I think politicians are already chasing post-office jobs pretty aggressively. Most people have been following the Hastert story, where the government is charging him with withdrawing his own money in an improper fashion. My question was how does a one-time high school coach go to Congress and end up being able to afford millions in hush money? Supposedly it's all coming from his time after Congress.
We have term limits in California. If they've made a difference, for good or ill, I don't see it.
The oil industry periodically requires wars to secure its supplies...
People repeat this to each other with no supporting evidence. We don't need to go to war for oil. We never did. When one oil-soaked kleptocracy displaces another we can simply buy oil from the new one.
Yeah, that's been bugging me too. These are people who start from the assumption everything you produce belongs to the government, and whatever they let you keep is a subsidy.
People will still die even if everyone gets the treatment. They'll die from war, accidents, and diseases. They'll still have heart attacks and get cancer. I suspect even if you completely "cured" aging at the cellular level the average life span would only go up by a few decades.
Consider cancer. The human body has multiple overlapping systems to detect cells that have gone bad. It doesn't cure them, though. It kills them. One of the reasons cancer normally (not always, but normally) strikes in old age is likely the systems which detect and kill cancer cells have been shot full of holes by... the systems that detect and kill cancer cells. That's not going to stop. Your odds of being a cancer victim (albeit more youthful looking) in your sixties and seventies probably won't change very much.
There are other problems that youthful cells won't help with. The heavy drinkers and drug users are still going to drop dead by age 50 or so. Women will probably become infertile about the same age they do today. Morbidly obese people might live a few extra years, but probably not as long as thin people today (statistically).
Actually extending human lifespan appreciably is going to require far, far more than addressing cell aging. So fear not! You're still all gonna die.
The whole idea rests on some questionable pop history. Much of what people claim to be the product of the "space race" was developed far earlier for military or commercial uses. Velcro, for example, commonly cited as NASA breakthrough was actually patented in Switzerland in 1948. If we're going to pour resources into something, instead of doing a pointless vanity project like a moon landing let's do something useful this time. Nuclear fusion, for example, or diabetes research.
$70k in no way puts you in the "poorest residents" category in California. That income places him at the very top of the third quintile, above the median state income, which is around $60k.
It's worse than that, though. Grid maintenance costs are rolled into the per-kWh charges in most places (definitely in CA). The power company is buying power from its suppliers for five or six cents, and then selling it to consumers at a much higher rate (22 cents the last time I looked). That difference mostly goes to pay for the power company's overhead. So when you sell power back to the power company at retail rates your neighbors are subsidizing your use of the grid.
This is a really good idea from a resource utilization standpoint. Reminds me a lot of the power grid - you have to have enough hardware to handle the peak load, but idle capacity just costs you money.
No it doesn't. Because there are a lot of high school grads who don't have the skills they need to make $15/hr. When I say "youth" unemployment, I'm talking about people in their 20s.
To believe this meme you see lately that somehow ebil corporations are forcing us to pick up part of the tab for their employees, you'd have to believe nobody would work there if Medicaid and other social services didn't exist. Which is idiotic. No, the problem is there are lots of people who don't produce enough value for their labor to live the minimum lifestyle we consider acceptable.
So apparently the solution is to force them out of their jobs entirely. What do you think the response is going to be from businesses? "Oh well. I guess we just won't make as much money"? Were you born yesterday?
I love seeing this crap in American articles. "Oh Noes! If we pay people more, it will cost businesses more!"
That's not what people are saying. What we're syaing is if we pay people more, the people whose labor isn't worth the new minimum won't have a job at all. The progressives in the US have succeeded in turning the US into a European country. I hope they own it when youth unemployment is at 25% in a normal economy, and minimum wage isn't enough to pay for increases in the cost of living.
I didn't mind interacting with tellers before ATMs, and I don't mind using ATMs. I won't mind when I use automated ordering machines at McDonalds and eat machine-made burgers, either. But I think it's stupid for the government to force people out of their jobs.
From what I can tell, rehab does jack shit. People who want to get clean get clean. The others don't. The best we can do is give them pharmaceutical quality methadone so they don't die before they decide to get clean.
Despite what you hear from nutty ACs, Tea Party groups are based around fiscal conservatism. It's not a true party, and most of them choose not to take positions on issues unrelated to taxes and spending.
Except if you actually read the pages you're linking you see the drugs didn't get shipped to LA as part of the "Iran Contra fiasco". Despite the screeching from Crazy Maxine, the stories directly linking Iran Contra to drugs in the US turned out to be poorly sourced bullshit.
Do you think these places will actually be better off? Seems hard to believe. A big cash infusion like that isn't going to get spend only on guns. Those guys are buying things from legitimate businessmen.
That's what I was thinking. This is definitely one of those genie in the bottle stuffing exercises that's never going to work. Drug cartels have more money than God - either they'll hire their own scientists to reverse engineer the yeast strain, or someone will slip it to them for a suitcase full of cash.
Yeah, bullshit. This is a crime carried out on US soil about US citizens, and you want me to worry about how the punishment is viewed by external criminal organizations? Nope. Don't care.
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So... something leftists are always pushing for? You know it's no accident Hitler called his party the National Socialist German Worker's Party.
Eh? I bought my house without a loan. Is fiscal responsibility so out of fashion people are starting to think it's impossible?
I think politicians are already chasing post-office jobs pretty aggressively. Most people have been following the Hastert story, where the government is charging him with withdrawing his own money in an improper fashion. My question was how does a one-time high school coach go to Congress and end up being able to afford millions in hush money? Supposedly it's all coming from his time after Congress.
We have term limits in California. If they've made a difference, for good or ill, I don't see it.
Sadly, it does. Ultimately the people get the representatives they vote for.
People repeat this to each other with no supporting evidence. We don't need to go to war for oil. We never did. When one oil-soaked kleptocracy displaces another we can simply buy oil from the new one.
Yeah, that's been bugging me too. These are people who start from the assumption everything you produce belongs to the government, and whatever they let you keep is a subsidy.
You don't get to be morbidly obese through the normal aging process. Yeah, it's normal to put on a few extra points, but not four hundred.
People will still die even if everyone gets the treatment. They'll die from war, accidents, and diseases. They'll still have heart attacks and get cancer. I suspect even if you completely "cured" aging at the cellular level the average life span would only go up by a few decades.
Consider cancer. The human body has multiple overlapping systems to detect cells that have gone bad. It doesn't cure them, though. It kills them. One of the reasons cancer normally (not always, but normally) strikes in old age is likely the systems which detect and kill cancer cells have been shot full of holes by... the systems that detect and kill cancer cells. That's not going to stop. Your odds of being a cancer victim (albeit more youthful looking) in your sixties and seventies probably won't change very much.
There are other problems that youthful cells won't help with. The heavy drinkers and drug users are still going to drop dead by age 50 or so. Women will probably become infertile about the same age they do today. Morbidly obese people might live a few extra years, but probably not as long as thin people today (statistically).
Actually extending human lifespan appreciably is going to require far, far more than addressing cell aging. So fear not! You're still all gonna die.
The whole idea rests on some questionable pop history. Much of what people claim to be the product of the "space race" was developed far earlier for military or commercial uses. Velcro, for example, commonly cited as NASA breakthrough was actually patented in Switzerland in 1948. If we're going to pour resources into something, instead of doing a pointless vanity project like a moon landing let's do something useful this time. Nuclear fusion, for example, or diabetes research.
$70k in no way puts you in the "poorest residents" category in California. That income places him at the very top of the third quintile, above the median state income, which is around $60k.
It's worse than that, though. Grid maintenance costs are rolled into the per-kWh charges in most places (definitely in CA). The power company is buying power from its suppliers for five or six cents, and then selling it to consumers at a much higher rate (22 cents the last time I looked). That difference mostly goes to pay for the power company's overhead. So when you sell power back to the power company at retail rates your neighbors are subsidizing your use of the grid.
I feel sorry for you if you actually believe this.
It's a question of timing, though. Most voters don't think about politics much, so even just a few hours at the right time could be critical.
This is a really good idea from a resource utilization standpoint. Reminds me a lot of the power grid - you have to have enough hardware to handle the peak load, but idle capacity just costs you money.
No it doesn't. Because there are a lot of high school grads who don't have the skills they need to make $15/hr. When I say "youth" unemployment, I'm talking about people in their 20s.
To believe this meme you see lately that somehow ebil corporations are forcing us to pick up part of the tab for their employees, you'd have to believe nobody would work there if Medicaid and other social services didn't exist. Which is idiotic. No, the problem is there are lots of people who don't produce enough value for their labor to live the minimum lifestyle we consider acceptable.
So apparently the solution is to force them out of their jobs entirely. What do you think the response is going to be from businesses? "Oh well. I guess we just won't make as much money"? Were you born yesterday?
That's not what people are saying. What we're syaing is if we pay people more, the people whose labor isn't worth the new minimum won't have a job at all. The progressives in the US have succeeded in turning the US into a European country. I hope they own it when youth unemployment is at 25% in a normal economy, and minimum wage isn't enough to pay for increases in the cost of living.
I didn't mind interacting with tellers before ATMs, and I don't mind using ATMs. I won't mind when I use automated ordering machines at McDonalds and eat machine-made burgers, either. But I think it's stupid for the government to force people out of their jobs.
From what I can tell, rehab does jack shit. People who want to get clean get clean. The others don't. The best we can do is give them pharmaceutical quality methadone so they don't die before they decide to get clean.
Despite what you hear from nutty ACs, Tea Party groups are based around fiscal conservatism. It's not a true party, and most of them choose not to take positions on issues unrelated to taxes and spending.
Except if you actually read the pages you're linking you see the drugs didn't get shipped to LA as part of the "Iran Contra fiasco". Despite the screeching from Crazy Maxine, the stories directly linking Iran Contra to drugs in the US turned out to be poorly sourced bullshit.
Do you think these places will actually be better off? Seems hard to believe. A big cash infusion like that isn't going to get spend only on guns. Those guys are buying things from legitimate businessmen.
That's what I was thinking. This is definitely one of those genie in the bottle stuffing exercises that's never going to work. Drug cartels have more money than God - either they'll hire their own scientists to reverse engineer the yeast strain, or someone will slip it to them for a suitcase full of cash.
The plan is to put VASIMR on the ISS for station keeping. The station may simply be too large to get decent data from a hall effect thruster.
Then we'll kill them all.
Yeah, bullshit. This is a crime carried out on US soil about US citizens, and you want me to worry about how the punishment is viewed by external criminal organizations? Nope. Don't care.