27017 pts ยท June 12, 2015
Let me see if I'm getting this straight. Because I trust the professionals to set the curriculum more than my ex does, I care about my daughter's education less than my ex? That's a weird take. Should I also weigh in on vaccine schedules at the pediatrician's office? Because obviously, since I conceived my daughter, I must know everything about both pedagogy and pediatrics.But all that is irrelevant to the point. I don't set the curriculum. I choose to accept the curriculum set by others.
They don't just set the curriculum on my behalf; they set it on the behalf of all the parents. That lesson was taught to my ex when she tried to get them to change things, and they politely told her to get bent.
I send my kid to private school, and I've never weighed in on teacher hiring or set the curriculum at all. As it turns out, the tuition also covers an administration to do that for me.
The important difference that most proponents of a wealth tax fail to realize is that income (and capital gains, for that matter) look backwards at realized gains and income. Wealth is inherently about unrealized value, and that makes it much more difficult to get a good picture of the tax basis. Valuing privately held businesses is a massive endeavor, and that's where most of the wealth lies.
How would you value intellectual property? What about privately owned companies? Who would have the burden of proving a person's net worth is above/below the threshold to trigger the tax? How would you value unique items? And how often would all of those valuations have to be repeated (the value of things changes over time, after all)? Are all of those reasons for complexity "just fake?"
Why have most of the developed countries who instituted wealth taxes later abandoned them? Is it because they are administratively burdensome and difficult to enforce which leads to a lovely complication of low tax revenue on the net and capital flight?
Well, you could threaten them with the gulag...
It sure reads like a motte-and-bailey, though.
I'm trying to figure out what the downside to datacenters using nuclear power is. One of the drawbacks to nuclear power is that changing the output is slow, so it can't be quite as reactive to dynamic power needs (e.g. AC systems getting run more in the day and less at night), but that isn't nearly so much of an issue with datacenters, as they have a much more steady power draw.
Pretty sure they can't tow a trailer that far, just for starters...
Proving one's abilities in a time-efficient manner can be pretty difficult without some sort of second or third party certification though. If an organization reviewing job apps has a stack of 1,000 applicants for a single job, should they be required to do an intensive and individualized review of every single application?
They make a pill for that these days.
A majority of them do not own homes in the DC area, no. A decent townhouse in DC will easily run $800k.
I suppose you don't need datacenters. You could distribute servers all over the world, making things considerably less energy-efficient, more expensive, slower, and with a higher environmental impact. That sounds like a flawless plan.
Yeah, we totally need to get rid of all datacenters. We don't need...the Internet?
That happened to me once, and it was at the absolute best possible time. I flew from VA to WA, then had to stay up all night in the airport (no way to wake myself up for my morning flight). I then got on a flight from Seattle to Osan, and I had the whole row to myself. Fell asleep when the seatbelt light went off after takeoff and woke up when it came on to land.
I've seen a social worker, yeah.
An eviction is, by its definition, a forced removal of someone from a property. I don't think a social worker is particularly well-trained or well-equipped to forcibly remove anyone.
I know, right? We really shouldn't be using law enforcement officers to...enforce laws?
even if I did have a problem with driver's licenses (I don't). (2/2)
It seems to be a common attribute of third parties in the US. In order for people to not be able to hold their nose on certain issues and vote for one of the two primary parties, they have to be pretty impassioned in their beliefs which are typically not mainstream. That seems to attract the weirdos. I took a look at the LP and saw that a common litmus test for candidates was their opinions on driver's licenses. That seemed like a pretty minor thing to fixate on, (1/2)
No, he was actually advertising pee videos. He's trying to branch out his business.
When I was in, there were monthly tests. 100% of the unit two random months of the year, and a random 10% of the unit the other ten months of the year.
In order to stay in the army that long, you have to rank up. Just like many other careers, you become much more of a supervisor than an individual contributor.
Yes and yes.
My observation was that older recruits generally did better, providing they avoided injury in physical training. I think that generally the decision to enlist was less impulsive, so they showed up better prepared for it.
Not the one you replied to, but I can understand the perspective. The potential problem is not the teacher watching a movie (which is absolutely a normal thing to do). The potential problem is kids gossiping and it getting back to parents, a small minority of whom will do things like lodge complaints that then have to be addressed. It can become a headache not only for the teacher, but for their superiors.
I was saying that *I* was being courteous. It's quite obvious that your level of courtesy matches your level of reading comprehension.
I chose my words carefully, extending the courtesy of assuming that the people reading them were capable of understanding nuance. I'm sorry for my mistake.
Nice strawman. Often doesn't mean always, and I never advocated for abolishing the government.
Let me see if I'm getting this straight. Because I trust the professionals to set the curriculum more than my ex does, I care about my daughter's education less than my ex? That's a weird take. Should I also weigh in on vaccine schedules at the pediatrician's office? Because obviously, since I conceived my daughter, I must know everything about both pedagogy and pediatrics.
But all that is irrelevant to the point. I don't set the curriculum. I choose to accept the curriculum set by others.
They don't just set the curriculum on my behalf; they set it on the behalf of all the parents. That lesson was taught to my ex when she tried to get them to change things, and they politely told her to get bent.
I send my kid to private school, and I've never weighed in on teacher hiring or set the curriculum at all. As it turns out, the tuition also covers an administration to do that for me.
The important difference that most proponents of a wealth tax fail to realize is that income (and capital gains, for that matter) look backwards at realized gains and income. Wealth is inherently about unrealized value, and that makes it much more difficult to get a good picture of the tax basis. Valuing privately held businesses is a massive endeavor, and that's where most of the wealth lies.
How would you value intellectual property? What about privately owned companies? Who would have the burden of proving a person's net worth is above/below the threshold to trigger the tax? How would you value unique items? And how often would all of those valuations have to be repeated (the value of things changes over time, after all)? Are all of those reasons for complexity "just fake?"
Why have most of the developed countries who instituted wealth taxes later abandoned them? Is it because they are administratively burdensome and difficult to enforce which leads to a lovely complication of low tax revenue on the net and capital flight?
Well, you could threaten them with the gulag...
It sure reads like a motte-and-bailey, though.
I'm trying to figure out what the downside to datacenters using nuclear power is. One of the drawbacks to nuclear power is that changing the output is slow, so it can't be quite as reactive to dynamic power needs (e.g. AC systems getting run more in the day and less at night), but that isn't nearly so much of an issue with datacenters, as they have a much more steady power draw.
Pretty sure they can't tow a trailer that far, just for starters...
Proving one's abilities in a time-efficient manner can be pretty difficult without some sort of second or third party certification though. If an organization reviewing job apps has a stack of 1,000 applicants for a single job, should they be required to do an intensive and individualized review of every single application?
They make a pill for that these days.
A majority of them do not own homes in the DC area, no. A decent townhouse in DC will easily run $800k.
I suppose you don't need datacenters. You could distribute servers all over the world, making things considerably less energy-efficient, more expensive, slower, and with a higher environmental impact. That sounds like a flawless plan.
Yeah, we totally need to get rid of all datacenters. We don't need...the Internet?
That happened to me once, and it was at the absolute best possible time. I flew from VA to WA, then had to stay up all night in the airport (no way to wake myself up for my morning flight). I then got on a flight from Seattle to Osan, and I had the whole row to myself. Fell asleep when the seatbelt light went off after takeoff and woke up when it came on to land.
I've seen a social worker, yeah.
An eviction is, by its definition, a forced removal of someone from a property. I don't think a social worker is particularly well-trained or well-equipped to forcibly remove anyone.
I know, right? We really shouldn't be using law enforcement officers to...enforce laws?
even if I did have a problem with driver's licenses (I don't). (2/2)
It seems to be a common attribute of third parties in the US. In order for people to not be able to hold their nose on certain issues and vote for one of the two primary parties, they have to be pretty impassioned in their beliefs which are typically not mainstream. That seems to attract the weirdos. I took a look at the LP and saw that a common litmus test for candidates was their opinions on driver's licenses. That seemed like a pretty minor thing to fixate on, (1/2)
No, he was actually advertising pee videos. He's trying to branch out his business.
When I was in, there were monthly tests. 100% of the unit two random months of the year, and a random 10% of the unit the other ten months of the year.
In order to stay in the army that long, you have to rank up. Just like many other careers, you become much more of a supervisor than an individual contributor.
Yes and yes.
My observation was that older recruits generally did better, providing they avoided injury in physical training. I think that generally the decision to enlist was less impulsive, so they showed up better prepared for it.
Not the one you replied to, but I can understand the perspective. The potential problem is not the teacher watching a movie (which is absolutely a normal thing to do). The potential problem is kids gossiping and it getting back to parents, a small minority of whom will do things like lodge complaints that then have to be addressed. It can become a headache not only for the teacher, but for their superiors.
I was saying that *I* was being courteous. It's quite obvious that your level of courtesy matches your level of reading comprehension.
I chose my words carefully, extending the courtesy of assuming that the people reading them were capable of understanding nuance. I'm sorry for my mistake.
Nice strawman. Often doesn't mean always, and I never advocated for abolishing the government.