Not all that hard to block spoofing and also allow HP to outsource its call center. You allow only HP to spoof lines as HP. Therefore in HP owns a call distribution node, any calls routed through it can use HP's number and caller ID, even if they come from India.
Or make HP route those calls through their own USA center so that no spoofing is needed. Then when a telephone company sees a USA HP number coming from India, they can block that call.
2. Renewable's storage requirements to meet base load demand simply do not exist - presumably because storage costs are also very high.
I wouldn't worry about that because the perfectly inelastic portion of base load demand is quite low and therefore requires very little energy storage.
Also, what's the value in prohibiting someone from building an apartment building next door to a factory? You'd think it would be good to bring jobs to a city without bringing traffic.
In Japan by contrast, they do things a little smarter than the USA's clumsy approach to zoning. Instead of single-use zoning, they allow anything of a lesser nuisance than the area is zoned for. A grocery store is less of a nuisance than a factory, so they allow grocery stores in industrial zones. An apartment building is less of a nuisance than a grocery store, so they allow apartment buildings in commercial zones. And a single-family house is less of a nuisance than an apartment building, so single-family houses are allowed in multifamily residential zones, but not the reverse.
If every neighborhood in a city had to become self-sufficient in city spending versus property tax revenue, you can be sure that people living in middle-class, single-family residential zones suddenly faced with massive property tax bills would do everything in their power to attract bed-and-breakfasts, corner stores, and the other tax-efficient amenities that existed in our neighborhoods until we legislated our freedoms away in the aftermath of WWII.
they are orders of magnitude less dangerous than the assholes you already see on the road every day! Like the moron I saw trying to ride his bicycle down I-5 in downtown Portland during rush hour the other day...
In this situation, there was enough suspicion for probable cause to confiscate the cards.
Because (1) there was someone in the car with an outstanding warrant, or because (2) they tried to hide the bag, or because (3) the bag contained a lot of gift cards, or because (4) some of the cards had been re-encoded?
If only. What happens in real life when you take a car off an unpriced road is that it makes room for another car, and then you're right back where you started from a congestion standpoint. (Throughput is increased, but that's a different metric.)
Maybe in your ghetto Democrat run shit holes in LA and NY but the rest of the country is merrily enjoying the greatest infrastructure man kind has ever created.
Yes, because CA and NY and other Democrat-run states give financial assistance to conservative states instead of fixing their own infrastructure. Google "red state socialism" and learn how conservatives are this generation's biggest welfare recipients.
Even within a city, the poor but tax-efficient neighborhoods heavily subsidize middle- and upper-class sprawling neighborhoods that pay less in taxes per acre and cost more in infrastructure per capita--and this kind of reverse welfare is just how modern conservatives like it.
And Democrats are stupid for allowing Republicans to get away with it.
Drive up grocery stores are an innovative solution to a modern problem: that one cannot legally open a regular grocery store without building a formula-derived number of parking spaces, even when it isn't cost effective to build them. Where land is cheap, this isn't a problem, but in expensive areas, established grocery stores will have trouble competing with Amazon. We've all but over-regulated bookstores out of business, and it looks like the grocery store will be next to be crushed under the boot of our unique brand of Socialism.
We cannot count on maintaining the planet how it is now, not even with advanced future tech. What we should focus on is being adaptable, like most of the other life on this planet.
Putting all of your eggs into one basket is an unwise strategy. In addition to trying to become more adaptable as a species, why not also try to limit the damage?
the installation, maintenance, and necessary upgrades of essential infrastructure shouldn't be dependent on the expectation of profit by a private entity.
Even if that infrastructure were publicly owned and the tasks you described were contracted out to private, profit-seeking entities?
we see stagnating internet deployments because it's more profitable for the entrenched players to not upgrade the infrastructure
Actually, data caps give ISPs an economic incentive to upgrade everyone's connections as a way to help them hit the cap as quickly and easily as possible.
What would buyers substitute for the privilege of traveling on a given road?
What would they substitute for (1) driving (2) alone (3) on that particular road (4) during rush hour when the congestion toll is highest? Lots of things, and I just gave you four hints.
utilities...are better addressed by just paying for them out of the collective pot
So our electric bills should be paid out of our taxes instead of charging people in proportion to the benefit they receive? Wouldn't the massive rise in carbon emissions caused by the kind of unscrupulous diner's dilemma situation you're describing accelerate the planet's destruction?
But setting the price at market equilibrium is how we solve the economic problem (too many wants for too few resources) in a capitalist society. How would you solve it?
It's like justifying charging a toll on the only single lane road from place a to place b because there are daily traffic jams. It doesn't matter whether or not you charge a toll, the traffic jams cannot be 'fixed' by a toll booth if you need more lanes.
For that to be true, demand for travel on that road during rush hour would have to be perfectly inelastic, but perfect price inelasticity of demand only exists in theory, not in the real world. Unless and until you can prove otherwise, your claim that traffic jams cannot be fixed with tolls is completely without merit.
We can program driverless cars to avoid the dumbest things human drivers do. Once programmed, they won't forget or be diverted. They won't fiddle with the radio or their smartphone. And they won't drive drunk—because they can't get drunk. They'll beat us in attention, vision, and spatial awareness every time.
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And then require that every law on the books be read aloud once every 6 years or the law expires.
An unpatched version of Windows, with local admin rights?
Or make HP route those calls through their own USA center so that no spoofing is needed. Then when a telephone company sees a USA HP number coming from India, they can block that call.
I wouldn't worry about that because the perfectly inelastic portion of base load demand is quite low and therefore requires very little energy storage.
...for middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, but not for the inner-city neighborhoods that subsidize them. That's right, single-use zoning is a form of reverse welfare that subsidizes the middle- and upper-classes at the expense of the poor.
Also, what's the value in prohibiting someone from building an apartment building next door to a factory? You'd think it would be good to bring jobs to a city without bringing traffic.
In Japan by contrast, they do things a little smarter than the USA's clumsy approach to zoning. Instead of single-use zoning, they allow anything of a lesser nuisance than the area is zoned for. A grocery store is less of a nuisance than a factory, so they allow grocery stores in industrial zones. An apartment building is less of a nuisance than a grocery store, so they allow apartment buildings in commercial zones. And a single-family house is less of a nuisance than an apartment building, so single-family houses are allowed in multifamily residential zones, but not the reverse.
If every neighborhood in a city had to become self-sufficient in city spending versus property tax revenue, you can be sure that people living in middle-class, single-family residential zones suddenly faced with massive property tax bills would do everything in their power to attract bed-and-breakfasts, corner stores, and the other tax-efficient amenities that existed in our neighborhoods until we legislated our freedoms away in the aftermath of WWII.
I would say the same thing if I were envious of the bicyclist passing all that stopped traffic! Like that scene from Office Space.
But really, what's so dangerous about bicycling past a bunch of stopped cars? As long as the person isn't riding in the door zone..
Because (1) there was someone in the car with an outstanding warrant, or because (2) they tried to hide the bag, or because (3) the bag contained a lot of gift cards, or because (4) some of the cards had been re-encoded?
Then replace the minimum wage with a UBI.
Post-money societies are the stuff of science fiction. This makes UBI an appropriate topic for discussion on Slashdot.
If the courts are not the last line of defense against unjust laws, then who or what are?
If only. What happens in real life when you take a car off an unpriced road is that it makes room for another car, and then you're right back where you started from a congestion standpoint. (Throughput is increased, but that's a different metric.)
How would you end the cycle of poverty? Serious question.
...he said, avoiding the difficult task of disputing the uncomfortable claims presented to him.
Yes, because CA and NY and other Democrat-run states give financial assistance to conservative states instead of fixing their own infrastructure. Google "red state socialism" and learn how conservatives are this generation's biggest welfare recipients.
Even within a city, the poor but tax-efficient neighborhoods heavily subsidize middle- and upper-class sprawling neighborhoods that pay less in taxes per acre and cost more in infrastructure per capita--and this kind of reverse welfare is just how modern conservatives like it.
And Democrats are stupid for allowing Republicans to get away with it.
Drive up grocery stores are an innovative solution to a modern problem: that one cannot legally open a regular grocery store without building a formula-derived number of parking spaces, even when it isn't cost effective to build them. Where land is cheap, this isn't a problem, but in expensive areas, established grocery stores will have trouble competing with Amazon. We've all but over-regulated bookstores out of business, and it looks like the grocery store will be next to be crushed under the boot of our unique brand of Socialism.
That won't make a difference. Every human you remove from the planet makes room for another human, and then you're right back where you started.
If it should be illegal for the police to take photographs of license plates in public, should it also be illegal for citizens to take photos of public infrastructure in public?
Putting all of your eggs into one basket is an unwise strategy. In addition to trying to become more adaptable as a species, why not also try to limit the damage?
Even if that infrastructure were publicly owned and the tasks you described were contracted out to private, profit-seeking entities?
Actually, data caps give ISPs an economic incentive to upgrade everyone's connections as a way to help them hit the cap as quickly and easily as possible.
What would they substitute for (1) driving (2) alone (3) on that particular road (4) during rush hour when the congestion toll is highest? Lots of things, and I just gave you four hints.
So our electric bills should be paid out of our taxes instead of charging people in proportion to the benefit they receive? Wouldn't the massive rise in carbon emissions caused by the kind of unscrupulous diner's dilemma situation you're describing accelerate the planet's destruction?
But setting the price at market equilibrium is how we solve the economic problem (too many wants for too few resources) in a capitalist society. How would you solve it?
For that to be true, demand for travel on that road during rush hour would have to be perfectly inelastic, but perfect price inelasticity of demand only exists in theory, not in the real world. Unless and until you can prove otherwise, your claim that traffic jams cannot be fixed with tolls is completely without merit.
25 Mbps is 22.5 gigabytes for a 2-hour movie. So you can watch 44 4K movies per month with a 1 TB cap.
That's completely false: