Helmets are only made to protect against a 6 foot fall. It's a trivial form of protection that just happens to be useful in a lot of trivial bike wrecks that would otherwise be fatal. An automobile provides the same measure of protection on it's own and wearing a helmet might just break your neck in a major car wreck. It is also much easier to turn your head around with a helmet in a car.
In this particular case the seat would have killed the girl some other way unless she was wrapped in a better crash couch. That's what the case is about. Car seats are supposed to be able to take six G. It's not supposed to flop back and smooosh the person in the back seat. At some level of violence there's nothing you can do. There was an awful picture of a taxi under a boulder in the recent China quake but I can't find it. It was like a pancake.
How can locally produced goods compete with the shipped in versions? Raw materials have to be shipped in, even in agriculture where fertilizer and fuel are real costs. My impression was that goods from China were inexpensive because they had a large supply of very cheap and poorly treated labor. Just about everyone now uses material from there if they bother making anything. What is left of US and Western manufacturing? If you know so much about Ag shipping, can you tell me why so much cheap food at the grocery store now comes from China?
What competition do you see in the oil market after the merger of Exxon and Mobil? They closed half of their stations, major refineries and fired plenty of people so they could tighten up the market. Their "Project for the New American Century" has been a disaster for the rest of us and may even bite them in the ass when the US economy collapses under the cost of the Iraq war failure, Iran refusing to sell oil in dollars and persistent problems in Afghanistan. Sooner or later our weakened prestige and currency will ruin their string of "best year ever" profits.
I don't have a fancy degree in Economics nor do I trade commodities but the ruin of the US economy is easy to see. Excuse me while I drive my H2 to pick up another load of Chinese stuff at Walmart.
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Helmets are only made to protect against a 6 foot fall. It's a trivial form of protection that just happens to be useful in a lot of trivial bike wrecks that would otherwise be fatal. An automobile provides the same measure of protection on it's own and wearing a helmet might just break your neck in a major car wreck. It is also much easier to turn your head around with a helmet in a car.
In this particular case the seat would have killed the girl some other way unless she was wrapped in a better crash couch. That's what the case is about. Car seats are supposed to be able to take six G. It's not supposed to flop back and smooosh the person in the back seat. At some level of violence there's nothing you can do. There was an awful picture of a taxi under a boulder in the recent China quake but I can't find it. It was like a pancake.
How can locally produced goods compete with the shipped in versions? Raw materials have to be shipped in, even in agriculture where fertilizer and fuel are real costs. My impression was that goods from China were inexpensive because they had a large supply of very cheap and poorly treated labor. Just about everyone now uses material from there if they bother making anything. What is left of US and Western manufacturing? If you know so much about Ag shipping, can you tell me why so much cheap food at the grocery store now comes from China?
What competition do you see in the oil market after the merger of Exxon and Mobil? They closed half of their stations, major refineries and fired plenty of people so they could tighten up the market. Their "Project for the New American Century" has been a disaster for the rest of us and may even bite them in the ass when the US economy collapses under the cost of the Iraq war failure, Iran refusing to sell oil in dollars and persistent problems in Afghanistan. Sooner or later our weakened prestige and currency will ruin their string of "best year ever" profits.
I don't have a fancy degree in Economics nor do I trade commodities but the ruin of the US economy is easy to see. Excuse me while I drive my H2 to pick up another load of Chinese stuff at Walmart.