You don't hear about airlines complaining about restrictions flying over military bases or other "top secret" places.
It must be conceded that military bases and other "top secret" places don't change from hour to hour.
That said, it's an idiotic thing to complain about. Not like it's new or anything. We've been dealing with this sort of thing (rocket launches) since before most of us were born...
My understanding is that the Japanese consider the risk of being caught of a crime to be pretty high, which it AFAIK is as their police isn't as overburdened as police is in many parts of the world, and you do get an unusually large amount of leniency if you do it. If you know you're almost definitely going to get caught, it's probably not worth it trying to run or cover your tracks.
That I understand. What I don't understand is the three hour delay. If you assume you're going to be caught quickly, why not just stab the crap out of whomever, then just stand there waiting for the police to show up?
Energy, OTOH, is absolutely critical to modern life, everything demands it, and the demand keeps increasing. 40, 30, even 20 years ago, there were no solid, widely available, viable alternatives.
Sure there were. Nuclear power produces no CO2, and was available 50+ years ago.
Of course, the same sort of people now crying about CO2 fought to keep nuclear plants from being built back then.
Net result? We kept on dumping even more CO2 into the atmosphere (what, did no-one expect that the Third World would want a standard of living as high as USA/Europe had?), and will continue to do so for a long time yet.
hey queer their will be no weeding cake for you! democrats. the biggest hypocrites in the world. just and FYI: i hate all political parties and religions other than FSM!
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An.
And I'm none too fond of adults who can't spell....;-p
We aren't tracking what will kill us and even if we spotted it there's nothing we can do today.
Probably true. On the other hand, working toward a solution is probably better than saying "well, we can't stop one now, so no point in looking." It's not like a solution will be easier to come by if we wait till the last possible minute to start developing one....
Beyond your examples, it provides a way for phone manufacturers to know when you are operating a vehicle,
If the manufacturer is monitoring every phone to the extent you suggest, they already know that, since they can safely assume you're not out for your morning jog at 70 mph....
I can only see this as a net benefit to the economy. Fewer online sales but more local sales, more local stores can stay in business, more revenue to the states to keep the infrastructures working, more local jobs, etc.
No, it's not a net benefit to the economy to spend more of your money on taxes. If that were so, the ideal situation to "boost the economy" would be to raise tax rates across the board to, say 99%. That would really boost the economy, right?
IOW, no, raising taxes isn't a "net benefit to the economy". Taxes are necessary. But "higher" doesn't automagically translate to "better"....
The moment they required insurers to insure people with preexisting conditions, that eliminated any possibility of your health insurance not skyrocketing. It was still the right thing to do.
Debatable. Personally, I go with "extend Medicare to cover pre-existing conditions AND routine care, and make Health Insurance work like Auto (and all other) Insurance (only cover calamities - think how expensive auto insurance would be if it covered routine maintenance) works...
It'll also be interesting the first time someone in Maine says to a customer, "I'll have to delay delivery of your order by three weeks so I don't hit the 200 annual transactions limit for South Dakota orders."
The South Dakota statute in question only required collection/remittance of South Dakota sales tax if the online retailer had more than $100k in sales in South Dakota and/or more than 200 annual transactions in South Dakota.
Which means that an online retailer will have to be able to prove he/she/it doesn't meet those minimums anytime the government of South Dakota requires them to. It'll be interesting to see the reaction the first time the State of South Dakota audits a resident of, say, Maine....
I suspect that in 2 more years, that Japanese, S. Korean, German, Italian, and American car makers will be screaming for massive gov bailouts. And the GOP will give them again.
I suspect that it'll be the other Party that will be anxious to hand out auto maker bailouts in the USA. We don't build cars in Republican strongholds, last I checked....
A straw in the ocean is a straw that didn't go in the waste, let alone in the recycling.
Umm, for the most part, plastics that have been in contact with food aren't recyclable (at least in the USA, never bothered to check in other countries). So pretty much all straws will end up in the waste bin, not the recycle bin....
Second less than 60 deaths can be attributed to Chernobyl.
It also left us with a 1000 square mile exclusion zone.
Of course, that "exclusion zone" looks a lot like a National Park, in that the wildlife seems to be doing much better there than outside the exclusion zone.
Plus there's the people living in the exclusion zone in violation of the law. And with nary a trace of radiation poisoning, much less heavy metal poisoning.
And it should be noted that Chernobyl didn't just bake off on its own. It required the operators to do some dangerously stupid things as part of a test to determine how much power could be extracted from a meltdown-in-progress to fight said meltdown-in-progress. IOW, it wasn't caused by a failure in design, or a failure in operations, it was caused by their version of the NRC mandating an idiotic (and unnecessary) test....
Is Microsoft also working on technology that will eliminate the problems they're planning on creating when they make millions of jobs obsolete?
Would that be like when we made millions of farm jobs obsolete by introducing tractors and combines and such? Or how about the jobs that were rendered obsolete when we replaced sailing ships with steamships? Or when airplanes replaced steamships as the way to cross the Atlantic/Pacific oceans?
if they are SUCCESSFUL, its entirely because of the infra that they received FOR FREE from america.
So, they're not paying any taxes at all now? If they're paying taxes now, then they're obviously not getting that infrastructure for free....
Or perhaps they're just not paying as much taxes as you'd like them to pay? So, how much SHOULD they pay? And why should they pay the amount you answered the previous question with, as opposed to more than that, or less than that?
Also, explain why a business has an obligation (either moral or legal) to remain in a place that's trying to tax them into oblivion....
From blast furnaces in a steel mill to home heating with gas, we burn a lot of fuel in ways that electricity is never involved.
Well, can't think of any obvious way to get around the need for blast furnaces, but it IS possible to heat your home with electric rather than gas. Currently very expensive compared to gas, but it's doable, especially if electricity prices go down fairly dramatically as a result of the transition away from fossil fuels....
Or we could stop spending so much fucking money on our massive, embarrassing military. We could shave 200 billion off of that and we'd still be spending more than twice that of the next largest military budget.
Yeppers. Of course, cutting $200B off the military budget would still leave us a deficit of ~$300B per annum.
And it would only provide an extra 10% to the Medicare/SS budgets, at most.
Note that if we were to ZERO the military budget, we'd just about break even on the deficit ($15B surplus, based on the 2015 budget).
IOW, the military budget isn't really all that significant a part of our Federal spending. Currently, the mandatory pieces of our budget (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, that sort of thing) amount to about 4x the military budget....
It'll be interesting to see how many plants in Washington are shut down to be replaced by plants just across the State Line....
Yeah, they're not going to do that sort of thing automagically, but they won't be putting any new plants in Washington, and as older plants need to be replaced, they'll be replaced in Oregon and Idaho to avoid that extra cost of doing business....
Oh, and is Washington one of those places that's terrified of nuclear power? Just curious....
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It must be conceded that military bases and other "top secret" places don't change from hour to hour.
That said, it's an idiotic thing to complain about. Not like it's new or anything. We've been dealing with this sort of thing (rocket launches) since before most of us were born...
That I understand. What I don't understand is the three hour delay. If you assume you're going to be caught quickly, why not just stab the crap out of whomever, then just stand there waiting for the police to show up?
Seems to me that he either didn't practice what he lectured on, or his lecture probably wasn't worth attending....
That said, I have to wonder what drove his attacker to (a) kill him, then (b) turn himself in within a few hours (but not immediately)....
Sure there were. Nuclear power produces no CO2, and was available 50+ years ago.
Of course, the same sort of people now crying about CO2 fought to keep nuclear plants from being built back then.
Net result? We kept on dumping even more CO2 into the atmosphere (what, did no-one expect that the Third World would want a standard of living as high as USA/Europe had?), and will continue to do so for a long time yet.
Really? They have four times our population, and half our solar capacity.
So, 1/8 as much as we have, on a per capita basis.
Even if they complete this new goal, they'll still have no more solar capacity per capita in 20 years than we have today.
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An.
And I'm none too fond of adults who can't spell....;-p
So, a company that decides whether you peer review properly won't tell anyone their criteria for doing so?
Why do I suspect that buying whatever they sell is part of the criteria for deciding that your pub peer-reviews properly?
Probably true. On the other hand, working toward a solution is probably better than saying "well, we can't stop one now, so no point in looking." It's not like a solution will be easier to come by if we wait till the last possible minute to start developing one....
Pretty much the same as coal & gas, eh?
So, do German companies need to collect taxes for Idaho sales? How about Australian companies? Indonesian?
For that matter, should every US company handle sales taxes/VAT/whatever if they sell something to an Indonesian/German/whatever?
If the manufacturer is monitoring every phone to the extent you suggest, they already know that, since they can safely assume you're not out for your morning jog at 70 mph....
No, it's not a net benefit to the economy to spend more of your money on taxes. If that were so, the ideal situation to "boost the economy" would be to raise tax rates across the board to, say 99%. That would really boost the economy, right?
IOW, no, raising taxes isn't a "net benefit to the economy". Taxes are necessary. But "higher" doesn't automagically translate to "better"....
Debatable. Personally, I go with "extend Medicare to cover pre-existing conditions AND routine care, and make Health Insurance work like Auto (and all other) Insurance (only cover calamities - think how expensive auto insurance would be if it covered routine maintenance) works...
Apologies in advance for replying to myself.
It'll also be interesting the first time someone in Maine says to a customer, "I'll have to delay delivery of your order by three weeks so I don't hit the 200 annual transactions limit for South Dakota orders."
Which means that an online retailer will have to be able to prove he/she/it doesn't meet those minimums anytime the government of South Dakota requires them to. It'll be interesting to see the reaction the first time the State of South Dakota audits a resident of, say, Maine....
I suspect that it'll be the other Party that will be anxious to hand out auto maker bailouts in the USA. We don't build cars in Republican strongholds, last I checked....
Umm, for the most part, plastics that have been in contact with food aren't recyclable (at least in the USA, never bothered to check in other countries). So pretty much all straws will end up in the waste bin, not the recycle bin....
Of course, that "exclusion zone" looks a lot like a National Park, in that the wildlife seems to be doing much better there than outside the exclusion zone.
Plus there's the people living in the exclusion zone in violation of the law. And with nary a trace of radiation poisoning, much less heavy metal poisoning.
And it should be noted that Chernobyl didn't just bake off on its own. It required the operators to do some dangerously stupid things as part of a test to determine how much power could be extracted from a meltdown-in-progress to fight said meltdown-in-progress. IOW, it wasn't caused by a failure in design, or a failure in operations, it was caused by their version of the NRC mandating an idiotic (and unnecessary) test....
Just so. Hence my comment about the editors editting...
Wow, that's a lot! 42 km of solar panels.
Of course, a lot depends on how WIDE that 42 km of solar panels it is....
In other words, would it be too much to ask the editors to actually, you know, edit?
Would that be like when we made millions of farm jobs obsolete by introducing tractors and combines and such? Or how about the jobs that were rendered obsolete when we replaced sailing ships with steamships? Or when airplanes replaced steamships as the way to cross the Atlantic/Pacific oceans?
So, they're not paying any taxes at all now? If they're paying taxes now, then they're obviously not getting that infrastructure for free....
Or perhaps they're just not paying as much taxes as you'd like them to pay? So, how much SHOULD they pay? And why should they pay the amount you answered the previous question with, as opposed to more than that, or less than that?
Also, explain why a business has an obligation (either moral or legal) to remain in a place that's trying to tax them into oblivion....
Well, can't think of any obvious way to get around the need for blast furnaces, but it IS possible to heat your home with electric rather than gas. Currently very expensive compared to gas, but it's doable, especially if electricity prices go down fairly dramatically as a result of the transition away from fossil fuels....
Yeppers. Of course, cutting $200B off the military budget would still leave us a deficit of ~$300B per annum.
And it would only provide an extra 10% to the Medicare/SS budgets, at most.
Note that if we were to ZERO the military budget, we'd just about break even on the deficit ($15B surplus, based on the 2015 budget).
IOW, the military budget isn't really all that significant a part of our Federal spending. Currently, the mandatory pieces of our budget (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, that sort of thing) amount to about 4x the military budget....
Oregon.
Idaho.
Perhaps Canada?
It'll be interesting to see how many plants in Washington are shut down to be replaced by plants just across the State Line....
Yeah, they're not going to do that sort of thing automagically, but they won't be putting any new plants in Washington, and as older plants need to be replaced, they'll be replaced in Oregon and Idaho to avoid that extra cost of doing business....
Oh, and is Washington one of those places that's terrified of nuclear power? Just curious....