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I would recommend staring with a tax on income (ANY income with NO deductions) over $1M/year, maybe 10%.

Well it's already 37%, so 10% wouldn't be nearly enough. I'd suggest more like 80%, and since the progressive brackets are what they are you could add another at 5M with 99% tax.

McFly! Hello!

I mean not really no. Even without any artificial limits, as people gain education and move out of poverty, birth rates naturally go down.

In fact birth rates in some places are decreasing as we speak.

Allowing everyone access to education and a UBI would cut birth rates. Going below 1.5 or so would actually be undesirable.

Which direction do you move your finger to access the next song on your phone when. Looking at a play list.

Your finger moves up then taps the one you want.

You could just as easily say that next should be up.

Both are wrong.

Next should be left, volume should be up / down.

Having grown up in the tape era, the right button being next / fast forward just make sense.

I can see on a screen that you'd scroll down to get to the bottom of a playlist, but isn't your finger moving up?

This is the classic problem of inverted vertical controls or not?

Just avoid it altogether and make the back / skip button left / right respectively, and volume be up / down which just makes obvious sense.

The knob and buttons are separate controls. One controlled the frequency on the radio, one controlled the inputs.

The question was: which one do you think the knob controlled, frequency or inputs?

Lots of respectable people been hit by trains

Metal flex chimney pipe. Looks like 6-8" or bigger.

Edit: he says 150mm so 6"

Lol, bunch of schools, two correctional centers, and some sites of "historic battles".

Welcome to pretty much anywhere in the southeastern US.

See, my favorite is GNU, for "GNU's Not Unix".

I've even heard people say "Double-yoos dot", and even that compressed version is still more syllables than the full thing.

My wife had significant issues with hers, including basically never-ending spotting and occasional surprise periods, cramps, mood issues, etc. She had it removed after 2 years.

I'm thinking a vasectomy is the next thing, but it isn't covered on my insurance and finding a doctor is intimidating.

Actually they are all the same, and none of them are, that's why they are all the same. The plan was made before fire codes required updated sprinkler systems or something and since they keep reusing the same plans they all are fire hazards.

A fire fighter buddy of mine was ranting one night and I caught the tail end of the discussion.

I'll one up you. 700 million and I'll never use it for as long as I live.

Sounds Italian

My wife sees the bedroom as only a place to sleep

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Those are all brown AWD wagons with a manual transmission and come used from the factory.

Was gonna say, I don't smoke but I was in upstate NY and a guy gave me a $20 to grab him a pack of smokes from a corner store while I was running in to grab a snack, and I thing I got like $1 and change back. I was appalled.

52ft or something long. Go look for a RV or camper. Simply because they are sold by the foot.

A 40ft camper is pretty huge and can easily fit 6-10 people comfortably.

People turn containers into apartment type buildings for a family of 2-3.

So 1/2x is universally interpreted as 1/(2x), and not (1/2)x, which would be x/2.

Sorry but both my phone calculator and TI-84 calculate 1/2X to be the same thing as X/2. It's simply evaluating the equation left to right since multiplication and division have equal priorities.

X = 5

Y = 1/2X => (1/2) * X => X/2

Y = 2.5

If you want to see Y = 0.1 you must explicitly add parentheses around the 2X.

Before this thread I have never heard of implicit operations having higher priority than explicit operations, which honestly sounds like 100% bogus anyway.

You are saying that an implied operation has higher priority than one which I am defining as part of the equation with an operator? Bogus. I don't buy it. Seriously when was this decided?

I am no mathematics expert, but I have taken up to calc 2 and differential equations and never heard this "rule" before.