Here in the States we have 1K (kerosene) that is dyed red for farm equipment. Yes, it is taxed at a much lower rate than diesel fuel and dyed for the same reason. To try an spot people who use the untaxed kerosene in there diesel vehicles.
The clear stuff is sold usually only in smaller containers targeted at portable heaters. It is almost always priced at twice the price of diesel fuel so no worries about illegal substitutions there.
If 90 million people buy the book, I don't think the author will care if they read it or use it to clean up after their dog. He'll be on an island somewhere sipping fruity drinks while a bevy of scantily clad young women (or men, depending) attend his every need.
I think a more correct statement is "90 people will buy this book,..."
Out of curiosity, why do you have hundreds of thousands of files on your home PC?
Operating system files and installed applications aren't really something you normally count. You don't deal with then. Your data is what is important.
Do you honestly have that many data files on a home PC? If so, where do they come from? I have hundreds, and if you put all 5 people in my family on one data store, we'd have thousands. But not hundreds of thousands.
Middle class wages are stagnant because (a) middle class workers are slacking, and (b) the government is eating up any possible extra money, and (c) inflating the currency enough to make savings worthless.
A and B are factually incorrect. Productivity in the United States has been on a constant rise for the last 60 years. This would directly contradict A because it indicates more and more output is being produced by the workers.
The total tax rate on people is lower now than practically anytime in the last 50 years.
C is totally true, though. That an real inflation -- the cost of food, housing, energy, etc. -- has increased to keep pace with wage inflation. This makes it next to impossible to accept lower wages and actually keep your home/car. Unfortunately, with the housing market as is, moving isn't really much of an option. The housing crash has seriously curtailed the mobility of the workforce.
Because if you do that, nothing better will come along. The rate for the jobs that come along will start to align with the lower rates.
This is what caused the unions to form to begin with. Large, dangerous industry like mining and manufacturing, paid enough for people to survive but not enough for them to ever prosper. It was a form of "voluntary" indentured servitude.
If everyone got together and demanded better conditions or raises, they would get fired and replaced with the never-ending line of people desperate just to survive. Only by striking and creating a picket line to actually shut down business would any real change ever get made.
For a modern example, see the stories on Foxcon and China. We in the West gape in horror at the working conditions and pittance for wages. But compared to the other options -- subsistence farming, etc. -- it is fantastic. If a worker doesn't toe the line, they're fired and replaced with any one of the teeming masses desperate to escape the crushing poverty they now live in.
Yes, it can go too far. See the auto industry and the various stories about Teacher's unions where people clock in, then punch out for a 5 hour lunch, etc.
But the whole "take the cut for now because something better will come along" doesn't scale.
Gaming (ETQW) from the Greater Washington, DC metro area to servers in Dallas or Chicago I see 50-80 ms times. To servers in Germany and France, 130-170 ms. Russia (Moscow), 150-190. Anything over that guarantees crappy game play and getting owned by the noobiest of noobs.
NASA places the odds at 99.9988% chance of a miss. That is almost, but not quite, 5-nines. With all the downtime I've seen from companies promising 5-nines of reliability and failing, I'm more than a little skeptical.
The Volt costs $40,000 before tax rebates and only gets you 35 miles on an electric charge. Then 35 MPG city/40 hwy (gas) for 375 miles.
The Toyota Prius starts at $24,000 and goes to $30,000 for their top end. Mileage is 51 MPG city/48 hwy for approximately 600 miles.
So Chevrolet's market was people who have lots of money, are willing to spend it with abandon, want a car, but don't really need to drive much. In short, semi-rich idiot hipsters.
I think they probably just saturated their customer base.
I get the same thing when I make a purchase of something like a cup of coffee for $1.21 then tell them I want $18.79 in gas. They are AMAZED that it adds up exactly to $20, which is what I was holding.
I actually had a cashier -- 50-year old woman, not a kid -- comment on that yesterday. "How do you do that?"
For oil and gas that is extracted from State or Federally owned lands, including all off-shore capture, I can see this as a possibility. Unlike many other places in the world, the mineral (including gas & oil) rights in the United States belong to the owner of the surface land, unless the rights are severed and sold separately.
In the case of lands owned by the various States and Federal Government, the minerals are then "owned by the people" and essentially held in trust by the government. The government leases rights to exploit these resources and having clauses requiring a certain percentage be used domestically is certainly possible.
HOWEVER, determining the price for domestic-only use would be difficult. Short of the government actually setting the price by law, you'll find that due the the fungible nature of commodities your price at the pump doesn't vary widely from the market price globally.
In short, you aren't going to get cheap gasoline that way.
Considering Japan was the nation that was pioneering 100+ year mortgages back in the 90s, I don't think those people are expecting a house to last only about the lifetime of a generation.
Data collected thus far from various regulatory agencies responsible for enforcement of gas well drilling regulations indicate that more than 95 percent of complaints received from homeowners suspecting problems from nearby gas well drilling are instead due to pre-existing problems or other land-use activities, such as agriculture.
Actually, they're talking about small compressors for home use. Lots of people (including me ) have natural gas lines directly to their house and taking advantage of that existing distribution network makes a lot of sense.
With a compressor, I'm 0 miles from the nearest refueling station -- my garage.
All I did was pass on some information that might be useful in answering the question. PETA is a bunch of fanatics about animals. If they're okay with lab meat, odds are the saner types are as well. Information, not support. Nothing more, nothing less.
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No. London's predates New York's by about 41 years. (1863 vs 1904). Glasgow's is dated to 1896, so even the Scots beat the Yanks to this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems
Uh, the domination of India and land East by Persia predate Islam by centuries if not millennia.
Whoever wrote the comments for the items has an entertaining sense of humor or had a really good buzz on. Oh, and doesn't seem to like the number 13.
Here in the States we have 1K (kerosene) that is dyed red for farm equipment. Yes, it is taxed at a much lower rate than diesel fuel and dyed for the same reason. To try an spot people who use the untaxed kerosene in there diesel vehicles.
The clear stuff is sold usually only in smaller containers targeted at portable heaters. It is almost always priced at twice the price of diesel fuel so no worries about illegal substitutions there.
If 90 million people buy the book, I don't think the author will care if they read it or use it to clean up after their dog. He'll be on an island somewhere sipping fruity drinks while a bevy of scantily clad young women (or men, depending) attend his every need.
I think a more correct statement is "90 people will buy this book,..."
Out of curiosity, why do you have hundreds of thousands of files on your home PC?
Operating system files and installed applications aren't really something you normally count. You don't deal with then. Your data is what is important.
Do you honestly have that many data files on a home PC? If so, where do they come from? I have hundreds, and if you put all 5 people in my family on one data store, we'd have thousands. But not hundreds of thousands.
A keeper!
Congrats!
The real question is how fast will this thread deteriorate into a Monty Python quote fest?
Middle class wages are stagnant because (a) middle class workers are slacking, and (b) the government is eating up any possible extra money, and (c) inflating the currency enough to make savings worthless.
A and B are factually incorrect. Productivity in the United States has been on a constant rise for the last 60 years. This would directly contradict A because it indicates more and more output is being produced by the workers.
The total tax rate on people is lower now than practically anytime in the last 50 years.
C is totally true, though. That an real inflation -- the cost of food, housing, energy, etc. -- has increased to keep pace with wage inflation. This makes it next to impossible to accept lower wages and actually keep your home/car. Unfortunately, with the housing market as is, moving isn't really much of an option. The housing crash has seriously curtailed the mobility of the workforce.
Because if you do that, nothing better will come along. The rate for the jobs that come along will start to align with the lower rates.
This is what caused the unions to form to begin with. Large, dangerous industry like mining and manufacturing, paid enough for people to survive but not enough for them to ever prosper. It was a form of "voluntary" indentured servitude.
If everyone got together and demanded better conditions or raises, they would get fired and replaced with the never-ending line of people desperate just to survive. Only by striking and creating a picket line to actually shut down business would any real change ever get made.
For a modern example, see the stories on Foxcon and China. We in the West gape in horror at the working conditions and pittance for wages. But compared to the other options -- subsistence farming, etc. -- it is fantastic. If a worker doesn't toe the line, they're fired and replaced with any one of the teeming masses desperate to escape the crushing poverty they now live in.
Yes, it can go too far. See the auto industry and the various stories about Teacher's unions where people clock in, then punch out for a 5 hour lunch, etc.
But the whole "take the cut for now because something better will come along" doesn't scale.
Gaming (ETQW) from the Greater Washington, DC metro area to servers in Dallas or Chicago I see 50-80 ms times. To servers in Germany and France, 130-170 ms. Russia (Moscow), 150-190. Anything over that guarantees crappy game play and getting owned by the noobiest of noobs.
NASA places the odds at 99.9988% chance of a miss. That is almost, but not quite, 5-nines. With all the downtime I've seen from companies promising 5-nines of reliability and failing, I'm more than a little skeptical.
Does your professor by chance work for Airbus? It would explain a lot.
The Volt costs $40,000 before tax rebates and only gets you 35 miles on an electric charge. Then 35 MPG city/40 hwy (gas) for 375 miles.
The Toyota Prius starts at $24,000 and goes to $30,000 for their top end. Mileage is 51 MPG city/48 hwy for approximately 600 miles.
So Chevrolet's market was people who have lots of money, are willing to spend it with abandon, want a car, but don't really need to drive much. In short, semi-rich idiot hipsters.
I think they probably just saturated their customer base.
Because she's co-owner, with her husband. Family labor is cheaper and infinitely simpler from a tax standpoint.
I get the same thing when I make a purchase of something like a cup of coffee for $1.21 then tell them I want $18.79 in gas. They are AMAZED that it adds up exactly to $20, which is what I was holding.
I actually had a cashier -- 50-year old woman, not a kid -- comment on that yesterday. "How do you do that?"
Sad.
For oil and gas that is extracted from State or Federally owned lands, including all off-shore capture, I can see this as a possibility. Unlike many other places in the world, the mineral (including gas & oil) rights in the United States belong to the owner of the surface land, unless the rights are severed and sold separately.
In the case of lands owned by the various States and Federal Government, the minerals are then "owned by the people" and essentially held in trust by the government. The government leases rights to exploit these resources and having clauses requiring a certain percentage be used domestically is certainly possible.
HOWEVER, determining the price for domestic-only use would be difficult. Short of the government actually setting the price by law, you'll find that due the the fungible nature of commodities your price at the pump doesn't vary widely from the market price globally.
In short, you aren't going to get cheap gasoline that way.
Considering Japan was the nation that was pioneering 100+ year mortgages back in the 90s, I don't think those people are expecting a house to last only about the lifetime of a generation.
Here's a reference to a larger study.
Data collected thus far from various regulatory agencies responsible for enforcement of gas well drilling regulations indicate that more than 95 percent of complaints received from homeowners suspecting problems from nearby gas well drilling are instead due to pre-existing problems or other land-use activities, such as agriculture.
http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas/issues/environmental/resources/water
Actually, they're talking about small compressors for home use. Lots of people (including me ) have natural gas lines directly to their house and taking advantage of that existing distribution network makes a lot of sense.
With a compressor, I'm 0 miles from the nearest refueling station -- my garage.
In cars? Battery rapid charging and cost isn't anywhere near ready.
We're taking fuel here, not energy production.
It was a typo. The decree originally said "celebrate", but the scribe was having an off day.
That's Zombie Senator Ted to you, mortal. The ugly meat bag of mostly water that was the former Alaska Senator transcended this plane back in 2010.
Its not fooling anyone, you know? The moon'll be stone dead in a moment.
Fuck off. :-)
All I did was pass on some information that might be useful in answering the question. PETA is a bunch of fanatics about animals. If they're okay with lab meat, odds are the saner types are as well. Information, not support. Nothing more, nothing less.