I sure hope you are being sarcastic, because India's electricity is provided by a centrally controlled government entity.
Yeah. Americans need to take a good look. This is the United States in a few years if the power companies have their way. Want to know why they're so heavily behind forced conservation measures? It's because our power grid is aging, and is not growing at a rate that keeps up with the growth of demand. Worse, instead of improving it as a nonprofit or government-owned utility would, they're giving excess profits to their stockholders while pressuring everyone to do stupid hacks like adding emergency cutoffs on air conditioning so they can let your house hit a hundred degrees to save power, forcing everyone to use those crappy CFL bulbs, paying people to replace their old refrigerators, and other temporary bandaids that merely delay the inevitable, but don't really solve the problem.
What this proves is that for-profit corporations simply cannot be trusted to maintain such a critical resource. Their natural tendency is to operate on razor-thin margins to turn maximum profit. When they screw up, the government ends up declaring a state of emergency and paying for the losses, so having that infrastructure in private hands is basically nothing more than government subsidizing a bunch of wealthy fat cats on Wall Street. Wouldn't it be nice if instead of paying Wall Street billionaires, the government instead spent that money to actually improve the power grid?
We need to convince the U.S. government that this is an important problem to solve now, before we have more widespread blackouts that take out a huge swath of the U.S. like the one last September in southern California, Arizona, and parts of Mexico. The only way that's going to happen is if our government steps up to the plate and builds a government-owned and government-managed power infrastructure. What we need is the nationwide equivalent of TVA, but with a network of modern, superconducting power lines crisscrossing the country.
Some of us have massive social welfare programs, lifestyle subsidies, and wealth re-distributions to pay for.
You are under no obligation to arrange your affairs to MAXIMIZE your tax burden.
I can tell you're one of those Republican types who actually believe you work harder for the life you currently have than those who have less than you. That because you were priveleged enough to have advantages, such as a family with the resources to send you to college, you somehow deserve more than those who couldn't go.
First off, I am not a Republican (can't stand their social policies) or a Dem. However, I have to say that I DO work harder than many people that I see that have less.
My dad worked in a washing machine factory and as a prison guard. So there was no money for college. I paid for it myself with summer jobs. Went out on my own after college and after I got enough experience, I went into business for myself. I work hard to keep up on all technical stuff so that I have business justification for paying me more...
So, do you stereotype much? Or does flamebait just excite you?
I picked up Clif's notes (the black/yellow cheat books) on a couple math subjects (Calculus). They aren't useful for learning, but they were actually quite helpful for refreshing things that I once knew, but forgot.
Even if ZIM was anime, I don't think it would ever happen. Cartoon Network seems to have agreements with FOX for cartoons (thus the XMen and Futurama), but they are in strong competition with Nick (who owns ZIM).
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Yeah. Americans need to take a good look. This is the United States in a few years if the power companies have their way. Want to know why they're so heavily behind forced conservation measures? It's because our power grid is aging, and is not growing at a rate that keeps up with the growth of demand. Worse, instead of improving it as a nonprofit or government-owned utility would, they're giving excess profits to their stockholders while pressuring everyone to do stupid hacks like adding emergency cutoffs on air conditioning so they can let your house hit a hundred degrees to save power, forcing everyone to use those crappy CFL bulbs, paying people to replace their old refrigerators, and other temporary bandaids that merely delay the inevitable, but don't really solve the problem.
What this proves is that for-profit corporations simply cannot be trusted to maintain such a critical resource. Their natural tendency is to operate on razor-thin margins to turn maximum profit. When they screw up, the government ends up declaring a state of emergency and paying for the losses, so having that infrastructure in private hands is basically nothing more than government subsidizing a bunch of wealthy fat cats on Wall Street. Wouldn't it be nice if instead of paying Wall Street billionaires, the government instead spent that money to actually improve the power grid?
We need to convince the U.S. government that this is an important problem to solve now, before we have more widespread blackouts that take out a huge swath of the U.S. like the one last September in southern California, Arizona, and parts of Mexico. The only way that's going to happen is if our government steps up to the plate and builds a government-owned and government-managed power infrastructure. What we need is the nationwide equivalent of TVA, but with a network of modern, superconducting power lines crisscrossing the country.
No, you are right.
Some of us have massive social welfare programs, lifestyle subsidies, and wealth re-distributions to pay for.
You are under no obligation to arrange your affairs to MAXIMIZE your tax burden.
I can tell you're one of those Republican types who actually believe you work harder for the life you currently have than those who have less than you. That because you were priveleged enough to have advantages, such as a family with the resources to send you to college, you somehow deserve more than those who couldn't go.
First off, I am not a Republican (can't stand their social policies) or a Dem. However, I have to say that I DO work harder than many people that I see that have less.
My dad worked in a washing machine factory and as a prison guard. So there was no money for college. I paid for it myself with summer jobs. Went out on my own after college and after I got enough experience, I went into business for myself. I work hard to keep up on all technical stuff so that I have business justification for paying me more...
So, do you stereotype much? Or does flamebait just excite you?
Because Steve, no matter how cool the product is, still doesn't like losing money. :)
I picked up Clif's notes (the black/yellow cheat books) on a couple math subjects (Calculus). They aren't useful for learning, but they were actually quite helpful for refreshing things that I once knew, but forgot.
Remember that success is fleeting....
$400,000(this year)/40(working years) = $10000/yr, which is probably less than you make as an engineer.
Of course, UW-Madison isn't on Lake Michigan (it is in south-central Wisconsin). That must have been quite a server explosion (90+ miles)!!
Even if ZIM was anime, I don't think it would ever happen. Cartoon Network seems to have agreements with FOX for cartoons (thus the XMen and Futurama), but they are in strong competition with Nick (who owns ZIM).
You showing exactly the sort of pompus intellectual superiority that causes many people to not wish to read salon.
The fact that Fox news has become so popular shows how far off the likes of CNN were from the "joe average" american feelings about topics.