If you're a grown adult, and the job in question takes up your working day, then you're damn right that it should remunerated well enough to be enough to live on.
No, because not every activity a grown adult can do is worth $livable_wage. Say some guy likes to repair VCRs... they're a dying breed, but he likes working on them. The market has decided that VCRs aren't valuable any more. Likewise, a person with a broken VCR is unlikely to value repairing one very highly. But if some guy wants to do it for a price the market will pay, so be it.
Or take volunteers. Why is it ok for someone to work for $0 as a volunteer for a full day, but paying them $5/hr isn't ok?
Keynes is always being called out as getting this prediction wrong, because the average work week isn't 15 hours now. But it's largely due to people changing how they live: lifestyle inflation. Keynes had no idea the role consumerism would play in modern America. Houses have gotten larger (with fewer people in them), one car for every driver in a household, more than one phone per person, all manner of processed convenience foods, and a deluge of leisurely entertainment options.
If you live like someone from the 30s today, you can surely do it on a 15 hour work week. But you'll be in a multi-generation household, not driving, cooking at home, and entertaining yourself by reading books (the horror!).
I think for your plan to work, it would require vacant apartments.
San Fran has chronically underbuilt housing for decades. For every 12 new jobs added last year, 1 housing unit was built. The market is signaling that SF should become a big city, but the NIMBYs prefer things as they are (or prefer seeing their own property values increase).
According to the Tech Crunch link, the demand for spaces in homeless shelters is outstripping the supply. I think steve here is pointing out that there are lots of other cities around, some of which are probably better able to absorb homeless people.
This. For all the hoots and hollers after "what is Aleppo?", it shows that the guy is honest. I prefer a president that admits what he doesn't know, instead of trying to dodge it. Or invoking Douglas MacArthur.
We didn't go to the moon for science. We went to the moon to beat the Soviets. The only way I see it happening is if we get into another space race with the Chinese or the Russians and that seems improbable at the moment.
That's true. I think Elon's not so much concerned with this moment.... he's playing the odds that such a situation will arise in the next couple of decades. When the time comes, SpaceX will be have the best vehicle for getting people to Mars.
Read TFA. Hostess went out-of-business. There were zero employees. The buyers of the brand have a new business, and there are over a thousand employees.
If you really need the Hostess style of pie, the ones made by Tastykake are good.
I thoroughly concur on Tastykake. Seems like every other little pie brand coats the thing in sugar glaze... yuck. Most Tastykake flavors are available are unglazed and unfrosted; crust outside, sugar inside, as a pie should be. I also like the little metal trays that make it easy to pop 'em in the oven for 10 minutes. They do however have a shorter shelf life, so they're uncommon to find in vending machines.
Aside from Tastykake, most of the other big brands suck. A couple of the no-name/private label ones are good though, but they don't have the flavor range of Tastykake.
Yes, but if that's truly the case, then where precisely are the chemicals coming from that are making the water flammable?
It's not the chemicals that make water flammable, but methane.
Of course methane exists in the shale where they're fracking, but it can also exist at various layers of the ground above the shale. Pretty much anywhere organic material is decomposing, methane can exist. I would bet that the origin of any methane found in drinking water is likely above the shale. It's possible that the seismic activity caused by fracking disturbs the ground high above, releasing methane into a nearby water source. But in some places methane is just emitted naturally; in the old days, people could take advantage of relatively shallow methane as a fuel source.
A Visa was only required to 'Enter' the destination country. As Snowden was never going to enter Russia (transit lounges are no-mans land) he didn't need one.
"If you are transiting through one international airport in Russia, and will depart again in 24 hours to an onward international destination, without leaving the customs zone, Russian law does not require you to have a transit visa." - state.gov
Meaning, if you are there for > 24h, you need a visa. And they are not issued on-the-spot.
You might be able to/get/ it cheaper elsewhere, but factor in the cost of transport and you lose. The northeast is the largest consumer of natural gas in the US. Lots of gas exists in the west. Transporting that gas costs money. That's why there's a large price differential in the price of natural gas between those two geographies. And that's what makes Marcellus so valuable: it's close to the demand center.
> your fossil fuel ideas wont work here
The post you're replying to isn't arguing that gas is the be-all-and-end-all solution for energy. He's stating that in his area, the local economy is boosted, and this is a Good Thing. Local economies are often cyclical, and not participating in an industry because it will (will, not might) go away some day does not seem like a good reason not to support it.
I used a ThinkPad in the picture frame I built. They're plentiful on eBay and worth the price (~$50) for the size screen you can get (12"). Power consumption is somewhere around 50W.
Processing power (100-200MHz) does seem like overkill, but when you realize that a nice web app could be used for uploading pics over a network, or that resizing each 1600x1200 pic takes 20 secs, it's really just about right. A PII is too much, especially since they tend to have cooling fans on them.
This would, in theory, save the Treasury Department a significant amount of money. The Sacagewea (sp) dollar coin was introduced to reduce Americans' dependence on the paper dollar, since a paper dollar must be replaced more often then minted money. I mean, I've got a 1963 nickel in my pocket right now. What's the oldest dollar in your wallet?
Of course, I'm not so certain that this needs to be a government implemented project. Companies in the private sector have already done something similar, see Visa.
And anyway, don't many people choose to be cashless as it is now? When I was in retail, a large percentage of people paid with debit cards linked to a major credit card. There's no cash! John Doe has his paycheck directly deposited in to his checking account, then pays for purchases with his debit card which utilizes a preexisting network system (Visa, Mastercard).
So bottom line: yeah, a (near-)cashless society is cool, but is government intervention necessary?
I got the same. Also, did you notice that random character that appears after the sentance? Try refreshing the page a couple of times.
Tried typing the address into a new browser window and got this:
Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it.
Just use the link on lonestar.org I guess...
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If you're a grown adult, and the job in question takes up your working day, then you're damn right that it should remunerated well enough to be enough to live on.
No, because not every activity a grown adult can do is worth $livable_wage. Say some guy likes to repair VCRs... they're a dying breed, but he likes working on them. The market has decided that VCRs aren't valuable any more. Likewise, a person with a broken VCR is unlikely to value repairing one very highly. But if some guy wants to do it for a price the market will pay, so be it.
Or take volunteers. Why is it ok for someone to work for $0 as a volunteer for a full day, but paying them $5/hr isn't ok?
Dyn isn't a public company.
Keynes is always being called out as getting this prediction wrong, because the average work week isn't 15 hours now. But it's largely due to people changing how they live: lifestyle inflation. Keynes had no idea the role consumerism would play in modern America. Houses have gotten larger (with fewer people in them), one car for every driver in a household, more than one phone per person, all manner of processed convenience foods, and a deluge of leisurely entertainment options.
If you live like someone from the 30s today, you can surely do it on a 15 hour work week. But you'll be in a multi-generation household, not driving, cooking at home, and entertaining yourself by reading books (the horror!).
I think for your plan to work, it would require vacant apartments.
San Fran has chronically underbuilt housing for decades. For every 12 new jobs added last year, 1 housing unit was built. The market is signaling that SF should become a big city, but the NIMBYs prefer things as they are (or prefer seeing their own property values increase).
According to the Tech Crunch link, the demand for spaces in homeless shelters is outstripping the supply. I think steve here is pointing out that there are lots of other cities around, some of which are probably better able to absorb homeless people.
This. For all the hoots and hollers after "what is Aleppo?", it shows that the guy is honest. I prefer a president that admits what he doesn't know, instead of trying to dodge it. Or invoking Douglas MacArthur.
We didn't go to the moon for science. We went to the moon to beat the Soviets. The only way I see it happening is if we get into another space race with the Chinese or the Russians and that seems improbable at the moment.
That's true. I think Elon's not so much concerned with this moment.... he's playing the odds that such a situation will arise in the next couple of decades. When the time comes, SpaceX will be have the best vehicle for getting people to Mars.
Read TFA. Hostess went out-of-business. There were zero employees. The buyers of the brand have a new business, and there are over a thousand employees.
If you really need the Hostess style of pie, the ones made by Tastykake are good.
I thoroughly concur on Tastykake. Seems like every other little pie brand coats the thing in sugar glaze... yuck. Most Tastykake flavors are available are unglazed and unfrosted; crust outside, sugar inside, as a pie should be. I also like the little metal trays that make it easy to pop 'em in the oven for 10 minutes. They do however have a shorter shelf life, so they're uncommon to find in vending machines.
Aside from Tastykake, most of the other big brands suck. A couple of the no-name/private label ones are good though, but they don't have the flavor range of Tastykake.
Yeah, I've got some experience.
To be fair, the youngsters could have come out to vote. Even for such an important issue, voter turnout for the young was low.
And yes I know about the Chrome extension, I don't use close-sourced browsers.
What about Chromium then?
... remove said microphone (making it only a audio out device, WTF do you even call that)
To be fair, you'd still have the audio input/output jack; grab your earbuds when making a call.
Well this comment looks shockingly familiar
Yes, but if that's truly the case, then where precisely are the chemicals coming from that are making the water flammable?
It's not the chemicals that make water flammable, but methane.
Of course methane exists in the shale where they're fracking, but it can also exist at various layers of the ground above the shale. Pretty much anywhere organic material is decomposing, methane can exist. I would bet that the origin of any methane found in drinking water is likely above the shale. It's possible that the seismic activity caused by fracking disturbs the ground high above, releasing methane into a nearby water source. But in some places methane is just emitted naturally; in the old days, people could take advantage of relatively shallow methane as a fuel source.
Source?
A Visa was only required to 'Enter' the destination country. As Snowden was never going to enter Russia (transit lounges are no-mans land) he didn't need one.
"If you are transiting through one international airport in Russia, and will depart again in 24 hours to an onward international destination, without leaving the customs zone, Russian law does not require you to have a transit visa." - state.gov
Meaning, if you are there for > 24h, you need a visa. And they are not issued on-the-spot.
Why do you assume he's the outlier?
> there are other places we can get it cheaper.
You might be able to /get/ it cheaper elsewhere, but factor in the cost of transport and you lose. The northeast is the largest consumer of natural gas in the US. Lots of gas exists in the west. Transporting that gas costs money. That's why there's a large price differential in the price of natural gas between those two geographies. And that's what makes Marcellus so valuable: it's close to the demand center.
> your fossil fuel ideas wont work here
The post you're replying to isn't arguing that gas is the be-all-and-end-all solution for energy. He's stating that in his area, the local economy is boosted, and this is a Good Thing. Local economies are often cyclical, and not participating in an industry because it will (will, not might) go away some day does not seem like a good reason not to support it.
Google hasn't had an IPO yet? Are you sure?
Processing power (100-200MHz) does seem like overkill, but when you realize that a nice web app could be used for uploading pics over a network, or that resizing each 1600x1200 pic takes 20 secs, it's really just about right. A PII is too much, especially since they tend to have cooling fans on them.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Cs8oaitTLG0J: www.ericharshbarger.org/cgi-bin/photo.cgi%3Fclock_ 5.jpg%2Blego/images/clock+&hl=en
was it this?
Hey, where's the obligatory "(free reg, yada yada)" after "NY Times"?
Of course, I'm not so certain that this needs to be a government implemented project. Companies in the private sector have already done something similar, see Visa.
And anyway, don't many people choose to be cashless as it is now? When I was in retail, a large percentage of people paid with debit cards linked to a major credit card. There's no cash! John Doe has his paycheck directly deposited in to his checking account, then pays for purchases with his debit card which utilizes a preexisting network system (Visa, Mastercard).
So bottom line: yeah, a (near-)cashless society is cool, but is government intervention necessary?
I got the same. Also, did you notice that random character that appears after the sentance? Try refreshing the page a couple of times. Tried typing the address into a new browser window and got this: Not Found The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Just use the link on lonestar.org I guess...