There is at least one other alternative you did not mention. Changing land use patterns could help a lot.
In the past, when we had fewer people, they were still more densely-packed, lived closer to work, and work locations were more centralised. If most people worked in the main downtown of the largest city in their metro area, it would be much easier to offer mass transit to get them there in the morning and take them back in the evening.
Now, people live greater distances from work (or anything else -- even grocery stores). More people work in sprawling business parks and dispersed offices that cannot be served very well by public transit. Typically, both spouses work, often in two separate locations. Most kids don't walk to school. Few people walk to stores. (Yes, these are some problems with urban sprawl and bland suburbia.)
If these conditions change for the better, you will see some postitive changes in traffic patterns and congestion too.
Can't (or technically, very hard to) get a JD without an undergraduate degree (in the US).
No. It's not very hard, just rarely tried. I know two people who went to law school without finishing their undergraduate degrees. In both cases, they got excellent LSAT scores, and have since graduated from law school. (One passed the bar on the first try, the other has taken it twice and is waiting to take it a third time.)
Since HP bought Compaq, both have suffered. The sum is much less than its parts.
As mentioned earlier, their printers and Compaq's servers were the best things they offered, but quality has decreased the past few years.
Unfortunately, neglecting its best products is part of its new business strategy. HP is hoping to make most of its money in services (like IBM does).
While Ms. Fiorina takes in record compensation, HP has cut many US-based engineers, out-sourced some jobs -- as a cost-cutting measure, of course. (You can bet former employees are really pissed.)
For all that, blame Carly Fiorina. She has pushed for cost savings that have decreased product quality, lowered customer satisfaction and customer service, hurt employee morale, and even angered many shareholders.
She mentioned that no job was safe from out-sourcing. Really? Then out-source her position and save HP millions of dollars per year.
If HP had not bought Compaq, many people believe both companies would be more successful than after the merger. But greed got the better of rational business decisions. William Packard was right. HP (and especially Carly Fiorina) screwed up.
Carter was a nuclear engineer, thanks to the Navy. He may not have been an expert on refining plutonium nor making nuclear weapons.
Getting weapons-grade materials from a fast breeder reactor is not the best (or only) source. The former Soviet Union seems to hold a lot of weapons-grade plutonium in a usable form. Wouldn't it be better to secure that?
There's no real mechanism in place to review the body of existing law to simplify and reduce it.
I have thought of the same thing, including at the state and local levels. That means not just removing out-dated laws (e.g. for horse-and-buggy life), but re-evaluating laws that do not further the actual goals of the government (which should be exactly the same as the goals of the public).
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Damn! Are you trying to put the neighbourhood bar out of business?
The poster lives in Norway, home of the second richest people in the world. (No, the US is not ranked higher.)
Neither car stops (and hopefully all the passengers were not paying attention -- too busy watching DVDs or reading the newspaper).
The problem solves itself. Those stupid children jumping in front of cars might get killed. It's called thinning the herd.
In the past, when we had fewer people, they were still more densely-packed, lived closer to work, and work locations were more centralised. If most people worked in the main downtown of the largest city in their metro area, it would be much easier to offer mass transit to get them there in the morning and take them back in the evening.
Now, people live greater distances from work (or anything else -- even grocery stores). More people work in sprawling business parks and dispersed offices that cannot be served very well by public transit. Typically, both spouses work, often in two separate locations. Most kids don't walk to school. Few people walk to stores. (Yes, these are some problems with urban sprawl and bland suburbia.)
If these conditions change for the better, you will see some postitive changes in traffic patterns and congestion too.
I have never been in a building with 200 floors. (But I heard the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. has several underground floors. Hmmm.)
Liberia might be a 'patent haven', but it is a shitty place to live.
No. It's not very hard, just rarely tried. I know two people who went to law school without finishing their undergraduate degrees. In both cases, they got excellent LSAT scores, and have since graduated from law school. (One passed the bar on the first try, the other has taken it twice and is waiting to take it a third time.)
Yeah, sulfur is cheap and easy (and smells like rotten eggs), but why couldn't they make it smell like strawberries or watermelon?
AOL could have subdivided into two divisions just as easily. Why not just call the two divisions alpha and bravo company?
As mentioned earlier, their printers and Compaq's servers were the best things they offered, but quality has decreased the past few years.
Unfortunately, neglecting its best products is part of its new business strategy. HP is hoping to make most of its money in services (like IBM does).
While Ms. Fiorina takes in record compensation, HP has cut many US-based engineers, out-sourced some jobs -- as a cost-cutting measure, of course. (You can bet former employees are really pissed.)
For all that, blame Carly Fiorina. She has pushed for cost savings that have decreased product quality, lowered customer satisfaction and customer service, hurt employee morale, and even angered many shareholders.
She mentioned that no job was safe from out-sourcing. Really? Then out-source her position and save HP millions of dollars per year.
If HP had not bought Compaq, many people believe both companies would be more successful than after the merger. But greed got the better of rational business decisions. William Packard was right. HP (and especially Carly Fiorina) screwed up.
Certainly Robert Mugabe is also dangerous AND inarticulate.
Yes. Apparently, the Department of Energy can.
Getting weapons-grade materials from a fast breeder reactor is not the best (or only) source. The former Soviet Union seems to hold a lot of weapons-grade plutonium in a usable form. Wouldn't it be better to secure that?
An IFR could even be used to burn existing n-waste.
God forbid, they might get listed under the ESA, and would be protected, along with their habitat.
Homeland Security is a misnomer. They do all kinds of things, but they are not protecting my homeland.
Unfortunately, I have not seen any candidates for senate promise to read and understand bills before voting on them.
Iceland now has only one law:
Do no evil.
Thanks, and goodnight!
I have thought of the same thing, including at the state and local levels. That means not just removing out-dated laws (e.g. for horse-and-buggy life), but re-evaluating laws that do not further the actual goals of the government (which should be exactly the same as the goals of the public).
We can always dream...
... just like the drug war!
Forget graphite.
This sounds like a job for Apollo Diamond.
Did the Death Star move backward (recoil) after it obliterated Alderaan?
Yeah, me neither.
I particularly liked that Wal-Mart considers Puerto Rico 'international'. Did the US allow Puerto Rico to break away and become an independent nation?