Air pollution ALONE may have taken more than a million lives. Perhaps that seems trivial in a country of well over a billion people but it's 1/2 the number of people in their standing army
If we look at the population of China at 1.379 billion people vs. the US in 1970, the year the EPA was founded, at 205.1 million the equivalent percentage of the US population in comparison to your 1 million would be 148,730.
According to this publication from MIT, There are an estimated 200K deaths per year in the US that are caused by air pollution.
Even if we go with the same year to look at the population, The US is at 323.1million. The equivalent number of today population would be 234,300. Damn near that many people die per year from air pollution in the US. Hell, in a little over 4 1/4 years, a million people die in the US from air pollution. I'd say they've certainly learned their lesson much faster than the US had, or has for that matter. The EPA was founded 48 years ago and The percentage of US residents that die from air pollution isn't that much better than China is today.
No they won't. The only blood will be on the floors where the panes have shattered and fallen down.
No, that's unlikely. I've seen Apple customers and those that work at the Apple stores. They mostly seem to be skinny little hipster types. They don't have enough mass to walk into safety glass and actually break it.
Now if they have a visiting delegation from Walmart, between the mass of the scooters and the passengers, the panes of glass are likely to fall out from the weight on the floor causing the base of the wall to warp.
The only real difference is that what took the USA 100 years will likely take China 50.
It's a little easier to do something when you aren't the first to do it. China was able to ramp up to an incredibly industrialized country in an extremely short period of time. But when it's known for a fact that it can be done and can buy, copy and steal the technology from those who did it first, it's also incredibly easier.
The US took a very long time in comparison to get to that point. It also took much longer to create realize/admit the causes and the solutions to acid rain, pollution, rivers catching on fire, etc. China has obviously learned from the mistakes of the EU and the US. They also don't have to worry as much about things like property rights. As long as they don't push things to the point of a major revolt, they can pretty much do what is best without having to worry about going to court to reallocate land. If your village of 3000 people are where a new forest has to be, then tough shit, you're moving. In the US, one person can halt a project indefinitely, or certainly delay it for a decade or more at the very least.
If you quit your job, eat no-doz for every meal and play games (and do nothing but play games) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you will die of old age before you finish playing games on Linux.
No, you will die of malnutrition or a heart attack in three to four weeks at the most. Granted, you'll probably look like you died of old age after eating nothing but No-Doze for a month without sleeping.
Why is it that the patent on MPEG-2 can expire, but copyrights last until the heat death of the universe. I suppose that's a rhetorical question, I know why, but it's just so damn annoying.
That's the big problem. Sally and Joe LocalShopOwners don't want to go online and see a torrent of vile, disgusting insults thrown at them just for saying something. Women don't want to experience rape and death threats just for being a woman on a gaming site. People don't want their kids to see racist hate mongering.
There is HUGE pressure to clean up the internet. It may have started as the private playground for a few, but it's a resource for the world now, and Sally and Joe and all others like them are demanding that safe havens for the worst and most vile are taken down, and platforms become a place where reasonable humans can go without fear.
On one hand, I think that any site that want's to set rules for behavior, should. If someone makes the kinds of threats you mentioned, they should be banned.
However, if people want to have their own little racist, sexist, whatever site, then they should be able to. Obviously as long as no one is breaking the law or actually trampling someones else's rights and freedom, then what's the issue.
If I don't like it, then I don't have to visit that site. This is what I don't understand about proponents of censorship. If someone else likes something and it's not harming anyone, then don't participate in it if you find it offensive.
You misunderstand your own example. What brings costs down is competition. A lot of big pieces of infrastructure like airports do not have head-to-head competition. If you hate your local airport and need to fly cross country for business, are you going to take a train? If the major freeways around your home are privately owned, are you going to walk?
Except in this case, Reagan National and Dulles are only 58 miles apart. There's a shuttle between them. I've taken return flights into one when my original flight to the other was cancelled Then I took a cab to the parking garage to get to my car.
There's also BWI. It's 36 miles from Reagan and 58 miles from Dulles.
I'm not a big fan of doing this. But as long as the same company can't purchase both airports, then there will be competition. It would be interesting to see how it works with two different companies competing with each other as well as BWI remaining under government control.
They could have a similar situation with LaGuardia, JFK and Newark.
Mass firings serves one fucking purpose; abusing the bullshit tactic of fear and intimidation to keep your slaves in line. At some point, your most valuable assets leave for the competition,
Except in Amazon's case, they are extinguishing most of their competition. So there's nowhere for them to go.
more likely to a brailed person-burger in a plane crash
Grammatical misadventure.
Either that or the OP meant that you have a better chance of being a sailor that's into bondage and threesomes actually living your sexual fantasy on a plane that unfortunately crashes, than this years flu shot actually being effective.
Privatization is better than de-orbit. Someone has to pay the bills. Why should it always be the US?
Perhaps, perhaps not. If there's some sort of catastrophic issue and the ISS needs to be deorbited and it's going to cost a lot of money to do so, then privatization may be bad. The US government can get the money to try to ensure that it is done as safely as possible. The share holders of a private company may decide that it's more profitable to dissolve the company and let if fall apart in orbit/deorbit on its own. I'd guess that the debris wouldn't stay in orbit for too long, but with the size of the ISS, that's a lot of junk to have, if it's broken up into small pieces, all over the place for a few weeks or months.
I'm not a fan of discontinuing the ISS. Especially when it's still functional and appears it will be so for many more years. Even more so if there's no direct replacement for it.
While I wasn't a fan of the space shuttle to begin with, I also think it was foolish to retire it with no valid replacement.
I'm not sure how the international community is going to feel about the US selling off the ISS since several other countries have invested it the ISS as well. But Russia has also sold tourist trips to it in the past.
Numbers stations have long been used to send coded messages to spies, who decided them with one time pads.
Has this ever been verified? It seems a pretty likely possibility, especially when you look at the location of many of these stations. But does anyone really know?
I would hasten to add that toxic workplace is as most subjective as can be, and that this is *your* opinion.
There are a lot of external references to Uber's toxic workplace. Try google searching Uber+toxic+workplace. A few hits I could dismiss as "a few haters", but I get 443 thousand hits.
This is why my TV is a 1953 Crosley model EU-21COLBe. No one is hacking it from the internet.
I used to be jealous of all of my friends with their fancy solid state color TVs because they would turn on without having to warm up the tubes first. But with modern smart TV's my trusty old EU-21 actually shows a picture faster than their newfangled televisions. And even then, they still have to wait for it to finish booting until they can actually change the channel.
Plus I've never once lost the remote. Granted I'm going to have to get a new remote once my kid goes off to college, but at least my remote never needs batteries. I have noted that the voice command for the remote doens't work as well as it used to though.
So do you also protest your local liqueur store because alcohol dealers are going to get your kids hooked on it?
If a local liquor store sells to kids, then yes, I would, because it is illegal for them to do so. There are also well-known and well distributed warnings regarding alcohol.
And this is exactly my point. If marijuana is sold with state/federal oversight I would expect the same type of regulations. I believe the current regulations are if you have the cash you can get it in an unmarked bag. If it's sold and regulated in the same manner that alcohol is currently, then it would be much safer then the current situation.
Are you such a piss poor parent that you can't educate your kids about such things?
Who educates the parents? This is a "natural plant product". What's the danger?
Who educates them on alcohol currently? Hell, it's a just "natural yeast byproduct". It's yeast piss, what could possible be dangerous about that. Yeast is the stuff that's used to make bread.
It's been my experience that happy well adjusted educated kids don't go out looking for drug dealers.
You don't have to "go out looking" to find kratom dealers.
I thought we were discussing marijuana. At least that's the post I was replying to.
Last thing I need is "harmless" drug dealers getting my kids hooked on "harmless" drugs.
So do you also protest your local liqueur store because alcohol dealers are going to get your kids hooked on it? While I agree with you that it's not harmless, it certainly seems to be less so than alcohol from what I've seen.
It seems to me that if the government can tax and control marijuana like it does alcohol, then it greatly reduces the viability of it as a business for drug dealers. Plus people actually know what they are purchasing and won't be getting a product that's been laced with who knows what. It also removes a large chunk of income from organized criminals.
Are you such a piss poor parent that you can't educate your kids about such things? It's been my experience that happy well adjusted educated kids don't go out looking for drug dealers. And with the demand for drugs, it's not like most drug dealers are going around looking for customers. Maybe it's different where you live.
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
You are obviously mistaken. What's happening here is that the statistics are obviously sexist, and probably misogynistic as well. I'm sure if I could be bothered to RTFA it would also become apparent that the statistics are not only racist but homophobic too. I even heard from a friend, who's sisters ex-boyfriend's third cousin's step daughter said that these very same statistics are part of a neo-Nazi group and abuses puppies on Thursdays.
Over 1 million EVs sold worldwide in 2017, huge growth rate
In the US the total number of cars sold in 2017 was estimated to be 6.3 million Of those 105,963 were EV. So about 1.7%. It's progress to be sure. Globally, the number of cars sold in 2017 is estimated to be at 79 million. I think I saw estimates that claimed close to 2 million EV's sold in 2017, which is about 2.5% of all cars sold worldwide are EV's. While many countries are planning to phase out ICE powered cars, they are still going to be with us for a long time. Poorer countries are going to have a hard time with this transition. Countries with larger landmass will too. I'm sure we'll see it in the US eventually as well, but it's going to be a very long time before the last gas station closes down.
In the 4th quarter of 2007 Apple only sold a bit over 1 million iPhones. Clearly a loser product, just like EVs.
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Air pollution ALONE may have taken more than a million lives. Perhaps that seems trivial in a country of well over a billion people but it's 1/2 the number of people in their standing army
If we look at the population of China at 1.379 billion people vs. the US in 1970, the year the EPA was founded, at 205.1 million the equivalent percentage of the US population in comparison to your 1 million would be 148,730.
According to this publication from MIT, There are an estimated 200K deaths per year in the US that are caused by air pollution.
Even if we go with the same year to look at the population, The US is at 323.1million. The equivalent number of today population would be 234,300. Damn near that many people die per year from air pollution in the US. Hell, in a little over 4 1/4 years, a million people die in the US from air pollution. I'd say they've certainly learned their lesson much faster than the US had, or has for that matter. The EPA was founded 48 years ago and The percentage of US residents that die from air pollution isn't that much better than China is today.
No they won't. The only blood will be on the floors where the panes have shattered and fallen down.
No, that's unlikely. I've seen Apple customers and those that work at the Apple stores. They mostly seem to be skinny little hipster types. They don't have enough mass to walk into safety glass and actually break it.
Now if they have a visiting delegation from Walmart, between the mass of the scooters and the passengers, the panes of glass are likely to fall out from the weight on the floor causing the base of the wall to warp.
The only real difference is that what took the USA 100 years will likely take China 50.
It's a little easier to do something when you aren't the first to do it. China was able to ramp up to an incredibly industrialized country in an extremely short period of time. But when it's known for a fact that it can be done and can buy, copy and steal the technology from those who did it first, it's also incredibly easier.
The US took a very long time in comparison to get to that point. It also took much longer to create realize/admit the causes and the solutions to acid rain, pollution, rivers catching on fire, etc. China has obviously learned from the mistakes of the EU and the US. They also don't have to worry as much about things like property rights. As long as they don't push things to the point of a major revolt, they can pretty much do what is best without having to worry about going to court to reallocate land. If your village of 3000 people are where a new forest has to be, then tough shit, you're moving. In the US, one person can halt a project indefinitely, or certainly delay it for a decade or more at the very least.
https://electrek.co/2017/12/01/chevy-bolt-ev-us-sales-records/
According to this Chevy sold 20K Bolts from December 2016 to November 2017. MSRP is $37,500, before any rebates
The Ford Focus Electric has an MSRP of $29K, again, before any rebates.
If you quit your job, eat no-doz for every meal and play games (and do nothing but play games) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you will die of old age before you finish playing games on Linux.
No, you will die of malnutrition or a heart attack in three to four weeks at the most. Granted, you'll probably look like you died of old age after eating nothing but No-Doze for a month without sleeping.
I don't think they would be that interested in our level of "intelligence," unfortunately.
Sure they would. We'll make great Pets
Why is it that the patent on MPEG-2 can expire, but copyrights last until the heat death of the universe. I suppose that's a rhetorical question, I know why, but it's just so damn annoying.
That's the big problem. Sally and Joe LocalShopOwners don't want to go online and see a torrent of vile, disgusting insults thrown at them just for saying something. Women don't want to experience rape and death threats just for being a woman on a gaming site. People don't want their kids to see racist hate mongering.
There is HUGE pressure to clean up the internet. It may have started as the private playground for a few, but it's a resource for the world now, and Sally and Joe and all others like them are demanding that safe havens for the worst and most vile are taken down, and platforms become a place where reasonable humans can go without fear.
On one hand, I think that any site that want's to set rules for behavior, should. If someone makes the kinds of threats you mentioned, they should be banned.
However, if people want to have their own little racist, sexist, whatever site, then they should be able to. Obviously as long as no one is breaking the law or actually trampling someones else's rights and freedom, then what's the issue.
If I don't like it, then I don't have to visit that site. This is what I don't understand about proponents of censorship. If someone else likes something and it's not harming anyone, then don't participate in it if you find it offensive.
You misunderstand your own example. What brings costs down is competition. A lot of big pieces of infrastructure like airports do not have head-to-head competition. If you hate your local airport and need to fly cross country for business, are you going to take a train? If the major freeways around your home are privately owned, are you going to walk?
Except in this case, Reagan National and Dulles are only 58 miles apart. There's a shuttle between them. I've taken return flights into one when my original flight to the other was cancelled Then I took a cab to the parking garage to get to my car.
There's also BWI. It's 36 miles from Reagan and 58 miles from Dulles.
I'm not a big fan of doing this. But as long as the same company can't purchase both airports, then there will be competition. It would be interesting to see how it works with two different companies competing with each other as well as BWI remaining under government control.
They could have a similar situation with LaGuardia, JFK and Newark.
Mass firings serves one fucking purpose; abusing the bullshit tactic of fear and intimidation to keep your slaves in line. At some point, your most valuable assets leave for the competition,
Except in Amazon's case, they are extinguishing most of their competition. So there's nowhere for them to go.
Thank you for sharing that. I vaguely remember hearing those at the time, but completely forgot about Etak. It was an interesting read.
more likely to a brailed person-burger in a plane crash
Grammatical misadventure.
Either that or the OP meant that you have a better chance of being a sailor that's into bondage and threesomes actually living your sexual fantasy on a plane that unfortunately crashes, than this years flu shot actually being effective.
Privatization is better than de-orbit. Someone has to pay the bills. Why should it always be the US?
Perhaps, perhaps not. If there's some sort of catastrophic issue and the ISS needs to be deorbited and it's going to cost a lot of money to do so, then privatization may be bad. The US government can get the money to try to ensure that it is done as safely as possible. The share holders of a private company may decide that it's more profitable to dissolve the company and let if fall apart in orbit/deorbit on its own. I'd guess that the debris wouldn't stay in orbit for too long, but with the size of the ISS, that's a lot of junk to have, if it's broken up into small pieces, all over the place for a few weeks or months.
I'm not a fan of discontinuing the ISS. Especially when it's still functional and appears it will be so for many more years. Even more so if there's no direct replacement for it.
While I wasn't a fan of the space shuttle to begin with, I also think it was foolish to retire it with no valid replacement.
I'm not sure how the international community is going to feel about the US selling off the ISS since several other countries have invested it the ISS as well. But Russia has also sold tourist trips to it in the past.
Numbers stations have long been used to send coded messages to spies, who decided them with one time pads.
Has this ever been verified? It seems a pretty likely possibility, especially when you look at the location of many of these stations. But does anyone really know?
If you valued high quality audio you would not be listening to music on a smartphone.
Or earbuds. Over the ear headphones are the only way to go if you care about portable high quality audio.
I know there are a lot of audiophiles who have good things to say about the Apple products.
Do they use a green marker on the edge of their iPhone too? Or tape Brilliant Pebbles to the headphone jack? What about the Blackbody? Just curious.
promotes such a toxic workplace...
I would hasten to add that toxic workplace is as most subjective as can be, and that this is *your* opinion. There are a lot of external references to Uber's toxic workplace. Try google searching Uber+toxic+workplace. A few hits I could dismiss as "a few haters", but I get 443 thousand hits.
Here are some of the top few. It looks pretty toxic to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... https://thinkprogress.org/trav... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://theconversation.com/fix... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.theguardian.com/te... https://qz.com/1010986/a-timel...
Maybe Alphabet doesn't believe that Google's results are accurate. ;-)
Strangely, I just ran the same search in Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Google: 157,000 hits
Bing: 3,690,000 hits
Yahoo: 21,000,000 hits
This is why my TV is a 1953 Crosley model EU-21COLBe. No one is hacking it from the internet.
I used to be jealous of all of my friends with their fancy solid state color TVs because they would turn on without having to warm up the tubes first. But with modern smart TV's my trusty old EU-21 actually shows a picture faster than their newfangled televisions. And even then, they still have to wait for it to finish booting until they can actually change the channel.
Plus I've never once lost the remote. Granted I'm going to have to get a new remote once my kid goes off to college, but at least my remote never needs batteries. I have noted that the voice command for the remote doens't work as well as it used to though.
So do you also protest your local liqueur store because alcohol dealers are going to get your kids hooked on it?
If a local liquor store sells to kids, then yes, I would, because it is illegal for them to do so. There are also well-known and well distributed warnings regarding alcohol.
And this is exactly my point. If marijuana is sold with state/federal oversight I would expect the same type of regulations. I believe the current regulations are if you have the cash you can get it in an unmarked bag. If it's sold and regulated in the same manner that alcohol is currently, then it would be much safer then the current situation.
Are you such a piss poor parent that you can't educate your kids about such things?
Who educates the parents? This is a "natural plant product". What's the danger?
Who educates them on alcohol currently? Hell, it's a just "natural yeast byproduct". It's yeast piss, what could possible be dangerous about that. Yeast is the stuff that's used to make bread.
It's been my experience that happy well adjusted educated kids don't go out looking for drug dealers.
You don't have to "go out looking" to find kratom dealers.
I thought we were discussing marijuana. At least that's the post I was replying to.
Last thing I need is "harmless" drug dealers getting my kids hooked on "harmless" drugs.
So do you also protest your local liqueur store because alcohol dealers are going to get your kids hooked on it? While I agree with you that it's not harmless, it certainly seems to be less so than alcohol from what I've seen.
It seems to me that if the government can tax and control marijuana like it does alcohol, then it greatly reduces the viability of it as a business for drug dealers. Plus people actually know what they are purchasing and won't be getting a product that's been laced with who knows what. It also removes a large chunk of income from organized criminals.
Are you such a piss poor parent that you can't educate your kids about such things? It's been my experience that happy well adjusted educated kids don't go out looking for drug dealers. And with the demand for drugs, it's not like most drug dealers are going around looking for customers. Maybe it's different where you live.
I can't tell if you are actually APK or someone impersonating him for comedic purposes.
Turns out the wage gap really is simply because of personal choices.
You are obviously mistaken. What's happening here is that the statistics are obviously sexist, and probably misogynistic as well. I'm sure if I could be bothered to RTFA it would also become apparent that the statistics are not only racist but homophobic too. I even heard from a friend, who's sisters ex-boyfriend's third cousin's step daughter said that these very same statistics are part of a neo-Nazi group and abuses puppies on Thursdays.
Over 1 million EVs sold worldwide in 2017, huge growth rate
In the US the total number of cars sold in 2017 was estimated to be 6.3 million Of those 105,963 were EV. So about 1.7%. It's progress to be sure. Globally, the number of cars sold in 2017 is estimated to be at 79 million. I think I saw estimates that claimed close to 2 million EV's sold in 2017, which is about 2.5% of all cars sold worldwide are EV's. While many countries are planning to phase out ICE powered cars, they are still going to be with us for a long time. Poorer countries are going to have a hard time with this transition. Countries with larger landmass will too. I'm sure we'll see it in the US eventually as well, but it's going to be a very long time before the last gas station closes down.
In the 4th quarter of 2007 Apple only sold a bit over 1 million iPhones. Clearly a loser product, just like EVs.
So what. The Zune sold 1 million units in the first 6 months.
Given Soul is 8 billion km from Planet, I find yor Calculators amuzing.
I find your auto complete to be even more amusing.
Just what is a "Yor calculator"?