You are forgetting the supply to handle peak loads. It's not just economical it's quite profitable because of how ridiculously high the pricing is set to cover short term peaks.
break the ME stranglehold on supply and distribution
Not so much considering who owns most of the stock on those oil companies. Profits are still going to the middle east apart from some of the smaller shale companies (that's if there's any left after the Saudis started a price war).
Norway is just about what you'd call the textbook example of a socialist state, including state owned companies and price controls, so I do not get your point. If you want to see an example of price controls ask a Norwegian about the price of beer.
It's hard to say whether it was a stupid idea or not because the mode of failure was a drop in oil price removing the funds to continue carrying out the idea. A monoculture fucked over the socialist state of Venezuela just like it's going to fuck over the monarchist state of Saudi Arabia when their oil runs out. It's got nothing to do with whether a monarchist government is better than a socialist one but all to do with bad choices and relying too much on one point of failure.
and the people just blow it on drugs and are then starving on the streets and filling up emergency rooms what do you do?
You walk out of the cinema and into the real world where people would rather feed their kids than whatever sort of zombie apocalypse you are going on about.
No, not really. You can spend 80 hours per week doing a job that returns $1000 in value to the company you work for, but you can't expect them to just hand you $1500 for your time
Someone seriously wrote that on Slashdot - the site for programmers, system admins, R&D and so on who are considered a "cost center"? A lot of people here do not generate a salable return but without them the systems used to generate a return would fail. Should most of the people here take a pay cut just because an accountant has defined them as a "cost center"? Should the accountants also take a cut since they are also support staff? Consider that and then think about your example as applied to yourself instead of some other person you consider worthless untermenchen.
So. Can you show me a nation system that has more wealth mobility than the one we have in the US now?
The USA of a couple of years back, more so a few years before that and so on. It's about a decline due to crony capitalism instead of the sort of tempered capitalism we used to be proud of.
Meanwhile Germany with higher taxes, more regulation and unions with actual political power (instead of the toothless things you pretend are a bogeyman) is doing ok. Maybe you should consider that the problems are due to something other than what you think they are.
That's a good point. MS Windows for all it's shortcomings in a system like this (it's 2017 - just use a web server as your library database front end and then whatever you want on the desktops) can be kept running or restored to bare metal if it's treated seriously instead of as a magic thing that always keeps going. However being prepared costs time and some resources so it looks like it was ignored.
Another poster, crashsomething, has been pointing out that I'm Australian as if that somehow makes my comments on engineering, IT and international affairs as if that somehow makes all my comments invalid so I was reluctant to answer, but yes, I am an Australian currently living in Australia and wishing it was not so fucking hot at the moment. I've heard Americans use the term and we don't have a lot of turkeys (outside of politics anyway) so I think it's something we've picked up in only the last decade or so. I could be wrong about where it came from but it's definitely used in the US now.
With respect, I don't want to put a dampener on you telling people that they do not matter but it was from visitors from Israel so that would make it the " Israeli Israeli community". Perhaps they would know something of the topic Mr "just google it".
I am sure the world wants to know more about your scout master
From your childish behaviour I would guess that he died thirty years before you were born.
Since I have a modicum of politeness
From your spamming earlier full of utterly vile insults - no you clearly do not.
6th or 7th in a row
You did more than that in parallel when you decided to target me earlier.
So everything is about you spamboy? If was so shallow as to try payback would it have been a mild comment on the topic that did not put you in any sort of bad light or even disagree with you?
Tell me is all your expertise of this quality
Reality versus a google lookup? I prefer the former spamboy.
One amusing thing that happened near me was an airport IT failure not an airline one. Several airports under the same owner in different states ended up with all baggage handling operations run from one site. So when the obvious happened and two backhoe incidents took out both connections one airport had baggage conveyors that could not be operated either locally or manually. If someone put all these recent airline/airport failures in a book and sent it back to 1970 they would think it was a satire.
Project? You were the spam boy Crash. It's extremely telling that you wrote "google it" instead of suggesting I talk to someone who is actually from Israel, which it the way I formed my opinion in the first place. A bot may as well have just picked "google it" from a short list of stock phrases. Perhaps instead of trivilizing this topic you apply your failures of the Turing Test to things that are less important.
The only problem with this story is that it supports the Biblical account of the flood
You don't see the problem with the ice shell and the other fantasy elements?
Why can't there be a God if the world is older than 6000 years old? Is your version of God really that puny? Three of the four people who discredited the global flood fossil theory were ordained Anglican Priests FFS and they didn't think God was so puny that he would cease to exist just because some people were reading the Bible the wrong way.
maybe they're the ones that turned the Outback into a desert
There's some pretty old stuff in some of those deserts. From (http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/1301.0Feature%20Article32006)
Although all of the southern hemisphere deserts are long-standing features of the environment, and took shape during the Miocene (24 million to 5 million years ago), they have responded to global and regional climate change during the Quaternary (the last 1.8 million years).
Only around a century back it became popular to discredit people in the past by calling them "flat earthers" but the reality was every sailor and plenty of others besides knew that the horizon was from the curve of the earth. In this case we have people being critical of a strawman with some sort of gold-plated noble savage thing going on. Meanwhile anyone who has heard of a boomerang knows of things like fire-stick farming where people changed the environment to better suit them. So IMHO the people doing the "judging" don't really exist, only those who are ridiculing the mythical strawman who if they were real would be confronted this new evidence to shake their mythical worldview. How does the strawman hear of this when they haven't heart of a million other things that would shake their worldview? You are just telling the old "flat earther" joke.
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You are forgetting the supply to handle peak loads. It's not just economical it's quite profitable because of how ridiculously high the pricing is set to cover short term peaks.
Not so much considering who owns most of the stock on those oil companies. Profits are still going to the middle east apart from some of the smaller shale companies (that's if there's any left after the Saudis started a price war).
Norway is just about what you'd call the textbook example of a socialist state, including state owned companies and price controls, so I do not get your point.
If you want to see an example of price controls ask a Norwegian about the price of beer.
It's hard to say whether it was a stupid idea or not because the mode of failure was a drop in oil price removing the funds to continue carrying out the idea.
A monoculture fucked over the socialist state of Venezuela just like it's going to fuck over the monarchist state of Saudi Arabia when their oil runs out. It's got nothing to do with whether a monarchist government is better than a socialist one but all to do with bad choices and relying too much on one point of failure.
Not possible in a lot of places. Shantytowns get knocked down.
You walk out of the cinema and into the real world where people would rather feed their kids than whatever sort of zombie apocalypse you are going on about.
Someone seriously wrote that on Slashdot - the site for programmers, system admins, R&D and so on who are considered a "cost center"?
A lot of people here do not generate a salable return but without them the systems used to generate a return would fail. Should most of the people here take a pay cut just because an accountant has defined them as a "cost center"? Should the accountants also take a cut since they are also support staff?
Consider that and then think about your example as applied to yourself instead of some other person you consider worthless untermenchen.
Are you roleplaying your username "ghoul"?
There's plenty of motivation for social mobility without advocating shit like that.
So. Can you show me a nation system that has more wealth mobility than the one we have in the US now?
The USA of a couple of years back, more so a few years before that and so on.
It's about a decline due to crony capitalism instead of the sort of tempered capitalism we used to be proud of.
Intentional on their part.
People talk about "the new economy" but it's just piecework right out of the 19th century, only with an app.
Meanwhile Germany with higher taxes, more regulation and unions with actual political power (instead of the toothless things you pretend are a bogeyman) is doing ok.
Maybe you should consider that the problems are due to something other than what you think they are.
The sort a country has.
That's a good point. MS Windows for all it's shortcomings in a system like this (it's 2017 - just use a web server as your library database front end and then whatever you want on the desktops) can be kept running or restored to bare metal if it's treated seriously instead of as a magic thing that always keeps going.
However being prepared costs time and some resources so it looks like it was ignored.
Another poster, crashsomething, has been pointing out that I'm Australian as if that somehow makes my comments on engineering, IT and international affairs as if that somehow makes all my comments invalid so I was reluctant to answer, but yes, I am an Australian currently living in Australia and wishing it was not so fucking hot at the moment.
I've heard Americans use the term and we don't have a lot of turkeys (outside of politics anyway) so I think it's something we've picked up in only the last decade or so. I could be wrong about where it came from but it's definitely used in the US now.
From your childish behaviour I would guess that he died thirty years before you were born.
From your spamming earlier full of utterly vile insults - no you clearly do not.
You did more than that in parallel when you decided to target me earlier.
Ironic since you just posted something with zero content. Just give it up spam boy if you are unable to address the topic.
So everything is about you spamboy? If was so shallow as to try payback would it have been a mild comment on the topic that did not put you in any sort of bad light or even disagree with you?
Reality versus a google lookup? I prefer the former spamboy.
What you attach to a backhoe is your own business.
There's always the "why didn't I see that before - it's so obvious" moments that make you feel like a moron.
One amusing thing that happened near me was an airport IT failure not an airline one. Several airports under the same owner in different states ended up with all baggage handling operations run from one site. So when the obvious happened and two backhoe incidents took out both connections one airport had baggage conveyors that could not be operated either locally or manually.
If someone put all these recent airline/airport failures in a book and sent it back to 1970 they would think it was a satire.
Project? You were the spam boy Crash.
It's extremely telling that you wrote "google it" instead of suggesting I talk to someone who is actually from Israel, which it the way I formed my opinion in the first place. A bot may as well have just picked "google it" from a short list of stock phrases.
Perhaps instead of trivilizing this topic you apply your failures of the Turing Test to things that are less important.
You don't see the problem with the ice shell and the other fantasy elements?
Why can't there be a God if the world is older than 6000 years old? Is your version of God really that puny?
Three of the four people who discredited the global flood fossil theory were ordained Anglican Priests FFS and they didn't think God was so puny that he would cease to exist just because some people were reading the Bible the wrong way.
There's some pretty old stuff in some of those deserts.
From (http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/1301.0Feature%20Article32006)
Although all of the southern hemisphere deserts are long-standing features of the environment, and took shape during the Miocene (24 million to 5 million years ago), they have responded to global and regional climate change during the Quaternary (the last 1.8 million years).
Only around a century back it became popular to discredit people in the past by calling them "flat earthers" but the reality was every sailor and plenty of others besides knew that the horizon was from the curve of the earth.
In this case we have people being critical of a strawman with some sort of gold-plated noble savage thing going on. Meanwhile anyone who has heard of a boomerang knows of things like fire-stick farming where people changed the environment to better suit them.
So IMHO the people doing the "judging" don't really exist, only those who are ridiculing the mythical strawman who if they were real would be confronted this new evidence to shake their mythical worldview. How does the strawman hear of this when they haven't heart of a million other things that would shake their worldview?
You are just telling the old "flat earther" joke.
Was that back when you were a Byzan-teen?
Thank you - you've been a great audience - try the veal.