Not even.
2+2=(3,4,5) is just recognizing imprecision in the original measurement.
The “budget” not matching appropriations is “I’m only going to spend 100 on lotto tickets this month, and save 50” and then buying 150 in lotto and putting the 10 you ‘won’ in savings.
It’s not the math ending up. It’s just recognizing that budgets are nonsense if the actual spending is a wholly separate act of Congress.
As said elsewhere: 30 days or else what?
Trump will withhold the federal dollars Congress appropriated to NY that he already wants to withhold? Projects that would be DOA in a hard-right Congress might be even deader?
Hochul will get another empty threat from the fed DOT?
What exactly business are taxed on varies a bit from state to state, but for a tax on “profit”, which is the most common in the US, wages are definitely deductable from revenue to get the “profit” for a given period.
Walmart and Amazon would pay a hell of a lot more tax if they couldn’t subtract the wages they paid to their employees and contractors from the money that comes in the door when calculating their tax bill.
Maybe note that Wages arent like office equipment, in that there’s no asset to plausibly be sold to recoup a purchase price?
(This isn’t directly my area of expertise either, but I have a hard time thinking of a tax scheme that would allow deducting the cost of an office chair rented for an employee but not the wages paid to her.)
If you work for someone else, and THEY provide coffee, they can (and do) deduct it from taxable revenue. Same as they do the wages they pay you and the chair they have for you to sit in.
Security,.privacy, and logistics would all adapt and be of weirdly more manpower with teleportation than without.
There would be companies who do nothing but teleport goods across the world all day. Just because I don’t have to drive an hour to the warehouse doesn’t mean I want to take an hour to teleport to the warehouse and pick up my purchase myself.
I assure you that anyone who ever put on a town hall debate, including the League of Women voters and definitely the TV networks, screened the questions and reserved the right to exclude anyone they chose to.
No debate or political event since well before Nixon/Kennedy has been “open to everyone”.
“town hall” is a style of event. Back when there were meaningful debates during presidential campaigns, it used to be a regular choice.
I guarantee you that they were closed events, with attendees chosen legally-arbitrarily by whatever TV network was hosting the event.
So long as he takes questions from those in attendance, it’s a town hall. Even if no cameras are allowed.
So, what rule do you think makes “congressional town halls” work differently than any other campaign activity?
So, how does it work? Does your state have a law requiring congressional “town halls” to be open to the public?
Things like the MS-PL strike me as Open Source but not Free Software, but I can’t think of a contrary example which is Free Software but not Open Source.
Unless the town hall is paid for with taxpayer dollars or held on government property, it’s a citizen who happens to be in Congress having a private event with their political supporters.
Same as a political party convention or fundraiser dinner,.AFAIK.
(And, depending on state law, even a function on government property may be legally private.)
There is a mythical “Sony fan” customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.
It’s a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.
AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.
That Democrats didn’t respond to the “death tax” rebranding by saying “ok, let’s just make the estate tax smaller but annual” is a great example of how we got to this absurd chapter of America.
The Republican party chose not to impeach him when he sent a mob to stop a pro forma session.
The Federalist supreme Court declared him immune for prosecution for whatever shit he does in the white house, and exempt from punishment for what he does outside it.
Fucker didn’t declare himself above the law. He just finally realized what his traitorous party has been saying for years.
The Democrats are a minority in both chambers of Congress. The Republicans should be able to pass a simple spending plan on a party line vote, and if they can’t then their dysfunction is not and should never be treated as the Democrats’ fault
Spoiler alert : it was just a survey of the reported confidence of folk who admitted to using AI.
So, AI users exhibit a reduction in literally the one skill that the AI expects them to actually have?
I should probably go read that link and see if it’s actual degradation or just selection.
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While 0 has no value and is often placed after 9 on keyboards, you asked about digits in a base and not numbers. This becomes clear if you describe the various bases.
If you sort zero at the end, you’d need to spell out the digits or label them all as 1-0, which isn’t very descriptive.
Mind you, “zero-first ordering of digits” is not a fundamental rule, since the glyphs only have a need to be sorted when they stand for a numerical value . And if you used a phrase like “first X digits” without noting a range the omission would be a composition error.
I see you understood the point made by the example.
For nuclear weapons specifically, the activation code was supposed to be a command and control measure to prevent unauthorized use. Having it both be an easily remembered code and one widely known made that whole system meaningless theatre.
Nintendo made a huge deal about virtual game cards, saving us from exactly what you’re afraid of.
Not as good as what Sony and Microsoft do, where we can essentially install our whole library on every console we have, but it’s about as good as what Steam does.
Plus they’re bringing back a “game share” like feature, so some multiplayer games should be playable in a local family with only one purchase.