You seem to be against my idea. Any ideas on what we're going to do about the massive unemployment, starvation, and misery that will result from not making changes?
If you live in the US, you are already benefiting from redistribution of wealth toward drivers. Current gas taxes do not come anywhere close to covering road costs. You are being subsidized by people like me who pay income and property taxes to support the roads but then bike to work. I am proposing letting you pay out of your own wages.
Resource availability changes. Lifestyles have to adjust.
Looking around my city, it would hurt the upper middle class the most. The poor live in small houses or apartments in the city. They can already get to work by bus, and many of them do. Traffic is slow (30mph limits) and bicycling is easy. They can walk to a grocery store or two in under twenty minutes. They will have to buy more sweaters and keep the heat down in the winter; some of the fuel tax could go towards expanding programs like HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program).
The upper middle class live in large houses in sprawling suburbs. Their heating bills will be astronomical. Buses do not run out there. Roads in the developments meander to nowhere useful and then dump out onto busy highways where walking and cycling is frightening. They have to travel 5+ miles to get to anything other than houses. And they're already underwater with their mortgages. When the housing prices in more efficient areas go up and theirs plumet, they will be bankrupt.
Are you willing to tell all of the people below the poverty line that they can no longer afford to drive to work, pay for the food and afford to heat their house?
Either we tell them now and help them deal with it, or we give our great-grandchildren a messed up planet.
there are many places in this country where such means of transportation are absolutely not available.
I know. That is what we need to fix. But it is available for a huge number of people.
Wind is not a viable alternative energy source yet, and won't be for some time, if ever.
No, but wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear together is viable.
Maybe my perpsective is skewed because I work in the forms industry, but nearly everybody I deal with at work has (and uses) Acrobat for fillable form generation. There really is not an alternative. Sharepoint has a pretty wide install base because any idiot Windows admin can get it working. Use of Sharepoint usually indicates major flaws in your process, and there are much better alternatives that cater to improved processes (focusing on data instead of on documents), but people just are not there yet.
I am socially and fiscally conservative. I believe in states' rights. The data about what exactly is happening to our climate is muddy. The outcomes are unknown. There is a lot of politics behind it.
But what we are doing to the environment cannot be good. We need to do something about it. Add a $5/gal tax to gasoline and use the money to develop public transporation and bicycling infrastructure. Bar new fossil fuel plants. Build offshore wind farms, the Kennedys be damed. Add tarrifs to good from countries that are not cutting emissions. Invest in next-generation nuclear reactor development. Ban cars from city centers. Stop giving tax rebates to people buying hybrids - give tax rebates to people buying bicycles, train tickets, and bus tickets. Stop building cities around cars.
It ain't gonna make any investor go bankrupt who isn't headed there already.
Better for them to go bankrupt giving their money to overseas scammers running shell companies in the US that will launder money out of the country than giving it to overseas scammers running shell companies in Nigeria.
It is sandboxed. If there was a DLL loaded there is a flaw in the sandbox, somebody got this code signed by a trusted certificate, or the user clicked "Run".
I would be ecstatic for prices that absurdly cheap
I would be ecstatic if the US government added a $4/gal tax on gasoline and used the proceeds to develop public transit, bicycle lanes, and walkable cities.
Even if you have an account it asks you "Google Developers is requesting permission to: Know how you are on Google, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application". If you click "No thanks" instead of "Allow access", you get "Access Denied".
So what? If you have some spare change, give it to him. If you do not, tell him you do not.
Or do we have a class system wherein people of your type should not have to encounter, acknoweldge the existence of, interact with, or - heaven forbid - directly help out of your ubundance people of lower classes? God made them poor, they should know their place.
The market is further restricted to people who would buy a GM. Their reputation for build quality is less than stellar. I think the government should have let them fail. I will never buy a GM.
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You seem to be against my idea. Any ideas on what we're going to do about the massive unemployment, starvation, and misery that will result from not making changes?
If you live in the US, you are already benefiting from redistribution of wealth toward drivers. Current gas taxes do not come anywhere close to covering road costs. You are being subsidized by people like me who pay income and property taxes to support the roads but then bike to work. I am proposing letting you pay out of your own wages.
Resource availability changes. Lifestyles have to adjust.
Looking around my city, it would hurt the upper middle class the most. The poor live in small houses or apartments in the city. They can already get to work by bus, and many of them do. Traffic is slow (30mph limits) and bicycling is easy. They can walk to a grocery store or two in under twenty minutes. They will have to buy more sweaters and keep the heat down in the winter; some of the fuel tax could go towards expanding programs like HEAP (Home Energy Assistance Program).
The upper middle class live in large houses in sprawling suburbs. Their heating bills will be astronomical. Buses do not run out there. Roads in the developments meander to nowhere useful and then dump out onto busy highways where walking and cycling is frightening. They have to travel 5+ miles to get to anything other than houses. And they're already underwater with their mortgages. When the housing prices in more efficient areas go up and theirs plumet, they will be bankrupt.
Either we tell them now and help them deal with it, or we give our great-grandchildren a messed up planet.
I know. That is what we need to fix. But it is available for a huge number of people.
No, but wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear together is viable.
Maybe my perpsective is skewed because I work in the forms industry, but nearly everybody I deal with at work has (and uses) Acrobat for fillable form generation. There really is not an alternative. Sharepoint has a pretty wide install base because any idiot Windows admin can get it working. Use of Sharepoint usually indicates major flaws in your process, and there are much better alternatives that cater to improved processes (focusing on data instead of on documents), but people just are not there yet.
In case I am wrong about what exactly?
I am socially and fiscally conservative. I believe in states' rights. The data about what exactly is happening to our climate is muddy. The outcomes are unknown. There is a lot of politics behind it.
But what we are doing to the environment cannot be good. We need to do something about it. Add a $5/gal tax to gasoline and use the money to develop public transporation and bicycling infrastructure. Bar new fossil fuel plants. Build offshore wind farms, the Kennedys be damed. Add tarrifs to good from countries that are not cutting emissions. Invest in next-generation nuclear reactor development. Ban cars from city centers. Stop giving tax rebates to people buying hybrids - give tax rebates to people buying bicycles, train tickets, and bus tickets. Stop building cities around cars.
They're not whining over a numbering scheme, they're whining over a plugin compatibility scheme.
How many of the infected Windows users are using Bing because it is the IE default?
The Second rule of hiring: Hire stupid people who will do what you say and who you can blame when what you told them to do did not work.
Better for them to go bankrupt giving their money to overseas scammers running shell companies in the US that will launder money out of the country than giving it to overseas scammers running shell companies in Nigeria.
Wait.
Sharepoint without Office is pointless.
Try editing PDF forms with those.
Acrobat != Adobe Reader
Whoever created all of the PDFs out there. It was not the PDF fairy.
As are as the users are concerned:
It is sandboxed. If there was a DLL loaded there is a flaw in the sandbox, somebody got this code signed by a trusted certificate, or the user clicked "Run".
I would be ecstatic if the US government added a $4/gal tax on gasoline and used the proceeds to develop public transit, bicycle lanes, and walkable cities.
Even if you have an account it asks you "Google Developers is requesting permission to: Know how you are on Google, Perform these operations when I'm not using the application". If you click "No thanks" instead of "Allow access", you get "Access Denied".
So what? If you have some spare change, give it to him. If you do not, tell him you do not.
Or do we have a class system wherein people of your type should not have to encounter, acknoweldge the existence of, interact with, or - heaven forbid - directly help out of your ubundance people of lower classes? God made them poor, they should know their place.
What do you want differently than what clicking ont he subject does?
Only if it is a Thinkpad-style matte screen too. These glossy screens are horrible.
That does not do any good if you do not notice the environment is risky until it is too late.
The market is further restricted to people who would buy a GM. Their reputation for build quality is less than stellar. I think the government should have let them fail. I will never buy a GM.
Or even worse, someone could use SMS to send a link to a YouTube video he recorded of some birds chirping in the woods.
cell-phone triggered bombs.