You have a couple of big errors here. First, you are comparing electricity consumption to transportation primary fuel consumption. But vehicles have limited thermodynamic efficiency just like power plants. So you need to compare the electricity consumption of EVs to currently electricity...
It would obviously depend on specifics of the law in Michigan. I think the RFRA laws are bad policy in general and hopefully Michigan's law doesn't permit parents to do what these people did.
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Sure, I'll explain. The Hobby Lobby decision was was based on the RFRA which does not apply to state laws or Federal laws that Congress has exempted. They would likely be charged under state murder / manslaughter laws so the RFRA has no relevance to this situation.
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The premise of the article doesn't make sense. The point of Gerrymandering isn't to create 100% safe seats, it's to create as many seats as possible that are skewed just enough for party to reliably win. Creating 100% seats runs counter to this.
Here's a few more:
1. Requirement have backup cameras in every new call sold. The government estimates is will save ~100 lives per year at $18m per life.
2. Dealer franchise laws that prevent car manufacturers from selling directly to customers in many states (requires an extra middle man...
That is not necessarily the case. Surge pricing has two effects: lowering demand and increasing the supply of drivers. It's difficult to know for sure from the outside but it's possible that suspending surge resulted in few total rides occurring from the airport because it didn't pull in...
If Spicer is talking about the border-adjusted tax proposed by the Republicans then it's not really an import tariff. It's basically a form of VAT tax and the border adjustment is pretty similar to how VAT works in Europe.
The comfort comes from the mass of the radiator, not the steam itself. I would just go with hot water and get old style cast iron radiators (designed for hot water not steam).
Federal highway spending is about $160 billion per year, half of which is covered by gas taxes. This is out of a $3.8 trillion dollar Federal budget. How about we double the gas tax (from 18.4 to 36.8 cents per gallon), eliminate the income tax, and shut down the rest of the Federal...
Nope. The supply curve for labor would shift the right and the market would find a new equilibrium wage and employment rate based on the relative slopes of the supply and demand curves. (inverse of elasticities of supply and demand). I suspect labor demand is more elastic than labor supply so...
Like I said, his was one of one or two first hand accounts that I heard. I heard many second hand accounts and the stories were relatively consistent. Obviously I can't say for sure that it happened, but there are many people in the area who take it for granted that it did.
My best guess...
That's fair. At this point it's clear no hard proof will ever emerge. I think Trump is a buffoon and I don't want him to be president, but stories did circulate in the NJ area immediately after the attack which is probably why he thinks it was widely covered.
A "normal" politician would...
I lived in a town in NJ that was adjacent to one of the towns where this is alleged to have occurred. During the days after the attacks word spread about the alleged celebrations. Most of what I heard were second or third hand accounts, but my friend's father who was a police office in the...
I'm going to publish a study that says that 95% of rich people make less than $1m per year*
*Rich people defined as those that make more than $100k per year
The FPL is the default cutoff for measuring poverty because it's supposed to be absolute rather than a relative definition. The majority of studies that I've seen use it and when they don't they go the other way and use a purely distributional cutoff like quintiles. Of course the FPL isn't...
The standard definition of poor is those below the poverty line. There are various definitions of "near poor" which usually starts at the poverty line and goes up to 125-150% of the poverty line.
It's reasonable to assume that a significant majority of people with income greater than 100% of...
Please answer this question: Can they get any answer they want for the percent of poor that have jobs by changing their definition of poor (bounded by employment rates)?
(hint: The definition of poor that they used is not the standard definition. By including those between 100% and 125% of...
I'll try this one more time. The variable that they are measuring (income not equal zero) is the same variable that they use to define their population (income < 125% of FPL) which is why I say it is circular. Maybe my point will be clearer if I give an illustrative example that is not...
My point is the study is applying circular logic. They draw an arbitrary income cutoff, and then tell us that most of the people below that income cutoff have jobs. If they picked any number above zero for the cutoff, then by definition some percent of the people would have jobs. They study...
If you actually read the page that you linked you would realize how dumb this study is. They define poverty based on an arbitrary income cutoff then tell us that most of the people below that income cutoff have jobs. Of course they have jobs, if they didn't they'd have zero income...
Assuming that you are playing the music through a HT receiver, why not just get a $25 Bluetooth receiver and connect directly to the HT receiver's RCA inputs?
Costco has bundles up for preorder that include the Surface 3, the typecover, and the pen. It's $599 for the 64gb bundle and $699 for the 128gb bundle.
I'm interested. I've been looking for a larger tablet for note taking and I really want the full version of OneNote. The Pro 3 is overkill and too big since I'll still have to carry my work laptop. I do agree with others that the price is a bit high for the specs but I expect there will be...
Even if we accept your argument about the perpetual superiority of humans at helping people find information (which I don't), it doesn't necessarily mean that the current model of local physical libraries each with one or more librarians on staff is superior to more centralized electronic...
They criticize Christie for the opposite reasons than the articles in the OP do, arguing that the entire suit was an unjust shakedown. Key points:
- Exxon had a prior settlement with the state and this suit is double dipping
- Other similar suits brought against Chevron and Dupont under...
LK - I'll also add that most people do not see our higher education problem as a credit fueled asset bubble like you and I do. They see it as a service the cost of which has inexplicable risen in the past 20 years due to known forces.
Looking at the issue from the latter perspective, what...
You have a lot more faith in the Government than I do. First, I don't think the anyone in Washington understands the simple idea that cheap credit makes assets more expensive rather than less expensive.
Second, politicians will pander the younger people and parents by saying that the evil...
Which "they" are we talking about? I fully expect the Government to keep making loans, at least for a few years until the loses become too large to ignore. I wouldn't be surprised if they just raised interest rates on all borrowers to cover the loses.
I have absolutely no confidence in...
They would have no choice. A borrower will only be able to finance a finite amount for their degree based on the market's view of their ability to pay back their loan. For degrees with lower earning potential, the schools will have to lower prices and costs or shut down. Professors can take...
I agree it's a major problem and that there will have to be a write-off for a subset of existing borrowers. However, that doesn't mean that we should support loosening dischargability while the government continues to pump money in, that will just create more problems. First fix the system...
I'm not sure what your point is. First, the aggregate maximum for Directloans (58K for Undergrad, 139K for Grad) is more than enough to get someone in trouble (per your post at 8:45) Second, my understanding is that the only thing that disqualifies you from a Plus loan is poor credit history...
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