her bush.. does it got hair? (Uh huh!) Fuck this bitch right here on the spot bare Til she passes out and she forgot how she got there Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie 'Kids'? No, but I seen a porno with Sondoobie in Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail? Man fuck that, hit that shit raw dawg and bail..
Most guys don't have the will power to pass up an opportunity like this, even the best of them. So having such harsh sentences and having to register for life for a lapse in judgement is just wrong. I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished, but the crime doesn't necessitate the harsher sentence.
Jenna Jamison starting filming porn at age 17. What happened to all those works? The source for that was some VH-1 special. I'd look it up for a citation link, but I'm at work and would rather not be looking up porn stars.
Also why not flood you tube and other social sites with exaggerated Photoshop porn with famous nudes with giant bobble headed babies on top. Something like Botticelli's Venus with an over sized clearly Photoshoped baby head on it.
Why not set up a charity to buy copyrights from artists and then distribute the works for free to all of society?
Not to beat a dead horse, but since Micheal Jackson owes like $400,000,000, would it be possible to raise those funds to purchase the copyrights to his works and then give it away to the public? Couldn't that be an alternative means to fighting copyrights that are too long?
How is this different than everyone's beloved game Braid? I mean if you messed up you just rewinded and tried again. Isn't this just the next step?
I also understand that Braid used it in a unique way that didn't solve the puzzle for you, but at least it kept you from having to start over every time you failed.
On the "one way ticket to mars", I have 2 kids, but as soon as they are grown I'd sign up. The older I get the more attractive this idea becomes. So no, you are not alone in this.
The reason I like it and have been following it is that I have a 55 mile(one way) commute in Atlanta. That is 110 miles a day I have to drive. That is withing the range of the Tesla, technically I could drive to and from work twice on a charge. Instead I would charge it every night.
So far my Corolla has been cheaper, but not for much longer. I paid $18,000 even for my Corolla and spent $3,676.19 in 2008 on fuel and maintenance. So far this year I've spent $1,193.40 on fuel and maintenance. It is still a long way to $50,000. I'm just hoping that Tesla will have their 3rd generation vehicle ready when my Corolla dies. I plan on it being my next car.
So 300 miles on a charge is more than enough for a commuter. I have an SUV with DVD's for the kids for long trips. I'm a fan of the two vehicle method.
Acts 7:55,56: "But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; 56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
All kinds of historical texts have put the person with the most influence on their right hand side, it was kind of intuitive knowledge that they've just pinned down...
I've been watching Tesla since day one. The make cars the way they should be made. You place an order for your car, then the car is built. It was privately financed until this infusion of funds. For what the model S is and does the price isn't to high. I looked at buying a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo and it clocked in at $42,000, while I was shopping I noticed that entry level BMW's and Audi's were also at the $40,000 mark. So I saved $22,000 and bought a 2009 Corolla. My next car will be a Tesla as soon as they start selling them on the east coast. The Model S is as nice a car as an Audi or BMW, without the need to change the oil or pay at the pump. It makes the Chevy volt look like a joke and puts all the hybrids to shame, it is the ultimate commuter car.
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It is amazing how quickly people forget what middle school and high school were like.
Real boys tell crap like that to girls all the time and they don't hang themselves. The only person at fault here is the 13 year old who hung herself and the parents of the 13 year old who didn't teach their daughter to be confident in herself.
The group of people who made the fake boy up are ass holes, but no more than any of the people I went to school with. It was mean, but being mean doesn't make it a crime.
Exemptions. I can buy a diesel fuel tank and put it on my parents farm and pay 0 taxes for the fuel in it. I'm sure the same exemptions would apply to tractor tires.
The other option would be to tax cars at the point of sale. Most cars have a life of about 100,000 miles. You could tax it directly at purchase.
As for the tires, most tires have a mileage rating, if the tire companies made tires that lasted longer then their rating would go up and so would the tax.
People aren't running out of gas all the time now because of tax on fuel. How is that different?
But of all the possible solutions, a GPS is the worst for citizens and best for government.
Couldn't you achieve the same goal by directly taxing the good (in this case oil and coal) directly and having the proceeds go to "clean up" as you put it. Wouldn't that 'internalize' the 'hidden' costs, but in a less political way?
Actually the easiest way to do it is to tax oil and coal directly. Green tech boomed when gas prices got up to about $5.00 a gallon. Just tax foreign oil directly and you'll have the same effect.
Good luck getting that passed the coal lobbies and big oil lobbies though...
First let us define the problem:
Electric vehicles do not use gasoline and therefore are not taxed to pay for road maintenance. More fuel efficient vehicles pay less tax.
So now that the problem is defined here are a few non-intrusive solutions that don't involve new technology:
1. One time tax at the time of purchase. The average car lifespan is somewhere around 100,000 miles. Compute what the expected tax should be and add it to the purchase price of the car.
2. Registration tax. I pay one already and it is approx. $70 a year. They check the odometer when I go for my new tags, charge for mileage then.
3. Tire tax: Tires last on average about 50,000 miles. Say you want a $0.01 per mile tax, then the per tire tax would be $0.0025 * 50,000. If a big truck uses more than 4 tires they are having a larger impact on the roads, esp 18 wheelers. Also if you drive hard then your tires wear out faster (as does the road) so you pay more tax. If you drive more gently then you get more miles out of your car and pay less tax. (Also "Big Rigs" leave tires on the highway which need to be cleaned up...)
Also a Tariff on imported oil would really help national security.
Wow, you missed the point entirely.
The reason for the tax is because I can now buy production electric cars which don't use any gas. So you could put whatever amount of tax on gas you wanted and the government wouldn't get a cent.
This then leads to:
SUV owner pays a lot of tax.
Trucking Industry collapses.
Daily commuter pays near the same tax due to fuel economy.
Hybrid owner pays low tax.
EV owner pays no tax.
All use the same roads, but are now taxed at different rates.
My solution: Tax tires. It has a direct correlation to road usage and all vehicles use tires. If you drive hard you do more damage to the road and your tires, meaning you'll need to replace both sooner. If you drive like a granny your tires will last longer and so will the roads.
I'll remove any GPS unit they try and put in my car. I may soon be spending a great deal of time in jail.
1)The movie Brainscan, if you haven't seen it you should. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109327/
2)The game Hitman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(series)
The controller lends itself well to a 'masturbation' game. With Nintendo being all Japanese you'd think they'd have a Bukkake game or something...
-- I found out about Bukkake when trying to find out what type of Udon noodles I wanted for lunch, when looking up Bukkake on the wiki my appetite waned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Battalion
I have a dog, it eats cats to save the birds, which eat the bugs...
https://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=HP200
WTF? Why on earth would you let a mouse go outside? They will just go right back inside and continue to do major damage to your house.
I so wanted to spend a mod point on this, since I have them to give away....
However, you joke of pedestrians, what about a more "realistic" road kill or still funny but more likely to be "true" cat and dog catcher?
What is missing from the new gaming, music and movie business is economies of scale. Digital distribution does have costs, lots of costs. Production has costs, lots of costs. The advantage to digital distribution is the number of people that can be reached and the time frame in which they can be reached. You can potentially distribute your digital content to a billion people on the day of release. You could sell a game like Crysis for $1 and have one hundred million people buy it, or you could sell it for $60 and have half a million people buy it. Which one made more money? Digital distributors still have their prices set to close to the physical price.
For instance I like to support developers, but I'm not dropping $20 for an X-Box Live Arcade game. I have bought some at full price (Castle Crashers, Peggle) but that is about it. There are a lot of good games on there that would be easily worth $2-$5 and I would buy them regularly instead of only when a killer app comes out. I'm sure there are a million more customers like me that would be willing to buy online games if the price just came down some. In this way development companies aren't taking advantage of economies of scale and are setting their price points to high. They could make a fortune if they would start a tired service where games start at $20 for the first 6 months and then started regular drops in price with a price floor of like $1. At some point everyone who would play the game will buy it. Not everyone wants to spend $20 for a new game, but they may buy it if the price was right. You'll still have your early adopters who'll pay full price to have the newest game, but you'll get the most $ out of a product when you reach near 100% of your market.
I'm on the verge of driving up to the courthouse and on the way buying a playboy magazine, a people magazine, construction paper, scissors and elmer's glue. Then sitting on the courthouse steps and recreating similar images just to show how stupid this law is.
Not only that, but the desire for sex is a more primal instinct than the need for food. When your hormones flare and you have to choose between eating and sex, you choose sex over food. This is a primal reaction at the most basic levels of humanity. If we didn't have this desire we would expire as a species.
What separates a "sex offender" from everyone else is that when the desire hit they didn't go in the bathroom and masturbate, instead they followed their natural inclination and acted on those instincts.
To quote Slim Shady from Guilty Conscience:
Now listen to me, while you're kissin her cheek
and smearin her lipstick, I slipped this in her drink
Now all you gotta do is nibble on this little bitch's earlobe..
Yo! This girl's only fifteen years old
You shouldn't take advantage of her, that's not fair
Yo, look at her bush.. does it got hair? (Uh huh!)
Fuck this bitch right here on the spot bare
Til she passes out and she forgot how she got there
Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie 'Kids'?
No, but I seen a porno with Sondoobie in
Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail?
Man fuck that, hit that shit raw dawg and bail..
Most guys don't have the will power to pass up an opportunity like this, even the best of them. So having such harsh sentences and having to register for life for a lapse in judgement is just wrong. I'm not saying they shouldn't be punished, but the crime doesn't necessitate the harsher sentence.
Jenna Jamison starting filming porn at age 17. What happened to all those works? The source for that was some VH-1 special. I'd look it up for a citation link, but I'm at work and would rather not be looking up porn stars.
Also why not flood you tube and other social sites with exaggerated Photoshop porn with famous nudes with giant bobble headed babies on top. Something like Botticelli's Venus with an over sized clearly Photoshoped baby head on it.
Why not set up a charity to buy copyrights from artists and then distribute the works for free to all of society?
Not to beat a dead horse, but since Micheal Jackson owes like $400,000,000, would it be possible to raise those funds to purchase the copyrights to his works and then give it away to the public? Couldn't that be an alternative means to fighting copyrights that are too long?
How is this different than everyone's beloved game Braid? I mean if you messed up you just rewinded and tried again. Isn't this just the next step?
I also understand that Braid used it in a unique way that didn't solve the puzzle for you, but at least it kept you from having to start over every time you failed.
On the "one way ticket to mars", I have 2 kids, but as soon as they are grown I'd sign up. The older I get the more attractive this idea becomes. So no, you are not alone in this.
The reason I like it and have been following it is that I have a 55 mile(one way) commute in Atlanta. That is 110 miles a day I have to drive. That is withing the range of the Tesla, technically I could drive to and from work twice on a charge. Instead I would charge it every night.
So far my Corolla has been cheaper, but not for much longer. I paid $18,000 even for my Corolla and spent $3,676.19 in 2008 on fuel and maintenance. So far this year I've spent $1,193.40 on fuel and maintenance. It is still a long way to $50,000. I'm just hoping that Tesla will have their 3rd generation vehicle ready when my Corolla dies. I plan on it being my next car.
So 300 miles on a charge is more than enough for a commuter. I have an SUV with DVD's for the kids for long trips. I'm a fan of the two vehicle method.
We've known about this since biblical times...
Acts 7:55,56: "But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; 56 and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
All kinds of historical texts have put the person with the most influence on their right hand side, it was kind of intuitive knowledge that they've just pinned down...
I've been watching Tesla since day one. The make cars the way they should be made. You place an order for your car, then the car is built. It was privately financed until this infusion of funds. For what the model S is and does the price isn't to high. I looked at buying a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo and it clocked in at $42,000, while I was shopping I noticed that entry level BMW's and Audi's were also at the $40,000 mark. So I saved $22,000 and bought a 2009 Corolla. My next car will be a Tesla as soon as they start selling them on the east coast. The Model S is as nice a car as an Audi or BMW, without the need to change the oil or pay at the pump. It makes the Chevy volt look like a joke and puts all the hybrids to shame, it is the ultimate commuter car.
Cows that burp less sounds good to me. My only question is how do they taste?
If you are the only user, why do you need versioning?