Well, that's the other thing... Some of the border is down the middle of rivers and other terrain where you can't build a wall. Obviously Mexico isn't going to have it on their side, so... The US will have to effectively cede that land.
Maybe it's different in the US. In Japan almost everything in the shop is 100 yen (plus tax), with a few items at 200 or 300 yen. It's 99.9% just 100 yen though.
Since they don't have any influence over the WTO I don't see how that helps. Also the possible sanctions could be quite bad for the US, e.g. China gets to ignore US intellectual property rights or patents as compensation.
Their batteries are great. Maybe they are only Zinc low capacity ones, but for stuff like remote controls that's fine and still cheaper than buying longer life ones.
Personally I try to use rechargable ones on principal, but for things like remote controls they often aren't much good due to lower voltage and extended periods of non-use.
It's a shame that "one price" shops are so down market in the west. The UK and Ireland are the same.
In Japan the one price shops are much nicer, and the stuff is a lot better quality. Maybe it's because they are closer to China. Shops like Daiso in particular are great. Some of the tools you get there are actually top notch stuff, and with everything you don't feel like you are just forced to buy crap because you are poor, you actually choose it because it's decent.
Their offering in the UK makes even less sense than the one in the US, not least because the UK has fairly decent online ordering from all the major supermarkets.
Prime delivery is a rip off. Most of the items eligible for Prime just have the extra delivery cost added on to the sale price. Prime Video is okay but doesn't have enough content to justify more than a month or two of subscription. Maybe if you use the Twitch sub and listen to a lot of streaming music it might be worth the rather high cost.
I just keep waiting and every few months they give me a free trial, which I take up and then cancel. It's kinda nice but the 2 day delivery often turns into a week.
On the other hand the UK high street is dying and Amazon is sometimes the only way to get stuff you actually want/need.
25 billion dollars could easily fix the problem. Fix the reasons why people are coming, and put systems in place for them to come legally and to support them and the communities they join. Make them an asset, a boost to the economy.
25 billion dollars on a wall that isn't even going to work is a complete waste.
He doesn't have to be personally impeached, just have members of his immediate family sent to jail with charges pending for him the moment he steps down.
That the Democrats are keeping quiet doesn't mean they don't have anyone. It just means that they took the advice to never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake, and don't see any value in providing opportunities for the Republicans to start smearing their candidates early.
Speaking of the unstoppable juggernaut of government, aren't you a bit worried about it trying to piss away billions of your dollars on something known not to work? I mean China built a wall far bigger and better than the one Trump wants, and that wasn't very effective...
This is probably going to end up as a WTO complaint, or at least some retaliation against US companies trying to get into the rapidly expanding Chinese market.
Wait to see where the money goes. It sounds like corporate welfare. Who else but a low grade MBA could come up with a phrase like "quantum-smart workforce"?
the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day
Today we can send in robots first to see if it's safe. Back then the only option was to set sail and literally pray you made it. I'm sure if they had been offered a choice they would have chosen robots too.
Remember that they were doing it for money too. I'm sure if you find someone desperate enough and/or offer enough cash you will get people willing to ride your glorified firework.
Or more likely it's because we are no longer on he brink of nuclear annihilation and locked into a dick measuring contest called "game theory".
It's a shame Kennedy was assassinated, as he was pushing for the moon mission to be a joint venture with the USSR and had a good relationship with their president. Ultimately that would have produced a more sustainable manned space programme.
I'd suggest that people these days are still willing to take risks. Look at the kids doing free running along the roofs of 10 story buildings. Look at how many signed up for that trip to Mars scam. It's just that the funding isn't there because governments have mostly realized that showing off doesn't produce much of a return and in a democracy it's hard to get people to support doing it.
I'd suggest that a more useful book to start with would be On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, and then Existentialism and Humanism by Sartre. Economics is a tool, and being right or wrong largely depends on what you are trying to do with it.
That's the point, there are in fact ways of testing these ideas indirectly or by proxy, and many of them are well proven e.g. CBT. Still, every time there is a discussion about mental health on Slashdot, someone will demand proof that depression is real and that widely used therapies actually work, citing a lack of double blind testing as evidence that it's all just bunk.
Even with professionals the UK couldn't have got a good deal from the negotiations, simply because of the political situation in the UK.
The UK didn't know what it voted for or what it wanted. All sorts of nonsense was proposed before the referendum, none of it at all realistic except for the "Norway model" that was immediately rejected within hours of the result. So all the UK had left was cakeism - the strategy document literally said "have our cake and eat it".
Naturally the EU simply stuck to the basic principals of the Single Market and the procedure laid out in Article 50 (which was written by a British guy). Given that the Single Market is vastly larger than the UK market they were never going to compromise it just to help the UK out. So the British government pissed away the two year negotiation period trying to find something that the EU would accept and that it could sell to its own MPs, failed and now we are in deep, deep shit with the clock ticking.
You seem to be arguing that people have to suffer in order to rise up against wealthy criminals... I'm not sure that's a good basis for society. Or realistic, for that matter.
In fact, let's compare democracy in Europe and the US. In Europe we all have very generous welfare systems compared to the US. By your logic Europe should be run by criminals, massively corrupt and full of rich people living in enclaves while the rest of us scrape by. But in reality there is less wealth inequality and in many places a higher quality of life for the average person than the US, and US politics really are dominated by money and poverty.
Of course Europe could still do better, but your fears appear to be unfounded. Turns out European socialism does often result in a better life for everyone.
It's not supposed to be a complete, society level experiment. It's supposed to address the biggest worry most people have - that it will end up being worse than the current benefit system for those who are reliant on social security. That could be in terms of leaving them worse off, or in terms of discouraging them from working (which personally I think is nonsense, but let's test it).
When it was just GPS it was easier to jam/spoof. Now we can compare data from multiple systems to detect spoofing. Other services can provide greater precision than the US wishes civilians to have, or remove other restrictions like the maximum altitude and speed limits.
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Well, that's the other thing... Some of the border is down the middle of rivers and other terrain where you can't build a wall. Obviously Mexico isn't going to have it on their side, so... The US will have to effectively cede that land.
Maybe it's different in the US. In Japan almost everything in the shop is 100 yen (plus tax), with a few items at 200 or 300 yen. It's 99.9% just 100 yen though.
I wish they existed in Europe.
Since they don't have any influence over the WTO I don't see how that helps. Also the possible sanctions could be quite bad for the US, e.g. China gets to ignore US intellectual property rights or patents as compensation.
An opportunity to employ some cheap migrant labour?
Their batteries are great. Maybe they are only Zinc low capacity ones, but for stuff like remote controls that's fine and still cheaper than buying longer life ones.
Personally I try to use rechargable ones on principal, but for things like remote controls they often aren't much good due to lower voltage and extended periods of non-use.
It's a shame that "one price" shops are so down market in the west. The UK and Ireland are the same.
In Japan the one price shops are much nicer, and the stuff is a lot better quality. Maybe it's because they are closer to China. Shops like Daiso in particular are great. Some of the tools you get there are actually top notch stuff, and with everything you don't feel like you are just forced to buy crap because you are poor, you actually choose it because it's decent.
Their offering in the UK makes even less sense than the one in the US, not least because the UK has fairly decent online ordering from all the major supermarkets.
Prime delivery is a rip off. Most of the items eligible for Prime just have the extra delivery cost added on to the sale price. Prime Video is okay but doesn't have enough content to justify more than a month or two of subscription. Maybe if you use the Twitch sub and listen to a lot of streaming music it might be worth the rather high cost.
I just keep waiting and every few months they give me a free trial, which I take up and then cancel. It's kinda nice but the 2 day delivery often turns into a week.
On the other hand the UK high street is dying and Amazon is sometimes the only way to get stuff you actually want/need.
25 billion dollars could easily fix the problem. Fix the reasons why people are coming, and put systems in place for them to come legally and to support them and the communities they join. Make them an asset, a boost to the economy.
25 billion dollars on a wall that isn't even going to work is a complete waste.
Nice of Trump to provide Mexicans with jobs in the local ladder factory.
He doesn't have to be personally impeached, just have members of his immediate family sent to jail with charges pending for him the moment he steps down.
That the Democrats are keeping quiet doesn't mean they don't have anyone. It just means that they took the advice to never interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake, and don't see any value in providing opportunities for the Republicans to start smearing their candidates early.
Speaking of the unstoppable juggernaut of government, aren't you a bit worried about it trying to piss away billions of your dollars on something known not to work? I mean China built a wall far bigger and better than the one Trump wants, and that wasn't very effective...
No, I mean China will complain to the WTO about the US banning Chinese products on dubious national security grounds.
This is probably going to end up as a WTO complaint, or at least some retaliation against US companies trying to get into the rapidly expanding Chinese market.
Wait to see where the money goes. It sounds like corporate welfare. Who else but a low grade MBA could come up with a phrase like "quantum-smart workforce"?
the Portuguese and their exploration must have seemed insane to the prudent folk of the day
Today we can send in robots first to see if it's safe. Back then the only option was to set sail and literally pray you made it. I'm sure if they had been offered a choice they would have chosen robots too.
Remember that they were doing it for money too. I'm sure if you find someone desperate enough and/or offer enough cash you will get people willing to ride your glorified firework.
Or more likely it's because we are no longer on he brink of nuclear annihilation and locked into a dick measuring contest called "game theory".
It's a shame Kennedy was assassinated, as he was pushing for the moon mission to be a joint venture with the USSR and had a good relationship with their president. Ultimately that would have produced a more sustainable manned space programme.
I'd suggest that people these days are still willing to take risks. Look at the kids doing free running along the roofs of 10 story buildings. Look at how many signed up for that trip to Mars scam. It's just that the funding isn't there because governments have mostly realized that showing off doesn't produce much of a return and in a democracy it's hard to get people to support doing it.
Probably worth solving all those problems though, because we are kinda vulnerable living on a single rock.
I'd suggest that a more useful book to start with would be On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, and then Existentialism and Humanism by Sartre. Economics is a tool, and being right or wrong largely depends on what you are trying to do with it.
To be fair in Tokyo they have turbo escalators that run faster than the normal ones, and I think you would have to be pretty fit to keep up with them.
Of course they only use them where there is also a normal speed escalator for people who can't cope with life in the fast lane.
That's the point, there are in fact ways of testing these ideas indirectly or by proxy, and many of them are well proven e.g. CBT. Still, every time there is a discussion about mental health on Slashdot, someone will demand proof that depression is real and that widely used therapies actually work, citing a lack of double blind testing as evidence that it's all just bunk.
Even with professionals the UK couldn't have got a good deal from the negotiations, simply because of the political situation in the UK.
The UK didn't know what it voted for or what it wanted. All sorts of nonsense was proposed before the referendum, none of it at all realistic except for the "Norway model" that was immediately rejected within hours of the result. So all the UK had left was cakeism - the strategy document literally said "have our cake and eat it".
Naturally the EU simply stuck to the basic principals of the Single Market and the procedure laid out in Article 50 (which was written by a British guy). Given that the Single Market is vastly larger than the UK market they were never going to compromise it just to help the UK out. So the British government pissed away the two year negotiation period trying to find something that the EU would accept and that it could sell to its own MPs, failed and now we are in deep, deep shit with the clock ticking.
You seem to be arguing that people have to suffer in order to rise up against wealthy criminals... I'm not sure that's a good basis for society. Or realistic, for that matter.
In fact, let's compare democracy in Europe and the US. In Europe we all have very generous welfare systems compared to the US. By your logic Europe should be run by criminals, massively corrupt and full of rich people living in enclaves while the rest of us scrape by. But in reality there is less wealth inequality and in many places a higher quality of life for the average person than the US, and US politics really are dominated by money and poverty.
Of course Europe could still do better, but your fears appear to be unfounded. Turns out European socialism does often result in a better life for everyone.
It's not supposed to be a complete, society level experiment. It's supposed to address the biggest worry most people have - that it will end up being worse than the current benefit system for those who are reliant on social security. That could be in terms of leaving them worse off, or in terms of discouraging them from working (which personally I think is nonsense, but let's test it).
There are a few of issues.
When it was just GPS it was easier to jam/spoof. Now we can compare data from multiple systems to detect spoofing. Other services can provide greater precision than the US wishes civilians to have, or remove other restrictions like the maximum altitude and speed limits.
It's a good thing.
The commit mentions that there is a whitelist of allowed devices, and presumably HID keyboards are on it.