Make it a "pay for play" platform. The second they start selling subscriptions for use is the second they start dying, and competitors snap up those leaving. It's simply not a valuable enough service provided.
No, that is the threat of violence - it is not violence itself. Most people can understand the difference. And in this case - pointing guns at NO ONE is neither the threat OR execution of violence.
My point was that the threat of violence *is* violence.
Umm, no. They are legally different things - they are NOT the same by statute and law. Assault is threatening violence. Assault AND battery is threatening AND achieving the violent action. Confounding the two is disingenuous at best.
Who was in the building at the time of occupation? Last I heard, it was boarded up/closed for the winter. Did anyone actually have a firearm pointed at them?
The AK really isn't that much more reliable than AR. The reason you find the AK all over the world is that they are dirt cheap, being 95% made of folded metal. You can make an AK for about 1/4 the price of an AR (with it's machined receiver) - and that makes it easier to sell to impoverished warlords/Governments. So you get a lot more of them on the market. But more reliable? They're actually on about par.
Most of those overseas dollars were held in HK and other locales with exchange rates pegged to the USD. It's not fallen at all. The HKD is still trading within about 0.5% of its price a year ago. Hold your overseas profit in dollar-denominated accounts, or in pegged currency accounts and there's zero impact. It's the first thing most smart financial folks do - and they'll move currency between currency accounts (usually for free, like HSBC and others allow) to maximize earnings. I know the 6.6% appreciation in the USD relative to the CNY has been a nice bump for me, over the last five months.
Because the contracting agency you were going through was asking for $150 per hour... They tend to double your "realized" salary to cover benefits typically offered (medical, dental, vacation, etc) by Volt, Skills, and the other typical Microsoft contract agencies you pretty much have to go through. I contracted there off-and-on for 4 years, and near the end was FINALLY able to direct bill - but only because I was actually supplying a few parts that Microsoft bought directly from me.
Citation here. The author takes a hard NOAA-claimed "global average temperature" of 62.45 deg F in 1997, and shows that the 2015 "global average temperature" was 58.62 deg F. So clearly the temperature in 2015 is the highest ever! Now sit back and thank Big Brother for increasing your chocolate rations from last year's 30 grams to the new 25 gram amount.
There's no subsidy. Well, unless you count only needing 30% down, rather than the usual 40% down. Source: living in Shanghai for 6 years and being married to a Shanghainese lady, who's daughter just bought an apartment at a "subsidized" cost. All the while China's banks are dropping their savings interest rates, the RMB is being devalued (making apartments built with foreign-sourced oil and raw materials that much more expensive), and their economy in general stalling - which leads to stagnant or falling wages.
Hi there, maybe you should spend a little time in China and see what the price are for those "affordable" social housing units. They run about 1.4 to 2 million RMB; a hefty sum when the average Chinese worker makes about 25,000 RMB a year (it would take 80 years of 100% of your salary to pay for the apartment). Now, a lot of those apartments were given away, gratis - well, not fully gratis, it was compensation for condemning and tearing down your old house in the first. place.
The US already does that for individuals. We're the only 1st world nation to tax your global income, regardless of where it's earned. If you're Canadian, German, British, Norwegian, Chilean, etc. - you only pay income taxes in your home country on income EARNED in your home country. Not the US! They want a slice of everything worldwide - even if you never set foot in the US for the entire year.
Don't have to do anything with tariffs - simply eliminate the deduction for overseas taxes paid. Or cap it at a really low value (like for citizens) - you don't get to claim more than your first $1 million in overseas income taxes (for individuals it's about $10,000 of overseas taxes paid).
When the Government gets to redefine what is considered in rating unemployment, inflation, or GDP growth - it can always look good. Looking at measures from 1980 or 1990 and things are decidedly less rosy. We're "doing better" because we've moved the goalposts and dropped pesky things like food and housing (saying that 12 ounces of bacon is all you "need" and since it's the same price as 16 ounces was just 4 years ago - zero inflation for bacon, even though the quantity is cut by 25%).
1. How is it physically impossible to build? The only thing stopping it is funding; about $3 billion more and it would be done.
2. Simply cut our foreign aid to Mexico for 4 years - that would be about the entire $4 billion cost of the fence right there (yes, we send Mexico about $ 1 billion a year in foreign aid). Done.
The US is closer to communism than China. In China, if you lose your job - no unemployment. Have no income - no welfare. No food - no food stamps. No housing - no section 8. We "give stuff" to our residents much more than China...
That glyphosate will be gone in around 47 days. It naturally breaks down and is rendered harmless. It's why you can use it to kill weeds in your lawn - and have the lawn grow over the the now-dead week in a few weeks.
Quick thought experiment: there are approximately 45 years of "work" for most people (assume the average start of adult work is 20). That means if you average $2000 per month over your entire 45 year career, you'll make more than $1 million by the time you retire.
Doesn't that depend upon how thick the construction is? For example, you could cover all of Manhattan Island with a heat-reflecting Mylar film (2 microns thick), and it would require the mass equivalent to about 850 barrels of crude oil. Or about 1/12,000th of Saudi Arabia's daily average petroleum output. Not much at all, relatively speaking, to cover 86 square kilometers with a film that would reflect ~80% of the radiated energy it encounters. To cover a sphere all the way around the sun, at a distance of the Earth (93 million kilometers) would take only about 30 years of the world's total oil production. And you'd have a film that would make our sun dim - to distant observers - by about 80%.
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Why is there moss on the other side of that tree?
Because you're in the Pacific Northwest and EVERYTHING is coated on all sides by moss.
Not unexpected. /. is overwhelmingly populated by software types. The first thing they ALWAYS blame is the hardware...
Make it a "pay for play" platform. The second they start selling subscriptions for use is the second they start dying, and competitors snap up those leaving. It's simply not a valuable enough service provided.
No, that is the threat of violence - it is not violence itself. Most people can understand the difference. And in this case - pointing guns at NO ONE is neither the threat OR execution of violence.
My point was that the threat of violence *is* violence.
Umm, no. They are legally different things - they are NOT the same by statute and law. Assault is threatening violence. Assault AND battery is threatening AND achieving the violent action. Confounding the two is disingenuous at best.
Who was in the building at the time of occupation? Last I heard, it was boarded up/closed for the winter. Did anyone actually have a firearm pointed at them?
Got it. So an empty, closed up building where folks bearing firearms is a hostage situation.
The AK really isn't that much more reliable than AR. The reason you find the AK all over the world is that they are dirt cheap, being 95% made of folded metal. You can make an AK for about 1/4 the price of an AR (with it's machined receiver) - and that makes it easier to sell to impoverished warlords/Governments. So you get a lot more of them on the market. But more reliable? They're actually on about par.
And the violence committed was?
Most of those overseas dollars were held in HK and other locales with exchange rates pegged to the USD. It's not fallen at all. The HKD is still trading within about 0.5% of its price a year ago. Hold your overseas profit in dollar-denominated accounts, or in pegged currency accounts and there's zero impact. It's the first thing most smart financial folks do - and they'll move currency between currency accounts (usually for free, like HSBC and others allow) to maximize earnings. I know the 6.6% appreciation in the USD relative to the CNY has been a nice bump for me, over the last five months.
Because the contracting agency you were going through was asking for $150 per hour... They tend to double your "realized" salary to cover benefits typically offered (medical, dental, vacation, etc) by Volt, Skills, and the other typical Microsoft contract agencies you pretty much have to go through. I contracted there off-and-on for 4 years, and near the end was FINALLY able to direct bill - but only because I was actually supplying a few parts that Microsoft bought directly from me.
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Well, if the agent looked like Sydney, that might not be a bad thing...
Citation here. The author takes a hard NOAA-claimed "global average temperature" of 62.45 deg F in 1997, and shows that the 2015 "global average temperature" was 58.62 deg F. So clearly the temperature in 2015 is the highest ever! Now sit back and thank Big Brother for increasing your chocolate rations from last year's 30 grams to the new 25 gram amount.
There's no subsidy. Well, unless you count only needing 30% down, rather than the usual 40% down. Source: living in Shanghai for 6 years and being married to a Shanghainese lady, who's daughter just bought an apartment at a "subsidized" cost. All the while China's banks are dropping their savings interest rates, the RMB is being devalued (making apartments built with foreign-sourced oil and raw materials that much more expensive), and their economy in general stalling - which leads to stagnant or falling wages.
Hi there, maybe you should spend a little time in China and see what the price are for those "affordable" social housing units. They run about 1.4 to 2 million RMB; a hefty sum when the average Chinese worker makes about 25,000 RMB a year (it would take 80 years of 100% of your salary to pay for the apartment). Now, a lot of those apartments were given away, gratis - well, not fully gratis, it was compensation for condemning and tearing down your old house in the first. place.
The US already does that for individuals. We're the only 1st world nation to tax your global income, regardless of where it's earned. If you're Canadian, German, British, Norwegian, Chilean, etc. - you only pay income taxes in your home country on income EARNED in your home country. Not the US! They want a slice of everything worldwide - even if you never set foot in the US for the entire year.
Don't have to do anything with tariffs - simply eliminate the deduction for overseas taxes paid. Or cap it at a really low value (like for citizens) - you don't get to claim more than your first $1 million in overseas income taxes (for individuals it's about $10,000 of overseas taxes paid).
When the Government gets to redefine what is considered in rating unemployment, inflation, or GDP growth - it can always look good. Looking at measures from 1980 or 1990 and things are decidedly less rosy. We're "doing better" because we've moved the goalposts and dropped pesky things like food and housing (saying that 12 ounces of bacon is all you "need" and since it's the same price as 16 ounces was just 4 years ago - zero inflation for bacon, even though the quantity is cut by 25%).
After all, we have a higher percentage of people on Government assistance today than in 2009. But don't worry, the Government has increased your chocolate ration from 30 grams to 25 grams!
Interesting claims!
1. How is it physically impossible to build? The only thing stopping it is funding; about $3 billion more and it would be done.
2. Simply cut our foreign aid to Mexico for 4 years - that would be about the entire $4 billion cost of the fence right there (yes, we send Mexico about $ 1 billion a year in foreign aid). Done.
The US is closer to communism than China. In China, if you lose your job - no unemployment. Have no income - no welfare. No food - no food stamps. No housing - no section 8. We "give stuff" to our residents much more than China...
That glyphosate will be gone in around 47 days. It naturally breaks down and is rendered harmless. It's why you can use it to kill weeds in your lawn - and have the lawn grow over the the now-dead week in a few weeks.
A high school diploma will get you around $1 million over your lifetime, and college degrees up the income from there. Given that about 88% of all people have high school diploma, the $1 million over your lifetime is probably a very good estimate for what most people will make.
Quick thought experiment: there are approximately 45 years of "work" for most people (assume the average start of adult work is 20). That means if you average $2000 per month over your entire 45 year career, you'll make more than $1 million by the time you retire.
Doesn't that depend upon how thick the construction is? For example, you could cover all of Manhattan Island with a heat-reflecting Mylar film (2 microns thick), and it would require the mass equivalent to about 850 barrels of crude oil. Or about 1/12,000th of Saudi Arabia's daily average petroleum output. Not much at all, relatively speaking, to cover 86 square kilometers with a film that would reflect ~80% of the radiated energy it encounters. To cover a sphere all the way around the sun, at a distance of the Earth (93 million kilometers) would take only about 30 years of the world's total oil production. And you'd have a film that would make our sun dim - to distant observers - by about 80%.
It's about revenue. Anything CA can do to get a bit more revenue - it will do.