While all your points are good, you're probably wrong about diamonds on the Moon. They're pretty common in the universe and have been found in meteorites, might even be some big enough to see with the naked eye if you squint. Like most minerals on the Moon, they are not going to be concentrated or even vaguely worth doing something with.
Platinum and friends would probably be a better bet for something of value from the Moon. Just like gold, it's very doubtful to just be laying around. Other then meteorites, there isn't much in the way of geological processes to concentrate it.
The only hope I can see is finding a iron-nickel meteorite that didn't hit too hard and mining that. Most people also forget or aren't aware that much of what we mine has been concentrated by water or life. Gold nuggets, comes from veins of gold deposited by super heated water with gold dissolved in it. Much iron was deposited by life or the byproducts of life (oxygen). Carbon, likewise concentrated by life. I'm not a geologist but I assume a lot of minerals are similar as well as the surface of the Moon down quite a ways is broken regolith.
It's still a 112,000 km cable (less with counterweight). Building a cable that goes 2-3 times around the Earth. You still need a fairly strong material to build the cable out of, most of which are based on carbon, which seems in short supply on the Moon. While possible, it isn't going to happen soon as first you'd need a pretty good industrial base.
Yea, it's another way the capitalist subverts the free market, buying politicians, laws or regulations. In theory, in a democracy, the people can vote for better though they seem to prefer to vote in billionaires. Wish I had a solution.
OTOH, some parking brakes are so badly designed that depending on them for an emergency would probably result in a crash. My trucks parking brake is foot operated and seems to be rather on, locking up the rear wheels or off. Be really hard to feather it. This is an American designed plane, so wouldn't be surprised if similar design decisions were made like not considering a parking brake might be needed for emergencies.
Prices seem just as high in Canada. I still have to pay $100 for seeing the optometrist as well. Used to be free, though only once every 2 years for most, then coverage was cut to save costs.
I wouldn't necessarily oppose this idea, but it's 100% unconstitutional. How are you going to pass the constitutional amendment?
Do it like Canada, where it would also be unconstitutional. Federal government taxes people and kicks it back to the Provinces that follow the rules about coverage, Provinces are actually in charge of healthcare. America already does it with things like highways.
Absent people who took no or a single econ class, why would anyone assume there is a relationship between cost to produce something and the cost we have to pay?
I guess they're under the bizarre illusion that we have a free market. Can't think why they would believe that though. It's such a transparent lie, but I guess a powerful one.
The problem is a free market is at odds with capitalism. The capitalist maximizes profits by getting rid of the free market, for example getting into a monopoly position which seems to have happened here.
All prices go up to support the card transaction fees, especially if most all stores accept fees. So if I pay cash, I'm subsidizing you. Of course the real advantage for retailers is people spending money they don't have or can't afford to, assuming a large number of people using cards are not paying it off every month. Something I'm not sure is in the best interests of society as the average household has quite a bit of debt.
Good point about salaried employees. Wouldn't be surprised if legally they're not covered here either. Actually, it seems that I was wrong about legally having to provide coffee breaks here too. Legally just need to provide at least a unpaid half hour meal break every 5 hours. Everywhere I have worked (for someone else), getting a break every couple of hours has been the norm.
As far as I know, no one ever pressed charges. I'd hope that it wouldn't be prosecuted or at the worst, result in a suspended sentence (keep nose clean and no record). Personally, I've had enough cats show up and it is expensive fixing them. Last was a family of four, so about $400. Would have been happy if someone else had fixed them.
The USA is not the world, and even in America, it can be argued that Pollock is more eaten. All those crab sticks and such. Going by harvest levels, various types of carp (grass silver and common), along with the Peruvian Anchovy and even Tiapia out number Tuna, which out numbers salmon. Then there is shrimp. Note that the carp and tiapia are mostly farmed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No law about coffee breaks there? Here it's mandatory for a minimum 10 minute break every 2 hours. Workers are free to ignore the rule, employers, not so much.
Interesting idea, but it does seem like a coincidence. Egyptians first split the night into 12 chunks, likely based on the 12 month lunar calendar (zodiac is likewise split into 12). Later they also split the day the same way. Being a 12th of a night or day, the length of hours varied during the seasons too. Even in Europe, early clocks needed daily adjustments (pendula lengthend or shortened) to be accurate to the varying hours at first. China started out by dividing the day into a hundred chunks, SE Asia, it was quarters. India it was 30ths or 60ths. So hour is a western idea and it was fairly recently that it was standardized as 1/24th of a full day rather then a 1/12th of the daytime and the Church split the day into quarters as well. BTW, hour seems to be descended from the word for year and originally just meant a unit of time, so could be a season or year. All above cribbed from wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The grocery store I shop at has prices comparable to Walmart, pays the workers better, gives them benefits and tries other ways to keep workers happy and healthy like cashiers only operating the cash registers for 4 hours and doing other stuff for the other 4 hours of their shift. The grocery chain seems to be doing quite well and the people I've known to work there seem fairly happy with their job and don't talk about unions.
On the other hand, think of all the song birds that won't be killed by cats. Quickly looking, it seems to be between 1.4 and 3.7 billion killed by cats a year in America. No longer have a cat, started to get rats around the bird feeder, now have a regular mink and owl and no rats.
Had a neighbour who used to catch the local cats and get them fixed, and then release them. As far as I know paid out of pocket. Kind of weird and possibly illegal but a good thing overall I believe.
That only shows that America has a long history of war crimes, in Sherman's case the Lieber Code, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and he should have been one of the ones (actually two) tried for war crimes. Seems people have been executed for such stuff since at least 1474, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps, and don't forget the Yukon and Alaska. Problem is that secession is not easy. Most of the States and all of the Provinces would have to agree, probably along with our respective Federal governments. Also a referendum with a clear majority here, none of that 50%+1 means we're leaving. It's unclear what a clear majority is.
Perhaps, you still have the being broke and suing in another country handicaps. It did occur to me after posting that this publicity thing might be a strategic move to enable making it easier to find a lawyer who is willing to work pro bono or on contingency. Lawyers like publicity, at least if they think they can win publicly.
Depends on where you live, as in latitude and longitude. My Province is wide enough that there is an hour difference between the east and west parts. One part gets screwed either way when sunrise varies by an hour across the time zone. Then there's the north where the sun comes up at maybe 10:00 and sets at 2:00 or worse. Doesn't matter where you set the clocks, it's usually dark and cold. I'm dreading the next week as I'll be getting up an hour early and love this news as my Premier basically said, "whatever California, Oregon and Washington does, we'll do as we should all be in sync". Feds aren't involved here either. Don't understand why your feds get to say what timezone a State is in. There's also a private members bill in the legislature to create a new time zone along the coast, always on DST. Might even pass if the Greens support it.
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While all your points are good, you're probably wrong about diamonds on the Moon. They're pretty common in the universe and have been found in meteorites, might even be some big enough to see with the naked eye if you squint. Like most minerals on the Moon, they are not going to be concentrated or even vaguely worth doing something with.
Platinum and friends would probably be a better bet for something of value from the Moon. Just like gold, it's very doubtful to just be laying around. Other then meteorites, there isn't much in the way of geological processes to concentrate it.
The only hope I can see is finding a iron-nickel meteorite that didn't hit too hard and mining that.
Most people also forget or aren't aware that much of what we mine has been concentrated by water or life. Gold nuggets, comes from veins of gold deposited by super heated water with gold dissolved in it. Much iron was deposited by life or the byproducts of life (oxygen). Carbon, likewise concentrated by life.
I'm not a geologist but I assume a lot of minerals are similar as well as the surface of the Moon down quite a ways is broken regolith.
It's still a 112,000 km cable (less with counterweight). Building a cable that goes 2-3 times around the Earth.
You still need a fairly strong material to build the cable out of, most of which are based on carbon, which seems in short supply on the Moon.
While possible, it isn't going to happen soon as first you'd need a pretty good industrial base.
Yea, it's another way the capitalist subverts the free market, buying politicians, laws or regulations. In theory, in a democracy, the people can vote for better though they seem to prefer to vote in billionaires. Wish I had a solution.
OTOH, some parking brakes are so badly designed that depending on them for an emergency would probably result in a crash.
My trucks parking brake is foot operated and seems to be rather on, locking up the rear wheels or off. Be really hard to feather it.
This is an American designed plane, so wouldn't be surprised if similar design decisions were made like not considering a parking brake might be needed for emergencies.
Prices seem just as high in Canada. I still have to pay $100 for seeing the optometrist as well. Used to be free, though only once every 2 years for most, then coverage was cut to save costs.
I wouldn't necessarily oppose this idea, but it's 100% unconstitutional. How are you going to pass the constitutional amendment?
Do it like Canada, where it would also be unconstitutional. Federal government taxes people and kicks it back to the Provinces that follow the rules about coverage, Provinces are actually in charge of healthcare. America already does it with things like highways.
The problem is often the new entrants get bought out, at least once they grow enough.
Absent people who took no or a single econ class, why would anyone assume there is a relationship between cost to produce something and the cost we have to pay?
I guess they're under the bizarre illusion that we have a free market. Can't think why they would believe that though. It's such a transparent lie, but I guess a powerful one.
The problem is a free market is at odds with capitalism. The capitalist maximizes profits by getting rid of the free market, for example getting into a monopoly position which seems to have happened here.
All prices go up to support the card transaction fees, especially if most all stores accept fees. So if I pay cash, I'm subsidizing you.
Of course the real advantage for retailers is people spending money they don't have or can't afford to, assuming a large number of people using cards are not paying it off every month. Something I'm not sure is in the best interests of society as the average household has quite a bit of debt.
Good point about salaried employees. Wouldn't be surprised if legally they're not covered here either.
Actually, it seems that I was wrong about legally having to provide coffee breaks here too. Legally just need to provide at least a unpaid half hour meal break every 5 hours.
Everywhere I have worked (for someone else), getting a break every couple of hours has been the norm.
That is free money
Do you think they just print up some money? Or it is money taken from others?
As far as I know, no one ever pressed charges. I'd hope that it wouldn't be prosecuted or at the worst, result in a suspended sentence (keep nose clean and no record).
Personally, I've had enough cats show up and it is expensive fixing them. Last was a family of four, so about $400. Would have been happy if someone else had fixed them.
The USA is not the world, and even in America, it can be argued that Pollock is more eaten. All those crab sticks and such.
Going by harvest levels, various types of carp (grass silver and common), along with the Peruvian Anchovy and even Tiapia out number Tuna, which out numbers salmon.
Then there is shrimp.
Note that the carp and tiapia are mostly farmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No law about coffee breaks there? Here it's mandatory for a minimum 10 minute break every 2 hours. Workers are free to ignore the rule, employers, not so much.
These weren't ferals but rather other peoples cats, which is why it was somewhat weird. Don't see any problem with ownerless cats.
Interesting idea, but it does seem like a coincidence. Egyptians first split the night into 12 chunks, likely based on the 12 month lunar calendar (zodiac is likewise split into 12). Later they also split the day the same way. Being a 12th of a night or day, the length of hours varied during the seasons too. Even in Europe, early clocks needed daily adjustments (pendula lengthend or shortened) to be accurate to the varying hours at first.
China started out by dividing the day into a hundred chunks, SE Asia, it was quarters. India it was 30ths or 60ths.
So hour is a western idea and it was fairly recently that it was standardized as 1/24th of a full day rather then a 1/12th of the daytime and the Church split the day into quarters as well.
BTW, hour seems to be descended from the word for year and originally just meant a unit of time, so could be a season or year.
All above cribbed from wiki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The grocery store I shop at has prices comparable to Walmart, pays the workers better, gives them benefits and tries other ways to keep workers happy and healthy like cashiers only operating the cash registers for 4 hours and doing other stuff for the other 4 hours of their shift.
The grocery chain seems to be doing quite well and the people I've known to work there seem fairly happy with their job and don't talk about unions.
On the other hand, think of all the song birds that won't be killed by cats. Quickly looking, it seems to be between 1.4 and 3.7 billion killed by cats a year in America.
No longer have a cat, started to get rats around the bird feeder, now have a regular mink and owl and no rats.
Had a neighbour who used to catch the local cats and get them fixed, and then release them. As far as I know paid out of pocket.
Kind of weird and possibly illegal but a good thing overall I believe.
That only shows that America has a long history of war crimes, in Sherman's case the Lieber Code, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and he should have been one of the ones (actually two) tried for war crimes. Seems people have been executed for such stuff since at least 1474, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps, and don't forget the Yukon and Alaska. Problem is that secession is not easy. Most of the States and all of the Provinces would have to agree, probably along with our respective Federal governments. Also a referendum with a clear majority here, none of that 50%+1 means we're leaving. It's unclear what a clear majority is.
Perhaps, you still have the being broke and suing in another country handicaps. It did occur to me after posting that this publicity thing might be a strategic move to enable making it easier to find a lawyer who is willing to work pro bono or on contingency. Lawyers like publicity, at least if they think they can win publicly.
Depends on where you live, as in latitude and longitude. My Province is wide enough that there is an hour difference between the east and west parts. One part gets screwed either way when sunrise varies by an hour across the time zone.
Then there's the north where the sun comes up at maybe 10:00 and sets at 2:00 or worse. Doesn't matter where you set the clocks, it's usually dark and cold.
I'm dreading the next week as I'll be getting up an hour early and love this news as my Premier basically said, "whatever California, Oregon and Washington does, we'll do as we should all be in sync". Feds aren't involved here either. Don't understand why your feds get to say what timezone a State is in.
There's also a private members bill in the legislature to create a new time zone along the coast, always on DST. Might even pass if the Greens support it.