Well, we paid for all that with $17 trillion of debt, and a behavior/thought process that it was ok, starting with Reagan and continuing to this day.
Other countries are just waiting for it all to collapse and pick our bones.
When Reagan took office federal debt was a little over 2T and went up to a little over 4T when he left office. Clinton took it from a around 6 to around 7. The current administration has seen it go from around 9 to around 17. Maybe you haven't kept up on current events but there hasn't been much union busting, new free trade treaties, or deregulation of wall street in the last 6 years.
"A week or so later, I asked it about a Wells Fargo branch. It sent me to one about a mile away"
This is why you look on Wells Fargo's website for their location addresses and then put the closest one's street address into google's map for navigation.
I just got back from Shanghai where the pollution haze limits visibility to a couple of miles. In Beijing it's down to a few hundred yards most days. Let me know how the relative climate impact of electric cars in the US vs the economic impact and compare with the climate impact of 1/3 of all cars sold worldwide being in China in 5 or 6 years from now and I bet almost all of them will be gasoline powered. The international economic competitive impact to all electric in the US would be huge compared to the relative environmental impact.
A coworker put "tablet" on the office supplies wish list, hoping to get a tablet of paper on which to take notes at meetings. A Galaxy Note 10 showed up the next week. I guess he was ahead of the curve on this idea.
To really confuse it, point it out the window of an apartment complex anywhere in China. At any given time at least one retiree is walking around the grounds backwards as a form of exercise and or coordination boost (I haven't figured out which yet).
The great victoria desert is just a bunch of sand interrupted by the occasional salt lake. Not even the natives live in the interior of it. Besides, it was already made radioactive by nuke tests back in the 60's. Would make a great place for radioactive waste without bothering anyone.
The Marianas is a subduction zone; other than the obvious Godzilla jokes, why not encase radioactive waste in ceramic disks and send it back into the interior of the planet to be recycled over the next few hundred million years?
Those aren't unreasonable demands of someone wanting to carry passengers for hire. They are checks that pretty much the entire Western world has come up with after numerous problems with unsafe, uninsured and unsavoury taxi drivers.
The problem is not that these are unreasonable demands, but that the entrenched taxi companies protect their monopolies with extremely onerous or even impossible licensing processes with the help of the government. It should be quick, easy, and inexpensive for anyone with a vehicle who wants to make some extra money via this type of service to show that they have insurance, a valid driver's license and a safety inspection any service station can do in 30 minutes. The overal state of the economy and people needing to make some income by being creative with things they already have (like a car) should be more important to society than protecting the local established taxi monopoly.
Competition in just the stores? No, I want competition in the base install that doesn't void the warranty via rooting. The devices come with all kinds of crap installed in a way that makes them un-installable - just "stoppable".
As long as the new services operate under the same constraints as taxi companies, I see no reason why they should't be allowed to operate since, as you say, that's a free market at work. But they shouldn't get to skip over all of the costs of business that taxi companies absorb -- things like driver background checks, driver training (in some cities), insurance requirements, car maintenance requirements, etc.
Because there's a special fee on top of all that just for a taxi license that's usually in the tens of thousands of $$ and all it does it keep out competition. If insurance, maintenance, background check and some small fee anyone with a car in the first place could pay to become a taxi under one of these apps then that would be great; instead the purpose of the taxi license is to prevent competition.
Wow, I get the strong impression the author has only lived and traveled in developed nations his entire life. Its fun to wish for the things he writes about but they're unrealistic given human history. It's especially awkward how he keeps saying he's not espousing a libertarian view and then does just that.
I don't know. These things were basically hunted to extinction. So they may be pretty delicious or it might just be that a Mammoth hunt was a comparatively easy way to get the whole tribe fed all at once, with left overs to store.
For people who lived on the prehistoric tundra, anything they could get was pretty delicious.
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Well, we paid for all that with $17 trillion of debt, and a behavior/thought process that it was ok, starting with Reagan and continuing to this day.
Other countries are just waiting for it all to collapse and pick our bones.
When Reagan took office federal debt was a little over 2T and went up to a little over 4T when he left office. Clinton took it from a around 6 to around 7. The current administration has seen it go from around 9 to around 17. Maybe you haven't kept up on current events but there hasn't been much union busting, new free trade treaties, or deregulation of wall street in the last 6 years.
I always thought the British should launch from St Helena to be closer to the equator.
"A week or so later, I asked it about a Wells Fargo branch. It sent me to one about a mile away"
This is why you look on Wells Fargo's website for their location addresses and then put the closest one's street address into google's map for navigation.
I just got back from Shanghai where the pollution haze limits visibility to a couple of miles. In Beijing it's down to a few hundred yards most days. Let me know how the relative climate impact of electric cars in the US vs the economic impact and compare with the climate impact of 1/3 of all cars sold worldwide being in China in 5 or 6 years from now and I bet almost all of them will be gasoline powered. The international economic competitive impact to all electric in the US would be huge compared to the relative environmental impact.
Umm, Mars is also a globe.
A coworker put "tablet" on the office supplies wish list, hoping to get a tablet of paper on which to take notes at meetings. A Galaxy Note 10 showed up the next week. I guess he was ahead of the curve on this idea.
To really confuse it, point it out the window of an apartment complex anywhere in China. At any given time at least one retiree is walking around the grounds backwards as a form of exercise and or coordination boost (I haven't figured out which yet).
"How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President"
The jokes write themselves. So I won't bother.
Free speech in the Anglo-Saxon sphere is more about political ideas and less about deciding what words are socially acceptable.
I'm surprised they have such a high percentage of Asian
It stops being surprising when you remember that Asia includes India.
On any other topic this name calling is derided as an ad hominen attack.
Except they aren't offering to re-refine it for use as fuel again, they're offering longer term dump storage to get rid of it.
The great victoria desert is just a bunch of sand interrupted by the occasional salt lake. Not even the natives live in the interior of it. Besides, it was already made radioactive by nuke tests back in the 60's. Would make a great place for radioactive waste without bothering anyone.
The Marianas is a subduction zone; other than the obvious Godzilla jokes, why not encase radioactive waste in ceramic disks and send it back into the interior of the planet to be recycled over the next few hundred million years?
How big does the battery have to be to keep all those cores running? Must take up half the interior.
Speak for yourself; I'm saving up for one of these awesome new Chinese cars: http://www.mlive.com/grpress/b...
Those aren't unreasonable demands of someone wanting to carry passengers for hire. They are checks that pretty much the entire Western world has come up with after numerous problems with unsafe, uninsured and unsavoury taxi drivers.
The problem is not that these are unreasonable demands, but that the entrenched taxi companies protect their monopolies with extremely onerous or even impossible licensing processes with the help of the government. It should be quick, easy, and inexpensive for anyone with a vehicle who wants to make some extra money via this type of service to show that they have insurance, a valid driver's license and a safety inspection any service station can do in 30 minutes. The overal state of the economy and people needing to make some income by being creative with things they already have (like a car) should be more important to society than protecting the local established taxi monopoly.
Competition in just the stores? No, I want competition in the base install that doesn't void the warranty via rooting. The devices come with all kinds of crap installed in a way that makes them un-installable - just "stoppable".
I thought it was an Internet Explorer patch made available to XP users through XP's auto-update. This is a big difference from an XP system patch.
1. Eating food.
2. Reproducing
3. Killing other humans
It's more like:
1. Eating food.
2. Reproducing
3. Fighting in one way or another to different degrees over the resources to enable (1) and (2)
As long as the new services operate under the same constraints as taxi companies, I see no reason why they should't be allowed to operate since, as you say, that's a free market at work. But they shouldn't get to skip over all of the costs of business that taxi companies absorb -- things like driver background checks, driver training (in some cities), insurance requirements, car maintenance requirements, etc.
Because there's a special fee on top of all that just for a taxi license that's usually in the tens of thousands of $$ and all it does it keep out competition. If insurance, maintenance, background check and some small fee anyone with a car in the first place could pay to become a taxi under one of these apps then that would be great; instead the purpose of the taxi license is to prevent competition.
In every state an expensive lawyer can find a reason why there's liability anyway.
Wow, I get the strong impression the author has only lived and traveled in developed nations his entire life. Its fun to wish for the things he writes about but they're unrealistic given human history.
It's especially awkward how he keeps saying he's not espousing a libertarian view and then does just that.
I don't know. These things were basically hunted to extinction. So they may be pretty delicious or it might just be that a Mammoth hunt was a comparatively easy way to get the whole tribe fed all at once, with left overs to store.
For people who lived on the prehistoric tundra, anything they could get was pretty delicious.
Its not as if they cloning lab gets charged by the pound.
The heck they don't; any idea how much a mammoth eats?!