I wouldn't call the reason of the US's current transportation state a lack of urban planners. Some of the US's urban planners have done a lot more hurt than help. Look at Robert Moses. The US used to have very extensive mass trasit. Most cities over 10,000 people had streetcars and a railroad station linking it to other cities. Now very few cities have more than failing bus routes run by a local government authority.
Good. You have a cell phone blow up in your face.
Oh the irony! The person who voiced their acceptance of the hazard is the first to have his face mutilated! What are the chances!?
Back in the 50's or 60's, nobody thought of how easily you could "write" a hit by sampling "I'll Be Watching You" because the technology wasn't there.
The technology was there. Early hip hop started in the late 70's with just a turntable and an MC. No complex software needed.
I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, but why do you way they had no choice?
That should read:
I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, that certainly was true, but why do you think they had no choice?
Yes, governments or some power (Unions perhaps) need to be a counter force against the companies in situations like that. Look at the mill towns that sprang up in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Working conditions there were horrible. Those people knew of the situation they were getting into as well. They had no choice.
Don't worry, the minimum wage cause a lot of those companies either to move or go out of business. A lot of the lobbying for the minimum wage was actually done by the Northern textile industry because they had to pay higher wages anyway. I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, but why do you way they had no choice?
Read the article
He's neither a chief executive nor a chairman. He holds no executive title. And just last year, he accepted his first paying gig in the Linux industry that he founded.
He belongs on the list due to his influence, but due to the nature of his creation he lacks the executive title.
Infact shes just taken up a Baronet title to sit in the House of Lords
Lady Thatcher is a Baroness. Her late husband, Denis Thatcher, was made a Baronet. Their currently troubled son inhereted the Baronetcy, I don't know if he'll inheret the Barony. IANAUK (I am not a UKian)
What you're talking about is Corporatism, which was indeed an element of Mussolini's Fascist movement.
"Under Fascism in Italy, business owners, employees, trades-people, professionals, and other economic classes were organized into 22 guilds, or associations, known as "corporations" according to their industries, and these groups were given representation in a legislative body known as the Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni."
This wasn't just like putting GM in control of automobile manufacturing. It is short of nationalizing the indstury, it's like 'nationalization lite'. It definatly has some socialist elements in it, Mussilini grew up socialist. But Fascism also distanced itself from socialism by keeping industry leaders in charge and also being highly right wing on everything else.
"Fascism should more accurately be named corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
I do not think that if this were to be done in the US that ClearChannel would be granted some sort of governing authority.
I'd much rather pay to own something than pay money to some multinational corporation
I'm sure the electric car manufacturer, the tire(tyre) company, the battery maker, the power company, and the car importer are all locally owned and operated mom-and-pop companies.
I know very few Americans who would think that it's not ugly, let alone beautiful. I think people and the media would be fawning over it if it were placed in the body of a Chrysler Crossfire or a Corvette or some other attractive sports car with smooth lines.
The government can put the cost of battery maintenence
Why get the government involved at all. I'm sure the stations, battery companies, and auto manufactures can work out a deal. The knee-jerk reaction should not be let's tax it and have the government do it.
The Interstate Highway System also helped bankrupt the railroad industry (which created more subsidies to keep that afloat), streetcar and mass transit companies (which were in turn broken up or taken over by the city, more subsidies), created urban sprawl and all its accutraments (strip malls, Wal-Marts). On the plus side it is now very easy to travel from Philadelphia to Boston in less than a day by car. On the negative it helped create massive urban sprawl, and (hence white flight and urban blight as so many left the city), it bancrupt the railroad industry and transit companies which put them in turn on government support and made intercity transportation significantly more difficult for those without cars (mainly city dwellers).
Every time the government builds or subsidises something it tampers with the supply and demand curves and sometimes can through a whole economy off.
FIRST ended up not really designing their robots because their sponsors were so invested in having a winning robot that they had their engineers do most of the design work.
I was in FIRST and I think that is not always true, although we did see a lot of it (or just assumed) at the competitions. Engineers designed nothing on our robot. Everything was done in our shop execpt for sandblasting the robot's frame and a donated sign by a printing company. Everything else was done entirely by the students and teachers. We placed 1st in Virginia and 2nd in Philadelphia and went on to preform successfuly at the National Championships in Florida (2002). It was very expensive though and getting sponsorships and money wasn't easy. We even delivered phone books to raise money for Florida. After just 2 success years the teachers didn't want to do it anymore 3 of the 4 shop teachers had families and one was a baseball coach and another was getting a graduate degree. It was too taxing on them. From what I hear they still arn't doing FIRST but this year they are building a submarine.
look for the iPod to do a ton more things come January 2005. I for one plan on playing with Linux on mine, then seeing what else I can do with that's cool and new
a. Become exceptionally skilled workers (not difficult, considering the exceptional quality of educational institutions in the U.S.)
b. Keep on moving into new markets as the old markets become dominated by companies that rely on cheap labor. c. Do something about the high living costs in the U.S., which are making this country extremely hostile to the working classes.
You missed what I feel is the most important one. Create jobs, start a business. Become your own boss or employ others. I know not everyone has the leadership or the ambition to do this but that's the great thing about capitalism, you can just hire someone to do that too.
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I wouldn't call the reason of the US's current transportation state a lack of urban planners. Some of the US's urban planners have done a lot more hurt than help. Look at Robert Moses. The US used to have very extensive mass trasit. Most cities over 10,000 people had streetcars and a railroad station linking it to other cities. Now very few cities have more than failing bus routes run by a local government authority.
>blonde, with an IQ of 150 please. >*presses button* You will end up with a blonde of the gender that you *didn't* want :)
With a nice rack!
maybe some smart admin wrote a script to see if their site is linked to /. and to shut it down imediatly if it is.
Oh no, you're not getting me to click that link!
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks
That's the last time I swim in pig-infested water!
Good. You have a cell phone blow up in your face. Oh the irony! The person who voiced their acceptance of the hazard is the first to have his face mutilated! What are the chances!?
Back in the 50's or 60's, nobody thought of how easily you could "write" a hit by sampling "I'll Be Watching You" because the technology wasn't there. The technology was there. Early hip hop started in the late 70's with just a turntable and an MC. No complex software needed.
I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, but why do you way they had no choice? That should read:
I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, that certainly was true, but why do you think they had no choice?
Don't worry, the minimum wage cause a lot of those companies either to move or go out of business. A lot of the lobbying for the minimum wage was actually done by the Northern textile industry because they had to pay higher wages anyway. I won't deny the working conditions were horrible, but why do you way they had no choice?
Read the article
He's neither a chief executive nor a chairman. He holds no executive title. And just last year, he accepted his first paying gig in the Linux industry that he founded. He belongs on the list due to his influence, but due to the nature of his creation he lacks the executive title.
What you're talking about is Corporatism, which was indeed an element of Mussolini's Fascist movement. "Under Fascism in Italy, business owners, employees, trades-people, professionals, and other economic classes were organized into 22 guilds, or associations, known as "corporations" according to their industries, and these groups were given representation in a legislative body known as the Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni." This wasn't just like putting GM in control of automobile manufacturing. It is short of nationalizing the indstury, it's like 'nationalization lite'. It definatly has some socialist elements in it, Mussilini grew up socialist. But Fascism also distanced itself from socialism by keeping industry leaders in charge and also being highly right wing on everything else. "Fascism should more accurately be named corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism I do not think that if this were to be done in the US that ClearChannel would be granted some sort of governing authority.
what about Dual Dual video cards?
I know very few Americans who would think that it's not ugly, let alone beautiful. I think people and the media would be fawning over it if it were placed in the body of a Chrysler Crossfire or a Corvette or some other attractive sports car with smooth lines.
for a moment I thought this had to to with Macromedia.
The Interstate Highway System also helped bankrupt the railroad industry (which created more subsidies to keep that afloat), streetcar and mass transit companies (which were in turn broken up or taken over by the city, more subsidies), created urban sprawl and all its accutraments (strip malls, Wal-Marts). On the plus side it is now very easy to travel from Philadelphia to Boston in less than a day by car. On the negative it helped create massive urban sprawl, and (hence white flight and urban blight as so many left the city), it bancrupt the railroad industry and transit companies which put them in turn on government support and made intercity transportation significantly more difficult for those without cars (mainly city dwellers). Every time the government builds or subsidises something it tampers with the supply and demand curves and sometimes can through a whole economy off.
In Soviet Russia road signs tell you about smart cars!
try playing Linux on it!
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You missed what I feel is the most important one. Create jobs, start a business. Become your own boss or employ others. I know not everyone has the leadership or the ambition to do this but that's the great thing about capitalism, you can just hire someone to do that too.
However running cat file.gz > /dev/dsp sounds terrible
When an electric guitar is pluged into a solid state amplifier and another into a vacuum tube amplifier what is to say which one is "more accurate"?