Are you really saying that the UK implemented income tax to help some Federal government, perhaps Australia as they have States. Income tax was implemented in most western countries to pay for war at a time when war couldn't just me magically paid for, how it has evolved since varies from country to country but it is used mostly to raise funds. Most federal systems have federal income tax as well as state, province etc income tax.
Hillary is quite a ways to the right herself. Only in America are a party such as the Democrats considered left wing socialists. You can tell how socialist they are by how they nationalized the banks after the fiscal meltdown in 2008 rather then rewarding them and how they introduced Romneycare to reward the insurance companies instead of a single payer system.
The Democrats are still quite a ways to the right of the political spectrum, you just have to look at Obama's master piece, basically Romneycare renamed and designed to take money from the people and give it to the rich in the form of insurance companies. Anyways the real problem is not left vs right but authoritarian vs non-authoritarian and generally in democracies the right is also highly authoritarian, at least those who are successful.
Perhaps you should join ISIS, a government as far right as you can get. There's also Saudi Arabia, a shining right wing paradise. Me, I'd rather live in the evil left wing Scandinavian countries.
Everything I've ever heard is that landing on the Moon is much easier then Mars. We've actually landed a small spacecraft that held 2 people along with their life support, their spacecraft + fuel to leave the Moon and even threw in a rover for them to go for a Sunday drive. With Mars, there is enough gravity to make landing by rocket impractical and too little atmosphere to be useful for aerobraking. So far we've landed little packages by using airbags and the largest package, a SUV sized rover was a bitch that involved parachutes, rockets and even a sky crane. So we've landed a 16,400 kg package on the Moon a couple of times (first ones were only 15,200 kg) while we've landed a 1000 kg package on Mars. As for the Moon not having volcanoes, it probably did, just that it cooled down fairly quick as all volcanoes are long extinct. Lava tubes have been spotted on the Moon IIRC. The big advantage of the atmosphere of Mars, besides giving some protection, is that it allows erosion so the dust is nicely rounded unlike moon dust that is jagged. The dust may still be a problem due to its fineness (very dry)
Most nuclear reactors produce electricity through basic heat engines so you need a heat sink. Probably need a whole new design. This would be true for the Moon and Mars
There's been about 8 successful landings on Venus. True that they all failed in a short length of time due to heat and pressure. I always liked the story of the first attempted landing, Due to not realizing just how thick the atmosphere was the probes batteries died before it landed.
Venus doesn't have a magnetic field like the Earth does, whether due to lack of a molten core, lack of convection or the more likelihood that it is not spinning is currently unknown. This is one of the main reasons that Venus lost its hydrogen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
Where in the Constitution does it say that the rights outlined only apply to US citizens, besides political rights such as voting and holding some offices?
Copyright has been extended in such a way as to re-copyright works that had entered the public domain. Perhaps we should be lobbying for copyright to be extended further backwards so all those dead people will be more motivated. At least it might show the stupidity of endless copyright if anyone using stories based on Shakespeare had to pay his estate.
By highly regulated, I guess you mean that once in a while the bureau of weights and measures checks the accuracy of the pumps (they used to also check for gas leakage from the tanks but no more) and I guess you really believe that Esso, Chevron, Petrol Canada, Husky Oil and Shell make razor thin profits? Every gas station is owned by on of those 6 oil companies here so when they can as a unit raise prices, it increases profits. It's much like the ISP business rather then a free market. Free markets need multiple players playing on a level playground including not using the government to subsidize your business. Now I understand in other parts of the world there is still such a thing as independent gas stations who compete but not here.
The fact that the Greater Vancouver area (GVRD) has a 15 cent per litre extra tax is public knowledge. Other costs are going to the same or higher as you get closer to Vancouver where you're really lucky to find a house for less then a million dollars
Yes, that is what our government claims to be about, less government (oversight) and more free market capitalism, they're the Conservatives.
As you may notice, politicians who claim to support free market capitalism and small government usually don't. Welcome to the real world.
The problem is in the details. They do believe in small government and "free" market capitalism.
As for collusion, I'm sure it is just coincidence that every gas station raises and lowers their prices in lockstep and within minutes of each other
It's not a coincidence at all, it's competition in a free market the way it should be: they look at each other's prices and maintain consistent price differentials based on location and other features. I mean, how would it work otherwise in a free market?
I'd expect the competition to drive down prices to the point where there is enough profit to keep operating and no more. This works in things like grocery stores where there is a competitive market but when all the gas stations are priced 2 cents a litre lower then the next town over and the next town over has 15 cents a litre more taxes (transit) to deal with the implication is that they are making an extra 13 cents a litre profit (actually more as the cost of rent here is less and they're closer to the source) then the next town (actually quite a few towns and cities) over.
Yes, that is what our government claims to be about, less government (oversight) and more free market capitalism, they're the Conservatives. They've been reducing the size of government so fast that we have no idea what they're doing, eg today a report on how the military police handled the suicide of a service man came out, very damning. Solution from the small government people, no more public investigations. They want to run more oil tankers through the Port of Vancouver so they closed the oil spill response office and the coast guard (coast guard only was called out about 300 hundred times a year). Of course they're enlarging spying on the people, introducing legislation to preemptively lock up potential terrorists and so on. The idea of small government is good but when the parts that serve the people are done away with in favour making everything a secret and giving certain businesses all the government help that is possible as well as declaring anyone against those businesses a terrorist who should be unconstitutionally locked up... As for collusion, I'm sure it is just coincidence that every gas station raises and lowers their prices in lockstep and within minutes of each other and investigating for collusion goes against the small government mantra, same with keeping records about the lobbyists.
Every time the price of the raw product goes up, it goes up at the pump with the oil companies claiming that the price is dependent on the price of the raw product. Here in Canada its the government that is highly controlled by the oil companies, at least with the current government.
Canada (outside Vancouver) actually, and I can't afford to buy a different vehicle or move to where there is transit so my income depends on gasoline whereas I can swap bananas for other fruit easily.
If a Chinese business person goes to a village, buys all the bananas and creates an artificial shortage, and then raises the price 300%, that is punishable by death. Why? Because he's creating an illegal monopoly, and using it to ruin the market.
This kind of ludicrous horror story gets invented time and again by opponents of free markets and rent seekers and they make no sense. How is the would-be profiteer actually going to make a business out of that and earn a profit?
I paid an extra $15 to fill my gas tank yesterday compared to last week, every gas station had raised its price by exactly the same amount while the price of the raw product dropped slightly. Seems the oil companies want to continue earning record profits and as they collude and because people such as I need gas to get to work they can raise prices to increase their profit margins with impunity. Now if it was really bananas, I could easily switch to apples but when its something you need rather then a luxury...
Only thing is that the contract actually says up to 20MBs so if they only serve 2MBs they are within their contract. You're free to change ISPs except there is no other or one other who has the same weasel words in their contract.
Don't be daft, good vs bad are not facts. Facts are things like when the bank bailout happened, which laws were used, who signed the laws, which banks benefited, how big of bonuses were given out etc. Ideally you base your opinion about good vs bad based on facts rather then bullshit and good vs bad is always an opinion. And how is it censorship if a private entity prints whatever it wants? You, I and Google are free to put whatever we want on sites we own. Everyone is free to visit which ever sites they want to visit and we're all free to stop visiting a site if we don't like/agree with its content. Google fucks up and they'll go the way of Alta Vista.
Remember, not so long ago, the almost-universal opinion would have been that the world was flat.
A good example of a wrong fact that too many people believe. As soon as people really started traveling, especially on the ocean, it became obvious that the Earth is not flat. Something like 2500 years ago a Greek used geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth though there were idiots like Columbus who were convinced the world was much smaller then the generally accepted size.
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Are you really saying that the UK implemented income tax to help some Federal government, perhaps Australia as they have States.
Income tax was implemented in most western countries to pay for war at a time when war couldn't just me magically paid for, how it has evolved since varies from country to country but it is used mostly to raise funds. Most federal systems have federal income tax as well as state, province etc income tax.
Hillary is quite a ways to the right herself. Only in America are a party such as the Democrats considered left wing socialists.
You can tell how socialist they are by how they nationalized the banks after the fiscal meltdown in 2008 rather then rewarding them and how they introduced Romneycare to reward the insurance companies instead of a single payer system.
The Democrats are still quite a ways to the right of the political spectrum, you just have to look at Obama's master piece, basically Romneycare renamed and designed to take money from the people and give it to the rich in the form of insurance companies.
Anyways the real problem is not left vs right but authoritarian vs non-authoritarian and generally in democracies the right is also highly authoritarian, at least those who are successful.
Perhaps you should join ISIS, a government as far right as you can get. There's also Saudi Arabia, a shining right wing paradise. Me, I'd rather live in the evil left wing Scandinavian countries.
Everything I've ever heard is that landing on the Moon is much easier then Mars. We've actually landed a small spacecraft that held 2 people along with their life support, their spacecraft + fuel to leave the Moon and even threw in a rover for them to go for a Sunday drive.
With Mars, there is enough gravity to make landing by rocket impractical and too little atmosphere to be useful for aerobraking. So far we've landed little packages by using airbags and the largest package, a SUV sized rover was a bitch that involved parachutes, rockets and even a sky crane.
So we've landed a 16,400 kg package on the Moon a couple of times (first ones were only 15,200 kg) while we've landed a 1000 kg package on Mars.
As for the Moon not having volcanoes, it probably did, just that it cooled down fairly quick as all volcanoes are long extinct. Lava tubes have been spotted on the Moon IIRC.
The big advantage of the atmosphere of Mars, besides giving some protection, is that it allows erosion so the dust is nicely rounded unlike moon dust that is jagged. The dust may still be a problem due to its fineness (very dry)
Most nuclear reactors produce electricity through basic heat engines so you need a heat sink. Probably need a whole new design. This would be true for the Moon and Mars
There's been about 8 successful landings on Venus. True that they all failed in a short length of time due to heat and pressure.
I always liked the story of the first attempted landing, Due to not realizing just how thick the atmosphere was the probes batteries died before it landed.
Venus doesn't have a magnetic field like the Earth does, whether due to lack of a molten core, lack of convection or the more likelihood that it is not spinning is currently unknown. This is one of the main reasons that Venus lost its hydrogen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
The Supreme court seems to have a very lenient interpretation of the constitution.
Where in the Constitution does it say that the rights outlined only apply to US citizens, besides political rights such as voting and holding some offices?
Didn't Jesse James also have some honour?
Copyright has been extended in such a way as to re-copyright works that had entered the public domain.
Perhaps we should be lobbying for copyright to be extended further backwards so all those dead people will be more motivated. At least it might show the stupidity of endless copyright if anyone using stories based on Shakespeare had to pay his estate.
By highly regulated, I guess you mean that once in a while the bureau of weights and measures checks the accuracy of the pumps (they used to also check for gas leakage from the tanks but no more) and I guess you really believe that Esso, Chevron, Petrol Canada, Husky Oil and Shell make razor thin profits? Every gas station is owned by on of those 6 oil companies here so when they can as a unit raise prices, it increases profits.
It's much like the ISP business rather then a free market. Free markets need multiple players playing on a level playground including not using the government to subsidize your business.
Now I understand in other parts of the world there is still such a thing as independent gas stations who compete but not here.
Saturn would be better then Jupiter if we ever wanted to mine a gas giants atmosphere, much less radiation.
The fact that the Greater Vancouver area (GVRD) has a 15 cent per litre extra tax is public knowledge. Other costs are going to the same or higher as you get closer to Vancouver where you're really lucky to find a house for less then a million dollars
As you may notice, politicians who claim to support free market capitalism and small government usually don't. Welcome to the real world.
The problem is in the details. They do believe in small government and "free" market capitalism.
As for collusion, I'm sure it is just coincidence that every gas station raises and lowers their prices in lockstep and within minutes of each other
It's not a coincidence at all, it's competition in a free market the way it should be: they look at each other's prices and maintain consistent price differentials based on location and other features. I mean, how would it work otherwise in a free market?
I'd expect the competition to drive down prices to the point where there is enough profit to keep operating and no more. This works in things like grocery stores where there is a competitive market but when all the gas stations are priced 2 cents a litre lower then the next town over and the next town over has 15 cents a litre more taxes (transit) to deal with the implication is that they are making an extra 13 cents a litre profit (actually more as the cost of rent here is less and they're closer to the source) then the next town (actually quite a few towns and cities) over.
Yes, that is what our government claims to be about, less government (oversight) and more free market capitalism, they're the Conservatives. They've been reducing the size of government so fast that we have no idea what they're doing, eg today a report on how the military police handled the suicide of a service man came out, very damning. Solution from the small government people, no more public investigations.
They want to run more oil tankers through the Port of Vancouver so they closed the oil spill response office and the coast guard (coast guard only was called out about 300 hundred times a year).
Of course they're enlarging spying on the people, introducing legislation to preemptively lock up potential terrorists and so on.
The idea of small government is good but when the parts that serve the people are done away with in favour making everything a secret and giving certain businesses all the government help that is possible as well as declaring anyone against those businesses a terrorist who should be unconstitutionally locked up...
As for collusion, I'm sure it is just coincidence that every gas station raises and lowers their prices in lockstep and within minutes of each other and investigating for collusion goes against the small government mantra, same with keeping records about the lobbyists.
Every time the price of the raw product goes up, it goes up at the pump with the oil companies claiming that the price is dependent on the price of the raw product.
Here in Canada its the government that is highly controlled by the oil companies, at least with the current government.
Canada (outside Vancouver) actually, and I can't afford to buy a different vehicle or move to where there is transit so my income depends on gasoline whereas I can swap bananas for other fruit easily.
This kind of ludicrous horror story gets invented time and again by opponents of free markets and rent seekers and they make no sense. How is the would-be profiteer actually going to make a business out of that and earn a profit?
I paid an extra $15 to fill my gas tank yesterday compared to last week, every gas station had raised its price by exactly the same amount while the price of the raw product dropped slightly. Seems the oil companies want to continue earning record profits and as they collude and because people such as I need gas to get to work they can raise prices to increase their profit margins with impunity.
Now if it was really bananas, I could easily switch to apples but when its something you need rather then a luxury...
Only thing is that the contract actually says up to 20MBs so if they only serve 2MBs they are within their contract. You're free to change ISPs except there is no other or one other who has the same weasel words in their contract.
I'd think most satellites have batteries, how else are they going to work when their solar cells are in the shade of the Earth?
Don't be daft, good vs bad are not facts. Facts are things like when the bank bailout happened, which laws were used, who signed the laws, which banks benefited, how big of bonuses were given out etc. Ideally you base your opinion about good vs bad based on facts rather then bullshit and good vs bad is always an opinion.
And how is it censorship if a private entity prints whatever it wants? You, I and Google are free to put whatever we want on sites we own. Everyone is free to visit which ever sites they want to visit and we're all free to stop visiting a site if we don't like/agree with its content. Google fucks up and they'll go the way of Alta Vista.
Remember, not so long ago, the almost-universal opinion would have been that the world was flat.
A good example of a wrong fact that too many people believe. As soon as people really started traveling, especially on the ocean, it became obvious that the Earth is not flat. Something like 2500 years ago a Greek used geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth though there were idiots like Columbus who were convinced the world was much smaller then the generally accepted size.
Nissan is a better example, try nissan.com