What Disney will do instead is start trimming a little bit here and there and making it more difficult for current workers to stay. In the long run it will be the same result. This is just spin management.
This is not the government fixing a problem for consumers but rather the government finding a revenue source. By levying huge fines the FCC can fund itself. Our state and local governments are using this same technique. They love those red light ticket cameras, parking meters that zero out when you leave the space (double billing), speed traps, etc. More government so we can have more government. Big of the bigger.
"If you're buying a house, you don't need to ask whether it has electricity, phone service, water, and sewage service."
I wonder where you got those ideas?
Reality check: out in rural areas you do need to check to see if a house has electricity, phone service and it probably will not have water or sewage service. It likely has a spring or a well for the water. It might have an outhouse, composting toilets or a septic tank and leach field and you had best find out how old the leach field is. Buy with wide open eyes.
Internet connections and phone may well be via satellite connections. You are considered "served" by broadband out here in the sticks if you have satellite internet available to you - not if you actually have it but if there are service technicians in your area who can install it. If there is a mountain in the way then tough luck. That's how the range falls.
Lifeline does not cover the internet costs at this time.
At $65/month they are paying about half what we pay. We are also 'out in the sticks' like them but we pay twice as much and we get far slower speeds plus we have outages that total up about one to two weeks of time a year.
On the other hand, it is worth it to not have to live in a urban area so I'm not complaining.
In the binary alternative fork we sent up a nuclear powered satellite that failed destroying all the electronics in most of one hemisphere of Earth including all the satellites above Earth on that side and spreading radioactive material across the entire planet as it descended until it finally crashed into New York City killing 7,091,319 people with the initial impact and 1,310,781,011 more people over the following decade from the residual radiation fallout and disruption of services. Most unfortunate but a good trade off against losing seven months of comet data.
Definitely agreed, which is why I chose to farm out in the sticks where the land prices are cheap, the taxes are low and the water is there.
However, you can't move the farms overnight. It takes years to decades to move infrastructure. Orchards can take many decades to regrow. Now is the time to start planning for the move but it won't be in time to solve this year's or even this decade's water shortage.
The farmers's share of the water has not increased in all this time. Rather it is the demands from cities that has increased and drained down the water. The cities are the problem. I wonder what they intend to eat once they've gotten rid of the farms?
France is trying to force their law on other countries like the USA. France would be all upset if the USA were to do that. I see a hypocritopotamus in the room. France needs to back down and to realize how trivial they are. The UN needs to step in and remind France that they can only make laws within their own borders. Google needs to step in and just forget France.
So it is okay for him to default on paying his debtors after the fact while other people like myself paid our way through college by working our asses off both academically and for long hours. This jerk is why things cost more than they should. The rest of us have to pay for his defaulting on his debt. I hope the IRS at least charges him the taxes, interest and fines on the debt he defaulted on which counts as income.
Very interesting. I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently. The water sterilization is another important application of this. It could reduce cost and increase component life and reliability meaning better water.
"Even at our current growth rate there's not enough for everyone. Not enough food, not enough space, not enough medical care. If â" no, when â" age reversal becomes a reality, who gets to live? And if everyone gets to live, how will we provide for them?"
This is all based on a false politically correct premise of scarcity.
The reality is we already do produce plenty of food for everyone. The primary food problem is bad guys (warlords) who use food for power and intercept the food stopping it from getting to people who need it. A secondary problem in the first world is people voluntarily wasting good food because they're too picky or the government is too picky.
We have plenty of space. Total non-issue.
Medical care will get better, not worse with more people because there will be more doctors and care givers. Besides, along with living longer is living more healthily so less care is needed due to advancements in science.
Our planet has the capacity to sustainably support 50 BILLION people while still setting aside 25% of the land area for wildlife. Then there is outer space. We desperately need to get off this rock and populate space as habitats and other planets & moons before this planet Earth plays billiard balls again. Long term issue that could happen any time, small probability, huge consequence.
I fee sooo left out way out here in the sticks where I'm not getting my Bluetooth sniffed, or anything else except by the local wild and semi-wild fauna.
Not.
Seriously not. Adds one more reason to my list not to go down off the mountain...
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What Disney will do instead is start trimming a little bit here and there and making it more difficult for current workers to stay. In the long run it will be the same result. This is just spin management.
This is not the government fixing a problem for consumers but rather the government finding a revenue source. By levying huge fines the FCC can fund itself. Our state and local governments are using this same technique. They love those red light ticket cameras, parking meters that zero out when you leave the space (double billing), speed traps, etc. More government so we can have more government. Big of the bigger.
the commentor replied to a specific thing in the quote which was a patently false statement. Reread and comprend.
"If you're buying a house, you don't need to ask whether it has electricity, phone service, water, and sewage service."
I wonder where you got those ideas?
Reality check: out in rural areas you do need to check to see if a house has electricity, phone service and it probably will not have water or sewage service. It likely has a spring or a well for the water. It might have an outhouse, composting toilets or a septic tank and leach field and you had best find out how old the leach field is. Buy with wide open eyes.
Internet connections and phone may well be via satellite connections. You are considered "served" by broadband out here in the sticks if you have satellite internet available to you - not if you actually have it but if there are service technicians in your area who can install it. If there is a mountain in the way then tough luck. That's how the range falls.
Lifeline does not cover the internet costs at this time.
At $65/month they are paying about half what we pay. We are also 'out in the sticks' like them but we pay twice as much and we get far slower speeds plus we have outages that total up about one to two weeks of time a year.
On the other hand, it is worth it to not have to live in a urban area so I'm not complaining.
"How many times do they want to get paid for the stupid music?"
Every time you play it.
Every time you hear it.
Every time you hum it.
Every time you think it.
Refrain: Greedy buggers bugger you every time they can!
And your response is to call names. Cute.
In the binary alternative fork we sent up a nuclear powered satellite that failed destroying all the electronics in most of one hemisphere of Earth including all the satellites above Earth on that side and spreading radioactive material across the entire planet as it descended until it finally crashed into New York City killing 7,091,319 people with the initial impact and 1,310,781,011 more people over the following decade from the residual radiation fallout and disruption of services. Most unfortunate but a good trade off against losing seven months of comet data.
Definitely agreed, which is why I chose to farm out in the sticks where the land prices are cheap, the taxes are low and the water is there.
However, you can't move the farms overnight. It takes years to decades to move infrastructure. Orchards can take many decades to regrow. Now is the time to start planning for the move but it won't be in time to solve this year's or even this decade's water shortage.
In the article the time frame was the last 100 years. See the original article for details.
The farmers's share of the water has not increased in all this time. Rather it is the demands from cities that has increased and drained down the water. The cities are the problem. I wonder what they intend to eat once they've gotten rid of the farms?
Hmm... I call them a Hypocriteopotamus.
France is trying to force their law on other countries like the USA. France would be all upset if the USA were to do that. I see a hypocritopotamus in the room. France needs to back down and to realize how trivial they are. The UN needs to step in and remind France that they can only make laws within their own borders. Google needs to step in and just forget France.
So it is okay for him to default on paying his debtors after the fact while other people like myself paid our way through college by working our asses off both academically and for long hours. This jerk is why things cost more than they should. The rest of us have to pay for his defaulting on his debt. I hope the IRS at least charges him the taxes, interest and fines on the debt he defaulted on which counts as income.
"That means I'll have yet a fourth music service in my life (Spotify, Google Play Music, Prime, and Apple Music)"
Well, this is easy to rectify. Just stop using all the others you don't want to use and you'll be down to one, or none. See, life is so easy.
"may even pose unknown risk"
Well that is a throw away statement. You can say that about any thing, any time, any place.
I lost respect for the Red Cross when they over paid their executives.
This is when you begin to understand how much better a dog is than a garage door.
We had better be able to skip these or NetFlix is in the trash.
Ah! Made you look! :) I wondered how many people would try it... :)
"something that the legal firm advised doing."
Making it pure evil.
If you rearrange the letters in that sentence it spells:
"A Devil was my top advisor in all things I do."
Definitely evil.
Mental health Workers were automated long ago: Eliza.
Very interesting. I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently. The water sterilization is another important application of this. It could reduce cost and increase component life and reliability meaning better water.
False premise of scarcity because we are no where near the boundaries of the problem.
"Ah, a Space Nutter"
Ah, so you're an Insulting Discounter.
Glad to get you neatly categorized.
We'll leave you behind when it's time.
"Even at our current growth rate there's not enough for everyone. Not enough food, not enough space, not enough medical care. If â" no, when â" age reversal becomes a reality, who gets to live? And if everyone gets to live, how will we provide for them?"
This is all based on a false politically correct premise of scarcity.
The reality is we already do produce plenty of food for everyone. The primary food problem is bad guys (warlords) who use food for power and intercept the food stopping it from getting to people who need it. A secondary problem in the first world is people voluntarily wasting good food because they're too picky or the government is too picky.
We have plenty of space. Total non-issue.
Medical care will get better, not worse with more people because there will be more doctors and care givers. Besides, along with living longer is living more healthily so less care is needed due to advancements in science.
Our planet has the capacity to sustainably support 50 BILLION people while still setting aside 25% of the land area for wildlife. Then there is outer space. We desperately need to get off this rock and populate space as habitats and other planets & moons before this planet Earth plays billiard balls again. Long term issue that could happen any time, small probability, huge consequence.
I fee sooo left out way out here in the sticks where I'm not getting my Bluetooth sniffed, or anything else except by the local wild and semi-wild fauna.
Not.
Seriously not. Adds one more reason to my list not to go down off the mountain...