The rules are clear, changes in EU rules must be unanimous. Typically, governments agree to changes affecting their countries' constitutions and sovereignty w/out consulting voters (how democratic! /s).
Occasionally a government will allow a vote. And when they lose, they ignore the vote.
In a parliamentary democracy every minister has been elected to his seat in Parliament. Voters can literally fire the PM while giving the ruling party a majority.
Take Canada.
The PM - Papineau
The defence minister - Scarborough South West
Finance Minister - University - Rosedale
Even the Speaker, who stands for the Majesty, is a member of the House - Hull Aylmer.
While Cabinet members are, typically, given safe seats to run, cabinet members can and do lose their seat effectively ending their ministry.
In a strong presidential system, like the US, the "ministers" (i.e.secretaries) are not in fact elected. But, not only are they approved by Congress, but they serve on behalf and on the whim of the President who is elected.
The fount of executive authority is solely in the hands of the President, who merely delegates his authority (who have no power of their own) to the cabinet members and (except for the VP) can fire them at any time.
The President holds all the executive power and the voters pick him.
The EU commissioners are not elected and the Commission president is not elected
This is not representative democracy. This is, at best, buffered representative democracy.
Arcane electoral rules make for weak representatives who gather power by making back room deals.
The real (but not constitutional) power lies in the commission that is appointed, not elected, and has been vacuuming power to itself in increasing amounts.
If they receive public funds, they can go and suck limes. They do receive public funds.
That being said, since they receive public funds, they should also be subject to the first amendment as strictly as public universities.
Imagine, Columbia ordered to reinstate the Gaza protestors, and Ivy League generally forced to provide as easy access to forums for conservatives as is provided to progressives.
With a neutron source we can control what the isotopes will be by choosing the appropriate metals for construction.
In fission you get, more or less, all the isotopes you can. fission doesn't split U235 into the same parts every time - its a random process and broad distribution of daughter fission isotopes are produced.
But I still agree. We should go with breeder reactors and call it a day
Capacitive losses. They're worse in water (dielectric), but they're there in air lines as well.
Compatibility and isolation of grids. If grid A is 35 degrees from grid B it's very hard to couple them. Also, cascading failures tend not cross DC boundaries.
In GA, GA residents with B-ish averages get free tuition to attend GA universities.
Including GaTech, a top5 eng school, that requires an A average to get in.
Source: dealing with undergrads complaining about their grades and their effect on their scholarship.
EDIT: I agree with what you maybe claiming that "education" does not justify legal gambling. And you're certainly right that most states abuse this argument and the fungible nature of money to just slosh money around.
EDIT: the lotto money is put in a fund that goes to pre-K programs and scholarships. The average required to keep the scholarship is set by the fund's size.
Also, the deflationary effects of high interest rates are not because it causes unemployment, but because it reduced the rate of increase of the money supply.
Of course, lowered money is recessionary, which leads to unemployment which puts downward pressure on wages; but wages aren't the reason for inflation - the increase in monetary mass is.
Depends who you ask. Historically, no amount of compound interest was allowed because it is immoral to receive what is not yours.
Then, in the Middle Ages, Catholic theologians added nuance introducing a concept of time value of money - ie when you lend out $100 you also lose the ability to use that $100 for the time of the loan. The concept of a small interest rate was adopted.
Which is fine, except it opened the flood gates until we eventually got the high interest rates we have today.
What makes our rates usurious? That they are issued with the issuer knowing the principal will never be paid off.
It's already ruined college sports, but the old regime was abusive.
Million dollar salaries for the coach, hundreds of millions poured into the administration all on the backs of kids who were ruining their health (bad hits, concussions) had no benefits, and nothing to show for it after the left [1].
It was abusive
[1] their college tuition was free, but they weren't given an education since they were expected to train 40 hr and TAs were expected to give free passing grades.
Baptists are strictly against gambling - GA introduced free college education funded by the lottery to legalize the state lottery (GA was losing a fortune to cross state gambling).
The largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholic Church, teaches that, while games of chance aren't intrinsically evil (ie running an MC simulation), and low stakes gambling is allowed (raffle), gambling must be
- fair. That's obvious
- even odds for all participants
Presumably, no house advantage
- not be pathological
You cannot play if you're addicted to gambling, have an addictive personality, or often that an addiction could arise
- not involve very high stakes as the money would have been better spent on the poor
Everything about dot matrix printers suck for data, except the roll of paper that can print arbitrarily long logs.
To the community, other than a dot matrix, what other roll paper based printers can I use for this?