You probably have had your nose in the books but everyone has been paying more since last November not just your college town. Take a look at the price of oil then and now and think about how that might translate into higher prices for everything you mention. How exactly does the increase of oil increase the cost of housing, if I may ask. Don't change the subject to something most people will agree with. Your second point doesn't cite any specific studies, and even if they did your final point I'd agree with. The "minimum wage" that people will work for in your area are set by the market, not the government. If people decide that it's not worth their time to work unless it's 2 bucks above what the government says, than that's the minimum wage. There is no need to regulate something if the free market can set the price.
Correlation is not causation. I know, it's overused, but still. I will use anecdotal evidence myself since I don't trust statistics. Here in Ohio, we just had the minimum wage raised after November. At my university, all the student workers received a pay raise to the new minimum. Oddly enough, at the same time the price of everything on campus (food, books, tuition, housing, etc) also increased in price, presumably because of the increased cost of labor.
So what's the point? Increasing the minimum wage just accelerates inflation. That's all it does. Companies aren't going to get any additional value out of workers making minimum wage, so why should they pay them more. If they have to pay them more, they will raise their prices to maintain their profits. When the price of everything goes up because of minimum wage, the dollar will be less valuable, and the people making minimum wage are still in the same amount of poverty because their increased pay has exactly the same buying power as before, maybe less.
It's time we let economics decide pay, and NOT the government. If you want the government to be involved, have them set safety and non-discrimination restrictions. Make the marketplace fair and safe, but don't try to tell companies what labor is worth.
I think maybe the grandparent was referring to making a ginormous internal combustion engine, but with fusion bombs providing the explosion to drive the piston rather than actual combustion.
Of course... Everyone knows you had to use the Duplo blocks at the bottom and then use 2x4 thick pieces to cap them to make them integrate. The thick lego blocks (in even numbered dimensions) fit great onto Duplo blocks, and they were much easier to use for long spans. My brother had a huge lego base that was elevated off the big gray square bases by enough to allow a parking garage below by using Duplo blocks.
Oh, so you mean more like Starcraft when you'd send a few groups of zerglings across the map and only half of them would get there and you'd find the other half scattered around the map, alone and stranded after they gave up.
No, the worst pathfinding was in Command and Conquer 95. Damn harvesters would go through an enemy base to get to the most remote tiberium on the map. And then of course, it would fill first, and then the harvester next to the refinery would have to wait for 10 minutes for his brother to traverse 300 miles back to the base.
Of course, I did love how the AI didn't have any wall attacking scripts. Thus, you could build a wall straight over to the enemy and lock them into their base because they wouldn't attack the walls you placed in front of all their exits. Closest thing to a cheat Westwood gave us...
In Ubuntu at least, if you use the "Add/Remove Programs" interface (which is really synaptic), it has a 5 star rating system for how popular apps are. Unfortunately, it is kinda biased toward pre-installed apps that no one bothers to remove. But it does give you a good idea of how popular some other applications are in the Ubuntu supported repos.
How exactly did hurricane katrina change how oil companies charge for gas? Last time I filled up, it was the same as before katrina. You can either pay at the pump with a credit/debit/prepaid card or you can go in and pay with whatever form of payment is accepted. Isn't that the same as it's been since electronic transactions came around?
And yes, oil companies can do whatever they want (providing it's legal). That's called freedom. You also can do just about anything you want (providing it's legal) including buying less gas, or not buying it at all. Don't blame the oil companies for raising the price of the oil that YOU raised the demand for.
Meh, Windows booted faster on my old 486DX than it does now on my Athlon 64 X2. Yes, computers today are much more powerful, but are they really that much more useful? My work computer is so bogged down that it takes a few minutes to load Word documents, and heaven forbid I need to open a decent sized excel spreadsheet. Yet by standards in the 1990s, it should be absurdly fast.
At the demo, I'd be the ass that says, let's have a competition: Add 1+1, and my 1969 computer would have the operation done before Windows could load the calculator.
Wait, you only use 720 liters of diesel per year driving? So that's 180 gallons. Even if you get 40 mi/gal, that's only around 7200 miles a year. Most people in the US drive much more than that. In addition fuel oil heating in the US is far less common than natural gas, electric, or propane heating. I'll give it to you though and say 97% is for transportation, 2% is for heating, and the other 1% is for other uses.
Of course, you are probably not from the US since you measure things in liters, but I was speaking from the point of view of an american refinery's output (sorry, that's what I know). In the US at least, oil companies use a quick estimate for profit called a crack spread. It's where they assume 2/3 of the oil goes to gasoline, and 1/3 goes to diesel/fuel oil (which is the same thing).
There are three choices when it comes to energy given our current technology: thermal, nuclear, and solar. Acutally, you've not gotten down to the root... Thermal energy comes from nuclear breakdown in the earth, so that's nuclear. And solar power comes from fusion in the core of the sun, so that's nuclear. So really, there are only two choices in energy: fission and fusion. The sun provides fusion (since we can't control it yet), and fission provides the rest. I'd say nuclear is the way to go since in the grand thermodynamic scheme, it is the most direct way to access stored energy and thus has the least waste in the conversion process.
Agreeing wholeheartedly with parent. Anything that is flammable and can be injected can run in a diesel engine. Heck, you could run diesels on sawdust if you had to. And in unmodified diesel engines, you can pour filtered deep frier grease into the tank, and it will still run. Diesel engines are surprisingly versatile.
Oil may not just be for cars, but looking at it from a perspective of percentages, probably 99% or more of oil production goes to gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and asphalt. All of these are directly used for transportation. All of the other uses for crude are just side business.
So yes, Oil is not just for cars, it's 99% just for cars.
That's precisely why I'm a libertarian. I want the government to stop taking everybody's money and let them make their own decisions with it. The only things that should be funded by the government is the military and public infrastructure (roads, waterways, public parks, etc).
How much better off would the economy be if people had an extra 30% of their income to spend as needed in their lives?
Yeah, but why did you need four of them to power a city? Even worse, in Sim City 3000, for some reason I had 10 fusion power plants to power my city...
Perhaps I should have included scientists are not necissarily geologists. scientists are getting a nasty habit of politicians where they tend to use their title to give opinions that are outside of their expertise.
Well to be quite honest, the way we get information about the duration of ice ages mostly comes from geological evidence, not ice cores. You see, I live in a place called Ohio, where there used to be glaciers. And now, underneath the ground, there are giant grooves and scratches in the bedrock where the ice sheets sheared rock from its foundations. These grooves can be dated by geological methods, as can the deposited material left when the glaciers retreated. I see much better evidence on radiological dating than shady relationships between CO2 and temperature.
As an aside, I don't think the ice cores present very good evidence either, because it only shows evidence for polar regions and surface atmospheric conditions. I was under the impression that greenhouse effects were more prominent in the upper atmosphere, and I also don't see the usefulness of arctic temperatures, seeing as how that doesn't represent the planet on the whole.
Based on that logic, do the tides cause volcanic eruptions? Because they move a shitload of water EVERY FREAKING DAY!!! Rather, it's more likely that the moon causes any associated volcanic activity, because it is a shitton more mass than anything else, and it sure isn't ripping the planet apart.
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Correlation is not causation. I know, it's overused, but still. I will use anecdotal evidence myself since I don't trust statistics. Here in Ohio, we just had the minimum wage raised after November. At my university, all the student workers received a pay raise to the new minimum. Oddly enough, at the same time the price of everything on campus (food, books, tuition, housing, etc) also increased in price, presumably because of the increased cost of labor.
So what's the point? Increasing the minimum wage just accelerates inflation. That's all it does. Companies aren't going to get any additional value out of workers making minimum wage, so why should they pay them more. If they have to pay them more, they will raise their prices to maintain their profits. When the price of everything goes up because of minimum wage, the dollar will be less valuable, and the people making minimum wage are still in the same amount of poverty because their increased pay has exactly the same buying power as before, maybe less.
It's time we let economics decide pay, and NOT the government. If you want the government to be involved, have them set safety and non-discrimination restrictions. Make the marketplace fair and safe, but don't try to tell companies what labor is worth.
I think maybe the grandparent was referring to making a ginormous internal combustion engine, but with fusion bombs providing the explosion to drive the piston rather than actual combustion.
I'm perfectly happy with my smart PIGs thank you very much.
Bill didn't get impeached for getting a hummer, he got impeached for LIEING about getting a hummer.
Of course... Everyone knows you had to use the Duplo blocks at the bottom and then use 2x4 thick pieces to cap them to make them integrate. The thick lego blocks (in even numbered dimensions) fit great onto Duplo blocks, and they were much easier to use for long spans. My brother had a huge lego base that was elevated off the big gray square bases by enough to allow a parking garage below by using Duplo blocks.
Yes, hence why it was so disappointing. Maybe if the main character could ACT, it wouldn't have been so bad.
It looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...
That's crazy talk, do you know how big your Carbon footprint would be?
Oh, so you mean more like Starcraft when you'd send a few groups of zerglings across the map and only half of them would get there and you'd find the other half scattered around the map, alone and stranded after they gave up.
No, the worst pathfinding was in Command and Conquer 95. Damn harvesters would go through an enemy base to get to the most remote tiberium on the map. And then of course, it would fill first, and then the harvester next to the refinery would have to wait for 10 minutes for his brother to traverse 300 miles back to the base.
Of course, I did love how the AI didn't have any wall attacking scripts. Thus, you could build a wall straight over to the enemy and lock them into their base because they wouldn't attack the walls you placed in front of all their exits. Closest thing to a cheat Westwood gave us...
In Ubuntu at least, if you use the "Add/Remove Programs" interface (which is really synaptic), it has a 5 star rating system for how popular apps are. Unfortunately, it is kinda biased toward pre-installed apps that no one bothers to remove. But it does give you a good idea of how popular some other applications are in the Ubuntu supported repos.
How exactly did hurricane katrina change how oil companies charge for gas? Last time I filled up, it was the same as before katrina. You can either pay at the pump with a credit/debit/prepaid card or you can go in and pay with whatever form of payment is accepted. Isn't that the same as it's been since electronic transactions came around?
And yes, oil companies can do whatever they want (providing it's legal). That's called freedom. You also can do just about anything you want (providing it's legal) including buying less gas, or not buying it at all. Don't blame the oil companies for raising the price of the oil that YOU raised the demand for.
Meh, Windows booted faster on my old 486DX than it does now on my Athlon 64 X2. Yes, computers today are much more powerful, but are they really that much more useful? My work computer is so bogged down that it takes a few minutes to load Word documents, and heaven forbid I need to open a decent sized excel spreadsheet. Yet by standards in the 1990s, it should be absurdly fast.
At the demo, I'd be the ass that says, let's have a competition: Add 1+1, and my 1969 computer would have the operation done before Windows could load the calculator.
Wait, you only use 720 liters of diesel per year driving? So that's 180 gallons. Even if you get 40 mi/gal, that's only around 7200 miles a year. Most people in the US drive much more than that. In addition fuel oil heating in the US is far less common than natural gas, electric, or propane heating. I'll give it to you though and say 97% is for transportation, 2% is for heating, and the other 1% is for other uses.
Of course, you are probably not from the US since you measure things in liters, but I was speaking from the point of view of an american refinery's output (sorry, that's what I know). In the US at least, oil companies use a quick estimate for profit called a crack spread. It's where they assume 2/3 of the oil goes to gasoline, and 1/3 goes to diesel/fuel oil (which is the same thing).
Agreeing wholeheartedly with parent. Anything that is flammable and can be injected can run in a diesel engine. Heck, you could run diesels on sawdust if you had to. And in unmodified diesel engines, you can pour filtered deep frier grease into the tank, and it will still run. Diesel engines are surprisingly versatile.
Oil may not just be for cars, but looking at it from a perspective of percentages, probably 99% or more of oil production goes to gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and asphalt. All of these are directly used for transportation. All of the other uses for crude are just side business.
So yes, Oil is not just for cars, it's 99% just for cars.
That's precisely why I'm a libertarian. I want the government to stop taking everybody's money and let them make their own decisions with it. The only things that should be funded by the government is the military and public infrastructure (roads, waterways, public parks, etc).
How much better off would the economy be if people had an extra 30% of their income to spend as needed in their lives?
Yeah, but why did you need four of them to power a city? Even worse, in Sim City 3000, for some reason I had 10 fusion power plants to power my city...
Seriously, at current DDR2 prices, I could easily have a ludicrously fast hard drive big enough to store my OS for under 150 bucks.
Actually, it's sudo apt-get install girlfriend. Geez, haven't any of you USED a command prompt?
Perhaps I should have included scientists are not necissarily geologists. scientists are getting a nasty habit of politicians where they tend to use their title to give opinions that are outside of their expertise.
Well to be quite honest, the way we get information about the duration of ice ages mostly comes from geological evidence, not ice cores. You see, I live in a place called Ohio, where there used to be glaciers. And now, underneath the ground, there are giant grooves and scratches in the bedrock where the ice sheets sheared rock from its foundations. These grooves can be dated by geological methods, as can the deposited material left when the glaciers retreated. I see much better evidence on radiological dating than shady relationships between CO2 and temperature.
As an aside, I don't think the ice cores present very good evidence either, because it only shows evidence for polar regions and surface atmospheric conditions. I was under the impression that greenhouse effects were more prominent in the upper atmosphere, and I also don't see the usefulness of arctic temperatures, seeing as how that doesn't represent the planet on the whole.
Based on that logic, do the tides cause volcanic eruptions? Because they move a shitload of water EVERY FREAKING DAY!!! Rather, it's more likely that the moon causes any associated volcanic activity, because it is a shitton more mass than anything else, and it sure isn't ripping the planet apart.