You might also remember all the SUV owners who suddenly couldn't afford gas and the auto makers who - after years of insisting on SUVs - started going broke. That is pure market, and it brings the pain. Want a prosperous society? Dig your well before you get thirsty.
Yes! This is the problem! Government interference in the private market.
GM and Chrysler should have gone bankrupt. When the companies reemerged, they would have been prepared to make vehicles to meet the new market.
As it is today, they still mostly make the same large bloated vehicles and I STILL can't buy the compact diesel pickup that I really want. They'll crank out SUVs until the next oil bubble and there will be President Pelosi to pump in the subsidies, further interfering with the natural order of business.
When fuel prices hit $4/gal (US), Gas Hybrids were flying out of the dealerships. 10 year old used Honda Insights were selling for what they cost new. You couldn't give away an SUV. No government interference needed.
That's capitalism.
Peak oil has already hit, right? The market will take care of this with no need for tax payer subsidy.
Funny how I get modded 'troll' whenever I post anything advocating personal responsibility.
Fuck it. I'm going to go buy a new car and that Mac laptop I've always wanted. There's probably a government program that'll pick up my mortgage because, you know, times are tough.
Not baby boomers. 30 somethings who worked hard, budgeted, and paid off their debt. It's not like it was that hard to do, but damn, I could have bought some nice stuff if all I had to do was sleep in a park for a few weeks and whine until the government paid off my loans.
And you do know that tax dollars subsidize a large part of tuition? Look at the out-of-state rates that are 4x higher. The difference comes from state taxes.
Some high schools have a dual enrollment program where you go to the local community college for class and get both college and high school credit, graduating on time with a couple of years worth of college credit.
Want to see a real uprising? Watch what the hard working middle class who already paid off their own student loans do when their earnings are taken away to forgive some occupy-wall-street-dirty-hippie's B.A. Art History debt.
I'm glad that's the first fork in the map. I have zero interest in vampires and unicorns but that seems to be the bulk of the "Sci-fi / Fantasy" section in the library or book store or netflix. The two genres have very little in common, in my opinion.
a wireless system can experience transmitter failure, receiver failure, radio interference, battery failure (transmitter or receiver). This team tries to mitigate that potential failure by adding more transmitters.
The RX8 is rated 16/22 mpg @ 197HP, Corvette is 17/26 mpg @ 430HP. I never averaged less than 24 mpg in mine and 30 mpg on the highway was easy with a light foot. Coworkers would ask me how I could afford the gas to commute in it and I'd tell them it gets better mileage than their Camry.
Oh, and it had almost 200,000 miles on it when I sold it. No problems whatsoever and didn't burn a drop of oil.
I bet Obama's going to make this an issue in his re-election campaign. If he gets re-elected, hopefully he'll remember it once the election is over...
Well, last election he DID say he'd Spread the Wealth Around. What he didn't tell us is that it would be to AIG, Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, Chrysler, etc, etc, etc, etc...
My suggestion would be to make a the "Off Topic" moderation disconnect a post from its parent and make it its own thread, preferably at the end of the list. Eventually the active discussion will shift farther down the page and it won't be necessary, while simultaneously not rewarding users who post before reading TFA.
As it is, the entire discussion ends up being a reply to the first one or two posts, and those several starter posts tend to be the dumbest.
How about ending the Karma bonus altogether. What good is it when everybody has it? I got mine in a month with a few stupid comments that got a +5. Now I'm an expert on everything!
Hi. This comment has absolutely nothing to do with your comment, but I'm posting it here so it'll be at the top and more likely to be read and/or modded up.
This is such a common practice nowadays that 75% of the discussion are all replies to the Frist Post and the whole thing becomes a fragmented mess.
Huh? He's pointing out the Pharisees hypocrisy of claiming to follow the commandments. But I suppose if you take one line of one passage out of context it could be interpreted differently.
Farther on in Mark 7 he says that eating bacon is okay. I hadn't noticed that before. I've always thought that bacon was heavenly.
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You might also remember all the SUV owners who suddenly couldn't afford gas and the auto makers who - after years of insisting on SUVs - started going broke. That is pure market, and it brings the pain. Want a prosperous society? Dig your well before you get thirsty.
Yes! This is the problem! Government interference in the private market.
GM and Chrysler should have gone bankrupt. When the companies reemerged, they would have been prepared to make vehicles to meet the new market.
As it is today, they still mostly make the same large bloated vehicles and I STILL can't buy the compact diesel pickup that I really want. They'll crank out SUVs until the next oil bubble and there will be President Pelosi to pump in the subsidies, further interfering with the natural order of business.
Of the 25 stories on the default main page right now,
6 are U.S. politics.
11 are politics in general.
Enough is enough!!!
When fuel prices hit $4/gal (US), Gas Hybrids were flying out of the dealerships. 10 year old used Honda Insights were selling for what they cost new. You couldn't give away an SUV. No government interference needed.
That's capitalism.
Peak oil has already hit, right? The market will take care of this with no need for tax payer subsidy.
A Corvette has substantially better fuel economy. Of course, the Fisker weighs almost as much as a Hummer.
Why would anyone who could spend $89k on a car be concerned at all about the fuel economy?
Then clearly power generation needs to be banned as well.
Funny how I get modded 'troll' whenever I post anything advocating personal responsibility.
Fuck it. I'm going to go buy a new car and that Mac laptop I've always wanted. There's probably a government program that'll pick up my mortgage because, you know, times are tough.
Not baby boomers. 30 somethings who worked hard, budgeted, and paid off their debt. It's not like it was that hard to do, but damn, I could have bought some nice stuff if all I had to do was sleep in a park for a few weeks and whine until the government paid off my loans.
And you do know that tax dollars subsidize a large part of tuition? Look at the out-of-state rates that are 4x higher. The difference comes from state taxes.
Some high schools have a dual enrollment program where you go to the local community college for class and get both college and high school credit, graduating on time with a couple of years worth of college credit.
Want to see a real uprising? Watch what the hard working middle class who already paid off their own student loans do when their earnings are taken away to forgive some occupy-wall-street-dirty-hippie's B.A. Art History debt.
I want a fucking refund.
(Oh, by the way, the cost was worth it.)
Shouldn't everybody be entitled to an education from an exclusive private college?
/sarcasm
Browse at '1'. I was commenting on the troll who replied to your post.
Fat or oil, I don't care. My life dream was to have my own jet fighter. Now I want it to smell like french fries.
You sound like the anti-social one.
Guess I should have RTFA. Vampires are on the sci-fi side. Oh well.
I'm glad that's the first fork in the map. I have zero interest in vampires and unicorns but that seems to be the bulk of the "Sci-fi / Fantasy" section in the library or book store or netflix. The two genres have very little in common, in my opinion.
a wireless system can experience transmitter failure, receiver failure, radio interference, battery failure (transmitter or receiver). This team tries to mitigate that potential failure by adding more transmitters.
I recommend they add a cable operated backup.
Planned Parenthood? I think you put your tinfoil hat on too tight today.
The RX8 is rated 16/22 mpg @ 197HP, Corvette is 17/26 mpg @ 430HP. I never averaged less than 24 mpg in mine and 30 mpg on the highway was easy with a light foot. Coworkers would ask me how I could afford the gas to commute in it and I'd tell them it gets better mileage than their Camry.
Oh, and it had almost 200,000 miles on it when I sold it. No problems whatsoever and didn't burn a drop of oil.
So does a 2-stroke, and it's definitely less efficient.
I bet Obama's going to make this an issue in his re-election campaign. If he gets re-elected, hopefully he'll remember it once the election is over...
Well, last election he DID say he'd Spread the Wealth Around. What he didn't tell us is that it would be to AIG, Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, GM, Chrysler, etc, etc, etc, etc...
My suggestion would be to make a the "Off Topic" moderation disconnect a post from its parent and make it its own thread, preferably at the end of the list. Eventually the active discussion will shift farther down the page and it won't be necessary, while simultaneously not rewarding users who post before reading TFA.
As it is, the entire discussion ends up being a reply to the first one or two posts, and those several starter posts tend to be the dumbest.
How about ending the Karma bonus altogether. What good is it when everybody has it? I got mine in a month with a few stupid comments that got a +5. Now I'm an expert on everything!
It's totally unusable on an Android phone. All the comments are hidden and I can't figure out how to move the threshold bar with a touch screen.
Hi. This comment has absolutely nothing to do with your comment, but I'm posting it here so it'll be at the top and more likely to be read and/or modded up.
This is such a common practice nowadays that 75% of the discussion are all replies to the Frist Post and the whole thing becomes a fragmented mess.
Huh? He's pointing out the Pharisees hypocrisy of claiming to follow the commandments. But I suppose if you take one line of one passage out of context it could be interpreted differently.
Farther on in Mark 7 he says that eating bacon is okay. I hadn't noticed that before. I've always thought that bacon was heavenly.