>> if there is another producer who has lower production costs, they will undercut your price
Nope that isn't how it works either. Most usually, the few large competitors all agree to not gouge each other beyond a certain point, and then group together to squeeze new players out. That way they deny their customers any real choice by complicit agreement, and they all get away with charging too much.
Just look at the cable companies and phone companies for perfect examples.
Your assumption that you and others will necessarily be prevented from driving if the driving test gets stricter isn't a good one, because it presumes people are fundamentally incapable of learning.
What do you think happens in say Western Europe where the driving tests are already much stricter? Still nearly everyone over there has a driving licence. The answer is you just have to make more of an effort to learn, but everyone can and does. To drive well takes schooling and being taught. Just driving for years on its own clearly doesn't work. Just look at the evidence that is already there on most US roads. Most people have actually been driving for years and still clearly don't even know the basics. All driving for decades has done for them is reinforce bad habits that are now even harder to be undone. For example, driving overly cautiously is really not being a good or even safe driver at all. It is FAR safer to keep up with the general flow of traffic than become a one-car bottleneck that causes a tailback and others are fighting to get around, yet still many people do it.
If you do want to actually learn how to drive, go do a course at a high performance/racing driving school such as Bondurant. Apart from just being outright fun, I promise you it will give you a whole new appreciation of driving and a level of car handling skill that you will find very advantageous for just the average daily driving too.
>> Ten years from now the price of energy around the world may be set by how much methane extraction costs.
This is a very naive statement. The cost of energy (or anything else) has never been set by how much it costs to produce, it's only ever set by how much they can get away with charging for it.
>> jeopardizing one of the most promising technologies for preventing traffic deaths.
Using technology to get around the fact that Americans can and do get a driving licence despite being an awful, clueless driver is a shit idea that can't and doesn't address the core problem at all.
The government needs to address the problem directly by mandating much stricter driving tests that include demonstrating an ability to actually be able to drive, such as controlling and handling a car well in all conditions, especially at the edge of performance. Just memorizing all the traffic signs/laws which is what they currently test for, in no way automatically makes anyone a good driver.
At least here in AZ, the amount of distracted drivers texting while driving, and people that think its ok to never indicate even when very much cutting you off is a serious problem,
The cops never seem to focus on stopping those people though, they only seem to penalize people that are actually driving safely other than exceeding the speed limit by a few mph.
The Queen has them all beat. Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's non ocean surface. She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory.
>> It is no more an example of natural selection...than bullets fired from a rifle are natural selection, killing off the weaklings who can't take a gunshot wound.
There's absolutely nothing about the process of natural selection that requires the source of potential death to be not man-made. Assuming multiple people are shot in an identical way, then some live and go on to breed while others die, you most definitely are subjecting them to natural selection.
I agree that average city air being so polluted with other stuff would make a non-chronic SHS study almost impossible. That said, if I go anywhere near people smoking, even just briefly, my own body quickly starts clearly telling me that it's some nasty shit that I'm (re)breathing. I surprisingly quickly start to get stinging eyes and irritated sinuses etc. and it only gets worse if I stay around them. I don't get anything like that from gasoline car exhausts or anything much else, except I also very quickly get a bad sensation to diesel exhaust even just in passing.
I mean are you REALLY naive enough to believe that Windows is 1) an even slightly secure OS 2) Microsoft (and therefore the NSA) really don't/aren't using their own backdoors built right into Windows (and maybe Intel's IME) to conduct ongoing scans, analysis and upload of anything/everything of "interest" that you ever have on your PC ?
The problem is clearly the NSA employee who took the code home and put it on his Windows PC in the first place. He of all people should have known WAAAY better.
>> We are talking about... twenty or more years, You want to throw them out because of "teh law"
Yep. Enforcing the law sometimes sucks for people (especially those who are breaking it), but that's not a sane excuse to not enforce it. Selectively not enforcing the law (ie giving only some people a free pass based on some arbitrary criteria) is not only clueless but dangerous, because then you inevitably end up with yet another massive double-standard and the inevitable group that are actually more victimised than others.
>> Consider how it works in a more civilised country, like the UK
Yes let's, since I am actually English but a LEGAL immigrant to the US. Secondly after seeing both, I would no way agree that the UK is any more civilised than the US. In fact in the last say 20 years especially I would say its become very noticeably significantly less.
>> After staying long enough in the UK, you receive "permanent residence status", which means you have the right to live and work in the UK,
NOT even close. You absolutely can't just illegally enter the UK and then be allowed to stay. In fact you've got far more chance of successfully doing that in the US (especially in Californistan and any other sanctuary cities) than the UK.
Yes you can enter legally and get those things, just like you can in the US. I know because I did it myself, and If I can do it anyone can.
You're right, that the kids are victims, but of their parents choices, not the state. The state enforcing the law and deporting them is just an ultimately inevitable outcome of their illegal status, or should be at least. Don't like it? then don't be in the US illegally. Simple. The moment the state stops enforcing the law, especially selectively just for one group, then that's the moment that the country as a whole goes to hell.
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If there's a demand.. something else will rise to fill it. If there's no actual demand, then it won't really be missed.
>> this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day.
Was it their last day before they did it?
>> if there is another producer who has lower production costs, they will undercut your price
Nope that isn't how it works either. Most usually, the few large competitors all agree to not gouge each other beyond a certain point, and then group together to squeeze new players out. That way they deny their customers any real choice by complicit agreement, and they all get away with charging too much.
Just look at the cable companies and phone companies for perfect examples.
Your assumption that you and others will necessarily be prevented from driving if the driving test gets stricter isn't a good one, because it presumes people are fundamentally incapable of learning.
What do you think happens in say Western Europe where the driving tests are already much stricter? Still nearly everyone over there has a driving licence. The answer is you just have to make more of an effort to learn, but everyone can and does. To drive well takes schooling and being taught. Just driving for years on its own clearly doesn't work. Just look at the evidence that is already there on most US roads. Most people have actually been driving for years and still clearly don't even know the basics. All driving for decades has done for them is reinforce bad habits that are now even harder to be undone.
For example, driving overly cautiously is really not being a good or even safe driver at all. It is FAR safer to keep up with the general flow of traffic than become a one-car bottleneck that causes a tailback and others are fighting to get around, yet still many people do it.
If you do want to actually learn how to drive, go do a course at a high performance/racing driving school such as Bondurant. Apart from just being outright fun, I promise you it will give you a whole new appreciation of driving and a level of car handling skill that you will find very advantageous for just the average daily driving too.
No removeable battery? No SD slot? No thanks.
>> Ten years from now the price of energy around the world may be set by how much methane extraction costs.
This is a very naive statement. The cost of energy (or anything else) has never been set by how much it costs to produce, it's only ever set by how much they can get away with charging for it.
>> jeopardizing one of the most promising technologies for preventing traffic deaths.
Using technology to get around the fact that Americans can and do get a driving licence despite being an awful, clueless driver is a shit idea that can't and doesn't address the core problem at all.
The government needs to address the problem directly by mandating much stricter driving tests that include demonstrating an ability to actually be able to drive, such as controlling and handling a car well in all conditions, especially at the edge of performance. Just memorizing all the traffic signs/laws which is what they currently test for, in no way automatically makes anyone a good driver.
At least here in AZ, the amount of distracted drivers texting while driving, and people that think its ok to never indicate even when very much cutting you off is a serious problem,
The cops never seem to focus on stopping those people though, they only seem to penalize people that are actually driving safely other than exceeding the speed limit by a few mph.
Even at 91, I bet she does more in a week than you do.
Why stop at just their news feeds?
The Queen has them all beat.
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's non ocean surface. She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory.
Meh, writing for the web is soooo 10 minutes ago..
You're missing a fundamental point. The thing that is natural is the process of selection itself, not the instigator.
>> It is no more an example of natural selection...than bullets fired from a rifle are natural selection, killing off the weaklings who can't take a gunshot wound.
There's absolutely nothing about the process of natural selection that requires the source of potential death to be not man-made. Assuming multiple people are shot in an identical way, then some live and go on to breed while others die, you most definitely are subjecting them to natural selection.
I agree that average city air being so polluted with other stuff would make a non-chronic SHS study almost impossible.
That said, if I go anywhere near people smoking, even just briefly, my own body quickly starts clearly telling me that it's some nasty shit that I'm (re)breathing.
I surprisingly quickly start to get stinging eyes and irritated sinuses etc. and it only gets worse if I stay around them.
I don't get anything like that from gasoline car exhausts or anything much else, except I also very quickly get a bad sensation to diesel exhaust even just in passing.
http://www.lung.org/stop-smoki...
I still prefer them to the passive-agressive posters with such tiny balls that post anything even slightly contentious as AC.
I mean are you REALLY naive enough to believe that Windows is
1) an even slightly secure OS
2) Microsoft (and therefore the NSA) really don't/aren't using their own backdoors built right into Windows (and maybe Intel's IME) to conduct ongoing scans, analysis and upload of anything/everything of "interest" that you ever have on your PC ?
The problem is clearly the NSA employee who took the code home and put it on his Windows PC in the first place. He of all people should have known WAAAY better.
Its nice to see that natural selection is being kept alive.
Of course they'll trash it. Cryptocurrency totally undermines the giant legalized scam they've been perpetrating for like 120 years.
>> We are talking about... twenty or more years, You want to throw them out because of "teh law"
Yep. Enforcing the law sometimes sucks for people (especially those who are breaking it), but that's not a sane excuse to not enforce it.
Selectively not enforcing the law (ie giving only some people a free pass based on some arbitrary criteria) is not only clueless but dangerous, because then you inevitably end up with yet another massive double-standard and the inevitable group that are actually more victimised than others.
>> Consider how it works in a more civilised country, like the UK
Yes let's, since I am actually English but a LEGAL immigrant to the US. Secondly after seeing both, I would no way agree that the UK is any more civilised than the US. In fact in the last say 20 years especially I would say its become very noticeably significantly less.
>> After staying long enough in the UK, you receive "permanent residence status", which means you have the right to live and work in the UK,
NOT even close. You absolutely can't just illegally enter the UK and then be allowed to stay. In fact you've got far more chance of successfully doing that in the US (especially in Californistan and any other sanctuary cities) than the UK.
Yes you can enter legally and get those things, just like you can in the US. I know because I did it myself, and If I can do it anyone can.
You're right, that the kids are victims, but of their parents choices, not the state. The state enforcing the law and deporting them is just an ultimately inevitable outcome of their illegal status, or should be at least. Don't like it? then don't be in the US illegally. Simple.
The moment the state stops enforcing the law, especially selectively just for one group, then that's the moment that the country as a whole goes to hell.
>> probably get just as many flowing across the US-Canadian border since it is far less protected.
I remember reading a while back that the Canadian rather than the Mexican border was also what IS was instructing their trained terrorists to use.
Totally agree. Illegals of any origin/wealth are still illegals.
>> that's a different issue.
Not really. One turns into the other.