Medicare for all and ending the wars would both put huge industries and their lobbyists out of work, that's why they don't happen regardless of poll numbers. Truthfully it would cause a bit of economic chaos for a while if we stopped killing people / letting people die.
Perhaps the situation could be improved by allowing people to invalidate their absentee ballot in some way. Fill out and mail the ballot your spouse forces you to, then show up on election day and ask that your previous vote be voided in favor of a new one. Since the absentee ballot is still in the envelope at that point it should be possible.
The last mention of it I can good is from last October and states that -- as of October 2017 -- the insurance price was exactly the same for a flight-proven rocket as a new rocket. Odds are that remains the case today, since there've been no Falcon 9 launch failures since.
If they're able to increase launch cadence to the point where they can do more launches than they have customers for, that's when they'll lower prices to try to grow the market (to companies that currently aren't considering satellites due to the launch costs).
Light rail -- or even city buses -- are never anywhere near as cheap as driving if you already have a car to do the trips to places the bus/train won't take you. Unless you have a super-expensive muscle car.
The longest possible route I can take on Sacramento's light rail is about twice the cost of gas, and the vast majority of desirable trips will be much shorter while the ticket price remains the same regardless of whether you're going a block or 25 miles. Besides costing 2-10 times as much, it of course takes 2-3 times as long to reach the destination.
The only people who care about per capita emissions above total emissions are those attempting some sort of social engineering.
And anyone who doesn't think genocide or mass involuntary sterilization sounds like a good solution. If we are to have any hope of supporting the still-rapidly-expanding population of the world, each person in it will have to cause far fewer emissions to make room for all the new people.
The reason to change is that it's really annoying to mix systems, as the grandparent said. Wouldn't it be nice for consumers to actually be able to tell if something they're buying by the liter is cheaper than something they're buying by the gallon? Wouldn't it be easier if all those 5K races Americans run related to distances they drive? Wouldn't it be nice if the common American could understand science news without having to convert back and forth in their head? How about cooking a meal where half your measurements are in imperial and half in metric? Tired of weighing medicines in milligrams and other things in ounces?
The US has already adopted the metric system, but only as another set of random incoherent measurements along with our teaspoons and cups and miles. All we have to do is simplify by removing the unnecessary units.
And who cares if roads are 1 mile apart or 1.6 km apart? Most of us aren't OCD about road spacing and few places are laid out like that anyway.
Almost all areas have at least two ISPs, the telephone company and the cable company.
No, this is not true at all. Major cities have those two options. Smaller cities/towns do not have cable (people get satellite TV, and yes they could get satellite internet if they want to pay even more for high latency and slower speeds but that's not real broadband).
And even where there ought to be two options, often there isn't. The last place I lived -- which was actually a fairly dense suburb of the capitol of California -- Comcast was my only option because AT&T declared the neighborhood oversubscribed and refused to offer DSL service. And where I currently live, also, Comcast is my only option -- AT&T doesn't explain why, but I just checked their website and verified they still won't offer me DSL.
Without MoviePass, I'll average 3-5 movies a year which I'll go to on the discount days spending $15-$25 total. With MoviePass, I'll see 3 a month (got their 3 a month plan which is $8 but I'd go up to maybe $12 for it). I'd still go for this if they told me I can't see movies until they've been out for a month and I can only go on weekdays when the theater is empty (heck, I'd appreciate an app that can tell me a theater is going to be nice and empty). I don't see how it can fail to be profitable for theaters to sign up people like me to such plans.
The unlimited plans may not be workable (though if they restrict the viewing times enough it seems like it could be profitable to theaters), but there's certainly profit to be made with a carefully designed movie subscription plan.
If a company is going to get tax incentives to move to a particular spot based on the theoretical benefits it'll provide, it damn well better be regulated to ensure it produces what it promised. Although personally -- even though I'm a socialist -- I'd prefer to pass a law outlawing localities from providing incentives to compete with each other for companies (which is of course terribly inefficient for the state/country as a whole).
Could be worse. Live in a more rural town like mine and you have to have to carefully jump over horse poop on all the trails, which is much bigger than smellier than human poop.
We're moving planets in the same sense that an ant walking past the Empire State Building moves it. Which is to say an utterly irrelevant technicality so useless as to be fundamentally dishonest.
Trump lost the popular vote by far, far more than any previous electoral college winner, and won a whole slew of states by razor thin margins in an amazingly statistically improbable event. Either it was a ton of luck or it was carefully targeted regional vote manipulation by a certain foreign country known to have purchased carefully targeted ads designed to trick voters with lies.
There's one huge problem with your theory: theaters already offer big discounts for particular days of the week. I can see a movie that's been out less than 2 weeks on a Tuesday for $5, if I see the same movie on a Saturday it's $12.75. If they can give people a 60% price cut because it's Tuesday, they could clearly give MoviePass a 60% price cut for similar draw reasons. If they're paying the studios $12.75 for the ticket I pay $5 for on a Tuesday, I would be rather shocked by that and I pity them their loss since I never buy concessions... but it's apparently working for the theaters somehow so they could do the same thing for MoviePass if it works for them.
It has nothing to do with repaying anything. It has to do with the rule of law and established treaties and established court decisions. You can't tear up a treaty and abolish reservation autonomy just because you'd like to. Well okay you can and the US did a lot of that to reduce the former treaties to the current forms, but doing so has chilling effects on the willingness of anyone else to trust your word in the future.
Say you consider the CA nor the self-signed website owner equally trustworthy/untrustworthy. You're still much better off trusting a dozen CAs than a thousand website owners. Browser-trusted CAs allow you to risk your trust on as few entities as possible. You'll still get burned sometimes, but at least you'll be more likely to know who to blame.
The real question is whether we can keep or improve on the current safety record while reducing the cost to orbit.
The same thing that will reduce cost to orbit will be the biggest boon to safety: launching more frequently. It's very hard to work out all the bugs of a rocket that only launches a dozen times before it's replaced by a new model, compared to a rocket that launches thousands of times a year.
God murders more millions of unborn babies than abortion ever can. In the natural state god made humans, the majority die either in the womb or before they're toddlers. Would you rather follow His example with abortions galore, or "play god" by trying something that doesn't kill any viable lumps of cells?
Choosing to travel by private car or tracked rideshare isn't mandatory. You can take public transit, ride your bike, walk, or catch a ride with a friend.
At any rate, license plate tracking cameras are just as much the death of driving privacy regardless of whether cars self-drive.
Depends on how much research you're willing to do / capable of doing and how much you value the research time at, and how willing you are to still end up making a mistake. I run Linux exclusively but have always bought cheap Windows PCs to do so. Several times that's come back to bite me with hardware that has no driver, or for which the driver disappears after a time. For example I got a netbook with an Intel graphics chip because I read Intel was the only company with open source 3D drivers at the time... but it turned out Intel GMA 500 was outsourced by Intel to another company and thus closed source. I had specifically verified that it worked with Linux too, which it did... for a while, until I could no longer keep using the one ancient kernel which the binary blob driver worked with. Since then, no 3D acceleration and suspend / hibernate don't work.
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Medicare for all and ending the wars would both put huge industries and their lobbyists out of work, that's why they don't happen regardless of poll numbers. Truthfully it would cause a bit of economic chaos for a while if we stopped killing people / letting people die.
Perhaps the situation could be improved by allowing people to invalidate their absentee ballot in some way. Fill out and mail the ballot your spouse forces you to, then show up on election day and ask that your previous vote be voided in favor of a new one. Since the absentee ballot is still in the envelope at that point it should be possible.
Zero, because it says right in the summary this is for military troops living abroad only.
Come to California. We have non-party primaries with the general election being a runoff between the top two.
*good=google somehow.
The last mention of it I can good is from last October and states that -- as of October 2017 -- the insurance price was exactly the same for a flight-proven rocket as a new rocket. Odds are that remains the case today, since there've been no Falcon 9 launch failures since.
If they're able to increase launch cadence to the point where they can do more launches than they have customers for, that's when they'll lower prices to try to grow the market (to companies that currently aren't considering satellites due to the launch costs).
Light rail -- or even city buses -- are never anywhere near as cheap as driving if you already have a car to do the trips to places the bus/train won't take you. Unless you have a super-expensive muscle car.
The longest possible route I can take on Sacramento's light rail is about twice the cost of gas, and the vast majority of desirable trips will be much shorter while the ticket price remains the same regardless of whether you're going a block or 25 miles. Besides costing 2-10 times as much, it of course takes 2-3 times as long to reach the destination.
And anyone who doesn't think genocide or mass involuntary sterilization sounds like a good solution. If we are to have any hope of supporting the still-rapidly-expanding population of the world, each person in it will have to cause far fewer emissions to make room for all the new people.
The reason to change is that it's really annoying to mix systems, as the grandparent said. Wouldn't it be nice for consumers to actually be able to tell if something they're buying by the liter is cheaper than something they're buying by the gallon? Wouldn't it be easier if all those 5K races Americans run related to distances they drive? Wouldn't it be nice if the common American could understand science news without having to convert back and forth in their head? How about cooking a meal where half your measurements are in imperial and half in metric? Tired of weighing medicines in milligrams and other things in ounces?
The US has already adopted the metric system, but only as another set of random incoherent measurements along with our teaspoons and cups and miles. All we have to do is simplify by removing the unnecessary units.
And who cares if roads are 1 mile apart or 1.6 km apart? Most of us aren't OCD about road spacing and few places are laid out like that anyway.
No, this is not true at all. Major cities have those two options. Smaller cities/towns do not have cable (people get satellite TV, and yes they could get satellite internet if they want to pay even more for high latency and slower speeds but that's not real broadband).
And even where there ought to be two options, often there isn't. The last place I lived -- which was actually a fairly dense suburb of the capitol of California -- Comcast was my only option because AT&T declared the neighborhood oversubscribed and refused to offer DSL service. And where I currently live, also, Comcast is my only option -- AT&T doesn't explain why, but I just checked their website and verified they still won't offer me DSL.
Without MoviePass, I'll average 3-5 movies a year which I'll go to on the discount days spending $15-$25 total. With MoviePass, I'll see 3 a month (got their 3 a month plan which is $8 but I'd go up to maybe $12 for it). I'd still go for this if they told me I can't see movies until they've been out for a month and I can only go on weekdays when the theater is empty (heck, I'd appreciate an app that can tell me a theater is going to be nice and empty). I don't see how it can fail to be profitable for theaters to sign up people like me to such plans.
The unlimited plans may not be workable (though if they restrict the viewing times enough it seems like it could be profitable to theaters), but there's certainly profit to be made with a carefully designed movie subscription plan.
If a company is going to get tax incentives to move to a particular spot based on the theoretical benefits it'll provide, it damn well better be regulated to ensure it produces what it promised. Although personally -- even though I'm a socialist -- I'd prefer to pass a law outlawing localities from providing incentives to compete with each other for companies (which is of course terribly inefficient for the state/country as a whole).
Could be worse. Live in a more rural town like mine and you have to have to carefully jump over horse poop on all the trails, which is much bigger than smellier than human poop.
More than the 1.3 million people a year human drivers kill.
We're moving planets in the same sense that an ant walking past the Empire State Building moves it. Which is to say an utterly irrelevant technicality so useless as to be fundamentally dishonest.
Trump lost the popular vote by far, far more than any previous electoral college winner, and won a whole slew of states by razor thin margins in an amazingly statistically improbable event. Either it was a ton of luck or it was carefully targeted regional vote manipulation by a certain foreign country known to have purchased carefully targeted ads designed to trick voters with lies.
There's one huge problem with your theory: theaters already offer big discounts for particular days of the week. I can see a movie that's been out less than 2 weeks on a Tuesday for $5, if I see the same movie on a Saturday it's $12.75. If they can give people a 60% price cut because it's Tuesday, they could clearly give MoviePass a 60% price cut for similar draw reasons. If they're paying the studios $12.75 for the ticket I pay $5 for on a Tuesday, I would be rather shocked by that and I pity them their loss since I never buy concessions... but it's apparently working for the theaters somehow so they could do the same thing for MoviePass if it works for them.
It has nothing to do with repaying anything. It has to do with the rule of law and established treaties and established court decisions. You can't tear up a treaty and abolish reservation autonomy just because you'd like to. Well okay you can and the US did a lot of that to reduce the former treaties to the current forms, but doing so has chilling effects on the willingness of anyone else to trust your word in the future.
Say you consider the CA nor the self-signed website owner equally trustworthy/untrustworthy. You're still much better off trusting a dozen CAs than a thousand website owners. Browser-trusted CAs allow you to risk your trust on as few entities as possible. You'll still get burned sometimes, but at least you'll be more likely to know who to blame.
The same thing that will reduce cost to orbit will be the biggest boon to safety: launching more frequently. It's very hard to work out all the bugs of a rocket that only launches a dozen times before it's replaced by a new model, compared to a rocket that launches thousands of times a year.
God murders more millions of unborn babies than abortion ever can. In the natural state god made humans, the majority die either in the womb or before they're toddlers. Would you rather follow His example with abortions galore, or "play god" by trying something that doesn't kill any viable lumps of cells?
Seems to me that the average human driver does something incredibly stupid indicating a serious brain freeze more often than every 5600 miles.
Choosing to travel by private car or tracked rideshare isn't mandatory. You can take public transit, ride your bike, walk, or catch a ride with a friend.
At any rate, license plate tracking cameras are just as much the death of driving privacy regardless of whether cars self-drive.
Depends on how much research you're willing to do / capable of doing and how much you value the research time at, and how willing you are to still end up making a mistake. I run Linux exclusively but have always bought cheap Windows PCs to do so. Several times that's come back to bite me with hardware that has no driver, or for which the driver disappears after a time. For example I got a netbook with an Intel graphics chip because I read Intel was the only company with open source 3D drivers at the time... but it turned out Intel GMA 500 was outsourced by Intel to another company and thus closed source. I had specifically verified that it worked with Linux too, which it did... for a while, until I could no longer keep using the one ancient kernel which the binary blob driver worked with. Since then, no 3D acceleration and suspend / hibernate don't work.