Public shares are not voting shares in some corporations.
Unless you buy the special shares which are often not available to the general public you can't vote the shares.
Alot of corporations pretend they listen to the public shares, but they don't, its only the big money special shares that are usually offered at IPO and mostly to key founders and investors of the company.
So when you think common stock has voting power, no it does not anymore in most corporations.
I think you need to look at the discharge rate of the Columbia, an aqueduct could not even phase it in a minor way. It dwarfs the combined totals of the current Aqueducts already working there.
That is if Oregon wants to sell the water to California.
The fact they try to squeeze the residents when its big AgriBiz using 85% of the water is laughable.
I think the farmers need to pay the same rates as the citizen serfs in the cities and then you'd see those farmers drill some more wells.
Because some perceive paper and ink as the most important thing beyond water and food, and beyond common sense.
The immense amount of money made off exporting millions of tons of Agri-products such as Alfalfa to China is what is going on.
The citizen serf is subsidizing the giant AgriiBiz who bought up most of the farmland nationwide.
They used government policy to ruin the small time american farmer, now they are using government policy to make the citizen serfs pay for cheap water for their exports for big bucks.
Charging residents more per gallon then the farmers is a subsidy paid to the farmers.
When the citizen serfs have to pony up huge money so that farmers can get cheap water to ship Alfalfa to China for fat profits that is fascism.
The farmers need to be paying the same rate as the citizen serfs and this problem would go away, and the farmers would then find all that groundwater cheap to pump in comparison.
This is merely corporate welfare for corporate farms.
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Public shares are not voting shares in some corporations.
Unless you buy the special shares which are often not available to the general public
you can't vote the shares.
Alot of corporations pretend they listen to the public shares, but they don't,
its only the big money special shares that are usually offered at IPO and
mostly to key founders and investors of the company.
So when you think common stock has voting power, no it does not anymore
in most corporations.
Hope you are ready for an IRS audit, lol.
The VERY best part of it is that the US taxpayer doled out $300 billion in corporate welfare
to the Telcos and they took the money and run.
It was supposed to be used to provide broadband to every US home.
As usual, corrupt corporations + corrupt government ( left & right ) = legalized theft
http://www.newnetworks.com/bro...
You could try some of the horrible satellite internet, but it beats dial up to be sure.
Other option would be a community funded fiber line and then a wireless ISP
for the town there.
Some rural towns have down their own Internet Co-ops, if your small enough
the Tecos won't sabotage you too bad.
http://www.ncic.net/
http://www.micemn.net/
Yeah seen same issues with Wifi, its not perfect.
My friend had problems with latency in real games, and
tried his cat5 and it all went away.
A Co-op ISP looks to be the best bet, but I think it would be killed by the Telecom Cartel.
Cartel is when corporations scheme to price fix, and to equally screw the citizens.
Monopoly is when one company owns it all and crushes any competition.
Cartel can be far more subtle, and it is the current paradigm here.
What is wild is that the US taxpayer paid $300 billion for a broadband upgrade,
and the Telco's took the money and run.
Whole story here:
http://www.newnetworks.com/bro...
Don't expect a fair and free trade experience from pirates, thieves, and looters.
Yeah I posted about that above, they could move to water wicking and cut the
evaporation rate massively.
I doubt they will do that as it would up labor costs.
I think a few Aquanators would be more then enough to power the initial lift
of the water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://atlantisresourcesltd.co...
Been a few different designs based on it that are not harmful to aquatic life.
Local greenhouses can grow the food and make local jobs, sounds good for the locals.
I think you need to look at the discharge rate of the Columbia, an aqueduct could
not even phase it in a minor way. It dwarfs the combined totals of the current
Aqueducts already working there.
That is if Oregon wants to sell the water to California.
The fact they try to squeeze the residents when its big AgriBiz using 85% of the
water is laughable.
I think the farmers need to pay the same rates as the citizen serfs in the cities
and then you'd see those farmers drill some more wells.
Well right now the farmers are paying about 10 - 100 times less then the residents.
When you get equal pricing that will solve this problem.
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...
Well we seem to be breaking all time cold and snowfall records so...
ROFLMAO, and that is likely the best description of the reality of this situation.
The corruption is off the charts.
You tap at shortly before it enters the sea, and you don't need to take even 10%
to amply supply California.
You really need to look at the discharge rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This offshoot heading south would look like a creek in comparison.
Hell you don't need to raise the price on citizens, its the big AgriBiz folks who get a discount rate
10 - 100 times cheaper then the citizen serfs.
Because some perceive paper and ink as the most important thing beyond water and food,
and beyond common sense.
The immense amount of money made off exporting millions of tons of Agri-products such
as Alfalfa to China is what is going on.
The citizen serf is subsidizing the giant AgriiBiz who bought up most of the farmland nationwide.
They used government policy to ruin the small time american farmer, now they are using
government policy to make the citizen serfs pay for cheap water for their exports for big bucks.
With solar stills desalination requires no energy and you can sell the salt.
Though Ca/Fukushima salt I wouldn't use for anything other then maybe roads if that....
The merging of corporate and government power is fascism,
is basically what Mussolini said, and that is what we have to be sure.
When the citizen serfs pay 10 times or more then what the Big AgriBiz
folks pay then the game is rigged.
Solar stills would work, but it would require a lot of roof space, I guess it could be split
50/50 with photo voltaic.
As 85% of the water usage is AgriBiz, then let them do the cost of the build out
instead of robbing tax payers who use around 10% of state wide water.
If all the food was staying in state I might be able to see it, but its mostly being exported.
You can't really expect thieves and liars to be truthful.
The corporations are almost as bad as the politicians they own.
This is exactly the issue, as orwell said "Some are more equal then others".
If they had to pay what everyone else did they'd like drill a few wells like
farmers do here in the plains.
That and 90 billion gallons of water in Alfalfa sent to China, and 97 billion gallons
used for fracking...
Also I hear the commercial water rate is lower then the residential rate, ie.
the per gallon price is cheaper for the corporates then for the sheeple.
So basically the citizens are paying corporate welfare to big AgriBiz.
Right vs. Left too different ways to rob the sheeple and give it
to the plutocrats.
We need a 3rd option other then the con men wearing nice suits
and can bold face lie to the camera without so much as a blink or blush.
Charging residents more per gallon then the farmers is a subsidy paid to the farmers.
When the citizen serfs have to pony up huge money so that farmers can get cheap water
to ship Alfalfa to China for fat profits that is fascism.
The farmers need to be paying the same rate as the citizen serfs and this problem would
go away, and the farmers would then find all that groundwater cheap to pump in comparison.
This is merely corporate welfare for corporate farms.
Lake Mead is current at 48% of full pool.
One might say its average movement is toward empty, not towards full.
I think most of the desert cities could do better with conservation, such
as lawns, pools, farming, etc.
A few states are drawing off Lake Mead.
MOD PARENT UP, also around 97 billion gallons went to fracking.
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/0...