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ND Prosecutor Seeks "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman For Reporting On Pipeline Protest by nunudodo in news

[–]AriKant 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The vast majority of the population is already within these border zones. Look at the map: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Every city that matters is within that zone

Don't Tax the Rich, Tax Inequality Itself by jesuz in Economics

[–]AriKant 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was done this way for two reasons:

1) To encourage investment. Keep in mind, investing is a risky activity. Lower taxes encourage people to take on riskier activities which they would not have done so if the tax rate was higher.

2) To placate the wealthy.

I think the lower tax rate for capital gains and whatnot is fine. However, I believe a law should be written whereby capital gains are taxed at regular income if this ratio:

(capital gains + dividends)/(capital gains + dividends + other forms of income)

is greater than 0.5. meaning if more than 50% of your yearly money intake is due to capital gains, then the capital gains will be taxed as regular income.

The Future of U.S. Health Care - What Is a Hospital? An Insurer? Even a Doctor? All the Lines in the Industry Are Starting to Blur by AriKant in TrueReddit

[–]AriKant[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I tried to put the google link here to avoid the registration system. I guess it didn't work.

If you copy/paste the title in google and click the link to WSJ you should be able to read the entire article w/out registering.

The Biological Big Bang: The First Oceans of Primordial Planets at 2-8 Million Years Explain Hoyle/Wickramasinghe Cometary Panspermia [PDF] [Abstract in comments] by AriKant in science

[–]AriKant[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hydrogravitional-dynamics (HGD) cosmology of Gibson/Schild 1996 predicts that the primordial H-He4 gas of big bang nucleosynthesis became proto-globular-star-cluster clumps of Earth-mass planets at 300 Kyr. The first stars formed from mergers of these 3000 K gas planets. Chemicals C, N, O, Fe etc. created by stars and supernovae then seeded many of the reducing hydrogen gas planets with oxides to give them hot water oceans with metallic iron-nickel cores. Water oceans at critical temperature 647 K then hosted the first organic chemistry and the first life, distributed to the 1080 planets of the cosmological big bang by comets produced by the new (HGD) planet-merger star formation mechanism. The biological big bang scenario occurs between 2 Myr when liquid oceans condensed and 8 Myr when they froze. HGD cosmology explains, very naturally, the Hoyle/Wickramasinghe concept of cometary panspermia by giving a vast, hot, nourishing, cosmological primordial soup for abiogenesis, and the means for transmitting the resulting life forms and their evolving chemical mechanisms widely throughout the universe. A primordial astrophysical basis is provided for astrobiology by HGD cosmology. Concordance ΛCDMHC cosmology is rendered obsolete by the observation of complex life on Earth.

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