The EU is nothing like the Federal US government. It's closest US based relative would be the articles of confederatation the US tried before abandoning it as ineffective.
Horseshit. The SS trust fund was spent in Regan's first term, mostly on SDI. What you talk about happening in the late 90's happened a decade and a half earlier and had no effect on the budget surpluses run during the Clinton years. Go back and read the history because you don't know what happened.
The US ran a total account surplus for a few years leading up to 1999 due to dramatically reduced military spending and fiscal restraint. When Bush took office that was when we had all those congressional hearings about being worried about paying off the debt to fast so they threw together a plan to cut taxes predicated on those surpluses continuing. We call that tax cut the Bush tax cut, 90% of which went to billionaires. The rapid market crash and recession that followed the 9/11 attacks cratered those surpluses and reversed it doing double damage on the deficits that followed. On top of that Bush dramatically increased the military ranks from about 440K soldiers to more than 580K and then started two wars that were paid for entirely with debt.
What had been a rapidly shrinking debt exploded in just a few years after the bush tax cuts and the recession. Then the 90's and early 00 deregulation spree ran its course into the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent great recession which caused tax receipts to fall by more than 30%. The massive account deficit and recession Obama inherited started his term with a trillion in new debt a year. Obama whittled that down to $500 billion with solid fiscal policy but then stupidly extended the Bush tax cuts and the first thing Trump does is another HUGE $1.5 Trillion tax cut that guts all the progress in reducing deficits and on top of that overrides the sequester deal and boosts military spending another 20%.
The end result is we now have more than $700 BILLION a year in interest payments and the debt is growing by a trillion a year. Military salaries alone account of almost half of military spending now because the number of troops has approached 600K, not even including all the private contractors the government now uses that cost about 10X doing it with their own forces.
I doubt a bunch of monkeys throwing darts and a dart board to determine spending and taxing could have done a worse job than Congress has since 1980.
I'll say it again, both the bush and Trump tax cuts should be abolished, the military full time rolls should be paired down to the late 90's totals and spending on programs and equipment pared back. Overall military spending should be dramatically reduced and the astronomical wasteful spending of the DOD should be dramatically curtailed. The top tax bracket should be increased to 50% or more and several other changes to not only reduce spending but restore the revenue lost to STUPID tax cuts that have done nothing but spiral the debt.
This countries most prosperous decades were when taxation was the highest.
Two-thirds of millennials have nothing saved for retirement.
Did you even read what you posted and everyone marked up? 3 Legs of a stool, one of those legs was a private pension. Hows your private pension going because mine went away twenty years ago.
I don't know many stools that work with only 2 legs. I'd also like to point out that you single out millennials, but the generation retiring right now, the boomers, have even worse numbers, 95% of boomers have less than $50k saved. More than half have nothing,
In almost every regard the boomers are worse off than the millennials, and I'll tell you one thing, they cut SS and Medicare and it's going to be the boomers that take the brunt because the millenials will have the votes to make sure they do. Millennials outnumber both Boomers and GenX combined and they VOTE!
We are on the crest of a typical economic cycle. A recession is almost certain within a few years.
Not years. Months, and it's not a crest, we're on the downward side. The market is already showing the downturn, we're in a "dead cat bounce" at the moment. Usually this time of year there is a bounce or level off between T-day and Christmas as a lot of people stop paying attention to the market including the traders due to the holidays, but come January expect a blood bath. The automakers are usually the first to layoff because auto sales are the first to stall and they stalled 6 months ago, Boeing and the other biggies will follow and then on down the line ending with the small businesses. The economy is slow to respond, it's like a great big ship, even though the captain yanked the wheel to starboard it will be a long time before the ship is actually turning.
Conversely a new president will have no effect on the economy for at least a year, typically two unless they do something drastic. Trump made his drastic moves in Oct-Dec of last year, we'll feel the ship turning in less than 6 months, I'm betting it's already turning but won't be apparent to the public until June. The market is indicating this is the course, all the consumer product companies saw a 10% bump about a month ago as the institutional investors moved their money into recession safe stocks, gold is even up.
The bear market should be apparent in the next month or two as the layoffs set in. The official recession tag will be applied around June.
They believe Trump about Coal because the GOP and Fox News in particular had been running a propaganda campaign claiming all the coal jobs were lost because Obama launched a war on coal.
This was an outright lie, the decline in coal use was directly tied to fracking lowering the price of gas to 1/3rd it's prior price ($6 to $2 per million BTU). At the new price it was simply financial suicide to continue to use coal when gas generators could generate at half the price and even switching and old coal plant to gas burners (inefficient use of the gas) was cheaper than burning coal.
We have a spending and taxing problem. The budget was balanced during the Clinton years because taxes were sufficient to pay for expenses, millitary expenses in particular had declined substantially freeing capital to pay down the debt.
But when Bush took office the first thing he did is give a massive tax cut and dramatically increase military spending. We could balance federal deficits tomorrow if we revoked, but the Bush and Trump tax cuts and reduced military spending to 1999 levels. But this has never been about responsible spending, this has always been about running up deficits to the point that the GOP can claim we can't afford SS and Medicare.
Don't expect logic, there are studies that show that most american's can't do math and can't even understand basic math let alone complex budget and response mechanisms in a 17 trillion dollar economy.
Hell half the country can't even balance their own checkbook let alone understand why when 15% of the country is unemployed tax receipts drop 30% (business recipients drop when income drops), toss in 2 unfunded wars and all of a sudden you have trillion dollar deficits without increasing spending a dime.
On top of that you've got Fox news running a propaganda campaign talking about all the increased spending when outside inflation spending has actually gone down. So these people that don't understand math believe the propaganda and blame the spending on the president. They also believe the new president who immediately cuts taxes 15% when he says the tax cuts will pay for themselves even though it won't. They'll also believe the same president when he blames these deficits next year on the previous president.
As you said the laffer curve is a made up fantasy that doesn't exist but it's made Arthur Laffer rich! He's laughing all the way to the bank as his plans that each Republican follows blow holes in the economy in the hope that someday they can cancel social security and medicare because the deficits are too big from all the tax cuts and "trickle down" economics.
IPv6 is a complicated transition. It's going to catch a lot of people off guard because of how different it is from IPv4 in both configuration and use. All dual stack systems assume that if IPv6 is detected that IPv6 should be the priority per the RFC's this is the standard behavior and that's going to cause issues just like yours when you have a network that doesn't have IPv6 available.
I'd recommend you plan for IPv6 now so it doesn't do this to you again, even going so far as to setup your local network with IPv6 so that when your ISP deploys it everything works without you having to spend a week troubleshooting it. IPv6 has a pretty steep learning curve and some very significant differences from IPv4. It's not the kind of thing you want to learn at 2am in the morning because your network just went dead, trust me on that one because I learned it the hard way when IPv6 deployed and I wasn't configured for it and suddenly nothing routed.
Obviously. But really what you're showing here is quite a bit of ignorance on the topic. "Drugs" aren't banned, rather quite specific drugs that have quite specific performance related effects are banned. And yes there are several pain killers that would show up on my drug screen on the way into work which would result in me being either not allowed either on site or being banned from undertaking certain activities.
Opiates can have zero effect on your performance or reaction times, it would depend entirely on your dosage and tolerance. Cannabis has no performance or neurological effect that would increase or decrease performance, reaction times or safety anymore than cigarettes would.
The problem is that outside alcohol there has been almost no research on any of the other drugs that would conclusively prove impairment. And that's the exact problem, they were declared bad and added to a list without any scientific effort to validate that it could impair the user and at what dosage that impairment occurs. People that support the war on drugs and federal blanket bans on them generally have been told these lies their entire life and have no idea that none of this has ever been researched.
Anything labeled Schedule 1 can't even be researched without permission by the DEA and you think the guys getting paid to ban drugs are going to allow research into the drugs that might prove they are harmless?
If you have dual stack triggered at all the configuration assumes a preference for ipv6, this is per the standard. If you don't have Ipv6 make sure you disable Ipv6 altogether sorta like you did or you'll run into the same issues again. Ideally you don't even what your interfaces to load up with a link-local ipv6 address so there is no ipv6 at all.
For those asking for citation, The first link is the WAAS (windows as as service is the microsoft name) information for businesses, IIRC business deployment is scheduled for first deployment with retail deployment afterwards. WAAS will follow the same model as office 365, it'll likely start as an optional subscription for a year or two before the only option will be the monthly subscription just like office 2019 is the last standalone version after only a few years of 365 existing.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly told financial analysts at the Build conference in the spring, "We are moving from a product that is perpetual to one that is always up to date. In the past we've always had revenue per license. Going forward we'll have revenue per device, and we'll have revenue per device gross margin."
As you'll note in the links most of the information is in the financial press that the bulk of the public doesn't pay attention to, but what Microsoft promises wall street will occur.
The burst of revenue with a windows release thing ended with XP. The business licensing is already a monthly cost, and on the retail side almost no one upgrades their OS anymore, they just buy a new computer.
Windows revenue for microsoft has been a nice stable number for more than a decade.
Dream? Hell they already are, and it's worse than the Google. Google doesn't read your email unless you use Gmail, Microsoft reads your email regardless of what software you use.
Security notices and bug fixes aren't related at all to the word stable. But if you want to talk about security notices and bugs lets discuss the ability of Linux to be owned by a webpage. Go to the wrong website with windows and javascript running and you can get ransomware installed. Such a thing happening on Linux is virtually impossible.
You fail to understand the vast sums of money Microsoft gets for Windows. Annual windows revenue is billions of dollars. I haven't checked in the last few years but last time I did look Windows revenue was 25% of Microsoft's baseline with office providing another 25%. I doubt that this has changed much in the intervening time. Yes cloud is a growth market, but for microsoft OS and Office revenue is their bread and butter, their stock would crater without it.
Windows as a service with a monthly bill is scheduled to go into effect in 2020 and 2022 depending on the market.
This is a set in stone date, you are in the beta update period right now and they are baking in all the support infrastructure for this right now. There will be a point in the 2020's where you boot that windows computer and it's going to ask for a credit card.
Got Windows at all? Well then you agreed to the same conditions on Windows 10 with one of the later service packs or updates. All the spyware and malware in Windows 10 was backported to windows 7 within the first year windows 10 was out.
If you use Windows at all these days you are giving microsoft full access to all your data.
Court verdicts aren't final until all the appeals are exhausted, people should remember that. Facebook would be foolish to pay ZeniMax the $500million without exhausting their appeals.
Typically a large verdict like this is virtually wiped out in appeal. The $2Billion Apple/Samsung verdict ended up around $100 million.
You got windows 10? Then you agreed to the windows 10 as a service model. Why do you think Microsoft upgraded everyone for free? You don't have any contractual claim if you upgraded for free, on top of that the EULA language gives microsoft the right to charge any amount they want on any timeline they way (monthly, daily, hourly) for usage of MS windows.
People have been warning about this for years. Valve started the whole steam on linux thing directly because of this. Are you that ignorant that you've ignored this entirely?
Windows 10 is Windows as a service, they plan to start charging in 2020 for Windows so be prepared to sign up for the monthly charge or they will hold your computer hostage till you do. You should know this, you agreed to it when you upgraded.
That's just a bunch of bullshit, you should do some fucking research other than watching fox news propaganda.
The real reason California has been having huge Forrest fires is that their forests are DEAD. A huge percentage of the trees were killed by beetle in the 2000's. Those trees are either completely dead and still standing or 90% of the way there. The ones that weren't killed by the beetle have been damaged in the 2010's by the dramatic change in rainfall that has starved most of the trees of the water they need to stay healthy.
The combination of dead standing trees that have nice holes throughout (beetle's burrowing holes) that create channels for greater burning and a remaining forest that's starved of water create MASSIVE forest fires because there isn't any green (green wood and needles contain water that has to be evaporated in a burn and consumes massive amounts of energy) to slow down the burn.
The last two years is just the start of this, the beetle ravaged trees make up 60% of some of the forests in California and now with the rest of the trees water starved due to lack of rainfall and more importantly snowfall its even worse. I expect we'll be having fires like this for the next two decades as each of the forests in the sierra's is burned down until all the beetle ravaged trees are gone and replaced by shorter stubby trees that can handle the reduced moisture.
This is climate change in it's most apparent form, it's what the climate scientists have been warning about for the last 40 years.
You can't put anyone in jail for this because the jails are full of drug criminals with mandatory minimum sentences. These aren't violent crimes or drug crimes so they are typically released from prison immediately due to overcrowding. On top of this it's a very low priority for law enforcement because there is no property they can seize and then keep the money for themselves like drug crimes.
Until the war on drugs ends and the perverse system of justice it's created is abolished you won't solve this problem. Cops are interested in crime that isn't easy to solve and they don't get a kickback from, drug crime does.
The clock and what defines "noon" is a made up construct that we then used to define a LOT of things. It's actually far easier to change the clock than it is to try to change all the stuff that's dependent on the clock.
The biggest problem with trying to change business hours is that there will always be a group of people that refuse to participate and they blow up the whole change for everyone else.
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Nuclear is simply too expensive to build modern reactors. It costs almost $20 billion to build a modern reactor.
The EU is nothing like the Federal US government. It's closest US based relative would be the articles of confederatation the US tried before abandoning it as ineffective.
Horseshit. The SS trust fund was spent in Regan's first term, mostly on SDI. What you talk about happening in the late 90's happened a decade and a half earlier and had no effect on the budget surpluses run during the Clinton years. Go back and read the history because you don't know what happened.
The US ran a total account surplus for a few years leading up to 1999 due to dramatically reduced military spending and fiscal restraint. When Bush took office that was when we had all those congressional hearings about being worried about paying off the debt to fast so they threw together a plan to cut taxes predicated on those surpluses continuing. We call that tax cut the Bush tax cut, 90% of which went to billionaires. The rapid market crash and recession that followed the 9/11 attacks cratered those surpluses and reversed it doing double damage on the deficits that followed. On top of that Bush dramatically increased the military ranks from about 440K soldiers to more than 580K and then started two wars that were paid for entirely with debt.
What had been a rapidly shrinking debt exploded in just a few years after the bush tax cuts and the recession. Then the 90's and early 00 deregulation spree ran its course into the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent great recession which caused tax receipts to fall by more than 30%. The massive account deficit and recession Obama inherited started his term with a trillion in new debt a year. Obama whittled that down to $500 billion with solid fiscal policy but then stupidly extended the Bush tax cuts and the first thing Trump does is another HUGE $1.5 Trillion tax cut that guts all the progress in reducing deficits and on top of that overrides the sequester deal and boosts military spending another 20%.
The end result is we now have more than $700 BILLION a year in interest payments and the debt is growing by a trillion a year. Military salaries alone account of almost half of military spending now because the number of troops has approached 600K, not even including all the private contractors the government now uses that cost about 10X doing it with their own forces.
I doubt a bunch of monkeys throwing darts and a dart board to determine spending and taxing could have done a worse job than Congress has since 1980.
I'll say it again, both the bush and Trump tax cuts should be abolished, the military full time rolls should be paired down to the late 90's totals and spending on programs and equipment pared back. Overall military spending should be dramatically reduced and the astronomical wasteful spending of the DOD should be dramatically curtailed. The top tax bracket should be increased to 50% or more and several other changes to not only reduce spending but restore the revenue lost to STUPID tax cuts that have done nothing but spiral the debt.
This countries most prosperous decades were when taxation was the highest.
Two-thirds of millennials have nothing saved for retirement.
Did you even read what you posted and everyone marked up? 3 Legs of a stool, one of those legs was a private pension. Hows your private pension going because mine went away twenty years ago.
I don't know many stools that work with only 2 legs. I'd also like to point out that you single out millennials, but the generation retiring right now, the boomers, have even worse numbers, 95% of boomers have less than $50k saved. More than half have nothing,
In almost every regard the boomers are worse off than the millennials, and I'll tell you one thing, they cut SS and Medicare and it's going to be the boomers that take the brunt because the millenials will have the votes to make sure they do. Millennials outnumber both Boomers and GenX combined and they VOTE!
We are on the crest of a typical economic cycle. A recession is almost certain within a few years.
Not years. Months, and it's not a crest, we're on the downward side. The market is already showing the downturn, we're in a "dead cat bounce" at the moment. Usually this time of year there is a bounce or level off between T-day and Christmas as a lot of people stop paying attention to the market including the traders due to the holidays, but come January expect a blood bath. The automakers are usually the first to layoff because auto sales are the first to stall and they stalled 6 months ago, Boeing and the other biggies will follow and then on down the line ending with the small businesses. The economy is slow to respond, it's like a great big ship, even though the captain yanked the wheel to starboard it will be a long time before the ship is actually turning.
Conversely a new president will have no effect on the economy for at least a year, typically two unless they do something drastic. Trump made his drastic moves in Oct-Dec of last year, we'll feel the ship turning in less than 6 months, I'm betting it's already turning but won't be apparent to the public until June. The market is indicating this is the course, all the consumer product companies saw a 10% bump about a month ago as the institutional investors moved their money into recession safe stocks, gold is even up.
The bear market should be apparent in the next month or two as the layoffs set in. The official recession tag will be applied around June.
They believe Trump about Coal because the GOP and Fox News in particular had been running a propaganda campaign claiming all the coal jobs were lost because Obama launched a war on coal.
This was an outright lie, the decline in coal use was directly tied to fracking lowering the price of gas to 1/3rd it's prior price ($6 to $2 per million BTU). At the new price it was simply financial suicide to continue to use coal when gas generators could generate at half the price and even switching and old coal plant to gas burners (inefficient use of the gas) was cheaper than burning coal.
We have a spending and taxing problem. The budget was balanced during the Clinton years because taxes were sufficient to pay for expenses, millitary expenses in particular had declined substantially freeing capital to pay down the debt.
But when Bush took office the first thing he did is give a massive tax cut and dramatically increase military spending. We could balance federal deficits tomorrow if we revoked, but the Bush and Trump tax cuts and reduced military spending to 1999 levels. But this has never been about responsible spending, this has always been about running up deficits to the point that the GOP can claim we can't afford SS and Medicare.
Don't expect logic, there are studies that show that most american's can't do math and can't even understand basic math let alone complex budget and response mechanisms in a 17 trillion dollar economy.
Hell half the country can't even balance their own checkbook let alone understand why when 15% of the country is unemployed tax receipts drop 30% (business recipients drop when income drops), toss in 2 unfunded wars and all of a sudden you have trillion dollar deficits without increasing spending a dime.
On top of that you've got Fox news running a propaganda campaign talking about all the increased spending when outside inflation spending has actually gone down. So these people that don't understand math believe the propaganda and blame the spending on the president. They also believe the new president who immediately cuts taxes 15% when he says the tax cuts will pay for themselves even though it won't. They'll also believe the same president when he blames these deficits next year on the previous president.
As you said the laffer curve is a made up fantasy that doesn't exist but it's made Arthur Laffer rich! He's laughing all the way to the bank as his plans that each Republican follows blow holes in the economy in the hope that someday they can cancel social security and medicare because the deficits are too big from all the tax cuts and "trickle down" economics.
IPv6 is a complicated transition. It's going to catch a lot of people off guard because of how different it is from IPv4 in both configuration and use. All dual stack systems assume that if IPv6 is detected that IPv6 should be the priority per the RFC's this is the standard behavior and that's going to cause issues just like yours when you have a network that doesn't have IPv6 available.
I'd recommend you plan for IPv6 now so it doesn't do this to you again, even going so far as to setup your local network with IPv6 so that when your ISP deploys it everything works without you having to spend a week troubleshooting it. IPv6 has a pretty steep learning curve and some very significant differences from IPv4. It's not the kind of thing you want to learn at 2am in the morning because your network just went dead, trust me on that one because I learned it the hard way when IPv6 deployed and I wasn't configured for it and suddenly nothing routed.
Obviously. But really what you're showing here is quite a bit of ignorance on the topic. "Drugs" aren't banned, rather quite specific drugs that have quite specific performance related effects are banned. And yes there are several pain killers that would show up on my drug screen on the way into work which would result in me being either not allowed either on site or being banned from undertaking certain activities.
Opiates can have zero effect on your performance or reaction times, it would depend entirely on your dosage and tolerance. Cannabis has no performance or neurological effect that would increase or decrease performance, reaction times or safety anymore than cigarettes would.
The problem is that outside alcohol there has been almost no research on any of the other drugs that would conclusively prove impairment. And that's the exact problem, they were declared bad and added to a list without any scientific effort to validate that it could impair the user and at what dosage that impairment occurs. People that support the war on drugs and federal blanket bans on them generally have been told these lies their entire life and have no idea that none of this has ever been researched.
Anything labeled Schedule 1 can't even be researched without permission by the DEA and you think the guys getting paid to ban drugs are going to allow research into the drugs that might prove they are harmless?
If you have dual stack triggered at all the configuration assumes a preference for ipv6, this is per the standard. If you don't have Ipv6 make sure you disable Ipv6 altogether sorta like you did or you'll run into the same issues again. Ideally you don't even what your interfaces to load up with a link-local ipv6 address so there is no ipv6 at all.
For those asking for citation, The first link is the WAAS (windows as as service is the microsoft name) information for businesses, IIRC business deployment is scheduled for first deployment with retail deployment afterwards. WAAS will follow the same model as office 365, it'll likely start as an optional subscription for a year or two before the only option will be the monthly subscription just like office 2019 is the last standalone version after only a few years of 365 existing.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
The microsoft windows 365 plan, like office 365 will be the first step in the shift:
https://wccftech.com/microsoft...
Other sources without looking too hard:
https://www.informationweek.co...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
https://blog.juriba.com/window...
As you'll note in the links most of the information is in the financial press that the bulk of the public doesn't pay attention to, but what Microsoft promises wall street will occur.
The burst of revenue with a windows release thing ended with XP. The business licensing is already a monthly cost, and on the retail side almost no one upgrades their OS anymore, they just buy a new computer.
Windows revenue for microsoft has been a nice stable number for more than a decade.
Dream? Hell they already are, and it's worse than the Google. Google doesn't read your email unless you use Gmail, Microsoft reads your email regardless of what software you use.
You do realize they backported all the built in malware in windows 10 to windows 7 within the first year of windows 10's release?
Windows 7 is just as compromised as 10 unless you stopped all updates the month windows 10 was released.
Security notices and bug fixes aren't related at all to the word stable. But if you want to talk about security notices and bugs lets discuss the ability of Linux to be owned by a webpage. Go to the wrong website with windows and javascript running and you can get ransomware installed. Such a thing happening on Linux is virtually impossible.
You fail to understand the vast sums of money Microsoft gets for Windows. Annual windows revenue is billions of dollars. I haven't checked in the last few years but last time I did look Windows revenue was 25% of Microsoft's baseline with office providing another 25%. I doubt that this has changed much in the intervening time. Yes cloud is a growth market, but for microsoft OS and Office revenue is their bread and butter, their stock would crater without it.
Windows as a service with a monthly bill is scheduled to go into effect in 2020 and 2022 depending on the market.
This is a set in stone date, you are in the beta update period right now and they are baking in all the support infrastructure for this right now. There will be a point in the 2020's where you boot that windows computer and it's going to ask for a credit card.
Got Windows at all? Well then you agreed to the same conditions on Windows 10 with one of the later service packs or updates. All the spyware and malware in Windows 10 was backported to windows 7 within the first year windows 10 was out.
If you use Windows at all these days you are giving microsoft full access to all your data.
Court verdicts aren't final until all the appeals are exhausted, people should remember that. Facebook would be foolish to pay ZeniMax the $500million without exhausting their appeals.
Typically a large verdict like this is virtually wiped out in appeal. The $2Billion Apple/Samsung verdict ended up around $100 million.
You got windows 10? Then you agreed to the windows 10 as a service model. Why do you think Microsoft upgraded everyone for free? You don't have any contractual claim if you upgraded for free, on top of that the EULA language gives microsoft the right to charge any amount they want on any timeline they way (monthly, daily, hourly) for usage of MS windows.
People have been warning about this for years. Valve started the whole steam on linux thing directly because of this. Are you that ignorant that you've ignored this entirely?
Windows 10 is Windows as a service, they plan to start charging in 2020 for Windows so be prepared to sign up for the monthly charge or they will hold your computer hostage till you do. You should know this, you agreed to it when you upgraded.
That's just a bunch of bullshit, you should do some fucking research other than watching fox news propaganda.
The real reason California has been having huge Forrest fires is that their forests are DEAD. A huge percentage of the trees were killed by beetle in the 2000's. Those trees are either completely dead and still standing or 90% of the way there. The ones that weren't killed by the beetle have been damaged in the 2010's by the dramatic change in rainfall that has starved most of the trees of the water they need to stay healthy.
The combination of dead standing trees that have nice holes throughout (beetle's burrowing holes) that create channels for greater burning and a remaining forest that's starved of water create MASSIVE forest fires because there isn't any green (green wood and needles contain water that has to be evaporated in a burn and consumes massive amounts of energy) to slow down the burn.
The last two years is just the start of this, the beetle ravaged trees make up 60% of some of the forests in California and now with the rest of the trees water starved due to lack of rainfall and more importantly snowfall its even worse. I expect we'll be having fires like this for the next two decades as each of the forests in the sierra's is burned down until all the beetle ravaged trees are gone and replaced by shorter stubby trees that can handle the reduced moisture.
This is climate change in it's most apparent form, it's what the climate scientists have been warning about for the last 40 years.
I hate when my fingers miss the contraction.
Cops are NOT interested in crime that isn't easy to solve and they don't get a kickback from, drug crime does.
You can't put anyone in jail for this because the jails are full of drug criminals with mandatory minimum sentences. These aren't violent crimes or drug crimes so they are typically released from prison immediately due to overcrowding. On top of this it's a very low priority for law enforcement because there is no property they can seize and then keep the money for themselves like drug crimes.
Until the war on drugs ends and the perverse system of justice it's created is abolished you won't solve this problem. Cops are interested in crime that isn't easy to solve and they don't get a kickback from, drug crime does.
The clock and what defines "noon" is a made up construct that we then used to define a LOT of things. It's actually far easier to change the clock than it is to try to change all the stuff that's dependent on the clock.
The biggest problem with trying to change business hours is that there will always be a group of people that refuse to participate and they blow up the whole change for everyone else.