Until that tree dies, falls over and rots. Over time spans similar to trees' lifetimes, forests are carbon neutral. Except for the carbon removed by logging trucks.
They wouldn't be classified as a truck anywhere outside of North America.
I suggest you take a look at the chassis in my linked picture. Trucks of this size are sold and classified as cab/chassis combinations. The box, bed or other enclosure is added by fabricators afterwards. An F650 is large in comparison to many delivery vehicles used in the USA. Enormous compared to those in the Netherlands. Ban vehicles of this class and food will cease to be delivered to population centers.
SUVs were born over regulations that attempted to control passenger vehicle sizes and fuel consumption. Every time the greenies tried to squeeze the car market, the repurposed trucks just got bigger to sidestep the rules. That picture isn't a joke. There are dealers in my area actually selling these things. And if the regulations eliminate them, the Kenworth plant is just down the road.
Just another reason to be a sole proprietor/contractor. Who else did I or do I work for? Sorry, that's privileged information. How much did I or do I earn? That varies, sometimes by an order magnitude. Do you really want to pay my top rate when I might be negotiating a lower one with you just to do some interesting work.
And 'work history' is also a tool of corporate espionage. When you are a key person in an industry, who you are working with will give competitors an idea about new products and strategic decision making.
It is not inconceivable that Microsoft can negotiate higher bandwidth, higher QoS and lower latency connections from broadband providers than you can. For money.
Those are nice little IP packets you've got there buddy. Shame if something were to happen to them. Heh, heh.
... semi retired. I work when I want and set my own schedule. Mondays are good because the crowds are back at work and I have everything to myself. Tuesdays even better because all the bosses have called employees who ditched on Monday and told them to get their ass back to work or else.
Just wait until your Toronto to Vancouver Air Canada flight is diverted over Montana, you are detained and your laptop is confiscated for flying through US airspace with Kaspersky software.
it may have provided a survival advantage at one time, promoting an orderly society
Possibly. But that 'one time' predates modern societies and writing. People can't keep track of more than 100 to 200 personal relationships. And back in the days of tribes in the jungle or clans in the Neander valley, that sort of familiarity was necessary to maintain a cohesive social unit. You have trouble with a neighbor? You call for a village meeting, where the elders know everyone, who's honest, who's a fuck-up, etc. And action is taken. But this isn't practical for modern society, where any sort of productivity requires the smooth interaction of millions of people, banking and economic institutions and the rule of (written, not tribal) law. People you may never meet and so who cares what color they are. The need to maintain smaller tribal units and a "them vs us" policy has no place in modern society. Today, its a tool used by sociopaths who want to maintain absolute control of their immediate social group.
If you want that 'small town' lifestyle, go find a piece of land, some willing followers and set yourself up as the next Warren Jeffs. But keep in mind that his followers lived off of a good amount of child support and welfare fraud (products of the outside world). And Jeffs (and many of his followers) are starting to show signs of inbreeding and becoming genetic dead-ends.
Then, IEEE, Elsiver, etc.take your paper and copyright.
They don't actually take it. The authors sign over the copyright in order to get the paper 'published'. So they can get academic credit for it. What is this publishing? It includes peer review and all the effort required to get the paper physically published.
OK, not all peer review is that bad. Not quite. But physical publishing is pretty much a thing of the past, what with web sites and software that can automatically water mark authors' submissions with the journal's logo. Logically, the publishing business should be commoditized, reducing prices. But I imagine that there are some behind-the-scenes cash flows that keep traditional journal publication a requisite step in scholarly recognition.
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Until that tree dies, falls over and rots. Over time spans similar to trees' lifetimes, forests are carbon neutral. Except for the carbon removed by logging trucks.
Could also be dominatrix. And now you will have to lick her boots for that indiscretion.
I'm just trying to understand why TV parental control settings blocking violent content don't seem to affect football and hockey.
sit on their couches in their PJs watching soap operas
Why? Is Pornhub down?
The thing in your picture is the size of a van, not a truck
Oh no. A Sprinter parked next to that would be tiny.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
They wouldn't be classified as a truck anywhere outside of North America.
I suggest you take a look at the chassis in my linked picture. Trucks of this size are sold and classified as cab/chassis combinations. The box, bed or other enclosure is added by fabricators afterwards. An F650 is large in comparison to many delivery vehicles used in the USA. Enormous compared to those in the Netherlands. Ban vehicles of this class and food will cease to be delivered to population centers.
SUVs were born over regulations that attempted to control passenger vehicle sizes and fuel consumption. Every time the greenies tried to squeeze the car market, the repurposed trucks just got bigger to sidestep the rules. That picture isn't a joke. There are dealers in my area actually selling these things. And if the regulations eliminate them, the Kenworth plant is just down the road.
Not if your tax returns were public.
I'll incorporate overseas in a country with strict privacy laws.
By definition, obtaining government-published data is not "corporate espionage".
My companies' government won't publish data.
But they are not cars. So exempt.
Lets hear it for bro-trucks!
Just another reason to be a sole proprietor/contractor. Who else did I or do I work for? Sorry, that's privileged information. How much did I or do I earn? That varies, sometimes by an order magnitude. Do you really want to pay my top rate when I might be negotiating a lower one with you just to do some interesting work.
And 'work history' is also a tool of corporate espionage. When you are a key person in an industry, who you are working with will give competitors an idea about new products and strategic decision making.
It is not inconceivable that Microsoft can negotiate higher bandwidth, higher QoS and lower latency connections from broadband providers than you can. For money.
Those are nice little IP packets you've got there buddy. Shame if something were to happen to them. Heh, heh.
Something to do with socks
Nope. Socks are the larval stage of wire clothes hangars.
That's why I always take Fridays off.
Wednesday is a thing with Christians now? I didn't know.
Wednesday night was 'hump day' at our local swingers club.
Just wait until your Toronto to Vancouver Air Canada flight is diverted over Montana, you are detained and your laptop is confiscated for flying through US airspace with Kaspersky software.
a tad disappointed that Sean Young wasn't used
She was. Also Edward James Olmos (Gaff).
All those Googles will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
Trump tweets aren't enough for you?
Regardless, there is no established conclusion that mating withing a closed circle is somehow bad.
Ashkenazi Jews. British royalty. Hillbillies. Isolated animal populations. Lots of other counter examples.
it may have provided a survival advantage at one time, promoting an orderly society
Possibly. But that 'one time' predates modern societies and writing. People can't keep track of more than 100 to 200 personal relationships. And back in the days of tribes in the jungle or clans in the Neander valley, that sort of familiarity was necessary to maintain a cohesive social unit. You have trouble with a neighbor? You call for a village meeting, where the elders know everyone, who's honest, who's a fuck-up, etc. And action is taken. But this isn't practical for modern society, where any sort of productivity requires the smooth interaction of millions of people, banking and economic institutions and the rule of (written, not tribal) law. People you may never meet and so who cares what color they are. The need to maintain smaller tribal units and a "them vs us" policy has no place in modern society. Today, its a tool used by sociopaths who want to maintain absolute control of their immediate social group.
If you want that 'small town' lifestyle, go find a piece of land, some willing followers and set yourself up as the next Warren Jeffs. But keep in mind that his followers lived off of a good amount of child support and welfare fraud (products of the outside world). And Jeffs (and many of his followers) are starting to show signs of inbreeding and becoming genetic dead-ends.
Then, IEEE, Elsiver, etc.take your paper and copyright.
They don't actually take it. The authors sign over the copyright in order to get the paper 'published'. So they can get academic credit for it. What is this publishing? It includes peer review and all the effort required to get the paper physically published.
OK, not all peer review is that bad. Not quite. But physical publishing is pretty much a thing of the past, what with web sites and software that can automatically water mark authors' submissions with the journal's logo. Logically, the publishing business should be commoditized, reducing prices. But I imagine that there are some behind-the-scenes cash flows that keep traditional journal publication a requisite step in scholarly recognition.
You also travel at like 2 miles per hour.
Not according to my last speeding ticket.