I love your concept that subsidies are free money.
Since the subsidies are in the form of tax abatement, they are as much "free money" as any other tax cut. But this tax cut actually is connected directly to a social good, unlike a cut in estate taxes or corporate taxes.
"According to the article, it increases the initial cost by $10,000 ($50 per month on 30-year loan) but decreases overall costs by $19,000 over 30-years of ownership ($52.78 per month over 30 years)."
The initial cost is closer to $10,000 when you figure in the subsidies. The latest figures I've seen show that solar costs the home-buyer $4 per watt and adds $4 per watt to the value of the home. When you figure in lower electric bills, it's pure benefit.
Washington DC is a bunch of politicians looking for money and when they get out of politics they want jobs in the private sector.
You could also say, "Washington DC is a bunch of lobbyists and corporate interests looking for politicians and when they get out of lobbying they want jobs working in the public sector."
Whether or not the chair of the Consumer Protection Bureau is personally able to head investigations is less important to me than the question of why you would want to appoint a CPB chair who has all these previous financial ties to the biggest companies his agency is supposed to be protecting consumers from?
It's like appointing Mr Fox to be the head of the Henhouse Security Agency and thinking it's OK because he's not personally responsible for protecting the henhouse. I mean, what the fuck else is his job, then and why would you think he's going to delegate that responsibility to someone who has the hens' best interests in mind?
You can't put a price on the ability to feel superior to those who use lesser brands, and the self-satisfaction of showing what a unique individual you are by displaying the same logo as everyone else in your local coffee shop.
I don't mind if Google wants to translate words in a more gender neutral manner, but please, not when I'm searching for virtual reality porn. I don't want to have to duck and dodge to avoid a surprise giant kielbasa. I do enough of that in real life.
They're not trying to protect the info from the government. Just from a phone that has FB installed. Just gives you an indication of how hard it is to get the spying to stop, how deep they look at calls and SMS messages and GPS, etc.
You have to admit, it is a very interesting use of the word by the author of the article. I can't decide if he just made a mistake or is trying to make a deeper point about Apple and Apple users. I suspect it's the former, but I secretly hope it's the latter.
That assumes, of course, that Wikileaks has even received copies of the e-mails from whoever stole them.
No, the hacked GOP emails won't go to Wikileaks. They are being kept in a big zip file named, "Saudi/Putin Insurance Policy (1)" on a server in Chechnya that's running a pirated version of Windows NT Server 4.0.
... while I churn out text in nvi, send it by email using mutt, put it on the 'web using awk and make, and write very nicely laid-out letters --including invoices, that's the stuff that gets you money-- using troff and a custom macroset that includes my letterhead.
But then how do you find the time to get any work done?
I might be too curmudgeony here, but every time I find myself having to install a newer version of MS Office I find myself missing the previous one(s) more.
Brother, I still miss my old version of Nota Bene. I knew all the shortcuts by heart, and it did footnotes and endnotes like a champ.
Now, my word processor is LaTex and I have a literal onion hanging from my belt.
GOP: 13/236 opposed = 5.5% Dems: 12/197 opposed = 6.1% They're not exactly the same percentage, but I doubt the difference between the two is statistically noticeable.
If you want to buy a fedora that costs $61 but you only have $55, would you expect the store to say, "close enough, that's almost the right amount"?
If you're checking out with your new iPhone X and the cashier rings you up for $944 instead of the real price, which is $939 do you just say, "no problem. close enough"?
If you were running for office and you got 944 votes and your opponent got 939, would you say, "that's cool, it's close enough, he can be the winner"?
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OK, that's all I got so far.
I feel the same way about my Microsoft Zune.
Thank goodness I sold all my Bitcoin and put my money in the stock market.
Since the subsidies are in the form of tax abatement, they are as much "free money" as any other tax cut. But this tax cut actually is connected directly to a social good, unlike a cut in estate taxes or corporate taxes.
They are subsidized, often as much as 50%.
The initial cost is closer to $10,000 when you figure in the subsidies. The latest figures I've seen show that solar costs the home-buyer $4 per watt and adds $4 per watt to the value of the home. When you figure in lower electric bills, it's pure benefit.
Wait, I've got an even better one.
Trump picked a former Monsanto executive to be head of the Fish & Wildlife Service. No joke.
https://www.apnews.com/aa701b5...
You could also say, "Washington DC is a bunch of lobbyists and corporate interests looking for politicians and when they get out of lobbying they want jobs working in the public sector."
Are you noticing a pattern?
Whether or not the chair of the Consumer Protection Bureau is personally able to head investigations is less important to me than the question of why you would want to appoint a CPB chair who has all these previous financial ties to the biggest companies his agency is supposed to be protecting consumers from?
It's like appointing Mr Fox to be the head of the Henhouse Security Agency and thinking it's OK because he's not personally responsible for protecting the henhouse. I mean, what the fuck else is his job, then and why would you think he's going to delegate that responsibility to someone who has the hens' best interests in mind?
You can't put a price on the ability to feel superior to those who use lesser brands, and the self-satisfaction of showing what a unique individual you are by displaying the same logo as everyone else in your local coffee shop.
I don't mind if Google wants to translate words in a more gender neutral manner, but please, not when I'm searching for virtual reality porn. I don't want to have to duck and dodge to avoid a surprise giant kielbasa. I do enough of that in real life.
Wait a minute, I want to reply to this but I have to stop shaking with laughter first.
It's true. After decades, he's still committed to not coming out of the closet.
https://youtu.be/IKbLquqxBAQ
Whatsapp is owned by Facebook.
If they were really paranoid, couldn't they just use Whatsapp? I hear that's secure.
Oh wait...
You have to admit, it is a very interesting use of the word by the author of the article. I can't decide if he just made a mistake or is trying to make a deeper point about Apple and Apple users. I suspect it's the former, but I secretly hope it's the latter.
No, the hacked GOP emails won't go to Wikileaks. They are being kept in a big zip file named, "Saudi/Putin Insurance Policy (1)" on a server in Chechnya that's running a pirated version of Windows NT Server 4.0.
One thing we know for sure: we'll never see any of these hacked emails on Wikileaks.
But then how do you find the time to get any work done?
Brother, I still miss my old version of Nota Bene. I knew all the shortcuts by heart, and it did footnotes and endnotes like a champ.
Now, my word processor is LaTex and I have a literal onion hanging from my belt.
The EV federal subsidies are already scheduled to be phased out and the phase out has already started. This is just Trump fluffing the Saudis.
At this point, the subsidies are really only helping the luxury EV market. It's time to pull those anyway.
It's Trump taking credit for something that was written into the law back in 2010. As usual.
If you want to buy a fedora that costs $61 but you only have $55, would you expect the store to say, "close enough, that's almost the right amount"?
If you're checking out with your new iPhone X and the cashier rings you up for $944 instead of the real price, which is $939 do you just say, "no problem. close enough"?
If you were running for office and you got 944 votes and your opponent got 939, would you say, "that's cool, it's close enough, he can be the winner"?
Are you unable to calculate a simple percentage? I mean, there's a goddamn button the calculator that will do it for you.
It's not "almost the same percentage".