EPA and DOE recommend setting hot water heaters no higher than 120 F to prevent burns. OSHA recommends 140 for the reasons you mention. I wouldn't doubt that California requires it be set at 120 F upon pain of public humiliation and fines.
Many power companies for years have given consumers breaks on their bill for allowing the utility to control their water heater to allow the utility to turn it off or reduce the temperature during peak usage.
How do you think the utility does this? The water heater is network connected.
Most modern meters are already network connected, and the utility doesn't ask the consumer for permission. I haven't had a meter reader look at my electric meter in decades. It's in a locked yard.
Using explosives on oil well fires has been a standard for decades, so much so that John Wayne made a movies about it in the 1960's. It was originally pioneered by "Red" Adair and Myron Kelly in the 1950's.
Never heard of it being used for forest fires though.
Harley Davidson opened a foreign plant and closed a U.S. one. The decision to do this was made at least a year before Trump took office, and is unrelated to tariffs, but don't let facts color your left wing talking points..
I can't speak for other people and I know its not data, but here is how I use the Facebook app.
I have notifications turned on and when certain people post on Facebook I get a notification.
"Oh, I see from the notification that my daughter has posted another picture of her dog." Swipe left. The notification is closed.
At no time does the Facebook feed get visited. At no time do I see any ads.
"Oh I see from the notification that my friend has posted her basketball schedule." Click to view. Post comes up in app. I check out the schedule and close the Facebook app. At no time do I see the Facebook feed. At no time do I see any ads.
If this is how other people are using the app, then I don't see that Facebook is getting much out of it. I'm certainly not seeing random feed entries and I'm certainly not seeing any ads. I haven't visited Facebook in a browser in literally years. I only ever post birthday greetings and I do that through a birthday reminder app that doesn't require I actually visit Facebook.
I've got to personally say that I don't find that to be true. I have three times sent feedback to Google maps about errors that I have found in my local area while using the application to navigate. In all three cases not only did I get a response from Google (probably a bot, I admit) but the discrepancies were quickly fixed, within a month or so.
I propose that the U.S. follow the practices of other nations.
College tuition should be free for students who preform at the highest levels in fields which have societal value.
This means the government should pay for higher education for a a specific number of students in specific fields. The number of such grants should be set based upon the number of people needed in those fields to replace potential losses and reasonably predicted growth.
As in other nations if you fail to perform you lose your funding. If someone better comes along you lose your funding. If the field becomes obsolete, you lose your funding.
This is how it works in other places. I know a PhD Physicist from France. He tells me that at every level he had to complete with others to stay funded, right up until he finished his thesis,
Its not about affordability. Its about getting bang for the buck. Anyone who can afford to pay their own way can take whatever courses they want. If taxpayers are paying for it it needs top be about societal good. The best students get a free ride. Others pay their way or do trades, retail or what ever. Society benefits.
Keep the GI bill and continue the tax breaks for companies that pay for workers to attend college. That gets other people in without the distorting effect of easy loans for everybody, most of whom will never pay it back, but can't discharge it in bankruptcy.
This is not a slam against lawyers. This is a fact. There are more people with law degrees that there are jobs requiring law degrees.
A useful degree is a degree in a field which has a position requiring that degree. In a general sense this can be relatively easily determined by measurement to a degree which is good enough.
In many fields the use for an advanced degree is primarily to fill an academic position. So for example except for fringe cases all professional historians are either teachers, academics or researchers. Anyone not in one of those fields is probably working out of field. An person with an engineering degree fills a much broader slot, with engineers working in academia a much smaller percentage of the total number of individuals having engineering degrees.
Too many people have degree in areas for which society has no need or for which the need is very small. In many areas a bachelor degree is relatively useless, for example someone with an archeology degree at the B.A. level will find only a small handful of jobs available in their field. Almost all jobs in that field require at least a master's degree. Many require a PhD. Most English Lit majors either teach or go on to Law school. Many work retail or service jobs, which will never allow them to pay off their student loans. For them this is a useless degree.
College is a trade school for everyone except the rich. I say that as someone who has three advanced degrees, not one of which I paid for. I can't imagine borrowing a life time of debt to get a degree for any reason other than to make money.
Society is only richer for subsidizing higher education when people are studying things which benefit society. In Europe competition for "free" education is cutthroat, with only the best performers having slots. And these slots are only in certain areas. Real subjects, not memes, that actually benefit society.
Education is not dependent on attending specific schools. No one is against education. The problem is we don't need an unending stream of people with degrees in library science or trasngender studies or black history. Be interested in those areas if you want and study them on your own, but be realistic about your ability to get a job in that field before you borrow $50,000 to get that degree. And don't expect everybody else to pay for your hobby if you want to study a field but know you won't be able to work in it.
No one is saying that people in trades don't need to be educated. What they don't need is to drop $50K on a four year degree at a public or private university when they can get an associate at a community collage for a couple of grand.
Rich people can afford to spend huge amounts of money studying what are basically hobby subjects. Most people attend higher education to learn what they need to get a job. For a lot of people that should be trade school.
Once they have a job it's trivially easy now to pick up hobby subjects using one of the online sources for free or way less than a conventional 4 year college.
If colleges were in the business of preventing people from being duped statistics instead of algebra and calculus would be a required mathematical subject, and history based on facts instead of SJW memes would be taught. But that's not the agenda.
Rural electrification only happened because the government subsidized it and because electricity is treated as a utility.
The answer to the problem is not 'net neutrality' as it has been presented but real net neutrality. This would mean the government treating internet providers the way they treated the film industry, separating content providers from distributes.
Initially film production companies were allowed to own theaters, which made it impossible for newcomers to enter the industry, because they had no way to show their films. So the government became involved and prohibited film production companies from owning movie theaters and also making exclusive contract with individual distribution companies. This is why we can see movies from different distributors in the same theaters.
We need to the same thing in the U.S. Make cable companies utilities and prevent them from owning content creation companies or dealing in exclusive contracts. My ISP pays the cable owner for access. All ISPs pay the same price. Cable companies are regulated like other monopolies by a local board of mixed appointed and elected commissioners. The Federal government subsidizes both rural and urban fiber installation so everyone gets access. It's paid for by fees paid by the cable companies.
That's how you fix it. It will never happen. Comcast and Charter will prevent it through their tamed politicians and judges.
Popadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with a Maltease National alleged to have contacts with Russia.
So no he did not plead guilty to collusion. He plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Joseph Mifsud, who may or may not have been a Russian agent.
So if free speech in the real world is not anonymous I guess no anonymous works were published before the invention of the internet. Thomas Paine, Mary Shelly and hundreds of other writers, all who published works anonymously might disagree with you.
Many works (not all of them pornographic) have been published anonymously.
Corporations are a creation of government regulation. They were initially created to reduce the risks of investors in cases where risk was too great. Before corporations if someone invested in a company and the company folded they could be held libel for all of the failed company's debts. Incorporation meant that once the assets of the corporation ran out the debtors could not go after the assets of the investors.
This all worked great when corporations were only allowed to do business in highly restricted fields in concurrence with a very limited corporate charters, which was how corporations were suppose to work. However because there was money to be made in taxes and fees, government let corporations start to diversify, permitting the large megaliths of the previous 100 years to come into being.
So if you have a problem with big corporations blame the government and government regulation, because that is what allows such corporations to exist. So the imbalance in the free market is caused by government, not prevented by it.
I live in a city of 180 thousand people. There are no local bars. Bars are commercial businesses and are not permitted to be in residential neighborhoods. Public transportation consists of buses which run down the two local north/south main roads, which are zone commercial, so are long walks from where anyone lives. You couldn't take them to a bar anyway as buses stop running about 8pm.
No public transportation is not still there for the majority of U.S. citizens. Where I live, which is not New York Chicago or the West Coast, there is effectively no public transportation. What there is consists of buses which share the roads with cars, from about 6 am until 8 pm, on very limited routes.
And it only goes local, when most people live outside of the local city where they work.
Its even more complicated than that. The second is a fundamental unit, so there are lots of other units which depend upon it's value. Change that and you've changed the value of the Hz, erg, amp,etc.. According to Wikipedia of the 22 names derived units only 3 do not depend on the second.
The is a deeper legal framework at play here. Certain, not all, Native American nations are legal entities in their own right. They have sovereignty under U.S. law, typically recognized under treaties that were signed between these nations and the United States Federal government.
In this way they are more or less equivalent to the States themselves in their legal rights. So the States are not "allowing" Native Americans the skirt state laws, the members of particular Nations are not subject to them, particularly on lands owned by the tribes which are technically not within the boundaries of the states, but are sovereign nations. That's what "sovereign" means, power not legally curtailed by a higher political entity. They are, however bound by such Federal laws as are either articulated by treaty or accepted by both political entities.
Hence the federal court's authority to say their sovereign does not apply in this case.
Before Europeans came along various tribes and nations of Native Americans were busy fighting each other over territory and resources just like their European cousins. Read up on the Aztecs. Many of the traditional areas ascribed to tribes are based on where they were when Europeans met them. Search back 100 years and you find that their distribution is different, based on migration, conquest and warfare. Being basically stone age civilizations they were simply less effective than their Iron and industrial age opponents.
All this case says is that you can't violate a patent by assigning it to someone outside the U.S. It wouldn't have been found a valid tactic if it had been Canada or Moldova either.
The only way the IRS is allowed to collect any fine for not having health insurance is to take it from your tax refund. If you have no refund they don't get s**t. They've been given no money fro enforcement, and as someone else posted starting next year the mandate has been revoked.
I expect that question will have to be answered by a court. Unless of course it looks like the insurance company will lose, then they will settle so there is no legal precedent set.
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EPA and DOE recommend setting hot water heaters no higher than 120 F to prevent burns. OSHA recommends 140 for the reasons you mention. I wouldn't doubt that California requires it be set at 120 F upon pain of public humiliation and fines.
Many power companies for years have given consumers breaks on their bill for allowing the utility to control their water heater to allow the utility to turn it off or reduce the temperature during peak usage.
How do you think the utility does this? The water heater is network connected.
Most modern meters are already network connected, and the utility doesn't ask the consumer for permission. I haven't had a meter reader look at my electric meter in decades. It's in a locked yard.
Using explosives on oil well fires has been a standard for decades, so much so that John Wayne made a movies about it in the 1960's. It was originally pioneered by "Red" Adair and Myron Kelly in the 1950's.
Never heard of it being used for forest fires though.
Harley Davidson opened a foreign plant and closed a U.S. one. The decision to do this was made at least a year before Trump took office, and is unrelated to tariffs, but don't let facts color your left wing talking points..
So I guess WWI and WWII, which both happened after the industrial revolution never happened?
https://xkcd.com/2030/
I can't speak for other people and I know its not data, but here is how I use the Facebook app.
I have notifications turned on and when certain people post on Facebook I get a notification.
"Oh, I see from the notification that my daughter has posted another picture of her dog." Swipe left. The notification is closed.
At no time does the Facebook feed get visited. At no time do I see any ads.
"Oh I see from the notification that my friend has posted her basketball schedule." Click to view. Post comes up in app. I check out the schedule and close the Facebook app. At no time do I see the Facebook feed. At no time do I see any ads.
If this is how other people are using the app, then I don't see that Facebook is getting much out of it. I'm certainly not seeing random feed entries and I'm certainly not seeing any ads. I haven't visited Facebook in a browser in literally years. I only ever post birthday greetings and I do that through a birthday reminder app that doesn't require I actually visit Facebook.
I've got to personally say that I don't find that to be true. I have three times sent feedback to Google maps about errors that I have found in my local area while using the application to navigate. In all three cases not only did I get a response from Google (probably a bot, I admit) but the discrepancies were quickly fixed, within a month or so.
The difference between Europeans and Americans is that Europeans think 200 miles is a long way and Americans think 200 years is a long time.
I propose that the U.S. follow the practices of other nations.
College tuition should be free for students who preform at the highest levels in fields which have societal value.
This means the government should pay for higher education for a a specific number of students in specific fields. The number of such grants should be set based upon the number of people needed in those fields to replace potential losses and reasonably predicted growth.
As in other nations if you fail to perform you lose your funding. If someone better comes along you lose your funding. If the field becomes obsolete, you lose your funding.
This is how it works in other places. I know a PhD Physicist from France. He tells me that at every level he had to complete with others to stay funded, right up until he finished his thesis,
Its not about affordability. Its about getting bang for the buck. Anyone who can afford to pay their own way can take whatever courses they want. If taxpayers are paying for it it needs top be about societal good. The best students get a free ride. Others pay their way or do trades, retail or what ever. Society benefits.
Keep the GI bill and continue the tax breaks for companies that pay for workers to attend college. That gets other people in without the distorting effect of easy loans for everybody, most of whom will never pay it back, but can't discharge it in bankruptcy.
There are too many lawyers.
This is not a slam against lawyers. This is a fact. There are more people with law degrees that there are jobs requiring law degrees.
A useful degree is a degree in a field which has a position requiring that degree. In a general sense this can be relatively easily determined by measurement to a degree which is good enough.
In many fields the use for an advanced degree is primarily to fill an academic position. So for example except for fringe cases all professional historians are either teachers, academics or researchers. Anyone not in one of those fields is probably working out of field. An person with an engineering degree fills a much broader slot, with engineers working in academia a much smaller percentage of the total number of individuals having engineering degrees.
Too many people have degree in areas for which society has no need or for which the need is very small. In many areas a bachelor degree is relatively useless, for example someone with an archeology degree at the B.A. level will find only a small handful of jobs available in their field. Almost all jobs in that field require at least a master's degree. Many require a PhD. Most English Lit majors either teach or go on to Law school. Many work retail or service jobs, which will never allow them to pay off their student loans. For them this is a useless degree.
College is a trade school for everyone except the rich. I say that as someone who has three advanced degrees, not one of which I paid for. I can't imagine borrowing a life time of debt to get a degree for any reason other than to make money.
Society is only richer for subsidizing higher education when people are studying things which benefit society. In Europe competition for "free" education is cutthroat, with only the best performers having slots. And these slots are only in certain areas. Real subjects, not memes, that actually benefit society.
Education is not dependent on attending specific schools. No one is against education. The problem is we don't need an unending stream of people with degrees in library science or trasngender studies or black history. Be interested in those areas if you want and study them on your own, but be realistic about your ability to get a job in that field before you borrow $50,000 to get that degree. And don't expect everybody else to pay for your hobby if you want to study a field but know you won't be able to work in it.
False premise here.
No one is saying that people in trades don't need to be educated. What they don't need is to drop $50K on a four year degree at a public or private university when they can get an associate at a community collage for a couple of grand.
Rich people can afford to spend huge amounts of money studying what are basically hobby subjects. Most people attend higher education to learn what they need to get a job. For a lot of people that should be trade school.
Once they have a job it's trivially easy now to pick up hobby subjects using one of the online sources for free or way less than a conventional 4 year college.
If colleges were in the business of preventing people from being duped statistics instead of algebra and calculus would be a required mathematical subject, and history based on facts instead of SJW memes would be taught. But that's not the agenda.
Ah the No True Scotsman fallacy
No true socialist would be corrupt.
And government intrusion is the answer here also.
Rural electrification only happened because the government subsidized it and because electricity is treated as a utility.
The answer to the problem is not 'net neutrality' as it has been presented but real net neutrality. This would mean the government treating internet providers the way they treated the film industry, separating content providers from distributes.
Initially film production companies were allowed to own theaters, which made it impossible for newcomers to enter the industry, because they had no way to show their films. So the government became involved and prohibited film production companies from owning movie theaters and also making exclusive contract with individual distribution companies. This is why we can see movies from different distributors in the same theaters.
We need to the same thing in the U.S. Make cable companies utilities and prevent them from owning content creation companies or dealing in exclusive contracts. My ISP pays the cable owner for access. All ISPs pay the same price. Cable companies are regulated like other monopolies by a local board of mixed appointed and elected commissioners. The Federal government subsidizes both rural and urban fiber installation so everyone gets access. It's paid for by fees paid by the cable companies.
That's how you fix it. It will never happen. Comcast and Charter will prevent it through their tamed politicians and judges.
Popadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with a Maltease National alleged to have contacts with Russia.
So no he did not plead guilty to collusion. He plead guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Joseph Mifsud, who may or may not have been a Russian agent.
Not posting as AC.
So if free speech in the real world is not anonymous I guess no anonymous works were published before the invention of the internet. Thomas Paine, Mary Shelly and hundreds of other writers, all who published works anonymously might disagree with you.
Many works (not all of them pornographic) have been published anonymously.
You need to learn more history and economics.
Corporations are a creation of government regulation. They were initially created to reduce the risks of investors in cases where risk was too great. Before corporations if someone invested in a company and the company folded they could be held libel for all of the failed company's debts. Incorporation meant that once the assets of the corporation ran out the debtors could not go after the assets of the investors.
This all worked great when corporations were only allowed to do business in highly restricted fields in concurrence with a very limited corporate charters, which was how corporations were suppose to work. However because there was money to be made in taxes and fees, government let corporations start to diversify, permitting the large megaliths of the previous 100 years to come into being.
So if you have a problem with big corporations blame the government and government regulation, because that is what allows such corporations to exist. So the imbalance in the free market is caused by government, not prevented by it.
I live in a city of 180 thousand people. There are no local bars. Bars are commercial businesses and are not permitted to be in residential neighborhoods. Public transportation consists of buses which run down the two local north/south main roads, which are zone commercial, so are long walks from where anyone lives. You couldn't take them to a bar anyway as buses stop running about 8pm.
No public transportation is not still there for the majority of U.S. citizens. Where I live, which is not New York Chicago or the West Coast, there is effectively no public transportation. What there is consists of buses which share the roads with cars, from about 6 am until 8 pm, on very limited routes.
And it only goes local, when most people live outside of the local city where they work.
Its even more complicated than that. The second is a fundamental unit, so there are lots of other units which depend upon it's value. Change that and you've changed the value of the Hz, erg, amp,etc.. According to Wikipedia of the 22 names derived units only 3 do not depend on the second.
The is a deeper legal framework at play here. Certain, not all, Native American nations are legal entities in their own right. They have sovereignty under U.S. law, typically recognized under treaties that were signed between these nations and the United States Federal government.
In this way they are more or less equivalent to the States themselves in their legal rights. So the States are not "allowing" Native Americans the skirt state laws, the members of particular Nations are not subject to them, particularly on lands owned by the tribes which are technically not within the boundaries of the states, but are sovereign nations. That's what "sovereign" means, power not legally curtailed by a higher political entity. They are, however bound by such Federal laws as are either articulated by treaty or accepted by both political entities.
Hence the federal court's authority to say their sovereign does not apply in this case.
Oh, please.
Before Europeans came along various tribes and nations of Native Americans were busy fighting each other over territory and resources just like their European cousins. Read up on the Aztecs. Many of the traditional areas ascribed to tribes are based on where they were when Europeans met them. Search back 100 years and you find that their distribution is different, based on migration, conquest and warfare. Being basically stone age civilizations they were simply less effective than their Iron and industrial age opponents.
All this case says is that you can't violate a patent by assigning it to someone outside the U.S. It wouldn't have been found a valid tactic if it had been Canada or Moldova either.
The only way the IRS is allowed to collect any fine for not having health insurance is to take it from your tax refund. If you have no refund they don't get s**t. They've been given no money fro enforcement, and as someone else posted starting next year the mandate has been revoked.
I expect that question will have to be answered by a court. Unless of course it looks like the insurance company will lose, then they will settle so there is no legal precedent set.