The Rust Belt sounded its death knell back in the 1960s with all the strikes to keep automation out of manufacturing. Here the big U.S. manufacturing areas of the U.S. were still working 1930s designed assembly systems while the countries bombed back to pre-industrial during WWII were rebuilding factories with modern systems.
Is it any wonder that Germany and Japan took over the vehicle market by the end of the 1970s? Today, more cars are built in the South than in Michigan. But, the companies owning the factories in the Deep South built them in the U.S. so they don't have to pay import tariffs for a major market. Meanwhile, 7 out of 10 Chevrolets are made in China.
How about we put a tariff on cheap solar panels with high fail rates and no quality control made by people who have to work for two bits a day. Maybe make companies in the U.S. competitive while paying a living wage to employees.
Sheesh, think about some people instead of an illusory conspiracy theory.
You do realize that solar panels create a larger carbon footprint than they alleviate but it is done far away from your installation don't you? Try factoring in all the petrochemicals necessary to create the panel vs the fact a solar panel never makes as much electricity as it takes to create it and you actually have a negative effect.
If you are talking solar boiler power plants, those are efficient even if the environmentalists have realized that "bird burner" is a good epithet for them.
TAANSTAFL... Be sure who you are benefiting and who you are hurting when you make decisions.
Fox is only far right wing if you are so far left your field of focus is so flattened to lump Voltaire, Adolf Hitler, William F Buckley, and John Kennedy together. Fox is definitely right leaning and it serves to differentiate it from the radical left pandering of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS. NPR has always been liberal but only rarely goes radical. The big Mainstream has taken a stance of ignoring reality in order to report as fact whomever screams the loudest.
Naaaa, Trump just called bullshit on the news outlets that had peddled fake news. Do enough yellow journalism and peddle unchecked gossip and you lose credibility as "fake news". Gad, I'd wager if you took a nice cross cultural poll; Alex Jones would have more credibility than CNN these days. That is the kind of joke you hate to laugh at because it just might be true.
Political manipulation, no. Making sure the crime isn't forgotten by giving something for the press to digest each week, yes.
It doesn't matter who released the emails. The fact that they existed and contained classified information after Hillary Clinton had told Congress they didn't exist and didn't violate security regulations is the problem.
Hillary Clinton performed an act that would have had someone who wasn't part of the political elite arrested, tried, convicted, and jailed. Her husband was impeached for the very thing Hillary Clinton did in lying to Congress about her emails.
The source of exposure of poor ethical decisions is irrelevant to the poor ethical decisions being made.
And, with the example given, just like you can change display measurements from miles to kilometers you could shift from "American English" to "UK English" or to Spanish or whatever. I'll be there would even be an after market for Klingon language proms.
Automotive displays are made to look pretty not be informative. If the on-board computer is going to generate an error code, why not have a lookup table on an eprom in the display circuit so it actually tells you what the code means?
Oh, wait, that would cut the dealership out of $180 for putting a $29 code reader on the under dash interface plug.
Ted Kaczynski did recognize one of the facets of rapid technological growth; you can be held hostage by expectations associated with technology.
Today, you are considered odd of you don't have a cellphone. If you are applying for a job and don't have your own cellphone you at least get a down check in the employee traits checklist. You are expected to be available for communication 24/7.
And the cellular providers can play on this and over charge to a ritidulous level for outmoded levels of service. (the U.S. has one of the slowest cellular data rates of all the developed countries. South Korea has the fastest.)
The latest hostage tactic is to REQUIRE you purchase television service in order to get buggy full speed broadband service which is barely broadband compared to Japan and Europe at three times the rate overseas. (Yep AT&T and Comcast; looking at you.)
That policy may have been nixed by now but they hit me with that last year. I had to buy TV service I didn't want for a year to upgrade the speed of my internet connection.
As nitrogen oxides combine with atmospheric water vapor and end up nitrating the soil; it is really a non issue unless the concentration is so high as to cause acid rain.
The big problem is that diesel exhaust can contain some visible ash but gasoline exhaust has all the nasty invisible petroleum fractions.
It really does sound like an exercise in fake news. I'm trying to figure out who makes money on building hate for the greenest transportation engine currently available?
Because the start of participation trophies in the 1970s marks the first wave of dumbing down of public education so everyone can graduate with a diploma that is meaningless.
I graduated high school in 1975 . I remember 74 when they trotted out participation trophies in a tournament and the nasty reaction when all the competing students blatantly dropped them in the trash after being handed them.
BMI I get sick of acronyms without an explanation. But, what do you expect in an article about a company whose name is an abbreviation from back in the 8 bit computer days. Hint, modern computers can handle actually using whole words.
One point I'd disagree on. The Democratic Party is run by the old money elite class. Those old families that feel they have an obligation to force people to behave the way they think they should. The Republican Party is run by new money rich that think that since they got theirs people are only lazy if they don't succeed the way they did. (even if they are several generations away from the self made man like the Bush family)
As long as there are career politicians; there will be corruption.
Does anyone do metrics on the negative impact of digital advertising?
> Remembering and advertisement that came with an auto start video over the top of the article you are reading and avoiding that product in the future.
> Remembering the product that was in your face obnoxious on many different web pages and avoiding that product in the future.
Curmudgeonly avoiding many products due to obnoxious an inane advertisements for years. (I haven't entered a Quznos since the singing sponges.)
That was my first impression when the story first came out in 2016; middle ear microwave resonance. I had some experience with that back in the 90s thanks to doing some work in proximity to a damaged guide tube out on the weather deck.
Now the question is, was it intentional or just a case of badly shielded microwave ovens in the Havana hotel.
I found the article at The Verge to be a good giggle-fest. You don't get a concussion the way they described. I think I would faint if someone actually fact checked a news story. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/16/16316048/sonic-weapon-cuba-us-canadian-diplomats-ultrasound-infrasound-science
PewDiePie used the most common epithet used in Rap music to describe behavior of another player in an online game. Whoop de effin' do... who cares outside of the Society of the Perpetually Offended.
Why should a simple, convenient, protocol die because it doesn't require secure coding to operate? Why should you need hypertext to grab a file off a server or upload one to a server?
Globalist meaning Jew is only among a small faction of conspiracy theorists that believe in the Zionist conspiracy. Most use the word in its straight forward context as a person who is in favor of a one world government. Apply Occam's razor to shave the issue and not seeking obscure hidden meanings where very few exist. And trying to conflate the minuscule membership of the KKK with people who see a nationalist bent as being a good thing is as preposterous as claiming all Christians eat babies.
And, if you hadn't realized, "Pepe" isn't some sort of racist symbol it is a symbol of how clueless the politicians and mainstream media are when a group of 4Chan trolls can get a presidential candidate to claim such on national television. The belly laughs are still going on.
Yeah, socialism is communism light and is designed to fool people into voting in communism by offering enough bread and circuses that aren't sustainable in the long term. i.e. Venezuela
But, advertisers don't need tracking cookies to put up advertisements. Cookies just allows them to target advertisements and many find it annoying to get the same advertisements for the item you bought last month over and over.
Really... Bodega is a NYC specific colloquialism. C-Store or the original local chain name is more common. Then there is the ubiquitous 7-Eleven stores.
And, since full size groceries have started being open 24 hours; the convenience market no longer bothers selling the groceries you may have forgotten. No more stopping for butter or milk just 186 varieties of beer, a few varieties of soda, and stale snack foods.
You do realize that electric motors are, at best, 28% efficient. And, the same for electric generators. Burning the fuel to create mechanical energy close to the end use is always more efficient.
And, there were LED lightbulbs on the market a decade before U.S. retailers had a clue about them. CFL lightbulbs were a real non starter because they wouldn't fit in older light fixtures. Add in the annoying 60hz flicker and they are fully reviled by a huge plurality. Even with the CFL rebates, who wants to replace every light fixture in the house with a skewed spectrum flickering CFL?
Nuclear remains the second cheapest form of electrical power generation but requires a huge capital outlay to build. Nuclear generated electrical power is dying off in the U.S. because the standards changed over a hundred time from proposal to operation making the initial capital outlay way too high. Other countries license and approved design then come in and do an inspection before starting up.
Yep, can't have those pesky citizens having a method to travel around that doesn't require fourteen kinds of permission. Just ignore the fact that electric vehicles just mean more emissions somewhere else.
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The Rust Belt sounded its death knell back in the 1960s with all the strikes to keep automation out of manufacturing. Here the big U.S. manufacturing areas of the U.S. were still working 1930s designed assembly systems while the countries bombed back to pre-industrial during WWII were rebuilding factories with modern systems.
Is it any wonder that Germany and Japan took over the vehicle market by the end of the 1970s? Today, more cars are built in the South than in Michigan. But, the companies owning the factories in the Deep South built them in the U.S. so they don't have to pay import tariffs for a major market. Meanwhile, 7 out of 10 Chevrolets are made in China.
See anything askew in that?
How about we put a tariff on cheap solar panels with high fail rates and no quality control made by people who have to work for two bits a day. Maybe make companies in the U.S. competitive while paying a living wage to employees.
Sheesh, think about some people instead of an illusory conspiracy theory.
You do realize that solar panels create a larger carbon footprint than they alleviate but it is done far away from your installation don't you? Try factoring in all the petrochemicals necessary to create the panel vs the fact a solar panel never makes as much electricity as it takes to create it and you actually have a negative effect.
If you are talking solar boiler power plants, those are efficient even if the environmentalists have realized that "bird burner" is a good epithet for them.
TAANSTAFL ... Be sure who you are benefiting and who you are hurting when you make decisions.
Fox is only far right wing if you are so far left your field of focus is so flattened to lump Voltaire, Adolf Hitler, William F Buckley, and John Kennedy together.
Fox is definitely right leaning and it serves to differentiate it from the radical left pandering of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS. NPR has always been liberal but only rarely goes radical. The big Mainstream has taken a stance of ignoring reality in order to report as fact whomever screams the loudest.
Naaaa, Trump just called bullshit on the news outlets that had peddled fake news. Do enough yellow journalism and peddle unchecked gossip and you lose credibility as "fake news". Gad, I'd wager if you took a nice cross cultural poll; Alex Jones would have more credibility than CNN these days. That is the kind of joke you hate to laugh at because it just might be true.
Political manipulation, no.
Making sure the crime isn't forgotten by giving something for the press to digest each week, yes.
It doesn't matter who released the emails. The fact that they existed and contained classified information after Hillary Clinton had told Congress they didn't exist and didn't violate security regulations is the problem.
Hillary Clinton performed an act that would have had someone who wasn't part of the political elite arrested, tried, convicted, and jailed. Her husband was impeached for the very thing Hillary Clinton did in lying to Congress about her emails.
The source of exposure of poor ethical decisions is irrelevant to the poor ethical decisions being made.
And, with the example given, just like you can change display measurements from miles to kilometers you could shift from "American English" to "UK English" or to Spanish or whatever. I'll be there would even be an after market for Klingon language proms.
Automotive displays are made to look pretty not be informative. If the on-board computer is going to generate an error code, why not have a lookup table on an eprom in the display circuit so it actually tells you what the code means?
Oh, wait, that would cut the dealership out of $180 for putting a $29 code reader on the under dash interface plug.
Ted Kaczynski did recognize one of the facets of rapid technological growth; you can be held hostage by expectations associated with technology.
Today, you are considered odd of you don't have a cellphone. If you are applying for a job and don't have your own cellphone you at least get a down check in the employee traits checklist. You are expected to be available for communication 24/7.
And the cellular providers can play on this and over charge to a ritidulous level for outmoded levels of service. (the U.S. has one of the slowest cellular data rates of all the developed countries. South Korea has the fastest.)
The latest hostage tactic is to REQUIRE you purchase television service in order to get buggy full speed broadband service which is barely broadband compared to Japan and Europe at three times the rate overseas. (Yep AT&T and Comcast; looking at you.)
That policy may have been nixed by now but they hit me with that last year. I had to buy TV service I didn't want for a year to upgrade the speed of my internet connection.
As nitrogen oxides combine with atmospheric water vapor and end up nitrating the soil; it is really a non issue unless the concentration is so high as to cause acid rain.
The big problem is that diesel exhaust can contain some visible ash but gasoline exhaust has all the nasty invisible petroleum fractions.
It really does sound like an exercise in fake news. I'm trying to figure out who makes money on building hate for the greenest transportation engine currently available?
Because the start of participation trophies in the 1970s marks the first wave of dumbing down of public education so everyone can graduate with a diploma that is meaningless.
I graduated high school in 1975 . I remember 74 when they trotted out participation trophies in a tournament and the nasty reaction when all the competing students blatantly dropped them in the trash after being handed them.
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I get sick of acronyms without an explanation. But, what do you expect in an article about a company whose name is an abbreviation from back in the 8 bit computer days. Hint, modern computers can handle actually using whole words.
One point I'd disagree on. The Democratic Party is run by the old money elite class. Those old families that feel they have an obligation to force people to behave the way they think they should. The Republican Party is run by new money rich that think that since they got theirs people are only lazy if they don't succeed the way they did. (even if they are several generations away from the self made man like the Bush family)
As long as there are career politicians; there will be corruption.
Does anyone do metrics on the negative impact of digital advertising?
> Remembering and advertisement that came with an auto start video over the top of the article you are reading and avoiding that product in the future.
> Remembering the product that was in your face obnoxious on many different web pages and avoiding that product in the future.
Curmudgeonly avoiding many products due to obnoxious an inane advertisements for years. (I haven't entered a Quznos since the singing sponges.)
That was my first impression when the story first came out in 2016; middle ear microwave resonance.
I had some experience with that back in the 90s thanks to doing some work in proximity to a damaged guide tube out on the weather deck.
Now the question is, was it intentional or just a case of badly shielded microwave ovens in the Havana hotel.
I found the article at The Verge to be a good giggle-fest. You don't get a concussion the way they described. I think I would faint if someone actually fact checked a news story.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/16/16316048/sonic-weapon-cuba-us-canadian-diplomats-ultrasound-infrasound-science
PewDiePie used the most common epithet used in Rap music to describe behavior of another player in an online game. Whoop de effin' do... who cares outside of the Society of the Perpetually Offended.
Why should a simple, convenient, protocol die because it doesn't require secure coding to operate? Why should you need hypertext to grab a file off a server or upload one to a server?
Globalist meaning Jew is only among a small faction of conspiracy theorists that believe in the Zionist conspiracy. Most use the word in its straight forward context as a person who is in favor of a one world government. Apply Occam's razor to shave the issue and not seeking obscure hidden meanings where very few exist.
And trying to conflate the minuscule membership of the KKK with people who see a nationalist bent as being a good thing is as preposterous as claiming all Christians eat babies.
And, if you hadn't realized, "Pepe" isn't some sort of racist symbol it is a symbol of how clueless the politicians and mainstream media are when a group of 4Chan trolls can get a presidential candidate to claim such on national television. The belly laughs are still going on.
True, socialism isn't communism so it takes longer to self destruct.
Yeah, socialism is communism light and is designed to fool people into voting in communism by offering enough bread and circuses that aren't sustainable in the long term. i.e. Venezuela
But, advertisers don't need tracking cookies to put up advertisements. Cookies just allows them to target advertisements and many find it annoying to get the same advertisements for the item you bought last month over and over.
Really... Bodega is a NYC specific colloquialism. C-Store or the original local chain name is more common. Then there is the ubiquitous 7-Eleven stores.
And, since full size groceries have started being open 24 hours; the convenience market no longer bothers selling the groceries you may have forgotten. No more stopping for butter or milk just 186 varieties of beer, a few varieties of soda, and stale snack foods.
I hear you.
I went with Sony Fontopia that had a wider frequency response band, active noise canceling and less than half the price of the Beats.
You do realize that electric motors are, at best, 28% efficient. And, the same for electric generators. Burning the fuel to create mechanical energy close to the end use is always more efficient.
And, there were LED lightbulbs on the market a decade before U.S. retailers had a clue about them. CFL lightbulbs were a real non starter because they wouldn't fit in older light fixtures. Add in the annoying 60hz flicker and they are fully reviled by a huge plurality. Even with the CFL rebates, who wants to replace every light fixture in the house with a skewed spectrum flickering CFL?
Nuclear remains the second cheapest form of electrical power generation but requires a huge capital outlay to build. Nuclear generated electrical power is dying off in the U.S. because the standards changed over a hundred time from proposal to operation making the initial capital outlay way too high. Other countries license and approved design then come in and do an inspection before starting up.
Yep, can't have those pesky citizens having a method to travel around that doesn't require fourteen kinds of permission. Just ignore the fact that electric vehicles just mean more emissions somewhere else.