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Even simpler answer: the South was highly productive as agricultural land, while New England was (mostly) not. The South could produce cotton, which was incredibly valuable, while the Midwest - while very fertile land - produced mostly food crops that couldn't be turned into portable wealth. So the North had some incentives to industrialize that weren't present in the South.
On top of that, the North had the ability to industrialize. The early Industrial Revolution depended on water power. North of New York, the fall line extends almost to the coast - so that good sources of water power were available within a short distance from the great harbors. Northern forests were mostly hardwood, not pine, suiting them for study machinery. By comparison, the comparable areas of the South were hundreds of miles from water transport. Finally, the coal and minerals were almost all in the North.
In short, the South barely industrialized because the return on investment was considerably higher for agriculture than for industry in a place where all of the components of the industry would have to be imported. Even today, the industrial parts of the South are mostly the ones where there are resources to be exploited: oil refining and chemical manufacture on the Gulf Coast, along with chemical and manufacturing in TN/KY.
As for slavery, after a while, Southerners started believing their own lies about slavery being good for the Negroes, and found themselves riding the tiger: when an oppressed people constitutes as much as 50% of the population of an area, it's hard to figure out a way to set them all free without the whole thing going to hell. This was gotten around in Reconstruction by having the place go to hell first, so that freeing the slaves couldn't make it much worse.
Why on earth would we full-on invade it? It's too damned hard to defend, and all the mineral wealth in the world is useless if you can't get it out. (Which the US can't. China or Iran, OTOH...)
What did you expect? The Soviets had a quarter of the country and had effective control of the industrial heartland of east-central Europe in Poland-Czechoslovakia-East Germany. Communism was on the march in Greece and Italy. It was in no way insane to think that the Soviets planned to push all of Germany into their camp and eventually dominate Europe.
Given the relative wealth and GDP of East and West, I'd say it worked out pretty well for the population at large. But be assured: the US spent a lot of money making sure that the Nazis were defeated, and it was going to get its payback.
Netbook with Pretek SD GPS, absolutely, and at likely less than what you paid for your smartphone, with more power.
Your netbook, the SD GPS, and the 3G card cost less than $325 combined, and they fit in your pocket? Really? No exaggeration at all? You don't think there's just the faintest element of hating on the smartphone there?
Ignorant fool.
Internet tough guy who projects a blanket statement into a specific condemnation? Damn, dude, everybody here is posting on Slashdot, but you really need a fucking life.
The Droid is 267 dpi. The first time I saw mine running, my immediate thought was HOLY SHIT SCREEN!!! High DPI is at least as amazing as Apple wants to make it sound
Current-gen iPhones look like fuzzy crap by comparison. This was a well-needed jump by Apple, and I'm glad to see they're going to keep Android makers pushing hard. By the time I come up for upgrade I want some really stellar hardware to be around.
Let it go, man, let it go. Some people just hate on smartphones. Some are hermits, some are Cliff Stoll neoluddites, and some are just unable to imagine someone whose time is worth real money. My smartphone service costs me less than an hour of work per month and makes me significantly more productive per unit time.
Turn right on red, do a U-turn, proceed at will. Totally legal. My favorite maneuver is similar: to turn left, go straight through the intersection, take the first U-turn, then turn right.
Right, whatever. Israel has been a massive bunch of assholes to the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, granted. Again: why is Egypt opening up the borders a notable event? It should be open all the time to their starving Arab brothers, no? What about the Jewish communities of the rest of the Middle East? They're doing great, right? None of them got dispossessed? Oh wait, they pretty much kicked them all out.
Everyone in the Middle East is, or has been, an asshole to everyone else there. Jew, Christian, Muslim; Hebrew, Arab, Persian, Kurd: there's enough history of assholery there to fight forever.
I really don't give a fuck what the UN says, because it's an organization that says that people are represented by governments that have the authority to speak for them on equal terms with all other governments. You think Fiji is the equivalent of Turkey, let alone the US? No. It's not. International relations consist of what you can get away with.
Incidentally, my personal view is that all of this is fallout from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and it won't be fixed for another century at least.
My wife got a ticket in a speed trap that she had passed through twenty minutes before - and thus knew was there and was therefore traveling under the speed limit when she went through it.
You assume, in this, that the National Guard will fight the civilians. Suborning at least part of the army is an essential part of a successful revolution.
White men who dress well get tickets, but they never get any degree of shit from the cops. Happens to me. Now, if my wife's driving alone? She's been called "honey" and "sweetheart" in tones that are not meant to be sweet.
She also has a bad habit of mouthing off after she gets a ticket. She's seen enough BS pulled to have gotten out of several of them if she'd been thinking - like, "I can't read your name on this ticket, officer. Could you please tell it to me so that I can be sure that I get it right when we're done here and I'm calling to complain to your precinct commander and the city councilman about how you speak to the citizens that pay your salary?"
And, as has been pointed out by numerous good cops who have kept their mouth shut (and as demonstrated in American Gangster near the beginning), if you really do get into a bad situation, you never know who else is going to be out on patrol to respond to your "officer needs assistance" call...
Police are not there to protect you, and to the degree that they do so it is incidental to their primary job of getting bad guys off the street. They have no obligation to keep you from harm.
If I am driving too fast, I deserve to get a ticket
If you're driving recklessly, you should be arrested for it. "Tickets" are bullshit.
BTW, tell me where I can find these good cops. I've met quite a few over the years, and if you get them to start talking... it's a very short time before the conversation consists of how they skirt the law, endanger civilians, and abuse their authority so that they can go as quickly as possible to the scene of a crime and beat the hell out of someone. My wife got pulled over at a speed trap a while back. They insisted she was speeding - normally, I'd have leaned to their side, since she's a bit of a leadfoot, except that she had passed it a few minutes beforehand and KNEW IT WAS THERE. While her ticket was being written, she overheard the officers involved clock one of their brothers in blue on a motorcycle. When he pulled up, they said, "Hey Tom, you got up to 58 there!" This, on a 35 mph road. As they write tickets to civilians. Ever wonder why cops get no respect?
My city is smaller than the ones they talked about in the article - e.g., we have Verizon and AT&T 3G, but nothing more than 1xRTT on Sprint - but my Droid is plenty fast enough to tether with. I won't confuse it with my home cable connection any time soon, but it's just fine for on the road surfing. (Haven't tried it with Netflix yet.) Wifi tethering of the Droid is also faster than USB tethering from my wife's AT&T Blackberry via PDANet.
MDs complained about that has well, but it did reduce errors by over 50%
And I'll bet I know why they complained... in every unit there's always one nurse who is the middle manager gone wild that insists on 100% adherence to policy at all times. Patient actively dying? Sorry, since you didn't go scrub first I'm going to throw that central line kit in the trash.
I welcome checklists, because they make me a better doctor. But you also have to know when to throw the checklist away. Good nurses (and I work with some great ones) know when to do that.
The MRI is back, here take these 2 asprin and this $6800 MRI bill, and my $2600 bill for the 4 hours you were here even though I looked at you for 15 minutes total.
Ah, so this is why you hate physicians. Are you sure those bills weren't from the hospital? There is a difference.
Doctors are very free with your money.
Well, yeah. You seem to think that your headache is an emergency; who am I to disagree with you? If you walk in and tell me you're having the worst headache of your life it's negligent of me not to try to diagnose and treat it - sometimes that involves an MRI. You can always say no and walk out the door, but you'll find it hard to sue if you do.
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Even simpler answer: the South was highly productive as agricultural land, while New England was (mostly) not. The South could produce cotton, which was incredibly valuable, while the Midwest - while very fertile land - produced mostly food crops that couldn't be turned into portable wealth. So the North had some incentives to industrialize that weren't present in the South.
On top of that, the North had the ability to industrialize. The early Industrial Revolution depended on water power. North of New York, the fall line extends almost to the coast - so that good sources of water power were available within a short distance from the great harbors. Northern forests were mostly hardwood, not pine, suiting them for study machinery. By comparison, the comparable areas of the South were hundreds of miles from water transport. Finally, the coal and minerals were almost all in the North.
In short, the South barely industrialized because the return on investment was considerably higher for agriculture than for industry in a place where all of the components of the industry would have to be imported. Even today, the industrial parts of the South are mostly the ones where there are resources to be exploited: oil refining and chemical manufacture on the Gulf Coast, along with chemical and manufacturing in TN/KY.
As for slavery, after a while, Southerners started believing their own lies about slavery being good for the Negroes, and found themselves riding the tiger: when an oppressed people constitutes as much as 50% of the population of an area, it's hard to figure out a way to set them all free without the whole thing going to hell. This was gotten around in Reconstruction by having the place go to hell first, so that freeing the slaves couldn't make it much worse.
That sounds like a pretty reasonable valuation for house and grounds.
That wasn't going to happen, so why engage idle speculation about it? World politics is not an undergraduate philosophy salon.
Which is in the better economic situation: Frankfurt right now, or Dresden 20 years ago?
I mean, saying you don't want capitalism... did you want communism? Really?
Why on earth would we full-on invade it? It's too damned hard to defend, and all the mineral wealth in the world is useless if you can't get it out. (Which the US can't. China or Iran, OTOH...)
What did you expect? The Soviets had a quarter of the country and had effective control of the industrial heartland of east-central Europe in Poland-Czechoslovakia-East Germany. Communism was on the march in Greece and Italy. It was in no way insane to think that the Soviets planned to push all of Germany into their camp and eventually dominate Europe.
Given the relative wealth and GDP of East and West, I'd say it worked out pretty well for the population at large. But be assured: the US spent a lot of money making sure that the Nazis were defeated, and it was going to get its payback.
Netbook with Pretek SD GPS, absolutely, and at likely less than what you paid for your smartphone, with more power.
Your netbook, the SD GPS, and the 3G card cost less than $325 combined, and they fit in your pocket? Really? No exaggeration at all? You don't think there's just the faintest element of hating on the smartphone there?
Ignorant fool.
Internet tough guy who projects a blanket statement into a specific condemnation? Damn, dude, everybody here is posting on Slashdot, but you really need a fucking life.
The Droid is 267 dpi. The first time I saw mine running, my immediate thought was HOLY SHIT SCREEN!!! High DPI is at least as amazing as Apple wants to make it sound
Current-gen iPhones look like fuzzy crap by comparison. This was a well-needed jump by Apple, and I'm glad to see they're going to keep Android makers pushing hard. By the time I come up for upgrade I want some really stellar hardware to be around.
Let it go, man, let it go. Some people just hate on smartphones. Some are hermits, some are Cliff Stoll neoluddites, and some are just unable to imagine someone whose time is worth real money. My smartphone service costs me less than an hour of work per month and makes me significantly more productive per unit time.
The graphic in this article explains why pretty clearly. 2100 is for communication from tower to phone, 1700 is phone to tower.
No 1700, no T-Mobile.
Turn right on red, do a U-turn, proceed at will. Totally legal. My favorite maneuver is similar: to turn left, go straight through the intersection, take the first U-turn, then turn right.
Right, whatever. Israel has been a massive bunch of assholes to the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza, granted. Again: why is Egypt opening up the borders a notable event? It should be open all the time to their starving Arab brothers, no? What about the Jewish communities of the rest of the Middle East? They're doing great, right? None of them got dispossessed? Oh wait, they pretty much kicked them all out.
Everyone in the Middle East is, or has been, an asshole to everyone else there. Jew, Christian, Muslim; Hebrew, Arab, Persian, Kurd: there's enough history of assholery there to fight forever.
I really don't give a fuck what the UN says, because it's an organization that says that people are represented by governments that have the authority to speak for them on equal terms with all other governments. You think Fiji is the equivalent of Turkey, let alone the US? No. It's not. International relations consist of what you can get away with.
Incidentally, my personal view is that all of this is fallout from the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and it won't be fixed for another century at least.
My wife got a ticket in a speed trap that she had passed through twenty minutes before - and thus knew was there and was therefore traveling under the speed limit when she went through it.
If you're enough of an idiot to put that in your video, you deserve to get convicted.
You assume, in this, that the National Guard will fight the civilians. Suborning at least part of the army is an essential part of a successful revolution.
White men who dress well get tickets, but they never get any degree of shit from the cops. Happens to me. Now, if my wife's driving alone? She's been called "honey" and "sweetheart" in tones that are not meant to be sweet.
She also has a bad habit of mouthing off after she gets a ticket. She's seen enough BS pulled to have gotten out of several of them if she'd been thinking - like, "I can't read your name on this ticket, officer. Could you please tell it to me so that I can be sure that I get it right when we're done here and I'm calling to complain to your precinct commander and the city councilman about how you speak to the citizens that pay your salary?"
And, as has been pointed out by numerous good cops who have kept their mouth shut (and as demonstrated in American Gangster near the beginning), if you really do get into a bad situation, you never know who else is going to be out on patrol to respond to your "officer needs assistance" call...
If I am driving too fast, I deserve to get a ticket
If you're driving recklessly, you should be arrested for it. "Tickets" are bullshit.
BTW, tell me where I can find these good cops. I've met quite a few over the years, and if you get them to start talking... it's a very short time before the conversation consists of how they skirt the law, endanger civilians, and abuse their authority so that they can go as quickly as possible to the scene of a crime and beat the hell out of someone. My wife got pulled over at a speed trap a while back. They insisted she was speeding - normally, I'd have leaned to their side, since she's a bit of a leadfoot, except that she had passed it a few minutes beforehand and KNEW IT WAS THERE. While her ticket was being written, she overheard the officers involved clock one of their brothers in blue on a motorcycle. When he pulled up, they said, "Hey Tom, you got up to 58 there!" This, on a 35 mph road. As they write tickets to civilians. Ever wonder why cops get no respect?
Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Egypt open their borders to Gaza up? Surely they aren't in the employ of the Zionist Entity?
Oh yeah, that's right. It's because Gaza is run by Hamas, and they're fucking crazy.
My city is smaller than the ones they talked about in the article - e.g., we have Verizon and AT&T 3G, but nothing more than 1xRTT on Sprint - but my Droid is plenty fast enough to tether with. I won't confuse it with my home cable connection any time soon, but it's just fine for on the road surfing. (Haven't tried it with Netflix yet.) Wifi tethering of the Droid is also faster than USB tethering from my wife's AT&T Blackberry via PDANet.
MDs complained about that has well, but it did reduce errors by over 50%
And I'll bet I know why they complained... in every unit there's always one nurse who is the middle manager gone wild that insists on 100% adherence to policy at all times. Patient actively dying? Sorry, since you didn't go scrub first I'm going to throw that central line kit in the trash.
I welcome checklists, because they make me a better doctor. But you also have to know when to throw the checklist away. Good nurses (and I work with some great ones) know when to do that.
The MRI is back, here take these 2 asprin and this $6800 MRI bill, and my $2600 bill for the 4 hours you were here even though I looked at you for 15 minutes total.
Ah, so this is why you hate physicians. Are you sure those bills weren't from the hospital? There is a difference.
Doctors are very free with your money.
Well, yeah. You seem to think that your headache is an emergency; who am I to disagree with you? If you walk in and tell me you're having the worst headache of your life it's negligent of me not to try to diagnose and treat it - sometimes that involves an MRI. You can always say no and walk out the door, but you'll find it hard to sue if you do.
Troll? really? srsly, metamods, smackdown.
That would be a relevant link if the bicyclist and the car were identical in size, weight, and crumple zones. But they're not.