all the statistics which that say that renewable energy is decreasing the overall cost of energy
If renewables are decreasing the overall cost of energy (rather than hiding part of the cost in other parts of the budget), then the regulation change in question won't have any effect at all.
People aren't going to stop building out cheap power just because a law was changed (unless the change was to FORBID the building of renewables, which this wasn't).
So, chill. If solar really is cheaper than coal, then anything short of mandating use of coal (which noone is proposing) won't even slow down the uptake of solar...
The USofA has a second amendement to throw people out if the people do not like them. It is right there that it says that if the system does not work, kill them. (Yeah, those guns are for killing, not for hunting so you can feed the people at the picket lines)
Actually, the Second was put in there so that we wouldn't be forced to maintain a standing Army. Obviously, it didn't succeed in that mission terribly well.
And where, exactly, does it say "if the system does not work, kill them". I've managed to miss that every time I've read the Constitution....
How does this differ from money? don't have money.. you're not allowed on the flight.. Follow the law, work hard, earn money.. omly then you're allowed on the flight.
Note that there are ways to earn money that don't involve "follow the law, work hard"...
So now we're going to normalize people we don't know walking up to anyone's car and putting anything they want in the trunk.
I've got bad news for you. Most of us know our own cars, and maybe some of the neighbors' cars. And that's about it.
A random car on the street? I'd never think twice if I saw someone putting something in the trunk.
In other words, people we don't know are walking up and putting things into car trunks all the time now, so what, exactly, are we "normalizing" that's not already a standard part of reality?
Or do you accost anyone you see putting something into a car trunk, demanding ID to prove he's allowed to do so now?
Amazon assume you won't mind letting in minimum wage delivery drivers in to your home and car in exchange for increasing their profit margins.
No, Amazon HOPES you won't mind letting minimum wage delivery drivers into your home and/or car.
It's not like it's mandatory to use these services, and if you find it convenient and acceptable, more power to you. If you don't, fine. Noone will hold a gun to your head and make you use the service....
Not that many. Florida has given approximately 6% of its adult population conceal/carry licenses, and that includes people in law enforcement, security, etc. You probably don't encounter that many people carrying weapons.
Less than 1/3 of Floridian adults own weapons, and that includes a lot of people who are too zoned out on oxycontin to remember where they put them.
Really? Less than 1/3 own guns, and 6% have concealed carry permits? Which implies that about one gun owner in five has a concealed carry permit. I'd never have guessed that concealed carry permits were so common....
That said, no you don't generally need a concealed carry permit to carry a gun in the trunk of your car. Because you don't need a concealed carry permit to hunt, and you're certainly (okay, okay, PROBABLY) not hunting from your bedroom window....
Have you forgotten about road rage? Gun owners constantly murder us.
Two things:
No, most gun owners don't ever murder anyone. Or do you seriously believe there are only twenty thousand or so gun owners in the USA?
And imagine that someone cuts you off on the road. You're totally enraged at this awful behaviour. So, you immediately reach for the gun in the trunk of your car???
Frankly, all the other problems aside, my arms just aren't long enough to reach the trunk of my car while sitting in the driver's seat. Much less of unlocking the guncase....
Ironic, perhaps, that two of the nations vanquished in the 2nd World War (Germany and Japan) grew to dominate worldwide automotive manufacturing.
Perhaps divesting one's national goals from military encroachment to industrial excellence promotes national productivity. Who knew?
More like, "perhaps having your legacy industry blown to kingdom-come and having to rebuild it from scratch gives you a leg up...."
Especially since in this case, the people who rebuilt their industry from scratch did it with money from the guys who didn't have to rebuild theirs....
Hmm, you have to send these guys money every month just to play the game. So we spend real money, and have a chance of getting a really "high value" piece of loot.
So, every MMORPG should qualify as gambling by that definition. Especially the ones that allow free-to-play options (such as an introductory ftp, which restricts what internal content is available till you start paying for the subscription)....
They're also ignoring that any reasonable civilisation would have been likely to build their urban centres in many of the same locations we have; near water.
Since they're talking about civilizations that may have occurred tens to hundreds of millions of years in the past, the likelihood that THEIR "near water" is not only not the same places as OUR "near water", but it's unlikely that their "near water" is even on the surface of the Earth.
Do note the part about the oldest surface currently existing on the planet is less than two million years old....
And this ignoring small, recent things like sea level changes. Just in the last million years, sea level has changed by many meters, many times, what with the advance and retreat of the glaciations that are part and parcel of the Ice Age we're still in (yes, technically, we're still in an Ice Age. An Interglacial in the Ice Age, but an Ice Age nonetheless - until the continents rearrange themselves so that the Arctic Ocean isn't, we'll be in an Ice Age)....
And other European states (ex Switzerland) show that civilian access to firearms, even semiautomatic firearms, is not a problem.
Semiautomatic? The Swiss militia (basically, everyone, though I think they're sexist enough to not include their women) requires members to keep FULLY automatic weapons, plus lots of ammo for same, on hand.
$2T is less than we spend on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid. Which we should, theoretically, be able to dispense with if we have a UBI. So the money is already there.
Now, arguably, UBI really should come with government-run healthcare like the Europeans use. If so, we'll need a bit more than the 2$2.3T+ we're already spending on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid.
BUT...the money now being paid for health insurance should more than make up the difference, so we're (probably) good there, too.
Summary: if the cost of a UBI is ~$2T (no opinion as to whether that number is correct, or whether we even really want a UBI should be inferred), then we won't have any real problems paying for it, without even bothering with much in the way of tax increases....
No: it can mean the same amount of taxes if the money is spent intelligently.
Start cutting:
(1) The military. Our Minuteman and nuclear sub force is enough to deter invasion. Both are cheap to maintain. Not so about the constant homicide campaigns with boots on the ground. Withdraw from the Middle East, Korea, and Latin America.
The entire military budget is ~15% of the total Federal Budget. Removing it entirely would knock out the deficit plus a bit more.
Maintaining the Minuteman force and the boomerd, plus related support would leave us with...a smaller deficit....
No, it's not illegal for Trump to work with/through Wikileaks.
Nor is it illegal for him to talk to the Russians.
It isn't even illegal for the Russians to say something about the American elections. Or anything else, really.
And based on The Donald's actions since he got to be Pres, it's not like either the Russians or Wikileaks are controlling him. He seems to be the same old blustering nincompoop he's always been...
So, what's the point of suing? Other than, presumably, to influence voters leading up to the midterms. Which is no more or less illegal than what they're accusing the New, Improved, Axis of Evil (The Donald, Wikileaks, the Russkis) of doing....
So why are we spending and borrowing ln a per capita rate greater than the dead middle of WWII when we were engaged in a major war on two fronts, and were churning out one major naval ship a week?
Because more than half of our Federal spending (SSA and Medicare alone are more than half of Federal spending) are Entitlements? Last year, 62% of the Federal budget was Entitlements (SSA, Medicare, Madicaid, specifically), for instance.
The military absorbs a whole 14% of the Federal budget. Plus about half that for servicing the National Debt, of course.
Just what part of the CA legal code could Waze POSSIBLY have broken? Surely it's not illegal to tell someone "take an alternate route because there's a wreck on the freeway"???
Their is no doubt in my mind, reduced access to firearms reduces not only the gun suicide rate, but the overall suicide rate.
And yet, CA's overall suicide rate is (slightly) higher than the national average. Which would suggest that reduced access to firearms doesn't reduce suicide rate....
The experiment was meant to last for two years, and it is going to be terminated after...two years. And rather than extend it, they're going to be doing a different experiment for the next two years.
Presumably, when they get all the data they want, they'll come up with a proposal (keep things the way "they've always been", go to a UBI, do something else new) for a "permanent solution"....
My guess is they don't bother to apply because those elite colleges are expensive as hell and the sticker shock turns people off even if they could receive financial aid that doesn't involve debt hell afterwards.
Well, this is the main reason I didn't go to an "elite" college.
I suspect another reason is that those colleges tend to attract a lot of students from the upper class part of society and they don't feel as though they'll fit in with someone who spends winter break at their uncle's place in the Hamptons or going on a European ski trip.
This was a minor factor for me. Not nearly as important as the money, but would've made things dreary as hell if I'd had the money but found myself the token "poor boy"....
The government can store PII too, and while our current government doesn't use PII against citizens very often, only using it to gerrymander and influence voting patterns, other governments around the world use PII to violate human rights. These protestors in favor of legislation argue that we can bind the government's use of PII, so that no organization, GO or NGO, can build up a database like this.
Curious as to how you keep the government from building a PII database. It's not like they don't have Census data, tax data, that sort of thing.
And it's not like they won't do something they really, really want to do, just because it's illegal.
Or that any actions by the citizenry will make them stop, even if they get caught. All they have to do is pinky-swear that they've stopped and will never, ever do it again....
Well, since TFA says 95% of them are in poor countries, that suggests the 5% are in places like the USA and EU mostly.
Of course, TFA also says there were ~54 million deaths of all causes worldwide in 2015. Which is consistent with an average life expectancy of 140-odd....
Have you forgotten about the speed of light and basic physics? You aren't going to be visiting "distant moons" with crewed missions. That includes Mars.
I'm curious. What part of basic physics says that a spacecraft cannot be built which can travel for a couple-three years?
Note that in terms of travel time, Mars is closer to Cape Canaveral than China was to Spain when Chris set out in the Santa Maria....
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If renewables are decreasing the overall cost of energy (rather than hiding part of the cost in other parts of the budget), then the regulation change in question won't have any effect at all.
People aren't going to stop building out cheap power just because a law was changed (unless the change was to FORBID the building of renewables, which this wasn't).
So, chill. If solar really is cheaper than coal, then anything short of mandating use of coal (which noone is proposing) won't even slow down the uptake of solar...
Actually, the Second was put in there so that we wouldn't be forced to maintain a standing Army. Obviously, it didn't succeed in that mission terribly well.
And where, exactly, does it say "if the system does not work, kill them". I've managed to miss that every time I've read the Constitution....
Note that there are ways to earn money that don't involve "follow the law, work hard"...
I've got bad news for you. Most of us know our own cars, and maybe some of the neighbors' cars. And that's about it.
A random car on the street? I'd never think twice if I saw someone putting something in the trunk.
In other words, people we don't know are walking up and putting things into car trunks all the time now, so what, exactly, are we "normalizing" that's not already a standard part of reality?
Or do you accost anyone you see putting something into a car trunk, demanding ID to prove he's allowed to do so now?
No, Amazon HOPES you won't mind letting minimum wage delivery drivers into your home and/or car.
It's not like it's mandatory to use these services, and if you find it convenient and acceptable, more power to you. If you don't, fine. Noone will hold a gun to your head and make you use the service....
Really? Less than 1/3 own guns, and 6% have concealed carry permits? Which implies that about one gun owner in five has a concealed carry permit. I'd never have guessed that concealed carry permits were so common....
That said, no you don't generally need a concealed carry permit to carry a gun in the trunk of your car. Because you don't need a concealed carry permit to hunt, and you're certainly (okay, okay, PROBABLY) not hunting from your bedroom window....
Two things:
No, most gun owners don't ever murder anyone. Or do you seriously believe there are only twenty thousand or so gun owners in the USA?
And imagine that someone cuts you off on the road. You're totally enraged at this awful behaviour. So, you immediately reach for the gun in the trunk of your car???
Frankly, all the other problems aside, my arms just aren't long enough to reach the trunk of my car while sitting in the driver's seat. Much less of unlocking the guncase....
Per se. To paraphrase Old Biff "you look like an idiot when you spell it wrong"....
More like, "perhaps having your legacy industry blown to kingdom-come and having to rebuild it from scratch gives you a leg up...."
Especially since in this case, the people who rebuilt their industry from scratch did it with money from the guys who didn't have to rebuild theirs....
Hmm, you have to send these guys money every month just to play the game. So we spend real money, and have a chance of getting a really "high value" piece of loot.
So, every MMORPG should qualify as gambling by that definition. Especially the ones that allow free-to-play options (such as an introductory ftp, which restricts what internal content is available till you start paying for the subscription)....
Since they're talking about civilizations that may have occurred tens to hundreds of millions of years in the past, the likelihood that THEIR "near water" is not only not the same places as OUR "near water", but it's unlikely that their "near water" is even on the surface of the Earth.
Do note the part about the oldest surface currently existing on the planet is less than two million years old....
And this ignoring small, recent things like sea level changes. Just in the last million years, sea level has changed by many meters, many times, what with the advance and retreat of the glaciations that are part and parcel of the Ice Age we're still in (yes, technically, we're still in an Ice Age. An Interglacial in the Ice Age, but an Ice Age nonetheless - until the continents rearrange themselves so that the Arctic Ocean isn't, we'll be in an Ice Age)....
Semiautomatic? The Swiss militia (basically, everyone, though I think they're sexist enough to not include their women) requires members to keep FULLY automatic weapons, plus lots of ammo for same, on hand.
Depends on the beer.
In general, though, I've got beer to drink at the next picnic/ballgame/whatever, and you've got a rare skin that I have no use for.
Sounds like a win for me, but if you're not a beer-drinker, you'll probably think you came out ahead on the deal....
Simpler answer : yes.
Well, sorta.
$2T is less than we spend on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid. Which we should, theoretically, be able to dispense with if we have a UBI. So the money is already there.
Now, arguably, UBI really should come with government-run healthcare like the Europeans use. If so, we'll need a bit more than the 2$2.3T+ we're already spending on SSA/Medicare/Medicaid.
BUT...the money now being paid for health insurance should more than make up the difference, so we're (probably) good there, too.
Summary: if the cost of a UBI is ~$2T (no opinion as to whether that number is correct, or whether we even really want a UBI should be inferred), then we won't have any real problems paying for it, without even bothering with much in the way of tax increases....
The entire military budget is ~15% of the total Federal Budget. Removing it entirely would knock out the deficit plus a bit more.
Maintaining the Minuteman force and the boomerd, plus related support would leave us with...a smaller deficit....
Seriously.
No, it's not illegal for Trump to work with/through Wikileaks.
Nor is it illegal for him to talk to the Russians.
It isn't even illegal for the Russians to say something about the American elections. Or anything else, really.
And based on The Donald's actions since he got to be Pres, it's not like either the Russians or Wikileaks are controlling him. He seems to be the same old blustering nincompoop he's always been...
So, what's the point of suing? Other than, presumably, to influence voters leading up to the midterms. Which is no more or less illegal than what they're accusing the New, Improved, Axis of Evil (The Donald, Wikileaks, the Russkis) of doing....
Because more than half of our Federal spending (SSA and Medicare alone are more than half of Federal spending) are Entitlements? Last year, 62% of the Federal budget was Entitlements (SSA, Medicare, Madicaid, specifically), for instance.
The military absorbs a whole 14% of the Federal budget. Plus about half that for servicing the National Debt, of course.
I'm curious.
Just what part of the CA legal code could Waze POSSIBLY have broken? Surely it's not illegal to tell someone "take an alternate route because there's a wreck on the freeway"???
Nope. They still won't wait the three years between theatrical release and "available on NetFlix" required by Cannes....
And yet, CA's overall suicide rate is (slightly) higher than the national average. Which would suggest that reduced access to firearms doesn't reduce suicide rate....
Which is pretty much what happened.
The experiment was meant to last for two years, and it is going to be terminated after...two years. And rather than extend it, they're going to be doing a different experiment for the next two years.
Presumably, when they get all the data they want, they'll come up with a proposal (keep things the way "they've always been", go to a UBI, do something else new) for a "permanent solution"....
Well, this is the main reason I didn't go to an "elite" college.
This was a minor factor for me. Not nearly as important as the money, but would've made things dreary as hell if I'd had the money but found myself the token "poor boy"....
Curious as to how you keep the government from building a PII database. It's not like they don't have Census data, tax data, that sort of thing.
And it's not like they won't do something they really, really want to do, just because it's illegal.
Or that any actions by the citizenry will make them stop, even if they get caught. All they have to do is pinky-swear that they've stopped and will never, ever do it again....
Well, since TFA says 95% of them are in poor countries, that suggests the 5% are in places like the USA and EU mostly.
Of course, TFA also says there were ~54 million deaths of all causes worldwide in 2015. Which is consistent with an average life expectancy of 140-odd....
I'm curious. What part of basic physics says that a spacecraft cannot be built which can travel for a couple-three years?
Note that in terms of travel time, Mars is closer to Cape Canaveral than China was to Spain when Chris set out in the Santa Maria....