Income tax is only part of the tax burden that people have, and is the most progressive towards higher incomes. All the other taxes which are...
A note about that. So Indian IT grads are not sufficiently trained on hands-on practical skills. That isn't surprising, the same is true...
It took less than 24 hours for that to be euthanized. Was it Exxon's CEO who called, or was it Saudi Aramco's? What other parts of the SOTU were...
I know, I know. Since taxing the rich obviously is bad, why don't we eliminate their taxes, and get all the necessary money for government...
prt_systems: have you used Fortran 95, and I mean real 95 and not 77? Of course the libraries have been ported---the issue becomes when you...
In my experience, what happens is usually that the first version gets run only a few times and there is a long cycle of iterative improvement....
Surveillance is not "force", otherwise the FISA act could be construed as authorization to assassinate anybody who is the subject of a search...
Yes, he does, until and only if the law is declared un-Constitutional. Legislative power---defining laws---is vested exclusively with Congress....
Facts about FISA act: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec_50_00001809----000-.html ç 1809. Criminal sanctions...
Holy Grails: 0) There is no holy grail. 1) Don't believe somebody else's propaganda. 2) Don't disbelieve somebody else's propaganda....
When I talked "more sane president comes to Iran, but all would be anti-Israel" I am talking about the president of Iran, and all Iranian...
I think the likely response would be an Iranian missile attack on Israel's reactor. In the end, everybody's pissed but a 75% chance nothing...
I would imagine that the person with the greatest capacity for honest self-evaluation and least ego would have the best prior odds for success....
Why would that make a difference? Surely CCJ and the Toronto based listing would be arb'ed out based on USD/CAD rates. I think what really...
What is not Greenspan's fault: 1% interest rates. There were significant deflationary forces, and low rates (short term) were a good idea....
A weaker currency is good if, and only if, you are a powerful and dominant exporter. The US is losing its exportability. Already, the VC's...
Upper-class twit.
I'm INTP. Theoretical physicist. Not surprising, really.
The people in China have no choice in the matter: foreign investment is strongly regulated and difficult. As for the Japanese, 4% is better...
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