When you talk about building a manufacturing infrastructure, this is a classic example of the cost of having so many consumer goods made offshore. When these goods are manufactured there, sure there are points made on the retail sale, but the cost to the economy for cheap consumer goods results in a lower paying service jobs and reliance on foreign countries for most goods.
If the foreign manufacturers started adding a 10% fee to everything shipped to the USA, then you have a HUGE increase in inflation and a further devalue of the dollar and this puts the entire economy at risk.
This is the cost of shopping at the big box stores and being pleased at buying your offshore manufactured goods at discounted rates. As for the comment about service jobs, the scary thing is that continue to see those shipped offshore too, have you called a tech support line in the last few years??
The guy looks about 190lbs and one of the officers basically carried him up the stairs, but somehow they couldn't handcuff him??
He also offered to walk out the door, but then they tackled him and with 7 people on him, decided to tazer him!!!
Seems like a great example of abuse of force!!
If the guy was armed, or was threatening them probably would have been justified, but he was asking them questions, getting no answers and then was tazered and tossed in jail.
Makes people question the New Hampshire license plate slogan.
C
With their history of unfriendly DRM (think atrac3 and rootkit history) from Sony, I think I will steer far, far away from any DVR functionality that would likely cost me a few hundred dollars to use the existing harddrive in a P3S.
Mind you the idea of running Myth on it could be pretty cool.
C
There was an article in a local Toronto newspaper yesterday concerning an electric motorcycle at a drag race in Portland Ore.
http://www.wheels.ca/article/30277
"PORTLAND, Ore. - Straddling a 280-kilogram motorcycle, Scotty Pollacheck tucks in his knees and lowers his head as he waits for the green light. When he revs the engine, there's no roar. The bike moves so fast that within seconds all that's visible is a faint red taillight melting in the distance.
Pollacheck crosses the quarter-mile marker doing 156 m.p.h.(251 km/h); he's traveled 1,320 feet (402 m) in 8.22 seconds, faster than any of the gas-powered cars, trucks or motorcycles that have raced in the drag sprints on this weekend at Portland International Raceway"
"The fastest quarter-mile time by an electric vehicle is the KillaCycle's 8.16 seconds - that's 2.36 seconds off the nitromethane world record for drag bikes set by Larry "Spiderman" McBride last year."
" In December, the KillaCycle will receive a second-generation battery pack that will have twice as much juice as its current 374-volt system, giving it close to 1,000 horsepower. Fulop said he believes the KillaCycle can break the drag racing motorcycle record within the next year.
Electric drag racers are test-driving the technology that will eventually spill over into mass production cars, analysts say."
" The Chevrolet Volt, which is expected to be released in 2010, is a consumer hybrid that uses gas to power a charger and can travel 1,030 km on a tank of gas and up to 64 km on one electric charge.
Dube and other EV racers say electric cars aren't just about 2-cent-a-mile transportation, lessening reliance on foreign oil or curbing global warming. They're also about performance.
For electric cars to matter, people have to buy them," he said. "If you have a car that is faster than everyone else's, if it's electric so be it, but people will buy it.''"
CH
Microsoft will tell you to pay them to view pictures of your family. Then they will encrypt your family with a new DRM that will result in a fee for your Mom to make you banana bread and cookies.
They will likely also have a new rev for vista that will not let you view your old jpgs until you have converted them into the new format. They will then be deleted after 3 days or if you view them 3 times - whichever comes first.
"There's a lot of pirating that goes on, a lot of counterfeiting of movies and songs" and "it really does cost the Canadian economy a huge amount every year, estimated to be from some 10 to 30 billion (dollars) per year,"
30 million Canadians
$30 Billion per year
$1000 per Canadian
Seems a little excessive!
Also to claim that it is costing the Canadian economy is actually the opposite of the truth.
If Canadians were spending that much and the money was going towards US companies, then the amount of money exported would increase and the value of the Canadian dollar would drop.
While if the money is spent on Canadian based items, or investments, it actually benefots the Canadian economy more than anything else.
Scary thing is that Stevie the Cowboy will likely agree to this...
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When you talk about building a manufacturing infrastructure, this is a classic example of the cost of having so many consumer goods made offshore.
When these goods are manufactured there, sure there are points made on the retail sale, but the cost to the economy for cheap consumer goods results in a lower paying service jobs and reliance on foreign countries for most goods.
If the foreign manufacturers started adding a 10% fee to everything shipped to the USA, then you have a HUGE increase in inflation and a further devalue of the dollar and this puts the entire economy at risk.
This is the cost of shopping at the big box stores and being pleased at buying your offshore manufactured goods at discounted rates.
As for the comment about service jobs, the scary thing is that continue to see those shipped offshore too, have you called a tech support line in the last few years??
C
The guy looks about 190lbs and one of the officers basically carried him up the stairs, but somehow they couldn't handcuff him?? He also offered to walk out the door, but then they tackled him and with 7 people on him, decided to tazer him!!! Seems like a great example of abuse of force!! If the guy was armed, or was threatening them probably would have been justified, but he was asking them questions, getting no answers and then was tazered and tossed in jail. Makes people question the New Hampshire license plate slogan. C
With their history of unfriendly DRM (think atrac3 and rootkit history) from Sony, I think I will steer far, far away from any DVR functionality that would likely cost me a few hundred dollars to use the existing harddrive in a P3S.
Mind you the idea of running Myth on it could be pretty cool.
C
There is a difference between pat downs for public safety (like for an airplane) and for potentially getting a bad copy of a movie you just paid for.
There was an article in a local Toronto newspaper yesterday concerning an electric motorcycle at a drag race in Portland Ore. http://www.wheels.ca/article/30277 "PORTLAND, Ore. - Straddling a 280-kilogram motorcycle, Scotty Pollacheck tucks in his knees and lowers his head as he waits for the green light. When he revs the engine, there's no roar. The bike moves so fast that within seconds all that's visible is a faint red taillight melting in the distance. Pollacheck crosses the quarter-mile marker doing 156 m.p.h.(251 km/h); he's traveled 1,320 feet (402 m) in 8.22 seconds, faster than any of the gas-powered cars, trucks or motorcycles that have raced in the drag sprints on this weekend at Portland International Raceway" "The fastest quarter-mile time by an electric vehicle is the KillaCycle's 8.16 seconds - that's 2.36 seconds off the nitromethane world record for drag bikes set by Larry "Spiderman" McBride last year." " In December, the KillaCycle will receive a second-generation battery pack that will have twice as much juice as its current 374-volt system, giving it close to 1,000 horsepower. Fulop said he believes the KillaCycle can break the drag racing motorcycle record within the next year. Electric drag racers are test-driving the technology that will eventually spill over into mass production cars, analysts say." " The Chevrolet Volt, which is expected to be released in 2010, is a consumer hybrid that uses gas to power a charger and can travel 1,030 km on a tank of gas and up to 64 km on one electric charge. Dube and other EV racers say electric cars aren't just about 2-cent-a-mile transportation, lessening reliance on foreign oil or curbing global warming. They're also about performance. For electric cars to matter, people have to buy them," he said. "If you have a car that is faster than everyone else's, if it's electric so be it, but people will buy it.''" CH
Microsoft will tell you to pay them to view pictures of your family.
Then they will encrypt your family with a new DRM that will result in a fee for your Mom to make you banana bread and cookies.
They will likely also have a new rev for vista that will not let you view your old jpgs until you have converted them into the new format.
They will then be deleted after 3 days or if you view them 3 times - whichever comes first.
"There's a lot of pirating that goes on, a lot of counterfeiting of movies and songs" and "it really does cost the Canadian economy a huge amount every year, estimated to be from some 10 to 30 billion (dollars) per year,"
30 million Canadians
$30 Billion per year
$1000 per Canadian
Seems a little excessive!
Also to claim that it is costing the Canadian economy is actually the opposite of the truth. If Canadians were spending that much and the money was going towards US companies, then the amount of money exported would increase and the value of the Canadian dollar would drop.
While if the money is spent on Canadian based items, or investments, it actually benefots the Canadian economy more than anything else.
Scary thing is that Stevie the Cowboy will likely agree to this...