Because they were expanding. There was world wide demand (most of whom don't care where Ford builds stuff). They needed more factories. However the market for smaller cars has been drying up, so the demand for more production capacity was drying up also. The plant in Flint was already earmarked to build newer electric vehicles, and demand for those has been going up. They were never going to build the electric cars in Mexico or the small cars in Flint.
Every Republican I know dislikes Trump too. The Republicans in congress certainly dislike Trump, they're just tolerating him for now in hopes he'll approve all their proposed changes. They just disliked Hillary more, and held their nose while voting.
Executive orders can only do things within the power of the executive branch. It can't make new laws, it can't ignore laws that are explicit in their intent. Ie, congress already gave the executive the power to create new national monuments, despite the hue and cry when it actually happens. Congress has given various departments the right to create regulations, then whine when the departments actually do so. The courts can override an executive order and have done so in the past, or they can declare it unconstitutional after the issue is moot (ie, Japanese-American interment camps). In some cases the constitution has granted the executive some power (commander in chief, granting of pardons, and the ability to grant recess appointments which will expire, and "take care that laws remain faithfully executed"). Managing the federal government is the responsibility of the executive, so it would seem that the executive has the power to set the minimum wage of federal workers, though that was also criticized as an overreach when Obama did that.
There are a minority of cases where the executive may give orders where congress has acquiesced and has ignored an issue for too long or refuses to vote on an issue either yes or no. That part is controversial of course. I don't think it should be allowed, but I also don't think congress should be allowed to abdicate their own responsibility either. If congress does nothing except sit on their hands then they should not be pointing fingers when the executive takes action.
A variety of interesting sites on the subject. Of interest is here, http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28..., where it lists some of the more controversial orders over time.
Everyone knows, or should know, that all politicians lie while campaigning, and even the few cases when they are being sincere they will find that they can not keep their promises when they enter office and see what the reality is. Bush may not have wanted to raise taxes but they were essentially necessary at the time to prevent bigger problems.
Flint workers are so much more expensive than Mexico workers, that tax breaks would not be enough to change Ford's decision making by much. What really happened is more likely what Ford said, there is a downturn in sales and they don't need to expand world wide production with an expensive new plant but instead refurbish an existing plant that is losing work. Of course, they're going to give kudos to Trump because why not get him on your good side.
Just buy a Roku, it will last longer and is inexpensively replaced if there's newer must-have stuff in the future.
How do you connect to the "cloud" without a network? Wi-fi is LAN, or are you assuming LAN is only ethernet? Nobody out there is going to give you a free cellular data plan, or any cellular data plan as convenient as broadband.
Mechanical meters were indeed just a small part of the problem, but still a problem. A bigger problem for commercial meters than residential ones though. Most rate increases were due to other things. For instance there was a big backlash in Kern Country, California. Mpnthly bills had gone way up at the same time people were seeing the new meters installed. After a PUC review though it was found that the consumption had also gone way up due to high temperatures, and the PG&E utility has also raised rates. But rather than looking at their bill and realizing the costs were high a lot of people just pointed their fingers at the new technology instead. (I put a huge blame on PG&E as having the worst public relations I've ever seen, as far as not anticipation public anger, cold hearted rationalizations, and denials)
It was revolutionary though. No one did a lot of good science fiction with a decent amount of budget back then. And it's a very good homage to the space opera genre. It's not at all mediocre, unless you only judge a film by its effects.
Germany has seemed a lot more stable economically than France and with a better work ethic for as long as I can remember. It still has good social programs but also a good set of industries to drive it. Right now Europe is a lot like what the US would be if we were split into 10-50 different countries. Some poor, some rich, some with their act together, some stuck in the past. The EU should have helped but it got screwed up in a lot of ways.
But without a good solid education, moving to new jobs becomes hard. So if the local job dries up how do you get a new one if you don't have a decent education? No employer wants to pay for on-the-job training, especially for someone that was a C student in high school. This makes the schools fundamentally important to having a good economy with low unemployment.
My father was a teacher and he saw the changes over his thirty years teaching. Restrictions on discipline, not even talking about corporal punishment but not even being allowed to raise a voice or keep a student after hours because the parents would bitch and whine about it. Even grabbing a child to keep him from running into the street got the parents furious. Then the school hours got shorter and the classes got bigger. And the "experts" coming in and saying how everything was being done wrong, so that every couple of years there was a new set of curriculum and workbooks to buy. And a school board easily manipulated. And students more unruly, parents not caring, and so on.
On the other hand I still have people coming up to me telling me what a great thing it was to have been in my father's class. He earned more respect in one year teaching a student than I can ever earn in an office job.
No. Tenure does not keep bad teachers in schools. It is not the same as college tenure. All high school and elementary tenure does is mean you don't have to negotiate your contract every year, but you still can be fired for incompetence or poor performance. Schools don't want to do that because it's hard to get replacements, not because tenure binds their hands.
School isn't even out at 2pm most places. And it's not like the start their day at 10am, or end the work at 2pm. It's a hard job, it's a low paying job, and now days it has no respect either. There's little reason to be a teacher anymore except for a bit of civic pride. All these yuppies sending their kids to private schools to get away from minorities and lower income classes are a big part of the problem even though they're the first ones to start accusing teachers of malfeasance.
For me, I can't get up to productivity early. Too many people asking too many questions, too many meetings, too much email. In late afternoon I pick up and start getting stuff done. Now as a manager it's even worse. My enemy is me, saying in the morning "I'll just get this one simple 15 minute project done today" and it turns out I can't get to it. Now for a simpler job where there are simple tasks and you're paid by the hour, then sure, put a time limit on it. I'm more interested in flexible work hours myself, rather than forcing people into the worst times of day to commute.
I don't understand why they would purge books? One of the benefits of a good library is that you can get hard to find books, rarely read books, older stuff that people have forgotten about, and so forth.
C++ is basically not very object oriented, especially with later incarnations which focus on generics instead of real objects. And because it explicitly wants to be compatible with C, you're stuck with a machine oriented model, memory management (too hard to bolt this into a language that has pointers), and so forth. Trying to be a C++ killer is the fault of those languages, C++ generally gets used in area that Smalltalk is not used for. Smalltalk is great for rapid prototyping, C++ gets used by people who want somewhat efficient (though it fights against itself here). The C++ killers aren't trying to be great for rapid prototyping, they instead want to be the C++ replacements and grab the same market share. Smalltalk also has a model where it is a full system, not a language, its objects stick around after a reboot. This adds complexity but not much different than C++ and a DB plus UI.
And yet, the popular languages today are interpreted languages. Maybe some with optional compilers from alternative implementations, but generally things like python, javascript, ruby, all got popular without compilers.
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Because they were expanding. There was world wide demand (most of whom don't care where Ford builds stuff). They needed more factories. However the market for smaller cars has been drying up, so the demand for more production capacity was drying up also. The plant in Flint was already earmarked to build newer electric vehicles, and demand for those has been going up. They were never going to build the electric cars in Mexico or the small cars in Flint.
Every Republican I know dislikes Trump too. The Republicans in congress certainly dislike Trump, they're just tolerating him for now in hopes he'll approve all their proposed changes. They just disliked Hillary more, and held their nose while voting.
Executive orders can only do things within the power of the executive branch. It can't make new laws, it can't ignore laws that are explicit in their intent. Ie, congress already gave the executive the power to create new national monuments, despite the hue and cry when it actually happens. Congress has given various departments the right to create regulations, then whine when the departments actually do so. The courts can override an executive order and have done so in the past, or they can declare it unconstitutional after the issue is moot (ie, Japanese-American interment camps). In some cases the constitution has granted the executive some power (commander in chief, granting of pardons, and the ability to grant recess appointments which will expire, and "take care that laws remain faithfully executed"). Managing the federal government is the responsibility of the executive, so it would seem that the executive has the power to set the minimum wage of federal workers, though that was also criticized as an overreach when Obama did that.
There are a minority of cases where the executive may give orders where congress has acquiesced and has ignored an issue for too long or refuses to vote on an issue either yes or no. That part is controversial of course. I don't think it should be allowed, but I also don't think congress should be allowed to abdicate their own responsibility either. If congress does nothing except sit on their hands then they should not be pointing fingers when the executive takes action.
A variety of interesting sites on the subject. Of interest is here, http://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/28..., where it lists some of the more controversial orders over time.
Everyone knows, or should know, that all politicians lie while campaigning, and even the few cases when they are being sincere they will find that they can not keep their promises when they enter office and see what the reality is. Bush may not have wanted to raise taxes but they were essentially necessary at the time to prevent bigger problems.
Flint workers are so much more expensive than Mexico workers, that tax breaks would not be enough to change Ford's decision making by much. What really happened is more likely what Ford said, there is a downturn in sales and they don't need to expand world wide production with an expensive new plant but instead refurbish an existing plant that is losing work. Of course, they're going to give kudos to Trump because why not get him on your good side.
1GB of data over 5 years isn't going to get you very much television.
There are alternatives, but you have to look for them. You won't find them at the mass market big box store, and certainly not on prominent display.
Just buy a Roku, it will last longer and is inexpensively replaced if there's newer must-have stuff in the future.
How do you connect to the "cloud" without a network? Wi-fi is LAN, or are you assuming LAN is only ethernet? Nobody out there is going to give you a free cellular data plan, or any cellular data plan as convenient as broadband.
Mechanical meters were indeed just a small part of the problem, but still a problem. A bigger problem for commercial meters than residential ones though. Most rate increases were due to other things. For instance there was a big backlash in Kern Country, California. Mpnthly bills had gone way up at the same time people were seeing the new meters installed. After a PUC review though it was found that the consumption had also gone way up due to high temperatures, and the PG&E utility has also raised rates. But rather than looking at their bill and realizing the costs were high a lot of people just pointed their fingers at the new technology instead. (I put a huge blame on PG&E as having the worst public relations I've ever seen, as far as not anticipation public anger, cold hearted rationalizations, and denials)
It was revolutionary though. No one did a lot of good science fiction with a decent amount of budget back then. And it's a very good homage to the space opera genre. It's not at all mediocre, unless you only judge a film by its effects.
I think the law isn't forbidding employees from reading the email, but in forbidding companies from requiring it.
Germany has seemed a lot more stable economically than France and with a better work ethic for as long as I can remember. It still has good social programs but also a good set of industries to drive it. Right now Europe is a lot like what the US would be if we were split into 10-50 different countries. Some poor, some rich, some with their act together, some stuck in the past. The EU should have helped but it got screwed up in a lot of ways.
But without a good solid education, moving to new jobs becomes hard. So if the local job dries up how do you get a new one if you don't have a decent education? No employer wants to pay for on-the-job training, especially for someone that was a C student in high school. This makes the schools fundamentally important to having a good economy with low unemployment.
Make the new generation stupid, then convince them that it's someone else's fault that their town is screwed up.
My father was a teacher and he saw the changes over his thirty years teaching. Restrictions on discipline, not even talking about corporal punishment but not even being allowed to raise a voice or keep a student after hours because the parents would bitch and whine about it. Even grabbing a child to keep him from running into the street got the parents furious. Then the school hours got shorter and the classes got bigger. And the "experts" coming in and saying how everything was being done wrong, so that every couple of years there was a new set of curriculum and workbooks to buy. And a school board easily manipulated. And students more unruly, parents not caring, and so on.
On the other hand I still have people coming up to me telling me what a great thing it was to have been in my father's class. He earned more respect in one year teaching a student than I can ever earn in an office job.
No. Tenure does not keep bad teachers in schools. It is not the same as college tenure. All high school and elementary tenure does is mean you don't have to negotiate your contract every year, but you still can be fired for incompetence or poor performance. Schools don't want to do that because it's hard to get replacements, not because tenure binds their hands.
School isn't even out at 2pm most places. And it's not like the start their day at 10am, or end the work at 2pm. It's a hard job, it's a low paying job, and now days it has no respect either. There's little reason to be a teacher anymore except for a bit of civic pride. All these yuppies sending their kids to private schools to get away from minorities and lower income classes are a big part of the problem even though they're the first ones to start accusing teachers of malfeasance.
For me, I can't get up to productivity early. Too many people asking too many questions, too many meetings, too much email. In late afternoon I pick up and start getting stuff done. Now as a manager it's even worse. My enemy is me, saying in the morning "I'll just get this one simple 15 minute project done today" and it turns out I can't get to it. Now for a simpler job where there are simple tasks and you're paid by the hour, then sure, put a time limit on it. I'm more interested in flexible work hours myself, rather than forcing people into the worst times of day to commute.
The local library is often the only library most people have access to.
But this process means they keep new mass market fluff, and not old out of print books.
I don't understand why they would purge books? One of the benefits of a good library is that you can get hard to find books, rarely read books, older stuff that people have forgotten about, and so forth.
Ah, but it was related to Uber. And for some unfathomable reason, people think that Uber is a tech company and thus worth reporting on.
Ruby misses inherent first class code blocks. It's a quirk but one that gets frustrating.
C++ is basically not very object oriented, especially with later incarnations which focus on generics instead of real objects. And because it explicitly wants to be compatible with C, you're stuck with a machine oriented model, memory management (too hard to bolt this into a language that has pointers), and so forth. Trying to be a C++ killer is the fault of those languages, C++ generally gets used in area that Smalltalk is not used for. Smalltalk is great for rapid prototyping, C++ gets used by people who want somewhat efficient (though it fights against itself here). The C++ killers aren't trying to be great for rapid prototyping, they instead want to be the C++ replacements and grab the same market share. Smalltalk also has a model where it is a full system, not a language, its objects stick around after a reboot. This adds complexity but not much different than C++ and a DB plus UI.
And yet, the popular languages today are interpreted languages. Maybe some with optional compilers from alternative implementations, but generally things like python, javascript, ruby, all got popular without compilers.