So it sounds like you don’t believe progressive taxation works. I guess that’s an understandable viewpoint. But if you think complexity is the problem, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of me as naïve. People that want simple solutions to complex problems are showing the lack of sophistication that defines naïvety.
When did they last get their way via shutdown? Usually it costs Republicans politically.
Correct, they are different. But if you accept that evaluating a person’s wealth happens successfully for taxation, there’s no reason why the same metric can’t be used for fines.
So you don’t think progressive taxation is possible?
I doubt even the usefulness of polls. Who answers polls anymore? We’ve been polled and surveyed to death. Nobody has time for it anymore.
Maybe there’s some precedent, but I can’t see why equally proportionate punishment should be unconstitutional.
Literally the opposite of what Mr Burns did.
There’s a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn’t have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn’t enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.
That’s part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they’ve mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.
His communications director who?
Saw this on Mastodon:
Did it? I didn’t bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.
On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.
The pouches seem like less plastic.
All true. I feel like the Arlington scandal has legs, though.
Especially EVs, or especially Teslas?
When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?
So this question kind of made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole, but this really captures my feelings. https://www.rogerebert.com/features/how-we-choose-our-favorite-film-and-why-mine-is-joe-vs-the-volcano