Actually you need to be pretty accurate. There is a lot of pretty empty countryside on the west coast of the US. NK have only demonstrated an ability to build very small scale nukes. Nukes so small there has been questions about whether they actually went off properly. That results in relatively small blast areas.
IF they managed to get it right into the middle of LA they might kill 50k with say another 50k seriously injured. But that would be the mother of all hail Mary shots for them. When you consider then that if they landed the nuke on Pepperdine University in Malibu, nuke maps estimates about 3k dead you can see the difference a relatively small accuracy difference will make. If they hit any of the mountains along highway 1 though we are probably only looking at injuries.
Their Hero 3 was simply too good a product. They sold a cubic butt load of them, but these things just don't break. So their market went from a new market to a saturated market in a very short space of time. The market has matured, those that wanted a GoPro type camera already have one, but investors are looking for the same level of growth / return. Because that is impossible GoPro's share price has tanked.
Stuff may not be the be all and end all but stuff is what drives a lot of people to go into dual income arrangements. It wasn't cheap chinese imports that increased the size of peoples homes and increased mortgages to go with it.
From an external perspective it seems like the issues in the US stems from the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. The US has the most really rich people in the world but also has a crazy number of really poor people. For example, to someone who has grown up with it, universal healthcare just feels like a given. The fact that that doesn't exist in the US just feels strange. Also the labour setup for low income work in the US is really out of kilter with what I am used to. Tipping and a really low minimum wage, it's just alien.
The other big difference seems to be the relationship between the citizens and your Government. In Australia we just tend to think of our Government as a bit useless. Nobody really likes politicians but outside of a general distaste we just think they couldn't find their arsehole with a telescope. The impression I get from media and on here is that US Citizens have a deep seated distrust of their Government. And partisan lines are so deeply deeply cut it's like the old protestant vs catholic argument in Ireland.
As for China. It is not a democratically elected government no. But the methodology by which people enter the People's Congress is actually remarkably equal. Sure it is gamed by the incumbents, but the way people enter the government and move into the ruling party is remarkable and worth reading about. China has a lot of challenges ahead of it. Not least of all that it is not a homogeneous ethnic group which naturally leads to tensions. While people feel they can improve their lot in life, the tensions can be kept under control. If, however, their economy stalls in a major way there will be significant civil disturbance.
As for manipulating their currency. All major economies do it. The US is still working on the largest currency manipulation in history with its quantitative easing program.
To the best of my knowledge trade agreement allow for universal taxes. Which is what this would be as it would target internal & external producers equally. It is no different to a tax on alcohol for example. Californian wine would be taxed at the same rate as French wine so there is no argument of protectionism or favouritism. The EU is currently exploring the possibility of applying carbon costs to imports, the are calling them BCAs. Part of the reason is EU internal businesses are subject to an ETS and so are at a competitive disadvantage to external businesses. The BCAs are intended to fix that.
I'm not from the US so I have a different perspective on the "tough on China" talk and rhetoric that comes out of the US. As a fairly neutral party and one who has visited both countries I do find the push back between the two interesting to watch. Over all I find the degree of anti-China sentiment a little odd, given so much of the US's standard of living has come from being able to use China for cheap production.
Carbon tax or carbon credits would be the only way to do it. Which raises all kinds of international competitiveness issues.
But if carbon emissions were taxed at $x / tonne and the govt paid $x for each tonne captured you would create two incentives. The first is to reduce your carbon output, the second would be to create a market to extract it from the atmosphere. Over time the extraction methods would become more efficient and it may be possible to lower the value of x.
In the end you are aiming to achieve a carbon neutral economy rather than a carbon neutral subset, such as power.
As for international competitiveness, given the US is the largest consumer economy they could require a carbon output value for every product crossing the border, or apply a flat % to items without that come without a value. This way the US could use its dominant position to force carbon pricing through its global suppliers.
I actually think the solution will come the other way. I think carbon production is almost impossible to cut by those levels. There is simply too much legacy infrastructure in place and the cost to shift away is too high.
What I see as the only realistic way to reduce atmospheric carbon levels is to extract it. We talk about taxing carbon production to reduce production, but if instead we were able to remove it from the atmosphere using energy that would other wise be generated but not used we might get there.
Renewable energy lends themselves to this because they fluctuate highly. So at times where grids are otherwise having to shed supply the extraction plants would use it instead.
Because even at current market valuations which have massively slashed the value of their assets, Peabody has an asset valuation of over $12 billion. Also while coal may be being supplanted in the energy space in the developed world the total quantity of the seaborne coal trade is still increasing year on year. It is why there are ongoing proposals in Australia to open new coal mines.
Because in Australia Peabody formed an equity partnership with Mitsui & Co, a japanese energy company, and Thiess Holdings an Australian domestic civil and mining contractor. As a result the Australian operations are not 100% owned by peabody and hence have to be treated as separate entities. Peabody's ownership of those operations will be represented as an asset in shares on the parent companies books. They could potentially be forced to divest some of those shares but that should not affect Australian operations.
The only reason their coal consumption fell off was because of the crash in the steel price. They dramatically cut their coking coal consumption. Their coal consumption for energy production increased significantly and absorbed much of the decrease in coking coal use. Should steel prices rise then coking coal consumption with recover.
However in absolute terms if you have a look at coal exports out of Australia to total tonnage has increased every year. So while coal may make up a smaller % of power generation the total amount being mined and exported is increasing. http://www.minerals.org.au/res...
Thermal coal prices have been in the pits for ages. But coking coal prices held up for a long time until the steel market crashed. Currently coking coal is the best way for making steel and if we see a pickup in steel prices then coking coal will recover. Much of the coal that is in the basins mined by peabody in Australia are coking.
Bank accounts have to be tied to a person via their SSN even if the bank account is held by a company. The setting up of a company may require limited documentation, but bank accounts are a bitch.
If you are trying to hide money in the delaware and you are a US citizen you are nuts. The IRS has access to the data of those bank accounts. They will data match and you will be found out.
If I had to take a guess it will have been because they couldn't carry them all in 1 trip. Get in, alarm starts, grab the paintings. 2 paintings per guy with the last guy also carrying a bag with their tools. You don't go back for the others as it will take to long.
It works in two ways. The first is: "I know dave stole the painting. But cops are fucking pig scum bags. Like fuck I'm gunna tell them anything. Not to mention if I did it would be a total fucking hassle. But for $25k, I never liked Dave anyway" The second: "Pretty sure I saw a car like the one they were talking about yesterday but I'm sure someone else will have got a better view of it / will be the person to call let the cops know. And I'm probably wrong anyway so I wont bother" "But $25k reward. Well it can't hurt to make a quick call and see if I can get it"
Oh shit Maths Fail. Now I want to find a hole to crawl into. Thanks for correcting.
Take off fuel weight would be lower. Considerably so. Hydrogen is up over the 140Mj/kg where as Kero is aroun 37/kg. So for the same amount of energy you need a lot less mass. The only question around mass would be how heavy a pressure vessel able to hold that much hydrogen would be.
So do we need to have separate areas for xxx, xxxx, xyy, xxy and all the other mosaic chromosomal. Or what about Pinki Pramanik. Which toilet should she use?
And? I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. I've had girls I'm not interested in and gay guys I'm not interested in flirt with me. Sometimes it can be a bit of fun, sometimes it can be a little annoying, but I've never felt any kind of threat or danger.
Also the cars are likely unrecoverable. Car theft of low end cars are either for parts or for the use in another crime. If it is use in other crime it will be recovered if they solve that crime, if it's for parts the cars are stripped and destroyed almost immediately.
Love or hate warhol there is a massive difference between a commodity car, where the victim would consider themselves made whole with another car, and a piece of artwork which is impossible to replace.
The FBI will expend resources to find the person / people who committed this crime. That is what the FBI exist to do. In order to do this they will have to use man hours and equipment which will have a $ value and, through extensive experience, they will be able to make a remarkably accurate estimation of how many man hours and resources they will consume and what their % chance of catching the person will be.
If they can spend $25k on a tip, and that reduces the man hours used and or it increases the % chance of capture then it is the FBI spending money on what it is required to do.
Unless of course you are trying to argue that some criminal law shouldn't be enforced because you don't think it's important or the victims are a people / group you think aren't worthy of receiving FBI support.
It would have to be pretty damn black not to give a reading. God knows the lidar speed guns around here have no problem getting black cars. Sure there are number plates and lights to aim at but I think the absorption rate will be far too low to cause an issue.
It really isn't a myth. Look at it the other way. The US demanded an unconditional surrender after the bombs were dropped and the Japanese still said no unless with can keep the emperor. The US demand was for an unconditional surrender, and don't even come talking to us if it's not unconditional.
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Actually you need to be pretty accurate. There is a lot of pretty empty countryside on the west coast of the US. NK have only demonstrated an ability to build very small scale nukes. Nukes so small there has been questions about whether they actually went off properly. That results in relatively small blast areas.
IF they managed to get it right into the middle of LA they might kill 50k with say another 50k seriously injured. But that would be the mother of all hail Mary shots for them. When you consider then that if they landed the nuke on Pepperdine University in Malibu, nuke maps estimates about 3k dead you can see the difference a relatively small accuracy difference will make. If they hit any of the mountains along highway 1 though we are probably only looking at injuries.
Avatar is a remake of Fern Gully.
Their Hero 3 was simply too good a product. They sold a cubic butt load of them, but these things just don't break. So their market went from a new market to a saturated market in a very short space of time. The market has matured, those that wanted a GoPro type camera already have one, but investors are looking for the same level of growth / return. Because that is impossible GoPro's share price has tanked.
Stuff may not be the be all and end all but stuff is what drives a lot of people to go into dual income arrangements. It wasn't cheap chinese imports that increased the size of peoples homes and increased mortgages to go with it.
From an external perspective it seems like the issues in the US stems from the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. The US has the most really rich people in the world but also has a crazy number of really poor people. For example, to someone who has grown up with it, universal healthcare just feels like a given. The fact that that doesn't exist in the US just feels strange. Also the labour setup for low income work in the US is really out of kilter with what I am used to. Tipping and a really low minimum wage, it's just alien.
The other big difference seems to be the relationship between the citizens and your Government. In Australia we just tend to think of our Government as a bit useless. Nobody really likes politicians but outside of a general distaste we just think they couldn't find their arsehole with a telescope. The impression I get from media and on here is that US Citizens have a deep seated distrust of their Government. And partisan lines are so deeply deeply cut it's like the old protestant vs catholic argument in Ireland.
As for China. It is not a democratically elected government no. But the methodology by which people enter the People's Congress is actually remarkably equal. Sure it is gamed by the incumbents, but the way people enter the government and move into the ruling party is remarkable and worth reading about. China has a lot of challenges ahead of it. Not least of all that it is not a homogeneous ethnic group which naturally leads to tensions. While people feel they can improve their lot in life, the tensions can be kept under control. If, however, their economy stalls in a major way there will be significant civil disturbance.
As for manipulating their currency. All major economies do it. The US is still working on the largest currency manipulation in history with its quantitative easing program.
To the best of my knowledge trade agreement allow for universal taxes. Which is what this would be as it would target internal & external producers equally. It is no different to a tax on alcohol for example. Californian wine would be taxed at the same rate as French wine so there is no argument of protectionism or favouritism. The EU is currently exploring the possibility of applying carbon costs to imports, the are calling them BCAs. Part of the reason is EU internal businesses are subject to an ETS and so are at a competitive disadvantage to external businesses. The BCAs are intended to fix that.
I'm not from the US so I have a different perspective on the "tough on China" talk and rhetoric that comes out of the US. As a fairly neutral party and one who has visited both countries I do find the push back between the two interesting to watch. Over all I find the degree of anti-China sentiment a little odd, given so much of the US's standard of living has come from being able to use China for cheap production.
Carbon tax or carbon credits would be the only way to do it. Which raises all kinds of international competitiveness issues.
But if carbon emissions were taxed at $x / tonne and the govt paid $x for each tonne captured you would create two incentives. The first is to reduce your carbon output, the second would be to create a market to extract it from the atmosphere. Over time the extraction methods would become more efficient and it may be possible to lower the value of x.
In the end you are aiming to achieve a carbon neutral economy rather than a carbon neutral subset, such as power.
As for international competitiveness, given the US is the largest consumer economy they could require a carbon output value for every product crossing the border, or apply a flat % to items without that come without a value. This way the US could use its dominant position to force carbon pricing through its global suppliers.
I actually think the solution will come the other way. I think carbon production is almost impossible to cut by those levels. There is simply too much legacy infrastructure in place and the cost to shift away is too high.
What I see as the only realistic way to reduce atmospheric carbon levels is to extract it. We talk about taxing carbon production to reduce production, but if instead we were able to remove it from the atmosphere using energy that would other wise be generated but not used we might get there.
Renewable energy lends themselves to this because they fluctuate highly. So at times where grids are otherwise having to shed supply the extraction plants would use it instead.
Because even at current market valuations which have massively slashed the value of their assets, Peabody has an asset valuation of over $12 billion. Also while coal may be being supplanted in the energy space in the developed world the total quantity of the seaborne coal trade is still increasing year on year. It is why there are ongoing proposals in Australia to open new coal mines.
Because in Australia Peabody formed an equity partnership with Mitsui & Co, a japanese energy company, and Thiess Holdings an Australian domestic civil and mining contractor. As a result the Australian operations are not 100% owned by peabody and hence have to be treated as separate entities. Peabody's ownership of those operations will be represented as an asset in shares on the parent companies books. They could potentially be forced to divest some of those shares but that should not affect Australian operations.
The only reason their coal consumption fell off was because of the crash in the steel price. They dramatically cut their coking coal consumption. Their coal consumption for energy production increased significantly and absorbed much of the decrease in coking coal use. Should steel prices rise then coking coal consumption with recover.
However in absolute terms if you have a look at coal exports out of Australia to total tonnage has increased every year. So while coal may make up a smaller % of power generation the total amount being mined and exported is increasing. http://www.minerals.org.au/res...
Thermal coal prices have been in the pits for ages. But coking coal prices held up for a long time until the steel market crashed. Currently coking coal is the best way for making steel and if we see a pickup in steel prices then coking coal will recover. Much of the coal that is in the basins mined by peabody in Australia are coking.
Bank accounts have to be tied to a person via their SSN even if the bank account is held by a company. The setting up of a company may require limited documentation, but bank accounts are a bitch.
If you are trying to hide money in the delaware and you are a US citizen you are nuts. The IRS has access to the data of those bank accounts. They will data match and you will be found out.
If I had to take a guess it will have been because they couldn't carry them all in 1 trip. Get in, alarm starts, grab the paintings. 2 paintings per guy with the last guy also carrying a bag with their tools. You don't go back for the others as it will take to long.
It works in two ways. The first is:
"I know dave stole the painting. But cops are fucking pig scum bags. Like fuck I'm gunna tell them anything. Not to mention if I did it would be a total fucking hassle. But for $25k, I never liked Dave anyway"
The second:
"Pretty sure I saw a car like the one they were talking about yesterday but I'm sure someone else will have got a better view of it / will be the person to call let the cops know. And I'm probably wrong anyway so I wont bother" "But $25k reward. Well it can't hurt to make a quick call and see if I can get it"
Oh shit Maths Fail. Now I want to find a hole to crawl into. Thanks for correcting.
Take off fuel weight would be lower. Considerably so. Hydrogen is up over the 140Mj/kg where as Kero is aroun 37/kg. So for the same amount of energy you need a lot less mass. The only question around mass would be how heavy a pressure vessel able to hold that much hydrogen would be.
So do we need to have separate areas for xxx, xxxx, xyy, xxy and all the other mosaic chromosomal. Or what about Pinki Pramanik. Which toilet should she use?
And? I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. I've had girls I'm not interested in and gay guys I'm not interested in flirt with me. Sometimes it can be a bit of fun, sometimes it can be a little annoying, but I've never felt any kind of threat or danger.
According to another site I found it numbered the amount of items recovered between 2004 & 2010 at 2400.
Also the cars are likely unrecoverable. Car theft of low end cars are either for parts or for the use in another crime. If it is use in other crime it will be recovered if they solve that crime, if it's for parts the cars are stripped and destroyed almost immediately.
Love or hate warhol there is a massive difference between a commodity car, where the victim would consider themselves made whole with another car, and a piece of artwork which is impossible to replace.
Are you serious or am I being trolled?
The FBI will expend resources to find the person / people who committed this crime. That is what the FBI exist to do. In order to do this they will have to use man hours and equipment which will have a $ value and, through extensive experience, they will be able to make a remarkably accurate estimation of how many man hours and resources they will consume and what their % chance of catching the person will be.
If they can spend $25k on a tip, and that reduces the man hours used and or it increases the % chance of capture then it is the FBI spending money on what it is required to do.
Unless of course you are trying to argue that some criminal law shouldn't be enforced because you don't think it's important or the victims are a people / group you think aren't worthy of receiving FBI support.
It would have to be pretty damn black not to give a reading. God knows the lidar speed guns around here have no problem getting black cars. Sure there are number plates and lights to aim at but I think the absorption rate will be far too low to cause an issue.
Not to mention the road tends to be black.
It really isn't a myth. Look at it the other way. The US demanded an unconditional surrender after the bombs were dropped and the Japanese still said no unless with can keep the emperor. The US demand was for an unconditional surrender, and don't even come talking to us if it's not unconditional.