If every bit of land-based ice melted, the oceans would rise about 160 ft.
I think that number is only for all of Antarctica. The number I've seen most often and what I got when I calculated it myself is more like 210 feet.
Greenland has about 2,850,000 cubic kilometers of ice. Antarctica has about 26,500,000 cubic kilometers of ice. I'm going to ignore the rest of the ice because it's practically at rounding error levels. So the two of them together add up to 29,350,000 km^3 of ice. The surface area of the worlds oceans is about 361,000,000 km^2.
So 29,350,000 km^3 divided by 360,000,000 km^2 equals 0.081527 km or about 267 feet. Of course the ocean spreads out as it rises so you have to take that into account so that's how they get 210 feet.
Also that doesn't take into account sea level rise from thermal expansion. That is currently causing about 1/3 of the sea level rise we see.
How much of that ice is on land and how much is already floating? If ice floating in the ocean melts it won't cause the sea level to rise. It could have other terrible consequences (messing with currents, for example), but not rising sea level. One cubic km of ice melts to what volume of water?
I also wish to state that not all water front property loss is caused by rising sea levels. My island of Oahu is sinking by about 1 cm per year. Our coral is mostly dead so the elevation of beaches and reefs are not increasing. Ocean currents carry away sand from the beaches. Over the space of 30+ years I've seen almost 8 feet of beach width disappear.
The 9th amendment simply states that despite the Constitution enumerating rights, it should not be assumed that any rights not listed don't exist. Conversely, it does not state that everything not prohibited by the Constitution is a right.
The 14th amendment has 5 sections. The first section defines citizen. The second section talks about how to apportion the members of the House of Representatives based on state populations (excluding Indians who don't pay tax) and prohibits felons from voting for federal offices. Section 3 states that people who have taken an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and break that oath are not eligible for Senator, Representative, Vice President, or President unless 2/3 of Congress votes to override in that specific case. Section 4 deals with public debt. Section 5 authorizes Congress to enforce this amendment. Where in the 14th amendment does it give rights for a woman to induce an abortion?
If there are breaking changes it's a good reason to consider some other solution. The problem is that some PHP code isn't easy to fix even if you get the info about what's a breaking change because the PHP code is not always even human-readable except for the person that did write it - and that person has moved on.
Code people wrote for PHP 5.6 should work with PHP 7.1 with very few changes, however tons of things in the backend changed meaning extensions must be rewritten. There are 3 or 4 extensions I have which haven't even been upgraded to PHP 7.0 yet.
Lies is a category already, genius. "There are Facts, Opinions and Lies." Fake News falls under lies, and calling it anything else is playing into a deliberate semantic trap of Fox News' mentally deficient devotees.
To lie is to knowingly spread untruth or mislead by omission. It is possible to tell an untruth without lying. An example would be someone who believes in the Young Earth Theory saying the earth has only been around for 7,000 years (give or take).
So in the US you study mathematic I suppose. If you're going to abbreviate a word like "carriages", should the result be "car" or "cars"? If you have two cars, why would you not study maths? Put another way, if you study math, then why would you not have two car?
Our language has evolved so that most Americans don't think of car as an abbreviation for carriage. We view mathematics as a mass noun instead of countable. I guess we abbreviate to math instead of maths so we can use the same verb conjugations without sounding weird or pretentious.
The Language Center at the university I attended has a sign posted which reads Most Englishes spoken here acknowledging regional and cultural differences. At the time Hawaiian Pidgin was considered a dialect of American English, but the ISO now recognizes it as its own language: Hawaiian Creole English.
No. That's wrong. A subset of English IS latin. That is, is unchanged from the original latin but is now part of English. This is part of the English language as is a little je ne sais quoi.
De facto
De jure
Annus Mirabilis
Caveat emptor
etc.
I actually had to look up Annus mirabilis but readily recognized the others. I recognized annus as year, but not mirabilis
You are all morons. Datum is singular. Data is plural unless it's the proper name of an android. The 'person' is; the 'people' are. The set name takes on the properties of the group. Only libtards say 'the people is'. Case closed.
People can also be singular. People (plural) is the same as personas ("persons") in Spanish. People (singular) is the the same as pueblo (race or group) in Spanish. Hawaii has many peoples (there are a lot of different races that live in Hawaii).
If you "don't follow up" you can not blame the surgery.
And still a 1% failure rate is absurd. I could imagine that if the spermatic duct is only blocked with a clip. But usually it is cut, the ends are "wrapped around" and then stitched together, I mean the wrapped parts, not the original connection.
Doing a quick search now lists different rates: "less than 1%"; "1 in 2,000". WebMD reports that "Researchers estimated that around one in 100 vasectomies would fail within one to five years of surgery. They say those failure rates are similar to those reported in two prior studies on vasectomy failure."
Our local newspaper published a story of a couple who got pregnant 5+ years after the man had a vasectomy. Failure is extremely rare, but does happen.
But not in the range of 1% not even 1 permille, probably one per million... and as you do a "check" if all is fine after 4 to 6 weeks, a pregnancy after 5 years is like hitting a jackpot in a lottery.
The testicles have incredible self healing abilities, so you could say that if after 5 years you fathered a child, you might start believing in god Ë-Ë
Given the context of my reply, you should have realized that the 1% failure rate of vasectomy that I mentioned was the 1% the two ends of the vas deference find each other in the healing period following the actual surgery. After the initial healing and after the procedure has been verified as a success, THEN failure rates are essentially zero. BTW, how many men follow up after the surgery? It'd be interesting to know the rate given the context of this thread.
Condomes don't fail.
People using condomes fail to use them properly.
And how you can think that Vasectomie has a failure rate is beyond me...
Most of condom failure is caused by people using them incorrectly. There is also a small chance of a tear small enough to allow minute leakage. Boxes of condoms warn about the 3% failure rate. In approximately 1% of vasectomy cases, the two ends of the vas deference find each other; that is why there is at least one follow-up appointment 4-8 weeks after the procedure. Our local newspaper published a story of a couple who got pregnant 5+ years after the man had a vasectomy. Failure is extremely rare, but does happen.
The most efficient contraceptive is abstinence! No sex means sperm doesn't meet egg which means no birth (* Christians believe that Jesus was NOT the product of sex). Every other method will fail at least some of the time.
Actually, the abstinence method of contraception fails every time someone has sex. It's literally the least reliable method of contraception. It's kind of like trying to commit suicide by holding your breath. There may be some people who can do it, but the vast majority of people just wouldn't be able to. Especially if they have a enthusiastic breathing partner...
If you have sex, you don't practice abstinence. Condoms fail 3% of the time. Vasectomies (considered permanent) have a 1% failure rate. Partial hysterectomy (permanent and major surgery) has a low failure rate. Complete hysterectomy does not fail, but is major surgery and requires the woman to go on hormone replacement therapy. In truth, all non-permanent contraceptives fail at least some of the time.
I'm not a nutter saying that sex ed in school should be abstinence only (very few people have the will power), but people need to know the risks involved. Because my wife has extremely difficult pregnancies we take precautions. Both of us were raised in religious families who taught that sex should be limited to married couples. That's our morals; others have their own morals. C'est la vie.
Original title was "Don't deforest the forests. Fight against wildfire"
Without solution to the greenhouse's CO2, everybody will be 'morenos' under the Sun.
Don't waste unneeded energies.
My dad was an ecologist and called as an expert witness in many cases. I am a software engineer, but invoke conversations with my father. Small wildfires every few years are a good thing. Smaller fires create open space for new growth. Some seeds only germinate after a fire event. Lack of a fire means the old forest growth builds up which will result in an uncontrollable fire when it is ignited. Also, a healthy ecosystem needs individuals of different ages so the whole patch doesn't die off all at once. An alternative would be selective harvesting of lumber before setting small, controlled burns.
The poor and middle class tend to buy goods, which are subject to sales tax. The wealthy tend to buy services, which are not subject to sales taxes. Sales tax for the goods that are bought by those services is spread over more people, resulting in an overall lower sales tax rate.
Services may or may not be subject to sales tax, depending on tax jurisdiction. My mom had to charge GET (General Excise Tax) of 4.5% for the piano lessons she gave in Hawaii. As an aside, Hawaii has a GET instead of a sales tax.
Because if they don't bring in a certain amount of money they'll be fired?
We bought a house in an OK neighborhood. It hadn't been lived in in a year, needed a new garage door, front door, new carpet, new windows, the yard was overgrown and it had one giant elm tree and six ash trees that had to be taken down.
A week after we closed it was assessed for 25% over the sale price. That would have made it the most expensive piece of property on the street, which it certainly was not, and one of the most expensive houses in the entire neighborhood, which it *definitely* wasn't.
When we complained to the board they couldn't come up with a good reason why it was valued so high, or explain the reasoning behind the valuation. The assessor never even left his car, he eyeballed the property from the street.
The same thing happened to our friends. Apparently their old 2,000ft^2 ranch was worth more than the brand new 3,000ft^2 colonial on a larger lot that had sold the year before across the street. Turns out the city's pension fund had taken a hit and all of a sudden assessments were coming in WAY over the selling price.
My property taxes are due in November. I just barely got a new valuation from the city which upped last year's by 20%. No inspector came to my house; I believe they had a formula with lot size and finished square footage as inputs. To be fair, this year's assessment roughly matches last year's market value.
To be fair, I don't trust either side. Show me the valuation. Why is it worth $1Bn, or $200?
I think there's a typo somewhere. I can imagine Apple claiming $200 million instead of $1 billion, but a measly $200? It costs $200 to construct a 10 foot section of exterior wall. OTOH, there are stuck in one infinitive loop.
Less people is STILL the best idea. The world needs free, easily accessible contraception, not a smaller smartphone.
The most efficient contraceptive is abstinence! No sex means sperm doesn't meet egg which means no birth (* Christians believe that Jesus was NOT the product of sex). Every other method will fail at least some of the time.
Sex is dictated by biology (chromosomes or genitalia). At least 99% of the earth's human population is either male or female. Hermaphrodites are extremely rare. A few individuals are sexually ambiguous at birth and the parents assign one. Gender is more fluid.
Because this is an easy low hanging fruit law. It is just simple numbers. There are only 2 genders,
Go back to school to learn the difference between sex and gender. Sex is based either on chromosomes (XX or XY) or genitalia. There is a very small minorities who are hermaphrodites or sexually ambiguous. Gender is more about self-identity. There may be hundreds of genders.
Nearly every non-white person identifies as a hyphenated American.
Have you uh... been to America? Near enough everyone there who's white identifies as Irish or at a push Irish-American.
I had my DNA tested (AncestryDNA) and had very little surprise. 63% Great Britain, 18% Scandinavia, 8% West Europe, 6% Scottish / Irish, 3% Finnish / Russian, 1% Iberian (Spanish / Portuguese). Two things surprised me: only 6% Scottish (I should be 12%); no native DNA (I should be 2%). My family has been here long enough that I don't feel the need to hyphenate (some of my ancestors were on the Mayflower). My sons would have a long list of hyphenated qualifiers, but we only focus on their dual citizenship instead of the half-dozen races.
There are fewer women on boards not becuse women are less intelligent but because there are fewer of them at the top of corporations
If that is the reason then it is an obvious case where positive discrimination could temporarily be applied to break the vicious cycle.
Sorry, but as engineers we know that nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution. Federal Income Tax was supposed to be temporary. Affirmative Action was supposed to be temporary. Ruby was supposed to be a prototyping language.
We need to attack the problem where it initiates. Look at the gender ratios of college graduates in different fields. Then look at the gender ratios of qualified candidates compared to the gender ratios of who gets the position. Look at the gender ratios of people at the company based on length of employment.
Many women leave the workforce to raise children. My own mom dropped out of college to raise 7 children before completing her college degree (my mom graduated college the same month I graduated high school). My sisters-in-law and my sister left the work force when their first children were born and only returned when their youngest were in school. As a man, I took a month off for paternity leave for my two children. My wife has considered working despite having two young children, but the cost of daycare means she would need to earn at least $20 per hour pretax to compensate.
You are right. It is a chicken-and-egg Problem. The egg came first from an animal which wasn't a chicken. That's indisputable.
Actually, it depends on how you parse the question. Obviously dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years before the first chicken. HOWEVER, most people parse it as which came first: the chicken egg or the chicken. The answer to this version is the chicken. A chicken-like animal lays an egg which is fertilized by a chicken-like animal of a different species. The result is the first chicken.
Its time to end the insanely high prices and planned obsolescence in the "smart" phone market! so called "smart" phones cost $5-$10 to make. Even if they cost $20-$25 to make, that does not justify prices over $150...and that should be the price of the very top end "smart" phones! Its also time for ALL "smart" phones to be required to have a 5 year warrantee!, and software updates (that do not slow the phones performance) for that same 5 years! The whole idea that phones should only be supported for a year (or less), and that people should buy a new phone every year are pure marketing bullshit!! Just a way for the phone manufacturers to make more money!!!
I think you're out of touch on what it costs to manufacture smart phones. Time reported that the iPhone X (retailed at $999) cost Apple $370.25; iPhone 8 ($699 retail) cost $255.16 to manufacture. iPhone 7 ($649 retail) cost Apple $219.80. This is substantially higher than your 5-10 dollars.
Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.
Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.
That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.
Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.
they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.
Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.
Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.
I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.
And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.
Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?
How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?
Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.
I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).
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If every bit of land-based ice melted, the oceans would rise about 160 ft.
I think that number is only for all of Antarctica. The number I've seen most often and what I got when I calculated it myself is more like 210 feet.
Greenland has about 2,850,000 cubic kilometers of ice. Antarctica has about 26,500,000 cubic kilometers of ice. I'm going to ignore the rest of the ice because it's practically at rounding error levels. So the two of them together add up to 29,350,000 km^3 of ice. The surface area of the worlds oceans is about 361,000,000 km^2.
So 29,350,000 km^3 divided by 360,000,000 km^2 equals 0.081527 km or about 267 feet. Of course the ocean spreads out as it rises so you have to take that into account so that's how they get 210 feet.
Also that doesn't take into account sea level rise from thermal expansion. That is currently causing about 1/3 of the sea level rise we see.
How much of that ice is on land and how much is already floating? If ice floating in the ocean melts it won't cause the sea level to rise. It could have other terrible consequences (messing with currents, for example), but not rising sea level. One cubic km of ice melts to what volume of water?
I also wish to state that not all water front property loss is caused by rising sea levels. My island of Oahu is sinking by about 1 cm per year. Our coral is mostly dead so the elevation of beaches and reefs are not increasing. Ocean currents carry away sand from the beaches. Over the space of 30+ years I've seen almost 8 feet of beach width disappear.
Sure it does. The 9th and 14th amendments
The 9th amendment simply states that despite the Constitution enumerating rights, it should not be assumed that any rights not listed don't exist. Conversely, it does not state that everything not prohibited by the Constitution is a right.
The 14th amendment has 5 sections. The first section defines citizen. The second section talks about how to apportion the members of the House of Representatives based on state populations (excluding Indians who don't pay tax) and prohibits felons from voting for federal offices. Section 3 states that people who have taken an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and break that oath are not eligible for Senator, Representative, Vice President, or President unless 2/3 of Congress votes to override in that specific case. Section 4 deals with public debt. Section 5 authorizes Congress to enforce this amendment. Where in the 14th amendment does it give rights for a woman to induce an abortion?
If there are breaking changes it's a good reason to consider some other solution. The problem is that some PHP code isn't easy to fix even if you get the info about what's a breaking change because the PHP code is not always even human-readable except for the person that did write it - and that person has moved on.
Code people wrote for PHP 5.6 should work with PHP 7.1 with very few changes, however tons of things in the backend changed meaning extensions must be rewritten. There are 3 or 4 extensions I have which haven't even been upgraded to PHP 7.0 yet.
Lies is a category already, genius. "There are Facts, Opinions and Lies." Fake News falls under lies, and calling it anything else is playing into a deliberate semantic trap of Fox News' mentally deficient devotees.
To lie is to knowingly spread untruth or mislead by omission. It is possible to tell an untruth without lying. An example would be someone who believes in the Young Earth Theory saying the earth has only been around for 7,000 years (give or take).
So in the US you study mathematic I suppose. If you're going to abbreviate a word like "carriages", should the result be "car" or "cars"? If you have two cars, why would you not study maths? Put another way, if you study math, then why would you not have two car?
Our language has evolved so that most Americans don't think of car as an abbreviation for carriage. We view mathematics as a mass noun instead of countable. I guess we abbreviate to math instead of maths so we can use the same verb conjugations without sounding weird or pretentious.
The Language Center at the university I attended has a sign posted which reads Most Englishes spoken here acknowledging regional and cultural differences. At the time Hawaiian Pidgin was considered a dialect of American English, but the ISO now recognizes it as its own language: Hawaiian Creole English.
No. That's wrong. A subset of English IS latin. That is, is unchanged from the original latin but is now part of English. This is part of the English language as is a little je ne sais quoi.
De facto De jure Annus Mirabilis Caveat emptor
etc.
I actually had to look up Annus mirabilis but readily recognized the others. I recognized annus as year, but not mirabilis
You are all morons. Datum is singular. Data is plural unless it's the proper name of an android. The 'person' is; the 'people' are. The set name takes on the properties of the group. Only libtards say 'the people is'. Case closed.
People can also be singular. People (plural) is the same as personas ("persons") in Spanish. People (singular) is the the same as pueblo (race or group) in Spanish. Hawaii has many peoples (there are a lot of different races that live in Hawaii).
From the UK here. Origin of the English language. It's mashed potato. Although you might call it mashed potatoes across the pond.
I generally order potato purée
Debate close?
1) What data is you looking at?
2) What data are you looking at?
Nope. Nothing has been settled. The 1st form feels weird.
In both of your sentences, you is the subject of the verb (is or are). Per usual, in a question the subject follows the verb.
If you "don't follow up" you can not blame the surgery.
And still a 1% failure rate is absurd. I could imagine that if the spermatic duct is only blocked with a clip. But usually it is cut, the ends are "wrapped around" and then stitched together, I mean the wrapped parts, not the original connection.
Doing a quick search now lists different rates: "less than 1%"; "1 in 2,000". WebMD reports that "Researchers estimated that around one in 100 vasectomies would fail within one to five years of surgery. They say those failure rates are similar to those reported in two prior studies on vasectomy failure."
Our local newspaper published a story of a couple who got pregnant 5+ years after the man had a vasectomy. Failure is extremely rare, but does happen. But not in the range of 1% not even 1 permille, probably one per million ... and as you do a "check" if all is fine after 4 to 6 weeks, a pregnancy after 5 years is like hitting a jackpot in a lottery.
The testicles have incredible self healing abilities, so you could say that if after 5 years you fathered a child, you might start believing in god Ë-Ë
Given the context of my reply, you should have realized that the 1% failure rate of vasectomy that I mentioned was the 1% the two ends of the vas deference find each other in the healing period following the actual surgery. After the initial healing and after the procedure has been verified as a success, THEN failure rates are essentially zero. BTW, how many men follow up after the surgery? It'd be interesting to know the rate given the context of this thread.
Condomes don't fail. People using condomes fail to use them properly.
And how you can think that Vasectomie has a failure rate is beyond me ...
Most of condom failure is caused by people using them incorrectly. There is also a small chance of a tear small enough to allow minute leakage. Boxes of condoms warn about the 3% failure rate. In approximately 1% of vasectomy cases, the two ends of the vas deference find each other; that is why there is at least one follow-up appointment 4-8 weeks after the procedure. Our local newspaper published a story of a couple who got pregnant 5+ years after the man had a vasectomy. Failure is extremely rare, but does happen.
The most efficient contraceptive is abstinence! No sex means sperm doesn't meet egg which means no birth (* Christians believe that Jesus was NOT the product of sex). Every other method will fail at least some of the time.
Actually, the abstinence method of contraception fails every time someone has sex. It's literally the least reliable method of contraception. It's kind of like trying to commit suicide by holding your breath. There may be some people who can do it, but the vast majority of people just wouldn't be able to. Especially if they have a enthusiastic breathing partner...
If you have sex, you don't practice abstinence. Condoms fail 3% of the time. Vasectomies (considered permanent) have a 1% failure rate. Partial hysterectomy (permanent and major surgery) has a low failure rate. Complete hysterectomy does not fail, but is major surgery and requires the woman to go on hormone replacement therapy. In truth, all non-permanent contraceptives fail at least some of the time.
I'm not a nutter saying that sex ed in school should be abstinence only (very few people have the will power), but people need to know the risks involved. Because my wife has extremely difficult pregnancies we take precautions. Both of us were raised in religious families who taught that sex should be limited to married couples. That's our morals; others have their own morals. C'est la vie.
Original title was "Don't deforest the forests. Fight against wildfire"
Without solution to the greenhouse's CO2, everybody will be 'morenos' under the Sun.
Don't waste unneeded energies.
My dad was an ecologist and called as an expert witness in many cases. I am a software engineer, but invoke conversations with my father. Small wildfires every few years are a good thing. Smaller fires create open space for new growth. Some seeds only germinate after a fire event. Lack of a fire means the old forest growth builds up which will result in an uncontrollable fire when it is ignited. Also, a healthy ecosystem needs individuals of different ages so the whole patch doesn't die off all at once. An alternative would be selective harvesting of lumber before setting small, controlled burns.
The poor and middle class tend to buy goods, which are subject to sales tax. The wealthy tend to buy services, which are not subject to sales taxes. Sales tax for the goods that are bought by those services is spread over more people, resulting in an overall lower sales tax rate.
Services may or may not be subject to sales tax, depending on tax jurisdiction. My mom had to charge GET (General Excise Tax) of 4.5% for the piano lessons she gave in Hawaii. As an aside, Hawaii has a GET instead of a sales tax.
Because if they don't bring in a certain amount of money they'll be fired?
We bought a house in an OK neighborhood. It hadn't been lived in in a year, needed a new garage door, front door, new carpet, new windows, the yard was overgrown and it had one giant elm tree and six ash trees that had to be taken down.
A week after we closed it was assessed for 25% over the sale price. That would have made it the most expensive piece of property on the street, which it certainly was not, and one of the most expensive houses in the entire neighborhood, which it *definitely* wasn't.
When we complained to the board they couldn't come up with a good reason why it was valued so high, or explain the reasoning behind the valuation. The assessor never even left his car, he eyeballed the property from the street.
The same thing happened to our friends. Apparently their old 2,000ft^2 ranch was worth more than the brand new 3,000ft^2 colonial on a larger lot that had sold the year before across the street. Turns out the city's pension fund had taken a hit and all of a sudden assessments were coming in WAY over the selling price.
My property taxes are due in November. I just barely got a new valuation from the city which upped last year's by 20%. No inspector came to my house; I believe they had a formula with lot size and finished square footage as inputs. To be fair, this year's assessment roughly matches last year's market value.
To be fair, I don't trust either side. Show me the valuation. Why is it worth $1Bn, or $200?
I think there's a typo somewhere. I can imagine Apple claiming $200 million instead of $1 billion, but a measly $200? It costs $200 to construct a 10 foot section of exterior wall. OTOH, there are stuck in one infinitive loop.
Less people is STILL the best idea. The world needs free, easily accessible contraception, not a smaller smartphone.
The most efficient contraceptive is abstinence! No sex means sperm doesn't meet egg which means no birth (* Christians believe that Jesus was NOT the product of sex). Every other method will fail at least some of the time.
This is CA. There are more than two genders.
Sex is dictated by biology (chromosomes or genitalia). At least 99% of the earth's human population is either male or female. Hermaphrodites are extremely rare. A few individuals are sexually ambiguous at birth and the parents assign one. Gender is more fluid.
Because this is an easy low hanging fruit law. It is just simple numbers. There are only 2 genders,
Go back to school to learn the difference between sex and gender. Sex is based either on chromosomes (XX or XY) or genitalia. There is a very small minorities who are hermaphrodites or sexually ambiguous. Gender is more about self-identity. There may be hundreds of genders.
Nearly every non-white person identifies as a hyphenated American.
Have you uh... been to America? Near enough everyone there who's white identifies as Irish or at a push Irish-American.
I had my DNA tested (AncestryDNA) and had very little surprise. 63% Great Britain, 18% Scandinavia, 8% West Europe, 6% Scottish / Irish, 3% Finnish / Russian, 1% Iberian (Spanish / Portuguese). Two things surprised me: only 6% Scottish (I should be 12%); no native DNA (I should be 2%). My family has been here long enough that I don't feel the need to hyphenate (some of my ancestors were on the Mayflower). My sons would have a long list of hyphenated qualifiers, but we only focus on their dual citizenship instead of the half-dozen races.
There are fewer women on boards not becuse women are less intelligent but because there are fewer of them at the top of corporations
If that is the reason then it is an obvious case where positive discrimination could temporarily be applied to break the vicious cycle.
Sorry, but as engineers we know that nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution. Federal Income Tax was supposed to be temporary. Affirmative Action was supposed to be temporary. Ruby was supposed to be a prototyping language.
We need to attack the problem where it initiates. Look at the gender ratios of college graduates in different fields. Then look at the gender ratios of qualified candidates compared to the gender ratios of who gets the position. Look at the gender ratios of people at the company based on length of employment.
Many women leave the workforce to raise children. My own mom dropped out of college to raise 7 children before completing her college degree (my mom graduated college the same month I graduated high school). My sisters-in-law and my sister left the work force when their first children were born and only returned when their youngest were in school. As a man, I took a month off for paternity leave for my two children. My wife has considered working despite having two young children, but the cost of daycare means she would need to earn at least $20 per hour pretax to compensate.
You are right. It is a chicken-and-egg Problem. The egg came first from an animal which wasn't a chicken. That's indisputable.
Actually, it depends on how you parse the question. Obviously dinosaurs laid eggs millions of years before the first chicken. HOWEVER, most people parse it as which came first: the chicken egg or the chicken. The answer to this version is the chicken. A chicken-like animal lays an egg which is fertilized by a chicken-like animal of a different species. The result is the first chicken.
Its time to end the insanely high prices and planned obsolescence in the "smart" phone market! so called "smart" phones cost $5-$10 to make. Even if they cost $20-$25 to make, that does not justify prices over $150...and that should be the price of the very top end "smart" phones! Its also time for ALL "smart" phones to be required to have a 5 year warrantee!, and software updates (that do not slow the phones performance) for that same 5 years! The whole idea that phones should only be supported for a year (or less), and that people should buy a new phone every year are pure marketing bullshit!! Just a way for the phone manufacturers to make more money!!!
I think you're out of touch on what it costs to manufacture smart phones. Time reported that the iPhone X (retailed at $999) cost Apple $370.25; iPhone 8 ($699 retail) cost $255.16 to manufacture. iPhone 7 ($649 retail) cost Apple $219.80. This is substantially higher than your 5-10 dollars.
Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;
They do.
Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.
Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.
That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.
Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.
they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.
Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.
Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.
I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.
And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.
Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?
How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?
Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.
I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).
As Republicans will tell you, those are