If you are opposed to unfettered illegal immigration you're a mouth breathing racist. If you support the notion that a nation has the right and obligation to its citizens to maintain a border, you're a mouth breathing racist.
Let everyone in who wants to come, then tax the vanishing middle class into oblivion to pay for it. Else you're a mouth breathing racist.
Yeah, I was mistaken -- Had a buddy years ago who worked for a large apple packing plant in the Yakima valley tell me about the boutique produce sales to Japan - but it wasn't apples, instead cherries. (japan was blocking imports of US apples at the time, i think they've relaxed that import restriction though)
But yeah, basically they'd take the absolute highest quality ones, and ship them off for export (because they'd fetch more obviously; but also because they'd arrive in better condition after a few weeks aboard a cargo ship)
Dunno about that.. for example Washington apples, the highest quality batches are sent off to japan/china where they're a bit of a luxury item.
Generally speaking if you're exporting something, it's value outside the country needs to be greater than its value inside the country.. And universally there's a certain cache to foreign goods.
well with the advent of the cloud and IoT bullshit, they can do just that. Keep a running tally of every time you fridge door opens, or when it first pinged their servers. Then at the appropriate time (typically around the time the warranty expires, or a set number of 'door opens', fry the circuit board that controls the temperature -- voila.
You mean it doesn't make sense to combat homelessness by creating incentives for companies to leave town? One might think that the payroll taxes would be enough.
Or maybe Seattle could divert some of that public art funding towards the homeless?
But, it would seem the US gov't (aside from a few select senators like Wyden) love the surveillance state. FB is a win-win-win for them
They get: outsourced intelligence gathering - for free! whatever corporate income tax FB isn't able to weasel/zuck their way out of plausible deniability in terms of data gathering -- especially relative to collection on US citizens.
All they need to be able to do is turn the screws a little to extract whatever they want from FB/Google et al. Though they might pay a tiny amount of lip service to keep the perception that they're on our side -- but yeah, i have a hard time believing the government really wants to do anything about data collection and privacy.
I refuse to believe the US Gov't has ANY interest in privacy as long as things like FISA exist.
Basically it's a question of storage, if we were able to efficiently store electricity, we could let nuclear/hydro plants run at full output, and store excess -- rather than worry about overloading the grid, and having to adjust output accordingly.
On an aside, Bonneville dam in OR (and Grand Coulee in central WA i'd presume), can produce so much electricity they wind up paying other producers to stop generation in order to prevent overloading the grid.
Also AFAIK: Bonneville could produce even more, but not all of the generators were installed/operational.
well to be fair, they do constantly tell us they respect our privacy, and do everything to protect our personal data. So i think we should totally give them a pass on this one.
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If you are opposed to unfettered illegal immigration you're a mouth breathing racist.
If you support the notion that a nation has the right and obligation to its citizens to maintain a border, you're a mouth breathing racist.
Let everyone in who wants to come, then tax the vanishing middle class into oblivion to pay for it. Else you're a mouth breathing racist.
Yeah, I was mistaken -- Had a buddy years ago who worked for a large apple packing plant in the Yakima valley tell me about the boutique produce sales to Japan - but it wasn't apples, instead cherries. (japan was blocking imports of US apples at the time, i think they've relaxed that import restriction though)
But yeah, basically they'd take the absolute highest quality ones, and ship them off for export (because they'd fetch more obviously; but also because they'd arrive in better condition after a few weeks aboard a cargo ship)
Yeah, and the board will crucify you for "leaving money on the table" if you take the long view and tell the chinese to fuck off.
Dunno about that.. for example Washington apples, the highest quality batches are sent off to japan/china where they're a bit of a luxury item.
Generally speaking if you're exporting something, it's value outside the country needs to be greater than its value inside the country.. And universally there's a certain cache to foreign goods.
yeah, maybe the dutch should stick to wooden shoes, windmills, and prostitution.
So it wasn't "'Goodenough"?
There's plenty of other inert gases they could use for that though? Nitrogen or Argon would work just as well, no?
You mean they make Heineken taste that way .. *on purpose*? Is the skunky taste from the green bottle intentional as well? =/
well with the advent of the cloud and IoT bullshit, they can do just that. Keep a running tally of every time you fridge door opens, or when it first pinged their servers. Then at the appropriate time (typically around the time the warranty expires, or a set number of 'door opens', fry the circuit board that controls the temperature -- voila.
Or maybe build a permanent structure AROUND the assembly line. Steel frame construction isn't beyond the means of a multi-billion dollar company.
But it's also more than likely an issue Tesla has considered.. But i'm sure they'll consult you, AC next time around.
Pretty neutral towards musk and tesla -- but SpaceX seems to be doing pretty well no?
i'd rather be well away from multi-ton robots and cars in various stages of assembly. But that's just me.
Only when things go well. When things go poorly, the underlings are the first to fall on their sword under a bus.
given the rogues gallery of companies against this, it's pretty clear it's in the public's best interest. funny how that works.
odd, yeah.. i wonder what costs more in terms of garbage man salary, time, fuel etc:
Having garbage men CHECK EVERY FUCKING BAG at pickup
OR
Doing the sorting at the dump/collection depot
green washing at its best =/
What city is that? that sounds really, really fucking annoying and overbearing.
What would your grand plan consist of, rainbows and puppy dogs?
You mean it doesn't make sense to combat homelessness by creating incentives for companies to leave town? One might think that the payroll taxes would be enough.
Or maybe Seattle could divert some of that public art funding towards the homeless?
let's also hope they don't intentionally cripple thunderbolt to bolster their graphics cards.
An nvidia card over a TB3 is still light years better than anything intel has produced -- and will likely stay that way for several years.
how much would they charge for a whoosh?
They did the same kind of mental gymnastics with bush over 9/11.
"hey he's as dumb as a chimp, just look at him!"
"hey, he orchestrated the biggest government cover-up in the history of the world!"
(Of course when called out on this, blame was then shifted to Cheney or whoever was the convenient boogeyman at the time)
I still like my idea of shipping everything ... to Germany at full price plus shipping, all to be covered by Germany.
Hey if it works for for Syrians, Somalis, and Iraqis... (also: how to get a -5 flamebait almost instantaneously)
But, it would seem the US gov't (aside from a few select senators like Wyden) love the surveillance state. FB is a win-win-win for them
They get:
outsourced intelligence gathering - for free!
whatever corporate income tax FB isn't able to weasel/zuck their way out of
plausible deniability in terms of data gathering -- especially relative to collection on US citizens.
All they need to be able to do is turn the screws a little to extract whatever they want from FB/Google et al. Though they might pay a tiny amount of lip service to keep the perception that they're on our side -- but yeah, i have a hard time believing the government really wants to do anything about data collection and privacy.
I refuse to believe the US Gov't has ANY interest in privacy as long as things like FISA exist.
Basically it's a question of storage, if we were able to efficiently store electricity, we could let nuclear/hydro plants run at full output, and store excess -- rather than worry about overloading the grid, and having to adjust output accordingly.
On an aside, Bonneville dam in OR (and Grand Coulee in central WA i'd presume), can produce so much electricity they wind up paying other producers to stop generation in order to prevent overloading the grid.
Also AFAIK: Bonneville could produce even more, but not all of the generators were installed/operational.
well to be fair, they do constantly tell us they respect our privacy, and do everything to protect our personal data. So i think we should totally give them a pass on this one.