Depends on how you generate the heat. What if you used waste heat from something else? Or better yet, a solar furnace - many, many, many sun-tracking mirrors focused on a single spot, 2800 degrees shouldn't be impossible. Just take up a lot of desert...
What you don't seem to realize that those losing good manufacturing jobs _are_ getting different jobs, but the "different" jobs pay a fraction of what they were making. That is the scenario when good-paying manufacturing jobs leave the country, and those that were doing those jobs get puke retail jobs at minimum wage, or slightly above it. Trump is trying to put a stop to that. Some retail jobs may go away, but manufacturing jobs will replace them. That is a good thing. We need manufacturing jobs. Some people are good with their hands, want to work with their hands, and don't want to be feeding a bunch of computerized machines urine samples in some med lab after 2 years of training. They want to turn wrenches, install machines with 50 hp motors to stamp car bodies or build something else, and don't want to be cooped up in a lab. Those people are not happy in labs, and many are doing everything they can, which is considerable to stay out of labs. They're home watching soap operas while a spouse is making the minimum wage at Walmart, they are near-starving, and are not contributing to a consumer-driven recovery. Until Trump. They're going back to work again, while Trump jawbones (remember jawboning? You have to be pretty ancient like me - that is what the press called JFK's tongue-lashings of the steel industry when they weren't doing what he thought was good for America) Harley Davidson for attempting to make bikes in Europe, I think it is, or maybe China. Trump thinks the bikes should be made in Wisconsin and shipped to Europe and China, but Europe has huge tariffs. We don't tariff the stuff we get from them anywhere close to what they tariff our stuff. That is what has Trump pissed off, and trying to raise our tariffs to match theirs. That's simply fair. They can have 25% tariffs but ours can only be 2.5%? No, no, no. Ours are going up. F them. The era of doormat USA is over. We're fighting back.
"I'd agree that nothing the EU can do will "attack the base" of Trump. By definition his base believe what he says, so I don't think anything is going to change that."
We don't necessarily believe what he says, we just don't give a shit about the trivialities. The stuff he says that aren't right are trivial - the size of his crowds on inauguration day, for instance. If that's wrong, does anybody bleed? Does anyone lose money? Nope, its just an inaccurate statement. What he says that counts is accurate. He tells us he's going to (try to) build a wall, he's struggling mightily to do it and will probably succeed. He tells us he's going to bring jobs back from overseas, well he's doing it. He tells us he's going to cut taxes, he did it. Find me a politician that fulfills as many of his campaign promises as Trump. I don't think there are any. That is why we didn't vote for any of the other 17 Republican primary candidates - we knew that they would _all_ tell us what we wanted to hear, and the go to Washington and do exactly what the Koch Bros or the other campaign donors wanted, and not necessarily what is good for America. Trump says he's going to get control of the southern border, well he's doing it. The important stuff he tells the truth about, and you can take it to the bank.
Yeah, he's got a lot of factories overseas. You must be yet another person that doesn't understand business. Trump is a businessman. That means he does things to make the most money. The most money can be made by manufacturing overseas. Is he happy about it? No, he's furious. He's so furious that he ran for President in order to change the way we do things so that it will be the more profitable thing to manufacture in the USA instead of overseas. It's working. I could be better if we got rid of the income tax, but otherwise its working.
He did not throw American intelligence under the bus to please Putin. He simply misspoke. He corrected it about 24 hours later. But the fake news media hasn't much reported that, or accepted it, and continue to mislead the public.
I've never heard Alex Jones on the radio, or TV if he's on that. I know he's a wingnut. Globalists are my take on what these cockroaches are doing by shipping jobs out of the USA, and not doing a damned thing to make the USA competitive, and even resisting making the USA competitive, so that we can manufacture here. They are scum. They're BOTH Democrats and Republicans. They hate Trump because he's trying mightily to upset their gravey train. I'm hoping he succeeds.
And, they are not poor Mexicans seeking asylum. They are fraudsters that are seeking a better economic situation by illlegally taking American jobs. To be elegible for asylum, you have to be persecuted by your GOVERNMENT. Most of these people are being threated by the cartels. Tough shit, not eligible. Stay and fight the cartels, make your country better. Don't come here and make our country worse by lowering wage scales, knocking Americans out of work, espeically poor black Americans who lose their jobs first when illegals show up, etc.
Yeah, the "families", many of which are not really, DID break the law. What do they want, special treatment? You rob a bank in the USA, you go to jail, and you are separated from your kids. Trump just upped the ante by making crossing the border equivalent to robbing America's banks. You go to jail. Don't like it? Then don't cross the border illegally. Do it legally. Why do you suppose they don't simply get a ($160) Visa, buy a $400 plane ticket into the USA, and overstay that visa and do it the easy way? Well... duh... they're already criminals in their own lands, so cannot qualify for a visa. They HAVE to sneak, pay coyotes 1000's of dollars, because they CAN'T do it the easy way. They're already scum. Trump knows it. Anyone that thinks a bit about it knows that any idiot that COULD get in for a $160 visa and a plane ticket would do it. But they can't. Make sense to you yet? Think...
>>What cost are Europeans willing to pay to abandon the US relationship?
>Pretty much anything, if the gains are much higher.
If going it alone means they are going to have to protect themselves rather than relying on US military capability, they're going to find that their defense expenses are going to make their socialistic, free healthcare descend further into the abyss so Europeans will end up waiting the rest of their lives to see their doctor, since whatever's wrong with them will kill them before they get to their doctors. The US already mops the floor with Europe and everyone else in terms of cancer survivability, and it will only get worse if the Euros start diverting their healthcare money to making ships and planes and tanks and miltech.
Obama barely ever exhaled without lying. He owns the lie of the century, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." So don't talk to us about this.
2). He insults people and organizations, constantly;
We want politicians to tell it like it is, and then get all sidways when they do it? Gimmie a break. But still, that is something he SAID. I personally don't give a about what he SAYS, as long as he keeps DOING the right things - securing the border, promoting manufacturing, promoting job growth, bringing back jobs from overseas, deregulating American businesses so that they can make some money and thus bring prosperity to American workers, protecting the 2nd Amendment and all the other Constitutional Rights, etc. etc.
3). He reverses his comments (but never entirely), usually within the same paragraph. Sometimes within the same sentence;
Not living and dying on what he SAYS. I mostly ignore what he SAYS, and go on what he DOES. He's doing the right things in my opinion.
"4). He gets into trouble and then always diverts attention to some other issue."
The "trouble" is usually liberal snowflakes that get all hyperventilated over something he SAID, and are not worth dwelling on.
"If one country can make one product cheaper, it doesn't make sense to try to have balanced trade with them. It's in our best interest to buy that product or service at a lower dollar amount, and spend the resources we'd have normally spent making it on something we can do more efficiently."
No, it does not. This is what we've been mostly doing over the last 30 years when our workers' wages have stagnated for the last 30 years. This way of doing things has seen the near-collapse of our manufacturing base, with widespread underemployment and unemployment and Trump is putting a stop to it.
The above philosophy is the refrain from the globalists who are getting rich shipping the high-paying manufacturing jobs out of the country, while ALSO weakening the ability of the US military to keep up with the current technology. We have too many things that are no longer manufactured here. We need to put a stop to that too. F the globalists, we're going back to prosperity.
Look, Trump walks into the G7 and, as 1st order of business, he says, "Lets drop all the tariffs, 100%." The others just look at each other, and said, "Lets move on to the next subject." The fact is that when we tariff something at 2.5%, they're tariffing our stuff at 25%. That's not free trade, its UNfair trade. Trump wants Fair Trade, because free trade is not possible - the others won't give up their tariffs.
"In other words the EU can probably hurt Trump far more than he can hurt the EU, but attacking his base and other politicians that support him"
You obviously are not part of the base. I am. And there's nothing they can do to "attack the base" that is going to work short of somehow getting him to NOT put America first, and start cooperating with the globalists to F the USA and move jobs out of the country again, put everyone back on welfare that was before, etc. Not going to happen. Donald doesn't care, he's got all the money he needs so they cannot bribe him. And he will continue to attempt to bring jobs back from outside the country, advocate for US companies that are getting raped by Mafia-like organizations like the EU, and so forth. This $5B is simple a "protection racket", just like the mob. We're tired of it, Trump is tired of it, and he will use his considerable influence to see that it doesn't happen.
...to make way for some ChiCom search engine to be able to dominate Europe instead of an American company. Plus a way for the Euros to raise money for their failing socialistic societies.
End the wars? How? The only way to end the wars is to win them. Simply walking off the battlefield will allow the enemy to regroup, strengthen, and them be over here with maybe an anthrax attack that would kill 100's of 1000's, or maybe some nasty poison that would kill more, or something we can't even think of right now that totally kills the power grid, such as an EMP attack that would have 90% mortality - reduce the population of the country from 340 million to 34 million from the starvation of suddenly not having working transportation systems to grow and move food, so the 34 million that survive would be mostly cannibals. There's something like 2000 very large transformers that make up the power grid, so if an EMP attack took them out, the fact that 1) those transformers are not made in the USA, 2) only 200 such transformers can be made, by hand, overseas, per YEAR, 3) there are only 3 railcars in the entire country big enough to move them, so the electricity would be gone for years. IOW, we'd never recover, outsiders would move in and conquer and probably rebuild slowly while exterminating the cannibals.
I think we should win the wars we're fighting and leave, except absolutely nobody has actually won a war in that region, ever. Nobody ever gets a, "We surrender." Wars there are unwinnable. The cockroaches that comprise the enemy are not all killable unless we actually nuke the entire area, and even under these extremes, is still unthinkable.
Sooo... quit the battlefield and risk future annihilation from an enemy allowed to flourish and rebuild in our absence? Sounds more dangerous than the so-called "global warming."
On 2nd thought... the boards being used to build the latest ones are probably not 10 -15 years old, but maybe 5. Sorry about that... just want to be as accurate as possible.
Its about $2K when the guy has any for sale. I understand that a missing component has been acquired, the case, and a few more are available, but I think there's a few of them left with 10 - 15 year old circuit boards assembled into them. If I lose mine, and there's one available, then... fine. If there's not one available, I get to find a new hobby.
Yep. I drive. Upcoming events in California in November may make me make an exception, but maybe just won't go. Dunno. Having 4th Amendment rights violated repeatedly (Judge Napolitano, the Fox News legal consultant, says its absolutely a violation of the 4th Amendment for the gov't to be doing this - the airlines could do it, but gov't hired officials can't legally do it) rubs me the wrong way, plus when I do travel, I usually have along a piece of electronics that is 1) essential to the reason I fly, 2) is intrinsic to the enjoyment of the activity I'm traveling to and 3) is no longer available at any price other than if I could maybe buy a used one from somebody, the availability not being guaranteed. Soooo... I don't need anyone handling it other than me, inspecting it, maybe dropping it, or in checked baggage (although I never do that, but sometimes the overheads are too small to accommodate it so my carry-ons end up with the checked baggage where they can maybe be stolen, lost, or crushed)
Sooo... if I go at all anymore, I almost every time will drive. They'll have to chase me down at 80 mph on I-10 to feel me up or screw-up my precious electronics. It will be in the trunk and as safe as I am. I wreck sufficiently to harm it, I'm probably more worried about my hair, teeth, and eyes all over the highway.
May or may not be a hoax, but there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it. IOW, can't stop burning fossil fuels. Recently calculated that in spite of the already 52,000+ wind turbines we have, we'd need 52 times that many to power the whole country. There would be a wind turbine in absolutely every frame of every photograph that absolutely anyone took out of doors within the USA. And that is only to replace the electricity that is being generated right now. Add in the electricity required to move every car, truck, bus, etc. down the highway, and every locomotive in the country, and every ship at sea via some really kicking batteries or supercapacitor, and it would be even more wind turbines. So... solar? Don't know... but requires many more and much better storage for the electricity for night and cloudy days.
Never get to this level of generation by either wind or solar in my lifetime, probably not in your lifetimes either. There's a bunch of NIMBYs crawling out from under their rocks to complain about the proposed 6000 acre solar farm in Caroline County, Virginia, and its like that all over. Yeah, build renewable, but I'm too selfish to take my share of the inconvenience, so build it somewhere that screws somebody else's property value, not mine.
No, I have no memory of that. Up until about the 1990's, US industry was populated pretty much exclusively by US workers. Then, the US gov't made it possible to hire 100's of 1000's of foreigners at the behest of big business that wanted to pay less for their labor, and the destruction of good-paying tech jobs began.
...that wants to hire cheap foreign labor within the USA. They claim they can't get good US help. Well... maybe they can't. If you are about to embark on a career, and are looking at studying for 4 or more years, incurring massive debt, and then having to wait to be hired by businesses that have lowered their wage scale substantially by importing cheap foreign labor that you have to compete with, what are you going to do? Maybe take up law or medicine, if your that smart, because the software industry is now a comparatively low pay industry, and often with insane work hours to boot. These people are smart, and lots of 'em are smarter than lining themselves up to be mediocre middle-classers instead of upper middle-classers is not all that appealing.
Back before the dot-bomb of the early 2000's, actual Americans were making 6 figures, even in those more valuable year-2000 dollars, because real Americans were doing the work. Then the outsourcing and H1B Visas had their impacts, and news from the software wage front has been pretty dismal. This industry sabotaged itself with complicity by the US gov't working against it's citizens.
Because they don't want it to cost nearly 2 Trillion a year, which it might if they contracted for custom routers that were not available commercially.
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Depends on how you generate the heat. What if you used waste heat from something else? Or better yet, a solar furnace - many, many, many sun-tracking mirrors focused on a single spot, 2800 degrees shouldn't be impossible. Just take up a lot of desert...
What you don't seem to realize that those losing good manufacturing jobs _are_ getting different jobs, but the "different" jobs pay a fraction of what they were making. That is the scenario when good-paying manufacturing jobs leave the country, and those that were doing those jobs get puke retail jobs at minimum wage, or slightly above it. Trump is trying to put a stop to that. Some retail jobs may go away, but manufacturing jobs will replace them. That is a good thing. We need manufacturing jobs. Some people are good with their hands, want to work with their hands, and don't want to be feeding a bunch of computerized machines urine samples in some med lab after 2 years of training. They want to turn wrenches, install machines with 50 hp motors to stamp car bodies or build something else, and don't want to be cooped up in a lab. Those people are not happy in labs, and many are doing everything they can, which is considerable to stay out of labs. They're home watching soap operas while a spouse is making the minimum wage at Walmart, they are near-starving, and are not contributing to a consumer-driven recovery. Until Trump. They're going back to work again, while Trump jawbones (remember jawboning? You have to be pretty ancient like me - that is what the press called JFK's tongue-lashings of the steel industry when they weren't doing what he thought was good for America) Harley Davidson for attempting to make bikes in Europe, I think it is, or maybe China. Trump thinks the bikes should be made in Wisconsin and shipped to Europe and China, but Europe has huge tariffs. We don't tariff the stuff we get from them anywhere close to what they tariff our stuff. That is what has Trump pissed off, and trying to raise our tariffs to match theirs. That's simply fair. They can have 25% tariffs but ours can only be 2.5%? No, no, no. Ours are going up. F them. The era of doormat USA is over. We're fighting back.
Unemployment is at historic lows, moron.
"I'd agree that nothing the EU can do will "attack the base" of Trump. By definition his base believe what he says, so I don't think anything is going to change that."
We don't necessarily believe what he says, we just don't give a shit about the trivialities. The stuff he says that aren't right are trivial - the size of his crowds on inauguration day, for instance. If that's wrong, does anybody bleed? Does anyone lose money? Nope, its just an inaccurate statement. What he says that counts is accurate. He tells us he's going to (try to) build a wall, he's struggling mightily to do it and will probably succeed. He tells us he's going to bring jobs back from overseas, well he's doing it. He tells us he's going to cut taxes, he did it. Find me a politician that fulfills as many of his campaign promises as Trump. I don't think there are any. That is why we didn't vote for any of the other 17 Republican primary candidates - we knew that they would _all_ tell us what we wanted to hear, and the go to Washington and do exactly what the Koch Bros or the other campaign donors wanted, and not necessarily what is good for America. Trump says he's going to get control of the southern border, well he's doing it. The important stuff he tells the truth about, and you can take it to the bank.
Yeah, he's got a lot of factories overseas. You must be yet another person that doesn't understand business. Trump is a businessman. That means he does things to make the most money. The most money can be made by manufacturing overseas. Is he happy about it? No, he's furious. He's so furious that he ran for President in order to change the way we do things so that it will be the more profitable thing to manufacture in the USA instead of overseas. It's working. I could be better if we got rid of the income tax, but otherwise its working.
He did not throw American intelligence under the bus to please Putin. He simply misspoke. He corrected it about 24 hours later. But the fake news media hasn't much reported that, or accepted it, and continue to mislead the public.
I've never heard Alex Jones on the radio, or TV if he's on that. I know he's a wingnut. Globalists are my take on what these cockroaches are doing by shipping jobs out of the USA, and not doing a damned thing to make the USA competitive, and even resisting making the USA competitive, so that we can manufacture here. They are scum. They're BOTH Democrats and Republicans. They hate Trump because he's trying mightily to upset their gravey train. I'm hoping he succeeds.
And, they are not poor Mexicans seeking asylum. They are fraudsters that are seeking a better economic situation by illlegally taking American jobs. To be elegible for asylum, you have to be persecuted by your GOVERNMENT. Most of these people are being threated by the cartels. Tough shit, not eligible. Stay and fight the cartels, make your country better. Don't come here and make our country worse by lowering wage scales, knocking Americans out of work, espeically poor black Americans who lose their jobs first when illegals show up, etc.
Yeah, the "families", many of which are not really, DID break the law. What do they want, special treatment? You rob a bank in the USA, you go to jail, and you are separated from your kids. Trump just upped the ante by making crossing the border equivalent to robbing America's banks. You go to jail. Don't like it? Then don't cross the border illegally. Do it legally. Why do you suppose they don't simply get a ($160) Visa, buy a $400 plane ticket into the USA, and overstay that visa and do it the easy way? Well... duh... they're already criminals in their own lands, so cannot qualify for a visa. They HAVE to sneak, pay coyotes 1000's of dollars, because they CAN'T do it the easy way. They're already scum. Trump knows it. Anyone that thinks a bit about it knows that any idiot that COULD get in for a $160 visa and a plane ticket would do it. But they can't. Make sense to you yet? Think...
>>What cost are Europeans willing to pay to abandon the US relationship?
>Pretty much anything, if the gains are much higher.
If going it alone means they are going to have to protect themselves rather than relying on US military capability, they're going to find that their defense expenses are going to make their socialistic, free healthcare descend further into the abyss so Europeans will end up waiting the rest of their lives to see their doctor, since whatever's wrong with them will kill them before they get to their doctors. The US already mops the floor with Europe and everyone else in terms of cancer survivability, and it will only get worse if the Euros start diverting their healthcare money to making ships and planes and tanks and miltech.
1). He lies, constantly;
Obama barely ever exhaled without lying. He owns the lie of the century, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." So don't talk to us about this.
2). He insults people and organizations, constantly;
We want politicians to tell it like it is, and then get all sidways when they do it? Gimmie a break. But still, that is something he SAID. I personally don't give a about what he SAYS, as long as he keeps DOING the right things - securing the border, promoting manufacturing, promoting job growth, bringing back jobs from overseas, deregulating American businesses so that they can make some money and thus bring prosperity to American workers, protecting the 2nd Amendment and all the other Constitutional Rights, etc. etc.
3). He reverses his comments (but never entirely), usually within the same paragraph. Sometimes within the same sentence;
Not living and dying on what he SAYS. I mostly ignore what he SAYS, and go on what he DOES. He's doing the right things in my opinion.
"4). He gets into trouble and then always diverts attention to some other issue."
The "trouble" is usually liberal snowflakes that get all hyperventilated over something he SAID, and are not worth dwelling on.
"If one country can make one product cheaper, it doesn't make sense to try to have balanced trade with them. It's in our best interest to buy that product or service at a lower dollar amount, and spend the resources we'd have normally spent making it on something we can do more efficiently."
No, it does not. This is what we've been mostly doing over the last 30 years when our workers' wages have stagnated for the last 30 years. This way of doing things has seen the near-collapse of our manufacturing base, with widespread underemployment and unemployment and Trump is putting a stop to it.
The above philosophy is the refrain from the globalists who are getting rich shipping the high-paying manufacturing jobs out of the country, while ALSO weakening the ability of the US military to keep up with the current technology. We have too many things that are no longer manufactured here. We need to put a stop to that too. F the globalists, we're going back to prosperity.
War was started in NYC on 9/11/2001.
Betcher ass, more tariffs.
Look, Trump walks into the G7 and, as 1st order of business, he says, "Lets drop all the tariffs, 100%." The others just look at each other, and said, "Lets move on to the next subject." The fact is that when we tariff something at 2.5%, they're tariffing our stuff at 25%. That's not free trade, its UNfair trade. Trump wants Fair Trade, because free trade is not possible - the others won't give up their tariffs.
"In other words the EU can probably hurt Trump far more than he can hurt the EU, but attacking his base and other politicians that support him"
You obviously are not part of the base. I am. And there's nothing they can do to "attack the base" that is going to work short of somehow getting him to NOT put America first, and start cooperating with the globalists to F the USA and move jobs out of the country again, put everyone back on welfare that was before, etc. Not going to happen. Donald doesn't care, he's got all the money he needs so they cannot bribe him. And he will continue to attempt to bring jobs back from outside the country, advocate for US companies that are getting raped by Mafia-like organizations like the EU, and so forth. This $5B is simple a "protection racket", just like the mob. We're tired of it, Trump is tired of it, and he will use his considerable influence to see that it doesn't happen.
...to make way for some ChiCom search engine to be able to dominate Europe instead of an American company. Plus a way for the Euros to raise money for their failing socialistic societies.
Yeah, I'm an American, and guys that fly airplanes into our buildings and kill 3000 people are cockroaches.
End the wars? How? The only way to end the wars is to win them. Simply walking off the battlefield will allow the enemy to regroup, strengthen, and them be over here with maybe an anthrax attack that would kill 100's of 1000's, or maybe some nasty poison that would kill more, or something we can't even think of right now that totally kills the power grid, such as an EMP attack that would have 90% mortality - reduce the population of the country from 340 million to 34 million from the starvation of suddenly not having working transportation systems to grow and move food, so the 34 million that survive would be mostly cannibals. There's something like 2000 very large transformers that make up the power grid, so if an EMP attack took them out, the fact that 1) those transformers are not made in the USA, 2) only 200 such transformers can be made, by hand, overseas, per YEAR, 3) there are only 3 railcars in the entire country big enough to move them, so the electricity would be gone for years. IOW, we'd never recover, outsiders would move in and conquer and probably rebuild slowly while exterminating the cannibals.
I think we should win the wars we're fighting and leave, except absolutely nobody has actually won a war in that region, ever. Nobody ever gets a, "We surrender." Wars there are unwinnable. The cockroaches that comprise the enemy are not all killable unless we actually nuke the entire area, and even under these extremes, is still unthinkable.
Sooo... quit the battlefield and risk future annihilation from an enemy allowed to flourish and rebuild in our absence? Sounds more dangerous than the so-called "global warming."
Yeah, I like to drive. And there's no "race" component. But Virginia to California and back may be the straw.
On 2nd thought... the boards being used to build the latest ones are probably not 10 -15 years old, but maybe 5. Sorry about that... just want to be as accurate as possible.
I road rally with the Sports Car Club of America. The best computer on the planet is the Timewise 798A.
http://www.timewise.us/product...
Its about $2K when the guy has any for sale. I understand that a missing component has been acquired, the case, and a few more are available, but I think there's a few of them left with 10 - 15 year old circuit boards assembled into them. If I lose mine, and there's one available, then... fine. If there's not one available, I get to find a new hobby.
Yep. I drive. Upcoming events in California in November may make me make an exception, but maybe just won't go. Dunno. Having 4th Amendment rights violated repeatedly (Judge Napolitano, the Fox News legal consultant, says its absolutely a violation of the 4th Amendment for the gov't to be doing this - the airlines could do it, but gov't hired officials can't legally do it) rubs me the wrong way, plus when I do travel, I usually have along a piece of electronics that is 1) essential to the reason I fly, 2) is intrinsic to the enjoyment of the activity I'm traveling to and 3) is no longer available at any price other than if I could maybe buy a used one from somebody, the availability not being guaranteed. Soooo... I don't need anyone handling it other than me, inspecting it, maybe dropping it, or in checked baggage (although I never do that, but sometimes the overheads are too small to accommodate it so my carry-ons end up with the checked baggage where they can maybe be stolen, lost, or crushed)
Sooo... if I go at all anymore, I almost every time will drive. They'll have to chase me down at 80 mph on I-10 to feel me up or screw-up my precious electronics. It will be in the trunk and as safe as I am. I wreck sufficiently to harm it, I'm probably more worried about my hair, teeth, and eyes all over the highway.
May or may not be a hoax, but there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it. IOW, can't stop burning fossil fuels. Recently calculated that in spite of the already 52,000+ wind turbines we have, we'd need 52 times that many to power the whole country. There would be a wind turbine in absolutely every frame of every photograph that absolutely anyone took out of doors within the USA. And that is only to replace the electricity that is being generated right now. Add in the electricity required to move every car, truck, bus, etc. down the highway, and every locomotive in the country, and every ship at sea via some really kicking batteries or supercapacitor, and it would be even more wind turbines. So... solar? Don't know... but requires many more and much better storage for the electricity for night and cloudy days.
Never get to this level of generation by either wind or solar in my lifetime, probably not in your lifetimes either. There's a bunch of NIMBYs crawling out from under their rocks to complain about the proposed 6000 acre solar farm in Caroline County, Virginia, and its like that all over. Yeah, build renewable, but I'm too selfish to take my share of the inconvenience, so build it somewhere that screws somebody else's property value, not mine.
All you need is about 5 million boy scouts with BB guns. Problem solved. Rats hunted to extinction.
Oh, yeah, was talking about tech. I went to school with migrant kids, and that was 50's / 60's. They've been around forever.
Yeah, I know the service economy, but it was being done with US workers, at least.
No, I have no memory of that. Up until about the 1990's, US industry was populated pretty much exclusively by US workers. Then, the US gov't made it possible to hire 100's of 1000's of foreigners at the behest of big business that wanted to pay less for their labor, and the destruction of good-paying tech jobs began.
...that wants to hire cheap foreign labor within the USA. They claim they can't get good US help. Well... maybe they can't. If you are about to embark on a career, and are looking at studying for 4 or more years, incurring massive debt, and then having to wait to be hired by businesses that have lowered their wage scale substantially by importing cheap foreign labor that you have to compete with, what are you going to do? Maybe take up law or medicine, if your that smart, because the software industry is now a comparatively low pay industry, and often with insane work hours to boot. These people are smart, and lots of 'em are smarter than lining themselves up to be mediocre middle-classers instead of upper middle-classers is not all that appealing.
Back before the dot-bomb of the early 2000's, actual Americans were making 6 figures, even in those more valuable year-2000 dollars, because real Americans were doing the work. Then the outsourcing and H1B Visas had their impacts, and news from the software wage front has been pretty dismal. This industry sabotaged itself with complicity by the US gov't working against it's citizens.
Because they don't want it to cost nearly 2 Trillion a year, which it might if they contracted for custom routers that were not available commercially.