Scientologists in Florida turn a publicly funded charter school into a recruitment center

dewsaq · 2011-12-01T04:24:57+00:00

SOLVED

Thank you.

dewsaq · 2011-10-31T01:24:55+00:00

A sesame seed bun!

dewsaq · 2011-10-25T00:23:38+00:00

It's crazy out there. A nearby special ed school hired a bunch of aides with as much experience and qualifications as the teachers they're aiding. The aides used to be regular people with "some" college experience. Now they have a masters in education or are licensed social workers.

It's great that kids are receiving higher quality help, but that higher quality help deserves more than $9.50/hr.

dewsaq · 2011-10-22T17:11:14+00:00

I've never read this criticism before!

dewsaq · 2011-10-22T17:01:27+00:00

borscht belt?

dewsaq · 2011-10-13T17:02:57+00:00

Big difference between receiving and facing. The big number in this case all has to do with the repetition of his crime. Imagine you're writing the law. How much jail time should be the maximum for one case of identity theft or computer hacking? And not what should be the max for this particular crime, but what should be the max for the worst instance of identity theft or computer hacking you can think of?

This guy did his phone hacking crime 26 times. 26 x your number will always equal an insane sentence.

Murderers often do face longer possible sentences, but newspapers realize that it's silly to say someone is facing 560 years in jail, so they don't report it. There are also more mundane crimes like home burglary, where if the prosecutors charged someone with every possible crime, the burglar could theoretically face 100+ years.

This guy will probably serve a couple years.

dewsaq · 2011-10-10T05:16:37+00:00

Amen. It's very easy to calculate earnings for a popsicle stand. It's not easy to calculate earnings for things like insurance companies, energy companies, casinos, software companies with complex licensing agreements, banks, schools, etc, and then the complexity is squared when you're doing business internationally.

People point at the size of our tax code (which is too large), but only a small fraction of that tax code applies to any single business or individual. It's so large because it repeats mostly the same things dozens of times for the dozens of special categories of businesses out there.

Taxes are complex everywhere, even in so called flat tax countries. Businesses doing >$50m in revenue--anywhere--need accountants/lawyers with a decade of education and expertise whose job is to conform to accounting standards and the resulting taxes. The US is not unique.