Doubling wages of the pickers doesn't drive the price up by 400%. Wages make up less than half the total price. The reason the price of strawberries is a problem to American farmers is if they raise the price the Mexicans will take the market.
If a job isn't valuable enough to justify paying a living wage, then let the third world have it. If only Mexicans can get those jobs, then you've already exported the jobs. The only thing you're retaining is healthcare/police/social service expenses.
Iran seems to be mellowing quite nicely, compared to ISIS and other extremist Islamic groups. All groups get more extreme when violently supressed, not just religious ones.
When your holy book says this is the word of God and these are the rules you shall live by, those outdated morals become a problem. We need to find a way to issue updates to the religions of the world. Continuing to use version 1.0 is causing compatibility issues.
You need a system where you know who to blame for problems. Try eliminating the presidential elections and just have the Legislature choose the president instead. That means his (her) party has 2 of the three, meaning responsible for everything that happens. Also a Senators vote should be weighted by the number of voters in his/her riding, so small states can't hold the country hostage.
Germans are very organized people, very law abiding and rules oriented. It makes them great engineers, but also gives them tunnel vision about the reasons behind those rules. Sometimes you have to question the rules though, because people make mistakes and pass bad rules.
And as an added bonus, it's probably cheaper (to the record company) than paying off congress critters to extend copyright over and over. At least some stuff would enter the public domain. No reason to wait 50 years though, most money is made in the first five.
I think pushing government to start collecting property tax on the trillions of dollars in untaxed intelectual property would work better. Tax on real estate covers schools and stuff, tax on IP would cover copyright enforcement expenses. The record companies only need to remember the politicians for the renewals, an IP property tax would pay forever.
The Aztecs interacting with the Spaniards is equivelent to humans interacting with sentient AI. Sparta had an entire civilization based upon slavery of sentient creatures, and spent a lot of their time putting down slave revolts. You must realize that human programmers will make AI just like us, because that's the only template/example we have to copy.
This is about profit margins. To fix your car you can shop around and get the best deal. But if they ban competition then you must go to a single place and pay whatever they ask or throw away the car. It wipes out the independant garages, the aftermarket parts, and the used parts market all at once.
Step 1: find out what car companies are behind this.
Step 2: never buy from them again.
After all, they are all foreign companies now. Having a main office in my country (and nothing else) might be good enough for the government, but not for me.
If American farmers can't make a profit without subsidies then export those jobs to the third world. Let Mexico worry about finding enough water for the almond crop.
Your link says some of the farmers sell their water for twice what they pay for it, meaning they get water for less than half what the cities pay for it. That sounds like a subsidy to me. There are 3 ways to fight the drought: 1-rainwater cisterns to catch rainwater instead of dumping it in the ocean. 2-wastewater treatment plants are cheaper than desalination, and work fine for agricultural use. 3-have farmers pay fair market rates for water. This will stop them wasting it by dumping it on the desert to grow almonds/rice/alfalfa.
Emergency preparedness is like car insurance: it's something you need to reduce your risk, not an investment. You can't appraise insurance by weighing how much you've previously saved/made from it.
If the recording is available to everyone equally, then the world would be a (mostly) better place. Unfortunately the rich and powerful will always work towards having control.
The tech companies won't have to, the insurance companies will do the job for them. Human error causes most accidents, therefore they can tripple your insurance if you drive the car. Never mind that accidents will diminish and insurance payouts will plummet with automatic cars, they will still need to drive up your insurance rates.
How do they avoid conflict with America's medical records privacy laws? Also, this is a death warrant for America's computer industry. Rule number one of spying: it must be done in secret, or you can't trust anything you get.
Existing phones have the processing power to do end to end encryption without any new hardware. You'll need to audit or re-write your entire software stack (including baseband) to keep out back doors of course, and that will be expensive. But unit cost increase will still be a few dollars per phone, not enough to make them unsellable.
Fish are adapted for a specific level of salt in their water. It would be like fixing your car while drinking a couple of beers, but someone slips you 100 proof alcohol beer instead, you'd get totally wrecked.
A nuclear reactor converts radiation into power. If you reprocess the spent fuel rods you can put the radiation back into the reactor, eliminating the long term storage problem.
Autonomous weapons will make the world a nicer place. 1-If someone shoots at a human soldier they will always respond, if someone shoots at a drone you can choose not to. A willingness to take casualties gives the military more options to solve the problem. 2-Drones always follow orders. If a drone executes someone it's a deliberate attack ordered by the government of that country. There is no human error excuse.
The USA should stop using drone strikes, but not because of any morality reason. 1-Public executions make you the enemy, and the more enemies you have the less "safe" you are. 2-America needs public goodwill to rule the world cheaply, and their finances show they can't afford the expensive way to rule the world.
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Doubling wages of the pickers doesn't drive the price up by 400%. Wages make up less than half the total price. The reason the price of strawberries is a problem to American farmers is if they raise the price the Mexicans will take the market.
If a job isn't valuable enough to justify paying a living wage, then let the third world have it. If only Mexicans can get those jobs, then you've already exported the jobs. The only thing you're retaining is healthcare/police/social service expenses.
Iran seems to be mellowing quite nicely, compared to ISIS and other extremist Islamic groups. All groups get more extreme when violently supressed, not just religious ones.
When your holy book says this is the word of God and these are the rules you shall live by, those outdated morals become a problem. We need to find a way to issue updates to the religions of the world. Continuing to use version 1.0 is causing compatibility issues.
Or he could have gotten a higher bid from elsewhere. Or his boss could have made the call. This looks good but it's not proof.
You need a system where you know who to blame for problems. Try eliminating the presidential elections and just have the Legislature choose the president instead. That means his (her) party has 2 of the three, meaning responsible for everything that happens. Also a Senators vote should be weighted by the number of voters in his/her riding, so small states can't hold the country hostage.
The way to drive down wages and benefits is to increase the supply. The education and H1B both do that.
Germans are very organized people, very law abiding and rules oriented. It makes them great engineers, but also gives them tunnel vision about the reasons behind those rules. Sometimes you have to question the rules though, because people make mistakes and pass bad rules.
And as an added bonus, it's probably cheaper (to the record company) than paying off congress critters to extend copyright over and over. At least some stuff would enter the public domain. No reason to wait 50 years though, most money is made in the first five.
I think pushing government to start collecting property tax on the trillions of dollars in untaxed intelectual property would work better. Tax on real estate covers schools and stuff, tax on IP would cover copyright enforcement expenses. The record companies only need to remember the politicians for the renewals, an IP property tax would pay forever.
The Aztecs interacting with the Spaniards is equivelent to humans interacting with sentient AI. Sparta had an entire civilization based upon slavery of sentient creatures, and spent a lot of their time putting down slave revolts. You must realize that human programmers will make AI just like us, because that's the only template/example we have to copy.
Yet another advantage of buying cars from Asia. Their car companies have little to no influence over our government.
This is about profit margins. To fix your car you can shop around and get the best deal. But if they ban competition then you must go to a single place and pay whatever they ask or throw away the car. It wipes out the independant garages, the aftermarket parts, and the used parts market all at once.
Step 1: find out what car companies are behind this. Step 2: never buy from them again. After all, they are all foreign companies now. Having a main office in my country (and nothing else) might be good enough for the government, but not for me.
If American farmers can't make a profit without subsidies then export those jobs to the third world. Let Mexico worry about finding enough water for the almond crop.
Your link says some of the farmers sell their water for twice what they pay for it, meaning they get water for less than half what the cities pay for it. That sounds like a subsidy to me. There are 3 ways to fight the drought: 1-rainwater cisterns to catch rainwater instead of dumping it in the ocean. 2-wastewater treatment plants are cheaper than desalination, and work fine for agricultural use. 3-have farmers pay fair market rates for water. This will stop them wasting it by dumping it on the desert to grow almonds/rice/alfalfa.
Emergency preparedness is like car insurance: it's something you need to reduce your risk, not an investment. You can't appraise insurance by weighing how much you've previously saved/made from it.
If the recording is available to everyone equally, then the world would be a (mostly) better place. Unfortunately the rich and powerful will always work towards having control.
The tech companies won't have to, the insurance companies will do the job for them. Human error causes most accidents, therefore they can tripple your insurance if you drive the car. Never mind that accidents will diminish and insurance payouts will plummet with automatic cars, they will still need to drive up your insurance rates.
How do they avoid conflict with America's medical records privacy laws? Also, this is a death warrant for America's computer industry. Rule number one of spying: it must be done in secret, or you can't trust anything you get.
Existing phones have the processing power to do end to end encryption without any new hardware. You'll need to audit or re-write your entire software stack (including baseband) to keep out back doors of course, and that will be expensive. But unit cost increase will still be a few dollars per phone, not enough to make them unsellable.
Fish are adapted for a specific level of salt in their water. It would be like fixing your car while drinking a couple of beers, but someone slips you 100 proof alcohol beer instead, you'd get totally wrecked.
A nuclear reactor converts radiation into power. If you reprocess the spent fuel rods you can put the radiation back into the reactor, eliminating the long term storage problem.
Autonomous weapons will make the world a nicer place. 1-If someone shoots at a human soldier they will always respond, if someone shoots at a drone you can choose not to. A willingness to take casualties gives the military more options to solve the problem. 2-Drones always follow orders. If a drone executes someone it's a deliberate attack ordered by the government of that country. There is no human error excuse.
The USA should stop using drone strikes, but not because of any morality reason. 1-Public executions make you the enemy, and the more enemies you have the less "safe" you are. 2-America needs public goodwill to rule the world cheaply, and their finances show they can't afford the expensive way to rule the world.