If you nationalize Facebook then they would be bound by the Constitution of the USA. Passing privacy laws just gives them a reason to lobby/bribe for legal changes when the voters aren't looking.
How many of the suspects locked in Guantanamo Bay have even been charged? Keeping suspects in jail till they die of old age isn't legal in the USA. The US government has proved they are willing (and able) to lock people up without trial and throw away the key. Also notice they intend to try them under military law, even though they claim none of them are soldiers, and they claim juristiction over crimes committed in foreign countries.
By the standards of most Western Countries his sex life was consentual. Just in that one country was not using a condum considered non consentual, if he did, and she needed rather a lot of convincing to make the complaint, and the statute of limitations is past. At this point the only thing he's hiding from is charges for skipping bail.
If you put up a billboard in your front yard you should not complain that people read it. Publicly accessible websites are not private, Google doesn't NEED explicit permission to index it.
The EU can implement a firewall block to prevent access to Google news. They can also sieze the money that advertisers pay them to run adds (the point of having Google news run in the EU). They can also block Google from indexing anything in the EU.
Stop indexing European news sites, keep Google news running. Google keeps getting paid (add revenue) but doesn't have any local news sites demanding payment.
Hiring more workers is cheaper than chronic overtime. Hiring and training new workers is more expensive than keeping your current workers. Unless there is a severe personnel shortage this behavior reduces corporate profitability.
Was the quarterly bonus higher than the unpaid overtime? If it was the company is doing it wrong. If it's not then the workers are behaving illogically.
What goes around, comes around. These tools that America uses to control the world (with the help of their corrupt dictator friends) also work against America, and that is what Russia has (recently) shown. Also: 1-Massive American food subsidies are a way the ruling elite takes money from the masses. This leads to surplus food that must be dumped on the third world, destroying their economy. 2-America opposes renewable energy because the oil industry is run by the ruling elite, so switching takes money from them. 3-America has offshored the production of screwdrivers a long time ago. The profit margins for the ruling elite is higher that way. Of course they sell screwdrivers to the dictators, how else can they subjugate their people for the benefit of the ruling elite?
Given how hard the big companies are trying to erase network neutrality they should spend more time monitoring for hate speech. If anything happened to this critic after complaining about death threats they could be judged negligent in a jury trial.
If you legalize all the drugs then government regulation will eliminate the "Bad Heroin", Walmart will eliminate organized crime (competition), and falling prices will eliminate all the drug crime (nobody robs banks to buy beer).
Someone would have to pay for it, and satellite bandwidth for tens of thousands of aircraft over the entire planetary surface is expensive. You could provide (not very fast) internet for about 50 people from the bandwidth of your proposed system.
If you install radar in the satellites then you can directly see all aircraft and drones, no transponder required. Add in doppler radar to see weather systems and you can build a global air traffic routing system for optimal routing of aircraft. Fees from comercial aircraft (for lower fuel costs by mapping wind speeds, and direct flight paths instead of hub and spoke routing) would pay for the entire system.
Your cost comparison left out a few large pieces. The waste storage cost of nuclear, the dismantling cost at end of life for both, and the massive operating subsidy for the nuclear reactor due to it producing power at 30 cents per kwh where the wind turbines produce at 3 cents per kwh.
Henry Ford's first car plant couldn't possibly build every car America would need. It's a good thing manufacturing scales, and you can just build more factories to get sufficient capacity. The same with mining.
Orbital solar isn't financially viable. You can build x10 the solar plant on earth + batteries, giving the same day and night power output (even in Alaska) and still be less than 1% of the cost of orbital solar. Orbital solar will always need subsidies to compete.
Covering Death Valley with solar would generate sufficient power to run all of America. There is no reason to think Fusion will be cheaper than Fission plants, and they lose money without subsidies.
If we must use nuclear then use Thorium. It doesn't require isotope separation (cost) and we have 4x the quantity of fuel. Also use molten salt instead of pressurized light water. It doesn't explode or suffer meltdowns. Western countries chose the uranium pressurized light water reactors because they can produce nuclear weapons.
1-The rate of Nuclear power plant generation over the last 5 decades is much worse than the rate of Solar power plant generation. If we spend as much on solar as we have on nuclear the resulting power output will be higher due to the lower cost of solar. 2-Your plan doesn't solve the major crippling problem with nuclear, the politics.
Illegals pay (some) taxes but can't collect (most) benefits. They do jobs that would otherwise get offshored to Mexico or China. I don't see the drain. The evidence suggests illegals are a net benefit to America.
How about telling the Navy to cancel a new ship? A single Ford class ship is $12 Billion (plus $2 Billion in repairs), more than enough for the first installment on the ($70 billion) wall.
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If you nationalize Facebook then they would be bound by the Constitution of the USA. Passing privacy laws just gives them a reason to lobby/bribe for legal changes when the voters aren't looking.
How many of the suspects locked in Guantanamo Bay have even been charged? Keeping suspects in jail till they die of old age isn't legal in the USA. The US government has proved they are willing (and able) to lock people up without trial and throw away the key. Also notice they intend to try them under military law, even though they claim none of them are soldiers, and they claim juristiction over crimes committed in foreign countries.
By the standards of most Western Countries his sex life was consentual. Just in that one country was not using a condum considered non consentual, if he did, and she needed rather a lot of convincing to make the complaint, and the statute of limitations is past. At this point the only thing he's hiding from is charges for skipping bail.
If you put up a billboard in your front yard you should not complain that people read it. Publicly accessible websites are not private, Google doesn't NEED explicit permission to index it.
The EU can implement a firewall block to prevent access to Google news. They can also sieze the money that advertisers pay them to run adds (the point of having Google news run in the EU). They can also block Google from indexing anything in the EU.
Stop indexing European news sites, keep Google news running. Google keeps getting paid (add revenue) but doesn't have any local news sites demanding payment.
Hiring more workers is cheaper than chronic overtime. Hiring and training new workers is more expensive than keeping your current workers. Unless there is a severe personnel shortage this behavior reduces corporate profitability.
Was the quarterly bonus higher than the unpaid overtime? If it was the company is doing it wrong. If it's not then the workers are behaving illogically.
What goes around, comes around. These tools that America uses to control the world (with the help of their corrupt dictator friends) also work against America, and that is what Russia has (recently) shown. Also: 1-Massive American food subsidies are a way the ruling elite takes money from the masses. This leads to surplus food that must be dumped on the third world, destroying their economy. 2-America opposes renewable energy because the oil industry is run by the ruling elite, so switching takes money from them. 3-America has offshored the production of screwdrivers a long time ago. The profit margins for the ruling elite is higher that way. Of course they sell screwdrivers to the dictators, how else can they subjugate their people for the benefit of the ruling elite?
Given how hard the big companies are trying to erase network neutrality they should spend more time monitoring for hate speech. If anything happened to this critic after complaining about death threats they could be judged negligent in a jury trial.
If you legalize all the drugs then government regulation will eliminate the "Bad Heroin", Walmart will eliminate organized crime (competition), and falling prices will eliminate all the drug crime (nobody robs banks to buy beer).
Are you suggesting their prior business practices rule out that market?
Someone would have to pay for it, and satellite bandwidth for tens of thousands of aircraft over the entire planetary surface is expensive. You could provide (not very fast) internet for about 50 people from the bandwidth of your proposed system.
It's a Radar transponder. When it detects a radar signal it transmits the aircraft position (from the onboard GPS receiver) and aircraft ID.
If you install radar in the satellites then you can directly see all aircraft and drones, no transponder required. Add in doppler radar to see weather systems and you can build a global air traffic routing system for optimal routing of aircraft. Fees from comercial aircraft (for lower fuel costs by mapping wind speeds, and direct flight paths instead of hub and spoke routing) would pay for the entire system.
Your cost comparison left out a few large pieces. The waste storage cost of nuclear, the dismantling cost at end of life for both, and the massive operating subsidy for the nuclear reactor due to it producing power at 30 cents per kwh where the wind turbines produce at 3 cents per kwh.
Henry Ford's first car plant couldn't possibly build every car America would need. It's a good thing manufacturing scales, and you can just build more factories to get sufficient capacity. The same with mining.
We have plenty of nuclear weapons, so clearly the lack of waste reprocessing isn't a barrier to them.
We can take CO2 from the air and make fuel to run ships. It just requires power.
Orbital solar isn't financially viable. You can build x10 the solar plant on earth + batteries, giving the same day and night power output (even in Alaska) and still be less than 1% of the cost of orbital solar. Orbital solar will always need subsidies to compete.
Covering Death Valley with solar would generate sufficient power to run all of America. There is no reason to think Fusion will be cheaper than Fission plants, and they lose money without subsidies.
If we must use nuclear then use Thorium. It doesn't require isotope separation (cost) and we have 4x the quantity of fuel. Also use molten salt instead of pressurized light water. It doesn't explode or suffer meltdowns. Western countries chose the uranium pressurized light water reactors because they can produce nuclear weapons.
1-The rate of Nuclear power plant generation over the last 5 decades is much worse than the rate of Solar power plant generation. If we spend as much on solar as we have on nuclear the resulting power output will be higher due to the lower cost of solar. 2-Your plan doesn't solve the major crippling problem with nuclear, the politics.
Illegals pay (some) taxes but can't collect (most) benefits. They do jobs that would otherwise get offshored to Mexico or China. I don't see the drain. The evidence suggests illegals are a net benefit to America.
How about telling the Navy to cancel a new ship? A single Ford class ship is $12 Billion (plus $2 Billion in repairs), more than enough for the first installment on the ($70 billion) wall.