Two anecdotes near me: 1. A traditional family owned gas station. Pushed into bankruptcy when the owner died and turned out it was his name, personally, on the gas contract with Shell. Shell took over the station. I don't think the prevalence of priuses in the neighborhood had anything to do with it. 2. A locally owned Chevron franchise near me recently remodeled. They added a pump for biodiesel, the roof over the pumps got covered in Solar Panels, and they added 3 parking spaces with chargers fed from the solar panels for electric, plus they are a popular mini-mart. They're doing quite well actually at the conversion- and will be selling gas and biodiesel long after everybody else is gone.
Hard to throw a pipe bomb nearly a mile, but I suppose you could design them with model rocket engines. Good thing that leftwing nut jobs aren't quite that smart. The body count could have been limited if hotel security had responded quicker though- over 70 minutes of bullets raining out the window and people complaining of the sound of gun shots to the front desk, and nobody did anything?
I suspect that's more on the 30 year timeframe, as I still see cars built in the 1980s and 1990s on the road, and only the rich can afford electric so far.
Which is almost a stupid of a UI design as "We have hit a general protection fault and all of your work for the past several hours will be destroyed, and corrupted on the hard drive. OK?"
Universal Basic Income works great as long as you have a fiat currency. The problem is it is hyperinflationary; it won't be long before that $1000 isn't enough to buy enough food to feed a person for a week, let alone a month.
While I have a tendency to agree, I do worry about the unintended consequences. The problem will be that the basic income will become the "poverty floor" and the goalposts will move.
That was the point of the morality play. The Dictatorship of Moral Relativism clashing with Objective Morality- with a switch up between progressives and traditionalists where it was the traditionalists who were relativists and the progressives who were objective.
The Objective Progressive Losing in Court *was the point*.
Both Solaria and Aurora were severely underpopulated, the only *real* difference was in culture. The Aurorans would gather together and travel together for social reasons, and the Solarians would avoid each other even for purposes of reproduction.
I expect the bare minimum for 100% uptime is 21 human employees (between machine breakdown and illness). Of which, 14 of those are redundant replacements (but given that human beings sleep a third of their life, you need 3 sets to assure proper redundancy).
As it turns out, with new automated vertical hydroponic gardening techniques, it only takes one acre of sunlight to feed a human being for a whole year.
We are far more likely to head towards Trantor, than Aurora- 80 billion human beings living underneath a roof of biodomes.
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Two anecdotes near me:
1. A traditional family owned gas station. Pushed into bankruptcy when the owner died and turned out it was his name, personally, on the gas contract with Shell. Shell took over the station. I don't think the prevalence of priuses in the neighborhood had anything to do with it.
2. A locally owned Chevron franchise near me recently remodeled. They added a pump for biodiesel, the roof over the pumps got covered in Solar Panels, and they added 3 parking spaces with chargers fed from the solar panels for electric, plus they are a popular mini-mart. They're doing quite well actually at the conversion- and will be selling gas and biodiesel long after everybody else is gone.
They won't replace gas completely until a minimum wage worker earning $400 a week can afford them. About 300 British Pounds.
I'm going out looking though- $6000 is what I paid for my 11 year old Prius
There is a used market? Are they down to the $3000 range yet?
https://www.mediaite.com/online/a-theory-on-what-motivated-stephan-paddock-and-why-therell-be-more-of-him-in-the-future//
Thus, exactly right- since nobody has any morals anymore, the toys have to be taken away from the babies.
Maybe not typical left wing. But perhaps hedonist.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/a-theory-on-what-motivated-stephan-paddock-and-why-therell-be-more-of-him-in-the-future//
Used to be. Under the new regime, there is zero chance that Fox would do anything different from the rest of the MSM.
That is part of the reason why my prius is covered in right wing bumper stickers.
It can also come to "right and wrong are meaningless, other people are just my playthings to do with what I wish"
Hard to throw a pipe bomb nearly a mile, but I suppose you could design them with model rocket engines. Good thing that leftwing nut jobs aren't quite that smart. The body count could have been limited if hotel security had responded quicker though- over 70 minutes of bullets raining out the window and people complaining of the sound of gun shots to the front desk, and nobody did anything?
I suspect that's more on the 30 year timeframe, as I still see cars built in the 1980s and 1990s on the road, and only the rich can afford electric so far.
I am, but I sure as hell prefer waterfall. See tagline.
Half the time it is the end customer doing Fire, Aim, Ready. Rinse and repeat for Continuous Bugs (see current tagline, your mileage may vary in 2022)
"which could had been used."
One of which clearly isn't grammar.
Because it just SCREAMS "inclusion" to label 25% of Americans or more as "Deplorable" people to be what, executed?
What that trending sticky header says, changes with the number of conservative friends you have.
Apparently, flat design effects how to spell affect.
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I'm amazed how young web developers are so ignorant of the last 30 years of history.
Which is almost a stupid of a UI design as "We have hit a general protection fault and all of your work for the past several hours will be destroyed, and corrupted on the hard drive. OK?"
Hey, me too. 503 errors all the way down.
Universal Basic Income works great as long as you have a fiat currency. The problem is it is hyperinflationary; it won't be long before that $1000 isn't enough to buy enough food to feed a person for a week, let alone a month.
While I have a tendency to agree, I do worry about the unintended consequences. The problem will be that the basic income will become the "poverty floor" and the goalposts will move.
That was the point of the morality play. The Dictatorship of Moral Relativism clashing with Objective Morality- with a switch up between progressives and traditionalists where it was the traditionalists who were relativists and the progressives who were objective.
The Objective Progressive Losing in Court *was the point*.
Both Solaria and Aurora were severely underpopulated, the only *real* difference was in culture. The Aurorans would gather together and travel together for social reasons, and the Solarians would avoid each other even for purposes of reproduction.
I expect the bare minimum for 100% uptime is 21 human employees (between machine breakdown and illness). Of which, 14 of those are redundant replacements (but given that human beings sleep a third of their life, you need 3 sets to assure proper redundancy).
As it turns out, with new automated vertical hydroponic gardening techniques, it only takes one acre of sunlight to feed a human being for a whole year.
We are far more likely to head towards Trantor, than Aurora- 80 billion human beings living underneath a roof of biodomes.
50 million people on welfare taking $1.17 trillion dollars to maintain, in the United States alone, certainly trends towards that.