As wealthy countries have shifted away from fossil fuels, the poorest countries have moved from no energy usage to industrial use of fossil fuels. It's like a..well, a pipeline.
such a word actually exists, though not as used here. In the old printed newspaper industry it was a variant spelling of "lead" as in "lead paragraph," spelled that way to avoid confusion with the heavy metal that was a daily part of their lives.
Our problem now is a continuing lack of high-quality jobs due to our not following up in promising areas of technology. Prosperity based on ad revenue mined from social media networks is not a basis for lasting economic strength.
Look at California high speed rail as an example of long-term infrastructure, mired in endless legal squabbles initiated by vacuum-headed NIMBYites. In China, if they want the next bullet train to go through here, it just gets done.
Tax cuts in general work for stimulating the economy at times when taxes have been high enough to choke off economic activity. In such an environment cutting tax stimulates the economy and produces more revenue at the lower rate than the original higher tax did.
But the Laffer curve is a curve, not a magic incantation. If tax rates are already low, another cut will stimulate a lot less than at high tax rates, and the deficit just increases.
What ails our economy right now is not tax rates, but a lack of respect for science and the wealth-producing technologies that flow from its discoveries. When everyone is 'denying' science for political reasons, we all lose.
The AC Musk hating basement legion only exists in any case because of government subsidies like SSDI. That's why they can't tell the difference between government subsidies for doing absolutely nothing and profiting by selling services to agencies like NASA and DOD.
What has happened to Bitcoin is the opposite of inflation. Because its money supply is now fixed, it has been driven out of circulation as a currency (Gresham's law) and has become a hoarded virtual commodity.
BTC is also outside the banking system, which means that you can't earn interest on it and the centuries of antifraud experience that banks have does not apply to Bitcoin trades. That is why exchanges are continually embezzling your coins and getting hacked.
I honestly read that as "they could have proposed to send academics".
Space junk is a big enough problem right now. Start sending academics up there, and the colonists will be saddled with restricted speech codes and HR departments that have the personality and powers of Louis Quatorze.
We already have a huge amount of space junk around our own planet. Do we really want to turn Mars into a publicity stunt laden dumping ground? There's got to be a law against this somewhere...
Space belongs to the people who are interested in exploring it. Nobody else gets to make laws there.
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As wealthy countries have shifted away from fossil fuels, the poorest countries have moved from no energy usage to industrial use of fossil fuels. It's like a..well, a pipeline.
No one cares about the damn traffic lights. The question is: Can you walk around with an erection clasiming youâ(TM)re an Engineer?
Today you would be more likely to claim being a media personality or a political candidate, so as to profit from the witch hunt publicity.
Oregon is a very boring place.
Also, I am a doctor.
http://boringoregon.com/
What the fuck is "lede"?
such a word actually exists, though not as used here. In the old printed newspaper industry it was a variant spelling of "lead" as in "lead paragraph," spelled that way to avoid confusion with the heavy metal that was a daily part of their lives.
This would be relevant only if the train were 'to' the Central Valley. Instead, it's just the unpopulated, cheap land between LA and San Francisco.
So now that they will have to eat farmed fish whether they like it or not, what happens?
I tried minke whale in Iceland last spring. It's really delicious, like filet mignon.
>If ne of those telescopes were to spot an asteroid impacting us in one hundred years, we would be motivated to develop the ability to deflect it.
Any attempt at deflecting the asteroid would probably be stopped by religious fanatics, anti-scientists, and social justice warriors.
but given those circumstances, nobody would mind if we took the Chinese approach of just driving tanks through their protest barricades.
That was in 1971. A while ago, but hardly medieval times.
Our problem now is a continuing lack of high-quality jobs due to our not following up in promising areas of technology. Prosperity based on ad revenue mined from social media networks is not a basis for lasting economic strength.
Look at California high speed rail as an example of long-term infrastructure, mired in endless legal squabbles initiated by vacuum-headed NIMBYites. In China, if they want the next bullet train to go through here, it just gets done.
And we saved up our pennies in piggy bank until we had the $499 we needed to buy a house!
My first new home, actually a condo, really did cost $20,750. And that was in Orange County, California.
Tax cuts in general work for stimulating the economy at times when taxes have been high enough to choke off economic activity. In such an environment cutting tax stimulates the economy and produces more revenue at the lower rate than the original higher tax did.
But the Laffer curve is a curve, not a magic incantation. If tax rates are already low, another cut will stimulate a lot less than at high tax rates, and the deficit just increases.
What ails our economy right now is not tax rates, but a lack of respect for science and the wealth-producing technologies that flow from its discoveries. When everyone is 'denying' science for political reasons, we all lose.
Telegraphers were the first texters.
And before we knew it, London had the problem of creepy gin-soaked sexters hanging around telegraph offices.
...nor could I accept that poor spelling, syntax and grammar that it required.
Now wee get hour pure s pet Ling, sin tax and bad Grandma from Otto correct.
The AC Musk hating basement legion only exists in any case because of government subsidies like SSDI. That's why they can't tell the difference between government subsidies for doing absolutely nothing and profiting by selling services to agencies like NASA and DOD.
There are people on this planet that need help to survive, and instead we're building telescopes to watch past things. Pointless and wasteful.
All basic research seems pointless until, suddenly, a need arises for it.
If ne of those telescopes were to spot an asteroid impacting us in one hundred years, we would be motivated to develop the ability to deflect it.
What has happened to Bitcoin is the opposite of inflation. Because its money supply is now fixed, it has been driven out of circulation as a currency (Gresham's law) and has become a hoarded virtual commodity.
BTC is also outside the banking system, which means that you can't earn interest on it and the centuries of antifraud experience that banks have does not apply to Bitcoin trades. That is why exchanges are continually embezzling your coins and getting hacked.
More directly, I see a house just across from me getting its electricity from space.
I honestly read that as "they could have proposed to send academics".
Space junk is a big enough problem right now. Start sending academics up there, and the colonists will be saddled with restricted speech codes and HR departments that have the personality and powers of Louis Quatorze.
I would send tanks of water. Harmless in a liftoff accident, very useful at Mars.
We already have a huge amount of space junk around our own planet. Do we really want to turn Mars into a publicity stunt laden dumping ground? There's got to be a law against this somewhere...
Space belongs to the people who are interested in exploring it. Nobody else gets to make laws there.
No, spotted the Yellow Cab driver.
Netflix by DVD.
Still the broadest selection on the market, by far.
But which also seems to be shrinking.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
This old trope needs to be updated. How about, "Imagine a Bitcoin mining cluster of these?"
No, Unix-based operating systems with a better UI are what rule.