Those cookies are necessary for them to make money so that they can keep the website running. It may not be necessary for any one particular a visitor, but if all visitors fail to make the website money, then the website will not function for long.
If a website does not use advertising to make money off of you, you should ask how they're making money instead, and whether that way of making money off of you is better (privacy or otherwise).
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That's nearly impossible. The request destination, the timing, the geographic location, proxy use, contents of the request etc. are all necessary if you want to defend against attacks. These all need to be collected at all times. If you wait until you're under attack to start collecting, you will fail to block the attack.
Moreover, you'd want to store information about legitimate users so that they can be whitelisted.
The fundamental problem with these laws is that they are written by people who have almost no understanding of how a website works. There is no harm from the vast majority of data collection activity targeted by the law. It would be much better to have a law against the sale and aggregation of personal data beyond a single website, or a law against price discrimination.
It's not completely useless, there are still manufacturers who don't put the label. If I had a choice of 2 competing products of similar prices, I go with the one without the label. Also when I see one of these in a place I don't expect, e.g. a swimming pool, it prompts me to look it up and learn something from it.
Yes, it can be improved, e.g. by listing the actual risk of using the product, but I can also research that myself.
Whose flag is still on the moon?
And the pyramids still stand today. How important would you say Egypt is in the world?
The group of proudly ignorant people have grown in size, but they are still a tiny minority. Only approximately 3.5% of US children are unvaccinated.
As for universities, their biggest problem is declining enrollment due to demographics. There's also Trump's anti-immigrant policies blocking foreign students, who are cash cows for the universities. But those policies are very likely to be reversed in 3.5 years.
all I can see is a gradual decline in the ability of the US to compete when it comes to science.
Basic science for sure. Applied science is still mostly funded by private businesses, so we probably won't see much change there. China will probably climb past us at some point, but that is inevitable given they have 4 times as many people as we do, and not every administration of theirs will be less pro-science than ours.
A single Starship, for example, apparently has a similar internal volume to the entire ISS
Any system that is still in testing doesn't count. Otherwise you're comparing who makes the best press releases and can lie with a straight face. I mean, according to Elon's own estimates, the first SpaceX rocket should've landed on Mars in 2018, and the first human in 2024. In reality, Starship hasn't even reached LEO.
Aircraft wings are very much multi-part components. They can repeatedly withstand 2.5 g stress at 600 km/h. If the airflow is stable, they can easily sustain 1000 km/h.
You do lose strength near a joint, but you can make up for it with a bit more material.
I think we can definitely blame Trump for cancelling billions of investments in clean energy. Energy that we will actually need if we want to bring manufacturing back and compete with the likes of China.
The issue with trade imbalance complaints is that a country trades with more than just one other country. They might be running a surplus against the US, but they almost certainly are running a deficit with somebody else. Otherwise their currency would appreciate dramatically.
Also, completely missing from the trade discussion is services. The US exports a lot of services, which is part of the reason the US dollar remains quite strong.
I mean, you can always just get it shipped: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hawaiicoffeecompan...
Financial gains are taxed at 0% if you don't sell it. 15% if you do. Wages are taxed at anywhere between 17-55% if you count the employer's share as well.
On the budget side, more than 80% of the federal government income is from individual income and payroll taxes.
The government does everything it can to discourage people from working, discourage employers from hiring and encourage them all to speculate on financial assets. We shouldn't be surprised at the result.
You invest a lot of money in successful stocks (like those in the SnP 500, so an SnP 500 index fund would be a sound choice). You are "ready to retire" when 4% of your investment's value is a bit more than you need in yearly income.
Now do this with the Japanese stock market.
They're expecting the tariffs to backfire spectacularly. Then they can say they never had anything to do with it.
Many simulations have been run to try to understand what would happen if we stop emitting CO2. They do show a continued warming trend for a period afterwards. However, the warming does eventually come to a stop. That final temperature is what you usually hear in media reports.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that we should explore all possibilities to bring it to a stop even more quickly. Atmospheric aerosol injections can very quickly end warming, though it does not mitigate all other effects of higher CO2. Ocean fertilization can absorb the CO2 at a rate much faster than any industrial CO2 capture process, but comes with the risk of ecological disaster.
Of course, even if they work, they cannot overcome our burning of fossil fuels, especially not coal. So that must be the first step.
A high-profile, high-speed train in the U.S. would be believed to be a target for terrorists, so you'd soon find TSA going thru your luggage, just like st the airport.
Most countries don't do that though. Even China only x-rays your luggage. No need for shoes or body scan. A high speed train is simply much more resilient than an aircraft against small explosives.
Since the High-Speed line will only have one station in each city, you'll likely not live close enough to walk to the station, so now there's parking, car service, taxis, buses, etc to contend with.
In this respect it's similar to the airport, except that most people are significantly closer to the city center than they are to the airport. Of course the other half of the problem is that the US is seriously lacking in intra-city public transport as well. In Tokyo, you could take a 10 minute subway ride to the train station. The airport, on the other hand, is almost an hour away.
And I'm almost certain the passenger rail service would not be sufficient to justify running trains every 15 minutes, so you'll be waiting around for the train.
You only need to wait around for the train if you didn't bother buying the ticket beforehand. If you did, you could show up 15 minutes before departure.
With commercial flights, if you tried showing up without a ticket, you would be denied entry completely. If you try to buy it right outside the airport, you're going to wait half a day if not several days for a flight. And this is if you are willing to pay out exorbitant prices for a last minute ticket.
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce.
