Again this is the same nonsensical over simplification, you list three different issues and then only one dimension. Sheesh did you not have high-school geometry? You need more a equal number of coordinates to position a point on a multidimensional realm
Steering wheels are dangerous, costly, add weight and I am sure someone else can find a few more negatives. In short, there are a boat load of reasons to get rid of them and there was only 1 to keep it "need" and that is now gone.
"How it is just to punish someone for skipping bail when the charges have been withdrawn?" Because it is. This is a crime in every single civilized country.
Willing to go to war for Assange. No. Willing to launch an attack to rescue any wrongfully imprisoned UK nations? Yes. Either way it results in Ecuador having bodies to have funerals for.
There are clear and well defined policies that differ between left and right wing. Yes there are multiple dimensions that can lead to lead to individuals and policies to have a "complicated" position, but that not remove the terms "left and right wing" from conveying accurate information when used in a clear and definitive way.
your statement is just nihilist hippy "labels are useless mannnnnn"
Where is what's left of U.S. manufacturing capability? We don't buy anything american made anyway.
Actually despite what you said the rural communities depend on NYC for their food products etc. All of it lands in the ports and get ships out from NYC, not the other way around.
NYC is a port city, with little to no supply from the US countryside in the immediate vicinity. Yes NYC would be up a creek if the world flipped upside down. It however, would actually fair better than the landlocked areas in a mid level catastrophe.
and I even have no problem with the database existing, but the case against the journalist is beyond the pale. Journalistic protections are essential for ANY functioning society.
While the net habitable land area may increase (I do not know for sure but it seems a reasonable theory) . The issue is the specific currently habituated lands.
It is unquestioned by reasonable minds (environmental scientists) that sea levels will be rising and thus displacing people in low laying lands. So no, people will not be able to stay where they are.
Additionally areas such a large swaths of the middle east will become unlivable because of increased temperature extremes. You may consider this a good thing for geopolitical reasons but it does not change the reality that in this region alone 10's or 100's of millions will be displaced.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/0...
"The real issue is, why ware we worried about warming? "
Because our whole civilization is based off of a VERY narrow band of world level weather patterns. The cost to adjust to even a moderate change is in the generations of world GDP. Chances that climate change will wipe out humanity? Low. Chances that unchecked climate change will set the quality of life back to the 1400's fairly possible.
You are ignoring this because you are apparently terrible at weighing the costs of long term major change. Don't feel bad this is a common human problem well documented by sociologists. For personal "proof", look at any major corporate change you have been part of or witnessed. I am guessing you are dealing with at least one of these incorrectly estimated costs in your day job right now
Even a moderate change in climate will result in about 50% of the worlds population being relocated due to our settling in low lands near water sources. Just imagine the cost of needing to move the whole of cities like Miami, New Orleans, San Fransico about 3mi inland because the sea level rose a modest.5 feet. Or the cost of the agricultural band that enables the whole economy of many southern states moving about 300 miles north. Those southern states will simply have no economy in about 40 years.
Comcast should be nationalized and spun off piece by piece, with negligible compensation to the current stockholders. When you allow your company operate with such complete disregard for decency you as a shareholder deserve to be spit on, not rewarded.
It is illegal. For a contract to be valid, it must have some tangible benefit to both parties, otherwise the contract instantly becomes invalid. The benefit can be small to one of the parties, but it must exist.
Their name needs to become an adjective , just like google became a verb. Maybe when their name literally translates to scummy customer service they will finally get a clue. Or at least have to pay the financial price to change their name and re-brand. Somehow they must be punished. .
Corporations are legal entities which were created to project a government sanctioned level of protected abstraction from of businesses away from individuals. In exchange for the protected abstraction, corporations must adhere to a set of restrictions. Fundamentally the only reason why corporations exist at all was to create a legal entity that is not a person. Ironically your ignorance actually highlights exactly one of the benefits corporations enjoy in exchange for these restrictions. In your example an person could go to jail, the corporation can not. In exchange for the US not being able to prosecute and imprison every single employee of that cable company for the death, the company forfeits various freedoms.
Heck the US government could force every corporation to be named after ancient Norse mythological characters and be moralistically in the clear as the legal formation and the company is a voluntary action . I think part this whole myth that corporations are people comes from people like CajunArson being completely uneducated about the differences between various legal entities and the motivations/benefits/voluntary restrictions that come with them. For example I highly doubt they know the difference between a LLP and a LLC or LC or a C corp or a proprietorship.
I am not a fan of micromanagers but this is quality control issue not big brother.
Quality control is not a trivial thing to over look. With software with have automatic tests and QA departments. In a service industry part of QA is anonymous monitoring of the quality of the service your staff provides. This is reasonable AND respectable.
Not sure. I am not an airplane doctor. But the thinning air I can imagine would reduce the ability of the air to cool the engine. Additionally ambient heat dissipation would also seem to be insufficient to cool an engine going a bajillion RPM/MPH.
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No but I am guessing you may be a little touched. The chain had stopped being about Assange in particular about 8 responses back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Steering wheels are dangerous, costly, add weight and I am sure someone else can find a few more negatives. In short, there are a boat load of reasons to get rid of them and there was only 1 to keep it "need" and that is now gone.
Then the rest of the world laughs are your edge use case and says "suck it up"
"How it is just to punish someone for skipping bail when the charges have been withdrawn?" Because it is. This is a crime in every single civilized country.
You know you can be arrested for resisting arrest....
Do you think that an Ecuadorian embassy would be safe from the CIA if they really wanted him? lol
Willing to go to war for Assange. No. Willing to launch an attack to rescue any wrongfully imprisoned UK nations? Yes. Either way it results in Ecuador having bodies to have funerals for.
your statement = lol
Nonsense.
There are clear and well defined policies that differ between left and right wing. Yes there are multiple dimensions that can lead to lead to individuals and policies to have a "complicated" position, but that not remove the terms "left and right wing" from conveying accurate information when used in a clear and definitive way.
your statement is just nihilist hippy "labels are useless mannnnnn"
Where does most livestock come from? Boats
Where do most crops come from? Boats
Where is what's left of U.S. manufacturing capability? We don't buy anything american made anyway.
Actually despite what you said the rural communities depend on NYC for their food products etc. All of it lands in the ports and get ships out from NYC, not the other way around.
NYC is a port city, with little to no supply from the US countryside in the immediate vicinity. Yes NYC would be up a creek if the world flipped upside down. It however, would actually fair better than the landlocked areas in a mid level catastrophe.
It runs on nuclear.and wind and NG
The same reason why we sued tobacco companies.
Tobacco/oil companies KNOWINGLY lied about the bad impacts of tobacco/oil. They are perfect mirrors actually.
The owner may or may not know about the impacts
and I even have no problem with the database existing, but the case against the journalist is beyond the pale. Journalistic protections are essential for ANY functioning society.
Individual changes have no meaningful impact. The only impactful changes are on the nation state level.
While the net habitable land area may increase (I do not know for sure but it seems a reasonable theory) . The issue is the specific currently habituated lands.
It is unquestioned by reasonable minds (environmental scientists) that sea levels will be rising and thus displacing people in low laying lands. So no, people will not be able to stay where they are.
Additionally areas such a large swaths of the middle east will become unlivable because of increased temperature extremes. You may consider this a good thing for geopolitical reasons but it does not change the reality that in this region alone 10's or 100's of millions will be displaced. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/0...
Because our whole civilization is based off of a VERY narrow band of world level weather patterns. The cost to adjust to even a moderate change is in the generations of world GDP. Chances that climate change will wipe out humanity? Low. Chances that unchecked climate change will set the quality of life back to the 1400's fairly possible.
You are ignoring this because you are apparently terrible at weighing the costs of long term major change. Don't feel bad this is a common human problem well documented by sociologists. For personal "proof", look at any major corporate change you have been part of or witnessed. I am guessing you are dealing with at least one of these incorrectly estimated costs in your day job right now
Even a moderate change in climate will result in about 50% of the worlds population being relocated due to our settling in low lands near water sources. Just imagine the cost of needing to move the whole of cities like Miami, New Orleans, San Fransico about 3mi inland because the sea level rose a modest .5 feet. Or the cost of the agricultural band that enables the whole economy of many southern states moving about 300 miles north. Those southern states will simply have no economy in about 40 years.
Comcast should be nationalized and spun off piece by piece, with negligible compensation to the current stockholders. When you allow your company operate with such complete disregard for decency you as a shareholder deserve to be spit on, not rewarded.
It is illegal. For a contract to be valid, it must have some tangible benefit to both parties, otherwise the contract instantly becomes invalid. The benefit can be small to one of the parties, but it must exist.
Their name needs to become an adjective , just like google became a verb. Maybe when their name literally translates to scummy customer service they will finally get a clue. Or at least have to pay the financial price to change their name and re-brand. Somehow they must be punished. .
Child like nonsense.
Corporations are legal entities which were created to project a government sanctioned level of protected abstraction from of businesses away from individuals. In exchange for the protected abstraction, corporations must adhere to a set of restrictions. Fundamentally the only reason why corporations exist at all was to create a legal entity that is not a person. Ironically your ignorance actually highlights exactly one of the benefits corporations enjoy in exchange for these restrictions. In your example an person could go to jail, the corporation can not. In exchange for the US not being able to prosecute and imprison every single employee of that cable company for the death, the company forfeits various freedoms.
Heck the US government could force every corporation to be named after ancient Norse mythological characters and be moralistically in the clear as the legal formation and the company is a voluntary action . I think part this whole myth that corporations are people comes from people like CajunArson being completely uneducated about the differences between various legal entities and the motivations/benefits/voluntary restrictions that come with them. For example I highly doubt they know the difference between a LLP and a LLC or LC or a C corp or a proprietorship.
Corporations are not people.
I am not a fan of micromanagers but this is quality control issue not big brother.
Quality control is not a trivial thing to over look. With software with have automatic tests and QA departments. In a service industry part of QA is anonymous monitoring of the quality of the service your staff provides. This is reasonable AND respectable.
Not sure. I am not an airplane doctor. But the thinning air I can imagine would reduce the ability of the air to cool the engine. Additionally ambient heat dissipation would also seem to be insufficient to cool an engine going a bajillion RPM/MPH.