Right, no one making less than $250,000 a year drives cars or smokes cigarettes. Both cap and Trade and the Cigarette tax are a greater tax burden percentage-wise on the lower income folks among us, but don't let that get in the way of your argument.
"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
-- Barack Obama
To add to your point because only the rich smoke cigarettes....
Actually the irony is that the people who receive and expect said services don't pay any income taxes, which is why they don't care if income taxes increase. You can argue if its fair or not that the top half pays for the bottom half, but you can't really argue with them complaining about having to pay more when the government can't stop increasing spending.
I have no idea what happened to Sears via the SCOTUS, but I bought some appliances from Sears about 2 months ago and they taxed me at the Indiana rate (where I live) from an Illinois store (where I bought it), since the tax was 7% for IN and 10% for IL. The sales guy said they can tax at either the purchase location or delivery location rate, whichever is lower.
I have a Harmony 720, I have a TV, DVR, DVD, Xbox, Receiver and light switch. I entered the model numbers in and the remote worked fine. Took 10 minutes.
That is not really how it works though. I have done some engineering work on DOD projects a long while ago and they require everything to be US made. Everything. I just remember that the conduit runs cost approximately 4x's average construction cost since all of the steel used in the piping and the fittings had to be made in the USA.
It is NOT after the premiums were paid. You are looking at about $100k a year in liability insurance. Take a look on payscale.com. It is a great salary, but there is also a lot of training and education expense involved. Let me guess, you think that everyone should make the same money regardless of skill level, performance or education. Why is there such an assault on personal wealth these days???
I think you should befriend a couple doctors before making vast inaccurate generalizations. Doctors do not make that much money. I have friends who are surgeons and they make about $350,000 a year. Subtract huge insurance premiums are you are not talking gaudy rich, just well off. I just think it is getting out of hand in this country, anyone who works hard to get ahead is now lambasted for having a little more than someone else. That sounds a lot like....
Even the Economist points out that this stimulus package probably won't have the effect Obama is hoping for because the companies will simply sit back and wait for the government to pay them for the upgrades a second time they would have had to pay for themselves.
MS Office allows you to install one purchased version on a laptop and a desktop. All versions of Office IIRC include this in their EULA. All versions of Windows [enterprise notwithstanding] is one version per machine.
I know its popular to bash Comcast here, but I've had Comcast Business internet for 3 years now at work [switching from dish, yuck] and have had Comcast internet in my house for 4 years. I have had no issues and the speed is great?
I guess I missed that one, but the OP has already paid $60 for a DTV set-top box, and complained about the price, it seems odd they would want to spend more money on a digital tuner for a PC.
UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc do compete with the USPS? You can send a letter via UPS et al, it just costs more. I'm not really sure why I am defending the postal service, I don't really care, I just think that it is disingenuous to classify them as anything other than a public service just because you get a couple pieces of junk mail and they don't run a deficit?
Allow me to be blatantly honest. I think kids should have the right to explore their sexuality in a safe manner online. I know I did.
Why is "adult entertainment" so exclusive anyway? You know, they could have extremely tame erotic websites to cater to kids who are interested. Probably like softcore Playboy pics or something.
The USPS is the only Government agency I can think of that actually makes a profit, albeit a small one, $45 billion industry with about $1 billion profit, but it is designed to break even. I still think that it is one of the best values out there. $0.42 and I can send a letter across the country in 3 days.
Yes, ground source water is usually deep and a constant 40-70 degF year round depending on your location. I would never use an open system, go closed loop with a heat exchanger and you can get great efficiency with a heat pump. They do work and they are very efficient. They just have to be sized properly and have the appropriate auxiliary heat to make up for the heat pump when it can't keep up. I would never use an open system, there is too much maintenance and if the water is not treated properly, it will destroy valves and piping rather quickly.
US wiring is still 240V, it just two pole, not three. 240V hot to hot and each pole is 120V to neutral. At least here, you can't use 100% of the amperage, our codes limit that to 80%, so a typical 200A 240V house has 38kW of available power. A standard 5-ton (~18kW) heat pump does not use anymore electric than a normal 5-ton condensing unit, typically a 60A 2P breaker on 240V, that is why I was wondering why you needed 3-phase service.
Just a note, the efficiency of even very old boilers is about 60%, you can get new ones up to 88% non-condensing and up to 99% with condensing. The problem with heat pumps is that they just can't produce the heat, a 5-ton (18kW of cooling) heat pump can usually only produce about 35,000 Btu/h (10kW) of heat. The boiler you would have replaced, 36kW, even at 60% efficiency, is producing 22kW of heat, so you would still need auxiliary heat with the heat pump.
Why would you need 3-phase power for a heat pump? What size HP are the pumps you have? I've never heard of a residence with 208V/3Ph unless it is Al Gore's house:p
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let's see, Windows on hospital equipment recently got Conficker because Microsoft no longer provided security patches for Windows 2000 and NT.
Extended support for Windows 2000 doesn't end unitl July of 2010. The patch that fixes the exploit on Win2k is here if interested.
As for NT, the long term support ended over 5 years ago.
When I write legislators, I don't include hookers, blow, and cold hard cash in my statement.
Well maybe you should. -Signed, your congressman.
Right, no one making less than $250,000 a year drives cars or smokes cigarettes. Both cap and Trade and the Cigarette tax are a greater tax burden percentage-wise on the lower income folks among us, but don't let that get in the way of your argument.
"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime." -- Barack Obama
To add to your point because only the rich smoke cigarettes....
Actually the irony is that the people who receive and expect said services don't pay any income taxes, which is why they don't care if income taxes increase. You can argue if its fair or not that the top half pays for the bottom half, but you can't really argue with them complaining about having to pay more when the government can't stop increasing spending.
I have no idea what happened to Sears via the SCOTUS, but I bought some appliances from Sears about 2 months ago and they taxed me at the Indiana rate (where I live) from an Illinois store (where I bought it), since the tax was 7% for IN and 10% for IL. The sales guy said they can tax at either the purchase location or delivery location rate, whichever is lower.
I have a Harmony 720, I have a TV, DVR, DVD, Xbox, Receiver and light switch. I entered the model numbers in and the remote worked fine. Took 10 minutes.
That is not really how it works though. I have done some engineering work on DOD projects a long while ago and they require everything to be US made. Everything. I just remember that the conduit runs cost approximately 4x's average construction cost since all of the steel used in the piping and the fittings had to be made in the USA.
It is NOT after the premiums were paid. You are looking at about $100k a year in liability insurance. Take a look on payscale.com. It is a great salary, but there is also a lot of training and education expense involved. Let me guess, you think that everyone should make the same money regardless of skill level, performance or education. Why is there such an assault on personal wealth these days???
I think you should befriend a couple doctors before making vast inaccurate generalizations. Doctors do not make that much money. I have friends who are surgeons and they make about $350,000 a year. Subtract huge insurance premiums are you are not talking gaudy rich, just well off. I just think it is getting out of hand in this country, anyone who works hard to get ahead is now lambasted for having a little more than someone else. That sounds a lot like....
But the number of EC voters is determined by population. Large cities and by extension their states still largely determine the presidency.
I keep offering my female coworkers routine penetration tests, even for free, but it hasn't gone over well.
Even the Economist points out that this stimulus package probably won't have the effect Obama is hoping for because the companies will simply sit back and wait for the government to pay them for the upgrades a second time they would have had to pay for themselves.
Fixed that for you.
They sure as hell aren't innocent in this mess.
He said wife, not girlfriend.
MS Office allows you to install one purchased version on a laptop and a desktop. All versions of Office IIRC include this in their EULA. All versions of Windows [enterprise notwithstanding] is one version per machine.
I know its popular to bash Comcast here, but I've had Comcast Business internet for 3 years now at work [switching from dish, yuck] and have had Comcast internet in my house for 4 years. I have had no issues and the speed is great?
I guess I missed that one, but the OP has already paid $60 for a DTV set-top box, and complained about the price, it seems odd they would want to spend more money on a digital tuner for a PC.
A digital tuner for your PC is going to cost you more than the $60 you've already spent on a converter box.
UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc do compete with the USPS? You can send a letter via UPS et al, it just costs more. I'm not really sure why I am defending the postal service, I don't really care, I just think that it is disingenuous to classify them as anything other than a public service just because you get a couple pieces of junk mail and they don't run a deficit?
I'm glad this happened.
Allow me to be blatantly honest. I think kids should have the right to explore their sexuality in a safe manner online. I know I did.
Why is "adult entertainment" so exclusive anyway? You know, they could have extremely tame erotic websites to cater to kids who are interested. Probably like softcore Playboy pics or something.
MTV?
The USPS is the only Government agency I can think of that actually makes a profit, albeit a small one, $45 billion industry with about $1 billion profit, but it is designed to break even. I still think that it is one of the best values out there. $0.42 and I can send a letter across the country in 3 days.
Yes, ground source water is usually deep and a constant 40-70 degF year round depending on your location. I would never use an open system, go closed loop with a heat exchanger and you can get great efficiency with a heat pump. They do work and they are very efficient. They just have to be sized properly and have the appropriate auxiliary heat to make up for the heat pump when it can't keep up. I would never use an open system, there is too much maintenance and if the water is not treated properly, it will destroy valves and piping rather quickly.
US wiring is still 240V, it just two pole, not three. 240V hot to hot and each pole is 120V to neutral. At least here, you can't use 100% of the amperage, our codes limit that to 80%, so a typical 200A 240V house has 38kW of available power. A standard 5-ton (~18kW) heat pump does not use anymore electric than a normal 5-ton condensing unit, typically a 60A 2P breaker on 240V, that is why I was wondering why you needed 3-phase service.
Just a note, the efficiency of even very old boilers is about 60%, you can get new ones up to 88% non-condensing and up to 99% with condensing. The problem with heat pumps is that they just can't produce the heat, a 5-ton (18kW of cooling) heat pump can usually only produce about 35,000 Btu/h (10kW) of heat. The boiler you would have replaced, 36kW, even at 60% efficiency, is producing 22kW of heat, so you would still need auxiliary heat with the heat pump.
Why would you need 3-phase power for a heat pump? What size HP are the pumps you have? I've never heard of a residence with 208V/3Ph unless it is Al Gore's house :p