But even on purely economic grounds, death taxes are spectacular failures as revenue raisers or a tool of income redistribution.
The keepers were also asked to assess how effective each ape was in achieving the human equivalent of goals becoming dominant, winning a mate, or learning to use a tool or toy in a novel way.
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The systems have two 3.5-inch "easy swap" expansion bays, which can be accessed without opening the chassis or using a tool.
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While Facebook has impressive metrics, Facebook has yet to prove how it can transform itself into a platform or infrastructure beyond a tool to connect friends with each other.
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Although its minimal text is drier in tone than Human Japanese, we loved the app's thoroughness (it covers 2, 230 characters) and flexibility, allowing us to use it either as a kanji tutor or as a reference tool.
Whether it was a promotional tool or a motivation to sell more books, Sports Illustrated assembled 22 baseball experts and presented them with the enviable task of selecting an all star team for the ages.
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Things come out in casual conversations, like a new app tool or a cool website, that would never come up in one of our point-to-point conference calls.
Even then, he stressed that the future of Facebook was not as a website or tool, but as a global communication platform upon which other things would be built.
Are you investing in a tool or some ninjas who will use the tool to take your company to the next level?
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If we need a particle effect, or if we need a tool for painting, for these things on which we could have spent months and months and tens of thousands of dollars, we might spend 500 bucks.
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Boies argues that Napster technology is essentially like a VCR or photocopy machine -- a tool that may be used to pirate copyrighted material but is not inherently illegal.
The statement said the Positively Plymouth website "was never designed as a long term exercise, or as a key external marketing tool for the city".
The investors are likely to pull the raw information about a borrower, roll up their sleeves, and analyze the credit quality themselves, either as a primary decision-making tool, or as a double-check on the rating.
What makes an intelligence explosion so worrisome is that intelligence is not a tool or a technology.
In some fields, it is direct and obvious, like operating a tool or machine or creating something physical.
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But the avid moved with the times instead of lamenting that they could no longer use a tool or a skills.
Everything else from credit to money supply to quarterly earnings releases to minimum wages is just a tool or else a meaningless characteristic of an economy.
Google and Yahoo engineers publish software code for public consumption--a way to access their maps, say, or a temporary link to their search tool--and in a near-instant developers around the globe are building new software based on it.
Mr Yates said he had looked back to what he had written on 31 March last year, after receiving a complaint from the SNP MP Angus MacNeil, and said he had considered the dangers of the police being seen as impartial or used as a political tool.
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Many in higher-level management roles have reacted to it as a gimmick or an employee distraction versus a potentially valuable business tool.
As a result, I only produce stories that will instill a valuable lesson or educational tool.
Traditional advertising, whether print (newspaper and magazine), radio, television or coupons is a low percentage tool.
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His pen, as much as his ax or his musket, becomes a tool of survival.
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Yet management experts and economists have always lamented that nothing else comes even close as a workplace incentive or motivational tool.
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Owners can choose to remove the content, sell ads against it and share the money with YouTube, or use it as a promotional tool.
Whether or not a realtime, social tool like Twitter is the right delivery mechanism for news of this sort is already a moot question.
More mundanely, technology is just a tool (or suite of tools) and we should remember that whenever we become too optimistic of the future.
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When we asked the BlogHer community which areas of their lives would benefit most from a great app, tool or technology to get that support, almost one half (44 percent) cited a desire to achieve more order in their lives by staying organized (17 percent), avoiding clutter (15 percent) and managing their money (12 percent).
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Certainly a useful tool, but hardly a transcending (or, quite frankly, original) feature.
By exploiting a site with thousands or millions of visitors, the XAB tool could provide a collection of hijacked browsers, Flick says.
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