When natural gas prices dropped a few years ago there was a big gas generator construction boom. The power plants are now operational and gas is being consumed as fast as it's being produced, so the demand for new turbines has dropped. Has nothing to do with "greenification".
One group that has figured out a profitable business model are the "I sold everything, bought a sailboat and am living my dream...please support me" crowd.
This apparently started with a boat called S/V Delos, he learned quickly that showing blurred out videos of the topless babes on his boat gets him lots and lots of followers on YouTube. Several other boats are now offering similar vlogs and begging for patrons, always featuring a young woman who looks very good in a bikini. Sex sells.
It can't win on convenience, it can't win on speed, it can't win on experience. It is a monoculture of price reduction
It's been a monoculture of selling lower quality with worse service at a lower price than the competition for a long, long time. Sears drove away mom and pop stores several decades ago, K-mart essentially drove Sears out of business a few decades ago, Walmart drove K-Mart out a couple of decades ago. Now it's Walmart's turn.
There won't be an apocalypse, just another iteration of the same cycle.
3. The farmers being forced to pay for seeds, instead of using seeda from last year's plants, since the crops they plant are deliberately made sterile.
Every farmer will tell you the increased yield of hybrid seed far outweighs the cost.
Indian farmers are at the mercy of a few politically connected families who control the commodity markets. Farmers can grow crops as efficiently as possible, but they still get robbed when the time comes to sell it.
US employers suspect (for good reason) that an undergraduate degree from many overseas universities means someone bought the degree, doesn't have a great education, and doesn't speak very good English. Picking up a graduate degree proves they are somewhat qualified and speak at least enough of the language to get by.
he thing is, while employees may have ownership shares held for them in a trust, they have no say in any of the business decisions and the shares of stock function in no way that gives them any votes or power of any kind
Then it isn't really employee owned, is it? Because if they owned it they would have voting rights.
Electric car manufacturers won't drop the price of the cars. The subsidy only applied to the first few months of production to kick start the market. Both Tesla and GM are almost at the limit already so it doesn't really effect them anyway.
What is important is the liquid fuel tax and lowered subsidy for ethanol. Both of those make internal combustion vehicles more expensive to own. Electric cars will become more attractive even without the subsidy. A win-win for government revenue.
The other major effect (and really the primary one) of Ag subsidies is to put more control of farming practices into the hands of the government. You can't collect the subsidy unless you follow the rules, e.g. soil conservation, nutrient governance, etc.
Farmers are notoriously independent minded and generally dislike government interference for good reasons. Historically, government regulation, while good for society as a whole, very often means the individual producers are asked to sacrifice for the common good. Subsidies are the carrot that convinces them to accept the stick.
On a physical level, the person who likely has the most access is the janitor or cleaning staff.
Back in the day, the people companies worried most about were the secretaries. They knew everything because they typed up and made the copies of everything. Today we have sysadmins and customer support, same deal. And get off my lawn.
Are you actually implying that there aren't enough sailors that know their ass from their anchor to form a bridge crew competent enough to avoid running into shit?
Yes. We're not talking about college graduates here. More like flunked out of high school and couldn't cut it as a burger flipper.
That assumes the ship was at sea the entire six months. Unless they're fighting a war I don't know about it seems very unlikely a ship would be out that much.
Keep in mind that most of those convictions are plea bargains. The actual crimes are usually far more serious, but a repeat felon pleading guilty to even a minor crime will get jail time.
but to mix and match between the different shifts so there's always a couple of highly experienced guys around.
That's what is normally done. But when a ship is entering or leaving port you always want the best team on watch. It sounds like the captain was trying to do that by giving some of the crew an extra hour of rest to have them ready when they got to Singapore; but he didn't anticipate the traffic jam he would go through in those straits, nor did he allow for having a helmsman who couldn't steer and control the ship's speed at the same time (the guy probably couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time either).
In contrast, as the bridge officer on a Royal Navy frigate for a six-month deployment, McGuffie stood watch for more than 2,000 hours â" all of them logged."
The guy averaged 77 hours per week? I find it hard to believe he was actually on watch while the ship was underway that much.
In my experience (US Navy for four years) the biggest problem is that the enlisted men who stand duty on the bridge (lookouts, helmsmen, etc.) are not the brightest people you'll ever meet (to put it very politely).
70% of our time on the internet? No surprise really. People spend their day listening to streaming music, and many people watch movies on their phone.
The other factor is that so many sites which were new and fascinating a decade ago are driving off visitors with crappy content and intrusive advertising.
No, we don't. We think we know what the major causes were. We know that dinosaurs were on the decline before this event as warm blooded mammals became bigger and more plentiful, and that they were pretty much gone after the event.
Many bugs, plants, seeds and spores can remain frozen but alive for a long time; some animals too (e.g. frogs). There are a couple of reptile species still alive today that could be considered dinosaurs if we wanted to classify them as such. Plus birds (which are really just dinosaurs with feathers) survived.
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I thought the same thing; here's hoping Nancy Pelosi takes the hint.
It must be true, just ask any Democrat.
All of his jokes B flat
When natural gas prices dropped a few years ago there was a big gas generator construction boom. The power plants are now operational and gas is being consumed as fast as it's being produced, so the demand for new turbines has dropped. Has nothing to do with "greenification".
One group that has figured out a profitable business model are the "I sold everything, bought a sailboat and am living my dream...please support me" crowd.
This apparently started with a boat called S/V Delos, he learned quickly that showing blurred out videos of the topless babes on his boat gets him lots and lots of followers on YouTube. Several other boats are now offering similar vlogs and begging for patrons, always featuring a young woman who looks very good in a bikini. Sex sells.
It can't win on convenience, it can't win on speed, it can't win on experience. It is a monoculture of price reduction
It's been a monoculture of selling lower quality with worse service at a lower price than the competition for a long, long time. Sears drove away mom and pop stores several decades ago, K-mart essentially drove Sears out of business a few decades ago, Walmart drove K-Mart out a couple of decades ago. Now it's Walmart's turn.
There won't be an apocalypse, just another iteration of the same cycle.
3. The farmers being forced to pay for seeds, instead of using seeda from last year's plants, since the crops they plant are deliberately made sterile.
Every farmer will tell you the increased yield of hybrid seed far outweighs the cost.
Most localities have their own Facebook page, and we've been hearing for the past year that FB is where people get all their news.
Indian farmers are at the mercy of a few politically connected families who control the commodity markets. Farmers can grow crops as efficiently as possible, but they still get robbed when the time comes to sell it.
US employers suspect (for good reason) that an undergraduate degree from many overseas universities means someone bought the degree, doesn't have a great education, and doesn't speak very good English. Picking up a graduate degree proves they are somewhat qualified and speak at least enough of the language to get by.
he thing is, while employees may have ownership shares held for them in a trust, they have no say in any of the business decisions and the shares of stock function in no way that gives them any votes or power of any kind
Then it isn't really employee owned, is it? Because if they owned it they would have voting rights.
Electric car manufacturers won't drop the price of the cars. The subsidy only applied to the first few months of production to kick start the market. Both Tesla and GM are almost at the limit already so it doesn't really effect them anyway.
What is important is the liquid fuel tax and lowered subsidy for ethanol. Both of those make internal combustion vehicles more expensive to own. Electric cars will become more attractive even without the subsidy. A win-win for government revenue.
The other major effect (and really the primary one) of Ag subsidies is to put more control of farming practices into the hands of the government. You can't collect the subsidy unless you follow the rules, e.g. soil conservation, nutrient governance, etc.
Farmers are notoriously independent minded and generally dislike government interference for good reasons. Historically, government regulation, while good for society as a whole, very often means the individual producers are asked to sacrifice for the common good. Subsidies are the carrot that convinces them to accept the stick.
On a physical level, the person who likely has the most access is the janitor or cleaning staff.
Back in the day, the people companies worried most about were the secretaries. They knew everything because they typed up and made the copies of everything. Today we have sysadmins and customer support, same deal. And get off my lawn.
That's the oldest marketing fluff there is. Why does it surprise anyone?
Are you actually implying that there aren't enough sailors that know their ass from their anchor to form a bridge crew competent enough to avoid running into shit?
Yes. We're not talking about college graduates here. More like flunked out of high school and couldn't cut it as a burger flipper.
That assumes the ship was at sea the entire six months. Unless they're fighting a war I don't know about it seems very unlikely a ship would be out that much.
Keep in mind that most of those convictions are plea bargains. The actual crimes are usually far more serious, but a repeat felon pleading guilty to even a minor crime will get jail time.
2. Read up on how other winning nations did the "navy" design over the many, many years.
Great idea. The US Navy has no experience at all, does it?
but to mix and match between the different shifts so there's always a couple of highly experienced guys around.
That's what is normally done. But when a ship is entering or leaving port you always want the best team on watch. It sounds like the captain was trying to do that by giving some of the crew an extra hour of rest to have them ready when they got to Singapore; but he didn't anticipate the traffic jam he would go through in those straits, nor did he allow for having a helmsman who couldn't steer and control the ship's speed at the same time (the guy probably couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time either).
In contrast, as the bridge officer on a Royal Navy frigate for a six-month deployment, McGuffie stood watch for more than 2,000 hours â" all of them logged."
The guy averaged 77 hours per week? I find it hard to believe he was actually on watch while the ship was underway that much.
In my experience (US Navy for four years) the biggest problem is that the enlisted men who stand duty on the bridge (lookouts, helmsmen, etc.) are not the brightest people you'll ever meet (to put it very politely).
70% of our time on the internet? No surprise really. People spend their day listening to streaming music, and many people watch movies on their phone.
The other factor is that so many sites which were new and fascinating a decade ago are driving off visitors with crappy content and intrusive advertising.
And we "know" what killed the dinosaurs in detail
No, we don't. We think we know what the major causes were. We know that dinosaurs were on the decline before this event as warm blooded mammals became bigger and more plentiful, and that they were pretty much gone after the event.
Many bugs, plants, seeds and spores can remain frozen but alive for a long time; some animals too (e.g. frogs). There are a couple of reptile species still alive today that could be considered dinosaurs if we wanted to classify them as such. Plus birds (which are really just dinosaurs with feathers) survived.
But then again, maybe not enough government money in it for him to bother with.
From the early days of usenet the Perl community has been the epitome of arrogance and rudeness. Ask a simple question and you're sure to get flamed for not spending hours searching through the documentation.