Actually, they had been working with maglev for sometime. They had NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. Their test tracks were pure disasters. They could not even keep it on the track. But, yet, within a short time ESP. after rifle equipped Chinese soldiers took a number of Chinese engineers into the German's maintenance closet (which the Chinese had written promise that they would stay out of), China had a working maglev.
The only good news is that HOPEFULLY the recent incident with Japan will have taught the west that China WILL use their economic clout. It is only a matter of time before they also throw their military weight around. Even wow, China has announced that the will allow only a small amount of rare earth to go to USA, and only under a large exit tariff.
I am not suggesting that it can not work. Far from it. I am saying that our focus on human traffic is wrong. Follow the same example of Airlines. The reason why US airlines are much cheaper than most other nations is because we make heavier use of cargo to pay the way.
You must have been on the east coast with heavy population to think that our trains run at 30 mph. Out here in the west, they do 50-100 mph, depending on loads and where at. And to be honest, it makes zero sense to have high speeds for coal, water, etc. However, we have loads of cargo that is carried in aircrafts. The majority of 'ground mail' is actually carried on planes and then Fedex and USPS will actually stash the mail for several days (sad, but true). In addition, there are loads of other cargo that are time critical. Take the example of fresh food. Very time critical. Fish, beef, vegis are flown all over the USA, which then takes a lot of time to offload to a truck. We are moving slowly to intermodal, in which the cargo portion of the semi is loaded on a train. For distances under 500 miles, it really does not make sense. But if you are going over 1000, it really would speed things up, and drop costs, if we had high speed rail. Imagine doing a load in nyc or chi town and sending it to seattle or LA in under 16 hours. Right now, it takes 2 drivers and loads more energy AND money to get it there by 50 hours.
Which is exactly why I was suggesting fast lines with FEW stops. The idea being that we truck less than 500 miles, but ship via train for anything that is 500 miles and above. That assumes that a train leaves every couple of hours, and has short station times. It would take a truck 15-20 hours to drive 1000 miles. But a train could cover it in 5 hours AND at less fuel.
Keep in mind that for the airlines, their money makers are NOT delivering humans. It is CARGO that pays for the plane.
That is a problem that is related to our much lower population density. Keep in mind that China and EU have much higher population densities. More so for China in that the population is really focused on one coast.
With that said, where America is lacking is that we are not looking at Cargo and doing it across all of North America. Basically, we should be putting a high speed rail on the common cargo routes, rather than common human routes. Even now, AmTrack is talking a pure east coast route, where the smart route would be starting in boston, hitting nyc, and then heading WEST. In particular, head for pit, cleveland, detroit, gary, Chi, and mil.. Ideally, then carry the route west with at least one train every couple of hours that will only stop every 700-1000 miles. That way, it can move cargo across the nation QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY. If they do this, then it makes it possible to carry PROFITABLE cargo. In contrast, if we focus on humans, America would have to subsidize even more heavily our trains, than what EU and China currently do.
China is horrible and will get worst. The problem is, that if America follows EU's example on taking care of CO2 and Mercury, then a number of other nations will join China in this approach. The reason is that they will have a strong incentive to try and steal the commerce. The only way to quickly accomplish that, is to build coal plants. Lots of them. All without scrubbers. Or like China, install the scrubbers, but do not run them. China is required to install these per a treaty with Japan, but the treaty does not require that they be ran.
The only way out of this is for the west to put a tax on all goods based on where the good AND the most expensive part comes from and the amount of CO2 that is emitted from those locations. For imported goods, catch them at the border. For all others, catch them at wholesale -> retailer. The important part is that it be based on CO2 PER SQ KM. Why? Because when a place gets successful, then ppl will flow into there. If based on emissions per ppl, then it will allow for more emissions from a location (city, county, state, or nation) upon the flow of ppl there. Basically, you reward a location by allowing them to emit more rather than having them control their emissions.
Do you think that ALL OF THESE groups would continue to use this process unless it had some level of success? My guess is that it does not work well with professional spies (they are expected to sleep with others), BUT that it works fine with lower level ppl. In particular, those who are none elected positions leading double lives, such as married but gay; etc. ANd interestingly, there are a number of ppl, both men and women, that chose to get married and then find out that they are gay. These ppl then chose to lead a double life rather than tell say their parents.
They have already restarted nuke warhead production. They have several sites that are large ground-based lasers. They are working on anti-sat tech. They are building 1-2 new nuke boomers and 1-2 new nuke attack subs each year. They are now threatening Japan when japan holds a captain that rammed 2 of their ships on disputed ground. And you ask exactly what China is going to do with it?
China is loaded with it. WHat they are not doing is spending it on Western companies. GE found that out and is trying to get back in good with the USA. I suspect that IBM is also figuring that out.
the company that has been taking all of the US jobs AND TECH, and sending these to China and India SUDDENLY wants US to spend money on super computers. ANd exactly where would these be built at? Why CHINA.
IBM was ran by traitors in WWII. I see it still is.
Of course, the big difference is that when security firms are running around screaming about Windows roots, it turns out that you really have been rooted. OTH, when these same security firms scream about the same thing on Linux, what they forget to mention is that somebody had to be on your system (difficult on Linux), or that it was exactly the 5'th monday after the 10th chinese year, etc. etc. etc.
IOW, just like MS, these security firms lie esp. when it comes to Linux. At the least, they blow up the story and make it something that it really is not.
Well, since Eisenhower and Nixon were not conservatives, then, neither was Lincoln, Teddy, etc. Basically, our definition of conservatives have changed over the century. It used to be that the republicans worked with private industry to accomplish things. Since 1981, 'conservatives' just want to hand out to private industry and do not worry about accomplishing anything, except continually running up deficits.
And yet, it is the neo-cons that fight against allowing private fixed costs space to take over on the launches. Yet, it is private cost plus space that has been doing the launches since the start.
And it will remain that way for a LONG LONG TIME. The CST will be used for transportation to private space stations. Who will buy the majority of them? Other nations. Brazil, India, Japan, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. will all want to create their own astronaut core and put ppl up there. WHy? For the day that private space goes to the moon. Likewise, for trying unique production of goods in micro G.
Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.
Hmmm. Odd. That sounds EXACTLY what I described. We have Americans owning the R&D on Nuke plants. They own the vast majority of the roads, airports, etc. We own, collectively, social security. We own and manage, collectively, the production and allocation of parks, libraries, medicare, medicaid, schools, fire departments, etc. I think that fits every definition of socialism. Now, I realize that many neo-cons love to say that America is NOT socialist, but the simple fact is, that neo-cons have been some of the worst socialist going. Who pushed that MONSTER drug bill of 2005 (bigger than Obama's health care plan)? Neo-cons. Who pushed Highways? Eisenhower, a republican. Who created and pushed the EPA? Nixon. There are so many examples out there to show that we are socialists.
pushing US President to avoid Socialism
Hmmm. What nation developed and/or pushed Fire dept, Common shared Libraries in a number of communities, national parks, public airports, public schools, etc? We have medicare, medicaid, Social security, DOD, NSA, Highway system, etc. Much of our electrification was done by gov. pushing it. We developed the nuke and nuclear power on taxpayer's penny.
And you think that a French president is trying to tell us that we should avoid socialism?
Are you for real?
Yeah, several others mentioned that. My statement was based on what I recall of them in the 80's. Back then, they had HEAVY subsidies on their fuel. It sounds like they have changed.
Sorry.
A number of Taxes ARE earmarked like that. For example, the taxes and fees that airlines pay at the airport must flow only into aviation. Likewise, fuel tax must flow into transportation (though I think that it can flow anywhere, not just roads).
Electric cars were fought for ages by the big car companies, as well as the tech just was not there. Now, that is all changing.
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Actually, they had been working with maglev for sometime. They had NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. Their test tracks were pure disasters. They could not even keep it on the track. But, yet, within a short time ESP. after rifle equipped Chinese soldiers took a number of Chinese engineers into the German's maintenance closet (which the Chinese had written promise that they would stay out of), China had a working maglev.
The only good news is that HOPEFULLY the recent incident with Japan will have taught the west that China WILL use their economic clout. It is only a matter of time before they also throw their military weight around. Even wow, China has announced that the will allow only a small amount of rare earth to go to USA, and only under a large exit tariff.
I am not suggesting that it can not work. Far from it. I am saying that our focus on human traffic is wrong. Follow the same example of Airlines. The reason why US airlines are much cheaper than most other nations is because we make heavier use of cargo to pay the way.
You must have been on the east coast with heavy population to think that our trains run at 30 mph. Out here in the west, they do 50-100 mph, depending on loads and where at. And to be honest, it makes zero sense to have high speeds for coal, water, etc. However, we have loads of cargo that is carried in aircrafts. The majority of 'ground mail' is actually carried on planes and then Fedex and USPS will actually stash the mail for several days (sad, but true). In addition, there are loads of other cargo that are time critical. Take the example of fresh food. Very time critical. Fish, beef, vegis are flown all over the USA, which then takes a lot of time to offload to a truck. We are moving slowly to intermodal, in which the cargo portion of the semi is loaded on a train. For distances under 500 miles, it really does not make sense. But if you are going over 1000, it really would speed things up, and drop costs, if we had high speed rail. Imagine doing a load in nyc or chi town and sending it to seattle or LA in under 16 hours. Right now, it takes 2 drivers and loads more energy AND money to get it there by 50 hours.
Which is exactly why I was suggesting fast lines with FEW stops. The idea being that we truck less than 500 miles, but ship via train for anything that is 500 miles and above. That assumes that a train leaves every couple of hours, and has short station times. It would take a truck 15-20 hours to drive 1000 miles. But a train could cover it in 5 hours AND at less fuel.
Keep in mind that for the airlines, their money makers are NOT delivering humans. It is CARGO that pays for the plane.
That is a problem that is related to our much lower population density. Keep in mind that China and EU have much higher population densities. More so for China in that the population is really focused on one coast.
With that said, where America is lacking is that we are not looking at Cargo and doing it across all of North America. Basically, we should be putting a high speed rail on the common cargo routes, rather than common human routes. Even now, AmTrack is talking a pure east coast route, where the smart route would be starting in boston, hitting nyc, and then heading WEST. In particular, head for pit, cleveland, detroit, gary, Chi, and mil.. Ideally, then carry the route west with at least one train every couple of hours that will only stop every 700-1000 miles. That way, it can move cargo across the nation QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY. If they do this, then it makes it possible to carry PROFITABLE cargo. In contrast, if we focus on humans, America would have to subsidize even more heavily our trains, than what EU and China currently do.
it has a lot more to do with their fixing their Yuan against the dollar, rather than cheap labor.
China is horrible and will get worst. The problem is, that if America follows EU's example on taking care of CO2 and Mercury, then a number of other nations will join China in this approach. The reason is that they will have a strong incentive to try and steal the commerce. The only way to quickly accomplish that, is to build coal plants. Lots of them. All without scrubbers. Or like China, install the scrubbers, but do not run them. China is required to install these per a treaty with Japan, but the treaty does not require that they be ran.
The only way out of this is for the west to put a tax on all goods based on where the good AND the most expensive part comes from and the amount of CO2 that is emitted from those locations. For imported goods, catch them at the border. For all others, catch them at wholesale -> retailer. The important part is that it be based on CO2 PER SQ KM. Why? Because when a place gets successful, then ppl will flow into there. If based on emissions per ppl, then it will allow for more emissions from a location (city, county, state, or nation) upon the flow of ppl there. Basically, you reward a location by allowing them to emit more rather than having them control their emissions.
Do you think that ALL OF THESE groups would continue to use this process unless it had some level of success? My guess is that it does not work well with professional spies (they are expected to sleep with others), BUT that it works fine with lower level ppl. In particular, those who are none elected positions leading double lives, such as married but gay; etc. ANd interestingly, there are a number of ppl, both men and women, that chose to get married and then find out that they are gay. These ppl then chose to lead a double life rather than tell say their parents.
And YET, the CIA, GRU, SiS, MOSAD, ASIS, CSIS, MSS, etc. all continue to make use of sexual blackmailing. Perhaps they know something that you do not?
All of ours due. Just change the font size.
They have already restarted nuke warhead production. They have several sites that are large ground-based lasers. They are working on anti-sat tech. They are building 1-2 new nuke boomers and 1-2 new nuke attack subs each year. They are now threatening Japan when japan holds a captain that rammed 2 of their ships on disputed ground. And you ask exactly what China is going to do with it?
It is not an investment when the tech and jobs are shipped overseas to places like CHina, but the same companies that are screaming about this.
China is loaded with it. WHat they are not doing is spending it on Western companies. GE found that out and is trying to get back in good with the USA. I suspect that IBM is also figuring that out.
the company that has been taking all of the US jobs AND TECH, and sending these to China and India SUDDENLY wants US to spend money on super computers. ANd exactly where would these be built at? Why CHINA.
IBM was ran by traitors in WWII. I see it still is.
Of course, the big difference is that when security firms are running around screaming about Windows roots, it turns out that you really have been rooted. OTH, when these same security firms scream about the same thing on Linux, what they forget to mention is that somebody had to be on your system (difficult on Linux), or that it was exactly the 5'th monday after the 10th chinese year, etc. etc. etc.
IOW, just like MS, these security firms lie esp. when it comes to Linux. At the least, they blow up the story and make it something that it really is not.
Spies from other nations DO tend to act from idealogical reasons, but these were traitors, not spies. And most traitors operate from a financial POV.
Well, since Eisenhower and Nixon were not conservatives, then, neither was Lincoln, Teddy, etc. Basically, our definition of conservatives have changed over the century. It used to be that the republicans worked with private industry to accomplish things. Since 1981, 'conservatives' just want to hand out to private industry and do not worry about accomplishing anything, except continually running up deficits.
And yet, it is the neo-cons that fight against allowing private fixed costs space to take over on the launches. Yet, it is private cost plus space that has been doing the launches since the start.
And it will remain that way for a LONG LONG TIME. The CST will be used for transportation to private space stations. Who will buy the majority of them? Other nations. Brazil, India, Japan, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc. will all want to create their own astronaut core and put ppl up there. WHy? For the day that private space goes to the moon. Likewise, for trying unique production of goods in micro G.
Generally, if you got rich enough to afford this, then you will have no issue staying rich. Even the US taxlaws are built around ensuring that.
Socialism is an economic and political theory advocating public or common ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources. Hmmm. Odd. That sounds EXACTLY what I described. We have Americans owning the R&D on Nuke plants. They own the vast majority of the roads, airports, etc. We own, collectively, social security. We own and manage, collectively, the production and allocation of parks, libraries, medicare, medicaid, schools, fire departments, etc. I think that fits every definition of socialism. Now, I realize that many neo-cons love to say that America is NOT socialist, but the simple fact is, that neo-cons have been some of the worst socialist going. Who pushed that MONSTER drug bill of 2005 (bigger than Obama's health care plan)? Neo-cons. Who pushed Highways? Eisenhower, a republican. Who created and pushed the EPA? Nixon. There are so many examples out there to show that we are socialists.
France got the rest of the world to fund a nice jobs bill for them.
pushing US President to avoid Socialism
Hmmm. What nation developed and/or pushed Fire dept, Common shared Libraries in a number of communities, national parks, public airports, public schools, etc? We have medicare, medicaid, Social security, DOD, NSA, Highway system, etc. Much of our electrification was done by gov. pushing it. We developed the nuke and nuclear power on taxpayer's penny.
And you think that a French president is trying to tell us that we should avoid socialism? Are you for real?
Yeah, several others mentioned that. My statement was based on what I recall of them in the 80's. Back then, they had HEAVY subsidies on their fuel. It sounds like they have changed. Sorry.
A number of Taxes ARE earmarked like that. For example, the taxes and fees that airlines pay at the airport must flow only into aviation. Likewise, fuel tax must flow into transportation (though I think that it can flow anywhere, not just roads).
Electric cars were fought for ages by the big car companies, as well as the tech just was not there. Now, that is all changing.