Thanks to anti-worker or at best worker-apathetic politics and budget priorities, it's hard to get OSHA to force companies to even offer sufficient protection from hazardous chemicals like hexavalent chromium. The car parts factory in my town with several hundred employees on the shop floor was giving workers latex gloves and dust masks for protection while chroming bumpers until it was hit with a whopping $10,000 fine after many years.
The darkly amusing punchline to this anecdote is that the guy who owns the factory & built his fortune with it has given millions of dollars to the local university to help them put up a new building for their school of medicine.
A single $1 billion desalination plant near LA will provide 50 million gallons of fresh water per year. California consumes 40 billion gallons of fresh water per day.
~Actually~, lazy eye is not a physical malady, but is a condition where the brain suppresses visual input from one eye, for whatever reason. Misaligned, crossed, or drifting eyes are reasons why some people develop lazy eye, but there are other causes that have nothing to do with "kinetically challenged" eyes. The misimpression that amblyopia is necessarily a physical problem is stoked by it's colloquial name "lazy eye," but humorless nerds should know better.
How do you know? Are you sure you aren't confusing lazy eye (amblyopia) with some of the physical conditions that can cause lazy eye, such as crossed eyes or a drifting eye? Without looking through your classmates' medical records or personally conducting eye exams on all of them, you really have no way to know how many of them have brains that suppress vision from one eye.
Misalignment or poor coordination of the eyes (strabismus) is just one cause of lazy eye, so this therapy can help a subset of people with lazy eye. It's worth noting that drifting or crossed eyes can cause lazy eye, but lazy eye itself is an error in the way your brain processes visual information regardless of whether the cause is simply structural.
since brewing waste was added to pig feed a few years ago, an unprecedented problem has emerged at hog farms around the country -- explosive manure foam. several barns have exploded, in one instance killing hundreds of pigs. more commonly, the noxious foam seeps up from the shitheap underneath the barn, through the slats in the floor, and into the pens. this widespread, extant problem is being addressed by these new regulations.
There already are low-cost, natural water filtration techniques being used across the world that produce clean water at a higher rate, like biosand filters. For water projects i have previously worked on, how quickly water is purified has been a significant practical concern for the folks who would benefit from the project. That was the reason that solar stills were dismissed, for example; they require more effort and materials to construct, but even then have a higher flow rate than the xylem filter. Also, how often the filter must be replaced is another big practicality issue.
1/5 children in America live in poverty. 2/5 lack adequate nutrition. But let's instead focus on improving the quality of life and longevity of the wealthy!
1. Open new clinics to operate on an unsustainable and inhumane for-profit basis without investigating medical history of personnel
2. Fail to pay to keep them open such that market forces and competition result in a net loss of clinics in target countries
3. Pay off a bunch of politicians to protect clinic policy, furthermore pay more politicians to expand privatization and austerity across the board
4. Get a vaccine from somewhere
5. Make lots of it for cheap
6. Sell it at transient new for-profit clinics and don't care if untrained business-owners botch its administration
7. Be hailed as the new jesus christ after PR 'news' articles fail to mention any shortcomings
Where I live, after three unpaid tickets (which are recorded in a city database that traffic police check before issuing parking tickets), your car either gets a boot or gets towed.
Manning set the bar even higher than you think -- a high moral bar that most US foreign policy can't hold a candle to. Manning did the right thing in becoming a whistleblower and showing the public what our 'representatives' are scheming. We have a right to know about US support for the coup in Honduras, etc.
What is hypocritical about this situation is that Manning is being tried for upholding his oath in a meaningful way, while the prosecutors and persecutors are using the letter of the law to contradict its spirit.
On a machine with the same specs, I was able to play multiple videos simultaneously without delay or any other problem, running BeOS. Of course I had to download everything in windows, though...
And what is it about socialism that makes it such a powerful *individual* position?
Socialists recognize that an individual is completely powerless in terms of changing society. Only by banding together, through collective action, can individuals contribute to creating the changes we all want to see. What power do you have holed up with your family in a rural compound? Look at Ruby Ridge.
State and union negotiators based pension contributions on contemporaneously typical assumptions about investments, calculated to provide retirees an optimum income while not hurting paychecks too bad. There was no conspiracy regarding 'too big too fail', a recent invention of private banking. They self-funded their retirement in the same way as someone who pays $10,000 into SS taxes while working then collects $13,600 over the rest of their lifetime. Are you just pulling number out of your ass?
Private employees shirk unionization, then experience pay and benefit cuts, and somehow believe that this is just how the world SHOULD work. Having failed to defend their livelihoods when they had the chance, they become so bitter they demand that no one have decent wages or benefits. Public workers have been vigilant in defending their standards of living; maybe you could learn something from them.
"Public employees accepted lower salaries in exchange for job security, great benefits, and more holidays. But here in the wonderful 21st century, they kept all their bonuses AND get paid more."
If ever public sector workers are paid more for similar work than a private employee, it's because the private employee's boss has by now crushed his pay and benefits to increase company profits.
The now grumpy private employee comes to believe either that he has some god-given right to be paid more than a state worker, or that all workers everywhere must suffer the way he does.
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i've been using ~email~ to send SMS messages from the desktop for 15 years
yes indeed!
Thanks to anti-worker or at best worker-apathetic politics and budget priorities, it's hard to get OSHA to force companies to even offer sufficient protection from hazardous chemicals like hexavalent chromium. The car parts factory in my town with several hundred employees on the shop floor was giving workers latex gloves and dust masks for protection while chroming bumpers until it was hit with a whopping $10,000 fine after many years.
The darkly amusing punchline to this anecdote is that the guy who owns the factory & built his fortune with it has given millions of dollars to the local university to help them put up a new building for their school of medicine.
A single $1 billion desalination plant near LA will provide 50 million gallons of fresh water per year. California consumes 40 billion gallons of fresh water per day.
~Actually~, lazy eye is not a physical malady, but is a condition where the brain suppresses visual input from one eye, for whatever reason. Misaligned, crossed, or drifting eyes are reasons why some people develop lazy eye, but there are other causes that have nothing to do with "kinetically challenged" eyes. The misimpression that amblyopia is necessarily a physical problem is stoked by it's colloquial name "lazy eye," but humorless nerds should know better.
How do you know? Are you sure you aren't confusing lazy eye (amblyopia) with some of the physical conditions that can cause lazy eye, such as crossed eyes or a drifting eye? Without looking through your classmates' medical records or personally conducting eye exams on all of them, you really have no way to know how many of them have brains that suppress vision from one eye.
Misalignment or poor coordination of the eyes (strabismus) is just one cause of lazy eye, so this therapy can help a subset of people with lazy eye. It's worth noting that drifting or crossed eyes can cause lazy eye, but lazy eye itself is an error in the way your brain processes visual information regardless of whether the cause is simply structural.
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since brewing waste was added to pig feed a few years ago, an unprecedented problem has emerged at hog farms around the country -- explosive manure foam. several barns have exploded, in one instance killing hundreds of pigs. more commonly, the noxious foam seeps up from the shitheap underneath the barn, through the slats in the floor, and into the pens. this widespread, extant problem is being addressed by these new regulations.
Can't tell if they're trying to pull my leg.
Most people need clean water on a regular basis and cannot accommodate waiting for a tree to grow to quench their thirst.
There already are low-cost, natural water filtration techniques being used across the world that produce clean water at a higher rate, like biosand filters. For water projects i have previously worked on, how quickly water is purified has been a significant practical concern for the folks who would benefit from the project. That was the reason that solar stills were dismissed, for example; they require more effort and materials to construct, but even then have a higher flow rate than the xylem filter. Also, how often the filter must be replaced is another big practicality issue.
1/5 children in America live in poverty. 2/5 lack adequate nutrition. But let's instead focus on improving the quality of life and longevity of the wealthy!
The Gates' Foundation plan in full:
1. Open new clinics to operate on an unsustainable and inhumane for-profit basis without investigating medical history of personnel
2. Fail to pay to keep them open such that market forces and competition result in a net loss of clinics in target countries
3. Pay off a bunch of politicians to protect clinic policy, furthermore pay more politicians to expand privatization and austerity across the board
4. Get a vaccine from somewhere
5. Make lots of it for cheap
6. Sell it at transient new for-profit clinics and don't care if untrained business-owners botch its administration
7. Be hailed as the new jesus christ after PR 'news' articles fail to mention any shortcomings
Don't build your house on an Indian graveyard :\
or everyone on a soapbox would be assassinated.
Where I live, after three unpaid tickets (which are recorded in a city database that traffic police check before issuing parking tickets), your car either gets a boot or gets towed.
Manning set the bar even higher than you think -- a high moral bar that most US foreign policy can't hold a candle to. Manning did the right thing in becoming a whistleblower and showing the public what our 'representatives' are scheming. We have a right to know about US support for the coup in Honduras, etc.
What is hypocritical about this situation is that Manning is being tried for upholding his oath in a meaningful way, while the prosecutors and persecutors are using the letter of the law to contradict its spirit.
On a machine with the same specs, I was able to play multiple videos simultaneously without delay or any other problem, running BeOS. Of course I had to download everything in windows, though...
And what is it about socialism that makes it such a powerful *individual* position?
Socialists recognize that an individual is completely powerless in terms of changing society. Only by banding together, through collective action, can individuals contribute to creating the changes we all want to see. What power do you have holed up with your family in a rural compound? Look at Ruby Ridge.
How about taking care of your kid by *yourself* some in order to give Your Wife a break? The tv/smartphone is your first consideration?!
State and union negotiators based pension contributions on contemporaneously typical assumptions about investments, calculated to provide retirees an optimum income while not hurting paychecks too bad. There was no conspiracy regarding 'too big too fail', a recent invention of private banking. They self-funded their retirement in the same way as someone who pays $10,000 into SS taxes while working then collects $13,600 over the rest of their lifetime. Are you just pulling number out of your ass?
Private employees shirk unionization, then experience pay and benefit cuts, and somehow believe that this is just how the world SHOULD work. Having failed to defend their livelihoods when they had the chance, they become so bitter they demand that no one have decent wages or benefits.
Public workers have been vigilant in defending their standards of living; maybe you could learn something from them.
"Public employees accepted lower salaries in exchange for job security, great benefits, and more holidays. But here in the wonderful 21st century, they kept all their bonuses AND get paid more." If ever public sector workers are paid more for similar work than a private employee, it's because the private employee's boss has by now crushed his pay and benefits to increase company profits. The now grumpy private employee comes to believe either that he has some god-given right to be paid more than a state worker, or that all workers everywhere must suffer the way he does.