If I had a nonfunctioning hand, I think I'd be happier with an exoskeleton, because it would be easy to install and uninstall. It's much more difficult to unamputate a hand.
I assume you realize that your high gas prices are the result of high taxation and not natural market forces.
Natural market forces are unable to pay for the negative externalities of gasoline usage, such as air pollution which costs up to $1600 per person annually.
Correcting that market failure may very well push the USA's gas prices to the level of Europe's. And that would be a good thing because it would make the market more efficient, even though the improved efficiency would not be due to "natural market forces."
With a frontview camera, the car could give you an audible warning when you're following the car in front of you too closely, similar to the "whoop whoop pull up" stall warning on aircraft.
I've made a point of exercising a lot lately... and I've found that my endurance has gone up considerably since I started, but I'm just as fat as I ever was.
Fat, or heavy?
I lost 10 lbs of fat from a year of biking to work, but my total weight didn't change at all because I gained 10 lbs of muscle. That wasn't a bad trade.
Correlation is not causation. When they raised the speed limits, they also "added high-tech radar and laser instruments to limit excessive speeding in these 65 mph areas and throughout the state," and "instituted targeted programs to combat aggressive driving and promote compliance with safety restraint laws." (source)
Some would say strategic voting is still possible with Instant Runoff Voting, and that the Condorcet method eliminates it. But either one would still be better than our archaic "first past the post" plurality voting system.
Raise prices til there are vacancies = only rich people can afford to park.
If poor people can't afford to live in San Francisco, they'll move away, driving up janitorial and landscaping wages for whoever remains. That's not such a bad thing.
Time limits were only needed as a way to ration parking spaces. By setting the price just high enough to make one or two spaces available on every block at all times, rationing is no longer needed.
Prior to the new meters, 55 percent of the revenue came from payments drivers used to buy time and 45 percent from fines. After the new meters went in, the amount from payments increased to 70 percent and the amount from fines plummeted to 30 percent.
At least they're not trying to legislate their way out of it.
Actually, legislation is part of the problem. Amazon isn't forced by cities to provide parking for 3x as many customers as they're expected to have as brick & mortar retailers are. And of course there's the sales tax issue.
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On the contrary, if the price is below the going rate determined by supply and demand, then the price is too low.
But if the tickets were sold on eBay, the bids would go up so much that nobody could afford them!
Set the whole thing in space and have them speak Chinese as a second language, and I think you might have a winner!
If I had a nonfunctioning hand, I think I'd be happier with an exoskeleton, because it would be easy to install and uninstall. It's much more difficult to unamputate a hand.
And the hardware to apply a list of edits to a DVD while it's playing already exists, too!
Don't worry, the apostrophe is silent.
Perhaps it would help for you to learn what a market failure is.
The fact that you didn't download the report from that web page and read it implies you don't want to know what those stats include.
Not as long as we continue to heavily incentivize suburban life!
And raising our tax burden by subsidizing incentives would be doing us a favor?
Waste your own money if you want. Don't waste mine, please.
Why wouldn't your family live with you?
If moving closer to work lets you get rid of an extra car, you could afford a mortgage or rent costing an extra $8,588 per year, or $716 per month.
Natural market forces are unable to pay for the negative externalities of gasoline usage, such as air pollution which costs up to $1600 per person annually.
Correcting that market failure may very well push the USA's gas prices to the level of Europe's. And that would be a good thing because it would make the market more efficient, even though the improved efficiency would not be due to "natural market forces."
With a frontview camera, the car could give you an audible warning when you're following the car in front of you too closely, similar to the "whoop whoop pull up" stall warning on aircraft.
Processed turkey contains some of the bad fats, cholesterol, and sodium.
Cheese contains bad fats and sodium.
White bread, has a high glycemic index.
There may be mayo, more bad fats, cholesterol, and sodium.
Bananas are good.
Potato chips, more bad fats and sodium.
Apple juice has a high glycemic index.
Fat, or heavy?
I lost 10 lbs of fat from a year of biking to work, but my total weight didn't change at all because I gained 10 lbs of muscle. That wasn't a bad trade.
Or you could grab it while it's passing you.
If you're very lucky, the software will already have a list of requirements. And if you're almost as lucky, your first job will be to create it.
If you're not even that lucky, then you're pretty much screwed.
Correlation is not causation. When they raised the speed limits, they also "added high-tech radar and laser instruments to limit excessive speeding in these 65 mph areas and throughout the state," and "instituted targeted programs to combat aggressive driving and promote compliance with safety restraint laws." (source)
Of course prices always go up. We call it "inflation." What this scheme does is help insulate good drivers from inflation.
Some would say strategic voting is still possible with Instant Runoff Voting, and that the Condorcet method eliminates it. But either one would still be better than our archaic "first past the post" plurality voting system.
And I agree with all of your other points.
If poor people can't afford to live in San Francisco, they'll move away, driving up janitorial and landscaping wages for whoever remains. That's not such a bad thing.
Time limits were only needed as a way to ration parking spaces. By setting the price just high enough to make one or two spaces available on every block at all times, rationing is no longer needed.
They price the parking spaces according to demand in order to make at least one parking space available on every block. So there's no need to race to any spots.
Actually, they've found the opposite to be true:
So they need $1.176 billion per year to recover the development costs?
Embassies.
Actually, legislation is part of the problem. Amazon isn't forced by cities to provide parking for 3x as many customers as they're expected to have as brick & mortar retailers are. And of course there's the sales tax issue.