1) require that all students, in all schools be vaccinated.
2) require that all large districts (say more than 40K students) offer up 1 school where personal choice un-vaccinated kids can attend school. For those who have a TRUE medical excuse, they will be allowed to attend regular schools.
3) All students that are personal choice to not vaccinate, shall home school, if not attending one of the aforementioned schools.
4) any parent that is caught cheating on this will pay for any and all medical treatments of other kids, if an infection is found in said school.
If a child dies and and any personal choice unvaccinated child was attending, then parents will be charged with first degree murder.
5) all universities/post elementary schools will require full vaccination.
Simple as that. The parents need to be held responsible for this. If they are the cause of others dying, then they need to be charged with murder.
Same thing. I will say that we had 1/2 CFL and 1/2 Incandescent. Oddly, it was the CFLs that burned out so fast.
Then we had put in a 10KW solar system and I wanted to bank electricity for the EV we were going to buy, as well as cut our CO2. Now, losing 1 / year, not a big deal since I bought these with a 10 year warranty. After GE and Lights of America fast burnouts, I bought Cree only (and several Phillips). 5 years ago, these were $10. Now, they are down to $5.00. I am just amazed that not everybody ppl has switched to LEDs.
U would think so.
I continue to suggest that we should have the Delivery service pick up a sales tax on shipped goods.
Of course, you then run into services. I can see companies simply shifting their services to other nations to avoid having to pay taxes, but it strikes me as bizarre that the west is NOT working together to prevent all of this.
As Zen boy shows, the top 5 fines against companies come against American companies
Lets look at them.
1) Microsoft was fined more than Servier, who likely cost ppl's lives. Please.
2) Good with going after Qualcomm/Apple. I do think that 1.2B was excessive considering that Servier was.5B, but apparently, so does Qualcomm and now, the EU justice.
3) Intel being charged 1.45 B for lowering their price to get others to use Intel over AMD? Please. That is pure competition at work. Thankfully, EU Justice is look at it, and will likely either kill it or cut it way down
4) Totally great with EU going after Google for the Google shopping. That entire episode is the very definition of monopoly abuse, just like Servier was. Of course, 2.7B strikes me as excessive considering that BOTH Servier and Telefónica were fined about 1/6 and 1/10 of that. However, there is no doubt that all 3 were abusive monopolies.
5) Then you have the recent Android action. Google allows you to install android, as you see fit.
HOWEVER, if you want Google's help AND Play store, then you have to agree to install Google's apps. I see nothing wrong with that.
Of course, paying them to install only Google's android as well as search is an issue. BUT, $5B, when they charge servier.5B for killing ppl, but otherwise doing the same thing? No. That makes no sense.
So, yeah, this IS about going after American tech companies.
No, LEDs do not outlast us. I changed my entire house to LEDs over 5 years ago. I've had at least 7 go out. To be fair, LEDs are a LOT better than the CFLs and uses 50% of the electricity.
However, I've also had a GE LED start a fire. Thankfully, I was in kitchen at time and turned off and then used an extinguisher on it.
Of course, I called GE, and they said send them the bulb and they would tell me which Chinese company made it so that I could take a lawsuit to china. NOT impressed.
What are you talking about?
I said that BOTH Americans and European companies are doing this stuff, it is just that the European govs are going after the American companies.
EU is pulling a fast one to get their coffers full by raiding American companies. They have no intention of raiding their own companies. BUT, the real issue is that there are so many tax loopholes all over the world, combined with brick/mortar vs internet vs service. Western nations are having difficulty.
What is needed is for the western nations to get together, perhaps at G12, and discuss how to deal with taxation of companies.
BTW, I do not blame ANY of these companies for there actions. I blame the politicians. The west is destroying ourselves out of greed, bribes, etc. Even now, America is controlled by a Putin Puppet, who is the very definition of traitor and is exactly what our forefathers were opposed to.
they are NOT being fined for taxes. They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal. The problem is that many nations offer up tax loopholes, and ALL OF THEM are taking advantage of it. This is where all the western nations have to change things.
It was obvious that Europe can not use their tax laws to go after Google (and other American tech companies), so, they were going to use their laws with MASSIVE fines.
I had to laugh when somebody gripped about America fining VW 2.8B for their lying and polluting, while Europe will make up fake fines which are much higher against these companies and use it on their coffers.
The far lefties KNOW that China is unethical in many things. This is just more of the same that they continue to back.
Basically, it is not much different than how Hitler, Tojo, Mao and Stalin operated.
We are going to see China send all of its trolls here to speak against it and tell us how China is done wonders for the world.
Come on Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami. Make your masters PROUD.
exactly right.
We either de-monopolize and allow real competition, OR allow local govs to create a utility with fiber that competes. However, all local gov efforts should not be done as a monopoly, but, as running fiber to the buildings and then allow various service companies to then offer up services over the fiber.
Seriously, it would be far better to spend efforts on getting rid of dark money, balancing the budget, taking care of massive student debts, etc.
THis issue is easily solved by de-monopolizing communication.
H1B WAS supposed to help with skilles needed here, but that is not the case.
Nearly all H1B is used to train offshore coders and then move operations out.
By moving to greencards combined with requiring that they not be farmed out, means that it WILL be only about a need of skills. In addition, by allowing them to move around to another company if they want,means salary competition remains.
Get rid of the H1B altogether.
Instead,add 30K green cards which require that these be for ppl that are working at that business and can not be contracted/sub-contracted out to any other company for 5 years.
By switching to green cards, these ppl can move around the companies, which means competition for salary. In addition, because they come here permanently, it does not require large numbers like 50 or 65K (and hillary promised a number of businesses to raise it to 500K for H1B; what a joke).
A small number of say 20-30K is plenty good.
All those subsidies/dumping that China does to steal Western manufacturing is coming home.
Solar City is going to have a heyday. They are ramping up production of efficient panels as well as their tiles.
Hopefully, the rest of Western solar panels makers will do ok.
Also, hopefully trump/europe will impose same same tariffs on any vehicles manufactured by Chinese companies that will attempt to dump on the west
China is adding 256+ GW of new coal plants to China and another 256+ GW of coal plants to other nations.
India continues to climb.
America climbed a bit this year, and will go down after this, but, the question is, how much?
Amongst all this, are the far lefites that continue to give green lights to China's massive expansion and then at the same time, does all they can to stop the one real solution, which is the use of Nuclear power.
Until ppl take this SERIOUSLY and understand that REAL SOLUTIONS ARE NEEDED to bring down ALL NATION'S EMISSIONS, it really does not matter.
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1) require that all students, in all schools be vaccinated.
2) require that all large districts (say more than 40K students) offer up 1 school where personal choice un-vaccinated kids can attend school. For those who have a TRUE medical excuse, they will be allowed to attend regular schools.
3) All students that are personal choice to not vaccinate, shall home school, if not attending one of the aforementioned schools.
4) any parent that is caught cheating on this will pay for any and all medical treatments of other kids, if an infection is found in said school. If a child dies and and any personal choice unvaccinated child was attending, then parents will be charged with first degree murder.
5) all universities/post elementary schools will require full vaccination.
Simple as that. The parents need to be held responsible for this. If they are the cause of others dying, then they need to be charged with murder.
Same thing. I will say that we had 1/2 CFL and 1/2 Incandescent. Oddly, it was the CFLs that burned out so fast.
Then we had put in a 10KW solar system and I wanted to bank electricity for the EV we were going to buy, as well as cut our CO2. Now, losing 1 / year, not a big deal since I bought these with a 10 year warranty. After GE and Lights of America fast burnouts, I bought Cree only (and several Phillips). 5 years ago, these were $10. Now, they are down to $5.00. I am just amazed that not everybody ppl has switched to LEDs.
U would think so.
I continue to suggest that we should have the Delivery service pick up a sales tax on shipped goods.
Of course, you then run into services. I can see companies simply shifting their services to other nations to avoid having to pay taxes, but it strikes me as bizarre that the west is NOT working together to prevent all of this.
I get why EU is doing the massive penalties on American companies. Basically, it is their current approach to get the taxes they believe owed. BUT, until we stop the tax havens that are designed purposely to hide taxes (such as Ireland, Luxembourg (funny considering they are the seat of EU), Switzerland, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, etc) then little will change.
good posting. Thanx.
As Zen boy shows, the top 5 fines against companies come against American companies .5B, but apparently, so does Qualcomm and now, the EU justice. .5B for killing ppl, but otherwise doing the same thing? No. That makes no sense.
Lets look at them.
1) Microsoft was fined more than Servier, who likely cost ppl's lives. Please.
2) Good with going after Qualcomm/Apple. I do think that 1.2B was excessive considering that Servier was
3) Intel being charged 1.45 B for lowering their price to get others to use Intel over AMD? Please. That is pure competition at work. Thankfully, EU Justice is look at it, and will likely either kill it or cut it way down
4) Totally great with EU going after Google for the Google shopping. That entire episode is the very definition of monopoly abuse, just like Servier was. Of course, 2.7B strikes me as excessive considering that BOTH Servier and Telefónica were fined about 1/6 and 1/10 of that. However, there is no doubt that all 3 were abusive monopolies.
5) Then you have the recent Android action. Google allows you to install android, as you see fit.
HOWEVER, if you want Google's help AND Play store, then you have to agree to install Google's apps. I see nothing wrong with that.
Of course, paying them to install only Google's android as well as search is an issue. BUT, $5B, when they charge servier
So, yeah, this IS about going after American tech companies.
No, LEDs do not outlast us. I changed my entire house to LEDs over 5 years ago. I've had at least 7 go out. To be fair, LEDs are a LOT better than the CFLs and uses 50% of the electricity. However, I've also had a GE LED start a fire. Thankfully, I was in kitchen at time and turned off and then used an extinguisher on it. Of course, I called GE, and they said send them the bulb and they would tell me which Chinese company made it so that I could take a lawsuit to china. NOT impressed.
Many of those checkpoints and speedtraps are about making money for them.
What are you talking about?
I said that BOTH Americans and European companies are doing this stuff, it is just that the European govs are going after the American companies.
EU is pulling a fast one to get their coffers full by raiding American companies. They have no intention of raiding their own companies. BUT, the real issue is that there are so many tax loopholes all over the world, combined with brick/mortar vs internet vs service. Western nations are having difficulty. What is needed is for the western nations to get together, perhaps at G12, and discuss how to deal with taxation of companies.
BTW, I do not blame ANY of these companies for there actions. I blame the politicians. The west is destroying ourselves out of greed, bribes, etc. Even now, America is controlled by a Putin Puppet, who is the very definition of traitor and is exactly what our forefathers were opposed to.
they are NOT being fined for taxes. They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal. The problem is that many nations offer up tax loopholes, and ALL OF THEM are taking advantage of it. This is where all the western nations have to change things.
they did no evil.
The suits and fines are a joke.
It was obvious that Europe can not use their tax laws to go after Google (and other American tech companies), so, they were going to use their laws with MASSIVE fines.
I had to laugh when somebody gripped about America fining VW 2.8B for their lying and polluting, while Europe will make up fake fines which are much higher against these companies and use it on their coffers.
The far lefties KNOW that China is unethical in many things. This is just more of the same that they continue to back. Basically, it is not much different than how Hitler, Tojo, Mao and Stalin operated.
We are going to see China send all of its trolls here to speak against it and tell us how China is done wonders for the world.
Come on Caffeinated Bacon/Crimson Tsunami. Make your masters PROUD.
exactly right.
We either de-monopolize and allow real competition, OR allow local govs to create a utility with fiber that competes. However, all local gov efforts should not be done as a monopoly, but, as running fiber to the buildings and then allow various service companies to then offer up services over the fiber.
Seriously, it would be far better to spend efforts on getting rid of dark money, balancing the budget, taking care of massive student debts, etc.
THis issue is easily solved by de-monopolizing communication.
H1B WAS supposed to help with skilles needed here, but that is not the case.
Nearly all H1B is used to train offshore coders and then move operations out.
By moving to greencards combined with requiring that they not be farmed out, means that it WILL be only about a need of skills. In addition, by allowing them to move around to another company if they want,means salary competition remains.
Get rid of the H1B altogether. Instead,add 30K green cards which require that these be for ppl that are working at that business and can not be contracted/sub-contracted out to any other company for 5 years. By switching to green cards, these ppl can move around the companies, which means competition for salary. In addition, because they come here permanently, it does not require large numbers like 50 or 65K (and hillary promised a number of businesses to raise it to 500K for H1B; what a joke). A small number of say 20-30K is plenty good.
Northrup Grumman ( nee orbital ) launch far less than ULA, and there is nothing entrapaneureal about orbital, let alone NG.
Hopefully, CONgress/trump are taking notice. China will have man on the moon within 7-9 years.
All those subsidies/dumping that China does to steal Western manufacturing is coming home. Solar City is going to have a heyday. They are ramping up production of efficient panels as well as their tiles. Hopefully, the rest of Western solar panels makers will do ok. Also, hopefully trump/europe will impose same same tariffs on any vehicles manufactured by Chinese companies that will attempt to dump on the west
Yeah. Sad that a Forestry PhD from my Alma Mater can be such an idiot. However, as the saying goes, when the GPA->F for engineering, they go to Forestry/Business.
And that will do NOTHING in time.
We need a combination of Solar, Wind, Hydro, Geo-thermal, and Nuke power.
China is adding 256+ GW of new coal plants to China and another 256+ GW of coal plants to other nations.
India continues to climb.
America climbed a bit this year, and will go down after this, but, the question is, how much?
Amongst all this, are the far lefites that continue to give green lights to China's massive expansion and then at the same time, does all they can to stop the one real solution, which is the use of Nuclear power.
Until ppl take this SERIOUSLY and understand that REAL SOLUTIONS ARE NEEDED to bring down ALL NATION'S EMISSIONS, it really does not matter.