Why would you go to a store when you could order online for much less? Three good reasons
1) You want it now
2) Shipping cost overwhelms the price difference
3) You'd like to take a look at it before buying it
and
4) there is nobody to accept deliveries at your home during the day, meaning you either accept the high risk of theft (if the package is left by your door) or you have the pleasure spending your evening at a UPS depot on the edges of the ghetto
Similar to the police having wiretap access to citizens' landline telephone systems, and expecting any new form of communication to provide similar ease of listening? Of course when it is the police who "got used to have access to something" their access is enshired in laws like CALEA. Mere citizens apparently do not get the same consideration when listening to the police.
Humans have been known to produce natural gas for millenia
what is California doing to attract and retain businesses?
Our property taxes per dollar value are among the lowest in the nation, thank to prop 13 (part of the reason income and sales taxes are high). Property is assessed at its original purchase price plus a 2% annual increase. Long term property holders pay a fraction of the taxes as similar holders in other states. California ranks 14th in per capita property tax collections ( http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/251.html ). New Hampshire ranks 4th, Vermont ranks 7th, Wyoming has the second highest. Are businesses fleeing these states due to high taxes?
We are the only major oil-producing state that does not tax this resource. Alaska, Texas, Wyoming, all do so.
In 2009 California passed a large corporate tax cut, providing billions of dollars in savings to the state's largest corporations: http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=xzsczul8kiltna , quoting : “This is the gutting of the state corporate tax,” said “In fact, they did it so badly that lawyers are chuckling about the opportunities for tax avoidance.”
California ranks 10th in total state taxes per capita ( http://www.census.gov/govs/statetax/05staxrank.html . Alaska, Wyoming, and Minnesota all rank higher. Are businesses fleeing these states?
And the culture in these organizations celebrate risk-taking, and handsomely reward those who take huge risks, and will do anything to resist restricting those "heroes".
No organization like this is going to restrict their "heroes" and money-makers with automated software that tries to second guess trading patterns.
I'm saying this as someone who was asked to leave the HR VP's office of one of these organizations for suggesting that compliance with security policies be part of annual performance review. Quoting from memory, "There is no way we are going to penalize our star salespeople for not following a password policy"
BTW, our security assessment found that bad passwords were a huge problem, to the point where a few minutes of guessing gave us some very powerful access.
In the same way the deregulation of telecom could bring some competition?
We've seen that argument before, and the results are less than promised.
"Shareholder expectations for higher returns don't diminish when the economy stutters"
As opposed to the rest of us who merely work for a living, and whose expectations have been diminishing over the last decade.
Guess who REALLY won the Cold War.
Hint: Not the side supporting Freedom and Justice For All
Already done, in fact this accomplishment helped then Governor Reagan along the path to his eventual presidency:
On Wednesday, 21 May 1969, a midday memorial was held for student James Rector at Sproul Plaza on the university campus. Rector had suffered massive internal injuries from his shotgun wounds, finally dying at Herrick Hospital on May 19. In his honor, several thousand people peacefully assembled to listen to speakers remembering his life. Without warning, National Guard troops surrounded Sproul Plaza, donned their gas masks, and pointed their bayonets inward, while helicopters dropped CS gas directly on the trapped crowd. No escape was possible, and the gas caused acute respiratory distress, disorientation, temporary blindness and vomiting. Many people, including children and the elderly, were injured during the ensuing panic. The gas was so intense that breezes carried it into Cowell Memorial Hospital, endangering patients, interrupting operations and incapacitating nurses. Students at nearby Jefferson and Franklin elementary schools were also affected
Prepare for tomorrow -- get ready. -- Edith Keeler, "The City On the Edge of Forever", stardate unknown
