1) Have to be going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit as per the speed limit data in the Tesla GPS Database 2) Have the car painted by a radar gun (Detected by the same Radar sensors used for Autopilot) 3)No Activation of brakes or lane changes for 2 minutes
In short it will activate when you are running from a cop trying to give you a speeding ticket
Fact of the matter is the science on Global Warming is not certain yet on whether it is actually a bad thing or not. Vast areas of the world like Canada and Siberia will become usable as prime cropland. Increase in temperatures will also increase rainfall in the Sahara and India making these areas more productive. Greenland will have a longer growing season. The northwest passage will open up reducing transport costs. The Amazon rainforest will get more greener due to higher CO2 levels.
The only negatives I have seen being reported till now is higher sea levels and desertification of California. On balance Global warming seems to be a good thing for the world except for East Coast and West Coast elites and some Pacific Island nations.
Why should the rest of the world slow down their development so that beachfront property belonging to billionaires not get swamped?
World has been much warmer at many times in the past and the amount of plants and animals in the biosphere also has been much higher (where do you think the carbon for the fossil fuels came from? Outer Space?)
Latest research shows that as CO2 levels go up and the world warms the amount of plants go up and the rate at which they grow i.e. Use up Co2 also goes up. It means there is a negative feedback cycle and negative feedback loops are always stable. So I seriously doubt the apocalyptic predictions being made will come true. Further you have to look at the cost of fighting global warming. The fight affects the poor the most by slowing down the industrialization of poorer countries and also by closing dirty industries like coal which provide employment to the poor. And also look at who gains. Hyper educated narrow field specialists in non productive fields like lobbying make hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees. The damage caused by the fight against global warming is more than the damage global warming itself would cause. The realistic damage would be having to build Netherland style dikes around a few major cities and some cropland turning to desert (while other frozen tundra would become prime cropland). Fighting global warming only makes sense for todays global elite. For everyone else who is trying to pull themselves up by the bootstrap its a cruel joke.
Why? If Americans are buying it why wouldnt Chinese buy it? In fact Chinese are willing to pay a premium for export quality stuff as they know the export quality stuff follows safety rules or couldn't be exported to USA.
At this point they actually want their currency to get stronger so their is really no point to fighting a fight which was valid 10 years back. At this point China does the manufacturing not because of cheap wages or manipulated currency but because of the ecosystem of suppliers which has also moved to China. If you tried to bring back manufacturing to USA you would find out you dont have the Industrial Engineers, Managers as well as supply chains. Most have retired on their severance bonuses and the supply chain has also moved. Just because you have unemployed people doesn't mean you can do manufacturing. India has a lot of unemployed people. Manufacturing is not shifting to India.
The Answer to this is through most of history China has been richer and a larger market than Europe and recently the US. Its only in the last 100-200 years when they had bad leaders (who allowed the Westerners to get the nation hooked on Opium) that they fell behind. Now they are catching up and will be back where they were in the 1800s when they were the largest market in the world. US domination is only 70 years old since the end of WW2 and British domination is 150 years before that. In the 6000 year history of Human civilization 200 years is not that long a period.
Its not today but the trendlines are clear . As China gets richer sometime in the next 20 years the Chinese market will be larger and as they reach per capita parity sometime in the next 50 years it will be 3 times as large as the US market. They wont stay poor forever. In fact today they are at 13000 USD per capita ppp. US is at 54000 uSD per capita ppp and they have a 4 times larger population so in PPP they are already level. As their per capita ppp gdp goes up to 54000 and their population falls to 3 times US the market will jsut keep getting bigger
Never underestimate the power of a virus which can make a modern network centric aircraft carrier a sitting duck.( I saw it on Independence Day so it must be true)
Newsflash- The President does not run the country. The country pretty much runs by itself. Politicians can only hamper the economy not actively force it into any direction they want. The President's powers are limited by Congress and Congress is bought and sold by Lobbyists.
Or the Chinese middle class could suddenly have cheaper stuff as the companies who cant export will dump on the local market at almost the cost of production and Chinese standard of living zooms up. Yes no more mega rich Chinese billionaires buying up property in California but for the ordinary Chinese a trade war would be great. Trump's slogan should be "Make China Great Again" . Meanwhile people in the US have to adjust to a lesser lifestyle as no more cheap Chinese goods.
More importantly those educational institutions publish policy papers and mould public opinion. They can publish paers which convince Trump is the next coming of Hitler and have the people riot in the streets. Oh never mind they are already doing that.
Apple doesn't manufacture in China for the price. It manufactures for the flexibility. When Apple says people have to work 24 hour shifts so that the iPhone 7 can meet its launch date people in China do that whereas people in US would not. Labor laws. Apple will bring back factories if forced to but will automate them instead of using humans. Heck during launch time even Apple Employees with masters degrees sleep at the office. How tolerant are they going to be of high school graduates refusing to work late because they have a daughters soccer match to attend
Nope a country with 4 times the population will always be a larger market unless they are dirt poor. And countries stay dirt poor only so long. Eventually they have a revolution, kill the incompetent leaders and get competent leaders. So in the long run population always wins. China had its civil wars and then got the communist party leadership (that they were communist is pointless , the point is they became leaders after a period when incompetence was punished with revolutionary death) The current batch is probably the first generation who havn't experienced the civil war and they may get sloppy but for China to become dirt poor again is not really possible.
When the US internet went down couple of weeks back lot of folks were blaming Russia. Criminals are criminals they have no national loyalties. Doubt CNN will report this and present a retraction
The key factor is debt relative to GDP. Even if your Debt is growing as long as your GDP is growing faster the Debt-GDP ratio is going down and it gets easier to service the debt. Under Obama the Debt has gone up very fast to pay for the financial rescue but the GDP has also grown so the Debt-GDP ratio is very manageable. And Obamas policies are beginning to payoff so under Trump (unless he does something stupid) the GDP is set to rocket and the debt will look like very trivial.
As per the consitution the National Guard reports into the Governor not the President. The President can nationalize them in a time of external war to fight an external enemy. to Nationalize them to fight the host state would be unconstitutional and it would come down to military officers getting a legal set of orders from the Governor and an illegal set of orders from the President and which one they want to obey.
I get your point about 1 state vs the rest but that 1 state is 13% of the population so its more like 1 state against 6 states and dont see much enthusiasm from other Blue states in fighting a referendum based secession by California.
I do not know how much percentage of the folks posted in Federal facilities in California are native Californians or identify themselves as so now. That would be a factor. If a large part of the Army posted at San Diego thinks of themselves as Californians than they will not fight to hold California inside the union and would sit in their bases or even help the CNG units.
Again the point of surrounding the army bases would be to prevent a President Trump from trying to use the miitary. The actual secession will be done through a referendum followed by negotiation with the US.
Again all of this is possible but not probable. Californians are pretty happy with their lives in the US and except for some short term angst at Trump coming to power unless Trump really follows through on his more cray-cray promises people are going to forget about this and get on with their lives.
Then you do not understand the debt. Social Security and Medicare funds are held in a separate trust . Both are currently positive though they are paying out more than they are getting so they are going down in value. The debt is govt bonds which the govt has issued as well as money it has borrowed from the SS trust and Medicare Trust (mostly under Raegan to pay for Star Wars). This money belongs to the Trust and needs to be paid back using taxes which pay into the general fund. If California leaves it will get its share of the SS&MC trust, will owe its share of the bonds and will owe its share of the money the Federal govt has borrowed from the Trust to the trust. In general it will either cancel or be an amount equal to around 30% of GDP. California can print California dollars or issue California Bonds to cover the same. As without having to pay Federal taxes California will be running a Surplus even bigger than the current one; this 30% debt along with another 20% state debt givinng a total of 50% (which is not high by the standards of sovereing nations ) will be paid down. It doesnt even need to be paid down as most sovereign nations carry a debt. Its a way of creating money supply when the economy slows down withdrawing money supply (by early repdemption of bonds) when the economy overheats. The debt is needed as a dampener on the boom and bust cycles natural to capitalism.
Most places in Eastern Chinese cities are more expensive to live in than in suburban midwest. Its not that Chinese workers have a lower cost of living. Its that they are willing to do the same work and live in a small apartment shared with Grandparents and have 1 child per couple as compared to Midwesterners who want to live in ranch style homes with 2 pickup trucks and have 6 children while still producing the same amount of value as a Chinese factory worker. Why should consumers subsidize your lifestyle with higher prices? If you want a better lifestyle provide more value. In any case I wasn't even talking about competition with China. A lot of White men don't have jobs because since the 1970s white women have jobs as well as black men have jobs in the factories which used to be just white men. When they compare with how easy their daddies had it they feel its unfair but they don't realize how unfair it was to minorities and women in their daddies' generation. Its called correction to mean. When you have had it unfairly good just coming back to a fair system seems unfair.
Stop contributing funds to the federal govt. Pass a state law that the IRS will not have jurisdiction in California and let Californians stop paying Federal tax. Also sell all Federal bonds owned by all California Pension funds and but California bonds. Use the bonds to run the economy till California can negotiate a secession and can print its own money. At that point income taxes can be reinstated. Arrest any IRS officers who do try to come to California.
Money makes the world go round. When the federal govt is no longer getting any money from Califronia but is still having to pay salaries to military posted in California, medicare to hospotals in california and social security to retirees in California they will soon be starving for money given the size of the California population.
Negotiate for independence or a revote for President based on a popular vote.
Thats the hardball option. Doubt Californicos are series enough to actually go down this path.
But Ah California was an Independent Republic before it joined the USA (for all of 20 days I guess). Like Texas it does not have to secede, it merely needs to pass a law invalidating the act of accession on some technicality and the situation prior to accession comes back into force. Unlike other new states who were US territories before they become states. Their accessions were passed under the US constitution so any challenge to them will go to US Supreme Court but as California and Texas accession were passed by sovereign nations their judicial review goes only till California Supreme court and Texas Supreme Court respectively. Even During the Civil War the North was OK with letting Texas leave but not the southern states.
Missiles and planes? Jocks sure dont build any. These are designed by far left geeks and built by machines built by far left geeks powered by power plants designed by far left geeks... See where I am going with this?
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Above a certain CO2 level the increased growth of plants cancels out the carbon from fossil fuels
1) Have to be going more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit as per the speed limit data in the Tesla GPS Database
2) Have the car painted by a radar gun (Detected by the same Radar sensors used for Autopilot)
3)No Activation of brakes or lane changes for 2 minutes
In short it will activate when you are running from a cop trying to give you a speeding ticket
Fact of the matter is the science on Global Warming is not certain yet on whether it is actually a bad thing or not. Vast areas of the world like Canada and Siberia will become usable as prime cropland. Increase in temperatures will also increase rainfall in the Sahara and India making these areas more productive. Greenland will have a longer growing season. The northwest passage will open up reducing transport costs. The Amazon rainforest will get more greener due to higher CO2 levels.
The only negatives I have seen being reported till now is higher sea levels and desertification of California. On balance Global warming seems to be a good thing for the world except for East Coast and West Coast elites and some Pacific Island nations.
Why should the rest of the world slow down their development so that beachfront property belonging to billionaires not get swamped?
World has been much warmer at many times in the past and the amount of plants and animals in the biosphere also has been much higher (where do you think the carbon for the fossil fuels came from? Outer Space?)
Latest research shows that as CO2 levels go up and the world warms the amount of plants go up and the rate at which they grow i.e. Use up Co2 also goes up. It means there is a negative feedback cycle and negative feedback loops are always stable. So I seriously doubt the apocalyptic predictions being made will come true. Further you have to look at the cost of fighting global warming. The fight affects the poor the most by slowing down the industrialization of poorer countries and also by closing dirty industries like coal which provide employment to the poor. And also look at who gains. Hyper educated narrow field specialists in non productive fields like lobbying make hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees. The damage caused by the fight against global warming is more than the damage global warming itself would cause. The realistic damage would be having to build Netherland style dikes around a few major cities and some cropland turning to desert (while other frozen tundra would become prime cropland). Fighting global warming only makes sense for todays global elite. For everyone else who is trying to pull themselves up by the bootstrap its a cruel joke.
Why? If Americans are buying it why wouldnt Chinese buy it? In fact Chinese are willing to pay a premium for export quality stuff as they know the export quality stuff follows safety rules or couldn't be exported to USA.
At this point they actually want their currency to get stronger so their is really no point to fighting a fight which was valid 10 years back. At this point China does the manufacturing not because of cheap wages or manipulated currency but because of the ecosystem of suppliers which has also moved to China. If you tried to bring back manufacturing to USA you would find out you dont have the Industrial Engineers, Managers as well as supply chains. Most have retired on their severance bonuses and the supply chain has also moved. Just because you have unemployed people doesn't mean you can do manufacturing. India has a lot of unemployed people. Manufacturing is not shifting to India.
The Answer to this is through most of history China has been richer and a larger market than Europe and recently the US. Its only in the last 100-200 years when they had bad leaders (who allowed the Westerners to get the nation hooked on Opium) that they fell behind. Now they are catching up and will be back where they were in the 1800s when they were the largest market in the world. US domination is only 70 years old since the end of WW2 and British domination is 150 years before that. In the 6000 year history of Human civilization 200 years is not that long a period.
Its not today but the trendlines are clear . As China gets richer sometime in the next 20 years the Chinese market will be larger and as they reach per capita parity sometime in the next 50 years it will be 3 times as large as the US market. They wont stay poor forever. In fact today they are at 13000 USD per capita ppp. US is at 54000 uSD per capita ppp and they have a 4 times larger population so in PPP they are already level. As their per capita ppp gdp goes up to 54000 and their population falls to 3 times US the market will jsut keep getting bigger
Never underestimate the power of a virus which can make a modern network centric aircraft carrier a sitting duck.( I saw it on Independence Day so it must be true)
Newsflash- The President does not run the country. The country pretty much runs by itself. Politicians can only hamper the economy not actively force it into any direction they want. The President's powers are limited by Congress and Congress is bought and sold by Lobbyists.
Or the Chinese middle class could suddenly have cheaper stuff as the companies who cant export will dump on the local market at almost the cost of production and Chinese standard of living zooms up. Yes no more mega rich Chinese billionaires buying up property in California but for the ordinary Chinese a trade war would be great. Trump's slogan should be "Make China Great Again" . Meanwhile people in the US have to adjust to a lesser lifestyle as no more cheap Chinese goods.
More importantly those educational institutions publish policy papers and mould public opinion. They can publish paers which convince Trump is the next coming of Hitler and have the people riot in the streets. Oh never mind they are already doing that.
Apple doesn't manufacture in China for the price. It manufactures for the flexibility. When Apple says people have to work 24 hour shifts so that the iPhone 7 can meet its launch date people in China do that whereas people in US would not. Labor laws. Apple will bring back factories if forced to but will automate them instead of using humans. Heck during launch time even Apple Employees with masters degrees sleep at the office. How tolerant are they going to be of high school graduates refusing to work late because they have a daughters soccer match to attend
Nope a country with 4 times the population will always be a larger market unless they are dirt poor. And countries stay dirt poor only so long. Eventually they have a revolution, kill the incompetent leaders and get competent leaders. So in the long run population always wins. China had its civil wars and then got the communist party leadership (that they were communist is pointless , the point is they became leaders after a period when incompetence was punished with revolutionary death)
The current batch is probably the first generation who havn't experienced the civil war and they may get sloppy but for China to become dirt poor again is not really possible.
iPhones sell for 1000 $ a piece in China
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When the US internet went down couple of weeks back lot of folks were blaming Russia. Criminals are criminals they have no national loyalties. Doubt CNN will report this and present a retraction
The key factor is debt relative to GDP. Even if your Debt is growing as long as your GDP is growing faster the Debt-GDP ratio is going down and it gets easier to service the debt. Under Obama the Debt has gone up very fast to pay for the financial rescue but the GDP has also grown so the Debt-GDP ratio is very manageable. And Obamas policies are beginning to payoff so under Trump (unless he does something stupid) the GDP is set to rocket and the debt will look like very trivial.
As per the consitution the National Guard reports into the Governor not the President. The President can nationalize them in a time of external war to fight an external enemy. to Nationalize them to fight the host state would be unconstitutional and it would come down to military officers getting a legal set of orders from the Governor and an illegal set of orders from the President and which one they want to obey.
I get your point about 1 state vs the rest but that 1 state is 13% of the population so its more like 1 state against 6 states and dont see much enthusiasm from other Blue states in fighting a referendum based secession by California.
I do not know how much percentage of the folks posted in Federal facilities in California are native Californians or identify themselves as so now. That would be a factor. If a large part of the Army posted at San Diego thinks of themselves as Californians than they will not fight to hold California inside the union and would sit in their bases or even help the CNG units.
Again the point of surrounding the army bases would be to prevent a President Trump from trying to use the miitary. The actual secession will be done through a referendum followed by negotiation with the US.
Again all of this is possible but not probable. Californians are pretty happy with their lives in the US and except for some short term angst at Trump coming to power unless Trump really follows through on his more cray-cray promises people are going to forget about this and get on with their lives.
Then you do not understand the debt. Social Security and Medicare funds are held in a separate trust . Both are currently positive though they are paying out more than they are getting so they are going down in value. The debt is govt bonds which the govt has issued as well as money it has borrowed from the SS trust and Medicare Trust (mostly under Raegan to pay for Star Wars). This money belongs to the Trust and needs to be paid back using taxes which pay into the general fund.
If California leaves it will get its share of the SS&MC trust, will owe its share of the bonds and will owe its share of the money the Federal govt has borrowed from the Trust to the trust. In general it will either cancel or be an amount equal to around 30% of GDP. California can print California dollars or issue California Bonds to cover the same. As without having to pay Federal taxes California will be running a Surplus even bigger than the current one; this 30% debt along with another 20% state debt givinng a total of 50% (which is not high by the standards of sovereing nations ) will be paid down. It doesnt even need to be paid down as most sovereign nations carry a debt. Its a way of creating money supply when the economy slows down withdrawing money supply (by early repdemption of bonds) when the economy overheats. The debt is needed as a dampener on the boom and bust cycles natural to capitalism.
Most places in Eastern Chinese cities are more expensive to live in than in suburban midwest. Its not that Chinese workers have a lower cost of living. Its that they are willing to do the same work and live in a small apartment shared with Grandparents and have 1 child per couple as compared to Midwesterners who want to live in ranch style homes with 2 pickup trucks and have 6 children while still producing the same amount of value as a Chinese factory worker. Why should consumers subsidize your lifestyle with higher prices? If you want a better lifestyle provide more value.
In any case I wasn't even talking about competition with China. A lot of White men don't have jobs because since the 1970s white women have jobs as well as black men have jobs in the factories which used to be just white men. When they compare with how easy their daddies had it they feel its unfair but they don't realize how unfair it was to minorities and women in their daddies' generation. Its called correction to mean. When you have had it unfairly good just coming back to a fair system seems unfair.
Stop contributing funds to the federal govt. Pass a state law that the IRS will not have jurisdiction in California and let Californians stop paying Federal tax. Also sell all Federal bonds owned by all California Pension funds and but California bonds. Use the bonds to run the economy till California can negotiate a secession and can print its own money. At that point income taxes can be reinstated. Arrest any IRS officers who do try to come to California.
Money makes the world go round. When the federal govt is no longer getting any money from Califronia but is still having to pay salaries to military posted in California, medicare to hospotals in california and social security to retirees in California they will soon be starving for money given the size of the California population.
Negotiate for independence or a revote for President based on a popular vote.
Thats the hardball option. Doubt Californicos are series enough to actually go down this path.
But Ah California was an Independent Republic before it joined the USA (for all of 20 days I guess). Like Texas it does not have to secede, it merely needs to pass a law invalidating the act of accession on some technicality and the situation prior to accession comes back into force. Unlike other new states who were US territories before they become states. Their accessions were passed under the US constitution so any challenge to them will go to US Supreme Court but as California and Texas accession were passed by sovereign nations their judicial review goes only till California Supreme court and Texas Supreme Court respectively. Even During the Civil War the North was OK with letting Texas leave but not the southern states.
Missiles and planes? Jocks sure dont build any. These are designed by far left geeks and built by machines built by far left geeks powered by power plants designed by far left geeks... See where I am going with this?
California is a large oil producing state. Gasoline is expensive because of taxes to promote non fossil fuel sources not because we dont have enough.