No, I'm not being sarcastic. Employers don't pay what the work is valued. They pay what they're forced to pay. Unions force employers to pay more of the value the workers produce. Because without unions, workers aren't at all as organized as the employers.
They didn't say anything of the sort. All they said was some BS about they thought they heard something about Al Gore investing in this company. Which probably isn't even true. But if it is, there's no hypocrisy in an environmentalist investing in an electric car company.
You Republicans will do or say anything to attack a Democrat. I bet you'd sell your own family members if you thought you could blame Al Gore for it. In fact you have, by selling them to the Republicans' corporate sponsors - and then blaming Al Gore for those corporations' crimes.
You Republicans are stupid and evil, especially the way you stick together on anything no matter how inane.
You can imagine all you want. But this whole story is a lie designed to appeal to your Republican imagination and fear of actual facts. Fisker got US government money that it spent on US jobs, 5x as many as the foreign jobs as Fisker pays out of other Fisker income. A profitable investment private investors refused to try, so the American public gets not just the jobs and industry (and taxes on it), but also the interest on the loan.
A victory. Victory is totally unrecognizable to you Republicans since all you can do or imagine is epic failures, for generation after generation.
This story turns out to be total BS. The DoE loan to Fisker was spent on American carmaking jobs. Fisker does also employ 20% of that amount in Finland, but the US public money was not spent on that. Fisker's successful use of the DoE loan employed 2500 Americans who were cut loose by American car corps during this recession, and started back up an American car factory where they work. Since it's successful, Fisker will be repaying the loan.
The government invests money private industry wouldn't in a foreign corp creating American jobs. Increasing the transit tech overall, increasing the attractiveness of the industry to private investment. Making a profit on the interest.
But none of that matters, because - surprise! - car corps are global enterprises. A foreign company getting US government investment also has some foreign expenses, but not ones paid by the US government.
Nothing to see here. Unless you're a Republican, in which case the only thing you can possibly see is Democratic government corruption that doesn't exist.
We are simultaneously working to replace coal generating electric with geothermal, wind, solar and other sustainable energy sources. Which are mostly well suited to onsite generation, without the grid at all.
Not "everyone". Just everyone claiming to be qualified to answer this question who says "it's too expensive for you to bother". If even actual radiation health professionals don't know about something like Safecast, then it's perfectly obvious that their industry is just a fig leaf for the dangerous, wasteful nukes industry cartel.
Of course their reasons for being out of touch are selfish reasons. What other reason could there be to dismiss questions about the source of your income with transparently wrong answers? That kind of ignorance is purely self serving. AKA "selfish reasons".
Your sarcasm is well placed. After all, there is no dangerous radiation anywhere in Japan. And wherever it is in Japan, it's well know where. And the government/nuke complex is telling the truth about where it is.
Nobody's going to get sick in Japan from radiation they could have known about if they'd looked themselves and then moved away from.
Wait - with the onerous regulations forced unnecessarily on the responsible and self-policing nukes industry, there can't possibly be any random radioactive waste hidden anywhere to find.
It must be the work of environazis, framing the nukes industry!
Most SIP phone systems that work are based on Asterisk or FreeSwitch, and desktop ethernet phones instead of workstation GUIs. Though many still leave their admin interfaces in Flash.
They all kinda suck, but not so badly they can't be used. And not Microsoft suckage, anyway.
I care. I've got a large old Flash program that I want to convert, because Flash is indeed "dead". Its interactive features are HTML5 features which would be much more work in HTML4.
Why would you think I want to keep Flash, if I'm asking for a converter to get rid of it? You have a one track Flash-hating mind.
The real world is far more complex and unpredictable than these virtual filter bubbles.
You individually in your filter bubble is no loss - to you, or to anyone else. But millions, billions of filter bubbles, disconnected from reality and from each other destroys the society that needs reality and interconnections among disparate people.
There's a reason people who come to NYC learn to respect it for being "real": it's hard for all but the richest to avoid people unlike them or difficult realities. There's a reason that people in NYC have a reputation for being "smart", and that NYC is typically ahead of curves while also rebounding from busts. It's because there's so much reality and contact with arbitrary people that any filter bubble gets constant reminders of the inconvenient reality beyond the bubble. It makes us more capable, more intelligent, and more able to cope with reality.
Filter bubbles just set you up for a fall. They're a crutch that quickly atrophies your reality sense. And with people so able to affect each other now, despite our power to ignore each other, we need better engagement - not better numbness.
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Your feeling is wrong. As is this whole story that's nothing more than Republican propaganda.
You need a union.
No, I'm not being sarcastic. Employers don't pay what the work is valued. They pay what they're forced to pay. Unions force employers to pay more of the value the workers produce. Because without unions, workers aren't at all as organized as the employers.
They are doing it.
We tried it your way for centuries before the minimum wage laws. It sucked, and Americans didn't want America to suck that bad.
You do. Why do you hate America?
Except Fisker's cars are built in the US by Americans, despite the BS that is all there is to this story.
And, by extension, all there is to your assertion about US quality. Why do you hate America?
The business is paying off. The VP is getting nothing from it - except bragging rights, which he and his administration deserves.
What makes this a "special sweet-heart loan"?
They didn't say anything of the sort. All they said was some BS about they thought they heard something about Al Gore investing in this company. Which probably isn't even true. But if it is, there's no hypocrisy in an environmentalist investing in an electric car company.
You Republicans will do or say anything to attack a Democrat. I bet you'd sell your own family members if you thought you could blame Al Gore for it. In fact you have, by selling them to the Republicans' corporate sponsors - and then blaming Al Gore for those corporations' crimes.
You Republicans are stupid and evil, especially the way you stick together on anything no matter how inane.
You can imagine all you want. But this whole story is a lie designed to appeal to your Republican imagination and fear of actual facts. Fisker got US government money that it spent on US jobs, 5x as many as the foreign jobs as Fisker pays out of other Fisker income. A profitable investment private investors refused to try, so the American public gets not just the jobs and industry (and taxes on it), but also the interest on the loan.
A victory. Victory is totally unrecognizable to you Republicans since all you can do or imagine is epic failures, for generation after generation.
No, you're precisely wrong.
This story turns out to be total BS. The DoE loan to Fisker was spent on American carmaking jobs. Fisker does also employ 20% of that amount in Finland, but the US public money was not spent on that. Fisker's successful use of the DoE loan employed 2500 Americans who were cut loose by American car corps during this recession, and started back up an American car factory where they work. Since it's successful, Fisker will be repaying the loan.
The government invests money private industry wouldn't in a foreign corp creating American jobs. Increasing the transit tech overall, increasing the attractiveness of the industry to private investment. Making a profit on the interest.
But none of that matters, because - surprise! - car corps are global enterprises. A foreign company getting US government investment also has some foreign expenses, but not ones paid by the US government.
Nothing to see here. Unless you're a Republican, in which case the only thing you can possibly see is Democratic government corruption that doesn't exist.
Gasoline engines are 15-25% efficient.
The electric grid is 75-95% efficient.
We are simultaneously working to replace coal generating electric with geothermal, wind, solar and other sustainable energy sources. Which are mostly well suited to onsite generation, without the grid at all.
Now shut up.
Not "everyone". Just everyone claiming to be qualified to answer this question who says "it's too expensive for you to bother". If even actual radiation health professionals don't know about something like Safecast, then it's perfectly obvious that their industry is just a fig leaf for the dangerous, wasteful nukes industry cartel.
Of course their reasons for being out of touch are selfish reasons. What other reason could there be to dismiss questions about the source of your income with transparently wrong answers? That kind of ignorance is purely self serving. AKA "selfish reasons".
You started out so good, but then ignored your own insights to go so wrong.
Your post about polarization totally explains the denial of pro-nukes people like you.
You're so in fear of "the other" that even when you recognize what's going on, you insist on doing it yourself.
You are very reasonable and have a lot of patience.
Your sarcasm is well placed. After all, there is no dangerous radiation anywhere in Japan. And wherever it is in Japan, it's well know where. And the government/nuke complex is telling the truth about where it is.
Nobody's going to get sick in Japan from radiation they could have known about if they'd looked themselves and then moved away from.
Too cheap to measure!
I'm glad they made you "goaway" by insisting on consistency from you, and exposing what your lack of it means.
Wait - with the onerous regulations forced unnecessarily on the responsible and self-policing nukes industry, there can't possibly be any random radioactive waste hidden anywhere to find.
It must be the work of environazis, framing the nukes industry!
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Some more self-referential BS creating FUD around climatology?
It would be more useful for everyone if the Japanese president had a reliable radiation detector - and a moral fiber attached to it.
(Or the Prime Minister who's actually the Japanese chief executive, but whose title doesn't ring with the title of this story. :P)
I won't give it permission to read my phone info, so the news360 app is not acceptable. Why does it need that?
You're a Red Stater. Move.
Thanks, bra.
Do you know how well Swiffy works on a Flash client to a Flex app, not just a Flash animation/movie/game? What doesn't it do right?
And what about Adobe's Wallaby - is Swiffy any more complete a porting tool? Because Wallaby can't convert much more than a .FLA movie.
Your username is "Serious Callers Only". I "love" irony.
Most SIP phone systems that work are based on Asterisk or FreeSwitch, and desktop ethernet phones instead of workstation GUIs. Though many still leave their admin interfaces in Flash.
They all kinda suck, but not so badly they can't be used. And not Microsoft suckage, anyway.
I care. I've got a large old Flash program that I want to convert, because Flash is indeed "dead". Its interactive features are HTML5 features which would be much more work in HTML4.
Why would you think I want to keep Flash, if I'm asking for a converter to get rid of it? You have a one track Flash-hating mind.
The real world is far more complex and unpredictable than these virtual filter bubbles.
You individually in your filter bubble is no loss - to you, or to anyone else. But millions, billions of filter bubbles, disconnected from reality and from each other destroys the society that needs reality and interconnections among disparate people.
There's a reason people who come to NYC learn to respect it for being "real": it's hard for all but the richest to avoid people unlike them or difficult realities. There's a reason that people in NYC have a reputation for being "smart", and that NYC is typically ahead of curves while also rebounding from busts. It's because there's so much reality and contact with arbitrary people that any filter bubble gets constant reminders of the inconvenient reality beyond the bubble. It makes us more capable, more intelligent, and more able to cope with reality.
Filter bubbles just set you up for a fall. They're a crutch that quickly atrophies your reality sense. And with people so able to affect each other now, despite our power to ignore each other, we need better engagement - not better numbness.