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Because junk food is cheaper. $1.75 pizza slices will fill you more than a $1.75 worth of Broccoli where I live. Fast food places are also closer to them than grocery stores because they are out in the suburban sprawl so they go to what is accessible, and often those places run promotions for 2 for 1 burgers or whatever. I guess the difference is during the Depression there weren't any food subsidies so everything was expensive.
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Absolutely.

There's not a single dollar figure in this entire opinion piece. Which makes it tough to really weigh her argument except from a sort of moral or "gee, that seems reasonable" standpoint.

I wish political and economic journalists would be as willing to use real numbers and statistics as sports reporters are...
> Doesn't calorie intake directly correlate with gaining weight?

No, calories surplus does. Poor nutritional balance can lead to low energy and make maintaining activity difficult (leading to a calorie surplus where with a more balanced diet the same person would act in a way which would produce calorie balance or deficit), and trigger a desire to eat driven by the body seeking to address deficits in particular nutrients even with a calorie surplus.

> I'm not intending to downplay the issues here, but I find it hard to follow the disconnect of people being overweight not having enough food to eat.

Nutrition is multidimensional and more than just calorie intake -- that seems to be the thing that you are missing.
Tangent: UAE is actually effectively 0% corporate tax rate for most industries. From the notes on that KPMG link --

> Although in theory these emirate-level decrees impose tax on the income of all corporate entities, in practice tax is currently only enforced on foreign oil companies engaged in the exploration and production of oil and branches of foreign banks. Although the tax rate applicable to oil companies is generally 55% of operating profits, the amount of tax actually paid by such companies is based on a rate agreed in individual concessions between the company and the respective emirate. This rate can range between 55% and 85%. Branches of foreign banks are subject to tax at 20% of their profits under the banking tax decrees.

They're trying to attract industry to move there. It's kind of pricey for small businesses to take advantage of though, since incorporation (if I remember correctly) costs $7000 once + something like $4000 per year, requires renting office space in a special economic region, and likewise establishing personal tax residence there also requires some mildly expensive registration procedure or other. For someone with a small business making upper-middle class income, the basically-equivalent-to-effective tax rate would probably be somewhere from 10% to 40%, but those are mostly fixed fees that would fall when revenue/income goes up.
Sure, but you would think the way you hear the media going on and on about people getting access into "types" of information they shouldn't have access to (banks pretty much consider electronic hacks apart of the cost of doing business these days), using the same tools as the people who construct such systems, its not hard to think otherwise compared to say hundreds of years ago. I mean, anyone could easily look up as list of free proxies and crawl twitter to get around the ip rate limits (or any site for that matter, people do this all the time), increasingly more than ever, people have the ability to access such information (and vasts amounts of it) more than before. Whether they feel compelled to is a different story. Same goes for the fission and fusion weapons: the physics behind it is pretty much available in every university in the world (and their online lecture notes), I just think not many people just want to build such things. And all this is pretty much within a century. Took much longer if one looks back throughout human history for knowledge of information to even propagate throughout different cultures.

Beyond that, I don't really know what to say beyond that things change. A lot of the social constructs that we are born into may be totally irrelevant in our lifetime regardless of our opinions about them, some people can adapt to such, and some people will go to their grave with cognitive dissonance of such change clinging to their memories of a world that was but will never be again.
Mrs. Dreier looks to be at least 20kg overweight. She could quite healthily fast for at least 3 months living of of those reserves plus some magnesium supplements. It has been done before with great success:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/post...
Which is a correct opinion that sadly ignores the environment in which these people grew up, the level of education available to them and the medical care they are able to access. Even nicely wealthy with access to everything they could need have accidents.
Taxation is just fungible control. I largely meant paying more taxes. But some amount of control might be needed. E.g., more stricter drug laws, there should be some financial friction on reproduction based on number and age (9 kids at 31 is just amazing).
I agree wholeheartedly.

The anecdotes they cite don't encourage much sympathy from me either. Three declined credit cards and a loan from a relative for $8.11 in fried chicken. Or the home health-aide who buys ready made food from the grocery store, because "You can’t go all the way home and cook." I'm pretty sure you could have packed a PB&J or Ham and cheese sandwich; for less than the grocery store would have charged. Heck, you could eat a cold slice of pizza.

Or notice, "When the food stamps come in, she splurges on her monthly supply of produce, including a bag of organic grapes and a bag of apples." The organic fruits and vegetables are more expensive around here. Regular golden delicious apples are something like $1.49/lb, whereas the organic are $1.99/lb. If you were watching every penny, you would have not picked the bag of organic grapes; you would have gotten a regular bag of grapes.

I also don't buy that the, (paraphrased) "Oh we can't eat cheaply and healthy, because all that are available are processed foods." You won't go hungry if you eat processed foods, and they are not actually expensive if you are living in a home with electricity. If you're homeless, there are greater logistical challenges like finding a way to refrigerate food or even heat it up; but those are not the people described in this article.
Dwarf Fortress, for instance, has lots of Fun.
Where are you shopping? While the average american supermarket (Kroger, Gerbes, Safeway, Wal-Mart) has a lot of unhealthy food available, there are also a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Whole foods is a REALLY bad example of the average cost of food in the US--it's well known for being expensive and catering to the organic/locally grown/whatever crowd. You're not going to get an accurate idea of US food prices shopping there.
Amazon is the new socialism. There are basic services which the government ought to provide -- access to unlimited books, movies, music, software, and similar. It's dramatically more economically efficient that way. The governments won't, for a whole range of reasons. Amazon seems to be stepping up. You pay a private tax, and you join a private government.
Explain how being taxed once at 40% is better than being taxed twice at 20%.

And then explain how Limited Liability fits your theory -- profit without accountability for misdeeds.
> their complete lack of in-place support

How so? In what way does Ubuntu not support this?

Not to mention: if you're not at least using configuration management by now, you're doing it wrong. Rebuilding a server should be a completely automatic process.
Because we don't take birth control seriously in this country. IUD's and hormonal birth control should be free. The morning after pill should be available for free in schools. Republicans should stop making it more difficult to operate a planned parenthood.

Doing these things would reduce poverty, crime, and quite importantly our environmental impact.
I think the distended stomachs are caused by actual starvation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwashiorkor

Though it's possible you're referencing something else.
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Given the theoretically very high level of importance a CEO has within an organization, isn't it critical that their productivity be optimized?

Traditional airport travel now is incredibly inefficient in terms of time cost. Not to mention being able to fly when and where you want to upon command, is very valuable for extremely large businesses.

A CEO like Jeffrey Immelt might fly four or five days per week (per what I've read about his rather insane schedule in the past). Add just two hours per flight to his time cost, and that becomes wildly expensive.
Several of the stores Smashwords distributes to have been in this market for a while. I wonder how they'll react.
I think this deserves extra attention. America has a weird cultural thing at play here; the religious right seem to be strongly anti-contraception (the recent Hobby Lobby decision being a good example). Yet, when the inevitable happens and a child is unexpectedly conceived, there doesn't appear to be much in way of a support structure.

I'd be happy to be wrong on the second part.
San Francisco has one of the world's great libraries, e.g. see these photos: http://www.pinterest.com/stellacarruth/san-francisco-public-...

Did you complain to a librarian about the restrooms? That is a cleaning issue, same as a busy airport. The library belongs to all local residents, chip in and help make it the space where you would like to linger. Bathrooms can be cleaned. The rest of the building and books are wonderful.
Unprepared food like fruits, vegetables, meat, etc. is tax free in most states. Prepared food is usually taxed. Tipping is only expected at a sit-down restaurant, and those are generally expensive enough that if you are genuinely starving you should probably be allocating the money spent on that one meal on several cheaper meals.

Credit cards vs. debit cards typically have no difference in fees for the end consumer; the one notable exception in suburban NY being gas stations.
Raising insects as a protein source for chickens would be an interesting and worthwhile project. (says the UN, even: http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e07.pdf) Caveat: it seems that in the US, using insects as a livestock feed is explicitly legal only in Ohio. Which is odd since pastured chickens certainly gobble their share of bugs, but understandable since we don't want insects that are raised on ... extremely disgusting things ... being fed to the animals we eat.)

OfBug is already working on this, selling larvae for farmers who want to start raising insects as a protein source for their animals. http://www.ofbug.com/animalfeed

It would be fun to experiment with modular units that you raise insects in. You'd keep a pipeline of bugs in various stages of development. Then, when it's time to feed the chickens, take a module, open it up for the chickens, and watch the fun! Maybe the bug container could be made of heavy paper so it could be cheap and biodegrade quickly. Or it could be something reusable like a bucket. (That's so simple I don't think it counts as an idea. But if someone figures out a good system, they'll surely be able to turn it into a book/product line/service. Maybe they'll go to work for the UN trying to get everyone to do it.)

Of course, rotating the chickens across vast pastures a la Joel Salatin is probably the ideal way to provide fresh daily bugs as far as chicken nutrition and land management is concerned.
Can we actually be serious here ? How many situations have you seen where someone is at a party constantly holding their phone in the air for hours on end. Never. And if someone was I am quite sure they would be treated equally as suspicious.

Google Glass is more akin to someone wearing a GoPro to a party the whole night. Not someone who pulls their phone out of the pocket for a minute or two.
This sounds exactly like the bygone panic over cameras on mobile phones.
Simple solution: no camera.

Wearable displays have other great benefits - though input awkwardness might kill it (voice isn't good enough as the sole input).
Note that the corporate income tax is on profit, not revenue. Personal income tax is on revenue, minus some limited deductions.

Money reinvested or paid to employees is not taxed. Furthermore, corporations pay no sales or income tax on value added inside the corporation for the benefit of the corporation, unlike if the corporation were split into several independent companies.
I'd like to hear more about what basic infrastructure is lacking in your part of the US.
That's what Enron did and General Electric under Jack Welch. Up or out strategy. If you put the incentive under delivering something of value too much, you end up with people lying. Sometimes it's not just about star individuals, but star teams.
You could make the videos click to play and just have image-clicks open a few Youtube videos.
I can't find an app the works on beta 3. I switch away from pocket cast to Apple podcasts. That worked for a day and then wouldn't play. Tried castro and it also worked for a while and now I can go to the episode view. Trying overcast now but the auto downloading is annoying and there no all downloaded view.
You make a very good point.

Maybe the solution then is to eliminate income tax altogether? We didn't have Federal income tax until 1913, and I am surprised at why we need to pay so much in Federal taxes when the state/local governments are the ones providing most of the services.

The federal government has other significant sources of income, and a large majority of the spending is definitely wasteful, it would start by eliminating most of the IRS/tax law/enforcement cost, before even starting to look at the rest.

Also of note is that the income tax was voted into law amid pretty non-democratic conditions, and now we assume it must be absolutely needed because we've become accustomed/dependent on it.
Almost everyone involved in developing the Internet was funded by the U.S. government.
> but is it really all that surprising that one or two low-wage adults aren't able to provide for themselves on top of growing children

In a wealthy society it ought to be.

Raising children is a pretty basic part of the human experience. It's easy to say "just don't have kids!", but rather harder to live that life if you're someone who wants a family.
All airport travel is highly inefficient compared to staying in your office and being connected through the internet.
This is why I keep saying that privacy advocates worry too much about the government (which is heavily constrained by law) and not nearly neough about the private sector. Some of the big data brokerages like Acxiom really do seem to know more about consumers than they do themselves.
In 1800-ies the typical American mother bore 7 children. So nothing amazing. Standard human biology.
Unfortunately, I don't even have PERM yet :\
LLCs allow owners to declare personal/corporate taxes under the same umbrella. Same for sole proprietorship and other structures.
It's not even just the fear of being taped.

But I imagine there would be a very strong correlation between those who wear Google Glass and those are technically astute. Which then leads you to think they would put that video on the internet somewhere.

A lot of people don't wan't their drunken, embarrassing moments on the internet. It can affect relationships, career, etc.
That's all just because the father never read 'Girls 101 for Dummies -- Boys', and that's partly because I have not written it yet. Material such as in the OP would be some of the best in the book, along with much, much more about girls that boys just have no clue about. They should have much more than a clue, as boys, when meeting, dating girls, when picking a wife, and certainly when they have one or more daughters.

The old norm that boys/men get to ignore such things about girls easily leads to a lot of hurt and harm.

The lessons are not very complicated, but they are next to impossible for a boy to discover when following through the usual paths in life. E.g., I've been a student in five colleges and taught in two more, and I doubt that any of those schools had a course that covered what is in the OP or what would be in my book. Why? The norms are, just don't explain that stuff, especially to boys/men. So, get hurt and harm. Bummer. Instead, get the info out there.

E.g., an approximation to the lesson in the OP is the Erich Fromm remark in his 'The Art of Loving'. I paraphrase:

For humans, the fundamental problem in life is doing
something effective about feeling alone.

This statement is especially true for girls/women. A man who does not appreciate this statement has some modules between his ears powered down.

Fromm went on to say that only four solutions have been found, and one of those was "membership in a group". Presto: That's the solution the girls in the OP were working for.

Then the father needs to know about two of Fromm's other solutions: One of them is "love of spouse". So, such a girl can be very tempted to get a boyfriend, maybe sooner and more 'intimate' than her father might wish. Another is 'orgiastic' behavior, that is, get drunk on alcohol, high on drugs, have an orgy, and, thus, suppress the pains for a few hours at, of course, some costs in addiction, infection, social rejection, etc. Fathers need to know this, too. From some news stories, apparently some college girls with 'the hookup culture' and 'bar scene' have discovered this solution.

This stuff, and more should be taught. If I write the book, then one thing to do with it, maybe good, would be to have some good Hollywood people dramatize parts of the book, that is, illustrate with facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, scowls, tears, etc.
AWS is doing some great stuff, but this is a really misleading article.

Ignoring the obvious issue that AWS is a service and not a software business (and they have very different growth characteristics), the data on the graph is incorrect. Perhaps calling it a "tech" company would have been more clear.

AWS's $3.1B revenue in 2013 would be year 3 of the graph. Everything after that is speculation, but is compared to actual historic data from other companies (without explanation).

Several of the other companies lines seem significantly off also. For instance MSFT's first billion dollar year was 1990. By year 3 they were making $2.76B, not the just under $2B shown. By year 4 they were showing $3.75B, not the under $3B shown. By year 6, MSFT was making $5.94B, not the $4.5B shown. Similarly, the lines for CRM and VMW are showing lower revenue numbers than the actual ones for the later years. For instance CRM should be $3.72B in year 4, not the $1.75B shown.

If you stop the graph at year 3, where actual AWS data stops, AWS has grown only a little bit faster than MSFT. Also, the periods graphed for MSFT, CRM, and VMW all include recessions, whereas AWS is growing during a boom.
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"Corporations are legal persons" is begging the question. "Legal person" means 'designated entity with special rules', it doesn't carry any intuition or logical consequences beyond whatever the chosen rules are.
I think the culture of blaming the poor for being that way shows a tremendous lack of understanding about the complex social issues around it. It's more than statistically likely you would not break the generational cycle of poverty if you started life in similar circumstances.
Avg price for broccoli is $1.06 per pound[1], so you are getting around 1.75 pounds of broccoli. That's more filling than a 0.2 pound slice of pizza.

[1] http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/fvwretail.pdf
And yet lacking the insane, uninformed backlash that Glass is getting.
Distended stomachs are caused by actual starvation and, no, those kids aren't fat in the slightest. The article is conflating hunger with poor nutrition. They're not three same thing.
Sure, I'm aware that costs are higher at Whole Foods :). Sorry, I shouldn't have left that unqualified. I've been elsewhere too; they just had a selection which reminded me the most of a supermarket at home (partly because this particular one wasn't massively oversized like the Wal-Mart I visited -- everything here is bigger!).

I'm also staying in an area (Downtown in an nice city) where food would be more expensive anyway, which may be influencing my perception. So, again -- it's just an anecdote, but the area I'm in back home is generally regarded as an expensive one too.
Retitle: people are easy targets for bankers because people are ignorant.
LLCs provide limited liability but only have one tax on the personal profit. Why is a separate tax needed for larger companies?
Non-democratic? After a quick a-Googlin', it seems like the income tax was made legal by the 16th Amendment, which has been properly ratified by 42 states.
Unfortunately, the camera is half the benefit.

I've seen some very clever augmented reality work with this system. There's some real power in the ability to take visual input from the environment, enhance it, and display it to the user in a more useful format. Most of the actually nifty uses for Glass are camera-related.
I am not the designer, I just shared the link.

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1dollarscan will cut&scan for $1 per 100 pages, they destroy the book afterwards. You can also ship to them directly from Amazon, etc. It's a way to buy electronic versions of older books which may never be on Kindle. Just cutting the spine from a book costs $2 at Staples.
Um. Yeah. I was not talking about human biology here. The quality of life of the lady mentioned is not that different from an 1800s American middle class person.
Nope, it was a bug that broke it, and it was I what done it. I think we've fixed it.
Exactly. Every layoff i have seen personally or through close friends at other company's the ass kissers survive and those t hat threaten them get laid off. Those that threaten them (the competent ones) are always painted as non team players because generally the competent ones are unhappy when the teams gain so many slick talking ass kissers but few doers.