Tuvalu, really? Plotting the data and running a linear fit results in a 0.3mm change per year, at best. That's about 1.2 inches per century/ I guess that's an obvious rise?
OPEC is one Government cartel. The US and EU, not having a piece of OPEC, have something else to form as a cartel. And given the "nominal" position of the EU and the US in private property rights, it's hard to nationalize all fossil fuels. So instead they'll regulate it submission, and then use regulation to get everything else in the nation to submit as well.
VERY few planes actually fly through the middle of the Pacific, and none that I know of transit over Antarctica. About the closest you get to "middle of Pacific" is a hop towards Fiji, from Hawaii. Most other flights tend to follow a great circle and end up being within a few hundred miles of a coastline.
IIRC (I worked at Sundstrand Data Control back in the 90s, they were, at that time, the biggest supplier of data recorders for aircraft) there are typically 2 - one cockpit voice recorder, and one flight data recorder. SOMETIMES there were redundant data recorders. But rarely. Of course, they were wickedly hardened, essentially flame-and-heatproof, and the recording media at the time (metal foil or magnetic tape) was impervious to any kind of damage short of pulling it all out and running it through a shredder. You could still get data off of it even if it was cut in two.
Actually, it's not the environmentalist cartel - it's the Government cartel that uses the environmentalist clique to push it's own power. For example, the EPA regulating essentially anything that may have flowing water at sometime in the past, or future 100 years. With such broad scope of regulations, the power of the Government extends to the point where you literally cannot do anything without prior Government approval. We go from a limited Government to an all-seeing/all-controlling Government. And then that continues into its ability to read all your communications, etc. because at some point those communiques cross "it's regulated territory" and thus is open to inspection.
Make no mistake, the huge push for AGW and "climacatastrophe" at the Federal and State level is about exerting ever increasing levels of control (and also revenue - don't forget taxation and fines, wonderful ways to line your own nest!) over the general populace. AGW research is a convenient means to an end.
I would much rather face a corporation who cannot jail me indefinitely, without cause. Or decide to unilaterally disarm me, or place a levy against all my savings and income without my day in court. Government can - and does - do that at its whim and the power of Government is infinitely higher than that of corporations. It's why corporations and others cozy up to Government and try to influence it to do what they want - because without the power of Government, those corporations and individuals are rendered impotent.
It will never work. Anyone who's been to China realizes that lane markers are just "suggestions" and that snarled messes - with 7 cars abreast in a 4 lane road - is the norm, not the exception. Add in the fact you have intersections like XiZang Lu and Yan'an Dong Lu where it goes (from left to right): Straight, Left, Left, Straight, Right, Straight, Right, Straight, Left? What do you straddle?
Correct! You get rich by accumulating wealth. Which is exactly what a progressive income tax is used to prevent. Why do we not want more rich people? Why don't we want everyone to get ahead?
Precisely. MP3 players were quite common, and Apple loved the UI of the Creative player, so they made their own and ripped off the UI. And then slickly marketed it!
As of today, they aren't doing anything illegal. There's been no charge, nothing filed in court, no judgment made. But that's OK, go ahead and jump to conclusions...
It should be zero. Accumulation of wealth, earning of income, should never be taxed. Tax consumption, not earning. Right now we penalize wealth, we penalize savings and earnings. We encourage spending (via deductions for a variety of expenses). Reverse it, and you'll have a stronger financial foundation. Instead, we have about 2/3rds of households one paycheck away from being destitute. Consumerism, folks - it's a great thing! Spend spend spend, and don't save!
It's a pretty low multiple of actual sales of real products, and requires actual tangible products. What's really crooked is Uber and Slack with valuations in the billions for essentially a website and database.
That mythical place is in New Orleans! Just breach the dike, let the ocean come in to its normal level, you'll be 6 feet underwater - and that water is around 78 deg F. So nice and cool!
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Tuvalu, really? Plotting the data and running a linear fit results in a 0.3mm change per year, at best. That's about 1.2 inches per century/ I guess that's an obvious rise?
If carrying a 4 pound laptop is a physical issue for you, then you got some serious, SERIOUS health problems to address...
If only a person could turn their screen 90 degrees, and have 1080 x 1920... Then think of all the extra lines of code you could get on it...
even the rats that developed tumors lived longer than rats not exposed to the radiation
Shouldn't the post title actually be New cellphone-caused tumor found to increase your lifespan?
OPEC is one Government cartel. The US and EU, not having a piece of OPEC, have something else to form as a cartel. And given the "nominal" position of the EU and the US in private property rights, it's hard to nationalize all fossil fuels. So instead they'll regulate it submission, and then use regulation to get everything else in the nation to submit as well.
Actually, it doesn't... It actually seems like Perth to Santiago will cross - the other flights just skim the edge of the continent.
VERY few planes actually fly through the middle of the Pacific, and none that I know of transit over Antarctica. About the closest you get to "middle of Pacific" is a hop towards Fiji, from Hawaii. Most other flights tend to follow a great circle and end up being within a few hundred miles of a coastline.
After the big fire they do end up quite black, however,,,
IIRC (I worked at Sundstrand Data Control back in the 90s, they were, at that time, the biggest supplier of data recorders for aircraft) there are typically 2 - one cockpit voice recorder, and one flight data recorder. SOMETIMES there were redundant data recorders. But rarely. Of course, they were wickedly hardened, essentially flame-and-heatproof, and the recording media at the time (metal foil or magnetic tape) was impervious to any kind of damage short of pulling it all out and running it through a shredder. You could still get data off of it even if it was cut in two.
With all these durn kids falling in wells, Lassie simply won't have time to run the flash drive back on the land leg...
Actually, it's not the environmentalist cartel - it's the Government cartel that uses the environmentalist clique to push it's own power. For example, the EPA regulating essentially anything that may have flowing water at sometime in the past, or future 100 years. With such broad scope of regulations, the power of the Government extends to the point where you literally cannot do anything without prior Government approval. We go from a limited Government to an all-seeing/all-controlling Government. And then that continues into its ability to read all your communications, etc. because at some point those communiques cross "it's regulated territory" and thus is open to inspection.
Make no mistake, the huge push for AGW and "climacatastrophe" at the Federal and State level is about exerting ever increasing levels of control (and also revenue - don't forget taxation and fines, wonderful ways to line your own nest!) over the general populace. AGW research is a convenient means to an end.
I would much rather face a corporation who cannot jail me indefinitely, without cause. Or decide to unilaterally disarm me, or place a levy against all my savings and income without my day in court. Government can - and does - do that at its whim and the power of Government is infinitely higher than that of corporations. It's why corporations and others cozy up to Government and try to influence it to do what they want - because without the power of Government, those corporations and individuals are rendered impotent.
You there. Yes, YOU! Stop it with that science and physics and math, we're hear to speculate, not solve!
It will never work. Anyone who's been to China realizes that lane markers are just "suggestions" and that snarled messes - with 7 cars abreast in a 4 lane road - is the norm, not the exception. Add in the fact you have intersections like XiZang Lu and Yan'an Dong Lu where it goes (from left to right): Straight, Left, Left, Straight, Right, Straight, Right, Straight, Left? What do you straddle?
...says the poster with the fanboi name...
So we keep everyone from getting ahead. Rather than "unequal division of success" we have "equal division of misery".
Yes, a shitty UI. That's why Apple paid Creative $100 million for the rights to use that UI. Shitty, indeed!
Correct! You get rich by accumulating wealth. Which is exactly what a progressive income tax is used to prevent. Why do we not want more rich people? Why don't we want everyone to get ahead?
Yes, because rich people don't by big expensive mansions, or really expensive cars, or expensive watches, tailored clothes, etc
Precisely. MP3 players were quite common, and Apple loved the UI of the Creative player, so they made their own and ripped off the UI. And then slickly marketed it!
As of today, they aren't doing anything illegal. There's been no charge, nothing filed in court, no judgment made. But that's OK, go ahead and jump to conclusions...
It should be zero. Accumulation of wealth, earning of income, should never be taxed. Tax consumption, not earning. Right now we penalize wealth, we penalize savings and earnings. We encourage spending (via deductions for a variety of expenses). Reverse it, and you'll have a stronger financial foundation. Instead, we have about 2/3rds of households one paycheck away from being destitute. Consumerism, folks - it's a great thing! Spend spend spend, and don't save!
It's a pretty low multiple of actual sales of real products, and requires actual tangible products. What's really crooked is Uber and Slack with valuations in the billions for essentially a website and database.
That mythical place is in New Orleans! Just breach the dike, let the ocean come in to its normal level, you'll be 6 feet underwater - and that water is around 78 deg F. So nice and cool!
Is that what these 5 companies are being accused of doing? Or are they actually following the laws as they are currently written?
If it is 100% legal, is it actually tax evasion?