Turns out it's probably the only benefit of inheriting your seat--No campaign costs means less opportunities for bribery (assuming other avenues remain equally illegal and policed).
No, that's how it works. US wages are falling because they were artificially inflated by the inability of most of the rest of the world to economically compete following the devastations of the two world wars and the collapse of the colonial empires in the 19th and 20th century. Those things left countries like China, India, all of Africa, even South America in economic ruin. The US on the other hand was made more powerful by all of those events. This resulted in the insanely high standard of living relative to the rest of the world that Americans have enjoyed for almost 3/4 of a century.
That period of history is coming to an end. Those countries devastated by war and colonialism are developing new infrastructure that allows their people to work at a level that formerly only Americans, Europeans, and the Japanese could previously work at. And the Europeans and Japanese were only at that level because the Americans paid to rebuild their countries after the war.
Suddenly the Chinese, the Indians, and others can all do the same work. However there isn't that much new demand for work, at least not compared to sudden increased supply of labor. Whether demand will eventually increase proportionally as standards of living rise in those countries (and their consumption of goods rises too) remains to be seen, but it hasn't risen proportionally yet.
The result? American wages will fall and unemployment will rise as other countries start doing some of the work. American standards of living must and will fall, but why would the price of college fall? There are more people trying to go (because wages are falling in jobs they'd have taken without them) than ever before with more money to spend than ever before thanks to the "generous" lending programs. Demand is up, and the supply of money to spend on it is up, so prices rise. It's fairly straightforward.
As the driver sitting on top of that puddle, and presumably still in close proximity to the pump which would make a nice obstacle to quick escape... you should be fucking dead my friend.
I always preferred the version from Lucky Number Slevin: Girll: "It was an accident!" Slevin: "Oh, like he tripped and you fell?" Guy Pounding the Girl: *Shrug*
That's what they did. They asked New Zealand to arrest the men involved, and New Zealand police arrested them. Perhaps reading is not your strong suit?
There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with this that are based in fact. You should try one of those.
That's only a loophole in the sense that the fiction of corporate personhood allows you to pretend that passing money from your right hand to your left hand is spending it. Legally, they spent the money so it wasn't taxable. Nothing my parent suggested would change that. He suggested the status quo as a solution for the status quo.
If you want to end corporate personhood (the only way to really fix the broken system), I'm all for it.
How about Iran can have a nuclear bomb. Really? you think that's a good idea?
I think it poses zero threat to the US, and so is none of our fucking business. So what if they have one? They couldn't use it in anyway that would threaten us. It wouldn't even be MAD. It would just be Iran's Assured Destruction.
The idea that every little detail of every other nation's foreign and domestic policy is a matter for the US President is "friggin loony."
Here's a radical suggestion. Increase the taxes on corporations and they will start reducing their tax burden by 'investing' in their equipment, factories and other deductible expenses. Right now, these corporations are simply sitting on the money not doing anything with it. Call their bluff and tax it so they start spending it to offset the taxes.
You're living in some fantasy world. They already do that. That is WHY GE paid no taxes. Not because there was no tax rate, but because they reinvested everything. They may not have reinvested the way you wanted them to, but they did. Any corporation paying zero in taxes (there are many) pays zero because they use that money in ways which makes it non-taxable.
You miss the point. This isn't a users vs tech specs question.
It's a cathedral vs. bazaar question.
The cathedral can pick one priority. The bazaar (by its very nature) cannot.
The bazaar model (and we could debate the extent to which Linux development really follows that model, but as theoretical ideal it's apt enough) implies a set of cooperating interests each pursuing their own goal. In short, the bazaar model gaurantees that the product will be what the people working on it cared about, which may or may not align with their users.
Thus we get things like the kded4 process being permanently unstable because the devs wanted the plug-in modules to work a certain way, and one shitty module brings down all the rest. The user doesn't care about the overhead saved by this model. They just care that their desktop becomes periodically unstable in a way that is nearly impossible to debug. Take your pick of other Linux development problems.
In the cathedral management picks their priorities, and the developers can go defile themselves if they don't like it. That can create the iPad, and it can also create Windows Bob (and the Paper Clip).
The question is, and always has been, which is better overall? While citing best and worst examples from both camps can be illuminating, it does not make for proof that one is better than the other.
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Turns out it's probably the only benefit of inheriting your seat--No campaign costs means less opportunities for bribery (assuming other avenues remain equally illegal and policed).
It came out of a box of Cracker Jacks.
That's a school for ants. How was he supposed to learn anything about civics when he couldn't even fit in the building?
No, that's how it works. US wages are falling because they were artificially inflated by the inability of most of the rest of the world to economically compete following the devastations of the two world wars and the collapse of the colonial empires in the 19th and 20th century. Those things left countries like China, India, all of Africa, even South America in economic ruin. The US on the other hand was made more powerful by all of those events. This resulted in the insanely high standard of living relative to the rest of the world that Americans have enjoyed for almost 3/4 of a century.
That period of history is coming to an end. Those countries devastated by war and colonialism are developing new infrastructure that allows their people to work at a level that formerly only Americans, Europeans, and the Japanese could previously work at. And the Europeans and Japanese were only at that level because the Americans paid to rebuild their countries after the war.
Suddenly the Chinese, the Indians, and others can all do the same work. However there isn't that much new demand for work, at least not compared to sudden increased supply of labor. Whether demand will eventually increase proportionally as standards of living rise in those countries (and their consumption of goods rises too) remains to be seen, but it hasn't risen proportionally yet.
The result? American wages will fall and unemployment will rise as other countries start doing some of the work. American standards of living must and will fall, but why would the price of college fall? There are more people trying to go (because wages are falling in jobs they'd have taken without them) than ever before with more money to spend than ever before thanks to the "generous" lending programs. Demand is up, and the supply of money to spend on it is up, so prices rise. It's fairly straightforward.
it can take upto 1400 watts during charging upto 10 hours, and I currently pay 32 cents per kw-h
Where the fuck do you pay 32 per kw-h? I only pay 30, and I live in a 3rd world hole with a criminal for a power company.
As the driver sitting on top of that puddle, and presumably still in close proximity to the pump which would make a nice obstacle to quick escape ... you should be fucking dead my friend.
I always preferred the version from Lucky Number Slevin:
Girll: "It was an accident!"
Slevin: "Oh, like he tripped and you fell?"
Guy Pounding the Girl: *Shrug*
If a joke goes whoosh in a vacuum, does anyone notice?
You keep beating that drum Bob.
(At least it keeps him from eating the rat poison)
The world-wide bottom line is probably somewhere in the millions of lawyer-hours.
Which at the standard exchange rate is only five or six man-hours.
That's what they did. They asked New Zealand to arrest the men involved, and New Zealand police arrested them. Perhaps reading is not your strong suit?
There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with this that are based in fact. You should try one of those.
Not octane content, octane RATING. The two things are only slightly related. Google it if you want more.
They're not poisons! They're poisons! Can't you tell the difference?
(I feel a Monty Python skit coming on from all the derp in this thread)
But...but they're so cuddly.
After everything Berlusconi did to it, it certainly is a third world country.
I'm 90% certain he was being satirical--as in making fun of the people who believe that.
That's only a loophole in the sense that the fiction of corporate personhood allows you to pretend that passing money from your right hand to your left hand is spending it. Legally, they spent the money so it wasn't taxable. Nothing my parent suggested would change that. He suggested the status quo as a solution for the status quo.
If you want to end corporate personhood (the only way to really fix the broken system), I'm all for it.
voting for a government or party that is for regular citizens not the mega wealthy
No such thing in the US.
How about Iran can have a nuclear bomb. Really? you think that's a good idea?
I think it poses zero threat to the US, and so is none of our fucking business. So what if they have one? They couldn't use it in anyway that would threaten us. It wouldn't even be MAD. It would just be Iran's Assured Destruction.
The idea that every little detail of every other nation's foreign and domestic policy is a matter for the US President is "friggin loony."
Here's a radical suggestion. Increase the taxes on corporations and they will start reducing their tax burden by 'investing' in their equipment, factories and other deductible expenses. Right now, these corporations are simply sitting on the money not doing anything with it. Call their bluff and tax it so they start spending it to offset the taxes.
You're living in some fantasy world. They already do that. That is WHY GE paid no taxes. Not because there was no tax rate, but because they reinvested everything. They may not have reinvested the way you wanted them to, but they did. Any corporation paying zero in taxes (there are many) pays zero because they use that money in ways which makes it non-taxable.
Ah yes, the time honored "wall of balls" method of execution.
TIA. Minority tribes in their country perhaps?
The exact opposite really: they want to fall into a lower energy state from which they cannot escape. Being free costs energy.
You miss the point. This isn't a users vs tech specs question.
It's a cathedral vs. bazaar question.
The cathedral can pick one priority. The bazaar (by its very nature) cannot.
The bazaar model (and we could debate the extent to which Linux development really follows that model, but as theoretical ideal it's apt enough) implies a set of cooperating interests each pursuing their own goal. In short, the bazaar model gaurantees that the product will be what the people working on it cared about, which may or may not align with their users.
Thus we get things like the kded4 process being permanently unstable because the devs wanted the plug-in modules to work a certain way, and one shitty module brings down all the rest. The user doesn't care about the overhead saved by this model. They just care that their desktop becomes periodically unstable in a way that is nearly impossible to debug. Take your pick of other Linux development problems.
In the cathedral management picks their priorities, and the developers can go defile themselves if they don't like it. That can create the iPad, and it can also create Windows Bob (and the Paper Clip).
The question is, and always has been, which is better overall? While citing best and worst examples from both camps can be illuminating, it does not make for proof that one is better than the other.
You're also 15. Give it another fifteen years and come back to talk to us.
Either that or you seriously need to see a doctor. Now. Because what you described is NOT normal.
You don't know how the internet works do you? Of course he can't tell. The internet doesn't communicate sarcasm.