Why would you not have your cellular phone with you? Most phones can be charged via USB, how often in your life are you at a location with a computer(to check said email), but not within reach of a usb port?
Really? Across the board? Please do provide some more information on all these defense budget cuts. We do spend more than the rest of the world combined on that so it seems a pretty safe place to start cutting. Nuclear is not renewable, you are burning the matter of dead stars, there is a limited supply of such stuff. It is still an excellent choice for baseload power though, if reprocessing of spent fuel was legal.
I live in Western NY, wind power is huge here. We keep putting them up and selling power to the eastern seaboard.
Those folks can burn any number of vegetable oils, oils generated from coal to fuel conversion, or a product of thermal depolymerization of waste. They can also convert to LPG or other liquefied flammable gases that are available in tanks.
Only if we can reprocess the waste. Until we can legally do that, we should not be building new reactors. Also once you factor in all the subsidies used for nuclear power it is no cheaper than wind or solar thermal. This does not mean we should ignore its use for baseload, merely that putting all our eggs in that basket is not the right approach.
Those who paid for the invasion, are not the same as those who stand to benefit. See this is a nice way to get the public to pay for something you want. This works quite well if you are selling guns, airplanes or if you own an oil company. No ROI is needed since this is far more about getting someone else to pay your bills then any investment.
They call that electricity. With enough of it and some water and a source of CO2, like that dissolved in water you can make all the hydrocarbons you want. For evidence there was a recent article about an aircraft carrier making jetfuel from seawater. If you have a better source of carbon, like turkey carcasses, you can make oil or other hydrocarbons via thermal depolymerization. I mention turkey carcasses since there is already a plant owned by Cargil doing just that.
Also you can make electricity from tons of renewable and non-renewable sources.
Actually it is far too malleable. Copper makes much better bullets for my 300 winmag. Barnes is the company that makes them. Nice high velocity shooting without the bullet totally disintegrating on impact.
Banks do not lend out every dime, look at the most recent bank issues. We were forced to give out loans to banks since they stopped lending to each other.
I now avoid flying whenever possible. I tend to try to fly from Canada when I have too. I have zero fear of flying, but I do not need my scrotum inspected by highschool dropouts. Nor do I want to be crammed into a tiny metal can when I could be doing whatever I want on a train.
Unless they no longer have the money to do that because it was taken from them to build the roads.
Then no change occurred at all. At least they now have a road.
No, you are deeper in debt because you had to borrow the money to create the business that you hope will succeed, because the taxes you paid no longer can be used for that. Or you have to start smaller than you would have because you don't want to go into deeper debt and you don't have as much money as you could have. Either way, fewer jobs get created.
Neither here nor there, no road no business at all.
I didn't say it was. You do realize that spending money to build infrastructure IS a zero sum game, because of the reasons I already told you. It's what happens when the entrepreneurs are set loose that is not zero-sum, because THEY are creating wealth, not simply taking it from those who have and giving it to those who don't. Until you can actually sell that Brooklyn Bridge that tax money paid to build you aren't creating wealth, you are using other people's money.
You can sell the bridge, they do that all the time. Normally since no one wants a whole bridge you sell transit over it. Commonly called a toll.
Untrue. People who create jobs use the money they got in profits to do it. They may keep some of that themselves, but most of what isn't plowed back into the business goes to stockholders who risked their money in the ffirst place. You can have all the bright ideas in the world, but if you can't get backing to build your startup, you go noplace. You think roads are important? Try creating a new company without money from investors.
Those of us not living in free market fairy land realize this to be a total crock. Roads even allow the creation of businesses that do not need external capital. For instance with that road I could now offer taxi service using a car I bought for near nothing. Not all businesses are huger operations started only by the grace of investors.
And what they DO manage to keep is usually spent (creating more jobs through increased demand) or put in the bank/stocks etc (creating jobs through increased borrowing ability and lower interest rates.)
They meet demand they do not create it. If you business has 100 workers and now you pay 50k less in tax you call that profit, not hire more workers. We had a better economy and a growing middle class when we actually taxed the top 2%. Instead we just extended a tax cut for them while we have a shrinking middle class and high unemployment.
Nope no hatred, just simple facts. Our economy was doing better when we taxed them at much higher rates. We had massive improvements in our way of life and a growing middle class. You have just been sold a ration of shit by them.
Middle America is not most of the country by population. It is also full of welfare queen states. They take in far more tax dollars than they provide. To squawk about wasting money while accepting all those subsidies is mighty two-faced.
Buffalo airport. Last time I spent about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Then the flight was canceled and I got to spend much longer waiting. Never had a train trip canceled due to broken train.
Generally I prefer to drive to Toronto to fly, saves me the hassle of the TSA.
Bad form to reply to myself, but I also wanted to address this "taking money from people who create jobs". People who create jobs do not create more jobs because they have extra money, they tend to keep that money instead. Taking from the super rich and spending money that ends up being paid to the lower classes can and will improve economies because they spend that money right away again.
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Unless Hugo was smart enough to build his own refinery. Then he could convert that sour crude to a far more salable product.
Why would you not have your cellular phone with you?
Most phones can be charged via USB, how often in your life are you at a location with a computer(to check said email), but not within reach of a usb port?
Really? Across the board?
Please do provide some more information on all these defense budget cuts. We do spend more than the rest of the world combined on that so it seems a pretty safe place to start cutting. Nuclear is not renewable, you are burning the matter of dead stars, there is a limited supply of such stuff. It is still an excellent choice for baseload power though, if reprocessing of spent fuel was legal.
I live in Western NY, wind power is huge here. We keep putting them up and selling power to the eastern seaboard.
Those folks can burn any number of vegetable oils, oils generated from coal to fuel conversion, or a product of thermal depolymerization of waste. They can also convert to LPG or other liquefied flammable gases that are available in tanks.
Only if we can reprocess the waste. Until we can legally do that, we should not be building new reactors. Also once you factor in all the subsidies used for nuclear power it is no cheaper than wind or solar thermal. This does not mean we should ignore its use for baseload, merely that putting all our eggs in that basket is not the right approach.
Those who paid for the invasion, are not the same as those who stand to benefit. See this is a nice way to get the public to pay for something you want. This works quite well if you are selling guns, airplanes or if you own an oil company. No ROI is needed since this is far more about getting someone else to pay your bills then any investment.
They call that electricity. With enough of it and some water and a source of CO2, like that dissolved in water you can make all the hydrocarbons you want. For evidence there was a recent article about an aircraft carrier making jetfuel from seawater. If you have a better source of carbon, like turkey carcasses, you can make oil or other hydrocarbons via thermal depolymerization. I mention turkey carcasses since there is already a plant owned by Cargil doing just that.
Also you can make electricity from tons of renewable and non-renewable sources.
Actually it is far too malleable. Copper makes much better bullets for my 300 winmag. Barnes is the company that makes them. Nice high velocity shooting without the bullet totally disintegrating on impact.
Banks do not lend out every dime, look at the most recent bank issues. We were forced to give out loans to banks since they stopped lending to each other.
I don't hate anyone. No sour grapes, just reality. I will never be super rich and looking out for their interests is directly opposed to my own.
Also our economy was better, we had a growing middle class and we did tax them at higher rates.
I meant they do very little useful computation for the amount of power they turn into heat. P4s are phenomenally inefficient.
I now avoid flying whenever possible. I tend to try to fly from Canada when I have too. I have zero fear of flying, but I do not need my scrotum inspected by highschool dropouts. Nor do I want to be crammed into a tiny metal can when I could be doing whatever I want on a train.
Unless they no longer have the money to do that because it was taken from them to build the roads.
Then no change occurred at all. At least they now have a road.
No, you are deeper in debt because you had to borrow the money to create the business that you hope will succeed, because the taxes you paid no longer can be used for that. Or you have to start smaller than you would have because you don't want to go into deeper debt and you don't have as much money as you could have. Either way, fewer jobs get created.
Neither here nor there, no road no business at all.
I didn't say it was. You do realize that spending money to build infrastructure IS a zero sum game, because of the reasons I already told you. It's what happens when the entrepreneurs are set loose that is not zero-sum, because THEY are creating wealth, not simply taking it from those who have and giving it to those who don't. Until you can actually sell that Brooklyn Bridge that tax money paid to build you aren't creating wealth, you are using other people's money.
You can sell the bridge, they do that all the time. Normally since no one wants a whole bridge you sell transit over it. Commonly called a toll.
Untrue. People who create jobs use the money they got in profits to do it. They may keep some of that themselves, but most of what isn't plowed back into the business goes to stockholders who risked their money in the ffirst place. You can have all the bright ideas in the world, but if you can't get backing to build your startup, you go noplace. You think roads are important? Try creating a new company without money from investors.
Those of us not living in free market fairy land realize this to be a total crock. Roads even allow the creation of businesses that do not need external capital. For instance with that road I could now offer taxi service using a car I bought for near nothing. Not all businesses are huger operations started only by the grace of investors.
And what they DO manage to keep is usually spent (creating more jobs through increased demand) or put in the bank/stocks etc (creating jobs through increased borrowing ability and lower interest rates.)
They meet demand they do not create it. If you business has 100 workers and now you pay 50k less in tax you call that profit, not hire more workers. We had a better economy and a growing middle class when we actually taxed the top 2%. Instead we just extended a tax cut for them while we have a shrinking middle class and high unemployment.
Nope no hatred, just simple facts. Our economy was doing better when we taxed them at much higher rates. We had massive improvements in our way of life and a growing middle class. You have just been sold a ration of shit by them.
We could have easily done that. Letting the bush tax cuts on the top 2% expire would have been worth like 700 billion.
Middle America is not most of the country by population. It is also full of welfare queen states. They take in far more tax dollars than they provide. To squawk about wasting money while accepting all those subsidies is mighty two-faced.
Go look up the world fungible.
Then come back and talk about this.
Buffalo airport. Last time I spent about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Then the flight was canceled and I got to spend much longer waiting. Never had a train trip canceled due to broken train.
Generally I prefer to drive to Toronto to fly, saves me the hassle of the TSA.
You mean G1 maybe?
The Nexus One, came after the motorola Droid. That thing sold like hotcakes.
http://phandroid.com/2011/02/09/gartner-android-goes-from-dead-last-to-second-biggest-os-in-the-world/
Gartner says lots of androids shipping.
Get out the country some. The USA would be doing a lot better if we got more people to travel the world.
My local airport has been requiring 2 hours for a while now. Most of that is due to limited amount of security checkpoints.
You mean building infrastructure that will be used to increase productivity and feed their people?
No reason to do that, you have a cell tower on the train itself. Then you have it use sat or microwave, or another wireless tech for backhaul.
Bad form to reply to myself, but I also wanted to address this "taking money from people who create jobs". People who create jobs do not create more jobs because they have extra money, they tend to keep that money instead. Taking from the super rich and spending money that ends up being paid to the lower classes can and will improve economies because they spend that money right away again.