Are there really taxi unions? Around here taxi drivers are lucky to make minimum wage. There are truckers unions and last year both unionized and non-unionized container truck drivers went on strike as the race to the bottom had gotten to the point where they couldn't maintain their vehicles, buy fuel and eat.
Often commercial vehicles cut too many corners, kill people and regulations come about. Also as the sibling mentions, those who don't want to compete on the cost cutting and want to operate safe vehicles usually lobby for a level playing field. I'd hate to be in a business where the only way to make any money is to be totally unsafe. Tires, brakes etc cost money and eat into the bottom line.
it's like being a nuclear power, actually using the hefty bargaining chip is a form of suicide, perhaps like a suicide bomber where you take out the enemy while dieing (with the advantage you get to see the results before dieing) but still a suicide. As long as the space power is dependent on the Earth, it is suicide to piss off the Earth powers and it will be a long time, if ever, before anyone can support a space age technological society independent of the Earth.
They're both theoretical economic systems that in the real world do not scale up much beyond the village level. Communism attracts the authoritarian types to government and capitalism attracts the corruptible types to government, both with some cross over.
I don't believe that algae are capable of doing the nuclear reactions required to produce hydrogen, we have what we have and probably had much more in the distant past. Besides once the oceans boil, it's hard to imagine much algae surviving. The Sun is steadily getting hotter due to getting denser due to increasing percentage of helium. The standard model predicts roughly a billion years (some say half that) until it's hot enough to boil the oceans. After that one theory is that we get a runaway green house effect, basically Venus. Much different then Mars which as you point out, has too little gravity to hold a decent atmosphere as well having a protective magnetic field to stop the solar wind from stripping it.
That's just the cash. There's also the cars, boats, houses, businesses etc. About a year ago the CBC had a show on this including an interview with a motel owner who had his motel forfeited due to renting out a room to a drug user. He was as innocent as could be and eventually got his business back after much hassle but it seems forfeiting houses is also common. Interestingly they only go after stuff that is paid off.
Venus is a better example of an Earth sized planet that has lost all its hydrogen, no water and most of the oxygen tied up with carbon. Only about a billion years until the same happens to the Earth as once the oceans boil, the photo-disassociation will accelerate and the Earth doesn't have enough gravity to hold hydrogen or even helium. BTW, that methane that you mention turning into water usually started as water before some life form converted it to methane.
Capitalism is also a legalized system of universal stealing. Good example is the USA, built on stolen land (even what they bought was stolen property) often with stolen labour. The truth is that there is always a class of people who believe in theft and often they become the government and pass laws legalizing theft. Shit the very first legislation passed in England back in the 13th century included a provision allowing closing the commons.
Meanwhile, water vapor goes into upper atmosphere, gets disassociated into hydrogen and oxygen by the sunlight, and hydrogen escapes into outer space. Eventually no more hydrogen or water.
Vancouver is similar with its trolly network. Most of the wires have been there for a long time, the damn down the road was built a hundred years back by or for the bus company of the time. Seems the best idea would be trolly/battery buses, run on trolly wires in town, charging most of the time, then on battery when going to the suburbs. Currently the busiest routes are covered by electric light rail but there's still quite a few routes that would benefit. The other advantage of trollies and other electric buses is no stink. Downtown the diesel buses stink.
Around here it could be 15 miles hooked up to the trolly wires and 15 miles on battery, 24 hrs a day. Great way to extend the trolly network and its all hydro power.
I owned a diesel, a SD25 Nissan 4 banger, no supercharger and it gave me 40 mpg (Imperial), not bad for a truck which was used as a truck. Never did anything more complicated then the head gasket but I didn't find the inside of the engine to be any worse then the gas engines I've worked on. Even the tail pipe wasn't particularly sooty and it scored zero particulates on the smog test. I think a lot of it is having the diesel tuned right which should be easier today with electronic injector pumps, electric injectors etc compared to my ancient one that ran fine with no electricity (once started and gravity worked fine to start it though without the glow plugs it was smoky cold)
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'd assume the burnt sulfur goes into the air and comes down in the rain when burnt in a ship much like when burnt in a coal plant and where I live the rain blows in from the ocean. You are right about the rain that falls on the ocean but I don't see how you're right when the rain falls on the land.
Who said anything about forcing people to watch anything? Maybe forcing Netflix to carry the NFB catalog, which is basically free. I've always had the freedom to watch American programming (well sometimes with Canadian ads injected but I think that was the cable company, Rogers at the time) though usually the Canadian channels got the prime channels on cable.
WWI is still being fought in the middle east. After the Ottoman Empire fell, England, France and eventually the USA moved in and Germany encouraged the Arab Muslims to Jihad in response. The Jihad is still happening.
This is why the CBC and National Film Board of Canada are supposed to exist. If you want Canadian content, you can tune into the CBC or go to their free streaming music service etc and Netflix can carry the NFB catalog. Unluckily our government is starving these institutions out of ideology.
This is Rogers/Bell pushing the government to over regulate. At least TW/Comcast are cheap, have high bandwidths, high caps and better customer service compared to Rogers/Bell.
Yea, well personally I think that human rights exist irrespective of government and there are lots of things that I don't do because they interfere with others rights. Some people don't believe in universal rights and the only reason they don't do certain things is from fear of punishment which is why we need some government. Even your privilege of owning property is only due to the government protecting your privilege. If you really think not having a government around means more individual rights, there's lots of places to test out the idea.
To add to this, when the government tried to sell off the BCL stores and privatize the whole thing, the people complained heavily so we still have them. Its funny, as usual the sell by the right wing government was that private liqueur stores would be cheaper and more efficient (and they donated a lot of money to the election campaign). Well we have lots of private liqueur stores and they're 10-20% more expensive then government stores and the government stores often have more expensive locations, pay more then minimum wage, subsidize stores in bumfuck nowhere, and make a very good profit. One example of how private is inefficient due to having to have ever increasing profits
Depends on where in Canada you are. Here it's 5% and 7% Provincial tax on real stuff. Next door they don't even have the provincial tax. Besides if you're rich enough you get that 13% back, just need a business and GST number. That's why your province is doing so good with cheaper goods and zero unemployment, at least that was what was promised here when they tried to stick us with the 12%.
The big Canadian cable/phone/internet companies are branching out into media and this is just a move to remove competition. In this case the people like netflix/google and hate bell/rogers so it won't fly.
Would you agree that a human right cannot be a right if it trumps some other human right?
Don't be fucking stupid, all human rights conflict other rights. My right to swing my fist is trumped by your right to not get punched in the head. my right of passage is trumped by your right to privacy. One of the governments jobs is to balance rights. Whether it is restricting my right to swing my fist in favour of your right not to get punched or my right to make a living vs your right to exploit me. From your viewpoint you should have the right to kick weaker people around. As a society we've decided you shouldn't have the right to kick weaker people around. I'm sorry that we're infringing on your right to kick people around but some of us don't like being kicked around.
Is this the case in the US? I know mercury can be used to seperate gold from the other rocks (rocks float but gold sinks I think), but that is only done in third world countries that don't know about better ways to do it. I didn't think it was from pulling the gold from the ground, I thought it was just one possible process for seperating the gold.
I don't know a lot about gold mining, but I think that is not true in the US at least.
Its used in small scale placer mining. You use a pan (or sluice) to separate the heavier material, gold, iron and such, from the lighter rocks, then you add mercury to the black stuff at the bottom of the pan. The mercury and gold combine into an almagram (sp?), much like the paste the dentist mixes up to put in your mouth. Then you heat and evaporate the mercury leaving the gold and perhaps some silver. Since mercury is expensive, usually you evaporate it in a kind of still so you can recapture it. Used to be quite common, not sure now but placer mining is still popular with people making a living from it.. Which also brings up the other use of mercury, making fillings and putting it into peoples teeth where it hopefully stays. Of course if you get cremated the mercury gets released into the environment.
Never heard of the mafia? Actually corporations and other private enterprises have a long history of shooting people, cutting of their hands, etc when they choose not to give what the private enterprise wants, often labour rather then money. In America it started with Columbus cutting the hands of the native labourers if they didn't produce enough gold. Seemed Columbus had investors at home demanding a return on their investment. This went to the limit in the Congo Free State, the only privately operated African colony, where whippings and amputation were used regularly on labourers who didn't produce enough. There's also the examples of the various East India companies where private companies had whole armies to get what they wanted . And back to America, the Pinkertons and such were private corporations that were hired by other private corporations to enforce taking labour for below costs, and often keeping the labourers working in the company town so they had to give their paycheck back to the company. It's just that recently private companies have discovered it is better to socialize these costs and it's better PR.
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Are there really taxi unions? Around here taxi drivers are lucky to make minimum wage. There are truckers unions and last year both unionized and non-unionized container truck drivers went on strike as the race to the bottom had gotten to the point where they couldn't maintain their vehicles, buy fuel and eat.
Often commercial vehicles cut too many corners, kill people and regulations come about. Also as the sibling mentions, those who don't want to compete on the cost cutting and want to operate safe vehicles usually lobby for a level playing field.
I'd hate to be in a business where the only way to make any money is to be totally unsafe. Tires, brakes etc cost money and eat into the bottom line.
it's like being a nuclear power, actually using the hefty bargaining chip is a form of suicide, perhaps like a suicide bomber where you take out the enemy while dieing (with the advantage you get to see the results before dieing) but still a suicide. As long as the space power is dependent on the Earth, it is suicide to piss off the Earth powers and it will be a long time, if ever, before anyone can support a space age technological society independent of the Earth.
They're both theoretical economic systems that in the real world do not scale up much beyond the village level. Communism attracts the authoritarian types to government and capitalism attracts the corruptible types to government, both with some cross over.
I don't believe that algae are capable of doing the nuclear reactions required to produce hydrogen, we have what we have and probably had much more in the distant past. Besides once the oceans boil, it's hard to imagine much algae surviving.
The Sun is steadily getting hotter due to getting denser due to increasing percentage of helium. The standard model predicts roughly a billion years (some say half that) until it's hot enough to boil the oceans. After that one theory is that we get a runaway green house effect, basically Venus. Much different then Mars which as you point out, has too little gravity to hold a decent atmosphere as well having a protective magnetic field to stop the solar wind from stripping it.
That's just the cash. There's also the cars, boats, houses, businesses etc. About a year ago the CBC had a show on this including an interview with a motel owner who had his motel forfeited due to renting out a room to a drug user. He was as innocent as could be and eventually got his business back after much hassle but it seems forfeiting houses is also common. Interestingly they only go after stuff that is paid off.
Venus is a better example of an Earth sized planet that has lost all its hydrogen, no water and most of the oxygen tied up with carbon. Only about a billion years until the same happens to the Earth as once the oceans boil, the photo-disassociation will accelerate and the Earth doesn't have enough gravity to hold hydrogen or even helium.
BTW, that methane that you mention turning into water usually started as water before some life form converted it to methane.
Capitalism is also a legalized system of universal stealing. Good example is the USA, built on stolen land (even what they bought was stolen property) often with stolen labour.
The truth is that there is always a class of people who believe in theft and often they become the government and pass laws legalizing theft. Shit the very first legislation passed in England back in the 13th century included a provision allowing closing the commons.
Meanwhile, water vapor goes into upper atmosphere, gets disassociated into hydrogen and oxygen by the sunlight, and hydrogen escapes into outer space. Eventually no more hydrogen or water.
Vancouver is similar with its trolly network. Most of the wires have been there for a long time, the damn down the road was built a hundred years back by or for the bus company of the time. Seems the best idea would be trolly/battery buses, run on trolly wires in town, charging most of the time, then on battery when going to the suburbs. Currently the busiest routes are covered by electric light rail but there's still quite a few routes that would benefit.
The other advantage of trollies and other electric buses is no stink. Downtown the diesel buses stink.
That makes sense.
Around here it could be 15 miles hooked up to the trolly wires and 15 miles on battery, 24 hrs a day. Great way to extend the trolly network and its all hydro power.
I owned a diesel, a SD25 Nissan 4 banger, no supercharger and it gave me 40 mpg (Imperial), not bad for a truck which was used as a truck. Never did anything more complicated then the head gasket but I didn't find the inside of the engine to be any worse then the gas engines I've worked on. Even the tail pipe wasn't particularly sooty and it scored zero particulates on the smog test. I think a lot of it is having the diesel tuned right which should be easier today with electronic injector pumps, electric injectors etc compared to my ancient one that ran fine with no electricity (once started and gravity worked fine to start it though without the glow plugs it was smoky cold)
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I'd assume the burnt sulfur goes into the air and comes down in the rain when burnt in a ship much like when burnt in a coal plant and where I live the rain blows in from the ocean. You are right about the rain that falls on the ocean but I don't see how you're right when the rain falls on the land.
Who said anything about forcing people to watch anything? Maybe forcing Netflix to carry the NFB catalog, which is basically free. I've always had the freedom to watch American programming (well sometimes with Canadian ads injected but I think that was the cable company, Rogers at the time) though usually the Canadian channels got the prime channels on cable.
WWI is still being fought in the middle east. After the Ottoman Empire fell, England, France and eventually the USA moved in and Germany encouraged the Arab Muslims to Jihad in response. The Jihad is still happening.
This is why the CBC and National Film Board of Canada are supposed to exist. If you want Canadian content, you can tune into the CBC or go to their free streaming music service etc and Netflix can carry the NFB catalog. Unluckily our government is starving these institutions out of ideology.
This is Rogers/Bell pushing the government to over regulate. At least TW/Comcast are cheap, have high bandwidths, high caps and better customer service compared to Rogers/Bell.
Yea, well personally I think that human rights exist irrespective of government and there are lots of things that I don't do because they interfere with others rights.
Some people don't believe in universal rights and the only reason they don't do certain things is from fear of punishment which is why we need some government. Even your privilege of owning property is only due to the government protecting your privilege.
If you really think not having a government around means more individual rights, there's lots of places to test out the idea.
To add to this, when the government tried to sell off the BCL stores and privatize the whole thing, the people complained heavily so we still have them.
Its funny, as usual the sell by the right wing government was that private liqueur stores would be cheaper and more efficient (and they donated a lot of money to the election campaign). Well we have lots of private liqueur stores and they're 10-20% more expensive then government stores and the government stores often have more expensive locations, pay more then minimum wage, subsidize stores in bumfuck nowhere, and make a very good profit. One example of how private is inefficient due to having to have ever increasing profits
Depends on where in Canada you are. Here it's 5% and 7% Provincial tax on real stuff. Next door they don't even have the provincial tax. Besides if you're rich enough you get that 13% back, just need a business and GST number. That's why your province is doing so good with cheaper goods and zero unemployment, at least that was what was promised here when they tried to stick us with the 12%.
The big Canadian cable/phone/internet companies are branching out into media and this is just a move to remove competition. In this case the people like netflix/google and hate bell/rogers so it won't fly.
Would you agree that a human right cannot be a right if it trumps some other human right?
Don't be fucking stupid, all human rights conflict other rights. My right to swing my fist is trumped by your right to not get punched in the head. my right of passage is trumped by your right to privacy.
One of the governments jobs is to balance rights. Whether it is restricting my right to swing my fist in favour of your right not to get punched or my right to make a living vs your right to exploit me.
From your viewpoint you should have the right to kick weaker people around. As a society we've decided you shouldn't have the right to kick weaker people around. I'm sorry that we're infringing on your right to kick people around but some of us don't like being kicked around.
Is this the case in the US? I know mercury can be used to seperate gold from the other rocks (rocks float but gold sinks I think), but that is only done in third world countries that don't know about better ways to do it. I didn't think it was from pulling the gold from the ground, I thought it was just one possible process for seperating the gold.
I don't know a lot about gold mining, but I think that is not true in the US at least.
Its used in small scale placer mining. You use a pan (or sluice) to separate the heavier material, gold, iron and such, from the lighter rocks, then you add mercury to the black stuff at the bottom of the pan. The mercury and gold combine into an almagram (sp?), much like the paste the dentist mixes up to put in your mouth. Then you heat and evaporate the mercury leaving the gold and perhaps some silver. Since mercury is expensive, usually you evaporate it in a kind of still so you can recapture it. Used to be quite common, not sure now but placer mining is still popular with people making a living from it..
Which also brings up the other use of mercury, making fillings and putting it into peoples teeth where it hopefully stays. Of course if you get cremated the mercury gets released into the environment.
Never heard of the mafia? Actually corporations and other private enterprises have a long history of shooting people, cutting of their hands, etc when they choose not to give what the private enterprise wants, often labour rather then money. In America it started with Columbus cutting the hands of the native labourers if they didn't produce enough gold. Seemed Columbus had investors at home demanding a return on their investment. This went to the limit in the Congo Free State, the only privately operated African colony, where whippings and amputation were used regularly on labourers who didn't produce enough.
There's also the examples of the various East India companies where private companies had whole armies to get what they wanted . And back to America, the Pinkertons and such were private corporations that were hired by other private corporations to enforce taking labour for below costs, and often keeping the labourers working in the company town so they had to give their paycheck back to the company.
It's just that recently private companies have discovered it is better to socialize these costs and it's better PR.