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Yeah, I'm all for eliminating the penny, nickel, and dime. I think 25c is a small enough measurement of currency.

 

As for the Lincoln thing, he's also on the $5 so I don't think we would even need to put him on another coin/bill.

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Yeah, I'm all for eliminating the penny, nickel, and dime. I think 25c is a small enough measurement of currency.

 

As for the Lincoln thing, he's also on the $5 so I don't think we would even need to put him on another coin/bill.

 

I'd definitely keep the dime and most likely keep the nickel. I think a quarter is perhaps a bit too far to round.

 

Eliminating the penny only applies to cash transactions, though as credit/debit card and check transactions would of course be to the penny (many accounting firms go to the mil or $0.001 for fewer rounding errors)

 

One thing that should be eliminated is selling gas in 9/10ths of a cent. I mean, really? I have a feeling that would be Constitutionally more of a state law, though.

 

Oh and Dean, the penny is actually the oldest of all the current US coin designs and if you look at previous American coins there is no consistency between facing right or left.

 

Also, Jefferson now faces forward on the nickel.

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I don't think a quarter is too far to round. The only kind of situation where it seems like it would be a problem is like the rare time when you only need to buy one screw or washer or something.

 

*Edit* - As for the gas thing, yeah that seems kind of shady, since it's only reasonable purpose is to make the price look 1c lower. Constitutionally speaking I think that's a lot more squarely under the commerce clause than a lot of the other things they use it for, so I wouldn't see a problem with the feds regulating it. Not that I necessarily think they should, just that I don't think it would be a constitutional issue.

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I can understand how USA could not allow passage over their airspace, but not how they can stop people boarding a British plane, flying to a non-US destination that doesn't cross US airspace? what would give them that right/ability?

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Belief in science on the down turn.

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/faith_in_science_ElyzoJm9wNW7Vl7m8ESXYP

 

"the decline in trust rose with education. Instead, he suggests that it’s the increasing use of science as ammunition for big-government schemes that has led to more skepticism."

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Well, more good points in the article.

 

"Gauchat’s paper was based on annual responses in the General Social Survey, which asks people: “I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them?” One institution mentioned was “the scientific community.”

So when fewer people answered “a great deal” and more answered “hardly any” with regard to “the scientific community,” they were demonstrating more skepticism not toward science but toward the people running scientific institutions."

 

"What’s surprising is that liberals have grown less skeptical over the same period. (Perhaps because scientific institutions have been telling them things they want to hear?)"

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I am in favor of dollar coins, I mean. At least convenience-wise. Dunno the cost-benefit analysis in the context of money supply policy.

 

Scott Brown (R-MA) requested a report from the GAO about what it would cost taxpayers to convert to a Dollar Coin and the report is that the Dollar coin doesn't make fiscal sense.

 

http://www.scottbrown.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2012/2/gao-report-dollar-coin-is-a-heavy-lift-for-taxpayers

 

Of course, Scott Brown authored the Currency Efficiency Act of 2011 and was co-sponsored by John F. Kerry. They are both from Massachusetts which is also where Crane Paper Co. is (which is where US paper money originates)

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they were demonstrating more skepticism not toward science but toward the people running scientific institutions."

 

Okay, that's an important distinction. Yeah, people are crappy and even "scientists" will distort data to support their ideas (not all of them, I'd even say not most of them, but certainly some of them).

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Yeah, the problem is the regular media just picks up on the sensational findings of whatever study, without being bothered by the fact that it was published in Pseudoscience Monthly because none of the real publications would run it.

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Well, no one should "believe in science" or "have faith in science". Scepticism towards what anyone tells you is a good scientific thing.

 

I'd be just as concerned if everyone started blindly believing whatever Brian Cox said as I would be if everyone blindly believed what the Pope said. As others have said, it's not that people are doubting science, no one is jumping off of buildings because gravity is a load of bunkum, at least, no one sane is. It's that people are questioning the motives of the people who are telling them stuff. It's a very good thing. We should be more sceptical as we get more intelligent.

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