That's exactly the point I'm making, underpaying is on a macro-economic scale never economically viable or justifiable.
There are short term gains for the slave driver employer but as a society we will eventually have to pick up the pieces, costing more than would have been spend on a fair wage to start with.
Sorry if my claim for fair wages did not meet your comprehension.
Fair is when a day's work will support you and your family, nothing fancy but neither borderline slavery.
My point is that sub-fair salaries are by definition not advancing society as a whole and all of us will eventually suffer the consequences through the typical effects poverty has on our street, neighbourhood, town or state.
The vast majority of these 30,000 causalities are in the former eastern block countries on roads dangerous by design.
In the more developed countries the number of fatalities per km driven is very low and setting the max. speed to 70mi (~113 km) would not change anything.
Motorway density and risk
Statistically, the numbers of road deaths are particularly low for many regions with high traffic volumes. This is true especially of many regions in western Germany and England, in particular around major cities, and of most parts of the Netherlands. Especially around major cities and transport hubs (e.g. seaports), high traffic volumes cause congestion, which reduces average speeds and, therefore, also the likelihood of fatalities when accidents do occur. A closer look at this phenomenon also reveals that many of these regions tend to have high motorway density. In general, motorways are much safer than secondary roads. Furthermore, mainly transit traffic uses existing motorways, thus keeping the number of road fatalities in these regions relatively low, despite high total traffic volumes. In fact, the quality of the roads in these countries is especially high, contributing to the low number of accidents.
By contrast, fatality rates are high in regions with low motorway density, such as all of Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic except their capitals, the whole of Bulgaria, Poland, the Baltic Member States, some of the eastern federal states of Germany and many rural areas in France and Spain. These data strongly suggest that the high proportion of traffic using motorways is an important factor behind the low number of road fatalities in many regions.
Speed limiters would need to be flexible, please realise most accidents and especially fatalities happen on regular country roads where speeds are not particularly high anyway.
Those that regularly break speed limits in a dangerous way wouldn't set the damn thing anyway.
And then there are some moderating you Insightful...
In the industry I work in there are similar PHB's that have themselves have never been 'in the field' issuing 'safety' regulations, often along the lines of ten do's and ten don'ts.
What *is* effective is leaving the 'ownership of safety' with those actually doing the job.
By stating a fair wage would devastate your economy you just claimed something unfair is supporting people that are doing all right.
Jobs for which the employer can't afford to pay a fair wage are by definition a burden on society as a whole, you will be paying for the survival of those slaves, even if it is through increased unrest, crime etc.
In the mean time this slave driver employer laughs all the way to the bank.
B.t.w, as a European I fail to see a link between unionisation of fast food workers and doubling salaries.
Over here we have the freedom to unionise and no-one can either stop us or force us to join a union of our choice, meaning McDonald's workers could and do join a say (if it existed) a brick layers or white collar union.
This is a bit off-topic but your calculation shows us the issues surrounding a fair minimum wage.
Fair means to me your days labour pays for a day's life, not a day of suffering.
That day's life should include savings for later, including savings for the future of your kids.
If your income cannot support this your job is not only useless for you but to society as a whole, your boss/employer might seem to make money over your back but at the end of the day/week/month/year/life we as a society are stuck with a family that needs support to survive, forget about advancing the pool of society.
A fair and sufficient minimum wage might initially look like a burden for the company or employer but in the long term it helps us all.
A day's work that cannot pay for a workers life and future is by definition inefficient and in the longer term will cost us all.
As proven by some windscreen liquids nano particles can wiggle themselves between a solid surface and water and make the rain run off easily, the question is if they can improve the transfer of heat compared to 'just' water.
It is a know fact that various alcohols that are used as anti-freeze lower the heat transfer of liquid cooled systems.
Mercury or Sodium work much better but have their own issues...
All it takes is a significant market for fast travel and someone willing to invest, a lot of the technology exists.
The biggest energy expense in fast travel is air resistance so the idea of a (partially) vacuum tunnel is only logic.
With these speeds a trip doesn't take long and having a relatively small thus cramped cabin is less of an issue.
The problems with Eminent Domain, a total distrust of government etc. will probably make such a system, under- or above ground, not likely to be pioneered in the US but in places like China or even Europe.
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There are short term gains for the slave driver employer but as a society we will eventually have to pick up the pieces, costing more than would have been spend on a fair wage to start with.
Fair is when a day's work will support you and your family, nothing fancy but neither borderline slavery.
My point is that sub-fair salaries are by definition not advancing society as a whole and all of us will eventually suffer the consequences through the typical effects poverty has on our street, neighbourhood, town or state.
Lets say we look at the same picture from different angles, you from a corporate standpoint, me from society's.
They'll be able to spend at the shops around you who in turn can employ others.
And have never travelled in Europe.
The vast majority of these 30,000 causalities are in the former eastern block countries on roads dangerous by design.
In the more developed countries the number of fatalities per km driven is very low and setting the max. speed to 70mi (~113 km) would not change anything.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/tra_tra_acc_inc_car_cra_fat_rat-inc-car-crashes-fatality-rate
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Road_safety_statistics_at_regional_level
Motorway density and risk
Statistically, the numbers of road deaths are particularly low for many regions with high traffic volumes. This is true especially of many regions in western Germany and England, in particular around major cities, and of most parts of the Netherlands. Especially around major cities and transport hubs (e.g. seaports), high traffic volumes cause congestion, which reduces average speeds and, therefore, also the likelihood of fatalities when accidents do occur. A closer look at this phenomenon also reveals that many of these regions tend to have high motorway density. In general, motorways are much safer than secondary roads. Furthermore, mainly transit traffic uses existing motorways, thus keeping the number of road fatalities in these regions relatively low, despite high total traffic volumes. In fact, the quality of the roads in these countries is especially high, contributing to the low number of accidents. By contrast, fatality rates are high in regions with low motorway density, such as all of Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic except their capitals, the whole of Bulgaria, Poland, the Baltic Member States, some of the eastern federal states of Germany and many rural areas in France and Spain. These data strongly suggest that the high proportion of traffic using motorways is an important factor behind the low number of road fatalities in many regions.
Those that regularly break speed limits in a dangerous way wouldn't set the damn thing anyway.
And then there are some moderating you Insightful...
In the industry I work in there are similar PHB's that have themselves have never been 'in the field' issuing 'safety' regulations, often along the lines of ten do's and ten don'ts.
What *is* effective is leaving the 'ownership of safety' with those actually doing the job.
Lets call them practical units :)
Jobs for which the employer can't afford to pay a fair wage are by definition a burden on society as a whole, you will be paying for the survival of those slaves, even if it is through increased unrest, crime etc.
In the mean time this slave driver employer laughs all the way to the bank.
B.t.w, as a European I fail to see a link between unionisation of fast food workers and doubling salaries.
Over here we have the freedom to unionise and no-one can either stop us or force us to join a union of our choice, meaning McDonald's workers could and do join a say (if it existed) a brick layers or white collar union.
It is about adults with a full time job needing to support a family and a future.
The kid doing the lawn is non of these.
That's different to people still studying, a trainee should be in an apprenticeship program and that's a whole different cost/benefit analysis.
But yes, I expect entry level jobs to pay a fair wage, nothing fancy but sufficient to live till you are ready for a full job.
Fair means to me your days labour pays for a day's life, not a day of suffering.
That day's life should include savings for later, including savings for the future of your kids.
If your income cannot support this your job is not only useless for you but to society as a whole, your boss/employer might seem to make money over your back but at the end of the day/week/month/year/life we as a society are stuck with a family that needs support to survive, forget about advancing the pool of society.
A fair and sufficient minimum wage might initially look like a burden for the company or employer but in the long term it helps us all.
A day's work that cannot pay for a workers life and future is by definition inefficient and in the longer term will cost us all.
A bit pointless right? For all purpose such a video can be straight out of the camera.
Anyway, these days we use Kdenlive for video editing.
Secondly, this is not storage of fuel or fuel rods but 'just' contaminated water, hence my emphasise on storage.
A state spy agencies first objective is to find information helpful in protecting their state.
Here we see a spy agency not knowing who is their enemy.
Please remember the UN was for a significant part set up and is still financed by the US.
Snowden was right in suspecting foul play as The Independent was not among the original papers he informed.
Read the article and you will understand this decay heat is not to be expected in the storage tanks of the article.
Providing these are storage tanks whose content is waiting until it can be cleaned up I would suggest to freeze them.
Lots of people told me Linux sucks for WIFI support :)
No, the LavaBit thing is very hush-hush and relies on secret powers, the Brits wrote it into law.
Or can you show a receipt for that stuff?
Please realise this is a country where they can and will detain you for not handing over the key for encrypted data.
It is a know fact that various alcohols that are used as anti-freeze lower the heat transfer of liquid cooled systems.
Mercury or Sodium work much better but have their own issues...
The biggest energy expense in fast travel is air resistance so the idea of a (partially) vacuum tunnel is only logic.
With these speeds a trip doesn't take long and having a relatively small thus cramped cabin is less of an issue.
The problems with Eminent Domain, a total distrust of government etc. will probably make such a system, under- or above ground, not likely to be pioneered in the US but in places like China or even Europe.