Agreed, and while, due to my age, I have fond memories of the 70's, I seem to recall that there was, a "malaise" if you will. in fact, I remember TONS of unemployment and people going hungry, stealing gas, etc in the 70's. Not sure this socialist paradise was as nice as perhaps believed.

probably arcnet or token ring while we're at it

I think you should look more deeply at the comment prior to yours. YOu state that ~90% of SUVs spend 90% of their time with a single occupant.

This doesn't discount the GP's point. Even if I need my SUV for 10% of my driving, during htose 10%, I still need it and can't justify the expense and space of owning another vehicle for the 90% of driving, so I need to drive the SUV every day.

Did it just feel good to convert hundreds of lumber/mill towns into meth towns in the pacific northwest? Does anyone feel any moral squeemishness or accountability that now, nearly 20 years after the Northern Spotted Owl was put on the ESL, the vast majority of these people have no hope, no jobs, terrible child/partner abuse issues, alcoholism, drug addiction and an overall crushed human spirit?

And NOW we are learnign that the real reason for the decline of the NSO might be due to competition from heartier owls such as the barred owl and not from responsible logging?

hi,

I think you misread that anl.gov answer. some factors would increase the amount of CO2 in the water and aothers would reduce it's solubility.

Increase in partial pressure of Co2 in the atmosphere (ie, Co2 concentrations in the atmosphere increase), then yes, this would allow more CO2 in the ocean water.

However, it's offset by some other factosrs (called out in your link above).

1. If the ocean is abosrbing more CO2, it's PH would be decreasing, this would make it less and less likely to absorb additional CO2 from the atmosphere as it reaches a new quilibrium.
2. temperature: if ocean temperattures are rising, the seawater will be able to absorb and hold less CO2 from the atmosphere

These all work together to find the conecntration of CO2 at equilibrium. If the temperature changes, or the conenctration of CO2 in the atmospher changes, then the amount of CO2, the PH and the temperature will also change to adpt to the new partial pressure of CO2.

Regarding your initial statement about sugar in hot water: gases behave in the opposite way that solids due WRT soluability in water. For example, if all esle were equal, a warm coke could dissovle more sugar, but would be "flat" (lacking in CO2 bubles).

assuming you're being sincere, he means the following:

soap box: stand on and orate
ballot box: vote
jury box: nullify
ammo: you do the math

No. You are discusing a normal corporate income tax which taxes PROFIT (Sale Price - Cost). This is how federal and most state corporate income taxes work.

Washington's B&O Tax is on total sales. So if you sell $1000 worht of stuff, even if you paid $2000 for it, you owe them 0.484% of $1000.

It actually is harder on low margin businesses than high margin businesses.

Actually, Scott Adams (of Dilbert) refers to this as a "Confuseopoly". He wrote about it in the Dilbert Future I believe. YOu have to assume there is some truth to this based on how complicated the pricing plans for many consumer products/services are today.

Edit: ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly