I've certainly heard of people who seek cars made in a certain country, but does anyone actually value this more than whether their car is a piece of shit?
I have family overseas (not Europe) and they definitely care whether the car was manufactured and assembled in the USA/Mexico/Europe or mfg/assembled somewhere in Asia or Africa.
But everyone has plants in Africa and South America that manufacture parts and/or assemble complete cars. The quality control for parts isn't as good and the QC for assembly isn't as good. People care and they pay more for cars that aren't built/assembled on their continent.
^This graphic is many years out of date, but it'll give you an idea of the complicated relationships that car manufacturers have. When it comes down to it, the car companies that aren't partially owned by one another are all cross licensing technology and sharing engines or chassises with one another.
FTFA: Diesel is dirty and requires expensive exhaust systems.
That's a very simplistic response from TFA. The reality is that diesel usage in the USA & Europe are shaped by differing regulatory and tax policies.
Europe taxes fuels heavily, but gasoline is taxed more than diesel by about $1.00 The USA does not tax fuel very heavily, but diesel is taxed more than gasoline by $0.06*
The USA's regulations are centered around limiting Nitrogen Oxides Europe's regulations were centered around Carbon Monoxide and sulfur dioxides
In other words, the USA's regulations were focused on the one thing diesel engines were not good at. Combine that with the USA's higher fuel taxes and refusal to mandate (ultra) low sulfur diesel fuel for years, the market for passenger diesels in the USA was more or less dead by design.
I'm in favor of anything to increase engine efficiency, but we wouldn't be scrambling to match the efficiency of diesel if we were just using diesels.
There have been a few articles on ex-pats, and the legal hoops through which people and foreign banks, in particular, have to jump is ridiculous, if not downright onerous. Some foreign banks have simply refused to do business with Americans because of these stupid regs.
You mean the stupid regs that were put into place to stop decades of tax evasion? I don't understand the kind of thinking that complains about regulations without acknowledging why that regulation exists.
I'll give you a hint: It started with Swiss banks and their active role in helping US clients to evade US taxes. Our government decided it was about time for their evasion to end and we're making sure it doesn't' happen again. Hence "these stupid regs"
trying to convince people that, say, a leading national figure is Muslim. However, the latter can also work because it's helped along by the "big lie" effect.
That lie (like many lies) was helped by two things: 1. The trust that viewers/readers place in the personalities/authors that were talking about the issue. 2. Repetition. If you keep repeating a lie, it'll stick with some people, no matter how outlandish it is.
These hoaxers had no resevoir of trust already built up with the community they were trying to deceive AND they had no real opportunity to repeat the lie in a way that would invade the common consciousness.
They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximise profits, so of course they will do that by reducing privacy
Do you know that Facebook will have 1 shareholder with 55.8% of the voting shares? That shareholder is CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg e could do whatever he wants with Facebook after the IPO and never have to work another day in his life. The only shareholder that matters doesn't need maximized profits. How do facts jive with your "reduce privacy to maximise profits" ideology?
Pretty much every smartphone out there now is perfectly capable of running the full-blown JRE out of the box. In other words, with or without Dalvek, mobile Java editions are a fading proposition.
There is no such thing as "technically correct" because languages are not constructed in anything resembling a technical fashion.
I felt a great disturbance in the Grammar, as if millions of teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
It seems a logical stance to take if his goal is to win the delegate vote.
Ron Paul's goal is to elevate his son Rand Paul. It's a sad ending to Ron Paul's advocacy of libertarian ideals. Despite some of his awful policy positions, I like Ron Paul. Rand Paul... not so much.
Spoofed IPs will never get routed correctly. You can't hold a "conversation", which means you can't even create an encrypted connection.
So they'll add a mechanism to ban peers based on bad peer exchanges. If a peer gives you 2 or more bad peers... ban. Which is, to answer the GP's question, exactly what's done for peers that send you bad chunks.
Task manager can be tweaked to display the disk writes (I/O) of individual processes. Processes --> View --> Select Columns
You can do something similar with Process Explorer, which was an awesome program that got bought by Microsoft, but has avoided the meddling that usually follows being aquired.
Process Explorer will show you the programs attached to processes like svchost.exe so you can pinpoint exactly what's kicking up problems.
You have to show first, that you aren't already getting paid that "fair share".
Income disparity is the greatest it has been since right before the Great Depression. 40 years of profits have mostly been squirreled into low tax or offshore investments. If that same money had gone to employees, it would have been subject to normal levels of taxation and kept our government solvent.
Really, it's almost like I talked right past you. Did you bother to click the link and look at even one of those graphs? Here's one: http://i.imgur.com/wBgyq.png
I'd say these numbers more or less speak for themselves. That should more or less answer all your questions.
There IS no more contract. Those in government over the last ~60-80 years who are and have been anxious to progress past the limitations on government scope & power set on it by the Constitution broke it long ago.
Could you be more specific? Because I'm pretty sure anything you're going to say can be more or less closely matched by something that happened within the founding fathers' lifetimes. /except Iran-Contra. I'm pretty sure our founding fathers were never selling arms to the enemy.
This wouldn't be an issue if the individuals who were accumulating 40 years worth of profits were paying the top tax rate. But they didn't. For 40 years. So we're boned.
So, just for clarity let's make sure everyone understands that the USPS is being deliberately engineered to fail by the same vandals and saboteurs who are deliberately engineering our economy to fail.
It passed a unanimous voice vote in the Senate. Before that, it was also passed by voice vote in the House and the motion for a roll call vote was denied. The law that created this fiasco was passed after midnight on the last legislative day of Congress. Our lawmakers just wanted to get the hell out of there.
For example hail storm damage, tree falling on your car or an unavoidable cow jumping in front of you on a bind corner. Not to mention cruising at 50 miles an hour and hitting an ice patch
Yes, but they won't be able to charge the same sky high premiums just to cover purely accidental damage.
When they say "the end of insurance" they really mean "our profit margins are going to shrink drastically"
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
A truly automated roadway will *require some politician, at some point, to pull the trigger and kick every other car off the road. America is a loooooong way away from that happening.
*Unless you think a parallel system of roadways is a viable idea.
"Just released, and coming in at 370 MB in size, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update includes general OS fixes, and addresses more than 30 security vulnerabilities. But aside from typical security fixes, Apple has made an interesting move in an effort to protect users. Through this latest software update, Safari 5.1.7 will now automatically disable older â" and typically more vulnerable â" versions of the Adobe Flash player. While many software vendors would prefer OS makers to keep their hands off their software, the move appears to be welcomed by Adobe, which has constantly battled vulnerabilities in its widely installed Flash Player."
This request for the automatic routing of data to GCHQ is no less crazy than this, so in this case there should not be negotiation or haggling - just the immediate sacking of the person requesting this stuff.
If that's what the public wanted, that's what it would get. And when I say "wanted" I mean really wanted to the point where it was politically untenable to not-fire someone. But the reality is that most shitty legislation is created with "a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes" and not presented to the public until the votes have been more or less lined up. Is it really a democratic process when the legislators and businesses are "maneuvering behind the scenes" without public input?
It's clear that we hired the wrong people to build our electronic voting machines. Instead of the guys who build ATMs, we should have hired the guys who build slot machines.
Saying that Palestinians should not be kept walled into ghettos is not antisemitic. Disagreeing with Israeli government policy is not antisemitic. Being in favor of a two-state solution is not antisemitic. Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic.
It's hard to have a conversation about Israel when so many people are completely unfamiliar with Zionism. Especially when they confuse and conflate anti-zionism and anti-semitism.
He loses the election without women, so he make sure that the right wingers end up on the wrong side of every women's issue.
Obama hasn't had to do anything to put right wingers on the wrong side of every women's issue. The conservative record on women is a series of unforced errors and embarrassing own goals. It's hard to win over 21st century women when you're using 19th century gender roles.
It should also be noted that when the Republican House passed a measure last week to extend that interest rate, the President immmediately threatened a veto.
Because Republicans wanted to pay for it by taking the money from healthcare.
The Dems picked this particular funding method not because they preferred it, but because they were pretty sure the Reps would oppose it.
[Citation Needed] I could get into a long explanation of why our current social security cap is arbitrary and how income disparity is what has led us to the funding problems for social security, but instead i'll just say that the cynicism and obstructionism of the current batch of Republicans never ceases to amaze. How do you negotiate with "no new taxes ever"?
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I've certainly heard of people who seek cars made in a certain country, but does anyone actually value this more than whether their car is a piece of shit?
I have family overseas (not Europe) and they definitely care whether the car was manufactured and assembled in the USA/Mexico/Europe or mfg/assembled somewhere in Asia or Africa.
This was the first wikipedia plage I came across that listed the various plants an auto manufacturer had:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz#Factories
But everyone has plants in Africa and South America that manufacture parts and/or assemble complete cars.
The quality control for parts isn't as good and the QC for assembly isn't as good.
People care and they pay more for cars that aren't built/assembled on their continent.
http://www.toomanycars.info/CarRelationship/Auto%20Family%20Tree%202008-Layout2.png
^This graphic is many years out of date, but it'll give you an idea of the complicated relationships that car manufacturers have.
When it comes down to it, the car companies that aren't partially owned by one another are all cross licensing technology and sharing engines or chassises with one another.
FTFA: Diesel is dirty and requires expensive exhaust systems.
That's a very simplistic response from TFA.
The reality is that diesel usage in the USA & Europe are shaped by differing regulatory and tax policies.
Europe taxes fuels heavily, but gasoline is taxed more than diesel by about $1.00
The USA does not tax fuel very heavily, but diesel is taxed more than gasoline by $0.06*
The USA's regulations are centered around limiting Nitrogen Oxides
Europe's regulations were centered around Carbon Monoxide and sulfur dioxides
In other words, the USA's regulations were focused on the one thing diesel engines were not good at.
Combine that with the USA's higher fuel taxes and refusal to mandate (ultra) low sulfur diesel fuel for years,
the market for passenger diesels in the USA was more or less dead by design.
I'm in favor of anything to increase engine efficiency, but we wouldn't be scrambling to match the efficiency of diesel if we were just using diesels.
*Additional state taxes may vary
There's a reason wristwatches supplanted pocket ones.
Fashion trends are cyclical.
After enough years, everything old is new again.
There have been a few articles on ex-pats, and the legal hoops through which people and foreign banks, in particular, have to jump is ridiculous, if not downright onerous. Some foreign banks have simply refused to do business with Americans because of these stupid regs.
You mean the stupid regs that were put into place to stop decades of tax evasion?
I don't understand the kind of thinking that complains about regulations without acknowledging why that regulation exists.
I'll give you a hint: It started with Swiss banks and their active role in helping US clients to evade US taxes.
Our government decided it was about time for their evasion to end and we're making sure it doesn't' happen again.
Hence "these stupid regs"
trying to convince people that, say, a leading national figure is Muslim. However, the latter can also work because it's helped along by the "big lie" effect.
That lie (like many lies) was helped by two things:
1. The trust that viewers/readers place in the personalities/authors that were talking about the issue.
2. Repetition. If you keep repeating a lie, it'll stick with some people, no matter how outlandish it is.
These hoaxers had no resevoir of trust already built up with the community they were trying to deceive
AND they had no real opportunity to repeat the lie in a way that would invade the common consciousness.
They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximise profits, so of course they will do that by reducing privacy
Do you know that Facebook will have 1 shareholder with 55.8% of the voting shares?
That shareholder is CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg e could do whatever he wants with Facebook after the IPO and never have to work another day in his life.
The only shareholder that matters doesn't need maximized profits.
How do facts jive with your "reduce privacy to maximise profits" ideology?
Pretty much every smartphone out there now is perfectly capable of running the full-blown JRE out of the box. In other words, with or without Dalvek, mobile Java editions are a fading proposition.
You might be surprised to learn that the vast majority of mobile phones in the USA and the world are not smart phones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_phone
Mobile java is going to be around for a looong time, mostly because 70% of global cell phone purchasers can't afford smart phones.
There is no such thing as "technically correct" because languages are not constructed in anything resembling a technical fashion.
I felt a great disturbance in the Grammar, as if millions of teachers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
It seems a logical stance to take if his goal is to win the delegate vote.
Ron Paul's goal is to elevate his son Rand Paul.
It's a sad ending to Ron Paul's advocacy of libertarian ideals.
Despite some of his awful policy positions, I like Ron Paul.
Rand Paul... not so much.
Spoofed IPs will never get routed correctly. You can't hold a "conversation", which means you can't even create an encrypted connection.
So they'll add a mechanism to ban peers based on bad peer exchanges.
If a peer gives you 2 or more bad peers... ban.
Which is, to answer the GP's question, exactly what's done for peers that send you bad chunks.
Task manager can be tweaked to display the disk writes (I/O) of individual processes.
Processes --> View --> Select Columns
You can do something similar with Process Explorer,
which was an awesome program that got bought by Microsoft,
but has avoided the meddling that usually follows being aquired.
Process Explorer will show you the programs attached to processes like svchost.exe
so you can pinpoint exactly what's kicking up problems.
You have to show first, that you aren't already getting paid that "fair share".
Income disparity is the greatest it has been since right before the Great Depression.
40 years of profits have mostly been squirreled into low tax or offshore investments.
If that same money had gone to employees, it would have been subject to normal levels of taxation and kept our government solvent.
Really, it's almost like I talked right past you.
Did you bother to click the link and look at even one of those graphs?
Here's one: http://i.imgur.com/wBgyq.png
I'd say these numbers more or less speak for themselves.
That should more or less answer all your questions.
There IS no more contract. Those in government over the last ~60-80 years who are and have been anxious to progress past the limitations on government scope & power set on it by the Constitution broke it long ago.
Could you be more specific?
Because I'm pretty sure anything you're going to say can be more or less closely matched by something that happened within the founding fathers' lifetimes.
/except Iran-Contra. I'm pretty sure our founding fathers were never selling arms to the enemy.
The downfall didn't start until the 80s, with its massive tax cuts, deregulation, explosion of Wall Street gambling, and culture of greed.
The middle class has always carried the majority of the tax burden, but they haven't been paid their fair share.
It started in the 70s when workers' productivity vs wages started to diverge.
It didn't help that Reagan decided to drastically cut tax rates, but the long term problem has not been lower taxes,
it's been that workers aren't being payed enough & therefore, the government's tax revenues haven't kept pace.
This wouldn't be an issue if the individuals who were accumulating 40 years worth of profits were paying the top tax rate.
But they didn't. For 40 years. So we're boned.
So, just for clarity let's make sure everyone understands that the USPS is being deliberately engineered to fail by the same vandals and saboteurs who are deliberately engineering our economy to fail.
It passed a unanimous voice vote in the Senate.
Before that, it was also passed by voice vote in the House and the motion for a roll call vote was denied.
The law that created this fiasco was passed after midnight on the last legislative day of Congress.
Our lawmakers just wanted to get the hell out of there.
For example hail storm damage, tree falling on your car or an unavoidable cow jumping in front of you on a bind corner. Not to mention cruising at 50 miles an hour and hitting an ice patch
Yes, but they won't be able to charge the same sky high premiums just to cover purely accidental damage.
When they say "the end of insurance" they really mean "our profit margins are going to shrink drastically"
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
A truly automated roadway will *require some politician, at some point, to pull the trigger and kick every other car off the road.
America is a loooooong way away from that happening.
*Unless you think a parallel system of roadways is a viable idea.
"Just released, and coming in at 370 MB in size, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update includes general OS fixes, and addresses more than 30 security vulnerabilities. But aside from typical security fixes, Apple has made an interesting move in an effort to protect users. Through this latest software update, Safari 5.1.7 will now automatically disable older â" and typically more vulnerable â" versions of the Adobe Flash player. While many software vendors would prefer OS makers to keep their hands off their software, the move appears to be welcomed by Adobe, which has constantly battled vulnerabilities in its widely installed Flash Player."
Maybe Apple should disable Photoshop CS5 as well?
This request for the automatic routing of data to GCHQ is no less crazy than this, so in this case there should not be negotiation or haggling - just the immediate sacking of the person requesting this stuff.
If that's what the public wanted, that's what it would get.
And when I say "wanted" I mean really wanted to the point where it was politically untenable to not-fire someone.
But the reality is that most shitty legislation is created with "a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes" and not presented to the public until the votes have been more or less lined up.
Is it really a democratic process when the legislators and businesses are "maneuvering behind the scenes" without public input?
It's clear that we hired the wrong people to build our electronic voting machines.
Instead of the guys who build ATMs, we should have hired the guys who build slot machines.
Saying that Palestinians should not be kept walled into ghettos is not antisemitic. Disagreeing with Israeli government policy is not antisemitic. Being in favor of a two-state solution is not antisemitic. Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic.
It's hard to have a conversation about Israel when so many people are completely unfamiliar with Zionism.
Especially when they confuse and conflate anti-zionism and anti-semitism.
Zionism is the reason Jews pushed for land in Palestine and why, after the British agreed to give them part of Palestine,
they've been continuing to push settlements into the Palestinian territories.
Why couldn't they have recreated a herd of these guys instead of raptors?
Think 'Petting Zoo' instead of 'dying a horrible death'
He loses the election without women, so he make sure that the right wingers end up on the wrong side of every women's issue.
Obama hasn't had to do anything to put right wingers on the wrong side of every women's issue.
The conservative record on women is a series of unforced errors and embarrassing own goals.
It's hard to win over 21st century women when you're using 19th century gender roles.
It should also be noted that when the Republican House passed a measure last week to extend that interest rate, the President immmediately threatened a veto.
Because Republicans wanted to pay for it by taking the money from healthcare.
The Dems picked this particular funding method not because they preferred it, but because they were pretty sure the Reps would oppose it.
[Citation Needed]
I could get into a long explanation of why our current social security cap is arbitrary
and how income disparity is what has led us to the funding problems for social security,
but instead i'll just say that the cynicism and obstructionism of the current batch of Republicans never ceases to amaze.
How do you negotiate with "no new taxes ever"?