There have been a few who have willingly gone back, for a variety of reasons like family, or after 70 years of shortages coming to the west and being unable to cope with a wealthy society. Stalin's daughter Svetlana went back.
A nuclear strike now on Iran could be achieved with US deaths probably not exceeding a few dozen. A nuclear strike on Russia could easily result in a dozen million US deaths, even if only 2 nukes get through: 1 each in NYC and LA.
I don't know how to solve the Putin problem, but the idea of war with Russia is 70 years too late.
Being able to do something, and being able to do it for a profit, are not the same thing. Gold can be made from nuclear reactions, so why is gold still high priced? Same reason we're not making oil from algae, it costs more than pulling it out of the ground.
FDR and his cabinet were nut cases, and that anything they wrote for other countries worked at all was sheer random luck (actually, more likely the successes in Germany and Japan were due to an elective government being put in place over a productive culture.)
Roosevelt's "second bill of rights" had nothing to do with rights, but were instead fantastical claims on the labor and property of others. (For instance, the "right to a job" - provided by whom, at what cost?)
As as as "The most liberal president you ever had" is concerned, if you mean liberal in the modern sense of thief, then FDR has to compete with Wilson and the treasonous Obama. The classical liberals include mainly Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
Possible failures include a wheel falling off because a mechanic failed to tighten the nuts, or suspension failure due to wear and corrosion. Ball joints don't last forever.
All decisions in life have an associated cost-safety tradeoff, and at some point a decision must be made that costs are too high for the number of lives saved. It's not unreasonable to say that if it costs more to save a life than 5 times whtat a person is likely to earn in his lifetime, the cost is too high. Certainly spending the GDP to save one life is absurd.
The market for safer cars is limited when an appropriate price is attached to it. In the late 1950's padded dashes were an extra cost option that few people wanted. For several decades Volvo has been advertising itself as a safe car, making it more expensive than its peers and thus appealing mostly to rich cowards. That's why Volvos are so popular among liberals.
Automotive engineers are car enthusiasts and when given the chance will design for performance. Generally, they have no choice and design the cars within the restraints given by management and marketing. Quite frequently, they give management a choice: we can do this for $X or this for $Y. Management gets the final choice.
Designs don't come full-blown from God. Early cars could barely run, and that's all that the manufacturers could do. Progress takes time, and people learn. Saying "Engineers designed cars that killed people for decades" is just malice devoid of context.
The Corvair case had many odd characteristics. It became famous because one of the US's worst assholes, Ralph Nader, used the Corvair to give himself a lucrative muck raking career. The Corvair owner manual specified rear tire inflation pressure to be much higher than the front to minimize its handling quirk, and its quite likely that most of the accidents occurred because inflation pressure was wrong. Nader knew that the Corvair's suspension design had been changed to improve it before his book went to print, yet he deliberately did not include that information in his book.
Making a good inexpensive car for a profit is very difficult, and GM failed several times in that effort. Corvair and Vega both had problems, and Saturn was a continuing financial burden on the company.
In 40 years of electronic engineering design work, time spent in necessary communications with others was on the order of 1 hour a month. Generally, time spent talking or listening is time spent not working.
CP/M was a very small OS in 1980. Disassembling it and rewriting for a new processor would be a task of no more than 6 months for a single programmer, and more likely about 2 months. DRI even supplied source code for a sample BIOS.
if your workers are complaining it's probably because you aren't treating them right
Bullshit. There's about a 50-50 chance that workers will complain no matter how nice conditions are. Some people are complainers, and will complain no matter how nice conditions are. Others are troublemakers, after power or trying to get people they don't like fired. Some have chips on their shoulders, others are always looking to find ways they're being mistreated.
The Z80 design was moribund for several years. If Zilog had quickly made a compatible successor to the Z80 with a 16 bit datapath and a multiply instruction, we'd be complaining about a Zilog monopoly instead of Intel.
Affirmative action was "necessary" for politicians to be able to say "Hey lookit me. I did something good for you." It was "necessary" for lazy employers to be able to say "I'm not discriminating, I met the quota, thus you can't successfully sue me." It was not necessary in order to end discrimination by race.
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What part of "depleted" do you not understand?
There have been a few who have willingly gone back, for a variety of reasons like family, or after 70 years of shortages coming to the west and being unable to cope with a wealthy society. Stalin's daughter Svetlana went back.
The Obama administration is that stupid. B.H.O. just wants to get out of office before the bomb drops.
Mutually Assured Destruction doesn't work as a preventative when the aggressor doesn't care if it's destroyed
Equally evil? You see any Christians or Jews beheading people recently?
A nuclear strike now on Iran could be achieved with US deaths probably not exceeding a few dozen. A nuclear strike on Russia could easily result in a dozen million US deaths, even if only 2 nukes get through: 1 each in NYC and LA.
I don't know how to solve the Putin problem, but the idea of war with Russia is 70 years too late.
As Marx pointed out, a capitalist will sell the rope used to hang him.
More precisely, additional factors are in place here
The intellectual caliber of the current administration is so minuscule that there's no realization that their policies are literally suicidal.
Being able to do something, and being able to do it for a profit, are not the same thing. Gold can be made from nuclear reactions, so why is gold still high priced? Same reason we're not making oil from algae, it costs more than pulling it out of the ground.
FDR and his cabinet were nut cases, and that anything they wrote for other countries worked at all was sheer random luck (actually, more likely the successes in Germany and Japan were due to an elective government being put in place over a productive culture.)
Roosevelt's "second bill of rights" had nothing to do with rights, but were instead fantastical claims on the labor and property of others. (For instance, the "right to a job" - provided by whom, at what cost?)
As as as "The most liberal president you ever had" is concerned, if you mean liberal in the modern sense of thief, then FDR has to compete with Wilson and the treasonous Obama. The classical liberals include mainly Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
Both Iran and Iraq partnered with Germany in WWII. "Iran" is equivalent to "Arian".
Typical passenger cars are about 3000 pounds.
Possible failures include a wheel falling off because a mechanic failed to tighten the nuts, or suspension failure due to wear and corrosion. Ball joints don't last forever.
There is no such thing as absolute safety.
All decisions in life have an associated cost-safety tradeoff, and at some point a decision must be made that costs are too high for the number of lives saved. It's not unreasonable to say that if it costs more to save a life than 5 times whtat a person is likely to earn in his lifetime, the cost is too high. Certainly spending the GDP to save one life is absurd.
The market for safer cars is limited when an appropriate price is attached to it. In the late 1950's padded dashes were an extra cost option that few people wanted. For several decades Volvo has been advertising itself as a safe car, making it more expensive than its peers and thus appealing mostly to rich cowards. That's why Volvos are so popular among liberals.
Automotive engineers are car enthusiasts and when given the chance will design for performance. Generally, they have no choice and design the cars within the restraints given by management and marketing. Quite frequently, they give management a choice: we can do this for $X or this for $Y. Management gets the final choice.
Designs don't come full-blown from God. Early cars could barely run, and that's all that the manufacturers could do. Progress takes time, and people learn. Saying "Engineers designed cars that killed people for decades" is just malice devoid of context.
The Corvair case had many odd characteristics. It became famous because one of the US's worst assholes, Ralph Nader, used the Corvair to give himself a lucrative muck raking career. The Corvair owner manual specified rear tire inflation pressure to be much higher than the front to minimize its handling quirk, and its quite likely that most of the accidents occurred because inflation pressure was wrong. Nader knew that the Corvair's suspension design had been changed to improve it before his book went to print, yet he deliberately did not include that information in his book.
Making a good inexpensive car for a profit is very difficult, and GM failed several times in that effort. Corvair and Vega both had problems, and Saturn was a continuing financial burden on the company.
In 40 years of electronic engineering design work, time spent in necessary communications with others was on the order of 1 hour a month. Generally, time spent talking or listening is time spent not working.
CP/M was a very small OS in 1980. Disassembling it and rewriting for a new processor would be a task of no more than 6 months for a single programmer, and more likely about 2 months. DRI even supplied source code for a sample BIOS.
Backbreaking? Picking strawberries is one of the easiest unskilled labor jobs possible.
Do you think everyone is stupid? You think taxes are lower now than they were in 1901, before income taxes, before retail sales taxes?
Even since 1934, taxes have roughly tripled.
Bullshit. There's about a 50-50 chance that workers will complain no matter how nice conditions are. Some people are complainers, and will complain no matter how nice conditions are. Others are troublemakers, after power or trying to get people they don't like fired. Some have chips on their shoulders, others are always looking to find ways they're being mistreated.
The Z80 design was moribund for several years. If Zilog had quickly made a compatible successor to the Z80 with a 16 bit datapath and a multiply instruction, we'd be complaining about a Zilog monopoly instead of Intel.
Call the E.P.A. to deal with mercury pollution. This must become a cleanup supersite, and the polluters brought to court and sued out of existence.
Jaguar branded cars didn't appear until about 1948. This is proof of time travel.
Affirmative action was "necessary" for politicians to be able to say "Hey lookit me. I did something good for you." It was "necessary" for lazy employers to be able to say "I'm not discriminating, I met the quota, thus you can't successfully sue me." It was not necessary in order to end discrimination by race.