I pay $12.95 for basic cable, which had all my locals and then all the government forced channels and some shopping networks I do not look at.
If I want SyFy I have to go to 54.95. I don't want the other channels they are offering, I have a very limited need for televised entertainment and see no reason I should subsidizes the channels someone else wants. Yeah I know it probably will cost more than it cost them, but I DON'T CARE. It certainly won't be the forty two dollar difference I am faced with now.
and this not take into account the censorship inherent in the book selection committees who choose which books to buy and let the public use.
In the end this is about equality, the rights of those who want certain books bought with public money and the rights of those who don't want certain books bought with public money. Free speech also means not being compelled to support the same of those you disagree with. While you cannot stop a person from writing a book you can stop someone from spending your money to buy it. That is how it should be. Free speech is a wholly separate thing from acceptable speech. The first is a guarantee the second is up to the society to determine.
We have a culture problem among certain minority groups which equates doing well in school as being white. Until you find a way to end this destructive behavior nothing much is going to have an effect past the early years of school. Most kids, even from the poorest areas, do find initially. It is when peer pressure gets involved that they willingness to learn is affected.
Wall Street is a major supporter of this administration, if not every administration before this but this one seems to be heavily stacked in favor of Wall Street this time (and I propose that Wall Street isn't the same as what most people know as Big Business)
So the political machine is not behind it, specifically the unions are not in this. Never under estimate the ability to move people when and how needed. Students don't stand a chance (if this is truly student based) and the really big organizations that would gin up a protest on demand when Bush was in office aren't being given marching orders. Since they aren't giving marching orders their contacts in the press don't have reason to report.
See this is this dirty little secret about protests in America now, they have to be sanctioned by the political parties to receive attention. Sponataneous protesting or groupings of people politically are not favored and about anything that can be done to ignore them is done. If they don't go away then they most be portrayed as a whole as having the very worst traits that can be found in individual members .
So until certain political elements need this protest it doesn't exist.
Maybe the new one they are buying will work out. No worse than the costs associated with some product launches that failed spectacularly. Yeah I know quite a few will be annoyed at the payouts but we are talking about the one in a million type person/personality types. Just like there is little chance any kid you went to school with would ever be a NBA/NFL star or Hollywood A-lister (or even B and C) their chance at this level is equally small.
Maybe if they knew what they wanted to be they could find someone who knew how to get there. Hopefully this time they will. HP is a great name, it just seemed lost, trying out every new fad without being HP first.
Are the numbers obnoxious, yeah for those of us who don't operate at these levels. Just like when see movie stars get twenty million for a flop or the sports star signed to hundred million dollar long term contracts. Its all about risk versus reward. Trying to find that one in a million person who really is capable of pulling a rabbit out of his arse all the while blowing smoke up there too. These same people need insurance too, against boards and corporations that are simply rudderless or so mired in bureaucracy that short term fixes are near impossible and your just the latest scapegoat. The high stakes game of finding your Steve Jobs isn't cheap. I won't even pretend to think I would ever be at this level, but I would love to sit in a room and watch how they work one day as a fly on the wall. Just what does set these people apart? When some hit it big they really hit it big.
What is packaged as President Main Street is more President Wall Street. Those who were bailed out tend to be big in political donations or can recruit those who are. They are the real money and politicians care about one thing, reelection. It comes before even their personal views. They will sell their soul for reelection.
We will spend in two days what we budget for NASA (we spend 10 BILLION PER DAY - four billion more than we have!!!!)
We have one of the most progressive tax structures in the world, we have a higher capital gains tax than many European countries, and we tax our businesses higher than most, yet we are out of money? It is a very simple reason, politicians are buying favor with money our children will have to repay, if not us.
It is class warfare of a different sort, politicians and their friends versus us. The aristocracy isn't the mega rich, its the politically connected. They will deftly play one side off another all the while rolling in the money.
I don't consider employing a 3d printer and a team of people to replicate the face of an ATM to be easy. These guys are putting considerable effort into stealing money. It really comes down to the consumer, do not use ATM's you don't normally use and if you do your best to obscure your entry of your PIN number. The thieves are getting both pieces which effectively circumvents about all the bank can do.
Now there are things that could be done to make the consumer more informed, like having a service to send text messages to their phone or e-mail for each change in their account. Locking out ATM/CC usage outside of a specific zip code range without rearrangement. Certain screen technologies could be used on the ATM to restrict the viewing angle to head on and then implement a touch screen numeric keypad whose position on the screen is not constant from one use to the next.
Reports like this give me pause, do we know the requirements these surveyed people are under? Are they meeting deadlines? What do their employers think?
If they are meeting the needs assigned to them by their employer then who cares how many hours they "log". I don't log as many hours as I work, and there are some that log more than they "work". It comes down to the needs of the business, if its satisfied then fine. If not, the wrong people are being permitted.
I know where I work we are not permitted to work from home simply because of the work habits of some people at work. Fire them I know some will say, but there are certain people you can't do that to easily and you also require history of issues to back your side and many are loathe or lazy to do that. Still those who can do work unofficially many hours from home because they are proven workers.
I would not celebrate a study like this or try to excuse it with hearsay, it is articles like this which day in day out are used to curtain, stop from starting, and end telework agreements. Too many people lack the discipline needed to work unsupervised and too many are concerned with hurting someones feelings telling them the reason they can't be allowed to work from home.
I do not think its a great idea for any government to buy into any closed system when alternatives exist. Yes the Android tablets are in their infancy but they can get better, especially when a need gives them purpose.
George Lucas even said so in 1979. He did the equivalent of focus group testing and market analysis. His real genius wasn't the story that was the first Star Wars, it was in making sure he controlled the merchandise and sequels. It has always been about the money, the story was a means to the end.
Hence Star Trek and Star Wars are wholly different regardless of that first word, that simply sets the place.
The tax rate in the 1950s is irrelevant. You are comparing apples and oranges. Your also playing straight into Class Warfare, which usually involves only giving half the information needed to arrive at the real result. Marginal tax rates had a tendency to let those who fell below the cut off to escape nearly all of it. Plus, no one earning the amounts needed actually paid anywhere close to it. Many knew the tricks and they used them, think the Merriweathers and Kennedys weren't rich then or earning money hand over fist?
First off, what he is proposing is nothing more than another AMT. We know what that got us, it is hitting people who were never intended to be hit yet is it gone? Hell no, they can't let go of a tax. So we will end up with a new set of rules that will likely bite a lot of people in the butt later on who weren't supposed to ever worry.
Second higher tax rates do not normally translate into higher tax income to the Federal Government. This has been proven time and time again. The best way to stop someone from doing something is to punish the activity. If taxes go up on certain income levels you can guarantee that your suddenly going to find the number of people earning those numbers falls dramatically.
So what do we have? We have a politician running for reelection who needs to fire up his base and have a campaign issue because he cannot stand on his record. Hence he is staging tax cuts for the rich versus taking away medicade/medicare for the poor. Got to love how he WONT CUT ONE PENNY WITHOUT THEM RICHIES PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE. That is not the talk of someone trying to fix a problem, that is someone on the campaign trail.
This leaves us with our current problem, we spend too much. We also have too many suspended taxes which in turn keeps people that have the money and resources from spending. They won't when they know that not only will the Bush era tax rates possibly revert but in 2013 a whole slew of new taxes begin which will add four to six percent more to their tax load.
This means the money will go where it can earn tax free. Welcome to munnies, the home of real money. The place where politicians and their rich rich buddies put a lot of money to escape taxes.
If the goal is to raise revenue then give the markets something concrete to live with. This means setting PERMANENT rates that are not subject to a vote to maintain. Set growth rates. Do not tax to bring the rich down, you don't bring the poor up by bringing someone down.
1. Bring down our business tax rate, ours is one of highest in the world and one of the few that taxes income made outside of the country. Both are great reasons to relocate off shore or sell yourself to another country's big business (look for China to start buying some up who go willingly)
2. Capital gains tax, slash it. You do realize that many European counties have this at ZERO PERCENT!. Capitol gains taxes are taxes on income by a company that already had been taxed on that same income!
3. CAP income tax rates. Set them in stone. None of this "we will renew it next year crap"
4. Flatten tax rates.
Every dollar taken by the government out of the economy is another dollar which no longer creates a job, no longer keeps a job, and no longer invests in a job. Government cannot create, it can only move money from one place to the next and considering the fraud rates many government programs suffer that is a tax in itself.
As for ridiculously inflammatory rhetoric, your dredging up the French and Russian revolutions is so over the top I don't know where to begin.
Look. Obama has said many times in interviews, you can find some on Youtube if you want to see the words emerge from his mouth. He said he knows that raising capitol gains taxes might not bring in more money, he wants it to be fair.
Well guess what sunshine, being fair will only mean those at the bottom will suffer more because the bottom moves too. You cannot raise the poor up by bringing those above them down. It never works.
when it doesn't you can usually look and find a local, state, or federal regulation, that prevented the competition from occurring. Far too many cases of sole provider issues are because regulations prevent any meaningful competition from arising. The barriers put up for entry are not worth the costs.
Far too many pick up an iPad competitor and immediately start thinking, if it costs the same why not just buy the iPad. I agree his choice of words isn't the greatest.
Florida and Texas, not exactly bastions of Democrat support.
So I guess we could find any reason to support any outcome.
It is far simpler than that, NASA does not generate sufficient votes and every dollar is now too precious to "waste" on science when it could buy votes. Sorry for being cynical but you sometimes cannot help it when you watch what they do
Should they still be granted protection? I say yes. I think they should be granted the protection of copyright for as long as the original performers live or a set number of years, whichever is longer. I see no loss to the public that the original creator/performer of a creative work retains copyright throughout their life. Their estate should also profit but for a much much shorter time if the original creator/performer did not live a long life. I would say on the order of seven years.
My Georgia electric bill for June to July was 130, for July to August it was 134. I live in an area zoned for tiered rates, meaning as your usage goes up you pay a lot more. All my lights are either CFL (where they aren't easily noticed) or now LED. There are some good deals on packs of three LED bulbs. The only place without either bulb is the master bathroom because we can't find anything acceptable to replace the clear six inch globes. Suggestions are appreciated on that matter. So we simply have half them off unscrewed enough to not light; those above "my" sink. Common electronics in the house include one iMac and a laptop. Throw in a DLP television and a 32 LED in the exercise area and finally a hot water heater. The reason I posted our monthly electric bills, the house is 3900 square feet.
How is it done, well being militant with the heating and AC helps a lot. Since no one is upstairs after 7 the AC goes up to 82+, it is only below 82 from 8PM to 7AM and then its 75 (a slight cave in but hell who cares). The downstairs is 78 during the day mostly because of pets but goes to 82+ at night though it rarely heats up. Ceiling fans grace every room. Laundry and loads of dishes are done as full loads only. Modern dishwashers are more efficient than washing by hand in most cases. Modern washers (both are less than five years old) are the same. Oh, watch the lights. Its not hard to teach turning out the light when your not in the room (though it can lead to some silliness - as in its ONLY YOU in there"). Toss in a light colored shingles and that might help a bit. I would try white as a story mentioned years ago but HOAs are the law in these parts. Outside the only control I have over the elements was planting Chinese Thuja (very fast growing conical pines) to the S/SW to block direct summer sunlight in evening. Even the orientation of the home benefits, most windows are on the North side.
While I doubt every thing we do would work for most, it works for us. Make it a game. That can get everyone on board. That and have something tangible as reward to do with the savings. Like trips, hell even pizza nights paid for being smart work.
Well a Keynesian economist thinks it was important enough to write about, but then again given their track record why do we accord them any insight into anything?
treat sports and movie stars differently than they do people who run large corporations. Just like stars on a team or screen there are so very few who make it truly big. Most are just B-Actors/Second Team people. Then you have the myriad of support people, people who want to be part of the industry (film/sports/etc) but don't have the talent or the drive (never underestimate that - that is where most fail) to reach for the top.
Yeah the dollar amounts can be silly at times but I don't care. I am not in that league. I do as well as I AM capable of. I work at large fortune 500 company and the guys truly at the top don't see forty hour weeks unless they are on vacation, most are seeing 50+ and they have been doing for a long long time. Far too many people punch in their forty hours and quit. Just like building a house, you don't build your career all at once. Its an investment, some are just putting in far more than others and people rarely credit that time.
because anything I can do on my iPad I can do on my laptop. Please don't call out the touchscreen, its only one method of input and highly annoying at times for its lack of accuracy. I pick up my laptop at work and go to any meeting I want with it, I can be wired or wireless, it doesn't matter. I quick and EASILY type out an email or meeting notes. I can bt import a picture if I want, having used a smart phone to capture the diagrams on a board or presentation if not presented in another format.
I have my iPad useful only when I knew I would only need to review information, come time to adjust or enter new information and I found myself wanting my laptop. Ultrathin laptops work well, they just might not have Starbucks cred but who cares.
Then there are the meetings where neither is allowed but I am allowed to keep my phone, which amazingly can do many of the tasks I needed the iPad for.
A device is only as magical as you think it is, far too many people grant magical abilities to a new toy to justify it, either purposefully or subconsciously ignoring the fact they could do it better before or better another way.
That humans emit CO2 through their activities is not the question, it is how much of an effect it has. So simplistic answers and youtube videos are nothing to base a decision on.
the US government does business with the Chinese, the US government supports other companies doing business with the Chinese, the US maintains sells bonds to the Chinese.
Until you hold the US government accountable for its actions how can you hold any corporation accountable? Or is this a matter of one has guns and the other does not?
Really, how do you permit with one hand and deny with another? Why not penalize the American's who buy goods made in China, why not hold Apple accountable as well, after all their products are produced there which enables indirectly all the abuses accounted to the government of China.
If we are to discourage companies then we need to discourage our own government as well. Apparently we are all gung ho to do so provided the party we go after can't retaliate against us.
If they are able to keep extra programs and such? Plus the dollar amounts are all relative to the schools involved. 50K would be a rounding error in NYC schools but in Podunk wherever results in a class being taught for fuel for school buses.
We have counties here whose fuel bills are in the millions, going to four day weeks would save money wasted on buses; let alone what parents and students who drive spend; and allow them to be spent more effectively.
We were taught evolution (this was back in 72 or 73?) and we got our daily dose of Biblical studies. No one really cared to ask why dinosaurs were very old and how it related to Adam and Eve other than to ask if Dinosaurs would have tried to eat them or A & E would have had them as pets. We were kids, we never thought more about it that, well, dinosaurs, evil snakes, and the like.
It was a big non issue. Science classes and Religion were separate.
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I pay $12.95 for basic cable, which had all my locals and then all the government forced channels and some shopping networks I do not look at.
If I want SyFy I have to go to 54.95. I don't want the other channels they are offering, I have a very limited need for televised entertainment and see no reason I should subsidizes the channels someone else wants. Yeah I know it probably will cost more than it cost them, but I DON'T CARE. It certainly won't be the forty two dollar difference I am faced with now.
Pay Per View and Ala Carte is fine by me
and this not take into account the censorship inherent in the book selection committees who choose which books to buy and let the public use.
In the end this is about equality, the rights of those who want certain books bought with public money and the rights of those who don't want certain books bought with public money. Free speech also means not being compelled to support the same of those you disagree with. While you cannot stop a person from writing a book you can stop someone from spending your money to buy it. That is how it should be. Free speech is a wholly separate thing from acceptable speech. The first is a guarantee the second is up to the society to determine.
We have a culture problem among certain minority groups which equates doing well in school as being white. Until you find a way to end this destructive behavior nothing much is going to have an effect past the early years of school. Most kids, even from the poorest areas, do find initially. It is when peer pressure gets involved that they willingness to learn is affected.
Wall Street is a major supporter of this administration, if not every administration before this but this one seems to be heavily stacked in favor of Wall Street this time (and I propose that Wall Street isn't the same as what most people know as Big Business)
So the political machine is not behind it, specifically the unions are not in this. Never under estimate the ability to move people when and how needed. Students don't stand a chance (if this is truly student based) and the really big organizations that would gin up a protest on demand when Bush was in office aren't being given marching orders. Since they aren't giving marching orders their contacts in the press don't have reason to report.
See this is this dirty little secret about protests in America now, they have to be sanctioned by the political parties to receive attention. Sponataneous protesting or groupings of people politically are not favored and about anything that can be done to ignore them is done. If they don't go away then they most be portrayed as a whole as having the very worst traits that can be found in individual members .
So until certain political elements need this protest it doesn't exist.
Maybe the new one they are buying will work out. No worse than the costs associated with some product launches that failed spectacularly. Yeah I know quite a few will be annoyed at the payouts but we are talking about the one in a million type person/personality types. Just like there is little chance any kid you went to school with would ever be a NBA/NFL star or Hollywood A-lister (or even B and C) their chance at this level is equally small.
Maybe if they knew what they wanted to be they could find someone who knew how to get there. Hopefully this time they will. HP is a great name, it just seemed lost, trying out every new fad without being HP first.
Are the numbers obnoxious, yeah for those of us who don't operate at these levels. Just like when see movie stars get twenty million for a flop or the sports star signed to hundred million dollar long term contracts. Its all about risk versus reward. Trying to find that one in a million person who really is capable of pulling a rabbit out of his arse all the while blowing smoke up there too. These same people need insurance too, against boards and corporations that are simply rudderless or so mired in bureaucracy that short term fixes are near impossible and your just the latest scapegoat. The high stakes game of finding your Steve Jobs isn't cheap. I won't even pretend to think I would ever be at this level, but I would love to sit in a room and watch how they work one day as a fly on the wall. Just what does set these people apart? When some hit it big they really hit it big.
What is packaged as President Main Street is more President Wall Street. Those who were bailed out tend to be big in political donations or can recruit those who are. They are the real money and politicians care about one thing, reelection. It comes before even their personal views. They will sell their soul for reelection.
We will spend in two days what we budget for NASA (we spend 10 BILLION PER DAY - four billion more than we have!!!!)
We have one of the most progressive tax structures in the world, we have a higher capital gains tax than many European countries, and we tax our businesses higher than most, yet we are out of money? It is a very simple reason, politicians are buying favor with money our children will have to repay, if not us.
It is class warfare of a different sort, politicians and their friends versus us. The aristocracy isn't the mega rich, its the politically connected. They will deftly play one side off another all the while rolling in the money.
I don't consider employing a 3d printer and a team of people to replicate the face of an ATM to be easy. These guys are putting considerable effort into stealing money. It really comes down to the consumer, do not use ATM's you don't normally use and if you do your best to obscure your entry of your PIN number. The thieves are getting both pieces which effectively circumvents about all the bank can do.
Now there are things that could be done to make the consumer more informed, like having a service to send text messages to their phone or e-mail for each change in their account. Locking out ATM/CC usage outside of a specific zip code range without rearrangement. Certain screen technologies could be used on the ATM to restrict the viewing angle to head on and then implement a touch screen numeric keypad whose position on the screen is not constant from one use to the next.
are being allowed to telework.
Reports like this give me pause, do we know the requirements these surveyed people are under? Are they meeting deadlines? What do their employers think?
If they are meeting the needs assigned to them by their employer then who cares how many hours they "log". I don't log as many hours as I work, and there are some that log more than they "work". It comes down to the needs of the business, if its satisfied then fine. If not, the wrong people are being permitted.
I know where I work we are not permitted to work from home simply because of the work habits of some people at work. Fire them I know some will say, but there are certain people you can't do that to easily and you also require history of issues to back your side and many are loathe or lazy to do that. Still those who can do work unofficially many hours from home because they are proven workers.
I would not celebrate a study like this or try to excuse it with hearsay, it is articles like this which day in day out are used to curtain, stop from starting, and end telework agreements. Too many people lack the discipline needed to work unsupervised and too many are concerned with hurting someones feelings telling them the reason they can't be allowed to work from home.
I do not think its a great idea for any government to buy into any closed system when alternatives exist. Yes the Android tablets are in their infancy but they can get better, especially when a need gives them purpose.
George Lucas even said so in 1979. He did the equivalent of focus group testing and market analysis. His real genius wasn't the story that was the first Star Wars, it was in making sure he controlled the merchandise and sequels. It has always been about the money, the story was a means to the end.
Hence Star Trek and Star Wars are wholly different regardless of that first word, that simply sets the place.
The tax rate in the 1950s is irrelevant. You are comparing apples and oranges. Your also playing straight into Class Warfare, which usually involves only giving half the information needed to arrive at the real result. Marginal tax rates had a tendency to let those who fell below the cut off to escape nearly all of it. Plus, no one earning the amounts needed actually paid anywhere close to it. Many knew the tricks and they used them, think the Merriweathers and Kennedys weren't rich then or earning money hand over fist?
First off, what he is proposing is nothing more than another AMT. We know what that got us, it is hitting people who were never intended to be hit yet is it gone? Hell no, they can't let go of a tax. So we will end up with a new set of rules that will likely bite a lot of people in the butt later on who weren't supposed to ever worry.
Second higher tax rates do not normally translate into higher tax income to the Federal Government. This has been proven time and time again. The best way to stop someone from doing something is to punish the activity. If taxes go up on certain income levels you can guarantee that your suddenly going to find the number of people earning those numbers falls dramatically.
So what do we have? We have a politician running for reelection who needs to fire up his base and have a campaign issue because he cannot stand on his record. Hence he is staging tax cuts for the rich versus taking away medicade/medicare for the poor. Got to love how he WONT CUT ONE PENNY WITHOUT THEM RICHIES PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE. That is not the talk of someone trying to fix a problem, that is someone on the campaign trail.
This leaves us with our current problem, we spend too much. We also have too many suspended taxes which in turn keeps people that have the money and resources from spending. They won't when they know that not only will the Bush era tax rates possibly revert but in 2013 a whole slew of new taxes begin which will add four to six percent more to their tax load.
This means the money will go where it can earn tax free. Welcome to munnies, the home of real money. The place where politicians and their rich rich buddies put a lot of money to escape taxes.
If the goal is to raise revenue then give the markets something concrete to live with. This means setting PERMANENT rates that are not subject to a vote to maintain. Set growth rates. Do not tax to bring the rich down, you don't bring the poor up by bringing someone down.
1. Bring down our business tax rate, ours is one of highest in the world and one of the few that taxes income made outside of the country. Both are great reasons to relocate off shore or sell yourself to another country's big business (look for China to start buying some up who go willingly)
2. Capital gains tax, slash it. You do realize that many European counties have this at ZERO PERCENT!. Capitol gains taxes are taxes on income by a company that already had been taxed on that same income!
3. CAP income tax rates. Set them in stone. None of this "we will renew it next year crap"
4. Flatten tax rates.
Every dollar taken by the government out of the economy is another dollar which no longer creates a job, no longer keeps a job, and no longer invests in a job. Government cannot create, it can only move money from one place to the next and considering the fraud rates many government programs suffer that is a tax in itself.
As for ridiculously inflammatory rhetoric, your dredging up the French and Russian revolutions is so over the top I don't know where to begin.
Look. Obama has said many times in interviews, you can find some on Youtube if you want to see the words emerge from his mouth. He said he knows that raising capitol gains taxes might not bring in more money, he wants it to be fair.
Well guess what sunshine, being fair will only mean those at the bottom will suffer more because the bottom moves too. You cannot raise the poor up by bringing those above them down. It never works.
They aren't interested in a fight, they want head lines.
If they had balls they would shut down every cartel in the world, but you know, that would require a gut check they can never meet.
It is one thing to go after groups who have the power to jail you but another to go after groups that WILL kill you.
when it doesn't you can usually look and find a local, state, or federal regulation, that prevented the competition from occurring. Far too many cases of sole provider issues are because regulations prevent any meaningful competition from arising. The barriers put up for entry are not worth the costs.
he is simply saying it.
Far too many pick up an iPad competitor and immediately start thinking, if it costs the same why not just buy the iPad. I agree his choice of words isn't the greatest.
Florida and Texas, not exactly bastions of Democrat support.
So I guess we could find any reason to support any outcome.
It is far simpler than that, NASA does not generate sufficient votes and every dollar is now too precious to "waste" on science when it could buy votes. Sorry for being cynical but you sometimes cannot help it when you watch what they do
Should they still be granted protection? I say yes. I think they should be granted the protection of copyright for as long as the original performers live or a set number of years, whichever is longer. I see no loss to the public that the original creator/performer of a creative work retains copyright throughout their life. Their estate should also profit but for a much much shorter time if the original creator/performer did not live a long life. I would say on the order of seven years.
My Georgia electric bill for June to July was 130, for July to August it was 134. I live in an area zoned for tiered rates, meaning as your usage goes up you pay a lot more. All my lights are either CFL (where they aren't easily noticed) or now LED. There are some good deals on packs of three LED bulbs. The only place without either bulb is the master bathroom because we can't find anything acceptable to replace the clear six inch globes. Suggestions are appreciated on that matter. So we simply have half them off unscrewed enough to not light; those above "my" sink. Common electronics in the house include one iMac and a laptop. Throw in a DLP television and a 32 LED in the exercise area and finally a hot water heater. The reason I posted our monthly electric bills, the house is 3900 square feet.
How is it done, well being militant with the heating and AC helps a lot. Since no one is upstairs after 7 the AC goes up to 82+, it is only below 82 from 8PM to 7AM and then its 75 (a slight cave in but hell who cares). The downstairs is 78 during the day mostly because of pets but goes to 82+ at night though it rarely heats up. Ceiling fans grace every room. Laundry and loads of dishes are done as full loads only. Modern dishwashers are more efficient than washing by hand in most cases. Modern washers (both are less than five years old) are the same. Oh, watch the lights. Its not hard to teach turning out the light when your not in the room (though it can lead to some silliness - as in its ONLY YOU in there"). Toss in a light colored shingles and that might help a bit. I would try white as a story mentioned years ago but HOAs are the law in these parts. Outside the only control I have over the elements was planting Chinese Thuja (very fast growing conical pines) to the S/SW to block direct summer sunlight in evening. Even the orientation of the home benefits, most windows are on the North side.
While I doubt every thing we do would work for most, it works for us. Make it a game. That can get everyone on board. That and have something tangible as reward to do with the savings. Like trips, hell even pizza nights paid for being smart work.
Well a Keynesian economist thinks it was important enough to write about, but then again given their track record why do we accord them any insight into anything?
from what a Doctor friend told me one day most of the cases he read about were amongst people from Mexico or Haiti
Measles outbreaks have been reported in Mexico this century
treat sports and movie stars differently than they do people who run large corporations. Just like stars on a team or screen there are so very few who make it truly big. Most are just B-Actors/Second Team people. Then you have the myriad of support people, people who want to be part of the industry (film/sports/etc) but don't have the talent or the drive (never underestimate that - that is where most fail) to reach for the top.
Yeah the dollar amounts can be silly at times but I don't care. I am not in that league. I do as well as I AM capable of. I work at large fortune 500 company and the guys truly at the top don't see forty hour weeks unless they are on vacation, most are seeing 50+ and they have been doing for a long long time. Far too many people punch in their forty hours and quit. Just like building a house, you don't build your career all at once. Its an investment, some are just putting in far more than others and people rarely credit that time.
because anything I can do on my iPad I can do on my laptop. Please don't call out the touchscreen, its only one method of input and highly annoying at times for its lack of accuracy. I pick up my laptop at work and go to any meeting I want with it, I can be wired or wireless, it doesn't matter. I quick and EASILY type out an email or meeting notes. I can bt import a picture if I want, having used a smart phone to capture the diagrams on a board or presentation if not presented in another format.
I have my iPad useful only when I knew I would only need to review information, come time to adjust or enter new information and I found myself wanting my laptop. Ultrathin laptops work well, they just might not have Starbucks cred but who cares.
Then there are the meetings where neither is allowed but I am allowed to keep my phone, which amazingly can do many of the tasks I needed the iPad for.
A device is only as magical as you think it is, far too many people grant magical abilities to a new toy to justify it, either purposefully or subconsciously ignoring the fact they could do it better before or better another way.
yes nature emits nearly 750 gigatons.
So I don't understand your definition of 'a lot'
That humans emit CO2 through their activities is not the question, it is how much of an effect it has. So simplistic answers and youtube videos are nothing to base a decision on.
the US government does business with the Chinese, the US government supports other companies doing business with the Chinese, the US maintains sells bonds to the Chinese.
Until you hold the US government accountable for its actions how can you hold any corporation accountable? Or is this a matter of one has guns and the other does not?
Really, how do you permit with one hand and deny with another? Why not penalize the American's who buy goods made in China, why not hold Apple accountable as well, after all their products are produced there which enables indirectly all the abuses accounted to the government of China.
If we are to discourage companies then we need to discourage our own government as well. Apparently we are all gung ho to do so provided the party we go after can't retaliate against us.
If they are able to keep extra programs and such? Plus the dollar amounts are all relative to the schools involved. 50K would be a rounding error in NYC schools but in Podunk wherever results in a class being taught for fuel for school buses.
We have counties here whose fuel bills are in the millions, going to four day weeks would save money wasted on buses; let alone what parents and students who drive spend; and allow them to be spent more effectively.
We were taught evolution (this was back in 72 or 73?) and we got our daily dose of Biblical studies. No one really cared to ask why dinosaurs were very old and how it related to Adam and Eve other than to ask if Dinosaurs would have tried to eat them or A & E would have had them as pets. We were kids, we never thought more about it that, well, dinosaurs, evil snakes, and the like.
It was a big non issue. Science classes and Religion were separate.