Indeed, states wanting more progressive redistribution is a problem, but I just read a quick guide to e-commerce in the US, and the computer does not do it all for you. It looks like a nightmare. Got a link? I've bought and sold online and it's dead easy. It is obviously a system set up for physica...

The situation you describe in San Francisco sounds similar to NYC. I don't live in the city. If I did, I'd use mass transit. But when I worked there (van, commercial plates) if your vehicle was parked on Queens Blvd beyond 4:00 PM it was towed to an impound lot. And that's just the tip of the iceber...

Prop 13 is a California law. John is in California. (I'm trying to clarify this for the non-Americans) What John is describing can be thought of as a "water mattress effect" -- If revenues go down in one place they have to rise in another unless you cut services. So California's state sale...

Sales taxes in the US are state and local; they are used to pay for state and local services. Services and incomes aren't equal in different regions. There's nothing you can do to recoup more revenue through sales taxes because people are already paying what the market will bear. A dangerously larg...

Having a single sales/value added tax seems like a sensible idea though. How do online retailers in the US deal with thousands of different rates, sometimes varying town by town? I don't know if things have changed recently, but for years you would only pay sales tax for an online purchase if the s...

OK, the pipe is standard copper water pipe of the sort that is slightly oversize so it can be used to splice regular copper water pipe. You seem to be describing a "sweat repair coupling" or "repair sleeve" That would make it slightly larger than 1/2" inside diameter. Sligh...

With sales tax there are no stages of hidden tax before the retail stage. You don't pay sales tax when you buy wholesale to resell. Yep, and I'd write equipment costs off on my taxes. But the drastic sales tax increases usually proposed by libertarians and conservatives would create a large black m...

I think it’s crucially important to argues about whether Yang will end up with 2% of the total Primary vote or just 1%. Have fun. Yang has 2% in the polls which means he will be in the September debates. I don't expect him to win the nomination -- I want him to defend his plans to the best of his a...

It‘s made from neodymium. BINGO! (Neodymium alloy, actually....) So how does the trick work? The magnet and the tube create what's known as a "eddy current". This creates a force against the magnet causing it to drop slowly. But you didn't say anything about a magnet. The way to do it wit...

OK, the pipe is standard copper water pipe of the sort that is slightly oversize so it can be used to splice regular copper water pipe. I'm pretty sure there's no such thing. There is a coupling you can use to join pipes by soldering, and there are compression fittings for joining pipes without sol...

It would likely increase our gear costs by 25-30%, judging by Europe. You didn't even skim the outline, let alone watch the interview. I would be more concerned about an army of heavily armed former military truck drivers who have suddenly become permanently unemployed. I'll take regular sales tax,...

Sorry to hear that. As for the silvery sphere, it probably went through faster than you think but you guys were one toke over the line. Nope. Definitely slooow. There's a sound scientific principle in play here, something absolutely basic to the science of electricity. If you can't figure it out so...

The Drug Test Failers

American presidential candidate, for you out-of-towners. I was highly skeptical of the concept of Universal Basic Income. The current administration is doing the extreme polar opposite, working hard to take food stamps away from poor people. I found this interview to be riveting, more compelling to ...

Sorry to hear that.

As for the silvery sphere, it probably went through faster than you think but you guys were one toke over the line.

Remember, the people we need to win over are for the most part under-educated and very susceptible to propagandizing by the same right wing network that "coincidentally" happens to control nearly all major league sports media in the US. Don't underestimate the power that goes with that. T...

John Eppstein wrote: ↑August 14th, 2019, 8:11 am And if Beto's presidential campaign doesn't catch fire soon there's talk of him running for the Senate in Texas, which he would probably win this time.

That would be fantastic!

Show me any hunting or sporting reason to have high capacity magazines. Deer don't shoot back. And I bet you've never been charged by an enraged 10 point buck that weighs half a ton. Which is what happens if you miss your first shot and fail to drop him. Or if he just happens to haves a couple of d...

And we're not keeping our eyes on the prize - which is winning The Senate. […] But they hold the keys to The Senate. This is not an accident; it was one of the intentions of The Founding Fathers to prevent a buildup of power by the "favored elite" similar to the situation in Britain aroun...

And in those states guns are widely regarded not as weapons of murder and war; they are more often seen as tools of survival. Lots of people hunt for food in those regions. They may not totally depend on it but it does provide a financially significant portion of their diet. As usual, you completel...

I think the pandering to the centre, and especially to imaginary convinceable Trump voters, is starting to fall apart; as the failed strategy that it always was. "pandering to the center" doesn't have anything to do with it. Even framing the question in those terms reveals a disturbingly ...

The point that I was pretending to have is that we should elect people and candidates, not political parties. You don't seem to understand the basics of how the American system works, making this discussion difficult. Once you have this basic understanding, you may begin to see why you can't change...

Do what? Share it on K.G.'s group page where there are probably a thousand people who think everyone has quantized everything for hundreds of years and to do otherwise is heresy*. There are settings, though and I'm sure he has it locked down tighter than Fort Knox :uhoh: * slight exaggeration

I shared it on the page of a friend whose initials are K.G. Unfortunately, that's his friends and family page. The real prize would be his group page. The timing would be perfect, because he just posted this tip: User Tip: Use "Strength" Quantize when you can. Not everything needs to be qu...

No, unfortunately. I've got to the part where I'm re-installing Waves plugins and it the progress bar stops midway and it points me to a trouble shooter which reiterates some of the above steps. And Waves phone support, while rated tops by everyone who uses it is gone for the weekend. I'm going to k...

Very well put. I hope this isn't just preaching to the choir. I think of 2 types of perfection: Mathematical perfection, and impact. For the reasons you mentioned, they are unlikely to coexist peacefully. The first, as you describe, is quantizing, gridlocking :stg: autotuning. You and I would use th...

I see. Anyway, I called Waves and Omry emailed these instructions: Hi Jonathan, It was nice talking to you over the phone. Per our conversation, please follow the step below to start fresh with all Waves related, by uninstall and reinstall Waves. If you have IR convolution reverb impulse files, plea...

The real sticking point right now is the C++ runtime error that occurs partway through scanning VST plugins. I followed these instructions: This is an issue with Windows system. To resolve the problem, please first run Windows Update to ensure that your system has all the latest system updates from ...

What would that determine?

I don't know what you mean. I needed a thumb drive to install Win 10 -- does that count? It's a new hard drive. It was empty. I copied and pasted plenty of stuff. The immediate and possibly only problem is that the VST scan stops on a runtime error. Cakewalk dude thinks the apps I need are being blo...