I'm willing to bet you bought a lot more Made in America products than you think...
Did you buy gas for your car?
Did you or your office buy you some post-it notes?
Have you bought any medications lately?
Do you use Gillette razors?
Drink any cheap beer lately?
Plan on buying a Hallmark card for Valentine's day?
Buy a car in the last 5 years?
And this is just the kind of day-to-day products you'd probably run into. We *export* over $125 billion in machinery alone....
Which, hopefully they've been paying attention: the current state of recovery means if you reconnect your client to your new mailbox, all your local mail will be lost (according to an update on their website)
Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple.
It isn't 90%. It isn't even a number you'd find in one department's budget. So, I take it that means the math isn't fairly simple?
Based on the SEC filings of the energy firms I've owned thousands of shares in over the years, the exemptions and exclusions for tax "reasons" are way more than we're talking about. Depreciation itself is a massive amount of tax.
So, you're saying you didn't really run the numbers, just have a vague memory of stock-holder marketing materials?
It's like asking "can we afford to have an acre for a garden" when you own a 4000 acre farm. The answer is, yes.
This assumes you can afford to keep the 4000 acre farm as it currently is. If your 4000 acre farm is producing just barely enough money to stay afloat, it's not as obvious of an answer, is it?
Back in the days when nobody heard of Bitcoin, I mined a few coins using my GPU...
As the value of Bitcoin rose a bit, I used my Bitcoin to buy a couple Sapphire Block Erupters (back when the hashrate for them was respectable). This netted me a few more coins...
At some point, I cashed out (waaaaaay too early). The results were enough to pay my power bill for a couple months and a shiny new Nexus 7 tablet...
The Free Market has spoken. It doesn't like the finances of nuclear power. It considers it too risky, too long-term. (It does however like the finances of wind and solar).
Given the amount of regulation and government authority in the Nuclear Power sector, I'm not sure the "Free Market" is applicable here...
This wasn't exactly simply "gathering statistics", was it?
After all, didn't they make comparisons based off the ethnic group of the women?
Didn't they also compare what effect (if any) political affiliation and profession had on the data in the "statistics gathering"?
the "study" includes a conclusion and a call to action. Is that part of simple statistics gathering as well?
Also, you can certainly create propaganda through nothing more than selective statistics gathering. Allow me to share with you some troubling statistics regarding Dihydrogen Monoxide...
Notice the summary said "discredited" and not "disproven." Pizzagate was never investigated. Police never bothered looking into the claims. We have no idea what happened with it. It may be "discredited" in that the media claims it's false, but it's never been disproven because no one has ever seriously looked into it.
This is a bit like saying nobody has disproven my theory that you molest sea anemones by candlelight. After all, there's no evidence that it doesn't happen, and nobody has really investigated it...
Of course, there's no evidence that my theory is correct, or even enough evidence to launch an investigation, but let's not worry about that....
Ae. aegypti arrived soon after Europeans first arrived. That was a pretty long time ago. Do you think that the environment has changed to accommodate the presence of this insect after a few hundred years?
How long does a species have to be somewhere before there's negative repercussions from removing it?
they already have some sort of water rights, because apparently they're supplying water to the wild horses: https://thenevadaindependent.c...
Also, if you look at the industrial park's marketing, they were advertising "substantial dedicated water rights sold with each acre". And Blockchains bought most of the acres...
And the original article seems to indicate they've already got preliminary county approval...
Clearly, they thought about the issue of getting water...
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As some folks like to point out: Canada and Mexico are part of (North) America too...
Not really. Doesn't matter where you buy a Post-It note or Gillete razor: it was made in the US...
Speaking of post-it notes, paper products are one of Europe's top imports from the USA. Right along with machinery, the last thing on the list...
Hallmark has outsourced some of the printing, but not all of it. Most of the Hallmark cards I got for Christmas were printed in Kansas...
Odd fact: while china is doing a lot more of our printing these days, they're doing a lot of it on US-manufactured paper...
I'm willing to bet you bought a lot more Made in America products than you think...
Did you buy gas for your car?
Did you or your office buy you some post-it notes?
Have you bought any medications lately?
Do you use Gillette razors?
Drink any cheap beer lately?
Plan on buying a Hallmark card for Valentine's day?
Buy a car in the last 5 years?
And this is just the kind of day-to-day products you'd probably run into. We *export* over $125 billion in machinery alone....
Which, hopefully they've been paying attention: the current state of recovery means if you reconnect your client to your new mailbox, all your local mail will be lost (according to an update on their website)
Why did they "obviously" gain physical access?
Off-site backups can be accessed without physical access if it was designed poorly, and there's no reason to assume they had off-line backups...
Unemployment benefits usually require you to seek work, and end when you obtain work...
This didn't require you to seek work, and would still be paid if you got a job (providing bonus income)
It did not reduce unemployment, but it reduced the stress of that situation for people. That social impact of that cannot be ignored.
The social impact of making people comfortable with being unproductive members of society can't be ignored either....
Something must be done.
This is something
Therefore, it must be done!
Well, if 90 percent of the Department of Energy budget is for fossil fuel incentives, and their budget is x amount, the math is fairly simple.
It isn't 90%. It isn't even a number you'd find in one department's budget. So, I take it that means the math isn't fairly simple?
Based on the SEC filings of the energy firms I've owned thousands of shares in over the years, the exemptions and exclusions for tax "reasons" are way more than we're talking about. Depreciation itself is a massive amount of tax.
So, you're saying you didn't really run the numbers, just have a vague memory of stock-holder marketing materials?
It's like asking "can we afford to have an acre for a garden" when you own a 4000 acre farm. The answer is, yes.
This assumes you can afford to keep the 4000 acre farm as it currently is. If your 4000 acre farm is producing just barely enough money to stay afloat, it's not as obvious of an answer, is it?
How is this tech news again?
I understand its an important issue, but tech related it is not.
Slashdot is "news for nerds and things that matter". Climate change matters.
But it's an AND statement. Let's look at the truth table:
(news for nerds) AND (things that matter) == ??? (FALSE) AND (TRUE) == FALSE
Back in the days when nobody heard of Bitcoin, I mined a few coins using my GPU...
As the value of Bitcoin rose a bit, I used my Bitcoin to buy a couple Sapphire Block Erupters (back when the hashrate for them was respectable). This netted me a few more coins...
At some point, I cashed out (waaaaaay too early). The results were enough to pay my power bill for a couple months and a shiny new Nexus 7 tablet...
Does that mean it's real?
It's only money if other people agree that it is. Bitcoin was never money.
The IRS says that for federal tax purposes, Bitcoin is the same as currency. That would seem to imply that Bitcoin is, in fact, money...
The Free Market has spoken. It doesn't like the finances of nuclear power. It considers it too risky, too long-term. (It does however like the finances of wind and solar).
Given the amount of regulation and government authority in the Nuclear Power sector, I'm not sure the "Free Market" is applicable here...
This wasn't exactly simply "gathering statistics", was it?
After all, didn't they make comparisons based off the ethnic group of the women?
Didn't they also compare what effect (if any) political affiliation and profession had on the data in the "statistics gathering"?
the "study" includes a conclusion and a call to action. Is that part of simple statistics gathering as well?
Also, you can certainly create propaganda through nothing more than selective statistics gathering. Allow me to share with you some troubling statistics regarding Dihydrogen Monoxide...
Notice the summary said "discredited" and not "disproven." Pizzagate was never investigated. Police never bothered looking into the claims. We have no idea what happened with it. It may be "discredited" in that the media claims it's false, but it's never been disproven because no one has ever seriously looked into it.
This is a bit like saying nobody has disproven my theory that you molest sea anemones by candlelight. After all, there's no evidence that it doesn't happen, and nobody has really investigated it...
Of course, there's no evidence that my theory is correct, or even enough evidence to launch an investigation, but let's not worry about that....
I have to ask though: why sea anemones?
Lots of companies have their own monetary system. They're called gift cards....
In what other industry is it desirable to have a distributed ledger?
Supply chain and inventory management come to mind...
Ae. aegypti arrived soon after Europeans first arrived. That was a pretty long time ago. Do you think that the environment has changed to accommodate the presence of this insect after a few hundred years?
How long does a species have to be somewhere before there's negative repercussions from removing it?
that's because currently tobacco is legal, plentiful, and easy to obtain. If that were to change, so would the profitability...
they already have some sort of water rights, because apparently they're supplying water to the wild horses: https://thenevadaindependent.c...
Also, if you look at the industrial park's marketing, they were advertising "substantial dedicated water rights sold with each acre". And Blockchains bought most of the acres...
And the original article seems to indicate they've already got preliminary county approval...
Clearly, they thought about the issue of getting water...
You mean like the Truckee River?
RTFA: "Blockchains has already received preliminary county support for a new town along the Truckee River"
To be fair, he's sunk an *awful* lot of his own money into this if it's a scam...
I'd go unrealistically idealistic...
The land is on the Truckee River. And they apparently have enough water rights to setup something for the wild horses out there for some easy PR...