First, the fixed currency has NOTHING to do with helping trade between 'partners'. It is SOLELY about making imports cheap. As it is, they are REQUIRED by CLinton's accord as well as IMF to free their money. It should have been moving freely since 2003 (4?). That is why all large nations and increasingly a number of smaller countries are gripping. A number of economists say that it is undervalued by 40%. Increasingly, more are saying upwards of 100% undervalued. That is NOT about 'stabilization'. Only a fool or an out and out liar would make such a statement.
I never said that a monarchy was better than a totalitarian system. Far from it. However, SA is far friendlier to their citizens than is the chinese leadership. Yes, America does spend more on the military. So what? This conversation was about CHINA, not about USA.
And all of what I said is trivial to prove. Google it for yourself.
Exactly. ANd if we considered ourselves to be in a cold war with China, we would make the exact same request of our troops.
What I find interesting is that Chinese leaders consider it more important to try and clamp down on information flow to the west, then sending disinformation. They really do consider us in a cold war with them.
And YET, for a nation that does not want to start a way, they cheat at the economy. THAT has to stop. THey have a number of treaties that they made. THey need to obey them.
THe funny thing is that I do not oppose their rise. However, I object to their doing it in a fashion that says that they must cheat at it.
You missed the point. China is not economically open. They fix their money to ours; they have loads of trade barriers; They dump on western markets; they have massive theft in IP, weapons, etc. As to gov., China has a group of ppl that control and seek greater control not less. They are secretive about their military and their intentions. They are a totalitarian. Saudi Arabia is a kingdom. However, they are up front about what they want and represent.
There is NOTHING similar between the two.
I understand them fine. I have to deal with their spies. I watch that they fix their money to the dollar. I watch how they are undermining the west, and not obeying their treaties. Sadly, it is the many fools in the west that keep hoping that CHina is NOT up to a cold war that will prolong this nightmare.
Saudi Arabia allows a float on the money; they do not have many trade barriers; they do not dump. Comparing China to Saudi Arabia is a joke. THat is like comparing 1940 Germany to America or England. There really was no similarity.
Right now, Chinese ppl are just fine. They want to live life and enjoy things. Chinese LEADERS are a whole other group. THey are looking to gain a lot more power.
China is in a cold war with the west. The last thing they want is information leaking out. As it is, they make heavy us of spying in the west to come up with all sorts of offensive weapons that they can use. Sadly, the west is trying to be friends with China, but China is about to surprise everybody. The reality is, when you are the leader of the worlds largest nation (population wise), AND have a population that is about to be very heavily skewed towards males, what do you want next? The world. If nothing else, look at their military systems. Heck, look at their recent promise to allow the Yuan to 'float'. It floated for a day and then was restored. Then floated just a little bit downwards. Why? Because the TRUE leaders of CHina said NO.
You assume a brute force because you think that is the ONLY way to get the answer.
OTH, I assume that there is another way to hit the key. Once somebody has a strong incentive, they will normally figure out a way around a block. In fact, I think that the feds and brazil SHOULD offer 1 million for the answer. Yes, we use it everywhere. OTH, I would rather pay out 1 million and be forced to change it NOW, then to find out in a war that it was crackable.
Li-Ion are NOT lead acid. Lead acids DO have the problem. In fact, South West heat is far worse for a battery than is a Minnesota or Colorado mountain cold.
Hmmmm.
Actually, the lower great plains typically only hit 100+ for 1-2 weeks/year. To be fair, though, you have several months of mid-high 90's, which is still damaging.
Alternative fuel is normally natural gas and/or ethanol. If you look at the expense of these, you will find that their prices are tied to gasoline. Gas/diesel go up, and so do the alternative fuel. OTH, electricity has an indirect relationship. More importantly, the USPS can buy the energy at night so that the cost per mile is a fraction of what gas is (see tesla's website). Heck, even at.25 kw/hr, it is still much cheaper than gas.
In addition, you will missed the fact that I was addressing the issue with postal services high labor costs. In particular, a large issue according to a friend of mine that delivers in Ft. Collins, Co. is that doing door-to-door represents a VERY high cost. Therefor, by dropping the door-to-door they save a LOAD of money. It will not be the roughly 1/10 - 1/12 that cutting sat would save (and losing sat does not cut 1/6 of their costs as expected since they already have so many fixed expenses), but it would be sizable.
My condeolences on your lack of having thought about this.
I actually do remember the 60's quite well. However, where I grew up, there were no mailsters. The issue is that they WERE innovative. This current round (well since 2000) has been a joke. They simply do not take care of matters. Killing sat. WILL kill them. Instead, they need to switch back to electrics and lower their labor costs.
I find it interesting that the USPS is SOOO slow in innovative thinking.
First off, the bulk of their costs is in the cities. Why? Because so many of the routes are door to door. Simply have that changed to large postal boxes.
Likewise, I found out that the majority of postal routes are about 25 miles. This is the IDEAL situation for companies that want to offer electric cars. Create a CJ type vehicle that gets about 40-50 miles on a charge (radio, heater, ac).
It is really sad how little thought goes into solutions here.
What is interesting about that, is that it really proves my point that China sees itself as being in a one-sided cold war. Their fear is about trying to stop foreign access to info about the nation. And yet, the west will continue to ignore this behavior.
Poppycock
Even the majority of the economists do not sound so alarmists about this. The reason is that if China were to slowly allow it to float (raise it slowly by 40% then finally allow the true float), then both nations will do just fine. The reason is that it will give America time to bring back jobs and then tax them. And China will still accumulate dollars and will want to invest them somewhere.
South Korea, India and Brazil have been griping for some time that China's policy is hurting their exports. ANd it is. While Brazil does not fix the real to the dollar (unlike India and SK), China's policy IS hurting their ability to compete.
China is building 1-2 new Boomer and 1-2 new attack subs each year. They are now regularly patrol every ocean except Atlantic (and they just cut a deal with Venezuela for docking rights for their nuke subs). In addition, they have re-started their nuke warhead production lines.
They have multiple space stations going up, all controlled by the PLA. Only the first one will allow none chinese on-board. The others are said to only allow Chinese military on-board.
They are hard at work on Lasers on the ground for anti-sats and apparently some smaller ones as well (think that will fit in their space stations).
China does not believe in MAD. MAD is a defensive idea. China's PLA is on the offensive.
BS.
For starters, I suggested all the countries that have been pushing CHina to do the right thing (honor their legal agreements). Basically, CHina will not go to war if other nations are slowly raising tariffs and saying that they will back them off if CHinese gov. will honor their agreements (and do so first; Their word and honor is absolutely worthless ).
First off, you do not want to SET it. THat would kill the global economy. Instead, you want to raise it slowly so that China has time to re-think their actions. Free trade helps all, but only if we all allow money to float freely, have similar env laws (china's turning off their air pollution control allows them to gain 20% more energy; and GE helped them with that), and even minimum wages. Beyond that, it is up to each nations and businesses to deal with the differences. However at this time, China, India, and South Korea are all the major manipulators of money (there are many other nations that also fix their money, but they are small enough that it does not cause huge issues). And before anybody says that other nations (i.e. south korea and india do not do this), then how can you have double to triple the growth rate of another country that you 'free trade' for 10-15 years and still have the same exchange rate? It does not happen.
This is designed to simply drain the IP from western companies into Chinese ones. This is on top of China having their money fixed against the dollar.Yes, they said that they would change it a bit, but inside of 2 days, they rolled back the change. Quit honestly, China is an a cold war with the west via economic means. At this time, the west needs to tell CHina to either obey their agreements (float their money, drop their trade barriers, quit dumping/subsidizing, follow through on their international agreements such as CLintons as well as IMF) OR simply impose a slowly increasing tariff on ALL GOODS coming from China. If the west, India, and Brazil will follow through on this, then China WILL obey their agreements.
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First, the fixed currency has NOTHING to do with helping trade between 'partners'. It is SOLELY about making imports cheap. As it is, they are REQUIRED by CLinton's accord as well as IMF to free their money. It should have been moving freely since 2003 (4?). That is why all large nations and increasingly a number of smaller countries are gripping. A number of economists say that it is undervalued by 40%. Increasingly, more are saying upwards of 100% undervalued. That is NOT about 'stabilization'. Only a fool or an out and out liar would make such a statement.
I never said that a monarchy was better than a totalitarian system. Far from it. However, SA is far friendlier to their citizens than is the chinese leadership. Yes, America does spend more on the military. So what? This conversation was about CHINA, not about USA. And all of what I said is trivial to prove. Google it for yourself.
Exactly. ANd if we considered ourselves to be in a cold war with China, we would make the exact same request of our troops.
What I find interesting is that Chinese leaders consider it more important to try and clamp down on information flow to the west, then sending disinformation. They really do consider us in a cold war with them.
And YET, for a nation that does not want to start a way, they cheat at the economy. THAT has to stop. THey have a number of treaties that they made. THey need to obey them.
THe funny thing is that I do not oppose their rise. However, I object to their doing it in a fashion that says that they must cheat at it.
You missed the point. China is not economically open. They fix their money to ours; they have loads of trade barriers; They dump on western markets; they have massive theft in IP, weapons, etc. As to gov., China has a group of ppl that control and seek greater control not less. They are secretive about their military and their intentions. They are a totalitarian. Saudi Arabia is a kingdom. However, they are up front about what they want and represent. There is NOTHING similar between the two.
I understand them fine. I have to deal with their spies. I watch that they fix their money to the dollar. I watch how they are undermining the west, and not obeying their treaties. Sadly, it is the many fools in the west that keep hoping that CHina is NOT up to a cold war that will prolong this nightmare.
Saudi Arabia allows a float on the money; they do not have many trade barriers; they do not dump. Comparing China to Saudi Arabia is a joke. THat is like comparing 1940 Germany to America or England. There really was no similarity.
Right now, Chinese ppl are just fine. They want to live life and enjoy things. Chinese LEADERS are a whole other group. THey are looking to gain a lot more power.
China is in a cold war with the west. The last thing they want is information leaking out. As it is, they make heavy us of spying in the west to come up with all sorts of offensive weapons that they can use. Sadly, the west is trying to be friends with China, but China is about to surprise everybody. The reality is, when you are the leader of the worlds largest nation (population wise), AND have a population that is about to be very heavily skewed towards males, what do you want next? The world. If nothing else, look at their military systems. Heck, look at their recent promise to allow the Yuan to 'float'. It floated for a day and then was restored. Then floated just a little bit downwards. Why? Because the TRUE leaders of CHina said NO.
You assume a brute force because you think that is the ONLY way to get the answer.
OTH, I assume that there is another way to hit the key. Once somebody has a strong incentive, they will normally figure out a way around a block. In fact, I think that the feds and brazil SHOULD offer 1 million for the answer. Yes, we use it everywhere. OTH, I would rather pay out 1 million and be forced to change it NOW, then to find out in a war that it was crackable.
Actually, if they just put the start of of the drive on open source, I would not be surprised to see it cracked within 1-2 months.
Li-Ion are NOT lead acid. Lead acids DO have the problem. In fact, South West heat is far worse for a battery than is a Minnesota or Colorado mountain cold.
Hmmmm. Actually, the lower great plains typically only hit 100+ for 1-2 weeks/year. To be fair, though, you have several months of mid-high 90's, which is still damaging.
Alternative fuel is normally natural gas and/or ethanol. If you look at the expense of these, you will find that their prices are tied to gasoline. Gas/diesel go up, and so do the alternative fuel. OTH, electricity has an indirect relationship. More importantly, the USPS can buy the energy at night so that the cost per mile is a fraction of what gas is (see tesla's website). Heck, even at .25 kw/hr, it is still much cheaper than gas.
In addition, you will missed the fact that I was addressing the issue with postal services high labor costs. In particular, a large issue according to a friend of mine that delivers in Ft. Collins, Co. is that doing door-to-door represents a VERY high cost. Therefor, by dropping the door-to-door they save a LOAD of money. It will not be the roughly 1/10 - 1/12 that cutting sat would save (and losing sat does not cut 1/6 of their costs as expected since they already have so many fixed expenses), but it would be sizable. My condeolences on your lack of having thought about this.
I actually do remember the 60's quite well. However, where I grew up, there were no mailsters. The issue is that they WERE innovative. This current round (well since 2000) has been a joke. They simply do not take care of matters. Killing sat. WILL kill them. Instead, they need to switch back to electrics and lower their labor costs.
I find it interesting that the USPS is SOOO slow in innovative thinking.
First off, the bulk of their costs is in the cities. Why? Because so many of the routes are door to door. Simply have that changed to large postal boxes.
Likewise, I found out that the majority of postal routes are about 25 miles. This is the IDEAL situation for companies that want to offer electric cars. Create a CJ type vehicle that gets about 40-50 miles on a charge (radio, heater, ac).
It is really sad how little thought goes into solutions here.
What is interesting about that, is that it really proves my point that China sees itself as being in a one-sided cold war. Their fear is about trying to stop foreign access to info about the nation. And yet, the west will continue to ignore this behavior.
And so would China. Chinese gov. will not want to allow that either.
Poppycock
Even the majority of the economists do not sound so alarmists about this. The reason is that if China were to slowly allow it to float (raise it slowly by 40% then finally allow the true float), then both nations will do just fine. The reason is that it will give America time to bring back jobs and then tax them. And China will still accumulate dollars and will want to invest them somewhere.
South Korea, India and Brazil have been griping for some time that China's policy is hurting their exports. ANd it is. While Brazil does not fix the real to the dollar (unlike India and SK), China's policy IS hurting their ability to compete.
China is building 1-2 new Boomer and 1-2 new attack subs each year. They are now regularly patrol every ocean except Atlantic (and they just cut a deal with Venezuela for docking rights for their nuke subs). In addition, they have re-started their nuke warhead production lines.
They have multiple space stations going up, all controlled by the PLA. Only the first one will allow none chinese on-board. The others are said to only allow Chinese military on-board.
They are hard at work on Lasers on the ground for anti-sats and apparently some smaller ones as well (think that will fit in their space stations).
China does not believe in MAD. MAD is a defensive idea. China's PLA is on the offensive.
BS. For starters, I suggested all the countries that have been pushing CHina to do the right thing (honor their legal agreements). Basically, CHina will not go to war if other nations are slowly raising tariffs and saying that they will back them off if CHinese gov. will honor their agreements (and do so first; Their word and honor is absolutely worthless ).
You will note that the strikes are ONLY occurring against foreign companies. Not a one on local companies.
First off, you do not want to SET it. THat would kill the global economy. Instead, you want to raise it slowly so that China has time to re-think their actions. Free trade helps all, but only if we all allow money to float freely, have similar env laws (china's turning off their air pollution control allows them to gain 20% more energy; and GE helped them with that), and even minimum wages. Beyond that, it is up to each nations and businesses to deal with the differences. However at this time, China, India, and South Korea are all the major manipulators of money (there are many other nations that also fix their money, but they are small enough that it does not cause huge issues). And before anybody says that other nations (i.e. south korea and india do not do this), then how can you have double to triple the growth rate of another country that you 'free trade' for 10-15 years and still have the same exchange rate? It does not happen.
This is designed to simply drain the IP from western companies into Chinese ones. This is on top of China having their money fixed against the dollar.Yes, they said that they would change it a bit, but inside of 2 days, they rolled back the change. Quit honestly, China is an a cold war with the west via economic means. At this time, the west needs to tell CHina to either obey their agreements (float their money, drop their trade barriers, quit dumping/subsidizing, follow through on their international agreements such as CLintons as well as IMF) OR simply impose a slowly increasing tariff on ALL GOODS coming from China. If the west, India, and Brazil will follow through on this, then China WILL obey their agreements.
skip the triple pane/low-e, and get the new double-pane aerogel that are coming. They will be cheaper than triple pane, and much better insulation.
Seriously, geo-thermal HVAC is the RIGHT way to go.