It seems there's a whiny article about Monsanto on every website I read these days. GMO crops are here to stay because they're necessary to feed all the people in the world. Deal with it.
Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Although we have much more significant goals for the future of AOL, we are pleased with this quarter's internal and external trends."
According to the report they went from a $90M net profit last year to a $1B net loss this year. I'm glad the CEO is pleased, but If I worked there I'd be looking for another job.
Add in transmission losses, storage losses, and inefficiency of the car itself and I doubt you come out ahead. Of course if electricity was too cheap to meter you would have a better argument, but the tree huggers killed that option back in the 70's.
As I read the article, the guy extended to some software the CIA already had on speculation, but they don't want to buy his extension. So he has a hissy fit and decides to abandon the project and release the source. Nothing to see here...
By the way, counting all taxes (not just US corporate income tax) Exxon alone averages about $30 Billion per year, although it's been less in the recession years.
Um, the link from 2002 that you provided states: "The break for trucks got bigger this year under a schedule Congress adopted in 1996". I didn't know Bush was president in 1996...maybe someone else signed that tax break into law?
This study compares the number of animals to the number that would be present in a similarly uninhabited, uncontaminated zone.
Actually, this study counts the number of species, not the number of animals; in their words the exclusion zone shows a "reduced biodiversity". So what the study really shows is that some species are holding up better in this environment than other species. Darwin would approve.
I had trouble understanding what point the author of that link was trying to make. Corporations tend to have their headquarters in lower tax countries? Well, yea. Corporations are allowed to deduct the cost of their operations as business expenses? Well, yea. His main argument seems to be that BP spilled oil into the Gulf so oil companies should pay more taxes, I don't follow that leap of logic.
In fact, liquid fuels are among the highest taxed products, roughly fifty cents per gallon when you add the federal and state taxes together. Plus oil companies pay almost $100B in taxes every year.
Finally, you completely confuse me with this statement:
If we don't jumpstart the industry, the Chinese certainly will
It won't matter who jumpstarted it (if it ever does take off). What is important is who can produce the vehicles at a price consumers will accept. The suggestion to tax and subsidize has to fail, because if it succeeds it kills the industry that funds the subsidy. More than anything else we need to lower the cost of labor here in the US.
There's no reason to believe that more tightly regulated oil drilling would have prevented the Deep Horizon spill (did the incredible amount of regulation surrounding the nuclear power industry prevent the Three Mile Island meltdown?). But there is no doubt that having seen the consequences of such a spill, companies will do everything possible to avoid it ever happening again. Exactly as you would expect in a free market.
Asians have a different mindset when it comes to things like this. Anything the other guy makes is okay to copy. Been that way in every industry forever; doesn't matter if it's cars, pharmaceuticals, software, nuclear power plants, or whatever.
America's one size fits all education until college isn't that great imo
What's even worse is the concept of "Mainstreaming". Take kids with major handicaps or behavior problems and mix them in with the rest of the students. It gives liberals a warm fuzzy. But for the one kid it helps, 20 others suffer.
We spend far too much on students who need remedial work and not near enough on the exceptional students.
Anyone can submit their near finished pieces of work to the contests
You would have to be a fool to accept those terms. Responding to an RFP with a proposal is one thing, but doing most of a project on speculation is just dumb. Leave it to hobbists and script kiddies.
Because it's the policy of the Obama administration to have a scapegoat for everything in order to divert attention from their own incompetence. "Previous administration", "Senate Republicans", "BP". etc., etc. The finger pointing isn't as effective if it's spread around.
would you like to live on welfare or would you rather we build a nuclear power plant in your area?
You ask this question on the very day the Democrats pass a bill authorizing the government to borrow another $34 Billion so millions of people can continue to be paid to keep not working. Sigh.
Better would be to only give the plaintiff actual damages and reasonable legal fees. Any punitive damages should go to the state. This removes the lottery payout from most lawsuits.
Is it possible that in the years since the Exxon Valdez, that Kevin Costner is the only one who has invested money into the technology of oil spill cleanup?
I'm certain the answer to that question is "No". Lot's of money has been invested. Smaller spills are quietly cleaned up. But this one was so big the politicians felt the need to get involved instead of letting the engineers who know what they're doing handle it. Of course, 'involved" mostly meant running around helplessly shouting "someone's going to pay for this".
It's been that way from the beginning of Hollywood; was one of the main reason Charlie Chaplin and a few others founded United Artists way back in 1919.
Yea, sounds like a kind of color transparency film: Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujichrome, Cryptochrome. It blurs the picture automatically so there's no reason to focus the camera.
The chart I see shows "Battery Load", not Charge. Am I not understanding something? It looks to me that they climbed to 9000M and kept it at full power as they glided down to 2000M overnight. The generator did very little for the last 16 hours of the flight.
What they proved is that they can make it through the night with fully charged batteries. What they didn't say in the article is whether the batteries would be charged back up by tonight if they had stayed aloft.
Still an impressive feat, but I'll be even more impressed when they can show that it fully recharges while in flight.
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The main differences between the 2010 and 2009 cost studies are the elimination of the provincial sales tax rebate
A rebate doesn't lower the price of anything, it just transfers the cost to someone else. If you really want to save fossil fuel drive a diesel
It seems there's a whiny article about Monsanto on every website I read these days. GMO crops are here to stay because they're necessary to feed all the people in the world. Deal with it.
Are you kidding? This is an amazing breakthrough! We've been waiting 15 years for this, for the past 50 years.
FTFA:
Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Although we have much more significant goals for the future of AOL, we are pleased with this quarter's internal and external trends."
According to the report they went from a $90M net profit last year to a $1B net loss this year. I'm glad the CEO is pleased, but If I worked there I'd be looking for another job.
Add in transmission losses, storage losses, and inefficiency of the car itself and I doubt you come out ahead. Of course if electricity was too cheap to meter you would have a better argument, but the tree huggers killed that option back in the 70's.
As I read the article, the guy extended to some software the CIA already had on speculation, but they don't want to buy his extension. So he has a hissy fit and decides to abandon the project and release the source. Nothing to see here...
Yup, and it only lasted 3000 years. Guess we better panic.
By the way, counting all taxes (not just US corporate income tax) Exxon alone averages about $30 Billion per year, although it's been less in the recession years.
Um, the link from 2002 that you provided states: "The break for trucks got bigger this year under a schedule Congress adopted in 1996". I didn't know Bush was president in 1996...maybe someone else signed that tax break into law?
Did you even try?
Obama angles to turn Gulf oil spill to his advantage
State and Federal Tax Collections on Oil Industry Exceed Oil Industry Profits
This study compares the number of animals to the number that would be present in a similarly uninhabited, uncontaminated zone.
Actually, this study counts the number of species, not the number of animals; in their words the exclusion zone shows a "reduced biodiversity". So what the study really shows is that some species are holding up better in this environment than other species. Darwin would approve.
here's a related link
I had trouble understanding what point the author of that link was trying to make. Corporations tend to have their headquarters in lower tax countries? Well, yea. Corporations are allowed to deduct the cost of their operations as business expenses? Well, yea. His main argument seems to be that BP spilled oil into the Gulf so oil companies should pay more taxes, I don't follow that leap of logic.
In fact, liquid fuels are among the highest taxed products, roughly fifty cents per gallon when you add the federal and state taxes together. Plus oil companies pay almost $100B in taxes every year.
Finally, you completely confuse me with this statement:
If we don't jumpstart the industry, the Chinese certainly will
It won't matter who jumpstarted it (if it ever does take off). What is important is who can produce the vehicles at a price consumers will accept. The suggestion to tax and subsidize has to fail, because if it succeeds it kills the industry that funds the subsidy. More than anything else we need to lower the cost of labor here in the US.
you get to see all sorts of reasons why the free market isn't such a good system
Interesting that you use the banking industry and BP spill as examples. First, the banking fiasco was brought on by the government mandating banks make a percentage of their mortgages to borrowers who previously didn't qualify for the loans. Banks didn't want to get into the toxic loan business, in a free market they avoided it. But the government forced it to happen.
There's no reason to believe that more tightly regulated oil drilling would have prevented the Deep Horizon spill (did the incredible amount of regulation surrounding the nuclear power industry prevent the Three Mile Island meltdown?). But there is no doubt that having seen the consequences of such a spill, companies will do everything possible to avoid it ever happening again. Exactly as you would expect in a free market.
Asians have a different mindset when it comes to things like this. Anything the other guy makes is okay to copy. Been that way in every industry forever; doesn't matter if it's cars, pharmaceuticals, software, nuclear power plants, or whatever.
America's one size fits all education until college isn't that great imo
What's even worse is the concept of "Mainstreaming". Take kids with major handicaps or behavior problems and mix them in with the rest of the students. It gives liberals a warm fuzzy. But for the one kid it helps, 20 others suffer.
We spend far too much on students who need remedial work and not near enough on the exceptional students.
Anyone can submit their near finished pieces of work to the contests
You would have to be a fool to accept those terms. Responding to an RFP with a proposal is one thing, but doing most of a project on speculation is just dumb. Leave it to hobbists and script kiddies.
But why so little mention of Halliburton
Because it's the policy of the Obama administration to have a scapegoat for everything in order to divert attention from their own incompetence. "Previous administration", "Senate Republicans", "BP". etc., etc. The finger pointing isn't as effective if it's spread around.
would you like to live on welfare or would you rather we build a nuclear power plant in your area?
You ask this question on the very day the Democrats pass a bill authorizing the government to borrow another $34 Billion so millions of people can continue to be paid to keep not working. Sigh.
Better would be to only give the plaintiff actual damages and reasonable legal fees. Any punitive damages should go to the state. This removes the lottery payout from most lawsuits.
Is it possible that in the years since the Exxon Valdez, that Kevin Costner is the only one who has invested money into the technology of oil spill cleanup?
I'm certain the answer to that question is "No". Lot's of money has been invested. Smaller spills are quietly cleaned up. But this one was so big the politicians felt the need to get involved instead of letting the engineers who know what they're doing handle it. Of course, 'involved" mostly meant running around helplessly shouting "someone's going to pay for this".
It's been that way from the beginning of Hollywood; was one of the main reason Charlie Chaplin and a few others founded United Artists way back in 1919.
Yea, sounds like a kind of color transparency film: Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujichrome, Cryptochrome. It blurs the picture automatically so there's no reason to focus the camera.
The chart I see shows "Battery Load", not Charge. Am I not understanding something? It looks to me that they climbed to 9000M and kept it at full power as they glided down to 2000M overnight. The generator did very little for the last 16 hours of the flight.
What they proved is that they can make it through the night with fully charged batteries. What they didn't say in the article is whether the batteries would be charged back up by tonight if they had stayed aloft.
Still an impressive feat, but I'll be even more impressed when they can show that it fully recharges while in flight.
I don't care being called a "saddo" by a webmonkey.
Unfriend him, it will ruin his life.