election results at a leisurely pace — looking at you, Northern Virginia — the vast majority of ballots will be tabulated within a few hours of polls closing. (By noon on the Wednesday following the midterms, 98 percent of all votes in Virginia were counted, according to the Associated...
"Our members feel as though Biden has declared war on small businesses," Ortiz says. He also mentioned they're worried that a second Biden term would mean higher taxes, more regulations and a continuation of high prices. Meanwhile, the Biden administration seems frustrated a...
Historically, the jizya tax has been understood in Islam as a fee for protection provided by the Muslim ruler to non-Muslims, for the exemption from military
Traders of the nation’s oil said the surplus has been caused in part by a request for back taxes from shipping companies, which caused a wariness among some of the firms about sending their vessels to collect the west African nation’s barrels. /jlne.ws/3p...
In 1723, Peter the Great banned kholops – the remaining ones were made serfs and started paying taxes like everybody else. So, if we’re talking about ‘proper’ ancient-type slavery, we may say that in Russia, it was banned in 1723. Serfdom was a different thing. ...
(was it really as recent astwo months ago?), various explanations were floated for why they hadn’t caught on yet. The government was regulating betting too much. The public was creeped out by the idea of profiting off of terrorist attacks. Or maybe people were just too dumb to ...
I am sure this will be argued, but we [Nebula Consultants of San Francisco @ Toad Hall] were the folks who, for the most part, implemented UUCP/USENET at a majority of colleges and universities, and most .alt and .rec Usenet newsgroups were established in our basement. My recollection ...
implemented (at least within their respective time horizons) (Thomä and Chenet2017). It emerged also that investors’ over-confidence in new technology has led to the belief that carbon capture and storage and varied forms of ‘negative emissions’ will be the main lever to tackle climate ...
Potential obesity-related policy approaches have recently been receiving more attention. Although some have been implemented and others only proposed, few have been formally evaluated. We discuss the relevance, and in some cases irrelevance, of some of t