Did you even LOOK at the first link? The first 4 pages are all FRAUDULENT use of absentee ballots; and on the 5th page we see not only that but impersonation fraud at the polls: "Crayton was convicted of impersonation fraud for illegally voting in her sister’s name during the 2002 election". Clear cut case of actually casting illegal, fraudulent ballots. So how many fraudulent ballots do you want to allow in our elections?
You can look up each and every conviction - they are public record. Of course, it's kind of funny I got modded down to zero as a troll, given I provided factual, documented, legal court convictions of voter fraud. Which is something the liberal side simply cannot tolerate as it completely destroys their entire claim that there is no voter fraud and there is no reason to ensure the sanctity of the vote...
Here's a small sample of 848 criminal voter fraud convictions - not just charges. How many cases of proven voter fraud (you know, where a conviction is reached) do you need before you consider it an issue? How many shall be disenfranchised before you care? What is your tolerance to stealing votes?
Balance a checkbook: be able to do more than 2 math operations in a row. Turns out it is helpful in lots of situations, including just estimating how much money you're spending at the grocery store, how long your chore list will take to do, and yes - how much money you probably have left in your bank account. As far as geometry: it's a great foundation in basic logic (all those theorems are basic logic). Learn geometry, and you have an excellent grounding in basic logic.
How about just focusing on making sure they can read the newspaper, write at an equivalent level, perform basic math as needed to balance a checkbook, do basic geometry, learn about US history (at the very least - ideally world history as well), and have two years of science classes - biology, chemistry, physics? Oh - and can actually PASS the course without having "adjustments" made for life experiences. In essence - make sure they EARNED their degree, proving a minimal level of educational achievement. What they do with the degree after that is none of your concern, Rahm...
That's the OLD definition. Now a startup is any business that was founded with VC funds, that hasn't reached profitability, is not sure how it will, but still wants to pump the VC and other investor pools for more money in the pursuit of "pivoting" one last time to hopefully get a plan to make profit. Or at least cash out the early investors...
You also have no obligation to invite anyone in your home. It will still raise questions if you arbitrarily deny entry, and people will think you are a quite strange guy.
What's your home address? I'll have a few dozen people show up just to show up and sit a while in your living room. That OK? Or are you quite a strange guy?
My stepdaughter is Chinese, and still lives in Shanghai. Her first two tourist visa applications to come visit us in the US were denied because the official birth registration hospital had closed, and confirmation of her birth certificate was nearly impossible. Thankfully we found an alternate means to get an official copy - and then it was issued. She came, she visited, and she's back in Shanghai...;)
If you cannot prove who you are, getting a visa - even a tourist one - is nearly impossible. Given the abject failure of much of the Afghani Government, and the incredibly poor record keeping there, it does not surprise me that getting a visa can be difficult at best.
I'm not sure if it was the grandparents point, but even Huawei has limited market penetration outside of China.
Enough presence in Asia, Europe, and Africa to put them close behind Apple, in number 3 in terms of cell phones. Probably soon to overtake Apple and start creeping up on Samsung.
My CTX700 meets CARB, has a cat, fuel injection, and gets 60+ MPG; 70+ MPG if I stay off the freeway (like in Hanoi). A lot less emissions than just about any petrol-powered vehicle.
It's the trucks and cars. Encourage motorcycles and scooters, they are much more environmentally friendly, you can pack 6 of them on the road compared to every car, and are extremely low cost so they promote upward mobility of most workers, since they can now commute a fair distance to jobs (not just stuck in their own little village or district).
Yes, the 1946 APA. Of course, the 1980 RFA (Regulatory Flexibility Act) allows agencies to halt pending regulatory implementation to further research new regulations that can impact small entities. Meaning - it's OK to put a 90 day halt on regulations implemented at the last second by the previous Administration to make sure they still make sense. Justice Brown got the ruling right; the other two justices got it wrong.
If yes - then it can't be changed. If not - then it's at the whim of the current Administration. From what I read, this is really an executive/Administrative rule that is not tied to passed legislation. Thus it can be changed at the will of the Administration. The judges way overstepped their boundaries.
Yes, I understand. Education - reading and learning about what is actually in a silicon cell - is hard. Better to stick with your pre-conceived notions. I fully understand. After all, apparently 7th grade is good enough for you!
We don't. The reality is that subsidies are only in place for solar power generation, not storage. And of course, without those subsidies the profitability of solar power generation plummets as well. So for now, we in CA get to pay taxes to private companies to build solar plants to sell power to us, but because we don't pay taxes to private companies to build storage of power we get to pay taxes to other States to take our power and then pay them to sell it back to us. I guess it's a win-win for everyone else...
Because our natural tendencies to want something better, to be competitive, to beat the next guy exist. Seeing someone do better than you is often a major, instinctual push to do better yourself. That drives innovation, creates new sources of wealth and excellence. Seeing others do better than you - not just the CEO, but your boss, and your boss's boss, or your neighbor who just bought a brand new BMW because he got a big fat raise at his job - is often the right kind of pressure to push people to excel.
Where would the tech world be without HP, Intel, Microsoft, Apple? Competition, motivation to be "better" than the others drove a lot of the early - and continuing - growth in our industry. Likewise with airplanes - Boeing had massive competition early on, but it was from that competition, the drive and desire to be better (and reap the rewards thereof) that made their planes better than everyone else's.
At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, most of our value in terms of our labor and contributions to the business are measured by dollars. What it takes to create your output, what it would cost to replace you. If you have little value - you do a job that is simple, can be easily replaced with another - you make little money. If you do a job where making a wrong call will costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and lose tens of thousands of jobs - you make a lot of money. At the end of the day, companies pay based upon value. Flat out.
And no, not all people have the same value to a company. Yes, you cannot make a car without the guy that puts the lug nuts on the car; but his job can be done by nearly anyone, and the value of mounting those lug nuts is tiny (because the torque and position is machine-controlled) relative to the value of the guy who styled the body, designed the ECM, or chose to green-light the entire hundred-million dollar project.
Recycling of PV cells is regulated by the EPA. The EPA only gets involved if there are nasty things involved... And heavy metals, cadmium, lead, and others (which are controlled by RoHS but of course PVs are exempt from RoHS regulations) are present.
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How many do you want to allow, each election? How many convictions are required before you are concerned about it? How much fraud do you accept?
Did you even LOOK at the first link? The first 4 pages are all FRAUDULENT use of absentee ballots; and on the 5th page we see not only that but impersonation fraud at the polls: "Crayton was convicted of impersonation fraud for illegally voting in her sister’s name during the 2002 election". Clear cut case of actually casting illegal, fraudulent ballots. So how many fraudulent ballots do you want to allow in our elections?
You can look up each and every conviction - they are public record. Of course, it's kind of funny I got modded down to zero as a troll, given I provided factual, documented, legal court convictions of voter fraud. Which is something the liberal side simply cannot tolerate as it completely destroys their entire claim that there is no voter fraud and there is no reason to ensure the sanctity of the vote...
Here's a small sample of 848 criminal voter fraud convictions - not just charges. How many cases of proven voter fraud (you know, where a conviction is reached) do you need before you consider it an issue? How many shall be disenfranchised before you care? What is your tolerance to stealing votes?
So then, how do we prove you are a citizen, and thus have the privilege to vote?
848 documented criminal convictions, and this is just a sampling. Or perhaps you'd like to hear from the Pew Trusts and their finding of "Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.", not to mention millions of dead still registered to vote... Is that enough evidence for you? How much is needed before it becomes a concern - is it only dismissed because it tends to overwhelmingly break one way?
Balance a checkbook: be able to do more than 2 math operations in a row. Turns out it is helpful in lots of situations, including just estimating how much money you're spending at the grocery store, how long your chore list will take to do, and yes - how much money you probably have left in your bank account. As far as geometry: it's a great foundation in basic logic (all those theorems are basic logic). Learn geometry, and you have an excellent grounding in basic logic.
How about just focusing on making sure they can read the newspaper, write at an equivalent level, perform basic math as needed to balance a checkbook, do basic geometry, learn about US history (at the very least - ideally world history as well), and have two years of science classes - biology, chemistry, physics? Oh - and can actually PASS the course without having "adjustments" made for life experiences. In essence - make sure they EARNED their degree, proving a minimal level of educational achievement. What they do with the degree after that is none of your concern, Rahm...
That's the OLD definition. Now a startup is any business that was founded with VC funds, that hasn't reached profitability, is not sure how it will, but still wants to pump the VC and other investor pools for more money in the pursuit of "pivoting" one last time to hopefully get a plan to make profit. Or at least cash out the early investors...
Elon, like Hillary, is now known for his association with sexual predators...
I had a beowulf cluster of those posts, you insensitive clod!
You also have no obligation to invite anyone in your home. It will still raise questions if you arbitrarily deny entry, and people will think you are a quite strange guy.
What's your home address? I'll have a few dozen people show up just to show up and sit a while in your living room. That OK? Or are you quite a strange guy?
What country doesn't control its borders?
My stepdaughter is Chinese, and still lives in Shanghai. Her first two tourist visa applications to come visit us in the US were denied because the official birth registration hospital had closed, and confirmation of her birth certificate was nearly impossible. Thankfully we found an alternate means to get an official copy - and then it was issued. She came, she visited, and she's back in Shanghai... ;)
If you cannot prove who you are, getting a visa - even a tourist one - is nearly impossible. Given the abject failure of much of the Afghani Government, and the incredibly poor record keeping there, it does not surprise me that getting a visa can be difficult at best.
I'm not sure if it was the grandparents point, but even Huawei has limited market penetration outside of China.
Enough presence in Asia, Europe, and Africa to put them close behind Apple, in number 3 in terms of cell phones. Probably soon to overtake Apple and start creeping up on Samsung.
My CTX700 meets CARB, has a cat, fuel injection, and gets 60+ MPG; 70+ MPG if I stay off the freeway (like in Hanoi). A lot less emissions than just about any petrol-powered vehicle.
It's the trucks and cars. Encourage motorcycles and scooters, they are much more environmentally friendly, you can pack 6 of them on the road compared to every car, and are extremely low cost so they promote upward mobility of most workers, since they can now commute a fair distance to jobs (not just stuck in their own little village or district).
Yes, the 1946 APA. Of course, the 1980 RFA (Regulatory Flexibility Act) allows agencies to halt pending regulatory implementation to further research new regulations that can impact small entities. Meaning - it's OK to put a 90 day halt on regulations implemented at the last second by the previous Administration to make sure they still make sense. Justice Brown got the ruling right; the other two justices got it wrong.
If yes - then it can't be changed. If not - then it's at the whim of the current Administration. From what I read, this is really an executive/Administrative rule that is not tied to passed legislation. Thus it can be changed at the will of the Administration. The judges way overstepped their boundaries.
Yes, I understand. Education - reading and learning about what is actually in a silicon cell - is hard. Better to stick with your pre-conceived notions. I fully understand. After all, apparently 7th grade is good enough for you!
I don't care what the wikipedia article says and I'm to lazy to read it.
Thank you for at least being honest about your intellectual laziness and unwillingness to learn. A perfect example of the tolerant environmentalist!
We don't. The reality is that subsidies are only in place for solar power generation, not storage. And of course, without those subsidies the profitability of solar power generation plummets as well. So for now, we in CA get to pay taxes to private companies to build solar plants to sell power to us, but because we don't pay taxes to private companies to build storage of power we get to pay taxes to other States to take our power and then pay them to sell it back to us. I guess it's a win-win for everyone else...
Because our natural tendencies to want something better, to be competitive, to beat the next guy exist. Seeing someone do better than you is often a major, instinctual push to do better yourself. That drives innovation, creates new sources of wealth and excellence. Seeing others do better than you - not just the CEO, but your boss, and your boss's boss, or your neighbor who just bought a brand new BMW because he got a big fat raise at his job - is often the right kind of pressure to push people to excel.
Where would the tech world be without HP, Intel, Microsoft, Apple? Competition, motivation to be "better" than the others drove a lot of the early - and continuing - growth in our industry. Likewise with airplanes - Boeing had massive competition early on, but it was from that competition, the drive and desire to be better (and reap the rewards thereof) that made their planes better than everyone else's.
At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, most of our value in terms of our labor and contributions to the business are measured by dollars. What it takes to create your output, what it would cost to replace you. If you have little value - you do a job that is simple, can be easily replaced with another - you make little money. If you do a job where making a wrong call will costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and lose tens of thousands of jobs - you make a lot of money. At the end of the day, companies pay based upon value. Flat out.
And no, not all people have the same value to a company. Yes, you cannot make a car without the guy that puts the lug nuts on the car; but his job can be done by nearly anyone, and the value of mounting those lug nuts is tiny (because the torque and position is machine-controlled) relative to the value of the guy who styled the body, designed the ECM, or chose to green-light the entire hundred-million dollar project.
You're wrong. Crystalline silicon panels contain heavy metals.
Recycling of PV cells is regulated by the EPA. The EPA only gets involved if there are nasty things involved... And heavy metals, cadmium, lead, and others (which are controlled by RoHS but of course PVs are exempt from RoHS regulations) are present.