Interesting question. On a related note, I was watching the (Discovery?) documentary called "How the universe works" or something like that, 8 episodes on netflix streaming I recommend to anyone. Anyways they briefly discuss the common question of "If there was this super singularity from which everything came.. where was it? Did it happen over there? Or over here? Well, it's a bit of a brain bender because there is no perspective for its location because it was everywhere.. or nowhere depending on how you look at it. More interestingly is that since we have a Universe that is accelerating its expansion apparently we're still "big banging."
We have the technology today to create plasma shields which would protect our near light speed travelers. Ironically, that's one of the few technology issues with that sort of travel that we actually have a real world solution to right now.
If students are generally capable of paying $X out of pocket and the government kicks in $Y then the price of tuition will approach $X+$Y over time. That's how pretty much everything works... from government subsidized housing, tuition, etc.
Ron Paul supports universal free trade with a largely non-interventionist foreign policy, which is very very different than being an isolationist. Typically countries that have really strong trade with each other don't go to war. There were good reasons we went into Afghanistan, not particularly good reasons to occupy the country for a decade. I don't agree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, but he's not an isolationist.
Frankly I like that there's a little hurdle to vote. If everyone could vote from their cell phones or whatever there's no barrier to entry whatsoever so you'll just get yahoos voting for the first person alphabetically or other nonsense because they can do it in 10 seconds without any thought. The current system at least somewhat discourages people who don't care. I'm perfectly okay with people who don't care not voting.
Our floor sweepers and Wal-Mart employees get decent wages too, it's just that a portion of it comes in the form of welfare from the government to keep the price tag in the stores low.
I would add "what will come of the patents created with this subsidized money" to "will they be able to pay back the loan." But yeah, otherwise I think we agree.
You really under-estimate the cost of hiring a full set of staff to run a place like that. The ramp up time before you can be productive is massively expensive. Your best bet is to find a place teetering on closing and then it's luck of the draw for timing, contracts, etc.
The financial institution that gave me the bloody amex does not have branch offices, I'd basically have to walk into like the corporate headquarters or something.
In 1963 JFK signed an executive order (11110) removing the power of the "federal reserve" to issue currency and gave it back to the treasury. He was killed a few months after. Conspiracy theories abound..
Ironically I can't use cash for most of my actual debts.. There's nowhere I know of for me to drive to and pay my Amex bill with cash. I guess technically I could drive to Utah and pay my mortgage but I doubt it.
Does google+ even have farmville or any of the other sorts of apps that cause people to literally waste hours and hours of time on facebook? Google+ lacks time wasters. Google+ has a superior "wall" concept but none of the things that cause/allow users to spend all day "hanging out" there. Obviously, the only way to make Google+ succeed is to make it suck.
Eeeh, wrong. If anyone wants a product imported to or exported from somewhere across the pond they'll have to hit a coast at some point and the price of that product will reflect that cost, and it's usually cheaper to hit a coast even if you're going from North to South America. If it can be sourced cheaper by some other route, then that's a good thing.
My daughter is 4 and she loves going to the library and picking out books to read. I occasionally get a library book myself but never off the shelf, I register online and they deliver it directly to my house. I can return it to any library in my county. They also have a wide selection of movies and television series that my wife occasionally checks out, yet another "aid" in the movement to ditch cable on top of Netflix and Hulu.
When a person in North Dakota purchases a product that was invented, built, imported in California the price of that product will reflect the total cost of doing business in California which includes California state taxes to pay for things like earthquake and tsunami warning systems.
The push to move things from the federal level to the state level is a migration towards a more direct democracy. That's how our country was initially and I don't mean to support one way or the other in this post.. but it has its benefits and its drawbacks.
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I'm curious what it means beyond being able to see more stars from our backyard.. Serious/ignorant inquiry not intended to be snarky.
Interesting question. On a related note, I was watching the (Discovery?) documentary called "How the universe works" or something like that, 8 episodes on netflix streaming I recommend to anyone. Anyways they briefly discuss the common question of "If there was this super singularity from which everything came.. where was it? Did it happen over there? Or over here? Well, it's a bit of a brain bender because there is no perspective for its location because it was everywhere.. or nowhere depending on how you look at it. More interestingly is that since we have a Universe that is accelerating its expansion apparently we're still "big banging."
We have the technology today to create plasma shields which would protect our near light speed travelers. Ironically, that's one of the few technology issues with that sort of travel that we actually have a real world solution to right now.
That's total nonsense. When the government creates things like FHA loans you don't think that's subsidizing the housing industry?
If students are generally capable of paying $X out of pocket and the government kicks in $Y then the price of tuition will approach $X+$Y over time. That's how pretty much everything works... from government subsidized housing, tuition, etc.
Ron Paul supports universal free trade with a largely non-interventionist foreign policy, which is very very different than being an isolationist. Typically countries that have really strong trade with each other don't go to war. There were good reasons we went into Afghanistan, not particularly good reasons to occupy the country for a decade. I don't agree with Ron Paul on foreign policy, but he's not an isolationist.
Frankly I like that there's a little hurdle to vote. If everyone could vote from their cell phones or whatever there's no barrier to entry whatsoever so you'll just get yahoos voting for the first person alphabetically or other nonsense because they can do it in 10 seconds without any thought. The current system at least somewhat discourages people who don't care. I'm perfectly okay with people who don't care not voting.
Our floor sweepers and Wal-Mart employees get decent wages too, it's just that a portion of it comes in the form of welfare from the government to keep the price tag in the stores low.
I would add "what will come of the patents created with this subsidized money" to "will they be able to pay back the loan." But yeah, otherwise I think we agree.
You really under-estimate the cost of hiring a full set of staff to run a place like that. The ramp up time before you can be productive is massively expensive. Your best bet is to find a place teetering on closing and then it's luck of the draw for timing, contracts, etc.
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The financial institution that gave me the bloody amex does not have branch offices, I'd basically have to walk into like the corporate headquarters or something.
In 1963 JFK signed an executive order (11110) removing the power of the "federal reserve" to issue currency and gave it back to the treasury. He was killed a few months after. Conspiracy theories abound..
Ironically I can't use cash for most of my actual debts.. There's nowhere I know of for me to drive to and pay my Amex bill with cash. I guess technically I could drive to Utah and pay my mortgage but I doubt it.
I'm not an atheist because I don't define myself by things I don't do. I'm not a "non-smoker" either.
You can get a text message and/or a voice call to a telephone that is pretty unidentifiable. Cash is king.
Does google+ even have farmville or any of the other sorts of apps that cause people to literally waste hours and hours of time on facebook? Google+ lacks time wasters. Google+ has a superior "wall" concept but none of the things that cause/allow users to spend all day "hanging out" there. Obviously, the only way to make Google+ succeed is to make it suck.
Eeeh, wrong. If anyone wants a product imported to or exported from somewhere across the pond they'll have to hit a coast at some point and the price of that product will reflect that cost, and it's usually cheaper to hit a coast even if you're going from North to South America. If it can be sourced cheaper by some other route, then that's a good thing.
Digital distribution could dramaticallt expand a library's reach with the same resources.
Not when there's no competition in the distribution networks.
My daughter is 4 and she loves going to the library and picking out books to read. I occasionally get a library book myself but never off the shelf, I register online and they deliver it directly to my house. I can return it to any library in my county. They also have a wide selection of movies and television series that my wife occasionally checks out, yet another "aid" in the movement to ditch cable on top of Netflix and Hulu.
Highly literate audience with disposable income for things like ipads/nooks/whatever.
Red states also tend to have higher per capita rates of people in the welfare systems.
When a person in North Dakota purchases a product that was invented, built, imported in California the price of that product will reflect the total cost of doing business in California which includes California state taxes to pay for things like earthquake and tsunami warning systems.
The push to move things from the federal level to the state level is a migration towards a more direct democracy. That's how our country was initially and I don't mean to support one way or the other in this post.. but it has its benefits and its drawbacks.
The VAST majority of education funding already comes from local taxes and already waxes and wanes with the phases of recession.